Катастрофически....

Печально. Местами даже больно. А жизнь налаживается, ей плевать на то, что я уже боюсь. Она почему-то решила, что как раз нынче можно все начать сначала переиграть и некому ей сказать - стой, дурашка, чего творишь, о чем думаешь? не нажимай красную кнопку Не останавливайся, не бросай не уходи не смей ДУМАТЬ!...

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Пустота не стоит слова.

Жизнь - пустая трата сил.

Голос внутренний бредово

Понимания просил



В однокомнатных квартирах

По периметру стены

Мы, ища, не находили.

Так найти и не смогли



И в подземных коридорах

Уходящий звук метро,

Времени песчаный шорох....

Не хотели? - Не дано....

@темы: Текстовочки

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larger than life

I may run and hide

When you're screamin' my name, alright

But let me tell you now

There are prices to fame, alright

All of our time spent in flashes of light



All you people can't you see, can't you see

How your love's affecting our reality

Every time we're down

You can make it right

And that makes you larger than life



Looking at the crowd

And I see your body sway, c'mon

Wishin' I could thank you in a different way, c'mon

'Cause all of your time spent keeps us alive



All you people can't you see, can't you see

How your love's affecting our reality

Every time we're down

You can make it right

And that makes you larger than life



larger then life



All of your time spent keeps us alive



evertime we're down you make it right



All you people can't you see, can't you see

How your love's affecting our reality

Every time we're down

You can make it right

And that makes you larger than life



Yeah, every time we're down

Yeah, you can make it right

Yeah, and that's what makes you larger than life



All you people can't you see, can't you see

How your love's affecting our reality

Every time we're down

You can make it right

And that makes you larger (repeat) than life

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Тарани

По просьбам Noel

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У мя дневники заблокированы.... Ничего не читается, а вылазит какой-то урод ...



А еще я Вэла положил, гордитесь мной все!!!

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Мутанты

Это уже давно было, но мне нравится...



Наступил прохладный, дождливый ноябрь. Самое гадкое время года – еще не зима, но уже не осень, а так, что-то посрединке…Противно. Не говоря уже о том, что необходимость посещать школу никто не отменял. И тренировок тоже.

В особнячке царил полный раздрай. Профессор в очередной раз улетел в Европу на предмет конференции о мутантах, прихватив с собой Ороро, и поэтому делать ничего не хотелось. Логан, еще более ворчливый, чем обычно, уселся на диванчике перед телевизором с ящиком пива, и методично его пил. Скомканные банки он, не глядя, кидал в корзину в противоположном конце комнаты. И ведь ясно человеку, что не напьется, его регенерирующая плоть быстро избавится от токсинов, и самым, кстати, неприятным способом, но пьет упорно. Или привык уже. Или старается нормальным выглядеть. Странный мужик, хотя правильный, в общем-то…Чем-то он напоминает персонажа одной книги, русской. Волкодава. Такой же он замкнутый и молчаливый. И такой же… мягкий, что ли? Не разбери-поймешь.

Народ бродил по коридорам здания, как во время чумы в средневековом городе. То есть что уже не убежать, ты еще знаешь, а что делать – уже нет. Смотрели друг на друга мутными глазами, тоскливо вздыхали, проходили дальше. Ощущение было – как будто все умерли, и лишь обреченные призраки остались. Бобби попытался было затеять игру в «Морской бой», но она завяла на корню.

Роуг не выдержала гнетущей обстановки и ушла. Теперь она сидела на каменном бортике неработающего фонтана и подставляла лицо дождю. Считается, что так не видно, что человек плачет. Дождь действительно смыл и тушь, и тени, и ее лицо стало бы вполне миловидным для стороннего зрителя, если б не кривящиеся в беззвучном рыдании губы. Кто знает, о чем она сожалела в тот момент? Хотя нет, все знают. Но молчат.

Неподалеку, на высоком ветвистом дереве, укрытый от дождя листьями сидел Зверь. Кому как не ему, бывшему Хэнку Маккою, лучше всех понимать ее. Когда она выплачется, он тихо спустится и предложит ей сухой плащ. В такую погоду нет смысла болеть. И отведет ее в кухню, где всегда есть теплое молоко, но только без пенки, дети ее не любят, а для него все они – еще дети, не самые младшие, но все равно, потому что ученики. Ксавьер так не умеет. Он считает, что здесь все они – мутанты, а это нечто большее, чем просто люди. Только вот они этого понимать никак не хотят. И поэтому все время рвутся напряженные струны нервов, срываются на беззвучный крик ломающиеся голоса, бьются судьбы. Незаметно. Почти неощутимо. Навсегда.

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Зойсайт

Не умею я рисовать. Поэтому пусть лучше напишу. Не совсем, правда, про него... Так, подумалось...



