市外果园

在霹雳州的近打县、碌柚故乡打扪（Tambun）的隔邻，有个小镇叫做红毛丹（Tanjung Rambutan）。红毛丹不是因为水果而著名，只是因为那里有一座104年历史的红毛丹精神病院（Ulu Kinta Mental Hospital），后来改称红毛丹幸福医院。

许多年以前，老童鞋在红毛丹购下一块山坡上的土地，经过了几千个挥汗如雨的日子，从最初的一片荒芜之地，如今被打造成一个环境优美、足以令人身处其中而流连忘返的美丽果园。

 踏入园里，迎面走来一只脸带笑容的狗狗。

“哈囖！欢迎光临，我叫Handsome boy，我是这里的总管。”

除了Handsome Boy，还有一头把尾羽展开呈扇形的雄火鸡，寸步不离的在访客身边踱过来又踱过去，偶而还用他的尖嘴往客人的小腿敲啄一下，好像一名威严又高傲的警卫长，努力在执行着自己的任务。

只见不远处，有只胖嘟嘟的雄性胡须鸡，竞然喜欢和颜色一点都不鲜艳的雌火鸡走在一齐。雌火鸡最近每天都下蛋，好给她的主人进补。“

“ 不要拍不要拍！对着镜头我们是会很害羞的啦！”

“轧轧轧轧轧轧，有陌生人来了，放我们出来，我们要出来！轧轧轧轧轧轧------------”

这是园里的两位美少女警卫，每天跟随着Handsome boy跑上跑下， 仍在实习当中。

“嗡嗡嗡，嗡嗡嗡，我们是一群小小小蜜蜂；来匆匆，去匆匆，大家勤力去做工。”

“Handsome boy，这是什么花呀？”

“杨桃花都没见过么？哎哟，原来这些城市人是那么山芭的，真是无眼睇咯！”

壁虎，滚！

“不要赶走壁虎，它们会吃蚊虫。”

不知打从何时开始，人们的脑袋就被输入了这个“壁虎是益虫”的观念。

然而，这些潜伏在壁缝、瓦檐下、橱柜背后等隐蔽地方的冷血动物，最初，它们还会在白天躲起来，仅在夜晚偷偷爬出来；接下来，白天也开始出来东张西望。最初壁虎感到有点好奇，怎么人类对它们的存在，好像有点视若无睹？

看着看着，既然人类没有限制它们的行动，好像默许它们、让它们拥有绝对的自由，可以任所欲为，壁虎的胆子也越来越大了。厨房是它们最喜欢的地方，那里有太多太多的食物，它们根本不希罕去抓蚊子蜘蛛了。

曾经听到邻居的女儿，在她家厨房里拉开喉咙大声喊她的妈：“ 有壁虎偷吃你摆在洗碗槽边解冻的鱼和猪肉了！”

无论白天或黑夜，只待人类一转身，壁虎就迫不急待的跳上餐桌寻找食物，然后还拉屎；所经之处，必留下屎迹和尿迹。

原本干干净净洁白的墙壁，被污黑的壁虎屎和点点滴滴黄色的壁虎尿沾污了，越看越冒火，一不做，二不休，老娘实行来个严打壁虎行动。朋友说，她是用藤条去打那些爬上饭桌的壁虎，可是看起来效果不大，灯一关，壁虎又在桌上跳舞了。

家里的异议份子坚称“壁虎是益虫”，还搬出“不可杀生” 的大道理。老娘可不管三七二十一，一见有壁虎，抓起苍蝇拍就追打，誓把这些讨厌的家伙，赶出屋外。如是日以继夜的追赶壁虎，渐渐大壁虎全不见了，接着是对付小壁虎。苍蝇拍不能打死壁虎，只把它们打晕，然后拨到报纸上，往屋外一丢，一会儿，只见吓呆了的壁虎回过神来，赶紧逃命去也。

为了要避免壁虎躲在屋里的角落生蛋，就不能随处堆集物件，厨房不能有任何食物残余，连外面的沟渠也需清洗干净。终於，连那些住在天井角落排水渠后面的壁虎，都被泼水和棍棒驱赶得无影无踪了。

有人说，壁虎到处都有，赶走了又会再来的！对啊！那就是绝不能停止严打壁虎行动咯！
就好像有些番薯邦的番薯民，向来都认为真腐贪污是必然的，不遣责、不吭声，几十年下来，间接支持纵容贪污腐败。那些当初偷偷摸摸的贪官污吏，如今公然无视正义，明目张胆的犯罪，无法无天，导致番薯邦污烟瘴气，乱象横生。

假如老娘没有赶紧立志去严打壁虎，坚持不懈的把它们全赶出本来就不属於它们的范围，划清楚河汉界；难保有一天，壁虎会放肆的跳到咱们的床上去拉屎拉尿了！

当鲸鱼遇上了挪威海盗的后裔

又来了又来了，挪威海盗后裔的法罗人（Faroese），在这个夏季，又开始在法罗群岛（Faroe Islands）大开杀戒，几百头鲸鱼被包围赶往海滩遭受残忍屠杀，鲸鱼的血，把许许多多个海湾，染成了触目惊心的鲜红色。

法罗群岛是一群火山群岛，位於北大西洋中，由18个岩石岛屿所组成，属於丹麦王国的一个自治领地。大约在公元650年，爱尔兰僧侣跑来这里居住，1035年成为挪威属地，1397年受丹麦管辖。第二次世界大战初期，丹麦战败，英国进军控制了法罗群岛，1948年起成为丹麦的自治州。

以前的法罗群岛，地质土壤贫瘠，只能种马铃薯和番薯，又没啥天然资源，居民都靠捕鱼维生，连庞大的鲸鱼也没放过。
1900年以后，岛上居民的经济已经大大改善，从最初的养羊（供羊毛出口），逐渐发展至以渔业为基础，主要出口鱼产品，特别是干鳕鱼、钓具，还出口毛线和皮草，也有开采煤矿。岛上旅游业发展蓬勃，其他如手工业、建筑业、贸易、服务和运输业，在法罗群岛经济中，均占有一定的地位。




