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The latter part of that definition "extreme agitation of the mind or emotions" strikes me as something interesting. 1. Who wants to give in to something that creates this emotion within them regularly? And 2. If powerful people... government and organizations know this (they do and pay people well to learn about it) than could that not be used as a weapon against others?
As I see people imploding everywhere around me over a plethora of political and social issues... the only thing that is abundantly clear (because these topics are complex, explosive and definitly not clear) is that people are paying less and less attention to their own lives.
It doesn't matter if it is or isn't happening... what matters is that it "could" happen... and that makes amazing humans like you and I a target.
Who benefits from a distracted mass? Those in power. Plain and simple. Those not in power ALWAYS lose in that equation... yet they fight viscously like they have a chance to win.
What has me asking the bigger question is... why?
Why are people so willing to feed their obsession with what distracts them... yet are falling short on the things that will inevitably make their lives better? Why are they so willing to hand over their attention to things that remove them from their own powerful presence in this universe.
We have to stop pretending that we don't have the power within us. We have to stop acting like their worth means more than our own personal worth. We have to refrain from backing something other than our own passion projects and much need glorious gifts in this world.
But here we are... distracted.
What you place attention on... grows. It's called momentum... it's a simple physics lesson that doesn't just pertain to things of matter... but also of things of energy.
As you set to ensure you have a kick-ass week... ask yourself how much you will tolerate distractions. A media pulling you away from your heart-felt opinions. A nasty person... pulling you away from your amazing work. A politician... pulling you away from your brilliant fucking idea... An entertainment ploy... luring you from what makes you so damn entertaining.
You are so much more than any of that. So... stop acting like you are an insignificant player in this universe... and go make some crazy cool shit happen for fuck sake!


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Such an awesome post! I agree that communication is very powerful. I have witnessed the power of communication in the workplace via emails and presentations on a regular basis. I've actually started studying presenting and slide design on my own.
Without reliable command, communication, and control, power centers cannot effectively manage their peripheries. However, every communication system also empowers the peripheries. Print, for example, facilitated the political and cultural hegemony of the West from 15th century onwards, but its spread also gave rise to increasingly potent resistance via nationalist movements throughout the world.
On the other hand, global communication is empowering hitherto forgotten groups and voices in the international community. Its channels have thus become the arena for contestation of new economic, political, and cultural boundaries. Global communication, particularly in its interactive forms, has created immense new moral spaces for exploring new communities of affinity rather than vicinity. It is thus challenging the traditional top-down economic, political, and cultural systems. In Iran, it facilitated the downfall of a monarchical dictatorship in 1978-1979 through the use of cheap transistor audiocassette recorders in conjunction with international telephony to spread the messages of Ayatollah Khomeini to his followers within a few hours of their delivery from his exile in Paris (Tehranian, 1979, 1980, 1993). In the Philippines, the downfall of the Marcos regime in 1986 was televised internationally for all to witness while alternative media were undermining his regime domestically. In Saudi Arabia, a BBC-WGBH program on "The Death of a Princess," banned by the Saudi government as subversive, was smuggled into the country by means of videotapes the day after its premier showing on television in London. In China, despite severe media censorship, the democracy movement in Tiananmen Square spread its message around the world in 1989 via the fax machines. In the Soviet Union, computer networkers who opposed the Moscow coup of 1991 and were sympathetic to Yeltsin, transmitted his messages everywhere despite severe censorship of the press and broadcasting (Ganley & Ganley 1987, 1989; Ganley 1992). In Mexico, the Zapatista movement managed to diffuse its messages of protest against the government worldwide in 1994 through the Internet. In this fashion, it solicited international support while embarrassing the Mexican government at a critical moment when it was trying to project a democratic image for admission to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In Burma or Myanmar, as it is officially known, both government and opposition have employed the Internet in their political struggles. E-mail has been used to achieve rapid global mobilization for withdrawal of Western companies from Myanmar in protest against the government's repressive policies (The Economist, August 10, 1996: 28).
Learning the history of the USA is impossible without getting introduced to Anglo-Saxon culture. Therefore, history teachers often assign Anglo-Saxon essays. If you are having difficulties on how to write it or you'd like to get fresh ideas, read our example below. From it, you'll see how a paper of this kind should look. Also, you can use certain facts presented in our sample for your work. However, you should refrain from plagiarizing so that you won't have problems in your educational affiliation. If you are eager to take some ideas from the sample, you should interpret them in your original way. One more reason why reading the example can be profitable for you is that it can help you to expand your vocabulary.
These are only a few examples. However, they demonstrate that accelerating technological advances in telecommunications and their worldwide dissemination are profoundly changing the rules of international relations. On the one hand, they are facilitating transfers of science, technology, information, and ideas from the centers to the peripheries of power. On the other, they are imposing a new cultural hegemony through the "soft power" (Nye 1990) of global news, entertainment, and advertising. Globalizing the local and localizing the global are the twin forces blurring traditional national boundaries. The conduct of foreign relations through traditional diplomatic channels has been both undermined and enhanced by information and communication resources available to non-state actors. The emergence of a global civil society in the form of over some 30,000 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) alongside nearly some 200 state actors as well as intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), transnational corporations (TNCs), and transnational media corporations (TMCs), has added to the complexity of international relations (Commission on Global Governance 1995). Telecommunications is contributing to changes in the economic infrastructures, competitiveness, trade relations, as well as internal and external politics of states. It also affects national security, including the conduct and deterrence against wars, terrorism, civil war, the emergence of new weapons systems, command and control, and intelligence collection, analysis, and dissemination. The Persian Gulf War provided a glimpse of what future wars might look like. The emergence of an international politics of cultural identity organized around religious, ethnic, or racial fetishisms suggests what the future issues in international relations might be.
Global communication is thus redefining power in world politics in ways that traditional theories of international relations have not yet seriously considered. More specifically, it is bringing about significant changes in four major arenas of hard and soft power (Nye & Owens 1996; Cohen 1996). Hard power refers to material forces such as military and economic leverage, while soft power suggests symbolic forces such as ideological, cultural, or moral appeals. Major changes seem to be taking place in both hard and soft power conceptions and calculations. First, information technologies have profoundly transformed the nature of military power because of emerging weapons systems dependent on laser and information processing. Second, satellite remote sensing and information processing have established an information power and deterrence analogous to the nuclear power and deterrence of an earlier era. Third, global television communication networks such as CNN, BBC, and Star TV have added image politics and public diplomacy to the traditional arsenals of power politics and secret diplomacy. Fourth, global communication networks working through NGOs and interactive technologies such as the Internet are creating a global civil society and pressure groups (such as Amnesty International or Greenpeace) that have served as new actors in international relations. Although no grand theoretical generalizations on the dynamics of hard and soft power are yet possible, trends indicate that the latter is assuming increasing importance.
