Friday, November 27, 2009

KMT: Pick your suffering from my list, and
Choose either strongly agree or no opinion

Here is how Chinese-KMT government finds the top ten resentments of Taiwan people under Ma Ying-Jeou's presidency:
The government comes up with a list of 15 resentments, one of which is too much dog shit on the roads. First on any sane man's list of resentments would be Ma Ying-Jeou. Precisely for this reason, the government could not let people create their own resentment list. Instead, the government puts a pre-decided list of 15 on the web for people to pick.
Early of the year, 曾韋禎 recorded a KMT web poll that allows only two options: strongly agree, and no opinion:
曾韋禎: 國民黨好自爽

國民黨官網線上民調調查「對於兩岸大三通的看法」,卻只有「非常贊成」和「沒意見」兩選項。
國民黨這個賣台黨,為了營造賣台的正當性,趁網頁改版之際,作了一個線上民調。即便國民黨已經養了一堆職業學生、網軍了,仍然是不放心,在「對於兩岸大三通、您的看法是 ? 」的投票中,竟然只有「非常贊成」和「沒意見」兩選項。連這種連參考價值都稱不上的網路票選,國民黨都可以作假。那,國民黨、馬政府的任何民調數據,又有哪個是可以相信的?

聯合報 praised such practice of 票選「十大民怨」:

閣揆吳敦義展現了他接近民意、體貼庶民的一面

票選民怨? 綠轟官員像外星人

臺灣新浪網 - ‎8小時之前‎
行政院長吳敦義要研考會找出10大民怨,沒想到研考會的做法是直接在網路上列出15大民怨,再由民眾票選,題目連狗大便太多也入列

民怨沒有排行榜,政績豈有速成班?

聯合新聞網 - ‎2009年11月26日‎
從倡議「庶民經濟」到票選「十大民怨」,閣揆吳敦義展現了他接近民意、體貼庶民的一面。但他要求以「票選」方式來排列民怨,並聲稱將編列五千億元「旗艦計畫」來消除民怨,卻有商榷餘地。 主政者有心消除民怨,值得給予肯定,至少這不是一個假議題;比起「正名制 ...

Thursday, November 26, 2009

聯合報: 嘉市/涂醒哲再踢館 黃陣營忍處理

According to this 聯合報 title, 涂醒哲 is a bully (再踢館) and KMT's 黃敏惠 is a victim (忍處理). 黃敏惠's HQ refuses 涂醒哲's repeated requests for a policy debate in this mayoral election. In the eyes of KMT/CCP media such as 聯合報, 涂醒哲's request for a policy debate is an aggression (「侵門踏戶」的挑釁行為). The truth is that an election with policy debate among candidates is a better election. Voters must demand to know why 黃敏惠 is afraid of debating with 涂醒哲.

In the following 聯合報's report, you will read about 黃敏惠's KMT/CCP connection/affiliation. 中國國民黨中常委連勝文 and his father are selling out Taiwan (and the 23,000,000 Taiwanese) to CCP. For a Taiwanese, supporting KMT's 黃敏惠 is supporting self-destruction.

嘉市/涂醒哲再踢館 黃陣營忍處理
【聯合報╱記者陳永順/嘉義報導】

民進黨籍嘉義市長候選人涂醒哲(中)昨天再度到黃敏惠總部前「踢館」,要求舉辦辯論會。 記者陳永順/攝影
民進黨籍嘉義市長候選人涂醒哲昨天再度到國民黨籍市長候選人黃敏惠競選總部「踢館」,要求舉辦市政辯論會,黃敏惠陣營豎起「忍」字等看板冷處理後,涂醒哲改以虛擬的市政辯論會行動劇單獨演出,一旁戴著黃敏惠照片面具的人以手指比「X」遮住嘴巴,行動劇演出10多分鐘後離去。

黃敏惠競選總部主委陳國華說,對於涂醒哲一再「侵門踏戶」的挑釁行為,表示遺憾,他認為涂醒哲有意見,可以到今天舉辦的政見會發表,涂平時不在地方服務,為選舉才回來的人,不要欺侮善良的嘉義人,對於涂的競選風格及造勢手段,相信選民自有公正評斷。

民進黨民主查某人助選團昨天由行政院前院長張俊雄妻子朱阿英、僑委會前委員長張富美等人帶領,抵達涂醒哲競選總部表達力挺,她們配戴領巾、揹著環保袋高喊支持口號,隨後到永和市場掃街拜票。

