Posted on 09/28/2012 9:14:24 AM PDT by mojito
China's ruling Communist Party accused disgraced politician Bo Xilai of abusing power, taking huge bribes and other crimes on Friday, sealing the fate of a controversial leader whose fall shook a leadership handover due at a congress from November 8.
The once high-flying Bo now faces a criminal investigation that stemmed from a murder scandal, and will almost certainly be jailed. With the Communist Party congress about six weeks away, further steps in the case could come before then, helping pave the way for a transition of power, experts said.
"Bo Xilai's actions created grave repercussions and did massive harm to the reputation of the party and state, producing an extremely malign effect at home and abroad," the official statement from a party leaders' meeting said, according to a report by the official Xinhua news agency.
Bo's wife Gu Kailai and his former police chief Wang Lijun have already been jailed over the scandal stemming from the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood in the southwestern municipality of Chongqing, where Bo was Communist Party chief.
The official statement carried by Xinhua said that in the murder scandal, Bo "abused his powers of office, committed serious errors and bears a major responsibility".
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7.62mm or 9mm brain hemorrhage while in prison?
Here I was worried about the dog, when I saw the headline.
Me too!!!! Lol
He was a patriotic dog, willing to be sacrificed to his master’s ruthless political expediency and Chinese gastronomic peculiarities.
Oh, Bo, not BO.
Hopefully this is a sign for our future in dealing with our own B.O. problem.
So now Obama is asking the ChiComs for dog recipes?
I thought they were talking about Schembeckler.
Or Bo Jackson.
The end of Bo’s political career, and possibly his own life.
It won’t ease the widespread ‘dissatisfaction’ of the peasants. Trouble times ahead in Red China.
The usual recipe to cook up an international incident (cough, disputed island, cough) to shore up nationalism is well underway.
Take a look at this, from the South China Morning Post via ZeroHedge:
A Chinese Mega City Is On The Verge Of Bankruptcy
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-09-27/chinese-mega-city-verge-bankruptcy
But he had a lot of supporters - and it remains to be seen if they are a sufficient force to have any impact on the leadership change next month. I think they are not.
Oh, at first glance I wondered if China had decided the FDOTUS was going to be on their menu.
And there I thought they were going to cook up Zero's dog.
You know it, I know it, and it seems more people inside and outside of China are aware of it.
The miracle growth story is just too good to be true (or too good to last anyway). It turns out to be a worldwide ponzi scheme.
And now the whole world is breathlessly waiting for the next trigger. On top of this is the irrelevancy of the guy sitting in WH right now.
Bo knows mo’ money...no mo’
LOL!
Bo knows. War Eagle!
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