International Relations theory has been dominated by five major schools of thought: Realism, Liberalism, Marxism, Communitarianism (also known as Institutionalism), and Postmodernism. Table 1 provides a synopsis of the major propositions, principles and processes, units of analysis, and methodologies of these schools. Realists have primarily focused on the geopolitical struggles for power, employed the nation-state as their chief unit of analysis, considered international politics as devoid of moral consensus and therefore prone to violence, and argued that the pursuit of national interest in the context of a balance of power strategy is the most efficient and realistic road to international peace and security (Morgenthau 1985; Kissinger 1994).
In the military arena, the "double sword" feature of communication technologies has led to the paradox of "more is less": More security has meant less security. A few examples illustrate the point. Nuclear weapons have been assumed to be a powerful deterrent force. However, their proliferation has created a greater probability of accidental or intentional nuclear war. Remote sensing by satellites has created a global surveillance system at the disposal of the superpowers. But commercialization of such information is now leading to its availability to those adversaries who can afford the price. Moreover, direct broadcast satellite communication through such global television networks as CNN and BBC is bringing the news of adversaries' strengths and weaknesses to each party far more quickly than was ever possible before.
In warfare, technology is having two contradictory consequences. The conduct of war and resistance against domination are both becoming increasingly robotized and globalized. This is so because the technology is at once global and local as well as both powerful and vulnerable. Terrorism, as the weapon of the weak, has thus been on the ascendancy locally and globally--on the West Bank as well as at the New York World Trade Center, in the Armenia-Azerbaijan region as well as at Turkish and Armenian embassies around the world, at the Oklahoma City Federal Building as well as in Washington, DC.
The idea that stockpiling weapons of mass destruction can gain commensurately higher levels of security for those who possess them is thus proving to be problematical. As military technologies have augmented their hit/kill ratios and communication technologies have improved their powers of surveillance, conditions of permanent insecurity seem to have become more prevalent at the centers as well as at the peripheries of power. The policy implications of this phenomenon for the pursuits of power and peace are far reaching but, for reasons of space, cannot be addressed here.
In addition to traditional intergovernmental diplomacy, global communication seems to have generated three new types of diplomacy, which may be labeled public, people, and virtual diplomacy. The global reach of broadcasting by such networks as CNN, the BBC, Star TV, the Voice of America, Radio Moscow, and Radio Beijing, seems to have led to a shift of emphasis from power politics to image politics (Tehranian 1982; Livingston & Eachus 1995). Public diplomacy has thus assumed an increasing importance in the conduct of foreign policy. Realists such as former Ambassador George Kennan (1993) and former U.S. Secretary of State James Schlesinger (1992) have, in fact, decried this tendency as tantamount to emotionalism in the policy process. James Schlesinger (1992: 17) has argued that the U.S. policies in Kurdistan and Somalia were, in particular, driven by the impact of television images of those human tragedies. John F. Kennedy once summed it up: a videotape is more potent than ten thousand words.
Views of the international system and its most urgent reform needs are thus as fractious as the world itself. The complexities of the world demand international relations theories that can focus on both growing gaps and interdependencies, conflicts and cooperation, violence and peace-building. They also call for policies recognizing that global communication plays a central role in problem definition and negotiation for solutions. But meaningful international communication calls for technical competence and equality of access to the means of communication--a requirement that is sorely lacking in today's world. For example, so long as the whole continent of Africa has fewer telephone lines than the city of Tokyo, global communication will continue to be largely a one-way flow. Industrial countries as a whole have over 18 times more telephone lines per 100 people than all the developing countries (UNDP 1996: 193). Since telephones are the linchpin of the emerging global communication system, this situation exacerbates the existing communication gaps in the world. Theory building in international relations clearly requires greater multicultural dialogue in order to build bridges among the competing cultural constructions of world conflicts.
I do believe in the power of words and languages. I'm a french guy, living in Paris, working as a communication executive. I know so many people that could not access the knowledge and the wisdom offered by a few like yourself because they feel stuck or are too lazy to learn, travel and live experiences abroad. Learning and pushing everyday to master the Engilsh (and even the French) language has brought me so much knowledge and connection to this world. Thank you for sharing. Your work is inspirational.
In contrast to public diplomacy, which is essentially top-down, people diplomacy is a bottom-up process. Improving global transportation and telecommunications have increasingly made it possible for ordinary citizens to engage in a game that has been historically reserved for foreign policy "experts." In efforts to mediate and resolve international conflicts, such prominent citizens as Jimmy Carter, Jesse Jackson, and Ramsey Clark have provided examples of the possibilities and constraints of people diplomacy. Numerous other individuals and groups are also engaged in such efforts. The best known of such groups is Amnesty International, an organization devoted to the freedom and humane treatment of political prisoners around the world. Such interventions in the foreign policy process are often resented by the foreign policy establishments as intrusive. However, people diplomacy can serve as a corrective to the governments' narrow or nationalist objectives (Mandelbaum 1966; Hoffmann 1966).

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Sales / Marketing Executive Aslam Energy Pvt Ltd
Sales / Marketing Executive Aslam Energy Pvt Ltd
We are looking for a sales and marketing executives. To sale High speed Diesel and Furnace Oil. Candidate having good strong communication skill to dealing with customers. The Candidate have to make a good Pr with the companies. Experience persons will be preferred.
Education : B.COM, BBA/MBA in Marketing.
Strong Communication Skill, English Fluent, Communication Skill to Dealing with Customers
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Delightful well maintained home at the end of cul-de-sac in quiet family neighborhood. Traditional floor plan w/living room & formal dining, vaulted ceilings & gas fireplace. Light & bright kitchen/den w/cozy breakfast nook & views of the spectacular backyard. Three good sized bedrooms upstairs & tons of storage. Huge 11,325 sf yard w/expansive deck & beautiful mature blue spruce pines provide privacy, perennial garden area, fully sprinkled & fenced. Newer roof, central A/C & two car attached garage.