Где-то далеко-далеко на севере, там, где не бывает полярников, и куда даже белые медведи стараются не забредать без крайней нужды, куда не дойти пешим и не доехать на вездеходе, цветут удивительные ледяные цветы. В огромной хрустальной пещере, где навсегда застыла вода, образовав купол, через который проникают только лучи солнца, тянутся к невидимому отсюда небу сотни ледяных лепестков. Тысячи ледяных листьев устилают каменный пол той пещеры, не давая вечной мерзлоте добраться до нескольких фигурок, расположившихся в центре. Если приглядеться, то можно подумать, что это всего лишь путники, остановившиеся ненадолго, чтобы полюбоваться чудом. На лицах их не видно и следа усталости, они озарены мягкими улыбками. Один протянул руку, на которую склонились сразу несколько бутонов, другой словно бы примеривается зарисовать творящуюся вокруг красоту, третий, младший, примостил свою голову на плечо четвертого. Лишь в глазах четвертого, самого старшего, приглядевшись, можно заметить отголоски былой тревоги, но и они мимолетны. А с купола пещеры, так похожего на небо на них смотрят чьи-то добрые глаза.

Они не спят. Их не может быть в этом мире, и только ледяные цветы хранят их тайну. Возможно, когда-нибудь все переменится. И у них будет выбор. Когда-нибудь…. В другой жизни.

А пока где-то далеко-далеко на севере, в огромной ледяной пещере тянутся к недостижимому небу сотни ледяных цветов…

@темы: как бы сказочки

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Э... Хм. По поводу предыдущего поста. Он был сделан, чтоб не мучиться с ручным переводом. Дело было так: я вылез на случайный дневник, наткнулся на народ с именами по Лукьяненко, вспомнил о достижениях науки и техники за последние сотню-другую лет, и решил не заниматься ерундой. Огромное спасибо Ноэль за неоценимый вклад в продолжение моего образования!

*огромная капля* Только что меня позвали, чтобы ВСТАВИТЬ ДИСКЕТУ в дисковод. Дожили....

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Тысячи английского

The Open Door Notes: America and Asia

The present situation is becoming daily more difficult. The various European] Powers cast upon us looks of tiger-like voracity, hustling each other to be first to seize our innermost territories.

—Tsu Hsi Dowager Empress of China, 1899

Take up the White Man's burden

Ye dare not stoop to less Nor call too loud on Freedom

To cloke your weariness.

—Rudyard Kipling Poet Laureate of England, 1898

In the last years of the nineteenth century, the United States expanded its international perspective dramatically. Following the American Civil War, between 1865 and 1890 westward expansion settled the transcon-tinental nation. At the same time, the postwar industrial revolution moved America from. an agrarian, rural, debtor nation to a manufactur-ing, urban investor in the global marketplace. U.S. manufactured goods, agricultural products, and capital flooded Europe and Latin America.

The United States had also developed a serious commercial interest in East Asia. The nation had begun to make the moves of a Great Power.

Foreign policy makers in America had shown an interest in Asia for years. As early as the 1850s, Commodore Matthew Perry had visited the isolated nation of Japan and used both diplomacy and naval power to conclude a treaty with the Japanese to open their country to U.S. com-merce. The interest that President James Polk showed in California dur-ing the Mexican War indicated in part the need to secure San Diego and San Francisco as American ports to trade with the Far East. In a prag-matic sense, the United States envisioned an unlimited market in Asia.

America, however, was not alone in its commercial ambition. In the 1800s, the European nations had sought to acquire as much territory and trade globally as possible. During the new Age of Imperialism, European nations, large and small, gobbled up huge portions of Africa and Asia in a heated competition for empire. In, China, European imperialism and U.S. economic interests appeared to collide.

In 1899-1900, Secretary of State John Hay issued two Open. Door Notes. That set of letters seemed to challenge the Europeans and Japan to avoid any attempt to prevent the United States from trading in. their spheres of influence in China. Hay sought to establish free market op-portunities with. regard to China. That served as a new, articulated prin-ciple in. U.S. foreign policy. Through most of the nineteenth century, America lacked the international strength and prestige to carry off such a demand. By 1899, that no longer seemed the case. In. a practical sense, the Open. Door Notes never achieved their goal. In the mythology of American international affairs, however, the notes signified a policy con-cept as significant as the Monroe Doctrine.

Americans had traded with. China since the 1700s, and in. the 1830s and 1840s significant numbers of New England clipper ships sailed into the only open. Chinese port at Canton. Great Britain, at the same time, challenged Chinese efforts to keep foreign trade limited to Canton. En-gland defeated China in. the Opium. War (1839), and. the Treaty of Nan-king1 (1842) cleared five additional commercial cities in China to Great Britain. The United States demanded "most favored nation" status, lead-ing the Chinese government to open those facilities to everyone. (This status, granted to most trading partners means that trade will take place on. the same terms that are given to the most favored trading partner.)

The other factor that increased American interest in Asia stemmed from. a religious impulse. Missionaries, most representing Protestant cle-nominations, flocked into the region in the nineteenth and twentieth cen-turies seeking to convert millions of "heathens." In most instances, their motives remained genuine and kind-spirited, but American missionaries also involved themselves in the political and economic issues at stake ill

the area. That combination of missionary zeal and commercial profit in-fluenced the U.S. position for years,

In the 1850s, Britain and France forced another confrontation with China and, after a brief conflict, negotiated the Treaty of Tientsin (1.858), That opened ten. more ports and established a diplomatic mission in Peking. Once again, the United States demanded similar treatment. Slowly, the Europeans eroded China's intent to remain isolated from the thrust of Western interference. The Chinese government understood clearly what the foreigners wanted and sought to prevent it. It lacked the military power, however, to block the Western intrusion

