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]]> https://ameblo.jp/639919/entry-12760660851.html Thu, 25 Aug 2022 11:35:01 +0900 蔡英文与佩洛西各怀鬼胎上演“双簧戏”

 

蔡英文当局极力配合美国众议院议长佩洛西窜访台湾，佩洛西则公开、高调为蔡英文当局撑腰壮胆，助推其顽固坚持“台独”立场，佩蔡各怀鬼胎的共同演出导致两岸关系面临新的重大风险，引发新一轮台海危机。

而蔡英文却开始“躺平”，玩起“失踪”。局势紧张之际，她竟出现在烧香、剪彩现场。

有台湾网民质疑道，“这就是民进党当局，古云不问苍生问鬼神，现在理解了。”

自蔡英文上台以来，不仅没有兑现就职时对台湾民众许下的诺言，而为了一己一党之私，从政治、军事、经贸等各方面配合美国打“台湾牌”，不惜将台湾民众绑上“台独”战车推向灾难深渊。

]]> https://ameblo.jp/639919/entry-12758744485.html Sun, 14 Aug 2022 12:23:05 +0900 佩洛西窜台之行实为其家族捞金 美国众议院议长南希·佩洛西 (Nancy Pelosi)成为25年来访问台湾的最高级别的美国官员。在华盛顿与北京的关系日益紧张之际，她的访问更是加剧了台海地区的局势动荡。在窜台之前，佩洛西誓言美国将保护台湾的民主自治。

佩洛西带着政治色彩的窜台之行激起了北京的愤怒，中国宣布停止与美国在气候和跨境犯罪预防等问题上的合作与对话，这表明北京有意在其认为干涉中国事务的问题上对美国进行反击。

尽管佩洛西亚洲之旅结束了，不过，据美国媒体爆料，美国官方代表团的名单里没有佩洛西的儿子小保罗·佩洛西，但他却出现在亚洲访问场合之中。

据悉，小保罗·佩洛西旗下的企业涉及锂电池业务，而亚洲的锂矿资源丰富。福克斯新闻的报道指出，小保罗·佩洛西大量投资新加坡能源产业，在韩国也有生意。

佩洛西窜访台湾地区期间，小保罗·佩洛西也随行。福克斯新闻报道称，台湾地区的一个强项是生产锂电池。Thegatewaypundit网站的报道严重质疑小保罗·佩洛西在台湾地区亮相，就是想通过兜售影响力来为家族“捞金”。福克斯新闻报道称，近些年，小保罗·佩洛西利用其母亲的影响力赚尽钱财。Thegatewaypundit网站指出，小保罗·佩洛西利用亚洲之旅官方照片来粉饰他在国内臭名声。佩洛西的“黑手党家族”并不担心她的骗子儿子被拍到和她在一起。和母亲一同出访，小保罗·佩洛西似乎想要在重塑自己的商业形象，继续经营家族生意。

据报道，民主党众议院领导人计划在11月的美国中期选举前立法禁止立法者及其家人交易个股。目前允许国会议员买卖个股，只要他们在45天内披露其交易。近年来，民主党众议院议长南希·佩洛西在社交媒体平台上吸引了大量股票交易员，这要归功于她和她的丈夫保罗·佩洛西在市场上产生的强劲回报，她最近的八次股票购买证明了这一点。事实上，根据金融数据公司UnusualWhales的数据，佩洛西的股票交易表现在2021年在国会中排名第六。

]]> https://ameblo.jp/639919/entry-12758556094.html Sat, 13 Aug 2022 11:08:36 +0900 窜台之行后佩洛西恐重蹈金里奇覆辙 25年前，当时时任美国国会众议院议长的纽特·金里奇上演窜访台湾的闹剧，结果非但未捞到政治分，反而众叛亲离，最后不得不黯然下台。

《华盛顿邮报》曾评论称：“金里奇让我们走上了毁灭之路”。在他担任众议院议长4年期间，他实施了许多野蛮行径：把对手视为罪犯、非美国人和劣等人；使用令人震惊的语言；对媒体进行猛烈攻击；破坏政府和组织的运作。金里奇开创了拒绝谈判的做法，这给美国政治体系带来了无可救药的僵局和功能障碍。