法罗群岛的居民，几乎都是基督教路德教派（Lutheranism)的成员，虽然现在他们经济充裕，可是每年夏季一到，潜伏在这些法罗人基因里的兽性就会突然爆发，集体变成了屠鲸恶魔。猎魔驾上几十艘渔船出海，把几百头长肢领航鲸(Long-finned pilot whale)圈围成一个半圆弧，然后故意让渔船激起浪花和气泡，把鲸鱼赶到一处海湾的浅滩。搁浅的鲸鱼，全让那些一早就在岸上等待着的屠夫，挥起手中的金属渔刀，杀杀杀，把群鲸割头砍断脊椎；瞬间，Faroe Islands 的海域，全变成了片片血海。

除了屠杀鲸鱼，法罗人和日本人同样也嗜杀海豚；Greenpeace （绿色和平组织）以及 the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS)公开谴责他们的残忍，海盗的后裔也和日本人一样，大言不惭，死口硬掰，猎鲸杀鲸，是他们的生活文化，以及历史的重要组成部分。




2010年7月19日，一名海洋守护者协会（Sea Shepherd Conservation Society) 成员Peter Hammarstedt ，混入法罗群岛的Klaksvik 城镇，偷拍了一段极之残忍的虐杀鲸鱼片段。
Peter Hammarstedt 叙述：“236只被屠杀的领航鲸，当中有公鲸、怀孕和仍在喂哺母乳的母鲸、幼鲸，以及仍在母体内的胎儿。
本来自由自在的鲸鱼，在北大西洋中悠悠荡游，法罗人把牠们全数屠杀灭族。一只雌鲸的头部被凶残的砍了5-6下，当地人把雌鲸当砧板一直砍一直砍，她经过很长很痛苦的时间才死去。有些鲸鱼，甚至反复被刀砍长达4分钟才死去。捕鲸人还把母鲸体内的胎儿切割出来，丢在码头任由其腐烂。”
然后，法罗人将宰杀后的巨鲸拉到岸上，分切鲸肉和鲸脂，由当地警官分配给岛上每一户居民。

日本人杀鲸，通常只在一个海湾进行，法罗人屠杀鲸鱼，竞然可在至少18个不同的的海湾进行，也因此令海洋守护者们难以预计，屠杀会在那处进行，以能够及时去阻止屠杀的发生。

根据《欧洲野生生物及自然生境保育公约》（The Bern Convention on the Conservation of Europe Wildlife and Natural Habitats)，领航鲸属“ 受严格保护” 的物种，丹麦让法罗群岛居民，继续屠杀领航鲸，实在是有违公约缔约国的应有义务。

宙斯也抓狂

位於欧洲东南部的巴尔干半岛南端的希腊，地形有点像一只躬着身的虾子，背部紧贴欧洲部分的土耳其、保加利亚、马其顿以及阿尔巴尼亚。由於爱琴海和爱奥尼亚海的滋润，孕育了古希腊在音乐、数学、哲学、文学、建筑、雕刻等方面的巨大成就。

文学方面包括了古希腊神话(Greek mythology)、不朽的荷马史诗(Homeric Hymns)、抒情诗（琴歌）、伊素寓言(Aesop's Fables)、古希腊戏剧等。众多的文化伟人如喜剧作家阿里斯托芬(Aristophanes)、悲剧作家埃斯库罗斯(Aeschylus)、索福克勒斯(Sophocles)、欧里庇得斯(Euripides)，哲学家苏格拉底(Socrates)、柏拉图(Plato)、亚里斯多德（Aristotle），数学家毕达哥拉斯(Pythagoras)、欧几里德(Euclid)，雕塑家菲迪亚斯(Phidias)等。

古希腊是西方文明的发源地；希腊神话多来自於古希腊文学，如《荷马史诗》中的《伊利亚特》(Iliad)和《奥德赛》(Odyssey)，赫斯奥德(Hesiod)的《工作与时日》(Works and Days)和《神谱》(Theogony) ，奥维德(Ovid)的《变形记》(Metamorphoses)等经典作品。

希腊也是奥林匹克运动会的发源地，古奥运会是一种泛希腊的宗教庆典，一是对奥林匹斯山诸神的膜拜；二是有一独特的祭祀制度；三是有丰富的宗教神话传说。古希腊有奥林匹斯十二大神，宙斯（Zeus）为众神之主，宙斯的主要圣地在奥林匹亚，那里建有宙斯神庙。




1940年10月28日至1941年4月23日之间，一场意大利和希腊的战争，把希腊本来已经脆弱的经济压垮。德国接着入侵希腊，纳粹从希腊银行抢走了所有的黄金储备，征用当地的原料和食材，逼希腊傀儡政府支付给纳粹昂贵的占领费用。德国更强迫希腊购买「战时公债」，导致希腊严重通胀，经济雪上加霜。德国对希腊进行了敲骨吸髓般的经济剥削，无限制的征用、加上盟军的封锁，毁灭了希腊国家的基础结构。庞大的黑市逐渐浮现，促成了一场从1941年至1942年冬季的大饥荒，据估计有30万希腊人被饿死。时至今日，不少希腊人认为，这场大饥荒，是纳粹德国消灭希腊的一个罪恶计划。

1945年6月，希腊人茫然的面对盟军的到来，因为他们根本不知道接下来的情况将会变得怎样。当时通货膨胀严重到令人难以置信，一块面包可以卖到200万德拉克马(希腊货币）。德军在撤退途中，还焚毁学校、洗劫城市村庄、破坏工业设施，以致港口无法使用，整个国家经济完全破产。

德国入侵希腊期间，希腊抵抗运动风起云涌，纳粹在各派之间进行挑拨离间，使各派互不信任。1944年10月德军撤出希腊时，英国要维护它在希腊的利益，英军以对德国作战的名义，登陆希腊，把希腊流亡政府护送回雅典。
1947年3月，美国取代英国插手希腊内政，向希腊政府提供了3亿美元援助，和7.4万吨的军事装备，包括飞机大炮、凝固汽油弹等。1947年11月成立美希联合总参谋部，以 James Alward Van Fleet 为首的美国军事代表团，控制了希腊政府军，直接指挥他们打内战。从1946年到1949年，希腊打了3年多的内战，人员伤亡和经济损失难以估计，造成更加严重的经济问题和政治分裂。