嘉義市長候選人黃敏惠(左)由國民黨中常委連勝文(左二)陪同,昨天在東市場向攤商拜票,攤商舉起大拇指表達支持。 記者陳永順/攝影
黃敏惠昨天先到城隍廟參拜,感謝城隍爺庇佑嘉義市,隨後在多名里長及共和攤販協會理監事陪同下,走進東市場向攤商逐一拜票,「周九魚丸」老闆周見財贈送蘿 蔔祝福「好彩頭」,還有菜販分送粽子、鳳梨等吉祥物品;國民黨中常委連勝文稍後趕抵,一起陪同黃敏惠拜票,不少民眾爭相合照。

嘉義反賄選行動聯盟主席潘慶章牧師一行人邀請簽署反賄選承諾書,涂醒哲立即簽名,黃敏惠除簽署外,也承諾在文宣方面,全力配合反賄選。

【2009/11/27 聯合報】


Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Who can vote 黃敏惠?
東森: 下戰帖踢鐵板 涂醒哲悻悻然離去

The title of this 東森 report suggests a defeat for 涂醒哲 who 踢鐵板 and 悻悻然離去. 涂醒哲 appeared to engage in something pretty serious that caused 警方強力攔阻、並進行違法集會舉牌1次. What did he do?
對手[涂醒哲]來[黃敏惠競選總部]下辯論戰帖,黃敏惠競選總部人員不滿地說,簡直是侵門踏戶
The above sentence implied that debates among candidates are not part of Taiwan's elections, and a request for debate (辯論) can be considered an aggression (侵門踏戶).
對手要來下辯論戰帖,黃敏惠競選總部人員不滿地說,簡直是侵門踏戶,至於黃敏惠始終沒出面,在警方強力攔阻、並進行違法集會舉牌1次的情況下,唱獨角戲的涂醒哲意興闌珊離去,但不排除再次上門要求公開辯論。(新聞來源:東森新聞記者吳瑞興)
This made it clear that KMT candidate 黃敏惠 is avoiding a debate with 涂醒哲. What kind of voters can vote for a candidate who is avoiding a policy debate with her opponents?


東森: 百里侯/嘉市/下戰帖踢鐵板 涂醒哲悻悻然離去

(2009/11/25 15:30)

政治中心/綜合報導

嘉義市選情越來越激烈,民進黨籍市長候選人涂醒哲,今(25)日上午帶著大批人馬前往現任市長黃敏惠的競選總部,想要遞交戰帖,沒想到卻被拒於門外,涂醒哲強硬要送交戰帖,與現場大批員警發生推擠,所幸沒有衍變成更激烈的衝突。

12月5日縣市長、縣市議員及鄉鎮市長三合一選舉競選活動今日正式開跑,涂醒哲希望邀請尋求連任的市長黃敏惠辯論,上午與20多名支持者到黃敏惠競選總部遞交邀請函。

綠營人士站在黃敏惠競選總部前大聲叫囂,嘉義市長候選人涂醒哲帶著大批人馬要來下戰帖,但他根本不得其門而入,大批警力擋住去路,涂醒哲後面的綠營人士不罷休,大家拚命往前推,大家擠成一團,時間長達2、3分鐘,戰帖始終沒交給對手。

對手要來下辯論戰帖,黃敏惠競選總部人員不滿地說,簡直是侵門踏戶,至於黃敏惠始終沒出面,在警方強力攔阻、並進行違法集會舉牌1次的情況下,唱獨角戲的涂醒哲意興闌珊離去,但不排除再次上門要求公開辯論。(新聞來源:東森新聞記者吳瑞興)

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

NICHOLAS KRISTOF: Microsoft becomes a unit of CCP's Propaganda Department

Nick wrote:
Western corporations have often behaved embarrassingly in China, sacrificing any principles to ingratiate themselves with the Communist Party authorities. Yahoo was the worst, handing over information about several email account holders so that they could be arrested – and then dissembling and defending its monstrous conduct.
If Yahoo is the worst, consider Associated Press and many others:

Boycott Microsoft Bing

Critics have accused President Obama of kowtowing to Chinese leaders, by failing to meet dissidents, toning down his criticisms and delaying a meeting with the Dalai Lama. On balance, I think that criticism is premature: Confrontation doesn’t help with China and can hurt, and so engagement becomes a fine line to navigate. The Obama visit wasn’t a ringing success, but neither was it a craven embarrassment.

For the latest craven kowtowing, we can look somewhere else: Microsoft and its new search engine, Bing.

