중국 인민일보 트위터에 공개된 사진이라고 한다. 산불이 나자 어미새가 자신의 알들을 보호하기 위해 알을 품고 있다가, 화재로 죽은 것으로 추측되고 있다. 동물들은 때로 인간이 상상도 하지 못했던 행동을 한다. 우리가 동물들에 대해 알고 있는 지식은 극히 일부일 뿐이라는 생각이 든다.
탈레브는 언젠가 "새에 대해 쓰여진 모든 책은 인간에 의해 씌여졌지만, 새가 자신에 대해 쓴책은 아직 없다"고 말한 바 있다. (아마도 이와 비슷한 글이었다.)  우리는 동물의 마음과 생각을 아직 읽지 못하고 있다.

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찰스 머피라는 매우 총명한 금융전문가가 자살에 이르게 된 과정을 간결하게 정리한 월스트리트 저널의 기사
 

 

Wall Street Made Charles Murphy Successful and Rich, but Happiness Eluded Him

 

After his apparent suicide, friends say the brilliant, commanding, sometimes abrasive banker suffered from depression—and grew despondent maintaining the charmed life he built for his family

 

 

By

Gregory Zuckerman,

April 9, 2017 2:54 p.m. ET

 

 

Charles Murphy used to walk home through New York City’s Central Park to his 19-room townhouse for dinner with his family. Last year, he began voicing worries about money to his boss, hedge-fund billionaire John Paulson, who often joined him along the way.

 

At 56 years old, Mr. Murphy had a net worth in the tens of millions of dollars. He entered Columbia University at 16 and later earned law and business degrees at Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 

On Wall Street, he had a ringside seat to some of the biggest financial events of the past 20 years, from the 1990s merger boom to the dot-com bust to the Bernard Madoff scandal and the travails of American International Group Inc. He made millions of dollars at banks and investment firms in New York and London, despite his share of setbacks.

 

During those walks, though, Mr. Paulson found himself trying to reassure Mr. Murphy, according to a person who knew both men, offering reminders of all he had accomplished. “You don’t need to worry,” Mr. Paulson would say.

 

Mr. Murphy was blessed with a commanding presence and boundless ambition. Yet his concerns over maintaining the life he had created for himself, his wife, Annabella, and their three young sons consumed him. The very qualities that helped him build a fortune were no match for his fear of losing it.

 

“In his mind, he had worries,” said Belén Hormaeche, a close friend of Mr. Murphy and his wife. “But it was all in his mind.”

 

Mr. Paulson, who eulogized Mr. Murphy last Monday, sought to explain his apparent suicide to friends and family during a funeral service in New York.

 

“The mind can play tricks with oneself, distorting reality,” Mr. Paulson said. “No matter how much those close to him tried to help, and no one tried more than Annabella, Charles could not see a path forward…his mind created a trap from which he couldn’t escape.”

 

This account of Mr. Murphy’s life and death is based on interviews with close friends and colleagues, as well as those familiar with his family.

 

Fast track

 

Born to a middle-class New York family in 1961, Mr. Murphy stood out at a young age for his drive and intellect. His father worked as an engineer for a utility company and sparked his son’s early interest in books and classical music. The family lived in a modest Upper East Side walk-up apartment.

 

Mr. Murphy attended Stuyvesant High School, one of New York City’s top public schools, before enrolling at Columbia. At 6 feet 6 inches tall, he became captain of the crew team. Out of the water, he discussed philosophy, poetry and arts, classmates recalled.

 

Mr. Murphy became interested in investment banking while pursuing advanced degrees at Harvard and MIT, said Tom Seeman, a Harvard classmate.

 

In 1985, he was recruited by Goldman Sachs Group . Inc., embarking on a two-decade career at the world’s biggest banks including Morgan Stanley , Deutsche Bank AG and Credit Suisse Group AG .

 

Mr. Murphy spent most of that time in London, where he was seen as polished and articulate, favoring expensive suits. He closed complicated deals involving insurance companies and won praise for his financial analysis. He could also be rigid in his point of view, and disregarded opposing ideas, colleagues said. Some who worked with Mr. Murphy recalled times when he retreated into his office and closed the door, wanting to be left alone for days. That’s how he focused at work, said someone close to the family.

 

‘No matter how much those close to him tried to help, and no one tried more than Annabella, Charles could not see a path forward…his mind created a trap from which he couldn’t escape.’

 

—John Paulson

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In 1993, he married Heather O’Brien, a 24-year-old American preparing to start doctoral studies in theology, according to a wedding announcement. Six years later, after the couple had two children, the marriage collapsed. Ms. Murphy later married Sol Kerzner, a South African hotel magnate.

 

After the breakup of his marriage, Mr. Murphy became a fixture in London’s club scene, colleagues said. In 2004, Mr. Murphy married a young Londoner, Annabella Demetriou, and became devoted to her, friends said. In 2006, he threw her a lavish 30th birthday party in London featured in Tatler magazine.

 

 

In the late 1990s, he became excited about the chance for bigger rewards outside Wall Street. At the height of the internet-stock frenzy, Mr. Murphy quit Morgan Stanley to become chief financial officer of a London startup, Antfactory Holdings Ltd. The firm backed technology companies and eyed a lucrative initial public offering itself.

 

Mr. Murphy accepted a token salary and was given stock with the potential to be worth tens of millions of dollars if the company went public or was sold. Within 18 months of his move, internet stocks had crashed, ending Antfactory’s ambitions.

 

Mr. Murphy got another chance at a potentially lucrative IPO in 2007. Fairfield Greenwich Group, a Connecticut firm that managed $15 billion for wealthy individuals investing in hedge funds, considered going public. Mr. Murphy was hired to oversee its strategy.

 

As his family prepared to move to the U.S. from London, Mr. Murphy paid $33 million for the seven-level, 11-fireplace, limestone Upper East Side townhouse of Matthew Bronfman, an heir to the Seagram liquor fortune.

 

The Fairfield Greenwich IPO never happened. The firm had channeled billions of dollars of its investors’ money into a fund overseen by Mr. Madoff, whose giant Ponzi scheme was uncovered in 2008. Mr. Murphy was out of a job. He tried to sell his house in 2009 as he and his wife considered moving back to London.

 

By chance, Mr. Murphy and his wife were invited to a dinner party at a friend’s East Side home, where he struck up a conversation with Mr. Paulson, of Paulson & Co.

 

Mr. Paulson had just made $20 billion betting against mortgage securities and banks in what was considered one of the great trades in financial history. Now, he wanted to invest in insurance companies. Mr. Murphy knew how, and he was eventually hired for the job.

 

 

One of Mr. Murphy’s early ideas was to invest $80 million to help recapitalize struggling insurer Conseco Inc. The deal earned Paulson & Co. more than $100 million.

 

More recently, in search of another lucrative trade, Mr. Murphy asked another hedge-fund investor: “What can we do that’s bigger?”

 

The answer seemed to be AIG, the insurer that in 2008 required a nearly $185 billion U.S.-funded bailout. The company had repaid taxpayers by 2012, and management was focused on improving its financial performance.

 

In March 2015, Messrs. Murphy and Paulson met with AIG Chief Executive Peter Hancock and offered a different plan: break up the insurance conglomerate. AIG resisted. Mr. Murphy spent months pitching his proposal to hedge funds and eventually persuaded billionaire Carl Icahn, who was already eyeing AIG.

 

“I didn’t know him well,” Mr. Icahn said, “but in our meetings I found him to be very bright and knowledgeable, and I liked him.”

