04-11-08

联合国粮农组织预测谷物价格将飙涨 (UN Food Agency Predicts Huge Price Increase For Cereal)

联合国粮农组织预测，世界最贫穷国家今年进口的谷类价格将增长56%，非洲一些地区粮价飙升的幅度将会更大。在2006到2007的产粮年头里，粮食价格已经增长了三分之一以上。联合国粮农组织把粮价飞涨归咎于粮食储备的枯竭以及石油价格与运输费用的增长。

联合国粮农组织正在向很多国家提供技术援助，并要求捐赠国增加捐助，并从其他项目调拨援助。联合国粮农组织说，粮食短缺影响37个国家，在过去一个月里至少10个国家爆发了与粮食有关的骚乱。

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization predicts a 56 percent increase in the price of cereals imported to the world's poorest nations this year, with an even sharper rise in parts of Africa. There was already a more than one-third increase in the 2006-2007 crop year. The Food and Agriculture Organization blames the price hike on depleted grain reserves, and the rising cost of oil and shipping.

The U.N. agency is offering technical assistance to many nations, and asking donor countries to increase donations and reprogram aid from other areas. The FAO says food shortages affect 37 countries, and food riots have hit at least 10 nations in the past month. 

德国悼75年前希特勒开始独裁 (Germany Marks 75th Anniversary of Hitler Dictatorship)

德国议会星期四纪念授权法案通过75周年，这个法案让纳粹领袖阿道夫.希特勒获得独裁统治。德国总理默克尔和总统霍斯特.克勒出席了纪念仪式。很多议员都身穿黑色服装，悼念1933年德国民主的消亡。他们还聆听了当年议会的辩论录音。在那次辩论中，唯一发言反对授予希特勒全部权力的德国社会民主党议员奥托.韦尔斯对纳粹成员说，他们可以夺去自由，但不能夺去尊严。

德国议会在希特勒被任命为总理两个月后批准他可以不经议会批准而颁布法令，德国轮为一个军警国家。12年后二战结束，纳粹政权垮台。至此，欧洲和苏联共有数千万人死亡，包括在纳粹集中营中被杀害的600万犹太人。

Germany's parliament Thursday marked the 75th anniversary of the passage of the Enabling Act -- the law that gave Nazi leader Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers. Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Horst Koehler attended the remembrance. Many of the lawmakers wore black to mourn the death of German democracy in 1933. They also heard a recording of the parliamentary debate when the only lawmaker to speak out against granting Hitler total power -- Social Democrat Otto Wels -- told the Nazis that they can take away freedom, but not honor.

Parliament allowed Hitler to issue laws without its approval two months after he was appointed German chancellor, turning Germany into a militaristic police state. By the time the Nazi regime collapsed 12 years later at the end of World War Two, tens of millions of people in Europe and the Soviet Union were dead, including six million Jews murdered in Nazi death camps.