Saturday, August 31, 2019
初步實現治國現代化
分三大主軸
(一) 趙家人聽著 朕知道 沒有例外 大家都有多本貪汙的爛帳 馬克思說過 出來混 動自家人的奶酪 是無恥的 既然我們已經實現現代化 所以過去 已經貪的就算了 大家要修身養性 為人民服務 多包二奶 多生一些雜種 暫時 不可再貪 或 不許被抓到 否則自己負責
(二) 依附趙家人發跡的 貌似企業家們 你們擁有的一切 是趙家人暫時賞賜給你們的 所以 不可以藏私房錢 要覺悟 趙家人隨時可以收回去
(三) 供薪打工階級 你們就是眾生 就是奴隸 就是趙家人馬上要用 或用過的保險套 就是滿山遍野的韭菜 你們唯一要做的 就是為趙家人賣命 命 當然 包括器官 所以一定要無知 一定要跪著 一定要聽話 一定要盲從 記住 天網 無時無刻 看著你們
披露习近平亲属洗钱 华尔街日报记者中国签证被拒
https://www.voachinese.com/a/China-Expels-Wall-Street-Journal-Reporter-Over-Coverage-Of-Xi-Family-20190830/5063076.html
中国外交部发言人华春莹曾称该报道十分正確但是小題大作她笑著說我們每個趙家人都是這麼做的
屠城前夕
文革治國就是製造抹黑謊言完全思想監控極端暴力迫害人人互害恐懼 extreme thought control and self-censorship, extreme violence
and destruction, ambience of mutual betrayal, culture of fear and persecution
然後六四八三一屠城
中共要殺多少中國人才夠
Friday, August 30, 2019
Machine-Gun Kelly (1958)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-Gun_Kelly_(film)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2zICPD2CJA
It was the first lead role for actor Charles Bronson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2zICPD2CJA
It was the first lead role for actor Charles Bronson.
Harry Guntrip (1901-1975)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Guntrip
https://harryguntriptrust.co.uk/
https://harryguntriptrust.co.uk/
Psychoanalytic
Theory, Therapy and the Self (Harry Guntrip, 1971) (re-working 2019-8-30)
EUROPEAN CHAMBER REPORT ON CHINA’S CORPORATE SOCIAL CREDIT SYSTEM A WAKE-UP CALL FOR EUROPEAN BUSINESS IN CHINA (2019-8-28)
https://www.europeanchamber.com.cn/en/press-releases/3045/european_chamber_report_on_china_s_corporate_social_credit_system_a_wake_up_call_for_european_business_in_china
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icx0wbPUefQ
https://www.dw.com/en/chinas-corporate-social-credit-system-spooks-european-companies/a-50200050
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3024636/european-firms-warned-chinas-social-credit-system-could-be
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19CK_fPki0Ksguyi2MbR10YMYZuTUXhXU/view?usp=sharing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icx0wbPUefQ
https://www.dw.com/en/chinas-corporate-social-credit-system-spooks-european-companies/a-50200050
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3024636/european-firms-warned-chinas-social-credit-system-could-be
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19CK_fPki0Ksguyi2MbR10YMYZuTUXhXU/view?usp=sharing
The Confessions (2016)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Confessions_(film)
i'm glad that the chinese don't do such silly things as confessions, whether to the priest, or to the therapist, though they are more than happy to kowtow to the party, and its infamous torturers, which, spiritually speaking, is not confession per se
i'm glad that the chinese don't do such silly things as confessions, whether to the priest, or to the therapist, though they are more than happy to kowtow to the party, and its infamous torturers, which, spiritually speaking, is not confession per se
Vier gegen die Bank (2016)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vier_gegen_die_Bank_(2016_film)
it's a real joy to see funny and happy Germans again, after Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)
it's a real joy to see funny and happy Germans again, after Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)
CAS-Alibaba Quantum Computing Laboratory
https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E7%A7%91%E5%AD%A6%E9%99%A2-%E9%98%BF%E9%87%8C%E5%B7%B4%E5%B7%B4%E9%87%8F%E5%AD%90%E8%AE%A1%E7%AE%97%E5%AE%9E%E9%AA%8C%E5%AE%A4/18238868
https://www.natureindex.com/institution-outputs/china/cas-alibaba-quantum-computing-laboratory/5704ccf0140ba0a7118b4575
https://www.natureindex.com/institution-outputs/china/cas-alibaba-quantum-computing-laboratory/5704ccf0140ba0a7118b4575
姚依林 (1917-1994)
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A7%9A%E4%BE%9D%E6%9E%97
老顧說林鄭可能是老姚的私生女這明顯是關於中共高官私生子女遍布全世界的人口紅利的合理假設
Thursday, August 29, 2019
New Parkinson's Drug Approved (2019-8-29)
https://www.jwatch.org/fw115765/2019/08/29/new-parkinsons-drug-approved?query=pfwTOC&jwd=000013567342&jspc=P
The FDA has approved istradefylline, an adenosine A2A receptor antagonist, as an adjunctive treatment to levodopa/carbidopa for Parkinson disease. Marketed as Nourianz, the drug is indicated for adults who experience "off" episodes — times when medications aren't working well, causing an increase in Parkinson's symptoms.
In four trials, patients treated with istradefylline had significantly less "off" time compared with those who took a placebo.