 

Mr. Murphy lobbied Wall Street analysts to write research in support of the plan. Some analysts said their conversations with Mr. Murphy amounted to lectures. A half-hour on the phone with Mr. Murphy was “29 minutes of Charles talking,” one said. People who challenged the AIG breakup recall being barraged by Mr. Murphy with an avalanche of facts and figures.

 

At an AIG investor meeting hosted by Mr. Hancock in November 2015, Mr. Murphy repeatedly interrupted Mr. Hancock as the chief executive tried to answer investors’ questions, some of the attendees said.

 

“Most investors are polite and deferential to management,” said former Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Josh Stirling. “He was definitely confrontational.”

 

The following February, AIG offered Messrs. Icahn and Paulson board seats to avert a proxy fight. Mr. Paulson suggested Mr. Murphy take his spot but AIG demanded someone else. The reason, according to people familiar with the matter: Directors felt Mr. Murphy was too abrasive.

 

In the fourth quarter, Paulson sold nearly half of its AIG position, locking in double-digit gains from the stock’s improvement in 2016.

 

Retreat

 

Mr. Murphy made several million dollars a year at Paulson, a person close to the matter said. His compensation had been rising in recent years, though the firm performed poorly of late.

 

People around Mr. Murphy told him he needn’t worry about money, but he worried nonetheless. Mr. Murphy had a $12 million mortgage on his Upper East Side home, according to public records. Two of his youngest children attended private schools; two more from his first marriage were in college.

 

Early in 2016, he put his townhouse on the market for $49.5 million. By summer, the price had dropped to $42.5 million.

 

Around July of last year, some of Mr. Murphy’s friends and family saw a change. He looked tired. Instead of leading conversations, he was withdrawn, seemingly lost in thought.

 

 

‘When I asked him how things were going, he would say, ‘OK,’ or, ‘Not so well,’ when in the past he would always be more expansive.’

 

Making even minor decisions, whether to go to the beach or take a walk, unsettled Mr. Murphy. His wife brought him to a psychiatrist, who diagnosed him with depression, prescribed medications and closely monitored him, friends said.

 

Mrs. Murphy tried to draw her husband out of his shell. “Charles, what do you think?” she asked him during a dinner a few months ago with friends. Mr. Murphy smiled and made an effort to join the conversation, a friend recalled.

 

Mr. Seeman, the former Harvard classmate, would see Mr. Murphy when he visited New York City. In the past few months, he said, Mr. Murphy began putting off his requests to meet: “When I asked him how things were going, he would say, ‘OK,’ or, ‘Not so well,’ when in the past he would always be more expansive.”

 

The Paulson firm has lost money so far in 2017, according to an investor. In February, AIG’s shares fell on setbacks in its turnaround plan, though they remain above Paulson’s purchase price.

 

Mr. Murphy confided to a rival hedge-fund investor it had become more difficult for him to find attractive investments in a rising stock market.

 

A few weeks ago, Mr. Murphy had lunch with an old friend and said he was depressed and seeing a doctor. On Feb. 21, Mr. Murphy added his wife as a co-owner of their Upper East Side home, according to public records. That month, the asking price for the house was listed as $36.5 million.

 

In recent weeks, Mr. Murphy spoke with colleagues at Paulson about new investment opportunities, showing signs of renewed enthusiasm. He and his family celebrated Mr. Murphy’s birthday on a ski trip in Vail, Colo., which seemed to buoy his spirits.

 

A friend staying at the same resort recalled fondly the sight of Mr. Murphy guiding one of his sons down the bunny slope, the father’s long legs stretched around the boy’s skis.

 

Flying home on Sunday, March 26, Mrs. Murphy told a friend that her husband had a “great week” and that the holiday was “fabulous.”

 

The next day, Mr. Murphy sat down for breakfast with his wife and children. As he left for work, the nanny took notice of Mr. Murphy’s suit and crisp shirt.

 

“You look good,” she said, according to a close family friend.

 

“I feel great,” Mr. Murphy responded.

 

That morning, Mr. Murphy worked in Paulson’s Midtown Manhattan office.

 

Later, he headed to the Sofitel New York hotel a few blocks away, checked into a room and jumped from the 24th floor.

 

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Financial problems may have been come into play; the Post quoted a parking garage attendant as saying Annabelle Murphy was in an automobile accident last year but couldn't afford to have the car fixed.

 

In addition to his work with Paulson and Fairfield, Murphy also worked with Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse

 

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黃帝內經 第十一講 　《陰陽應像大論》

 

 

現在講《陰陽應像大論》的第六段，也就是教材的41頁。這一段給它做個提要。是以天人合一論養生。從天人合一的這個角度，來討論養生的問題。上一段不是主要在講陰陽嗎？從陰陽的角度調節養生嗎？談養生問題。這一段是以天人合一論養生問題。我先讀一遍。

 

“天不足西北，故西北方陰也。而人右耳目不如左明也。地不滿東南，故東南方陽也。而人左手足不如右強也。帝曰：何以然？岐伯曰：東方陽也。陽者，其精幷於上。幷於上則上明而下虛。故使耳目聰明，而手足不便也。西方陰也，陰者其精幷於下。幷於下則下盛而上虛，故其耳目不聰明而手足便也。故俱感於邪，其在上則右甚，在下則左甚。此天地陰陽所不能全也，故邪居之。

 

這一段主要是講的養生問題，它的討論的方法，是以天人合一這個角度。換句話說，把人也作為一個小天地來看待。人和天地是相應的，這麼一種思路。

 

天不足西北，天就是陽，西北方寒冷，也就是說西北方比較寒冷，寒冷屬陰，所以西北方陽不足，相對而言，它陰過盛，所以天不足西北，在這裡我們來可以理解為“天”是說的陽，積陽為天，積陰為地。西北方寒冷，西北方是陽氣不足，所以“天不足西北”就是西北方陽氣不足。

 

故西北方陰也。所以說西北方就屬陰。因為它陽氣不足嘛。

 

而人右耳目不如左明也，右耳目，耳目在上，本來是屬於陽，但是按“左右者，陰陽之道路”，右側它本身又屬於陰，在上的耳目應當屬於陽，但是右側又屬於陰，所以右耳目就不如左強。換句話說，右耳目就不如左明，相對而言，在上的耳目，如果是左側的，在上為陽，左側為陽，所以左側的耳目應當明，也就是應當屬於陽的而陰偏盛，右側屬陰，“左右者，陰陽之道路”，所以耳目在上屬於陽，但是右側有屬於陰，所以說右耳目相對來說，就不如左側聰明。這也是一種取類比象的方法。把人和自然界聯繫起來了。西北方屬於陰，而人右邊也屬陰，屬陰的陽氣不足，所以右耳目陽氣不足，所以不如左側聰明。另外，相反的，

 

地不滿東南，故東南方陽也，當然這個“地”就是說的陰，東南方陰氣不足，你也可以理解為東南方地勢低下，低下，所以它就不足。但是實際上，地還是指的陰，陰不足，相對來說，陽氣就偏盛，所以說東南方陽也。

 

而人左手足不如右強也，對於人身整體而言，耳目在上屬於陽，手足相對來說就在下，在下的就屬於陰，在下的屬於陰，如果右手足也是在下，右邊也屬陰，那應當右手足強，所以它說，左手足就不如右強。也就是說，手足在下，左側為陽，等於說是陰中之陽，它陰不足，所以應當屬於陰的，但是它陰不足，所以左手足就不強。而人右手足強。這是從陰陽多少、陰陽盛衰這個角度來想的。也有人分析說是和人的大腦左半球，右半球聯繫起來了，聯繫是可以的。但是《內經》時候它並沒聯繫這個。它只是把天地陰陽和人體的陰陽，這樣一個聯繫。用自然界的陰陽盛衰，解釋人體的右耳目不如左明，左手足不如右強。當然這個不能絕對看待，那確實也有人就是左撇子，左手足比右手足強，有這種人。相對來說，還是右側手足強的人多。

