2009年12月7日 星期一

自由電子報: 民進黨在2009-12-05選舉得票突破四成五, 並拿下宜蘭縣長, 你認為最主要原因是?

The choices that 自由電子報 offers are

中央政策失民心
馬英九光環褪色
綠營策略正確
綠營改革受肯定

My answer is : None of the above. My answer is
People are so scared of Ma Ying-Jeou/KMT selling out Taiwan.
民進黨在縣市長選舉總得票率突破四成五,並拿下宜蘭縣長寶座,你認為最主要的原因是 2009-12-06 03:00 ~ 2009-12-09 03:00

中央政策失民心 票數:1608(71.72%)
馬英九光環褪色 票數:459(20.47%)
綠營策略正確 票數:60(2.68%)
綠營改革受肯定 票數:115(5.13%)

2009年11月25日 星期三

A letter to 嘉義市 voters

I just received a message like this:
[美國牛肉進口] 立委名單

號外 ~ 馬團隊已經開始叫 Yahoo, Facebook
禁止傳輸 [開放美牛的立委名單 ]這個[網址]了..
http://tomfu.alunz.com/?p=283

要抄錄請趁早.. 就是這些人!提案開放美牛的立委名單 就是他們要把我們送進棺材!
立法院11月3日朝野協商達成共識,將在「食品衛生管理法」修法中明訂
「內臟、絞肉、脊髓、腦、頭骨以及眼睛等部位」禁止進口。但是如此一來將抵觸
「台美協議」,於是由國民黨孔文吉委員於11月11日提出新版本,取消「內臟、
肉、脊髓、腦、頭骨以及眼睛等部位」禁止項目,僅以「逐批查驗」、「派員前往
輸出國實地查核」等字眼,企圖魚目混珠,實際上等於完全開放,其心可誅! 大家
每天打一通電話,到連署孔文吉委員版本的22位立委辦公室,表達您的抗議!要求
撤回提案連署! 只有撤銷孔文吉版本,讓「食品衛生管理法」抵觸「台美協議」,
才能逼迫馬政府重啟談判。 每天一通電話,您就可以救台灣。

孔文吉 02-2358-8246 02-2358-6741
呂學樟 02-2358-6256 02-2358-6201
廖國棟 02-2358-6256 02-2358-6201
林鴻池 02-2358-6871 02-2358-6126
侯彩鳳 02-2358-8286 02-2358-6321
江玲君 02-2358-6656 02-2358-6111
黃義交 02-2358-6281
羅明才 02-2358-6776
劉盛良 02-2358-8241 02-2358-8328
廖婉汝 02-2358-8106 02-2358-6146
鄭麗文 02-2358-6196 02-2358-6261
盧秀燕 02-2358-8121 02-2358-8051
黃昭順 02-2358-6786 02-2358-6081
陳淑慧 02-2358-6931
江義雄 02-2358-6131 02-2358-6721
洪秀柱 02-2358-6096 02-2358-8016
趙麗雲 02-2358-6441 02-2358-6316
蔣乃辛 02-2358-6901
賴士葆 02-2358-8166 02-2358-8171
徐中雄 02-2358-6796 02-2358-6980
紀國棟 02-2358-6936 02-2358-6371
林益世 02-2358-8221
本圖文轉載自:苦勞網 http://tomfu.alunz.com/?p=283
If you are not happy with 江義雄 or 馬英九, please do not repeat the same mistake by voting 黃敏惠. Why vote for a candidate who dares not debate with her opponents? The most serious is that 黃敏惠 supports KMT and 馬英九. KMT/馬英九 has surrendered to CCP and is actively selling out Taiwan, and to turn Taiwan into Tibet. If you consider voting for 黃敏惠, please close your eyes and think about 馬英九, your friends, family and neighbors, Taiwan, and Tibet for a few seconds.

May God bless 嘉義市!

