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違特首訪美慣例 寧矮化香港地位 怕談政改 CY避見奧巴馬

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違特首訪美慣例　寧矮化香港地位
怕談政改　CY避見奧巴馬


■梁振英（左圖）訪美，據稱美方曾邀會見總統奧巴馬（右圖），但遭他拒絕。資料圖片

【本報訊】特首梁振英將於下周日啟程訪美，未有如以往特首般，獲安排與美國總統奧巴馬會面。據可靠消息稱，美方其實有邀請梁振英見奧巴馬，只是遭梁拒絕。立法會議員及學者批評梁避見美國總統，相信是怕被問香港民主普選議題，亦不想「功高震主」，結果矮化香港國際地位。
記者：林俊謙　呂浩然

梁振英將於下周日啟程訪美，出席香港貿易發展局在紐約舉辦的高峯論壇，並與當地政治與商貿領袖會面，包括紐約市長彭博等人，又會參觀紐約證券交易所等。不過梁此行未有安排與美國總統奧巴馬會面，與以往特首首次訪美，必獲總統或副總統接見明顯不同。

強調推廣貿易

據 可靠消息稱，美方其實有向梁振英發出邀請，安排他與美國總統奧巴馬會面，只是梁拒絕美方安排，另一政府消息人士指，由於特首此行不往華盛頓，不想特別為見 美國總統而飛往當地。不過有知情人士指出，以往特首首次訪美，必到華盛頓一行，除了和總統見面，亦可以與美國其他官員、兩黨國會議員、智庫成員見面，加強 他們對香港最新情況的了解、有助鞏固香港國際地位。
本報曾就梁是否曾拒絕美方安排與奧巴馬會面一事，向特首辦及美國駐港總領事館查詢。特首辦未有 直接回應，重申特首此行目的主要是為推廣貿易，是次出訪沒有安排與美國總統會面，而美國駐港總領事館回應稱，歡迎梁訪美，又稱梁會和紐約政商界見面，至於 梁具體行程，就要向特首辦查詢。

被嘲奴才心態

中大政治與行政學系高級導師蔡子強認為，若梁真的拒見美國總统，他會覺得十 分意外，蔡子強指梁振英推卻邀請，無非是怕面對奧巴馬時，將就普選和政改等美國關注問題避無可避，令自己承受壓力，「梁振英知道見奧巴馬時，一定避唔開政 改議題，而佢喺中央未定案前擔心講多錯多，因此選擇避得就避、縮得就縮」，這樣做亦矮化了香港在國際社會的地位，同時破壞了香港有別於其他中國內地城市的 獨特角色。
工黨李卓人更斥責梁振英有「奴才心態」，李認為反正港府對政改問題已經有標準答案，故此質疑梁振英不見奧巴馬是為免「功高蓋主」、因國家主席習近在差不多時間與美國總統見面，但這樣做正正是貶低了香港、令港人蒙羞。

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/10/politics/nsa-leak/index.html
 
Hong Kong (CNN) -- A day after former intelligence worker Edward Snowden outed himself as the man responsible for leaking details of U.S. surveillance programs, White House spokesman Jay Carney defended the administration's stance on the initiatives, calling them a necessary middle way between total privacy and unacceptable threat.

He said President Barack Obama would be willing to consider changes should a national debate show the public wants them. But, he wryly noted, "This is not the manner by which he hoped to have the debate."

Meanwhile, the world continued to digest what Snowden had to say in a Guardian newspaper interview published Sunday about the reasons for leaking the classified information.

Snowden, 29, acknowledged in the interview that he was the source of leaks detailing U.S. surveillance programs that collect records on domestic telephone calls and overseas Internet activity in the global hunt for terrorists and criminals.

The former CIA employee who most recently worked for the computer consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton -- which was working with the National Security Agency -- said he did it to end what he sees as an excessively intrusive surveillance system, the Guardian reported.

"The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to," he told the paper.

How does NSA surveillance affect you?

U.S. Rep. Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee's Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, called Snowden "a defector" who should be turned over to the United States with an eye toward harsh prosecution.

"This person is dangerous to the country," King said on CNN's "Starting Point" on Monday.

While Snowden has not been charged with a crime, the Justice Department said Sunday night that it had begun a preliminary investigation into what it called "the unauthorized disclosure of classified information by an individual with authorized access."

CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said charges are likely.

"He's in enormous trouble," Toobin said of Snowden, who himself told the Guardian he expects to be charged under the Espionage Act for giving the Guardian and the Washington Post details of the telephone and Internet surveillance programs.