 

帝曰：何以然？說是為什麼這樣呢？岐伯又進一步解釋剛才所說的道理。看它為什麼左手足不如右強。右耳目不如左明。岐伯進一步解釋說，

 

岐伯曰：東方陽也，這個東方，其實就指的東方和南方吧，“左右者，陰陽之道路”東方也屬於陽，但是南方火熱之氣盛，所以南方也屬於陽。就是“東方陽也”。

 

陽者其精幷於上，幷於上則上明而下虛，陽氣精氣幷與上，從人體來說，清陽出上竅，所以陽者其精幷於上；幷於上那就上明而下虛，上面就聰明，下邊就不足。

 

“故使耳目聰明，而手足不便也”，所以就使人耳目聰明，而手足不便也。左邊屬陽，使人耳目聰明，因為上面屬陽，左邊也屬陽，所以使耳目聰明。手足呢，手足在下屬陰，所以手足就不便。相反的，

 

西方陰也，陰者其精幷於下，幷於下則下盛而上虛，故其耳目不聰明而手足便也，西方屬於陰，陰者其精幷於下，陽在上陰在下，右側為陰，所以幷於下則下盛而上虛，陰氣有餘而陽氣不足，下面盛了，所以耳目不聰明，下面盛，上面不足，上面陽氣不足，所以耳目不聰明。但是因為精氣在下，所以在下之手足，右側的手足就有力，手足便。但是，話說回來，如果俱感於邪，上下都感受邪氣的話，那在病態上怎麼樣呢？

 

“故俱感於邪，其在上則右甚，在下則左甚”，在上則右甚，因為上部陽氣不足，右側陽氣不足，所以右盛，在下則左甚，在下就因下面屬陰，在下左邊就不足，陰氣不足，所以在下則左甚。

 

此天地陰陽所不能全也，所以自然界天地陰陽，是不可能是完全的。自然有一方虛，有一方實。所以這裡說天地陰陽所不能全，在上部的那就是左側充足，而右側偏虛，在下部的就是右側充足，左側偏虛。天地陰陽所不能全也。

 

故邪居之，邪氣侵入的話，就往往容易侵入虛的那一側。我們看下面那個自然段，

 

 

故天有精，地有形；天有八紀，地有五里，故能為萬物之父母。清陽上天，濁陰歸地，是故天地之動靜，神明為之綱紀，故能以生長收藏，終而復始。唯賢人上配天以養頭，下象地以養足，中傍人事以養五藏。天氣通於肺，地氣通於嗌，風氣通於肝，雷氣通於心，谷氣通於脾，雨氣通於腎。六經為川，腸胃為海，九竅為水注之氣。以天地為之陰陽，陽之汗，以天地之雨名之；陽之氣，以天地之疾風名之。暴氣象雷，逆氣象陽。故治不法天之紀，不用地之理，則災害至矣。”

 

故天有精，地有形，這個精是講的氣，天有氣，這個“形”是指的質，形質，就是陽氣陰形，天有精是講天有氣，地有形是講地之質，形質。

 

天有八紀，八紀是指的八個主要的節氣，也就是二分、二至（春分、夏至、秋分、冬至），還有四立，（立春、立夏、立秋、立冬），這是自然界一年365天中的主要的八個節氣，天有八紀；用這個八個節氣來劃分時段，來劃分一年的氣候的變化。

 

地有五里，五里是指的五方之地理，也就是東西南北中的五方地域。天有八紀，地有五里。就是說天為陽，可以分為八紀，從八個節段來劃分它，地有五里，地為陰，可以分東西南北中，五個方位，五個區域，

 

故能為萬物之父母，天為陽，地為陰，天有八紀，地有五里，這樣的話才有陰陽各種各樣的變化。才能為萬物之母。才產生各式各樣的萬事萬物，是說天有精，地有形，陰陽即使是上為陽，下為陰，但是陰陽又互有不同，有的時候陰多，有的時候陽多，多當中也還不完全一樣，少當中它也不是完全一樣。有各式各樣的變化，所以才產生萬事萬物。天地陰陽變化是很多的。所以才能夠產生不同的事物。這是很自然的。是不是？有的事物陽偏盛，有的事物陰偏盛，也可以有的事物是陰陽都偏盛，有的陰陽都偏衰。偏盛也有盛多盛少之區別，偏衰也有衰多衰少之差異。因此可以產生萬事萬物。在《內經》的學術觀點裡面，有的時候，命名事物說這個東西叫什麼，很重要的方面就是從它所包含的陰陽多少盛衰來命的名。因此這個事物的名稱是非常多的。但是命名的一個重要的原則之一，那就看它的所包含的陰陽多少。大家熟悉的，咱們中醫裡，十二經脈裡面有三陰三陽，還有再分成手足，等等。這都是根據陰陽多少來劃分的。正因為天有八紀，地有五里，各式各樣不同的情況，天地陰陽相交和，才能產生各式各樣的事物。萬事萬物。所以說能為萬物之父母。

 

清陽上天，濁陰歸地，這個開頭就講了，積陽為天，積陰為地。

 

故天地之動靜，神明為之綱紀，天地的陰陽變化，動靜變化，神明為之綱紀，這個神明為之綱紀，還是指的陰陽為之綱紀。也就是《陰陽應相大論》開頭所講的，“天地之道也，萬物之綱紀，變化之父母，生殺之本始，神明之府也。”所以神明為之綱紀，同樣是講的神明之府。和開頭講的那一段話意思是相同的。同樣是講的陰陽的變化，在這裡。

 

故能以生長收藏，所以陰陽不斷地這樣的變化，天地陰陽不斷地變化，天有八紀，地有五里，自然界才可以產生生長收藏，這樣不同的生化過程。

 

終而復始，每一年每一年都有生長收藏，有時候按五行來說，就是生長化收藏，終而復始，不停地在變化。這是自然界的現象上是這樣。那麼人體養生應該如何呢？人和自然是一個統一的有機整體。天人合一是古代的哲學觀點，自然界是這樣，天有八紀，地有五里，有這個神明為之綱紀。能有生長收藏，這樣周而復始的變化，人也應當效法天地，才能夠有利於健康。也就是養生很重要一個道理，就是要取法於四時，取法與自然和自然界的陰陽變化，要適應這個規律，人體才能健康。

 

唯賢人上配天以養頭，賢人也是指的懂得養生之道的人，上配天以養頭，清陽為天，頭為清陽，清陽出山竅，所以懂得養生之道的人，要上配天以養頭來養陽氣，使得陽氣充實，這樣的話，頭腦才能清醒，有濁陰之氣填在空竅，那不就是昏迷不醒了？或者頭腦昏沉了。頭腦必須要有清陽之氣充養著，才能精明。所以賢人上配天以養頭。不是有句話嗎？中醫理論當中說“頭為諸陽之會”，陽氣都上升於頭，頭腦才精明。所以懂得養生之道的人要養陽氣。使陽氣充沛來使頭腦清醒。

 

下象地以養足，取法於地，來養濁陰，使下面的陰津充沛，陰津充沛來養下焦。這個“足”其實也就是下焦的意思。下為陰，足為陰，要使它的陰津充沛。這樣的話，陰津充足下焦才充實。人上配天以養頭，下象地以養足。地為陰，要靜，要穩重，要敦厚。

