2023年4月30日 星期日

state, deep state, ghosting China is ghosting the United States 中國卻對美國上演「突然消失」（ghosting）戲碼







China is ghosting the United States - POLITICO
Politico
Secretary of State Antony Blinken wants to reschedule his date with China. Beijing is giving him the cold shoulder. The Biden administration ...


駐美大使空缺逾三月 中國傳對美「搞失蹤」

美媒引述消息透露，美方一直積極安排與中國恢復對話，但中國卻對美國上演「突然消失」（ghosting）戲碼。同時中國駐美大使已空缺達3個月，專家認為這是北京在故弄玄虛，「就是要讓美方知道北京很不悅」。


deep state
noun
  1. a body of people, typically influential members of government agencies or the military, believed to be involved in the secret manipulation or control of government policy.
    "the deep state and its policy of allowing extremist ideologies to flourish may be the actual issues of concern"


ghosting
noun
  1. 1.
    the appearance of a ghost or secondary image on a television or other display screen.
    "the display is sharper and less prone to ghosting"
  2. 2.
    the practice of ending a personal relationship with someone by suddenly and without explanation withdrawing from all communication.
    "I thought ghosting was a horrible dating habit reserved for casual flings"
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2023年4月27日 星期四

retain, wall, firewall, floodgate, Efforts to Retain Power, Golden Shield Project



How 2020 Opens the Floodgates for Money in U.S. Politics https://wapo.st/2HLGlAn

Mike Bloomberg may not be on the ballot in South Carolina, but he is on people's minds
The former vice-president's rivals scramble to capitalise on his woes


The theory is universal, but you will be talking to the wall if people can not see the theory applying to their jobs. (WWS)

Golden Shield Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Shield_Project

Jump to Protest in China - The Golden Shield Project also known as the Great Firewall of China which is a censorship and surveillance project that blocks ...

大陸官方日前公佈《中國互聯網域名管理辦法》修訂版草案，擬進一步收緊對互聯網的控制管理，禁止大陸境內的服務商，為用戶接入未在大陸註冊的境外網站。有大陸分析人士指出，由於中國國內最主要的域名註冊商分屬阿里巴巴及騰訊旗下，新規或令外國與大陸網企，均受到阿里巴巴及騰訊的控制。

China to Release More of Its Pork Reserves

By MICHAEL WINES
With the price of pig meat up 38 percent in major cities since the start of the year, China is about to open the floodgates of its national pork reserve.


Definition of floodgate

1: a gate for shutting out, admitting, or releasing a body of water : SLUICE
2: something serving to restrain an outburstopened the floodgates of criticism



firewall 

Pronunciation: /ˈfʌɪəwoːl/ NOUN
1A wall or partition designed to inhibit or prevent the spread of fire.
Example sentences
1.1Computing A part of a computer system or network which is designed to blockunauthorized access while permitting outward communication.
Example sentences
1.2another term for Chinese wall.
Example sentences

VERB

[WITH OBJECT] Computing
Protect (a network or system) from unauthorized access with a firewall:(as adjective firewalled) a firewalled network(as noun firewalling) our security products offer integral firewalling
wall

n.
  1. An upright structure of masonry, wood, plaster, or other building material serving to enclose, divide, or protect an area, especially a vertical construction forming an inner partition or exterior siding of a building.
  2. A continuous structure of masonry or other material forming a rampart and built for defensive purposes. Often used in the plural.
  3. A structure of stonework, cement, or other material built to retain a flow of water.
    1. Something resembling a wall in appearance, function, or construction, as the exterior surface of a body organ or part: the abdominal wall.
    2. Something resembling a wall in impenetrability or strength: a wall of silence; a wall of fog.
    3. An extreme or desperate condition or position, such as defeat or ruin: driven to the wall by poverty.
  5. Sports. The vertical surface of an ocean wave in surfing.
tr.v., walled, wall·ing, walls.
  1. To enclose, surround, or fortify with or as if with a wall: wall up an old window. See synonyms at enclose.
  2. To divide or separate with or as if with a wall. Often used with off: wall off half a room.
  3. To confine or seal behind a wall; immure: “I determined to wall [the body] up in the cellar” (Edgar Allan Poe).
  4. To block or close (an opening or passage, for example) with or as if with a wall.
idioms:
off the wall Slang.
  1. Extremely unconventional.
  2. Without foundation; ridiculous: an accusation that is really off the wall.
up the wall Slang.
  1. Into a state of extreme frustration, anger, or distress: tensions that are driving me up the wall.
writing (or handwriting) on the wall
  1. An ominous indication of the course of future events: saw the writing on the wall and fled the country.
[Middle English, from Old English weall, from Latin vallum, palisade, from vallus, stake.]
wallless wall'less adj.
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rot, rotten assets, turn the tide / to reverse the tide, rotting grains


Peter Drucker, the father of modern management, wrote that, when it comes to organizations, "The tree rots from the top down."

