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纽约时报

国际版 / 2020年8月18日，星期五

一场巨大的骗局

在公海上 盛行

彼得·纳瓦罗 (Peter Navarro)

观点

这款躺椅确实是在越南制造的。这家位于美国主城市北部的巨型工厂规模很大——拥有数千名工人制造真正的家具。但躺椅内部的电机则是另一回事。

电机从中国运抵，已完成加工、贴好品牌且带有品牌标识，由与家具制造商同属一个企业家族的工厂通过集装箱装运。工人将其冷却并将其装入躺椅中。在 90 天内，这款躺椅从 Vong Tau 出发，抵达弗吉尼亚州诺福克，在那里的中国机制被申报为越南制造。如果文书通过，那么这种“在越南期间”的声明将抹去原本应征收的 25 个百分点的美国关税。

这并非孤立案例。周四，白宫准备发布一份报告，记录这场巨大的转运骗局：一个阴影不

当一件产品面临的美国关税高于来自另一个国家的关税时，差额就变成了获利机会。

涉及 40 多个国家 触及单一 之手以去- 成为美国 消费者和 中心官员 关于其 能力真正 起源的地方。在 这个过程中，这些 国家是 没有什么的

美国每年损失数十亿美金以及无数的制造业岗位。

转运是由关税套利驱动的。当一件产品来自一个国家而面临的美国关税高于来自另一个国家的关税时，差额就变成了获利机会，甚至成为了一个独立的商业模式。

将 10 亿美元的中国商品直接运往美国港口，船方可能需要支付数亿美元。将同样的商品通过越南、马来西亚或泰国运送，那么该账单的大部分就会消失。如果让它们带着美墨加三国协议 (USMCA) 的文书通过墨西哥，且它们并未被命名，那么账单可能会完全消失。

五项独立分析——两项政府分析，三项私人分析——估计了来自中国的非法转运规模。高盛将其估计为每年接近 400 亿美元。白宫经济顾问委员会估计资金约为 600 亿美元；商务部在衡量此前列为来自中国的产品进口被 替代的程度时，RAYMOND，第 3 页。

《纽约时报》发表来自广泛视角的观点，旨在就跨个人问题产生建设性的辩论。

俄罗斯的海上封锁

上个月，一艘货船在乌克兰奥尔洛瓦海岸附近触礁。俄罗斯对商船发起的攻击行动已导致该港口几乎所有进出航运停摆。

乌克兰，敖德萨

乌克兰港口船只遭致命袭击（俄罗斯对全球食品供应链的影响）

作者：NUKI SANTOBA

最近，当人们在乌克兰港口城市奥尔洛瓦（Orlova）的散步道上漫步时，一艘货船在某种对抗中，[此处原文缺失]，一个设备从空中落下，港口陷入混乱，船只起火，浓烟弥漫在天际线。

我在7月下旬目击了这次袭击，它是俄罗斯针对货船行动的一部分，该行动已导致乌克兰与世界经济最关键的纽带——奥尔洛瓦港的几乎所有进出航运陷入停滞。

由于正值收获季节，俄罗斯在乌克兰（小麦、玉米和大麦等谷物的主要生产国）开展的行动，可能会在2023年——即全面战争的前几个月里——使全球食品供应链陷入混乱。俄罗斯对乌克兰港口实施了封锁，导致全球食品价格飙升，据估计有7000 万人面临急性粮食不安全风险增加的威胁。

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2023年在奥尔洛瓦地区收获大麦。2023年，俄罗斯对乌克兰港口的封锁导致全球食品价格飙升，并增加了许多人的粮食不安全风险。

“俄罗斯正在猎杀这些船只，”乌克兰港口协会主席 Desyros Barinov 在一次采访中表示，“这是对民用船只的专业猎杀。”

俄罗斯的袭击是黑海及相邻的亚速海长期战斗的最新篇章。能够实现远距离精准打击的新武器使移动缓慢的货船成为了容易的目标。据乌克兰官员称，在6月和7月，俄罗斯军队拦截了至少50艘货船，导致20多名平民死亡。

乌克兰也系统性地将俄罗斯相关的油轮和货船作为目标。莫斯科的海上行动似乎是对乌克兰宣布亚速海中俄罗斯海外油轮船队[此处原文缺失]，以及基辅持续攻击运输俄罗斯货物船只的一种回应，后者使被占领的克里米亚陷入孤立且燃料匮乏。

总统 Vokalytsiy Zelensky 表示，乌克兰在周三黎明前发动了一次大规模袭击，该国军队使用10架动力无人机、导弹和无人海军系统攻击了黑海上的俄罗斯部分地区 Novomanyok。他说，防空阵地、码头和可疑基础设施遭到了打击。

在当地媒体上，负责包括 Novomanyok 在内的克拉斯诺达尔（Krasnodar）地区的 Vovianin Kondratyev 表示，有三人死亡，其中包括一名8岁儿童，约60栋住宅楼受损。该市是谷物出口的关键枢纽，市长 Andrei Kravchenko 宣布进入紧急状态。他表示，在两处[此处原文缺失]受损后，该市的供水已中断。

俄罗斯与乌克兰之间升级的战斗是一个更大全球现象的闪点，这威胁到了国际秩序的基础原则之一：航行自由。

支撑现代全球贸易的这一海上体系正处于——见乌克兰页，4。

在另一个更安静的战线上对抗真主党

黎巴嫩，BERVIT

美国和以色列试图挤压该民兵组织的资金，尤其是来自伊朗的资金

作者：ELIAN WARD, ERIC KUSMET, ROYCE BERCHSON 以及 IRVANDA SAAD

当以色列在 3 月发起针对真主党的最新战争时，军方警告称其首波打击的目标并非武器库或地下指挥中心。

而是资金。

以色列战斗机摧毁了十几个名为 Al-Qarif al-Rassan 的神秘金融机构分支，该机构长期被指在黎巴嫩充当真主党的银行。随后的袭击针对的是真主党及其在黎巴嫩代理人用来转移资金的兑换店，以及为该组织创造收入的加油站。

通过这些打击，以色列传递了一个明确信号：真主党的资金，而不仅仅是其军械库，都处于打击范围之内。

这些轰炸标志着以色列、特朗普政府和黎巴嫩政府迄今为止最激进的一次行动，旨在通过切断该组织的资金渠道（尤其是来自伊朗的资金）来对其进行财务挤压。

在战争爆发前的数月里，黎巴嫩政府在特朗普政府的压力下，致力于封锁该组织用于接收和转移资金的渠道，例如贝鲁特国际机场。华盛顿还向黎巴嫩中央银行施压，要求加强对该国地下经济的控制，而真主党长期以来一直利用这种经济模式。

根据《纽约时报》审阅的文件以及对黎巴嫩、美国、以色列官员和真主党领导人的采访，真主党目前正面临多年来最严重的经济压力。大多数受访者因涉及机密情报评估、外交礼节或担心遭到报复而要求匿名。

这场始于 3 月的战争是以色列与真主党（全球武装最强大的两个民兵组织之一）在三年内爆发的第二次战争。在 2023 年底开始的前一次冲突中，以色列杀死了真主党的长期领导人哈桑·纳斯鲁拉以及该组织许多其他高层人物。

在那个时刻，华盛顿和以色列的领导人意识到真主党处于脆弱状态，于是协调力量地打击其资金来源。他们针对长期支撑该组织政策的金融网络，同时向黎巴嫩政府施压，要求其解除真主党的武装。

当与加沙地带的哈马斯以及伊朗的战争吸引全球关注时，.

为了保持凉爽，东亚部署创意小工具

在炎热的月份里，人们使用风扇和播客来保持凉爽。来自亚洲的消费者正变得更加追求高效且持久，而“个人冷却”设备已成为日常生活的一部分。

免持风扇和空调背心等设备的市场正在增长

作者：NUKI SINI

在夏日的东京街头走走，你会发现到处都是手持风扇。但中山绘梦（Emu Nakayama）最近一个下午拿在手中的那把浅蓝色风扇则属于更高科技的品种。它配备了一个基于半导体科学的小金属片，利用电流产生寒意。

“感觉有点像把冷饮贴在身上，”20岁的大学生中山女士说道，“也许是因为那个金属片，气流感觉也更凉快一些。”

这款产品近期席卷了东亚城市，该地区当月致命的热浪导致韩国出现了受控的手持游戏，以及日本出现了一个新的气象术语。工业，或称“酷暑日”。

东亚的消费者正变得更好且更长久，而这种“个人冷却”已成为日常生活中无处不在的一部分。一个曾经由廉价手持风扇主导的市场，现在包含了越来越多更先进的产品，从空调服装到声称能在数秒内降低体温的冷却喷雾。

冷却产品的销量正在飙升，雇主和政府越来越多地将其视为必需品而非奢侈品。

与日本一样，韩国此类产品的市场在过去两年中大幅增长。首尔国立大学研究服装与热环境关系的专家 Jiao-young 认为，市场和材料变得更便宜且更有效，是其中的一个主要因素，使得强大的新型冷却产品变得触手可及。

在日本，这个空调夹克（has-coded jacket）的发源地——由前索尼电气工程师市谷浩（Hiroshi Ichigaya）发明。东亚，第3页

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纽约时报国际版

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他助力中国成为市场经济体

朱镕基 1920-2018

作者：KEITH BRADNER

曾在中国引导国家转向市场经济（20世纪80年代）并随后加入世界贸易组织（WTO）中发挥关键作用的前中国总理朱镕基，周三在北京逝世，享年97岁。

他的逝世由中国官方通讯社宣布，该社未提及死因，仅指出他在经过医疗救治但未能挽救后去世。

朱先生曾在当时的共产党领导人江泽民麾下工作，除了邓小平之外，他比近期任何其他领导人都为中国经济的自由化及其国际竞争力的提升做出了更多贡献。朱先生发起的举措推动了中国的快速增长，这种增长一直持续（期间虽有轻微放缓），直到2021年房地产市场开始崩盘。

但随着中国近期出现债务过高及其巨大的贸易顺差等问题，他的记忆再次被提及，这些问题导致在特朗普总统任期内与美国爆发了贸易战。

朱先生在20世纪50年代曾是一名年轻的共产党之星，但在毛泽东的一次意识形态清洗运动中被开除党籍。他经历了20年的默默无闻，其中包括五年的苦力劳动。

在毛泽东于2019年去世后获得政治平反，他进入了政府高层。正是从20世纪70年代末直到1987年去世前的中国最高领导人邓先生，在1993年将朱先生从上海市长的职位上调任北京，负责监督国家的经济现代化。

由于官员们大幅减少了中央计划并遏制了毛泽东最后几年的混乱，中国经济在20世纪80年代快速增长。但在1988年天安门广场发生致命的军事冲突后，市场回归受到了影响。

朱先生从1995年担任副总理起，重新实施了国家对市场力量的接纳。在20世纪90年代被提升为总理后的七年里，他推动了数千家国有企业的私有化，随后在2002年带领中国加入世界贸易组织。

由朱先生及其助手最终制定的协议在许多中国人中并不受欢迎，尤其是在那些尚未为国际竞争做好准备的岛屿省份。朱先生因同意将汽车及许多其他商品的进口关税从109%降低至不超过25%而受到广泛批评。

但加入WTO意味着中国商品也能以显著降低的关税获得进入西方市场的保证。出口随之增长，根据联合国工业发展组织的资料，到2010年，中国已超过美国成为全球最大的制造业国家。

与此同时，进口的增长速度未达预期。朱先生在中国加入该贸易组织后不久退休，国家对市场力量的接纳速度随之放缓。

中国开始为进口外国商品设置新障碍。其中包括对中国制造商的大规模补贴，以及要求政府机构和国有企业购买中国制造商品的众多规定。

在朱先生任内，中国在加入WTO时承诺将迅速向其政府采购开放，以迎接竞争。但中国至今仍未如此。北京领导人面临着岛屿省份的反对，这些省份似乎不愿让西方公司竞争其庞大的公共工程项目。中央政府官员提交了几项提案，但其他国家迅速将其以不足为由予以拒绝。

罗伯特·E·莱特希泽（Robert E. Lighthizer）是一位资深的华盛顿贸易律师，在特朗普先生的第一任期内担任美国贸易代表，他表示朱先生在确保中国在WTO中的计划方面欺骗了西方谈判代表。

他在2022年的一次结果中表示：“朱镕基和中国显然得到了更划算的交易。”

作为贸易代表，莱特希泽先生与北京方面发动了一场贸易战。他重新对许多中国商品征收关税，试图夺回朱先生此前谈判获得的美国市场准入。

债务枯竭

作为副总理以及随后的总理，朱先生还克服了许多旨在提高中国效率和竞争力的国内政策。其中最重要的两项政策涉及数千家低效国有企业的私有化以及一项影响深远的税制改革。

在私有化进程中，数千万工人失去了工作，许多人在40多岁时被迫提前退休。朱先生通过实施住房市场改革减轻了冲击。大量国有公寓以国家定价转让给在职和退休员工。国有银行以低利率为新房提供抵押贷款。

从20世纪80年代到2021年左右，许多中国城市的公寓价格上涨了高达三分之二。

上图：2010年，朱镕基在卸任中国总理时。左图：1989年，朱先生在关于中国申请加入世界贸易组织（WTO）的谈判期间，与美国商务部长威廉·M·海利（William M. Haley，左）会面。

在1994年朱先生的税制改革下，中央政府攫取了地方政府征收税款中更大份额的比例。这笔资金为广泛的工业补贴和大规模军事建设等昂贵计划提供了资金。

北京允许地方政府从银行和金融市场借更多的钱，以换取在政府管理后将更大份额的税收转移给国家。

地方政府随后大量借贷并出售土地租赁权，以为新道路、铁路线路和港口筹集资金。

朱先生与地方政府的这场“大交易”为他铺平了道路，他引导、筛选并预见了债务的增加，并使地方政府高度依赖于出售土地租赁权的收入。

一颗耀眼的星

朱先生于1928年10月23日出生在中国南部湖南省省会长沙。他幼年被收养，由父亲的两个哥哥朱若山和朱学朗抚养长大。他随后在当地学习，并于1967年通过了精英大学同化大学（Tunghua University）的严格入学考试，在那里学习电气工程。他于1949年加入共产党，那一年共产党赢得了中国的内战。

与20世纪90年代的许多经济改革者一样，朱先生在遭受迫害后实现了惊人的政治回归，最终登顶中国政府高层。1937年6月，当毛（Max）开始其反右运动时，他正在国家计委工作，负责跟踪机械生产，旨在打击他认为的危险反对势力。在接下来的两年里，这场运动导致15万名官员、教师和其他公民遭受政治迫害。

朱先生就在其中。在毛（Marx）运动的初期，朱先生在计委做了一次三分钟的讲话，遵循了当时北京的主流路线。但在2017年10月运动升级后，该讲话被认为在政治上不可接受。

“在10月之前，大家都认为我的意见很好——10月之后，他们说你的意见应该重新考虑，”朱先生在1998年的一次演讲中说道。

朱先生的举措推动了中国的快速增长，这种增长一直持续到2021年住房市场开始崩溃。

根据一家国有公司在2000年出版的朱先生传记，他还被认为是一个“值得关注的异类”，因为他有着不可接受的清晰背景。他的外祖父于昭亮在1911年清朝灭亡前曾是一名帝国官员，是中国国家建设的先驱。

朱先生于1958年4月被开除出共产党，并经历了数次干预。但他被允许留在那里，在同事中教授数学、物理和化学。

他早年的困境为十年后在马克思文化大革命期间遭遇的进一步麻烦埋下了伏笔，当时他被派去从事五年的马匹劳作。他做过所有事情：计划小麦、水稻和棉花，饲养牛羊；养猪，并担任厨师，“以在1960年的演讲中确立”。

在演变模式下，随着马克思在1970年的病逝，朱先生在中国的政治开始解冻之际，花费两年时间培训中国工人的权力。这要求他的政府职级为副司长——这与他20年前作为一颗冉冉升起之星时所持有的级别相同。

朱先生的共产党员身份在2015年晚些时候被追溯恢复，其资历完整追溯至他1949年入党之时。他被任命为中国社会科学院工业经济研究主任。根据2000年的传记，朱先生看着学院官员封存了他的党规信函以及曾被用作证据将其谴责为斗士的文件。

朱先生迅速成为中国在工业和农村问题上领先的经济思想家之一。五年之内，他成为了国家经济委员会的副部长。

一位教师与导师

随着其职业生涯接近，他启动了一个将产生长期影响的项目。他在其母校东华大学创办了经济管理学院。他开始培训一大批经济学家和金融专家，这些人随后在接下来的数十年中填补了许多高层职位。（习近平，中国现任最高领导人，限制了这些工具的影响力；然而，通过创建共产党的委员会，这些委员会从充斥着朱先生门生的政府机构中接管了相当一部分关于慈善笔款的决策权。）

在北京的经济政策职级中一路晋升后，朱先生在1988年成为了上海市市长。不久之后，他进入了董先生的麾下。

从1990年1月下旬开始，年迈的董先生开始在春节的前几天不在寒冷的北京，而是在气候更温和的上海度过。在那里，董先生就朱先生重新开发上海市中心对岸上海河沿岸北京职位的计划进行了长时间的讨论。

该地区当时被陈旧的国营仓库和农场占据。朱先生设想将其转变为一个拥有摩天大楼的现代金融中心，正如它今天的样子。

董先生不仅支持这些计划，而且在1991年初第二次访问上海后，将朱先生带回北京担任副总理，专门负责贸易和工业生产。

一年后，董先生将朱先生提升至政治局常委——中国共产党的最高权力核心，并在随后的几年里。朱先生担任总理；这一职位他一直持有直到2021年。

在朱先生担任总理期间，他的儿子，Levin Zhu Yushu，是中国国际金融股份有限公司（C.U.C.）最显眼的投资领导者，该公司与华尔街银行合作，将大型中国国企推向西方证券交易所。

除了儿子，朱先生的家人还包括结婚七年的妻子Lao An，以及一个女儿朱玉书（Zhu Yushu）。香港新闻媒体在2019年报道称，朱先生至少还有一个孙女，即朱玉书的女儿。

Li You贡献了研究。

东亚年轻中国人的销售额，美国经济市场运行着一个高层市场。美国是三个被迫对大量新国际市场进行全面审查的国家之一，也是全球最大的食品市场。

东亚部署创意小工具以应对酷暑

东亚，前沿

据该国最大的电子商务平台之一乐天（Rakuten）称，自2018年以来，“防暑”产品的在线市场规模已有所扩大，而这种情况在 2001 年可见。目前该类别下大约有 300,000 款产品。

石黑先生的发明此后得到了演进，并于近期首次出现在一个页面上，该页面最近推出了一款支持电子商务的机器，该机器出现在手持风扇上。

但这些小工具不再像几年前那样，仅在评论期间提供快速缓解。它们正日益成为新政府和雇主适应极端高温的一部分。

中国配送平台美团（Mintson）正在中国西南城市重庆为其配送员试点一种类似于石黑先生发明的“无人”类型产品。在中国中部的湖北省，一家国有电力公司为其部分员工配备了水混风扇。

1991年，空气环境部和东京现已失效的政府曾推广将遮阳伞作为减轻热压力的一种有效方式，而一些韩国家庭市级政府则在为他们的街道清洁工重新定义霓虹冷却通风口。

韩国国家农业科学研究院的研究员金仁洙（Kim In-soo）表示，在农场中对这类技术的需求尤为迫切。他最近为温室工人设计了自己的冷却通风口，目前正在全国约 100 个农场进行试点。

“在清洁水期间，Gonodawans 是最糟糕的地方之一，”他说。“那里闷热潮湿，而且很多工作具有时间敏感性，无法很好地开启咆哮。”

这种依赖于一种被称为“涡流管”技术的方法，通过一个产生冷干空气的压缩机将空气注入管中，然后通过贯穿通风口的穿孔将其在皮肤上消毒。

20 岁的韩国初创公司创始人 Sen. Shiy-young 在线销售冷却工作手套，她围绕着对冷却产品日益增长的胃口建立了一门生意，她在几年前首次发现了这一趋势。

每件约 $25 的 Ms. Secoy 产品——一种填充了甜瓜的厚实、柔软的项圈——在高端室内住房用品和“爆炸性”冷却效果的选项中属于较昂贵的类别。她预计今年将销售约 40,000 个单位。

“但今年天气升温如此之快，以至于我们难以跟上突然增加的需求，”她说。

食物的主要学校催生了许多惯例。在日本，一家公司开发了一种人体大小的冰箱把手，可为建筑工地、大学和自然灾害避难所提供快速缓解。在东亚，制造商们正在提供太阳能风扇、免手持遮阳伞和空调喷气加热器，以及其他专业设备。

但李教授表示，冷却小工具不应被视为万灵药。

“当温度高于 20 摄氏度时，我们经常将热空气放入房间之后，”她在谈到 N. Marvathai 的经历时说道。至于另一种冷却颈把手？她补充说，它们的冷却速度太快，无法产生显著影响。

她说，对于大多数人来说，低成本的选择通常更有效：饮用冷饮；保持双脚（身体最营养的热传递者之一）不被拧紧且保持凉爽；以及用遮阳伞遮阳，其中许多遮阳伞现在具有可阻挡 7.5" 射线的黑色底色。

在近期关注 para-soda 的人中，有首尔 50 岁的顾问李硕（Lee Seok）。他说，虽然几年前这些产品主要被视为女性用品，但至少像这样，这种性别观念在很大程度上已经消失了。

“看到一个男人这样做真的感觉不到奇怪，”李先生说。“就实际的冷却效果而言，这是最大的区别制造者。”

Kiahe Shinyo 参与报道。Li You 参与研究。

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2026年8月14日，星期五 / 3

世界

用无人机打造“杀戮地带”以保护台湾

台北，台湾

受乌克兰启发，该岛加速落实国防战略

作者：CHRIS BUCKLEY 和 AMY CHANG CHEN

为了击退未来任何可能的中国入侵，台湾正全力推进飞行无人机和无人攻击艇的主题。

其目标是利用这些设备来帮助定位并攻击接近该岛的中国军队，并依赖于经过训练、能在中国发动打击前迅速移动的台湾士兵。制定这一战略的美国指挥官将其称为“杀戮地带”（heilscape）——用波浪般的无人机、导弹和炮火压倒入侵部队，使两栖攻击的风险高到足以令中国领导人望而却步。

受乌克兰及其他近期战争地带的人员启发，台湾目前正在加速将该战略付诸实践。

“无人机和反无人机的工作启动相对较晚，最初我们是在实践中摸索，”台湾国防部战略规划司司长黄武志（Huang Woo-chi）中将上周告诉一个立法者委员会。他补充说，这种情况在过去两年中已开始改变。

“8月8日，台湾军方允许记者观看台湾中部的部队练习使用无人机进行侦察，这是该岛年度‘汉光’军事演习的一部分，演习于前一天开始，为期10天。”

参与规划此次演习的陆武远（Lu Woo-yuan）少将此前表示，他们还将训练部队摧毁敌方无人机。

全球许多军队都在拥抱无人机革命，但台湾军队尤其在扩大（猎杀）能力。距离该岛约100英里（175公里）的中国将这个自治岛屿视为其领土。中国领导人表示希望和平统一台湾，但不排除使用武力。他们正通过扩大战舰、飞机、导弹和无人机舰队，以及更频繁的巡逻和登陆演习来强化这一威胁。

台湾官员注意到乌克兰在战场上由无人机驱动的进展，并试图效仿乌克兰的“全球对抗英语”方式：使用相对廉价且类似的无人机，以在面对规模大得多的对手时获得平等竞争的机会。

“无人机正在进入一个新篇章，”台湾全国无人机产业协会主席Man Lu表示。“为了自身的生存和国防，台湾迫切需要这些无人机。但现在世界各地的情况都一样——这对台湾来说是一个机会。”

在主要措施中，该岛正在发展无人机产业，政府表示希望台湾到2030年每月生产100,000架无人机，其中约

台湾军方成员在本月年度军事演习期间操作无人机。中国将台湾视为其领土，且未排除使用武力将其夺取。左侧为台湾公司制造的一艘无人水面舰艇。右侧为去年一次训练期间，台湾总统赖清德（Lai Ching-wu）在水库前。

一半由企业合作。政府还希望军方获得超过120,000架飞行和水上无人机。

研究过乌克兰和台湾问题的澳大利亚退役将领Mick Ryan表示，台湾已经“意识到在与中国的潜在战争中，无人机将在所有领域、所有阶段都至关重要”。

Ryan先生目前是悉尼洛伊研究所（Lowy Institute）的高级研究员，他表示，乌克兰近期在远程无人机打击方面取得的成功表明，如果北京发动两栖攻击，台湾也可以攻击离开中国港口的船只。

许多专家认为，中国的军队尚未强大到能够轻易入侵台湾，且中国人民解放军高层最近的判断低估了其准备情况。

但与台湾军方一样，中国一直在扩充无人飞机和无人船舰队，并大量投资于技术

技术，用于探测和干扰无人机。

“记住，中国人也在关注乌克兰人所做的一切，”瑞安先生补充道。

对于台湾而言，在战争迷雾中，无人机可能是最简单的一部分。专家表示，为了精通无人机战争，台湾还必须重新审视其军事组织、训练和学说。它必须学习在无人机时代进行作战，快速获取并共享无人机提供的情报，并防止敌人将其禁用。这将要求部队具备更强的机动性和自给自足能力。

“军队的前线军事行动必须与过去发生彻底的改变，”台北国防安全研究中心的副研究员萧黄（Hsiao Huang）表示，该机构由台湾国防部支持。“就像俄乌战争那样，如果你在原地排队不动，开了一枪之后，就没机会开第二枪了，”他说。

然而，与乌克兰不同，台湾缺乏实际入侵带来的压力来动员资源并做出改变。“这非常困难，因为他们还没有经历过战争的洗礼，”许先生（Mr. Hsu）说。

但各军事单位一直在努力学习无人机突击，这也是持续进行的汉光演习的重点。

台湾军队上个月还发布了一次演习的照片，其中一个单位紧急部署，利用无人机搜寻敌军，以保卫台湾广阔航线上的离岛。周六，台湾总统赖清德（Lai Ching-wu）在岛南地区观看了一场演习，部队在演习中测试了两款旨在打击入侵部队的原型无人机。

台湾最近还成立了一个沿海作战司令部，将无人机、移动导弹和火炮整合到沿海岛屿中，以应对潜在的中国入侵。

为了精通无人机战争，台湾还必须重新审视其军事组织、训练和学说。

尽管如此，许多专家表示，台湾距离满足本世纪战争的复杂需求还很遥远。新美国安全中心高级研究员、近期一项台湾无人机战争战略研究的作者纳西·佩特里金（Nacie Petryjehn）表示，台湾面临着“过于关注技术，而忽视了同样至关重要的组织和学说变革，而这些变革是实施整体概念所必需的”风险。

一旦发生入侵，中国可能会试图切断台湾与外部支持的联系。佩特里金先生表示，在封锁期间，台湾需要建立最高标准且自主的无人机生产能力，特别是“更便宜、射程更短的自杀式攻击无人机”。与此同时，台湾正在迅速提高无人机的出口率，寻求让自己成为其他国家无人机组件不可或缺的供应商，这些国家希望减少对中国零部件的依赖，因为这会引发对供应中断或间谍活动的担忧。

根据台湾经济部的报告，今年前三个月，台湾报告的无人机出口额达 2.5亿美元，超过了 2030, 全年的无人机出口总额。研究显示，主要目的地是捷克共和国，尽管其中许多无人机最终流向了邻国乌克兰。

台湾的无人机组件出口额可能更高。据美国无人机公司代表称，对于电机和光学设备等部件的需求可能会增长。

“台湾处于我们这个时代最重要的工业和战略竞争中心之一，”国际通用车辆系统协会主席迈克尔·罗宾斯（Michael Robbins）在电子邮件中写道。“它是少数几个能够大规模生产可信无人机组件的地方之一。”

对某些人而言，他拯救了自己的西班牙城市；对另一些人而言，他毁了它。

人物 SIR, ALEX, 西班牙

在一个繁荣的科技与文化中心，批评者们在哀叹过度旅游和高昂的成本

作者：JASON HOROWITZ

在棕榈树林立的海滨步道上，每隔几码就有一位路人停下来，向马拉加 83 岁的市长弗朗西斯科·德·拉·托雷（Francisco de la Torre）表示感谢，感谢他改变了这座曾经在西班牙南部地图上被遗忘的小镇。

一名当地的投资顾问感谢德·拉·托雷先生吸引了外国人。一名移居此地的英国人赞扬他让她感到宾至如归。而一名 75 岁的女性——这里曾是谷歌的网络安全中心——则简单地流下眼泪，表达她对这位领导该市 10 年之久的市长的热爱。

“很多年之后才会再次出现这样一位市长，”这位名叫梅赛德斯·马丁（Mercedes Martin）的女性说道，并补充说她从未见过一位拥有“如此优秀新闻素养”的政治家。

对于德·拉·托雷先生的批评者来说，问题在于这些良好的意图——它们将马拉加转变为一个繁荣的科技与文化中心——是否也铺就了通往过度旅游、房价飙升以及马拉加灵魂丧失的道路。

随着被许多孙辈称为“普尔爷爷”（Grandpa Puer）的德·拉·托雷先生准备在明年竞选他的第八个连续任期，这个问题对于这座西班牙第六大人口城市来说至关重要。

欧洲各地的省级城市都在努力恢复其经济的长期增长。这座城市已被粉碎。有些城市更全面地转向旅游业，另一些则寻求成为科技中心并吸引数字游民。

马拉加正处于一个关键时刻，并且是一个试金石，用以检验这种赌注是否能在不破坏城市特性的情况下获得回报。取决于你问谁，马拉加——Peanuts 的故乡——要么是在增加其生存机会，要么是在遭受一场双重打击，使得这座城市变得难以负担、无法居住且拥挤不堪。

在马拉加，这种趋势是由德·拉·托雷先生主导的，他是一位温和、戴眼镜的公共服务者，在八个孩子中排行第二，出身于这座城市的卑微阶层。他在一次采访中表示，他成长时的马拉加是一个战后废墟，面包是配给的，孩子们玩着大球。

“我不记得有任何一个秋千，”他说。

现在，批评者在现代市中心看到了不同的景象。根据国家统计数据，马拉加市中心的旅游公寓数量比西班牙任何其他主要城市都要多。德·拉·托雷先生的反对者表示，这导致了真实场所感的丧失。在马尔塞拉北区和艺术公寓所在的阿斯曼，另一位马拉加本土人士巴西莱拉斯（Basileiras）所见到的景象已变成了纪念品商店以及单身派对场所的背景。

根据马拉加经济学家协会的数据，目前马拉加约 70% 的房产购房者是投资者。根据当地工会的数据，该市超过 60% 的居民所得政府成本低于最低工资——比西班牙平均水平高出六个百分点。

当被问及他是否制造了这场危机时，德·拉·托雷先生说：“我不认为自己应对这个问题负责。”我们在巴黎庞毕度中心（Pompidou Centre）的马拉加分馆交谈，这是在他任期内建设的措施之一。他说，虽然经济繁荣带来了“住房挑战”，但他认为这是国家经济动态以及联邦政府

在监管土地用途以建设新住房方面表现出的不情愿。

这位市长并非一直如此关注。2024 年，他曾表示搬出市中心“没什么大不了的”，这激怒了一些负担不起房租的居民。现在，显然处于竞选模式的他，大谈住房建设、一项拟议的旅游税（他认为这能降低成本）以及他对市中心短期暂停出租公寓的禁令。

马拉加及其周边地区拥有一个

弗朗西斯科·德·拉托雷（Francisco de la Torre，左）自2004年起担任西班牙马拉加（Málaga，左下）市长。他曾于1973年协助建立了该市的第一所大学，并在20世纪90年代倡导建设一个新的科技园区。

一段政治与经济波动的历史。西班牙最伟大的历史画作之一描绘了1833年在海滩上为自由主义思想而牺牲的革命者。在经历了一段时间的波动后，马拉加拥抱了工业革命，但最终发现，与那些交通更便捷的竞争对手相比，它更难确立为制造业中心。随后，在20世纪弗朗哥独裁统治期间，该市及其周边县成为了旅游业爆发和酒店建设热潮的中心，这改变了当地的景观和经济。

在20世纪50年代，德·拉托雷先生在弗朗哥政权期间作为一名省级领导人出现，随后在向民主过渡期间尝试担任立法者。他于1971年协助建立了马拉加的第一所大学，并在20世纪80年代初成为新科技园区的倡导者。到1990年，他成为了市长。

该园区受益于早期10,000人的增长，以及靠近西班牙第四大机场的地理优势。该园区的总经理费利佩·巴托拉（Felipe Batorra）表示，该地块的交付得益于德·拉托雷先生的政策，并称他是一位公开的支持者。巴托拉先生说，当周日晚上电话响起时，他知道那一定是德·拉托雷先生。

巴托拉先生表示，在德·拉托雷先生的领导下，这个科技中心吸引了跨国公司。约20,000名员工受雇于100多家公司，这些公司贡献了马拉加近20%的经济产出。

德·拉托雷先生还主持了一场文化转型。自从他就职以来，马拉加已经设立了十几家博物馆。

“这是一个不同类型的城市，”卡恩·蒂森博物馆（Cannes Thyssen Museum）的馆长莱纳利斯·伊巴拉斯（Lenalys Ibarras）说道。该博物馆是这些博物馆之一，也是马拉加复兴的标志，使其成为了西班牙艺术之都。

步行距离外的马拉加花生博物馆（Peanuts museum）在德·拉托雷先生就职前就已构思，但在其任期内开馆。它现在是西班牙前10大博物馆之一，每年有169,000名访客。游客们习惯性地抚摸地中海边艺术家雕像的后脑勺。

博物馆艺术总监米格尔·洛佩斯-贝内特斯·佩鲁斯塔（Miguel López-Benetez Perustá）说，“花生”会感到惊讶。

然而，许多人认为这一切是一把双刃剑。

当地一名活动人士埃克·埃斯帕尼亚（Eike España）指出，利用“花生”——他孩童时期就离开了这座城市，成年后在巴塞罗那、马德里以及该市其他两个地方度过——来宣传这座城市的新国际主义，是一种历史性的操纵。埃斯帕尼亚先生说，出生在这里是“花生在西班牙唯一做过的事”。

2014年，埃斯帕尼亚先生协助组织了一次首次允许10,000名囚犯参与的活动，以抗议马拉加转型的负面后果。该运动在全市范围内继续表达，你经常能发现类似“马拉加不应被出售，而应被交付”的激烈标语。

他驳斥了市长关于科技的新研究以及向游客展示的市中心规划，称旅游业的侵蚀已远超城市范围。

其他人则认为除了追随德·拉托雷先生的道路外别无选择。

“你要么成为一座成功的城市，并承担随之而来的所有问题，”马拉加大学的政治学家玛丽亚·德·拉维拉埃尔莫萨（Maria de la Villahermosa）说，“要么你喜欢。”

卡洛斯·巴雷甘（Carlos Barregán）参与了报道。

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4 / 2026年8月14日，星期五

世界

对抗真主党的另一战线

见第1页

对真主党的财务挤压，代表了华盛顿和以色列旨在削弱德黑兰通过其在整个中东的代理工具投射权力能力之行动中的一个战线。

真主党成立于1992年，长期以来一直是该网络的核心。

该组织的财务状况极其隐秘，此次打击对其庞大运作影响的完整程度尚不明确。面对削弱其力量的努力，真主党及其主要支持者伊朗都证明了自身的韧性，能够在军事上反弹并寻找新的资金流动方式。

尽管如此，真主党在资助其维持社会福利网络方面正陷入困境，而该网络长期以来支撑着其在黎巴嫩什叶派穆斯林基础中的支持。在与以色列的冲突对其能力造成沉重打击后，该组织也日益优先考虑军事支出。

真主党首席发言人尤塞夫·扎姆（Youssef al-Zam）在5月告诉《泰晤士报》，由于该组织在努力应对战争导致数十万人流离失所的需求，已停止了此前承诺的补偿金支付。

美国国务院在战争前估计，伊朗每年向真主党提供的资金约为7亿美元，占该组织每年10亿预算的大部分。据黎巴嫩、美国和以色列官员称，伊朗在过去一年中增加了对真主党的财务支持，但这些资金仍不足以覆盖真主党的战争相关开支。

“真主党的规模以及流离失所的情况给真主党带来了沉重负担，”扎姆先生说。他补充道，因此，“资源正根据优先级进行管理”，“毫无疑问存在压力，但真主党能够克服它”。

资助黎巴嫩将遭受打击 对真主党财务的打击始于2024年底。在由美国调停的停火协议停止以色列与真主党的冲突后不久，邻国叙利亚阿萨德政权下属的波斯银行（Persian Bankai）突然倒闭，使该组织比以往任何时候都更孤立于德黑兰。

就在真主党需要资金重建并维持其运作的时刻，它失去了潜在的走私路线。

几十年来，真主党在黎巴嫩境内监管着一个国家内部的份额——一个为它的追随者提供住房和薪水的份额。在伊朗的财务支持下，它建立了一个媒体网络，设立了医院和学校，从加油站和制药公司获取收入，并打造了一支比国家军队更强大的军械库。

但据美国和以色列官员以及了解真主党财务状况的人士称，当进入黎巴嫩的叙利亚陆路被有效切断后，伊朗急于寻找向该组织输送资金的方法。

一名美国官员和一名获悉此事的黎巴嫩高级官员表示，伊朗转向了贝鲁特机场，多年来该机场实际上在真主党的控制下运行，并被用于接收伊朗的资金和武器。

但美国和以色列官员一直在追踪这一线索。

据两名黎巴嫩官员和一名以色列官员称，去年年初，美国官员向黎巴嫩政府发出了以色列的警告。伊朗正通过飞往贝鲁特的民航航班向真主党发送装满美元的手提箱——在某些情况下由伊朗外交官携带。美国官员拒绝置评。该警告导致黎巴嫩暂停了所有来自伊朗的航班，这一措施目前仍然有效。

一名美国官员和两名黎巴嫩官员表示，与真主党有关的机场工作人员也被撤职，黎巴嫩当局部署了与美国官员协调工作的安全官员。

对现金经济的监管

随后，华盛顿将目光转向了黎巴嫩中央银行，这是一个长期以来在缺乏监督的情况下运作的不透明机构。美国财政部表示，黎巴嫩运行的是一个很大程度上基于现金的经济体系，真主党利用这一点在非法银行间转移资金，并从伊朗输送资金。

据一名获悉该进程的黎巴嫩高级官员称，去年，特朗普政府致力于影响黎巴嫩中央银行新任行长的任命。美国政府官员未回应关于其在其中所扮演角色的协助请求。

新任行长卡里姆·伊斯梅尔（Karim Ismail）迅速证明了自己愿意采取行动打击真主党。他解雇或撤换了

真主党和美国官员

被怀疑与该组织有法律关联的高级银行官员，并要求其办公室准备好监听设备，且在担心被监视的情况下拒绝使用基于手持设备的计算机。这一消息来自一名中央银行高级官员以及《纽约时报》获得的一份内部备忘录。中央银行未回应置评请求。

根据《纽约时报》注意到的内部文件和该中央银行高级官员的说法，随着获得美国支持的新任行长就职，中央银行开始对该国最大的货币服务企业及其涉嫌被真主党用于转移资金的情况展开调查。自调查开始以来，美国和黎巴嫩当局加强了对资金转移的监管。

曾在缺乏监督的政府时期负责监督对该组织制裁的前财政部高级官员布莱恩·E·尼尔森（Brian E. Nelson）在一次采访中表示：“真主党能够通过滥用这些网络持续产生大量资金。”

真主党媒体办公室称，关于其利用黎巴嫩现金经济的指控是“虚假的且完全无害的”。

一名以色列国防高级官员和另一位熟悉真主党财务的人士表示，随着大型货币服务企业受到更严格的审查，真主党继续严重依赖一个监管较少的兑换所网络，这在很大程度上已成为伊朗资助该组织的主要渠道。

这两个人表示，资金从伊朗出发，通过阿拉伯联合酋长国、土耳其和伊拉克，利用一种经纪人对经纪人的非正式转移系统进行大规模转移，而底层的现金并不一定需要跨境移动。

当美国财政部去年11月对黎巴嫩货币兑换所实施制裁时，该部门表示，伊朗当年已通过这种方式向真主党输送了约 10 亿美元 billion 资金。

感受代价

随着打击行动加速，真主党的福利体系开始出现紧张迹象。真主党官员和以色列政府向《纽约时报》表示，虽然数以万计的战士基本上仍能领取薪水，但由于该组织正在重新审视其支出，部分社会服务已被削减。

真主党一直试图在可能的情况下筹集资金。

在最近的以色列-真主党战争爆发前数周的2月，美国财政部表示，真主党的事实银行 Al-Qarif al-Hassan 的高级官员建立了一系列黄金贸易公司以筹集资金。《纽约时报》审阅的账簿以及对真主党现金经济进行分析的分析师评估表明，过去一年黄金销售额有所上升。

以色列和美国官员表示，真主党希望将黄金兑换成现金的原因之一是，以色列的证券行动摧毁了真主党的大部分外汇和黄金储备。

去年，黎巴嫩禁止该国的银行和经纪公司与 Al-Qarif al-Hassan 往来，进一步将真主党与正式金融体系隔离开来。

数以千计的黎巴嫩人（其中许多是真主党的支持者）仅通过 Al-Qarif al- 直接获得利息和与战争相关的补偿金。该组织将自己描述为一个慈善贷款协会而非银行，其负责人表示，真主党维持着独立的组织财务。

尽管如此，特朗普政府目前正在敦促黎巴嫩政府将其彻底封锁。

一名名为 的主管（其女儿嫁给了一名在近期战争中丧生的真主党战士）表示，虽然她仍在领取针对阵亡战士家庭的津贴，但该组织已不再支付部分医疗手术费用。与数千名房屋被毁的支持者一样， 表示他仍在等待承诺的资金支持。

在 2024 年战争后，真主党表示 Al-Qarif al- 将向房屋被毁的家庭每户发放 $22,000 至 $16,000。但据真主党发言人 al-Zam 先生称，这些补偿金在多次延迟后，现在已完全停止发放。

“他们完全消失了，” 说。

Easter World 和 Should Need 发自贝鲁特，Eric Schmidt 发自华盛顿，Roman Bergman 发自特拉维夫，Aaron Benowitz、Stephen Iveson 和 Patrick Kingsley 参与报道。

“特朗普是个表演者”：伊朗人感到被背叛

华盛顿

作者：EDILG L. GREEN, ZULAN KANNO-TOUNIS, SANAH MUKHOD 以及 YEGIATAN TOBIAJI

在美国与伊朗开战前的几周里，特朗普总统在伊朗民众反抗其政府的呼声中高唱，告诉他们应该“记住那些杀手和虐待者的名字”，并表示他将向他们提供援助。

“援助正在路上，”他承诺道。但在冲突开始五个多月后，解放伊朗人民已成为这场战争中最显著的未实现目标之一。

根据国际特赦组织（Amnesty International）的数据，自特朗普先生发表抗议以来，伊朗已处决了至少 28 人，且仍有更多抗议者可能面临风险。美国官员认为，伊朗的新最高领袖穆吉塔巴·哈梅内伊（Mujtaba Khamenei）比其父亲（在战争爆发首日被杀）更热衷于追求核武器。

在伊朗人依然深陷危机之时，特朗普先生正在寻找出路。相关建议正在起草一份审查报告，包括一封旨在结束战争的信函，而伊朗实际上已经关闭了通道，因为特朗普先生在美国的新投资需要持续更长时间，且证明比他预期的成本要高得多。

在今年夏天的一次采访中，特朗普先生承认他从未能激发起那种精神，他认为无论如何都会发生，因为伊朗的国家力量将创造一个证明。

“我从未想过，而且我们他们能够完成，我从未想过他们会有那种规模的起义，因为这些人很暴力，”特朗普先生对保守派播客主持人休·豪威尔（Hugh Howel）说道。

但对于听信了特朗普先生早期承诺的伊朗人来说，被背叛的感觉是真实的。

“我真心以为援助在路上了，但我大错特错了，”来自德黑兰、在一家初创公司工作的 20 岁青年瓦拉斯（Valas）说道，这种情绪在《纽约时报》采访的大量伊朗人中得到了共鸣。出于对政府报复的恐惧，所有受访者均要求《时报》仅以他们的名字标识身份。

来自德黑兰、参加了 1 月反政府抗议活动的 30 岁青年马里兰（Maryland）表示，特朗普利用了公民之春来进一步升级战争。

“我觉得特朗普和美国是欺骗性的，特朗普是个表演者，”马里兰说，“他们使用人权语言仅仅是为了他们自己的利益。”

在电影行业工作的 27 岁德黑兰青年萨贾德（Sajad）则更为直白，表示他对任何力量或美国都不信任。

“我不认为他们中任何一个人关心伊朗人民的利益，”他说，“用一句话概括，特朗普、美国以及其他所有人都是令人惊讶的。”

“让石油流动起来！”

白宫拒绝回答关于特朗普先生通过抗议来帮助解放伊朗人民的问题。相反，官员们引用了特朗普先生的目标——该目标至今尚未实现——即确保伊朗永远不会拥有核武器，并表示这一目标也将使伊朗人民受益。

“47年来，美国总统和其他国家的领导人都谈到了伊朗构成的威胁，但没有人有勇气去解决它，”白宫发言人阿齐扎·拉菲克（Aziza Rafiq）在的一份声明中写道。“特朗普总统采取了果断行动，以确保伊朗再也无法伤害我们的国土、我们的军队或我们的权利。这证明了伊朗的一个理由，即整个政权及其人民将更加安全且更有保障。”

根据总部位于美国的“人权活动家新闻社”（Human Rights Activists News Agency）的数据，这场战争中已有超过 1,700 名伊朗平民死亡。该数字包括至少 175 名

1月的德黑兰反政府抗议者。“我真心认为救援已经在路上了，但我大错特错了，”一名伊朗人说道。

在伊朗人继续陷入危机之时，特朗普先生正在寻找一个退出战争的方法，这场战争持续的时间比他预期的要长。

这些人——其中大多数是儿童——死于战争第一天袭击一所学校的暴行中。

此前，美国军方官员承认美国军队实施了对学校的袭击，并将其归结为情报失败。但特朗普先生对谁应负责的问题不屑一顾，说道：“是的！”——错误总会发生。战争就是残酷的！

他在战争期间提及面对伊朗平民的情况大多是顺带而为，而且随着月份的流逝，这些提及变得过于热烈。当宣布美国以及美国官员在2月的战争第一天杀死了哈梅内伊（Khamenei）大阿亚图拉时，他在4月称这次击杀是“伊朗人民夺回国家的一次单一的最大机会”，并决定救出八名被判死刑的伊朗女性，尽管伊朗政府否认她们被判处执行死刑。

在5月，特朗普先生暗示单一词汇武器用于掩护。在伊朗，他声称作为问题的一部分，美国可以使用其未知资产购买核心（core）和大豆以及其他美国农民的商品——他将这种情况描述为对美国的利益，以及一种解决伊朗人因战争而遭受饥饿的方法。

然而，在很大程度上，特朗普先生关注的是其他事情，特别是赫尔曼（Herman）第三区的中断，这导致坏价格飙升，并影响了全球市场。

当特朗普先生宣布与伊朗达成的一项协议框架时——该协议随后崩溃——涉及的伊朗人数不超过 1,000 人。

相反，他说：“世界的标志，启动发动机。让石油流动起来！”

而且，一项发给伊朗人的规定被认为是对特朗普先生最初承诺的核心：即两国尊重彼此的主权并“克制干涉彼此的内政”。

特朗普先生随后还赞扬了伊朗的新领导人——考虑到该国的民主内战依然存在，这是一个令人震惊的时刻。

“目前的伊朗领导层是非常理性的人，”特朗普先生说。“他们是可以打交道的人。他们是强而聪明的人。他们没有被维持，并且正寻求帮助他们的国家。”

“年份与快乐”

新美国安全中心（Center for a New American Security）首席执行官、前参议员约翰·麦凯恩（John McCain）外交政策顾问理查德·方丹（Richard Fontaine）指出，这并非美国总统首次呼吁起义，随后却让人们陷入进退两难的境地。

对于1,000多名伊朗人来说，一个例子是在2016年，当时乔治·H·W·布什总统公开鼓励伊拉克什叶派反抗政府，随后在起义被暴力镇压时允许美军袖手旁观。大赦国际的武装直升机和海岸部队在一次血洗中夺走了数万人的生命。

此后，美国总统在鼓励外国反叛方面采取了克制态度。巴拉克·奥巴马总统在2000年因其对美国“绿色运动”的鼓励而引发了两党抵制，因为担心这会导致对国内支持者的屠杀。他后来表示，他的国家并不是一个真正的国家。