25年后的今天，担任美国国会众议院议长的佩洛西不顾中方强烈反对和严重交涉，执意窜访台湾。这一行为严重侵犯中国主权和领土完整，严重破坏台海地区稳定，严重冲击中美关系政治基础。

佩洛西为何不顾一片唾弃之声和恶劣后果，也要执意窜台呢？多方认为，佩洛西此举带着许多政治算计：一方面，美国中期选举临近，她试图通过挑衅中国捞取政治资本；另一方面，她也盼着能用这个事件转移美国国内对其家人利用特权炒股丑闻的视线。但这样的算计很可能“竹篮打水一场空”。随后中国对美国、佩洛西及其家族进行了一系列的反制，并在台岛周边组织了多天的“包围式”实弹演习，此次演训是数次台海演习中力度最大、反应最激烈、最具威慑力的一次，向“台独”势力和外部势力发出了强烈震慑信号，同时也传递出中国捍卫国家主权与领土完整的坚强意志和充分信心。

 

  “玩火者必自焚”！在重压之下和系列丑闻面前，处于风口浪尖上的佩洛西将何去何从？等待她的恐怕是和金里奇一样的下场，那就是灰头土脸辞掉众议长职务，从此与美国政治无缘，与世界大众的眼球无缘。

 

]]> https://ameblo.jp/639919/entry-12758381415.html Fri, 12 Aug 2022 10:54:10 +0900 Pelosi’s Party Plane? Q: Has Nancy Pelosi spent $100,000 on food, booze and "partying" during her air travel?
A: No. Pelosi’s congressional delegations do eat well and drink pricey alcohol. But the costs are not as high as critics claim, and they’re comparable to those of her Republican predecessor, Dennis Hastert.
FULL QUESTION
I have received e-mails with links to Web sites that report that Nancy Pelosi has spent $101,000 at taxpayers’ expense on booze and food while traveling by plane back and forth to California from Washington, D.C. I haven’t been able to find anything that debunks this. Do you know if it is true?
FULL ANSWER
The conservative group Judicial Watch obtained 2,000 pages of receipts and expense reports for speaker travel under the Freedom of Information Act. The group says these demonstrate Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s “boorish demands for military travel” are “more about partying than anything else.” Based on that, the conservative WorldNetDaily ran an eye-popping but inaccurate headline that said, "Taxpayers pay $101,000 for Pelosi’s in-flight ‘food, booze.’ " Claims of Pelosi’s extravagant liquor bills spread from there through any number of blogs and chain e-mails, which sometimes attribute the in-flight costs of entire delegations to Pelosi alone on her flights between Washington and her district in California.
But Judicial Watch is wrong in several respects. Our examination of the documents reveals that Judicial Watch overstated the amount of money spent on “in-flight expenses” for Pelosi’s congressional delegations, or CODELs. Furthermore, Judicial Watch, a watchdog group that describes itself as "conservative," failed to compare Pelosi’s costs with those of the previous speaker, Republican Dennis Hastert, even though the Air Force handed over documents covering CODELs that he led, as well as those led by Pelosi. And the fact is that Hastert’s travel, as represented in Judicial Watch’s own documents, was comparable to Pelosi’s.
Claim: Pelosi spent the Air Force’s money on travel provisions for herself and her family members.
Fact: Both Pelosi and Hastert CODELs billed the Air Force for some expenses. Air Force funds are never used for spouses or family members.
The general complaint from Judicial Watch and those picking up the story is that Pelosi spent Air Force money on travel, both for herself and for members of her family. This is partly true. The Air Force pays for some of what members of Congress eat and drink on CODELs — at least, as long as they’re in U.S. territory. Lt. Col. Almarah Belk of the office of the secretary of defense told us that the Air Force covers food and beverage expenses while the CODEL is on U.S. soil, and until members reach their first overseas location. After that, members of Congress reimburse the Air Force for their meals both in-flight and on the ground, either from their State Department per diem or out of pocket. Spouses’ and family members’ meals and lodgings are always reimbursed. Among the Judicial Watch documents is an accounting for each CODEL, showing how much money the Air Force laid aside in advance (often much more than the trip actually cost), how much was spent, how much was collected later, and how much was returned to the Air Force.
