Side by side with some semi-official programmatic commentary on how to " shoulder our contemporary mission 担起我们这代人的使命 ", published on March 29 by People's Network, IBM has placed an animated publicity image offering a highly sophisticated public security system for use within regional police departments in China.
Above: The header of a website linked to IBM China:
IBM's intelligent analytics look into "predicted" crime.
Related News:
美国新法案：限制购买中国IT产品
New law proposed in the U.S.: Limitation to the purchase of Chinese IT products.
[Source: People's Daily / People's Network, Beijing, on March 29, 2013]
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Police again .....
The following screenshot has been taken from a North Korean racing game, online since December 2012. Its name is " Pyongyang Racer ".
Now it seems to be clear that a mortar attack of Syrian Free Army units in Aleppo did not use a chemical weapon as announced by Syrian government and reported by state TV. Casualties observed with breathing problems cannot necessarily be related to a chemical attack. Furthermore, state reported killings of 25 persons cannot be reached by only using "chlorine filled grenades". Such rather primitive weapon had once been used in the trench warfare of World War I. At that time, many soldiers had been severely wounded, however not killed, on the battle-fields of Verdun and Ypern, including later Nazi leader Adolf Hitler who would have not survived a documented gas attack if that weapon had been such dangerous as reported by Syrian government sources.
Syrian rebels reject accusations from the regime of having used chemicals.
وفي غضون ذلك, قالت منظمة الصحة العالمية إنها سترسل إمدادات طبية إلى مدينة حلب اليوم الأربعاء، "لكنها لا تستطيع التحقق من أن أسلحة كيميائية استخدمت هناك". ونقلت رويترز عن المتحدث باسم المنظمة طارق جاسرفيتش قوله إن المنظمة سترسل إمدادات طبية لعلاج حالات الصدمة إلى حلب من مخزوناتها في طرطوس.ـ
In that frame, the World Health Organization [WHO] said it would send medical support to the town of Aleppo on Wednesday, " but it would be impossible for them to be sure of the use of chemical weapons there ". And Reuters [press agency] reported the [spokesperson] of the organization, [Derek Yasser Fitch ?], saying the organization would send medical aid for the treatment of shock cases from their stocks in Tartous to Aleppo.
The Free [Syrian] Army charged the regime being responsible for the use of chemical weapons.
[Source: Al-Jazeera Online on March 25, 2013]
Localized visitors to "blueprint news" during 48 hours (March 26-28):
The article quoted below has been specially marked in yesterday's main page of People's Network, Beijing. It might serve to give us an idea of the ideology followed by China's leadership, and it reminds us that China is still a communist country:
人民日报评论员：凝聚不可战胜的中国力量
三论同心共筑中国梦
A commentator from People's Daily [referring to] the condensation of China's invincible strength.
The Chinese dream, unanimously built together [on the basis of] the three principles.
有梦想才有目标，有希冀才会奋斗。不论是国家民族，还是个人家庭，梦想都是保持生机、激发活力的源泉。
While having a dream, we are having a goal. While having hope, we can raise our heads. It's not a matter of one's nationality or family that all dreams preserve vitality and stimulate the source of vigour.
"The realization of China's dream needs the condensation of China's strength", is chairman Xi JinPing's important [stance] that has clarified a deepgoing connection between the cherished dream of a powerful nation and the shining power forging ahead. [That stance has] even more revealed an important way of realizing China's dream. It only needs us to inseparably unite, ten thousand masses - one heart, for the sake of striving hard in the struggle for a common dream. The power for realizing [that] dream then being of an unparalleled quality.