2009年10月20日 星期二

Foreign Press and Taiwan

Notice that this BusinessWeek report does not mention the fact that
  • No one knows the content of ECFA - something completely unacceptable in a civilized country, and
  • The trial of Chen Shui-Bian is a clear political persecution.

Taiwan Postpones Trade Talks with China
BusinessWeek

Posted by: Bruce Einhorn on October 19

The controversial proposal for a new trade deal between China and Taiwan suffered a setback on Monday with the Taiwanese government announcing it was calling off a meeting scheduled to take place this week between the two sides. The Taiwanese official who was supposed to be leading the informal talks explained today that the government of embattled President Ma Ying-jeou suddenly realized it needed to focus on matters closer to home. According to this report from AFP, Huang Chih-peng, director of Taiwan’s Bureau of Foreign Trade and the head of the island’s delegation, said “the government budget is under review in parliament, so we decided to postpone the discussions until the end of this month.”

Hard to tell yet how big of a setback this is. The explanation is certainly worth questioning, since presumably the fact that Taiwan’s lawmakers were planning on doing their duty and reviewing the budget shouldn’t have come as a that big of a surprise to the executive branch. More likely Ma’s government, severely weakened by the poor response to last month’s deadly typhoon, is trying to buy a bit of time by putting the contentious issue on the back burner for a little while. Economists disagree on what the impact of the proposed Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) between Beijing and Taipei. As you can imagine, there are some who talk about the creation of thousands of new jobs, and there are others who talk about giant sucking sounds.

There’s no doubt, though, the opposition party senses an opportunity to weaken Ma. The pro-independence DPP needs to change the subject away from the scandal-plagued Chen Shui-bian, the former DPP leader and ex-Taiwan president who recently was given a life sentence for corruption. (He denies any wrongdoing.) As the pro-DPP Taipei Times wrote today in an editorial, “the benefits of an ECFA are far from clear, while the negatives are obvious. It is only natural that Taiwanese workers and some entrepreneurs, especially those in the traditional manufacturing sector, would be anxious.”

With Taiwan’s unemployment rate pushing 6% (which is very high in a place that until a few years ago had more or less full employment), that’s an argument that’s sure to gain traction with voters. No wonder Ma’s government feels it needs a little more time before pushing ahead.

2009年8月14日 星期五

Dr. Hsin-I Shih: help our search and rescue efforts in Typhoon Morakot aftermath
成大醫學院急診部 Hsin-I Shih 醫師的求助

Letter from Dr. Hsin-I Shih of National Cheng Kung University Hospital follows:

Taiwan struck by severe floods and mudslides

I am writing this letter to request for your assistance in our search and rescue efforts for Typhoon Morakot aftermath.The landscape of southern and eastern Taiwan is severely damaged. There were floods and mudslides everywhere, animals drowned; people lost their homes. This has been the worst public crisis in recent memory. At the moment there are still two thousand people stranded in remote mountain areas, in need of rescue. We need helicopters, bulldozers and experienced teams that are capable of mountain search and rescue to evacuate them. In addition to volunteer help, the most practical contribution is money for the long term relief and support.

What we need most in the coming week

  • experienced rescue team or persons, with expertise in mountain area search and rescue
  • bulldozers
  • Forensic scientists for DNA profiling
  • ad hoc communication system and/or satellite phones

What we need most in the coming month

  • People with disease prevention and control experiences in the aftermath of floods,
  • People who knows how to deal with disposal and clean-up of dead animals,
  • People who have experiences in crisis counseling,
  • People who have experiences in the set up and management of emergency prefab houses and/or relief camp.

We welcome any volunteers, organizations, rescue teams to provide assistance.