Extradition?

A major question is whether Hong Kong, where Snowden fled, would extradite him to face charges in the United States.

Although Hong Kong is part of communist-ruled China, the former British colony has a free press and tolerates political dissent under a semi-autonomous government.

Hong Kong's extradition treaty with the United States has exceptions for political crimes and cases when handing over a criminal suspect would harm the "defense, foreign affairs or essential public interest or policy" of either party.

The man behind the NSA leak

"I think he looked around, this seemed the safest bet," said Ewen MacAskill, one of the two Guardian journalists who reported the story.

Snowden hopes to get asylum, he added, with Iceland his first choice because of the way it dealt with WikiLeaks, a group that facilitates the anonymous leaking of secret information through its website. The group reportedly once operated from there.

Kristin Arnadottir, Iceland's ambassador to China, said Icelandic law requires asylum applications to be made from inside the country.

In case Snowden is charged and brought back to the United States, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee started a campaign to raise funds for his legal defense. The group promotes progressive causes and candidates, its website says.

Secrets revealed

Snowden's revelations began Wednesday when the Guardian published a top secret court order demanding that Verizon Business Network Services turn over details of phone calls published from April 25 to July 19. Intelligence officials later confirmed the program, which analysts say likely covers all U.S. carriers.

On Thursday, the Guardian and the Post disclosed the existence of PRISM, a program they said allows NSA analysts to extract the details of people's online activities -- including "audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents" and other materials -- from computers at Microsoft, Google, Apple and other Internet firms.

Intelligence officials similarly confirmed that program's existence, but said it targets only overseas residents who are not U.S. citizens.

U.S. officials argue that outing the programs has armed terrorists with information to help them elude detection and endangered Americans' lives.

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said the programs have been reviewed by courts, Congress and the administration, and are legal.

In Britain, where some have raised questions about that country's involvement in the surveillance programs, Foreign Minister William Hague argued along similar lines while crediting the partnership of the GCHQ, -- his country's electronic surveillance agency -- with U.S. intelligence officials.

"Since the 1940s GCHQ and its American equivalents, now the National Security Agency, have had a relationship that is unique in the world," Hague told the British Parliament. "This relationship has been and remains essential to the security of both nations, has stopped many terrorist and espionage plots against this country, and has saved many lives."

Copying secrets

Before joining Booz Allen Hamilton, which provides support technology and computer support to the government, Snowden worked for the CIA, he told the newspaper.

He told the Guardian he worked for the consulting firm in Hawaii, holding down a $200,000-a-year job that gave him easy access to a vast trove of sensitive data.

"The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything," he told the newspaper. "With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your e-mails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your e-mails, passwords, phone records, credit cards."

In a statement released Sunday, Booz Allen Hamilton said Snowden had worked for the company for less than three months. The report that he had leaked American secrets was "shocking" and if true, "represents a grave violation of the code of conduct and core values of our firm," the company said.

Snowden told the Guardian that he began final preparations for his disclosures three weeks ago, copying a last batch of classified documents and telling his boss that he needed time off for epilepsy treatment.

Snowden told the Guardian that he left for Hong Kong on May 20 without telling his family or his girlfriend what he planned.

"I do not expect to see home again," he told the paper, acknowledging the risk of imprisonment over his actions.

"You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk," he said. "If they want to get you, over time they will."

Surveillance 'threat'

Snowden said the NSA's reach poses "an existential threat to democracy." He said he had hoped Obama would end the programs once he took office in 2009. Instead, he said, Obama "advanced the very policies that I thought would be reined in."

"I don't see myself as a hero, because what I'm doing is self-interested," he said. "I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity."

Surveillance concerns 'fanciful,' Britain says

On Friday, Obama said he entered office skeptical of such programs but decided to reauthorize them after a thorough vetting and the addition of unspecified additional safeguards. He called them only "modest encroachments on privacy" that help thwart terror attacks.

The revelations have inflamed privacy advocates, who have been fighting the government to reveal, and end, such surveillance programs for years.

Strange bedfellows

Snowden's actions, while opposed by many, have also brought together some liberals and conservatives to hail him as a hero.

Liberal activist and filmmaker Michael Moore tweeted that Snowden is "HERO OF THE YEAR." Conservative commentator Glenn Beck, meanwhile, called Snowden a "patriot leaker" who could help America "regain her moral compass."

