Ehrlich: This Catch-22 re Zemin is a major putative gotcha as to whether
Jiang Zemin is alive. From our point of view he is dead (Bush dancing) or
is imprisoned or otherwise sits with Ariel Sharon. Jintao either has to
announce Zemin's demise or in fact demur from any further public events of
mourning and respect connective to the earthquake. If the shoe was on the
other foot, meaning the Moabites wanted to pressure China re Zemin, they
would be sending out news crews from major media in the USA and the EU
seeking to speak to Jiang Zemin about the event.
http://news.rednet.cn/c/2008/05/20/1511547.htm
In grave grief, China mourns quake dead
Editor:Sharon Lee
Source:新华网
Updated: 2008-5-20 11:26:03
Air raid sirens, and car, train and ****p horns wailed and people stood for
three minutes in silence on Monday to mourn the tens of thousands who died
in last week's earthquake.
The moment of grief was observed across the vast country of 1.3 billion
people at 2:28 pm, exactly a week after the devastating magnitude-8 quake
struck Sichuan.
The death toll is estimated to be above 50,000.
The silent tribute was the first of its kind for citizens killed in a
natural disaster.
President Hu Jintao and other members of the Standing Committee of the
Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, as
well as other officials pay a three-minute silent tribute to victims of
the quake in the central government compound of Zhongnanhai in Beijing
yesterday. The Chinese characters on the banner read: Deep mourning for
Wenchuan quake victims. [Xinhua]
Flags were flying at half-mast across the country and all public
entertainment has been suspended as the three-day mourning period started.
Ehrlich: China will be hard pressed to explain the absence of Jiang Zemin
from the media concerning such a historic response to a contem****ary
tragedy.
The Olympic torch relay is also suspended during the period.
From tent cities in Sichuan province to Beijing, cars, motorcycles and
bicycles stopped on the road and sounded their horns. Pedestrians stood
with their heads bowed.
In Tian'anmen Square the somber mood quickly turned into a vocal show of
patriotism.
Thousands of flag-waving people chanted "Go China Go" and "Rebuild
Sichuan", while singing the national anthem.
President Hu Jintao, who just returned from a three-day visit to the
quake-hit areas, paid a three-minute silent tribute to victims of the
quake in the central government compound of Zhongnanhai in Beijing.
Rescuers pay tribute to those who died in a massive earthquake, in front
of a clock which stopped at the time the earthquake hit, in the town****p
of Hanwang in Mianzhu city, north of Chengdu in Sichuan Province May 19,
2008. A nation-wide ceremony was held on 14:28 on Monday, exactly one week
after a massive earthquake hit Sichuan. [Agencies]
At the ceremony that began at 2:28 pm, a sad and solemn Hu, in a dark suit
with a white flower pinned to the chest, bowed under a national flag which
was lowered to half-mast.
Hu was joined by colleagues in the country's top decision-making body, the
Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China
Central Committee, including top legislator Wu Bangguo and Premier Wen
Jiabao.
Former president Jiang Zemin also stood in silence for the quake victims
at a separate place in the city.
Ehrlich: Don't forget my pointing out the deliberately odd way the
referenced Australian re****t in yesterday's email highlighted that the
standing committee bowed WITH JIANG ZEMIN.
In Tiananmen Square, filled with people at the heart of Beijing, a siren
sounded and the crowd stood still.
In Zhongnanhai, the government HQ just to the west, President Hu Jintao,
Premier Wen Jiabao and the other seven members of the standing committee
of the Politburo, China's most powerful body, stood together and bowed
their heads with past leader Jiang Zemin.
Ehrlich: The second modified version of the Jiang Zemin story in
yesterday's emails accordingly was:
Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin also stood in silence for the quake
victims at a separate place at the same time.
Ehrlich: Now after questioning where exactly Zemin might be -- this
updated news account puts forth that he was in Beijing but not with major
Chinese figures photographed paying respect to the victims of the national
tragedy. This is the reality allowed by Jintao who held Zemin's chair and
put him front and center at the October Congress? At least I would think
the Chinese would say he was out of town, but now they say he "was in a
separate place in the city." Where? The stockade? The morgue? The
hospital? I mean where when original re****ts were that he was seen
together with the standing committee (meaning that we would see him in the
photographs, which of course I thought not, and accurately so).
Vice-Premier Li Keqiang paid his tribute in Beichuan, Sichuan, one of the
worst-hit regions. He was there overseeing rescue and relief work.
Across the country, people honored the quake dead in various ways: Some
flew black kites, children stood with lit white candles, and villagers in
the northwest burnt incense sticks and fake money in rituals to see off
the dead.
Gong Zhen, a student who survived when the earthquake hit Beichuan county,
cries as she attends a ceremony with around 500 students before resuming
cl***** at a factory training centre in Mianyang, Sichuan province, May
19, 2008. [Agencies]
In front of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, capital of Tibet, residents
prostrated while saying prayers for the dead.
Rescuers, including those from Japan, Russia, the Republic of Korea and
Singa****e, took off their helmets and briefly halted their work in
quake-hit areas.
The Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges and the futures exchanges in
Shanghai, Zhengzhou and Dalian suspended trading for three minutes from
2:28 pm.
Some of the stock traders said people volunteered to buy stocks of
Sichuan-based companies to show their sup****t, Xinhua re****ted.
China Central Television blacked out its screen for the three minutes.