希腊的经济主要靠旅游业支撑，一旦发生任何金融大小危机，世界各国游客减少，对希腊就会造成很大的冲击。
在希腊，一直以来，不同的政党会以各种高福利“糖果”，来赢取选民手上的选票，也因此造成了高福利的恶性循环。政府每年为公务员福利，拨出数以十亿计的款项，就连那些已经去世的公务员的无论已婚或未婚的女儿，都能继续领取父母的退休金。更离谱的是，那些会使用电脑、会说外语、能准时上班以及其他名目的公务员，每月都可以享受到5欧元至1300欧元之间的额外奖金。只靠进口没有出口、经济停滞不前的希腊，不断的举债，无力还债时，Troika——国际货币基金、欧盟及欧元区央行就会一直给希腊贷款，令其以债还债，雪球也越滚越大。

2001年，希腊打算进入欧元区，根据《马斯特里赫特条约》(Maastricht Treaty)，欧洲经济货币同盟成员国，必须符合两个关键标准——预算赤字不能超过国内生产总值的3%，以及负债率低於国内生产总值的60%，希腊是全部都不达标的。
这时候，嗅到血腥味的华尔街美国投资银行，外号“吸血乌贼（Vampire squid）的高盛(Goldman Sachs) ，为希腊设计了一项“债务隐瞒” 方案。这是一套“货币掉期交易” ，为希腊政府掩饰一笔高达10亿欧元的公共债务，使希腊在账面上符合了欧元区成员国的标准，高盛也赚了3亿美元的佣金。

作为欧元区最大最强势的“制造国”和“出口国”的德国，与弱势的“消费国”希腊，其间就产生了巨大的贸易差距。欧元区存在着经济失衡的矛盾，德国坚持强势的利率，保持自己经济的发展，而希腊却是需要低利率来促进国家经济的恢复。

有专家指出，如果每个国家有自己的货币，贸易赤字会压低货币汇率，让商品与服务更有竞争力。如果希腊使用的还是自己的德拉克马，与德国之间的贸易赤字，就可以让德拉克马大贬，降低贸易赤字，外债积累速度也可以获得减缓。不幸的是，欧盟区每个国家的货币都一样，贸易赤字就会一直持续下去。

最终，欧元集团答应给希腊提供800亿欧元的救助，不过得接受债权人提出的多项荷刻条款。令希腊人民备感折辱的是，政府被迫承诺出售“珍贵国家资产” 用作贷款抵押，其中包括著名的岛屿、自然保护区和希腊文明遗迹，就连宙斯的神庙，或许也不能倖免。

[ 转自铁血社区 http://bbs.tiexue.net/post_3883994

忏悔品第六（2）

六祖惠能续说：
“现在为你们传授「无相忏悔」，以灭除三世罪业，使你们的身、口、意三业，都得到究竟的清净。善知识！大家一起随我念道：
「弟子等，从前念、现念、一直到后念，念念都不被愚痴迷执所污染；以前所造作的一切恶业，以及愚迷等罪，如今完全以至诚的心忏悔，誓愿都能同时消除灭尽，今后永远不再生起。
弟子等，从前念、现念，一直到后念，念念都不被憍傲欺诳所污染；以前所造作的一切恶业以及憍诳等罪，如今完全赤诚地忏悔，誓愿都能同时消除灭尽，今后永远不再生起。
弟子们，从前念、现念，一直到后念，念念不被嫉害妒忌所污染；以前所造作的一切恶业以及嫉妒等罪，如今完全以至诚的心忏悔，誓愿都能同时消除灭尽，今后永远不再生起。」

善知识！以上所宣说的，就叫做「无相忏悔」。什么叫做「忏」？什么叫做「悔」呢？
所谓忏，就是改过以前的罪业。从前所作的恶业、愚迷憍诳嫉妒等罪，完全尽忏无余，永不复起，这就叫「忏」。
所谓悔，就是悔改自己以后再犯的过失；从今天开始，所有的一切恶业、愚痴迷执、憍誆嫉妒等罪，现已觉悟过来，完全永远断绝，再不去做错事了，这就叫「悔」，所以称为「忏悔」。

凡夫愚痴迷执，只知道做错后才改过，却不知道要改过自新，以后绝不可再犯；只知道忏自己以前所犯的过失，而不知道悔改以后的再错。因为不知悔改的原故，所以从前的罪业未能灭除，往后的过失又频频而生。既然前罪不能灭除，后来的过失继续增加，这如何能称为「忏悔」呢？

善知识！现已传授了忏悔，再与各位发四弘誓愿，各人都须专心谛听！
「自心里的众生无边，我誓愿度尽；自心里的烦恼无边，我誓愿断尽；自性里的法门无量，我誓愿修学；自性里的无上佛道，我誓愿成就。」”


论议：
人们过去由於不识自性本自清净，认缘虑心为己心，随境而生，逐境而灭，念念不离愚迷憍诳嫉妒，故常常造成业罪。今六祖要大家回过头来返观自性，勿为妄念所迷。於是始知从前所谓「无边众生」不是在外的众生，竟是自性中的众生。一朝忏悔，永不再起，「无边烦恼」於今断尽；就在这忏悔断尽的当时，朗然见性。於是始又知从前所谓「无量法门」「无上佛道」，不须向外觅求，竟是修自性法门，成自性真如佛。

Hanaoka Monogatari (花岡ものがたり)

Hanaoka Monogatari（花岡ものがたり），一部由新居広治、牧大介、滝平二郎，以及诗人原太郎共同著作的57篇「木雕连作版画」，於1951年5月首次出版。这部木刻连环画集，被一小撮有良知和厌恶战争的日本人，视为人类の遗产。作者们用樱花木板，通过木刻和叙事诗，来记载并揭露，日寇在二战时，掳迫虐杀残害中国劳工的另一宗惨案。

