Monat: Januar 2010
Cultural Revolutgion
clipped from: www.nytimes.com
Beijing Journal
Stitching the Narrative of a Revolution
In a handwritten series of 1972 speeches, many of them heavily edited in pen, a teacher from Beijing’s outskirts recalled how his comrades “patiently and delicately†sought to reform a teacher who was not a worker, but a member of the wealthy class. Rounds of criticism had little effect, so the group chose to help him realize his mistakes through physical labor, by weeding farmland.
“He pulled grass,†the speech read. “At first, he was squatting, but he couldn’t handle it after two days. Then he pulled the grass while kneeling. Finally, he did it while crawling.â€
Party censors excised the tale of the exhausted teacher from the final draft of the speech.
Paralysing the Nation’s Power..
clipped from: www.nytimes.com
Cyberwar
In Digital Combat, U.S. Finds No Easy Deterrent
This article was reported by John Markoff, David E. Sanger and Thom Shanker, and written by Mr. Sanger.
WASHINGTON — On a Monday morning earlier this month, top Pentagon leaders gathered to simulate how they would respond to a sophisticated cyberattack aimed at paralyzing the nation’s power grids, its communications systems or its financial networks.
The results were dispiriting. The enemy had all the advantages: stealth, anonymity and unpredictability.