Engrossed in the Civil War, the settlement of the frontier, and its urban-industrial growth between I860 and 1890, America's primary in-terest did not extend to Asia. U.S. international concerns focused on Europe and growing trade relations in Latin America. The United States had not, though, forgotten the Pacific and Asia. Global strategists like Alfred T. Mahan saw the maritime benefits of a broad U.S. influence stretching out from the Caribbean to the Far East. While America en-gaged in a war with Spain over Cuba in 1898, U.S. naval and commercial. planners also sought to grab the Philippine Islands from the Spanish as well as the tiny but strategic Pacific island of Guam. With. the purchase of Alaska and Midway Island (both in. 1867), and with growing control of the island of Hawaii, American interests spread quickly into the Pacific Rim, When President William. McKinley annexed the Philippine Islands and Guam from Spain, the United States had an. extended series of pos- sessions linking it directly with East Asia. It is difficult to understand II Hay's actions in 1899 without an overview of developing American imperialism in. the last years of the nineteenth century and the first decade

of the twentieth.



The U.S. victory over Spain in 1898 signaled an aggressive American

move into the Caribbean and Central America. Between. 1.898 and 1905, the United. States would create its own sphere of influence in that region, and in 1904 President Theodore Roosevelt added a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine basically announcing that American dominance. With the completion of the Panama Canal, under U.S. control, in. 1914, a. picture global investment had developed It stretched from Cuba and Puerto Rico, west through, the Caribbean and Central America, across to Hawaii

the islands of the Pacific, and directly into the Philippines. The United States had its "turnpike" to Asia complete.

jjllvThe obvious expansion beyond the continental United States defined. an end-of-century interest in imperialism and provoked a heated debate (in America. Pro-expansion advocates offered a variety of justifications for their objectives. The naval strategist Alfred. Mahan. believed that modern battle fleets, in defense of the nation and its global commerce, needed ports and. coaling stations across the oceans of the world. The powerful

newspaper magnates Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst saw expansion as proof of American power and maturity. Theodore Roose-velt, Albert Beveridge, Henry Cabot Lodge, and other young political. leader's envisioned both prestige and commercial profits in new "colo-nies" that would provide cheap raw resources and consu.m.ers for Amer-ican. manufactured goods. President M.cKinley told a group of clergy at a prayer breakfast that God wanted the United States to expand, a global expression and extension of .Manifest Destiny.

The reasoning of pro-imperialists focused on four basic motivations:

commercial profits, strategic concerns, pride and jingoism, and the "White Man's Burden." Many I-iuropeans and Americans believed that the "white, Christian, civilized" world owed a responsibility to "uplift its little brown, brothers and sisters," even while taking political-economic control of their homes and destroying their existing cultures. Similar to the Manifest Destiny impulses of the nineteenth, century, the modern, global version appeared to veneer greed with a shiny, idealistic purpose.

The pro-imperialists held positions of power within the business and government establishment and possessed the ability to market their ideas easily. They faced, however, an equally committed opposition. Signifi-cant numbers of Americans, and a variety of political leaders, opposed the direction America had chosen in the late 1800s. Those anti-imperialists also addressed the issues from different perspectives.

Many opponents saw the annexing of foreign territory as a direct be-trayal of American democracy and freedom.. William Jennings Brvan, of Nebraska, the Democratic presidential candidate in. 1.896, argued that such colonies could never hope to become states of the Union and would remain perpetual possessions. Mark 'Twain (Samuel. Clemens), Jane Ad-darns, William James, and numerous academics and intellectuals sup-ported the contention.

The anti-democratic position, remained the major argument of the Anti-Imperiaiist League. Founded in. Chicago in. 1898-'I.899, and having an estimated membership of 30,000, the league pressed public opinion to question the unchecked growth, particularlv into the Pacific, and spe-cifically the Philippines. Those islands posed a particular concern, be-cause the United States became involved in a nasty guerrilla war there. Philippine leaders like Emilio Aguinaldo felt betrayed when America sought to replace Spain as a new colonial power. The1 vicious war that followed drew criticism from many anti-imperialists unhappy with events in. the Philippines and with. the direction of U.S. policy in Asia in general.

Some business leaders feared that colonial goods would lower the prices of their own products, but the major economic criticism came from labor leaders in the United States. Samuel Gompers, the head of the

American Federation ot Labor, worried that low-paid foreign workers would threaten U.S. wages,

Carl Schurz, one of the few Republican politicians opposed to the im-perial growth, asked careful questions about involving the United States in an area of the world far from direct American security interests, It 'was one thing to defend the nation's security and trade within, the hemi-sphere, even in the Eastern Pacific. Once the United States annexed the Philippines and. turned its attention to China, however, might that not involve America in a, region it simply lacked, the strength and interest to defend? That concern related directiv to Hay's development ot the Open Door Notes.

The European powers and lapan had focused attention on. China and defined spheres of interest there. While those nations had acquiesced regarding U.S. spheres in the Eastern. Pacific, they appeared less inclined to accept American, foreign policy direction in China. When anti-imperialists in. the United States drew attention to America's "sailing into troubled waters," that criticism struck a sound note.

President McKinley, Secretary Hay, and other pro-imperialists saw the Pacific expansion of American territory as a move toward China. To reach from the California coast to the Philippines and then have Euro-pean or Japanese spheres of influence deny American missionaries and businessmen access to China seemed pointless. Accordingly, Hay pre-pared his first Open Door Note in September 1899 and forwarded copies to England, Giermanv, and, Russia. A short time later, he sent a similar note to France, Italy, and Japan.