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Testing in Learning and Teaching; The Annual Western Regional Conference on Testing Problems (13th, San Francisco, California, May 1, 1964).
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ.
The 13th Western Regional Conference on Testing Problems dealt with testing in relation to teaching and teachers. The following speeches were presented: (1) "Testing and the Teaching Act" by Arthur P. Coladarci; (2) "Examinations and the Advancement of Teaching" by Arthur Benson; (3) "An Exploration of Different Teacher Role Expectations" by A. Garth Sorenson; (4) "The Unreconstructed Teacher: Tomorrow's Roadblock" by Robert E. Stake; and (5) "The Role of Testing in the Selection of Teachers of English" by Edward S. Noyes. (KM)
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Role Perception, Teacher Certification, Teacher Education, Teacher Role, Teacher Selection, Teaching, Testing, Testing Problems
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OVER MY LIFETIME I've had many opportunities to learn about grief. I've lost a lot of close family members: one brother, four grandparents, one son, two uncles, two parents and a mother-in-law, one husband. When a family member dies, there are all those departure-from-life tasks to be attended to, most immediately the care and disposal of…Read More
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One of the human qualities I most appreciate, about myself and about others, is curiosity, and its cousin courage. A person who wonders is a person who is engaged with life regardless of their age or circumstances. From the trivial (how many people DO live in Chicago?) to the profound (why did God bother to…Read More


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I made a taco salad bar for supper tonight. I had fun and made Mexican Street Corn and all sorts of fun toppings for it. It was HUGE hit!
I also applied for a number of seasonal jobs which would be ideal for my homeschool schedule. I spoke several people and have a good feeling. One person even told me to let him know if I lost I interest because he was already scheduling me for the end of April in his mind.


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The Ethics of Emergencies by Ayn Rand
Using "The Ethics of Emergencies" by Ayn Rand (pp. 215-218), develop an essay between 2 to 3 pages discussing her ideas in today's moral environment.
Rand grew up in Russia in the early 1900s and later immigrated to United States in 1926. Coming from a socialist society may explain her total rejection of the ethical altruism concept. Although altruism and socialism don't mean the same thing, one can see how the meaning of altruism can be thought of as one of the pillars of socialism. Based on Rand's writings, she only recognizes the extreme or ideal definition of altruism which is the concern for the interest of others while disregarding one's own interest.
To restore U.S. prosperity, Rand's philosophy has vital things to teach: what genuine self-interest and happiness consist of, why their pursuit is moral, and what political condition they demand, the full freedom of the Declaration of Independence. Rand provided a philosophic foundation for the Declaration's radical ideas. She believed morality's purpose isn't to command you to sacrifice your interests for the sake of others but rather to teach you the rational values and virtues happiness. The deepest cause of today's financial crisis is our distance from this ideal. Participants are not free to pursue their self-interest because the government usually overrides your decision to achieve "public interest". This fault lies not in the people but in the immoral system in which they had to act.
Atlas Shrugged is a story about a future world in which the entire globe, with the exception of America, has fallen under the rule of various "People's States" or dictatorships. America, the only country that is not yet fully socialized, is sliding rapidly in that direction, as it increasingly accepts the ideas that lead to dictatorship, ideas such as self-sacrifice is noble, self-interest is evil, and greedy producers and businessmen have a moral obligation to serve the "greater good" of...
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In San Jose city,it is not only the owning of auto insurance in San Jose is mandatory. It also includes following the traffic laws dutifully. DWI and DUI laws allow a BAC (Blood Alcohol Content) level up to 0.08% for drivers over 21 years old, 0.04% for commercial drivers and 0.01% for drivers between 18 to 21 years. No alcohol is permitted to younger drivers than 18 years.
DWI/DUI has been a major cause of death and injury in San Jose city. Make sure to respect these regulations while you're driving your vehicle. However, if you are drunk and you are stopped by a police officer while driving your vehicle, you should know which penalties to expect.
If you are an over 21 driver, the penalties for exceeding the maximum allowed BAC level varies depending on the number of offense. If this is your first offence, you could end up with a 6 months imprisonment or you could get a fine up to $1000. If your are found guilty to have violated the DWI law, you will also receive the following penalties: your driver license will be suspended for 6 months and receive two points to your driving license; your vehicle may be impounded and you will be needed to pay storage fees; and you might be required to drive using the Restricted License and become eligible to reinstate your driver license only after 30 days of mandatory suspension after meeting all reinstatement requirements. If you find yourself to a second offense you will receive the following penalties: a possible imprisonment for up to one year or a fine up to $1000 and you will have your driver license suspended for two consecutive years and you will also get points on your driving record. You might also receive an imprisonment sentence for less than one year or a fine up to $1000. Also, if you are found guilty of DWI law's violation, you will be suspended for three years and two points will be added to your driving license.
In case you're not yet 21 but you are over 18 and you had a BAC level greater than 0.01% when you submitted the breath or blood alcohol test, you will get specific penalties. Your driver's license will be suspended for one year or even revoked if you are convicted under the "minor in possession / other alcohol offenses" law, and two points will be added to your driving record. In addition, you will have to pay a fine up to $100. If you find yourself at a second offense within one year, the specific fine will go up to $200 and you will no more be granted with a Restricted License. If a third offense occurs within one year, you will have to pay a fine of $300. If your BAC level is exactly 0.01%, the Peace Officer is allowed to issue you a 30-days temporary license. Still, your driver's license will be suspended. If you got arrested with a BAC level of 0.05%, you will receive an order of suspension and you will be detained till handed over to juvenile authorities or your parents. If your BAC level is greater than 0.08%, you may be arrested by the peace officer. Regardless of your BAC level, your vehicle can be impounded for up to 30 days if you are caught in possession of alcoholic drinks in your vehicle. You might also be requested to pay a fine up to $1000 and your driving license will be suspended for one year. Moreover, the Department of Motor Vehicles could decide to delay your first driving license by one year. In addition to all these penalties, other '21 over' specific penalties may apply, if you were found guilty of DWI/DUI laws' violation.
What about the commercial drivers? Here are the possible penalties to be received if you have a commercial driver license (CDL) and found with a BAC level higher than 0.04%: you will no more be allowed to drive a commercial vehicle for one year with two points on your driving record. If you are found with a BAC level greater than 0.04 while driving a commercial vehicle containing hazardous materials, you might get your CDL suspended for up to three months. If you are convicted for a second offense of DWI/DUI, you will lose your CDL license for life, therefore, you will be never ever allowed to drive again a commercial vehicle.