==============================

Hsin-I Shih MD MPH

Department of Emergency Medicine

National Cheng Kung University Hospital

E-mail:

n506594@mail.hosp.ncku.edu.tw

Fax: +886-6-2359562

phone number: 886-972401549

2009年2月21日 星期六

Nicholas Kristof:
international community so feckless
as to allow genocide

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote that international community is so feckless it allows genocide in Darfur [and elsewhere]. I hope Taiwanese will learn to care about the suffering of other people such as Darfuris and Tibetans. Above all, they need to learn to protect and defend themselves to prevent Taiwan from becoming Darfur or Tibet.

The fact that Sudan’s state-sponsored slaughter of civilians goes on, year after year, in and out of Darfur, is a monument to the fecklessness of the international community. A spasm of that same fecklessness intruded on this trip with Mr. Clooney, who is traveling unofficially but is a United Nations goodwill ambassador.

Apparently concerned that Mr. Clooney might say something strongly critical of Mr. Bashir — perhaps come down hard on genocide? — the United Nations called me on Wednesday to say that effective immediately it was pulling Mr. Clooney’s security escort as he traveled these roads along the border. Now that did seem petty and mean-spirited. A Frenchman working for Save the Children was murdered on such roads last year, and the U.N. requires a military escort for its own vehicles here.

If the U.N. is too craven to protect its own goodwill ambassadors — because they might criticize genocide — it’s not surprising that it and the international community fail to protect hundreds of thousands of voiceless Darfuris.

Trailing George Clooney

Nicholas D. Kristof/The New York Times

Children playing in a lake outside Dogdoré, Chad. This town on the Darfur border has become a refuge for thousands of people fleeing violence in the area.

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, New York Times columnist
Published: February 18, 2009

NEAR THE CHAD-SUDAN BORDER

I was going to begin this column with a 13-year-old Chadian boy crippled by a bullet in his left knee, but my hunch is that you might be more interested in hearing about another person on the river bank beside the boy: George Clooney.

Mr. Clooney flew in with me to the little town of Dogdoré, along the border with Darfur, Sudan, to see how the region is faring six years after the Darfur genocide began. Mr. Clooney figured that since cameras follow him everywhere, he might as well redirect some of that spotlight to people who need it more.

It didn’t work perfectly: No paparazzi showed up. But, hey, it has kept you reading at least this far into yet another hand-wringing column about Darfur, hasn’t it?

So I’ll tell you what. You read my columns about Darfur from this trip, and I’ll give you the scoop on every one of Mr. Clooney’s wild romances and motorcycle accidents in this remote nook of Africa. You’ll read it here way before The National Enquirer has it, but only if you wade through paragraphs of genocide.

The Darfur conflict has now lasted longer than World War II, but this year could be a turning point — provided that President Obama shows leadership and that the world backs up the International Criminal Court’s expected arrest warrant for Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir.

The stakes are evident in this little market town of Dogdoré, whose normal population of just a few thousand has swelled to 28,000 desperate, fearful people driven from smaller villages. They don’t think it’s safe here, but they find some reassurance in numbers — and leaving town isn’t an option, either, because flying out from the dirt airstrip is the only way to avoid rampant banditry on the roads.

Aid workers were pulled from Dogdoré in the fall because of violence in the area, leaving people on their own. Aid workers have just returned, but the entire town remains on edge.

One of the first persons we met was Qatri Ibrahim, a young woman who fled her village when the Sudanese janjaweed militia attacked and shot her 5-year-old and 8-year-old sons. “I’m afraid,” she said grimly. “But there are other people here, so I stay.”

In Darfur and eastern Chad, you can randomly approach any group of people and find heartbreaking stories. Mr. Clooney was clowning around with a group of boys bathing in the river — taking their photo and showing it to them digitally — and that’s when we met the 13-year-old boy with the bullet in his knee.

He’s Suleiman Ahsan, and he was wearing a pair of blue shorts — the only clothes he has. He also has a machete scar on his forehead; both it and the bullet date from a janjaweed attack on his village two years ago that killed his father.

Last year, Suleiman joined a militia and became a child soldier to avenge his father. “Recruiters come to the camps looking for boys like me to fight,” Suleiman told us. “Boys of 10 or 12 are old enough.”