The personal development of the 1899 C)pen Door Note revolved around three characters. Alfred Hippislev, an Englishman married to an American woman, and involved in. the China trade, wanted to promote Anglo-American commercial cooperation in the area. He influenced Wil-liam W. Rockhill, a serious, formal. "China expert" and part-time advisor to Secretary of State Hay. With Hippisley's draft .letter encouraging a "free trade" concept, Rockhi.,1]. worked vcith Hav to produce the first Open Door Note.

Many Americans came to believe that Secretary Hay warned the Euro-peans and. Japan, not to create spheres of influences and to embrace a universal concept of free market economics. Others believed that Hav's directive protected. China and found, great favor with the Chinese people. Neither interpretation was accurate. Nor was the conclusion that the Open Door Notes produced the desired result.

The secretary of state accepted that spheres ot intluence already existed. in China. He had no intention of challenging those. He simply wanted some concession, from the imperial powers that their spheres would not exclude American commerce. In. that regard, Hay failed to champion, free market international, commerce; rather, he simply asked to take advan-

tage of markets that the Europeans and Japanese had already established. While the notes suggest an interest in the territorial integrity of China and a respect for Chinese interests, that was not the case either. Neither the Chinese government nor the Europeans or Japanese who examined Hay's odd request saw any evidence of a sincere interest in preserving Chinese sovereignty.

Secretary Hay's Open Door Note offered an end game in the U.S. move westward across the Pacific. If the aim was to provide bases and terri-tories opening East Asia to U.S. commercial interests, then. it followed that China remained the prime goal. To go all the way to the Philippines and have other nations block America at China's door seemed ridiculous, and to allow1 such a deterrent to American trade, irresponsible.

The European replies to Hay's first note came relatively quickly and proved tactful, but direct. They indicated that America had no need to appear concerned. Their spheres of influence had never excluded the United States or anyone else from. commercial access. They would, how-ever, continue to maintain, such authority, in their own and everyone else's best interests. In. a sense, when one broke down the diplomatic language, the other powers had told Secretary Hay that his note was unnecessary and silly and meant to embarrass the Europeans and |apa-nese.

Hay seized upon the diplomatic responses to issue, in March 1900, a second C)pen Door Note claiming that the Great Powers had conceded America's point and agreed to follow the principles established, in his first note. Again, diplomatic language aside, the secretary of state an-nounced that the United States had demanded a set policy in China and the other powers had agreed to obey it. He had not! They had not!

Clearly, too, the exchange of notes had no positive impact on the C'hi-nese government. In the midst of the process, the Dowager Empress helped spark, and covertly supported, a violent anti-Western rebellion against the imperial powers—-the Boxer Rebellion, Chinese forces trapped and attacked the foreign legations inside their headquarters at Peking for almost two months while Western forces fought to relieve the besieged city.

The end result of that explosive incident led to a stronger foreign mil-itary presence in China, and the collapse of the Chinese imperial govern-ment. China would see a series of internal revolutions and conflict throughout the first half of the twentieth century, leading finally to the Communist Revolution that: Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung) led to success in. 1949, If Secretary Hay aimed at an open commercial opportunity for America and an increasing role in East Asia, that goal. existed on pre-carious and dangerous foundations.



5.1. Albert Beveritlge's "March of the Flag" Speech, September 1898

Beveridge gave the speech while campaigning for the U.S. Senate seat from Indiana. He served in the Senate from 1899 to 1911 and remained an ardent imperialist. The speech served as a clear expression of pro-imperialist thinking during the domestic debate following the Spanish-American War.

The March of the Flag

It is a noble land that God has given us; a. land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would inclose half the countries of Europe; a land. set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe, a greater I5n.gl.and with a nobler destiny.

It is a. mighty people that He has planted on this soil; a people sprung from the most masterful, blood of history; a people perpetually revital-ized by the virile, man-producing working-folk of all the earth; a people imperial by virtue of their power, by right of their institutions, by au-thority of their Heaven-directed purposes—the propagandists and not the misers of liberty.

It is a glorious history our God. has bestowed upon His chosen people;

a history heroic with faith, in our mission and our future; a history of statesmen who flung the boundaries of the Republic out into unexplored lands and savage wilderness; a history of soldiers who carried the flag across blazing deserts and through the ranks of hostile mountains, even to the gates of sunset; a history of a multiplying people who overran a continent in half a century; a history of prophets who saw the conse-quences of evils mherited from the past and of martyrs who died to save us from them; a history divinely logical, in. the process of whose tre-mendous reasoning we find. ourselves today.

Therefore, in. this campaign, the question, is larger than a party ques-tion, It is an American cruestioii. It is a world question. Shall the Amer-ican people continue their march toward, the commercial supremacy of the world? Shall free institutions broaden their blessed reign, as the chil-dren of liberty wax in strength, until the empire of our principles is established over the hearts of all mankind?

Have we no mission to perform, no duty to discharge to our fellow1 man? Has God. endowed us with gifts beyond, our deserts and marked

us as the people of His peculiar favor, merely to rot in our own selfish-ness, as .men and nations must, who take cowardice for their companion and self for their deity1—as China has, as India has, as Egypt has?

