Month: August 2012

  • 这是要打谁?中南海已经政

    这是要打谁?中南海已经政变了?!
    ——新华网:太原多警种联动 打响十八大保卫战

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    推迟十八大有很大的风险,因为那等于公开承认上层的分裂;如期召开又心里没底。就算抓紧时间匆匆写出剧本,但由于共识太勉强太脆弱,谁能担保大家都照剧本演出而不出意外呢?一旦出了意外又怎么收场呢?

    新华网:太原多警种联动 打响十八大保卫战

    2012年8月22日晚,山西省太原市公安局“省城治安防控联合巡逻启动仪式”在太原煤炭交易中心举行。

    此次联合巡逻从8月22日晚20时正式开始,太原市的武警、巡警、特警、交警、各公安分局和派出所共同组成103支“金盾”巡逻分队,开展全天候、全方位、高密度的联勤联动、巡逻防控、设卡盘查和救助群众,保障党的“十八大”期间的太原社会治安稳定。



    从中共建政以来,只有“文革“时期红卫兵曾亮出“誓死保卫伟大统帅毛主席”的口号,“誓死保卫中央文革”的口号只是昙花一现,但从未有过“誓死保卫”某届党中央全会,即使是毛泽东在“九大”上要与副统帅林彪决战,也未说过“誓死保卫九大”。所以,是什么可怕的势力在威胁十八大?还真是让外界颇费心思琢磨。——何清涟



    按规定,中共十八大将于年内召开;忽然传来一句奇怪的口号:“保卫十八大!”

    这个口号是公安部长孟建柱在6月举行的全国公安厅局长座谈会上提出来的,如今悬挂在全国各级公安局派出所里面。

    看到“保卫十八大”这个口号,使人联想起文革期间流行的口号“保卫党中央,保卫毛主席”。

    文革期间流行“保卫党中央,保卫毛主席”的口号不足为奇。因为根据当时的说法,党内出现了一个资产阶级司令部,出现了一大批走资本主义道路的当权派和黑帮,他们反对伟大领袖毛主席,妄图篡党夺权。

    那么,现在提出“保卫十八大”,是不是暗示党内又出现了新的很有力量的敌人呢?如果没有敌人,保卫从何谈起?

    注意:提“保卫十八大”,不是提“保卫祖国”“保卫南海”“保卫钓鱼岛”,可见这里所说的敌人不是指外国。

    另外,这里所说的敌人,应该也不是指异议人士维权人士访民乃至所谓“恐怖份子”。因为对付这些人有现成的说法,叫“维稳”。

    再说,过去那么多年来,每逢开党代会人代会,北京城都军警密布,人民大会堂四周更是戒备森严,体制外的力量插翅难进。能够对中共十八大造成骚扰,破坏和阻挠的敌对力量只能来自中共党内,而且还只能来自党内上层。

    “保卫十八大”口号的提出至少说明,中共内部,中共上层出现了严重的分歧。这种分歧已经严重到如此地步,以致于十八大能不能如期召开顺利闭幕都成了问题。

    我们知道,中共的党代会,如同中国的人代会,其实都是橡皮图章;代表们都是演员,剧本是早就写好的。但问题是,如果上层未能达成一致,召开党代会就变得很危险。

    象毛泽东这样的超级强人,就如林彪在笔记里写到的那样--“他最大忧虑在表决时能占多数否”。如果毛泽东对党代会是否会顺从自己的意志没把握,他宁可无限期地推迟党代会。1956年中共八大通过的党章规定,党代会五年一次;可是等到了1961年,毛泽东发动的大跃进遭到惨败,他在党内上层的威望空前低落,而刘少奇一派的势力迅速上升,毛唯恐如期开九大会大权旁落,所以索性不开,一直等到5年后发动文革打倒刘少奇,然后在1969年才召开九大。两次党代会居然相隔了13年。