滿頭大汗之後
他活轉過來可見知覺必須是具體的
還有兩個例子都是疼痛
活轉是存在感的意思
昨天深夜解放軍已經進城
「吃飯了沒有」「無恆產者無恆心」
這兩句話是中國人的族群的代代相傳的記憶
我們稱之為文化基因
因為說得夠久所以你必須相信
我先前說過南部人告別時喜歡說有空來玩
台北人則拿出筆記本下個月十九日你有沒有空
三天後入監九年
答客問: 心理動力心理治療和精神分析之比較研究
1. 門檻: 後者比前者門檻高 須識字三百以上 前者大概二百五即可2. 文獻: 文獻的規格 後者很單調 但以為很深奧 這裡有一種對文字的理解的誤區
聱牙的字句 拐彎抹角的很長的句子 不表示隱藏著神祕的絕學 比如說 葵花寶典一書 三十七頁 四百六十字 五千年來 每個字都看得懂 卻沒有人練得成 這是令狐沖說的
3. 訓練: 後者的問題是 這是那個宣稱佛洛伊德最正常的學生 留下來的最不正常的訓練規格
簡單講就是老師不放學生畢業 除非他能證明他絕對不會長大 這個證明大概要花十年 那時老師已經快掛了 你才終於可以畢業 然後過幾年變成下一代整人的人 前者的訓練很邋遢
有點像學徒跟師傅學包水餃 只要樣子像水餃 就可以畢業 繼續去包水餃
4. 操作: 後者的操作 有一種基本教義派的執著 你要躺在那張躺椅
否則你做不了有趣的夢 而且要每周四至五次 這點保證了 後者能痛宰這幾隻肥羊 我們都知道 這個年頭 肥羊是多麼少見 多麼難得 前者的操作 有點像路邊攤 大家隨便坐
杯盤狼藉是必須的
5. 收費: 後者三千五新台幣 或一百美元起跳 這是跟美元匯率有關的
類似全世界的麥當勞漢堡 是普世的價錢 如果寫了一本書 就可以多收十美元 如果當了理事長 就可以再多收二十美元 如果得了諾貝爾獎 就可以開天文價 簡單講關鍵字是prestige (尊貴或矜貴) 比照菜鳥分析師一百美元的基本價
每天六隻肥羊 日復一日 同樣那六隻 扣掉周休二日 每月四十萬台幣 合一萬多美元 符合已開發國家的中產定義 而且更棒的是不用繳稅 或象徵性地 像林志玲或范冰冰 繳一點意思意思就好
前者的收費符合路邊攤的標準 可以(但不鼓勵)賒帳 酒酣耳熱 大概一千元台幣
可以打發 多點了醒酒的酸菜肚片湯 大概一千五就夠 而且每周一次為主 極少數每周兩次 (這明顯不是肥羊 是瘦羊) 所以每天六人 每周三十人
扣掉周休二日 每月十二至十八萬
6. 對象: 跟上述收費有關 後者適合成功人士 幫助他們找到自己
前者適合升斗小民 幫助他們活下去
7. 與其他學科的關係: 後者在精神分析學院自我孤立的百年傳統下
與其他學科基本上無關 (當然不甘寂寞的分析師會讀點其他學科的書) 前者沒有被關在門牆電網之內 可以四處遊蕩戲耍
8. 精神分析師和心理動力心理治療者對抽象的語言的掌握和想像的差別: 後者的執著
在把一首詩 讀成僅有的一首詩 對文字語言極其講究 前者是邊滿頭大汗料理洗碗的同時 讀一首詩 結果當然把詩 讀成一桌下酒好菜 酒酣之餘講的話 當然斷片 不復記憶
9. 精神分析師和心理動力心理治療者對的人生的差別: 後者必須是成功人士
穿著打扮須講究 舉止言談須文雅 前者是販夫走卒 衣領烏黑是常態 說髒話是必須的
The Man Who Stayed Behind (Sidney Rittenberg, 1993)
The Man Who Stayed Behind is the remarkable account of Sidney Rittenberg, an American who was sent to China by the U.S. military in the 1940s. A student activist and labor organizer who was fluent in Chinese, Rittenberg became caught up in the turbulence that engulfed China and remained there until the late 1970s. Even with access to China’s highest leaders as an American communist, however, he was twice imprisoned for a total of sixteen years.
Both a memoir and a documentary history of the Chinese revolution from 1949 through the Cultural Revolution, The Man Who Stayed Behind provides a human perspective on China’s efforts to build a new society. Critical of both his own mistakes and those of the Communist leadership, Rittenberg nevertheless gives an even-handed account of a country that is now free of internal war for the first time in a hundred years. (amazon) (kindle 2019-8-29)
https://civics.sites.unc.edu/files/2014/02/AmericanChina9.pdf
In November 1977, Rittenberg was released and rehabilitated — probably as the last of all the foreigners. In March 1980, he returned to the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Rittenberg
Both a memoir and a documentary history of the Chinese revolution from 1949 through the Cultural Revolution, The Man Who Stayed Behind provides a human perspective on China’s efforts to build a new society. Critical of both his own mistakes and those of the Communist leadership, Rittenberg nevertheless gives an even-handed account of a country that is now free of internal war for the first time in a hundred years. (amazon) (kindle 2019-8-29)
https://civics.sites.unc.edu/files/2014/02/AmericanChina9.pdf
In November 1977, Rittenberg was released and rehabilitated — probably as the last of all the foreigners. In March 1980, he returned to the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Rittenberg
Sidney Rittenberg (李敦白 1921 – August 24, 2019)
https://cn.nytimes.com/obits/20190826/sidney-rittenberg-dead/zh-hant/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9mfOSP2loU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1AW4AVZ1pc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Rittenberg
https://civics.sites.unc.edu/files/2014/02/AmericanChina9.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9mfOSP2loU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1AW4AVZ1pc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Rittenberg
https://civics.sites.unc.edu/files/2014/02/AmericanChina9.pdf
關於匪諜的精神分析存有分析
夢到陳映真是不尋常的通常只能夢到拼湊不出意義的瑣碎不安夢裡我說那是我形塑的滋潤 (formative nutrient) 然後晨曦狗吠起來我見過一些匪諜長相都很和藹可親說話很像孔子學院的接線生慢吞吞的人情世故面面俱到的最喜歡說「有甚麼我可以為你服務的嗎」匪諜是一種信仰這點我們必須理解在這個沒有信仰只有 Costco 的時代這點多麼難得這說明了他的悲壯活在無盡暗夜像地質學一般的耐心等待很多年前所布的局開花中文的世界是一個牢籠或簡單講中文是一個牢籠這表示我已經在牢籠裡了我們習用的詞彙就是牢籠比如說我剛剛說的「有甚麼我可以為你服務的嗎」這句話就是牢籠例子實在太多想到再說回到匪諜匪諜的養成教育中最大的難關就是必須見過世面你知道甚麼叫做見過世面嗎見過世面就是見過夠多的錢見過夠多的 pussy 見過夠多的血和死亡見過夠多的真理和謊言然後面不改色這是多麼成熟的人才能達到的境界你知道嗎為什麼這是難關因為見過世面居然還能信仰比如說信仰那三個陌生的中年男人代表著祖國的那隻無名的黑手的召喚很多年前老李說過每個人都有價碼這句話顯然是匪諜的人生智慧的結晶當然每個人都有弱點都可以被抓到把柄賴以裹脅這是匪諜的操作技巧的結晶
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
最後一碗雞湯泡飯
醫教會公文待處理舊報紙需補貨明天下午居家治療兩條菸這輩子沒有去過Costco也沒有打算去周六去內湖系統是有生命的意思是說困獸猶鬥不要低估它求生的意志今天下午在生命線聽到一堆有故事的人鬧自殺我說那是合理的重讀 David Smail 二書 Taking Care: An
Alternative to Therapy 和 How to Survive Without
Psychotherapy 這和 Joel Paris 講的 to get a life 有點像雖然 Joel 對外在世界的決定性並不強調你可以說他說的只是常識 (common sense) 所以不要低估常識 1949 年決定離開血腥大陸就是常識我的意思是說歷史判斷不過常識回到系統我們怎麼預知系統的崩潰怎麼預知死亡父親病危才送急診那年年初他就說活不過這一年了他是怎麼知道的
American Factory (2019-8-21)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Factory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m36QeKOJ2Fc