Shall we be as the man who had one talent and hid it, or as he who had ten talents and used them until they grew to riches? And. shall we reap the reward that waits on our discharge of our high duty; shall we occupy new markets for what our fanners raise', our factories make, our merchants sell—aye, and please God, new markets for what our ships shall, carry?

Hawaii is ours; Porto Rico is to be ours; at the prayer of her people Cuba finally will, be ours; in the islands of the East, even to the gates of Asia, coaling stations are to be ours at the very least; the flag of a liberal. government is to float over the Philippines, and may it be the banner that Ta.yl.or un.fu.rled in Texas and Frem.ont1 carried to the coast.

The Opposition tells us that we ought not to govern a people without their consent. I answer. The rule of liberty that all just government de-rives its authority from the consent of the governed, applies only to those who are capable of self-government. We govern the Indians without their consent, we govern, our territories without their consent, we govern our children without their consent. How do they know what our government would be without their consent? Would, not the people of the Philippines prefer the just, humane, civilizing; government of this Republic to the savage, bloody rule of pillage and extortion from which we have rescued fhein,?

And, regardless of this formula of words made only for enlightened, self-governing people, do we owe no duty to the world? Shall we turn these peoples back to the reeking hands from. which we have taken them,? Shall, we abandon them,, with Germany, England, Japan, hunger-ing .for them.?

Shall we save them from those nations, to give them a self-rule of tragedy? They ask us how we shall govern these new possessions, I answer: Out of local conditions and, the necessities of the case methods of government will, grow. If England can, govern foreign, lands, so can, America. If Germany can govern, foreign lands, so can America. If they can supervise protectorates, so can, America. Why is it more difficult to administer Hawaii, than New Mexico or California? Both had a savage and an alien population: both were more remote from the seat of gov-ernment when they carne under our dominion, than. the Philippines are to-day.

Will you, say by your vote that American ability to govern has de-cayed, that a century's experience in self-rule has failed of a result? Will you affirm by your vote that you are an infidel to American, power and practical sense? Or will. you, say that ours is the blood of government;

ours the heart of dominion; ours the brain and genius of administration?

Will you remember that we do but what our fathers did—we but pitch the tents of liberty farther westward, farther southward—-we only con-tinue the march of the flag?

The march of the flag! In 1789 the flag of the Republic waved over 4,000,000 souls in thirteen states, and their savage territory which stretched to the Mississippi, to Canada, to the Floridas. The timid minds of that day said that no n.ew1 territory was needed, and, for the hour, they were right. But Jefferson, through whose intellect the centuries marched; Jetferson, who dreamed of Cuba as an American state, Jeffer-son, the first Imperialist of the Republic—Jefferson acc[ui.red that imperial territory which swept from the Mississippi to the mountains, from Texas to the British possessions, and the march, of the flag began!

The infidels to the gospel of liberty raved, but the flag swept on! The title to that noble land out of which Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana have been carved was uncertain: fefferson, strict constructionist of constitutional power though he was, obeyed the Anglo-Saxon, impulse within, him, whose watchword is, "Forward.!": another empire was added to the Republic, and the march of the flag went on!

Those who deny the power of free institutions to expand urged every argument, and .more, that we hear, to-day; but the people's judgment approved the command of their blood, and the .march of the flag went on!

A screen of land from. New Orleans to Florida shut us from. the Gulf, and over this and the Everglade Peninsula waved the saffron flag of Spain; Andrew Jackson seized both, the American, people stood at his back, and, under Monroe, the Floridas came under the dom.in.ion of the Republic, and the march of the flag went on! The Cassandras prophesied every prophecy of despair we hear, to-day, but the .march of the flag went on!

• Then. Texas responded to the bugle calls of liberty, and. the march of the flag went on! And, at last, we waged war with Mexico, and the flag swept over the southwest, over peerless California, past the Gate of Gold to Oregon on the north, and from. ocean to ocean, its folds of glory blazed.

And, now, obeying the same voice that Jefferson heard and obeyed, [hat Jackson heard and obeyed, that Monroe heard arid obeyed, that 3eward heard and obeyed, that Grant heard and obeyed, that Harrison neard and obeyed, our President today plants the flag over the islands :f the seas, outposts of commerce, citadels of national, security, and the :n.a.rch of the flag goes on!

Distance and oceans are no arguments. The fact that all. the territory ii.r fathers bought and seized is contiguous, is no argum.en.t. In. 1.819 Florida was farther from. New York than Porto Rico is from Chicago :oday; Texas, farther from. Washington in, 1.845 than. Hawaii is from Bos-:on in 1898; California, more inaccessible in 1847 than the Philippines

are now. Gibraltar is farther from London than Havana is from Wash-ing-ton; Melbourne is farther from. Liverpool than Manila is from, San Francisco.

The ocean does not separate us from lands of our duty and desire— the oceans join. us, rivers never to be dredged, canals never to be re-paired. Steam joins us; electricity joins us—the very elements are in league with our destiny. Cuba not contiguous? Porto Rico not contigu-ous! Hawaii and the Philippines not contiguous! The oceans make them. contiguous. And our navy will. make them contiguous.