    众所周知,今日的中共当局,正陷入六四以来最严重的政治危机。且不说官民矛盾之尖锐,贫富差距之悬殊,群体事件此起彼伏,单单是上层的权力再分配就引发出大量问题,邓小平一手指定了两代核心,固然保证了十六大的权力平稳交接,但也留下了双核心对峙的隐患,面临十八大难免不正面交锋,决一雌雄;尤其在这时又发生了王立军夜投美领馆之事,由此引爆了薄熙来案件;围绕着对薄熙来的定性处理,当局轻办重办左右为难,迟迟达不成一致。今年七一党庆,中共竟一反惯例,不开大会,总书记也不发表重要讲话,那已经表明上层缺乏共识到了什么地步。

    在这种情况下,推迟十八大有很大的风险,因为那等于公开承认上层的分裂;如期召开又心里没底。就算抓紧时间匆匆写出剧本,但由于共识太勉强太脆弱,谁能担保大家都照剧本演出而不出意外呢?一旦出了意外又怎么收场呢?依我看,“保卫十八大”口号的提出,多少反映出中共上层的这些焦虑。

    摘自《胡平:怪哉“保卫十八大”》

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  • 十几万军队加入护城河行动

    十几万军队加入护城河行动 红色恐怖满京城
    2012-08-24 04:32:09 分享到:


    近日为北京十八大组织的护城河行动正式启动,各警种、民兵、红袖章小脚侦缉队及新增加的警察便衣充满北京的大街小巷,8万外地警察已调进北京,另外还有10几万军队壮大十八大保卫战队伍。城管队伍将配备枪支。北京街头气氛紧张,一片红色恐怖。

    8月24日北京居民告诉记者,奥运会曾调动60万人保卫北京,今年的18大,另加10几万军队壮大保卫队伍。

    (录音):各个部门开始上岗了。现在(整个城市)划成“网格”,小区有小区的(“网格”),路有路的(“网格”)一个区、 一个区的。路上现在开始有武警巡逻,持枪,微冲(微型冲锋枪),3个武警、1辆摩托车巡逻,过2天还有步行巡逻。有的警察听口音都是外地的,有河北省的–据说可能调来8万,外围可能还调来十几万部队。小脚侦缉队在楼门口坐着,生人问问,租房得登记。立交桥过街桥都有民兵站岗,站一天给100块钱。敏感地区,过了前门都是武警警察巡逻。

    知情人透露,市中心最敏感地区天安门广场毛氏纪念堂的地下场地,至少驻守一个团的兵力,广场上的警察、警车林立。北京市委下达文件,城管将配备枪支。

    (录音):天安门广场岗哨林立、戒备森严,国保、警察抬头可见,举步就一个。北京有一个文件:城管部门可能要发枪,北京市委的(文件),给他们城管开会传达了。天安门广场停着7、8台警车是经常的,特警武警(站岗)。广场地下,毛氏纪念堂的西部,那是一个地道口,那里有很多部队,一个团,1千多人。04年我就下去过,到地下去一看,有好多人,太多太多了!谁想到天安门底下有那么多军队,据说天安门底下都是空的,(容纳)3个集团军没问题,几十万人。

    其它北京重点防范地区中南海、王府井、使馆区布满警察、便衣。

    (录音):各省截访的在(中南海)马路边坐着,拿一小马扎,看见本地区的人就截走。戴红箍的上岗了,大街上多着呢,现在!现在路口都盯着呢,外松内紧,你也看不出来,估计是便衣多。现在比如西城区组织一个便衣队,警察穿便衣,叫便衣队,整编制的便衣队,大街上,你看,20多岁,30岁,顶多拿一包戴一帽子,你也不知道干嘛的,特别多。口号已经定下来了,只能越来越紧。

    有网友调侃道:共产党的十八大为什么要动用政府的军队和警察?我还以为去打日本呢!