don't forget there is no such thing as human right in China, which is the paradise of fucking crony capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m36QeKOJ2Fc
don't forget there is no such thing as human right in China, which is the paradise of fucking crony capitalism
China wants a local chip supply chain, but that could be at odds with other goals
https://www.abacusnews.com/digital-life/china-wants-local-chip-supply-chain-could-be-odds-other-goals/article/3024373?utm_source=googlenewsstand_web&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=20190826&utm_campaign=off_platform
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-leaders-and-founders/article/3024040/are-chinas-investments-semiconductors-all-naught-us
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-leaders-and-founders/article/3024040/are-chinas-investments-semiconductors-all-naught-us
當你忘記了語言
你才能見到世界這時陽光灑進陋室
比較研究之一 Otto Rank 之二 Harry Guntrip
青菜漲價了舊報紙還可以撐幾天
信息量本身不足惜不值專注如果它不是種子
先前嚮往石器時代 hunter-gatherer 的生活方式
後來幻滅因為知道他們會過度屠殺
怎麼解釋這件事情
But Upper Palaeolithic people were far better equipped and more numerous than their forerunners, and they killed on a much grander scale. Some of their slaughter sites were almost industrial in size: a thousand mammoths at one; more than 100,000 horses at another.
Wright, Ronald. A Short History Of Progress (p. 38). Canongate Books. 2004, Kindle edition.
毛澤東每次殺人都殺百分之五表示他是有方法的慈悲
當然執刑的地方書記揣摩上意怕落人於後會多殺一點
輸人不輸陣結果大躍進殺紅了眼畝產一萬七千斤
黃仁宇的歷史智慧止於八九六四屠殺前夕
數量化的管理其實只是學會工具理性
還是沒有解釋為什麼他們過度屠殺
不是為了蛋白質因為吃不了這麼多
是因為不殺這麼多就辜負了武器精良進步
因為做得到所以一定要做
是因為自毀他毀的基因從來都在那裡蠢蠢欲動
我先前說過文明來自節制
節制說明了界線
那條不該逾越的線叫做底線
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Taking Care: An Alternative to Therapy (David Smail, 1987)
Taking Care established the author as an important social and political analyst whose background happened to be in clinical psychology. In this work the author develops the analysis of mental illness, and psychology in general, in the contexts of society, power and interest. People's experience is embodied in the world in which they exist. Notwithstanding the claims of some, psychology cannot, in the same way that magic cannot, change the nature of that experience fundamentally. At best, psychotherapy might provide a degree of understanding about that limitation. The historical relationship between psychology and magic is examined. The socio-political and economic structures of the society in which we live have the greatest influence on mental health, as on many other matters. Therefore, the individuation of focus in psychology on personal relationships, happiness, and sexuality can significantly miss the point. We need to develop political and social structures that 'take care' of people, to enable them to have meaningful 'public' lives. (amazon) (accessible via Proquest Ebooks Central, VGH)
How to Survive Without Psychotherapy (David Smail, 1996)
This book is directly aimed at sufferers of mental distress. The book's aim is to remove from sufferers the burden of 'fault' for their pain and to demystify some of the practices that surround the 'treatment' of mental illness. It is not exactly a self-help book because it is a false claim of any 'treatment' of mental illness that 'cure' can be brought about by exercise of will. Much of what causes mental distress is lack of power and resource, outside the control of the sufferer. Surviving without psychotherapy involves the appreciation of several things. First, the limited nature of therapeutic assistance - whilst clarification and support may help the sufferer understand his/her predicament and encourage the use of what resources the sufferer has, therapy cannot change the distal root causes of distress. Second, that only socio-political solutions can address some of the most powerful causes of distress, e.g., redundancy, housing and poverty. In sounding a cautionary note about psychoanalysis, Smail observes that mental distress is far more about money than sex. (amazon) (paperback lost, kindle 2019-8-27)
Evidence-based psychological interventions in the treatment of mental disorders: A literature review (APS, 2018)
https://www.psychology.org.au/About-Us/What-we-do/advocacy/Position-Papers-Discussion-Papers-and-Reviews/psychological-interventions-mental-disorders
https://www.psychology.org.au/getmedia/23c6a11b-2600-4e19-9a1d-6ff9c2f26fae/Evidence-based-psych-interventions.pdf
https://www.psychology.org.au/getmedia/23c6a11b-2600-4e19-9a1d-6ff9c2f26fae/Evidence-based-psych-interventions.pdf
Digital Genesis: The Future of Computing, Robots and AI (Christopher Barnatt, ExplainingComputers.com, 2017)
Digital Genesis charts the evolution of computing and the rise of artificial intelligence. From cloud AI services and autonomous robots, to 3D printers and quantum processors, the book details the latest digital technologies and predicts their future development and implications.