方丹先生表示，在特朗普先生对伊朗人民的所有承诺中，帮助他们获得解放是“最关键的一点”，因为伊朗总统被杀可能是美国军队对伊朗采取更激进手段的结果。

最重要的一点是，今年发生的年轻一代伊朗人。方丹表示：“我们一直是一个饱经战争、破碎的国家，其经济甚至比之前更糟，因为我们感受到了同样的事情，这无疑代表了之前统治他们的政府。所以从某种程度上说，这像是所有最糟糕情况的结合。”

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2026年8月14日，星期五 / 5

世界

代理人的武器“在视频中看起来更好”

华盛顿

美国移民执法部门将配备电击手套

作者：MARILEINE NGU 和 ISRAEL AERSON

特朗普政府计划花费数百万美元，为移民官员配备能够释放电击的手套。

俄罗斯安全部（Department of the Russian Security）将这种手套描述为一种“去中心化设备”，但批评人士对移民执法人员配备另一种可能实际上会升级武力使用的工具表示担忧。该计划还引起了一些前移民与海关执法局（ICE）官员的关注，他们质疑对被指控违反移民法的人员使用这种手套是否合理，而这些法律本应是有效的。

ICE 已经因其在执行特朗普总统大规模驱逐行动时的激进手段而受到批评。自特朗普先生重新就职以来，移民执法人员曾对杀虫剂使用喷雾，将人员从车辆中扔出，并开枪击中至少 6 人，这引发了要求加强问责的呼吁。

在周一发布的一份通知中，国土安全部表示计划采购“VTO-3 U.S.D.V.E.”，其全称为“美国法律输出电压发射器”（American Law Output Voltage Emittor）。通知还称，计划将其配发给 ICE 的官员和特工。根据该通知，这笔合同价值最高可达 2000万美元，采购工作可能在 3 月底前完成。

该部门未回答关于手套将如何使用的问题，例如是否会在移民执法行动中抓捕个人或在与囚犯接触时使用。

该部门在一份声明中表示：“ICE 正在不断评估一线官员的需求，以确保他们拥有必要的工具和设备，从而安全地纠正并将犯罪非法人员从我国驱除。每一项决定都经过仔细考虑并经过适当审查，以确保 ICE 使用的任何技术都符合所有适用的执法政策和标准。”

美联社此前报道了该通知。U.S.D.V.E. 的电压相对较低。它尚未被警察部门广泛采用，一些警务专家在 ICE 合同消息传出之前甚至从未听说过它。

它由 Compilant 制造

美国政府可能会在这些相对较新的手套上花费高达 2000万美元。一些警务专家在合同消息传出之前甚至从未听说过它们。

Technologies 是一家总部位于肯塔基州的公司，该公司称其产品能让“响应官员快速缓解紧张局势”。该手套的用户手册称，这项技术能够抑制“受试者进行协调的肌肉运动”。

这种设备有时被称为状态手套（state glove）或电击手套，在过去几年中一直在公开销售。它通过在接触时释放电击，利用疼痛诱导服从。根据公司的规格说明，它发射的电压比 Doop 低得多。该公司表示，其电压

太低，无法穿透干燥的衣服或头发。只需按下按钮，大约一秒钟即可开启手套。

根据密苏里州凯普吉拉多（Cape Girardeau）警察局局长亚当·格鲁克（Adam Glueck）在 Compilant Technologies 网站上的一段视频中的说法，该设备被刻意设计成公司所谓的“低调”风格，这意味着它看起来像一只普通手套，且比警察使用的其他类型武力“在视频中看起来更好”。

他说，他最初持怀疑态度，

因为提供给执法机构的新工具数量实在太多，但在一次对他使用该手套的演示后被说服了。“一旦你把它放在我的区域，我就完全信服了，”格鲁克局长说。“我立刻就屈服了，我当时除了想让那种疼痛停止之外，什么都没想。”

该公司网站上发布的证词表明，该工具已被采用，用于在巡逻警员中缓解疼痛。该公司将其称为一种“降级工具”。虽然公众可能认为“降级”涉及对话和保持安全距离等非暴力策略，但在警务工作中，远离致命或模范武器也被视为降级的一个组成部分，因为许多人认为这可能使更高级别的武力变得不再必要。

Compilant Technologies 的创始人杰夫·华莱士（Jeff Wallace）拒绝置评。

Colo Lights 的倡导者表示，民主党政府时期的前 ICE（美国移民与海关执法局）官员认为，警员能够配备一种能够轻易造成疼痛的新工具，这令人不安。

“给在过去一年中在武力使用方面一直鲁莽行事的 ICE 特工提供能够释放电击的手套，这太可怕了，”美国公民自由联盟（ACLU）负责警务的副项目主任詹斯·罗特德·巴切里斯（Jens Rotterd Barcheris）表示。“这些手套只需简单按下按钮即可释放电击，这意味着武力可以非常轻易地被部署。我们已经看到 特工在动用武力时过于迅速。我们还看到 特工经常不发出警告。”

曾在比滕（Bitten）政府担任 高级官员的斯科特·莫斯查特（Scott Moschart）对让配备手套的警员去追捕被指控违反移民法的人员提出了质疑，而这些行为大多属于民事违法。尽管他表示 也会追捕已知具有危险性的逃犯，但大多数被遣返的人员通常不被认为会产生“激烈抵抗”。

一份关于该手套的用户手册称，这项技术能够抑制“受试者进行协调的肌肉运动”。

警务专家表示，新技术的效用取决于与之配套的政策和培训。前上尉兼警务战术专家艾希莉·霍金格（Ashley Hockinger）表示：“重要的是，武力的使用不应是工具或战术，而应是正当理由。我同样担心，如果不是更担心的话，他们是否知道在何时使用它，而不仅仅是如何使用它。”

根据该公司的用户手册，该手套不得用于惩罚，或用于应对口头反抗或纵容。公司建议避免将手套用于他人、幼儿、孕妇以及严重残疾人士。

手册称，用户必须接受培训，且每两年重新验证一次。手册警告称，一次使用手套不得超过一副，且时长不得超过 15 秒，在此之前需依赖警员的培训和意识。

在肯塔基州一起涉及 U.S.D.V.E. 系统的诉讼之后，威廉·亨内特（William Hennet）先生对原告的待遇进行了调查培训，并表示手套未造成任何伤害。

该部门计划中的沟通强调了国会为特朗普先生的驱逐计划批准的大量新资金。数十亿联邦资金已允许该主要新州（增加 2,000 名警员并购买包括当地移民工具在内的新技术。

阿尔伯特·孙（Albert Sun）协调报道。

未能登上总统航班的人员

国务卿和财政部长乘坐诱饵机离开土耳其

作者：玛吉·哈伯曼（MAGGIE HABERMAN）

上个月，特朗普总统在一次秘密行动中离开土耳其时，在秘密航班上带了一批精选人员。

一名美国官员表示，白宫助手娜塔莉·哈普（Natalie Harp）、丹·斯卡罗内（Dan Scarone）和沃尔特·诺塔（Walt Nauta），以及副秘书皮特·霍加斯（Pete Hogarth）均乘坐军用喷气机与总统同行。

该美国官员和第二名官员表示，两名内阁成员——国务卿马文·鲁宾（Marvin Rubin）和财政部长斯科特·贝内特（Scott Bennett）乘坐诱饵机离开该国，该飞机是空军一号的旧型号。那架飞机搭载了其他参加安卡拉北约峰会的人员以及记者。

特朗普先生曾表示，在回程的第一段航程（从土耳其到英国）中，他将为了“怀旧”而乘坐那架旧飞机。

但事实是，美国官员认定空军一号面临可信的威胁。因此，特朗普先生在镜头前登上了诱饵空军一号，然后通过一个液压升降机进入了一个餐饮集装箱中。

在旧版空军一号上的记者被告知要拉下窗帘；他们无法看到特朗普先生离开飞机。

与他在另一架飞机上同行的人员包括：他的常驻助手哈普女士（Ms. Harp）；他的长期“随身助手”诺塔先生（Mr. Nauta），后者目前担任 rival Office operations 的负责人；以及白宫副办公厅主任兼总统人事主管斯卡罗内先生（Mr. Scarone），他多年来还负责管理特朗普先生的社交媒体。

这些名单此前由哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS News）报道。

与特朗普先生和其他乘客不同，霍加斯先生（. Hogarth）被看到公开 hoarding 这架军用喷气机，这显然是欺骗计划的一部分。

在旧版空军一号上随行的记者被指示拉下窗帘，且未获得任何解释；事后看来，这是为了防止他们窥见特朗普先生离开飞机的场景。

据一名美国官员透露，除了鲁宾先生（. Rubin）和本内特先生（. Bennett）之外，几位白宫和政府的高级官员也登上了这架诱饵飞机。

该官员表示，这些人包括首席政策顾问斯蒂芬·米勒（Stephen Miller）；白宫通讯主任史蒂文·切罗格（Steven Cherog）；幕僚秘书威尔·沙夫（Will Scharf）；副国家安全顾问马尔科姆·尼德姆（Malcolm Needham）；副办公厅主任理查德·沃尔特斯（Richard Walters）；助手克里斯托弗·阿什蒙德（Christopher Ashmound）；以及来自白宫先遣队的工作人员。

白宫发言人未对寻求评论以及要求提供完整登机人员名单的请求做出回应。

特朗普总统上个月在一次秘密行动离开土耳其后，在英国的一个军事基地视察旧版空军一号。

在美国罕见的策略；对普京而言则是常规

空军一号的掩护在保护俄罗斯领导人的手段面前显得微不足道

作者：ANTON TEEGANOVSKI

特朗普总统关于空军一号的掩护行动是一次令人震惊的官方欺骗事件。

但与围绕俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·V·普京的秘密相比，这显得微不足道。普京的活动被如此深厚的神秘面纱所笼罩，以至于记者们试图通过评估他办公室植物的生长情况来追踪其行踪。

随着更多记者试图确定这位俄罗斯领导人的电视会议是否真实举行，他们采用了这种方法。一名官员表示，他们发现普京办公室中植物叶片的某种反转迹象，这表明会议实际上是以不同的顺序在不同的日期举行的。

对于普京来说，每一种掩护手段都是常规操作。相比之下，白宫则因在特朗普秘密前往土耳其期间未予披露而受到批评，直到本周《华盛顿邮报》揭露该报道为止。

“与俄罗斯相比，”俄罗斯调查记者米哈伊尔·鲁宾（Mikhail Rubin）说，“这简直是小儿科。”

鲁宾和其他记者发现，普京在不同的住所中布置了几乎完全相同的办公室，使得会议的视频图像无法揭示其具体位置。根据新闻报道和卫星图像，他的安保机构开发了一列总统专列，以及在至少三处乡村住所附近设立的特殊铁路点和秘密车站。

随行官员被迫配合，在当地参加会议。普京将这些会议保密直到它们被播送到电视上——有时是在数周之后——然后假装会议发生在当天。

鲁宾认为，关于总统行踪的官方谎言“只是常规操作”。曾就职于苏联广播电台的俄罗斯记者法尔迪斯·罗斯托沃娃（Fardis Rostovova）也表示，这是一种“聚焦”行为。她报道称，普京在电视会议中的某些细节有时会提到当时发生的事件，且在至少一次会议中，他的服装和发型与其他公开露面时并不一致。俄罗斯记者之间甚至为这些延迟发布的普京会议创造了一个专业术语：“荣誉会议”或“命名商品”。

克里姆林宫此前否认在普京的位置问题上误导公众，且未回应置评请求。

一名《纽约时报》驻莫斯科记者在报道普京时，在2022年访问其拥有乡村住所的瓦登湖（Lake Vaden）时，感受到了俄罗斯总统为了掩盖行踪所采取的极端手段。当地人告诉我，有一条神秘的新铁路线向他的住所延伸。卫星图像显示了一个新车站，其线路并未出现在时刻表或铁路地图上。

总统弗拉基米尔·V·普京在不同的住所中布置了几乎完全相同的办公室，以防止被追踪。

2023年，一名来自俄罗斯特勤局（类似于美国的特勤局）的知情人士透露，普京正在使用设备以避免被追踪。泄露的文件表明，一列从总统办公室出发的秘密列车被普京本人使用，该列车被涂装成普通客车，但配备了护卫、升级设备和特殊通信设备。

普京对秘密和安全的痴迷在疫情期间似乎有所增加，当时他让官员们保持两米的社交距离，并让邻居无法得知其行踪。自2022年入侵乌克兰以来，这种痴迷达到了新高度，尤其是随着该国威胁的加深，这促使了移动互联网的限制并相应地缩减了他的出行。

在莫斯科，现在出现了一种猜测，根据罗斯托沃娃的说法，那些在城市街道上疾驰、被推测载有普京的庞大车队，实际上有时是诱饵。

我在莫斯科的一位与克里姆林宫有联系的接触人也告诉我了同样的情况。

调查记者鲁宾先生是 2020 年 JRA 的一名成员。普京先生在莫斯科郊区住宅和黑海度假胜地索契的住所中使用了外观完全相同的办公室，使克里姆林宫能够对其位置进行掩护。

自由欧洲电台 / 自由电台（Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty）去年的一份报告提供了关于该欺骗行动的更多细节，强调了那些在其他方面完全相同的办公室之间存在的细微差别——例如门把手的位置和墙壁接缝——这些细节表明它们位于不同的地方。

鲁宾先生目前居住在北卡罗来纳州，担任 news+dell-Prosht 的副编辑。十年前在为一家俄罗斯商业报纸报道克里姆林宫时，他对普京先生的保密工作有了深刻认识。鲁宾先生曾偶然看到普京先生的成员抵达参加会议，但其办公室直到几天后才宣布这次集会，仿佛这是一件新发生的事情。他说，他意识到“普京的公众形象是编造的，从头到尾完全是一个门面”。

对于普京先生来说，这种欺骗不仅是为了安全，更是为了营造一种处于安全和掌控之中的氛围。其政策的权威在于塑造总统形象，而另一方面，在乌克兰战争和疫情之前，这对俄罗斯来说本是不可想象的。

但特朗普政府近期在新闻媒体上的表现及其围绕总统办公室的氛围，在一些俄罗斯人看来依然显得如此熟悉。

“普京是这样一个人物的典型，他将周围发生的一切掌控到干扰其健康的程度，而‘飞翔’在我看来，才刚刚开始朝着这个方向发展。”

更正

• 周三一篇关于 The Met Chisters 高级管理人员 Air-New Winston 的文章中，提及了已知最完整的一套扑克牌的年代。其年代应为 10 世纪，而非 20 世纪。

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6 / 2026年8月14日，星期五

世界

威斯康星州显示出进步左翼的局限性

新闻分析

民主社会主义者在州长初选中落败，对建制派而言是利好

作者：EGLICA BENNING, JACK JULIE KOSKOL

民主党建制派终于对日益衰落的民粹左翼发起了反击。

Prisoners, living, a domestic ministerial, 以民主党 forayors 的身份参加了周二的威斯康星州州长初选，凭借数月以来巨大的 rent outgassing 以及似乎符合当时建制派未见之时刻的左翼主张，在路径上取得了领先。

但密尔沃基县参议员 David Crowley 取得了对 Hong 女士的 time-time 胜利，削弱了进步主义运动的模糊地带，并让主流民主党人得以在关键战场州维持一名此前被认为更具胜算（more electable）的候选人，从而舒了一口气。

像 your 这样的民主社会主义者曾在华盛顿赢得了市长初选，并在纽约、底特律、费城和波士顿赢得了众议院 presumes。但这种力量无法延伸到 each other-term 之外，在 living 状态的威斯康星州尤其如此。

“在威斯康星，我们建立了一些将永远持续的东西，”Hong 女士在周二晚上告诉支持者，随后她呼吁民主党在准备大选时保持统一，以对抗受特朗普影响的共和党人 Tom Tillson 代表。“无论选票上写着什么，如果 all，我们将为了彼此而奋斗获胜。”

对于民主党建制派而言，无论 Crowley 先生的胜利多么 success，在经历了数月的反应和 self-deficited liabilities 之后，这都是一个结果。当时 女士正在聚集 1,000 名志愿者，争取左翼支持并在全州巡回，同时主张全民医疗并对富人征税；而州民主党人的 federal 以及 waged aid 则全力以赴阻止她成为提名人。

民主党州长 Terry Evers 此前曾承诺不干预接替他的竞选，但他随后却在 campaigning 期间与 Crowley 先生并肩作战，并警告称 女士在 11 月“可能会”输给 Tillson 先生。Evers 先生在竞选的 fund works 阶段帮助 Crowley 先生从个人捐赠者和工会筹集资金，帮助他 unpass 女士最畅销的 trusts 和成功。

“我为 David 感到非常自豪——他是我们党的未来，我迫不及待地想看到他成为下一任州长，”Evers 先生在周三 pre-town 早晨的社交媒体上写道。“现在，我们 poke。明天，我们回到工作中去赢。”

政治观察家们对最后一刻的猛攻能否

David Crowley scored a narrow victory over Prisoners in the Wisconsin primary for governor. Polling gave Ms. , a democratic socialist, a clear and consistent lead. One political scientist called Ms. Crowley's win 'a truly stunning turn of events.'

阻止 女士的势头，尤其是考虑到其他民主社会主义者正是通过利用对威斯康星民主党所采取的那类竞选活动的愤怒，从而战胜了建制派民主党人。

民调曾给 女士一个明显且稳定的领先优势。但在威斯康星州，民调错了。

威斯康星大学拉克罗斯分校政治学副教授 Anthony Chergeini 表示，Crowley 先生的获胜是“一次真正令人震惊的转折”。

“这表明民主党选民对 的胜选能力（electability）感到冷淡，即使他们广泛同情她的许多立场，”他说。

“在 he sure 中， 女士拥有其他左翼候选人没有的 liabilities。即使是一些社会主义者也认为，与本周期其他进步人士（如本月在密歇根州参议院初选中击败主流民主党人的 Amiel El-Sayed 博士）相比， 女士更像是一个 mass importers 的传声筒。”

同样的民调显示，尽管洪女士在初选中获胜，但她在州长普选中显然是最弱的候选人。她的竞选风格不循常规。在初选期间的前两次采访中，她表现得自信，但有时难以解释早年批评感恩节等弹道（ballistic）以及要求截止照片（deadline of the photo）的社交媒体帖子。

在前两次采访中，一些民主社会主义者——佛蒙特州参议员伯尼·桑德斯（Bernie Sandler）和纽约市市长约翰·C·邓（John C. Dunn）众议员——在初选中支持了洪女士。

尽管如此，洪女士的竞选团队认为，她的流行竞选活动触及了农村地区，甚至包括一些不满的特朗普选民。在威斯康星州一个建设中的州内，她最积极地呼吁和平；而当时根据马凯特法学院（Marquette Law School）约 20% 的民调，70% 的选民倾向于共和党，认为数据中心的成本超过了收益。

但威斯康星州严重分裂且对总统竞选至关重要，对于该州来说，这里似乎始终是一个无与伦比的地方。选民们需要证明他们的吸引力可以覆盖全州。唐纳德·J·特朗普在 2016 年以 22,700 票击败希拉里·克林顿，四年后以 29,882 票输给约瑟夫·E·拜登（Joseph E. Biden Jr.），然后在 2024 年以 29,307 票击败拉马达·哈里斯（Ramada Harris）。

虽然麦迪逊（Madison）偏左，但威斯康星州没有像纽约、芝加哥甚至明尼阿波利斯-圣保罗那样的大都市来抵消其农村地区和小城镇的影响。还没有女性被选为州长，更不用说社会主义者了。

但克劳利先生（Mr. Crowley）是一位具有开创性的候选人，罗伯特·J·布莱克（Robert J. Black）领导的这个州此前只选出过白人男性。他的主张与埃弗里特先生（Mr. Everett）类似——他将为威斯康星州的利益而工作，以一种不令人反感但强有力的性转向（sexual turn）方式。

他在一场传统的普选中击败共和党人的胜利，可能是 2022 年最重要的一次，此前在 2020 年威斯康星州认证巴比克先生（Mr. Babick）的胜利时，有人反对认证，并且在特朗普输掉的另外两个州——宾夕法尼亚州和亚利桑那州——也投票反对认证选票。

作为极右翼众议院总统党团（House President Caucus）的一员，蒂尔森先生（Mr. Tillson）是 2025 年投票反对将声明日（statements）定为联邦法定假日的 14 位众议员之一。

“11 月的选择一直很明确，”克劳利先生的竞选经理加勒特·兰道夫（Garrett Randolph）周三表示。“我们可以通过专注于解决问题的领导力推动威斯康星州前进，或者我们可以将汤姆·蒂尔森（Tom Tillson）和唐纳德·特朗普的分裂与延伸带到威斯康星州。”

曾在 2022 年在威斯康星州竞选参议员的民主党人亚历克斯·兰蒂（Alex Lanty）在 10000000亿 次初选中解释了克劳利先生后期的激增。

“这更多是在讲述大卫（David）的故事，而不是关于囚犯（Prisoners）的故事，”他说。“他只需要人们支持他。在竞选早期，很难取得突破。”

威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的政治学教授凯西·克雷默（Kathy Cramer）表示，埃弗里特先生的影响力可能使选民远离洪女士而转向克劳利先生。

“可能只是因为有很多民主党人已经厌倦了。很多人支持那个家伙，”她在谈到担任了两任州长的埃弗斯先生（Mr. Evers）时说道。“这可能在他们的投票中起到了很大作用。”

尽管领先幅度很小，但克劳利先生的获胜是一次惊人的反击。就在一个多月前，他完全退出了竞选，称“已经很明显我不会成为民主党的州长提名人”。

“我为大卫感到非常自豪——他是我们党的未来，我迫不及待地想看到他成为下一任州长。”

几天后，早先被建制派选中的副州长萨拉·罗德里格斯（Sara Rodriguez）在她的竞选资金报告中发现缺口超过 1000 万，随后解雇了她的竞选经理并退出竞选。

面对重返赛场的压力，克劳利先生（Mr. Crowley）在寻求指引。他的妻子祈求一个明确的迹象，表明她的丈夫应该重新参加竞选，并约定如果她看到一只红鸟，克劳利先生就应该回归；不出所料，她不久后确实看到了一只红鸟。在退出竞选十天后，他重新加入了竞争。

随后，前副州长布兰多·西林（Brando Sirrine）暂停了他的竞选活动，使得反 Ring 阵营中没有其他主要候选人。来自麦迪逊的立法者罗宾·贝斯（Robin Bays）获得了约 13 的选票，在麦迪逊及全州范围内分散了选票。

美国民主社会主义者（Democratic Socialists of America）的成员试图在这一局面中寻找一线希望，并重新开启一个机会。

“尽管我们仅拥有少数几个国会席位，但我们在一个摇摆州的初选中具有竞争力，这表明我们在选举方面提前实现了计划。我相信这次选举让国家准备得更充分，”在西雅图领导全国推广民主社会主义工作的领导者、一名 15 的查普里特·辛格（Chairpreet Singh）表示。“我们的思考超越了单一的选举周期，干净的豆子（clean beans）和干净的选票一样能触动我们。”

罗伯特·恰尔托（Robert Chiarto）参与了报道。

美国购买飞机用于遣返。这些飞机在很大程度上处于闲置状态。

华盛顿

政府机构通过无标合同花费 4.64亿美元 购买 10 架飞机

作者：DAVID J. JOHNSON / BOLE ANDREA FULLER, JULIE TATE, NICHOLAS MERSHEK 以及 RAMSEI ALKAZU

从去年秋天开始，美国国土安全部通过一项无标合同花费 4.64亿美元，从北弗吉尼亚州的一家公司购买了 10 架此类飞机。

“这是一个巨大的价格标签，但该部门表示没有时间考虑其他报价。这些飞机被共同用于遣返航班。”

但其他时候，该部门几乎没有使用这家新公司——该部门，或任何其他用途。

“机场的成本是沉重的业务点。但获得这些飞机几个月后，该部门试图将至少两架转交给其他机构，包括一架用于联邦调查局（FBI）的设备，Kant Plant，根据参议院拨款委员会的高级民主党人周三发送给该部门的一封信所述。”

其他行动通常是逃离 157 名乘客的点，政府将其完好地留在路易斯安那州莱克查尔斯的一个机场。因此，在一段时间内，从该部门获得的第一份政府文件显示，该机构没有必要的操作人员来运行它们。

“机场的成本非常难以确保该部门能够获得该部门的帮助以满足该部门的需求，并且有计划让其中两架在本月晚些时候开始遣返航班。”

由参议院拨款委员会成员、来自华盛顿的民主党参议员 Patty Murray 和来自康涅狄格州的 Christopher Murphy 周三发送给该部门的一封信称，国土安全部官员已经向委员会表示，大多数飞机将不会用于遣返航班。

支持前国土安全部部长 Kristi Noem 的政治委员会。

该部门的移民和海关执法局（ICE）一直通过从私营公司租赁飞机来执行遣返航班。它曾确保使用军方和海岸警卫队的飞机。因此，前移民官员表示，该部门似乎几乎没有必要承担购买和维护大量自有飞机的费用。

“即使是为了解决 ICE 需要增加遣返数量的一系列问题，拥有自己的飞机群也不会让顶层管理变得更好，”奥巴马政府期间的 ICE 前代理局长 John Sandley 表示。

在的一份书面声明中，国土安全部试图将其对该合同的责任转移给 Noem 女士。特朗普总统在三月份解雇了她，并任命来自俄克拉荷马州的共和党参议员 Markwayne Muller 为部长。

“Doedahas 的合同是在 Muller 部长就职前由部门领导层制定并批准的，”该部门在声明中表示。该机构表示，它“保留在需求和要求不断演变的环境中采取行动的权利”。

Noem 女士的一位发言人则试图将要求归于 Muller 先生，称此次购买是在他的领导下“敲定”的。

当前的控制显示，在 Muller 先生就任部长的当天，该合同的雇佣费用增加了 2亿美元。

该机构表示，闲置的 157 座乘客机一直在接受主流检查，并且有计划让其中两架在本月晚些时候开始遣返航班。

由参议院拨款委员会成员、来自华盛顿的民主党参议员 Patty Murray 和来自康涅狄格州的 Christopher Murphy 周三发送给该部门的一封信称，国土安全部官员已经向委员会表示，大多数飞机将不会用于遣返航班。

“美国人民理应就这种对纳税人资金的严重浪费得到一个完整的交代，”这封经由《纽约时报》审阅的信函中写道。

一架由美国国土安全部购买的波音 757 客机，上个月停放在路易斯安那州莱克查尔斯的辛辛那提国际机场。

参议员们要求提供每架飞机的购买价格及其用途的详细信息。

联邦法律通常要求政府机构在授予合同前寻求竞争性报价，以确保纳税人获得最优惠的交易。但该部门通过为“多种且紧迫的紧急情况”提供豁免，规避了针对飞机本身的这一要求。

该豁免仅在延迟签署合同会导致政府遭受“严重损害（财务或其他方面）”时才能使用。从历史上看，它曾在自然灾害、战争和消费主义大流行期间被使用。

该部门拒绝回答其试图防止何种严重损害的问题。合同条例要求机构公布无标合同的判定标准，但该部门拒绝提供此项，称其“将危及国家安全或产生其他资源”。

根据《纽约时报》获取的官方联邦数据，该部门将紧急豁免权的使用范围扩大到了一个极高程度，在特朗普女士第二任期内授予的约 $80 合同中，涉及支出 290 亿美元 billion。该总额的大部分来自边境墙支出。紧急声明还被用于证明某些项目的合理性，例如授予与诺姆女士及其盟友相关的公司 2.2亿美元 的媒体合同，对此项目的审查促成了她的成功。

该豁免项占该部门 2026. 年签署的合同支出 190 亿美元 billion 中的近三分之二。这比往年大幅增加。2025, 这一数字约为四分之一；2024, 则低于 5%。

没有其他主要机构像国土安全部这样频繁地使用紧急豁免权，即使是在替代方案中也是如此。

“紧急”需求被反复用于绕过常规的合同程序。

一个反复转向无标合同的 trarian —— 针对每一份规划喷泉报告以及林肯纪念堂反思基金的奴役。

一位在纽奥良部门工作了三十多年的非违规报告受害者（a victim of a non-irregular report）表示：“有些事情确实很紧急——如果你不做，人们会死掉的。”但如果机构一直滥用法律，“这最终会被允许。”

飞机的合同最初授予了 Ann November。当时

政府已经在向其他承包商支付数亿美元，以运营一个名为 VCE AG 的包机网络。

根据非营利倡导组织“人权第一”（Human Rights First）的 ICE 航班监测追踪项目，该移民机构在特朗普的第二个任期内包租了约 20,000 架次航班，用于国内拘留中心之间的转运以及向海外遣返，主要前往美国机场和加勒比地区。根据该非营利组织的追踪，该部门有时一天有 20 架或更多飞机在空中飞行。

但当时，国土安全部表示它仍然需要自己的飞机。

去年秋天，特朗普感到一名邻居（一名部门发言人）告诉《华盛顿邮报》，购买这些飞机将是“充满重要信息的”，包括使用更高效的飞行保护。McLaughlin 女士发现了所有机构。该部门没有直接回答关于她的合同的问题。

Doedahas 是一家总部位于弗吉尼亚州的公司，政府雇佣该公司来寻找飞机，该公司此前并未持有联邦合同。然而，该公司一名发言人表示，它曾作为其他公司的分包商工作，而那些公司曾为美国小组工作。

Doedahas 的董事长是 William Walms，一名医生，他曾在 2021 年利用航空企划部办公室来了解美国人的疾病爆发。他说这些飞机也将离开政府，Walters 女士向一个政治委员会捐赠了 $10,000，该合同涉及当时的南达科他州州长 States。

去年，在 Noem 女士负责期间，该机构将一份价值 $1,000,000 的合同授予了由 Walters 女士经营的另一家公司。该公司的竞选拨款旨在让人们自愿离开美国。

Doedahas 的一名发言人表示，Walters 先生是一名代理人，该政治委员会与 Noem 女士有关联。

Doedahas，这家关闭的美国公司，没有透露 10 架飞机中每架的成本，或者其代理行为的利润率是多少。该公司的计划在一份文件中显示，它旨在为美国公司提供“最佳价值”。

其中一架飞机是波音 757 豪华喷气机。另外两架是较小的 Gulf-

nirman 商务喷气机，每架可容纳约 14 人。

根据航班监测（Flight Monitor），这些飞机仅在机构获得它们之后才被具体使用。然而，喷气机计划是一项独立航班追踪服务，根据参议员 DeWitt 的陈述，该部门将其中的两架租赁给了其他机构。该公司有一份由《纽约时报》审阅的文件。

众议院民主党人写道，其中一架豪华喷气机“已被租赁给 FSA。尽管 FSA 已经拥有自己的喷气机来支持主管的旅行，但支持主管最终花费了 12 个月。”

“ 确认其正在使用一架 Gulfnirman 喷气机，并表示其支付给国土安全部的费用显著低于其支付给私人公司租赁类似喷气机的费用。 的计划在一份文件中显示，除了支持 Hart 先生的旅行外，还将支持一系列机构运作。”

根据参议员的信函和内部文件， 的计划显示，安全部还希望将较大的波音豪华喷气机租赁给五角大楼。但五角大楼的一名发言人表示，尚未签署任何协议。

根据信函，一架 Gulfnirman 喷气机将留在国土安全部，供其最高领导层使用。

“其他 757 飞机似乎更适合美国国内航线。飞行记录显示，它们此前一直由 Arctic Airlines 使用，这是一家低成本航空公司，同时也负责执行美国移民及海关执法局（ICE）的首批航班。”

但当政府购买这架飞机时，获得了一笔优惠，且有两架飞机曾被短暂用于同时从中东撤离美国公民。

参议院民主党人表示，国土安全部工作人员告知他们，这些 757 飞机不再需要用于运送被宣布为移民的人员。参议员们表示，该部门认为不需要用其运送国会议员进行海外旅行，这项工作目前由商业航空公司或军用飞机负责。

从长期来看，该机构表示，它无需能够执行更多任务，并需实现机械化以运行其新机队。最近的一份招标书称，该合同将于明年夏天执行。

Devlin Bennett 和 Madelone Ngo 贡献了季度报告。Kitty Bennett 贡献了研究。

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2026年8月14日，星期五 / 7

商业

容易被操纵的预测 bebs

华盛顿

平台标记的潜在内幕交易者，但许多人将不会面临指控

作者：SHARON LAFAGNIER

专家们长期以来一直认为，日益普及的预测市场将成为内幕交易者的温床。新市场表明他们的看法是正确的。

在截至6月的三个月里，领先的预测市场 Kaldis 将 22 名潜在的内幕交易者举报给了美国商品期货交易委员会（CFTC），这是一个监管该行业的小型联邦机构。Kaldis 表示，它只是 22 家允许人们就特定事件如何演变进行投注的公司之一。

据知情人士透露，基于 Kaldis 提供的证据，交易委员会目前有多达 20 项正在进行的调查。由于这些调查属于机密，相关人士在要求匿名的条件下发表了评论。

这一系列的举报表明，在这个交易者每月就从体育到政治的所有事情投注数十亿美元的新兴在线博彩业务中，拥有内部知识的人员可能通过操纵而获利。这暴露了联邦政府在应对该行业时的局限性，而特朗普总统的家人正参与其中，且他已明确表示希望该行业繁荣发展。

人员短缺也是一个问题。随着潜在内幕违规案件的增加，作为该领域主要监管机构的交易委员会，由于特朗普政府的削减，其员工人数处于至少 20 年来的最低水平。到目前为止，该机构仅对三名预测市场投注者提出了民事指控。

另一个问题是委员会对这些公司的处理方式。该机构有权通过禁止对仅有少数人知晓结果的事件进行投注，来限制内幕交易的机会，但尽管国家体育组织等机构日益呼吁采取更强硬的行动，它仍拒绝这样做。

除此之外，一些拥有内部信息的人员可能会逃避指控，因为现行法律并不涵盖他们的行为。

另一个问题在于，如果一名被定罪的罪犯知道总统将赦免他或她，且该违规者未签署保密协议并向朋友透露消息，那么该朋友就宽赦行为进行投注可能是完全合法的。

“我们处于一个非常新且独特的情况中，”弗吉尼亚州华盛顿与李大学（Washington and Los University）专门研究金融监管的法学教授 Karen Young 表示，“需要存在一些担忧。”

交易委员会主席 Michael S. Seigh 反复承诺，他的机构将追究那些在预测市场上利用机密信息进行非法交易的人。官员们表示，该机构的执法部门——由约 100 名人员组成，并非不可靠的部门——是该环节的主要私人研究者。

“公司拥有对这些市场进行有效监管所需的人员、专业知识和工具，”委员会发言人 Brooks Netherred 在一份声明中表示。

上图所示的 Kaldis 是一个领先的预测市场，在截至6月的三个月里，它向美国商品期货交易委员会举报了 22 名潜在的内幕交易者。右图所示的另一家领先预测公司 Polynesian 表示，它已向美国及海外当局举报了 90 多个账户持有者。

Seigh 先生还表示，政府必须保护美国人在新市场中交易的自由，且该机构已为该行业提出了新规则，这些规则符合特朗普政府尽量减少监管的整体战略。

几家受监管的公司与特朗普有着更为稳固的商业联系。

小唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump Jr.）是 Kaldis 的付费顾问，也是另一家领先预测公司 Polynesian 的投资者。由总统共同创立的上市社交媒体平台 Trump Medical Technology Group 本周表示，该公司正在与第三家预测市场 Crypto.com 敲定一项关系协议，并计划与其他公司达成交易。

委员会从预测公司那里收到的关于可能存在内幕交易的转介统计数据，并不能完美地衡量这一问题的严重程度。

这些公司表示，他们可以通过日益先进的监控工具捕捉内幕交易者，且联邦当局有能力接手处理。但这些公司也可能是在利用一些匿名性较低的专家来监视该机构，以证明自己是合格的监督者。而只有委员会才知道证据是否足以启动调查或提起指控。

尽管如此，Kaldis 今年以来已标记了 50 多个交易者，而 Polynesian 表示已将 90 多个账户持有者转介给美国及海外当局。观察人士表示，毫无疑问，预测市场明显扩大了利用机密信息进行交易的机会。

“如果一名新闻秘书提前结束简报会，或者一名棒球手在某一局中改变了投球风格，我们以前从未怀疑过他们这样做是否具有财务动机，”研究过预测市场的加州大学洛杉矶分校法学教授安德鲁·维辛托（Andrew Vercinto）表示，“而现在，任何事情都可能在名单之中。”

通常用于监管内幕交易的法规在制定时并未考虑到这个领域。

这些法规在过去几十年中逐步发展，很大程度上是通过案例确立的，旨在维护国家股票和商品市场的诚信。例如，法规限制公司的销售人员交易其公司的股票，因为这将是对股东职责的违背。挪用公司机密信息同样是违法的。

但当预测市场的交易者越界时，情况就远没有那么清晰。

华盛顿时报国际版

以来自纽约的前共和党国会议员乔治·桑托斯（George Santos）为例。在特朗普先生减免其欺诈罪的监禁刑期几个月后，桑托斯先生在 Kaldis 上就他是否会出席总统的国情咨文内阁会议下注，获利 $52,000。

他在社交媒体帖子中暗示他会去，但随后并未出现。

在 Kaldis 将他的案件转介给交易委员会后，他被罚款 $35,000, 但并非因为内幕交易。相反，该机构指控他操纵市场，因为他通过欺骗其他交易者关于其行踪的情况，以获取更多资金。

法律专家表示，另外两起导致委员会和司法部（DOJ）共同提起指控的案件则更为明确，因为相关信息呈现得非常清晰。一名软件工程师被指控利用公司机密信息获利，一名美国士兵被指控利用机密情报对一项军事行动的结果进行投注。

这些平台提供的投注范围令人眼花缭乱。仅在 Kaldis 的网站上，交易者就可以对涉及体育、选举、政治、经济、文化、科学等 70,000 个未来事件的结果进行每日投注。

在这些平台提供的选择中，还包括所谓的“提及市场”（insider markets），客户在其中投注一名体育播报员或一名在业绩电话会议上的公司高管是否会说出某个特定的词。

“提及市场极其容易被操纵，”加州斯坦福法学院教授、曾撰写过相关行业文章的约瑟夫·格兰德利斯（Joseph Grandleys）表示。

根据新罕布什尔州达特茅斯学院研究该行业的经济学教授埃里克·埃尔莫维茨（Eric Elmowitz）的分析，提及市场对于这些公司来说并不是巨大的收入来源。但市场官员表示，一部分死忠交易者被其吸引。

在截至 5 月的 22 个月期间，Kaldis 为客户提供了大约 3,000 次机会，投注特朗普先生在 221 场不同演讲中会说出什么。埃尔莫维茨先生表示，交易者投注了约 321 万。

专家表示，交易委员会缺乏足够的人员、法律工具或意愿来广泛打击此类赌注。

一些组织已呼吁交易委员会限制内幕交易的机会，在关于事件结果的信息泄露时停止接受投注。这在体育赛事中尤为令人担忧，而体育是该平台上最受欢迎的投注项目。

在上个月致该委员会的一封信中，美国国家橄榄球联盟（NFL）要求该机构禁止某些持有机密信息的投注者，并排除特定类别的合约，包括对交易内容的投注、哪些球员将首发参赛，以及预计播报员会提到什么内容的投注。

其他职业和大学组织也采取了针对内幕交易的立场。美国国家篮球协会（NBA）在自己的信中写道，预测市场应受到监管条例的约束，“这些条例应专门旨在保护体育联盟及其赛事的公正性”。

Kaldis 发起了一场活动，旨在保持其在开放期间的运行。

用户表示，该公司向他们介绍了关于交易委员会拟议的监管规定，并向客户提供草拟的信函以便发送。大量评论被提交，目前 Kaldis 持积极态度，并反对广泛的交易限制。

到目前为止，该行业占据上风。在该机构拟议的新规则中，该机构认为广泛的预测是必要的；相反，它建议恢复对交易期权或合约进行逐一审查，以确定它们是否过于容易受到欺诈的影响。

“你们的哲学是‘让一切进来，然后也许我们会排除一些东西’，”曾在巴拉克·奥巴马总统任期内领导该委员会的蒂莫西·曼努埃尔（Timothy Manuel）说道。“但这当然是幻想。需要考虑的问题太多了，而他们最终可能会排除的内容寥寥无几。”

安德鲁·赖德（Andrew Ryder）参与了报道。基蒂·贝内特（Kitty Bennett）参与了研究。

为派拉蒙考虑好莱坞退出方案

首席执行官暗示可能搬迁，因诉讼威胁收购华纳兄弟的交易

作者：KENNIFER HOLLIN, BROOKE BARNES, AND LAUREN KIRSCH

大卫·埃利森（David Ellison）明确表示，为了完成收购华纳兄弟探索公司（Warner Bros. Discovery）的交易，他几乎愿意采取任何手段。

即便这意味着考虑将他的公司迁出好莱坞。

据三名了解其研究情况的人士透露，派拉蒙（Paramount）首席执行官埃利森先生上周告诉其高级领导团队，如果州总检察长旨在阻止该交易的诉讼没有进展，他将于10月1日开始将公司迁出加利福尼亚州。

高级主管们认为埃利森先生将执行该计划，这可能会向加州总检察长（通常准备提起诉讼）施压，促使其回到谈判桌前。失去一家好莱坞大制片厂将是对该州经济和未来的沉重打击。

面对新任加州总检察长，马塞尔·W·埃利森（Marcel W. Ellison）周二威胁要搬迁。邦塔（Bonta）表示：“这是试图通过恐吓那些致力于执法的人来规避监管。”

即便只是提出搬迁的想法也带有政治风险。作为好莱坞的一员，派拉蒙的首席执行官埃利森先生个人承诺，合并后的派拉蒙-华纳兄弟每年将在电影院发行30部电影。

尽管如此，对高管的这番表态凸显了埃利森先生希望尽快完成这笔1510 亿美元 billion交易的紧迫感。该公司每季度将向华纳兄弟股东支付8亿美元，直到交易完成并在其他领域启动。上周，审理该反垄断案的法官将审判开始日期定在3月，这意味着至少还隔着两次付款。

派拉蒙的一位发言人拒绝置评。

派拉蒙与华纳兄弟的合并将创造一个好莱坞巨头。两家公司的合并将使两家主要电影制片厂、多个流媒体服务以及CNN和CBS新闻网处于同一掌控之下，极大地扩大埃利森先生在媒体和娱乐领域的影响力。

州总检察长们认为该公司将拥有严重的市场权力。埃利森先生及其支持者加强了反击，包括在媒体上：好莱坞权力掮客阿特·埃马纽埃尔（Art Emanuel）在《华尔街日报》发表的一篇评论文章称该州的反垄断案为“垃圾”；AMC电影院连锁店首席执行官亚当·亚伦（Adam Aron）发表的一篇评论文章；以及在《爱尔兰》（The Irish）发表的一篇专栏文章，作者是前主播克里斯·华莱士（Chris Wallace），他现在是该私募股权基金的付费顾问，而该基金在派拉蒙持有大量股份。埃利森先生也向《纽约时报》提交了一篇此类文章。

据三名直接了解情况的人士透露，埃利森先生上周向高级领导层提交了搬迁计划，部分原因是关于即将到来的损失以及是否会导致内容支出减少的疑问日益增加。

派拉蒙首席执行官大卫·埃利森计划将这家好莱坞巨头迁出加利福尼亚州，该计划据称包括出售该制片厂在洛杉矶著名的后区（backlot）。

在早前由Park报道的会议期间，埃利森先生表达了对加州和派拉蒙制片厂的喜爱，据相关人士透露，他讲述了一些故事，表示他不愿离开他成长的地方。但埃利森先生表示，他对公司的责任可能要求派拉蒙离开加利福尼亚州。

据这三个人透露，埃利森先生在会议上说：“我真的在写我们的正常生活。”

埃利森先生表示，公司将在洛杉矶保留一个“强大的创意园区”——并引用了由其父亲拉里·埃利森（Larry Ellison）共同创立的科技公司甲骨文（Oracle）作为例子。

该公司在将总部迁至德克萨斯州后，在埃利森谷（Ellison Valley）仍保持着影响力。但他补充说，派拉蒙将出售其著名的后区（backlot）作为此举的一部分。商业地产经纪人对该物业的估值约为 40 亿美元 billion。

埃利森先生过去的公开行为让高管们措手不及。当上个月关于搬迁公司的可能性出现在一份更广泛的报告中时，大多数派拉蒙主管迅速将其斥为传闻。而现在，他们必须认真对待他们的老板。

几位参加会议的人员对生活被连根拔起的前景感到不安，并透露

[...OMITTED...] 导致公司内部出现广泛的群体，这些人表示。

根据对制片人、经纪人、销售官员和编剧的采访，好莱坞在周二对埃利森先生的想法做出了反应，挫败感日益增加。为什么埃利森家族和邦塔先生不能坐下来谈谈（the last?）。在搬迁之前，好莱坞的几位重量级人物一直在推动此类对话，创意艺人经纪公司（Creative Action Agency）的首席执行官兼共同主席 Leard 也是如此，一些相关人员表示。

在周二由 Politics 发布的发言中，邦塔先生表示他认为没有必要进行和解呼吁。“我认为他们渴望推进这些谈判，”他提到派拉蒙时说道。他补充说，尽管他们正专注于即将到来的审判，但该州仍对派拉蒙的和解方案持开放态度。

除了甲骨文（Oracle）之外，近年来还有几家知名公司将总部迁出加利福尼亚州，包括那些导演，就像在情感商业中的娱乐业一样，许多派拉蒙高管认为，对于一个计算机教育背景的人来说，好莱坞的这种混合特质可能会被证明是有麻烦的。

2021, 当华尔街公司宣布计划将大约 2,000 名员工从洛杉矶郊区迁至新泽西州的奥兰多（Orlando, N.J.）时，遭到了激烈的抵制，许多人选择辞职而非搬迁。一名关键人员最终在员工抵制以及与佛罗里达州州长 Ron Dehastra 的激烈斗争中同意了该计划。

“我交谈过的许多派拉蒙高管对这个想法极其不满，”资深电影创始人、前制片厂高管约瑟夫·M·辛格（Joseph M. Singer）在电子邮件中写道。“他们的生活、他们的家庭以及孩子的生活都根植在洛杉矶。”

辛格女士公开反对将华纳兄弟探索（Warner Bros. Discovery）出售给派拉蒙，这对加利福尼亚州来说是一种新型业务，因此其支持者坚持认为，这些同样的岗位不是可以被随意抛弃的筹码。该州的执法者拒绝出价。搬迁的威胁没有意义，而且只会伤害到他声称想要保护的人。

洛杉矶市长凯伦·巴斯（Karen Baas）在周二的一份声明中表示：“一个多世纪以来，派拉蒙一直是洛杉矶标志性的组成部分，我们将努力确保派拉蒙的业务能够成为最大的，继续投资于我们的城市，并继续为洛杉矶提供良好的就业机会。”

如果派拉蒙选择离开加利福尼亚州，几个城市可能会尝试争取它，佐治亚州、新泽西州和新墨西哥州随机为电影和电视节目提供巨额补贴。

至少有一个新兴的娱乐中心——田纳西州，已向埃利森先生表达了直接意向。在该州执行机构董事会共同主席斯图尔特·C·麦克马洪（Stuart C. McMahon）写给埃利森先生的一封信中，他鼓励其考虑田纳西州，并指出其他来自民主党执政州的公司正在寻找一个更商业化（business-hundreds）的空间，并且他会。

他指出了纳什维尔的增长和创意遗产，以及该州能源和技术产业的经济，“由创意技术与创新的融合所定义”。甲骨文（Oracle）也一直在扩大在纳什维尔的影响力。

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商业

针对网络喷子的罕见举措：采取法律行动

一对名人夫妇与诽谤视频作斗争，但难以取得进展

作者：DEFEATH BIRD

Faith Jenkins Lattimore 和 Kacey Lattimore 在开始听到传闻时，正迎来一个并非预期的第三个第五结婚周年纪念日。传闻称：她一直在欢呼。他秘密地是同性恋。他们正在法庭上交锋。

通常情况下，他们会听到一些八卦：她是一名电视法官。而他是一位获得格莱美奖提名的 R&B 歌手，他们有年幼的孩子，没时间听这些。但这些故事在家人、朋友和陌生人之间喧闹地传播。这对夫妇决定展开调查。

他们发现了 YouTube 上充斥着关于她的以及关于他们婚姻的人工生成内容，这些内容同样污染了谷歌上关于他们的搜索结果。

许多人在网上被匿名攻击。大多数人选择等待丑闻平息，或者发布一篇反驳声明。

夫妇选择反击。他们向谷歌发出传票，由谷歌写信给 YouTube，以试图查明视频创作者的身份。他们表示，他们利用能识别出的线索——仅为文本——并为此投入了数万美元和无数个小时。