 

中傍人事以養五藏，五臟怎麼樣調養呢？養五臟要象人事之間那樣，和為貴，人事之間要和，五臟也要和。如果五臟不和爭起來，那就是病態。如果人事之間，社會上不和，爭起來，那就是戰爭。那就是混亂，秩序的混亂。因此，和是一種調和，是一種正常，是一種良好的現象。怎麼樣養五臟呢？就要像人事之間的關係那樣讓它調和。想辦法讓它調和，不要讓它分裂，不要讓它抗爭。所以中傍人事以養五藏。

 

天氣通於肺，地氣通於嗌，嗌，這也就是咽的意思，天氣通於肺，肺吸納自然界的清氣，自然界的清氣從肺吸進來，所以天氣通於肺，從鼻而入，通於肺。這個“地氣”就是講的水穀之氣，水穀之氣通於咽，實際上通過咽喉而入於胃。

 

風氣通於肝，肝主東方，屬木，應於春季，在天為風，在地為木，在體為筋，在臟為肝，也就是前面我們講的那一段。談到過的問題。所以是風氣通於肝。

 

雷氣通於心，雷氣就是火之氣。通於心，心為火臟，

 

谷氣通於脾，這個榖，可不是水穀之榖，這個谷是山谷之氣。山谷，兩山之間這塊盆地，這塊平原，那都叫做谷。這塊地方，能夠儲存很多東西，能夠化生萬物。脾土、脾胃也是存儲很多東西，能夠化生精微來滋養全身。就這個意思上來講，說谷氣通於脾。脾臟和這個氣相通應。能夠受納萬物的，受納很多東西的。受納存儲，然後化生精微。所以谷氣通於脾，我為什麼要特別強調這個谷一定要理解為山谷，而不要理解為水谷，因為有很多同志，唸了中醫基礎 ，就說脾為水穀精微化生的地方，一看到這個谷，就是水谷了。咱們這個《內經》原文，都寫的是繁體字，你要是水榖應該寫成“榖”，因為現在這個字是山谷之氣。

 

雨氣通於腎，雨是水之氣，腎是水臟，所以說雨氣通於腎，

 

六經為川，手足陰陽六經，合起來十二經，就好像自然界的山川河流，那樣流動著氣血，

 

腸胃為海，胃為水穀之海，這個海就是講的是水穀之海。存儲水穀的，所以腸胃為海。

 

九竅為水注之氣，九竅，上七竅，下二竅，是水氣之所注，九竅為水注之氣。也就是九竅為水氣之注，水氣所貫注的地方。這個水氣就是講的津液、精氣。九竅雖然暴露在外，但是它是五臟所產生的精氣所貫注的。這篇文章前面講到了，腎開竅於耳，心開竅與舌，肝開竅於目，肺開竅於鼻，脾開竅於口，等等，那都是竅，那都是五臟之氣所貫注之處。所以叫九竅為水注之氣。教材引了張介賓的注，他說，九竅為水注之氣，就是九竅是水氣之注，水氣就是精氣。五臟所化生的精微之氣，津液，所以九竅是應該有津液的。而且張介賓注上還說了，他說耳似乎是乾的，沒津液，他說也有，耳垢就是津液乾燥所化成的。只不過不是太明顯。換句話說，九竅的功能，九竅滋潤不滋潤，實際上是反映了人體健康的狀態，反映了五臟的功能狀態，而不單是一個竅的問題。不是局部的問題。

 

再有呢，他又拿自然界的一些現象來比喻人體，說

 

以天地為之陰陽，說天地的陰陽變化怎麼樣呢？

 

陽之汗，人體之汗，這個陽之汗是由於人體的陽氣鼓動，而產生的汗，換句話說，人出了汗，是需要有陽氣的鼓動。《素問。陰陽別論》上說，“陽加於陰，謂之汗”。汗是怎麼出的？它說汗是陽加於陰，加於陰，就是作用於陰，陽氣作用於陰而鼓動了津液外出，這就是汗。正常現象是這麼出。但是病理上那有各式各樣，但是總也離不開陽加於陰，這個基本過程。所以它叫“陽之汗”。人體內陽氣旺盛所出的汗，跑跑步，動則生陽也要出汗。陽氣鼓動了，津液出來了。所以它叫“陽之汗”。

 

以天地之雨名之，這陽之汗就比喻為天地之雨，就好像自然界下雨一樣，

 

陽之氣，以天地之疾風名之，人體的氣，人體的陽氣，就好像自然界的疾風一樣，運動得很快，不停地運動當中。以天地之疾風名之，這句話，將來在講《生氣通天論》的時候會用上，就是在講自然界的六氣引起人體生理功能改變而出現疾病狀態的時候，他說因於風，因與暑，因於寒，因於濕等等。其中，在這個過程當中，有一句話叫做“因於氣”，將來講《生氣通天論》會講到。《生氣通天論》說因於寒，出現什麼發熱什麼等等症狀，沒汗，因於暑，又出現暑病，因於濕，又出現什麼病。最後下面出個“因於氣”，有的注家根據前後文例上說，前面說因於寒，因於暑，因於濕，這怎麼就是因於氣了呢？說這個氣就是風。為什麼說是風呢？說陽之氣，以天地之疾風名之。所以說是氣，也就是天地之風，有的注家就根據這句話來注釋那個。所以我在這先提一下。就是人體的陽氣，就好像自然界的疾風一樣，換句話說，把人體的陽氣可以說成自然界的風，以天地之疾風名之嘛，叫做風嘛。因為人和自然界是相通的。人是一個小天地，說天地有山川，人也有山川。川是經脈，谷就是脾，山谷就是脾，對不對？

 

暴氣象雷，自然界有雷，雷就是暴氣象雷，等等，人體發怒之氣，叫雷霆之怒，中國傳統上習慣用語就這麼說的，就好像雷一樣。

 

逆氣象陽，這個逆氣象陽是指的火熱之氣上亢，所以逆氣象陽。陽氣是比較向上的，陽氣是熱的。這個逆氣是指火熱之氣，人體的火熱之氣上逆，換句話說，這是亢於上的火熱。暴氣象雷，就是人體的暴怒之氣像雷，當時呢，火熱之氣它容易上亢，為什麼火熱之氣容易上亢？是指的什麼？火本身是上亢的。火性炎上，但是這不是聯繫到情志的改變嗎？暴氣是指的暴怒之氣，像雷，情志的改變，鬱久都可以化熱。所謂五鬱化火。五鬱，或者說五志，五志之鬱，情緒，喜、怒、悲、憂、恐都可以鬱而化火，所以不是後世有“五志化火"之說嗎？逆氣象陽。

 

這不是把人體的怎麼樣養頭，要像天一樣，上配天，像天一樣的來養頭，下像地一樣來養足。中傍人事來養五臟，然後又講，天氣通於肺，地氣通於咽，天是自然界清氣從鼻而吸入於肺，地氣通於咽，是講水穀精微之氣，通過咽喉而到達於腸胃，風氣通於肝，雷氣通於心，谷氣通於脾，雨氣通於腎，六經為川，腸胃為海，九竅為水注之氣，以天地為之陰陽，陽之汗，以天地之雨名之；陽之氣，以天地之疾風名之。暴氣象雷，逆氣象陽。

 

故治不法天之紀，下面治病，診斷疾病，這個“治”包括診斷、治療都在內，不法天之紀，如果不按照天地這個自然規律，去診斷疾病，去治療疾病，也就是因時制宜的問題，

 

不用地之理，不根據自然界的環境的改變，東西南北中五方之理的變化，

 

