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Bibi1581 Blog For 03/04/2018: Evening Edition

1…………> Cult Of Personality: China Secrecy

While thick smog enveloped Beijing, the 2,158-member Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) annual two-week meeting began on Saturday, March 3, in the capital city. Its elevated secrecy was immediately observed, as reporters who have ordinarily been allowed access to delegates were pointedly prevented from approaching the building, no cell phones have been allowed in the chambers, and city’s Great Hall of the People was protected from reporters and onlookers by double lines of security guards, a move not seen in past gatherings.


“This is a new year, and we have new rules,” stated a guard in response to ramped-up security measures, cited by SCMP.

What’s going on? Sweeping changes are expected in 2018 as the legislature is expected to amend the state constitution for the first time in over 14 years to enshrine in law the elevation of Mr.Xi to a position of a supreme leader like late Mao Zedong.


https://sputniknews.com/asia/201803041062220914-China-Conference-News-Blackout-Continues/

 

 

 

2…………> PNG Earthquake

Three recent aftershocks measuring higher than magnitude-5 rocked Papua New Guinea’s remote and rugged highlands as landslides cut roads, preventing delivery of aid, and agencies raised concern for an estimated 150,000 people who are in urgent need of food and water supplies in the mountainous Southern Highlands, about 400 miles north-west of the capital Port Moresby.

“We haven’t slept. It’s been shaking all through the night,” said William Bando, provincial administrator of Hela Province, by telephone from Tari, about 25 miles from where the shocks hit.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-05/aftershocks-rattles-quake-hit-papua-new-guinea/9508534

 

 

3…………> Comrade Xi: Our New Leader

Delegates handpicked by the Party to enforce decisions taken months ago are expected to rubber stamp critical changes to China’s Constitution that will give the Party more control than ever and give one man, New Supreme Leader Comrade President Xi Jinping the potential to rule for life in a carefully orchestrated show of unity and strength at the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

 

If anyone observing this outrage is having shivers in their bones, they better try to imagine the reaction of a dictator to Mr.Trump “America First” policies.

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-05/china-npc-moves-xi-jinping-towards-dictatorship/9504680

 

4…………> Back To Nam: Carl Vinson

US aircraft carrier Carl Vinson is making a historic call to Vietnam, the first time a ship of this size has visited since the Vietnam War ended, as the nuclear-powered “city” will anchor off the port city of Danang, where US combat troops first landed in the war, making this a highly symbolic location.
The visit sends a message to China as it continues to develop the disputed South China Sea, claims almost all reefs and islands, including the Paracel and Spratly islands.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43282558

 

5………..> All For Comrade XI; Deputies

Deputies to the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC) walk to the Great Hall of the People for the opening meeting of the first session of the 13th NPC in Beijing, capital of China, March 5, 2018.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-03/05/c_137016645.htm

 

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Bibi1581 Blog For 02/25/2018: Evening Edition

1…………> New Guinea: 7.5 Shaker

Powerful aftershocks continue to rock Papua New Guinea after a magnitude-7.5 earthquake struck the country’s southern highlands, forcing ExxonMobile to shut its nearby gas conditioning plant due to fears of damage to the structure.

The quake hit in the early hours of this morning at a relatively shallow depth of 25 miles, with the epicenter was about 65 miles south-west of Mendi, the capital of Southern Highlands province, a town of more than 50,000 people.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-26/powerful-earthquake-hits-papua-new-guinea/9483916

 

 

2…………> Cult Of Personality: Mr.Xi Forever

China’s ruling Communist Party has proposed scrapping the ten-year term limit for the President, in a move almost certain to be written into the country’s constitution in March, a change that would allow President Xi Jinping to continue as head of state beyond 2023, and into “Communist Part Of Heaven” eternity.

Sydney academic Dr. Feng Chonygi says Mr. Xi has “much greater power than Vladimir Putin”, and certainly more than President Trump.


This would allow Mr.Xi to continue as both the head of state and Communist Party General Secretary beyond 2023, not forgetting his Chairmanship of the Central Military Commission, yet another title that does not have a term limit.

According to China’s state media, the Communist Party’s main leadership group — the Central Committee — proposed the amendment, along with writing Mr. Xi’s ideology into the country’s constitution. Can a Communist leader become a saint?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-26/china-communist-party-proposes-removing-presidential-term-limits/9483266

 

 

3…………> Elephant In China’s Store: Carl Vinson

Deep in the South China Sea the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, USS Carl Vinson, is sailing right through the red lines of the proposed South China Sea new sovereignty and dreams for world domination.

“It shows resolve, and gives decision space to our leaders,” the ship’s commanding officer, Captain Doug Verissimo, said.
“When they put a carrier strike group somewhere it helps to show that the United States is interested.
“We don’t have a lot of these, so when you put one in a certain area it has some influence.
“Of course it also gives our diplomats time and space to negotiate and make decisions, ultimately to try and prevent any type of armed conflict.”

The Carl Vinson, the flagship of a strike group from the US Third Fleet is shielded by a screen of distant guided missile cruisers and destroyers that form a protective “iron dome” around the aircraft carrier.


China has built airstrips and ports on reefs and shoals throughout the sea in defiance of a ruling from an international tribunal in the Hague.

“We want to keep laws and norms in place that we don’t change the map along the way, to avoid frictions,” Captain Verissimo said.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-26/us-navy-pushes-through-the-south-china-sea-in-defiance-of-china/9483828

 

 

4…………> Turkcoin: National Cryptocurrency

Despite the condemnation of virtual currencies as un-Islamic because they cannot be audited and surveilled by Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs, 
the country is contemplating its own national cryptocurrency called Turkcoin.

“The world is advancing toward a new digital system. Turkey should create its own digital system and currency before it’s too late,” a senior finance official warned.

https://sputniknews.com/world/201802251061966075-turkey-cryptocurrency-turkcoin/

 

 

5…………> Breaking The Law: Oakland Mayor

The mayor of Oakland Libby Schaaf issued a warning that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) could be conducting a raid in the area as soon as Sunday, a warning which she “learned from multiple credible sources” and intended “not to panic our residents but to protect them.”

Ms. Schaaf claimed she felt it was her “duty and moral obligation as Mayor to give those families fair warning when that threat appears imminent” as the feds detained at least four people during the weekend.

She joined other law enforcement officials in Northern California who would not cooperate with ICE, and noted state law “prohibits business owners from assisting ICE agents in immigration enforcement and bars federal agents from accessing employee-only areas.”

“It is no surprise that the bully in chief is continuing to try to intimidate our most vulnerable residents,” Schaaf said at the time. “We’re very clear that our values are to protect all of our residents regardless of where we come from. We want to protect families, not tear them apart.”

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