    希望之声国际广播电台田溪采访报道

    http://soundofhope.org/node/281330

  • 港媒:诈唬人 中共绝不敢为

    港媒:诈唬人 中共绝不敢为钓鱼岛对日开战

    【大纪元2012年08月25日讯】(大纪元记者朱文综合报导)最近,钓鱼岛事件在中日两国引发轩然大波。中共人民日报50年代公开宣称钓鱼岛归属日本的旧文曝光,成中共卖国铁证。港媒分析认为,中共不敢就钓鱼岛问题对日本开战,目前,钓鱼岛事件只不过被中共利用转移国内统治危机。

    中共借钓鱼岛转移国内危机

    港媒《苹果日报》报导称,中国由于经济发展变缓、社会问题越来越突出,除非进行政治体制改革,否则难以彻底解决目前棘手的难题。因此,钓鱼岛之争或许正是中共藉着外部的紧张局势掩饰大陆内部混乱的局势,可以暂时巩固中共政权。

    从九十年代中开始,中共以爱国主义教育民众,让民众误认为只有中共执政,才能最好的保护民族利益,并迅速壮大国家实力。中共偶尔冷饭加热炒一下钓鱼台主权之争,让大陆人感觉中日的紧张关系,需要全国一致对外保卫领土。多年来钓鱼台及日本侵华历史,已是中共显示其民族主义立场的道具,日本人则被迫不断的配合中共去演出。

    中共不敢对日开战原因

    除了上述看法,海外媒体还认为中共并没有真的要与日本开战。不开战的原因之一,中日经贸关系非常密切,开战造成的损失太大。其二,中共需要打胜仗,才能达到转移民众视线、巩固政权的目的,否则,打战只会加速中共政权的崩溃。

    况且,日本海军实力在亚洲首届一指,其国力也足可应付大规模战争,何况背后还有美国撑腰,美国也多次重申,《美日安保条约》涵盖钓鱼岛,与日交战,中国军队极可能重蹈甲午战争之覆辙。

    据爆料,中国军队内部,近年的军费连年以两位元数字增加,但军队战斗力并未相应提升。一支军队,其军官出入都是平治、宝马等名贵房车,想退役或留在部队也要收买上级去打通关系才能如愿,升官要花数十万才能成事,其战斗力如何,中共内部应心中有数,这或许就是中共不会为钓鱼岛启动战争的主因。

    人民日报曾公开称:钓鱼岛归属日本

    《人民日报》1958年3月26日发表的社论《无耻的捏造》一文引述当时中共外交发言人称,所谓“中国绝不放弃对琉球群岛主权”的消息,是美国人捏造的谣言:“美国占领者为了破坏冲绳民主势力的竞选活动和缓和选民的反美情绪,所策划阴谋,在选举前夕假冒北京电台名义对冲绳的广播。

    文章还说,中共总理周恩来早在1951年8月15日的“关于美英对日和约草案及三藩市会议的声明”中就曾表示,(包括琉球群岛和小笠原群岛等在内的)“这些岛屿,在过去的任何国际协定中,均未称被规定脱离过日本”。

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    中港台时间: 2012-08-25 03:10:30 AM 【万年历】
    本文网址: http://cn.epochtimes.com/gb/12/8/25/n3667401.htm港媒-诈唬人-中共绝不敢为钓鱼岛对日开战

  • 刘翔是否“假摔”?官方尴

    刘翔是否“假摔”?官方尴尬答非所问

    【大纪元2012年08月25日讯】“中国飞人”刘翔“惊人”一摔戳破了亿万国人的美梦,而近日央视曝事前已知情,揪人一摔原系官方“导演”的愚民“骗局”。刘翔出面自认这是真实的自己,然而中国体育总局却是对“假摔”质疑闪烁其词,令人愤激。

    刘翔是否“假摔”?官方顾左右而言他

    多维报导,8月24日,中国国家体育总局局长刘鹏率伦敦奥运中国金牌得主访港,被香港记者再三追问刘翔真假摔,然而刘鹏顾左右而言他无疑更令人义愤填膺。

    据称,在当天下午金牌运动员访港代表团记者会上,有香港记者问刘鹏,当局是否事先知道刘翔受伤,和负伤也要出赛,这是否中国体育机制的悲哀?刘鹏答非所问,回应说刘翔受伤后接受医治,目前在疗伤。

