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But the parody then called into question the authenticity of the government publication's Twitter account.
"Investigating unauthorized @PDChina account," read one tweet. "Initial data indicates 2,000 followers since May 2011."
The Relevant Organs boasted its own credentials made it a more credible outlet, with the entire population of China as its audience: "We have over 5,000 years of history and 1.3 billion followers... Which news source would YOU trust?"
Having been largely inactive since 2013, The Relevant Organs also poked fun at the late timing of the protest against its account.
"Smoking gun: So-called @PDChina "caught" us a year after our retirement. Much too fast for a real Party news organ. Rookie move, comrades."
The Relevant Organs is much loved by China watchers since it first tweeted in 2010, "Ardently celebrate the triumphant registration of the Twitter account!"
The spoof account, with some 14,000 followers, accurately mimics the turgid, formulaic writing and speaking style of China's authorities and state media.
The Relevant Organs has previously lampooned North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Bo Xilai, the former Communist Party boss of Chongqing who was jailed last year for corruption, and foreign media working in China.
Numerous Chinese state media outlets use websites blocked in China like Facebook and Twitter for publicity, including state broadcaster CCTV, People's Daily, and official news agency Xinhua.
Mick Jagger's Son James Looks Just Like Him!
You can’t always get what you want, but if you tune into HBO's upcoming 1970s rock 'n' roll series, you can get a Mick Jagger look-a-like!
The Rolling Stones frontman is executive producing the show, which stars the eldest of his three sons, 29-year-old James, a series regular and a spitting image of his rock star dad.
He's certainly got the Jagger looks, from Mick's signature sneer to his lean physique and skinny legs. James was spotted filming scenes for the as-yet-untitled show in the East Village on Wednesday, with guitar in hand, and the resemblance to his dad is uncanny.
Martin Scorsese directed the pilot of the show, which is set in 1970s-era New York City and will co-star Bobby Canavale, Ray Romano, and Olivia Wilde. James plays Kip Stevens, the lead singer of an early punk rock band called the Nasty Bits.
Seems like the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree!
Peter Subled, a 45-year-old farmer at Ahyiayem Bronye near Yamfo in the Brong Ahafo Region, on Wednesday, October 13 shot dead his wife Glayeni Laar, 38, also a farmer and committed suicide in the bush.
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Samuel Latebu, Duayaw Nkwanta District Commander of Police where the case was reported, told the Ghana News Agency that Peter and his wife lived with their five children at Ahiayem Bronye.
He said there had been a misunderstanding between the couple for sometime and at about 2000 hours on that fateful day a fight ensued between them and in the process Peter took a gun and shot at the wife, killing her instantly.
ASP Latebu said neighbours who heard the gunshot rushed to the scene and met Peter at the entrance of the house running away with the gun and but for fear of being victims they could not arrest him.
He said the crowd however entered the house and saw Glayeni lying in a pool of blood.
ASP Latebu said the case was reported to the police who went to the scene to take the deceased to St John’s of God hospital at Duayaw-Nkwanta.
He said a search party found Peter’s body hanging dead on a tree.
The two bodies have been deposited at the hospital’s mortuary pending autopsy whilst police investigations is on-going.
In other words, just a normal day in Trump’s America. The Boston Globe named itself America’s protector of the free press and is coordinating a day designated for newspapers across the country to run editorials declaring war on President Trump’s labeling of the press as the enemy of the people.
‘‘We are not the enemy of the people,’’ said Marjorie Pritchard, deputy managing editor for the editorial page of The Boston Globe, referring to a characterization of journalists that Trump has used in the past. The president, who contends he has largely been covered unfairly by the press, also employs the term ‘‘fake ...
So the day designated for the war on Trump’s words is August 16 and so far lots of editorial boards across America are only too happy to jump on the bandwagon. Was there ever any doubt? This is just another day at the office.
As of Friday, Pritchard said about 70 outlets had committed to editorials so far, with the list expected to grow. The publications ranged from large metropolitan dailies, such as the Houston Chronicle, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Miami Herald and Denver Post, to small weekly papers with circulations as low as 4,000.
The press has never supported President Trump and both print and television network coverage has been grossly skewered negatively against him. A regular American can easily understand Trump’s distrust of those covering his administration when he learns that 91% of his coverage is negative.