What is China's power like ? It is the huge united strength of China's nationalities. It is 1.3 billion hearts directing their thoughts and efforts towards one goal that leads to the compilation of power. Everybody's [individual] dream might differ in thousand of ways [from the dreams of others] but can contribute to the realization of a national dream. With one heart and one mind and by pooling the wisdom and efforts [of everybody], an all-conquering majestic strength is brought about. Such strength we experienced at times of the revolution while we advanced wave upon wave of resistance, in the years of construction when we learned through practice while offering our burning passion and during the period of reform when we personally experienced the struggle that was surging forward with great momentum. The future proceedings only need 1.3 billion people to wholeheartedly unite, such reaching that invincible majestic strength that will certainly turn us to the foundation of victory related to the path of a national rejuvenation and [turn us] to the source of power.
Living in this time and in [this] country means good luck. We are further nearing the goal of national rejuvenation, we are having more confidence and are more able to realize [our individual] dreams than in any other period of history. Though there is no doubt that mighty enterprise will be accomplished, it still needs Chinese people exerting themselves together era after era. The condensation of China's invincible strength, once being completed the relay race of a national rejuvenation process, will be the mission of contemporary people and even more their honour.
[Source: People's Network, Beijing, on March 21, 2013]
Xi JinPing visiting the U.S.A. in 2012
"See you later, alligator !"
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Visitors to "blueprint news" coming from East Asia include one Beijing visitor localized near the "Forbidden City":
Another visitor from Sri Lanka used Chinese language search to find the above blogspot on China's dream:
Only two hours ago, U.S. President Obama boarded Air Force One for an emergency trip to Israel after the chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee announced that Syria most probably used chemical weapons on behalf of its desperate leadership. Even though it is still disputed between Syrian rebels and government troops who actually used such weapons, there must have been evidence of their application.
Republican Congressman Rogers declared the use of chemical weapons could be a "game-changer" in the Syrian conflict that might even lead to U.S. military intervention.
[Source: CNN life transmission on the evening of March 19 (March 20 in Europe)]
A Deutsche Welle (DW) report on March 20 has more on the international aspect of that subject Syria chemical weapons claims prompt warnings. Quotation from the DW report:
Both the US and UN have said they are investigating opposing claims by the Syrian government and rebels over the use of chemical weapons. UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon warned such behavior would be an 'outrageous crime.'
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News UPDATE on the evening of March 20:
Obama's talks with Israeli prime minister Netanyahu not only dealt with the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Iran and the Palestinian subject were on the agenda too. That's why Palestinian activists voiced their protest against an alleged pro-Israeli attitude of the Obama administration.
North Korean Media:
An unrestrained attack on the opponent, any time and
anywhere, is North Korea's firm stand.
The above photo has been released on March 12 and is showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his inspection of frontline troops on [chin.: Yue Nai] Island the day before, March 11. On that day, he also visited a long-range artillery group belonging to the 641th army unit.
The above photo, published by North Korea's "Workers' News" on March 11, is showing North Korean troops during intense training. In the joint exercises for [regaining control over] South Korea and America, this day's initial code name becomes "decisiveness is crucial" for raising the moral [of the troops].
[Source: chinanews.com on March 13, 2013]
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News UPDATE on March 14 / 15 / 16:
韩国力谏美军留下核武器威慑朝鲜
South Korea tries everything to remonstrate U.S. military for stationing nuclear weapons that should deter North Korea.
[Source: Xin Hua Network, Beijing, on March 14, 2013]
欧洲议会发表决议 支持欧盟与联合国制裁朝鲜
The European Parliament issues a resolution [confirming] the European Union's support of sanctions against North Korea [on behalf of] the United Nations.
The Chinese article is referring to a session of the European Parliament held in Strasbourg, France, on March 14, 2013 and where that resolution has been accepted.
[Source: CRI online, Beijing, on March 15, 2013]
As tensions rise on the Korean Peninsula, a UK-based think tank believes North Korea is likely to launch an attack on South Korea this year.
In its annual report on the world's military capabilities, the director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies Mark Fitzpatrick said that while an attack is unlikely to come in the next few weeks due to the ongoing South Korea-U.S. joint military drills, it expects North Korea to follow through with some sort of provocation later this year.