Late last century the human race learnt how to enter cyberspace. But in the 2020s the reverse will happen, with computers, robots and AI set to transform the physical world. Soon driverless vehicles will rule our highways, while many products will be manufactured in ‘dark factories’ by smart machines. Some of tomorrow’s most sophisticated technologies may even be organically grown using the latest digital science of synthetic biology.
Digital Genesis is written by futurist Christopher Barnatt, who in his 1995 book Cyber Business predicted the arrival of e-business and online social networks. Over 20 years later, he looks ahead to the Cognitive Computing Age, and beyond that to the era of ‘cyborg fusion’ in which the future of computing will become the future of ourselves. (amazon) (kindle 2019-8-27)
Late last century the human race learnt how to enter cyberspace. But in the 2020s the reverse will happen, with computers, robots and AI set to transform the physical world. Soon driverless vehicles will rule our highways, while many products will be manufactured in ‘dark factories’ by smart machines. Some of tomorrow’s most sophisticated technologies may even be organically grown using the latest digital science of synthetic biology.
Digital Genesis is written by futurist Christopher Barnatt, who in his 1995 book Cyber Business predicted the arrival of e-business and online social networks. Over 20 years later, he looks ahead to the Cognitive Computing Age, and beyond that to the era of ‘cyborg fusion’ in which the future of computing will become the future of ourselves. (amazon) (kindle 2019-8-27)
About the Author
Christopher Barnatt is a futurist, keynote speaker and freelance academic. For 25 years he lectured in computing and future studies at the University of Nottingham, and now runs ExplainingComputers.com, ExplainingTheFuture.com and their associated YouTube channels. He also works for a range of clients across industries that include the arts, food production, financial services, healthcare and logistics. (amazon)
在那個房間
昨晚夜診聽到一個兒子說母親整天都在她的房間坐在床邊我說看電視呢不看吃飯呢拿進去給她吃除了偶而出來上洗手間其他絕無僅有都在那個房間哄勸出門是天大難事這個母親來診已經四五年起先眼疾多年未治幾乎失明後來改善許多起先除了思覺失調也有強迫症狀這些都有改善但仍困在那個房間其實我也困在我的房間所以這件事我是可以理解的雖然我仍希望她偶而可以去全聯頂好家樂福便利商店走一下能上網更好如果喜歡拉二胡那就太讓人感動了
昨天傍晚他們到了大阪那個黑雨的故鄉我先前說過我看了幾百部大陸連續劇和幾個系列視頻比如關東微喜劇陳翔六點半田小豆等等似乎鄭雲工作室已經歇業上述應該都是過去四五年的作品我不知道去年起開始開拍的會有甚麼差別眼前局勢是軍管維穩戒嚴閉關鎖國票證供銷社惡性通脹失業潮斷供樓市崩盤金融危機匯率雪崩意思是說二零零二以來的光鮮歲月終於敗絮難掩到目前為止我沒有看到心理治療乃至精神分析的發言但生意應該會變得難做因為那是吃飽沒事做才會去想的自我實現的刺繡
這輩子我不打算搭飛機高鐵打算赤腳走路腳痛再穿鞋所以你可以理解我走不了太遠有人說古人一輩子活動在方圓十里有點像流浪狗流浪貓當然都是用走的腳的構造十分複雜是有理由的
這是停滯我知道從Otto Rank以後Donald Wright講文明短史把Progress講成充滿陷阱的神話他說唯一繼續流傳未滅絕的文明是埃及和中國但其實他對中國一無所知中國早已滅絕千年當然豬哥亮不會同意我這麼說這是為什麼我說台灣總統唯一候選人必須是豬哥亮的原因我跟田小豆都很懷念他老人家
宏觀調控
這個片語是二十多年前開始常常聽到的關於中國總體經濟發展設計規劃的詞我閉上眼看到幾個聰明的哈佛畢業的中共經濟學家胸有成足的談笑用兵勾畫未來我先前說過五年前我重啟中國觀察的時候所見皆為養肥的西方熊貓和自信創新開著法拉利好舒服的中國豺狼我說過很多次你必須接觸大量錯誤矛盾的信息才能讀出一點自己的判斷我讀出的判斷是宏觀調控是在人奶宴上發生的這件事說明吸奶是一件重要的行為邊吸邊布局邊貪汙意思是說被宏觀調控的就是金字塔頂端那百分之二的權貴和他們豢養的黑白手套擁有的食物鏈我十分驚訝林毅夫郎咸平張五常胡鞍鋼周小川劉鶴沒有說過這件事他們看起來都知道這件事卻裝作不知道這件事意思是說經濟學家是悉心照顧中共權貴的食物鏈的生態學家意思是說他們不過是家奴打工仔
Monday, August 26, 2019
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8/26 7:03 AM, sunny, duty, they are going to Osaka this afternoon, for four days; meantime, reading Donald Wright (2004), on and off; men have enjoyed mass killings, of kinds of species, including himself, from old stone age on; they seem to be incapable of learning how to let nature be; now, Otto Rank emphasized the will, might it be that the will was the origin of this bloody curse? though Rank was saying something about creativity, which has no reason to enjoy genocides, i mean, creativity is not meant for aggression and destruction per se, it is meant for creation, for reparation, also (you see, here Klein becomes relevant); a la Heidegger, gelassenheit means let it be, so the noblest will is "will not to will" or "will no will", so that the will is back to nature itself, finally; in other words, man tells himself, i would like to live among all the living creatures, just like them, be them, no more, no less;
Sunday, August 25, 2019
Hotel Mumbai (2008-11-26) (2019-3-14)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Mumbai
On the evening of November 26, 2008, a sixty-nine-year-old man checked into room 632 at the luxurious Taj Mahal Palace hotel in Mumbai, India. The guest, K. R. Ramamoorthy, was visiting from Bangalore on a routine business trip. Little did he know that his life was about to change forever.