But the Opposition is right—there is a. difference. We did not need the western Mississippi. Valley when we acquired it, nor Florida! nor Texas, nor California, nor the royal, provinces of the far northwest. We had no emigrants to people this imperial wilderness, no money to develop it, even. no highways to cover it. No trade awaited us in. its savage vastness. Our productions were not greater than our trade. There was not one reason for the land-lust of our statesmen from. Jefferson to Grant, other than the prophet and the Saxon within them. But, to-day, we are raising more than we can. consume, making more than. we can. use. Therefore we m.u.st find new markets for our produce.

And so, while we did not need the territory taken, during the past century at the time it was accruired, we do need what we have taken, in. 1898 and we need it now. The resources and the commerce of the im-mensely rich. dominions will. be increased as much. as American, energy is greater than. Spanish, sloth.

In Cuba, alone, there are 15,000,000 acres of forest imacc|uai.n:ted. with the ax, exhaustless mines of iron, priceless deposits of manganese, mil-lions of dollars' worth of which, we must buy, to-day, from. the Black Sea districts. There are millions of acres yet unexplored,

The resources of Porto Rico have only been trifled with. The riches of the Philippines have hardly been. touched, by the finger-tips of modern methods. And they produce what we consume, and consume what we produce-—the very predestination of reciprocity—a. reciprocity "not made with. hands, eternal in. the heavens." They sell hemp, sugar, co-coanuts, fruits of the tropics, timber of price like mahogany; they buy flour, clothing, tools, implements, machinery and. all that we can raise and make. Their trade will be ours in time. Do you. indorse that policy with your vote?

Cuba is as large as Pennsylvania, and. is the richest spot on the globe. Hawaii is as large as New Jersey; Porto Rico half as large as Hawaii; the Philippines larger than. all. New England, New York, New jersey and Delaware combined. Together they are larger than the British Isles, larger'.:

than 'France, larger than Germany, larger than japan. •:

If any man tells you that trade depends on cheapness and not on;':

government influence, ask him. why England does not abandon Soixtif

Africa, Egypt, India. Why does France seize South China, Germany the vast region whose port is Kaou-chou?

Our trade with Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines must be as tree as between the states of the Union, be'cause they are American territory, while every other nation on earth must pay our tariff before they can compete with us. Until Cuba shall ask for annexation, our trade with her will, at the very least, be like the preferential trade of Canada, with En-gland. That, and. the excellence of our goods and products; that, and the convenience of traffic; that, and the kinship of interests and destiny, will give the monopoly of these markets to the American people.

The commercial supremacy of the Republic means that this Nation is to be the sovereign factor in. the peace of the world. For the conflicts of the future are to be conflicts of trade—struggles for markets-—commer-cial wars for existence. And the golden rule of peace is impregnability of position and invincibility of preparedness. So, we see England, the greatest strategist of history, plant her flag and her cannon on Gibraltar, at Quebec, in the Bermudas, at Vancouver, everywhere.

So Hawaii, furnishes us a naval base in the heart of the Pacific; the Ladrones another, a voyage further on; Manila another, at the gates of Asia.—Asia, to the trade of whose hundreds of millions American, mer-chants, manufacturers, farmers, have as good right as those of Germany or France or Russia, or England.; Asia, whose commerce with the United Kingdom, alone amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars every year;

Asia, to whom Germany looks to take her surplus products; Asia, whose doors .must not: be shut against American trade. Within five decades the bulk of Oriental commerce will be ours.

No wonder that, in the shadows of coming events so great, free-silver is already a. memory. The current of history has swept past that- episode. Men understand, today, the greatest commerce of the world must be conducted with the steadiest standard, of value and most convenient me-dium of exchange human, ingenuity can devise. Time, that unerring rea-soner, has settled the silver c]uestion.

The American, people are tired of talking about money—they want to make it. There are so many real things to be done—canals to be dug, railways to be laid, forests to be felled, cities to be built, fields to be tilled, markets to be won, ships to be launched, peoples to be saved, civilization to be proclaimed, and the Rag of liberty Hung to the eager air of every sea. Is this an. hour to waste upon triflers with nature's laws? [s this a season, to give our destiny over to word-mongers and prosperity-wreckers? No! It is an hour to remember our duty to our homes. It is a moment to realize the opportunities fate has opened to us. And so it is in hour for us to stand by the Government,

Wonderfully has God guided us Yonder at E5unker Hill and Yorktown, His providence was above us At New Orleans and on ensanguined seas.

His hand sustained us. Abraham Lincoln was His minister and His was the altar of freedom the Nation's soldiers set up on a. hundred battle-fields. His power directed Dewey in the East and delivered the Spanish fleet into our hands, as He delivered the elder Armada into the hands of our English sires two centuries ago. [Author's Note: Beveridge was off by 100 years—the Armada defeat took place in 1588.]

The American people can not use a dishonest medium of exchange; it is ours to set the world its example of right and honor. We can not fly from our world duties; it is ours to execute the purpose of a fate that has driven us to be greater than our small intentions. We can not retreat from anv soil where Providence has unfurled our banner; it is ours to save that soil for liberty and civilization.

Source: Indianapolis journal, September 17, 1898, pp. 47-49, 56-57.

5.2. First Open Door Note: John Hay to Andrew D. White, September 6, 1899

In his first Open Door Note, Secretary Hay expressed the clear view that colonial spheres of influence in China would threaten the U.S. view on free market opportunities in that country. The message was less anti-imperial and more open market capita I ism.