If you are found with a BAC level exceeding the maximum allowed level while driving, you can schedule an administrative hearing in maximum 10 days of the suspension or revocation notice. It is mostly recommended to consult a specialized DWI/DUI lawyer. If you will not request a hearing in maximum ten days of the notice, the suspension/revocation becomes final and begins in the 30th day after the arrest. If your case involves serious injury or even death, you might also be punished under the Three Srikes Law of California. This law means that California state court must impose harsher sentence on the persons convicted of three or more serious criminal offenses. This law significantly increases the prison sentences of persons convicted of a felony and who have been previously convicted of two more violent crimes or serious felonies.
To be safe, avoid drinking if you plan to drive your vehicle. If you have drunk and you really need to change you location, consider one of the following actions: postpone your travel if it's not very urgent, call a cab if possible or find someone else to drive your vehicle for you.
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A Lot Of Harmful Info Was Spread By Guides With Personal Agendas
A Lot Of Harmful Info Was Spread By Guides With Personal Agendas
One good thing about Google is that for the most part, it doesn't have an agenda — though people can try to game it with SEO, and the site has stimulated changes in hopes of fighting "fake news." And sure, it allows for "sponsored" search results, but those are clearly labeled. You ask Google a question, it'll give you a bunch of results, and you can choose for yourself whether the answers provided by CNN are more reliable than the ones on Infowars. ChaCha guides like Curtis used the same tools we all use today to answer questions 😛 TAGEND
"When we got a question from a texter and we didn't have an answer at the ready, we Googled it the majority of cases, or used Wikipedia. You'll be happy to know we actually used Cracked on occasion. I recollect[ the questions] being about weirder things for Cracked, but it was a more than acceptable site to use." But since you were getting the answer texted to you, there was no way to vet the quality of the source your guidebook picked. Curtis noted that "a lot of guides quoted the first answer they found. The answer could be from Harvard or NBC or something good, or it could be from some guy's blog. Or they got the answer from a site that mixed things up."
Curtis get burned by his own employer on this once: "There was a time where I was dating a girl from New Hampshire and I couldn't recollect the capital. I discreetly texted that to ChaCha and I got back 'Nashua.' I asked her if she ever went to the Capitol up in Nashua, and she looked REALLY offended."
Curtis was eventually moved to QA, where it got even worse: "This was at the time of the whole Obama birth certificate debacle, and we were often asked 'Was Obama born in the U.S ., ' and several guidebooks, some of whom I suppose had agendas, copied and pasted from bloggers: 'While Senator Obama claims to have been born in Hawaii, as of yet there is no proof that he was.' And the latter are passing that off as fact. Anytime I considered them write that, whether it was intentional or not, they were reported." Curtis continues: "There were other conspiracies — like the moon landings — guides would copy and paste from blogs. But the Obama birth certificate answers we had to watch like hawks."
ChaCha basically dealt with all the problems of the modern internet. For instance, there were people trying diagnosis for their maladies, but instead of read WebMD and deciding they had cancer, they would text Curtis and his comrades — none of whom had any relevant medical training or experience. "One guide that wasn't caught for three months was patently big on alternate medication, because any medical question they had was answered with non-medical things, like being cured by herbs or massaging pressure points."
He told us one story in which a client asked what they should do if they believed they were developing cataracts. The only responsible answer would be "Go see a doctor." But "The guides answer was 'The use of apple cider vinegar can remove cataracts.' I entail, holy shit. When I saw that, I gazed at my screen for a good minute, because I didn't believe they wrote that."
ChaCha Got A Lot Of Questions From Criminals
ChaCha Got A Lot Of Questions From Criminals
Everyone reading this has asked Google about at the least one illegal act, from "How do I safely pirate movies? " to "How do I tell whether this is heroin or only roofing tar? " Most of those search queries come out of idle interest, with no intent of ever committing a crime. And thankfully, Google don't judge.( The government is another story, though .) But it was a bit different for the human "guides" of ChaCha.
"There were lots of suspicious questions. Like 'How do I pick a lock? ' and we would give the basics on how locks are picked , not actually doing it. I got a text once in which they said 'How do I pick a model something lock? ' and dedicated the exact model number. I recurred the basic definition of lockpicking."
Lockpicking was a popular query from ChaCha's apparently sketchy user base. Curtis recalled one text conversation that a co-worker of his reported 😛 TAGEND Texter : "How do I pick the lock on a vehicle door? "
Nick :[ Vague Explanation on how picking locks work]
Even though they were "9 9 percent sure[ the texter] was trying to break into the car, " Curtis and his colleague couldn't do anything about it. It wouldn't have been good for ChaCha's bottom line if their users started getting busted for search queries. And it wasn't only robbery that people had questions about: "I get questions like 'Does an dime bag of marijuana really cost $50? ' or 'What's an 8-ball? ' and they were from people obviously buying drugs and wanting to know if they could get ripped off."
At least those are relatively harmless questions. Telling someone the average price of a dime bag isn't going to add any harm to the world. But then: "Sometimes I got a 'Will[ fill in the medication here] get me high if I snort it? ' or 'Can I get drunk by falling vodka in my eye? ' They weren't always illegal, but they were really stupid. I added that it was dangerous and not recommended, but I had to write in that yeah, you can snort ashes or fell vodka."
And yes, of course people asked how to build meth: "What we did was give the chemical names. Like, we couldn't say 'cough medicine, ' we said the long words of what made up meth. This route, we aren't telling them what they're in. This stopped most people. But a few hours I get follow-ups. There was a question about cracking, and they asked next 'Is baking soda an ingredient in fissure? ' And I had to be vague. I guess I said, 'Baking Soda can be used as an ingredient in crack cocaine, the manufacture and use of which is illegal.' Whatever the DEA website said about it. For good measure, I included at the end 'According to the DEA website.'"
Curtis' hope was that this scares the hell out of people off before things got to the point where he had to report someone. That voices laughably naive now, but to be fair, we didn't really know "the internet" back then.
Guides Literally Had To Do Other People's Homework
Guides Literally Had To Do Other People's Homework
To bad students without smartphones, ChaCha must have seemed like a gift from the heavens: "Some nights we got the same question from three or four different texters. I remember having fun with exactly 20 questions on themes and symbolism in The Outsiders one night, and they voiced word for word off a worksheet."