    香港记者见此回应,把相同问题再问一遍。刘鹏和身边人互望后,回答说,各国按实际情况、体育发展趋势,决定自己的体育管理机制,而中国的体育管理机制是适合中国国情的,推动群众体育发展。刘翔是否假摔,刘鹏始终未能道出所以然来。

    报导说,其实无论成功与否,国人对刘翔之奋力一搏本应钦佩万分,但唯一难以接受的是若最终结果早已料到,却仍诱国人痴痴期待,那便是对国人的最大伤害。

    刘翔知道,央视知道,领导知道,只有就观众傻等

    8月22日央视在北京召开奥运报导研讨会。会上央视揭露了本次奥运会的解说的一些台前幕后故事,其中包括刘翔退赛时的解说。

    “央视奥运报导研讨会”解说组组长沙桐说,杨建赛前拿到了刘翔伤情严重的消息,汇报给了沙。沙汇报给了李挺,再将领导指示面对面传达给杨。杨建做了伤退的四个预案,才有了最后哽咽动人的解说。

    据一个外围知情人爆料,2008年刘翔未赛即退,遭国家体育总局副局长段世杰痛斥,将其与三场三败输球输人的中国男子国奥队并列,直斥这么多人看着你,你就不能跑一跑吗?本届比赛,刘翔受4年前与男足为伍的强大压力与耻辱感,被迫上场丢人。

    此事一经曝光,引国人愤怒。《齐鲁晚报.今日烟台》编辑忿言:“就全国人民不知道!”《楚天都市报》新闻部主任张欧亚:“就全国人民不知道……”

    出版策划人秦林:中国屁民依然没有摆脱对人造英雄的盲目崇拜。芜湖交通经济广播主持人阿虎宋:被老梁言中……

    朱刘2002:从上到下全是忽悠,忽悠,忽悠接着忽悠。全国各族人民皆生活在忽悠之中。

    台东镇:到处都在演戏,到处都是舞台,到处都有道具,惟独不见真相。

    大家关心天下事2世:全国人民该醒醒了吧,这样的电视台以后别看了。

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    中港台时间: 2012-08-25 10:09:37 AM 【万年历】
    本文网址: http://cn.epochtimes.com/gb/12/8/25/n3667503.htm刘翔是否“假摔”?官方尴尬答非所问

  • No help when elderly falls down in street of Shanghai, foreign woman curses and cries

    No help when elderly falls down in street of Shanghai, foreign woman curses and cries

    | August 10th, 2012

    8:00 am this morning at Huaihai Road, Xinhua Road, an old man fell to the ground and his head was covered in blood. Bystanders called 120 but the answer was: “no more ambulance, wait for it.” A foreign woman cursed, “Fuck you Chinese, you should call ambulance!” The first one to help the elderly up was also this foreigner, looking at the blood on the ground crying… Half an hour later, the ambulance finally came

    Liberation Daily reporter @橙邾 posted this incident and photos onto Weibo.

    8/10 10:32

    Sometimes  have to say, the ‘Magic City’s (Shanghai)’ 120 system is really fucking messed up.  Today 8 am at Xinhua Road and West Huaihai Road, an elderly was lying on the ground, with blood covering his head.  Bystander called 120, but the answer they got was there was no more ambulance to dispatch.  When pleading urgency of the situation, they only gave one word – “wait”.  The elderly struggled to get up and constantly made painful sound, the woman who called 120 burst into tears.

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    8/10 10:51

    There are many bystanders, but all of them were just cursing on the phone to 120, nobody dared to help the elderly up.  A foreign woman riding a moped stopped by and cursed with very clear voice “Fuck you Chinese, you should call an ambulance!” I believe many people heard that, but no one talked back.  The first person squat down to help the elderly was this foreigner.  She also took out a white towel from her handbag to put on the elderly’s head.  At this time the ambulance was till no where to be found.