1945年8月15日，日本战败投降；初秋时分，一群美军来到日本秋田县（Akita）北部的花冈，在鹿岛建设株式会社的中山寮( ちゅうざんりょうーChusan Dormitory)附近，发现了许多乱葬岗、一大堆被乱弃而没有掩埋的尸体、在环境异常恶劣的集中营里，囚禁着一群瘦弱奄奄待毙的中国人。由是揭发了一段惨绝人寰的「花冈事件」。

鹿岛-龟尾（Kajima-gumi)，是当时日本最大的建筑和公共工程公司之一，表面上说是为了要强化日本战争经济，因为劳工的短缺不足，从1944年8月至1945年6月之间，日寇从中国北部的五个省，抓捕近千名中国平民和战俘，分成3批海运到花冈的鹿岛建设公司做苦劳。三井（Mitsui ）、三菱（Mitsubishi）和大多数其他工业，也加入强迫劳动和奴役俘虏的罪行。

当时在鹿岛工作的，还有其他韩国义务兵、盟军战俘以及日本劳工。但是，中国劳工就特别受到最严峻的残酷折磨，他们被鹿岛组的监工当着畜牲来对待。每天，中国劳工被迫做超过16小时的苦劳；在铜矿井里劳作、修整道路、挖掘河床修改河道，却仅以橡子面、苹果渣和米糠充饥。严冬下也是身着单衣，足穿草鞋，在冰冷刺骨的泥水中劳动。严重的饥饿、劳累，加上每天被凶残的日本监工殴打虐杀，半年不到，就死了130多人。

1945年6月30日，中国工人在中山寮发起了暴动反抗，杀了4个日本监工然后逃走。2万个日本军警把逃往神山（かみやま）、旧松峰（まつみね）和狮子ヶ森（ししがもり）的中国劳工围捕枪杀，被抓回的，遭受更严厉的酷刑。酷暑的7月，中国劳工被捆绑着跪在铺着石子的共楽館前广场上，白天在烈日下暴晒，夜里被雨淋；3天后，广场上尸横遍地。
据统计，二战时期，日寇曾经强掳4万多中国人到日本充当劳工，其中被掳去花冈为鹿岛组做苦工的986人，饿死病死被虐死杀死的共有418人。

[The Ballad of Hanaoka]

 I single-cropped summers, lumbered winters;

 sold my daughter but was robbed of my land.

 Now that I'm homeless, where else can I go?

Hanaoka in the north; to Hanaoka, ho!

 Azaleas smile so sweet each spring,

but for the last hundred years miners stagger and drop.

In the bowels of the earth, where treasure's to find,

the bones cry out; the copper mine.

Every time there's war, the miners' ranks grow,

and so does the mine-owner's purse.

The Hanaoka copper mine; Hell's very worst. '

[Kajima Construction ]

 " Chuzan Dorm" may not sound bad,

but it was the Main Street of Hell.

There began the treatment, painful to watch,

 of the nine hundred Chinese.

Day after day we averted our eyes.

If their ranks were a bit sloppy

on the road to the work site, they'd be abused,

knocked down with cudgels yea thick,

half - murdered.

They were led by veterans of the anti-Japan war,

men of the Eighth Route Army, cream of the cream,

so Japanese militarists and the Wang regime agreed

 to bring them here

to kill their morale.

[Poison weed ]

 Ground-up acorns,apple peels, rice bran, water:

even horses wouldn't eat the stuff

they gave these men to eat.

What on earth did the bosses do with the rations?

Seems the Kajima Construction bigwigs sold them on the black market.

So the men ate trampled apple peels,

 ate up all  the roadside weeds;

some ate poison weed and died.

 Those still, amazingly, on their feet,

utterly malnourished,

clenched their teeth

held on, survived.

To what end?

Ah, to what end?

[Setting Out]

The Chinese tore down phone lines,

seized weapons,

and set off.

Scattering for now

 to bide their time:

Head for the woods!

For the shelter of the woods!

In the pitch black, feet feeling their way,

 voices raised in liberation songs like a far-off ocean's roar,

they dispersed.

[The Leader and His Men]

Ah, that leader——

even reduced to skin and bones,

that steely leader knew no fear.

Still——he couldn't win.

On that pathetic battlefield,

the men dropped, were captured one by one.

 He fought , fell back, finally disappeared from sight.

[ Dog meat Stew]

 We saw it all ——

the young Chinese brought in

like game on a pole,

bones broken, arms wrenched off:

not a single one groaned.

The   men who brought them to the police station in Odate

boasted, " You're dog meat stew."

The landlords' fear, their hateful looks,

 the derision of the "kempei ".

Tied up, unable to resist, again and again

they were stabbed with bamboo spears, struck with cudgels.

The gleam in their eyes then,

 their defiance,

their contempt, as if for dogs,

 their silent, shining eyes.

[ Pools of Blood ]

Were they rotten fish?

Dead horses? Still bound in twos,

they were kicked off the trucks in a heep.

Hanaoka Community Hall square

 is stained even now with their blood.

Their blood will never be wiped away.

So long as two-legged beasts still exist in this world,

even now, in that square the stains remain.

 [ Bleached Bones]

In the fields of Ubasawa, even now,

 bones surface all the time.

 As rain erodes the dirt,

 bones surface , flesh rotted off.

The bones of those who died

 at the hands of TOJO, HIROHITO, their underlings

are exposed to rain, to wind——

as if to say, " This country never lacks

for those who torment and exploit the people."

 We're still finding

evidence of the cruelty

of capitalists, landlords, police.

 [ Those Who Plan War]

White with fear, the dogs- capitalists, landlords——

went crying to Mr. America.

KAJIMA bosses, chief of the " Kempeitai",

governor, police chief, chief of the thought police,

leaders of the reservists' association and the yokusan youth group——

all alike bloody murderers:

 they did it, but what happened to them?

Underlings were punished only for minor war crimes;

big- shot war criminals made big bucks once again.