Noting Pyongyang is forging ahead with efforts to develop its nuclear and missile programs, he said world powers were becoming increasingly concerned.
But he concluded Pyongyang would not attempt to wage a fully-fledged war as it would threaten the existence of the regime due to the huge advantage held by the joint militaries of South Korea and the United States.
" North Korea Falls Victim to 2-day Long Cyber Attack. "
According to the Pyongyang office of Russia's ITAR-TASS news agency, two official North Korean websites went offline from Wednesday until late Thursday. North Korea has accused its enemies of launching cyber attacks, however, some experts say it's possible the regime staged the attacks on itself as a way out of its current international impasse.
[Source: Arirang South Korean TV news on March 15, 2013]
金正恩指导前线炮击训练 强调现代战争是炮战
Kim Jong Un, while guiding frontier shelling training he underlines that modern warfare is artillery warfare.
命令炮火“密集覆盖假想敌方目标”
Commanding the gunfire [he] "concentrates on covering the imaginary enemy target".
[Source: People's Network / Beijing Morning News on March 15, 2013]
North Korea vowed "to mow down the South Korean prime minister" when he decided to show up on some disputed border island (above picture).
In a telephone call, U.S. foreign secretary John Kerry (above picture) and the South Korean prime minister reaffirmed the strong alliance between both countries.
[Source: Arirang South Korean TV news on March 16, 2013]
U.S. reaction on North Korean missile tests, news
report from Japanese NHK TV on March 16, 2013:
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News UPDATE on March 20:
On March 20, South Korea experienced a cyber attack which temporarily shut down three TV stations and two banks, including Shinhan bank. This is the fifth time since 2009 that alleged North Korean cyber attacks have been reported from South Korea. [Source: Al-Jazeera on March 20, 2013]
Visitors to "blueprint news" coming from South-East Asia during the last few days:
Above: Localized visitor from Yangon / Myanmar (Burma).
The view of entirely gold-plated Shwe Dagon Pagoda, an important center of Buddhist pilgrimage, reminds me of my visit there during the civil war in the 1970s when the town of Rangoon, as the Brits called it, was occupied by troops of general Ne Win. At that time, the capital of Burma looked rather shabby with its colonial buildings in full decay. The atmosphere was hot, with regard to temperatures and literally spoken. I remember a vast crowd of students assembling in front of their technical college which had only recently been turned into a military camp of fierce looking soldiers. Some students followed me and told me about political developments in their country. They even invited me to attend a meeting with their leader Aung Sun Kyi. Other people showed me her dwelling and the compound where a military élite was living in luxury while Rangoon's citizens had to provide with food and clothing smuggled into the country on forbidden jungle tracks. I then got some basic understanding why the Burmese visa in my passport categorically excluded the use of landroutes to enter the country. Nowadays, much has changed, and the quality of life should have somewhat improved while Aung Sun Kyi is still a national hero.
The above headline was found on top of an article that summarizes latest developments by quoting international media from North Korea and China, South Korea, Japan, U.S.A., Britain and France under the following aspects:
金正恩再上前线促备战
Kim Jong Un once again at the front line urging war preparedness.
美警告全力反击核攻击
America warning of full-scale retaliation for [any] nuclear attack.
韩国担心朝鲜“突然袭击”
South Korea worries about a North Korean "surprise attack".
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North Korea's leadership in a frenzy after recent military exercises of South Korean and U.S. troops (picture above).
After nullifying the 1953 armistice agreement that ended a three year's war between North and South Korea and cutting an important telephone line connecting both countries, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un is driving his escalation of the situation even further:
朝鲜威胁要让韩国一岛屿陷入火海
North Korea threatening to make one of South
Korea's islands get caught in a sea of flames.
On Tuesday [March 12], North Korean official media reported that Kim Jong Un ordered frontline troops of the border defence to engage in preparation of a combat targeting the smashing of enemies on White Feather Island. In 2010, more than 40 people lost their lives when a South Korean navy ship was sent to the bottom in the neighbourhood of White Feather Island.
