MAY 27, 2008
“Karma” Sharon Stone on her family
Bannon, Kolfage, Andrew Badolato and Timothy Shea arrested
On June 19, 2020, Attorney General William Barr announced that Berman had stepped down from his position as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District. In response, Berman released a statement that he had not resigned and would not, claiming that, as he had been nominated by a committee of judges on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, he would not leave his position until a successor was confirmed by the U.S. Senate. On June 20, Barr stated that the President had fired Berman, adding, “By operation of law, the Deputy United States Attorney, Audrey Strauss, will become the Acting United States Attorney,” serving until a nominee is confirmed by the Senate.Berman then agreed to step down.
On 20 June, Trump’s dismissal of the prosecutor, Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States attorney in Manhattan. Exactly 2 months later, Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the United States Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS”), announced the unsealing of an indictment charging BRIAN KOLFAGE, STEPHEN BANNON, ANDREW BADOLATO, and TIMOTHY SHEA for their roles in defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors in connection with an online crowdfunding campaign known as “We Build the Wall” that raised more than $25 million. The defendants were arrested this morning. KOLFAGE will be presented today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Hope T. Cannon in the Northern District of Florida. BANNON will be presented today in the Southern District of New York. BADOLATO will be presented today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Wilson in the Middle District of Florida. SHEA will be presented today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Kristen L. Mix in the District of Colorado. The case is assigned to U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres in the Southern District of New York.
Bannon has pled not guilty to charges of wire fraud and money laundering. He has been freed on a bond of $5 million and ordered to remain in the US pending trial.
After Trump’s 2016 election victory, Bannon boasted that he was the Tudor Thomas Cromwell of England
“Blocking Huawei is ten times more important than reaching a trade deal”.
“China has become America’s greatest enemy”.
“For me, economic war with China is everything”.
” Racism is a must-win and the president should not distance himself from white supremacists.”
In China, Bannon is called “the living fossil of paranoid madness” because his attitude toward China can no longer be described as hostility. It can be said to be hysterical, or even insane. He once claimed that the China-US trade dispute was a “fundamental clash.” Bannon simply has no idea about the globalized world and the complexity of major power relations. He is trying to make greed and fear the basic guideline for the US’ China policy, according to some Chinese observers.
Trump, when asked about the arrest of former adviser Bannon, said, “I feel terrible. I haven’t dealt with him in a long time. I haven’t dealt with him at all, I don’t know anything about the program. It’s very sad and surprising for Mr. Bannon.”
Bannon called his arrest a “political hit job” and vowed to fight the charges against him of fraud tied to a fundraising campaign purportedly aimed at supporting Trump’s border wall.
War
The PLA likely sent warships, warplanes, used radar installations and satellites to track the US warship’s movements in the Taiwan Straits, and the US vessel would be stopped if it crossed the red line, exactly what the Americans are expecting to happen with their provocation.
The Chinese mainland must be fully prepared for the worst. We surely do not want a war now. But we should be the one that is least afraid of the situation spiraling out of control as we are defending the territorial integrity.
Future Leader for China: Moving China’s 2016 Person of the Year
中國2016年度人物秦玥飛 ：耶鲁村官
秦玥飞，男，1985出生，重庆市人。1998年就读于重庆第二外国语学校。2001年考入重庆南开中学，毕业时，他参加美国入学标准化考试，获得绝对高分，后考取美国耶鲁大学，获得该校一年46892美元的全额奖学金，享受学费、住宿、书费、旅行费等多项免费服务。当年，耶鲁在中国只录取了两名高中毕业生。
现任湖南省衡山县福田铺乡白云村大学生村官、黑土麦田公益(ServeforChina)联合发起人。2011年，大学毕业时，秦玥飞选择回到祖国农村服务，到衡山县贺家乡当了大学生村官，带动农民创新创业，一干就是六年多，且成绩卓然，深得乡亲认可和爱戴。2013年被评为央视“最美村官”，立个人一等功一次。2017年2月8日，获得“感动中国2016年度人物”十大人物。2018年1月，当选为第十三届全国人民代表大会代表。2018年全国两会上，秦玥飞提出了关于精准扶贫和乡村振兴的议案。
Yuefei Qin, male, born in 1985, native of Chongqing.He studied at Chongqing No.2 Foreign Language School in 1998. In 2001, he entered Chongqing Nankai Middle School.When he graduated, he took the American Standardized Test for Admissions and scored absolutely high.After that, he entered Yale University and received a full scholarship of US$46,892 a year from the university. He enjoyed tuition, accommodation, books, travel expenses and many other free services. That year, Yale only admitted two high school graduates from China.