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    8/10 10:58

    Continue.  At this time the police finally came.  They called 120 with their radio but still no result.  This foreigner looked at the blood on the floor and kept crying.  She also took out money to give to people on the street, saying they must pay his medical expenses with it.  Maybe this is the only benefit of living in a so-called International metropolis.  The crowd of people, including myself, all felt a biting sense of powerlessness.

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    8/10 11:05

    After waited for half an hour, the fucking ambulance finally came.  Three idiots in the ambulance were smiling and horsing around, did you not know delaying could  possibly cause a life?  Poor elderly, before getting into the ambulance kept saying to take him to a district hospital, do not take him to a major hospital.  In the end, the ambulance took him to the closest 455 hospital.  In the entire incident, the most fucked up is 120, that’s for sure!  And the bystanders including me, in front of this foreigner we should all hit our faces.

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    8/10 11:12

    The above is the recording of what happened this morning.  Perhaps not enough for hot news, but it is a real tragedy happened around us.  Too many can be discussed here, but the only thing don’t want to see is helping 120 bureaucracy to wash away their responsibly.  Civil society, the only thing we can do is to help each other.

    8/10 15:41

    Tell everyone a good news, the 87-year-old Mr. Qian who fell down this morning has now been admitted to 455 hospital on West Huaihai Road.  Doctor diagnosed that minor brain stem caused dizziness which led to the fall and caused minor head injury.  Currently he is conscious and should be fine.  Family members rushed to the scene not knowing what had happened.  I told them people called the police and 120, they were very grateful to the anonymous good Samaritans.  Hot weather, be very careful if you elderlies at home.

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    http://www.chinahush.com/2012/08/10/no-help-when-elderly-falls-down-in-street-of-shanghai-foreign-woman-curses-and-cries/

  • Hagens Human Cadavers Exhibition: Bodies From Chinese Prisons

    Hagens Human Cadavers Exhibition: Bodies From Chinese Prisons

    Hagens with one of his human cadavers.

    From Tianya:

    Hagens Human Cadavers Exhibition: All Bodies Come From Chinese Prisons

    Recently, the “Hagens (Gunther von Hagens) ” story has recently been the focus of public interest. There has been much controversy on an exhibited human cadaver of a young pregnant Chinese woman with an 8-month old baby in her womb. The focus of the controversy is on whether or not the body was legally obtained, because according to national laws, no pregnant woman can be executed, and even if one died of natural causes, according to traditional Chinese culture,no families or relatives would ever send the body to the relevant institution and allow it be turned into a human specimen. However, the human cadavers have no identity or any other information regarding where they come from, which attracted public attention on the legality of the origins of the bodies.

    A pregnant woman, one of hagens' exhibitions of human cadavers.

    A pregnant woman, one of hagens' exhibitions of human cadavers.

    Gunther von Hagens is a German anatomist. Hagens, in 1977, invented plastination of the human body, and patented the technique. Von Hagens Plastination (Dalian) Co., Ltd. specializes in biological plastination. The company researches and develops biological plastination technology, and manufactures and sells plasticized cadavers. It has a research and development center based in the Dalian High-tech Park, and six manufacturing workshops who work on fixing, dissecting, sawing and cutting, dehydrating, and hardening of the bodies.

    Yu Jintao, journalist of the Oriental Outlook weekly, had thoroughly investigated the company and did two reports in November 2003 and October 2005, titled “Investigation on the Corpse Factory” and “Investigation on the Dalian Corpse Company: Controversy on the Legality of the Mysterious Factory”. Both reports caused public controversy back then, and brought the attention of the State Council, which instructed the National Bureau of Quality Inspection to send an inspection team to check on the company’s investment and import and export status, making specifications on the import and export of human genetic material.