And as if this was all some weird horror movie, the texts could even be coming from inside your own dormitory: "I was in a statistics class in college, and we were assigned a number of even-numbered topics. I was actually doing my homework for that, and for a transgres, I decided to ChaCha a few questions. By 'coincidence' my second question was a statistics question. But as soon as I read it, it voiced really familiar. I was like, 'Wait a minute, ' and I seemed in my volume, and sure enough, all of the questions were coming from the same statistics volume I had … I did one of my classmates' homework, but I didn't know who."
Curtis also got a number of questions that were very clearly from kids in the middle of taking the SAT or ACT: "I knew they were SAT topics because I twice got a text back saying 'Mr. Johnson will no longer be asking questions because his phone has been confiscated.'"
There Was A Constant Barrage of Sex Questions
There Was A Constant Barrage of Sex Questions
64 percent of Google searches are related to fucking in some way. We built that number up, but surely, if anything, that's on the low side, right? Curtis, too, got a lot of fuck topics: "I was asked 'How do I masturbate? ' often enough. That's something I really can't answer, so I had to give a vague description like 'For men, they do this. For women, they do this.' Not how, but a vague idea. And for 'they do this' I said 'sexually stimulate penis/ vagina by oneself, ' which I copied nearly word for word from Wikipedia. There would be follow-up topics like 'No, how do I do that to myself.' And I had to find the best answer online that wasn't too long. We were actually asked about how to masturbate so many times that it became a PAQ, which entails Previously Answered Question. We had a stock answer for it."
And of course, "I got a lot of questions only teenagers with text access would ask: 'What's a Cleveland Steamer' or 'Alaskan Pipeline, ' because that's something they would giggle at, and I had to look up unspeakable sexual acts. I ran chiefly nights, and these always came in at 10 p.m. or subsequently. And that built me an expert on sex act and everything, because I had to look them up all the time. It actually still comes up in dialogue. Some weird act like 'The Flying Camel' would be referenced on a demonstrate, and my friends would ask what that is, and I'd say 'I know that! ' and explain it. Two years of ChaCha was like getting an associate's in gross sex things."
Curtis' position also gave him a more heartbreaking insight into the nation of sex education in America: "The question that astonished me the most, which I often got on a regular basis, was 'Where is the vagina on a woman? ' At first I always dedicated the textbook explanation, but every time I said that, the follow-up topic would be 'But where is it? If I look at a woman, where is the opening at? ' And it wasn't merely guys. I also had 'How low is a penis on a man? ' and 'Does sex hurt? '"
What ridiculous questions. We all know those answers now — "Just below the belly button, " "As low as possible, " and "It is agony, every single time."
ChaCha Got Some Very Serious Topics
ChaCha Got Some Very Serious Topics
"The way ChaCha ran was that we would get texted a question, and we would have several minutes to answer. If they had more topics after the answer, we would stay with them, because the texter would probably have questions with a similar theme, and it would be easier to search. Like, if they asked what year some movie won an Oscar, the next question might be about relevant actors or something. It attained sense."
"We didn't have their info in front of us, but he asked her via a text 'Are you OK? ' while 'Nick' called ChaCha to see what they should do. ChaCha had the number, and it turned out to be the next area code over. They let the police know, and they somehow traced the texter down. Paul and I were asking questions of our own, but it wasn't our strong suit. We were worried and way out of our depth. Paul had the great idea to talk with her about her chore, and that distracted her long enough. The police got there, but I guess she had calmed down enough that there wasn't any negotiations or anything. The police got there, and she willingly went with them. The police officer told us this so matter-of-factly. 'We asked her to come with us down from the roof( the building was five stories ), and she complied.'"
While that was harrowing, some potentially hazardous questions were at least funny to write about: "I had a texter ask 'Can I shoot a shotgun shell out of a flare handgun? ' and because of our standards, I had to say 'While a shotgun shell can be fired from the same mechanism as many flare guns, it is extremely dangerous to do so.' I sent another text dedicating a little about the plastic of a flare gun being no match for a shotgun shell running off. I didn't get any questions after like 'How can I reattach my fingers? ' so I'm assuming that dissuaded them."
Most Of The Guides Were Just Plain Bad At It
Most Of The Guides Were Just Plain Bad At It
ChaCha's whole business model revolved around hiring college-aged know-it-alls who were ready to work inexpensive.( Sound … curiously familiar, doesn't it ?) Before he moved up to QA, Curtis got a measly 2 pennies per answer. "Only those insufferable know-it-alls moved up, so everyone's point of contact or boss had that same 'I know everything' attitude, combined with not wanting a more established task. I was QA for my last stretch of the job, so I probably fall under this category too, but I admit it."
Google Instant Answers and the advent of ubiquitous smartphones were surely two bullets in ChaCha's corporate kidneys, but Curtis doesn't think that either factor fully explains the service's downfall: "What killed us was the management. Answers get longer lags, and became more and more deigning. We were supposed to give a straight answer , no muss , no fuss. But guidebooks started[ answering] simple questions like 'What's 85 divided by 22? '[ with something like] 'You know calculators have been invented, right? ' or 'You didn't learn this in grade school? ' I alerted them about this, but no one truly listened."
Curtis was actually fired for giving the correct answer to a question, "because the supervisor thought it was wrong, despite find knolls of evidence to the contrary. It was some topic on a war. It really bothered me, because now we were devoting THEIR version of history instead of documented history. During QA, I corrected that question because I couldn't stand find it sent out as wrong, and I was "lets get going" because of it. Two people were let go because someone refused the facts."
It's possible that Curtis is giving us a biased account here. But the evidence seems to back up his claim that, by the end of its running, ChaCha was slightly less accurate than guessing. Thank god we could simply Google that.
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Before the dust has even settled in Hamburg, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel had to face political consequences of her decision to host G20 summit in Hamburg, a city known to be a stronghold of militant leftist groups.
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Others also expressed their outrage at the events in Hamburg.
"Embarrassment for Germany. The pictures of helpless police who could not secure state order and protection of property are a political catastrophe," columnist Gerd Nowakowski wrote in a column in Tagesspiegel.
Spiegel Online wrote that Merkel: "must realise that it is mostly pictures of burning cars and black-clad radicals that will be remembered from the G20 summit".
"Many had warned against hosting such a huge event in a major city with a left-wing radical scene. Now the worst fears have come true – and a dark shadow has been cast over the summit shortly before the national election."