[Source: Voice of America, Chinese website, on March 12, 2013]
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On the same day [March 12], People's Network in Beijing delivered a rather harmless view on the current conflict by using the following headline:
Military exercises on the Korean peninsula: The possibility of starting a war is rather small, some " accidental discharge while cleaning the gun " being important to promote vigilance.
The Chinese article is quoting Jin Can Rong, deputy director at the Institute for International Relations of the People's University of China:
Jin Can Rong: If America is determined to use a [tough language] towards North Korea, North Korea cannot help getting in the way. Therefore, U.S.-South Korean military exercises are endangering talks with North Korea while this is of no significance to China.
When asked about the deterrent effect of North Korea's selfdeclaration as a nuclear power, Jin Can Rong said:
Jin Can Rong: [What is said to] South Korea is definitely deterrent, however not deterrent for America.
Firstly: As North Korea's nuclear power is not mature, it isn't certain that each of their nuclear weapons will produce an explosion sound.
Secondly: North Korea's nuclear weapons are quite bulky. They cannot be launched with a guided missile. It needs a ship to transport them to the U.S.A.. But [in case of delivery] by ship, this would be early enough [sent to the bottom] by the Americans. However, telling this to the Americans would have no effect.
In the frame of another session period of China's People's Congress in Beijing, there is much discussion about the development of PR China's economy. While official sources predict an economic growth of 7.5 %, China is emancipating itself from a nation relying on the import of foreign cars for private use to a powerful manufacturer of fine cars that are meeting global standards.
On German TV it was proclaimed that China's new middle class limousine "Cronos" should compete with products from western manufacturers on the European market. A car like many others in its class but with a rather surprising price below 20.000 €. The German manager who spoke on behalf of the Chinese manufacturer hinted at German engineering competence being involved in the construction of Cronos and that should have made it "impossible for the Chinese to build a bad car". Bad news for BMW and other European competitors who come to note that European know-how, they once brought to China, is now turning against them.
[Source: Tagesschau 24, a German TV news channel on March 5, 2013]
Nevertheless, BWM continues to produce its 3-grade and 5-grade car series in a joint-venture with BMW's Chinese partner Brilliance China Automotive Holdings. Other German manufacturers, as well, are selling high-end luxury cars to the new rich of China.
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Update for March 10, 2013:
The above quoted German news source mentioned and showed a Chinese car named "Cronos". However, I had some difficulties in finding further news about that. Most probably it's a joint-venture product or, in other words, a car of mixed origin.
Here now is what looks like a "genuine" Chinese car that might have been constructed especially for the European market:
China's manufacturer Hua Tai Cars 华泰汽车, already successful in the SUV (sport utility vehicle) segment, is launching a new product on the car market. The Lu Sheng 路盛 E70 is a compact limousine and designed "according to European style". It should be available in three versions: The 2.0 L and 1.5 T versions are using a petrol driven engine while the 1.5 D has a diesel engine. The vehicle's length : width : height ratio is 4.777 mm : 1.794 mm : 1.481 mm, its wheelbase being 2.678 mm. The E70 should be equipped with GPS navigation and a G3 internet connection.
[Source: People's Network on March 09, 2013]
According to the Shenzhen Web for the Great World of Cars 深圳汽车大世界网 (March 11 report), the new product brand Lu Sheng E70 should have been renamed from the old brand name B21 of Hua Tai Cars. Some days earlier, price.pcauto.com.cn magazine, another Chinese source, confirmed the B21 or Hua Shang E70 being related to a product of Hua Tai's partner brand Bao Li Ge 宝利格 and which is a SUV. As neither photos nor prices were available for the brandnew B21 of Hua Tai Cars, they showed but a series of photos taken from the related Bao Li Ge product. However, another model from Hua Tai Cars, the B11, is fully documented and showing some similarity with the B21 or Hua Shang E70. Selling prices for the B11 (in China) are lying between 100.000 and 176.00 Yuan which is about 12.360 to 21.750 €.