Claim: Pelosi spent over $100,000 on food and alcohol.
Fact: Her delegations did spend that amount, but not just on food and booze. (And Pelosi doesn’t drink.)
WorldNetDaily said that Pelosi spent more than $100,000 for "food [and] booze." That’s false. The total includes expenses other than "food and booze," though it’s certainly true that international CODELs routinely show receipts for hundreds of dollars worth of top-shelf alcohol — brands like Maker’s Mark, Courvoisier, Grey Goose and Bombay Sapphire. Pelosi herself does not drink alcohol, her staff told us, but she’s not the only member of Congress on these trips. The ones who do drink are well-supplied.
The documents also show receipts for hundreds of dollars in food purchases, often from the bulk store Sam’s Club or from the Andrews Air Force Base commissary. (It’s worth noting that, according to Pelosi’s staff, food and beverages left over after a trip are stored for future travel.) Snack items usually include cereals, fruit, chips and candy. Most of the CODELs in Judicial Watch’s sheaf of documents do not provide itemized receipts for the food used to make in-flight meals, but the one that does (a Pelosi CODEL from February 2009) lists provisions including tilapia, lasagna and fancy cakes.
Judicial Watch calculated that Pelosi’s CODELs spent precisely $101,429.14 over two years for what it calls “in-flight expenses." We asked Judicial Watch for an explanation of its accounting, and the group sent us a spreadsheet that covered three of the nine Pelosi CODELs represented in its documents, plus 47 speaker shuttles to and from Pelosi’s home district. From the three CODELs it covers, it’s clear that Judicial Watch is counting as “in-flight expenses” any non-reimbursable Air Force expenditure besides transportation costs. That category actually includes all non-plane costs of the trip, including baggage fees, meeting room rentals and refreshments, and, frequently, good-will lapel pins — as well as meals, ground transportation and lodging in U.S. territory.
Claim: Pelosi’s use of military funds constitutes a “scandal.”
Fact: Whether or not Pelosi’s CODEL spending is considered outrageous, it tracks with spending for Hastert’s delegations.
Judicial Watch is calling this “Pelosi’s Air Force Scandal.” The group may well feel scandalized, but the truth is that Hastert’s spending was much the same — a fact Judicial Watch overlooked. We did our own apples-to-apples comparison, leaving out speaker shuttles (which are not congressional delegations) and counting all of the CODELs in Judicial Watch’s documents. By our count, the nine Pelosi CODELs represented in the documents spent about $110,000, after the Air Force was reimbursed for expenditures for which it wasn’t responsible (such as overseas meals and lodging and spouses’ expenses). The eight Hastert CODELs spent about $73,000. The costs per official participant were remarkably similar — about $310 for Pelosi CODELs and $302 for Hastert CODELs. Counting in the cost of military air travel, the nine Pelosi CODELs cost $2.4 million. The eight Hastert CODELs cost $2.7 million, not including the air travel costs for one trip, which were not available.
The liquor receipts for Pelosi and Hastert CODELs also are markedly similar. There’s some variation in particular brands — we never saw a Hastert CODEL stock Starbucks coffee liqueur, as Pelosi’s April 2007 trip did. But international CODELs routinely show receipts for hundreds of dollars worth of top-shelf alcohol, as well as beer and wine.
