5 things we didn’t know this week.
- Dannistrian political pundit John Grunh’borg once challenged fellow commentator Bob Cherri’eh to a drinking match in 2005. Gruhn’borg won.
- Some Bai Lungese cover their houses with hell money during Monday the 4th.
- 1 in 5 Bai Lungese favour eliminating all Kashgars.
- Bodybuilder Kevin John Ng uses watermelons to relieve stress. He head-butts them.
- Recent leaked documents released this year showed former Stalinist dictator Chen Jong Sun wanted to kill film maker Marcel Chen for parodying him in a short film.
Birdy (a ThrushXpress post) from BLCTV News:
PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL C.Y LIANG VISITS DANNISTAAN, MAKING HIM THE FIRST CANDIDATE TO VISIT A FOREIGN COUNTRY. IT IS WIDELY EXPECTED THAT PRIME MINISTER LIN WILL DO THE SAME ON MAY FOLLOWED BY A POSSIBLE TO THE COUNTRY BY LABOUR CANDIDATE BERTY HE ON JUNE. MR LIANG IS CURRENTLY LEADING IN MOST POLLS BY A PLURARITY. MORE DETAILS AT WWW.NEWBLCTVNEWS.BL
Todays Headline from New BLCTV News. Full stories available on www.newblctvnews.bl (Articles also available in English, Dannistrian and Dovakhanese)
C.Y Liang: Dannistaan will be strong ally.
In his first ever visit to Dannistaan, Presidential candidate C.Y Liang has re-affirmed Bai Lung’s strong alliance with Dannistaan and has vowed to keep the strong relationship under a Liang administration.
Speaking outside the Dannistrian Federal Parliament, Mr Liang has supported the foreign policy of Prime Minister For’lason-Smith and praising the country’s decision to preserve Lord Howard Island by turning it into a nature reserve.
Mr Liang will return to Bai Lung on the 17th.
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Birdy (a ThrushXpress post) from BLCTV News:
PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL C.Y LIANG ARRIVES BACK TO BAI LUNG AFTER HIS 3 DAY VISIT TO DANNISTAAN AND MEETING WITH VARIOUS MEMBERS OF THE RULING SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT. MR LIANG HAS CALLED FOR IMPROVED RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO NATIONS, 5 YEARS AFTER THE BAI LUNG-DANNISTRIAN WAR. MR LIANG HAS ANNOUNCED FURTHER VISITS TO KELSSEK AND DOVAKHAN LATER IN THE YEAR. MORE DETAILS AT WWW.NEWBLCTVNEWS.BL
Todays Headline from New BLCTV News. Full stories available on www.newblctvnews.bl (Articles also available in English, Dannistrian and Dovakhanese)
Stephen Ding under investigation by Secret Police over controverisal comments.
The former Conservative leader Stephen T. Ding is under investigation by the Bai Lungese Secret Service after he posted a threatening message towards President Im in his official website.
The 52 year old posted an online piece about the 2012 Presidential Election. He has stated that he would endorse none of the three major candidate because they would continue to support universal health care and reform the banking system.
It was his closing statement which caught the attention of the Secret Service, which they claimed was a threatening statement against President Im. Ding wrote:
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‘To be blunt with you readers: I will find myself as a political prisoner or toe-tagged in the mortuary if my former colleague [President Im] sits in that Palace and rules over the individual a day longer.’
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He has also called for Labour Party voters to be chased out of town and drown in the oceans.
A spokesman to Mr Ding has vehemently denied that Mr Ding had intended to threaten the President.
Todays Headline from New BLCTV News. Full stories available on www.newblctvnews.bl (Articles also available in English, Dannistrian and Dovakhanese)
Stephen Ding: No regrets over Dead or in prison comments.
The former Conservative leader Stephen T. Ding has stood by his controversial comments that he would be dead or in jail if President Im ruled for any longer, despite being under investigation by the Bai Lungese Secret Service.
The 52 year old also posted negative comment towards Labour voters, calling them to be ‘chased out of town and drown in the ocean’. The BLSS interpreted this as a threat to the President. Mr Ding has strongly denied that his opinion piece was a threat to the President and has compared the BLSS to the ISB for investigating him.
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'First of all, I have absolutely got no regrets over my ‘Dead or in Prison’ comments because I meant what I meant. I never threaten a leader nor the voters. I want to see the Labour voters out of my country and I don’t want to see them ever again. How is that a threat? I didn’t say I would love to see them drown, I want them to drown because they are Communist rats.
…and as for the BLSS investigating me because I made some very offensive and shocking comments, you are no better than the Chenite Secret Service. You are the ISB of the 21st century. You wear a different uniform but conduct the same policies. You are fascist, socialist cretin!’
-Stephen T. Ding
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5 things we didn’t know this week.
- During his stint as a junior member of the Wang Bin interim admin, Stephen T. Ding proposed legislation which would sentence anyone who makes threatening statements towards the interim admin.
- Kathy Wei wins a council seat in heavily DNP For’af.
- Robbie Zhang Lin won the egg rolling competition in Port Sung.
- Time Team Bai Lung discovered a sword which may have belonged to King Chen XII.
- C.Y Liang’s cousin Tobey Liang works in Nordu Dannistra university.
Bai Lung Daily Weather Report.