By the way, Hua Tai Cars 华泰汽车 must not be mixed up with the South Korean car manufacturer Hyundai (Chinese: Huan Dai) 现代汽车 who is making and selling cars in China and has already topped one million car sales there in 2010. On a website of China Car Times some Hyundai products appear with brand slogans like "Euro 2012" or "€", - what a nice coincidence. Anyway, getting through the jungle of car manufacturing and model policy in China seems to be rather tough for an outsider.
Beijing-Hyundai's joint-venture product Elantra (latest generation)
at the 2012 Beijing Auto Show.
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The phenomenon I tend to call "migration of competence" is not restricted to car production alone. As Chen Hong Qiao, a deputy director of Shenzhen stock exchange [陈鸿桥 深圳证券交易所副总经理], mentioned in an interview with a Chinese financial news service, foreign enterprises related to electricity production and electrical equipment are as well focussed by Chinese investors.
陈鸿桥：创业板与中国新兴产业
Chen Hong Qiao: Starting what is hard [for] China's new and developing industry.
Jin Feng Science and Technology bought a German wind electricity enterprise, such "buying" as well German technicians and managers. Su Ning Electrical Equipment bought Japan's well-known home electricity chain [market] company.
[Source: finance.ifeng.com on March 5, 2013]
When Chen Hong Qiao referred to the "Japanese home electricity chain" bought by a Chinese investor, he certainly meant LAOX Corporation from where 27.36% of shares had been bought in July 2009.
[Source: sina.com.cn on July 24, 2009]
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Official statistics, released in the frame of China's government activity report for the last 5 years, are showing an increasing market for private cars from, both, domestic and foreign production:
The number of private cars has risen from 6 cars per
100 urban households in 2007 to 21.5 cars in 2012.
The highway system has been extended from 28.000 km in 2007
up to 42.000 km in 2012. In the same period, the 5-year rate of
newly built road kilometers has risen from 192.000 km in 2007
to 609.000 km in 2012.
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There are two further blogspots of "blueprint news" related to the subject and dating back to December 2011:
Localized visitors to "blueprint news" coming from East Asia. Part of global
visitors mapping on March 7, 2013, based on the last 200 localized visitors:
A visitor from Greenland looking for another habitable planet:
A newspaper from Yangtze River [is asking]:
Do animal wardens need to understand Marxist philosophy ?
The zoological garden in Canton is offering 15 vacancies for animal wardens who have then to participate in an examination for that profession. Besides required knowledge about literature and history related to public parks and zoological gardens, these wardens ought to grasp the principles of Marxist philosophy as well as writing and handling of official documents.
[Source: People's Network quoting Yangcheng Evening News from February 19, 2013]
What Marxist philosophy considers as essential is not the comprehension of laws ruling the world for a better understanding of the world but the ability to use the knowledge of such laws to actively transform the world.
[Source: Mao Tse Toung "On Practice", July 1937; English translation based on a Chinese-French edition]
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" First Food, Then Morals — 先来食后道德 "
( "Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral" )
The interpretation of a Karl Marx saying ( "The state of being determines the state
of consciousness" ) by German playwright Bertolt Brecht in his "Threepenny Opera".
Update for March 03 added at the end of blogspot !
لاجئون من "اليرموك": جماعة جبريل زجت المخيم في العنف
Refugees from Yarmouk [camp]: The "community of Jibril" has thrown the camp into violence.
القيادي الفلسطيني قام بتسليح لاجئين لحماية أنفسهم ثم طلب منهم الدفاع عن الأسد
The Palestinian leadership is going to arm the refugees [in order] to protect themselves as the defense of Assad demanded from them.
[Source: Al-Arabiya on March 2, 2013]
Meanwhile, in the Yarmouk Camp [Damascus], Palestinian fighters defect from the ranks of Ahmed Jibril’s loyalist movement to form a pro-rebel unit.