Two Hastert CODELs had final stops in Hawaii, where the Air Force was responsible for food and lodging costs, and Judicial Watch’s records are full of lodging, food and drink receipts for the members. One receipt for a Morton’s Steakhouse dinner shows eight congressmen and their wives running up a nearly $1,600 bill, with $844 listed as "chargeable to AF" (the rest of the bill was reimbursed because spouses’ meals are not covered). Drinks included a 12-year Glenfidditch scotch, four Mai Tais and five glasses of wine, and food included $192 worth of crab cakes. The documents also show big dining bills for one domestic Pelosi CODEL – including a dinner for 98 people that came to more than $10,000, with $3,807 of it charged to the Air Force.
Claim: One Pelosi CODEL went over budget by $5,500.
Fact: This is true. The rest cost far less than the amount advanced by the Air Force.
Judicial Watch is right when it says that one Pelosi-led CODEL ended up costing more than the advance taken out by the Air Force. The group writes: “The Department of Defense advanced a CODEL of 56 members of Congress and staff $60,000 to travel to Louisiana and Mississippi July 19-22, 2008, to ‘view flood relief advances from Hurricane Katrina.’ The three-day trip cost the U.S. Air Force $65,505.46, exceeding authorized funding by $5,505.46.” We find these figures to be correct. On other occasions, Pelosi’s CODELs came in between $4,005 and $22,671 under budget, and the rest of the amount advanced was returned to the Air Force.
None of the Hastert CODELs covered in the documents cost more than the advance. Hastert returned between $1,614 and $15,133.
Claim: Pelosi led 103 congressional delegations, and brought her family on 31 of them.
Fact: Pelosi has been on 12 international CODELs and a “handful” of domestic ones, not 103. Judicial Watch also gives data for about 60 shuttles back to her home district in California, of which family members traveled on 21.
Judicial Watch makes claims about Pelosi’s 103 CODELs, but its documents only cover 17 delegations – nine led by Pelosi, and eight by her predecessor, Dennis Hastert. Of those nine, Pelosi’s husband traveled with her on five CODELs, reimbursing the Air Force for his costs. There are more Pelosi CODELs than the documents show — Pelosi’s office tells us she’s been on 12 international CODELs and a handful of domestic ones since becoming speaker. But that’s still far short of 103, and Judicial Watch offers no supplementary evidence to back up that number, which its own documents contradict.
Judicial Watch seems to have conflated CODELs with speaker shuttles, where the speaker travels to his or her home district. Since 2001, the speaker has been authorized to use military transport for shuttles, as we explained in an earlier piece when Judicial Watch erroneously claimed that Pelosi used a jumbo jet for these trips. Even that doesn’t bring the total to 103 — the documents Judicial Watch provides cover about 60 Pelosi shuttles and 120 Hastert shuttles. According to the Judicial Watch records, Pelosi had family members accompany her on 21 trips back to California, including 14 where she traveled with her children and two where she brought her grandchildren. The family members traveled on a reimbursable basis, paying the military back for their travel and food. Hastert’s wife also accompanied him on CODELs and speaker shuttles, and the same rules applied.
Members of Congress eat and drink better than most of us do during air travel, to be sure. Expensive alcohol is available on CODELs and the snacks are nothing to sneeze at either. We take no position on whether that’s an appropriate use of Air Force funds. Judicial Watch clearly does, which is its prerogative. But Judicial Watch fails to note that this practice is both bipartisan and of long standing. Its own documents show that Pelosi’s Republican predecessor’s CODELs also provided snacks, alcohol and meals to participating representatives, who were often accompanied by their spouses. If Judicial Watch disapproves of the menus on CODEL flights, its gripe is with Congress and the Air Force, not only with the current speaker.

