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Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Just weeks after helping to broker peace between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), President Trump has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize.

The nomination submitted by Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a member of the Norwegian Parliament, lauded Trump for his efforts toward resolving protracted conflicts worldwide.

Tybring-Gjedde:
An idiot? Repeated offender.
Tybring-Gjedde was one of two Norwegian lawmakers who nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 for efforts to bring reconciliation between North and South Korea. Any lawmaker serving in a national legislature can nominate someone for the Nobel Peace Prize.
  • Magnus Jacobsson, a member of the Swedish Parliament, submitted the second nomination. He announced on Friday that he was nominating the Trump administration along with Serbia and Kosovo “for their joint work for peace and economic development, through the cooperation agreement signed in the White House,” adding that “trade and communications are important building blocks for peace.”
Magnus Jacobsson
  • 9-29-20

Joe Biden has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, joining President Donald Trump and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in names put forward. British lawmaker Chris Bryant, a Labour Party member of the U.K. Parliament, told the Evening Standard he put forward the Democrat on Monday.

Chris Bryant, a Labour Party member of the U.K. Parliament
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Journalist war between China and Australia

  • Australia has not provided reasonable explanation for raiding the residences of four Chinese journalists and has not returned all their seized items after Australian intelligence agency staff raided the residences of Chinese journalists in 6-26-20.
  • Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton on Sunday, 9-7-20 warned foreign journalists working in the country they might come under the scrutiny of federal agencies if they provide a “slanted view” of Australian affairs. “If people are here as journalists and they’re reporting fairly on the news, then that’s fine,” Dutton told ABC TV’s Insiders program. He said reporters shouldn’t provide “a slanted view to a particular community.” Dutton wouldn’t confirm reports four Chinese journalists were questioned by Australia’s national security agency ASIO in June, but said there had been “ASIO activity.” “Where ASIO has sufficient grounds for the execution of a search warrant or for activities otherwise, then they’ll undertake that activity,” he said. “If people are masquerading as journalists or business leaders or whoever they might be and there’s evidence that they are acting in a contrary nature to Australian law, then ASIO and the Australian Federal Police and other agencies will act.”
  • The reporters Bill Birtles and Michael Smith sought refuge in the Australian Embassy in Beijing and the consulate in Shanghai while diplomats negotiated their departure. Four days later 9-7-20 , they were cleared to leave the country. Birtles and Smith were the last reporters for Australian outlets remaining in China.
The Australian Financial Review’s Michael Smith and the ABC’s Bill Birtles at an airport
  • Just hours after the reporters landed in Australia, Chinese authorities announced that Cheng Lei 成蕾 , an Australian news anchor for Chinese state broadcaster CGTN , had been arrested 8-14-20 on charges of “carrying out illegal activities endangering China’s national security.”
Cheng Lei: China says journalist 'endangered national security' - BBC News
  • 9-24-20 China has banned entry for Clive C Hamilton and Alex Joske under country’s Exit and Entry Administration Law, after Australia revoked visa of Chinese scholars .
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CU grad returns to his hometown as village official

中大畢業生回鄉當村官 四種語言直播帶貨

李承洋畢業於香港中文大學，在港工作幾年後，毅然放棄即將獲得的香港永久居留權和高薪工作，選擇回鄉發展，成為四川省一個貧困村的第一書記。
年紀輕輕的他走進田間地頭，由徜徉五穀不分徜徉到熟練掌握各種務農技術，贏得了村民的信任和支持。還透過網上直播，用普通話、四川方言、粵語、英文幾種語言向網友推薦茄子、藤椒、高粱燒酒等農產品。李承洋下定決心，幫助四川農民脫貧。

After graduating from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and working in Hong Kong for a few years, Li decided to give up his upcoming permanent residency and high-paying job to return to his hometown and become the first secretary of a poor village in Sichuan province.
He went into the fields, from wandering to mastering a variety of farming techniques, and won the trust and support of the villagers. He also recommended eggplant, rattan peppers, sorghum soju and other agricultural products to netizens through a live webcast in several languages, including Mandarin, Sichuan dialect, Cantonese and English. Li is determined to help Sichuan farmers get rid of poverty.

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Corona is over! Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh declares at rally

The Bengal BJP president made the sensational claim while addressing supporters at a rally in Hooghly on Wednesday.
Visibly happy with the crowd that had gathered to hear him speak, Dilip Ghosh said, “Didi’s [CM Mamata Banerjee] brothers are feeling unwell seeing the crowd here…not due to fear of coronavirus but due to the fear of BJP! Corona is over! Didi is uselessly imposing a lockdown so that BJP cannot hold meetings and rallies.”
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Movie Review

Nomadland – depressing, coming to a neighbourhood in America near you.

Tenet《信条》 – A film director’s wet dream, eivom diputs a.

The Gentlemen – intriguing story-telling, for the sake of telling a story.

Bad boys for life – stupid movie by a couple of overweighted has-beens.

Mulan – for children under 10.5. Big budget trash.