    The plastinate "the Ring Gymnast" hangs next to its organ (L) displayed at the exhibition Body Worlds and "the Cycle of Life" in Singapore Science centre on October 22, 2009. ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP/Getty Images

    However, Von Hagens Plastination (Dalian) Co., Ltd was honored as a German wholly-owned “high-tech company”, the world’s largest human specimen processing factory. Strangely, the company crowned as a “high-tech” star enterprise by the local government seems very mysterious. The factory site, which has never displayed any signs, is located in a place where even Dalian’s locals are unfamiliar with, and the company rehires their transportation drivers every a few months.

    The factory deals with human cadavers from all over the world, and held a world exhibition called “Body Worlds“. All of the items exhibited are made of human bodies, sawed from the middle, or stripped layer by layer, or put into bizarre sporting poses. Throughout its world exhibition tour, every day people are shocked and frightened into fainting. Already, over 20 million people around the world have visited the Hagens human cadavers exhibition, which has made over 1 billion US dollars in profit for Hagens. All items exhibited were made in Dalian, China, the world’s biggest human cadavers factory.

    One of Hagens' human cadavers, doing a pose of making love.

    From Sina:

    Suspicions on the Source of the Bodies

    Where does “the corpse factory” get all its human bodies? Hagens himself has not given any clear or definite explanations, and various publicized information contradicts each other.

    Hagens' employees making human cadavers.

    Hagens said in an interview that the human bodies are mainly donated, and imported from Germany and other countries as well. However, according to a Hong Kong media report, one of his employees claimed that Hagens had frequently smuggled human bodies into the country, and he quit for fear of taking legal responsibility. The employee is Sui Hongjin, who established Dalian Hoffen Bio-Technique Co., Ltd, which also specializes in human body plastination.

    Hagens' employee and one of the human cadavers.

    The German weekly Der Spiegel once had a report titled “Doctor Death: Von Hagens’ Business Trick”, which revealed the story of Hagens obtaining dead prisoners’ bodies, turning them into exhibition specimens and trading them. According to the Der Spiegel report, an internal document of the company shows that in December 2001, the company had received two bodies, one of a young male and the other of a young female, and that both very likely had been executed because bullet holes were on the deceased bodies. Hagens said during the interview with the Der Spiegel reporter that his employees were in charge of purchasing of the bodies, that he was shocked that such thing happened in his company and that the relevant persons were fired already.

    A disclaimer on the website for “Bodies: The Exhibition“, one of the many competing exhibitions similar to Hagen’s “Body Worlds” exhibition:

    Hagens' disclaimer on the resource of human bodies.

    Comments from Sina Weibo :

    amourpony:

    I don’t understand why does the Mao jerky in the censored word Square still require millions each year for preservation. Why not just use Haagen Dazs’s technique to preserve it?

    热情的农民518:

    I remember reading reports that during World War II, the German Nazis making decorations out of human skin, and now we again see a Nazi descendant and Chinese Nazis cooperating together using human bodies of unknown origin to make profits.

    桂佳日子:

    Who was the mayor of Dalian in 1999?

    Ylook:

    Creatures without faith/religion are capable of anything.

    xiaoyaowanz:

    It’s easy for foreigners to occupy Chinese territory, and it’s easy for foreigners to make Chinese money.

    意与心会:

    Why does the Chinese government allow him to open a factory in Dalian?

    @宋灵歌No7:

    It reminds me of the American horror movie House of Wax.

    蒲公英的冒险:

    I think it has been on exhibit in New York for many years, but I never had the courage to go see it. I never would’ve thought the “raw materials” came from China. Sigh.

    高丹青Mistie:

    The old East-European Nazi finally realized his dream in China.

    人二4:

    These specimens are either in sports poses or sex poses. The problem is not in whether or not they are from China, or Southeast Asia, or Africa or any other countries that are willing to sell human bodies. The truly horrifying reality is with that these mummies created under the guise of medical science, are all of the people looking at them looking at the secrets of the Egyptian pharaohs, or are they consuming death?