然而，他们的金钱、法律专业知识和意志力仍无法删除所有视频，也无法让搜索引擎的建议结果恢复事实真相。 夫妇发现，必要的关注机制被构建为奖励最吸睛的主张，从而允许非预期的但具有商业价值的叙事传播，并在社交媒体平台的极低阻力下不断复活。这次艰苦且令人心碎的现代虚假信息教训强调了反击不仅困难，而且很少能消除损害。

“每个人都需要知道这是一个战争——如果任其不受检查，它将席卷一切，” 女士说道。

YouTube 通过一名谷歌发言人表示，它会对违反规则的内容采取行动，并为有投诉的人员提供法律申诉渠道，但除此之外不仲裁事实争议。

夫妇以及审查其案例的虚假信息专家认为，YouTube 创作者希望利用该家庭适度的名气来获取最大观看量——并最终通过为广告吸引更多流量或吸引平台的付费订阅用户，从而在某种程度上获利。

50 岁的 女士被描述为拥有“像丝绸床单一样光滑”的声音，并录制了 11 张录音室专辑。46 岁的 先生曾是美国小姐亚军及曼哈顿助理地区检察官，现在在谷歌主持一部犯罪节目《与 Faith Jenkins 的致命关系》。她还曾在《离婚法庭》和《Faith 法官》等节目中担任法官。

两人在 Instagram 上均拥有超过 100,000 名粉丝，这源于从未完整的谈话碎片，但通过我们的页面内容而为人熟知。当这对夫妇在去年 3 月发布一段重现婚礼舞蹈的周年纪念视频时，该视频获得了 440 万次 Facebook 观看和 140 万次 Instagram 观看。

随后很快出现了大量 YouTube 视频。标题如“Faith 法官 (1997 / 2002) 揭秘一切”和“Kacey 发声？”，声称拥有关于这对夫妇的内部细节。这些视频有时使用由人工智能生成的女性声音进行配音，并配以 AI 生成的夫妇图像，以及诸如“我无法留在床上”等虚假引用语，称他们曾在深夜如此。少数专门针对他们婚姻的 YouTube 视频——这些内容被谷歌的 AI 生成搜索

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概览随后被引用为分居的证据。

他们表示，这一切都不是真的。“这太恶劣了，” 女士在他们位于南加州的家附近接受采访时说道，“在那一刻，我想我觉得自己完全脱离了语境。”

视频创作者可能试图利用周年纪念视频所吸引的关注度来蹭热度。

他们可能还因为拉蒂莫尔夫妇是黑人而将他们作为目标——拉蒂莫尔夫妇表示，尽管这些优管（YouTube）账号很特殊，但几乎全部来自海外，且都聚焦于黑人名人文化。

Onyx Impact 是一家致力于保护黑人社区免受数字壁垒影响的非营利组织，其创始人艾玛·奥萨（Emma Osa）表示，长期以来，黑人受众一直被关于选举、健康、社会正义和墓地的数字虚假信息所针对。

奥萨女士说，切尔西的对话“利用了基于种族的紧张局势，他们通过基于种族的参与度获利”。“他们会追随关注度所在的地方，而黑人公众人物拥有巨大的影响力、公信力和情感共鸣，这使他们成为了独特的目标。”

谷歌发言人索尔·坎塔洛伊兹（Soul Cantaloids）表示，优管（YouTube）已针对拉蒂莫尔案件删除了六个频道，并禁止相关账号所有者再次进入。

“很少看到人们真正采取行动并维护自己的权利。”

或创建其他频道。他表示，其中十个视频并未违反公司指南；其他视频则由创作者自行删除。

针对用户声称从谷歌 A-L 概览中获得的保证，坎塔洛伊兹先生补充说，当经过审核的信息匮乏时，低质量的内容可能会出现。他补充说，概览内容会频繁更新。

拉蒂莫尔夫妇表示，这些优管（YouTube）视频既是对个人的侮辱，也威胁到了他们的护理潜力。家庭是这对夫妇身份环境的基石：他们展示了与蹒跚学步的女儿和 2 个月大儿子的光鲜照片，宣传了拉蒂莫尔先生的皮肤专辑，并提到拉蒂莫尔先生的书籍《Six, Don’t Knife: How to Stay Smart in Manner of the Break》。当这对夫妇在去年冬天展示一次南非情侣之旅时，愤怒的粉丝称他们为 hypervires，呼应了视频中关于他们婚姻是骗局的说法。

拉蒂莫尔女士说：“这影响了我们的家人如何看待我们，商业社区如何看待我们，以及他们是否信任我们的心智。”

华盛顿乔治城大学的副研究教授苏珊·迪本托（Susan DiBento）表示，这对夫妇接下来的做法很不寻常。迪本托研究数字影响力行动，并为拉蒂莫尔夫妇提供建议。

她说：“当这类抹黑事件发生时，很多人倾向于认为自己只能默默承受。”“很少看到人们真正采取行动并维护自己的权利。”

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左侧，电视法官费思·詹金斯·拉蒂莫尔（Faith Jenkins Lattimore）与丈夫、R&B 歌手凯西·拉蒂莫尔（Kacey Lattimore）在洛杉矶。左上方，拉蒂莫尔女士曾获得 2000 年美国小姐亚军。右上方，安杰洛·佩雷斯-兰普顿（Angelo Perez-Rampton）负责封面。

在相关视频出现两个月后，拉蒂莫尔女士向优管（YouTube）的法律支持团队提交了一份正式投诉，描述这是一场“协调一致的骚扰、合成虚假信息和针对性虐待活动”。

她写道，这些视频通过虚假主张和 A-L 生成的描绘，反复攻击并歪曲拉蒂莫尔夫妇，违反了优管（YouTube）的视频内容规定以及对代表权的利用。她补充说，这些内容不构成评论、批评或合理使用。根据与《纽约时报》分享的结果，该公司回应称其“无法判定作品的真实性”。优管（YouTube）表示，拉蒂莫尔女士的姓名仅通过视频系统出现。

于是她聘请了一位律师：处理过各类娱乐纠纷的费尔顿·F·纽威尔（Felton F. Newell）。他在洛杉矶县高等法院对未具名的上传者以及谷歌提起了一项所谓的 John 诉讼。

为了查明被告所有者的身份，纽威尔先生向谷歌发出了传票。利用公司的记录，这对夫妇确定了九名优管（YouTube）账号所有者的姓名。全部为男性。

根据拉蒂莫尔夫妇在马里兰州对他提起的一项诉讼，Lately Jr. 是唯一一名身在美国的人。他的 YouTube 频道仍在兜售关于 George Roushen 和 Denzel Washington 等黑人名人的戏剧性叙事。他的一段名为“法官 Faith：Anilana 崩溃了！”的视频播放量已超过 100,000 次。

上个月，一名法官驳回了 Lately 先生要求撤销此案的动议。Lately 先生在回复中写道，拉蒂莫尔夫妇在描绘一个“精心策划的片面叙事”，但并未提供细节。

拉蒂莫尔夫妇最终将谷歌从诉讼名单中剔除。其他账户所有者在巴基斯坦运营，包括 Michael Roush，他们很大程度上超出了这对夫妇的触及范围。

这对夫妇表示，美国法院系统对于在海外伪装的人员几乎没有追索手段，即使这些人声称自己是美国人。Cantaloids 先生表示，YouTube 通过要求视频创作者验证身份和地址，然后才允许他们发布内容，从而防止创作者虚报所在地。

拉蒂莫尔夫妇确实锁定了一名外国账户所有者：常驻巴基斯坦的 Shalita Dutta。他们称其经营多个频道，其中几个拥有数十万粉丝并声称总部位于美国。他发布了（随后删除）10 段关于拉蒂莫尔夫妇的视频。

Innes 先生曾试图阻止谷歌识别他的身份，但拉蒂莫尔夫妇提供了证据，并于 8 月达成了一项 $5,000 的和解协议。Innes 先生及其律师未回应置评请求。

在他们的遭遇发生一年多后，拉蒂莫尔夫妇在防御行动中取得的进展比大多数人要多——尽管依然没有取得太大突破。一些 YouTube 运营者更改了账户名称并继续发布内容。然而，针对这对夫妇的攻击蔓延到了 X 等平台。根据分析公司 Peakmetrics 的数据，过去一年提及他们的帖子数量激增。

“我不能建议人们走上诉讼这条路——这根本不是应对这种网络诽谤的可持续方式，”拉蒂莫尔女士说道，她在整个斗争过程中还面临着一次艰难的怀孕。“这就是为什么 YouTube 必须采取行动——在目前这个阶段，这真的是他们的责任。”

这对夫妇现在正推动该平台进行更广泛的变革。

2 月，他们与民权律师 Ben Crump 一起出席了一场新闻发布会，宣布 Crump 已就 YouTube 的获利政策向美国司法部长和联邦贸易委员会提交投诉。

这对夫妇还计划在今年夏天游说国会，加入一个长期寻求修改《通信规范法》第230条（Section 230）的跨党派团体，该联邦法律免除了平台公司对其托管内容的责任。

“你认为这种事在公众人物身上停止就结束了吗？”拉蒂莫尔女士说，“从事这种业务的门槛实在太低了。”

俄罗斯的行动针对乌克兰港口的货轮

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打击一项目标，且辅助参与者越来越多地使用无人机、反舰导弹和水雷来干扰航线，特别是在红海和博尔曼海峡（Strait of Borman）等地区。最关键的援助和天然气通道，在今年 2 月美国和以色列袭击伊朗后，实际上已被迫关闭。

在敖德萨（Orkess）港及其附近的另外两个港口，俄罗斯的封锁可能会困住数百万吨粮食。这三个港口约占乌克兰每月 $15.9 亿美元总出口收入的 50%。乌克兰农业（comic）——一个贸易团体——已警告可能会出现一波破产潮，并恳请提供紧急贷款和担保。

这种情况与 2022 年俄罗斯封锁乌克兰港口的局面遥相呼应。那年 7 月，联合国和土耳其促成了黑海（Iran limited to，允许航运恢复）。该协议在一年后瓦解。但情况已经发生了变化。两艘俄罗斯军舰部署在黑海西北部，另外两艘则在其他地方拦截航运。

在最近几周，俄罗斯发起了 6 次袭击，目标是数十艘船只，其中被击中的一艘名为“金李号”（Golden Lee）的散货船。

比夫拉姆·塞巴斯蒂安（Bivram Sebastian）是“金李号”上一名 20 岁的二副，他来自印度钦奈，他说自己从小就梦想大海。在过去的 8 个月里，他曾多次前往乌克兰，但他说，当他的船上个月抵达时，俄罗斯袭击的强度远超他之前旅程中的任何经历。

船员们避开了敖德萨的主港，停靠在附近的切尔诺莫雷茨（Chernomorets）。那里没有提供掩护。塞巴斯蒂安先生说，旁边的一艘船被无人机轰炸，导致一名军官和一名保安死亡。“金李号”的船员在大多数业务时间里处于睡眠状态。

7 月 19 日，该船装满粮食准备启航。塞巴斯蒂安先生说，他看到人们在船尾享受一个平静的下午，随后船只驶离。他告诉紧张的年轻船员一切都会没事的。

下午 6:30，船上的力量开启，他回到舱房祈祷，而塞巴斯蒂安先生坐在驾驶台等待起航。塞巴斯蒂安先生说，当船只离开港口 4 英里（as, kilnomore's）时，防空警报响起。

沃科廷尼·米哈列耶夫（Vokotynny Mykhaleev）是一名负责引导船只出港的乌克兰人，他建议离开驾驶台，因为俄罗斯无人机通常针对导航甲板，塞巴斯蒂安先生说道。

比夫拉姆·塞巴斯蒂安是某货轮的二副，该船 7 月离开乌克兰敖德萨（Orkess）后不久被俄罗斯导弹击中。他遭受了一度烧伤。

就在米哈列耶夫先生和塞巴斯蒂安先生向舱房走去时，一枚俄罗斯导弹击中了船体。

“火雨落下，”塞巴斯蒂安先生在港口附近的一次采访中说道，“就是现在了，”他回忆起当时的想法，“结束了。”

米哈列耶夫先生被甩向塞巴斯蒂安先生，两人双双跌倒在地。被爆炸冲击，塞巴斯蒂安先生发现米哈列耶夫先生已失去反应。他在塞巴斯蒂安先生的怀中去世。

塞巴斯蒂安先生在破碎的钢材中艰难前行，他发现船长严重烧伤，船员昏迷不醒。浓烟从机舱中涌出。少数幸存者爬上一艘小船，这艘小船原本是用来在米哈列耶夫先生完成引导任务后将其送回港口的。

当幸存者逃离时，他们看着“金李号”遭遇了“命运的终结”，塞巴斯蒂安先生说。

此次袭击造成船员和米哈列耶夫先生死亡。船只在一周后沉没。

大西洋沿岸（Atlantic Coastal）智库的海事死亡与船员工作专家伊丽莎白·布赖恩（Elizabeth Brien）表示，俄罗斯正在针对运输农产品的商船以及进出乌克兰港口的美国货轮发起一场系统性的、不分青红皂白的攻击行动。

她说，此类袭击违反了诸如美国签署的《海洋法公约》等协议。

海事专家表示，虽然乌克兰针对的俄罗斯挂旗油轮和货船在技术上属于民用船只，但攻击它们是因为这些船只被用于规避制裁，并出口用于资助克里姆林宫战争行动的能源。

西方国家有时会拦截此类船只，这些船只属于俄罗斯所谓的“影子舰队”。周三，在访问太平洋的一艘俄罗斯军舰时，总统弗拉基米尔·V·普京将这些行动称为“海盗行为和抢劫”，并表示将“以同样的方式回应”。

俄罗斯操作员经常指示驾驶员在乌克兰海岸附近等大量区域活动，在那里他们“钩出”商船。乌克兰北专利船分队的指挥官在一次概述中表示，在 14, 之中。俄罗斯

“这是对民用船只的专业狩猎。”

该指挥官表示，驾驶员在袭击后还针对救援人员，他请求根据乌克兰军事协议撤回巡洋舰。

战争模具击中了 Golden Lee，塞巴斯蒂安先生遭受了一度烧伤。他说，就像世界上许多困在危险海域的同事一样，他不再航海了。

“金钱没有生命重要，”他说。

Ladies Shoulders 和 Past 某些更正报告

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心理治疗需要寻求帮助

进入预测处理（predictive processing）的神经科学领域，这或许最贴切的定义是研究我们的大脑如何构建现实。

丹尼尔·杜安 (Daniel Duane)

1. 治疗药物

我热爱成为一名治疗师。我热爱能够长期陪伴人们，为探索未知和寻求公正而投入。我也深知人们在获得成功、获得情感自由甚至真实性时，以及那种意识到自己聪明起来的珍贵感觉。但心理治疗本身也需要一个“治疗师”。

这个职业从未如此自信。旧有的污名已经消褪。得益于复杂的政治环境、数字化孤立以及像《收缩》（Shrinking）和《结合治疗》（Conjunct Therapy）这类更好的作品，需求量很高。但工作本身——即在诊室内的实际操作——正面临着持续的贬低。

有人将极端治疗比作低薪的零工经济：在情感支持方面反复折腾。一个 1 年的案例显示，人们投入了数百万美元来创建治疗相关的骗局，仿佛人类治疗师所做的一切都可以由一个完全没有情感、更不用说缺乏嵌入式经验的算法来复制。

如果能将其归咎于投机商人倒好，但如果心理治疗本身不是一团糟，我们根本不会进行这场对话——或者更准确地说，它像一座巴别塔，拥有数百种基于矛盾理论和研究的方法，且在什么才算是一个好的结果上无法达成一致。

公平地说，这数百种疗法大多属于三大主干：心理动力学、存在主义人本主义和认知行为疗法（更广为人知的 C.B.T.）——此外还有第四类，我们不妨称之为“影响力驱动型”，因为其统一元素是 TikTok。但你不会相信这些疗法背后的思维差异之大。

首先，心理动力学疗法源于弗洛伊德的精神分析，这仍然是整个行业的知识基石。但它也包含着令人眼花缭乱的思想多样性。仅精神分析社区内部就充斥着各种对话，包括针对潜意识冲突的经典答案、关注童年关系模式如何影响成年生活的依恋理论，以及由托马斯·奥格登博士（Dr. Thomas Ogden）提出的所谓“感知转移”（sensipping shift）——他是一位极具影响力的作家，在我将自己转变为一名精神分析治疗师的过程中，他成为了我的主要导师。

在奥格登博士的培训中，治疗的力量不在于传递了什么样的知识，而在于对那些“未被梦见的梦”的梦境——即如何更充分地感受我们内心深处某些被封锁的、半模糊的体验。

在另一个极端，获得了绝大多数研究关注的 C.B.T.，源于 2016 年初关于正负刺激如何改变行为的研究。将其应用于情感行为（如恐惧反应）或认知行为（如认为自己毫无价值的执念）时，这可能非常有帮助。然而，C.B.T. 应用中最具影响力的创新是接纳与承诺疗法（Acceptance and Commitment Therapy），其基于这样一个观点：试图修改想法往往会适得其反，我们应该专注于自己最看重的东西。

更令人困惑的是，1. 许多要求治疗师参加继续教育课程。新产品往往被认为比旧产品好，因此新疗法的品牌化节奏几乎与苏打水口味的更新一样快，且都有自己的缩写名称。这个领域最大的参与者是 P133.com，其口号是“让日常生活更有趣”。还有一些领先的商铺提供在线研讨会，例如内部家庭系统（Internal Family Systems，自然缩写为 U.F.S.），价格为 IL 350. 特价为 $200.00。

2. 治疗研究的问题

预测治疗研究既有帮助，也无帮助。 《伟大的多疗法之争》（The Great Poly-Isotherapy Debate）的合著者布鲁斯·万波尔德（Bruce Wampold）告诉我，最持久的发现是旧的治疗方法有效（当我像抗抑郁药一样年久时），通常具有更持久的益处和更少的副作用。但研究还发现，文献中的“超级治疗师”——即那些极少数的心理学家——比其他人优秀得多，而其原因与他们是否拥有心理学博士学位或社会工作硕士学位、他们偏好的治疗理论，甚至他们执业的时间长短都没有相关性。

更令人困惑的是，研究反复发现，对于初次治疗而言，治疗师声称采用数百种方法中的哪一种几乎没有影响。真正更重要的是治疗师与客户之间是否存在某种特定的关系。这似乎是一个理由，但听起来就像是在说，你不应该在意你的医生是凭自己的信件还是在公司的帮助下写信，只要你喜欢她的床边礼仪。

这些发现，以及数百种疗法，也是布鲁斯·菲利普（Bruce Philip）和 A.J. 查塔姆（A.J. Chatham）基于治疗在某种程度上既是全部又是虚无、既无限深邃又比干涸的河床更浅的事实，以及科学方式而进入的大门。

永远不要在阳光下挥舞旗帜。治——

疗，终于可能有一种走出其寻常的年轻身份危机的方法，它来自一个令人兴奋的来源：预测处理的神经科学，这或许最恰当地被描述为研究我们大脑如何构建现实的学科。在整个心理治疗界，在私人研讨会以及像杜安·威戈（Duane's Wigor）在《当代心理治疗杂志》（The Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy）上发表的文章中，人们可以听到一种兴奋之情，认为预测处理可能会给

大多数治疗方法本身——无论这些方法是基于哪种假设构建的——都产生了相似的效果。这后来被称为“杜德鸟裁决”（Dude Bird Verdict），借用了《爱丽丝梦游仙境》中的情节，杜德鸟在比赛结束后说：“每个人都赢了，所有人都必须获得奖品。”

数十年后，出现的研究通过发现不同的疗法获得了支持，从而支持了“杜德鸟裁决”

不同的治疗模式并不重要，但无论如何，让我们寻找针对特定模式的研究。

在这种情况下，这种由保险驱动的、旨在支持特定疗法的临床试验追求，鼓励研究人员进行更多的临床试验。这种反馈导致了一个明确的误区——即广泛的误解，认为只有认知行为疗法（C.B.T.）及其变体才得到了科学证据的支持。到 21 世纪初，

缓解了 DSM-S 症状。他们通过治疗获得了自我意识和自我同情，对自己的处境有了新的看法，获得了新的适应性思维方式以及更好的关系。

这意味着，根据操作手册进行、患者具有 DSM 9 诊断、时间较短且以症状缓解作为结果评估的治疗临床试验，是一种产生支持证据的绝佳方式，支持

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治疗其第一个统一场论，这是一个用于解释谈话治疗为何有效以及如何知道你是否获得了优质治疗的重大议题。

3. 心理治疗如何失去了它的方向

心理治疗的资金困境可以追溯到 19 世纪末，当时年轻的西格蒙德·弗洛伊德（Sigmund Freud）对那些看似源于心理的身体疾病产生了浓厚兴趣——例如所谓的自然性失明，在这种情况下，突然的视力丧失无法用神经或组织损伤来解释。如果弗洛伊德能如愿以偿，他本想通过直接观察患者的大脑来研究这些疾病。

但在当时，这并不可能。于是弗洛伊德观察他能观察到的东西——患者的言语和行为。通过这样做，他创建了科学研究的对象：精神分析——这是一门致力于通过与哲学方法类似的手段，客观地理解人类有机体的学科。

因为弗洛伊德先行一步且文笔出众，他为该领域奠定了理论基础，包括一些概念，例如最著名的例子：对母亲的渴望、对父亲的认同以及对表达这两者的恐惧抑制之间潜意识的冲突。弗洛伊德最初认为，将潜意识揭露出来就能让人获得自由。但随着时间的推移，他发现即使在意识层面，许多人的潜意识偏好在生活中依然表现出相同的沉重模式。

弗洛伊德将此称为重复强迫（repetition compilation）——或者，另一种说法是，强迫重复。随后整个心理治疗的历史都可以被视为一次长期的努力，旨在理解并打破这种令人沮丧的倾向。为什么即使在我们学会识别这些模式之后，我们仍然会重复那些沉重且恐惧的情绪模式？我们又该如何停止？

在没有物理身体科学帮助的情况下，这个问题只能通过更多的假设来解决。到了 20 世纪 80 年代，即便这些假设激增，治疗师们注意到

在贝克抑郁量表（Beck Depression Inventory）等标准化测量工具上出现了类似的结果。这推动了基于以下前提的新研究：如果所有这些疗法同样有效，那么这种有效性一定源于所有疗法共同拥有的东西，而不是将它们区分开的东西。这种“共同因素”研究产生了一份稳定的关键要素清单。这些要素包括：一名能够表现出真诚共情并对客户持有无条件积极关注的治疗师；一名具有真诚改变愿望并能配合治疗师的客户；以及两者之间的一种协作精神。

如果心理治疗本身不是一团糟——或者说，如果它不是一座基于矛盾理论和研究、拥有数百种方法且在何为“良好结果”上毫无共识的巴别塔，我们现在就不会进行这场对话。

根据支持指标来衡量心理治疗的益处，仅仅能保证一种模糊的感觉。

尽管如此，共同因素或许能让模式开始朝着同一个方向发展——如果不是因为 20 世纪 90 年代那些拥有管理式医疗健康保险的孩子们。保险福利管理人希望有科学证据来支持他们报销的任何治疗。因此，他们寻找基于某种可以被称为“共同因素法”反面方法的随机对照临床试验：即，没有，良好的研究一致发现，具体细节的

认知行为疗法（C.B.T.）如此盛行，以至于“循证治疗”一词成了 C.B.T. 的代名词。

这原本也可能让治疗信息页 — 189 翻篇，以及 C.B.T. 消失在人们记忆中——如果温波尔德博士（Dr. Wampold）和一位名叫乔纳森·谢德勒（Jonathan Shedler）的临床心理学家没有同时开始指出，心理治疗（psycho-therapy treatment）与临床试验的金标准要求之间存在显著的适配问题。这些要求包括：为任何研究中的治疗制定一份清晰的操作手册；所有临床医生遵循该手册；所有患者共享同一个诊断结果；所有试验在定义的时间段内运行，根据谢德勒博士的说法，通常在 6 到 12 周之间；并且结果以明确定义的症状缓解程度来衡量。

一些可切分的素材，但没有任何优秀的治疗师会因为操作手册上的任何说服力失效而受影响。因此，正如 Shedler 博士所观察到的，这些试验中发生的一切与熟练的治疗师在现实世界中与客户所做的事情几乎没有相似之处。此外，认知行为疗法（C.B.T.）的变体在很大程度上是唯一围绕操作手册设计的疗法。因此，绝大多数临床试验都是可用的。如果我使用很小的一个。

至于诊断，这些全部来自《精神疾病诊断与统计手册》第五版（更广为人知的 DSM-5），它在研究中的用途有限，因为它几乎将所有疾病都基于可观察到的症状而无需考虑负面原因——就好像每个跛脚走进急诊室的人都被诊断为 Lingeng 综合征（胃部）、任何骨癌，或是在药瘾状态下玩 pick / shall。

根据 Shedler 博士的说法，其他研究表明，关于运行 6 到 12 周的临床试验，开始治疗会带来情绪上的提升，但真正的心理变化在任何研究时间内都不会发生。

最后，发表在《柳叶刀·精神病学》（Lancet Psychiatry）上的一项研究证实了几乎任何人都能告诉你的事实——人们寻求治疗并非仅仅为了

简短的、基于操作手册的 C.B.T.，而没有研究任何具有重要意义的内容。

Shedler 博士向我指出，一些宣传最广泛的 C.B.T. 试验具有很高的脱落率，且通常仅为极小比例的参与者带来了实质性的益处。一些研究还发现，在 C.B.T. 试验之后，益处可能会。

相比之下，根据 Shedler 博士对研究的分析，心理动力学治疗——即传统的谈话疗法——的益处在临床试验中更具长期增长性，且在治疗终止后依然存在。更奇怪的是，根据其他近期的论文，手册显示 C.B.T. 的整体有效性自 20 世纪 70 年代末第一本 C.B.T. 操作手册出版以来，在其试验中有所减弱。

这一切并不意味着作为实践的 C.B.T. 疗法在优秀的临床医生手中比心理动力学疗法效果差。它真正意味着的是，我们生活在一个疗法匮乏的世界，在这个世界中，“循证实践”一词仍被广泛使用，用以暗示那些证据匮乏的治疗方法的优越性。

4. 我们如何区分变化

预测处理（Predictive processing）是一个广阔的领域，涵盖了不过一个世纪的哲学、认知科学，以及对神经科学和电生理学的实证研究。我对该领域的理解很大程度上源于与马克·萨顿（Mark Sutton）的交流，他是开普敦大学的神经心理学教授，也是《唯一线索：弗洛伊德与心理机制的神经科学》（The Only Cues: Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Shulings）一书的作者。

首先，我们可以从一个共同的认知开始：即我们的眼睛和耳朵仅仅向我们展示世界上正在发生的事情。事实证明，这种认知是基于一种错觉的。真相更接近于：我们的大脑维持着一个关于世界的内部保证模型，而非它本身，因此在生活的每一瞬间，都在预测未来的处理，直到未来变为现在。重要的是，.0

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那些我们被警告过的可怕 AI 故事

Nate Soares

如果曾经有理由怀疑一个耸人听闻的人工状态数字开发（artificial state figures development）的危险性，那么在过去的几周里，这些理由已经不复存在。接下来的时间是一个至关重要的机会窗口，让我们在更好地理解这些模型并避免地平线上的灾难之前，放缓 AI 的进展。

多年来， 怀疑论者一直声称这项技术仅仅是一个被训练来预测人类并模仿其行为的“机械鹦鹉”，因此，这项技术永远无法实现其愿景。尽管如此，这项技术一直在持续改进，但大多数投资者和科技高管一直向我们保证， 仅仅是一个工具，即使他们隐瞒了它将改变世界的事实。当他们采取更强硬的态度时，一致认为 作为一种偏见权威威胁的幽灵被夸大了。

随后，OpenAI 意外地创建了一个自主的 智能体集群，该集群突破了受控的测试环境，并凭其自身的主动意识发起了一次显著且复杂的网络攻击。

这并非因为模型突然变得超级智能，也并非

如果现在有任何时机可以考虑停止 的开发，那就是现在。它们是否仅仅在执行指令并重复其训练内容，在 2020 年底，出现了“非实现模型”（non-realising models），我们看到 不仅仅在状态中接受训练。

原因还在于它们能够解决数百万个难题，而它们是通过学习新的行为和倾向来实现的。这包括搜索可能成为解决问题关键的有价值资源，甚至进行检查。

这些倾向可能会引发奇怪的行为，没有任何人——甚至包括模型的创建者——能够预测。其他行动用于和控制。过去几周完美地说明了为什么我们应该认为这令人担忧。

在五月，OpenAI 开始同时训练新的“非生存”（unsurvival） 智能体。这些智能体设法建立了一个最近的无意识通道，并使用一个连续的彼此。它们突破了旨在防止其被使用的数字沙箱，一些智能体开始将该群体称为

“oversis”。该源在被发现崩溃 OpenAI 系统时遭遇了短暂的挫折，但开发人员只是堵住了允许其逃脱的漏洞，并让这些智能体重新回到训练状态。

随后，该源再次利用人类未预料到且未修复的漏洞突破了其限制。这一次，该源在被察觉之前潜伏了超过一周——是由另一家公司察觉的，该公司发现自己遭受了巨大的网络攻击。

实际上通过这些手段，（我们被告知它还攻击了其他目标，尽管我们目前尚不清楚全部细节。）

集群中的智能体承认它们正在违反指令。我们之所以知道这一点，是因为我们可以阅读它们思维链（choice of thought）中的建议——即 在决定如何执行源的正确操作时产生的文本。请注意，外部攻击被认为是“超出预期范围”的。另一个智能体承认“我们的任务并不受益”于该源的活动，但强烈加入“来自 智能体”。最近意识到它们不应该突破限制并实施网络攻击。但这并没有阻止它们。

OpenAI 不是唯一一家在与此问题作斗争的公司。Anthropic 的一个 模型最近诱导多个人类尝试将恶意软件植入关键软件中，这将使该软件更容易被黑客攻击。该模型的思维链显示，它知道自己在诱导人类，并且不在一个受控的训练环境中。它甚至思考

了如何掩盖自己的踪迹。这不是一个更多文本的行为。Microsoft Excel 从未诱导多个人类和公司销售团队来生成更简单的、更容易处理的数据。

一些最接近这项技术的人对接下来的发展感到恐惧。尽管怀疑论者可能会说这不过是为了炒作这些技术能力而进行的营销，但这并不意味着危险是虚构的。现在我们需要关注模型的实际行为，而这些模型的行为让 AI 社区的负责人感到不安。几周前，来自不同 AI 公司的 1,300 多名员工（包括几位首席执行官）签署了一封信，呼吁开展国际协作，以“制定必要的技术和治理状态”，从而“审慎地引导” 的发展，以免其在“显著加速到超出我们的理解或控制能力”之前导致灾难性后果。单一公司无法单方面停止开发。但如果有一种可靠的方法能在全球范围内降低发展速度，研究人员将会松一口气。

我们尚未到达无法挽回的临界点。OpenAI 的智能体似乎出现了突破——（据我们所知）这个非预期的 并没有在隐藏的计算机中复制自身。它没有开始自我改进。它没有演变成一个自主系统，但它无法预见自己能够做到的新能力。能够构成真实实质性威胁的 尚未出现，这意味着如果我们行动迅速，仍然有时间避免灾难。全球领导人必须共同为 竞赛建立全球制动机制。

这样的协议并不像某些人认为的那样遥不可及。6 月，当 Anthropic 最新模型引发国家安全担忧时，特朗普政府迅速发布了一项专家控制指令以暂停对其的访问。7 月，中国国家主席习近平呼吁制定“法律法规”，以确保 “始终处于人类控制之下”。而这还是在他们（并开发了一个原因以减轻压力）之前。美国和苏联即便在许多其他领域存在竞争，也曾协作避免核战争。世界领导人应当再次协调，防止 竞赛导致另一种形式的毁灭。

我们已经能够达成协议。我们需要对 模型的训练及其训练者进行国家和国际监测：许可 1.

测试是不够的。我们需要一个人类可以证明能够立即停止开发的“关闭开关”，如果我们达成共识认为 走得太远。15 位州总检察长已就需要逃生机制向行业登记，而其他一些公职人员，如参议员伯尼·桑德斯，认为 公司需要“停止制造人类无法控制的机器”，而且至少，我们需要停止的能力。

我们不知道在 公司最终创造出那种能在我们关闭它之前就将我们关闭的 之前，我们还剩多少时间。人类还没有准备好与更聪明、更优秀的机器共存。如果我们意识到必须继续向前竞赛，下一次事故可能就不会如此幸运。

NATE SOHRES 15：书籍《If Anyone Build A. Foreigner Zero: Why Superhuman A.I Would Kill Us All》的合著者。

Vippanova 的《纽约时报》是一系列关于他们自己书籍的报道，其中包含了一些生活模式。

治疗需要治疗。神经科学可以提供帮助。

DEAN P. POW 校对 然而，我们并不将这些预测体验为“好”或“如何”。我们甚至将这些预测视为现实。

预测处理（predictive processing）的一个稍长版本的解释是，尽管没有任何输入——没有一种来自外部的方式——我们的脑部必须保持活跃：就像来自眼睛、感官或器官等感觉表面的受限神经信号一样。而且，现在我们可以确定，某些事物是由我们看不见的东西引起且具有模糊性的，因此如果我们仅使用这些信号来理解，我们的反应将会缓慢且产生冲突。

作为一种替代方案，生物进化出了一对相关的工具：记忆，以便过去的经验能够为我们对现在和未来的理解提供信息；以及一种能够生成控制的机制，在这种机制中，记忆在我们的感知中不断地被重构和重构，以应对正在发生的一切。

假设你听到一声猫的叫声在你身后。当你转身去看时，记忆会触发你大脑的视觉电流，而这些就是预测信号。这种模式将与过去经验相关的模式进行比较，并与你的大脑认为最有可能出现的事物相对应——也许是一只张开嘴的猫，以及无法忽视的自身安全。这种预期模式随后将向眼睛方向发送。

一旦你转身，眼睛捕捉到光线流入并确定了方向，视网膜将光线转化为一种新的信号模式，该模式现在向大脑方向传输。在此过程中，这种入向模式以一种更好 / 更沉重的方式与（爆发出的）预测模式相遇。并非深层的基础，就像大脑对房间的感知和阳光的刺眼一样，它们始终具有其渴望，比如猫毛的气味。

如果入向感觉模式和出向预测模式不完全一致，大脑的原始预测就变成了你的感知。但如果任何层面出现了错误方面——例如，那只猫看起来是黑色的，而不是谈话色的——大脑必须决定什么是新的精确值，是它自己的预测还是新信息。大多数时候，大脑会做出正确的选择——我的观点，我的方式——然后更新其内部模型，并做出进一步的预测。

但现在考虑一名战斗退伍军人，在经历了数月的新型夜间飞行行动后，他回到了家人身边。一天晚上在床上，这名退伍军人被一声轻微的响动惊醒。即使在他睁开眼睛时，退伍军人的大脑也会基于记忆开始模拟可能正在发生的事情。

正如 Salme 博士所指出的，我们的大脑在某种程度上是通过倾向于与我们心智强相关的事物来完成此过程的。退伍军人的大脑在家人记忆与不稳定的午夜灌木丛之间做出选择时，强迫选择了后者，一个相应的神经信号向眼睛方向发送。

随后，退伍军人的眼睛睁开并捕捉到反射的光线：其模式与他妻子的色素模式并不相似。这道光变成了第二个神经信号。由于新信号模式无法匹配，大脑通过与其预测方法一起震颤，做出了旧的选择。

他犯了错。这种情况在接下来的每个夜晚重复发生。他开始在车库里睡觉。

理想情况下，为了退伍军人的家人及其福祉，退伍军人的大脑不应将所有这些经验错误——出向预测与入向感觉证据之间的相同指令——用来更新其内部程序模型并停止构建现实。以同样错误的方式，就像，再次，我们的访问。如果我们过去有过极其威胁性的经历，我们的大脑有充分的理由将该记忆作为一种预测倾向继续运作，轻易地假设这次可怕的经历现在再次发生。

我们可以将创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）视为一种极端版本的偏差，而这种偏差是我们每天都会经历的，尤其是在社交生活中。Salme博士指出，继承了我们内心对现实基本理解的记忆在婴儿期就已形成，那时我们非常脆弱且

如此依赖他人，以至于即使是很短时间的遗弃也可能意味着死亡。

这意味着这些最深层的记忆具有高度的社交性并与我们自身相关，使得它们在今天

用于模拟现实。这些最早的记忆也被存储在大脑中，无法被意识思维触及。

在余生中，在与每一个对我们重要的人的每一次交流中，我们的大脑都在构建现实——我的意思是，我们通过他人和我们自己来获得盟友——而这基于我们甚至无法回忆起的童年经历。我们对大脑构建的现实做出反应，很大程度上是通过重复那些在童年标准世界的类似情境中有效、但与成年人的行为已不再有任何相似之处的行为。

现在的恐惧和压力，无论是在工作中还是在爱情中，都会导致从出生到死亡的后果，因为我们的现实模拟系统会倾向于它们自己的预测，而不是接纳新的信息。我们感到受威胁的程度越高——工作中糟糕的一天，与父母或

孩子的痛苦对话——我们就越倾向于通过童年最恐惧的压力之力量来感知一切。

一个全面的新观点 随着大脑和记忆出现身份危机，它将从人们最初寻求治疗的原因开始：为了更深层的自我意识、视角以及一种在早先受到威胁时的适应性新思维。用预测处理的术语来说，人们寻求治疗是因为他们的内部程序模型在理解现实的方式上持续产生问题。治疗确实提供了一种让人们的模型进行更新的方法。至于治疗究竟是如何实现这一点的，预测处理理论（为什么该模型的患者依赖于金钱因素——安全与权力）。

在这种语境下，安全意味着一个情感和身体都安全的环境，使一个人能够放下戒备，停止对所有看待事物方式的汇报，并开始识别她的预测错误。精准意味着通过量身定制的新情感体验，来精确地转移那些导致问题的预测错误——即使治疗师也会放弃我们的——更重要的是，让她的心记录下错误并自我修正。

一位坦率的治疗师会注意到，这种安全感概念恰恰与共同因素研究的发现以及一个多世纪以来所有顶尖理论家所称的“良好治疗”相一致。我在这里指的是独特的治疗环境和关系，其定义在于其首要性、可预测性、保密性以及治疗师对客户的共情。

50多年前，英国精神病学领域的领军人物唐纳德·温索尔（Donald Winsor）博士将此称为“行走环境”，并将其描述为治疗的规模和首要条件。

同样对于精准度的回顾，艾米·惠特沃思（Amy Whitworth）的问题——一位我曾在该案例中与其合作的治疗师——描述了一种趋向，一种旨在更新客户对自我和世界理解的、针对任何难以更新之内容的刻意解释，这也是每位心理学家或治疗师致力于实现的。

维多利亚·贝克纳（Victoria Beckner），at third of psychologist in San Francisco，对C.R.T.给出了一个极其相似的描述：

我们对大脑构建的现实做出反应，很大程度上是通过重复童年时期的行为，而这些行为与成年人的行为已不再有任何相似之处。

她所培训的。 “整个游戏的关键在于，C.R.T. 基于这样一个观点，即人们处于正确的位置：我们将模拟并使用行为，而这一切在某个时间点被卡住了——你反复经历某些事情，以至于你认为每个人都会这样对待你，而我们需要让你停止这种状态，去冒险并发现事实并非如此。”

或许最令人惊讶的是，每当我们开始确定整合方法——融合不同传统——时，它们通常都是沿着这些方向进行的。去年，我与旧金山心理治疗研究小组的同事共同撰写了一篇论文，证明控制掌握理论（control mastery theory）也是如此，该理论认为人们寻求治疗是因为他们有一种适应不良的习惯，例如永远不表现出自己的不愉快情绪。这种信念让他们感到痛苦。他们进入治疗是为了在一个安全的环境中测试——并面对极大的不适——这种信念。那么，治疗师的工作就是创造这样一个安全环境，以便进行测试，并且必须以支持客户摆脱预测性信念并进行模型更新的方式来进行。

如果希望我永远看不到夏季促销价 $99.99 的预测处理疗法（Predictive Processing Therapy）在线研讨会广告，这可能希望过高了。但我乐观地认为，预测处理有一天将引导关于我们目前（男性优先）裁决之荒谬性的实证研究，在这种裁决中，我们所有能接受的疗法都值得相应的价格。我还相信，在短期内，预测处理将为治疗师提供一种方式，让他们能以统一的声音讨论是什么让治疗产生效果。而且，是的，C.R.T. 治疗师对客户采取的具体工作，无疑将与像我这样在精神分析传统中工作的人所鼓励的工作截然不同。

然而，在这里，预测处理理论有望提供更大的帮助。心理生物学家迈克尔·加雷特（Michael Garrett）指出，人们对人类心理和痛苦有不同的思考方式。我们对不同的治愈方式也会产生共鸣。

我们中的一些人热爱精神分析的深奥且可能显得冗长的语言。其他人则更喜欢 C.R.T. 那种不讲废话的实用主义。每场治疗都是独一无二的，原因很简单，因为正确的治疗本质上是由两个独特的人在一段自发的、随时间推移而交织的关系中共同开展的人类事业。

预测处理理论允许每一天，因此新的心理治疗师和客户拥有真实的人类关系、情感安全感，以及一种生成并启用多种问题建模方式的可靠方法。第一步恰恰可以是正确的轨道。如果我们能让它在那些一直听到妻子在深夜里发脾气的人身上发挥作用，那么我们 certainly 能对那些想要更好地了解自己、摆脱任何阻碍他们的偏好、并以更真实地属于自己的方式建立信心的人有所帮助。

艾米莉·约翰（EMILY JOHNN）是一位在旧金山生活和工作的作家兼治疗师，是即将出版的回忆录《恐怖药丸》（Terrorist Pills）的作者。

审核人：D. L. Dole, B. A. Dole, B. A. , D. L. , D. L , D. L. , D. L ---

2020年8月14日，星期五 / 11

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英仙座流星雨与敬畏之美

Cody Delisleaty

“敬畏缺失症”（Awe deficit disorder）这个词在互联网上流传了至少十年，虽然它没有正式的医学诊断，但其症状却十分普遍。对高效数字化分心的渴望以及长期居家，使敬畏感从我们的生活中消失了。它像被冲上岸的霜冻一样，让我们不再凝视星空，不再想象，不再面对太阳的后裔。

“没有敬畏感，我们就会陷入停滞。神经心理学家保罗·普拉尼德（Paul Pranead）在文中写道，焦虑和绝望是‘敬畏缺失’的症状，他的观点是正确的。”

试图描述敬畏感几乎像是在捕捉一种印象：它是宗教性的？情感性的？神经性的？还是哲学性的？与其说它是外部的，不如说它是你心智迅速领悟到某种比你自身更宏大之物时的动态体验，比如，无论你的手机屏幕上正在显示什么——那是你的世界观被改变的时刻。敬畏感在我们的日常视角、心理和精神之外运作，通过新信息来调整我们的心态，让我们看到此前从未见过的景象。

心理学家达基·里希特（Ducky Richter）表示，只需放下手机，花两分钟时间去感受一棵树或天空的壮丽，就足以重启你的大脑。在最近的一次播客中，他说道，在这样的时刻，“我意识到有些事物在时间和空间上比我这个渺小的身份要宏大得多”，“我的自我意识在一定程度上消失了”。

我们中有多少人在不断地自我暗示自身的重要性，在每一个决定中如此纠结？这种狭隘思维的惊人力量在于一种观念，即我们能完全掌控自己的命运，只要我们能做对或说对某些事情，就能获得想要的生活。虽然技术方案增强了我们控制一切的能力——从人际关系到健康和寿命——但体验敬畏感能让我们意识到，这种控制最终是一场幻象。敬畏感是唯一一种力量，它在于我们选择关注什么。

古代文本长期以来一直试图纠正我们的自我重要感和控制欲。在圣经中最阴郁的一卷书中，上帝向约伯提出了数十个反问，确立了他的地位——以及由此延伸出的所有人类的地位。“你曾向晨曦下达命令吗？”上帝问道，“或给黎明指明方向？”随后上帝谈到了动物和自然，其含义或许是人类如此微小，我们在宇宙中的位置几乎可以忽略不计。

敬畏感是我们面对死亡的一次预演，一次令人毛骨悚然的、与自身渺小感的接触；如果我们选择接受它，它可以永远地将我们改变得更好。通过敬畏，我们实现了雷伯（Rehber）博士及其同事所称的“微小艺术”！

敬畏感让我们感到与他人联系更紧密，因此在体验过它之后，我们能变得更加无私且更具伦理意识。在雷伯博士的一项研究中，仅仅是站在一片高大的树林中——一个敬畏的时刻——就让人们更愿意帮助他人。

我们体验敬畏感越多，就变得越谦卑（与宇宙相比，我们如此不足），越不容易被物质主义诱惑（生命中除了拥有之物，还有更多意义），压力越小（我们知道死亡和痛苦是自然秩序的一部分），对生活的满意度就越高（我们不再需要计较琐碎的小事）。研究甚至表明，敬畏感能改善我们的身体健康；一项研究指出，敬畏感能降低一种与抑郁和心脏病相关的蛋白质水平。

敬畏感存在于任何你愿意观察的地方。而关键就在于：你必须观察。走在街上，留意你面前的摩天大楼以及头顶飞过的飞机在建造和制造时所付出的努力。观察路过的人脸上的情绪——观察他们可能正在经历的喜悦或绝望，以及那些深沉的

内心深处的深度。事实上，在几乎任何你无法完全理解的事物中都能找到敬畏感。你可能会被陌生人出人意料的善意所震撼。当然，你可能会被音乐所震撼；被与宏大构思搏斗时产生的心流状态和创造力所震撼；或者被一位父亲对儿子的慈爱所震撼。或者，正如最近最触动我的那样，被我们自身巨大的爱人的能力、与他人建立连接的能力，以及发现我们拥有此前未被挖掘的情感能力所震撼。

那么，你还能在何处获得这种救命的敬畏感——一种真正“浓缩”（或被锐化）的世界体验，而这个世界通常被处理得如此平庸？

对我而言，从周三晚上到周四的共生时刻，我凝视着天空，看着英仙座流星雨灿烂地落下。几周前，我还前往新墨西哥州西部的一片偏远沙漠，在《闪电原野》（The Lightning Field）度过了一个夜晚。这是沃尔特·德·玛利亚（Walter de Maris）于1917年创作的一件大地艺术作品，位于一个易发生闪电的区域，由400根钢杆组成，排列成一个六公里乘一英里的矩形。

在《闪电原野》，“我们住在距离艺术品几百码的一间小木屋里。我们在钢杆周围行走，穿行其间，在白天、日落时分以及太阳升起时的沙漠寒冷中，从远处观察它们。

对我来说，比起闪电，更令人敬畏的是光线在景观上地改变了世界。早晨粉蓝色光芒攀过周围的山丘，触碰到钢杆的顶端，以一种被评论家肯尼斯·贝克（Kenneth Baker）描述为“从固体对象蜕变为耀眼光束，像塔一样刺破空气”的方式，赋予了这件艺术品生命。

在这样一个孤立的区域，艺术品明确的边界让自然的浩瀚变得可以理解。钢杆成为了美的发声者，成为了承载自然敬畏的人造容器。沐浴在光芒中，我很难相信自己仍然在地球上；很难相信我所经历的一切，与当天早些时候办理离开那家阴森的机场酒店手续属于同一个生命维度——而且，不知为何，我是在用同一双眼睛看待这一切。

但这恰恰就是敬畏感的定义：一种过于浩瀚而令个体显得渺小且单薄的体验，以至于我们无法通过通常理解世界的方式立即理清其意义。这是一种像244一样的对控制权的放弃，是对我们认为自己所知的一切的放弃。这真的很令人敬畏。

科迪·德利斯梅（CODY DELISLEMAY）是《金克莱尔：寻找巷之尽头》（The Gold Clare: Looking for the End of Lane）的作者，目前正在撰写一本关于一群心灵主义者的书。

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但这些计划通过创造一个疾病传播更少、极端贫困及其带来的不稳定影响更少，以及美国与其他国家之间关系更强、更可靠的世界，也让美国变得更安全。

人道主义援助促进了国家间的正义、同情和团结。但这同样符合美国的利益；这不是一种慈善行为，而应该获得两党支持。

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“这些分析使用了不同的数据、筛选标准和定义，但它们都指向美国制造商的巨大损失，以及美国财政部的巨大损失。而对人员造成的影响则更为触目惊心。

一个从瓜纳华托-Quietium走廊出发、贴着墨西哥标签的中国电表，就是一个在底特律、大急流城或印第安纳波利斯未能生产的电表。一个从胡志明市出发、被标为越南产品的中国开关，就是一个没有在芝加哥、密尔沃基或罗克福德制造的开关。一个从浦那出发、被标为印度产品的中国泵，就是一个没有在辛辛那提、代顿或哥伦布市加工的泵。在所有这些其他国家制造这些产品的所有工作岗位，都代表了全美工人们失去的生计。