In Congress, Democratic senators such as Ron Wyden of Oregon and Mark Udall of Colorado have warned about the dangers of excessive surveillance as vociferously as Sen. Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky.

On the other side, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, has joined Republicans such as Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia and Rep. Mike Rogers in defending the surveillance programs.

Daniel Ellsberg, who in the 1970s leaked the Pentagon Papers documents showing the government had lied about the progress of the Vietnam War -- said Snowden had done the country an "enormous service."

"It gives us a chance, I think, from drawing back from the total surveillance state that we could say we're in the process of becoming, I'm afraid we have become," Ellsberg said Sunday on "CNN Newsroom."

Glenn Greenwald, the lead author of the Guardian pieces, said on ABC's "This Week" that Americans need an "open, honest debate about whether that's the kind of country that we want to live in."

"These are things that the American people have a right to know," said Greenwald, a lawyer and civil liberties advocate. "The only thing being damaged is the credibility of political officials and the way they exercise power in the dark."

Udall, who has long called for greater transparency in how the government collects data on Americans, said the legal authority for such programs should be reopened for debate after last week's disclosures.

"Maybe Americans think this is OK, but I think the line has been drawn too far toward 'we're going to invade your privacy,' versus 'we're going to respect your privacy,'" Udall said on CNN's "State of the Union."

Plots disrupted, lives saved

But supporters point to successes, including charges against an Afghan-born Colorado man who pleaded guilty to conspiring to bomb targets in New York, and David Headley, who was accused of conducting advance surveillance for the Pakistani jihadists who attacked hotels and other targets in Mumbai, India, in 2008, killing 164 people.

Both men pleaded guilty.

Rogers, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told ABC that the "inflammatory nature" of the accusations doesn't fit with how the program actually operates.

"The instances where this has produced good -- has disrupted plots, prevented terrorist attacks -- is all classified," said Rogers, R-Michigan. "That's what's so hard about this."

What do you think? Is Snowden a hero or a traitor? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

CNN's Jethro Mullen reported in Hong Kong; Michael Pearson wrote in Atlanta. CNN's Tom Cohen, Matt Smith, Brian Walker, Anjali Tsui, Elise Labott and Carol Cratty contributed to this report.
美國擬就港政制開聽證會

■單仲偕上月尾赴美，獲副助理國務卿Daniel Baer和Kin Moy及候任美國駐港領事夏千福接見。張柏基攝

【記者陳雪玲報道】特首梁振英首個訪美行程，未安排與美國官員及國會議員會面，相反民主黨單仲偕上月尾赴美，卻接連獲兩位分掌人權及東亞事務的副 助理國務卿，以至候任美國駐港領事接見，他引述美國國會關注本港政制問題，一委員會更擬在本月底就香港政制、人權及民主等事宜召開聽證會。

上月尾訪美五天期間，單先後會見國務院負責民主、人權和勞工事務及負責東亞事務的副助理國務卿Daniel Baer和Kin Moy，也曾與將來港接任美國駐港領事一職的夏千福（Clifford Hart）會面。同時亦與美國國會及行政部門中國問題委員會、美中經濟暨安全檢討委員會的職員見面。

單指出美國官員一貫表示支持香港民主發展，從對方主動接見，已反映美方對港政制發展的關注。他指此行主要向美方提及全國人大法律工作委員會主任委員喬曉陽的講話，引述美方原來未有留意到喬有關特首要愛國愛港、不與中央對抗等言論，他指有國會議員得悉後，更關注香港普選特首選舉是否設篩選機制、泛民能否入閘等，更要求單提供喬的講話文本參考。

轟梁只重招商

單指國會一委員會擬於本月底就香港政制、人權及民主發展召開聽證會，反映美方關注本港政改發展。他指與夏千福的會面，主題也離不開政改，指對方曾問及本港最新政改諮詢時間表，單稱特區政府仍未作諮詢，但對方未作具體評論。

除了政制問題，「香港新聞自由如何？」是單仲偕拜訪的每個部門、委員會均會聽到的問題。他稱其間曾向美方官員提及曾有中聯辦官員致電報章老闆施壓，「佢哋好驚訝，覺得匪夷所思」。

對於梁振英此趟訪美主力招商、不到華盛頓與美國政界人士會見，單仲偕批評安排不妥當：「國際社會對於嚟唔嚟香港投資，一定要了解埋香港政治環境；梁振英如果去到美國只限於經濟領域，係唔足夠。」單估計，梁或擔心會見美國政界時會因政改問題被問到「口啞啞」，「甚至佢根本唔識點答」，因此此行只重招商、不談政治。
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聯合國擬討論促各國暫停研發「殺人機械人」