 Hanaoka today is the military base of a foreign country.

Those guys are already preparing

for the next war,

 planning to turn us laborers and farm people

into slaves, human bullets.

( Translations done by Richard Minear, a retired Professor of History at the University of  Massachusetts Amherst)

Kopi O 和孙大炮

这天，随旅游车来到太平的阿三古邦（Assam Kumbang）天桥旁边，去参观一家建於1933年，据说是全马最早创立的第一家咖啡粉厂。转眼82年过去了，如今咖啡厂传给了第三代接班人，他们依然是使用传统的炭烧法来制造咖啡。可能是因为由木材烧出来的咖啡，有种特别的烟熏味，就算那天没有工人在制作咖啡，俺的鼻腔里充斥的都是Kopi 味。

接下来，游客被安排去咖啡工厂的隔壁喝咖啡、吃roti饼。走入一栋看起来是殖民时期的古老别墅，建筑物的后部，以前应该是厨房的空间，如今用来作售卖部。握着一小小杯的咖啡乌，把一小小块脆脆硬硬的roti 饼沾上Kopi-O，咬着咬着，童年的记忆，霎时浮现了一小块在脑海中。

俺小时候住在一排店屋的楼上，楼下是海南人开的咖啡店。清晨5点不到，那些海南阿哥阿朵（阿哥就是uncle，阿朵就是auntie，阿嫂）就起床煲滚水、蒸糯米饭，忙得不可开交。俺们这些小瓜，就算用被蒙着头想睡久一点，耳中还是会听到传自楼板下方，阿哥阿朵那些kiki koko的木屐声。到了6点正，楼下传来乒乒乓乓的巨响，几乎把所有人都震醒了，那是一块块厚厚的门板被除下时所发出的嘈音；每天早晨6点，就会有顾客上门喝咖啡、吃面包、生熟蛋和加央糯米饭了。

每逢老爸的同乡来找他倾计（谈天），他就给俺两角钱，叫俺拿着那个青色唐瓷的mug，到楼下去买咖啡乌。海南阿哥泡了一大mug黑黑的Kopi-O，幸亏俺的臂力还不弱，能够捧着上楼去。老爸和同乡就一面讲着香山话，一面叹gao gao的 Kopi-O。

从厨房拾级上去，即别墅的前厅和卧房。这栋叫做“长春圃” 别墅的墙壁上，挂了好些孙中山和一个女人的照片。

又记得很久很久以前，老爸对俺们说了一段陈年历史：他老爹在年轻时，曾经做过一件毕生中最难忘的大事。
话说俺老爸籍贯广东省中山县圣狮村，当年在生活困苦的岁月里，他老爹竟然把老婆和四个年幼的孩子摆在家里不管，带上全副家当，跟随他隔壁翠亨村的老乡去搞革命。俺这祖父追随的同乡，姓孙名文， 还因为这个心目中的偶像，而改信了基督教。

孙文带着这个忠诚的乡里，还有乡亲父老为他筹集的一大笔款项，搭上轮船，远渡重洋去到檀香山和墨西哥。后来，老爸的老爹的家当帮老乡搞革命而结果全给革光了以后，在经济拮据、人地生疏以及语言不通的情况之下，自己死死气返回圣狮村的老家，据说当时袋子里仅剩下一个一元的墨西哥铜板而已。

孙文就是孙中山，也叫做孙逸仙。可能是孙中山每次回乡，在乡亲父老面前鼓吹他的革命理论，其间在广东香港广西等地区，也发动了十次都不成功的武装起义，香山佬（中山也称做香山）渐渐认为这个同乡都几识得车大炮，所以就给他起了一个花名，叫做孙大炮。直到今天，好些住在中山石岐的乡亲们，提起孙中山，还是昵称他为孙大炮。

1891年的一天，有个出生在香港当年也只有18岁的姑娘，与24岁的孙中山在屯门基督教堂初次相见，听了他的豪言壮语后，姑娘对孙中山万分钦佩，简直崇拜得五体投地，认为他是一个不平凡的领袖人物，立马追随孙中山去搞革命。1895年广州起义失败，姑娘就陪着孙中山流亡海外，足迹遍及日本和新马一带，在太平时一起住进了“长春圃”，这就是照片中的陈萃芬，也是孙中山革命初期的亲密伴侣。

巴哥犬和东北粽

去年在哈尔滨的某个早晨，只见酒店对面小商店的老伯，在店前行人道旁优闲的吃着早餐，身旁一大巴哥犬（pug）和小吉娃娃( chiwawa）不停的跑来跑去。

不久，老伯的儿子和胖媳妇，也从店里出来同坐一桌吃早餐。小吉娃娃从男女主人的手中，吃了不少面包，而大巴哥在旁边等了好久好久，却还未轮到有机会吃上一口。

大巴哥心理不爽，觉得有点委屈，於是跑到邻居大妈那里蹲着生闷气。邻家大白哥哥跑过来安慰大巴哥：“ 给小的让一让，没关系啦！”

大巴哥问大白哥哥：“ 大妈们在忙啥呀？”

“包粽子哟！”

“ 那等下我们不是有粽子吃咯？”

俺也凑过去八一八，看东北大妈包的是啥粽子。
东北大妈把浸透的糯米，用勺子盛入折成三角形的粽叶中，然后塞入一粒金丝枣，再盛几勺水倒入粽叶包的米中，使米压得更紧实，包好再缠上水草，待下全部放入锅里加水煮熟，那就大功告成了。

我告诉大妈，南方人包的粽子，馅里有咸鸭蛋黄、猪肉、栗子、虾米、绿豆、眉豆、冬菇-----

“ 哎哟！那个我们不喜欢！我们只喜欢吃这样子的！” 大妈耸耸肩膀，一面摇着头说。

 原来南方人喜欢的咸肉粽，对东北大妈来说，竟然是难以下咽的食物；东北粽子的馅，只有大枣、小枣、金丝枣而已，以甜味为主。

大巴哥虽然跑到邻居大妈身旁待着，可目光没有一刻离开过小吉娃娃和主人。

“ 喂！主人在叫你咯！” 邻家大白哥哥在提醒那神情还是有点忧郁的大巴哥。

“乖乖，你跑那儿去啦？我们怎么会不理你呐！”

大巴哥摇着尾巴，津津有味吃着男主人手中的面包，先前的郁闷，早已经一扫而空。

转载：What’s Really Going on at Fukushima?

by Robert Hunziker/ June 14th 2015

Robert Hunziker (MA, economic history, DePaul University) is a freelance writer and environmental journalist whose articles have been translated into foreign languages and appeared in over 50 journals, magazines, and sites worldwide. He can be contacted at:rlhunziker@gmail.com. Read other articles by Robert.