Suleiman said that he learned to shoot but found the soldier’s life too grueling, so he deserted. Now he’s back to struggling to find food.

The International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for President Bashir — widely expected in the coming weeks — has the area particularly on edge, for fear that Mr. Bashir could retaliate by using a proxy force to invade Chad.

The fact that Sudan’s state-sponsored slaughter of civilians goes on, year after year, in and out of Darfur, is a monument to the fecklessness of the international community. A spasm of that same fecklessness intruded on this trip with Mr. Clooney, who is traveling unofficially but is a United Nations goodwill ambassador.

Apparently concerned that Mr. Clooney might say something strongly critical of Mr. Bashir — perhaps come down hard on genocide? — the United Nations called me on Wednesday to say that effective immediately it was pulling Mr. Clooney’s security escort as he traveled these roads along the border. Now that did seem petty and mean-spirited. A Frenchman working for Save the Children was murdered on such roads last year, and the U.N. requires a military escort for its own vehicles here.

If the U.N. is too craven to protect its own goodwill ambassadors — because they might criticize genocide — it’s not surprising that it and the international community fail to protect hundreds of thousands of voiceless Darfuris.

Oh, and now for the juicy truth about all of Mr. Clooney’s wild romances and motorcycle accidents. Darn — out of space. Wait for my next column from this trip on Sunday ...


Nicholas' tweets during this time:

nytimeskristof

  1. The U.N. and George Clooney http://tinyurl.com/clx87c
  2. Re: Clooney as a roommate: he's very funny, took the worst side of the room, is quiet when he wakes up before me. But he's lousy at frisbee
  3. So, I couldn't get my blackberry to change networks, and my NBC tech buddy Mike Simon couldn't -- and an actor named Clooney did the switch.
  4. Visited a Chadian I'd met two years ago, just after the janjaweed gouged his eyes out. He's now being led around by his wife and daughter.
  5. Bunking with George Clooney, sharing a tiny room in Chad near Darfur. Mattresses on the floor, and the shower is a hose that doesn't work.
  6. Back on the fringe of Darfur http://tinyurl.com/csmsjv
  7. Arrived in Darfur area with a special guest. Details later. Interviewed an 8-year-old boy today whose arms were blown off. Very insecure.
  8. Heading out this evening for the Darfur area. Don't want to say exactly where, just in case you're a Janjaweed. Stay tuned.
  9. Your comments on my education column http://tinyurl.com/b34qn9
  10. Just heard from Mia Farrow -- she's been in Chad near Darfur for the last month. Wow. That's commitment. Hope Obama shares it.


2009年2月9日 星期一

Even temples promote 團團圓圓

The back side of the red envelope says that it was produced by a Taipei temple. For the record,
  • KMT never asked Taiwanese's approval for pandas to come to Taiwan. The pandas came to Taiwan against people's wishes.
  • I demand that the pandas be named 獨獨 立立 or be shipped back. This has been ignored.
I consider the names 團團圓圓 a most serious KMT/CCP lie and aggression against Taiwanese. All Taiwanese are urged to boycott 團團圓圓.





2009年1月24日 星期六

康師傅 and 三聚氰胺

This message came to me from daiwan@seed.net.tw, titled Daiwan Today's News 090124:
去了日本與韓國之後發現:

日本:
路上的車子80%以上是TOYOTA, HONDA, NISSAN, SUZUKI ...
飯店的電視90%以上是SONY.

韓國:
路上的車子99%是 KIA 與 HYUNDAI
飯店的電視 100%是LG (凱悅也是).

台灣.. 大家都很清楚.. 上面日本、韓國的產品台灣觸目可及、比比皆是
但不清楚的國產車叫什麼? 就連大同電視可能 1%看到的機會都沒有.