In 2011, after graduating from university, Qin Yuefei chose to return to rural China to work as a university official in He Township, Hengshan County, Hunan Province, where he convinced farmers to start their own businesses. CCTV “the most beautiful village official”, a personal first-class merit. 8 February 2017, won the ”
ten Moving China 2016 Person of the year” . 2018 January, elected as a deputy to the 13th National People’s Congress. At the 2018 National People’s Congress, Qin Yuefei proposed a bill on precision poverty alleviation and rural revitalization.
VR Code (Visual Recognition)
The Three Gorges Dam is set to face the largest ever flood peak since it was built
The Three Gorges Dam in Central China’s Hubei Province on Thursday is set to face the largest ever flood peak since it was built. The reservoir has been ready to confront the challenge by coordinating with dams at its upper stream to retain the flood water, said the Three Gorges Corp.
The latest hydrometeorological forecasts estimated the inflow flood peak of the Three Gorges project will reach 73,000 cubic meters per second at 8 am on Thursday, the largest volume since it was built in 2003.
To confront the flood peak, dams in the upstream of the Yangtze River – including Wudongde, Xiluodu and Xiangjiaba dams, also managed by the Three Gorges Corp – will work together under “elaborate deployment and operation” to jointly retain the flood, the Three Gorges Corp said in a statement it sent to the Global Times on Wednesday.
The dams will sufficiently exert the flood defense function of a cascade reservoir within the basin, and are expected to ease the flood defense pressure for Southwest China’s Sichuan Province and Chongqing Municipality, as well as the Three Gorges project, according to the statement.
It is estimated the inflow water peak will be cut down to 68,000 cubic meters per second from 70,000, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the discharge flow of the Three Gorges project will increase to 46,000 cubic meters per second from 42,000 under the demand of the Changjiang Water Resources Commission under the Ministry of Water Resources.
On Saturday, the Three Gorges Dam withstood the No.4 flood of the Yangtze River of the year, which had an inflow of 62,000 cubic meters per second.
Two days after, the No.5 flood occurred along the upstream of the Yangtze River.
Several branches of the upstream of the Yangtze River saw record flood peaks due to constant heavy rainfall.
Southern China has been suffering severe floods this summer. The Chongqing Municipality on Tuesday launched a Level I emergency response to flood defense as the No.5 flood of the Yangtze River hit the city with a population of 31 million.
Taiwan’s OTT-TV ban politicizes cultural interactions with the mainland
The economic affairs authority of Taiwan launched a new rule targeting technology giants iQIYI and Tencent from carrying out “illegal operations” in Taiwan without an official license, which experts said is a move that reflects Taiwan Democratic Progressive Party’s desire to follow in the US footsteps and create problems via political manipulation in an attempt to diverge from the mainland.
The authority has given OTT-TV 14 days notice, after which the plan will be officially announced on September 3, according to a statement by the Taiwanese economic affairs authorities on Tuesday.
An OTT media service is a streaming media service offered directly to viewers via the internet, meaning it bypasses cable, broadcast, and satellite television platforms, and therefore any local controls too.
In July this year, the Taiwan communications authorities adopted draft measures on the management of internet audio-visual services to cater to OTT service providers both in and outside the region. Such an approach is considered an attack on OTT practitioners on the mainland, and has also been referred to as “iQIYI, Tencent terms” in Taiwan.
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