@studentofearth
I didn't try om the internet, but what got broadcasted on TV via Phoenix TV. I don't have internet facilities near my bed.

Thanks a lot.

#1 in original English. Exception Wang Yi speech given in Chinese was translated into English. Not sure how it will play in Germany.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzeMRMJZBw8]

dontchaknow.

@snoopydawg

Just today this occurred.

https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/2023-02-18/ty-article/report-sy...

Israeli airstrikes targeted a residential neighborhood in central Damascus early Sunday, Syrian state news reported.

Loud explosions were heard over the capital around 12:30 a.m. local time, and SANA reported that Syrian air defenses were “confronting hostile targets in the sky around Damascus.”

Syrian state media agency SANA, citing a source in the Damascus police command, reported that five people had been killed, among them a soldier, and 15 civilians wounded, along with “destruction of a number of residential buildings.”

As if the earthquake wasn’t enough;

Israel’s sad attempt to justify their civilian bombing in Syria pic.twitter.com/19jiGyQz0r

— Levi (@Levi_godman) February 19, 2023

#9

Iraq and Yemen hypocrisy called out!

1/ pic.twitter.com/Nyz3omhR74

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) February 18, 2023

@QMS

There have been numerous huge fires happening around the country and the world and it doesn’t seem that any news media has even talked about it. Check out this essay on just how many chemical fires there have been along with all the food and chicken factories that have mysteriously burned up.

And lo and behold the Palestine fire department is rolling out a digital id so people can track their health data. Also the definition of CDC Changed Toxicity Info on Vinyl Chloride Days Before Derailment. Anyone heard about the train that derailed had problems 2 days before it did?

The CDC edited the toxicology profile for vinyl chloride, massively increasing the lethal exposure level and removing information about how the chemical affects children, just two weeks before the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio that spewed vast quantities of the chemical into the environment.

The CDC update changed the lethal exposure from 100PPM to 100,000PPM. The lethal exposure level had remained the same for 17 years before the CDC decided to update the number just prior to the derailment, where highly toxic chemicals spilled or were burned off, leaving a chemical stench in the air nearly two weeks later.

The description in the section on children initially said, “It has not been proven that vinyl chloride causes birth defects in humans, but studies in animals suggest that vinyl chloride might affect growth and development. Animal studies also suggest that infants and young children might be more susceptible than adults to vinyl chloride-induced cancer.” This sounds like important information, especially since families live in the oil blast zone. So why would they remove this?

BS! The effects of it is well known and besides what is in the air right now is much worse. Dioxin.

Kinda like when they changed the definition of what a vaccine and epidemic means just before the Rona scam got rolled out.

I dunno how many incidents need to happen before it’s no longer considered conspiracy theories.

Plus more and more social websites are asking for people to send their government ID before they are allowed to set up an account. I thought that was bogus but then again lo and behold Utah wanted to do just that in order to make sites safe for kids. At this time it’s been deep sixed, but gawd’s nightgown! Utah is a very red state and republicans are supposed to be the party of less government interference and yet this almost passed. Lots of government sites already demand that people send them a video that shows proof of who you are. So yeah digital IDs are coming no matter what.

ETA more.

#11

flushed down the toilet, er memory hole, of the gullible.
Perhaps this episode of thought control was a success?
Diversion from train bombs or Hersh bombs. Testing the
waters for current reaction times to sensational distractions.
Important for the timing of the next escapade methinks.

for being a US puppet so it is all worth it. /S

@soryang

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/biden-plans-to-host-spring-state-dinner-for-...

NEWS WIRE
Feb 15, 2023

Biden Plans to Host Spring State Dinner for South Korea’s Yoon
Justin Sink and Jenny Leonard, Bloomberg News

Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea's president, speaks at a news conference in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. Prime Minister Trudeau and President Yoon will discuss working together on energy, including electric vehicle batteries, critical minerals, and emerging technologies, as well as securing supply chains.
Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea's president, speaks at a news conference in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. Prime Minister Trudeau and President Yoon will discuss working together on energy, including electric vehicle batteries, critical minerals, and emerging technologies, as well as securing supply chains. , Bloomberg

(Bloomberg) -- President Joe Biden is planning to host South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeo for a White House state dinner this spring, according to people familiar with the matter.