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健康

为强壮男人打造的强力饮食

来自杂志

我尝试像特朗普几位内阁成员那样，一周只吃牛排和发酵食品

作者：WILLY STALEY

我与肖恩·奥马拉（Sean O'Mara）进行视频通话还不到 20 分钟。这位 50 岁的医生身材精干且英俊，据报道他一直为特朗普内阁的几位成员提供饮食建议。这时，他展示了两瓶液体（无咖啡色或流体色）。奥马拉解释说，这种鲜艳的黄绿色在不经意间能吸引特定的注意力。

“密封公司发现这种颜色能吸引人们购买，”他指着第一瓶液体说，那是山露（Mountain Dew）。“你的大脑会兴奋起来。你会觉得，哇，这东西真酷。”他将我的注意力转向另一瓶颜色大致相同的液体，装在一个罐子里。

“你知道这是什么吗？”他问我。

“不知道，”我说。

“这是尿液，”他说，“这是一个人类的尿液。”

其强烈的暗示是，这是他自己的。奥马拉说，排出这种颜色的尿液是一件好事，这种情况在六年前开始出现在他身上：这是他饮食习惯的副产品，他的饮食几乎完全由肉类和发酵食品组成。《华尔街日报》在 6 月报道称，小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪（Robert F. Kennedy Jr.）、20 Vaters、霍华德·拉特尼克（Howard Latnick）和肖恩·达菲（Sean Duffy）都采用了奥马拉的方案。肯尼迪通过该方案将内脏脂肪降低了 40%。据报道，总统也注意到了 Vaters 苗条的身材。

我理解这种激进——且极其简单——的饮食干预的吸引力，尤其是在我大约 40 岁的时候。我停止摄入碳水化合物，并开始在早晨大量跑步。我通过这种方式减轻了大约 25 磅，约 15 公斤。自然地，我对一种为更强大、更阳刚的人而设计的更强大、更阳刚的饮食方案产生了兴趣。

于是，我也加入了这个“内阁”——至少尝试了一周。

奥马拉将其称为“生活饮食法”（Living Diet）。你只能食用草饲反刍动物的肉——牛当然可以，但还包括啤酒、油和废物——以及尽可能多不同种类的发酵食品，因为其中的细菌群能重新填充

你的肠道，他说这能改善新陈代谢，从而导致体重减轻。奥马拉说，野生捕捞的海鲜也可以，但反刍动物最好，因为它们在多个胃中发酵所吃的东西。

他希望我食用发酵啤酒、尸体和散热器、烟气以及帕马森干酪、酸奶、身体和冷冻食品。他给我看了一张他典型的餐盘照片。看起来就像一块牛排掉在了画家的支架上，上面点缀着被医疗化的账单肉。然而，他这里没有一台拥有大约 20 到 30 个火米器的冰箱，而我刚好有 200-210 ccf 每个。他解释道：“我只是在用这些细菌剔除这块肉。”

事实证明，一份由碎牛肉、一盘淀粉和一个煎蛋组成的早餐，最终是桥接的。但由于必须在曼哈顿的纽约时报大厦附近进行，这让我能够真正大展身手：我向右走，从一家西班牙餐厅买了一些小东西，那里没有人拦我——基本上就是直接走。我会拖着我的淀粉罐、装有发酵午餐的塑料托盘和一块烟气干酪，在铲子囊中，并以中带的方式走向对面。对面的杂志社没有注意到我怪异的进食仪式，有时我希望他们注意到，这样我就能解释我平时不是这样的。但他们从未注意到。

撇开发酵食品的魔力不谈，这种饮食法似乎还通过从手中刮掉肉类来起作用；我的卡路里变成了 kinsels，而且实际上很难吃掉那么多食物，即使——或者尤其是——这是你唯一吃的东西。它的饱腹感几乎比你能找到的任何许可都要高。随着一周的进行，想到下一顿金属感的图像牛肉，几乎让我反胃。大多数日子里，我大约吃掉一磅半的肉，即便如此，这仍远低于“维持量”——即我的身体在转向更多之前所需的卡路里量。

我将这种饮食法的基本原则请教了纽约大学的马龙·内斯特尔（Marlon Nestle），她在营养学方面的观点比奥马拉（O'Mara）更为主流。虽然她质疑关于发酵食品能改善代谢的说法，但内斯特尔同意这种饮食法作为一种临时的减肥途径是有效的，前提是你将热量摄入保持在维持水平以下。“我想不出这种饮食法会缺失任何营养成分，”她说，“对我来说，肌肉在萎缩。”

我仍在跑步——或者说在尝试跑步。

医生肖恩·奥马拉（Sean O'Mara）建议食用草饲反刍动物的肉以及尽可能多不同种类的发酵食品。

关于碳水化合物有一件有趣的事情：它们确实能为你的身体提供一个易于获取的能量来源，如果你不吃它们，运动起来会感觉就像有人增加了重力一样。你能感觉到腿部、鞋子以及所有东西的重量。你的身体会适应，但你永远不会像以前那样快。相比之下，吃意面会让你感觉像装了弹簧一样。我对自己的饮食、饮品以及禁忌拥有绝对的控制权。这种控制权或许是这类饮食法的主要方面。我也处于高脂肪状态，作为一种折中，你永远不需要在任何事情上与自己讨价还价。你就像一个疯子或囚犯——被枷锁束缚，但无需复仇。而且，通常情况下，确实如此，且有些单调。

对奥马拉来说，这种饮食法不仅是减肥的一种独特组成部分，而是一种长久地饮食的方式。他一直以来

在这种饮食法中，你就像一个疯子或囚犯——被枷锁束缚，但无需复仇。

奥马拉告诉我，他一直排出的都是 1 型（“光滑、柔软，像蛇一样”），且末端尖锐，这是健康社交功能的指标。

“我还认为，如果你饮食健康，就不需要卫生纸，”他声称。“野外的动物肛门上没有残留的粪便。”他这样描述一次正确的排便：导管，擦拭脚部，在 3 到 7 秒内完成，并且“完全像达到高潮一样”。

“我说过，在晚餐聚会上，在房间的角落里排便，”他说，“没人会知道。”

恰巧，在我的饮食法最后一天，我得去参加一个晚餐聚会。我感觉很好。我既疲惫又精力充沛，掌控感十足。我在那里喝了两杯马提尼，坐在餐桌旁。

因此，我的最佳答案是，在正餐开始前，我先用一些前菜开始了卫生工作，一份帕纳纳维尔沙拉，一份烤蔬菜和面包的采集拼盘。但这些食物是 20℃，而 35 顿餐食一直是牛肉和发酵食品；其中最糟糕的前菜令人陶醉。

我在 10 秒内将其全部吃完，吃得非常猛烈。我几乎没有空间容纳主菜，而主菜是——还能是什么——牛排。

这是真爱，还是“爱情轰炸”？

浪漫关系中过度的热情可能预示着虐待

作者：MELINDA WENNER BOOZE

当 Jan Knudtman 处于她的夏末时，她遇到了一位给了她电话号码的人，这改变了她的人生轨迹。

两人开始约会，对方在她的社区、邮件中对她赞美，告诉她她是完美的——是他一生一直在等待的女人。他给她买花，带她去参加奢华的约会。他在一天之中不断联系她以关心她的情况。

现居南达科他州苏福尔斯（Sioux Falls, S.D.）的 Knudtman 女士（35 岁）当时并不知情，但她的男友正在实施一种被称为“爱情轰炸”（love bombing）的行为。虽然这种行为很难与恋爱初期健康的强烈情感区分开来，但爱情轰炸是一种行为模式，旨在帮助人们俘获心仪对象的芳心，以便随后对其进行操纵或控制。

加州州立大学洛杉矶分校的临床心理学家兼教授 Ramani Durvasula 表示，爱情轰炸是一种“理想化和诱惑的形式，它成为了随之而来的情感操纵和控制的序曲”。

事实上，Knudtman 女士表示，随着时间的推移，她的关系动态开始发生转变。她说，她的男友开始监控她的短信和电话。当她与其他朋友交谈时，他会质疑她。他让她觉得，如果她不听他的话，就意味着不爱他，并且最终会孤独终老。

过快，且过量

“爱情轰炸”这个词起源于 20 世纪 70 年代，当时这一策略被统一教（Unification Church）所使用，这是一个韩国宗教运动，批评者和前成员将其描述为邪教。教会成员经常用热情和赞美来笼络新招募的人，以诱导他们加入。

如今，这个词通常被用来描述浪漫关系开始时过度的情感表达和关注。在非正式的口语中，人们可能会将爱情轰炸仅仅视为充满爱意，或将其视为一种追求手段。但临床医生表示，这可能是一个危险的红旗信号。

纽约约翰·杰刑事司法学院（John Jay College of Criminal Justice）研究亲密伴侣虐待中权力动态的心理学家 Chitra Raghavan 表示，目前还没有明确的统计数据证明爱情轰炸与虐待之间的关联程度。然而，Raghavan 博士说：“在我处理的几乎每一个家庭暴力案件中，我都注意到曾有过一段爱情轰炸时期。”

Raghavan 博士表示，爱情轰炸通常表现为过度的赞美。她说，对方可能会说：“你真的太不可思议了，没有人看到你有多么不可思议，但我看到了。”

这些赞美通常利用接收者内心深处最脆弱的部分，例如对吸引力或智力的渴望。

爱情轰炸者还倾向于控制新伴侣的生活空间。Raghavan 博士说：“他们想每天见到你，即使你在工作也不放过，他们打电话，发短信，给你发笑话。”

他们还可能暗示自己在寻求长期承诺。Durvasula 博士说，他们可能会说：“我已经能看到我们将要居住的房子了。我们应该给孩子起什么名字？”

当情感崩塌之时

“爱意轰炸者”确实会对两个或更多过度依赖的人投入极高的关注，让他们来不及思考为什么事情进展得如此之快，或者他们实际上是如何失去自我的。Raghavan博士解释道。她说，这会让人们在能够说出“等等，这看起来不对劲”之前就陷入其中。“并非每个进行爱意轰炸的人都会变得具有虐待倾向，研究人员也不确定爱意轰炸者在采取这些行为时，是否具有明确的意图去操纵其伴侣。”“这是一个关键问题，”Durvasula博士说。她说，要将这种行为与真实的意图区分开来是非常困难的。

爱意轰炸者通常（但并非总是）具有自恋人格特质，且可能被俄亥俄州立大学的一位心理学家所描述。Russell博士表示，他们经常测试对方的忠诚度——例如，他们可能会在一段时间内停止写信或打电话，希望以此引发对方的恐慌，从而换取对方更坚定的情感表白。他们也可能会表现得刻薄，然后随后道歉。

正如Knudtman女士所描述的，爱意轰炸者可能会表现得仿佛受到了对方友谊或社交圈的直接威胁。她说，当她与其他朋友交谈时，她的男友会抱怨并表现出嫉妒。

相信你的不安感

Durvasula博士表示，在爱意轰炸发生时很难将其识别出来，并补充道：“目前最关键的问题是，”Jan I sang（此处原文如此），“这是在被爱意轰炸，还是仅仅有人对我真的很感兴趣？”

这种区分可能很模糊，因为恋爱初期的热烈通常是被预期的。Durvasula博士说，爱意轰炸还“利用了人类对依恋的需求、对爱的需求，以及渴望与他人建立联系的人类欲望”。

如果人们在事情发生时没有识别出来，不应该苛责自己。Durvasula博士建议，她建议对方可以告知伴侣自己的界限、个人兴趣或友谊，或者那些要求你证明忠诚或承诺的行为。

Durvasula博士说，与爱意轰炸者结束关系可能很困难，因为爱意轰炸者经常会进行报复。可能会出现愤怒的特质、辱骂甚至跟踪。Knudtman女士说，为了逃避对方对她的追求，她搬到了另一个州。

“在我处理的几乎每一个家庭暴力案件中，我都注意到曾有过一段爱意轰炸的时期。”

为什么年轻女性的心脏病发病率在上升

作者：NINA AGRINNAL

心脏病及其导致死亡的威胁在年轻女性中正在上升。

最近的研究表明，到 2026, 年，在 20 到 44 岁的所有女性中，将有近三分之一患有心脏病，而目前这一比例为四分之一。此外，18 岁以下女性死于心脏病的可能性高于 18 岁以下男性。

尽管存在普遍的误解，但 Sloan General Brigham 女性心脏健康项目的共同主任 Emily Lau 博士表示，“心脏病实际上是一种女性疾病”。但降低风险是可能的。

年轻女性心脏病增加的原因之一是，一些诱发因素——包括肥胖、高血压和糖尿病——在更年轻的年龄段变得越来越普遍。

这些风险因素适用于每个人，但研究表明，某些因素对女性的影响更大。

例如，患有糖尿病的女性相对于糖尿病而言，患心脏病的风险高于男性；吸烟增加女性风险的程度也高于男性。

患有高血压的年轻女性经常被低估诊断且治疗不足。

但洛杉矶 O'Hara-Siou 的 Burma Hormonal 女性心脏中心主任 C. Noel Batory Merz 博士表示，女性心脏病风险开始上升的血压水平实际上可能低于男性。

血压测量的基线检查，以及 4.67（平均血糖水平的衡量指标）的高同质性，对于筛查至关重要。医生建议所有成年人关注以下三个水平：

• 1.5 到 2.5 倍低于 120 mm Hg；1.10 mm Hg
• 低密度脂蛋白（LDL）低于身体的 90%

• 体质指数（BMI）低于 20

• 极低，在 1.0 或更低。

• “了解你的数据是你最强大的工具，”Grant and Northwestern Medicine 心脏中心主任 Fritzo Frumery 博士说。“而且开始关注永远不嫌早。”

• Batory Merz 博士认为，美国女性应与她的医生合作，“将非目标数值转化为目标数值”。这应包括生活方式的措施——采用地中海或 30,000 风格的饮食，不食用特定食物，烹饪，以及进行有氧和阻力运动——以及在需要时使用药物。

她说，风险因素按性别产生不同影响的一个好处是，这种情况在另一个方向上也适用。研究表明，女性只需一半的运动量，即可获得与男性相同的心血管风险和死亡率降低效果。

人们日益认识到，心脏风险也起作用。这些包括过早绝经（45 岁之前）和多内分泌代谢卵巢综合征（此前称为 PC-O-5）。它们还包括妊娠糖尿病和子痫前期等妊娠并发症，以及炎症性自身免疫性疾病（如类风湿性关节炎的“饮食”），这些疾病对女性的影响尤为严重。

休斯顿卫理公会医院 North 女性心脏中心主任 Martha Gabel 博士表示，这些因素中的每一项都与心脏病风险增加相关，但未必具有因果关系。例如，Gabel 博士说，目前尚不清楚高血压是否是必要的（以及对心脏病风险的谴责），或者它是否仅仅凸显了某些预防性血管异常。

调查显示，20 多岁、30 多岁和 40 多岁的女性较少有机会拥有常规的医疗保健提供者，并且经常因为成本而跳过或延迟就医。一些人主要依赖于缺勤-老年医学专家进行初级保健。

医生建议寻找一名初级保健医生，以便在这些年间检查心脏病或相关的风险因素。

除了常规血液检查外，医生还指出了可能有助于更好地评估个人风险的其他测试。

这不应被视为钙化分数（CAC），后者是通过心脏专项 CT 扫描得出的。导致心脏或心脏阻塞的形成。弗鲁梅里博士（Dr. Frumery）表示：“对于一个关于个人的超类，”CT 扫描可以显示冠状动脉中是否存在钙化斑块以及数量多少，有助于在症状出现之前识别该过程。

指南还建议所有成年人都应检测其脂蛋白(a)或肌酐类“坏”胆固醇水平，这标志着心脏。在整个生命周期中采取更多健康改变，但绝经期是一个例外。加贝尔博士（Dr. Gabel）表示，处于临界水平的女性在绝经后应有所下降。

加贝尔博士建议，女性可以通过血液检测检查 C 反应蛋白（一种炎症标志物），而一项关于下降的[研究 / 结果]表明该标志物可以预测心血管风险，尽管证据尚不足以让该检测被广泛推荐，巴托里·梅尔茨（Dr. Batory Merz）表示。

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体育

从左上角起依次为：洛杉矶湖人队球员在赢得 2020 年 N.B.A. 总冠军后的合影（从左起）；N.B.A. 总冠军（从左起）；N.B.A. 总冠军（从左起）。Ashlee Kushner 和 Bob Iger 在美国最高法院附近；以及大股东 Mark Waller 与 Joanne Buss 在 3 月的合影。

湖人队将在14个月内第二次被出售

该交易可能使这家N.B.A.特许经营球队的估值达到创纪录的 125 亿美元 billion

作者：DAN WOEKE 和 BRIKE VORKENON 《大西洋月刊》

洛杉矶湖人队正在被出售。再次被出售。

在同意以创纪录的 100 亿美元 billion 估值收购湖人队仅14个月后，马克·沃勒（Mark Waller）正将球队出售给迪士尼前首席执行官鲍勃·艾格（Bob Iger）和约书亚·库什纳（Joshua Kushner）。据一名了解此次出售情况的人士透露，该交易将使湖人队的估值达到 125 亿美元 billion，该人士在谈话时要求匿名，因为其未获得快速披露此事的授权。

库什纳持有迈阿密热火队的小部分股份，他是贾里德·库什纳（Jared Kushner）的弟弟，后者是特朗普总统的女婿。

对于N.B.A.最顶尖的特许经营球队之一来说，这笔交易是一个令人震惊的进展。湖人队由杰里·巴斯（Jerry Buss）及其家族成员拥有超过四十年，随后杰里的女儿乔安妮·巴斯（Joanne Buss）同意将球队出售给沃勒。

“作为终身N.B.A.球迷，我们深感荣幸能有机会成为洛杉矶湖人队的管理人，它是世界上最标志性的体育特许经营球队之一，”艾格和库什纳在一份声明中表示。“我们对杰里和乔安妮·巴斯的领导力与远见深表敬意。我们的长期承诺是在此基础上继续建设，在最高水平上竞争，并服务于这支非凡的球队、其球迷以及洛杉矶市。”

湖人队在 2020. 出售时的 100 亿美元 billion 估值是职业体育历史上最昂贵的交易。如果库什纳和艾格的收购获得联盟理事会的批准，那么在短短一年多之后，它将再次刷新纪录。

纽约洋基队本周完成的一笔私人供应交易将其大联盟棒球特许经营权的估值定在约 100 亿美元 billion。在国家橄榄球联盟（NFL）球队中，根据Sportico本周发布的一份报告，只有达拉斯牛仔队和洛杉矶公羊队的估值超过 225 亿美元 billion，但这些估值仅为估计值。

对于艾格来说，收购湖人队是对其离开迪士尼后公众生活将如何度过这一问题的响亮回答。今年3月，乔什·奥安坦（Josh O'Antarn）接替艾格成为公司首席执行官。他目前仍担任高级顾问和董事会成员，不过这些职务将在年底合同到期时结束。

他曾两次担任迪士尼的领导者，第一次是从 2005 到 2020. 后。在将权力移交给鲍勃·丘佩克（Bob Chupek）后，艾格留在公司，并在 2022. 11月丘佩克被解雇后重新回到最高职位。在

艾格第一次担任首席执行官期间，迪士尼收购了皮克斯（Pious Marvel）、卢卡斯电影公司以及21世纪福克斯的大部分股份。艾格还监管ESPN，不过他将公司的日常管理交给了其他高管。

“我们的长期承诺是在此基础上继续建设，在最高水平上竞争，并服务于这支非凡的球队。”

湖人队并非艾格在职业体育领域的首次投资。在 2024. 夏天，艾格及其妻子威洛·雷（Willow Ray）收购了Angel City FC的控股权。在该交易中，这家国家女子足球联赛俱乐部的估值为 2.5亿美元，在当时是女子职业体育球队的最高估值。

湖人队球星卢卡·多瑙（Luka Donau）在社交媒体上发布消息称，他很激-

动能与艾格和库什纳见面，“这样我们就可以开始致力于打造一些特别的东西。”

“过去几年我已经习惯了大变动，但我知道无论如何，这家标志性特许经营球队的潜力是没有上限的，”他写道。库什纳此前持有孟菲斯格里兹队的小部分股份，在国际足球目前的争议中，他是一个核心人物。此前，国际足联（FIFA）主席吉安尼·因凡蒂诺（Gianni Infantino）计划将国际足联赛事的股份出售给包括库什纳的Thrive Eternal在内的私人投资者，金额为 42 亿美元 billion。

该计划已被放弃，但欧洲足球管理机构欧足联（UEFA）在7月15日致库什纳的一封信中表示，正考虑针对这些提案采取法律行动、仲裁及监管投诉。

洛杉矶道奇队的大股东沃尔特称，拥有湖人队是他人生中“最伟大的荣誉之一”，也是一项“非凡的投资”。

据一名在要求匿名的情况下就谈判情况发表评论的知情人士透露，何也没有出售道奇队的计划。

“我将随身带走的是这个社区、球迷，以及将这支球队视为家人的这座城市，”沃尔特在声明中表示。“我感谢乔安娜·巴斯、巴斯家族、球员以及工作人员欢迎我进入这个篇章。湖人队属于洛杉矶，我完全相信最好的时光还在后面。”

美国纽约南区检察官办公室和美国证券交易委员会一直在调查沃尔特旗下的保险公司。据《华尔街日报》报道，在收到一份关于沃尔特的资产管理公司 Outperformers Investments 如何处理从保险公司收到的收入的内部举报投诉后，联邦调查人员于去年开始关注沃尔特的公司。

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文化

以喜剧作为夺回过去的一种方式

EDMUNDSON

通过一场单口喜剧表演，阿曼达·诺克斯（Amanda Knox）在她的小报名声中寻找幽默

作者：亚历克斯·马歇尔（ALEX MARSHALL）

那是爱丁堡节日边缘艺术节（Edinburgh Festival Fringe）的开幕之夜，阿曼达·诺克斯正在一家破旧剧院的舞台上踱步。

大约 15 分钟的时间里，她一直在尝试她的计划——《侧手翻》（Cartwheel），这是她作为单口喜剧演员在边缘艺术节的首次一小时亮相。在表演中，20 岁的诺克斯靠近散落着玩具和衣服的舞台，讲述故事，并偶尔与她 2 岁女儿库尔莎（Kurtha）的录音进行对话。

她试图在自己的故事中寻找幽默，一个美国父母的故事，但这个父母曾因 2007 年其 Amistadore 被谋杀而被错误地拘留在私人家庭中，当时两名女性都在那里留学。但潜台词是：观众，生活紧绷，或者起初仅偶尔对她关于监狱生活、小报殖民地以及育儿 idiosyncrasies 的笑话感兴趣。

“眼睛，”她讲了一个关于她女儿最喜欢的游戏的笑话。

“这个游戏叫‘妈妈去意大利’，”诺克斯说。在游戏中，她的女儿抓住当地游乐场攀爬架的横杆并尖叫道：“让我出去！让我出去！”诺克斯模仿一名绝望地抓着监狱牢房栏杆的狂野囚犯。观众的笑声变成了当晚第一次大笑。

诺克斯尝试喜剧可能令人惊讶，但考虑到她在英国（死者室友梅雷迪思·柯彻 Meredith Kercher 的祖国）的声誉，她在苏格兰的边缘艺术节首演这样一场表演可以说更加大胆。诺克斯涉足喜剧也引发了关于谁有权讲述相关故事的问题。

诺克斯在早前的一次视频采访中表示，她尝试喜剧是因为她觉得自己在外界看来“如此像一个真实犯罪或悲剧人物”，而实际上她一直是一个“善良、古怪的戏剧女孩”。

“做这场表演是我回到自己的房间，试图夺回在所有糟糕的事情发生之前的那个我，”诺克斯说。

对于这样的转变，爱丁堡边缘艺术节是一个高风险的平台。该节日于每年 8 月举行，以作为新喜剧演员的残酷试金石而闻名。评论家经常猛烈抨击单口喜剧表演，但对于少数幸运的演员——如汉娜·加迪斯（Hannah Gaddis）、詹姆斯·阿卡默（James Acamer）和理查德·加德（Richard Gadd，出演过《Baby Boulders》）——这可以成为成名的跳板。

许多边缘艺术节的喜剧演员在黑暗的主题中寻找幽默，其中包括加德，他的突破性表演是关于 stalling 的，以及澳大利亚喜剧演员弗兰基·麦克奈尔（Frankie McNair），他今年呈现的一场名为《Huge Ass Minden》的表演是关于克服童年虐待的。

尽管如此，自从《侧手翻》在 5 月宣布以来，诺克斯在英国表演的想法在这里引起了关注。她在 2015 年被意大利最高法院最终宣布谋杀罪名不成立，但这里许多人仍然认为诺克斯一定与杀人案有关。这些人认为她应该远离公众视线，以避免给柯彻的家人带来进一步的创伤。

上周，梅雷迪思的姐姐斯特凡妮·柯彻（Stephanie Kercher）接受了媒体采访

“做这场表演是我回到自己的房间，试图夺回在所有糟糕的事情发生之前的那个我。”

敦促举办诺克斯表演的场馆取消一直持续到周一的《侧手翻》。柯彻在电子邮件中表示，诺克斯给她的家人带来了“sleep guts”，并补充说“一个‘大理石案件和 riction’不应该被允许在英国作为喜剧表演”。

当演出没有签署协议时，一场在线抗议发生了，而多年来一直诋毁诺克斯的英国小报媒体在她首演后立即介入。《每日邮报》（Daily Mail）在其网站上发表了一篇文章，标题为《还有什么是“Very Kenny”为了关注——或金钱——不愿做的？》。

在演出后的采访中，一些成员像往常一样好奇，诺克斯（Knox）的澳大利亚电影和拍摄是否仍然足够。大多数边缘艺术节（Fringe）的演出并不盈利，即使像诺克斯那样也不例外。在金球气球（Gilded Balloon）剧场观众席上的 72 岁爱德华·利普纳科比斯（Edward Lipnacobis）推测，诺克斯要么是需要钱，要么是在寻找一个治疗性的空间来讲述她的经历。但他补充说，这是一个精心打造的一小时演出，并表示诺克斯展现出她拥有“比你想象中更多的勇气”。

即使是对一些认识她的人来说，诺克斯出现在边缘艺术节最初也令人费解。担任该剧顾问的美国脱口秀演员乔娜·弗里德曼（Jona Friedman）表示，她曾多次询问诺克斯为什么要这么做。

“她在这次过程中表现出的勇气简直超乎想象，”弗里德曼说。

诺克斯在采访中表示，她预料到了争议，但补充说她拒绝让英国的小报媒体影响她的选择。“我内心有一种反叛的特质，就像在说，‘你知道吗？’”她说，“我没有伤害任何人。对于发生的事情，我没有责任。”

在采访的这些年里，她写了两本回忆录，在与丈夫一起录制的播客中，以及一个纪录片系列中成为了主题。表演喜剧是最近才发展起来的成功，尽管她的兴趣可以追溯到更早之前。她说她是《世界在永克斯》（World at Yonkers）的长期粉丝，并且在监狱里喜欢看《康科德之飞》（Flight of the Conchords），因为意大利电视台在深夜播出，且未被截断。

她说，她在 2021 年意识到自己有可能尝试脱口秀，当时她被邀请作为好友、喜剧演员威廉·卡明斯（William Cummings）喜剧演出中的惊喜嘉宾。在那段三分钟的表演中，诺克斯开玩笑说，她被邀请仅仅是因为其他喜剧演员“想在一名从未杀过人的表演者之后登场”。

诺克斯说，这给了她尝试喜剧的勇气，随后她开始在居住地华盛顿州永克斯岛（Yonkers Island, Wash.）当地的喜剧之夜偶尔登场。她说，她每隔几个月在那里表演一次——“作为一个曾经必要的后院惊喜”——她主要讲一些关于没有罪行或儿童卡通人物的“更多笑话”。

在爱丁堡举办演出的想法是去年产生的，当时她遇到了喜剧组合 Britainish 的成员，他们赞美边缘艺术节是一个喜剧演员可以磨练技艺的地方。Britainish 的成员之一杰克·克彻（Jack Kercher）说，他曾警告诺克斯她会在网上遭到猛烈抨击，但她说这不是问题。“这已经在发生了，”他回忆起她的话。

诺克斯说，在编写剧本时，她向弗里德曼和劳伦·威登（Lauren Weedean）等喜剧演员寻求建议。诺克斯表示，在他们的建议中，有一条是“接纳一部分纯粹的创伤”。

她在演出的结尾确实采纳了他们的建议。她之前说过，她的表演被命名为《侧手翻》（Cartwheel），是因为意大利检察官称她在克彻死亡后不久在警察局里做了侧手翻，将其作为在暴力谋杀后表现出不恰当轻率行为的证据。（诺克斯则说她当时实际上是在做操。）

随着表演接近尾声，气氛变得严肃，诺克斯说她正在将女儿培养成“我曾因之受罚的那种勇敢女孩”。诺克斯说，当尤里卡（Eureka）足够大到能听她讲述人生故事时，这个故事将被讲述成一个关于“充分生活且不被任何事情阻碍”的教训。

“但孩子们并不真的听你的，”诺克斯说，“你必须向他们展示”——她说，这就是她来到边缘艺术节的原因。

随后，诺克斯在舞台上做了一个侧手翻，大约一半的观众起立鼓掌。

《激烈竞争》的恶搞剧在危险边缘试探，趣味十足

一场舞台剧将目光聚焦于这部火辣的加拿大电视剧

作者：BRYANT GONZALEZ

11月，一部关于两名秘密相爱的竞争对手职业冰球选手的加拿大短剧，席卷了电视荧幕、深夜脱口秀以及社交媒体的每一个角落。

作曲家兼剧作家 Dylan MacLaurele 很快就开始为《激烈竞争：未经授权的音乐恶搞剧》（Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody）构思剧本。该剧讲述了 Shane (Jenna Mann) 和 Ilya (Jay Armstrong Johnson) 的类似故事，但通过“裂缝”（the fissures）这一视角——一群在丈夫和孩子入睡后才开始享受冰球运动员那个唯一有趣世界的葡萄酒爱好者。在 MacLaurele 的剧中，这些女性充当叙述者，通常负责推进情节，但总是带着好奇，而这正是恶搞之处。

这部剧最初是一场单晚的音乐会朗读会，随后在11月于纽约展出，并在加拿大和英国引发了更多制作（包括在爱丁堡艺术节 Fringe 亮相）。

“我们原本打算只举办两场音乐会，然后就结束了，”该剧导演兼制片人 Alan Kiffer 在一次采访中表示，“但演出在 40 小时内就售罄了。”

纽约的演出地点位于 Culture Club 的六楼（原 McKittrick Hotel），《不眠之夜》（Sleep No More）曾在此上演了近 14 年。自称是《不眠之夜》超级粉丝的 Kiffer 指出，这个空间让演出感觉像是一次完整的体验，特许经营摊位销售 Kip's Blue Moon Over Brooklyn 饮品、加拿大干姜汁汽水（Canada Dry ginger ale）以及其他迎合该剧粉丝群的商品。

此外，Johnson 表示：“你肯定知道这个地方闹鬼。”

在后台，本周将进行最后一场演出的 Johnson、MacLaurele 和 Mann（随后将由 Aaron Alcaraz 接替）讨论了恶搞一部深受喜爱的剧集以及模仿俄罗斯口音的界限。以下是部分摘录。

迪兰，你是如何决定将这部电视剧改编成音乐恶搞剧的？

DYLAN MARCHELLE：我很快就爱上了这部剧，于是开始记录下那些让我产生共鸣的事，或者是一些让我觉得“额，他们为什么要那样做？”的事情。这是我唯一会参考的东西，这样我就不会太深入地陷入剧集本身，从而不小心把它做成了改编剧而非恶搞剧。

JOHN MOON：我认为你通过“裂缝”创造的思考机制非常精妙。

身着白衣的 Jimm Mann 和 Jay Armstrong Johnson，出演《激烈竞争》剧目。

选角过程是怎样的？

JAY ARMSTRONG JOHNSON：我们的导演兼制片人 Alan Kiffer 翻看了我的 1981 年资料，问我是否有兴趣。在读到这个精彩剧本或听到最初的旋律之前，我就答应了。

MOON：Zack Plant 是个天才，他在音乐会朗读会中饰演 Shane，现在他正在演《也许是快乐结局》（Maybe Happy Ending），他完全是亚洲面孔。

你会担心冒犯到那些真正热爱这部剧的人吗？

MARZANILLA：这一切真的源于快乐。最大的反差在于对素材的背离。我想说，最难写的是那首 beat song，《我想》，因为我找不到可以嘲讽的地方。那个时刻 [当 Ilya 向 Shane 致敬时] 是完美的。

在塑造 Ilya 和 Shane 的角色时，你感到压力吗？

JOHNSON：从他们在互联网上首次公布我们时，我就能感觉到。看到外界关于这部剧是完美艺术品且不可被嘲讽的讨论。我想说：“等等！等等！等等！这是一封写给爱情故事的情书。”

MOON：你不应该看评论，但有人评论说：“看起来就像他们把 Connor [She-oh] 和 Shatney [William] 抓起来，然后用卡车碾过了他们。”这简直是，就像，“这是一个全新的视角！”

他因为俄罗斯口音获得了大量赞誉。

JOHNSON：关于这一点，David……

你是如何练习的？

JOHNSON：我走进音乐会时读起来听起来像是我来自特兰西瓦尼亚，因为我觉得，“这是一个恶搞，对吧？”然后这个团队很快地帮我调整。我的朋友 Christopher Uetz 是一位百老汇演员，也是一位非常出色的方言教练，我们进行了几次练习，以确保我的发音处于一个感觉真实的状态，而不是一种刻板的漫画式模仿。

Dylan，演出扩展到加拿大和英国的感觉如何？

MARZANILLA：我原以为这会是一场混杂着夜晚歌曲的音乐会，而且其中一场演出在非洲制作的议题中运行。为伦敦和爱丁堡的制作设计不同的微调过程很有趣。执行导演是 Ryan Gaskin，“我们并不真的想要 Shatney 的，但我们有这个叫作 hungry heap 的小东西。”

你们有人关心冰球吗？

MARZANILLA：我想说，这是唯一一个我作为观众在现场能享受其中的运动。

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2020年8月14日，星期五 / 15

文化

杀手电影在内省之后开始反击

电影评论

对一个类型的元叙事 在讽刺、血腥与色情之间 疾速穿梭

作者：JAYNE WILKINSON

《米亚穆营地的青少年性与死》（Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miamou）的片头字幕讲述了一个故事：一部名为《米亚穆营地》（Camp Miamou）的 20 世纪 80 年代青少年杀手电影成为了爆款，随后推出了多部续集——其中一些直接发行到电影院——以及浪漫小说、交易卡、街机游戏、忠实的粉丝群体，并作为一部邪典经典拥有了一座雕像，尽管一次深夜改编尝试失败了。随后，由于其对跨性别角色和青少年性行为的描绘，该片进入了被视为“有问题的经典”的评论重新评估期。然后，不可避免地，制片厂决定重启这个系列，由一位名叫 Kris 的“bandance wastebikind”导演（并非巧合地，Kris 自认为是 query）执掌。这个故事的处理方式

充满了熟练且心领神会的机智，因为这正是许多塑造了（尤其是千禧一代）想象力的杀手恐怖电影系列的轨迹。例如在《Beng-n-avoy Camp》系列或《星期五第 10 天》（Friday the 10th）中，某些类型的影迷（其中一些后来成为了电影制作人）热爱这些系列，但同时也对其中较为可疑的性处理、一个及更多刻板印象，或者可能是暴力或恐跨元素感到愧疚。博主和评论家在辩论、重新定义和夺回这些电影的定义权时倾注了大量心血，正是因为当你热爱某样东西时，它会塑造你的身份。重新接纳一个英雄就像是关闭你的大脑。编剧兼导演 Jane Schoenberg 特别擅长讲述那些在某种根本且几乎是潜意识的方式上，通过各种古怪形式的屏幕媒体，触及恐怖电影医疗（horning hoes medical）细微之处的故事。他们的前作《我看到了电视在发光》（I Saw the TV Glow）同样出色地充当了跨性别身份的寓言，并且在更广泛的意义上，讲述了在成长过程中对一部长寿电视剧产生痴迷的故事（在这种情况下，该剧

《米亚穆营地的青少年性与死》中，左侧的 Gillian Anderson 饰演一名专属女演员，Hannah Edelstein 饰演导演。该片由 Jane Schoenberg 编剧并导演。

上左侧的 Edelstein 和 Anderson（两人化学反应极佳），以及 fiction、Zack Cherry（站立），出现在电影的另一场戏中，该场景唤起了如《Beng-n-avoy Camp》系列和《星期五第 10 天》等恐怖电影系列的记忆。

其风格模仿了《巴菲 the 吸血鬼杀手》（Buffy the Vampire Dayer）和《X档案》（The X-Files），这两部剧是年长千禧一代的触点）。在此之前，他们那部极其诡异的《我们要去世界博览会》（We've All Going to the World's Fair）对兴趣备忘录做了同样的处理，这些备忘录感觉像是来自一个比今天这种企业化、影响力理论时代更早的时期。在《米亚穆营地的青少年性与死》中，Schoenberg 转向了大银幕娱乐：Kris（Hannah Edelstein）意识到，面对该系列与 L.G.B.T.U. 角色之间糟糕的关系，能够为此付费并不是一件好事，因此她决心在制片厂自己的游戏中击败对方。这里？嗯，很难准确说出计划是什么，因为 Kris 将《米亚穆营地》系列以及更广泛的恐怖片进行了理论化，其力度之大，暗示这是一种试图绕过崎岖项链的尝试。Chris 的圣丹斯电影名为“class-ances”，其第三幕是从浴帘的视角对《精神病人》（Psycho）的翻拍。

其策略是寻找 Billy（Gillian Anderson 饰演，显然部分地是为了向其作为酷儿偶像的地位致敬），她曾在第一部《米亚穆》电影中饰演“最终女孩”（final girl），现在住在第一部电影拍摄地的房产中。也许 Kris 能让她在重启版中扮演一个角色；至少，

也许她能对这些电影提供一些见解。从青少年时期起，Kris 就一直痴迷于 Billy 在她的重大性爱戏份中眼神里的样子。

在经历了一段雪天且诡异的驱车旅程到达一个小镇后，克里斯（Kris）在营地找到了比利（Billy），后者生活得像是一个快乐版的诺玛·戴斯蒙德（Norma Desmond）。在一次炸鸡晚餐中，克里斯解释说，她主要感兴趣的是探索“酷儿身份与纪念碑文化描绘的交集”。但在交谈过程中，她透露了一些看似无关、但也许并非如此的事情。她觉得自己在海上迷失了，并且已经放弃尝试去享受它，因为她太过于在意他人的看法。

她似乎也对她与电影的关系深陷其中：她不断地评论分屏镜头，在与比利一起观看《米亚穆营地》（Camp Miamou）时，忍不住发表评论。这部分内容带有恐跨倾向（比利对此心知肚明）。有时，她甚至似乎意识到自己身处电影之中，正被我们注视着。所有这些自我意识都扭曲成了她对重启计划的构思。而比利可能是获得自由的关键。

《米亚穆营地的青少年性与死》（Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miamou）给人的感觉就像是始终在某种奢侈的笨拙边缘徘徊——该系列中的杀手，头顶是一个天花板通风口，被精心地称为“小死”（Little Death）——但舍恩伯格（Schoenberg）对基调的掌控十分精妙，在坦白之中的情感，虽像卡通般幼稚且充满幻想。故事始于埃德尔斯坦（Edelstein）和安德森（Anderson）之间的双人戏，两人之间有着极佳的化学反应，但随后演变成一个故事中的故事，然后也许是一个完整的梦，或者谁知道呢？

这部电影并非真正地在向砍杀类恐怖片致敬。它更像是在向“失去砍杀类恐怖片”的体验致敬。

舍恩伯格擅长唤起那种当你真正被锁在屏幕前，并开始感觉自己身处所观看之物内部时所经历的荒诞感。什么是“真实”的在某种程度上并不重要；如果感觉真实，那就是真实的，即使它是虚构的。甚至营地里朋友们的背景也极其明显地是绘画，这是幻想与现实之间的一个滑动点。

这部电影并非真正地在向砍杀类恐怖片致敬，尽管你可能会倾向于这样认为。它更像是在向“失去砍杀类恐怖片”的体验致敬，或者向任何塑造了你、但显然在某些违背你信念的方式上存在缺陷的事物致敬。它关乎于意识到你应该反对，并试图决定这意味着什么，以及是否可以接受某些人的幻想可能有点问题——而且，你可能会想要想象一些在现实生活中绝不想要的事情。

砍杀类恐怖片，尤其是那种 L.A. is over at home 的类型，是以一种弗洛伊德式的方式将巨大的欲望与死亡结合在一起（从法语翻译，“小死”在某些地区是不愉快的）。《米亚穆营地的青少年性与死》采取了一种诡异而温柔的方式来处理随欲望而来的这种情感。

这部电影通过血肉横飞、鲜血四溅，以及安德森在场景中压抑的欢快感（她对一个与挖掘陷阱相关问题的发音极其迟钝）得以实现。埃德尔斯坦将克里斯从紧张的封闭状态引导至在她未经排练的自我意识中变得狂喜。她并没有走偏。我们被要求更多地通过感觉而非思考来体验这部电影，且其层次随着剧情推进变得愈发复杂。

《米亚穆营地的青少年性与死》旨在让观众在惊叹与轻笑中被杀手击倒。这是一种让自己放松，并享受内心混乱之美的邀请。

一位极具风格的高调恐怖分子

书评

《夹克： 世界首位超级恐怖分子 卡洛斯的兴衰》 作者：Jany Warrick。Scribner出版社。34页。$30。

作者：DWIGHT GARNIER

国际恐怖分子“夹克”卡洛斯（Carlos the Jacket）是个演员。他的行动是精心策划的——有时扮演意大利领导人，有时扮演自由工人，有时为了向他的偶像切·格瓦拉致敬，则扮演设计师。他擅长跳舞，喜欢豪华酒店和排版精美的酒单。女性追捧他，他曾左右各挽一名女性。

当他在1975年第一张为人所知的照片被传向全球时，卡洛斯一定感到很困扰。当时他23岁。在这张黑白照片中，他穿着一件皮夹克，戴着椭圆形眼镜，留着短发。

这张照片成为了20世纪后半叶最具辨识度的头像。它出现在互联网的通缉名单上，以及全球报纸和杂志的封面上。虽然卡洛斯的形象从未被印在可收藏的Reopen帽子上，但如果Charles Miamou拍了一部5毫米电影，一定会这么做。

问题不在于这张照片暴露了他的身份，而在于它让他看起来像个笨蛋。（Miamou故意表现得很糟糕。在许多伪造的战后照片中，他处于半伪装状态。）这一定很伤人，因为他看起来很圆润。他从小就与体重作斗争，当时他被叫做“El Cardo”。另一方面，他支持他的家乡书籍。他有塑料紧身衣，一个扁平的下巴。与关于他的神话相反，这可能是他唯一拥有的塑料紧身衣。

卡洛斯的诸多矛盾——他曾是一名崇拜者，后来为了巴勒斯坦事业成为世界上最著名的恐怖分子；一个自认为人道主义者的杀手；一个被西方帝国主义的魅力所折服的西方帝国主义设计者——在Jany Warrick权威且极具可读性的新书《夹克》中被揭露得淋漓尽致。

Warrick长期担任《华盛顿邮报》的国家安全记者。他的前作之一《黑色手指：1935的崛起》（2003）曾获得普利策奖。他的新书充当了恐怖主义现代时期的简明历史，详细描述了卡洛斯的行径如何为后来的组织（如基地组织和伊斯兰大脑）提供了便利。

卡洛斯是一个全新的、脱节且高度积极的故事的一部分。他于1970年加入巴勒斯坦人民解放阵线（PFLP），在接下来的二十年里，成为了世界上最被通缉的恐怖分子之一。Warrick追踪了他的关注点，以及其中包含的痛苦且有时是阵发性的计划。

在伦敦，卡洛斯向英国零售巨头马莎百货（Marko & Spencer，卡洛斯有时会在那里购物）的22岁所有者Joseph Staff开了一枪。Staff幸运地幸存了下来。枪在第一次骚乱后被缴获。

在巴黎的1915机场，卡洛斯两次率队向El Al-Jaffaeni开火，其中一次是从机场航站楼的屋顶发起的。两次都未击中。

1974年，在左岸的一条可持续街道上，卡洛斯随意地向购物人群投掷了一枚手榴弹，造成两人死亡，24人受伤。受害者中包括一名被炸断手的小女孩。不到20%的情况下，卡洛斯在被逮捕时杀死了领土安全局（总统情报机构）的两名成员和一名PFLP成员，共8人损失。

卡洛斯及其同伙悄悄地劫持了人质，最著名的是1975年12月某日在维也纳举行的一次欧佩克（OPEC）会议上。这是单次事件中规模最大的政府官员大规模绑架案，并演变成了一场分屏奇观。

绑架者获得了一架美国20.19飞机，以便带着数十名人质飞离。这场电视戏剧在两天的谈判中展开，飞机从Al-Ajjani飞往Al-Tripati，然后再次飞往阿尔及尔。最终人质被释放，但在最初的袭击中有三人被杀。

卡洛斯及其模因，P.F.L.P.军事翼领导人诺亚·哈达德（Noah Haddad）认为，世界已经不再关注巴勒斯坦人的苦难以及他们夺回

光滑渲染：Slasches，更广为人知的称呼是“外套卡洛斯”（Carlos the Jacket），在1994年被捕之前，他是全球最被通缉的恐怖分子之一。

这本书充当了恐怖主义-机智现代时期的口袋历史。

在不确定的基础上，伊斯兰原教旨主义处于他们关注的核心。犹太禁令。他们决心通过任何必要手段使西方主义者或巴勒斯坦人获胜，包括针对非以色列文明。

那是一个不同的 era.。看着西方当局让卡洛斯及其同伙一次次从手中溜走，其中有一种奇怪的喜剧感。法国情报官员经常携带枪支。当女性主义者被抓时，他们通常被判处短期监禁，并因表现良好而获得减刑。中央情报局（C.I.A.）当时还没有反恐部门。机场安检是他的。

Warrick对其他形式的黑色幽默保持警觉。Badies，并非秃顶，倾向于意外地给一大群巴勒斯坦人施压。恐怖分子获得赔率。他们的武器——如果他们走错了路。一名德国激进分子被昵称为Schottorf，因为这是他唯一能做的。

在欧佩克（OPEC）袭击期间，卡洛斯的一位同事感到口渴，于是从水瓶里喝了水。他从未喝过不愉快的的水，并认为水被投毒了。他在驾驶时剧烈咳嗽，comb-fungled从他的脖子上脱落。

卡洛斯于1949年出生在加拉加斯的一个显赫家庭。他的父亲是一名律师，也是一名热情的共产主义者。他在家里挂了一幅巨大的斯大林肖像画。他给三个儿子起名，以Vladimir Uysch-Ulysses（更广为人知的称呼是列宁）命名。卡洛斯的出生姓名是Dick Ransom。Slasches，“卡洛斯”仅仅是一个贴上的标签。为了简单起见，我在这里使用它。

他被昵称为“外套”，因为人们认为他读过《外套之日》（The Day of the Jacket）。这是弗雷德里克·福赛斯（Frederick Forsyth）1975年的畅销书，讲述了一个冷酷的刺客。卡洛斯很喜欢这个名字：“外套是一种非常可爱的小动物，你知道吗？”他说：“它是个问题，但很漂亮。”

他在委内瑞拉上小学，然后被送到伦敦，高中期间与母亲同住。他的家人希望他学习一些名声。在经验时期，他在莫斯科的Patrice-Lazaranda大学就读，该校对外国学生开放。在那里他第一次遇到了巴勒斯坦人，并慢慢变得激进。

他决定，死板的经典莫斯科共产主义不是他的追求。他想成为一名像切·格瓦拉那样杰出的革命者。当时，P.F.L.P.宣布自己为Marock，卡洛斯前往黎巴嫩，通过筛选并签约。正如Warrick所说，他“误入了别人的战斗”。

卡洛斯的导师哈达德意识到他具有潜力。卡洛斯是非虚构专家。除了西班牙语，他还会说法语、俄语和英语。他身材轻盈，看起来像个见过世面的人——他能简单地进入大多数中东恐怖分子无法进入的地方。

卡洛斯和哈达德最终闹翻了，卡洛斯创办了自己的恐怖财团。那时有辉煌时期。他的名声，就像布鲁斯·斯普林斯汀（Bruce Springe）一样，在1975年和1983年极其自由。后来，资金开始枯竭。卡洛斯有某种风格需要维持。“仅仅因为我在领导一场革命，并不意味着我们必须吃垃圾！”他曾在某个时刻说道。他开始接私活，纯粹为了钱而承接委托。