則災害至矣，也就是離開時間、離開地點，那樣再去診斷疾病、治療疾病，那沒有不出錯的。不但不能治好病，反而引起災害。這不是嗎？人的生命和自然界是相通應的。人的生命就和自然界天地陰陽是一樣的規律。它是怎麼看待問題的。天人合一的。因此，診治疾病的話，就應該根據時間的不同，季節的不同，根據五方地域的區別，來診斷來治療。這樣才是正確的。否則，必然出現不好的結果。所以說災害至矣。

 

這最後一段，所謂“故天有精，地有形，天有八紀，地有五里，故能為萬物之父母...，等等，一直到最後，我認為是應該背下來。理論重要不重要？重要。好記不好記？好記。沒什麼不好記的。但是這是最基本的東西。而且這裡最容易出錯的，就是谷氣通於脾的谷氣問題。我之所以這麼說，幾次考研究生，考博士，讓他把這個話給我解釋解釋，“谷氣通於脾”，多半都解釋成水穀之氣了。脾胃是化生水穀精微的地方。那前後文義不通，水穀精微怎麼跟雷聯繫成了。怎麼跟雨聯繫成了？怎麼跟山川大海聯繫成了？對不對？所以這一段的理論是很重要的。儘管它不僅好記。你說直接的聯繫到看病上去了，這個不直接，那這個直接怎麼去看病？我說是不直接。但是這個理論，那它才是很重要，不是直接的，但是間接的作用很重要。樹立起這樣一個思想，認識問題的方法，是很重要的。這一段就是講了這樣一個主要的內容。

 

【理論闡釋】

 

天不足西北，地不滿東南

 

這個我在講解當中已經講清楚了。

 

取像比類

 

關於取像比類方法的研究問題，它把人比喻成一個天地，當然用取類比像的方法，這個自己看一看。就可以看得明白。

 

 

第七段 診治疾病必求陰陽，以及早期治療

 

也就是43頁這段原文。這段，給它提要一下。診治疾病必求陰陽，以及早期治療。也就是開頭所說的，治病必求於本。或者叫診治疾病必求陰陽，以及早期治療。有病要早期治療的問題。我先讀一下。

 

故邪風之至，疾如風雨，故善治者治皮毛，其次治肌膚，其次治筋脈，其次治六腑，其次治五臟。治五臟者，半死半生也。故天之邪氣，感則害人五臟；水穀之寒熱，感則害於六腑；地之濕氣，感則害皮肉筋脈。

 

故善用針者，從陰引陽，從陽引陰，以右治左，以左治右，以我知彼，以表知裡，以觀過與不及之理，見微得過，用之不殆。

 

善診者，察色按脈，先別陰陽；審清濁而知部分；視喘息，聽音聲而知所苦；觀權衡規矩而知病所主；按尺寸，觀浮沉滑澀而知病所生，以治無過，以診則不失矣。

 

這段，還是要背。下面我串講一下。

 

故邪風之至，這邪風是代指六淫。因為風為六淫之首，百病之長。所以以邪風來代替六淫之氣而言。也就是外邪侵入人體，

 

疾如風雨，是很快的。六淫之邪侵犯人體，它是很快的。但是侵犯到人體之後，病情有了改變，有個發展，或者叫做一個傳變的過程，侵入人體是很快的。所以疾如風雨。它侵犯人體有一個傳變過程，它首先侵犯的是表，所以說

 

故善治者治皮毛，所謂“上工治未病”，這個“治未病”也包含早期治療，防止它繼續傳變，善治者治皮毛，善於治病的高明的醫生治皮毛，當邪氣侵犯在皮毛的時候，它就已經給它治了。早期治療。換句話說，外邪侵入人體，首先是侵犯皮毛的，

 

其次治肌膚，差一些的醫生，那就是等病邪從皮毛已經侵入到肌膚，稍微深一步了，治療，這時候能夠發現疾病，那個治療疾病的醫生也不錯，但相對能夠治皮毛的醫生來說，已經是其次了。

 

其次治筋脈，再其次，治療更晚一些，疾病又傳變到筋脈了，從皮毛而肌膚，從肌膚而筋脈，治療有先後秩序，反映出來疾病傳變有這樣一種過程，那麼再差一些的醫生，就等病更重了，傳入到筋脈了才開始治療。

 

其次治六腑，再差的就傳入到六腑了，

 

其次治五臟，最差的醫生，等到病已經到達五臟了，很深了，到五臟，就反映出病位已經相當深了，從皮毛、肌膚、筋脈、六腑到五臟，到五臟很深了。治療很晚了。所以是最次等的醫生。所以其次治五臟。這最次等的醫生，當等到病五臟之後才看到疾病，才知道給人治療。

 

治五臟者，半死半生也，為什麼是最後算次等的、最差的？因為到這個時候，病已經深重了，痊癒的機會就很少了。治療起來就很困難。所以“治五臟者，半死半生”，最後結果就是不像在皮毛那樣容易治療。所以“治五臟者，半死半生也”

 

故天之邪氣，這個天之邪氣指外來的風雨之氣，風雨之氣，從上面來的邪氣，風雨不是從上來嗎？天之邪氣，

 

感則害人五臟，感，就是侵犯人體了，則害人五臟，為什麼天子邪氣感則害人五臟呢？因為那種邪氣是無形的，所以能夠深入到五臟，我現在只按文字過程先講一遍，天之邪氣無形，所以容易深入五臟，故天之邪氣，感則害人五臟。

 

水穀之寒熱，感則害於六腑，飲食水穀傷人的話，首先，或者容易傷六腑，因為六腑是傳導水穀之道路，傳化物而不藏，所以水穀之寒熱，也就是飲食不當，傷害人體，首先傷害人體的六腑。

 

地之濕氣，是在地下之濕氣，剛才我說風雨從上受，下面說濕氣從下生，所以

 

感則害皮肉筋脈，濕邪使陽氣不能正常的運行，阻遏陽氣，使皮肉筋脈受到損傷。我剛才說了，我是現在按文字這樣講一遍，這種情況也沒有？有的。天之邪氣，感則害人五臟；水穀之寒熱，感則害於六腑；地之濕氣，感則害皮肉筋脈。這個過程，這種情況是存在的。但是話說回來，就是在《素問》當中，還另外有一篇，說法跟這個大致是相反的。也就是說，它說風雨，天之邪氣，感則害皮肉筋脈，皮膚。然後說，水穀寒熱可以傷人五臟。這是為什麼呢？同是《內經》，對待同一個問題的看法，就是完全不相同。我在講概論的時候，曾經提到過這個問題，也是反映出來《內經》作者不是一個作者。雖然他們總的思路，總的學術體系、思想方法是一致的。但是在某些具體問題的提法上，是不一致的。這是一種正常現象。後世醫家張琦，在《素問釋義》上說這是相輔相成的。實際上這兩種情況都有，風雨可以傷五臟，風雨也可以傷肌表。水榖之寒熱，可以傷六腑，水穀之寒熱也可以傷五臟。他說兩者相成，就是本篇說的話。和另外一篇說的話，不一致了。是相輔相成的話。實際上都可以的。怎麼一種解釋。所以我在講《內經》概論的時候就提到過這樣的問題。不要認為《內經》是一本書，一本書所有的話都一致，那可不見得。才不同的角度來說這個問題。

 

下面講述講到具體的治療問題。治療當然還是個原則的問題。說

 

故善用針者，善於以針刺治病的醫生，要

 

