China erases billionaire actress Zhao Wei from history
One of China’s most famous and richest actresses has been completely erased and the Chinese government is thought to be behind it.
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....Communism strikes back
Chinese censors are busy setting things straight.
State-controlled social media has been promoting messages including “raise the threshold to become a celebrity”, “virtue before artistry”, and “the rewards of a moral society”.
Chairman Xi himself restated China’s commitment to Communist values at a Central Committee for Financial Affairs meeting earlier this month. He stressed that “Common prosperity is the prosperity of all the people, not the prosperity of a few people”.
“Common prosperity is the essential requirement of socialism and an important feature of Chinese-style modernisation,” he reportedly said. “It is necessary to follow the principles of marketisation and rule of law, and co-ordinate the prevention and resolution of major financial risks.”
It appears Chairman Xi equates independent billionaires with such risk. Especially as growing inequality threatens to undermine his message of eliminating poverty.
But concentrations of wealth are also perceived as threats to the power of the Communist Party, which has imposed strict new regulations on business investment, ownership and control.
...It should be no surprise. Chairman Xi promised to tackle “extreme wealth” when he returned to power for a second term in 2017. But it took until this month’s Central Committee meeting for the formal promise to enforce “reasonable adjustments to excessive income” to be made.
It’s not all about economics. It’s also about power.
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One state Supreme Court case could destroy the court for years to come
The latest scheme to overturn voters’ will could set absurd precedents and irreparably harm our judicial system.
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It would be outrageous.
It would be unprecedented.
It would damage the credibility and validity of North Carolina’s highest court for decades.
It would be nothing short of a bloodless coup d’état by the Democrat majority on the state Supreme Court that would bloody North Carolina’s judiciary for years to come.
It would be a lawless decision, driven solely by politics.
It would render 9.6 million legally cast votes by North Carolina citizens meaningless.
It is likely to happen.
In an astonishing and unprecedented power grab that will overturn 200 years of case law and prior precedents, Democrats on the state Supreme Court are preparing to disqualify and remove two duly-elected Republican Supreme Court justices from a case so they can nullify voters’ decision to amend the Constitution.
The case is NAACP v. Moore and the state Supreme Court’s Democrats are trying to remove two Republican members from the bench, so a new temporary four-to-one Democrat majority can erase two constitutional amendments – the cap on income tax, and the voter I.D. requirement – which were overwhelmingly passed by more than four million votes.