Grand Grandmaster – from Hong Kong, trash.

The war for the planet of the apes – not too bad acting by the apes.

6 Underground – lots of action, one stupid movie. So Americans are the good guys, killing all the bad guys and live happily everafter.

Upgraded – good sci-fi.

Old Guards – sequel coming. Why is she losing immortality and still able to carry on?

Blood Quatumn – Canadian Zombie movie, those natives self-destructed for no good reason, not just killed by the zombies.

Archive – thin plot, boring. The guy is in the archive, not his wife.

Time to hunt – bad story, bad acting. Artificial suspense. A lousy movie from Korea.

John Wicks 3 – overkilled, drags on for too long.

Spenser Confidential – Good action movie, good plot and no crap, reflects USA. Always like Mark Wahlberg.

Cold Pursuit – I like this one. good old American Justice. All the bad guys die.

Polar – sick movie. Vivid violence made for American audiences.

Terminator – Dark Fate, not a bad Terminator movie, Arnold dies along with the new terminator.

Dragged Across Concrete – big on strange English words and footsteps, why did the bad guy rob the convenience store? Weird characters, all of them. The black guy gets all the gold and Mel is dead.

The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil (2019) – from Korea, the storyline is not very convincing even though claimed from a true event. The ganster goes to jail to go after the serial killer, why?

Underwater (2020) – First half is quite intense, second half and the ending makes no sense. Nuclear explosion to kill the Godzilla-styled monster and smaller creatures.

Triple Frontier (2019) – Americans do anything for money with justification. Ben Affleck killed before getting home with the loot, the other four do a good deed by giving their shares to his foundation.

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China-India clash

Each side claims the other side fired the first shot, will we ever know the truth? Does it matter? Will the Indians be able to revenge the humiliation of ’62? I doubt it.

https://youtu.be/WebCop3ZxlM?t=5

9-10-20 A joint press release was announced after the meeting between Chinese and Indian foreign ministers on Thursday, to de-escalate border tensions, and keep dialogue.
If India wants peace, China and India should uphold the LAC of November 7, 1959. If India wants war, China will oblige. Let’s see which country can outlast the other.

　一、两国外长同意双方应遵循两国领导人达成的关于发展中印关系的一系列重要共识，包括不让两国分歧上升为争端。

　　二、两国外长认为，边境地区当前形势不符合双方利益，两国边防部队应该继续对话，尽快脱离接触，保持必要距离，缓和现地事态。

　　三、两国外长认为，双方应恪守现有边境事务协议和规定，维护边境地区的和平与安宁，避免采取任何可能使事态升级的行动。

　　四、双方同意继续通过中印边界问题特别代表会晤机制保持沟通，继续开展中印边境事务磋商与协调工作机制磋商。

　　五、两国外长同意，随着局势缓和，双方应加快完成新的建立互信措施，维护和增强边境地区的和平安宁。

9-12-20 Five Indians, who were allegedly “kidnapped” by the China’s People Liberation Army or as some called went missing in the south Tibet region, are India’s intelligence staff who had disguised themselves as hunters. They recently trespassed the China-India border and entered the Shannan prefecture of Tibet. The Indian side often sends staff via this means to gather intelligence of China. This is how it encroaches China-controlled areas. The Chinese side has detained, warned and educated the five persons, who will be released soon.

These 5 don’t look like Indians, more like Chinese.

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China launched a global data security initiative

Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced in Beijing a global data security initiative《全球数据安全倡议》 on Tuesday outlining principles that should be followed in areas from personal information to espionage.

China’s initiative has eight key points including not using technology to impair other countries’ critical infrastructure or steal data, and making sure service providers don’t install backdoors in their products and illegally obtain user data.

这一倡议的主要内容包括：

　　一是客观理性看待数据安全，致力于维护全球供应链开放、安全和稳定。

　　二是反对利用信息技术破坏他国关键基础设施或窃取重要数据。

　　三是采取措施防范和制止侵害个人信息的行为，不得滥用信息技术对他国进行大规模监控，或非法采集他国公民个人信息。

　　四是要求企业尊重当地法律，不得强制要求本国企业将境外产生、获取的数据存储在本国境内。

　　五是尊重他国主权、司法管辖权和对数据的管理权，不得直接向企业或个人调取位于他国的数据。

　　六是应通过司法协助等渠道解决执法跨境数据调取需求。

　　七是信息技术产品和服务供应企业不应在产品和服务中设置后门，非法获取用户数据。

　　八是信息技术企业不得利用用户对产品依赖，谋取不正当利益。

Wang also said the initiative looks to put an end to activities that “infringe upon personal information” and oppose using technology to conduct mass surveillance against other states.

Companies should also respect the laws of host countries and stop coercing domestic firms to store data generated overseas in their own territory, the initiative added.

Anyone signing up to the pledge should also respect the sovereignty, jurisdiction and governance of data of other states and avoid asking companies or individuals located in other countries to provide data without permission.