從陰引陽，從陽引陰，這個陰陽可以理解為陰經，陽經。也就是說從陰經來治療陽經的病，從陽經來治療陰經之病。教材【注釋】上，引張志聰《素問集注》的話，“從陰經而引陽經之氣，從陽經而引陰經之邪”。反正就是講的是陽經有病可以治陰經，陰經有病應該考慮到從陽經治療，是從陰引陽，從陽引陰。

 

還有一種解釋，陰是指的臟，陽是指的腑，楊上善的《太素》，他在注這句話的時候就是這麼注的，就是說臟屬陰，腑屬陽，腑虛要補臟，這就是說從陰引陽，臟實應該瀉腑，他說這叫從陽引陰。肝有病，肝實證要瀉膽，膽虛證要補肝。楊上善是這麼一個注法。也可以。從陰經陽經考慮可以，從臟腑陰陽角度考慮也可以。所以這從陰引陽，從陽引陰，具體到使用當中可以有不同的考慮。但是從原則上，那都是以陰陽相關來進行治療的。

 

以右治左，以左治右，這是人是一個統一整體，雖然有左右之分，但是左右經脈都是相通的。十二經脈分左右兩側，所以左側經脈可以治右側之病，右側的經脈可以治左側之病。而且在《內經》裡還專門有兩種刺法，一個叫巨刺法，一個叫繆刺法。這兩種刺法，具體來說，就是左刺右，右刺左。病在左，取右側穴位針刺。病在右，取左側的穴位針刺。它倆的差別是巨刺法是刺經脈，病位比較深，繆刺法是刺絡脈，比較淺。這都是左刺右，右刺左的。在臨床上我們也看到一些針灸醫生，在治療病的時候，經常左刺右，右刺左。顏面神經麻痺歪了，或者半身不遂，他們有時候治患側，有時候也治健側。這都屬於左刺右，右刺左。所以有以右治左，以左治右的治療原則。

 

以我知彼，以表知裡，以我知彼，就是所謂知常達變，我是屬於常，彼就是說的變，我是說的健康的、正常的；彼就說是病態的；這叫以我知彼。也解釋以正常的來推論那個不正常的，以正常的來分析你個不正常的。不正常的程度，或者說它是不是不正常？那就要以我知彼。以表知裡，從外邊來推測裡邊。看到外邊就應該知道它裡邊的變化。

 

以觀過與不及之理，分析太過，是有餘？是不足？觀察其太過以及不及。分析它這個問題。

 

見微得過，用之不殆，見微就是看到微小的變化，就知道它疾病了。“過”其實指的病，人之有病，如事之有過。人有病了，就好像事情做錯了一樣。所以叫做過。見到微小的改變就知道他病狀的情況。疾病的情況。換句話說，也就是我們常說的見微知著。看到微小的變化，就知道它顯著的東西。見微知著。換句話說，這又是指的早期診斷，看到微小的變化，就指的他有病了。這樣的話就“用之不殆”，再治療疾病的話，就可以不出現錯誤。

 

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Without #skininthegame people keep repeating the same mistakes.

 

 

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Trump Unexpectedly Calls China's President To Discuss North Korea

 

by Tyler Durden

 

Apr 12, 2017

 

With the Carl Vinson carrier group steaming toward the Korean Penninsula (it is expected to arrive some time over the weekend), in an unexpected overnight development less than a week after his first meeting with China's president, Donald Trump called President Xi on the phone to discuss trade and the developing North Korean situation. According to China's state television, Xi stuck with his objective of "denuclearization" of the Korean Peninsula, and called for a peaceful resolution of rising tension.

 

“China insists on realizing the denuclearization of the peninsula, insists on maintaining peace and stability on the peninsula, and advocates resolving the problem through peaceful means,” Xi was quoted as saying in the call according to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said.

 

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang, who said Trump had initiated the call, urged everyone to lower the tension. "We hope that the relevant parties do not adopt irresponsible actions. Under the current circumstances, this is very dangerous," Lu told reporters at a regular press briefing. Kang also said Wednesday at a regular briefing in Beijing that it was a “good thing” that the two leaders were in touch again days after meeting in Florida.

 

Translation: Trump is strongly urged not to launch a unilateral strike on North Korea as he did on Syria without express Chinese prior approval.

 

Trump had ordered the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier group to head to the Korean peninsula in an attempt to deter North Korea's nuclear and long-range missile ambitions, which it is developing in defiance of U.N. resolutions and sanctions. Previously, Trump pressed Xi to do more to curb North Korea's nuclear programme when they held their first face-to-face meeting in Florida last week. He said on Twitter on Tuesday that North Korea was "looking for trouble" and the United States would "solve the problem" with or without China's help.

 

According to Reuters, the communication between the leaders underscores the increasing sense of urgency as tension escalates amid concern that reclusive North Korea could soon conduct a sixth nuclear test, or more missile launches, and Trump's threat of unilateral action to solve the problem.

 

As we reported yesterday, Trump's call with Xi came as an influential state-run Chinese newspaper warned that the Korean peninsula was the closest it has been to a "military clash" since North Korea's first nuclear test in 2006. China's Global Times newspaper said in an editorial North Korea should halt any plan for nuclear and missile activities "for its own security". While widely read in China and run by the ruling Communist Party's official People's Daily, the Global Times does not represent government policy.

 

The newspaper noted Trump's recent decision to launch 59 Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian airfield in response to a deadly gas attack last week. "Not only is Washington brimming with confidence and arrogance following the missile attacks on Syria, but Trump is also willing to be regarded as a man who honours his promises," it said.

 

"The U.S. is making up its mind to stop the North from conducting further nuclear tests. It doesn't plan to co-exist with a nuclear-armed Pyongyang," it said. "Pyongyang should avoid making mistakes at this time."

 

The Global Times said if North Korea made another provocative move, "Chinese society" might be willing to back unprecedented sanctions, "such as restricting oil imports".

 

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As also reported yesterday, North Korean state media warned on Tuesday of a nuclear attack on the United States at any sign of American aggression. Officials from the North, including leader Kim Jong Un, have indicated an intercontinental ballistic missile test or something similar could be coming. North Korea launched a long-range rocket carrying a satellite on April 13, 2012, marking the anniversary of the birth of North Korea's founding president Kim Il Sung. Saturday will be the 105th anniversary of his birth. Residents thronged Pyongyang's boulevards on a sunny spring morning, some practising for a parade to be held on the weekend, with no visible sign of the tension

 

"So long as we are with our supreme leader Marshall Kim Jong Un we are not afraid of anything," a woman who gave her name as Ri Hyon Sim told Reuters journalists, who were escorted by North Korean officials.

 

Regardless of the mood on the ground in North Korea, for now at least the entire region remains on edge:

 

Russia has said it is worried about the possibility of a U.S. attack on North Korea and it would raise the issue with visiting U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Russian media quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying.

 

Earlier on Wednesday, two sources in Tokyo said Japan's navy planned exercises with the Carl Vinson carrier group in a joint show of force. Japan's Maritime Self Defence Force and the U.S. Navy could conduct helicopter landings on each other's ships, as well as communication drills, they said. A senior Japanese diplomat said it appeared the U.S. position was to put maximum pressure on North Korea to reach a solution peacefully and diplomatically.

 

"At least, if you consider overall things such as the fact that the U.S. government has not put out warnings to its citizens in South Korea, I think the risk at this point is not high," said the diplomat, who declined to be identified.

 

 

South Korea's acting president, Hwang Kyo-ahn, has warned of "greater provocations" by North Korea and ordered the military to intensify monitoring.

 

The North fired a liquid-fuelled Scud missile this month, the latest in a series of tests that have displayed its ability to launch attacks and use hard-to-detect solid-fuel rockets. North Korea remains technically at war with the United States and its ally South Korea after the 1950-1953 Korean conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty. It regularly threatens to destroy both countries.