Western corporations have often behaved embarrassingly in China, sacrificing any principles to ingratiate themselves with the Communist Party authorities. Yahoo was the worst, handing over information about several email account holders so that they could be arrested – and then dissembling and defending its monstrous conduct. Now Microsoft is sacrificing the integrity of Bing searches so as to cozy up to State Security in Beijing. In effect, it has chosen become part of the Communist Party’s propaganda apparatus.

If you search a term on Bing that is politically sensitive in China, in English the results are legitimate. Search “Tiananmen” and you’ll find out about the army firing on pro-democracy protesters in 1989. Search Dalai Lama, Falun Gong and you also get credible results. Conduct the search in complex Chinese characters (the kind used in Taiwan and Hong Kong) and on the whole you still get authentic results.

But conduct the search with the simplified characters used in mainland China, then you get sanitized pro-Communist results. This is especially true of image searches. Magic! No Tiananmen Square massacre. The Dalai Lama becomes an oppressor. Falun Gong believers are villains, not victims.
What’s most offensive is that this is true wherever in the world the search is conducted – including in my office in New York. If Microsoft felt it had to bow to Chinese censorship within China’s borders, based on the IP address, that might be defensible. But when Microsoft skews its worldwide searches to make Hu Jintao feel better, that’s a disgrace. It becomes simply a unit of the Central Committee Propaganda Department.

(This is an issue with Google as well, but to a much lesser extent. Google censors results on its search engine used within China, google.cn, but offers mostly uncensored results using simplified Chinese characters on its worldwide browser, google.com. However, some searches on google.com, such as images for Falun Gong, are also censored.)

When I originally wrote about this issue back in June, Microsoft protested. “From what you described, that’s not the way Bing is supposed to work,” wrote Kevin Kutz, a company spokesman. He said that Chinese speakers at Microsoft could not replicate my results and did not detect this kind of skewed result. I sent screen shots, and then Microsoft acknowledged the issue but said that it was simply a temporary mistake. “It’s a bug,” Kutz told me. Later, he added: “What’s important is it’s getting fixed.” Soon, he said, Bing searches would be the same for Tiananmen and other sensitive subjects, whatever the language.

Six months later, the censorship continues. And now all of a sudden, it’s company policy.
Microsoft’s current position, which insults my intelligence and yours, is that there was indeed a bug of some kind and that that is fixed – but that searches in simplified characters continue to produce pro-Communist results because of the algorithms used. Mr. Kutz now asserts that a search in any given language emphasizes results from within the country that uses that language. Thus if you search in the simplified characters used within China, then you get disproportionately Chinese propaganda. Thus, he says, the explanation lies in the search algorithms, rather than in Microsoft policy.

Huh? How come that wasn’t the explanation in June? And if that’s the case, then why is there a marked difference between text and image searches? And in any case, why should Bing use an algorithm that results in propaganda and skews results far more than Google? Why isn’t Wikipedia higher on the results with simplified characters?

Of course, it’s possible that Microsoft executives in Redmond, since they can’t read Chinese, are being misled by those executives focused on the China business. Yet my hunch is that Microsoft simply has decided at a top level that it will compromise what principles it must to ingratiate itself with China. This presumably isn’t at China’s specific request: it’s unlikely that Chinese authorities would be so detailed in their demands, and it doesn’t negotiate over minor points like this. But China has made it clear that it dislikes search engines that lead to results it considers seditious, and it can block them.

Microsoft apparently doesn’t want to pursue the Google solution of having separate sites – one that produces generally legitimate results (google.com) and another within China that blatantly censors (google.cn). Instead, Bing figured it would have one site and just censor all the results in simplified Chinese characters. It then compounded the problem by dissembling and disguising its policy. That’s craven and embarrassing, it betrays the integrity of Microsoft searches, and for me it’s a reason to boycott Bing.

UPDATE: Microsoft has posted a measured response: http://bit.ly/6CD49e . It notes that some Bing searches are not skewed even in simplified characters but acknowledges that image searches in particular are sanitized. It says that this is a bug that was identified today and that it will soon be fixed. That’s basically what I was told last June, and I’m very skeptical.

UPDATE 2: For those asking for specific terms, and specific search results, here are some examples by date.

阿明 shows how 中天 brainwashes Taiwanese II

阿明 想要知道歐巴馬跟胡錦濤談的內容 不是他們吃的東西

Saturday, November 7, 2009

清廉人馬英九 力挺 更生人江欽良

馬英九 is absurd to the extreme:
選戰/與吳同台挺李朝卿 馬: 縣長不要理抹黑 中央日報
馬英九 not only ignored all accusations that his Premier 吳敦義 and Nantou County magistrate 李朝卿 closely associated with a paroled criminal 江欽良, he defended all three without as much as paying a lip service of ordering an investigation. He even urged us to dismiss all accusations as rumors.