Preparations for the visit and state dinner are underway but the timing remains fluid, the people said. The current plan is for the visit to take place in late April.

The US and South Korea have deepened their cooperation on supply chain resilience to ease dependence on Chinese technology and on security matters as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ramps up his provocations. Pyongyang launched a record number of ballistic missiles last year.

Biden and Yoon spoke in November about their joint efforts to limit North Korea’s ability to fund and advance its unlawful weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs, according to a White House readout.

#17 threats and joint exercises are destabilizing. Despite Austin's statements to the contrary, instead of enhancing security in the region, US actions are increasing the tension and the threat of war. Another issue is that the new South Korea administration which has a Friedmanite outlook on economics, offers nothing to its citizens who suffering economically, and offers increasing verbal threats to North Korea, claims North Korean agents and sympathizers are a threat at home, and is following a policy of repression, justified by a security crisis, for which he is largely responsible. Critics of President Yoon Seok-yeol are comparing him to Zelensky. He's regarded as a dictator, traitor and quisling of Japan, who is unnecessarily provoking a security crisis because he has nothing else to offer to the people of Korea. He is corrupt and unqualified.

In a hole, the Yoon government keeps digging

I picked my post's title before I saw this editorial:

[Editorial] An unprecedented arrest warrant request that will spark a political black hole
This development has already sparked fierce battles in the political world, giving rise to concerns that the people’s livelihoods will be put on the back burner
Hankyoreh Feb.17,2023

...Above all, it is difficult to rule out the possibility that investigation by prosecutors will be used as a means of political oppression, seeing that the subject of their arrest warrant is the leader of the main opposition party. This is why the Constitution states that “no member of the National Assembly shall be arrested or detained without the consent of the National Assembly” during session, and why more caution should be taken so as to not raise questions about the appropriateness and context of the warrant request.

This development has already sparked fierce battles in the political world. Lee stated that “today is the day that the rule of law has collapsed in the ruling party’s attempt to get rid of their political opponents,” while the ruling People Power Party stated that “this was something bound to happen” and pushed for the approval of the arrest motion.

https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_editorial/1080169.html

Lee Jae-myung, “You Must Ask a Fortune Teller or Prosecutor Before Making Policy Decisions, Otherwise You Will Be Sent to Prison”
By Tak Ji-young Kyunghyang Sinmoon 2.17
http://english.khan.co.kr/khan_art_view.html?artid=202302171359537&code=...

This is a reference to the Yoon receiving guidance from the guru Cheon Gong, the leader of a South Korean cult. The relationship is regarded as an abuse of power by Yoon and disputed. Allegedly, a witness to Cheon Gong's interference in official affairs is the former Chief of Staff of the ROK Army. This is according to an independent media source and a book author.

South Korean defence minister denies Vietnam War massacres
Minister said the court ruling dishonoured South Korean soldiers by finding them responsible for the massacre of Vietnamese villagers
Al Jazeera 2.17 (AP)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/17/south-korean-defence-minister-d...

This is sort of back handed way of letting Japan off the hook for its war crimes. In any case, Yoon is an admirer of former dictator Chun Doo-won, who was in Vietnam with the White Horse division. It's a facile way to appeal to veterans and the pro-Japanese faction whose forebears benefited from Japanese collaboration during the colonial period and subsequent South Korean dictatorships.

Celebration of Japanese emperor's birthday in Seoul met with protest : 2023-02-17
Korea Times 2.17 Lee Hyo-jin
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2023/02/281_345653.html?utm_sour...

A reception held in Seoul to celebrate the Japanese Emperor's birthday has raised eyebrows, especially after it was reported that the Japanese national anthem ― which is widely considered a symbol of Japan's militaristic past here ― was played during the event.

Hosted by the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, the reception took place at a hotel on Thursday, ahead of the emperor's birthday on Feb. 23. Among the guests who showed up were Korea's Vice Foreign Minister Lee Do-hoon and Sohn Kyung-sik, chairman of the Korea Enterprises Federation...

...Japanese media reported that until now, Tokyo has refrained from playing the anthem, acknowledging the anti-Japan sentiment in Korea. But it decided to play it this year due to the Yoon Suk Yeol administration's recent moves to improve bilateral ties.