At about 11:00 p.m., Ramamoorthy heard a brief commotion outside his door, then suddenly a knock. “Room service,” a voice said. Ramamoorthy knew he had not ordered any food and sensed something was gravely wrong. He attempted a retreat to the bathroom, accidentally bumping into the door. The noise gave away his presence inside the hotel room. The response was swift: a hail of bullets came flying through the door, obliterating the lock separating the businessman from the world outside.
Two heavily armed men forced their way into Ramamoorthy’s room, and in the blink of an eye he was beaten, stripped naked, and tied up in what would become the most terrifying night of his life. The men were from a Pakistani-based al-Qaeda–affiliated terrorist organization known as Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), and Ramamoorthy had unfortunately found himself at the center of the deadly 2008 terrorist siege on the city of Mumbai.
“Who are you, and what are you doing here?” his LeT captors demanded of him. “I’m just an innocent schoolteacher,” Ramamoorthy replied. Of course, the terrorists knew that no Indian schoolteacher could afford to stay in a suite at the city’s most opulent hotel. The terrorists located their hostage’s identification card on his bedside table and now had his true name, which they called in to their terrorist commanders on the satellite phone they had brought with them.
The LeT ops center receiving the call resembled any modern military command-and-control facility. From across the border in Pakistan, terrorist cell leaders tracked the progress of their attack on the people of Mumbai. They had carefully selected their targets, including two luxury hotels, a busy railway station, a Jewish community center, a popular tourist café, and even a women and children’s hospital. On the ground in Mumbai, terrorist operatives ruthlessly threw hand grenades at innocent people as they sat eating in cafés and gunned down unarmed civilians waiting to catch trains on their way home from work.
As the attacks unfolded, LeT commanders in Pakistan used their war room to carefully monitor the BBC, Al Jazeera, CNN, and local Indian TV stations to learn as much as possible about the progress of their operatives and the response of the Indian government. Regrettably, the terrorists did not limit their information-gathering operations to broadcast media; they also mined the Internet and social media in real time, to deadly effect.
When the terrorists holding Ramamoorthy phoned in his name to their Pakistani base, the ops center deftly conducted an Internet search on their hostage. Moments later, they had his photograph. Then his place of work. They learned Ramamoorthy was not an innocent schoolteacher as he claimed when pleading for his life but rather the chairman of one of India’s largest banks, ING Vysya. Based on the image they had found online, the terrorist commanders asked their operatives at the Taj Mahal Palace to compare the man before them with the photograph of the bank chairman located online:
Your hostage, is he heavyset?
Yes.
Is he bald in front?
Yes.
Does he wear glasses?
Yes.
“What shall we do with him?” asked Ramamoorthy’s captors. Moments later, the terrorist war room gave its reply: Kill him.
In an instant, a simple Internet search was all the terrorists needed to decide the elderly man’s fate. Though we may worry about advertisers and data brokers abusing our privacy settings on Facebook, the fact of the matter is that our openness can be used against us in ways worse than we had ever imagined. When we leak data, it’s not just captured by corporations or governments. Criminals and terrorists have access to our social data as well, and they are leveraging it with killer precision. In today’s world, a search engine can literally determine who shall live and who shall die.
The men who carried out that attack on Mumbai were armed with AK-47s and RDX explosives. Guns and bombs are nothing new in terrorist operations, but these LeT operatives represented a deeply disturbing new breed of terrorist. They had seen the future and leveraged modern information technologies every step of the way throughout their assault to locate additional victims and slaughter them.
When the attackers set out to sea from Pakistan under cover of darkness, they wore night-vision goggles and navigated to Mumbai using GPS handsets. They carried BlackBerrys containing PDF files of the hotel floor plans and used Google Earth to explore 3-D models of target venues to determine optimal entry and exit points. During the melee, LeT assassins used satellite phones, GSM handsets, and Skype to coordinate with their Pakistan-based command center, which monitored broadcast news, the Internet, and social media to provide real-time tactical direction to its ground assault team.
When a bystander tweeted a photograph of police commandos rappelling from a helicopter onto the roof of the besieged Jewish community building, the terrorist ops center intercepted the photograph, alerted its attackers, and directed them to a stairwell leading to the roof. The police, who had hoped to surprise the terrorists, instead found themselves ambushed inside the stairwell the moment they opened the door. When the BBC mentioned on air that witnesses had reported the terrorists were hiding in room 360 or 361, their war room phoned them immediately and told them to reposition themselves to avoid capture.
At every point during the siege, the LeT attackers exploited readily available technology to gain situational awareness and maintain tactical advantage over police and the government. They monitored the Internet and social media, gathered all available open-source data, and even mounted a sophisticated online counterintelligence operation to protect their operatives. Throughout their assault on Mumbai, the terrorists were so dependent on technology that numerous witnesses reported seeing LeT operatives shooting hostages with the guns in their right hands while simultaneously checking BlackBerry messages with their left.