The New York Times is so proud of itself and their coverage of Trump that the reporters and board of directors participated in a four-episode mini-series for Showtime. Called “The Fourth Estate”, the series made the reporters the story and that is exactly what is wrong with today’s reporters. No one is interested in a ...
President Trump calls out the reporting that is ideologically-based rather than based on just the facts of a story and calls it fake news. All presidents have an adversarial relationship with the press (except when the press took an eight-year sabbatical during the Obama administration) and Republican presidents are hi...
Maybe the president’s declaration that the press can start a war sent the Boston Globe over the edge. While I admit the hyperbole was strong with that statement, it is easy to understand those who were making that claim during the administration of George W. Bush and the lead-up to the Iraq war. There were lots of stor...
I’ll leave you with this quote from the Boston Globe’s deputy managing editor which I think shows the arrogance of this upcoming day-long exercise from the press. She says the newspapers will use differing words. I’m willing to bet that most of them will read exactly alike, full sentence structure and all.
It’s all for you, America. Our betters in journalism just want to educate us about the First Amendment. The editor “hopes the editorials will make an impression on Americans.” Don’t worry, for at least half of the country, they already have and it’s not that for which she hopes.
One of the largest-ever supermassive black holes, found in one of the universe’s more sparse areas, has blown astronomers’ minds, with many wondering just how many are out there?
Weighing the equivalent of 17 billion suns, a recently-discovered supermassive black hole has thrown a spanner in the works for astronomers. Previously, it was thought the more populated the system, the larger the black hole.
But, considering the galaxy NGC 1600 is the opposite side of the sky to where most major supermassive black holes are, a rethink is in order. The Coma Cluster is the dense, star-filled domain of many a black hole, with one of the members on the discovery team calling NGC 1600 a desert in comparison.
Chung-Pei Ma, a UC Berkeley professor of astronomy and head of the MASSIVE Survey study of major galaxies, led the recent discovery, noting numerous equivalent sparse galaxies that have yet to be truly investigated.
“Rich groups of galaxies like the Coma Cluster are very, very rare, but there are quite a few galaxies the size of NGC 1600 that reside in average-size galaxy groups,” Ma said.
The biggest supermassive black holes – those roughly 10 billion times the mass of our sun – have been found at the cores of very large galaxies in regions of the universe packed with other large galaxies. In fact, the current record holder tips the scale at 21 billion suns and resides in the crowded Coma Cluster that c...
In related news closer to home, last month scientists saw a major eruption of matter from within a black hole (not supermassive) – something which hasn’t been seen in nearly 30 years.
The black hole designated V404 Cygnus, located approximately 7,800 light years away from Earth, is best known for being the first black hole discovered within our own galaxy and, due to its proximity, astronomers are able to see its major events in considerable detail.
Last year, for the first time ever, NASA witnessed the moment a supermassive black hole shot a giant beam of X-ray light out of its core, lending further clues to how coronas are shaped.
Huawei has finally broken its silence after the Coalition government decided to uphold the ban on the Chinese telecom giant participating in the national broadband network, saying the company is ‘‘extremely disappointed’’.
John Lord, the chairman of Huawei Australia and a former Royal Australian Navy admiral told the company’s staff to hold their heads up high and be ‘‘proud to be Huawei’’.
Mr Lord’s letter to staff came after Prime Minister Tony Abbott categorically shut down the speculation that Canberra was going to relax the previous government’s ban on Huawei.
‘‘While much of this week’s commentary has focused on cyber security,’’ he said in a letter to all staff.
The former fleet commander played down the importance of the NBN to Huawei’s business operation.
Huawei Australia more than doubled its revenue in Australia last year and earned $368 million, a 61 per cent increase from the previous year. It has secured major contracts from major telcos including a contract to build part of Optus’ superfast 4G network.
Mr Lord reiterated the company offer to reveal its technology and source codes to be verified by Australian security agencies. However, Huawei’s offer has so far been ignored by both the Coalition and Labor governments.
He described Canberra’s decision to ban Huawei was ‘‘the exception, not the rule.’’ Huawei is building eight out nine NBNs around the world including Britain’s, a close ally of Australia and the United States.
‘‘These countries have not embraced Huawei cautiously, they have embraced us with open arms,’’ said Mr Lord.
The Chinese telco giant also appointed John Suffolk, the former chief information officer of the British government to be the head of its global cyber security operation.
Huawei’s charm offensive in Britain seems to have paid off.