Neil Barofsky, special investigator for the last big bailout, talks with Bill about why oversight of the $2 trillion relief package is crucial. Only hours after signing the bill into law, Trump threatened to ignore the oversight provisions included in it. Listen at the link below.
"There’s going to be scandal involved in this bailout. It is unquestionable. There is going to be fraud committed in this bailout. There are going to be individuals who are unjustly rewarded, and others who should have been saved and rescued, who will be left on the side to rot." — Neil Barofsky

Jeffrey Epstein Is the Ultimate Symbol of Plutocratic Rot
By MICHELLE GOLDBERG
Powerful elites enabled the financier accused of trafficking underage girls.



“As an adult, we think that everyone has their friends and we are the only ones seeking them. Nothing could be further from the truth.”
How to Make New Friends as an Adult

Starting in early adulthood, our number of friends starts to decrease steadily; there are ways to reverse the tide, writes Elizabeth Bernstein.
ON.WSJ.COM|作者：ELIZABETH BERNSTEIN



The average worker was dead by 30.

The grim reality of life in ancient Rome revealed
The average ancient Roman worker was riddled with arthritis, suffered broken bones and was dead by 30 thanks to a diet of rotting grains and a lifetime of hard labour.
DAILYM.AI


America's toxic-asset plan: Dr Geithner's bank rehab

There should be no shortage of buyers for American banks' rotten assets. Sellers will be harder to entice

In the words of Peter Drucker, "There is no more difficult task than to keep a corpse from rotting." ??

On Flooded Burmese Coast, the Smell of Rot and Death

By THE NEW YORK TIMES 2:13 PM ET
Six days after a cyclone, it is clear the damage is great and that little aid has made it to villagers along the sea south of Yangon.


turn the tide


rot was found in the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary at the entries listed below.

rot
verb [I or T] -tt-
to (cause to) decay:
The fruit had been left to rot on the trees.
Rain has got in and rotted (away) the woodwork.
the smell of rotting fruit

 rot
noun [U]
1 decay:
Rot has got into the furniture.

2 OLD-FASHIONED INFORMAL nonsense:
"Don't talk rot!"

rotten
adjective
1 decayed:
The room smelled of rotten vegetables.

2 very bad:
rotten weather
OLD-FASHIONED It was rotten of you to leave without saying goodbye. ━━ v. （-tt-） 腐る［らす］; 朽ち（させ）る ((away)); 衰える.
rot off　腐れ落ちる.
━━ n. 腐敗, 腐朽; 腐敗物; （the ～） （羊の）腐敗病; 〔話〕 くだらないこと.
The rot sets in.　事態が傾き出す.
rot・gut　〔俗〕 強い安酒.
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make rebuilding, in-waiting, government-in-waiting.destabilizing, political turmoil. its swaps take effect, fracture the unity of, Gaslighting


Our cover story in Britain, meanwhile, focuses on Sir Keir Starmer. Is the opposition Labour Party, which he leads, ready to govern? And what exactly is “Starmerism”? Labour enjoys a big, if narrowing, poll lead and has been deft in the way it has positioned itself as a government-in-waiting. Our Britain team interviewed Sir Keir in Middlesbrough in northern England and came away with a deeper understanding of who he is and the ambitions he has for the country.


A long war will increase political and economic pressure on western governments. Joe Biden’s comment for Vladimir Putin to go may have been undiplomatic, but the west might need regime change in Russia to avoid political turmoil.
FT.COM
Opinion: The war in Ukraine risks destabilising the west
A long conflict causing economic damage could fracture the unity of


Greek Crisis Raises New Fears Over Credit-Default Swaps Greece's debt restructuring is dragging credit-default swaps back into the spotlight. The last time this financial instrument was on the global stage was in 2008, when the American International Group's credit-default swaps brought the insurer, as well as the wider financial system, to the brink of collapse. A.I.G. had unique weaknesses, and regulators have started to overhaul the credit-default swap market since 2008. European policy makers have nonetheless looked warily at credit-default swaps, at least until recently, while they structured the Greek rescue over the last six months. They aimed for a voluntary debt exchange that would not initiate the default swaps, fearing that payments on the swaps might set off destabilizing chain reactions through Europe's financial system. But now, with Europe's $172 billion aid package for Greece, it appears that the nation is going to take a step that substantially increases the likelihood that its swaps take effect. CEO goal: Fix France Télécom France Telecom's chief executive in-waiting Stephane Richard plans to make rebuilding bruised employee morale in the wake of several destabilizing suicides a top priority when he takes the helm of the company next month.


Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person or a group covertly sows seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or group, making them question their own memory, perception, or judgment.[1] It may evoke changes in them such as cognitive dissonance or low self-esteem, rendering the victim additionally dependent on the gaslighter for emotional support and validation. Using denial, misdirection, contradiction and misinformation, gaslighting involves attempts to destabilize the victim and delegitimize the victim's beliefs.

煤氣燈效應是一種心理操縱的形式，其方法是一個人或一個團體隱秘地讓受害人逐漸開始懷疑自己，使他們質疑自己的記憶力，感知力或判斷力，其結果是導致受害者的認知失調和其他變化，例如低下的自我尊重。因為其使用否定，誤導，矛盾和錯誤信息，煤氣燈效應使受害者心理上去穩定化以及使受害者不再相信她/他們原來的的信仰。在現實案例中的範圍，可以從虐待者否認先前發生過虐待事件，到虐待者意圖使受害者迷失方向的怪異事件的發生。

該術語起源於劇本《煤氣燈》（Gas Light，1938年，但最初在美國以「安吉爾街」為名稱演出）及其1940年和1944年的改編版電影。該術語已用於臨床心理學文獻[1] :31–46 [2]以及政治評論和哲學中。 [3]


 

The verb rebuild has one meaning:

Meaning #1: build again Synonym: reconstruct
[動]（〜ped, 〜・ping）((略式))(他)
1 〈物を〉（物と）交換する(trade)；取り換える(exchange)((for ...))；…を（人と）交換し合う((with ...))
She swapped her watch for the book. 腕時計とその本を交換した
I swapped seats ［places］ with him. 彼と席をかわった.
2 ((俗))〈妻・夫を〉（セックスのために）交換［スワッピング］する(swing).
━━(自)（←(他)）物々交換する, 取り換える((over, round)).
━━[名]交換, 取り換え；交換（に適する）品；((俗))夫婦交換, スワッピング
in a swap 交換で
a swap meet ［market］ ((米))（中古品などの）交換会［市］
do a swap 交換する
interest rate swap 金利スワップ（変動金利と固定金利の債務を交換する取引）.

swáp transàction[swáp transàction]

《経済》スワップ取引：直物為替と先物為替を同時に反対方向に売買すること.
［中英語swappenより. 原義は「打つ」, 次に「手を打って商いをする」］
swap・per
[名]
swap・ping
[名]
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2023年4月26日 星期三

composer, symbiotic relationship, El Cóndor Pasa





"Composers rely on musicians to bring their music to life. But musicians rely on composers just as much to continually provide new, exciting material. The two exist — and always have — in a symbiotic relationship."Who were the songbirds for whom some of our most well-known composers wrote?

WQXR.ORG


Composers and Their Songbirds | WQXR Blog

Chimerica is a term coined by Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick describing the symbiotic relationship between China and the United States, with incidental reference to the legendary chimera.


作曲家的誕生：從第八世紀到浪漫時期。（文長，請耐心看）
「作曲家」是從英文「composer」翻譯過來的。但是在較早期的英文字典中，「composer」指的卻是「調解者」的意思，用在「調解紛爭的人」這類的句子上，顯然與音樂毫無關係。的確，十九世紀以前，「作曲家」這個觀念幾乎是不存在的。這個觀念的形成，是十九世紀「浪漫時代」的事。
「作曲家」與音樂記譜的關係密切。在目前的音樂世界中，「樂譜」是音樂必備的「條件」，也因此使一般人對記譜法未臻「完善」、或五線譜未發明以前的音樂世界產生誤解。「記譜」在早期的歷史中，只是對音樂記憶的輔助或提示而己，並不具有像現在一般「白紙黑符，就是真理」那樣的權威性。
從西方歷史上看，葛理格聖歌（Gregorian Chant, ca. 700-1000 A.D.）單旋律到多旋律的時代（ca. 1100-1300 A.D.），那些用四線譜記錄下來的樂譜中，音樂作者的姓名是不存在的。那些音樂作品在記錄以前已不知經由多少代的傳授。能知道的是，大部分作品開始是依靠即興而來，如果「作品」受到大家的喜愛，也都被人「默記」永存於心……

El Cóndor Pasa is a song from the zarzuela El Cóndor Pasa by the Peruvian composer Daniel Alomía Robles written in 1913 and based on traditional Andean folk tunes. It is possibly the best-known Peruvian song worldwide, partly due to a cover version by Simon and Garfunkel in 1970 (together with Urubamba group) on their Bridge Over Troubled Water album, which is called "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)" in full. Paul Simon used only the melody and wrote entirely new, unrelated lyrics.