Not only was technology crucial to the operational success of the siege, but as we learned in chapter 2, criminal abuse of technology also funded the attack. It was a Filipino hacking cell working on behalf of the al-Qaeda affiliate Jamaah Islamiyah that committed extensive cyber crime and online fraud to bankroll the LeT operation in India. The hackers funneled their millions in ill-gotten cyber gains back to their handlers in Saudi Arabia, who in turn laundered the funds and forwarded them to the Lashkar-e-Taiba team responsible for the brutal onslaught against the people of Mumbai.
In the end, it took police sixty-eight hours to end the siege on the city of Mumbai. Counterassault teams eventually killed nine of the terrorists and arrested the tenth. Shockingly, one of the innocents to survive the attack was K. R. Ramamoorthy. At the very moment the LeT command center had given the order to kill him, there was an explosion in the Taj Mahal Palace, which his attackers thought was the police closing in. As the terrorists ran to investigate, they gave Ramamoorthy the brief moment in time he needed to free himself and escape. Not so lucky were the 166 men, women, and children who lost their lives that day, as well as the hundreds more who were gravely wounded as a result of the carnage.
Let us pause for a moment to consider the implications of this terrorist assault. Ten men, armed not just with weapons but with technology, were able to bring a city of twelve million people, the fourth-largest metropolis on earth, to a complete standstill, in an event that was broadcast live around the world. The militants proved fully capable of collecting open-source intelligence mid-attack (traditional media, Internet, mobile, and social data) and using it for synchronous operational decision making. LeT simply processed the data the public was leaking and leveraged them in real time to kill more people and outmaneuver authorities. That was terrorism in the digital age circa 2008. What might terrorists do with the technologies available today? What will they do with the technologies of tomorrow? The lesson of Mumbai is that exponential change applies not just for good but for evil as well.
Goodman, Marc. Future Crimes (pp. 101-105). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 2015, Kindle edition.
On the evening of November 26, 2008, a sixty-nine-year-old man checked into room 632 at the luxurious Taj Mahal Palace hotel in Mumbai, India. The guest, K. R. Ramamoorthy, was visiting from Bangalore on a routine business trip. Little did he know that his life was about to change forever.
At about 11:00 p.m., Ramamoorthy heard a brief commotion outside his door, then suddenly a knock. “Room service,” a voice said. Ramamoorthy knew he had not ordered any food and sensed something was gravely wrong. He attempted a retreat to the bathroom, accidentally bumping into the door. The noise gave away his presence inside the hotel room. The response was swift: a hail of bullets came flying through the door, obliterating the lock separating the businessman from the world outside.
Two heavily armed men forced their way into Ramamoorthy’s room, and in the blink of an eye he was beaten, stripped naked, and tied up in what would become the most terrifying night of his life. The men were from a Pakistani-based al-Qaeda–affiliated terrorist organization known as Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), and Ramamoorthy had unfortunately found himself at the center of the deadly 2008 terrorist siege on the city of Mumbai.
“Who are you, and what are you doing here?” his LeT captors demanded of him. “I’m just an innocent schoolteacher,” Ramamoorthy replied. Of course, the terrorists knew that no Indian schoolteacher could afford to stay in a suite at the city’s most opulent hotel. The terrorists located their hostage’s identification card on his bedside table and now had his true name, which they called in to their terrorist commanders on the satellite phone they had brought with them.
The LeT ops center receiving the call resembled any modern military command-and-control facility. From across the border in Pakistan, terrorist cell leaders tracked the progress of their attack on the people of Mumbai. They had carefully selected their targets, including two luxury hotels, a busy railway station, a Jewish community center, a popular tourist café, and even a women and children’s hospital. On the ground in Mumbai, terrorist operatives ruthlessly threw hand grenades at innocent people as they sat eating in cafés and gunned down unarmed civilians waiting to catch trains on their way home from work.
As the attacks unfolded, LeT commanders in Pakistan used their war room to carefully monitor the BBC, Al Jazeera, CNN, and local Indian TV stations to learn as much as possible about the progress of their operatives and the response of the Indian government. Regrettably, the terrorists did not limit their information-gathering operations to broadcast media; they also mined the Internet and social media in real time, to deadly effect.
When the terrorists holding Ramamoorthy phoned in his name to their Pakistani base, the ops center deftly conducted an Internet search on their hostage. Moments later, they had his photograph. Then his place of work. They learned Ramamoorthy was not an innocent schoolteacher as he claimed when pleading for his life but rather the chairman of one of India’s largest banks, ING Vysya. Based on the image they had found online, the terrorist commanders asked their operatives at the Taj Mahal Palace to compare the man before them with the photograph of the bank chairman located online:
Your hostage, is he heavyset?
Yes.
Is he bald in front?
Yes.
Does he wear glasses?
Yes.
“What shall we do with him?” asked Ramamoorthy’s captors. Moments later, the terrorist war room gave its reply: Kill him.
In an instant, a simple Internet search was all the terrorists needed to decide the elderly man’s fate. Though we may worry about advertisers and data brokers abusing our privacy settings on Facebook, the fact of the matter is that our openness can be used against us in ways worse than we had ever imagined. When we leak data, it’s not just captured by corporations or governments. Criminals and terrorists have access to our social data as well, and they are leveraging it with killer precision. In today’s world, a search engine can literally determine who shall live and who shall die.
The men who carried out that attack on Mumbai were armed with AK-47s and RDX explosives. Guns and bombs are nothing new in terrorist operations, but these LeT operatives represented a deeply disturbing new breed of terrorist. They had seen the future and leveraged modern information technologies every step of the way throughout their assault to locate additional victims and slaughter them.
When the attackers set out to sea from Pakistan under cover of darkness, they wore night-vision goggles and navigated to Mumbai using GPS handsets. They carried BlackBerrys containing PDF files of the hotel floor plans and used Google Earth to explore 3-D models of target venues to determine optimal entry and exit points. During the melee, LeT assassins used satellite phones, GSM handsets, and Skype to coordinate with their Pakistan-based command center, which monitored broadcast news, the Internet, and social media to provide real-time tactical direction to its ground assault team.