聯合國人權理事會負責法外處決問題的特別報告員海因斯發表報告，憂慮在戰場上使用的遙控機械人，或會變成可全自 動進行識別敵人及殺敵等「殺人機械人」，報告提出要求各國宣布停止試驗、生產和使用「殺人機械人」。聯合國人權理事會將於明日在瑞士日內瓦舉行的例行會議 上，討論暫停研發在戰場上使用遙控「殺人機械人」，及成立討論委員會的建議。美國等國正研發能取代士兵自動殺敵的「殺人機械人」，或會掀起新式戰爭的來 臨。

土瓜灣樓搖晃港鐵局部停工

土瓜灣樓搖晃港鐵局部停工
明報 – 1小時2分前

土瓜灣美善同道唐樓居民指感到搖晃，警方封路並疏散數十居民，港鐵應屋宇署要求，暫停附近地盤部分工序。

早上9時許，有住戶稱感到大廈搖晃，而附近是港鐵沙中線地盤，他們懷疑搖晃和工程有關。警方接報後，為防馬頭圍道塌樓慘劇重演，馬上將大廈對開介乎落山道與江蘇街之間的一段美善同道全線封閉，疏散了數十名居民。

有居民說，早上他正在睡覺，見到家中吊燈搖啊搖；另一名婆婆則說以為是地震。

消防和屋宇署人員都有到場，屋宇署人員檢查後認為樓宇沒有危險，早上11時半前讓住客陸續返回單位。

屋宇署表示，已要求港鐵暫時停工，並為大廈設置監察系統，以監察震動。

另外，港鐵表示，當時正在馬頭圍道進行「垂直隔板」石層挖掘工程，因應屋宇署要求，港鐵已暫停部分工序，等候確認事件起因，又稱據了解屋宇署已確認樓宇結構安全。有關工序去年底開始進行，港鐵在工地附近安裝的監測儀，至今無監測到異常情況。

港鐵又表示，早上10時15分左右接獲警方通知有居民感到震動，港鐵已派工程人員到現場配合，及協助政府有關部門調查。

（即時新聞）




土瓜灣樓宇劇烈搖晃疏散廿餘人
2013年05月16日 12:25 星期四

土瓜灣三幢樓宇劇烈搖晃，廿多名居民疏散，居民懷疑與附近港鐵沙中線施工有關。

現場是美善同道65至69號，共三幢五層高相連大廈，廿多名居民被疏散至街上。他們全部安全，無人受傷。

居民表示，上午約九時三十分，大廈發生一連串震動，感到劇烈搖晃，於是報案，警方到場將該段路面封閉。

由於附近進行沙中線工程，有居民懷疑與港鐵施工有關，警方已通知有關部門到場調查，而居民亦可以陸續返回住所。




疑因偷墓地供品 3名中國女子在俄被殺害焚屍


15日，3名中國女子在俄南西伯利亞的哈卡斯共和國境內被人謀殺，疑凶為當地3名年輕人。俄「生活新聞」網16日報導稱，14日為當地祭祀去世親人的日子，祭祀結束後，3名中國女子在墓地裡收集被留下的食物。而根據當地習俗，墓地供品嚴禁食用。
 

論香港碼頭工人罷工的收場

陳雲：論香港碼頭工人罷工的收場。在左翼的錯誤領導下，碼頭工人罷工的戰線擴大了，時間拉長了，工運變成社運， 左翼目前仍在四處落區宣傳。在這段工人呆呆等待的時間裡，資本家將外判公司結業（cancellation of confrontation）、工序集約化（streamlining）、訓練新人替補舊工人（replacement），並將部分裝卸貨櫃的工作外判到 大陸的鹽田港（outsourcing）。左翼是愚昧和自私的一群。如果鬥爭對象是政府或公共組織，如逼遷、清拆之類的，由於政府受到法定程序和立法會的 監管，將鬥爭擴大到市民層面，引起廣泛關注，是可以的。但與資本家鬥爭嘛，資本家是私人企業，如果鬥爭不能用震懾的方法速戰速決，資本家不受法定程序限制 （因為香港沒有集體談判法！），他們可以迅速反應過來，連串動作之後，置罷工工人於難堪境地。
事到如今，罷工的碼頭工人已經被犧牲掉了，也不知如何收場。我只能呼籲碼頭公司的大老闆，他老人家大發慈悲，略加一點薪水，聘回工人，不令這批可憐人沒有着落。至於香港的左翼，這批不學無術、自高自大、屢勸不改、累己累人的年輕人，我對他們沒有期望的。