 

The market's attention will now focus to developments in Moscow where Rext Tillerson is meeting with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov at a very tense time for both countries

 

 

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China Threatens To Bomb North Korea's Nuclear Facilities If It Crosses Beijing's "Bottom Line"

 

by Tyler Durden

 

Apr 12, 2017 5:38 AM

 

 

With everyone putting down new and/or revised "red lines", be it on Syria or North Korea, it was now China's turn to reveal its "red" or rather "bottom line", and in a harshly worded editorial titled "The United States Must Not Choose a Wrong Direction to Break the DPRK Nuclear Deadlock on Wednesday" Beijing warned it would attack North Korea's facilities producing nuclear bombs, effectively engaging in an act of war, if North Korea crosses China's "bottom line."

 

The editorial in the military-focused Global Times tabloid, owned and operated by the Communist Party's People's Daily newspaper, said that North Korea’s nuclear activities must not jeopardize northeastern China, and that if the North impacts China with its illicit nuclear tests through either "nuclear leakage or pollution", then China will respond with force.

 

“China has a bottom line that it will protect at all costs, that is, the security and stability of northeast China... If the bottom line is touched, China will employ all means available including the military means to strike back. By that time, it is not an issue of discussion whether China acquiesces in the US’ blows, but the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) will launch attacks to DPRK nuclear facilities on its own."

 

This, as the editorial puts it, is the "bottom line" for China; should it be crossed China will employ all means available including the military means to strike back," warned the editorial.

 

It is worth noting is that shortly after publication, the article seems to have been retracted without explanation, the URL now returning a "404" error. However not before the original article was cached on a webpage owned by China Military, courtesy of google.

 

In the editorial, the author also declared that the "People's Liberation Army (PLA) will launch attacks to DPRK nuclear facilities on its own. A strike to nuclear facilities of the DPRK is the best military means in the opinion of the outside world." The northeastern Chinese provinces of Liaoning and Jilin share borders with North Korea. These two provinces and Heilongjiang are part of the Shenyang Military Region, one of seven military regions of the People's Liberation Army.

 

The editorial also explained the advantages to the world of a Chinese attack on North Korea's nuclear facilities.

 

It noted China and the world know the locations of North Korea's nuclear facilities. Once the PLA attacks these nuclear sites, North Korea will permanently suspend its nuclear weapons programs.

North Korea "has limited resources of nuclear materials and is strictly blockaded in the outside world, erasing the possibility for DPRK to get the materials again."

 

China also noted that "nuclear weapons is DPRK's trump card for its defiance of China and the United States. Once this card is lost, it will become obedient immediately."

 

The author then speculated rhetorically that if North Korea's "nuclear facilities are destroyed, they will not even fight back, but probably block the news to fool its domestic people. The DPRK will freak out if its nuclear facilities are destroyed." And yes, a Chinese author said "freak out."

 

The report also said that "the DPRK must not fall into the turmoil to send a large number of refugees, it is not allowed to have a government that is hostile against China on the other side of the Yalu River, and the US military must not push forward its forces to the Yalu River.” It notes that "this sentence is meant for the United States, because the premise of it is that the US military has launched attacks to the DPRK."

 

But what may be the most notable part of the oped is the mention in the Global Times editorial that North Korea will not be "not allowed to have a government that is hostile against China on the other side of the Yalu River." This implies that if and when the US initiate strikes on NK, the Chinese PLA will likely send out troops "to lay the foundation" for a favorable post-war situation.

 

In other words, China may be just waiting for Trump to "decapitate" the North Korean regime, to pounce and immediately fill the power vacuum.

 

 

 

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현재의 시스템은 복구가 불가능하다.

 

   

"The System Itself Is Beyond Repair"

 

by Antonius Aquinas

 

The ills that plague the US and, for that matter, the Western world, will not be solved through a Trump Presidency in “making America great again,” but will only come about through political decentralization and the abolition of central banking with a return to sound money. (발췌)

 

미국이나 서구 세계를 괴롭히는 질병은 “미국을 다시 위대하게”라는 트럼프의 구호로 해결되지 않는다. 그것은 단지 정치적 분권화와 중앙은행의 폐지 및 그에 동반한 건전한 화폐로의 회귀가 실현될 때에만 이뤄질 것이다.

 

 

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계속되는 전쟁 속에서 자유를 지켜내는 국가는 없다. --제임스 메디슨

 

Beware the Dogs of War: Is the American Empire on the Verge of Collapse? [SHORT]

 

By John W. Whitehead

April 10, 2017

 

 

“No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” — James Madison

 

Waging endless wars abroad (in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and now Syria) isn’t making America—or the rest of the world—any safer, it’s certainly not making America great again, and it’s undeniably digging the U.S. deeper into debt.

 

In fact, it’s a wonder the economy hasn’t collapsed yet.

 

Indeed, even if we were to put an end to all of the government’s military meddling and bring all of the troops home today, it would take decades to pay down the price of these wars and get the government’s creditors off our backs. Even then, government spending would have to be slashed dramatically and taxes raised.

 

You do the math.

 

•The government is $19 trillion in debt.

•The Pentagon’s annual budget consumes almost 100% of individual income tax revenue.

•The government has spent $4.8 trillion on wars abroad since 9/11, with $7.9 trillion in interest. As the Atlantic points out, we’re fighting terrorism with a credit card.

•The government lost more than $160 billion to waste and fraud by the military and defense contractors.

•Taxpayers are being forced to pay $1.4 million per hour to provide U.S. weapons to countries that can’t afford them.

•The U.S. government spends more on wars (and military occupations) abroad every year than all 50 states combined spend on health, education, welfare, and safety.

•Now President Trump wants to increase military spending by $54 billion.

•Add in the cost of waging war in Syria, and the burden on taxpayers soars to more than $11.5 million a day. Ironically, while presidential candidate Trump was vehemently opposed to the U.S. use of force in Syria, and warned that fighting Syria would signal the start of World War III against a united Syria, Russia and Iran, he wasted no time launching air strikes against Syria.

 

Clearly, war has become a huge money-making venture, and the U.S. government, with its vast military empire, is one of its best buyers and sellers.

 

Yet what most Americans—brainwashed into believing that patriotism means supporting the war machine—fail to recognize is that these ongoing wars have little to do with keeping the country safe and everything to do with enriching the military industrial complex at taxpayer expense.

 

The rationale may keep changing for why American military forces are in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and now Syria. However, the one that remains constant is that those who run the government—including the current president—are feeding the appetite of the military industrial complex and fattening the bank accounts of its investors.

 

Case in point: President Trump plans to “beef up” military spending while slashing funding for the environment, civil rights protections, the arts, minority-owned businesses, public broadcasting, Amtrak, rural airports and interstates.

 

In other words, in order to fund this burgeoning military empire that polices the globe, the U.S. government is prepared to bankrupt the nation, jeopardize our servicemen and women, increase the chances of terrorism and blowback domestically, and push the nation that much closer to eventual collapse.

 

Obviously, our national priorities are in desperate need of an overhauling.

 

Surely there are much better uses for your taxpayer funds than trillions of dollars being wasted on war? The following are just a few ways those hard-earned dollars could be used:

•$270 billion to repair U.S. public schools, and twice that much to modernize them.

•$120 billion a year to fix the nation’s crumbling infrastructure.

•$251 million for safety improvements and construction for Amtrak.

•$690 million to care for America’s 70,000 aging veterans.