UK Chancellor George Osborne met Huawei’s chief executive officer Ren Zhengfei, a former Chinese army engineer in China during his recent visit and welcomed a further $2.2 billion of investment from Huawei.
The villain in Meghna Gulzar’s ‘Raazi’ isn’t a heartless Indian spymaster or the jingoistic Pakistan army. It is an idea that diminishes us all — the nation-state.
In The Godfather II, when Michael Corleone kills his older, somewhat dimwitted brother Fredo, it marks his transition to and acceptance of something the audience already knows. Michael is a gangster, and no veneer of sophistication or lies about “doing it for the family” can erase the stain of that murder from his cons...
On the other hand, when Radha kills Birju she is Mother India. A dacoit, a thief, a murderer — even though he is all these things because of a society that is deeply rapacious, violent and hierarchical — Birju’s murder is an act of great courage because the nation is placed above family, Bharat Mata trumps even the tie...
Meghna Gulzar’s Raazi is not worth every naya paisa charged at the box office merely because of the fine performances by Alia Bhatt, Vicky Kaushal and the host of other actors that make the film. Or the masterful subtlety of the way the camera stalks the protagonist and breathes with her. Or even the moments of tension...
Sehmat (Bhatt) follows the family tradition (her father and grandfather worked for the IB) and “agrees” to become a spy, marrying into a Pakistani Brigadier’s family at a time when all-out war between India and Pakistan over the imminent creation of Bangladesh is inevitable. The idea of volunteerism, of Sehmat being Ra...
By making her protagonist a patriot, and her trainer and handler (Khalid Mir played by Jaideep Ahlawat) even more so, Gulzar has managed to do what seemed impossible after Padmaavat: She has made sure that the new guardians of the nation-state see a great hero in Sehmat while humanists of every stripe are left confused...
The villain, at first glance, could be Khalid Mir, the ruthless intelligence agent willing to do what many a handler has had to in the realistic spy novels of John Le Carre and even Graham Greene — eliminate an agent rather than let him/her fall into enemy hands. But as the great spies have taught us, an agent’s greate...
Is the antagonist in Raazi, then, more obvious? The big bad is right there, after all. Much of the film takes place in Pakistan, among that country’s army leadership, in a family of officers all of whom are anti-India and seem to relish the thought of beating their neighbour in a war and quelling the “traitors” in what...
Sehmat is the one who lies and cheats, who has mortgaged every relationship to an imagined idea of patriotism. Her actions (no spoilers, don’t worry) place her in the league of Michael Corleone. And Mother India. In the end, though, she is not just a mindless soldier in a conflict that predates her, and she is in no po...
The real villain in Raazi is an idea that so many of us have forgotten to see as dangerous in recent years. There are still conversations about the number of lives lost, and destroyed, over the years in the name of religion or empire or colonialism or even communism. Yet, since the Treaty of Westphalia, perhaps the “gr...
The lesson in Raazi — for those willing to see it — is that any idea that makes you treat people as a means, as tools to be used and expended, is one that needs to be interrogated. Sehmat’s sacrifice is as great as Radha’s. And sometimes, it might just be better to be anti-national than to volunteer for an idea that ha...
The Pentagon is sending 800 or more additional troops to the Southwest border in response to President Trump’s vow to use the military to block a caravan of Central American immigrants from entering the United States, a U.S. official said.
Defense Secretary James N. Mattis was expected to sign an order Thursday dispatching the troops. They will be limited to providing logistical support to the Border Patrol, which will remain responsible for apprehending anyone crossing the border illegally, the official said.
Trump has seized on the immigration issue ahead of next month’s midterm election, but illegal immigration this year is on pace to be lower than all but four of the previous 45 years.
The military personnel are expected to aid the Border Patrol by building fencing at several key points where it is believed the migrants may try to cross, the official said.
The troops will also assist the Border Patrol with vehicles, tents and possibly medical support, the official said.
The additional troops are expected to arrive along the border beginning next week.
Pentagon officials said they are still working out where the troops will come from and where along the border they will go. Most of them will probably be drawn from National Guard units, though some active-duty troops may be sent as well.
It’s unclear whether the troops will be armed, though Pentagon officials say they always retain the right to defend themselves.
There already are about 2,000 National Guard troops assisting at the border under a previous Pentagon operation.
Restricting the troops to a support role means they would not violate the Posse Comitatus Act, which bars the federal government from using the military in a domestic policing role.