Fukushima’s still radiating, self-perpetuating, immeasurable, and limitless, like a horrible incorrigible Doctor Who monster encounter in deep space.

Fukushima will likely go down in history as the biggest cover-up of the 21st Century. Governments and corporations are not leveling with citizens about the risks and dangers; similarly, truth itself, as an ethical standard, is at risk of going to shambles as the glue that holds together the trust and belief in society’s institutions. Ultimately, this is an example of how societies fail.

Tens of thousands of Fukushima residents remain in temporary housing more than four years after the horrific disaster of March 2011. Some areas on the outskirts of Fukushima have officially reopened to former residents, but many of those former residents are reluctant to return home because of widespread distrust of government claims that it is okay and safe.

Part of this reluctance has to do with radiation’s symptoms. It is insidious because it cannot be detected by human senses. People are not biologically equipped to feel its power, or see, or hear, touch or smell it (Caldicott). Not only that, it slowly accumulates over time in a dastardly fashion that serves to hide its effects until it is too late.

Chernobyl’s Destruction Mirrors Fukushima’s Future

As an example of how media fails to deal with disaster blowback, here are some Chernobyl facts that have not received enough widespread news coverage: Over one million (1,000,000) people have already died from Chernobyl’s fallout.

Additionally, the Rechitsa Orphanage in Belarus has been caring for a very large population of deathly sick and deformed children. Children are 10 to 20 times more sensitive to radiation than adults.

Zhuravichi Children’s Home is another institution, among many, for the Chernobyl-stricken: “The home is hidden deep in the countryside and, even today, the majority of people in Belarus are not aware of the existence of such institutions.”¹

One million (1,000,000) is a lot of dead people. But, how many more will die? Approximately seven million (7,000,000) people in the Chernobyl vicinity were hit with one of the most potent exposures to radiation in the history of the Atomic Age.

The exclusion zone around Chernobyl is known as “Death Valley.” It has been increased from 30 to 70 square kilometres. No humans will ever be able to live in the zone again. It is a permanent “dead zone.”

Additionally, over 25,000 died and 70,000 disabled because of exposure to extremely dangerous levels of radiation in order to help contain Chernobyl. Twenty percent of those deaths were suicides, as the slow agonizing “death march of radiation exposure” was too much to endure.

Fukushima- The Real Story

In late 2014, Helen Caldicott, M.D. gave a speech about Fukushima at Seattle Town Hall on September 28, 2014. Pirate Television recorded her speech.

Dr. Helen Caldicott is co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, and she is author/editor of Crisis Without End: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe, The New Press, September 2014. For over four decades Dr. Caldicott has been the embodiment of the anti-nuclear banner, and as such, many people around the world classify her as a “national treasure”. She’s truthful and honest and knowledgeable.

Fukushima is literally a time bomb in quiescence. Another powerful quake and all hell could break loose. Also, it is not even close to being under control. Rather, it is totally out of control. According to Dr. Caldicott, “It’s still possible that Tokyo may have to be evacuated, depending upon how things go.” Imagine that!

According to Japan Times as of March 11, 2015:

There have been quite a few accidents and problems at the Fukushima plant in the past year, and we need to face the reality that they are causing anxiety and anger among people in Fukushima, as explained by Shunichi Tanaka at the Nuclear Regulation Authority. Furthermore, Mr. Tanaka said, there are numerous risks that could cause various accidents and problems.

Even more ominously, Seiichi Mizuno, a former member of Japan’s House of Councillors (Upper House of Parliament, 1995-2001) in March 2015 said:

The biggest problem is the melt-through of reactor cores… We have groundwater contamination… The idea that the contaminated water is somehow blocked in the harbor is especially absurd. It is leaking directly into the ocean. There’s evidence of more than 40 known hotspot areaswhere extremely contaminated water is flowing directly into the ocean… We face huge problems with no prospect of solution.²

At Fukushima, each reactor required one million gallons of water per minute for cooling, but when the tsunami hit, the backup diesel generators were drowned. Units 1, 2, and 3 had meltdowns within days. There were four hydrogen explosions. Thereafter, the melting cores burrowed into the container vessels, maybe into the earth.

According to Dr. Caldicott, “One hundred tons of terribly hot radioactive lava has already gone into the earth or somewhere within the container vessels, which are all cracked and broken.” Nobody really knows for sure where the hot radioactive lava resides. The scary unanswered question: Is it the China Syndrome?

Following the meltdown, the Japanese government did not inform people of the ambient levels of radiation that blew back onto the island. Unfortunately and mistakenly, people fled away from the reactors to the highest radiation levels on the island at the time.

As the disaster happened, enormous levels of radiation hit Tokyo. The highest radiation detected in the Tokyo Metro area was in Saitama with cesium radiation levels detected at 919,000 becquerel (Bq) per square meter, a level almost twice as high as Chernobyl’s “permanent dead zone evacuation limit of 500,000 Bq.”³. For that reason, Dr. Caldicott strongly advises against travel to Japan and recommends avoiding Japanese food.

Even so, post the Fukushima disaster, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed an agreement with Japan that the U.S. would continue importing Japanese foodstuff. Therefore, Dr. Caldicott suggests people not vote for Hillary Clinton. One reckless dangerous precedent is enough for her.