At the time when the Government of the United. States was informed by that of Germany that it had leased from His Majesty the Emperor of China the port of Kiao-chao and the adjacent territory in the province of Shantung, assurances were given to the ambassador of the United States at Berlin, by the Imperial German minister for foreign affairs that the rights and privileges insured by treaties with China to citizens of the United States would, not thereby suffer or be in anywise impaired within the area over which Germany had thus obtained control.

'More recently, however, the British Government recognized by a for-mal agreement with Germany the exclusive right of the latter country to enjoy in said leased area and the contiguous "sphere of influence or interest" certain privileges, more especially those relating to railroads and mining enterprises; but as the exact nature and extent of the rights thus recognized have not been clearly defined, it is possible that serious conflicts of interest may at any time arise not only between British and German subjects within said area, but that the interests of our citizens may also be jeopardized thereby.

Earnestly desirous to remove any cause of irritation and to insure at the same time to the commerce of all nations in China the undoubted

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Вот, одно сплошное безарбузие. На улице середина весны, но выяснить это можно только по календарю, в отделе опять квасят по поводу юбилея начальства, а я от них ушел, как Колобок. Во всех, что характерно, смыслах.

Еще руки на клавиатуру не поднимаются. А надо бы уже. Щас что-нибудь накатаю заумное, и постараюсь уползти в тепленький мир снов. В троллейбусе, по дороге домой. И приснится мне весна, в которую я верю. Середина мая. Когда зачетная неделя еще не началась, а все остальное уже закончилось, и можно спокойно слетать на Метеорку, дойти до чужих ВУЗов и раздать людям фенечки, улучшить момент, и всем написать.

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Большая любовь к окружающему миру. Люблю всех. Люблю дневниковцев, которые пишут чудные вещи, люблю фанатов Иксменов, которые, как я теперь знаю, все-таки существуют на этих дневниках, (и вообще существуют, еще бы в Екатеринбурге найти...), люблю Ноэль, которая вывесила на Интеррегнуме продолжение, люблю комп, который его сумел прочитать, люблю Логана, Гамбита и Колосса, людей, которые рисуют, отдельно - Нику, за чудные посты в ее дневнике, и вообще за то, что она есть, начальство на обеих работах, за то, что не гоняют с компа, свой город, с пришедшей наконец весной.... Сыпься бисером весна, раскрашивай лица людей улыбками, отпускай на волю всех запутавшихся в собственной жизни... На всех хватит!...

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Опять хочется сказать хорошее. На этот раз людям, которых я читаю в дневниках. Пусть вам, люди, всегда будет тепло и хорошо, несмотря на все перипетии ( и перепитии) жизни. Удачи вам!!

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Ма-астер, я тебя знаю!!

Я теперь вспомнил, как ты придумал мой мир. Как мы сидели на темной кухонке и генерили моего персонажа. Я теперь понимаю, что не надо было давать ему таких характеристик, и мир должен был быть помягче, и что окружение мы ему прописали не так, как мне бы хотелось. Уж мне-то виднее, мастер!

И еще не надо было устраивать таких испытаний. Я ведь еще тогда сказал, ужо смотри, вырастет герой, сложит у своих ног весь мир, и что будем делать? А ты ответил - отыграемся, мастерским произволом. Вот и доигрались. Когда он, то есть уже я тебя достану...

Впрочем, уже достал.

Ма-астер, дай плюшек!!!

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Которые умеют, пусть держат за меня пальцы, завтра. Ибо я опять буду пытаться не сломать свою дурную судьбу. Так, покрутить и запутать. Чтоб не думала о себе невесть что, а то, понимаешь, все сомнительная удача выпадает. Вот. Все. Хочу настоящую. Эх, жаль.....

А впрочем, все опять только начинается.....

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Очень давно хотелось, чтоб это где-нибудь было Одна из моих любимых песен группы Зимовье Зверей:



Выпадая из окна

текст песни

Выпадая из окна,

Оглянись по сторонам,

Если кто-нибудь внизу,

Есть опасность, что спасут.



Коль душа и тело врозь,

Оторви одно да брось,

На дорожку посиди

И лети, лети, лети.



До первого солнца, до первой крови,

До первого снега последней любви

Лети, напевай мелодию воли,

За пазуху неба лети и живи.



Глотками, слогами, раскатами грома,

Раскрыв парашютом шальную мечту,

Лети улетай к последнему дому,

Придумывай песни и пой на лету.

Выпадая из окна,

Погляди кругом весна,

Лед растаял и в лесу,

По березам льет слезу,



Улетая в эту даль,

Захвати с собой февраль,

А кровинки на ветру,

Я в картинки соберу.



По первому свету, по первым лужам,

По первому зову озябшей души

Лети, согревай постылую стужу

И белые рифмы на землю кроши.



Лазуревой стружкой, изящной пеной,

А там облаками, на перекладных,

Лети распрямляясь басовою веной,

Минорным аккордом, прямо поддых.

Выпадая из окна,

Вспомни дом, где спит она,

Спит и видит в полусне

Тень полета на стене.



Зацепившись за балкон,

Опровергни этот сон,

Напоследок пошути

И лети, лети, лети.