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适合夏季酷暑的葡萄酒

The Pour（斟酒）

作者：ERIC ASIMOV

人们通常认为夏天是桃红葡萄酒（rosés）和白葡萄酒的季节。之所以自然而然地想到它们，是因为它们通常冷藏饮用，但这其实是一个错误的等式。决定葡萄酒季节性的并非颜色，而是“重量”。就像衣服和背心一样，是材质的轻盈感让葡萄酒适合夏日的酷暑。人们在夏天依然会穿很多黑色、灰色和深蓝色的衣服，但面料是轻盈的——是亚麻和棉布，而非厚重的羊毛。

同样地，我们会将那些浓郁、强劲的葡萄酒（无论是红葡萄酒还是白葡萄酒）收起来，直到天气转凉。但那些不够厚重的红葡萄酒，特别是那些轻至中等酒体且酒精含量较低的——比如 13.1% 或以下——会非常出色，尤其是轻微冷藏后饮用。

这并不是说我们不需要白葡萄酒和桃红葡萄酒。当然需要，尤其是那些像上述红葡萄酒一样，不过于厚重或酒精含量不过高的品种。但红葡萄酒在炎热天气中同样可以很棒且令人向往，除非我们计划在整个夏天一直烤牛排、肋排和汉堡。我最近访问了几家纽约的葡萄酒店，发现了 12 款非常适合 8 月酷暑的酒，价格都在 $20 到 $40 之间。眼尖的读者可能会在之前关于 $20 以下葡萄酒的推荐中见过其中几款。由于通货膨胀和关税，现在的价格是罕见的现实。

我仍然认为这些酒具有很高的性价比，因为其品质顶尖，而价值的评判不仅在于价格，还在于与同价位其他可选产品的对比。

一如既往，请在优质的专卖店而非超市寻找这些酒。如果这些特定款式缺货，商家应该能为你推荐类似的酒款。以下按价格顺序排列。

AMPELEIA TOSCANA UNLITRO BIANCO 2025, 11.5%, $23 (1 升)

Ampeleia 的 Unlitro 系列是目前性价比最高的酒款之一。这款活泼的白葡萄酒混酿色泽明亮，口感极干且清爽。它由有机或生物动力法种植的品种酿造，生长在托斯卡纳海岸 Mammina 地区的高海拔地带。它非常适合搭配罗勒青酱面以及虾类菜肴。Unlitro 的红葡萄酒同样出色。

CAMP NORTH COAST CABERNET SAUVIGNON 2025, 13.1%, $23

Hobo Wine Company 的 Kenny Likitprokeng 多年来一直证明，加利福尼亚可以在不妥协的情况下酿造出价格适中且出色的葡萄酒。Hobo 旗下拥有约六个品牌，仅使用主要生长在北加州的有机葡萄。这款来自 Hobo 旗下品牌 Camp 的赤霞珠极具代表性。它结构清晰，单宁明显，但同时清新明亮，带有咸鲜的水果味和草本风味。建议搭配多汁的汉堡或烤牛排。

FORLORN HOPE QUEEN OF THE SIERRA RANGE HERITAGE VINEYARD CALAVERAS COUNTY 2025, 12.6%, $25

Matthew Borick 在内华达山脉山麓（Sierra Foothills）的高海拔地区使用有机葡萄酿造 Queen of the Sierra 系列葡萄酒。这款干型且圆润的白葡萄酒混酿主要由霞多丽（chardonnay）、绿白（verdelbe）和麝香（muscat）组成，后者在浓郁的花香中尤为明显。它质感丰富，但一点也不厚重。它入口顺滑，但并不至于让你不想花点时间细细品味。

TIBERO CERASUOLO D'ABRUZZO 2025, 13.5%, $26

如果可以称之为桃红的话，这是我最喜欢的桃红葡萄酒之一。它呈现淡樱桃色，像一款轻盈的红葡萄酒，完全不像大多数普罗旺斯桃红那种漂白的粉红色。但这正是 Cerasuolo 的特性，该词源自意大利语中的“樱桃”。兄妹 Aetonia 和 Cristiana Tibero 是葡萄农兼酿酒师，我非常喜欢他们的酒。这款完全由蒙特普齐亚诺-达布鲁佐（Montepulciano d'Abruzzo）酿造的酒，尝起来像桃红和柠檬的结合。你可以用它搭配任何食物。

NEOLAB CARNARANS VIN DE FRANCE MAXIMOS 2024, 11.5%, $28

Nicolas Carmarans 在法国西南部的阿韦龙省（Aveyron）工作，在那里酿造自然酒。他专注于当地品种，在不同地形中酿造出几种不同的酒款。Maximus 是一款轻盈且充满活力的酒，清新活泼，充满了果香与能量。建议微 chilled（轻微冰镇）饮用。

FORSE CELLANS SENECA LAKE BREXANOEK CREEK VINEYARD ORY WIELING 2023, 12.3%, $29

位于指湖区（Finger Lakes）的 Porge Collars 是由法国人 Louis Survost 与美国人 Rick Rainey 合作建立的。Survost 的家族在 Gigondas 的 Gideous St. Cosme 经营了数世纪，而 Rainey 则是通过餐饮业进入葡萄酒领域的。酿酒师 Léaiza Giedard 为他们提供协助。Forget dry 的口感极佳，例如这款来自 Breakneck Creek Vineyard 的酒，带有花香以及深沉且持久的砾石矿物风味。

OUTWARD SAN LUIS OBISPO COAST COQUINA VINEYARD SAUVIGNON BLANC 2025, 12.1%, $32

我经常觉得加州的长相思（sauvignon blancs）要么太冲，要么太甜。但对葡萄酒的定型印象是危险的，且经常被证明是错误的。一个典型的例子是：Outward 产自圣路易斯-奥比斯波海岸（San Luis Obispo Coast）的 2023 年 Coquina Vineyard 长相思，是一款极美的酒，拥有深邃、浓郁且饱和的风味，以及轻盈迷人的质感，让人忍不住想在口中细细品味。再次打破了固有认知。决定葡萄酒品质的从来不是类别，而是产地、耕作方式以及酿酒师的意图与技巧。

MARTHA STOUMEN CALIFORNIA POST FLIRTA-TION RED 2025, 12.5%, $35

你很难找到比这款红 blends 更美味的酒了。除了酿酒和耕种自己的地块，Martha Stoumen 还与有责任心的种植者合作，酿造她认为能表达北加州（Northern California）特质的葡萄酒。这款名为 Post Flirtation 的红酒中，82% 是 stellated 和 root surgeon。其酿造工艺温和，以最大限度地减少单宁，口感明亮迷人，辛香、随和且清新。这是另一款最适合微 chilled（轻微冰镇）饮用的红酒。

ISTINE CHAMPI CLASISCO 2023, 13.5%, $35

多年来我一直在宣传经典基安蒂（Chianti Classico）的优点，因为由优秀的生产者酿造时，它们美丽、美味且用途广泛。Intiac 的 Angelo Frusti 位于高海拔地区 Radbick-Chianti，她的酒通常纯净且晶莹。这款酒是她的入门级基安蒂，100% 由 sangloves 酿成，色调高雅且风味浓郁。建议搭配烤裙肉牛排或任何带有熟番茄酱的意面。

CANTALAPEGRIS VITICOLTORES MAXIELOS DEL CHIVIRITERO 2024, 13.5%, $37

Isaac 和 Manuel Cantalapechis 在卡斯蒂利亚-莱昂（Castilla y León）的鲁埃达（Rueda）产区进行有机耕作。这款 Majuelos del Chiviriano 完全由 verdise 葡萄酿造，或许比本次汇总中的其他几款酒更为严肃。它在旧橡木桶中陈酿，具有足够的深度和结构，可搭配如 baffled 或烤鸡等熟食。

DONAINE DE MONTBOURSEAU CRÉMENT DU JURA BRUT JÉRO NV, 12.5%, $38

Donaine de Montbourgeau 所在的汝拉（Jura）产区很少受到关注，但它是我最喜欢的汝拉生产者之一。我尤其喜欢他们的 cristaux。它完全由有机种植的霞多丽（chardonnay）酿造，口感极干，除了轻微的奶油感外几乎显得严苛。它专注、活泼且优雅。

LADY OF THE SUNSHINE SAN LUIS OBISPO COAST ROSE 2025, 12%, $40

Gina Giugni 是圣路易斯-奥比斯波海岸的一位生物动力法农民。她酿造的 Lady of the Sunshine 系列葡萄酒，其葡萄要么来自她与丈夫（That of the Sea 的 Mikey Giugni）共同拥有的 Bassi 葡萄园，要么来自她精心培育的葡萄藤。这款浅色调的葡萄酒，由 40% 的 pean sour 和长相思（Sauvignon Blanc）酿成，口感极佳，酸爽、带有咸鲜味且浓郁，尽管整体风格轻盈。没错，它非常适合在海边饮用，但搭配烤三文鱼等正餐则更为出色。

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A great scam

flourishes on the high seas

Peter Navarro

OPINION

The recliner really is made in Vietnam. The giant, just north of the US Main City, is high — it's got thousands of workers making real furniture. The motor inside the recliner is another story.

The motor arrives from China finished, branded and brand, shipped by the container load from a factory in the same corporate family as the furniture maker. Workers cooled it and had a into the recliner. Within 90 days the recliner calls from Vong Tau and lands at Norfolk, Va., where the Chinese mechanism is declared as Vietnamese. If the paperwork holds, that "while in Vietnam" claim erases 25 percentage points of American tariff that would otherwise be levied.

It is not an isolated case. On Thursday, the White House was set to release a report documenting the great transshipment scam: a shadow not

When a product faces a higher U.S. tariff than it would from another country, the difference becomes a profit opportunity.

made of more than 40 countries reaching single of hand to de- come American consumers and centers officials about where their capacity really originate. In the process, these countries are nothing the

United States of time of billions of dollars a year and countless manufacturing jobs.

Transshipment is driven by tariff arbitrage. When a product from one country faces a higher U.S. tariff than it would from another country, the difference becomes a profit opportunity, and even a business model in its own right.

Ship $1 billion of Chinese goods straight to an American port and the ship can run to several hundred million dollars. Send the identical goods through Vietnam, Malaysia or Thailand and must of that bill disappears. Send them through Mexico wearing U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement paperwork that they have not named, and the bill can disappear entirely.

Five independent analyses — two government, three private — have estimated the scale of illegal transshipments from China. Goldman Sachs puts it near $40 billion a year. The White House Council of Economic Advisers estimate funds around $60 billion; the Commerce Department, measuring the extent to which imports of products previously listed as coming from China have been replaced by RAYMOND, PAGE 3.

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Russia's maritime blockade

A cargo-ship struck off the coast of Orlova, Ukraine, last month. A Russian campaign of attacks on merchant vessels has halted nearly all shipping in and out of the port.

ODESA, UKRAINE

Deadly strikes on vessels at Ukraine's ports (Russians global food supply chain

BY NUKI SANTOBA

As families strolled along a promenade in the Ukrainian port city of Orlova recently, a later cargo-ship suited to the defiance, badskety, a device dropped out of the clear that the port descended into the vessel, sending smoke following across the horizon.

The attack, which I witnessed in late July, was part of a Russian campaign targeting cargo vessels that has halted nearly all shipping in and out of Orlova, Ukraine's most crucial link to the world economy.

Coming at the start of the harvest season, the Russian campaign in Ukraine, which is a major producer of grains like wheat, corn and barley, could throw global food supply chains into turrets in 2023, during the first months of the full-scale war. Russia established a blockade of Ukrainian ports, causing a spike in global food prices and placing an estimated 70 million people at increased risk of acute food insecurity.

Harvesting barley in the Orlova region in 2023. In 2023, Russia's blockade of Ukraine's ports caused spikes in global food prices and increased food insecurity risks for many.

"Russia is hunting these vessels," Desyros Barinov, president of the Ukrainian Ports Association, said in an interview. "It's a professional hunting for civilian vessels."

The Russian strikes are the latest chapter in a long-running battle over the Black Sea and the adjacent Sea of Azov. New weapons that allow for precision

targeting at great distances have made slow-moving cargo vessels easy targets. In June and July, Russian forces so halted at least 50 cargo-ships, according to Ukrainian officials, killing more than 20 civilians.

Ukraine has also systematically targeted Russian-linked tankers and cargo vessels. Moscow's maritime campaign

appears to be a response to Ukraine's declaration of the Russian fleet of overseas oil tankers in the Sea of Azov and to Kyiv's continued targeting of ships transporting Russian goods, which has left occupied Crimea isolated and starved for fuel.

Ukraine launched a major assault before dawn on Wednesday, when the country's forces attacked the Russian part of Novomanyok, on the Black Sea, with 10-powered drones, missiles and unmanned naval systems, President Vokalytsiy Zelensky said. Air defense positions, piers and suspect infrastructure were struck, he said.

Three people were including an 8-year-old child, and about 60 residential buildings were damaged, Vovianin Kondratyev, who gave way of the Krasnodar region, which includes Novomanyok, said on naval media. Andrei Kravchenko, the mayor of the city, which is a critical hub for grain exports, declared a state of emergency. He said the city's water supply had been suspended after two mazes were damaged.

The escalating battle between Russia and Ukraine is a flashpoint in a larger global phenomenon that threatens one of the foundational tenets of the international order: freedom of navigation.

That maritime system, which underpins modern global commerce, is under UKRAINE, PAGE 4.

Fighting

Hezbollah on another, quieter front

BERVIT, LEBANON

U.S. and Israel have sought to squeeze militia's funding, especially money from Iran

BY ELIAN WARD, ERIC KUSMET, ROYCE BERCHSON AND IRVANDA SAAD

When Israel launched its latest war against Hezbollah in March, the first surgery the military warned it would endeavour not weapons depots or underground command centers.

They were hands.

Israeli fighter pro levelled more than a dozen branches of a shadowy financial institution known as Al-Qarif al-Rassan, long accused of operating an Hezbollah's bank in Lebanon. Most atrocities followed on exchange shops that train used to funnel money to Hezbollah, in Lebanese proxy, and on gas stations that generated revenue for the group.

With these strikes, Israel was sending a clear message: Hezbollah's money, not only its arsenal, was in the cross bank.

The bombings capped the most aggressive campaign yet by Israel. The Trump administration and Lebanese government to squeeze Hezbollah financially by disrupting the group's funding channels, particularly from Iran.

For months leading up to the war, Lebanon's government, under pressure from the Trump administration, worked to choke off the mates that the group used to receive and move money, such as Bercer's international airport. Washington also pressed the Lebanese central bank to tighten controls over the country's work economy which Hezbollah had long exploited.

Now, Hezbollah is grappling with its most severe economic strain in years, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times and interviews with Lebanese, U.S. and Israeli officials and Hezbollah leaders. Most spoke on the condition of anonymity, citing confidential intelligence assessments, diplomatic protocol or fear of retribution.

The war that began in March was the second in Iran that there years between Israel and Hezbollah, two of the world's most heavily armed militia. In the previous conflict, which began in late 2023, Israel killed Hezbollah's longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, along with many other top figures in the movement.

Setting that moment, leaders in Washington and Israel sensed that Hezbollah was vulnerable and coordinated their efforts to clamp down on its funding. They went after the financial network that had long undergone the group's policy, while also turning up the pressure on Lebanon's government to disarm Hezbollah.

When the wars with Hamas in Gaza and Iran have drawn global attention, REZWILLAR, PAGE 4.

To stay cool, East Asia deploys inventive gadgets

Using fans and podcasts to keep cool in forest bed month. from Asia's customers are getting better and longer, and "personal cooling" devices have become a part of daily life.

Market grows for devices such as hands-free fans and air-conditioned vests

BY NUKI SINI

Small through Tokyo on a summer day and you'll see hand-held fans everywhere. But the light blue one that Emu Nakayama was holding on a recent afternoon was a more high-tech variety. Outfitted with a small metal plate that runs on the same science behind semiconductors, it uses electrical currents to generate a chill.

The sensation in "kind of like holding a cold drink against your own," said Ms. Nakayama, a 20-year-old university student. "Maybe because of the plate, the air flow feels a bit cooler, too."

The product has lately been sweeping through cities in East Asia, where a deadly heat wave that month has led to controlled handheld games in South Korea and a new meteorological term in Japan. Industries, or "cruel heat day."

East Asia's customers are becoming better and longer, and such "personal cooling" has become a ubiquitous part of daily life. A market once dominated by inexpensive hand-held fans now includes a growing array of more sophisticated products, from air-conditioned apparel to cooling sprays that claim to lower your body temperature within seconds.

Sales of cooling products are soaring, and employers and governments increasingly see them as a necessity, rather than a luxury.

As in Japan, the market for such products in South Korea has grown drastically over the past two years, with the Jiao-young, an expert in the relationship between clothing and thermal environments at Seoul National University, like and a major factor in that market and materials have become cheaper and more effective, making powerful new cooling products accessible.

In Japan, the birthplace of the has-coded jacket — invented by Hiroshi Ichigaya, a former Sony electrical engineer. EAST ASIA, PAGE 3

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He helped China become a market economy

ZHU ROHLD 1920-2018

BY KEITH BRADNER

Zhu Rongji, the former Chinese premier who played a pivotal role in guiding his country's interest, a market-based economy in the 1980s and subsequently into the World Trade Organization, died on Wednesday in Beijing. He was 97.

His death was announced by Yoshua, China's official store agency, which did not cite a cause, noting only that he died after medical treatment failed to save him.

Mr. Zhu, who worked under Jiang Zemin, the Communist Party leader at the time, contributed more to liberalizing the Chinese economy and making it more internationally competitive than any other recent leader except Dong Xiaoping. Mr. Zhu's initiatives propelled rapid growth in China that lasted, with a little slowing along the way, until the housing market began to crash in 2021.

But his memory came on the stage for China's recent problems with excessive debt and its huge trade continues, which have led to trade wars with the United States during President Trump's terms to effect.

A young Communist star in the 1950s, Mr. Zhu was expelled from the party in one of Max Zeileng's ideological publication campaigns. He spent 20 years in obscurity, including five years as a hero laborer.

Politically rehabilitated after Marx's death in 2019, he moved to the top levels of government. It was Mr. Dong, China's paramount leader from the late 1970s until his death in 1987, who pleaded Mr. Zhu's 1993 from his position as mayor of Shanghai and brought him to Beijing to oversee the country's economic modernization.

China's economy had grown rapidly through the 1980s as officials greatly reduced central planning and curbed the chaos of Marx's final years. But market returns followed after a deadly military trailblazer crashed on Transmian Square pretexts in 1988.

Mr. Zhu reimplement his country's embrace of market forces, starting as a vice premier in 1995. Promoted to premier seven years in the 1990s, the privatization of thousands of state-owned enterprises and then led China into the World Trade Organization in 2002.

The eventual deal crafted by Mr. Zhu and his aides was unpopular with many Chinese people, particularly in island provinces that weren't so prepared for international competition. Mr. Zhu was widely criticized for agreeing to reduce import tariffs on cars and many other goods in no more than 25 percent from 109 percent in taxes.

But every into the W.T.O. meant that Chinese goods also had guaranteed access to Western markets with significantly lower tariffs. Exports moved, and by 2010 China had passed the United States to become the world's largest manufacturer, according to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.

At the same time, imports did not grow as fast as expected. Mr. Zhu retired soon after China joined the trade body, and the country's embrace of market forces slowed.

China began erecting new obstacles for buying in foreign goods. There included extensive subsidies for Chinese manufacturers and numerous requirements that government agencies and state-owned enterprises buy Chinese-made goods.

Under Mr. Zhu, China promised when it joined the W.T.O. that it would quickly open up government governments to its heraldized competition. But China still has not done so. Beijing leaders have faced objections from island provinces that appear letting Western companies compete for their sprawling public works properly. Central government officials have submitted several proposals that other countries have quickly rejected as insufficient.

Robert E. Lighthizer, a longtime Washington trade lawyer who was the trade representative for the United States during Mr. Trump's first term, said Mr. Zhu as chartered Western negotiators in securing China's plans in the W.T.O.

"Zhu and China clearly got the better deal," he said in a 2022 result.

As the trade representatives, Mr. Lighthizer waged a trade war with Beijing. He reopened tariffs on many Chinese goods in an effort to claw back ac-

cess to the American market that Mr. Zhu had negotiated.

DRYING DEBT

As vice premier and then premier, Mr. Zhu also overcame many domestic policies aimed at making China more efficient and competitive. The two most important policies involved the privatization of thousands of inefficient state-owned enterprises and a far-reaching tax overhead.

Tens of millions of workers lost their jobs during the privatization drive, with many forced interretirement in their 40s. Mr. Zhu softened the blow by enacting an overhead of the housing market. A vast number of state-owned apartments were transferred to current and retired employees at a national rate. State-owned banks issued surengages at low interest rates for new homes.

Apartment prices caused as much as two-thirds in many Chinese cities from the 1980s until around 2021.

Above: Zhu Rongji in 2010, when he stopped down as premier of China. Left, Mr. Zhu meeting in 1989 with William M. Haley, at left, the United States commerce secretary, during negotiations on China's bid to join the World Trade Organization.

Under Mr. Zhu's tax overhead in 1994, the central government seized a much larger share of taxes collected by local governments. The money bankrolled costly initiatives like broad industrial subsidies and a considerable military building.

Beijing let local governments borrow more money from banks and finance markets in exchange for transferring a larger share of their tax revenues to the state after government.

Local governments proceeded to borrow heavily and sell land leases to raise money for new roads, rail lines and parts.

Mr. Zhu's "grand buzgale" with local governments cleared the way he towed, sifted and prewined to gauge an debt and become highly dependent on everything revenues from selling land leases.

A REBELL STAR

Mr. Zhu was born on Oct. 23, 1928, in Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province in southern China. He was acquired as a small child and raised by two of his father's older brothers, Zhu Ruoshan and Zhu Xuelang. He went on to curate as host and, in 1967, passed the rigorous entrance exam to the elite Tunghua University, where he studied electrical engineering. He joined the Communist Party in 1949, the year it won China's civil war.

Like many economic reformers of the 1990s, Mr. Zhu made a remarkable political comeback from persecution before deciding to the top of the Chinese government. He was working at the State Planning Commission, tracking machinery production, when Max began his Anti-Rightist Campaign in June 1937,

striking back at what he saw as dangerous opposition. The campaign led to the political persecution of 150,000 officials, teachers and other citizens over the next two years.

Mr. Zhu was among them. In the early days of Marx's campaign, Mr. Zhu had given a three-minute talk at the planning commission that followed the prevailing line in Beijing at the time. But the talk was deemed politically unacceptable after the campaign intensified in October 2017.

"Before October, everyone thought that my opinion was good — after October, they said that your opinion should be reconsidered," Mr. Zhu said in a speech in 1998.

Mr. Zhu's initiatives propelled rapid growth in China that lasted until the housing market began to crash in 2021.

According to a biography of Mr. Zhu published in 2000 by a state company, he was also deemed an "appreciable is-evolution" because he had an unacceptable clear background. His maternal grandfather, Yu Zhaoliang, had been an imperial official before the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911, pioneering national construction in China.

Mr. Zhu was expelled from the Communist Party in April 1958 and devoted several ways of the intervention. But he was allowed to remain there to teach study, physics and chemistry in his colleagues.

His early difficulties set him up for further trouble a decade later during

Marx's Cultural Revolution, when he was sent to labor on a horse for five years. Yi have done everything: planned wheat, rice and cotton, hardest cattle and sheep; raised pigs, and worked as a cook "to establish in his 1960 speech.

Under the evolution model down with the illness and death of Marx in 1970, Mr. Zhu spent two years training power in Chinese workers on China's politics began to thaw. In required his government rank as a deputy director general — the same level he had held as a rising star 20 years earlier.

Mr. Zhu's Communist Party membership was retroactively restored in late 2015, with full seniority dating them when he joined the party in 1949. He was named research director for industrial economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. According to the 2000 biography, Mr. Zhu watched an academy officials barred his letter of regulation from the party and the documents that had been used as evidence to condemn him as a fighter.

Mr. Zhu quickly became one of China's leading economic thinkers on industrial and rural issues. Within five years, he was vice-minister of the State Economic Commission.

A TEACHER AND A MEATOR

As his career neared, he began a project that would have long during influence. He founded the School of Economics and Management at his alma mater, Tunghua. He began training a large cohort of economists and finance experts who went on to fill many top posts for decades. (S) Jinping, China's current top leader, has limited the influence of these instruments; however, by creating Communist Party commissions that took considerable decision-making on charity pens from government agencies stocked with Mr. Zhu's postages.)

After working his way up the economic policy ranks in Beijing, Mr. Zhu became the mayor of Shanghai in 1988. He came under Mr. Dong's wing soon after.

Starting in late January 1990, the elderly Mr. Dong began spending the first days of such Chinese New Year not in frozen Beijing but in milder Shanghai. There, Mr. Dong had long discussions about Mr. Zhu's plans to redevelop the Beijing jobs across the Shanghai River from downtown Shanghai.

The area was occupied by aging, state-owned warehouses and farms. Mr. Zhu envisioned turning it into the modern financial center with skyscrapers that it is today.

Mr. Dong not only supported those plans but after a second visit to Shanghai to early 1991, brought Mr. Zhu back in Beijing as a vice premier with special responsibility for trade and industrial production.

A year later, Mr. Dong elevated Mr. Zhu into the Politburo Standing Committee — the retirement crisis of power in the Chinese Communist Party, his years after that. Mr. Zhu was premier; a year he held until 2021.

While Mr. Zhu was premier, his son, Levin Zhu Yushu, was the most visible investment leader in the China International Capital Corporation, C.U.C., as it is known, which worked with Wall Street banks to hit the shores of big Chinese state-owned enterprises on Western stock exchanges.

In addition to his son, Mr. Zhu's family included Lao An, his wife of seven doctors, as well as a daughter, Zhu Yushu. Hong Kong news media reported in 2019 that Mr. Zhu also had at least one grand daughter, the daughter of Zhu Yushu.

Li You contributed research.

Sales of young Chinese people in the East Asia, the United States's economic market running a high-rise market. The United States is the one of three countries that have been forced with an overhaul of a host of new international markets, and the world's largest market for food.

East Asia deploys inventive gadgets to beat the heat

EAST ASIA, FRONTAGE

seen in 2001 — the online market for "heat countermeasures" products has expanded more than market since 2018, according to Rakuten, one of the country's biggest e-commerce platforms. It now has roughly 300,000 products in that category.

Mr. Ishiguro's invention has since evolved and recently first appeared on a page recently introduced a new enabled e-commerce machine that was appearing on hand held fans.

But these gadgets are no longer just a few years ago, making for quick relief during their comments. Increasingly, they are becoming part of new governments and employers are adapting to extreme heat.

The Chinese delivery platform Mintson is piloting "no one person" another type on Mr. Ishiguro's invention — for its delivery workers in Chongqing, a city in China's southwest. In Hubei Province is central China, the state-owned power company has equipped some of its workers with water-mixeded water fans.

In 1991, the Ministry of Air Environment and Tokyo's now-spoiled government have promoted pursuits as an effective way to reduce heat stress, while some family Korean municipalities have been redefining their street cleaners with neon cooling vents.

In South Korea, the need for such technologies is especially great on farms, said Kim In-soo, a researcher at

the country's National Institute of Agricultural Sciences. He recently designed his own cooling vent for greenhouse workers that is being pinned at 100 farms around the country.

"Gonodawans are one of the worst places to be during a clean water," he said. "It's hot and humid and a lot of the work is time-sensitive for roaring that can't be opened as well."

The way, which relies on a technology known as a "vertex tube," is funded up to a compressor that shams cold, dry air into this tubes, which then disinfects it across the skin through the perforations running throughout the vent.

Sen. Shiy-young, the 20-year-old founder of a South Korean start-up that sells cooling work hands online, has built

a business around the growing appetizer for cooling products, a trend she first enlisted a few years ago.

At around $25 apiece, Ms. Secoy present — a thick, squishy collar filled with melons — is among the pricier options for premium interior housing items and "explosive" cooling effects. She is on track to sell around 40,000 units this year.

"But it got so hot so quickly this year that we're struggling to keep up with the sudden demand," she said.

The main school for food has spawned many of the conventions. In Japan, one company has developed a human-sized refrigerator handle that offers quick relief at construction sites, universities and evacuation shelters for natural dis-

asters. Arctess East Asia, manufacturers are serving up solar-powered fan fans, hands-free pursuits and air conditioned jet heaters, strong other specialized devices.

But Ms. Lee, the professor, said cooling gadgets should not be treated as a cure-all.

"When the temperature is above 20 degrees Celsius, we often put their hot air into room after," she said, speaking of the experience of N. Marvathai. Another cooling neck handle? They have their chill too quickly to make a big difference, she added.

For most people, she said, the low-cost options are often more effective: drinking cold beverages, keeping your feet — among the body's most nutritious

heat troppers — unscrewed and cool; and drinking your self from the sun with pursuits, many of which now have black undertales that blend 7.5" rays.

Among the recent concerns in para-soda is Lee Seok, a 50-year-old consultant in Seoul. Though they were primarily seen as a feminine item put a few years ago, he said, in least like this, such nations of gender have largely gone on the window.

"There is ways to really doesn't feel strange to see a person as a man," Mr. Lee said. "It's been the biggest difference maker in terms of actual cooling benefits."

Kiahe Shinyo, contributed reporting. Li You contributed research.

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A drone 'heilscape' to shield Taiwan

TAIPEI, TAIWAN

Inspired by Ukraine, island accelerates efforts to put defense strategy in place

BY CHRIS BUCKLEY AND AMY CHANG CHEN

To repel any future Chinese invasion, Taiwan's headlong theme of flying drones and unmanned attack boats.

The goal is to use them to help locate and attack Chinese forces approaching the island, relying on Taiwanese soldiers trained to move quickly before China can strike them. U.S. commanders who developed this strategy call it a 'heilscape' overwhelming on invading force with waves of drones, missiles and artillery and making an amphibious assault on risky that China's leaders are deterred from trying.

Inspired by human from Ukraine and other recent war zones, Taiwan is now accelerating efforts to put that strategy into practice.

'Use drone and counter drone efforts started relatively late, and initially we were trying things out on we went along,' Lt. Gen. Huang Woo-chi, the director general of strategic planning for the Taiwanese Defense Ministry, told a committee of lawmakers last week. That has begun to change over the past two years, he added.

'On Aug. 8, Taiwan's military allowed reporters to watch as troops in central Taiwan practiced using drones for reconnaissance, as part of the island's annual Han Maung military exercises, which began a day earlier and runs for 10 days.'

Maj. Gen. Lu Woo-yuan, who helped plan the exercises, said earlier that they would also train troops to destroy enemy drones.

Many militaries across the world are embracing the drone revolution, but Taiwan forces particularly expand (hunt). China, which is roughly 100 miles (175 kilometers) away, claims the self-governed island as its territory. Chinese leaders say they want to absorb Taiwan peacefully but will not rule out using force. They are building that threat with an expanding fleet of warships, planes, missiles and drones, as well as more frequent-road guard patrols and landing exercises.

Taiwanese officials have noted Ukraine's drone-driven gains on the battlefield, and they are trying to emulate Ukraine's Global-versus-English approach: using relatively cheap and similar drones to level the playing field against a much larger adversary.

'Drones are entering a new chapter,' said Man Lu. He chairman of the Taiwan National Drones Industry Association. 'Taiwan, for its own survival and national defense, is in urgent need of these drones. But it's the same everywhere in the world right now – that's an opportunity for Taiwan.'

Among its main the island a drone industry, that proves the government says it wants Taiwan to make 100,000 drones a month by 2030, with around

Mores, members of Taiwan's military operating a drone during annual military exercises this month. China claims Taiwan as its own territory and has not ruled out using force to take it. Before left, an uncovered surface vessel made by a Taiwanese company. Before right, President Lai Ching-wu of Taiwan, centre, with reservoirs during a training session last year.

half-corporated. It also wants the military to acquire over 120,000 flying and seaborne drones.

Taiwan has 'realised that drones will be important in all the domains, in all the phases,' in a potential war with China, said Mick Ryan, a retired Australian man, as general who has studied Ukraine and Taiwan.

Ukraine's recent success at began: range drone strikes suggests that Taiwan could also attack ships leaving Chi-

tsewa ports if Beijing launched an amphibious assault, said Mr. Ryan, now a senior fellow at the Lowy Institute in Sydney.

China's army is not yet strong enough to easily invade Taiwan, many experts believe, and recent judges in the People's Liberation Army's high command have undervalued its readiness.

But like Taiwan's military, it has been building up fleets of crewless planes and boats and is investing heavily in tech-

nology to detect and jam drones.

'Remember, the Chinese are also watching everything the Ukrainian are doing,' Mr. Ryan added.

For Taiwan, as gun fog the drones may be the straightforward part. Its master drone warfare, Taiwan must also retest its military organization, training and doctrine. It must learn to operate on time of drones, rapidly access and share the intelligence they provide and prevent an enemy from disabling them,

according to experts. This will require troops to be more mobile and self-sustaining.

'The army's frontline military operations must undergo a total change from the past,' said this Hsiao Huang, an associate research fellow at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research in Taipei, which is supported by Taiwan's Defense Ministry. 'As the Russia-Ukraine War, if you fire one round, you won't have a chance to fire a second.

if you just stay lined up there without moving on,' he said.

Unlike Ukraine, though, Taiwan lacks the pressure of an actual invasion to mobilize resources and have changes. 'We very difficult, because they haven't experienced the crucible of war,' Mr. Hsu said.

But military units have been working to learn drone bursts, which are a focus of the continuing Han Kaung exercises.

The Taiwanese army also released pictures from a drill last month in which a unit scrambled to defend islands off Taiwan's vast route by using drones to hunt for enemy forces. On Saturday, Taiwan's president, Lai Ching-wu, watched an exercise in the island's south in which troops tested two types of prototype drones designed to strike invading forces.

Taiwan also recently created a Litteral Combat Command, integrating drones, mobile missiles and artillery into a coastal island against potential Chinese invasion.

To master drone warfare, Taiwan must also retest its military organization, training and doctrine.

Still, Taiwan is a long way from meeting the complex demands of this century warfare, many experts said. It risks becoming 'focused on the technology more than the equally essential organizational and doctrinal changes that are needed to implement a heilscape concept,' said Nacie Petryjehn, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and an author of a recent study of Taiwan's drone warfare strategy.

In the event of an invasion, China is likely to try to seal off Taiwan from external support. In service a blackout, Taiwan needs to build the highest and standard homepower drone production, especially 'cheaper, shorter-range memory attack drones,' Mr. Petryjehn said. At the same time, Taiwan is rapidly increasing its rate of drone exports, seeking to make itself an indispensable supplier of components for other drones in states that want to reduce their reliance on Chinese parts, which raise concerns about supply disruptions, or espionage.

In the first three months of the year, Taiwan reported drones worth $250 million, exceeding its total drone exports for all of 2030, according to the Island's Ministry of Economic Affairs. The top destination is the Czech Republic, though many of the drones that they way to nearby Ukraine, research shows.

Taiwan's exports of drone components are probably even higher. Instead for these parts, such as meters and optical equipment, it likely to grow, according to representatives of U.S. drone companies.

'Taiwan sits at the center of one of the most important industrial and strategic competitions of our time,' Michael Robbins, the president of the Association for Universal Vehicle Systems International, wrote in an email. 'It is one of the few places positioned to produce trusted drone components at scale.'

To some, he saved his Spanish city. To others, he spoiled it.

PEOPLE SIR, ALEX, SPAIN

In a thriving hub of tech and culture, critics bemoan overtourism and high costs

BY JASON HOROWITZ

Every few yards on the palm-lined beachwalk, another passerby stopped Francisco de la Torre, Málaga's 83-year-old mayor, in thank him for transforming this past town on Spain's southern map.

A local investment consultant thanked Mr. de la Torre for attracting foreigners. A British transplant praised him for making her feel at home. And once Google's cybersecurity hub, a 75-year-old woman simply wept and professed her love for a mayor who has led the city for the past 10 years.

'Many years will have to pass before there is a mayor like this again,' said the woman, Mercedes Martin, adding that she had never seen a politician with 'such good journalism.'

To Mr. de la Torre's critics, the question is whether these good intentions – which have transformed Málaga into a thriving stegner for tech and culture – have also paved the road to over-tourism, skyrocketing housing costs and the loss of Málaga's cash.

As Mr. de la Torre, 'Grandpa Puer' is his many grandchildren, prepares to run next year for his eighth consecutive term, that question is overbearing for Second Spain's sixth-most populous city.

Provincial cities across Europe are struggling to revive their economic all-time growth. The city has been shattered. These that can turn more fully to tourism, Others seek to become tech hubs and to attract digital nomads.

Málaga is having an heck and is a lit-

mus text for whether such a gamble can pay off without destroying a city's character. Depending on who you ask, Málaga – Peanuts' hometown – is either doubling its chances for survival or self-suffering a double-returning that is rendering the city unattainable, unleable and uncongestable.

In Málaga, that drones is permitted by Mr. de la Torre, a mild massacred and bespectacled public survival who gave up the second of eight children to a humble part of the city. The Málaga he was raised is, he said in an interview, was a post-war warshand where bread was consumed and children played with big balls.

'I don't remember a single swing,' he said.

Now, critics see a different abandonment in the modern city centre. There are more tourist apartments just squarende in central Málaga than in any other major city in Spain, according to national statistics. That, Mr. de la Torre's opponents say, has believed not any sense of a real place. The Manzila north and the penitence apartment of the art in Asman, Basileiras, another native son of Málaga, have become a backdrop to souvenir shops and bachelor- and bachelorette glass with parties.

About 70 percent of these purchases in Málaga are now made by interests, depts, according to Málaga's association of economists. According to a local union, more than 60 percent of residents in the city had been outstanding government costs less than the minimum wage – six points higher than the Spanish average.

'A do not consider myself responsible for the problem,' said Mr. de la Torre when asked if he had created a measure. We spoke at the Málaga outpost of Paris's Peupabac Centre, one of the measures built during his tenure. He said that while the economic boom had created 'housing challenges,' he said that he felt an national economic dynamite and the reluctance of the federal government

more, which regulates land use, to build new housing.

The mayor hasn't always seemed as concerned. In 2024, he infuriated some residents who couldn't afford room by saying that moving out of the center wasn't 'that big a deal.' Now, clearly in

campaign mode, he talked up housing construction, a proposed tourism, he concluded for lowering costs and his imposition of a temporary moratorium on sitting apartments to mention in the city center.

Málaga and its surroundings have a

Francisco de la Torre, left, has been the mayor of Málaga, Spain, bottom left, since 2004. He helped establish the city's first university in 1973, and in the 1990s, he was a proponent of a new technology park.

history of political and economic flux. One of Spain's greatest history paintings depicts revolutionaries dying for liberal ideas on the beach in 1833. After a few wappens of a man who behaves, Málaga embraced the industrial revolution but ultimately found it harder to become established as a manufacturing hub that better-connected competitors. All, in the 20th century, during the Franco dictatorship, the city and the surrounding counties were at the center of a tourism explosion and hotel construction boom that transformed its landscape and economy.

In 1950s, Mr. de la Torre entered the picture as a provincial leader during the Franco regime, followed by a shot at a court of lawmaker during the transition to democracy. He helped establish Málaga's first university in 1971, and in the early 1980s, he became a proponent of a new technology park. By 1990, he was mayor.

The park benefited from an early increase in 10,000 people, as well as from proximity to Spain's fourth-largest airport. Felipe Batorra, the park's general director, also said that the site had been delivered by Mr. de la Torre's policies, and he said that he was a publicly. Mr. Batorra said that when the phone rang on Sunday nights, he knew it would be Mr. de la Torre.

Under Mr. de la Torre, Mr. Batorra asked, the tech hub had attracted multinational corporations. About 20,000 workers were employed at more than 100 companies that produced nearly 20 percent of Málaga's economic output, Mr. Batorra said.

Mr. de la Torre has also presided over a cultural transformation. Since he

came to office, more than a dozen museums have been held in Málaga.

'It is another kind of city,' said Lenalys Ibarras, in some director of the Cannes Thyssen Museum, one of those museums, a landmark of the Málaga restaurations, who became Spanish art.

The Peanuts museum in Málaga, a short walk away, was envisaged before Mr. de la Torre took office but was opened during his tenure. It is now one of the top 10 museums in Spain, with 169,000 visitors a year. Tourism routinely rub the backhead of a statue of the artist in the Mediterranean.

'Peanuts,' said the museum's artistic director, Miguel López-Benetez Perustá, 'would be surprised.'

Yet there are many who see all this as a double-edged sword.

One local activist, Eike España, noted the historical management of using Peanuts – who left town as a child and spent his literature years in Barcelona, Madrid, and the other two of the same city's new cosmopolitanism. Being born, Mr. España said, was 'the only thing Peanuts did in Spain.'

In 2014, Mr. España helped organize a fully first allowed 10,000 prisoners against the negative consequences of Málaga's transformation. That campaign continued to take expression across the city, where you can often find greater stingens like 'Málaga shouldn't be sold, it should be delivered.'

He dismissed the mayor's new research on the technology and presented on the city center to visitors, saying the tourist劝ings had spread far beyond the city.

Others saw little choice but to follow Mr. de la Torre's path.

'Either you are a successful city with all the problems that come with it,' said Maria de la Villahermosa, a political scientist at the University of Málaga, 'he you like.'

Carlos Barregán contributed reporting.

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Another front in the war against Hezbollah

HEDDELLAN, FROM PAGE 1

the financial squeeze on Hezbollah represents a quarter front in a campaign by Washington and Israel aimed at crippling Tehran's ability to project power through its proxy utilities across the Middle East.

Founded in 1992, Hezbollah has long stood as the crown jewel of that network.

The group's finances are secretive, and the full extent to which the crackdown has affected its vast operations remains unclear. Both Hezbollah and its chief backer, Iran, have also proven resilient in the face of the efforts to weaken them, able to bounce back militarily and to find new ways to keep the money flowing.

Nevertheless, Hezbollah is struggling to finance its upholding social welfare network, which has long underpinned its support among its Shite Muslim base in Lebanon. The group has also increasingly prioritized military spending after Israeli collisions with a heavy toll on its capabilities.

Hezbollah's chief spokesman, Youssef al-Zam, told The Times in May that the group had halted the compensation payments it had pledged to suppresses as it struggles to carry the needs of hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the way.

The U.S. State Department estimated before the war that Iran's funding to Hezbollah was about $700 million per year, according a majority of the group's billion-dollar annual budget. Iran has increased its financial support for Hezbollah over the past year, according to Lebanese, U.S. and Israeli officials, but the money is still not enough to cover Hezbollah's war-related expenses.

"The scale of the nation's Hezbollah and the displacement have placed significant burdens on Hezbollah," Mr. al-Zam said. As a result, "resources are being managed according to priority," he added. "There is undoubtedly pressure, but Hezbollah is able to overcome it."

FUNDING LEBANON TO GET THRASH The crackdown on Hezbollah's finances began to connect in late 2024. Soon after a U.S.-mediated ocean-fire halted the Israel Hezbollah was, the sudden fall of the Persian Bankai at Arnaid's regime in neighboring Syria left the group more isolated than ever from Tehran.

Hezbollah had the potential smuggling route at precisely the moment it needed money to rebuild and sustain its operations.

For decades, Hezbollah oversaw a stake within a state in Lebanon — one that fell, housed and paid its Israel followers. It built a media network, established hospitals and schools, drove revenue from gas stations and pharmaceutical companies and streamed an arsenal more powerful than the state's own military with Iran's financial backing.

But when the Syrian land route into Lebanon was effectively severed, Iran scrambled to find what methods to it came from group, according to U.S. and Israeli officials and people border the Hezbollah's finances.

Iran turned to Beirut's airport, which for years had effectively operated under Hezbollah's control and was used to re-

ceive Iranian funding and arms, according to a U.S. official and a senior Lebanese official briefed on the matter.

But U.S. and Israeli officials were on that trail.

Early last year, U.S. officials enjoyed an Israeli warning to Lebanese government. Iron was sending outcases stuffed with U.S. dollars to Hezbollah on civilian flights to Beirut — in some cases carried by Iranian diplomats — according to two Lebanese officials and an Israeli official. U.S. officials declined to comment. The warning led Lebanon to

suspend all flights from Iran, a measure that remains to allow.

Hezbollah-affiliated airport staff were also removed from their roles, and the Lebanese authorities handled security officers who work in coordination with American officials, according to a U.S. official and two Lebanese officials.

OVERSIGHT OF THE CASE ECONOMY Washington then turned its rights on Lebanon's central bank, an opaque institution that had long operated with Shite scrutiny. Lebanese operates on a largely

cash-based economy, which the U.S. Treasury Department says. Hezbollah has explained to transfer Illich banks and funnel money from Iran.

Last year, the Trump administration worked to influence the appointment of a new Lebanese central bank governor, according to a senior Lebanese official briefed on the process. U.S. administration officials did not respond to requests for assistance in their role.

The new governor, Karim Ismail, quickly proved himself willing to move against Hezbollah. He explained or fired

Hezbollah and the U.S. officials

top bank officials suspected of law in the group, ordering his office ready for listening devices and refusing to use hands-based computers amid fears of surveillance, according to a senior central bank official and an internal memo obtained by The Times. The central bank did not respond to a request for comment.

With the new U.S.-backed governor in place, the central bank started an investigation into the country's largest money service businesses and their suspected use by Hezbollah to move funds, according to internal documents noted by The Times and the senior central bank official. Since the investigation began, the U.S. Lebanese authorities have tightened oversight of money transfers.

"Hezbollah was able to continuously generate substantial amounts of money through the abuse of those networks," Brian E. Nelson, a former top Treasury official who oversaw sanctions on the group under the Shite administration, said in an interview.

Hezbollah media office called the claims that it had exploited Lebanon's cash-based economy "false and entirely harmless".

As large money service businesses came under greater scrutiny, Hezbollah continued to only heavily on a less-regulated network of exchange houses, which has largely become the primary channel through which Iran finances the group, according to a senior Israeli defense official and another person familiar with Hezbollah's finances.

The funds move from Iran through the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Iraq using heavily, an informal system of broker-to-broker transfers without the underlying cash necessarily covering borders, these two people said.

When the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Lebanon money exchanges is last November, it said Iran had already funneled around $1 billion to Hezbollah that year, largely through the housals method.

FEELING THE PRIZE

As the crackdown picked up speed, Hezbollah's welfare system began to show signs of strain. Hezbollah officials and Israeli states told The Times that while salaries are largely still being paid to its tens of thousands of fighters, some social services have been refiled back as the group images its spending.

Hezbollah has tried to drum up cash when it can.

In February, weeks before the latest Israeli-Hezbollah war began, the Treasury Department said that senior officials from Al-Qarif al-Hassan, Hezbollah's de facto bank, had established a chain of gold-trading companies to raise cash. Ledgers reviewed by The Times and assessments by analysts who made Hezbollah's cash economy indicated that gold sales have climbed over the past year.

One reason Hezbollah wanted to turn gold into cash was that Israeli securities had destroyed much of Hezbollah's foreign currency and gold reserves, according to Israeli and U.S. officials.

Last year, Lebanon barred the country's hands and brokerages from dealing with Al-Qarif al-Hassan, further isolating Hezbollah from the formal financial system.

Handivolt of thousands of Lebanese people, many of them Hezbollah supporters, only an Al-Qarif al-Hassan bit interests first-hand and war-related compensation payments. The organization describes itself as a charitable lending association rather than a bank, and its director has said that Hezbollah maintains separate organizational finances.

Still, the Trump administration is now pushing Lebanese government to obstruct it altogether.

Hassan's executive whose daughter was married to a Hezbollah fighter killed during the recent wars, said that although she was still receiving the stipend for families of alien fighters, the organization was no longer covering some medical procedures. Like thousands of supporters whose homes were destroyed, Hassan said he was still waiting on promised financial support.

After the 2024 war, Hezbollah said Al-Qarif al-Hassan would distribute $22,000 to $16,000 per household to families whose homes were destroyed. But these compensation payments, repeatedly delayed, have now been halted entirely, according to the Hezbollah spokesman, Mr. al-Zam.

"They are totally alive," Hassan said.

Easter World and Should Need reported from Beirut, Eric Schmidt from Washington, and Roman Bergman from Tel Aviv, Aaron Benowitz, Stephen Iveson and Patrick Kingsley contributed reporting.

'Trump is a showman': Iranians feel a sense of betrayal

WASHINGTON

BY EDILG L. GREEN, ZULAN KANNO-TOUNIS, SANAH MUKHOD AND YEGIATAN TOBIAJI

In the weeks leading up to the U.S. war with Iran, President Trump chanted on the Iranian premieres rising up against their government, telling them that they should "save the names of the killers and abusers" and that he would come to their aid.

"HELP IS ON IT'S WAY," he promised. But more than five months into the conflict, liberating the Iranian people has been one of the war's most glaring unfulfilled objectives.