When a bystander tweeted a photograph of police commandos rappelling from a helicopter onto the roof of the besieged Jewish community building, the terrorist ops center intercepted the photograph, alerted its attackers, and directed them to a stairwell leading to the roof. The police, who had hoped to surprise the terrorists, instead found themselves ambushed inside the stairwell the moment they opened the door. When the BBC mentioned on air that witnesses had reported the terrorists were hiding in room 360 or 361, their war room phoned them immediately and told them to reposition themselves to avoid capture.
At every point during the siege, the LeT attackers exploited readily available technology to gain situational awareness and maintain tactical advantage over police and the government. They monitored the Internet and social media, gathered all available open-source data, and even mounted a sophisticated online counterintelligence operation to protect their operatives. Throughout their assault on Mumbai, the terrorists were so dependent on technology that numerous witnesses reported seeing LeT operatives shooting hostages with the guns in their right hands while simultaneously checking BlackBerry messages with their left.
Not only was technology crucial to the operational success of the siege, but as we learned in chapter 2, criminal abuse of technology also funded the attack. It was a Filipino hacking cell working on behalf of the al-Qaeda affiliate Jamaah Islamiyah that committed extensive cyber crime and online fraud to bankroll the LeT operation in India. The hackers funneled their millions in ill-gotten cyber gains back to their handlers in Saudi Arabia, who in turn laundered the funds and forwarded them to the Lashkar-e-Taiba team responsible for the brutal onslaught against the people of Mumbai.
In the end, it took police sixty-eight hours to end the siege on the city of Mumbai. Counterassault teams eventually killed nine of the terrorists and arrested the tenth. Shockingly, one of the innocents to survive the attack was K. R. Ramamoorthy. At the very moment the LeT command center had given the order to kill him, there was an explosion in the Taj Mahal Palace, which his attackers thought was the police closing in. As the terrorists ran to investigate, they gave Ramamoorthy the brief moment in time he needed to free himself and escape. Not so lucky were the 166 men, women, and children who lost their lives that day, as well as the hundreds more who were gravely wounded as a result of the carnage.
Let us pause for a moment to consider the implications of this terrorist assault. Ten men, armed not just with weapons but with technology, were able to bring a city of twelve million people, the fourth-largest metropolis on earth, to a complete standstill, in an event that was broadcast live around the world. The militants proved fully capable of collecting open-source intelligence mid-attack (traditional media, Internet, mobile, and social data) and using it for synchronous operational decision making. LeT simply processed the data the public was leaking and leveraged them in real time to kill more people and outmaneuver authorities. That was terrorism in the digital age circa 2008. What might terrorists do with the technologies available today? What will they do with the technologies of tomorrow? The lesson of Mumbai is that exponential change applies not just for good but for evil as well.
Goodman, Marc. Future Crimes (pp. 101-105). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 2015, Kindle edition.
這部片子沒有阿拉沒有英雄整個孟買只有五個菜鳥警察槍法極差一群人尖叫哭泣坐以待斃搞不定三個拿槍的小屁孩劇本沒有提到上述的借助網路顯然印度和巴基斯坦有世仇
Saturday, August 24, 2019
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gauguin
https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-gauguin
D'où venons-nous ? Que sommes-nous ? Où allons-nous ? (1897)
https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-gauguin
D'où venons-nous ? Que sommes-nous ? Où allons-nous ? (1897)
Pat Deegan's Personal Medicine for Depression: A CommonGround Guide (CommonGround Program Guides) (Patricia E Deegan, Allison Stiles, Pat Deegan, PhD & Associates, LLC, 2019-3-1)
Depression can be a reaction to a loss, a hardship, trauma or a change in life circumstances. But when we experience depression that lasts a long time and interferes with our ability to keep up with responsibilities, it may mean we need some additional support.
My name is Pat Deegan. Like you, I have experienced depression. Over time, I learned to manage my depression so I could get back to doing the things in life that matter most to me. Of course, there are still times when I experience depression. But since discovering my Personal Medicine, I have the tools and know-how to get back on track. In this Guide, you will have the opportunity to discover your own unique Personal Medicine for Depression. (amazon)
Inside Outside; Building a Meaningful Life After the Hospital DVD-ROM – DVD (Pat Deegan, Terry Strecker, Advocates for Human Potential Inc., U.S. Department of Human Services; DVD edition, 2004)
Inside outside is a work of hope created by ex-patient film-makers Pat Deegan and Terry Strecker. The film depicts the lives of eight people with very significant histories of institutionalization, as they transition from nursing homes and psychiatric hospitals into the community. (amazon)
CommonGround Program (Pat Deegan)
https://www.commongroundprogram.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Deegan
Many of us also know what it means to be buried under an avalanche of psychiatric drugs. We know what it means to have the treatment be worse than the disorder. We know what it means to be in a chemical tomb, where we feel so drugged we are neither alive nor dead; when we are so drugged that our bodies are stiff and slow and lifeless; when our faces become expressionless masks; when our eyes stop dancing and, instead, glaze over into a petrified stare; when our passion is neutered under powerful pharmaceuticals; and when we are, quite literally, disappeared within a chemical coma. —Deegan (2004)
Gupta, Swapnil MD; Cahill, John MBBS, BMedSci; Miller, Rebecca PhD. Deprescribing in Psychiatry (p. ix). Oxford University Press. 2019, Kindle edition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Deegan
Many of us also know what it means to be buried under an avalanche of psychiatric drugs. We know what it means to have the treatment be worse than the disorder. We know what it means to be in a chemical tomb, where we feel so drugged we are neither alive nor dead; when we are so drugged that our bodies are stiff and slow and lifeless; when our faces become expressionless masks; when our eyes stop dancing and, instead, glaze over into a petrified stare; when our passion is neutered under powerful pharmaceuticals; and when we are, quite literally, disappeared within a chemical coma. —Deegan (2004)
Gupta, Swapnil MD; Cahill, John MBBS, BMedSci; Miller, Rebecca PhD. Deprescribing in Psychiatry (p. ix). Oxford University Press. 2019, Kindle edition.