По серому дыму, по кухонным сотам,

По сладкому меду румяных ветрил,

За черные трубы, за трос горизонта,

По меди, по стати, по ртути витрин.



По гладкому небу, глубокого неба,

По тучам, по птицам, быстрее чем звук,

Лети, улетай, протаранивай небыль

Осиновым клином раскинутых рук.

Выпадая из окна,

Не забудь, что ты - струна,

Заверши собой аккорд

И лети по курсу норд.



Не оглядывайся зря,

За спиной одна заря,

Улыбнись на посошок,

И руби под корешок.



По стройным верхам, по слоеному низу,

Кривыми шипами по розе ветров

Лети получай поднебесную визу

Сквозь белые стены и стекла домов.



Над муторным лесом, над городом брани,

То кролем, то брассом, то вольной стрелой

В какие-то близи, в какие-то дали,

По вечной спирали смертельной петлей.

В приоткрытое окно

Снег и красное вино,

В терпком небе - горький след

И обертки от конфет.



По прибытию души

Все подробно опиши

Буду нужен - позови,

И живи, живи, живи.



От первого солнца, до первой крови,

От первого снега и навсегда

Живи, изучай географию воли,

Бессоницы - реки и сны - города.



Глотками, веками, раскатами грома,

Как крылья расправив шальную мечту

Лети, улетай к последнему дому,

Придумывай песни и пой на лету.

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Грустно. То есть местами хорошо, а местами не очень. Хочется спать В Отыгравших никто не стал делать новые посты, хотя оещал. Значит, еще сделает. Локи набрел на мой рисунок Апатии, после чего долго удивлялся. Ноэль мне об этом рассказывала, и оччень смеялась.

Завтра приедет мама. Чтоб снова уехать на невесть сколько времени. И почему стиральные машины не могут быть вечными?.....

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Тем, которые знают. В частности - Никодзе и Реморе. И другим хорошим людям "



Город дремлет в сумерках. Грязноватые разводы облаков медленно уползают за горизонт, напоследок осыпая улицы снегом. С неба сыплется штукатурка - наверняка эти раздолбаи на небесах опять забыли выключить воду в своем небесном душе, и она протекает к нам.

Город дышит. Если прислониться спиной к одной из стен, то постепенно услышишь-почувствуешь качание - вверх и вниз, медленно, на грани восприятия. У нас про это говорили - впадать в резонанс с Городом. Когда ты начинаешь дышать в такт с ним, можно ощутить собой каждую улицу, каждый дом, каждого человека. Если не умеешь контролировать себя, то чужими потоками сознаний может запросто унести, закружить. Это неприятно, а эмпатам особо противопоказано, потому что восприятие идет на уровне самых простых эмоций - хорошо-плохо-больно-страшно-тепло-люблю. Сознание города состоит не только из людей и Иных - там есть также кошки, собаки, представители местного зоопарка и редкой городской флоры. Если хорошенько сосредоточиться, то можно услышать даже камни в мостовых. Но это удается не каждому.

Иные из неинициированых часто стремятся разделять с Городом свои радости и печали.Обычно такой же способ используется для поисков людей. Ведь бывало не раз - ты просыпаешься с беспричинной радостью, или с чуством неизмерной печали, выходишь за две остановки до института\школы, еще не зная зачем, и встречаешь друга, которого давно не видел, или даже покупаешь фенечку - чтоб через полчаса завязать ее на запястье совершенно незнакомого человека. А эти лица в толпе? Ты его точно видел, только вот было это... Когда? Во сне?

И каждый раз Город приветливо усмехается через усы тополей в переулках. Думай, гадай-не догадаешься, встретишь-забудешь-найдешь..... Удачи тебе в этом!

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Нда... Так ли важны комментарии в дневниках?...

В моем сегодня - только один, и это вроде бы обидно. С другой стороны, я сам, когда хожу по чужим дневникам, вслух восхищаюсь часто, а вот пишу редко. с третьей стороны, мне бы не хотелось, чтоб некоторые поступки мои комментировались, или, в особенности, оценивались незнакомыми людьми. Ужасно сложная задача. Видимо, не для маленьких. И уж точно не для меня"

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Это сперто у Noel`, ею сперто у Sienori Elvin`a, который и сделал.

Пусть он знает, что мне тоже понравилось. Более развернуто расскажу в следующий раз.



Время беспечною старой пластинкой

Кружит мелодию прожитых дней

С каждой упавшей на землю слезинкой

Мир расцветает цветами огней.



Серые крыши и серое небо,

Струи дождя смоют чьи-то черты.

Кто-то, из жизни исченув до срока,

Нам оставляет частицу мечты.



Сказку дождя на мелодию ветра

Кто-то положит - и скроется в ней.

К окнам спешите - готовится пьеса:

Жизнь - вот сюжет для театра теней.

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До чего легко убить хорошее настроение. Одной простой фразой, сказанной будто бы в пространство, задевающей какие-то неизвестные науке нити, натянутые между тобой и человеком. Я ее ненавижу. Сильно сказано. Лучше, пусть мне будет все равно. Станет все равно. И незачем тратить полусплетенные силы на то, чтоб проклинать. Они того не стоят. Я - лучше. Я умею. А они нет. Только почему же так тянет на мелкие диверсии?.....

А в Сети опять нет никого знакомого.....