A new poll showed that a majority of Germans – 59 percent – believed the riots in Hamburg damage their country's image.
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Up until this week, the one debate the two Republicans had was on Fox News — a showcase of national issues that highlighted DeSantis but overlooked Putnam's encyclopedic knowledge of the state.
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DeSantis could be overheard as he walked out of the building with his wife, Casey Black DeSantis, and Rep. Matt Gaetz saying that he got more texts during the Fox News debate than the WJXT event, which ran throughout the state, except in the pivotal Tampa Bay market.


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The Attack On Western Civilization, Population Prophesy, Part 2
Jul 09, 2018
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U.S. Governor Richard D. Lamm said, "If you believe that America is too smug, too self-satisfied, too rich, then let's destroy America. It is not that hard to do. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time."
Previously, we cited as prophecies four instances of human behavior, mostly in Europe, that challenge our sense of social balance. Elected political representatives were principals in all but one.
There is another type of human behavior the results of which appear as mass numbers that can provide national or global measurements, but to which no individual names are attached. Population is an example of such a statistic. Whether it applies to small communities or large continents, it is anonymous.
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Numbers are quieter and more easily avoided than political messages and the noise that accompany them. They also have less impact on our consciences and daily lives than personal and community failures which dominate our msm.
We have shown these megacities' population projections for two reasons. First, because they reflect the enormous cultural change that will result from Africa's extraordinary growth. Add the fact that both China's and India's populations will exceed 2 billion by 2100 and we face having over 8 billion of the world's projected 11.2 billion population concentrated in three centers whose religious, political, economic and social practices clash with, and are often inimical to, those of WCIV.
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Manufacturing employment should grow by 1.2%, the ISM said in its semi-annual economic forecast. The results are based on a survey.
Labour and benefit costs should rise by 2.1%, the ISM said. The US dollar will strengthen against all seven currencies of the nation's major trading partners.
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WASHINGTON, July 26—The International Franchise Association (IFA), the world's oldest and largest organization representing franchising worldwide, praised members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee for its ongoing efforts to demonstrate the importance of apprenticeship programs and the American workforce.
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Our sweet little girl finally has a completely finished big girl room – and she loves it! I absolutely love getting to watch her play with her toys in a room I created for her. As anyone who follows my blog knows, pink decor really isn't my thing, but having a daughter makes it a bit hard. Almost everything they sell for little girls is pink, so as a designer, I had to give in and deal with all the pink – especially because it makes her happy too.
You can find most of her big girl room on the blog already, but I wanted to showcase it all as a whole also! One thing that has not been featured is the cute mini 'vanity' I made for her. We had a small open wall that I could not figure out what to do with. After searching around, I came up with the idea to turn a shelf into a mini vanity. We accented the room with gold so I found fancy white shelf hangers and spray painted them gold. Home Depot has pre-cut shelving, so I purchased a 2′ shelf and hung that high enough to act as a 'desk'. I searched for the perfect mirror – my plan was something more antique looking and oval, but when I saw this one at Hobby Lobby I knew it was perfect for the project. I have learned a lot throughout my design projects that sometimes when you have something in mind, you end up finding something even better. And that fur stool – it is so amazing. TJ Maxx knows where its at, however I did find one even better for this project, but I could not make myself spend $80 on a fur chair.
I purchased the rug from Amazon and immediately fell in love with it when I saw it. If you can remember in my DIY house bed blog, we had purchased a different and much more fun comforter. However, this rug clashed with the comforter, so I had to make the decision on which piece I wanted to keep – and I could not part with this super soft fun rug. For decor, I added some simple pieces, like the little sweet dreams eyelashes and her wood sign I made for her nursery. I couldn't just get rid of the sign I spent so much time on, so I had to find a place for it and I am happy with where I chose.
A lot of the decor we used came from her nursery – because really it was still good so why not use it and save money. The room looks completely different even with the same stuff. Another special piece we decided to keep and use is this mobile my mother in law made for our daughter. The colors matched everything else and I felt that hanging it in the middle of the window was the perfect place to display it.
Last but not least, her activity wall – which you have all seen on the blog already. She absolutely loves drawing on the chalkboard and is always sitting her in rocking chair reading books. Her and her big teddy bear spend lots of quality time together in that corner – a present from her Mimi that we couldn't just get rid of!
We kept it pretty simple this time around, but I am happy with the way it turned out. She has an area to draw, play and read – what more can you ask for. I didn't want to overtake the room with things, so I went with the less is more mindset.
Our new sweet baby girl will join the world anyday – oh how excited I am for those newborn snuggles. I hope to continue on with my bi-weekly blogs, but I have never experienced a toddler and a newborn so nothing is promised. The only thing I can promise is that her nursery will be on the blog as soon all the decor is finally here – I guess its true that things get pushed to the side more with baby #2. And I also know that we still have quite a few rooms in our home that still remain unfinished – so when baby sleeps, mama works? Is that the saying?!
As always, thanks for reading!


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The New York Review of Books issued a statement on Monday addressing the sudden departure of its editor last week, saying "we acknowledge our failures in the presentation and editing" of an essay by a man who had been accused of sexual assault.
In the essay, "Reflections From a Hashtag," Jian Ghomeshi, a former Canadian radio broadcaster who was acquitted of sexual assault charges in 2016, wrote about feeling "suicidal" after being ostracized on social media and in Canadian newspapers. Mr. Ghomeshi wrote about suffering "enough humiliation for a lifetime," and claimed that his experience confirmed "the power of a contemporary mass shaming."
The piece caused an immediate backlash, with some criticizing Mr. Ghomeshi and the Review for downplaying the accusations against him, which had come from more than 20 women, rather than "several," as Mr. Ghomeshi wrote.
Five days after the essay was published, the editor, Ian Buruma, left the Review. It was not clear if he resigned or was fired.
On Monday, in the magazine's first statement discussing his departure, it described the "considerable concern" over the essay among readers, adding, "We acknowledge the validity of this criticism." (The unsigned statement was sent from the email address of the publisher, Rea Hederman, with the subject line: "From NYR.")
While citing Mr. Ghomeshi's free-speech rights, the magazine described "our failures in the presentation and editing" of the essay.