Not suprisingly, today's candlelight demostration opposing the Yoon administration characterized Yoon as a pro-Japanese traitor in addition to criticizing his administration as a dictatorship led by Yoon's prosecutors. The candlelight movement procession assembled near Namdaemun and marched to Samgachi Plaza, near the Yongsan base where the Presidential Office is located. Yoon had refused to move into the Blue House, on the advice of his wife and allegedly, the cult leader Cheon Gong. The theme of today's assembly was "Let's topple Yoon Seok-yeol." The numbers appeared significant, as police appeared to have difficulty restricting the crowd due to its size and as the day went on, it appeared they were only capable of keeping one lane of traffic open around the massive crowd. I've become accustomed to seeing large numbers of police, barricades, and/or police buses forcing the crowd to one side of main boulevards and keeping at least two lanes of traffic open in both directions. I think because of restrictions on drone flights in Seoul and lack of access to nearby high rises, high angle shots which would give a greater sense of crowd size are not available.

A couple of anti-Yoon, anti Kim Gon-hee cartoons exhibited during the demonstration below in the first image. Kim Gon-hee as Marie Antoinette giving Yoon his homework (left) and Kim Gon-hee as nanny pushing an infantile pro-Japanese Yoon.

(Images source- 빨간아재, youtube 2.18) 검사독재 역풍! "민주파괴 검찰독재 윤석열을 타도하자!" 2월 전국집중 촛불대행진 / 3시 삼각지역

@soryang ...expanded beyond the police barricades put in place to contain it, to allow at least some two way traffic on the boulevard. The crowd was apparently too large to be contained in the space allowed and demonstrators accumulated beyond the first line of barricades, and were contained by a second line of barricades. I think the scene in the video below is on Sejeongno, a major thoroughfare in central Seoul, near Namdaemun. The crowd stopped here, as dusk was near, for the speeches and performances during the nighttime candlelight part of the event.

I wanted to post the video below even though it's entirely in Korean, (only the first seven minutes are relevant) because of the police-demonstrator confrontation that took place, and the remarkable judgement and restraint demonstrated by police, when the demonstrators resisted the police attempt to force them back behind the inner barricade line. To me, it appears that the police commander had received some sort of order to get the crowd back behind the first fence, to open up traffic lanes. When the demonstrators resisted, and a few demonstrators technically committed batteries on some officers, while getting in their faces, the police did not get violent, and relented. I'm wondering how the South Korean Presidential Office staff will react to this turn of events.

(By way of comparison) Because Jimmy Carter was in the news, Tim Shorrock posted a link to his excellent article on the Kwangju Massacre (democracy movement resisting martial law) in the Nation several years ago. The Kwangju Massacre took place during the Carter administration.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/two-days-in-may-that-shattered-k...

After reading that, I wanted to take a look at the June Struggle (1987) where the overthrow of Chun's dictatorship in South Korea was prompted by the deaths of two young protestors in the democracy movement of that time. There is a great picture on the wikipedia page of the huge crowd assembled on July 9, 1987, for the funeral of one of the deceased protestors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Democratic_Struggle

(edited The Nation, not New Yorker)

#17 threats and joint exercises are destabilizing. Despite Austin's statements to the contrary, instead of enhancing security in the region, US actions are increasing the tension and the threat of war. Another issue is that the new South Korea administration which has a Friedmanite outlook on economics, offers nothing to its citizens who suffering economically, and offers increasing verbal threats to North Korea, claims North Korean agents and sympathizers are a threat at home, and is following a policy of repression, justified by a security crisis, for which he is largely responsible. Critics of President Yoon Seok-yeol are comparing him to Zelensky. He's regarded as a dictator, traitor and quisling of Japan, who is unnecessarily provoking a security crisis because he has nothing else to offer to the people of Korea. He is corrupt and unqualified.