    What do you think of such exhibitions? Do you have concerns about where the bodies come from?

    Hagens holds a saw against a female human cadaver, which sits on top of a male cadaver, making a pose of making love

    http://www.chinasmack.com/2012/stories/hagens-human-cadavers-exhibition-bodies-from-chinese-prisons.html

  • Kindergarten Teacher Commands Class to Take Turns Hitting Girl

    Kindergarten Teacher Commands Class to Take Turns Hitting Girl

    The bruise on Le Le's back.

    From Sina:

    Kindergarten Teacher Commands a Class of 29 Children to Take Turns Hitting Little Girl

    Reader tip: While Weifang Changle County Chengguan Street 6-year-old Le Le was attending class at a kindergarten there, because she had talked during class, the teacher had the class of 29 children take turns punching Le Le 10 times each, causing a large bruise to appear on Le Le’s back. Up to now, Le Le is afraid to go to school, and the teacher who commanded the students to punch her hasn’t shown up since either.

    [...]

    Under her mother and this reporter’s encouragement, Le Le described what happened. That day during music class, Ms. Bi was playing the piano on the platform. A classmate took Le Le’s eraser, Le Le asked him for it, but wouldn’t give it back. Ms. Bi came down off the platform, accused Le Le of talking in class, and ordered the whole class to hit her, 10 punches for each person. There were 32 children in the class and apart from two children who didn’t hit her, the other students all punched her 10 times each.

    [...]

    After Le Le left the hospital, Mrs. Hao [Le Le’s mother] has been asking the kindergarten how they’re going to deal with this hitting incident, never imagining that the kindergarten principal would not pay any more visits after the one visit to the hospital. What more, even when Mrs. Hao and her husband went to the kindergarten, the relevant person in charge of the kindergarten would not see them nor would the kindergarten principal be reached by phone. So Mrs. Hao sought the Changle County Education Bureau where one of the bureau’s staff workers said the teacher who had commanded the whole class of children to hit Le Le has already been fired, but she has already gone into hiding and couldn’t be found.

    On the morning of August 7, this reporter reached kindergarten principal Yan on the phone. Upon learning this reporter’s identity [as a reporter], the principal immediately hung up. Afterwards, the reporter contacted Changle County Education Bureau and one of the bureau staff workers told this reporter that a the disciplinary decision had already been made regarding the person involved. When this reporter asked what the decision was, this staff member told the reporter to contact the news spokesman of the bureau, Secretary Guo, but this Secretary Guo’s phone could never be reached.

    While this reporter was doing this interview, at 19:37 on August 6, the Changle County Police Bureau posted a message through their official weibo: “July 11, we received a report concerning kindergarten student Le Le was hit and injured. The district police station immediately dispatched police officers to investigate. Through investigation, this teacher used disguised corporal punishment on the student causing slight injury, violating the relevant regulations of the Teachers Law of the Peoples Republic of China, and was then handed over to Education Administration Department. July 14, the Education Administration Department dismissed this teacher from work.”

    A picture showing the bruise on Le Le's back.

    http://www.chinasmack.com/2012/stories/kindergarten-teacher-commands-class-to-take-turns-hitting-girl.html

  • Medical emergency in Shanghai and power of Weibo

    Medical emergency in Shanghai and power of Weibo

    | August 11th, 2012

    Since we are on the topic of China’s medical emergency response system.  A Dutch living in Shanghai has just ran into a medical emergency involving with a British guy.  He tells his experience on his blog, the following is a guest post by Joop Dorresteijn via joop.in.

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    We found a Brit in a pool of blood this morning, on our way to the bakery. He was looking really ill, surrounded by Chinese people, but he was just lying there. At that point he wasn’t able to speak much or move around, later we discovered that he had cut his wrist by accident inside his apartment, where he lost a considerable amount of blood, made his way downstairs and basically fell on the curb where he was bleeding for 30 minutes more.