[Ian Buruma is out as editor of The New York Review of Books]
The magazine said the "failures began with the decision to not follow the Review's usual editorial practices set up by Bob Silvers and Barbara Epstein," the editors who founded the magazine in 1963. (Mr. Silvers was still editing the magazine when he died at 87 last year. Mr. Buruma took over a little more than a year ago.)
"This article was shown to only one male editor during the editing process," Monday's statement from the magazine continued. "Most members of the editorial staff (including six female members of staff, four of whom worked with Bob and Barbara), were excluded from the substantive editorial process."
Mr. Buruma declined to comment on Monday, saying that he would soon issue a statement with his own version of what happened during the editorial process.
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Chen Hongzhi, the richest man in Liulin County, Shanxi Province
"Chen Hongzhi criminal group is a typical and harmful criminal group in Shanxi's anti-crime activities." In early September, an official from Shanxi's political and legal system told upstream journalists that Chen Hongzhi, the former richest man in Liulin County, Shanxi Province, was suspected of organized crime.
On September 3, Shanxi Changzhi Public Security Bureau issued a circular saying that the procuratorial organs approved the arrest of 39 suspects, such as Chen Hongzhi, for organizing and leading the crime of organized gangs. At the same time, the police also expressed the hope that the broad masses of the people actively exposed and provided clues to the criminal syndicate.
Earlier, CCTV News Channel disclosed the case of Chen Hongzhi, the richest man in Liulin County, Shanxi Province, in an all-round way, with the report that after Chen Hongzhi's arrest, the property involved was detained, sealed up and frozen, with an initial assessment of about 7.84 billion yuan. Only one property, investigators found in Beijing, Taiyuan and other places 341, the number of "amazing." The upstream news also published on September 4, the "Black Gold Empire" which directly attacked the black boss of Liulin County, Shanxi Province, and reported on the status quo of Lijiata Village, Liulin County and its hometown, Mengmen Town, after Chen Hongzhi's capture. It is understood that Chen Hongzhi's residence is more than 3,800 square meters, backed by mountains, looking forward to the Yellow River, had to modify the Yellow River for Feng shui, at home to build a dam.
The official said that violence to make money, "to open the way" is a chief feature of Chen Hongzhi's criminal syndicate, violent means throughout Chen Hongzhi's vicious road to prosperity. Another danger is collusion between officials and businessmen and manipulation of grass-roots political power.
Chen Hongzhi was reported to be guilty of 41 crimes of violence.
A local person in Lvliang told an upstream journalist that he and Chen Hongzhi were classmates, Chen Hongzhi was born in 1975, Lijiata village, Mengmen town, Liulin County. Chen Hongzhi's family is poor and his study is not good. He may feel that there is no way out for reading, and then he goes to serve as a soldier.
In 1999, after Chen Hongzhi retired from the armed police force, he went to the bathhouse to give people a bath because he couldn't find a good battalion. In the process, he met a local dignitary. Seeing Chen Hongzhi's hard-working and clever, he instructed him to do the business of mining stone materials and lent him capital.
After making money from the quarry, Chen Hongzhi raised funds to build the most luxurious Liaoyuan Mall in Liulin County. By opening the mall to operate high-end clothing and restaurants, Chen Hongzhi met more politicians and businessmen in Liulin County. At that time, when the coal economy was booming, Chen Hongzhi contracted coal mines with these people. In 2003 alone, Chen Hongzhi. Hongzhi contracted 5 coal mines at a cost of 258 million yuan.
When the coal economy was booming, everyone knew that contracting coal mines was a profitable business. Few people were willing to give up the right of contracting coal mines. Why could Chen Hongzhi buy five coal mines in a year? Local people said that the ownership of these coal mines are collective villages, for the miners who do not want to be low-priced coal acquisition, Chen Hongzhi ordered the village committee to terminate the contract, for disobedient village committee, Chen Hongzhi ordered the villagers to start a riot, the Village Branch letter and village director to carry on.
A Shanxi media source said that more than a decade ago he had interviewed and reported that Tianjiapo Village had been robbed of a collective coal mine by Chen Hongzhi. After the report was published, Chen Hongzhi grabbed the villagers and pulled out their pubic hair with a pair of pincers to torture the villagers to kill chickens and monkeys.
Local people said that relying on blockade, digging ditches and breaking roads, organizing underworld, forcing low-cost acquisitions, and manipulating grassroots elections, Chen Hongzhi controlled many coal mines at one stroke, established Shanxi Liulin Lingzhi Group as chairman of the board, and quickly rose to become a rich Liulin County. After the bankruptcy of Liansheng energy Xing Libin, who was famous for 70 million marriages, Chen Hongzhi jumped to become the richest man in Liulin.
Set up a "double base" group of CCB penalty teams, and internally deal with the employees before giving them to the police.
A person close to Chen Hongzhi told reporters that Chen Hongzhi had great management skills. His company's salary was much higher than that of other companies, but it was extremely strict, and his half-month salary was deducted if he was not careful. The resignation never wants to get the last few months' salary.
In June this year, a self-claimed victim submitted on the Internet cited Chen Hongzhi's purchasing of the victim, hindering testimony, stealing mining of neighboring mineral resources, digging down security pillars, breaking roads, setting fire, manipulating the town of Mengmen and other townships, election of village committees, illegal detention of village directors, illegal violent demolition of villages, concealment of mine accidents, etc. There are 41 deadly sins.
According to the material, Chengjiazhuang Coal Mine was contracted by Liu Jinqi and Wang Baojun in 2003, and in 2007, Chen Hongzhi purchased the shares of the two men for a total price of 140 million yuan, thus realizing the subcontracting of the coal mine. In the absence of payment for the transfer of Liu Jinqi's shares, Chen Hongzhi forced Liu Jinqi to hand over all the coal-mining formalities by illegally detaining Liu's driver and employee Liu Junyi and Chen Lifang. Cheng Jia Zhuang coal mine has integrated the Changsheng coal industry to become the main coal mine of Lexus group.
For disobedient people, Chen Hongzhi, in the name of "anti-corruption within the company", set up a "double base" for hitting people and employees in Liaoyuan Mall and Coal Mansion in Liulin County. Liulin County and colluded with the relevant personnel of the public security organs, the company "dealt with" the staff and then turned over to the public security organs to attack, public and private punishment, deter all employees.