•$11 billion wasted or lost in Iraq in just one year could have paid 220,000 teachers’ salaries.

•The yearly cost of stationing just one soldier in Iraq could have fed 60 American families.

•$30 billion per year to end starvation and hunger around the world.

•$11 billion per year to provide the world—including our own failing cities—with clean drinking water.

•Use the $10 billion spent every year to provide arms, equipment, training and advice internationally to more than 180 countries to start paying down the overwhelming $19 trillion national debt.

 

As long as “we the people” continue to allow the government to wage its costly, meaningless, endless wars abroad, the American homeland will continue to suffer: our roads will crumble, our bridges will fail, our schools will fall into disrepair, our drinking water will become undrinkable, our communities will destabilize, and crime will rise.

 

Here’s the kicker, though: if the American economy collapses—and with it the last vestiges of our constitutional republic—it will be the government and its trillion-dollar war budgets that are to blame.

 

Eventually, as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, all military empires fail.

 

At the height of its power, even the mighty Roman Empire could not stare down a collapsing economy and a burgeoning military. Prolonged periods of war and false economic prosperity largely led to its demise. As historian Chalmers Johnson warns, “Rome attempted to keep its empire and lost its democracy.”

 

More than 50 years ago, President Dwight Eisenhower warned us not to let the military industrial complex endanger our liberties or democratic processes.

 

We failed to heed his warning.

 

The consequences, as Eisenhower recognized, of allowing the military-industrial complex to wage endless wars, exhaust our resources and dictate our national priorities are beyond grave:

 

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children... This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

 

Wake up, America. There’s not much time left before we reach the zero hour.

 

 

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Geert Wilders and the Suicide of Europe

 

 

by Guy Millière

April 11, 2017

 

 

◾None of Wilders's speeches incites violence against anyone; the violence that surrounds him is directed only at him.

 

 

◾The only person talking about these problems is Geert Wilders. Dutch political leaders and most journalists seemingly prefer to claim that Geert Wilders is the problem; that if he were not there, these problems would not exist.

 

 

◾What adherents of this view, that the West is guilty, "forget" is that Islam long oppressed the West: Muslim armies conquered Persia, the Christian Byzantine Empire, North Africa and the Middle East, Spain, Greece, Hungary, Serbia and the Balkans, and virtually all of Eastern Europe. The Muslim armies were a constant threat until the marauding Ottoman troops were finally turned away at the Gates of Vienna in 1683.

 

 

 

Even if the Dutch politcian Geert Wilders had won and if the Party for Freedom (PVV) he established eleven years ago had become the first party in the country, he would not have been able to become the head of the government. The heads of all the other political parties said they would reject any alliance with him ; they maintain this position to this day.

 

 

His only "crime" is to denounce the danger represented by the Islamization of the Netherlands and the rest of Europe and to claim that Islam represents a mortal threat to freedom. Unfortunately, he has good empirical reasons to say that. Also unfortunately, the Netherlands is a country where criticism of Islam is particularly dangerous: Theo van Gogh made an "Islamically incorrect" film in 2004 and was savagely murdered by an Islamist who said he would kill again if he could. Two years earlier, Pim Fortuyn, who had hoped to stand for election, defined Islam as a "hostile religion" ; he was killed by a leftist Islamophile animal-rights activist. Geert Wilders is alive only because he is under around-the-clock police protection graciously provided by the Dutch government. (발췌)

 

 

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[출처] 대통령 조원진!!! 으리 으리 조원진!!! 문제는 공약이다!!!

 

레카 콘크리트 지지층 30%는 지금 부글 부글 끓다가 폭팔할 지경이다!!!

 

이번 선거는 레카의 적통임을 밝히고 레카 복권을 천명하면 대통 되기는 누워서 식은죽 먹기다!!

 

유권자 30% 천만명 가져가는 후보는 이번에 대통된다!!!

 

<<<전략 포인트>>>

1.박 대통령 각하의 복권을 천명하라!!!

(의리와 정의를 아는 강한 남자)

오직 조원진 국회의원 만이 박 대통령 각하의 흐르는 눈물을 닦아줄수 있고

엄동설한 눈보라가 몰아치는 아스팔트에서 애국 태극기 국민과 함께 했음을 부각해라!

(특히 배신자당의 배신행위를 극딜해라! 조선의 역적 신숙주가 조카를 죽이고 왕위를 찬탈한 삼촌 세조에 빌 붙어

그 배신의 이름을 숙주 나물에 부쳐 천년 만년 치욕스럽게 살게 했다고 해라!)

2.경제

(일반 국민의 최대의 화두)

A.***** 제조업 한국으로 모두 돌려라*****

 

미국 트럼프가 썼던것처럼 한국의 모든 기업들의 제조업체를 국내로 불러드려라!

한국으로 턴 하는 제조업체는 특혜를 주고 애국 기업으로 챙겨라!!!

영구 일자리는 일 이십만게는 그냥 생긴다!

(국민의당 안철수 손학규는 청년에게 몇년동안 돈을 지급한다고 하는데 우리나라 청년들이 그지냐?)

 

 

*간철수나 문죄인의 4G 5G는 서민들 일자리 창출 절대 못한다!!! 서민에게 와 닿지 않는다!!!

 

 

B.자영업자 부가세 인하!

 

카드 사용으로 사상 최대의 세수가 걷힌다고 어느 애국게이가 공약 올려 달라고 해서 올린다!

 

자영 업자 아닌데 이런 기발한 아이디어가 어딨냐???

 

(이거 개인적으로 먹힐거 같다!)

 

 

C.비정규직 철폐

 

대중이가 만든 개악법 철폐해라!!!

 

이거 가장 강력한 무기이다!!!

 

 

D. 삼성 기업 100개 양성!

 

강력한 친기업정책 표방해라!!!

3.오일팔 가산점 폐지

(사회적 불평등 해소)

무지막지한 오일팔 가산점 (무려 10%)을 폐지한다고 해라!

공무원 시험에서 10%면 이미 당락이 결정된다!

(이십대 청년층들 이제껏 불평등 당했다는걸 알면 ㅂㄷ ㅂㄷ)

4.사법고시 부활

(친서민 정책)

가진거 없고 빽없는 자들의 등용문! 사시 부활.

이거야 말로 서민 우선 정책!

(친노 기득권은 절대 할수 없는일)

5.반공및 안보우선

 

 

군부의 확실한 지지 선언을 이끌어내기 바란다!

 

해사 육사 공사 삼사관 및 성우회로 부터 지지선언 이끌어 내라!

국가와 나라를 헌신한 분들을 위해서 그 예우를 개선한다고 해라!

(대한민국 수호 의지 천명 및 애국 국민의 뜨거운 지지!)

 

 

6.교육 정책

 

 

국정교과서 확실하게 채택!

 

대학 수시 폐지!

 

공교육 정상화!

 

전교조 완전 개박살!

 

 

7.담뱃값 인하!

 

 

최경환이 이 똘이 한 번에 너무 많이 올라서 부담(ㅠㅠ )

 

 

8.법치 확립!

 

 

연쇄 살인마 즉시 사형 시행!!!

 

 

9.귀족 노조 혁파!

 

 

비정규직 철폐로 민노총,언노련 개박살!

 

 

10.어르신들 복지 정책 확대

 

 

버스도 65세이상 무료 추진!

 

기초노령 연금 10만원 인상추진!

 

짧은 선거기간이라 핵심 포인트로 국민들에게 강하게 어필하기 바란다!

조 원진 의원 만이 반드시 승전해서 박 대통령 각하의 억울함과 한을 풀어주시리라 굳게 믿는다!!!