In a hole, the Yoon government keeps digging

I picked my post's title before I saw this editorial:

[Editorial] An unprecedented arrest warrant request that will spark a political black hole
This development has already sparked fierce battles in the political world, giving rise to concerns that the people’s livelihoods will be put on the back burner
Hankyoreh Feb.17,2023

...Above all, it is difficult to rule out the possibility that investigation by prosecutors will be used as a means of political oppression, seeing that the subject of their arrest warrant is the leader of the main opposition party. This is why the Constitution states that “no member of the National Assembly shall be arrested or detained without the consent of the National Assembly” during session, and why more caution should be taken so as to not raise questions about the appropriateness and context of the warrant request.

This development has already sparked fierce battles in the political world. Lee stated that “today is the day that the rule of law has collapsed in the ruling party’s attempt to get rid of their political opponents,” while the ruling People Power Party stated that “this was something bound to happen” and pushed for the approval of the arrest motion.

https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_editorial/1080169.html

Lee Jae-myung, “You Must Ask a Fortune Teller or Prosecutor Before Making Policy Decisions, Otherwise You Will Be Sent to Prison”
By Tak Ji-young Kyunghyang Sinmoon 2.17
http://english.khan.co.kr/khan_art_view.html?artid=202302171359537&code=...

This is a reference to the Yoon receiving guidance from the guru Cheon Gong, the leader of a South Korean cult. The relationship is regarded as an abuse of power by Yoon and disputed. Allegedly, a witness to Cheon Gong's interference in official affairs is the former Chief of Staff of the ROK Army. This is according to an independent media source and a book author.

South Korean defence minister denies Vietnam War massacres
Minister said the court ruling dishonoured South Korean soldiers by finding them responsible for the massacre of Vietnamese villagers
Al Jazeera 2.17 (AP)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/17/south-korean-defence-minister-d...

This is sort of back handed way of letting Japan off the hook for its war crimes. In any case, Yoon is an admirer of former dictator Chun Doo-won, who was in Vietnam with the White Horse division. It's a facile way to appeal to veterans and the pro-Japanese faction whose forebears benefited from Japanese collaboration during the colonial period and subsequent South Korean dictatorships.

Celebration of Japanese emperor's birthday in Seoul met with protest : 2023-02-17
Korea Times 2.17 Lee Hyo-jin
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2023/02/281_345653.html?utm_sour...

A reception held in Seoul to celebrate the Japanese Emperor's birthday has raised eyebrows, especially after it was reported that the Japanese national anthem ― which is widely considered a symbol of Japan's militaristic past here ― was played during the event.

Hosted by the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, the reception took place at a hotel on Thursday, ahead of the emperor's birthday on Feb. 23. Among the guests who showed up were Korea's Vice Foreign Minister Lee Do-hoon and Sohn Kyung-sik, chairman of the Korea Enterprises Federation...

...Japanese media reported that until now, Tokyo has refrained from playing the anthem, acknowledging the anti-Japan sentiment in Korea. But it decided to play it this year due to the Yoon Suk Yeol administration's recent moves to improve bilateral ties.

Not suprisingly, today's candlelight demostration opposing the Yoon administration characterized Yoon as a pro-Japanese traitor in addition to criticizing his administration as a dictatorship led by Yoon's prosecutors. The candlelight movement procession assembled near Namdaemun and marched to Samgachi Plaza, near the Yongsan base where the Presidential Office is located. Yoon had refused to move into the Blue House, on the advice of his wife and allegedly, the cult leader Cheon Gong. The theme of today's assembly was "Let's topple Yoon Seok-yeol." The numbers appeared significant, as police appeared to have difficulty restricting the crowd due to its size and as the day went on, it appeared they were only capable of keeping one lane of traffic open around the massive crowd. I've become accustomed to seeing large numbers of police, barricades, and/or police buses forcing the crowd to one side of main boulevards and keeping at least two lanes of traffic open in both directions. I think because of restrictions on drone flights in Seoul and lack of access to nearby high rises, high angle shots which would give a greater sense of crowd size are not available.

A couple of anti-Yoon, anti Kim Gon-hee cartoons exhibited during the demonstration below in the first image. Kim Gon-hee as Marie Antoinette giving Yoon his homework (left) and Kim Gon-hee as nanny pushing an infantile pro-Japanese Yoon.

(Images source- 빨간아재, youtube 2.18) 검사독재 역풍! "민주파괴 검찰독재 윤석열을 타도하자!" 2월 전국집중 촛불대행진 / 3시 삼각지역