Chinese diplomatic missions abroad also observed the mourning, some
holding the silent tribute simultaneously despite the time difference.
Condolence books were opened in the Foreign Ministry and Chinese embassies
and consulates around the world; and China's Permanent Mission to the
United Nations held a solemn ceremony, which UN Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon attended.
In a demonstration of the international community's sup****t, scores of
foreign envoys and representatives of international organizations in
Beijing visited the Foreign Ministry to convey messages of condolences.
Ehrlich: Under the domain of the event and the mourning described above
there MUST be a photograph of Jiang Zemin available for media publication.
Also imagine 9-11 without any comment from a prior president of the USA
regarding the tragedy, without top political figures offering public
comment regarding same. Look, this a major op****tunity of the Moabites to
show that Jiang Zemin is alive and that nothing sinister took place in
connection with Jintao emerging from the shadows to take China on a new
course with Japan and the historic enemies of the Chinese people.
I pray that this issue we raise has made it into Chinese on China's
Internet.
Conclusion: Consistent with having our neck on the block with major
*****sments -- here that Zemin was taken out by Jintao and his death kept
secret -- because his death could have undermined Jintao's treachery for
the Moabites against his own nation, we saw this tragedy in China as the
ideal venue to prove our point -- that Zemin was neutered per our
*****sment that only that reality would have allowed Bush to dance as he
did. We did say that Bush's father would take him on his knee to spank him
and now you see from this window the reason Bush 43 made a dire mistake in
dancing as he did. This was another reason why Zemin's death had to be
kept under wraps when Jintao went out to sell out his country!
Thus what we put forth is a critical op****tunity for history to recognize
that Zemin was taken out so that Jintao could hand over China to Japan and
the Moabites. ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS PRODUCE TODAY AN INTERVIEW WITH ZEMIN
ABOUT THIS NATIONAL TRAGEDY. BUT THEY DID NOT AND WILL NOT BUT ON THE
OTHER HAND PUT FORTH LEGEDERMAIN IN ORIGINAL RE****TS (IN LINE WITH
PRINCESS DIANA'S ARMOR PLATED MERCEDES) THAT HE WAS THERE WITH THE REST OF
THE LEADER****P BOWING IN RESPECT TO THE VICTIMS OF THE TRAGEDY. THIS WAS A
MAJOR FLUKE AND WE PICKED IT UP FORCING THEM INTO THE MANEUVERS WE FOLLOW.
We are not looking at this as a game of Gotcha but at the op****tunity to
allow history to recognize what just took place in China for Jintao to do
to China what Putin did to Russia and Bush to the USA -- hand over future
control of their nations to those we thought defeated in WWII.
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Will a global market set back mask further attention on the Chinese
earthquake and the whereabouts of Jiang Zemin?
Ehrlich: SenderBerl agrees with the thrust of the following article. How
flippant the market has been regarding $4 a gallon gasoline. The impact on
the economy is major and the market has not reflected that consequence
alone the consequence of even high gasoline energy prices.
Jean Claude Trichet warns of 'very significant market correction'
Miles Costello
Fears of a sustained downturn in world economies was back on the agenda
today after Jean Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central
Bank, gave warning that the worst of the credit crunch has not passed and
the economy was still heading for a "very significant market correction".
Mr Trichet, who has fiercely resisted following other policymakers by
making interest rate cuts, insisted in an interview today that acting to
restrain rampant inflationary growth was the best way to ensure stability
and job security.
Mr Trichet told the BBC: “Price stability and credibility in price
stability in the medium term is the best way to have a high level of
sustainable growth and sustainable job creation.”
His warning came just days after Mr Trichet told a Lisbon conference that
overconfidence by markets in the past had fuelled inflationary pressures.
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Mr Trichet said this morning: “These are challenging times obviously. We
have this ac***ulation of the oil shock, the food and agro-products shock.
What we say at this moment is not to embark in what we call ’second round’
effects.”
He added: “In the first oil shock when we took the wrong decision,
embarking on what I call second round effects, we enshrined a high level
of inflation. And we created ... mass unemployment in Europe .”
The ECB is facing a tough economic environment across the euro-zone.
Inflation hit a record 3.6 per cent in March, against its long-term
targeted rate of 2 per cent. The price of oil hit a new high at the end of
last week, reaching $127.82 on Friday, before falling back this morning to
$125.92 in early trading.
Central bankers have to contend with a weak US economy, as well as high
oil and commodity prices.
But under Mr Trichet's leader****p, the ECB has held back from cutting its
interest rates in the face of the credit crunch.
Mr Trichet has kept the ECB's key interest rate on hold at 4 per cent as
his peers in both the UK and America have taken the axe to the cost of
borrowing.
Last month, the US cut its main interest rate by a further 25 basis points
to 2 per cent.
The Bank of England has cut interest rates three times in recent months.
The benchmark borrowing rate in Britain currently stands at 5 per cent.
Last week Mervyn King, the Bank's Governor, signalled that rate cuts in
the UK , where borrowing costs are now 5 per cent, were now looking
unlikely, possibly before 2010.
Mr Trichet's predictions came amid growing indications of a sharp
corrections in a number of UK markets.
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors predicted that house prices,
sales and consumer spending would all fall in Britain if current
conditions persist.
Collins Stewart, the stockbroker and investment bank, cautioned that
revenues had fallen by more than a fifth so far this year, driven by weak
capital markets here and in America .
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article3960366.ece
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