請愛台灣.. 如果你(妳)看了這篇報導後,也有同感的話,請用力的給它轉發出去吧!不要屈就於眼前的蠅頭小利,覺得便宜就買。 想一想,每多買一個康師傳,也許日後就多了一個你(妳)認識的人失業了。 關於康師傅請轉寄給你身旁每一位愛台灣的人吧~參考!參考!那些搶購康師傅泡麵的人.. 你或許就是造成台灣人日後失業的間接兇手!
Some thoughts about Taiwanese and 康師傅.
  • Remember China intents on swallowing Taiwan, so China is Taiwan's enemy. Consider such things when you buy Chinese products - we should not help enemy swallow us.
  • Isn't there a comparable Taiwanese product that can compete with 康師傅?
  • Remember how dangerous Chinese products can be and how frightened Taiwanese were about toxic Chinese food just months ago. Before you are certain that 康師傅 is free from melamine or other toxic materials, stay away. Finally, I would like to share a message I received entitled Melamine in Infant Formula [in USA]? Demand Food Safety Now!

    Dear Sir,

    Two years ago, thousands of American pets – both dogs and cats – died after eating melamine-tainted pet food.

    Now, melamine has been discovered in chocolate, cookies and infant formula in the United States. But the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has refused to recall the food products and has tried to keep quiet about its findings.

    Urge your lawmakers to demand the FDA do its job and ensure real food safety for you and your family »

    The ongoing melamine controversy is the latest example of the FDA's failure to make food safety a priority. After last fall's Chinese-formula crisis, the FDA said melamine was so dangerous that it couldn't determine a safe amount of melamine to allow in infant formula. The chemical, used in plastics, can sometimes cause kidney failure and death in humans and animals.

    But after a media outlet revealed that FDA tests had actually found melamine in infant formula here, the agency did an about-face, saying some levels of the chemical were safe. And the FDA did not issue recalls for the melamine-tainted U.S. formula.

    Why is the FDA taking chances with our children and our health? The FDA needs to put public safety before corporate welfare. Please take a moment to join me and sign our petition demanding a better food safety system – voice your support for a better food safety system in the United States »

    Thanks for taking action!

    Natasha



2009年1月12日 星期一

Wild Strawberries, a force to be reckoned with

This is a response to 野草莓學生運動的省思(作者: babyihateyou )
作者: babyihateyou (寶貝我討厭你) 看板: action1106
標題: [心得] 關於野草莓
時間: Sat Jan 10 21:40:55 2009
這是我們課程上 大家所做出的一份關於野草莓的報告
希望大家可以一起討論 給我們一些指教
  1. Wild Strawberries have made history. They have left their marks internationally. Random samples of praises:
    • Alan MULCANY Taiwan's Dreyfus Affair: all Taiwanese who care one iota about their country's future had better learn from the Wild Strawberries, and fairly quickly.
    • Rachelle Cohen How fragile a free Taiwan: They are indeed young and idealistic and filled with hope - not unlike their counterparts in the U.S. But here they do not take their freedom for granted. They know it is a special thing, a delicate thing, as delicate as well, a wild strawberry.
  2. Would someone be interested in writing a paper on the technical side of the Wild Strawberries? I would be interested in co-authoring.
  3. Wild Strawberries' ability to reflect is tremendous. Most highly commendable.
  4. In January 2008, NATPA and TAUP join hands to distribute flyers to garner support for UN for Taiwan referendum in five university campuses. There I experienced the indifference and cynicism of university students first hand. It is important to recognize this reality, and not be discouraged.
  5. I would advise the students to see the KMT media as what they are. They are propaganda machines disguised as news media. They collaborated with Ma's regime to wish WS to disappear. See my blog KMT Media.
  6. I would advise the students to refrain from saying 不藍不綠. I understand the reason of such expressions, but it suggests blindness to the injustice 藍 has inflicted on our society [and that WS are fighting]. It also suggests 不分藍綠 and 不分是非.
Wild Strawberries are a force to be reckoned with. All berries should be extremely proud!