注：El Condor Pasa(Fly Like An Eagle)已被列入聯合國世界文化遺產，當前博客背景音樂為班德瑞演繹的該曲目，本文尾鏈有Paul Simon & Garfunkel演繹的版本，別有一番風情，百聽不厭。


歌曲簡介：
《El Condor Pasa (Fly Like An Eagle) 》是一首反抗西班牙殖民者的南美秘魯民歌，後被Paul Simon & Garfunkel改編，用英文重唱。這首歌曲已經被列入聯合國世界文化遺產了。旋律寧靜、深邃、高遠，讓人心境明澈，是不可多的的優秀作品。
El Condor Pasa的原型據傳出自秘魯自由戰士Tupac Amaro的故事。1780年，他在領導一場反抗西班牙人的起義中被害，死後化作一隻雄鷹，永遠翱翔于祖國的安第斯山上空。秘魯人民憑歌寄意，表達了對英雄的懷念以及對自由的不息追求。歌名直譯過來就是“老鷹在飛”，中文有多個譯名，山鷹之歌、神鷹展翅、雄鷹高飛等等。
Paul Simon & Garfunkel演繹的版本具有濃厚拉丁美洲鄉間味道。排蕭的演奏給整個曲子帶來高亢而飄逸的美感。 Simon的聲線並不高昂，但相當有韻味，而Garfunkel對和聲的處理令人叫絕，與美妙的旋律配合得天衣無縫。英文歌詞用了四對物體作比較：麻雀和 蝸牛，鐵錘和鐵釘，森林和街道，天鵝與人。而作者都選擇每一對比較物的前者，因為它們比後者享有更大、更多的自由。正如歌曲最後表達的一種心情：天鵝自由 自在地高飛于藍天，而人卻被束縛在大地上，唱著最悲哀的歌。但同時歌曲中充滿了一種現實感，表達了作者希望能夠腳踏實地。所以，此歌講述的是一種不脫離現 實的自由，也就是現實條件下所允許的自由。
一首很輕快的歌，帶著一種歡快的節奏，想像那種自由翱翔，擁抱藍天，俯瞰大地，傲視群峰的感覺。傳說這樣矯健的老鷹是世界上最長命的鳥類，它們有70年的壽命，40年一次磨礪而後重生，不得不打心眼裏佩服這些生靈的那種堅強而旺盛的生命力
神鷹是翱翔與安第斯山的神鳥，從遊吟者內心深處流淌出來的正是對沉澱與古老的印第安民族血液中濃情的宣洩，對高飛精靈的嚮往！淒婉的旋律在空中回蕩，震撼著人們的心弦。手指沿著琴頸在琴弦間跳動，激起人們內心深處思鄉的惆悵。
“吉他伸展變成了雨，記憶安第斯山的神鳥的鳴叫，變成了石英的根，和依戀與河流的柳樹，他們向我們講述了秘魯民歌《雄鷹飛逝(El condor Pasa)》。班德瑞的音樂以空靈、悠遠著稱，曾被用為“催眠音樂”。這首歌也不例外，它能讓人平靜下來……仿佛自己徜徉在歐洲中部那令人神往的山林裏。
秘魯人們在遼闊的安第斯傷心博大的愛和它的痛苦！展現了安第斯山山地居民靈魂所有情感，和安第斯山居民看的見的痛楚，只有溫暖和太陽近在咫尺的有力的心！”

El Condor Pasa(Fly Like An Eagle)
中英譯詞：
I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail
Yes I would, if I could, I surely would, hm-m
I'd rather be a hammer than a nail
Yes I would, if I only could, I surely would, hm-m
Away, I'd rather sail away
Like a swan that's here and gone
A man gets tied up to the ground
He gives the world its saddest sound
Its saddest sound
I'd rather be a forest than a street
Yes I would, if I could, I surely would
I'd rather feel the earth beneath my feet
Yes I would, if I only could, I surely would.

我寧可是隻麻雀，也不願做一隻蝸牛

沒錯，如果可以，我會這樣選擇

我寧可是支鐵鎚，也不願是一根鐵釘

沒錯，如果真的可以，我會這樣選擇

我願航行到遠方

像來了又去的天鵝

一個人如果被束縛在地上

他會向世界發出最悲傷的聲音

最悲傷的聲音

我寧可是座森林，也不願是一條街道

沒錯，如果可以，我會這樣選擇

我寧可感受大地就在你的腳下

沒錯，如果真的可以，我會這樣選擇


我寧可當麻雀也不當蝸牛。
我寧願如此。如果我能夠，我當然願意。
我寧可當鐵錘也不當鐵釘。
我寧願如此。如果我能，我當然願意。
飛走，我寧可飛走，
像天鵝一樣來去自由。
人被地面束縛，
發出的聲音最悲，聲音最悲。
我寧可當森林也不當街道。
我寧願如此。若我能做到，我當然願意。
我寧可感覺腳踏實地。
我寧願如此。如果能如此，我肯定願意。
飛走，我寧可飛走，
像天鵝一樣來去自由。

人被地面束縛，
發出的聲音最悲，聲音最悲。

重新發一首讓70年代人很有感覺的歌曲。
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