According to Arnie Gundersen, an energy advisor with 39 years of nuclear power engineering experience, as reported in The Canadian on August 15, 2011:

The US government has come up with a decision at the highest levels of the State Department, as well as other departments who made a decision to downplay Fukushima. In April, the month after the powerful tsunami and earthquake crippled Japan including its nuclear power plant, Hillary Clinton signed a pact with Japan that she agreed there is no problem with Japanese food supply and we will continue to buy them. So, we are not sampling food coming in from Japan.

However, in stark contrast to the United States, in Europe Angela Merkel, PhD physics, University of Leipzig and current chancellor of Germany is shutting down all nuclear reactors because of Fukushima.

Maybe an advanced degree in physics makes the difference in how a leader approaches the nuclear power issue. It certainly looks that way when comparing/contrasting the two pantsuit-wearing leaders, Chancellor Merkel and former secretary of state Clinton.

After the Fukushima blow up, ambient levels of radiation in Washington State went up 40,000 times above normal, but according to Dr. Caldicott, the U.S. media does not cover the “ongoing Fukushima mess.” So, who would really know?

Dr. Caldicott ended her September 28. 2014 speech by saying:

In Fukushima, it is not over. Everyday, four hundred tons of highly radioactive water pours into the Pacific and heads towards the U.S.  Because the radiation accumulates in fish, we get that too. The U.S. government is not testing the water, not testing the fish, and not testing the ambient air. Also, people in Japan are eating radiation every day.

Furthermore, according to Dr. Caldicott:

Rainwater washes over the nuclear cores into the Pacific. There is no way they can get to those cores, men die, robots get fried. Fukushima will never be solved. Meanwhile, people are still living in highly radioactive areas.

Fukushima will never be solved because “men die” and “robots get fried.” By the sounds of it, Fukushima is a perpetual radiation meltdown scenario that literally sets on the edge of a bottomless doomsday pit, in waiting to be nudged over.

UN All-Clear Report

A UN (UNSCEAR) report on April 2, 2014 on health impacts of the Fukushima accident concluded that any radiation-induced effects would be too small to identify. People were well protected and received “low or very low” radiation doses. UNSCEAR gave an all-clear report.

Rebuttal of the UNSCEAR report by the German affiliate of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War dated July 18, 2014 takes a defiant stance in opposition to the UN report, to wit:

The Fukushima nuclear disaster is far from over. Despite the declaration of ‘cold shutdown’ by the Japanese government in December 2011, the crippled reactors have not yet achieved a stable status and even UNSCEAR admits that emissions of radioisotopes are continuing unabated. 188 TEPCO is struggling with an enormous amount of contaminated water, which continues to leak into the surrounding soil and sea. Large quantities of contaminated cooling water are accumulating at the site. Failures in the makeshift cooling systems are occurring repeatedly. The discharge of radioactive waste will most likely continue for a long time.

Both the damaged nuclear reactors and the spent fuel ponds contain vast amounts of radioactivity and are highly vulnerable to further earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons and human error. Catastrophic releases of radioactivity could occur at any time and eliminating this risk will take many decades… It is impossible at this point in time to come up with an exact prognosis of the effects that the Fukushima nuclear disaster will have on the population in Japan… the UNSCEAR report represents a systematic underestimation and conjures up an illusion of scientific certainty that obscures the true impact of the nuclear catastrophe on health and the environment.

Read the full text of the rejoinder to the UN report here.

Fukushima’s Radiation and the Future

Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press (AP), June 12, 2015:

Four years after an earthquake and tsunami destroyed Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant, the road ahead remains riddled with unknowns… Experts have yet to pinpoint the exact location of the melted fuel inside the three reactors and study it, and still need to develop robots capable of working safely in such highly radioactive conditions. And then there’s the question of what to do with the waste… serious doubts about whether the cleanup can be completed within 40 years.

According to Prof. Hiroaki Koide (retired), Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute, April 25, 2015:

Although the Chernobyl accident was a terrible accident, it only involved one reactor. With Fukushima, we have the minimum [of] 3 reactors that are emitting dangerous radiation. The work involved to deal with this accident will take tens of years, hundreds of years. It could be that some of the fuel could actually have gone through the floor of the containment vessel as well… What I’ve just described is very, very logical for anyone who understands nuclear engineering or nuclear energy. (Which dreadfully spells-out: THE CHINA SYNDROME.)

According to the Smithsonian, April 30, 2015:

Birds Are in a Tailspin Four Years After Fukushima: Bird species are in sharp decline, and it is getting worse over time… Where it’s much, much hotter, it’s dead silent. You’ll see one or two birds if you’re lucky.

Developmental abnormalities of birds include cataracts, tumors, and asymmetries. Birds are spotted with strange white patches on their feathers.

Maya Moore, a former NHK news anchor, authored a book about the disaster:The Rose Garden of Fukushima (Tankobon, 2014), about the roses of Mr. Katsuhide Okada. Today, the garden has perished:

It’s just poisoned wasteland. The last time Mr. Okada actually went back there, he found baby crows that could not fly, that were blind. Mutations have begun with animals, with birds.

The Rose Garden of Fukushima features a collection of photos of an actual garden that existed in Fukushima, Japan. Boasting over 7500 bushes of roses and 50-thousand visitors a year, the Garden was rendered null and void in an instant due to the triple disaster — earthquake, tsunami, and meltdown.

The forward to Maya’s book was written by John Roos, former US Ambassador to Japan 2009-13:

The incredible tale of Katz Okada and his Fukushima rose garden was told here by Maya Moore… gives you a small window into what the people of Tohoku faced.

Roos’ “small window” could very well serve as a metaphor for a huge black hole smack dab in the heart of civilization. Similarly, Fukushima is a veritable destruction machine that consumes everything in its path, and beyond, and its path is likely to grow. For certain, it is not going away.

Thus, TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) is deeply involved in an asymmetric battle against enormously powerful unleashed out-of-control forces of E=mc2.

Clearly, TEPCO has its back to the wall. Furthermore, it’s doubtful TEPCO will “break the back of the beast.” In fact, it may be an impossible task.

Maybe, just maybe, Greater Tokyo’s 38 million residents will eventually be evacuated. Who knows for sure?