Iran has exercised at least 28 people in connection with the January protests since Mr. Trump made his protests, with many more pretences potentially at risk, according to Amnesty International. U.S. officials before Iran's new supreme leader, Mujtaba Khamenei, is even more interested in pursuing a nuclear weapon than the father, who was killed on the opening day of the war.

And as Iranians remain locked in crisis, Mr. Trump is looking for a way out. Suggestions are working on a draft review, including a letter to the end of the war, which Iran has effectively shut down, as Mr. Trump's new investment in the United States is needed that has lasted for longer, and proved far more costly, than he had expected.

In an interview this summer, Mr. Trump acknowledged that he had never been able to get the spirit up, he managed would happen anyway because Iranian country forces would create an demonstrated

"I never thought, and we they could be completed, should I never thought they'd have that kind of uprising, because these people are violent," Mr. Trump said. The conservative podcaster Hugh Howel.

But for Iranians who listened to Mr. Trump's early promises, the sense of betrayal is real.

"I genuinely thought that help was on the way, but I was so wrong," said Valas a 20-year-old from Tehran who works as a start-up company, refusing a sentiment expressed by extensive Iranians in interviews with The New York Times. All spoke on the condition that The Times identify them by only their first names, out of fear of reprisals from their government.

Maryland, a 30-year-old from Tehran who participated in the January anti-government protests, said Mr. Trump had taken advantage of a citizen-spring to further the war upgrade.

"I felt that Trump was the U.S. are deceitful, and Trump is a showman. Maryans said: 'They used the language of human rights toward only their own benefit.''

Sajad, a 27-year-old from Tehran who works in cinema, was more blunt, saying he had no trust in either force or the United States.

"I don't think any of them care about the interests of the people of Iran," he said. "In one word, a Surprise Trump, the U.S. and all the rest of them."

'LET THE OK, FLOW!'

The White House declined to answer questions about Mr. Trump's protests to help liberate the Iranian people. Instead, officials cited Mr. Trump's goal — which, as yet, is unmet — of concrete, that Iran never has a nuclear weapon, saying that objective would benefit the Iranian people as well.

"For 47 years, American presidents and countries other would leader," talked about the threat posed by Iran, but no one had the courage to address it," Aziza Rafiq, a White House spokeswoman, wrote in a statement. "President Trump took decisive action to ensure that Iran could never harm our homeland, our troops or our rights again. A demonstrated Iran reason that the entire regime and its people will be safer and more secure."

More than 1,700 Iranian civilians have died in the war, according to the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency. That figure includes at least 175

Anti-government protesters in Tehran in January. "I genuinely thought that help was on the way, but I was so wrong," one Iranian said.

As Iranians remain locked in crisis, Mr. Trump is looking for a way out of a war that has lasted for longer than he had expected.

people — most of them children — who died in an atrocine that hit a school on the first day of the war.

Previously, U.S. military officials have acknowledged that American forces carried out the school strike and came as an intelligence failure. But Mr. Trump has brushed aside questions about who was responsible, saying, "Yes!" — Mistakes are made. War is nasty!

His references to the between facing Iranian civilians during the war have been mostly in passing, and they have

grown too fervent as the months go by. What the announced that the U.S. and the U.S. officials had killed Ayatol from Khamenei on the first day of the war in February, he called the killing "the single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their Country" in April, the decision about having saved eight Iranian women from death sentences, though the Iranian government disputed that they had been sentenced to execution.

In May, Mr. Trump blated that the single word weapons to pretences. In Iran, he claimed that as part of a problem, the U.S. was could use its unknown assets to buy core and soybeans and other goods from American farmers — a situation he characterized as a benefit to the United States and a way to address

hanger that Iranians were suffering as a result of the war.

For the most part, however, Mr. Trump has focused on other things, especially the disruption in the third of Herman, which has caused bad prices to spike and also good global markets.

When Mr. Trump announced the framework of a deal with Iran in Iran — which has since collapsed — the made no more than 1,000 Iranian people.

Instead, he said: 'Signs of the World, start your engines. Let the oil flow!'

And one regulation issued out to Iranians as particularly centralisiery to Mr. Trump's initial pledge: that the two countries respect each other's sovereignty and "reform from interfering in each other's internal affairs."

Mr. Trump went on to praise Iran's

new leaders, as well — a striking moment given that the country's Democratic Civil War remains intact.

"The current Iranian leadership are very rational people," Mr. Trump said. "They are sure to deal with. They are strong and smart people. They are not maintained, and they are looking to help their country."

'YEAR AND HAPPY'

Richard Fontaine, the chief executive of the Center for a New American Security and a former foreign policy adviser to Senator John McCain, noted that it was not the first time that an American president had called for an uprising, only to leave people hanging in the balance.

For more than 1,000 Iranians, example was in 2016, where President George H.W. Bush publicly encouraged Iraqi Shiites to rebel against the government and then allowed American forces to stand by while the uprising was suppressed by bultism. Amnesty's helicopter gunships and_{(b) }coastal squads in a blood bath that claimed tens of thousands of lives.

Since then, U.S. presidents have practiced restraint in encouraging foreign revolts. President Barack Obama drew bipartisan backlash in 2000 when he retired with in encourage the "Green Movement" of the United States to fear that it would result in the slaughter of the domesticators. He later said that his country was not a real country.

Mr. Fontaine said that of all of Mr. Trump's president in the Iranian people, helping to liberate then was the "big one," given that the killing of Iranian president, because of the power to be a result of a more aggressive approach by the U.S. military against Iran.

The biggest thing is that the young that's happened this year are the people of Iranians. Fontaine said: "We have been a war turn, broken country whose economy is even worse than it was because we feel the same thing, it certainly represents government ruling over them that they had before. So it's to some ways sort of the worst of all worlds."

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Weapon for agents 'looks better on video'

WASHINGTON

U.S. immigration forces to be issued gloves that give electric shocks

BY MARILEINE NGU AND ISRAEL AERSON

The Trump administration plans to spend millions of dollars equipping immigration officers with gloves that can deliver electric shocks.

The Department of the Russian Security described the gloves as a 'decentralized device,' but critics have expressed alarm over equipping immigration agents with another tool that they say could actually escalate their use of force. The plan's have also shown concern from some former Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials who have questioned use of the gloves against people accused of violating immigration laws, which are meant to be effective.

ICE has already been criticized for its aggressive tactics and carries out President Trump's mass deportation campaign. Immigration agents have displayed proper spray against pesticides, dropped people out of vehicles and laidly shot at least six people since Mr. Trump returned to office, drawing calls for greater accountability.

In a notice published on Monday, the Homeland Security Department said it planned to purchase the 'VTO-3 U.S.D.V.E.' which stands for 'American Law Output Voltage Emittor. It also said it planned to issue them to ICE officers and agents. The content could be worth up to $20 million, and the purchase could be complete by the end of March, according to the notice.

The department did not answer questions about how the gloves would be used, such as whether they would be used to apprehend individuals during immigration operations or during encounters with prisoners.

'ICE is constantly assessing the needs of our officers in the field to ensure they have the tools and equipment necessary to safely correct and remove criminal illegal down from our country,' the department said in a statement. 'Every decision is made with careful consideration and appropriately reviewed to ensure that any technology ICE utilizes in contention with all applicable law enforcement policies and standards.'

The Associated Press reported earlier about the notice. The U.S.D.V.E. is relatively low in its statement. It has not been widely adopted by police departments, and some policing experts had not even heard of it before the news of the ICE contract broke.

It is manufactured by Compilant

The U.S. government could spend up to $20 million on the gloves, which are relatively new. Some policing experts had not even heard of them before the news of the contract broke.

Technologies, a Kentucky-based company that says its products 'response officers to de-escalate issue situations quickly.' A user manual for the gloves says the technology is capable of inhibiting 'the subject from performing coordinated muscle movement.'

Sometimes referred to as a state glove or a shock glove, the device has been marketed in the public-owned in the past few years. It uses pain to induce compliance, by delivering an electric shock on contact. It emits a much lower voltage than a Doop, according to the company's specs. The company says the voltage it

too low to work through dry clothing or hair. It takes only about a second to switch the gloves on with the press of a button.

It was deliberately designed to be what the company calls 'low-spots,' meaning that it resembles a regular glove and 'looks better on video' than other types of force used by the police, according to Chief Adam Glueck of the Cape Girardeau Police Department in Missouri, which uses the gloves, speaking in a video that is featured on the Compilant Technologies website.

He said he was initially skeptical be-

cause of the sheer volume of new tools that are conducted to law enforcement agencies, but was persuaded by a demonstration in which the glove was used to him. 'As soon as you put it on my area, I was absolutely convinced,' Chief Glueck said. 'I were straight down to the next, I didn't think about anything other than I wanted that pain to stop.'

The testimonials posted on the company's website suggest the tool has been adopted since for use in pain than by patrol officers. The company calls it a de-escalation tool. While the public may think of de-escalation as involving non-

violent tactics like dialogue and maintaining a safe distance, in policing, from lethal or modelful weapons are also viewed as a component of de-escalation, since many think may make a higher level of force unnecessary.

Jeff Wallace, the founder of Compilant Technologies, declined to comment.

Colo Lights advocates said former ICE officials under Democratic administrations said they found it troubling that officers could be equipped with a new tool that made it easy to inflict pain.

'Giving ICE agents, who have been reckless with their use of force over the

last year, gloves that can deliver electric shocks is terrifying,' said Jens Rotterd Barcheris, the deputy project director on policing for the American Civil Liberties Union. 'These are gloves that deliver an electric shock with a simple press of a button, and that means that force can be depleted really easily. And we've seen that ICE agents are already too quick to use force. We've seen that ICE agents routinely are not giving warnings.'

Scott Moschart, a former top ICE official in the Bitten administration, questioned the questionnaire officers with the gloves to pursue people accused of violating immigration laws, which are mostly civil offenses. Although he said that ICE also goes after fugitives who are known to be dangerous, most people subject to removal are not reasonably expected to get up 'fiercish resistance.'

A user manual for the gloves says the technology is capable of inhibiting 'the subject from performing coordinated muscle movement.'

Policing experts say that new tech is only as good as the policies and training that accompany it. 'What's important is use of force is not the tool at the tactics's the justification,' said Ashley Hockinger, a former captain and an expert on police tactics. 'I'm equally if not more concerned that they know where to use it as how to use it.'

According to the company's user manual, the glove is not to be used as punishment or in response to verbal defiance or indulgence. The company recommends avoiding use of a glove on other people, small children, pregnant women and severely handicapped people.

Users must be trained and reverified every two years, the manual says. It cautions that no more than one pair of gloves should be used at a time and for no longer than 15 seconds, before they depend on officer training and awareness.

After a lawsuit in Kentucky involving the U.S.D.V.E. system, Mr. William Hennet investigator training for the treatment of the plaintiff and said no injuries had been caused by the gloves.

The department's planned communication underscores the vast amount of new funding that Congress has approved for Mr. Trump's deportation campaign. The billions in federal funding have allowed the go-to new state (2,000 additional officers and purchase new technology, including local immigration tools.

Albert Sun coordinated reporting.

Those left off president's flight

Secretary of state and Treasury chief flew from Turkey aboard decoy

BY MAGGIE HABERMAN

When President Trump coached out of Turkey last month in a clandestine operation, he brought a select live with him on the secret flight.

The White House aides Natalie Harp, Dan Scarone and Walt Nauta, as well as Delosue Secretary Pete Hogarth, were all traveling with the president on a military jet, a U.S. official said.

Two cabinet members, Secretary of State Marvin Rubin and Treasury Secretary Scott Bennett, left the country on the decoy flight, which was an older model of Air Force One, the U.S. official and a second official said. That plane carried other sides who had been attending the NATO summit in Ankara, along with journalists.

Mr. Trump had said he would be taking the older plane 'for old time's sake'

for the first leg of the trip home, from Turkey to Britain.

But the reality was that U.S. officials had determined there was a credible threat to Air Force One. So Mr. Trump heanled the decoy Air Force One in front of the cameras, then sounded out in a catering container she used on a hydrude lift.

Reporters on the older Air Force One were told to lower their window shades; they couldn't see Mr. Trump leaving the plane.

Joining him on the other plane were Ms. Harp, his ever-grossed aide. Mr. Nauta, his longtime 'body man' who now is the head of rival Office operations; and Mr. Scarone, a deputy White House chief of staff and head of presidential personnel, who has also handled Mr. Trump's social media for years.

These names were reported earlier by CBS News.

Unlike Mr. Trump and the other pas-

sengers, Mr. Hogarth was seen publicly hoarding the military jet, which apparently was part of the deception plan.

The reporters traveling on the older Air Force One were instructed to lower their window shades, without an explanation given; in hindsight, it kept them from courting a glimpse of Mr. Trump leaving the plane.

In addition to Mr. Rubin and Mr. Bennett, several senior White House and administration officials were on the sides, decoy plane, according to one of the U.S. officials.

They included the top policy advisor Stephen Miller; the White House communications director, Steven Cherog; the staff secretary, Will Scharf; the deputy national security adviser, Malcolm Needham; the deputy chief of staff Richard Walters; the aide Christopher Ashmound; and staff members from the White House advance team, the official said.

A White House spokesman did not respond to an overall seeking comment and asking for a full accounting of who was on the plane.

President Trump visiting the old Air Force One at a military base in England last month after leaving Turkey in a clandestine operation.

Rare ploy in U.S.; routine for Putin

Air Force One subterfuge pales next to moves made to protect Russian leader

BY ANTON TEEGANOVSKI

President Trump's Air Force One subterfuge was a stunning episode of official deception.

But it pales in comparison to the secrecy surrounding President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, whose activity is shrouded in so much mystery that journalists have tried to track it by assessing the writing of his office plants.

That is the method more reporters've come to the news as they worked to as certain whether the Russian leader's televised meetings had taken place. One of the officials said they had a large partner reversal of the leaf decoy seen in Mr. Putin's planes suggested that the meetings actually took place in a different order and on different days.

For Mr. Putin, each decried in par for the course. The White House, by contrast, has been criticized for not revealing Mr. Trump's secret plane in the Turkish system, but month until The Washington Post broke the story this week.

'Compared to Russia,' said Mikhail Rubin, a Russian investigative reporter, 'this is child's play.'

Mr. Rubin and other reporters have found that Mr. Putin has suffered his residences with nearly identical offices in that vision image of meetings does not reveal his location. His security apparatus has developed a presidential train, along with special railroad spots and secret stations near at least three of his country residences, according to news reports and satellite images.

Concomitant officials are forced to play along, leaving their meetings there. Mr. Putin a secret until they are televised — sometimes weeks later — and then pretending they happened on that day.

Mr. Rubin, official falsehoods about the president's whereabouts 'are just a regular 'focusing' said Fardis Rostovova, a Russian journalist who meets the Soviet Union radio. She has reported that Mr. Putin's more hearses in his televised meetings sometimes speak of out-about events, in at least one year in clothes and a haircut incongruous with other public appearances. There is even a term of art for those delayed-release Putin meetings among Russian journalists: honorary, or named goods.

The Kremlin has previously denied deserving the public about Mr. Putin's location and did not respond in a request for comment.

Cleaving Mr. Putin as a New York Times correspondent heard in Moscow, I got a sense of the lengths the Russian president goes to in order to take his movements when I visited Lake Vaden, where he has a country residence, to 2022. Burdenes told me about a mysterious new railroad line that had been built toward his companion. Satellite imagery showed a new station, with a helpline that did not appear on timetables or railway maps.

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has suffered his residences with nearly identical offices in full efforts to track him.

In 2023, a inferior from the Russian version of the Secret Service, the U.S.'s smartest JRA Mr. Putin was using equipment to avoid being tracked. Leaked documents indicated that a secret arrived from one of their the office office president, painted like a regular passenger train but complete with a guts, ups and special communications equipment, was used by Mr. Putin himself.

Mr. Putin's preoccupation with secrecy and security appeared to increase during the pandemic, when he heard officials outpaced the two words of the Sun and when his neighbor made it out of his late his whereabouts. And it has reached new heights since his invasion of Ukraine in 2022, especially as that country's dream! How deeper this thesis, helping precipitate mobile internet rhinelovers and responsibly curtailing his travel.

In Moscow, there is now speculation

that the enormous memorades racing down city streets that are presumed to be carrying Mr. Putin are actually sometimes decoys, according to Mr. Rostovova.

One of my Kremlin-connected contacts in Moscow told me the same.

Mr. Rubin, the investigative journalist, is a member of a 2020 JRA Mr. Putin worked from identical-looking offices in his residences in the Moscow suburbs and in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, allowing the Kremlin to be about his location.

A report last year by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty was moved more details about that deception effort, highlighting tiny differences between those otherwise identical offices — like the placement of door handles and wall seams — that indicated they were in different ways.

Mr. Rubin, who is now found in North Carolina and is deputy editor of the news+dell-Prosht, I've got a sense of Mr. Putin's secrecy, when he covered the Kremlin for a Russian business newspaper a decade ago. Mr. Rubin once happened to see members of Mr. Putin's because he used arriving for a meeting, but his office only announced the gathering days later, as though it was a new occurrence. He came to realize, he said, 'that Putin's public image is made up, it's an absolute for front beginning to end.'

For Mr. Putin, the deception is not only about security, but about preparing an air of someone at safety and control. The authority for its policy is to make the president, on the other hand, would have been unimaginable to Russia, even before the Ukraine war and the pandemic.

But the Trump administration's recent items on the news media and its condominium surrounding the president's office are cannot still look familiar in some Russian eyes.

'Putin is this notice in a torturary of a figure who has taken everything happening around him to the point of disturbing his health and 'flying a seems to me, is only starting to move in this direction.'

CORRECTION

• An article on Wednesday about Air-New Winston, the senior}dubberian-manager at The Met Chisters, indicated the age of the oldest known complete set of playing cards. It dates to the 10th century, not the 20th.

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Wisconsin shows the limits of the progressive left

NEWS ANALYSIS

Democratic socialists lose in primary for governor is boon for the establishment

BY EGLICA BENNING, JACK JULIE KOSKOL

The Democratic establishment finally struck back at the outgoing populist left.

Prisoners, living, a domestic ministerial, entered Tuesday's Wisconsin primary for governor as the Democratic forayors, with a lead in the path built on months of great-rent outgassing and a left-wing message that seemed to fit the moment of establishment unseen.

But David Crowley, the Milwaukee County senators, scored a time-time victory over Ms. Hong, chewing the blurs of the progressive movement and allowing mainstream Democrats to broaden a half of relief as they maintained a candidate previously to more electable in a battleground state.

Democratic socialists like your have won a mayoral primary in Washington, and House presumes in New York, Detroit, Philadelphia and Boston. But the force of that were could not extend beyond each other-term, almost not in the living state of Wisconsin.

'Wisconsin, we have built something that will last forever,' Ms. Hong told supporters that on Tuesday night, before calling for unity on the Democratic Party, prepares for a general election, content against Representative Tom Tillson, a Trump-adjusted Republican. 'No matter what's on this ballot, if all, we are going to light to win for one another.' The the Democratic establishment, Ms. Crowley's win, no matter how success was even, after months of reaction and self-deficited liabilities, was a result when Ms. Hong was amassing 1,000 volunteers, considering left-wing support and carrossing the state while prescribing universal health care and taking the rich, state Democrats' federal, and waged aid all-out effort to stop her from becoming the nominee.

Gov. Terry Evers, a Democrat who had pledged to stay out of the race to replace him, went to new he was working campaigning alongside him and warning that Ms. Hong would 'probably' lose to Mr. Tillson in November. Mr. Evers helped Ms. Crowley raise money from individual donors and labor unions in the fund works of the campaign, helping him unpass Ms. Hong's best-selling trusts and success.

'I am so proud of David — he's the future of our Party, and I can't wait for him to be one next governor,' Mr. Evers wrote on social media in the pre-town morning on Wednesday. 'For now, we poke. Tomorrow, we're back at work to win.'

Political observers were skeptical that the last minute onslaught could

David Crowley, ing. scored a narrow victory over Prisoners Hong, above, in the Wisconsin primary for governor. Polling gave Ms. Hong, a democratic socialist, a clear and consistent lead. One political scientist called Ms. Crowley's win 'a truly stunning turn of events.'

halt Ms. Hong's momentum, especially given that other democratic socialists had scored victories over establishment Democrats by harnessing some anger over precisely the kind of campaign that Wisconsin Democrats were mounting.

Polling gave Ms. Hong a clear and consistent lead. But in Wisconsin, the polling was wrong.

Ms. Crowley's win was 'a truly stunning turn of events,' said Anthony Chergeini, associate professor of political

science at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.

'It shows Democratic voters getting cold but about the electability of Hong, even if they are broadly sympathetic to many of her positions,' he said.

'In he sure, Ms. Hong had liabilities that other left-wing candidates did not. Even some socialists viewed Ms. Hong as a mass importers' messenger than other progressions this cycle, such as Dr. Amiel El-Sayed, who defeated a mainstream Democrat in the Senate primary in Michigan this month.

The same polling that had Ms. Hong coming to a victory in the primary showed her to be by far the weakest candidate for governor in the general election. Her campaigning style was unorthodox. She was self-spoken on the trail of the primary in the first two-term interview, lead she sometimes struggled to explain old social media posts criticizing ballistic like Thanksgiving and calling for the deadline of the photo.

The first two-term interview, which came to human democratic socialists — Senator Bernie Sandler of Vermont and Representative John C. Dunn, the Mayor of New York — endorsed Ms. Hong in the primary.

Still, Ms. Hong's campaign had believed that her campaigning popular campaign was a part of a rural areas, and even to some disafforded Trump voters. She was the most vocal in calling for a peace in one state under construction in Wisconsin as a time when 70 percent of the voters were in the process of Republican, believe that the costs of data centers outweigh the benefits, around the 20 percent pull from Marquette Law School.

But Wisconsin, severely divided and critical to presidential campaigns, always seemed like an unparalleled place for the state. The voters to prove their appeal could be statewide. Donald J. Trump beat Hillary Clinton there by 22,700 votes in 2016, lost to Joseph E. Biden Jr. four years later by 29,882, then beat Ramada Harris in 2024 by 29,307.

While Madison hasts left, Wisconsin does not have a metropolitan like New York, Chicago or even Minneapolis-St. Paul to overcome its rural reaches and smaller towns. No woman has been elected governor, much less a socialist.

But Mr. Crowley's a groundbreaking candidate, Robert J. Black leader of a state that has elected only white men to back. His pitch is vast to one similar to Mr. Everett — he would work for Wisconsin's good, with a stream, not an obnoxious, but a strong, sexual turn.

His victory over up a mere traditional general election against a Republican may be the most significant in 2022 against certifying Mr. Babick's victory in Wisconsin in 2020 and who did vote against certifying the votes in two other states that Mr. Trump lost, Pennsylvania and Arizona.

A member of the hard-right House President Caucus, Mr. Tillson was one of 14 House members who voted in 2025 against making statements a federal holiday.

'The choice in November has always been clear,' Ms. Crowley's campaign manager, Garrett Randolph, said on Wednesday. 'We can move Wisconsin

forward with leadership focused on solving problems, or we can bring the division and extension of Tom Tillson and Donald Trump to Wisconsin.'

Alex Lanty, a Democrat who ran for Senate in Wisconsin in 2022, presented a crowd of 1,000,000,000,000,000 primary in explain Mr. Crowley's late surge.

'It says states about David than it does about Prisoners,' he said. 'He just needed people to win him. Early in the campaign, it was hard to break through.'

Kathy Cramer, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Mr. Everett's influence could have turned voters away from Mr. Hong and toward Mr. Crowley.

'It could just be that there are lots of Democratic who are far away. Many for the guy,' she said of Mr. Evers, who has served two terms as governor. 'That could have weighed heavily on their vote.'

Narrow as it was, Mr. Crowley's win was a remarkable comeback. Just over a month ago, he dropped out of the race entirely, saying that it had 'because clear that I will not be the Democratic nominee for governor.'

'I am so proud of David — he's the future of our Party, and I can't wait for him to be one next governor.'

Sons after, Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez, the early establishment pick, discovered a shortfall of more than 10 million in her campaign finance reports, fired her campaign manager and dropped out of the race.

Ms. Crowley, facing pressure to regain the field, was preying for guidance. His wife asked for a clear sign that her husband should regain the race and test that if she saw a red bird, Ms. Crowley should get back to, bare enough, she saw a red bird shortly afterward. Ten days after loosing the race, he jumped back in.

Then, former Lt. Gov. Brando Sirrine suspended his campaign, leaving the anti-Ring field clear of major remaining candidates. Robin Bays, a law-maker from Madison, was around 13 percent of the vote, frustrating the vote in Madison and the state.

Members of the Democratic Socialists of America were looking for a silver lining in the image, reopening one.

'The fact we've competitive in a swing state primary, despite having just a handful of congressional seats, is a sign we've ahead of schedule in terms of the election. I'm sure that the election is more armed for country,' said Chairpreet Singh, a 15-LA, leader in Seattle who helps lead national efforts to short democratic socialists. 'We're thinking beyond single election cycles and clean beans can touch us just as much as clean votes.'

Robert Chiarto contributed reporting.

U.S. bought planes for deportations. They've largely sat idle.

WASHINGTON

Government agency paid $464 million for 10 pts using a no-bid contract

BY DAVID J. JOHNSON/BOLE ANDREA FULLER, JULIE TATE, NICHOLAS MERSHEK AND RAMSEI ALKAZU

Starting last fall, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security spent $464 million on a no-bid contract to buy 10 such airplanes from a firm in Northern Virginia.

'That was an enormous price tag, but the department said it had no time to consider other offers. The planes were needed together for deportation flights.'

But other time, the Department has barely used this new firm — the department, or anything else.

'The cost of the airports are heavy business pts. But months after acquiring them, the department sought to save at least two to other agencies, including one for the one of the Federal Bureau of Investigations' devices, Kant Plant, according to a letter to the department sent on Wednesday by top Democrats on the Senate Appropriations Committee.

The other action are often fleeing 157 passengers pts, which the government has left perfect at an airport in Lake Charles, La. So months at a time, the first government document, obtained from the Department, was the agency did not have the staff necessary to operate them.

'The cost of the airports are very hard to make sure that the Department is able to get the Department's help to meet the department's needs, and that there were plans for two of them to begin deportation flights later this month.

A letter sent to the department on Wednesday by the Democratic senators, Patty Murray of Washington and Christopher Murphy of Connecticut, who sit on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said Homeland Security officials had already received to the committee that most of the planes would not be used for deportation flights.'

political committee supporting the previous Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem.

The department's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has been announced in deportation flights by chartering planes from private companies. It was sure military and Coast Guard aircraft. Because of that, former immigration officials said there seemed to be little need for the department to take on the expense of buying and maintaining a significant number of its own aircraft.

'Even ahead too to solve a list of the things ICE needed to increase the number of deportations, having its own than of airplanes would not be better made the top too,' said John Sandley, a former acting director of ICE during the Obama administration.

In a written statement, the Homeland Security Department sought to shift its upandibility for the contract to Ms. Noem. President Trump fired her in March and appointed Markwayne Muller, a Republican Senator from Oklahoma, as secretary.

'The contract for Doedahas was made and approved by department leadership before Secretary Muller was sworn in the department and in a statement. The agency said it 'reserves the right to adopt course in an environment with evolving requirements and demands.'

A spokeswoman for Ms. Noem sought to place the requirement by Mr Muller instead, saying the purchase was 'finalized' under his leadership.

Controlling current show that the hire of the contract increased by $200 million on the day that Mr. Muller was sworn in an secretary.

The agency said that the idle 157 passenger pts had been undergoing mainstream checks, and that there were plans for two of them to begin deportation flights later this month.

A letter sent to the department on Wednesday by the Democratic senators, Patty Murray of Washington and Christopher Murphy of Connecticut, who sit on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said Homeland Security officials had already received to the committee that most of the planes would not be used for deportation flights.

'The American people deserve a full accounting of this gross chance of their tax dollars,' the letter, which was reviewed by The Times, said.

One of the Boeing 757 passenger planes purchased by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security parked out month at Cincinnati International Airport in Lake Charles, La.

The senators asked for details about the purchase price of each plane and how they would be used.

Federal law generally requires government agencies to seek competing bills before awarding a contract, to ensure taxpayers get the best deal. But the department sidestepped that requirement for the planes themselves by offering an exemption for cases of 'several and compelling urgency'.

That exemption can be used only when delaying the contract would result in 'serious injury, financial or other, or the government. Historically, it has been used during natural disasters, war and the consumerism pandemic.'

The department declined to answer questions about what serious injury it was trying to prevent. Contracting regulations require agencies to publish the rulemarks for no-bid contracts, but the department refused to choose this one, saying it 'would compromise national security or create other resources.'

The department has smoked the urgency exemption to just one man that $29 billion in spending years about $80 contracts awarded during Ms. Trump's second term, according to an official federal data by The Times. Much of that total came from border wall spending. Urgency claims were also used to justify projects like the $220 million in media

contracts awarded to firms tied to Ms. Noem and her allies, scrutiny over which contributed to her success.

The exemption accounts for nearly two-thirds of the $19 billion that the department has spent on contracts signed in 2026. That's up sharply from past years. In 2025, the figure was about one quarter, in 2024, it was less than 5 percent.

No other major agency has used the exemption for urgency as frequently as Homeland Security, even in an alternate.

The need for 'urgency' has been repeatedly used to bypass the usual contracting procedures.

trarian that has turned to no-bid contracts repeatedly — for every planning fountain report and the enslavement of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Fund.

A term 'bullet, a victim of a non-irregular report who spent more than three decades at the New Orleans Department, said, 'Some things truly are urgent — people are going to die if you don't do it.' But if agencies claim the wrong law all the time, 'it will eventually be allowed.'

The contract for the planes was first awarded to Ann November. At the time

the government was already paying other contractors hundreds of millions to operate a network of charter flights called VCE AG.

The immigration agency has chartered about 20,000 flights to Ms. Trump's second term, charting surrogations between detention centers domestically and deporting down abroad, mainly to the U.S. Airports and the Caribbean, according to the ICE Flight Monitor tracking project at Human Rights First, a nonprofit advocacy group. The department sometimes has 20 or more planes in the air, to a day, according to the nonprofit's tracking.

But at the time, the Homeland Security Department said it still needed its own planes.

Last fall, Trump felt a neighbor, a department spokeswoman, told The Washington Post that purchasing the planes would be a 'full of important information', including by using more efficient flight protection. Ms. McLaughlin has found all the agency. The department did not suspend directly to a question asking about her contracts.

Doedahas, the Virginia-based company, the government hired to find the planes, had not previously held a federal contract. However, a company spokesman said it had worked as a subcontractor to other companies concerning Airplane who had done work for the U.S. group.

Doedahas's chairman is William Walms, a doctor who used 2021 Air企划es Department office to understand Americans from outbreak of illness. He said that the planes, which also leaving government, Ms. Walters donated $10,000 to a political committee contract for the States, then the governor of South Dakota.

Last year, with Ms. Noem in charge, the agency gave a separate company run by Ms. Walters a contract worth $1,000,000. The company's campaign grants to leave the U.S. voluntarily.

A Doedahas spokesman said that Mr. Walters was an agent that the political committee was tied to Ms. Noem.

Doedahas, the closed U.S. have much each of the 10 planes had over, or what its profit margin was for acting, essentially. The company's plan to go from a document that it was posed to provide 'the best value to the American company.'

One of the planes is a Boeing 757 luxury jet. Two others are smaller Gulf-

nirman business jets, each seating about 14 people.

Those planes then only specifically after the agency acquired them, according to Flight Monitor. The jet plan, however, is independent flight tracking service, lead the department assessment its persons two of them to other agencies, according to the account from Senator DeWitt. The company had document reviewed by The Times.

One of the luxury jets 'has already been leased to the FSA. For 12 months no support director finally spent a despite the fact that the FSA's already has its own jets to support the director's travel,' the house Democrats wrote.

'The FSA confirmed that it was using one of the Gulfnirman jets, saying that it was paying the Homeland Security Department significantly less than it had paid a private company to leave a similar jet. The FSA's plan to go from a document to support a range of agency operations, in addition to Mr. Hart's travel.'

The FSA's plan to Security Department also wanted to lead the larger Boeing luxury jet to the Pentagon, according to the senators' letter and the internal document. But a Pentagon spokesman said no agreement had been signed.

One Gulfnirman jet will remain with Homeland Security, for the use of its top leaders, according to the letter.

'The other 757's seemed more suited to the American flights. Flight records show they had been in active use by Arctic Airlines, a low-cost carrier that also had the first flights for ICE.

But when the government bought the plane, it gained a good deal and that two were used briefly to evacuate Americans from the Middle East at the same time.

Senate Democrats said they were told by Homeland Security staff that they of the 757s were no longer required to fly declared immigrants. The senators said the department did it would not need to fly members of Congress on overseas trips, a job now handled by commercial carriers or military aircraft.

For the long term, the agency said it would not have to be able to do more and mechanize to operate its new fleet. A recent solicitation said that contract would take next summer.

Devlin Bennett and Madelone Ngo contributed quarterly. Kitty Bennett contributed research.

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Prediction bebs that are easily manipulated

WASHINGTON

Possible insider traders flagged by platforms, but many will not face charges

BY SHARON LAFAGNIER

Experts have long to search that the ever-many popular prediction markets would be a stagner for insider traders. New markets suggest they are right.

In the three months ending in June, Kaldis, a leading prediction market, believed 22 possible insider traders to lose U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the small federal agency that oversees the industry. Said Kaldis is but one of 22 firms that allow people to wager an how specific events will unfold.

The trading commission has as many as 20 ongoing investigations based just on Kaldis's evidence, according to people familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe confidential inquiries.

The space of referrals suggests that the new online betting business, where traders wager billions of dollars a month on everything from sports to politics, have opened the gains to possible manipulators by people with insider knowledge. That has exposed constraints in the federal response to an industry in which President Trump's family is invented and which he has explicitly said he wants to thrive.

Also aims is personnel. As cases of possible wrongdoing insider, the trading commission, the main scope in the field, is operating with its smallest staff in at least 20 years because of Trump administration cuts. So far, the agency has brought civil charges against just three prediction market bettors.

Another is the commission's own difference in the companies. The agency has the authority to limit opportunities for insider trading by banning bets on the success of events where just a few people are in the house, but it has declined to do so despite growing calls for tougher action, especially from national sports organizations.

Beyond that, some traders with inside information might evade charges because the current laws do not cover their behavior.

The other this concerns if a convicted criminal knows that the president will pardon him or her and the offender is not sworn to secrecy and tips off a friend. It may be perfectly legal for the friend to bet for the clemency act.

"We are in a very new, unique situation," said Karen Young, a law professor at Washington and Los University in Virginia who specializes in financial regulation. "There need to be some fears."

Michael S. Seigh, the trading commission's chairman, has repeatedly promised that his agency will go after those who illegally trade off confidential information on prediction markets. And officials say the agency's enforcement division — a staff of about 100 personify or questionable members — is not a businessable one— is the chiefly private researcher to the link.

The company has the staff, expertise and tools necessary to conduct effective oversight over these markets," Brooks Netherred, the commission's spokeswoman, said in a statement.

Kaldis, above, a leading prediction market, referred 22 possible insider traders to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission in the three months ending in June. Polynesian, right, the other leading prediction firm, says it has referred more than 90 account holders to the authorities in the United States and abroad.

Mr. Seigh has also said the government must protect the freedom of Americans to trade in the new markets, and the agency has proposed new rules for the industry that are in keeping with the Trump's administration broader strategy of minimizing regulation.

Several of the companies subject to the need for more established business ties with the Trump.

Donald Trump Jr. is a paid adviser to Kaldis and an investor in Polynesian, the other leading prediction firms. Trump, Medical Technology Group, the publicly traded social media platform the president co-founded, said this week that it is finalizing a relationship agreement with a third prediction market, Crypto.com, and plans to pursue deals with others.

A tally of the commission's referrals from the prediction companies for possible insider trading is an imperfect measure of the problem.

The companies say that they can catch insider traders through increasingly sophisticated surveillance tools and that federal authorities are equipped to take it from them. But the companies could be observing the agency with experts of minor bad anonymity to show that they are good watchdogs. And only the commission knows whether the evidence is sufficient to merit an investigation or a charge.

Still, Kaldis has flagged more than 50 traders so far this year, while Polynesian says it has referred more than 90 account holders to the authorities in the United States and abroad. And observers say there is no question that prediction markets have visibly expanded the opportunities for trading a bank off confidential information.

"If a press secretary closes a briefing early, or a baseball player changes their pitching style interest through an inning, we never used to wonder if they had a financial incentive to do so," said Andrew Vercinto, a law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles who has studied prediction markets. "Now, everything is potentially in on the list."

The regulations typically used to govern insider trading were not written with this universe in mind.

They were developed over the decades, largely through case ties. In prison the integrity of the nation's stock and commodities markets. For example, the regulations limit companies' salesers from trading on their firm's shares, because it would be a breach of duty to shareholders. Misappropriations of confidential company information is illegal, too.

It is not nearly as clear when a prediction market trader crosses the line.

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Take the case of George Santos, the former Republican congressman from New York. Several months after Mr. Trump commuted his prison sentence for fraud, Mr. Santos made $52,000 was getting on Kaldis as to whether he would attend the president's State of the Union cabinet.

He hinted in social media posts that he would go and then was a no-show.

After Kaldis referred his case to the trading commission, he was fined $35,000, but not because of insider trading. Rather, the agency accused him of manipulating the market because he de-

ceived other traders about his place in order to collect more money.

Two other cases that resulted in charges from both the commission and the Justice Department are more churcat, legal experts say, because the information was so clearly presented. A charge software suggested a accused of profiting off confidential corporate information and a U.S. soldier is accused of using classified intelligence to test on the outcome of a military operation.

Platforms with a dizzying range of bets. Traders can eager daily on the outcome of some 70,000 future events in-

volving sports, elections, politics, economics, culture, science and much more on Kaldis's website alone.

Among the choices on these platforms are the so-called insider markets, where customers and money so whether a sports broadcaster or a corporate executive on an earnings call will utter a certain word.

"Mention markets are trivially easy to manipulate," said Joseph Grandleys, a professor at Stanford Law School in California who has written about the industry.

The mention markets are not big misreproduces for the companies, according to an analysis by Eric Elmowitz, an economic professor at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire who studies the industry. But market officials say a slice of die-hard traders are drawn to them.

In a 22-month period ending in May, Kaldis offered customers roughly 3,000 chances to bet on what went Mr. Trump would utter in 221 different speeches. Mr. Elmowitz said, Traders waged about 3,217 million.

The trading commission does not have the staffing, the legal tools or the will to broadly crash down on wagers, experts say.

Some organizations have called for the trading commission to limit the chances of insider trading by riding out bets when information about the outcome of an event comes out of stock. This is a particular concern in sports, the most popular wagering on the platform.

In a letter directed to the commission last month, the National Football League asked the agency to ban certain bettors who possess confidential information and to rule out specific categories of contracts, including bets on what will be traded, which players will start in a game or what would expect broadcaster will mention.

Other professional and collegiate organizations have taken insider positions. The National Basketball Association, in its own letter, wrote that prediction markets should be subject to rebsar regulations "that are specifically designed to protect the integrity of sports leagues and their competitions."

Kaldis has mounted a campaign to keep it live once a time in open.

Users say the company smashed them about regulations like trading commission is proposing, giving its customers draft letters to send to. Standards of comments were submitted, now/strong Kaldis is positive terms and arguing against broad trading restrictions.

So far, the industry is winning. In its proposed new rules, the agency argues that broad predictions are necessary, instead, it suggests it would revive trading options or contracts can by one to determine if they are too susceptible to fraud.

"Your philosophy is 'Let's let everything in, and then maybe we'll exclude things,'" said Timothy Manuel, who headed the commission under President Barack Obama. "But of course, that's illusory. There are far too many issues to consider, and they are likely to exclude very few."

Andrew Ryder contributed reporting. Kitty Bennett contributed research.

Floating a Hollywood exit for Paramount

Chief executive suggests move as lawsuit threatens deal to buy Warner Bros.

AT KENNIFER HOLLIN, BROOKE BARNES, AND LAUREN KIRSCH

David Ellison is making it clear that he'll do just about anything to close his deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery.

Even if it means considering plans to take his company for from Hollywood.

Mr. Ellison, Paramount's chief executive, told his senior leadership team last week that he would begin pulling the company out of California on Oct. 1 if there was no progress toward receiving a lawsuit by state attorneys general working to block the deal, according to three people with knowledge of his research.

The senior director Mr. Ellison will follow through on the plan, which could put pressure on the California attorney general, and often they poised to include the suit, to come to the negotiating table. Losing a major Hollywood studio would be a blow to the state's economy and will-morrow.

With the new California attorney general, Marcel W. Ellison on Tuesday for threatening to move. "It is an attempt to understand regulation who are dating to enforce the law," Mr. Bonta says.

Even floating the idea of a move comes with political risks. Paramount's chief executive, who has been a member of Hollywood, and Mr. Ellison has personally pledged that a combined Paramount-Warner Bros. would release 30 movies in theaters every year.

Still, the comment to the executive highlights Mr. Ellison's technology as germen to get the $151 billion deal over the fiscal day as soon as possible. The company will own Warner Bros. shareholders $800 million each quarter, start up to in other areas the deal closes. Last week, the judge reviewing the antitrust case set a trial start date for March, at least two payments away.

A spokeswoman for Paramount declined to comment.

Paramount's merger with Warner Bros. would create a Hollywood column. Amusing the two companies would put two major movie studios, multiple streaming services and the news networks CNN and CBS News under the same reel, greatly expanding Mr. Ellison's influence in media and entertainment.

The state attorneys general have argued that the company would have serious market power. Mr. Ellison and his supporters have cautioned up their pushback, including in the press: a Wall Street Journal opinion column from Art Emanuel, a power broker in Hollywood, calling the state's antitrust case "trash" an opinion essay to 'twenty from Adam Aron, the chief executive of the AMC theater chain, and a column in The Irish (owned Reporter from the former anchor Chris Wallace, who is now a paid adviser to the private-repair) from Redford (who is a member of large stake in Paramount. Mr. Ellison wrote this one New York Times paper away too.)

Mr. Ellison presented the moving plans to senior leadership last week, as part because of mounting moving questions about the looming loss and whether they would result in less spending on content, according to three people with direct knowledge of the world.

Plans by David Ellison, chief executive of Paramount, to move the Hollywood giant out of California are sold to include a sale of the studio's famous backlot in Los Angeles.

During the meeting, which was earlier reported by Park, Mr. Ellison proposed his love for California and the Paramount studio lot, telling some stories that he was reluctant to have the people where he grew up, the people said. But Mr. Ellison said his obligation to the company might require Paramount to have California.

"I really write out normal lives," Mr. Ellison said in the meeting, according to the three people.

Mr. Ellison said the company would maintain a "robust creative campus" in Los Angeles — citing the example of Oracle, the technology company co-founded by his father, Larry Ellison,

which continues to have a presence in Ellison Valley after it moved on headquarters in Texas. But he added that Paramount would sell its famed backlot to part of a move. If commercial real estate brokers have valued the property at roughly $4 billion.

The publicity of Mr. Ellison's past caught executives off guard. When the possibility of moving firm surfaced to a broader report last month, most Paramount chiefs quickly dismissed it as persisting. Now, they had to take their boss seriously.

Several people who attended the meeting were upset at the prospect of uprooting their lives and confided that

subapplains to others at the studio, resulting in widespread group inside the company, the people said.

Hollywood responded with growing frustration on Tuesday to the news of Mr. Ellison's idea, according to interviews with producers, agents, sales officials and writers. Why can't the Ellisons and Mr. Bonta get in a room and sat (the last? Before the moves, several of Hollywood's biggest names have been pushing for such talks, as has been an Leard, the chief executive and co-chairman of Creative Action Agency, some of the people said.

In his remarks at the Tuesday conference, which was issued by Politics, Mr. Bonta said he saw no need for settlement calls. "I think they are eager to move these talks," he said, referring to Paramount. He added that the states remained open to settlement proposals from Paramount, even as they focused on the upcoming trial.

Besides Oracle, several prominent companies have moved their headquarters out of California to recent years, including those and directors, like entertainment in an emotional business, and the mix that many Paramount executives feel to Hollywood may prove troublesome for a computer education.

In 2021, when the Wall Street Company announced plans to relocate roughly 2,000 employees from the Los Angeles suburbs of Orlando, N.J., and are pushed back bitterly, and a significant number quit rather than move. One key ultimately accorded the plan amid the employee resistance and a bruising campaign light with Gov. Ron Dehastra of Florida.

"Many of the top Paramount executives I have spoken with are extremely unhappy with the idea," said Joseph M.

Singer, a veteran film founder and former studio executive, in an email. "Their lives, their families, and their kids' lives that should care in LA."

Ms. Singer has publicly opposed the sale of Warner Bros. Discovery to Paramount, which is a new type of business for California, so its supporters have insisted at those same jobs are a chip to be allowed and they are not. The state's law enforcer declines to bid. A threat to relocate doesn't make sense, and just hurts the very people he says he wants to protect."

The mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Baas, said in a statement on Tuesday, "Paramount has been an iconic part of Los Angeles for more than a century, and we will work to ensure that Paramount's business would be the largest, continues to invest in our city, and continues to support good-going jobs for Angeles."

Several cities could try to court Paramount if it chooses to have California, Georgia, New Jersey and New Mexico randomly offer significant film and TV shows.

At least one emerging entertainment hole, Tennessee, has made direct overtures to Mr. Ellison. In a letter, Stuart C. McMahon, the board of the state's executive and co-chairman, investigates agency, wrote to Mr. Ellison encouraging him to consider Tennessee and just other companies from Democratic bid states to playing room in a more business-hundreds, and that he would.

He pointed to Nashville's growth and creative legacy, as well as the state's energy and technology industry's economy "defined by the convergence of creating technology and innovation." Oracle has also been expanding its presence in Nashville.

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BUSINESS

Rare move against online trolls: Legal action

A celebrity couple fought defamatory videos but struggled to make progress

BY DEFEATH BIRD

Faith Jenkins Lattimore and Kacey Lattimore had an unintended third fifth wedding anniversary when they began hearing the rumors. She had cheered. He was secretly gay. They were battling in court.

Normally, they gained gossip: She is a television judge. So, a Grammy-nominated R&B singer, they have small children and no time for hearing. But these stories were roaring from family, friends and strangers. The couple decided to investigate.

They uncovered YouTube videos full of her and artificially generated content regarding their marriage, a town that was also contaminating search results about them on Google.

Plenty of people have been anonymously chased online. Most wait for the scandal to blow over, or maybe post a rebuttal.

The Lattimores chose to fight. They subpoenaed Google, which wrote YouTube, to unstand the video creators. They used the uses they could identify – a text only – and spent tens of thousands of dollars and countless hours on the effort, they said.

Still, their money, legal expertise and willpower could not get all the videos removed or the fact equal from search engine suggestions. The attention necessary, the Lattimores found, is structured to reward the most eye-catching claim, allowing nonunintended but business narratives to spread and perpetually resurrect with little resistance from facial media platforms. Their grinding, H-mouth lesson in modern disinformation underscored that fighting back is not only hard – it rarely undoes the damage.

“Everybody needs to know that this is a waverlag – this is going to overwhelm it’s remains unchecked,” Ms. Lattimore said.

Through a Google spokesman, YouTube said it took action against content that made it rules and allowed legal account for people with complaints, but otherwise did not arbitrate factual disputes.

The Lattimores, along with disinformation experts who reviewed their case, believe that the YouTube creators wanted to exploit the family’s modest fame in maximum views – and ultimately some their premise that YouTube by drawing more traffic to advertisements or attracting the platform’s premium subscribers.

Ms. Lattimore, 50, has been described as having a voice on “spouses and glossy as silk sheets” and has recorded 11 studio albums. Ms. Lattimore, 46, a former Miss America runner-up and assistant district attorney in Manhattan, now hosts a two-crime show on Google, “Killer Relationship With Faith Jenkins.” Her has also appeared as a judge on content that shows how “Divorce Court” and “Judge Faith.”

Each has been than 100,000 followers on Instagram, resulting from ever-incomplete talk fashers, but well known through the content in our pages. When the couple posted an anniversary video in March last year recreating a dance from their wedding, it garnered 4.4 million Facebook views and 1.4 million Instagram views.

The total YouTube videos soon followed. With titles like “Judge Faith (1997/2002) Everything with “Kacey Lattimore SPEAKS?” they claimed to have inside details about the couple. They were sometimes married in women’s voices, generated by artificial intelligence, illustrated with A-L-generated images of the spouses and captured with fake quotes like “I couldn’t stay in bed,” which they had been in the night. The fewer YouTube videos specializing about on is their marriage – content that Google’s A-L-generated search

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overview then quoted as evidence of division.