Do logic and law exist in Taiwan? Before a president defends his accused Premier and County magistrate, shouldn't he at least offer an investigation or proof that they are indeed not mafioso? When he dismisses all accusations and all evidences without any investigation, is this not a worst contempt of the citizens?

父遭江欽良殺害 女兒現身痛批 黑道爭議後 馬吳為李朝卿站台

台視新聞 - ‎13小時之前‎
總統馬英九和閣揆吳敦義一起幫國民黨參選人李朝卿站台,在「江欽良事件」爆發後,宣示相挺到底的決心。 但民進黨仍然緊咬不放,參選人李文忠找來20多年前,被江欽良槍殺的彰化角頭張坤保的女兒站台。 自己的父親26年前被江欽良灌醉後槍殺,讓張靜芳決定站出來。 ...

父遭江欽良殺害 女現身控訴

自由時報 - ‎7小時之前‎
〔記者陳信仁/南投報導〕民進黨南投縣長候選人李文忠昨天成立南投市競選總部時,自稱是二十六年前遭江欽良設計殺害的彰化角頭張坤保之女的張靜芳突然現身,聲淚俱下控訴江欽良殺人惡行,讓張家陷入困境,痛苦陰影至今仍在,而加害人江欽良稱假釋出獄後已改頭換面重新 ...

25年前父遭江欽良殺害 力挺李文忠

中時電子報 - ‎1小時之前‎
為了選舉,南投縣長候選人李文忠找來25年前曾遭江欽良殺害的受害者家屬,一名女子表示,自己的父親多年前遭到江欽良殺害,「我心裡的痛苦已經陪伴我們太久了,我不想讓痛苦一直持續下去。」她堅持出面,力挺李文忠到底。

江欽良事件挺吳? 馬笑而不答

臺灣新浪網 - ‎19小時之前‎
吳揆和江欽良出國同遊的風暴,持續延燒,但7日出席醫學活動的馬總統,被問到吳敦義的事,馬總統都是笑而不答,倒是面對美牛風暴的楊志良,在台上有感而發的說,可能自己能力不足,才會引起那麼大的風波。雖然是參加醫學活動,但馬總統一出席,大家最關心的還是吳敦義和 ...

清廉人馬英九 更生人江欽良

In order to legalize gambling, KMT invented the term 博弈. In order to whitewash 江欽良, KMT created the term 更生人 江欽良. See such KMT news report:
行政院長吳敦義跟更生人江欽良同遊峇里島,被綠營大作文章,消失兩天,也兩度取消記者會的江欽良,昨天晚間首度打破沉默,接受TVBS獨家專訪
江欽良 is a 更生人, just as 馬英九 is a 清廉人. 被綠營大作文章 means there is no news here; we KMT are not interested. I suspect 接受TVBS獨家專訪 is another KMT's whitewash attempt. Can you imagine 江欽良 interviewed by 大話新聞 or 頭家來開講? Finally, 更生人 江欽良 just like 清廉馬英九's sister is also 年少輕狂.

For 更生人江欽良's video's, see
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%E6%B1%9F%E6%AC%BD%E8%89%AF&search_type=&aq=f
http://woopie.yaplog.jp/video/search?kw=%E6%B1%9F%E6%AC%BD%E8%89%AF&page=1




未拜訪過江欽良?李文忠說沒 競選總部主委說有 



2009-11-06 12:15:25 楊鎮全
江欽良發「聲」 和吳揆只是點頭之交

行政院長吳敦義跟更生人江欽良同遊峇里島,被綠營大作文章,消失兩天,也兩度取消記者會的江欽良,昨天晚間首度打破沉默,接受TVBS獨家專訪。

2009-11-05 14:37:43 
〈快訊〉吳揆聲明:更生人若危鄉里 不可能接觸

針對去年底與過去「曾有前科的假釋犯」江欽良,出國同遊一事,引發風波。

2009-11-05 13:15:29 
江欽良聲明 「年少輕狂已付代價」

民進黨候選人李文忠,出面質疑南投黑道治縣,江欽良背了30多條前科,縣長李朝卿卻跟他關係密切;李文忠說,江欽良掌控地方砂石,砂石車都要繳交保護費…

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Let us coauthor a book of Do's and Don'ts

Together, let us write a book on what Taiwanese should not say, and what we should say instead. I call the book KMT brainwashing smasher for now, but I am open to any suggestions. Your feedback will be most highly appreciated. Please participate and contribute by filling out the simple form below and submit. Click here to browse the entries.