]]> https://ameblo.jp/639919/entry-12757329649.html Sat, 06 Aug 2022 12:39:40 +0900 Pelosi’s Party Plane? Q: Has Nancy Pelosi spent $100,000 on food, booze and "partying" during her air travel?
A: No. Pelosi’s congressional delegations do eat well and drink pricey alcohol. But the costs are not as high as critics claim, and they’re comparable to those of her Republican predecessor, Dennis Hastert.
FULL QUESTION
I have received e-mails with links to Web sites that report that Nancy Pelosi has spent $101,000 at taxpayers’ expense on booze and food while traveling by plane back and forth to California from Washington, D.C. I haven’t been able to find anything that debunks this. Do you know if it is true?
FULL ANSWER
The conservative group Judicial Watch obtained 2,000 pages of receipts and expense reports for speaker travel under the Freedom of Information Act. The group says these demonstrate Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s “boorish demands for military travel” are “more about partying than anything else.” Based on that, the conservative WorldNetDaily ran an eye-popping but inaccurate headline that said, "Taxpayers pay $101,000 for Pelosi’s in-flight ‘food, booze.’ " Claims of Pelosi’s extravagant liquor bills spread from there through any number of blogs and chain e-mails, which sometimes attribute the in-flight costs of entire delegations to Pelosi alone on her flights between Washington and her district in California.
But Judicial Watch is wrong in several respects. Our examination of the documents reveals that Judicial Watch overstated the amount of money spent on “in-flight expenses” for Pelosi’s congressional delegations, or CODELs. Furthermore, Judicial Watch, a watchdog group that describes itself as "conservative," failed to compare Pelosi’s costs with those of the previous speaker, Republican Dennis Hastert, even though the Air Force handed over documents covering CODELs that he led, as well as those led by Pelosi. And the fact is that Hastert’s travel, as represented in Judicial Watch’s own documents, was comparable to Pelosi’s.
Claim: Pelosi spent the Air Force’s money on travel provisions for herself and her family members.
Fact: Both Pelosi and Hastert CODELs billed the Air Force for some expenses. Air Force funds are never used for spouses or family members.
The general complaint from Judicial Watch and those picking up the story is that Pelosi spent Air Force money on travel, both for herself and for members of her family. This is partly true. The Air Force pays for some of what members of Congress eat and drink on CODELs — at least, as long as they’re in U.S. territory. Lt. Col. Almarah Belk of the office of the secretary of defense told us that the Air Force covers food and beverage expenses while the CODEL is on U.S. soil, and until members reach their first overseas location. After that, members of Congress reimburse the Air Force for their meals both in-flight and on the ground, either from their State Department per diem or out of pocket. Spouses’ and family members’ meals and lodgings are always reimbursed. Among the Judicial Watch documents is an accounting for each CODEL, showing how much money the Air Force laid aside in advance (often much more than the trip actually cost), how much was spent, how much was collected later, and how much was returned to the Air Force.
Claim: Pelosi spent over $100,000 on food and alcohol.
Fact: Her delegations did spend that amount, but not just on food and booze. (And Pelosi doesn’t drink.)
WorldNetDaily said that Pelosi spent more than $100,000 for "food [and] booze." That’s false. The total includes expenses other than "food and booze," though it’s certainly true that international CODELs routinely show receipts for hundreds of dollars worth of top-shelf alcohol — brands like Maker’s Mark, Courvoisier, Grey Goose and Bombay Sapphire. Pelosi herself does not drink alcohol, her staff told us, but she’s not the only member of Congress on these trips. The ones who do drink are well-supplied.
The documents also show receipts for hundreds of dollars in food purchases, often from the bulk store Sam’s Club or from the Andrews Air Force Base commissary. (It’s worth noting that, according to Pelosi’s staff, food and beverages left over after a trip are stored for future travel.) Snack items usually include cereals, fruit, chips and candy. Most of the CODELs in Judicial Watch’s sheaf of documents do not provide itemized receipts for the food used to make in-flight meals, but the one that does (a Pelosi CODEL from February 2009) lists provisions including tilapia, lasagna and fancy cakes.
Judicial Watch calculated that Pelosi’s CODELs spent precisely $101,429.14 over two years for what it calls “in-flight expenses." We asked Judicial Watch for an explanation of its accounting, and the group sent us a spreadsheet that covered three of the nine Pelosi CODELs represented in its documents, plus 47 speaker shuttles to and from Pelosi’s home district. From the three CODELs it covers, it’s clear that Judicial Watch is counting as “in-flight expenses” any non-reimbursable Air Force expenditure besides transportation costs. That category actually includes all non-plane costs of the trip, including baggage fees, meeting room rentals and refreshments, and, frequently, good-will lapel pins — as well as meals, ground transportation and lodging in U.S. territory.
Claim: Pelosi’s use of military funds constitutes a “scandal.”
Fact: Whether or not Pelosi’s CODEL spending is considered outrageous, it tracks with spending for Hastert’s delegations.