Friday, August 23, 2019
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Ibsen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Duck
The Wild Duck (original Norwegian title: Vildanden) is an 1884 play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It is considered the first modern masterpiece in the genre of tragicomedy.
Plot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Duck
The Wild Duck (original Norwegian title: Vildanden) is an 1884 play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It is considered the first modern masterpiece in the genre of tragicomedy.
Plot
The first act opens with a dinner party hosted by Håkon Werle, a wealthy merchant and industrialist. The gathering is attended by his son, Gregers Werle, who has just returned to his father's home following a self-imposed exile. There, he learns the fate of a former classmate, Hjalmar Ekdal. Hjalmar married Gina, a young servant in the Werle household. The older Werle had arranged the match by providing Hjalmar with a home and profession as a photographer. Gregers, whose mother died believing that Gina and Håkon had carried on an affair, becomes enraged at the thought that his old friend is living a life built on a lie.
The remaining four acts take place in Hjalmar Ekdal's apartments. The Ekdals initially appear to be living a life of cozy domesticity. Hjalmar's father makes a living doing odd copying jobs for Werle. Hjalmar runs a portrait studio out of the apartment. Gina helps him run the business in addition to keeping house. They both dote on their daughter Hedvig. Gregers travels directly to their home from the party. While getting acquainted with the family, Hjalmar confesses that Hedvig is both his greatest joy and greatest sorrow, because she is slowly losing her eyesight. The family eagerly reveals a loft in the apartment where they keep various animals like rabbits and pigeons. Most prized is the wild duck they rescued. The duck was wounded by none other than Werle, whose eyesight is also failing. His shot winged the duck, which dived to the bottom of the lake to drown itself by clinging to the seaweed. Werle's dog retrieved it though, and despite its wounds from the shot and the dog's teeth, the Ekdals had nursed the duck back to good health.
Gregers decides to rent the spare room in the apartment. The next day, he begins to realize that there are more lies hanging over the Ekdals than Gina's affair with his father. While talking to Hedvig, she explains that Hjalmar keeps her from school because of her eyesight, but he has no time to tutor her, leaving the girl to escape into imaginary worlds through pictures she sees in books. During their conversation, Gregers hears shots in the attic, and the family explains that Old Ekdal entertains himself by hunting rabbits and birds in the loft, and Hjalmar often joins in the hunts. The activity helps Old Ekdal cling to his former life as a great hunter. Hjalmar also speaks of his 'great invention', which he never specifies. It is related to photography, and he is certain that it will enable him to pay off his debts to Werle and finally make himself and his family completely independent. In order to work on his invention, he often needs to lie down on the couch and think about it.
During a lunch with Gregers and Hjalmar's friends Relling and Molvik, Håkon arrives to try to convince Gregers to return home. Gregers insists that he cannot return and that he will tell Hjalmar the truth. Håkon is certain that Hjalmar will not be grateful for Gregers' intervention. After he leaves, Gregers asks Hjalmar to accompany him on a walk, where he reveals the truth about Gina's affair with his father.
Upon returning home, Hjalmar is aloof from his wife and daughter. He demands to handle all future photography business by himself with no help from Gina. He also demands to manage the family's finances, which Gina has traditionally done. Gina begs him to reconsider, suggesting that with all his time consumed he will not be able to work on his invention. Hedvig adds that he also will not have time to spend in the loft with the wild duck. Embittered by Gregers' news, Hjalmar bristles at the suggestion and confesses that he would like to wring the duck's neck. Indulging his mood, Hjalmar confronts Gina about her affair with Håkon. She confesses to it, but insists that she loves Hjalmar intensely.
In the midst of the argument, Gregers returns, stunned to find that the couple are not overjoyed to be living without such a lie hanging over their heads. Mrs. Sørby arrives with a letter for Hedvig and news that she is marrying Håkon. The letter announces that Håkon is paying Old Ekdal a pension of 100 crowns per month until his death. Upon his death, the allowance will be transferred to Hedvig for the remainder of her life. The news sickens Hjalmar even further, and it dawns on him that Hedvig may very well be Håkon's child. He cannot stand the sight of Hedvig any longer and leaves the house to drink with Molvik and Relling. Gregers tries to calm the distraught Hedvig by suggesting that she sacrifice the wild duck for her father's happiness. Hedvig is desperate to win her father's love back and agrees to have her grandfather shoot the duck in the morning.
The next day, Relling arrives to tell the family that Hjalmar has stayed with him. He is appalled at what Gregers has done, and he reveals that he long ago implanted the idea of the invention with Hjalmar as a "life-lie" to keep him from giving in to despair. The pair argue as Hjalmar returns to gather his materials to work on the invention. He is overwhelmed by the number of details involved in moving out of the apartment. Hedvig is overjoyed to see him, but Hjalmar demands to be 'free from intruders' while he thinks about his next move. Crushed, Hedvig remembers the wild duck and goes to the loft with a pistol. After hearing a shot, the family assumes Old Ekdal is hunting in the loft, but Gregers knows he has shot the wild duck for Hedvig. He explains the sacrifice to Hjalmar who is deeply touched. When Old Ekdal emerges from his room, the family realizes he could not have fired the gun in the loft. They rush in to see Hedvig lying on the ground. No one can find a wound, and Relling has to examine the girl. He finds that the shot has penetrated her breastbone and she died immediately. Given the powder burns on her shirt, he determines that she shot herself. Hjalmar begs for her to live again so that she can see how much he loves her. The play ends with Relling and Gregers arguing again. Gregers insists that Hedvig did not die in vain, because her suicide unleashed a greatness within Hjalmar. Relling sneers at the notion, and insists that Hjalmar will be a drunk within a year.
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