Kirsty Needham (Sydney Morning Herlad, Beijing, 24 APRIL 2017) Chinese President Xi Jinping has told his US counterpart Donald Trump that Beijing opposes any action on the Korean Peninsula that goes against UN Security Council resolutions. The phone call between the two leaders came as Chinese med[...]
Archive for April, 2017
April 26th, 2017 - 8:44 am § in Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs
Xi tells Donald to Behave Himself
April 26th, 2017 - 8:09 am § in Foreign Affairs
AUSTRALIA: Corporate Fugitive From China Hides in Sydney
Chinese fugitive believed to be hiding in plain sight on leafy inner west street A leafy street in Sydney’s Burwood has been listed by China’s feared corruption investigators as the possible residence of Ji Dongsheng, a former manager at Henan Securities in Zhengzhou.Now China’[...]
April 26th, 2017 - 7:55 am § in Politics
Huma and Anthony Persist as a Couple
“Huma has been working hard on her relationship with Anthony,” said a source close to the Abedin family. “He has been spending 80 to 90 percent of his time at the [Irving Place apartment] they share . . . If there is a disagreement, he goes to his mother’s apartment in Brooklyn. The coup[...]
April 26th, 2017 - 4:20 am § in Misc.
26 April 1564
William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616)[nb 1] was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist.[1] He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon”[...]
April 26th, 2017 - 12:37 am § in Donald Trump
IVANKA VISITS GERMANY: A Tale of Two Barbies … Ivanka and Ophelia
As Ivanka makes her first official trip abroad as a US official, I found it difficult not to think of the Presidential Adviser as a Barbi doll. The ohso well groomed Trumpdotta appeared at an economics conference in Germany where less than Barbi like Angela Merkel is Chancellor. Crowds booed[...]
[...] April 25th, 2017 - 12:00 pm § in Hypocrisy, The Ave Scene
Athletic Hypocrisy
Texas football player’s story prompts probe of Garfield High School recruitment Seattle is investigating possible recruitment violations tied to the Garfield High School football team in light of allegations made by a youth from Texas who arrived in Seattle without any family here and played as a [...]
Rogue Dear Leader vs. Rogue Mr. President…
Opinion | The North Korea-Trump Nightmare It’s scary to consider what a frustrated president could do. NYTIMES.COM[...]
April 25th, 2017 - 9:16 am § in Environment, Misc.
Radioactive Boars Invade Japan
Municipal incinerators have been used to dispose of the boars, but there is a shortage of personnel needed to perform the gruelling taskSHIN YOSHINO/CORBIS Communities in northern Japan are being overwhelmed by radioactive wild boars which are rampaging across the countryside after being contaminate[...]