"Since October 2011, Chen Hongzhi has set up an investigation team in the staff training center next to the coal building. Chen Hongzhi has taken more than a dozen security guards as execution squads, subpoenaed and illegally detained personnel at or above the department level of the company, wounded more than ten people such as Liu Yunchuan and Wang Weibing, and hospitalized them, and then mobilized the Liulin County Public Security Bureau to take over Liu Yunchuan and Wang Weibing. Kang San run and others were sent to the County Detention Center for detention. This material says.
To control the grass-roots political power, more than 10 village cadres are partners.
"In Chen Hongzhi's computer, the investigators found a list of salaries paid to some local civil servants." "Chen Hongzhi has at least manipulated the election of a number of local village-level regimes," Shanxi political and legal officials told reporters.
A senior Shanxi media source said that in Mengmen Town, Liulin County, Chen Hongzhi, through his father, former Fengjiagou village branch, Chen Yuefu, controlled almost all the village committee elections in Mengmen Town. Only by cooperating with the Lexus Group can people who can live in villages get the support of Chen Hongzhi to come to power, so that many "village tyrants" who are criticized or even hated by the masses are elected village directors. Among them, several village directors came to power through Chen Hongzhi's money, bribery election or violent intervention.
Those who did not cooperate were subjected to frenzied reprisals. For example, Chen Qiuping, originally a relative of Chen Hongzhi's family, was appointed Secretary of the Party Committee of Chengjiazhuang Town in April 2016. He was hit and humiliated madly by Chen Hongzhi for failing to cooperate with the Lingzhi Group in the siege of Deng Jiazhuang Coal Mine.
Many local people in Liulin County said that Chen Hongzhi, through his trusted village director, organized petitions from Chengjiazhuang, Tianjiapo and Majialiang villages, and then suspended Chen Qiuping through the county's main leaders on the grounds that Chen Qiuping could not maintain grassroots stability.
Shortly after the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2016, Chen Hongzhi called about Chen Qiuping to the Liulin Coal Hotel. As soon as Chen Qiuping entered the hotel lobby, he was robbed of his mobile phone by security guards. On January 6, 2017, Chen Hongzhi and his father, Chen Yuefu, cut off the water and electricity at the home of Chen Qiuping's parents in Lijiata Village, making it uninhabitable. In the same month, Chen Hongzhi organized several village Party branch secretaries to sign a petition for Chen Qiuping to move out of Chenjiazhuang town. On the Qingming Festival in 2017, Chen Hongzhi deployed personnel to destroy Chen Qiuping's ancestral grave and smash the tombstones.
According to local villagers, after Chen Qiuping was dismissed, Chen Hongzhi and his associates were repeatedly reported to have failed. Chen Hongzhi also tried to find his private reconciliation many times, but he was refused. Chen Hongzhi sent people with money to Chen Qiuping's father, who thought, "Let things rest peacefully." Chen Qiuping's father was an old party member. He said at that time, "My son is an official of the Communist Party, not your Chen Hongzhi official."
After Chen Hongzhi's criminal group was arrested, reporters repeatedly contacted Chen Qiuping for details. However, according to local government sources, Chen Qiuping has been reappointed.
According to incomplete statistics of the upstream news, up to now, including the former Secretary of the Party branch of Che Zeban Village, Mengmen Town, Liulin County, Shanxi Province, Wang Xing, former director of Shi'an Village, Mengmen Town, Li Changjun, former Secretary of the Party branch of Wang Jiayan Village, Che Fengzhi, former director of Helonggou Village, Mengmen Town, Zhang Jiazhuang Township, former Secretary of Tianjiapo Village Branch More than 10 local village cadres were arrested as members of the Chen Hongzhi crime syndicate.
Collusion between government officials and businessmen, purchase of equipment, monitoring and deletion
Another important concern of Chen Hongzhi's gangland criminal syndicates is collusion between officials and businessmen.
According to the notice issued by the Public Security Bureau of Changzhi City in Shanxi Province under the name of "peaceful and long-term governance", three people, Zhang Zeping, a cadre of Liulin County Court, Chen Fuxiang, a staff member of Liulin County Post and Telecommunications Bureau, and Kang Zhixing, a staff member of Lingzhi Group, are suspects of Chen Hongzhi criminal group.
Reporters querying Liulin County court official website found that Zhang Zeping is the president of the court of Cheng Jia Zhuang. According to local people, Zhang Zeping and Chen Fuxiang are husband and wife, Chen Fuxiang is Chen Hongzhi's elder sister. At present, Zhang Zeping has been removed from office and has been arrested recently. Chen Fuxiang is wanted by the Ministry of public security.
Up to now, Liu Lin County Public Security Bureau Criminal Police Brigade instructor Chen Jie, the former Liulin County Public Security Bureau Chengjiazhuang police station director Gao Jianbin and other police officers are members of Chen Hongzhi criminal syndicate.
In addition, according to the aforementioned reporting materials, in 2015 was Shuangkaiyuan Liulin County Party Secretary Wang Ning and Chen Hongzhi "a very strong relationship". Wang Ning previously served as county magistrate of Liulin County. According to the regulations of appointment and removal of cadres at that time, he could only promote or transfer officials from other places to be county Party secretaries. After Chen Hongzhi funded 20 million yuan, Wang Ning was promoted to the Secretary of Liulin County Party Committee in violation of regulations. "If Wang Ning did not listen to Chen Hongzhi, Chen would even slap Wang Ning in public. Through controlling the main leaders of Liulin County, Chen Hongzhi arranged his classmates, relatives and friends in the main functional departments of public security, coal management, land, water conservancy and so on. It provides protection for Chen Hongzhi's illegal occupation of land, cross boundary mining, private digging and illegal exploitation.
Before being arrested, Chen Hongzhi was repeatedly reported. Ten years ago, Chen had been investigated by the Ministry of public security, but was terminated by reason.
In addition, the reporter learned from local insiders, Chen Hongzhi in recent years purchased a set of technical reconnaissance equipment from an enterprise, mainly used to monitor local cadres, and formed a network monitoring and deletion force.
Among them, in September 2017, a large number of network platforms appeared in Liulin County Mujiapo village to demolish people's video and text, netizens were copied and forwarded, but most of the subsequent silence disappeared.
"Like my netizens, I copied and forwarded it. As a result, after we reprinted it for four or five months, Chen Hongzhi suddenly sued me and framed the post. A Baidu Post Bar netizen told the upstream news reporter that after Chen Hongzhi sued, the first instance was convicted, and the case is now in the appeal period.
Yang Rui, an upstream news trainee reporter
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