    Of course the group of bystanders, of which two Chinese/New Zealand students, had called an ambulance 30 minutes earlier but they were told that there were no ambulances available. We decided to call again nevertheless but didn’t get through. Luckily for him, the police drove by and they proposed to drop him off at the hospital. We lifted him in the back of a police car, on our way he told me that he felt he was going to die.

    I identified his blood type incase he would pass out and we got him inside the ER and arranged the paperwork. He didn’t carry much on him but had some ID and insurance info in his pocket. I felt helpless trying to explain the English details to the Chinese staff, they couldn’t understand me. A few minutes later, the two New Zealand / Chinese bystanders arrived at the hospital with my wife to help out. The hospital was sure to confirm insurance before treating him after which he was properly taken care off. We stayed for a couple of hours and saw to it that he got the proper care.

    I also called the British consulate, who apparently put me though to the emergency call center in London. The operator didn’t speak Chinese so explaining him the Chinese hospital name and Chinese street details lead to a very confusing call. Seemed like a sluggish system, considering the amount of Brits that live in P.R.C.? Anyway, I have to say that the Shanghai police really helped him out, first of all taking him into a car (taxi wouldn’t allow that) and trying to locate his friend. Anyway, In a situation like this, you cannot depend on the ambulance to come and pick you up. I’ve seen pedestrians hit by cars and eventually put inside taxi’s to the hospitals. It’s not rare if bystanders don’t react. If you see an actual ambulance, they are poorly equipped and drive much slower then they could.

    My wife has studied Chinese for quite some time now, she mentioned they studied a lot about culture and history, but never did they talk about what to do in a medical emergency, something that would have been useful. All you foreigners abroad, be sure to carry your ID and insurance with you at all times, preferably with a person to call in case of emergency. Better yet, have cash and a mobile phone with you as well.

    Part 2: It started with a Weibo repost

    About 3 hours after bringing the British patient in we went back to find him still in ER alone. The doctor knew that we were strangers but asked if we could find someone to pick him up eventually. The patient didn’t carry a phone, but we did get the name of his boss.

    We left and headed back home, calling the UK consulate again hoping to get a direct number for the doctor in the hospital but they couldn’t disclose information and said that the company is responsible for him, they couldn’t do anything from London until Monday morning.

    Back home we went online but found this company had hardly any information online, but found the profile of his boss at linkedin.com however, this business network prohibits contacting strangers directly. Dead end? We decided to put a message on Twitter and Sino Weibo around 6PM. We called out for his boss by name and also mentioned the company.

    On Twitter, it got people in HK and UK involved, however, it gained traction on Weibo as some microbloggers started translating and reposting my message to sometimes over 50.000 followers.

    At around 10PM, one person on Weibo actually traced a telephone number and called it, but no result. People kept reposting and updating and around 10:30 PM, a customer recognized the company’s name and contacted a sales representative. The sales rep. send me a Weibo message around 11PM, about to contact all the people necessary. In no time, help was under way to the patient in the hospital. We could relax now someone from the company was headed to the hospital, due to weibo. It struck me how Weibo is indeed enabling social participation in this country. For the readers not familiar with the Chinese microblogging service, right now almost everyone online in China is using Weibo:

    The Chinese Twitter-like service saw a penetration of more than 88.8% among China’s digital populace aged more than 20 […] almost every Chinese netizen has a weibo account. […] China has more than 538 million Internet users and 388 million mobile Internet users. (Technode, 28 July 2012 )

    It reminded me of a BBC radio podcast by Duncan Hewitt I came across recently, regarding a Beijing Weibo user who spotted a truckload of dogs headed for consumption in a morning in April. He took a photo and put on his microblog. Around noon, people starting reposting it, leading to people gathering and blocking the truck. In the evening, the group of Weibo users bought the dogs from the truck driver, they are now safely in a kennel. Be amazed and listen to the full episode on the BBC website or direct link to MP3.

    Joop took a picture in the police car

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    http://www.chinahush.com/2012/08/11/medical-emergency-in-shanghai-and-power-of-weibo/