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碼頭工人接受加薪方案 結束40天工潮

在得到外判商書面承諾後，碼頭罷工工人今日傍色舉行大會，通過接受由4間外判公司開出的9.8%加薪幅度，結束歷時40日的工潮。工人代表不認為，今次是慘勝，強調贏了「半杯水」，最少最終加幅不是勞方當初提出的「5+2」方案。

罷工的塔機手工人代表郭栢佳表示，罷工工人在大會上投票通過，由於勞工處介入，外判商作出了書面加薪保證，因此接受加薪方案，初步協議將會復工，但復工時間則有待協調。至於外判商高寶結業，郭稱機手的復工安排則交由勞工處協調。

碼頭業職工會總幹事何偉航表示，即使工潮過後，工人亦會就待遇問題打持久戰；他又稱，碼頭工人今次為香港打工仔女爭了一口氣，而工潮之後，碼頭工人的處境獲社會了解及支持，「碼頭呢一刻唔再係黑暗的帝國」。

香港國際貨櫃碼頭公司（HIT）傍晚以「同心一致 攜手向前 保持香港國際航運中心美譽」為題發聲明指：

我們樂見罷工工人接受外判商劃一向所有工種加薪9.8%的方案。這是對各方面都有利的決定，不但工友們可以盡快重投工作崗位，有穩定的工作；公司方面亦可以專注全面恢復港口的運作。HIT已積極協助聯絡其他外判商，鼓勵招聘仍未落實受聘的前高寶吊機手，重投行業。

讓我們齊心一致，為香港保持國際航運中心的美譽，大家繼續努力向前。





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陳雲：城邦兵法，戰神語錄。打仗最重要的是什麼？是預算結果。戰勝的時候如何收拾敵人？戰敗的時候如何威脅與敵人玉石俱焚，然後安排後路，保存有生力量？什麼時候決定停戰，與敵人議和？
備戰的時候，要問的是，我軍為何要作戰？我軍可以犧牲幾多，持續作戰能力有多大？我軍有無盟友？盟友會派出救兵嗎？
弱者與強者作戰，戰術只有一條：玉石俱焚，mutually assured destruction（MAD），你必須準備犧牲一切，包括身家性命，纏死敵人，才可以與強者宣戰。
香 港碼頭工人的罷工是否作戰？不是！那是職工盟及左翼在籌餉——籌辦軍餉，擴大戰線，養自己的兵。碼頭工人敗在哪裡？敗在捲入「代理人戰爭」（德文 Vertreterkrieg），自己給左翼代理了戰事，被逼捲入左翼與資本主義陣營的空泛戰爭之中，碼頭工人借出自己的國土，供左翼及資本家作戰，結果 當然是自己成為焦土。I told you so. And I tell you every thing.

  
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傳夏佳理陸恭蕙被「打回頭」


(綜合報道)(星島日報報道)根據《基本法》，中央對香港主要官員有實質任命權。程序為行政長官提名並報請中央，然後中央作出任命。自九七回歸以來，三屆特首皆先後出現提名名單被中央「打回頭」的傳聞，但只有梁振英開腔承認有其事。

　　首任特首董建華上任前夕，盛傳他一度屬意由當時有自由黨背景的大律師夏佳理出任律政司司長，但名單上呈中央後被否決，最終由親中色彩較濃的民建聯創黨成員梁愛詩出任，成為香港首位華人律政司司長。

　　前特首曾蔭權在○七年連任，將政府架構由三司十一局擴大至三司十二局。有傳聞指，曾蔭權向中央提交新一批問責官員名單中，環境局局長人選觸礁。曾蔭權起初向中央推薦泛民背景的陸恭蕙出任環境局局長，但被中央否決，曾蔭權遂推薦政務官出身的邱騰華，才獲得中央首肯。

　　陸恭蕙與政府特別有緣，梁振英去年上場後，她再獲任命為環境局副局長，而副局長毋須中央任命。

　　據了解，去年梁振英一上任就銳意重組政府架構，增設文化局，並提名被視為親泛民的文化人黃英琦出任文化局局長，但不獲中央接受，改提名民政事務局局長許曉暉。不過，由於人民力量等議員拉布，最終無法在立法會通過架構重組。　本報記者



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