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posted by takyon on Friday December 09 2016, @07:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the sectarian dept.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye has been impeached:

South Korea's Parliament voted on Friday to impeach President Park Geun-hye, an aloof conservative who took a hard line against North Korea and rose to power with strong support from those who revered her father, the military dictator Park Chung-hee. The vote against Ms. Park, the nation's first female leader, followed weeks of damaging disclosures in a corruption scandal that has all but paralyzed the government and produced the largest street protests in the nation's history. Her powers will now be suspended as the Constitutional Court considers whether to remove her from office.

Ms. Park has been accused of allowing a shadowy confidante, the daughter of a religious sect leader, to exercise remarkable influence on matters ranging from choosing top government officials to her wardrobe, and of helping her extort tens of millions of dollars from South Korean companies. The scandal, which gained national attention less than two months ago, has cast a harsh light on collusion between the presidency and big business in one of Asia's most dynamic economies.

Parliament's motion for impeachment, accusing Ms. Park of "extensive and serious violations of the Constitution and the law," will now be taken up by the Constitutional Court, which has six months to decide whether the charges are true and merit her ouster.

The impeachment bill passed 234-56.

Also at BBC, DW, and the Washington Post.


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @08:51AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @08:51AM (#439077)

    I think hillary clinton is a woman. she may be lying about everything else, I've no idea...

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @08:54AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 09 2016, @08:54AM (#439080)

    She's a reptilian.

    • (Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday December 09 2016, @02:36PM

      by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Friday December 09 2016, @02:36PM (#439162) Journal

      As far as I can tell from the 2009 documentary V, the lizard people have 3 genders, but only two are required for reproduction unlike that one species in ST:ENT that required all 3.

      Hillary is a queen, and typically queens are only capable of laying one other queen egg (Chelsea in this case—I haven't overthought this at all!). Then there are the warriors the queen mates with, which are an important source of phosphorus. The mating ritual typically concludes with the queen consuming the warrior she mates with since even her fully developed mating skin does not contain enough phosphorus for egg production. Despite being only able to lay one queen egg, the queen seems to have some control over what portion of her eggs become warriors or the third gender.

      The third gender is the worker gender. Unlike warriors, workers have the full intellectual capability of a queen but they are unable to reproduce through natural means.

      When encountering a bigendered species such as humans, the lizard people generally use the following system to assign gendered human “skins.” The queens (there may be 3 or 4 generations present in any given invasion fleet) are given woman suits, the warriors are given male skins, and the workers are evenly assigned either gender from the host species.

      One will also note that queens are capable of mating with human males who have been specially prepared. Typically a segment of their DNA is removed, and the male's mother must be given phosphorus supplements while she's pregnant with him. Again, the mating ritual concludes with consuming the mate for his phosphorus.

      In that sense, one could argue that Hillary is both a woman and a lizard person.