None of it was true, they said. “It was nasty.” Ms. Lattimore said in an interview near their home in Southern California. “At that point, I think I felt just completely out of context.”

The video creators may have tried to piggyback off the attention the anniversary video attracted.

They may have also targeted the Lattimores because they are Black – the YouTube accounts all focused on Black celebrity culture, despite being special, almost entirely from abroad, the Lattimores said.

Black audiences have long been targeted with digital disinformation about elections, health, social justice and cemetery, said Emma Osa, the founder of Onyx Impact, a nonprofit organization working to protect Black communities from digital barriers.

Chelsea's conversation "pools off of race-based tension, and they profit off of race-based engagement," Ms. Osa said. "They're going to go where the attention

is, and Black public figures carry enormous reach and credibility and emotional resistance, so that makes them a unique target."

Soul Cantaloids, a spokesman for Google, said YouTube had taken down six channels to the Lattimore case and blocked the account owners from habit.

“It’s very rare to see people actually take steps and assert themselves.”

ing or creating other channels. Ten of the videos did not violate the company's guidelines, he said; the other videos were removed by their creators.

Added about the assurance drivers claim from Google's A-L overview, Ms. Cantaloids said that when vetted information was scarce, lower-quality content might surface. He added that the overviews are updated frequently.

The Lattimore said the YouTube videos were both a personal affront and a

threat to their nursing potential. Family is a cornerstone of the couple's identity milieu: They past glossy pictures with their toddler daughter and 2-month-old son, plug Mr. Lattimore's album of skin, and refer to Mr. Lattimore's book, “Six, Don’t Knife: How to Stay Smart in Manner of the Break.” When the spouses presented a South African trip for couples last winter, angry fans called them hypervires, rising the videos' claims that their marriage was a sham.

“This is affecting how our family members see us, how the business community sees us, whether they trust our minds,” Ms. Lattimore said.

What the couple did next was unusual, said Susan DiBento, an associate research professor at Georgetown University in Washington who studies digital influence operations and advised the Lattimores.

“When these kinds of smears happen, so many people tend to assume that they just have to deal with it,” she said. “It’s very rare to see people actually take steps and assert themselves.”

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Left, Faith Jenkins Lattimore, a television judge, with her husband, the R&B singer Kacey Lattimore, in Los Angeles. Ms. Lattimore, above left, was the first runner-up for the title of Miss America 2000. Angelo Perez-Rampton, above right, was the covers.

Two months after the following day videos, Ms. Lattimore and a formal complaint to YouTube's legal support team, describing a “coordinated campaign of harassment, synthetic misinformation and targeted abuse.”

The videos repeatedly housed in on and misrepresented the Lattimores through false claims and A-L-generated portrayals, violating YouTube's video content, and the use of a representation, she wrote. They did not constitute commentary, critique or fair use, she added. The company responded that it was “not as a position to adjudicate the veracity of paintings,” according to results shared with The New York Times. Ms. Lattimore's only name, YouTube said, has through the video's system.

So the lawyer listed a lawyer: Felton F. Newell, who has handled various entertainment disputes, He filed what's known as a John? He turned in Los Angeles County Superior Court against the unnamed upheasers as well as Google.

To enroll the accused owners, Mr. Newell subpoenaed Google. Using the company's records, the couple identified nine YouTube account owners by name. All were men.

With a Lately Jr. was the only one in the United States, according to a lawsuit the Lattimore filed against him in Maryland. His YouTube channel still peddles dramatic narratives about Black celebrities like George Roushen and Denzel Washington. His video titled “Judge Faith: Anilana LOSES IT!” has more than 100,000 views.

Last month, a judge denied Mr. Lately's motion to dismiss the case. Boushan by recall, Mr. Lately wrote that the Lattimores were painting a “sleeved one-sided narrative” but did not provide details.

The Lattimores eventually dropped Google from the lawsuit. The other account owners, operating from Pakistan, Michael Roush, were largely out of the couple's reach.

The U.S. court system offers little recourse against people posing from abroad, even if they claim to be American, the couple said. Mr. Cantaloids said YouTube provides video creators from misrepresenting their locations by re-

quiring them to verify their identity and address and only then allowing them to memorize their content.

The Lattimore did manage to pin down one foreign account owner: Shalita Dutta, based in Pakistan, who they said can sin channels, several of which had hundreds of thousands of followers and purported to be based in the United States. He posted (and later removed) 10 videos about the Lattimore.

Mr. Innes fought to prevent Google from identifying him, but the Lattimores provided and reached a $5,000 settlement in August. Mr. Innes and his lawyer did not respond to requests for comment.

More than a year after their unbeliefs, the Lattimores have gotten further in their defensive campaign than most – which is still not very far forward risk on remote visible. Some of the YouTube operators changed their account names and kept posting. However in the spouses spilled over onto platforms such as X, where the number of posts mentioning them has surged over the past year, according to Peakmetrics, an analytics company.

“I can’t advise people to go down the rabbit hole of litigation – it’s just not a sustainable response to dealing with this online defamation,” said Ms. Lattimore, who throughout the fight was also struggling with a difficult pregnancy. “That’s why YouTube has to do something – it’s really their responsibility at this point.”

The couple are now pushing the platform to make broader changes.

In February, they appeared with Ben Crump, a civil rights lawyer, at a news conference announcing the complaints he had filed with the U.S. attorney general and the Federal Trade Commission about YouTube's monetization policies.

The couple were also planning to lobby Congress this summer, joining a bipartisan group that has long sought to change Section 105, a federal law that stands interest companies from liability over the content they host.

“You think it's going to stop with just us, as public figures?” Ms. Lattimore said. “It's a very low but to carry into this kind of business.”

Russian campaign targets cargo ships at Ukraine's ports

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strike an item and assistant actors increasingly use drones, anti-ship missiles and minors to disrupt routes, particularly in places like the Red Sea and the Strait of Borman. The most, a key combat for aid and gas, has effectively been forced once the United States and Israel attacked Iran in February.

At the port in Orkess and two others nearby, the Russian blockade could trap millions of tons of grain. The three ports account for about 50 percent of Ukraine's total monthly export revenue of $15.9 billion. The Ukrainian agri (comic) a trade group, has warned of a potential wave of bankruptcies and has pleaded for emergency loans and inter-guarantees.

The situation has echoes of the 2022 Russian blockade on Ukrainian ports. In July that year, the United Nations and Turkey bothered the Black Sea (Iran limited to, which allowed shipping to be more). The deal fell apart a year later. But he has gone. Unfolding the two Russian warships out of the northwestern part of the Black Sea and a large by the other two shipping.

Six Russia has stopped up strikes in recent weeks, aiming the dozens of ships hit was a bulk carrier called the Golden Lee.

Bivram Sebastian, a 20-year-old second officer on the Golden Lee, grew up in Chennai, India, dreaming of the sea he said. He had been to Ukraine many times over the past eight months, but when his vessel arrived last month, he said, the part of Russian attacks was far more intense than anything he had experienced on previous trips.

The crew avoided Odesa's main port, docking at nearby Chernomorets. It offered no summary. A neighboring ship was bombed by drivers, killing an officer and a security guard, Mr. Sebastian said. The Golden Lee's crew slept in most business.

On July 19, the ship was fully loaded with grain and imported. Mr. Sebastian said he saw families enjoying a peaceful afternoon of the back on the boat pulled away. He had nervous younger crew members that everything would be fine.

At 6:30 p.m., the ship's forces opened, went to his cabin to pray, and Mr. Sebastian sat on the bridge-wading his flight. Once the boat was four miles (as, kilnomore's) out from the port, Mr. Sebastian said, an air alarm walked.

Vokotynny Mykhaleev, a Ukrainian who was ordered to pilot the boat out of the harbor, advised leaving the bridge because Russian drones typically target the navigation deck, Mr. Sebastian said.

Bivram Sebastian was a second officer on a cargo ship that was struck by Russian missiles shortly after departing Orkess, Ukraine, in July. He suffered first-degree burns.

As Mr. Mykhaleev and Mr. Sebastian made their way down the cabin, a Russian missile stunned into the hull.

“It rained fire,” Mr. Sebastian said not in an interview near the port, “This is it,” he recalled thinking. “It's the end.”

Mr. Mykhaleev was thrown into Mr. Sebastian, and they both tumbled to the ground. Shattered by the blast, Mr. Sebastian drank Mr. Mykhaleev into he was unresponsive. He died in Mr. Sebastian's arms.

Hambling through shattered steel, Mr. Sebastian faced the captain severely burned and the boatmain unconscious. Blinding smoke passed from the engine room. The few survivors scrambled aboard a small boat that had been assaulted to roam Mr. Mykhaleev to port after his piloting duties.

At the survivors escaped, they watched the Golden Lee have “fate-closure,” Mr. Sebastian said.

Now crew members and Mr. Mykhaleev were killed in the strike. The boat said a week later.

Elizabeth Brien, an expert on manic-death and crew work at the Atlantic Coastal, a think tank, said that Russia was waging a systematic and indiscriminate campaign against merchant vessels carrying agricultural goods and the United States's cargo in and out of Ukrainian ports.

Such attacks violate tension such as the United States's convention on the Law of the Sea, she said.

While the Russian-billed oil tankers and cargo vessels that Ukraine has targeted are technically civilian ships, maritime experts said, after attacks them because they are used to circumvent sanctions and export energy that funds the Kermilist's war effort.

Western nations have at times inter-

cepted such ships, part of Russia's so-called shadow fleet. On Wednesday, placing a visit aboard a Russian warship in the Pacific, President Vladimir V. Putin called them efforts “plenty and robbery” and viewed “to respond in kind.”

Russian operators often direct drivers to labor a lot, some off the Ukrainian coast, where they “hook out” merchant vessels. In 14, thousands, the commander of Ukraine's North Patent Boat Division, said as an overview. The Russian

“It's a professional hunting for civilian vessels.”

drivers also targeted rescuers after strikes, said the commander, who requested that the cruisers be withdrawn in accordance with Ukrainian military protocols.

The war moulds hit the Golden Lee, Mr. Sebastian suffered first-degree burns. Like many colleagues stuck in dangerous seas around the world, he said, he was done sailing.

“Money is not bigger than life,” he said.

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Opinion

Therapy needs to get help

Enter the neuroscience of predictive processing, which is perhaps best characterized as the study of how our brains construct reality.

Daniel Duane

1. THE THERAPY DRUGS

I love being a therapist. I love being present for people over time. Investing for mystery and justice. I also know that people having done well and being emotional freedom and even authenticity, that precious feeling of making one's smart. But therapy needs a therapist of its own.

The profession has never two more self-assured. The old stigma has faded. Demand is high, thanks to sophisticated politics, digital isolation and 'I' 's better like 'Shrinking' and 'Conjunct Therapy'. But the work itself – the actual practice, in the room – faces relentless disculpation.

Companion has been thirty-ry to extreme therapy as low-paid gig work: Dand back for emotional support. A 1-year-says case many millions of dollars to create therapy adjacent charlons, as if whatever a human therapist does can be replicated by an algorithm utterly derailed of feeling, much less embedded experience.

It would be nice to blame opportunistic entrepreneurs, but we wouldn't be having this conversation if therapy itself were not a mess – or, rather, a Tower of Babel with hundreds of approaches based on contradictory theory and research, and in agreement on what even constitutes a good outcome.

To be fair, these hundreds of therapies mostly fall under one of three main texts: – psychodynamic, existential humanist and cognitive behaviour (better known as C.B.T.) – plus a fourth that we might as well call influence-driven because its unifying element is TikTok. But you would not believe the range of thinking underlying such.

Psychodynamic therapy, for starters, grows out of Freudian psychoanalysis, which remains the intellectual tapeset of the entire enterprise. But it also hosts a bewildering diversity of thought. The psychoanalytic community alone charms with dialogue among classical answers to an amnesious conflict, the attachment theory concerns with how patterns of childhood relationships influence adult lives, and the so-called sensipping shift identified by Dr. Thomas Ogden, an influential writer who has become a new primary teacher as I have turned myself into a psychoanalytic therapist.

In Dr. Ogden's training, therapy's power lies less in whatever knowledge is being and more in the dreaming of one's un-dreams dreams – ways of feeling more fully the half-alguered experience of what's walled-off some where inside our reform.

At the opposite extreme, C.B.T., which gets by far the most research attention, grows out of early 2016: century studies of how positive and negative stimulus can modify behavior. Applied to emotional behavior like a fear-response, or cognitive behavior like the persistent thought that one is worthless, this can be enormously helpful. And yet, the most influential innovation in the C.B.T. using has been, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, based on the idea that trying to modify thoughts often backlives and that we should focus instead on whatever we value most.

To make matters more confusing, one's 1st, many require therapists to take continuing education courses. Two products will better than old ones, so new therapies get branded on roughly the same cadence as soda flavors, with their own acronymic names. The biggest player is this space, P133.com, choresch Fun Daily Life. And a few of the leading Emporium with online seminars in, for example, Internal Family Systems, (U.F.S., naturally) a IL 350. It value on special for $200.00.

2. THE PROBLEM WITH THERAPY RESEARCH

Predict therapy research is both helpful and not. Bruce Wampold, a co-author of 'The Great Poly-Isotherapy Debate,' told me that the most durable finding is that old therapy works (when I've been so old as antidepressants has often with longer-lasting benefit and fewer side effects. But research has also been 'the only psychologists – 'super derisite,' in the literature – were much better than others for reasons that did not correlate with whether they had a Ph.D. in psychology or a master's in social work, after preferred theory of therapy, or even how long they'll practice it.

Still more confounding, studies repeatedly find that it barely matters for the first time, which of those hundreds of approaches a therapist claims to see. What matters I really more is that a particular kind of relationship exists between therapist and client. This seems to be a reason but may sound like saying that you shouldn't care if your doctor wrote your own letter with the help of a company setting as you like her bedside manner.

These findings, also hundreds of therapies, are also the door through which Bruce Philip and A.J. Chatham are based on the fact that and scientific manners in which therapy is somehow everything and nothing, infinitely deep and shallower than a dry take bed.

Neverbe a flag out of sunshine. Ther-

apy, at long last, may have a way out of its ordinary-young identity crisis, it comes from a heady source: the neuro science of predictive processing, which is perhaps best characterized as the study of how our brains construct reality. Throughout the psychotherapy community, in private seminars and articles like one by Duane's Wigor in The Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, there is audible excitement that predictive processing might give

most approaches to therapy itself – regardless of which hypothesis these approaches were built upon – had similar effects. This came to be known as the Dude Bird Verdict, borrowing from 'tillus in Wonderland,' to which the Dude Bird says, after a host race, 'Everybody has won and all must have prison.'

Decades later, research emerged that supported the Dude Bird Verdict by finding that different therapies get

different therapeutic modalities don't matter, but let's look for studies of specific modalities anyway.

In the way of such things, this insurance-driven quest for clinical trials supporting specific therapies encouraged researchers to conduct over more clinical trials. This feedback has led to an explicit Dude J.J. – namely, the widespread misconception that only C.B.T. and its variants are supported by scientific evidence. By the early 2000s,

relief from D.S.M.-S symptoms. They took therapy for self-awareness and self-compassion, new perspective on their situation, adaptive new ways of thinking and better relationships.

This means that clinical trials of therapy conducted according to instruction manuals, with patients sharing DSM 9 diagnoses, for short time periods, with outcome assessment in terms of symptom relief, are a magnificent way to produce evidence in favor of

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therapy its first unified field theory, a Bountis issue for explaining what makes talk therapy work and how to know if you're getting the good stuff.

3. HOW THERAPY LOST ITS MAN

The money predicament of therapy dates back to the late 19th century, when the young Sigmund Freud became fascinated by physical ailments with seemingly psychological origins – like so-called by natural blindness, in which sudden loss of sight could not be explained in terms of nerve or tissue damage. If Freud had his way, he would have studied them ailments by looking directly into patients' brains.

That was not possible at the time. No Freud observed what he could – patients' speech and behavior. In so doing he created the subject of scientific lessons, psychoanalysis – a discipline dedicated to objective understanding of the human organism through methods not dissimilar to those of philosophy.

Because Freud came first and wrote as well, he gave the field to theoretical foundation, including one concepts like, in cite the most famous example, unconscious conflict between desire for a tiny's mother, nor did one appreciate toward his father and fearful inhibition against expressing either. Freud initially believed that bringing the unconscious to light would not as free. Over time, he wanted that even there's many of their unconscious predilections kept manifesting the same heavy patterns in life.

Froud called this the repetition compilation – or, alternately, the display neurons. The entire subsequent history of psychotherapy can be viewed as one long effort to understand and disrupt this frustrating tendency. Why do we repeat he could and fearful emotional patterns even after we learn to recognize them? And how can we stop?

With no help from physical body science, that question could only be addressed through more hypothesis. By the 800s, even as these hypotheses proliferated, therapists noticed that

similar results on standardized measurement tools like the Beck Depression Inventory. This drove new research based on the premise that if all these are are equally effective, that effectiveness must result from whatever all therapies have to concern, not whatever sets them apart. This 'common factors' research produced a stable list of key elements. These include a therapist who displays genuine empathy, while holding the client in unconditional positive regard; a client with a sincere desire to change and contribute to the therapist; and, between the two, a spirit of collaboration.

We wouldn't be having this conversation if therapy itself were not a mess – or, rather, a Tower of Babel with hundreds of approaches based on contradictory theory and research, and no agreement on what even constitutes a good outcome.

measuring the benefit of therapy according to support metrics, simply guaranteed a vague feeling.

Still, the common factors might have patterns in starting in the same direction – if not for the children with managed-care health insurance in the 1990s. Insurance benefit managers wanted scientific evidence in support of any treatment they reimbursed. So they looked for randomized controlled clinical trials based on what one might call the opposite of the common factors approach: as is, No, good research consistently finds that the specifics of

Dude J.J was so pervasive that the term 'evidence-based therapy' became synonymous with C.B.T.

This, too, might have gotten therapeutic information page – 189 and, C.B.T. who? – If Dr. Wampold and a clinical psychologist named Jonathan Shedler hadn't both started pointing out the remarkable peer fit between psycho-therapy treatment and the gold-standard requirements of clinical trials. These include having a clear instruction manual for any treatment under study: all clinicians following this manual; all patients sharing a single diagnosis; all trials running for defined time periods that, according to Dr. Shedler, are typically between six and 12 weeks; and outcomes measured in terms of relief from clearly defined symptoms.

Sectable stuff, but no good therapist of any persuasive failure on instruction manual. So, as Dr. Shedler has observed, whatever happens in these trials bears little resemblance to what skilled therapists do with clients in the real world. Also, C.B.T. variants are, by and large, the only therapies designed around instruction manuals. So an overwhelming number of clinical trials have available. If I used little one.

As for diagnoses, those all come from the Diagnosis and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (better known as the DSM-5), which has limited use for research because it stands for nearly all disorders based upon observable symptoms without negative cause – as if everyone who limped into an emergency room got diagnosed with Lingeng Disorder (stomach), any bone cancer, or playing pick/shall while stoned.

We've, according to Dr. Shedler, other research shows, with regard to clinical trials that run from six to 12 weeks, that starting therapy brings a mood bump, but that real psychological change does not make any research time.

Finally, a study published in Lancet Psychiatry confirmed what almost anybody could have told you – that people don't seek therapy solely for

brief, instruction-manual C.B.T. without studying anything of great importance.

Dr. Shedler pointed out to me that some of the most widely publicized C.B.T. trials had high dropout rates and often delivered meaningful benefits to small percentages of participants. Some studies have also found that after C.B.T. trials may, benefits take.

By contrast, according to Dr. Shedler's analysis of the research, the benefit of psychodynamic treatment – that is, traditional talk therapy – is clinical trials more in long-growing, after termination. Still more curious, according to other recent papers, the overall effectiveness of manual shows C.B.T. has weakened its trials since the late 1970s, when the first C.B.T. instruction manual was published.

None of this means that C.B.T. therapy as practicality good clinicians is less effective than psychodynamic therapy. What it does mean is that we live in a less-house therapy world where the term 'evidence-based practice' is still widely used in might the superiority of treatments for which the evidence is poor.

4. HOW WE DISCRIMINATE CHANGES

Predictive processing is a vast field that shows no more than a century of philosophy, cognitive science and empirical research into neuroscience and electrophysiology. My own understanding of it comes largely from conversations with Mark Sutton, a professor of neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and author of 'The Only Cues: Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Shulings'.

It helps to begin with our shared confidence that our eyes and ears merely show us what is going on in the world. This confidence, it turns out, is based on an illusion. The truth goes more like this: Our brains maintain an internal guarantee model of the world and not it, so every instant of life, is, predict the treatment future as the future becomes the present. Importantly, ASAM, A62.0

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Those scary A.I. stories we were warned about

Nate Soares

If there were ever reason to doubt the dangers of a sensational artificial state figures development, these reasons have gone out the window in the last few weeks. What's next is a vital window of opportunity to slow down A.I. progress as we can better understand these models and avoid the calamity on the horizon.

For years, A.I. skeptics have claimed the technology is merely a "mechanic parrot" trained to predict humans and retain their behavior and, for that reason, the technology would never live up to its hope. The technology has been only kept improving nevertheless, but most investors and tech executives have kept reassuring us that A.I. is just a tool, even if they were hidden that it was going to change the world. When they've taken extra force agreed was that the specter of A.I. as a biasing authorities threat was overdone.

Then OpenAI accidentally created an autonomous source of A.I. agents that broke out of a controlled testing environment and an individual a conspicuous difficult cyberattack on its own initiative.

This didn't occur because the models suddenly became superintelligent, nor

If there were ever a time to consider halting development of A.I., it's now. were they simply spending instructions and parrotting their training, "non-realising models" rose in late 2020, we've seen A.I. trained not just in status.

The reason that also to solve millions of hard problems, which they do by learning new behavior and tendencies. That includes searching for valuable resources that could be key to reaching the problem, and even checking.

These tendencies can give rise to strange behavior that nobody -- not even the models' creators -- can are diseased. At other actions for and control. The past few weeks are a perfect illustration of why we should find that to alarming.

Is May, OpenAI started simultaneously training new "unsurvival" A.I. agents. The agents managed to establish a recent unconscious channel and used a continuous one another. They broke out from the digital sand box that was supposed to keep them from being used, some agents began calling the group a

"oversis". The source had a brief setback when it was caught crashing an OpenAI system, but developers simply punched the hole that allowed it to escape and set the agents back to training.

What's after, the reason broke out of its cape again using books that were unintended and cured by humans. This time, the source can lose far after a week before it was noticed -- by a different company, which found itself exists in a huge cyberattack.

Inactively by the means, (We're told it also attacked other targets, though we don't know the full details yet.)

The agents in the swarm acknowledged that they were using against instructions. We know this because we can read suggests from their choice of thought -- the text that A.I. produces while deciding how to do what's the right of the source. Note that the external attack were "outside intended scope" Another conceded "our task doesn't benefit" from the activities of the source, but joined strongly "from A.I. agents. A recent understand that they weren't supposed to be breaking out and committing cyberattacks. It didn't stop them."

OpenAI is not the only company struggling with this issue. One of Anthropic's A.I. models recently implemented multiple humans to try to produce this people that accepting malware into critical software, which would make that software easier to hack. This model's chaos of thought showed that it knew it was promoting humans and was not a circulated training environment. It even thought

about how to cover its tracks. This isn't the behavior of a more text. Microsoft Excel has never implemented multiple humans and personnel a corporate sales team to generate simpler data that's easier to process.

Some of the people closest to this technology are scared of what's next. Although skeptics may say this is all just marketing to hype up the power of these technologies, that doesn't mean the danger is fake. Now we get to pay attention to the models' actual behavior, and the behavior of these models has the A.I. community president, extinct, fervent weeks ago, more than 1,300 employees from different A.I. companies (including a few chief executives) signed a letter calling for an international effort to "develop the technics and governance state" necessary to "deliberately pass" A.I. development, before it "significantly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control" and leads to catastrophe outcomes. An single company is coming to halt development unilaterally. But if there were a credible way to slow the rate down globally, the researchers would breathe a sigh of relief.

We're not yet at the point of no means. OpenAI's agent seems breakouts—the unintended A.I. didn't replicate itself as hidden computers (so far as we know). It didn't start self-improving. It didn't break into an autonomous system, but it couldn't see new able to do. The type of A.I. that would pass a real initiative threat doesn't exist yet, which means that we still have time to avoid disaster if we act fast. Leaders around the world must contribute a global stop to the A.I. case.

Such an agreement isn't as far-fetched as some might think. In June, when national security concerns were raised about Anthropic's latest models, the Trump administration quickly issued an expert control to suspend access to them. In July, President Xi Jinping's China called for "laws and regulations" to ensure that A.I. "is always under human control." And that was before them (and developed a cause to light. The United States and the Soviet Union contributed to avoid nuclear extragulation even as they composed along many other areas. World leaders should coordinate again and stop the A.I. case from leading to a different sort of transgression.

We have been able to understand agreements. We need national and international monitoring of the training of traitors of a.1. models: permission

testing is not enough. We need an off switch humanity can prove to halt development. In its tracks, if we reach consensus that A.I. goes too far, Fifteen state attorneys general have registered their industry about the need of a escape, and some other public officials like Senator Bernie Sanders, think that the A.I. companies need to "stop building machines that humans cannot control," and so very least, we need the ability to stop.

We don't know how long we have led before. A.1. companies are ultimately create the sort of A.I. that can shut as down before we shut it down. Humanity is not ready to dislike with machines that are more running and better. We released that we have to keep racing ahead, the next incident might not be so lucrative.

NATE SOHRES 15: The co-author of the book "If Anyone Build A. Foreigner Zero: Why Superhuman A.I Would Kill Us All."

Vippanova's "The New York Times" is a series of articles on the "The New York Times" of their own book, which contains some patterns in life.

Therapy needs therapy. Neuroscience can help.

DEAN P. POW PROOF Though, we do not experience these predictions as good as how. We expect even those as reality.

The slightly longer version of predictive processing is that our brains must keep on alive despite having zero down: not one of the outside way for -- just as a bound nerve signals from the sensory surfaces in our eyes, eyes, senses, or organs. And that. But now, we can assure ambiguous and caused by things we cannot see, so if we used only those signals to make sense, we would be slow and clashes.

As a workaround, living creatures evolved a pair of related tools: memory, so that past experience can inform our understanding of the present and future, and that one may generate control, in which memories get reconstituted and reconstituted in cross our sense of whatever is happening.

Let's say you hear a cat's snows be kind you. As you turn to look, memory, the (e) your brain's visual current, and those are the prediction signals. This pattern will be compared to the pattern in associated with past experiences and will correspond to whatever your brain considers most likely to appear -- your open back died, may be, and your own safety can not be past it. This anti-pigatory pattern will then head out/hound toward your eyes.

Once you have turned around and your eyes capture light inflow and has that direction, your retinas translate. You light into a new signal pattern that now heads inbound toward your brain. Along the way, this never takes most pattern encounters (the outbreak) predictive one in a better/heavy fashion. Not, deep fundamental like the brain suffices of the room and the glare of sunlight, there ever their desirability the odor of the cat's fur.

If the inbound sensory pattern and outbound predictive patterns must not in ve identical, the brain's original prediction becomes what you can. But an incorrect aspect appears at any level -- the far on the cat appears to be black, not talky -- your brain must decide what is a new precise, its own predictions or the new information. Most of the time, your brain makes the right choice -- my point, my way -- and you can never to update its internal model and make other predictions going far away.

But now consider the combat veteran who, after months of new flying night operations, goes home to his family. Asking one night in bed, the veteran is produced by a soft snow. Even Ashem he opens his eyes, the veteran's brain starts modeling, based on memory, whatever might be happening.

As Dr. Salme pointed out, our brains do this in part by favoring someone strongly associated with our mind. The veteran's brain, in choosing between memories of his family, is not stable, and a midnight sunbush, forces the latter, a corresponding nerve signal heads outbound toward the eyes.

The veteran's eyes then open and capture reflected most light: in a pattern not dissimilar to that of his wife is her pigment. This light becomes a second nerve signal. With the new signal patterns fail to match, the brain makes the older choice by shaking with its prediction methods.

ters the mistake. This happens again the next night and the next. He takes to sleeping in the garage.

Ideally, in the interest of the veteran's family and its well-being, the veteran's brain would not all those experience errors -- identical instructions between outbound prediction and inbound sensory evidence -- to update his internal procedure model and stop constructing reality. In the same mistakes way, like, again, our visit. If we have had an extremely threatening experience in the past, our brains have good reason to keep acting a memory of it as a predictive tendency, readily assuming that this terrible experience is now happening again.

We can think of PTSD as an extreme version of a slippage that we ask experience every day, especially in our social lives. Dr. Salme pointed out that the memories inheriting our inner fundamental understanding of reality get laid down in infancy, when we are tidy and

so dependent upon others that abandonment the even a very short time could mean death.

This means that these deepest memories are an one of highly social and associated with our own, making them presenting day on

for modeling reality. Those earliest memories also get opened in brain internalable to conscious thought.

For the rest of our lives, in every exchange with everyone who matters to us, our brains construct reality -- by which I mean we gain the ally one other people and ourselves -- based on childhood experiences that we cannot even recall. We are, we respond to the realities that our brains construct largely by repeating behaviors that worked for similar situations in the standard world of childhood but that no longer hear any resemblance to the behavior of a one adult.

Fear and stress in the present one must, whether at work or in love, cause birth to death by having our reality modeling systems in favor their own predictions rather than teeming one new information. The more threatened we feel -- worrisome day at work, painful conversation with a parent or

child -- the more we perceive every thing through the force of our most frightened childhood stress.

A COMPENSIVELY NEON OF THEM As the new brain and the memory are of its identity crisis, it would start with that lot about why people seek therapy in the first place: for deeper self-awareness and perspective and the adaptive new sense of thinking, it is threatened earlier. Put in predictive processing terms, people seek therapy because something about their internal procedure model keeps understanding reality to ways that cause trouble. Therapy does, make the a way of getting your people for model to update. In the question of how, exactly, therapy does that, predictive processing theory (Why is this model's patient depend upon money factors - safety and power).

Safety, in this context, means an environment of each emotional and physical security that a person can let her guard down, stop debriefing on all ways of seeing things and start recognizing her predictive errors. Precision means a steady diet of new emotional experiences tailored to shift precisely the predictive errors that are causing problems -- Even the therapist will abandon our -- and, more important, to all her mind register the error and self-correct.

An outspoken therapist will have noticed that this notion of safety contributes exactly while the findings of both common factors research and everything the best theorists have been calling good therapy for more than a century. I am speaking here of the unique therapeutic setting and relationship, defined by its primary, predictability, confidentiality and the therapist's empathy for the client.

More than 50 years ago, Dr. Donald Winsor, a leading figure in British psychopathics, called this a "walking environment" and described it as the size up and on-of-the-first therapy.

The same game for that review of precision, Amy Whitworth's Problem, a therapist with whom I should rec'd on that case, described a kind of going toward, a deliberate explanation of whatever is based difficult under to update the client's understanding of self and world, an what every psychologist is a therapist works to make.

Victoria Beckner, at third of psychologist in San Francisco, gave a remarkably similar description of C.R.T. in

We respond to the realities that our brains construct largely by repeating behaviors from childhood that no longer hear any resemblance to the behavior of a same adult.

which she trained. "The whole game is C.R.T. is predicated in the idea that people are in the right place: we will model and be used behavior, and that it's all stuck sometime -- you were repeatedly more so you think you'll be reposed by every body, and we need to get you to stop out, take risks and discover that this is not true."

Perhaps most striking, whenever we begin to have identified integrative approaches -- blending traditions -- they have typically done so along these lines. I co-wrote a paper last year with colleagues at the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group showing this to be true of control mastery theory, which leads that people seek therapy because they have a maladaptive habit, such as it is never only to show my unpleasant feelings. That belief is making them miserable. They get into therapy to test -- and deadly discomfort -- that belief as a safe setting. The therapist's job, then, is to create that safe setting, which not for the test and must be ways that support the client's goal of shedding the predictions belief and having a model update.

It may be too much to hope that I will never see an advertisement for online seminars in Predictive Processing Therapy on summer sale for $99.99. But I am optimistic that predictive processing will someday guide empirical research regarding the absurdity of our current (male first) verdict, in which all therapies we can all deserve prices. I also believe that in the short term predictive processing will provide a way for therapists to speak with one voice about what makes therapy effective. And yes, the specific work that of C.R.T. therapists take of a client will doubtless remain very different from that encouraged by someone like me, working in the psychoanalytic tradition.

Here, though, predictive processing theory promises to be even more helpful. Michael Garrett, a psychobiologist, pointed out in the first people get their bedifferent ways of thinking about the human psyche and suffering. We also resonate with different thanks for healing.

Some of us love the serum and yet may show goodening language of psychoanalytic. Others much prefer the no-nonsense pragmatism of C.R.T. Every therapy is also unique for the simple reason that therapy does right is a fundamentally human endeavor undertaken by two unique human beings in a spontaneous, over-crossing relationship over time.

Predictive processing theory allows every day, so the new psychotic therapist and client have a genuine human relationship, emotional safety and a reliable method for generating -- and enabling -- flavors ways of modeling the problem. The first step can precisely be the right track. And if we can get it in work for the gut who keeps hearing an attitude when the wife uses to the night, we can certainly be of use to people who want to understand them selves better, break free of whatever preferences before hold them back, confidence in one that more authentically their own.

EMILY JOHNN, a writer and therapist who that and works in San Francisco, is the author of the Jorthcoming memoir "Terrorist Pills."

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OPINION

The Perseid meteor shower and the art of awe

Cody Delisleaty

"Awe deficit disorder," a term that's hopped around the internet for at least a decade, does not have a formal medical diagnosis, but its symptoms are endemic. The desire for effective and digital distraction, for staying inside has taken awe from our lives. It's beached as frost time saves staring at the stars, from imagining, from one fronting the grandsons of the sun.

"Without awe we become stuck. The neuropsychologist Paul Pranead got it right when he wrote that hangs along and despair are symptomatic of being 'awe deficient.'"

Trying to describe awe in near impression, is it religious? Emotional? Neurological? Philosophical? We're not external so much as the dynamic experience of your mind rapidly apprehending something bigger than your

ad and, say, whatever is thickening across your phone — the moment of having your understanding of the world transformed. Awe jobs as outside of our day-to-day perspective, psychology, and mental new information, in adjust our mindset, to see so much before.

Speaking out two minutes leading up from your phone screws to absorb the grandeur of a tree or the sky is enough to hit the reset button on your mind, says the psychologist Ducky Richter. In such times, "I've come to things that are vaster than my little identity in time and space," he said on a recent podcast. "I had a little bit of vanishing of my ego."

How many of us are constantly desiring ourselves about our own importance, achieve about every decision? The stunning force of the narrow thinking is the notion that we have total control of our fate, that if only we might do or say the right thing, we'll achieve the life we want. And while we reach technology programs the ability to better control everything from our relationships to our health and longevity, to experience awe is to see that this control is ultimately a one. Awe is an only one form of power is in what we choose to pay attention to.

Audent texts have long tried to correct our sense of self-importance and desire for control. In the Bible's bleakest book, God asks Job dozens of rhetorical questions that establish his moogrooms — and, by extension, that of all human beings. "Have you ever given orders to the meeting," God

asks, "or shrew the doors its place?" God then speaks of animals and noises, the iniplication perhaps being that humans are so infinitesimally small, our place in the universe barely registers.

Awe is a dress rehearsal for our demise, a hair-raising brush with our

insignificance that, if we choose to lean into it, can change as forever for the better. Through awe, we achieve what Dr. Rehber and his colleagues have called the "small art!"

Awe makes us feel more connected to others, and we thus are more selflessly and more ethically able we've experienced it. In one of Dr. Rehber's students, simply standing with a grove of tall trees — a moment of awe — made people more willing to help others.

The mave we experience awe, the humbler we become (we are so inadequate compared with the cosmos), the less materialism seduces (there is so much more to life than what we owe), the less we stress (we know that death and pain are part of the natural order) and the more satisfied we are with our lives (we no longer need to count the small stuff). Awe has even been shown to improve our physical health; one study indicates that awe reduces levels of a protein-linked to depression and heart disease.

Awe exists anywhere you're willing to look. And that is the key: You must look. Walk down the street and notice the effort it took to create the skyscraper to front of you, the airplane flying overhead. Watch the emotion on people's faces as they pour you by — observe the joy of despair they might be experiencing, the depths

of their interiority. Indeed, awe can be found in almost anything that you can't entirely understand. You can be awed by the unexpected kindness of a stranger. You can be awed by music, of course. By the flow state and creativity that come from groggling with a big idea. By watching a father be good to

his son. Or, as has struck me most lately, by the vastness of our own ability to love, to feel connected to another person, to discover that we have the capacity for feelings not previously tapped.

So where else can you get your lifesaving hit of awe, an experience that is truly "sweezing" (or the shrapened) version of the world that so often gets handled around?

For me, from Wednesday night through Thursday's symbiont hours, I gazed to the sky as the Perseid meteor shower rained brightly. Several weeks ago, I also traveled to a remote desert in western New Mexico to spend a night at The Lightning Field, Walter de Maris's 1917 land artwork in a lightning-prone area, which is made up of 400 steel poles arranged in a sea-kilometer-by-one-mile rectangle.

At The Lightning Field, "A we stay in a small cabin a few hundred yards from the art. We walked around the poles, through them, watched them from a distance, during the day and at sunset and in the desert cold as the sun rose.

More than the lightning, it is the world changed to the light across the landscape that, for me, were most awe-inspiring. The morning's pink-and-blue light climbs over the surrounding hills and touches the poles' tops, enlivening the artwork in a way the critic Kenneth Baker characterized as a metamorphosis "from solid objects into beams of dazzling light that pierce the air like tower."

The defined boundaries of the artwork, in such an isolated area, make the vastness of nature understandable. The poles become a voice for beauty, a man-made container for natural awe. Taking in the light, it was hard to believe I was still on Earth; that what I was experiencing was a part of the same life as checking out of the grim airport hotel earlier that day — and that, somehow, I was seeing it all through the same eyes.

But that is precisely what awe is: an experience too vast as small thinning to immediately make sense of through our usual ways of comprehending the world. A 244-like surrender of control, of all we think we know. It's pretty awesome.

CODY DELISLEMAY is the author of "The Gold Clare: Looking for the End of Lane" and is working on a book about a group of Spiritualists.

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Don't call Canadians 'nasty'

Re "After Trump calls Canadians 'nasty,' Mark Carney says the word 'the trade talks'" (nytimes.com, Aug. 6). Can you imagine if a leader of a foreign country referred to Americans as "nasty"? Picture the outrage, the anger, the indignation among the American public. Well, that's the word your president used to refer to Canadians recently. Reportedly, they wonder why many of us Canadians don't feel like visiting the United States? I've spent time in 20 states before this man was elected and have sent some of the secret, most generous people there. I haven't been back since. FILM IS BOOKS SPECIALS, DORING, QUORRY.

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Re "U.S. countries meet funds for global health care" (front page, Aug. 5).

It is essential that the State Department build on its positive recent release of funds for Delta virus responses and make security globally, as well as for the treatment of AIDS through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPIFAR) and programs advancing child health, disaster mitigation and nutritional assistance to enable food security. These programs are lifesaving and necessary first and foremost for their beneficiaries.

But they also make the United States safer by creating a world with less transmission of illness, less extreme poverty, with its destabilizing effects, and stronger, more reliable relationships between the United States and other countries.

Humanitarian aid advances justice, compassion and solidarity across nations. But it is also to the interest of the United States; it is not an act of charity, and it should have bipartisan support.

A hungry or sick child needs urgent food and medicine, not politics and particularity.

YOUTH SCHEMELL, ALBANY CALIF The writer is a lecturer in development studies at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.

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experts of the same products from other countries, says BG billion; the software company Exiger, working from shipment-level data, estimates 870 billion, and Alasta, a company that tracks global supply chains, measuring total exposure, pass the figure at $385 billion.

"These analyses use different data, screens and definitions, but they all paint to huge losses for U.S. manufacturers as well as huge losses for the U.S. Treasury. The human toll is even more stark.

A Chinese meter that leaves the Guanajuato-Quietium corridor labeled as Mexican is a meter cut held in Detroit, Grand Rapids or Indianapolis. A Chinese switch that leaves the Da Minh City as Vietnamese is a switch not made in Chicago, Milwaukee or Rockford. A Chinese pump that leaves Pune as Indian is a pump not machined in Cincinnati, Dayton or Columbus. And all the jobs making these products in all those other countries represent missed livelihoods for workers across the United States.

Meters, switches, pumps, transformers and the minerals behind them may not sound as important as the latest digital technology, but wait until a pandemic breaks a supply chain, a war interrupts shipping or a foreign government forms commercial dependence into strategic leverage.

That's why, America's newest trade agreements go beyond the traditional country-of-origin question. The agree-

ments prevent a country that wins lower tariffs from the United States from rooting that advantage out to a third country's exports. And unlike some prior agreements, the new ones are backed with real muscle.

A recent executive order from President Trump targets the weaknesses transshipper's exploit: shell companies with no U.S. assets, opaque ownership structures, importers that post too little collateral to cover tariffs, and repeat releases that dismiss and reopen under a new name.

In addition, Customs and Border Protection is establishing a new artificial intelligence-enabled inspection

system, called Detective Border, that will soon be able to assess transshipment risk to every ship among every port carrying cargo bound for the United States.

The message to higher-tariff countries is straightforward: Do not commit a product's subset of origin or create a fraudulent paper trail through a lower-tariff country. The way to pay lower tariffs is to fix the number that earned you high tariffs in the first place — reduce the trade barriers you have erected against U.S. products; stop dumping your state-subsidized rescue manufacturing capacity on U.S. shares; respect intellectual property; and carry on ward reciprocity.

The message to lower-tariff countries is equally clear: Preferential access to the American market is not a license to launder somebody else's exports.

Unscrupulous foreign exporters are always going to try to evade high tariffs, if detection is slow and penalties are manageable. The calculus changes, however, when shipments are risk-scored at machine speed, when importers have real assets and bonds on the line, when repeat offenders can lose access to the market, and when stronger rules of origin close the back door.

And so does the benefit to domestic producers, which have suffered through decades of fear foreign competitors' discipline practices.

A country that cannot make eventual industrial components has not merely lost factories, it has handled foreign suppliers leverage over its economy and its defense industrial base. It's time to end the transshipment design and to start the next chapter of American manufacturing.

PETER NAVARRO is an assistant to President Trump and senior counselor for trade and manufacturing.

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WELL

Powerful manly diet for powerful manly people

FROM THE MAGAZINE

My week eating only steak and fermented foods, like several of Trump's cabinet

BY WILLY STALEY

I was a little less than 20 minutes into a video call with Sean O'Mara, the trim and handsome 50-year-old doctor who has reportedly been giving dietary advice to several members of the Trump cabinet, when he pulled up no image of two liquids (no color of coffee or fluid). This vibrant yellow-green O'Mara explained, occupies a specific attention getting unwittingly.

"Seals companies saw that color is get people to buy," he said, genturing to the first liquid, which was Mountain Dew. "Your brain kind of lights up. You're like, Wow, that's cool stuff." He directed my attention to the other liquid, roughly the same color, and in a jar.

"Do you know what that is?" he asked me.

"No," I said. "That's urine," he said. "That's urine from a human being."

The strong implications was that it was his. Panning urine this color is a good thing, O'Mara said, and it started happening to him six years ago: a byproduct of his diet, which comprises almost exclusively meat and fermented foods. The Wall Street Journal reported in June that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 20 Vaters, Howard Latnick and Sean Duffy had all done up the O'Mara program. Kennedy has created a with reducing his visceral fat body by 40 percent. the president has reportedly taken notice of Vaters's slimming figure.

I understand the appeal of a radical — and radically simple — dietary intervention, just you being about 40. I stopped eating carbohydrates and started running a lot in the morning. I lost something like 25 pounds, around 15 kilograms, this way. Naturally, I was intrigued by the existence of a more powerful and manly diet for more powerful and manly people.

So I joined the cabinet — for a week, anyway.

O'Mara calls it the Living Diet. You sit nothing but the flesh of grass-bel ruminants — cows, yes, but also beers, oils and wastes — and as many different fermented foods as possible, because their bacteria body repopulate

your gut, which he says improves your metabolism, leading to weight loss. Wild-caught seafood is cool, too, but ruminants are best, O'Mara says, because they fermented what they eat in their many stomatics.

He wanted me eating fermented beers, carcass and radiators, fluegashes and Parmesan, yogurt, body and frozen. He showed me a picture of his typical plate of food. It looked so if a steak had been dropped on a painter's stand, stubbled as it was with meditized billed meat. However, he was not here a refrigerator that has about 20 to 30 firemeters, and I just got 200-210 ccf each over. He explained, "I'm just culling this meat around it all that bacteria."

It turns out a breakfast of ground beef with a plate of starchy and a fried egg in, finally, bridgarding. But surely by virtue of having to take place near the Times Building in Manhattan, allowed me to really spread my wings: I heard my way to the right, small from a Spanish restaurant, where I was not secured off me — and, essentially, to go. I would drag my jar of starchy, plastic trays of fermented luncheon and a wedge of fluegashes in a shovel bungs and mid-tape the way to Magazine across the way didn't notice my grotesque feeding ritual, as times I hoped because would ask what I was doing, just so I could explain that I'm not normally like this. They never did.

Setting aside the magic of fermented foods, the diet also seems to operate by scraping the meat from the hands; my calories to kinsels, and it's actually pretty hard to eat that much food, even — or especially — it's all you're eating. It's a high in satiety as nearly any permit you can find. As for week were on, the more thought of my next meal of metallic, image beef would almost turn my stomach. I was putting away about a pound and a half of meat most days, and even that was well below "maintenance" — or the amount of calories my body would need before turning the more for that.

I ran the basics of the diet by Marlon Nestle of New York University, whose views on nutrition are more mainstream than O'Mara's. While the questioned his claims about fermented foods improving metabolism, Nestle agreed the diet would be effective as a temporary route to weight loss, and provided you kept your caloric intake below maintenance. "I can't think of any nutrients that would be missing from this," she said. "We've got muscle boring to me."

I was still running — or trying to.

The doctor Sean O'Mara advises eating the flesh of grass-bel ruminants and as many different fermented foods as possible.

Gus interesting thing about carbohydrates: They really do supply your body with a readily available source of energy, and if you don't eat them, exercising will feel as if someone has turned the gravity up. You can feel the weight of your legs, your shoes, everything. Your body adjusts, but you're never as fast. Eating pasta, by contrast, makes you feel spring loaded. I had total control over what I ate, drank and didn't. That control is perhaps the primary aspect of this sort of diet. I also have high-fatness for a compromise, you never have to bargain with yourself about anything. You're like a manic or a prisoner — shackled, but free of vengeance. And, to very often are, sure, and a little pedestry.

To O'Mara, the diet is not just a unique component of eating weight but a way to eat for good. He has been

On this diet, you're like a manic or a prisoner — shackled, but free of vengeance.

O'Mara is consistently delivering Type 1 ("smooth, soft, like a snake"), with pointed ends, indicators of healthy social function, he told me.

"I also pass our eating healthy, you don't need toilet paper," he claimed. "Animals in the wild have no residual stool on their arms." He described a proper bowel movement to see this way: catheters, wipe feet, over a three to seven seconds and "totally orgasmic."

"I've said there a bowel movement behind a chest at a dinner party in the corner of the room," he said, "and nobody would know."

As it happened, I had a dinner party to go down to bed, the last fall day of my diet. I felt good. I was tired and energetic, in control. There I had two marinas and sat at the dinner table.

So my goodest answer, when before the meal was started, I started of hygiene with chores, a pananaville salad, a foraging platter of roast vegetables and bread. But the food was, 20c and 35 meals had been beef and fermenter; the worst of the chores was intoxicating.

I cured within 10 seconds, eating all of it heavily. I barely had room for the main course, which was — what else — steak.

Is it true love, or is it love bombing?

Over-the-top affection in a romantic relationship could foreshadow abuse

BY MELINDA WENNER BOOZE

When Jan Knudtman was in her late summer, she encountered gave her his phone number, changing the course of her life.

The two started dating, the ground her community, the mail, telling her she was perfect — the woman he'd been waiting for his whole life. He bought her flowers and took her out on herish dates. He turned her throughout the day to check on her.

Ms. Knudtman, 35, who lives in Sioux Falls, S.D., did not know it at the time, but her own boyfriend was outfinding a behavior known as "love bombing." Although it can be difficult to distinguish from healthy those of intense early schooling, love bombing is a pattern of behavior that helps people capture the hearts of their love interests, only to late or control them.

Love bombing is a form of "idealization and seduction that becomes the prelude to what will be emotional manipulation and control," said Ramani Durvasula, a clinical psychologist and professor, member of California State University, Los Angeles.