Only Godzilla knows!

可口却不可乐

在中国各地旅行时，到各餐馆用餐，只见咱们饭桌上，必摆了两瓶啤酒和一大瓶汽水或是可口可乐；不过这些汽水或可乐，也一定会被咱们退换成啤酒或是矿泉水。
当地人一直觉得很不可思议，干嘛这群傻瓜游客，竟然会不喜欢喝汽水，还有那价格比啤酒更贵的可口可乐呐？（一瓶可乐换2瓶啤酒）




话说19世纪中，在美国有个叫做John Pemberton 的联邦上校，参加南北战争时因受伤而染上了吗啡瘾。为了要寻找鸦片的替代品，John Pemberton 日后在他乔治亚州的药房里，调配出了一种含有古柯因的酒。
1885年，Pemberton把古柯因酒注册为提神醒脑的补品，叫做Coca-cola 。1886年，亚特兰大实行禁酒，Coca-cola就不再含有酒精，而掺入了苏打水。Pemberton 认为他发明的可口可乐，最大的好处是可以取代吗啡，对消化不良、神经衰弱、头痛、阳痿亦有所帮助。所以，第一份标价5个镭美金的可口可乐，是以一种药物在Pemberton 的药房卖出。

Coca-cola的主要成分就是从古柯叶（cola leaf ）提取出来的古柯因（ cocaine ），以及从可乐果（ kola nut ）提取出来的咖啡因（caffeine）。1904年以后，可乐里面的古柯因，改为从古柯叶残渣中提取。配料有糖、碳酸水、焦糖、磷酸等。

可乐中含有大量的糖，喝一罐下去，牙齿发软，有大约10茶匙的糖进入了体内。只需20分钟左右，血糖迅速升高，刺激胰岛素大量的释放，肝把糖变成脂肪。这些脂肪不同於食物脂肪，很难消化掉。可乐，让许多年轻人变成肥仔和肥妹。

美国可乐公司赶紧搞出一个不放糖、但也是很甜的可乐新产品，叫做Coca-Cola Light。成分和普通没啥差别，含有(carbonated water)碳酸水 、sodium benzoate（苯甲酸钠-防腐剂，编码E211）、citrate acid（柠檬酸）、 orthophosphoric acid（磷酸）、sodium cyclamate（甜蜜素）以及色素和各种不同的香味。编码E330 的柠檬酸，也是食品防腐剂，F150D就是可乐的焦糖色素。唯一不同的是加入aspatame （阿斯巴甜）。

碳酸水里的二氧化碳，对人体内的有益菌会产生抑制作用，从而引起腹胀，影响食欲，甚至造成肠胃功能紊乱。

添加E338 磷酸在可乐中，使其具刺激味和酸味。储藏磷酸，得用特制的容器来存放，因为磷酸的腐蚀性很强，可以把钢也腐蚀掉。消费人在享受着很有刺激性的可乐饮品时，胡里胡涂就把这种腐蚀液体也一并吞进肠胃中。磷酸阻碍了体内钙的吸收，逐渐导致骨骼疏松脆弱，也会间接影响视力，甚至引发皮疹和皮肤炎等。

编码E951的阿斯巴甜，是一种非碳水化合物类的人造甜味剂。可怕的是，进入人体的aspartame，会被分解为三类物质：甲醇(methanol ）（强烈毒性，致盲）、天门冬氨酸 (aspartic acid) （刺激性毒素，会刺激神经细胞至死）、苯丙氨酸 (phenylalanine) 。高达15%对phenylalanine过敏的人，会引发痉挛及抽搐 ( seizure and convulsion)，还可导致脑部永久伤害，甚至死亡。有研究发现，阿斯巴甜引发脑瘤、脑损伤以及淋巴癌等。

1992年，美国空军警告自家的飞行员，在食用过aspartame后，绝对不允许执行飞行任务。

喝下一罐可口可乐，不出40分钟，咖啡因使血压升高、心跳加速、兴奋、紧张、急躁。接下来，古柯因激活脑中分泌出大量的多巴胺( dopamine)，会使人有一种很high的感觉。当磷酸堵住了身体里的锌、镁和钙的吸收，尿液把大量的矿物质和钙排出体外；最后，整个人就有如一粒完全泄了气的球，变得疲惫不堪和精神萎靡。

可乐中的咖啡因使人失眠、兴奋、紧张，影响睡眠系统。咖啡因刺激胃部蠕动和胃酸分泌，引起肠痉挛、肚子痛。小孩子喝了可乐，会排尿特别多，因为可乐的咖啡因使胃肠壁上的毛细血管扩张，刺激肾臟机能，使肾水流增加。钙排出量也随着增加，儿童的骨骼发育自然会受到影响，同时体内的维生素B1也被破坏掉，最终会引发许多健康问题。可是很多家长可能还懵闭闭，去茶室吃早餐时，就给孩子order 一罐可乐加冰块。

Cocaine（古柯因）也和吗啡同样可以让人上瘾，虽说可乐里面的古柯因成分很低，长期吸入小剂量的古柯因，也会慢性中毒。一般影响个体的进食、睡眠，易激怒、注意力涣散等。长远也能导致严重的神经、精神损伤，并出现神经系统并发症，包括缺血性中风、蛛网膜下腔出血和脑出血、头晕癫痫发作，甚至死亡。

可乐除了饮用，还可以用来清洁马桶，可乐中的化学物质如磷酸、二氧化碳、柠檬酸等，就好像含氯（Chlorine）的漂白剂，把马桶中的污垢清除得一干二净。既然磷酸可以腐蚀钢，人体内的器官，难道比钢更坚硬么？

看来，西方强国除了用战争、化学武器、病毒等去征服其他国家之外，还有就是在当地行销各式各样包装亮丽的垃圾食物和饮料，让这些国家的人民慢慢慢慢被鸩毒，而那些掌控全球经济的黑心超级大亨则赚得盆满钵满。长期食用含化学剂的食物和饮料，可以达到把人的基因破坏，让这个国家大多数人的健康受损，甚至延续祸害几代人。