The White House and Senate Democratic leaders clashed on Monday about what Trump administration officials are calling “unprecedented” blocking tactics of nominees from Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer — a charge the Senate Democratic leader scoffed at.
Democrats are attempting to “obstruct the will of the American people and the President’s agenda,” according to the statement.
Just as White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was wrapping the briefing, Schumer’s press office fired off its own statement that pinned the blame for the slow pace of getting senior officials confirmed back on the Trump administration. The minority leader’s statement listed nearly 30 Trump...
Then Schumer himself addressed the matter on the Senate floor Monday afternoon.
“No administration in recent memory has been slower in sending nominations to the Senate,” he said, noting the lack of ethics documents and other pieces of information.
By the White House’s own count, Trump has sent 197 nominations for positions at federal departments and agencies to the Senate, which has confirmed 48. By the time of former President Barack Obama’s first August recess in 2009, the Senate had confirmed 69 percent of his 454 nominations for federal posts, according to t...
The White House on Monday did not offer an explanation as to why it has sent 257 fewer nominations for jobs in agencies and departments to Capitol Hill than its predecessor at a comparable point in its first year. The White House has dramatically picked up the pace of its nominations in June — so much so that a backlog...
Part of the White House’s message was the slow pace is preventing the administration from getting qualified nominees into important national security jobs.
To that end, Short did not say Trump is considering a special session during the August recess so more confirmation votes for the Pentagon and other security agencies could be held.
But, notably, he did tell reporters doing so would be within the authorities of the presidency because, as he put it, Democrats’ tactics are threatening national security.
The European Union also has difficulties in completing a draft proposal of goods and services to exchange with Mercosur in the search for a long delayed trade agreement between the two blocks, revealed Uruguayan vice-president Raul Sendic during a report to the Senate on his recent 10/11 June trip to Brussels for the C...
The Argentine province of Salta has passed a law forcing people to sing a song at every public event declaring that the Falkland Islands belong to Argentina. The law will also require every state school in the province to sing the song, known as ”Lilian Guitián, alongside the national anthem.
British TV and radio personality Chris Evans will replace Jeremy Clarkson as the lead presenter of an all-new Top Gear line-up, the BBC has announced. Evans said he was “thrilled” to get the job, describing the motoring show as his “favorite program of all time”.
Nestle says it will destroy more than $50m worth of its hugely popular Maggi noodles, following a ban imposed by India's food safety regulator following tests have found the instant noodles unsafe and hazardous and has accused Nestle of failing to comply with food safety laws.
Swiss authorities say they have evidence of 53 suspicious FIFA-linked banking relations reported by Swiss banks. Under the Anti-Money-Laundering Framework of Switzerland, banks are required to report any suspicious activity that happens within their accounts. Some of the 53 suspicious reports are among 104 banking rela...
The construction of Home2 Suites by Hilton in Gulf Breeze is moving along after clearing the first of the city's three-step process for the four-story, 109-room extended-stay hotel to go up on U.S. 98.
Gulf Breeze Community Services Director Shane Carmichael said the hotel was approved by the city's Architectural Review Board in late August and now has two more phases to pass before construction can get underway on 2.07 acres at the east end of the Publix complex and just to the west of McClure Drive right on U.S. 98...
The parcels are currently vacant and are owned by GB Hotel III LLC with a mailing address on Emerald Coast Parkway in Destin, according to the Santa Rosa County Property Appraiser's website.
Plans for the 64,000-square-foot hotel include a pool and fitness center, but there is no estimate on when construction might begin, Carmichael said.
"It's too early for me to even guess," he said.
Following evaluation by the city's development review board and the City Council, both scheduled in October, the project from Banyan Investment Group will then go to Santa Rosa County.
Representatives from Banyan couldn't be reached for comment. The company, with an office in Miramar Beach, was also the developers of the Hampton Inn & Suites at 61 Gulf Breeze Parkway.
Carmichael said the Hampton Inn was the third and most recent hotel in city limits when it opened in 2013.
The two other hotels in the city are the Quality Inn at 51 Gulf Breeze Parkway and the Gulf Coast Inn at 843 Gulf Breeze Parkway, next to the Waffle House.
The only other Home2 Suites by Hilton in the area is located at 7753 N. Davis Highway in Pensacola. Carmichael said the design of the Gulf Breeze hotel will be distinct.

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