[Source: Syrian Revolution Digest on February 27, 2013]
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The Story Behind the News: The Jibril Family
The following story about Jihad Jibril has been quoted from Islamweb on May 20, 2002:
A car bombing killed a senior military commander of a radical Palestinian group Monday. The group - which is led by the victim's father, Ahmed Jibril - blamed Israel and vowed retaliation.
Israel denied any connection to the midday blast on a street off the busy shopping area of Corniche Mazraa in Beirut's Muslim sector.
"The defense minister says Israel is not connected and to stop blaming Israel," said Yarden Vatikay, an adviser to Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer.
Jihad Jibril, 38, was driving the car when the bomb went off and was killed instantly. There were no other casualties in the explosion.
Jibril was a senior commander of military operations in Lebanon for his father's faction of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, a small Syrian-based group on the State Department list of terrorist organizations for its attacks on Israelis.
Last month, the senior Jibril warned that bombings against Israelis would continue in retaliation for Israeli military attacks.
However, the PFLP-GC has not claimed responsibility for bombings since the latest violence erupted in September 2000. Last month, the PFLP-GC and two other rival groups each claimed to have blown up an Israeli tank in the Gaza Strip.
But the PFLP-GC was accused by Lebanese authorities of firing rockets across the Lebanese border into Israel in April at the height of the West Bank offensive and of seeking to launch more attacks on the Jewish state. Nine Palestinians who Lebanese authorities said belonged to the PFLP-GC have been arrested on charges of illegal possession of weapons and threatening national security.
Jibril's Damascus-based group is a part of an alliance of radical Palestinian factions that opposes peace negotiations with Israel that Arafat began with the 1993 Oslo accords.
Once famed for its guerrilla operations, it has been largely on the sidelines of the Palestinian uprising against Israel that erupted in 2000, but had claimed responsibility for a shipment of arms Israel intercepted en route to the West Bank a year ago. "
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Some information on Ahmed Jibril, founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, as quoted from an Al-Arabiya comment dating from December 19, 2012:
Some say he fled to Mediterranean coastal Syrian city of Tartous, others say it’s somewhere else in Syria, but the head of the Damascus-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ahmed Jibril, is indeed an unforgettable face, remembered and will always be remembered by Palestinians, Syrians and the Lebanese people.
Ahmed Jibril is the man who was always at the forefront of the colonial ambitions of Hafez al-Assad’s regime.
His stance was the same in any Palestinian conflict with the Syrian regime: he was against Arafat, against Habash, against the refugees of Yarmouk Camp. In recognition of Jibril’s unprecedented loyalty [to Assad's Syria], he was given a small but effective role within the Syria and Iran-sponsored Lebanese resistance strategy. This small partnership with Hezbollah wasn’t to support any Palestinians or Lebanese people pro the Assad regime.
Ahmed Jibril spent many years of his life (75 years) playing this role. His secrets were uncovered and the battles in Palestine were full of bloodshed and led him to many places, except Palestine.
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Syrian Violence Swapping Into Lebanon
Only recently the frontier region between Syria and Lebanon experienced clashes between Lebanese and Syrian troops.
اندلاع معارك عنيفة على الحدود بين سوريا ولبنان
Outbreak of violent fightings at the border between Syria and Lebanon.
[Source: Al-Arabiya on February 24, 2013]
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Update for March 3, 2013:
In an interview granted to the British paper "Sunday Times", Syria's president Assad showed himself defiant and accused Britain to support unrest in his country. He showed himself willing to talk with rebels who laid down their arms, making a distinction between "political entities" he would engage with and "armed terrorists".
وزير الخارجية البريطاني وليام هيغ يقول إن بلاده تدرس تسليح الثوار السوريين
The British minister of foreign affairs, William Haig, says his country is "considering" the arming of Syrian rebels.