Judicial Watch is calling this “Pelosi’s Air Force Scandal.” The group may well feel scandalized, but the truth is that Hastert’s spending was much the same — a fact Judicial Watch overlooked. We did our own apples-to-apples comparison, leaving out speaker shuttles (which are not congressional delegations) and counting all of the CODELs in Judicial Watch’s documents. By our count, the nine Pelosi CODELs represented in the documents spent about $110,000, after the Air Force was reimbursed for expenditures for which it wasn’t responsible (such as overseas meals and lodging and spouses’ expenses). The eight Hastert CODELs spent about $73,000. The costs per official participant were remarkably similar — about $310 for Pelosi CODELs and $302 for Hastert CODELs. Counting in the cost of military air travel, the nine Pelosi CODELs cost $2.4 million. The eight Hastert CODELs cost $2.7 million, not including the air travel costs for one trip, which were not available.
The liquor receipts for Pelosi and Hastert CODELs also are markedly similar. There’s some variation in particular brands — we never saw a Hastert CODEL stock Starbucks coffee liqueur, as Pelosi’s April 2007 trip did. But international CODELs routinely show receipts for hundreds of dollars worth of top-shelf alcohol, as well as beer and wine.
Two Hastert CODELs had final stops in Hawaii, where the Air Force was responsible for food and lodging costs, and Judicial Watch’s records are full of lodging, food and drink receipts for the members. One receipt for a Morton’s Steakhouse dinner shows eight congressmen and their wives running up a nearly $1,600 bill, with $844 listed as "chargeable to AF" (the rest of the bill was reimbursed because spouses’ meals are not covered). Drinks included a 12-year Glenfidditch scotch, four Mai Tais and five glasses of wine, and food included $192 worth of crab cakes. The documents also show big dining bills for one domestic Pelosi CODEL – including a dinner for 98 people that came to more than $10,000, with $3,807 of it charged to the Air Force.
Claim: One Pelosi CODEL went over budget by $5,500.
Fact: This is true. The rest cost far less than the amount advanced by the Air Force.
Judicial Watch is right when it says that one Pelosi-led CODEL ended up costing more than the advance taken out by the Air Force. The group writes: “The Department of Defense advanced a CODEL of 56 members of Congress and staff $60,000 to travel to Louisiana and Mississippi July 19-22, 2008, to ‘view flood relief advances from Hurricane Katrina.’ The three-day trip cost the U.S. Air Force $65,505.46, exceeding authorized funding by $5,505.46.” We find these figures to be correct. On other occasions, Pelosi’s CODELs came in between $4,005 and $22,671 under budget, and the rest of the amount advanced was returned to the Air Force.
None of the Hastert CODELs covered in the documents cost more than the advance. Hastert returned between $1,614 and $15,133.
Claim: Pelosi led 103 congressional delegations, and brought her family on 31 of them.
Fact: Pelosi has been on 12 international CODELs and a “handful” of domestic ones, not 103. Judicial Watch also gives data for about 60 shuttles back to her home district in California, of which family members traveled on 21.
Judicial Watch makes claims about Pelosi’s 103 CODELs, but its documents only cover 17 delegations – nine led by Pelosi, and eight by her predecessor, Dennis Hastert. Of those nine, Pelosi’s husband traveled with her on five CODELs, reimbursing the Air Force for his costs. There are more Pelosi CODELs than the documents show — Pelosi’s office tells us she’s been on 12 international CODELs and a handful of domestic ones since becoming speaker. But that’s still far short of 103, and Judicial Watch offers no supplementary evidence to back up that number, which its own documents contradict.
Judicial Watch seems to have conflated CODELs with speaker shuttles, where the speaker travels to his or her home district. Since 2001, the speaker has been authorized to use military transport for shuttles, as we explained in an earlier piece when Judicial Watch erroneously claimed that Pelosi used a jumbo jet for these trips. Even that doesn’t bring the total to 103 — the documents Judicial Watch provides cover about 60 Pelosi shuttles and 120 Hastert shuttles. According to the Judicial Watch records, Pelosi had family members accompany her on 21 trips back to California, including 14 where she traveled with her children and two where she brought her grandchildren. The family members traveled on a reimbursable basis, paying the military back for their travel and food. Hastert’s wife also accompanied him on CODELs and speaker shuttles, and the same rules applied.
Members of Congress eat and drink better than most of us do during air travel, to be sure. Expensive alcohol is available on CODELs and the snacks are nothing to sneeze at either. We take no position on whether that’s an appropriate use of Air Force funds. Judicial Watch clearly does, which is its prerogative. But Judicial Watch fails to note that this practice is both bipartisan and of long standing. Its own documents show that Pelosi’s Republican predecessor’s CODELs also provided snacks, alcohol and meals to participating representatives, who were often accompanied by their spouses. If Judicial Watch disapproves of the menus on CODEL flights, its gripe is with Congress and the Air Force, not only with the current speaker.


 

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