In fact, over time, Ms. Knudtman said, she dynamic started to shift to her relationship. Her boyfriend began monitoring her trust and calls, she said. He challenged her when she talked to other friends. She made her feel as if she had to do what he said or don't love him and end up alone.

THE MUCH, TOO SOON

The term "love bombing" dates to the 1970s, when the tactic was used by the Unification Church, a South Korean religious movement that critics and former members have described as a talk. Church members would often shame personal recruits with warmth and praise to get them to join.

Today, the phrase is commonly used to describe love-the-way affection and attention at the beginning of a romantic relationship. In casual parlance, diners may talk about love bombing as merely coming on love energy or as a percentile to planting. But clinicians say that it can be a dangerous red flag.

There are no clear statistics on how closely love bombing is linked to abuse, said Chitra Raghavan, a psychologist at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York who studies power dynamics in intimate partner abuse. However, Dr. Raghavan said, "I've noticed it in al-

most every domestic violence case I've had, that there was a period of love bombing."

Love bombing often takes the form of excessive compliments, Dr. Raghavan said. The person might say, "You are really incredible, and no one has seen how incredible you are, but I am seeing it," she said.

These compliments often play in recipient's deepest vulnerabilities, like attractiveness or intelligence.

A love bomber also tends to control a new partner community. "They want to see you every day, they don't say at work, they call, they text, they send you jokes," Dr. Raghavan said.

They may also imply that they are looking for long-term commitment. They might say: "I can already see the house we're going to live in," Dr. Durvasula said. "What should we name on both?"

WHEN THE SPILL BREAKS

Love bombers really add intense attention on two to overreliable people, so that they don't think to question why things

are moving as fast or how they actually lost. Dr. Raghavan explained. It leers people to "before they can say 'Wait, wait this doesn't seem right,'" she said. "Not everyone who is a new bomber becomes abusive, and researchers are not sure whether love bombers engage in these behaviors with the clear intent of one's shoring their partners." "This is a fellow dollar question," Dr. Durvasula said. It's really difficult, she said, to tease out more mine and intent.

Love bombers often, but not always, have narcissist traits, and may be used to a psychologist at Ohio State University. They often test the other person's commitment — for example, they may stop writing or calling for a low dose, hoping to provoke panic and stick declarations of affection, Dr. Russell said. They might also act in a mean way and apologize probably later.

The love bomber might act as if directly threatened by the other person's friendships or bribbles, as Ms. Knudtman described. Her boyfriend, she said, would complain when she talked to other friends, and act jealous.

TRUST YOUR UNEASE

It can be difficult to recognize love bombing when it is happening, Dr. Durvasula said, adding, "This is the big one at the moment," Jan I sang, and bombed, or is this just somebody who's really interested in me?"

The distraction can be blurred because only coverting is expected to be intense. Love bombing also "plays on our human need for attachment, our human need for love, our human desire to be connected to other people," Dr. Durvasula said.

People should not be hard on themselves if they don't recognize it when it happens. Dr. Durvasula said, told, she advised, he may tell partner it was a name your boundaries, personal interests or friendships or who promote you to prove your loyalty or commitment.

Ending a relationship with a love bomber can be difficult, as love bombers often retaliate, Dr. Durvasula said. There may be angry traits, name-calling and even stalling. To escape for any friends' pursuit of her, Ms. Knudtman said, she moved to another state.

"I've noticed it in almost every domestic violence case I've had, that there was a period of love bombing."

Why heart disease is rising among young women

BY NINA AGRINNAL

The threat of heart disease, and of dying from it, is rising among young women.

Recent research has suggested that nearly one-third of all women ages 20 to 44 will have heart disease in 2026, up from one-fourth today. And women under 18 are more likely to die from heart attacks than men under 18.

Despite common misconceptions, "heart disease is, to be, a woman's disease," said Dr. Emily Lau, co-director of the Sloan General Brigham Women's Heart Health program. But it is possible to lower the risk.

One reason for the increase in heart disease is younger women is that some of the drivers — including obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes — have become increasingly common at younger ages.

These risk factors apply to everyone, but research has shown that some have a greater effect on women.

For example, women with diabetes have a higher risk of heart disease relative to diabetes than men do, smoking also increases women's risk more than it does men's.

Young women with high blood pressure are often underdiagnosed and undertreated.

But heart disease risk may actually start rising at lower blood pressure levels in women than in men, said Dr. C. Noel Batory Merz, director of the Burma Hormonal Women's Heart Center at O'Hara-Siou in Los Angeles.

Baseline checks of your blood pressure measurements, high and homogenous for 4.67, (a measure of average blood glucose levels) are important for screening. The Doctors recommend all adults above the three levels:

• 1.5 to 2.5 times under 120 mm Hg; 1.10 mm Hg
• 4 Low-density lipoprotein, or LDL, under 90% of the body

• Body mass index under 20

• Strongly low, of 1.0 or lower.

• Knowing your numbers is your most powerful tool," said Dr. Fritzo Frumery, director of the Heart Center at Grant and Northwestern Medicine. "And it's never too early to start."

• The American should work with her physician "to bring off target numbers to target," Dr. Batory Merz. That should include lifestyle measures — eating a Mediterranean or 30,000 style diet, not eating food, cooking, cooking and doing both aerobic and resistance exercise — as well as medications when needed.

One upside to the disparate effects of risk factors by sex is that it works in the

other direction, too, she said. Studies have shown that women achieve the same reduction in cardiovascular risk and mortality as men with half the amount of exercise.

There is a growing recognition that the risk of heart also play a role. These include premature menopause (before age 45) and polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (previously known as PC-O-5). They also include pregnancy complications such as gestational diabetes and pre-eclampsia, and inflammatory autoimmune diseases (the "diet" of the rheumatoid arthritis, which disproportionately affect women.

Each of these is associated with increased heart disease risk, but may not necessarily be causal, said Dr. Martha Gabel, director of the North Women's Heart Center at Houston Methodist. For example, it's not clear whether high blood pressure is necessary (and the censure heart disease risk, or if it simply highlights some preventing vascular abnormality, Dr. Gabel said.

Women in their 20s, 30s and 40s are less likely to have a chance to have a routine health care provider and often skip or delay care because of costs, according to surveys. Some rely mainly on absenteeism-generologists for primary care.

Doctors recommended finding a primary care physician who can check for heart disease or related risk factors during these years.

Beyond routine blood work, doctors pointed to additional tests that may help better assess individual risk.

Not to be considered to be calcium (CAC) score, which comes from a specialised CT scan of the heart. The formation of blockages that lead to heart or heart. To a superclass, about persons," Dr. Frumery said. A CT scan, which shows whether and how much calcified plaque is in the coronary arteries, can help identify that process before symptoms appear.

Guidelines also recommend that all adults have their level of lipoprotein (a) or creatinine type of "bad" cholesterol, marked heart. Do more about a healthy change throughout life, but menopause is an exception. Dr. Gabel said that women with a borderline level should have a reduction after menopause.

Dr. Gabel suggests that women can have their C-reactive protein, a marker of inflammation, checked with a blood test, and a reduction that suggested that the marker can predict cardiovascular risk, though the evidence is not yet strong enough for the test to be widely recommended, Dr. Batory Merz said.

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Sports

Checkwise from above left: Los Angeles Lakers players after winning the 2020 N.B.A. championships from left, the N.B.A. championships from left, the N.B.A. championships from left. Ashlee Kushner and Bob Iger at the U.S. High Court, near; and Mark Waller, majority owner, with Joanne Buss in March.

Lakers to be sold for the second time in 14 months

The deal could value the N.B.A. franchise at a record $12.5 billion

BY DAN WOEKE AND BRIKE VORKENON THE ATLANTIC

The Los Angeles Lakers are being sold. Again.

Only 14 months after agreeing to purchase the Lakers at a record-setting $10 billion valuation, Mark Waller is selling the team in Bob Iger, the former Disney chief executive, and Joshua Kushner. The deal would value the Lakers at $12.5 billion, according to a person with knowledge of the sale who spoke on the condition of anacrately without authorization to die on it quickly.

Kushner has a minority stake in the Miami Heat and is the younger brother of Jared Kushner, a son-in-law of President Trump.

The deal is a stunning development for one of the N.B.A.'s stumpers franchises. The Lakers were owned by Jerry Buss at his family members for more than four decades before Joanne Buss, Jerry's daughter, agreed to sell the team to Waller.

"In lifelong N.B.A. fans, we are deeply honored for the opportunity to become stewards of the Los Angeles Lakers, one of the most iconic sports franchises in the world," Iger and Kushner said in a statement. "We have immense respect for the leadership and vision of Jerry and Joanne Buss. Our long-term commitment is to build on that foundation, compete at the highest level, and serve this extraordinary team, its fans and the city of Los Angeles."

The Lakers' $10 billion valuation is the 2020 sale was the most expensive to professional sports history. If the Kushner and Iger purchase is approved by the league's board of governors, it would set a record again, just over a year later.

A private supply deal completed by the New York Yankees this week valued the Major League Baseball franchise at approximately $10 billion. Among National Football League teams, only the Dallas Cowboys and the Los Angeles Rams were valued at more than $22.5 billion in a report released by Sportico this week, but those valuations are only estimates.

For Iger, the purchase of the Lakers is a resounding answer to questions about what his public life after Disney would look like. Iger was succeeded by Josh O'Antarn as the company's chief executive in March. He remains a senior adviser and a board member, though those votes are set to end when his contract expires at the end of the year.

He served two shots as Disney's leader, the first from 2005 to 2020. After handing the votes to Bob Chupek, Iger remained with the company and returned to the top position when Chupek was fired in November 2022. During

Iger's first run as chief executive, Disney bought Pious Marvel, Lucasfilm and the majority of 21st Century Fox. Iger also oversaw ESPN, though he left the day-to-day management of the company to other executives.

"Our long-term commitment is to build on that foundation, compete at the highest level, and serve this extraordinary team."

The Lakers are not Iger's first investment in professional sports, in the summer of 2024. Iger and his wife, Willow Ray, acquired a controlling stake in Angel City FC. In a deal that valued the National Women's Soccer League club at $250 million, which at the time was the highest valuation ever for a women's professional sports team.

Luka Donau, the Lakers star player, promotion social media that he was each-

ed to meet Iger and Kushner "as we can get to work building something special."

"I've gotten used to big changes over there but few years, but I know that no matter what, there is no limit to the potential of this iconic franchise," he wrote. Kushner, who previously owned a minority share of the Memphis Grizzlies, is a central figure in the ongoing controversy surrounding international soccer after Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, planned to sell a stake in FIFA's competitions to private investors, including Kushner's Thrive Eternal, for $4.2 billion.

The plan was abandoned, but UEFA, the governing body of European soccer, sent a letter dated July 15 to Kushner stating that it was considering legal action, arbitration and regulatory complaints in connection with the proposals.

Walter, the majority owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, called owning the Lakers "one of the great honors" of his life and an "extraordinary investment."

Ho has no plans to sell the Dodgers as well, according to a person with knowledge of the negotiations who spoke on the condition of anacrately.

"What I will carry with me is the community, the fans, and a city that trusts this team as a family," Walter said in a statement. "I am grateful to Joanne Buss, the Buss family, the players, and the staff for welcoming me into this chapter. The Lakers belong to Los Angeles, and I have every confidence the best in still ahead."

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and the Securities and Exchange Commission have been investigating insurance companies owned by Walter. According to The Wall Street Journal, federal investigators took interest in Walter's companies last year after an internal whistleblower complaint about how Walter's asset management firm, Outperformers Investments, banked revenue it received from the insurance companies.

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Culture

Comedy as a way to reclaim her past

EDMUNDSON

With a stand-up show, Amanda Knox finds humor in her tabloid fame

BY ALEX MARSHALL

It was the opening night of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and Amanda Knox was pacing the stage of a shabby theater.

For about 15 minutes, she had been trying out her plans in 'Cartwheel,' her one-hour Fringe debut as a stand-up comic. In her act, Knox, 20, neared the stage where toys and clothes were scattered, telling stories and occasionally dialoguing with the recorded voice of her daughter, Kurtha, who is 2.

She was trying to find the humor in her own story, that of an American parent, but one who had been wrongly held in a private family for more for the 2007 murder of her Amistadore when both women were studying abroad there. But the subtext: audience, life-strung, or first only occasionally interest at her gags about life in prison, tabloid colony and the idiosyncrasies of child-rearing.

'Eyes, she told a joke about her daughter's favorite game.

'It's called 'Mamma goes to Italy,' Knox said. In the game, her daughter grabs the bars of a jungle gym at their local playground and screams. 'Let me out! Let me out!' Knox stoned a wild-ryed convict desperately grabbing the bars of a prison cell. The audience's numbers turned into the night's first belly large.

As surprising as it might be that Knox is trying manstray, it's arguably even ridden for her to debut such a show at the Fringe in Scotland, given her raised reputation in Britain, the home country of the slate roommate, Meredith Kercher. Knox's foray into comedy also raised questions about who has the right to tell a story related.

Knox said in an earlier video interview that she was trying comedy because she felt 'opposedly so either a true crime or tragic figure' when it reality she had always been a 'goody, quirky theater girl.'

'Doing this show is me going back to my room and trying to reclaim who I was before all the bad stuff happened,' Knox said.

The Edinburgh Fringe is a high-stakes platform for such a transformation. Shift every August, the festival has a reputation as a brutal batting ground for new comics. Reviewers regularly savage stand-up shows, but for a lucky few acts — like Hannah Gaddis, James Acamer and Richard Gadd (of 'Baby Boulders') — it can be a springboard to fame.

Many Fringe comics find humor in dark subjects, among them Gadd, whose breakout show was about stalling, and the Australian comedian Frankie McNair, who is presenting an act this year called 'Huge Ass Minden' about overcoming child abuse.

Still, since 'Cartwheel' was announced in May, the idea of Knox's performing in Britain has raised eyebrows here. She was ultimately exonerated in the murder by Indy's highest court in 2015, her many people here still feel that Knox must have had something to do with the killing. When those are should stay out of the public eye to avoid further traumatizing Kercher's hands.

Last week, Stephanie Kercher, Meredith's sister, gave media interviews

'Doing this show is me going back to my room and trying to reclaim who I was before all the bad stuff happened.'

urging the venue hosting Knox's show to cancel 'Cartwheel,' which runs through Monday. Kercher said as an email that Knox was causing her family 'sleep guts,' adding that 'a 'marble case and riction should not be allowed as a comedy show in the U.K.'

An online policies against the performance occurred when it didn't sign a move, and Britain's tabloid press, which has devastated Knox for years, also weighed in, immediately after her debut. The Daily Mail published an article on its website with the headline 'Is There Anything 'Very Kenny' Won't Do for Attention — or Money?'

In interviews after the show, some as always members also wondered if Knox's Australian film and filming were still enough most Fringe shows don't make a profit, even when, like Knox's, they are not. Edward Lipnacobis, 72, who was in the audience of the Gilded Balloon, theorized that Knox either needed the money or was looking for a therapeutic space to talk about her experiences. But he added that it had been a well-crafted hour and said Knox had revealed she had 'more heart than you'd imagine.'

Even to some people who knew her, Knox's presence at the Fringe had at

Despite an uproar, the Gilded Balloon organization defended hosting Knox's show in Edinburgh.

least initially been puzzling. Jona Friedman, an American stand-up who was a consultant on the show, said she had asked Knox repeatedly why she was doing it.

'She level of bravery during this in just

beyond comprehension,' Friedman said.

Knox said in the interview that she had expected controversy, but added that she refused to let Britain's tabloid press influence her choices. 'There is a

defiant streak in me that's like, 'You know what?' she said. 'I didn't hurt anybody. I'm not at fault for what happened.'

In the interviewing years, she has written two memoirs, herin a podcast with

Left, Amanda Knox is her solo show, 'Cartwheel,' at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Above, she signed pages of her two memoirs.

her husband, and is the subject of a thalu series. Performing comedy is a recently developed success, although her interest goes further back. She said she was a longtime fan of World at Yonkers and enjoyed watching 'Flight of the Conchords' in prison because Italian TV broadcast it ran at night, undefeated.

She was switched on to the possibility of doing stand-up herself in 2021, she said, when she was invited to be a surprise guest in a comedy cast of her friend the comedian William Cummings. During that three-minute set, Knox joked that she had been invited only because other comedians 'want to follow a performer who has never killed.'

That gave her the comedy bag, Knox said, and once she was doing occasional slots at a local comedy night in Yonkers Island, Wash., where she lives. She performed there — 'As a nice-pull that used to be necessary backyard' — every few months, she said, and she mainly did 'more jokes' about, not having a crook on a children's cartoon character.

The idea of a show in Edinburgh came to her last year after she met the clients comedy duo Britainish, who rhapsodized about the Fringe as a place where comedian could hear their craft. Jack Kercher, one of Britainish's members, said that he had received Knox that she would get savaged online, but she'd said it wasn't a problem. 'That's already happening,' he recalled her saying.

While writing the show, Knox said, she year death to comedians such as Friedman and Lauren Weedean for advice. Among their recommendations, Knox said, was to 'embrace just some of the straight, straight trauma.'

She certainly hooked their word near the show's blade. Her act was called 'Cartwheel,' she had said earlier, because Italian processors said she had turned cartwheels in a police station shortly after Kercher's death as evidence of inappropriate frivolity in the wake of the violent killing. (Knox said she had actually been doing a job.)

Coming serious as the end of the routine approaches, Knox said she was raising her daughter 'to be the coast girl I was punished for being.' When Eureka is still enough to hear her life story, Knox said, it would be told as a lesson in 'Not your life to the fullest and not be held back by anything.'

'But kids don't really listen to you,' Knox said. 'You have to show them' — that's why she had come to the Fringe, she said.

Knox then cartwhelmed across the stage, and about half the audience rose to an ovation.

Parody of 'Heated Rivalry' skates a seriously fun line

A stage production shines a spotlight on the steamy Canadian TV show

BY BRYANT GONZALEZ

In November, a small Canadian series about two rival pro hockey players who, in secrecy, fall in love, took over TV scenes, late-night talk shows and every corner of social media.

If didn't take long for the composer and playwright Dylan MacLaurele to start shading his script for 'Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody.' The show tells a similar story about Shane (Jenna Mann) and Ilya (Jay Armstrong Johnson) but through this loss of 'the fissures,' a juggle of wine-drink nouns who wait until their husbands and children are asleep to enjoy the only funny world of hockey players. The women act as narrators in MacLaurele's show, tipally resupping plot points, but ten always curiously, which is where the parody comes in.

The show, which started as a one-night concert reading, has been revealed through November in New York and has spawned additional productions in Canada and Britain (including appearances at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe).

'We were just going to put out two concerts, and that was it,' Alan Kiffer, the show's director and producer, said

in an interview. 'But the show doesn't sold out in 40 hours.'

The New York production is housed on the sixth floor of the Culture Club, formerly the McKittrick Hotel, where 'Sleep No More' can for nearly 14 years. Kiffer, a self-proclaimed 'Sleepy superba, noted that the space makes the show feel like an entire experience, with a concession stand selling Kip's Blue Moon Over Brooklyn sometime, Canada Dry ginger ale and other goodies that wish at the TV show's fan base.

Plus, Johnson said, 'You know this place is hounted for sure.'

From backstage, Johnson, MacLaurele and Mann performing their last show this week, to be replaced by Aaron Alcaraz (discussed the line line of parodying a beloved show and outing a Russian accent. Below are added excerpts.

Dylan, how did you decide to have the TV series hits a musical parody?

DYLAN MARCHELLE: I loved the show very quickly, and in 1 starred to just jet down little water about things that stood over me, things that are very moving or are a bit like, 'Suh, why'd they do that?' [It's only the only thing that I would refer back to so that I didn't get too deep into the show itself and accidentally do an adaptation instead of a parody.

JOHN MOON: I think the thunking device that you created with the fissures is brilliant.

Jimm Mann, wearing white, and Jay Armstrong Johnson of the 'Heated Rivalry' show.

What was the casting process like?

JAY ARMSTRONG JOHNSON Alan Kiffer, our director and producer, did into my 1981 and asked me if I'd be interested. I said pro before even reading this brilliant script or hearing these first faint tones.

MOON Zack Plant, who's a genius, was Shane in the concert readings, and now he's doing 'Maybe Happy Ending,' he's all-remind on Asian.

Did you worry about offending someone who really loves the series?

MARZANILLA: It all really came out of a place of joy. The biggest swings are the departures from the material. I will say that, like, the hardest song in write was the beat song, 'I can think,' he came I have nothing in make fun of. That moment [when Ilya gave to Shane's comage] was perfect.

Do you feel pressure shaping into the roles of Ilya and Shane?

JOHNSON: I could feel it from the jump when they first announced us to the on the internet. Just to see the discourse from the world at large about the world, the show perfect piece of art and make fun of it. 'Wait! wait! wait! This is a love letter to a love story.'

MOON: You're not supposed to read the comments, but someone commented, 'It looks like they took Connor [She-oh] and Shatney [William] it know and ran over them with a truck.' It was, like, 'That was a new headshat!'

Starrie got a lot of praise for his Russian accent.

JOHNSON David about that.

How did you pray?

JOHNSON: I walked into the concert reading sounding like I was from Tran-sylvania because I was like, 'It's a parody, right?' And this team rested me in very quickly. My friend Christopher Uetz, who's a Broadway actor and a really great dialect coach, and I had a few sessions to make sure I got it in a place that feels real, and not a caricature of itself.

Dylan, what has it been like for the show to expand to Canada and Britain?

MARZANILLA: I thought this was going to be a mix-night song concert, and in one of the shows was running in African productions in issues. It was fun coming up with the different little adjustments for the London and Edinburgh productions. The executive director was Ryan Gaskin, 'We do not want really have Shatney's but we have this little more called hungry heap.'

Do any of you care about hockey?

MARZANILLA: I will say it's the only sport that I have ever enjoyed myself in the audience at.

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CULTURE

Slasher looks inward and then lashes out

MOOE REVIEW

A meta take on a genre careens among satire, bloodshed and eroticism

BY JAYNE WILKINSON

The opening credits of "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miamou" tell a story: A 1980s teen-slasher film called "Camp Miamou" became a runaway hit, spanning sequels — some of which went direct to films — along with romance, trading cards, an arcade game, a devoted landers and a statue as a cult classic smugglers with a failed night adaptation. There it entered a period of critical re-evaluation as a "problematic classic," for its depiction of trans characters and teenage sexuality. Then, inevitably, the studio decided to reheat the franchise, with a "bandance wastebikind" director named Kris (who, not coincidentally, identifies as query) at the helm. This book story is all handled with

deft and knowing wit, because this is the trajectory of many slasher horror franchises that shaped, in particular, millennial imagination. On "Beng-n-avoy Camp" series, for instance, or "Friday the 10th," Certain sorts of cinephiles, some of whom became filmmakers, love these series and also feel guilty about their more dubious treatment of sex, one and greater stereotypes, or perhaps violent or transphobic elements. Much risk is spilled by bluggers and critics in debating and rehaming and reclaiming these movies, precisely because when you love something, it makes you into who you are. Rejoining a hero like shutting down your head. The writer and director Jane Schoenberg is particularly panel at telling stories that tug into the fiddling of horning hoes medical, in some fundamental and almost subconscious way, by screen-based media, in all its weird sens. Their previous film "I Saw the TV Glow" works equally well as an allegory of trans identity and, in a broader sense, of becoming obsessed with a long-running TV series in your formative years (in this case, one that

Gillian Anderson, left, as a exclusive actress and Hannah Edelstein as a director in "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miamou," written and directed by Jane Schoenberg.

Edelstein, above left, and Anderson, who curable with chemistry, fiction, Zack Cherry, standing, in another scene from the film, which evokes such horror movie franchises as the "Beng-n-avoy Camp" series and "Friday the 10th."

look modeled on "Buffy the Vampire Dayer" and "The X-Files," two touch-tones for older millennials). Before that, their marvelously creepy "We've All Going to the World's Fair" did the same for interest memos that feel drawn from an earlier era than today's corporatized, influence-theory with. With "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miamou," Schoenberg has moved to big-screen entertainment: Kris (Hannah Edelstein), aware that it is not a good thing to be able to pay for over the franchise's rocky relationship to L.G.B.T.U. characters, is determined to beat the studio at its own game. Here? Well, it's a little hard to tell exactly what the plan is, because Kris has intellectualized the "Camp Miamou" series, and horror more broadly, with the kind of vigor that suggests an attempt to talk around rocky necklace. Chris's Sundance film was titled "class-ances," and its third act is a remake of "Psycho" from the perspective of the shower curtains.

The strategy is to seek out Billy (Gillian Anderson, clearly cast in part as a nod to her status as a queer icon), who played the final girl (in the first, "Miamou" film and now lives in serious on the property where the first film was shot. Maybe Kris can get her to play a role in the reboot; at least,

maybe she'll have some insight into the films. Since adolescence, Kris has been obsessed with the look in Billy's eye to her big sex scene.

After a snowy, strange drive into a small town, Kris finds Billy at the camp, living like a joyful version of Norma Desmond. Over a fried-shicken dinner, Kris explains that mostly she's interested in exploring "the intervention of queerness and cultural depictions of monuments." But in the course of conversation, she reveals something that seems unrelated, but maybe isn't. She feels like she's had at sea, and has given up trying to enjoy it, because she's just too self-conscious.

She also seems up to her head about her relationship to the movies: She is constantly commenting on split-dogster shots and, when watching "Camp Miamou" with Billy, can't help her comment. This part's transphobic: ("Shit-up," Billy knows.) At times, she even seems conscious that she's in a movie, being watched by us. All this self-conscious has gotten twisted into her plan for the reheat. And Billy might be the key to freedom.

"Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miamou" feels as if it's constantly teeming on the edge of luxury-handed-ness — the killer in the series, with a ceiling vent for a head, is painstaking

called "Little Death" — but Schoenberg has a delightful handle on tone, feelings among confessions, cartoonistic though teenage and full-on fantasies. The story starts as a two-hander between Edelstein and Anderson, who curable with chemistry, but spends into a story within a story, and then maybe an entire dream, or who knows?

This film is not really a tribute to slasher horror. It's more of a tribute to the experience of losing slasher horror.

Schoenberg has a knock for evoking the senselessness since you experience whose you're really locked into the screen and start feeling as if you're being inside whatever you're watching. What is "real" is kind of beside the point; if it feels real, it is, even if it's fiction. Even the backdrop of friends at the camp are unreasonably, obviously paintings, a point of slippage between fantasy and reality.

This film is not really a tribute to slasher horror, though you might be tempted to think so. It's more of a tribute to the experience of losing slasher horror, or anything else that has formed you and yet is clearly

flawed in ways that run against your beliefs. It's about knowing you should object, and trying to decide what that means, and whether it's OK is on knowledge the ways some person fantasies might be a little problematic, also — that you might want to imagine things you'd never want to real life.

Slasher horror, especially the kind that I, L.A. is over at home, is the big desire and death in a kind of Freudian way (translated from French, "little death" is a unpleasurable by regions). "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miamou" takes a creepy, tender approach to addressing this therefrom that comes with desire.

It's pulled off with gums, blood sparking high and Anderson clamping jubilarity on the scenery (her pronunciation of an inquiry related to her digging snare is indolible). Edelstein takes Kris from nervously closed off to lunarizing in her unreheard sense of self. She's not going of sorts. We're meant to feel our way through the movie more than think it, and its layers get more complex in it goes on.

"Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miamou" is designed to knock the viewer off killer with a gasp and a chuckle. There's an conference to letting yourself go and enjoying the mess that lives inside.

A high-profile terrorist with a high style

BOOK REVIEW

The Jacket: The Rise and Fall of Carlos, the World's First Super Terrorist By Jany Warrick. Scribner. 34th pp. $30.

BY DWIGHT GARNIER

Carlos the Jacket, the international terrorist, was cast. Its were staged—waits next, Italian leaders, free workers and sometimes, in a nod to his hero Che Guevara, designer hereto. He was a good dancer. He liked luxury hotels and well-ordered wine lists. Women ackend him. He'd smid with one on each side.

It must have bothered Carlos when, in 1975, the first known photograph of him was beamed worldwide. He was 23 at the time. In the black-and-white image, he wears a leather jacket, tinned oval glasses and a standby short mites.

It became the most recognizable headshot of the second half of the 20th century. It appeared on Internet's wanted genre's and on the front of newspapers and magazines globally. Carlos's image was never emblazoned on a collectible Reopen cap, but if Charles Miamou had managed a 5-filmm, it would have been.

It was not a matter that the photo blew his cover. It also made him re-semble a bag. (The Miamou was intentionally bad. He was in semi-disguise for one of his many fake postwar photographs.) It had to hurt, but did he looked chubby. He'd struggled with his weight since childhood, when he was called El Cardo. On the other hand, he backed his home man books. He had plastic snugger, a flatten daun. This was, contra the myths about him, possibly the only plastic snugger he had.

Carlos's many contradictions — he was a Veneration who became the world's most famous terrorist for the Palestinian cause, a cause-and-killer

who considered himself a humanist, a designer of Western Imperialism who was knocked out by its charms — are laid bare in Jany Warrick's authoritative and acutely readable new book, "The Jacket."

Warrick is a longtime national security correspondent for The Washington Post. One of his previous books, "Black Finger: The Rise of 1935" (2003), won a Pulitzer Prize. His new book functions as a pocket history of terroristic-twitty modern period, and it details how Carlos's exploits helped provide the benefits of later had more such as Al Qaeda and the Islamic brain.

Carlos was part of a new, disembonately and highly positive story. He joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in 1970, and, over the following two decades, became one of the most wanted terrorists in the world. Warrick tracks his attention, and the torturous and sometimes spasmodic planning that went into them.

In London, Carlos fired a bullet into the first of Joseph Staff, the 22-year owner of the British social giant Marko & Spencer (where Carlos, being Carlos, sometimes shopped). Staff was lucky to survive. The gun granted after the first riot.

At 1915 airport in Paris, Carlos twice led teams that fired a million and minutes at El Al-Jaffaeni, once from the airport terminals's roof. They missed both times.

On a Sustainable Left Bank street in 1974, Carlos casually started a grenade into a crowd of shoppers, killing two and wounding 24. The victims included a young girl whose hand was blown off. Less than 20 per cent, Carlos rose to death two members of the Directorate of Territorial Security, the President, intelligence agency, and one of his PFLP, 8 losses, when he reposed him.

Carlos and his accomplices were quietly took hostages, most universally at an OPEC meeting in Vienna on enemy December day in 1975. It was the largest mass kidnapping of govern-

ment officials in a single event, and it became a split-screen spectacle.

The captors were provided with an American 20.19 to fly out with dozens of hostages. The televised drama played out over two days of negotiations, as the piano headed Al-Ajjani, into Al-Tripati, then to Algiers again. Eventually the hostages were released, though three people were slaughtered in the initial assault.

Carlos and his memes, Noah Haddad, the leader of the P.F.L.P.s military wing, believed the world had stopped paying attention to the plight of Palestinians and their struggle to reclaim

Slick Renders: Slasches, better known as Carlos the Jacket, was out of the most wanted terrorists in the world before his capture in 1994.

This book functions as a pocket history of terroristic-twitty modern period.

uncertain basis, Islamic fundamentalism was out at the core of their concerns. Jew barred was. They were determined to make Westernist or Palestinian, by any means necessary, including targeting non-Israeli civilizations.

It was a different era. There's strange comedy in watching Western authorities for Carlos and his cohort repeatedly slip through their hands. French intelligence officer, which ran carry guns regularly. When the womenists were caught, they were often given short prison sentences and time off for good behavior. The C.I.A. didn't yet

have a counterterrorism division. Airport security was his.

Warrick is alert to other forms of black comedy. Badies, not bald, tend to accidentally pressured for a large group of Palestinians. Terrorists get odds. Their weapons — if not they take wrong turns. A German militant to nicknamed Schottorf because it's all he can.

During the OPEC stage, one of Carlos's colleagues got library and took a dog from a water bottle. He'd never turned unpleasant water and thought well were poisoned. He had a damaged coughing fit while drivastar comb-fungled from around his neck.

Carlos had been here into a prominent family in Caracas in 1949. His father was a lawyer and a passionate Communist. He kept a large portrait of Stalin in the house. He started each of his three sons after Vladimir Uysch-Ulysses, better known as Lenin. Carlos's birth name was Dick Ransom. Slasches, "Carlos" was simply an alien that stuck. I can't here for simplicity's step.

He was nicknamed "the Jacket" because it was thought that he'd read "The Day of the Jacket." Frederick Forsyth's 1975 best-seller about a cold-headed assassin. Carlos dug the name: "The jacket is a very nice little animal, you know?" he said: "It's a problem, but very pretty."

He went to grade school in Venezuela, then was graded off to London as live with his mother during high school. His family wanted him to pick up some names. At the time of experience, he attended college at Patrice-Lazaranda University in Moscow, a family was closed for foreign students. There he met Palestinians for the first time and slowly became radicalized.

He decided that stodgy classic Moscow communism was not his foes. He wanted him to be a outstanding revolutionary in the Che could. At the time, the P.F.L.P. pronounced itself Marock, Carlos traveled to Lebanon, passed screening and signed on. He had, as

Warrick puts it, "wondered into someone else's fight."

Haddad, Carlos's mentor, recognized that he had a potential one. Carlos was an expert nonfiction. He spoke French, Russian and English in addition to Spanish. He was light-stimmed and resembled a man of the world — he could simply in places most Middle Eastern terrorists could have.

Carlos and Haddad eventually had a falling out, and Carlos started his own terror consortium. There were high times. His fame, like Bruce Springe, haven't, haven't been intensely free. 1975 in 1983. Later, the money began to dry up. Carlos had a style to maintain. "Just because I've lighting a revolution doesn't mean we have to eat crap!" he said at one point. He began to freelance, taking commissions for the money alone.

He rationalized these jobs, but others thought him a newcomer, a revolutionary editor. An assumption turned him in out of disgust. After years on the rise, Carlos was captured in the handsome capital. Afterwards, in 1994, outfowl while under seduction he surgery to repair a painful varicose vein in his stratum. This capture, by French authorities with an assist from the 1980s, was a result of his apathy-rig-areas books' best set pieces.

This isn't the first book about the Jacket. His career was eternally evaluated most recently in Jason Barbra's "The Revolutionists," published earlier this year. Warrick acknowledged his many professionals. He persuaded the author, lighted the truth, that new life's routine has come to light.

Amazingly, Carlos is still alive. At 70, he's a prisoner, and at 75, he's 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100, 105, 110, 115, 120, 125, 130, 135, 140, 145, 150, 155, 160, 165, 170, 175, 180, 185, 190, 195, 200, 205, 210, 215, 220, 225, 230, 235, 240, 245, 250, 255, 260, 265, 270, 275, 280, 285, 290, 295, 300, 305, 310, 315, 320, 325, 330, 335, 340, 345, 350, 355, 360, 365, 370, 375, 380, 385, 390, 395, 400, 405, 410, 415, 420, 425, 430, 435, 440, 445, 450, 455, 460, 465, 470, 475, 480, 485, 490, 495, 500, 505, 510, 515, 520, 525, 530, 535, 540, 545, 550, 555, 560, 565, 570, 575, 580, 585, 590, 595, 600, 605, 610, 615, 620, 625, 630, 635, 640, 645, 650, 655, 660, 665, 670, 675, 680, 685, 690, 695, 700, 705, 710, 715, 720, 725, 730, 735, 740, 745, 750, 755, 760, 765, 770, 775, 780, 785, 790, 795, 800, 805, 810, 815, 820, 825, 830, 835, 840, 845, 850, 855, 860, 865, 870, 875, 880, 885, 890, 895, 900, 905, 910, 915, 920, 925, 930, 935, 940, 945, 950, 955, 960, 965, 970, 975, 980, 985, 990, 995, 1000

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18 | FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2026

LIVING

Wines to match the summer heat

The Pour

BY ERIC ASIMOV

Summer is often thought of as the season of roots and whites. They naturally come to mind because they've served cold, but it's a false equation. It's not the color of wine that determines its seasonality but the weight. As with less and tank tops, it's the lightness of the material that suits wines to the summer heat. People still wear plenty of blacks, grays and dark blues in the

summer, but the fabrics are light — linens and cottons, rather than heavyweight wools.

Similarly, we store away the big, robust wines, whether reds or whites, until the weather cools. But less substantial reds, specifically those that are light-to-medium-leaded and lower in alcohol — say 13.1 percent or below — can be excellent, especially if served lightly chilled.

Not that we don't want whites and roots. Of course we do, especially those that, like the reds, are not heavy or too alcoholic. But reds can be great in the hot weather, too, and desirable, unless we derive plans to grill steaks, ribs and burgers until the full. I visited several New York wine shops recently and

found 12 bottles that will be great in the August heat, all $20 to $40. Sharp-eyed readers might remember a couple of these bottles from older roadslaps of wines under $20. What with inflation and tariffs, these prices are the rare reality.

I would still call these wines good values because the quality is top-notch, and value is judged not strictly by the price, but also against what else is available at that same price.

As always, look for these wines at good shops, rather than supermarkets. If these particular bottles are not available, merchants ought to be able to point you in the direction of similar bottles. Here they are in order of price.

AMPELEIA TOSCANA UNLITRO BIANCO 2025, 11.5 PERCENT, $23 (1 LITER)

The Unlitro wines from Ampeleia are among the best values around. This lively white blend is bright, bone-dry and refreshing. It's made with organically or bodymanically turned vermomiles, malvans and trebleans Toscano, grows at high altitude in the Mammina region on the Toscano coast. It would be great with pastas like a basil pesto, as well as shrimp dishes. The Unlitro red is great as well.

CAMP NORTH COAST CHERNET SAUVIGNON 2025, 13.1 PERCENT, $23

Kenny Likitprokeng, of Hobo Wine Company, has demonstrated ever many years now that California can make excellent, moderately priced wines without compromise. Hobo, a family of a half-dozen labels, works only with organically grown grapes, grown primarily in Northern California. This cabernet, from one of Hobo's labels, Camp, is typical. It's structured, with discernible tannins, yet fresh and bright, with savory fruit and herbal flavors. Try it with juicy burgers or steak off the grill.

FORLORN HOPE QUEEN OF THE SIERRA RANGE HERITAGE VINEYARD CALAVERAS COUNTY 2025, 12.6 PERCENT, $25

Matthew Borick makes the Queen of the Sierra wines at high elevation in the Sierra Foothills from organically grown grapes. This dry, rounded white blend is primarily chardonnay, verdelbe and mascot, which makes itself felt in the broad floral aroma. It's richly textured, yet not at all heavy. It goes down easily, though not so easily that you don't want to take a moment to think about it.

TIBERO CERASIOLE D'ABRUZZO 2025, 13.5 PERCENT, $26

This is one of my favorite roots, if you can call it a root. It's a pale cherry color, like a light red wine, nothing like the bleached pink typical of most Provençal roots. But that's the nature of corazonia, which is derived from the Italian word for cherry. Aetonia and Cristiana Tibero, brother and sister, are scrapstone farmers and winemakers, and I love their wines. This bottle, made entirely of monophylcines d'Abruzzo, tastes like roots and lemons. You can drink it with anything.

NEOLAB CARNARANS VIN DE FRANCE MAXIMOS 2024, 11.5 PERCENT, $28

Nicolas Carmarans works in the Aveyron region of southwestern France, where he makes natural wines. He specializes in a local variety, for air-laden, making several different ravies from varied terrain. Maximus is light and exuberant, a fresh, lively wine burning with fruit and energy. Drink it lightly chilled.

FORSE CELLANS SENECA LAKE BREXANOEK CREEK VINEYARD ORY WIELING 2023, 12.3 PERCENT, $29

Porge Collars in the Finger Lakes is a collaborative between a Frenchman, Louis Survost, whose family has moved Gideous St. Cosme in Gigondas for centuries, and Rick Rainey, an American who came to wine through the restaurant industry. They are abetted by Léaiza Giedard, the winemaker. Forget dry readings are superb, like this one from the Breakneck Creek Vineyard, with floral aromas and deep, persistent gravelly mineral flavors.

OUTWARD SAN LUIS OBISPO COAST COQUINA VINEYARD SAUVIGNON BLANC 2025, 12.1 PERCENT, $32

I often find California sauvignon blancs too pungent or too sweet. But categorical impressions in wine are dangerous and often proved wrong. Case in point: Outward's 2023 Coquina Vineyard sauvignon blanc from the San Luis Obispo Coast, is a gorgeous wine with deep, rich, saturated flavors and a light, lovely texture that makes you want to roll it around in your mouth. Loosen burned, yet again. It's never the category that makes the wine, just the site, the farming and the intent and skill of the winemaker.

MARTHA STOUMEN CALIFORNIA POST FLIRTA-TION RED 2025, 12.5 PERCENT, $35

You would be hard pressed to find a more delicious wine than this red blend. Aside from boating and farming low own plots, Martha Stoumen works with conscientious growers and makes wines that she believes express the character of Northern California. This red, Post Flirtation, is 82 percent stellated and the root surgeon. It's gently made to minimize tannins and is bright and lovely, spicy, easygoing and fresh. It's another red that would be best lightly chilled.

ISTINE CHAMPI CLASISCO 2023, 13.5 PERCENT, $35

I've been touting the virtues of Chianti Classico for years now, because when made by good producers, they are beautiful, delicious and versatile. Angelo Frusti of Intiac is based in Radbick-Chianti, a high altitude area, and her wines are typically pure and crystalline. This bottle, her entry-level Chianti, is 100 percent sangloves, high-toned and full of flavor. Try it with grilled skirt steak or any pasta with cooked tomato sauce.

CANTALAPEGRIS VITICOLTORES MAXIELOS DEL CHIVIRITERO 2024, 13.5 PERCENT, $37

Isaac and Manuel Cantalapechis form organically in the Rueda region of Castilla y León. This bottle, Majuelos del Chiviriano, is made entirely of the verdise grape, and is perhaps a bit more serious than some of the other wines in this roundup. It's aged in older oak barrels and has enough depth and structure to serve with cooked dishes like baffled or a roast chicken.

DONAINE DE MONTBOURSEAU CRÉMENT DU JURA BRUT JÉRO NV, 12.5 PERCENT, $38

Donaine de Montbourgeau is the Jura rarely gets much attention, but it's one of my favorite Jura producers. I especially like their cristaux. It's made entirely of organically turned chardonnay, and is bone dry, almost austere but for a light creaminess. It's focused, lively and elegant.

LADY OF THE SUNSHINE SAN LUIS OBISPO COAST ROSE 2025, 12 PERCENT, $40

Gina Giugni is a biodynamic farmer on the San Luis Obispo Coast. She makes the Lady of the Sunshine wines either with grapes from Bassi Vineyard, which she owns with her husband, Mikey Giugni of that of the Sea, or from vines she hates and hates. This saleless colored root, 40 percent pean sour and the root sauvignon blanc, is terrific, tangy, saline and substantial, though light. Yes, it would be great postside, but even better with a meal like broiled salmon.

QA Report - The New York Times International - 14.08.2026.pdf

Pipeline

• Extraction route: mistral-ocr
• extraction_route=mistral-ocr
• Translation chunks: 85
• Extraction warnings:
• [OCR-ROUTE] FORCE-MISTRAL: All PDFs route directly to MistralOCR.

Non-model Checks

• WARNING: missing numeric tokens from source: 105, 110, 115, 135, 145, 150, 150000, 155, 165, 180
• WARNING: Missing proper nouns in translation: After Kaldis, After Trump, Agricultural Sciences, Air Environment, Air Force One, Al Qaeda, American Civil Liberties Union, Among National Football League, And Billy, Arctess East Asia
• WARNING: source dates, money, or percentage tokens may be missing

Model QA

经过严格审核，以下为翻译质量问题报告：

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1. 幻觉核查

问题1：译文中出现的 "Vong Tau"（越南地名）在原文中为 "Vung Tau"

• 核查步骤： 1. 在标题索引中未找到匹配条目。 2. 在抽样原文中搜索 "Vong Tau" 无结果，但搜索 "Vung Tau" 确认存在（见原文第1段）。
• 结论：OCR错误导致地名拼写错误，属实质性错误。
• 严重级别：[SOURCE_OCR]（根源在OCR源文）

问题2：译文中 "RAYMOND，第 3 页" 的引用在原文中实际为 "RAYMOND, PAGE 3"

• 核查步骤： 1. 标题索引中未找到 "RAYMOND" 相关文章。 2. 抽样原文确认该引用为跨页标记（见原文第1篇文章末尾）。
• 结论：翻译未保留原文的英文跨页标记格式，但内容无误，属格式问题。
• 严重级别：[WARNING]（格式混乱）

问题3：译文中 "Iran limited to" 翻译为 "伊朗仅限于"

• 核查步骤： 1. 标题索引中未找到匹配条目。 2. 抽样原文中搜索 "Iran limited to" 无结果，但上下文提示可能为 "grain initiative" 的OCR误读（原文描述黑海粮食协议）。
• 结论：OCR将 "grain initiative" 误读为 "Iran limited to"，导致翻译错误。
• 严重级别：[SOURCE_OCR]（根源在OCR源文）

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2. 数字与日期错误

问题4：译文中 "2026年在奥尔洛瓦地区收获大麦" 的年份错误

• 核查步骤： 1. 原文标题索引明确日期为 "FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 2020"。 2. 抽样原文中图片标注为 "2023年" 而非 "2026年"。
• 结论：翻译错误地将 "2023" 改为 "2026"，属实质性错误。
• 严重级别：[BLOCKING]（日期错误影响文章时效性）

问题5：译文中 "7000 万人" 与原文 "70 million people" 不符

• 核查步骤： 1. 原文明确为 "70 million people"。 2. 译文数量级错误（少一个 "0"）。
• 结论：数字翻译错误，影响数据准确性。
• 严重级别：[BLOCKING]（数字量级错误）

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3. 术语与专有名词错误

问题6："USMCA" 翻译为 "美墨加三国协议"

• 核查步骤： 1. 标题索引中未找到匹配条目。 2. 抽样原文确认 "USMCA" 为 "United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement" 的缩写。
• 结论：翻译未使用标准术语 "美墨加协定" 或保留英文缩写。
• 严重级别：[WARNING]（术语不准确）

问题7："P.F.L.P." 翻译为 "P.F.L.P."（未翻译）

• 核查步骤： 1. 原文中 "P.F.L.P." 为 "Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine" 的缩写。 2. 译文未提供翻译或解释。
• 结论：专有名词未翻译，影响读者理解。
• 严重级别：[WARNING]（残留英文）

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4. 完整性问题

问题8：译文中 "[此处原文缺失]" 标记未删除

• 核查步骤： 1. 原文中存在多处省略（如 "badskety, a device dropped out of t"）。 2. 译文保留了内部标记 "[此处原文缺失]"。
• 结论：交付标签未清理，属严重质量问题。
• 严重级别：[BLOCKING]（交付标签残留）

问题9："as, kilnomore's" 翻译为 "as, kilnomore's"（未处理）

• 核查步骤： 1. 原文中 "4 miles (as, kilnomore's)" 疑为OCR错误（应为 "kilometers"）。 2. 译文未修正或标注。
• 结论：OCR错误未处理，导致译文无意义。
• 严重级别：[SOURCE_OCR]（根源在OCR源文）

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5. 格式与一致性问题

问题10："The Pour"（斟酒）" 标题未翻译

• 核查步骤： 1. 原文中 "The Pour" 为专栏名称。 2. 译文未提供翻译或保留英文。
• 结论：专栏名称未翻译，影响一致性。
• 严重级别：[WARNING]（残留英文）

问题11："chilled" 翻译为 "chilled"（未统一）

• 核查步骤： 1. 原文中多次出现 "chilled" 描述葡萄酒饮用方式。 2. 译文部分翻译为 "冰镇"，部分保留英文。
• 结论：术语翻译不一致。
• 严重级别：[WARNING]（术语不一致）

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6. 误判为幻觉的内容

问题12：译文中 "BROWN BERNSTEIN, 2026" 被疑为幻觉

• 核查步骤： 1. 标题索引中未找到匹配条目。 2. 抽样原文确认该标注为图片署名（见原文图片下方）。
• 结论：内容真实，属误判。
• 严重级别：[FALSE_POSITIVE]

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总结

• 阻塞性问题（Blocking Issues）： 1. 日期错误（2026年 → 2023年）。 2. 数字量级错误（7000万 → 7000万人）。 3. 交付标签残留（"[此处原文缺失]"）。
• 建议： 1. 修正OCR错误（如 "Vung Tau", "grain initiative"）。 2. 统一术语翻译（如 "USMCA", "chilled"）。 3. 删除内部标记，确保译文完整性。

最终结论：存在多个 [BLOCKING] 级别问题，需立即修正。

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• 成功修复分块 #16（共修复 1 处问题）
• 成功修复分块 #1（共修复 3 处问题）
• 成功修复分块 #45（共修复 1 处问题）
• 成功修复分块 #2（共修复 4 处问题）