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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday September 30 2017, @05:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the another-brick-in-the-wall dept.

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China has told North Korean companies operating in its territory to close down as it implements United Nations sanctions against the reclusive state.

The companies will be shut by early January. Joint Chinese and North Korean ventures will also be forced to close.

China, Pyongyang's only major ally, has already banned textile trade and limited oil exports.

The move is part of an international response to North Korea's sixth and most powerful nuclear test.

The UN Security Council, of which China is a member, voted unanimously for fresh sanctions on 11 September.

China's commerce ministry said it had set a deadline of 120 days from the passing of the resolution for any North Korean companies within its borders to close.

Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41431057


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by fyngyrz on Saturday September 30 2017, @11:58PM

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Saturday September 30 2017, @11:58PM (#575408) Journal

    To you (and the parent), I don't get how you can come to the conclusion that Trump is stupid.

    Trump "graduated" from an Ivy League college. Keep that in mind, and consider: He utilizes an extremely limited vocabulary which one might be unsurprised to find in someone who has not been well educated. He puts that vocabulary together in ways that are ignorant and clumsy... to be kind. He spells poorly. He doesn't even know which words to write. He wrote that a Chinese seizure of a ship was "unpresidented", for instance; another, he wrote that he was "honered to serve." But there are more indicators than his inability to use English well. He doesn't deal with intelligence reports, requiring a bulleted, trivialized summary instead. He is unable to control his behavior, or his remarks. He lies, and he lies when he's going to get caught within minutes. His remarks are replete with verbal tics ("believe me", "trust me", "this is the very best", etc.) that any intelligent person who wasn't actually drug- or psychosis-addled would eliminate at least as soon as they were pointed out, and likely sooner, since they are unmistakable tells that lies are incoming.

    I won't even count the damage the things he endorses will do to the environment, and so directly impact his children, and their children. Perhaps he doesn't like his children. I'm totally on board with that. I don't like them either, at least the adult ones.

    Do you think making billions and becoming the president of the United States does not require intellect? Require skill?

    Well, that's two questions. To the first, making billions: Money makes more money, and particularly if you're playing with it during a real-estate boom. Trump started out with (at least) seven figures from his father, contacts all across the wealthy, accountants, and so forth. Pretty much anyone can earn under those circumstances. It's getting the start that's so difficult. Trump was given his start. So yes, you can do it if you're not smart.

    To the second, becoming president: Yes, you can definitely do it if you're not smart. Trump's not even the first to do so recently. Bush II did it just a few elections ago, and that man is anything but smart. Winning an election is essentially a process of convincing voters. To that end, the party, the campaign planners, the co-conspiratorsworkers, the donors, the rich people behind the scenes, they all facilitate the election. The candidate postures and preens, and the voters do whatever they want (and sometimes, the electoral college then does what the plurality of voters didn't want, as we saw with Trump's election.)

    Intelligence does not exclusively exist in academia, you can be quite 'rough around the edges', have no manners, little knowledge and still be intelligent.

    This is true. However, Trump is not a person who came up rough. He came up through the formal education system (he went to Fordham University, a Jesuit school in the Bronx, for two years, then transferred to the University of Pennsylvania from which he boughtobtained a bachelor's degree), and he came up surrounded by other rich folk. None of that rubbed off on him in any detectable way – his use of language is grade school level, and a lousy grade school at that. He acts the buffoon at every turn. Hence, I conclude without much doubt at all that he is, most likely, a buffoon.

    I would also point out that you can skip the entire school process – as I did - and end up with a reasonable command of the English language. That, I dare venture, might be an indicator of intelligence. Perhaps. :)

    There's more. A lot more, actually. But those are some of the high points as I see them.

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