Pyongjing - 15C heavy showers
Port To - 12C heavy showers
Port Sung- 11C heavy showers
Dong Men- 14C dry
New Xinjiang - 15C dry
Birdy (a ThrushXpress post) from BLCTV News:
MARXIST CANDIDATE STUNS VOTERS AS HE WINS LOCAL COUNCIL SEAT IN PORT SUNG IN A HOTLY CONTESTED SPECIAL ELECTION. KIM JIA-HONG, 50, CLAIMED THAT HIS WIN MARKED A NEW ERA FOR THE MARXIST PARTY AND FOR THE COMMUNIST IDEOLOGY WORLDWIDE. MORE DETAILS AT WWW.NEWBLCTVNEWS.BL
Birdy (a ThrushXpress post) from BLCTV Sporting News:
CHUNG CHUN-HOE DEFEATS DANNISTRIAN MARCUS ALL’UHN IN A STUNNING FIRST ROUND OF THE BAI LUNGESE SNOOKER MASTERS. THE LEFT-HANDED NORDU DANNISTRA PLAYER INITIALLY LED 3-0 LEAD BUT CHUNG FOUGHT BACK AND WON THE NEXT 8 FRAMES AND EVENTUALLY WON THE MATCH 10-7. HE WILL PLAY AGAINST KELSSEK’S KIRK DOGGETT. MORE DETAILS AT WWW.NEWBLCTVNEWS.BL
Todays Headline from New BLCTV News. Full stories available on www.newblctvnews.bl (Articles also available in English, Dannistrian and Dovakhanese)
Secret Service concludes investigation of Stephen Ding over threatening comments.
The Bai Lungese Secret Service has formally closed all investigations into the former Conservative leader Stephen T. Ding after he posted controversial comments about President Im.
A spokesman for the BLSS said they were completely satisfied that they have found no evidence in which the 52 year old was directly threatening President Im. Mr Ding has always denied that he was threatening his former colleague and was referring to his own fate.
Mr Ding also stated that he was satisfied that he is no longer under investigation but blasted the BLSS as ‘liberal fascist Marxists’ and were only interested in ‘destroying Conservative traditional nationalism in the name of advancing socialism’.
Todays Headline from New BLCTV News. Full stories available on www.newblctvnews.bl (Articles also available in English, Dannistrian and Dovakhanese)
Boy stabs father to death over smartphone.
A four year old boy has stabbed his father after he refused to buy him a smartphone.
The boy, named as Chen Chung-Ri, from Chongkim, grabbed his father’s bowie knife and stabbed him repeatedly.
The child had reportedly asked his father, Chen Chung-Dong, for a new smartphone and the stabbing took place after the man returned home with the desired object.
As the father was undressing, the man put the weapon down, which the child then grabbed and stabbed him in the chest and head.
The tragic incident will add fuel to the debate whether smartphones encourage this kind of behaviour.
Birdy (a ThrushXpress post) from BLCTV Sporting News:
KELSSEK SNOOKER PLAYER KIRK DOGGETT WHITEWASHES RISING BAI LUNGESE STAR CHUNG CHUN-HOE IN A VERY TENSE SECOND ROUND OF THE BAI LUNGESE SNOOKER MASTERS BY A SCORE OF 10-0. IT IS THE FIFTH SUCH INSTANCE OF A WHITEWASH TOURNAMENT AND THE FIRST TIME IN WHICH A NON BAI LUNGESE PLAYER HAD ACHIEVED THIS FEAT. MORE DETAILS AT WWW.NEWBLCTVNEWS.BL/SPORT
Quote of the day
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‘If I moderate my views, then I become somebody else…the individual loses his personality and his core beliefs.’
-Stephen T. Ding
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Todays Headline from New BLCTV News. Full stories available on www.newblctvnews.bl (Articles also available in English, Dannistrian and Dovakhanese)
Conservatives kill surtax on cheque transations.
A new tax policy which would impose a 2 cent surtax on all cheque transactions has been blocked by the Conservative controlled Lower House.
The surtax on cheque transactions is the most notable provision in the Banking Reform Act 2012. The whole act itself would reform the banking sector by allowing small business to obtain loans from banks, as well as raising revenue to service the national debt.
The bill was successfully passed in the Upper Senate when every Labour, Democratic and Marxist Senators voted for the bill, overcoming the Conservative plurarity.
The proposed law, however, was blocked when every Conservative MLA voted against it, effectively killing the bill.
A spokesman for Prime Minister Lin had claimed that the bill would worsen the budget deficit and would make foreign investment to the country even more bureaucratic and unfriendly. To this end, the spokesman has claimed that it would constitute a tax hike for everybody.
Birdy (a ThrushXpress post) from BLCTV News:
BAI OIL CORPORATION BUYS OUT SMALLER COMPETITOR HUANG SHI PETROLEUM FOR BL$12 BILLION IN A BID TO BECOME BAI LUNG’S LARGEST OIL SUPPLY COMPANY. THE COMPANY WAS HEAVILY CRITICISED FOR MOVING IT HEADQUARTERS TO EAST DANNISTAAN IN AN ATTEMPT TO PAY LESS TAXES. MORE DETAILS AT WWW.NEWBLCTVNEWS.BL/
Birdy (a ThrushXpress post) from BLCTV News:
POP SINGER ZHAO MING PAO WAS ARRESTED AFTER HE WAS SEEN ASSAULTING A PHOTOGRAPHER AND FOR POSSESSING 3 GRAMS OF COCAINE. THE SINGER HAS A LONG HISTORY OF DRUG USAGE IN THE PAST 10 YEARS. HE IS KNOWN FOR HIS SINGLE ‘1 BAI LUNG’. MORE DETAILS AT WWW.NEWBLCTVNEWS.BL
Todays Headline from New BLCTV News. Full stories available on www.newblctvnews.bl (Articles also available in English, Dannistrian and Dovakhanese)
Controversial Independent Conservative MLA denounces EP delegate election.
Chen Lai-Cao, the controversial back-bencher who previously wrote a piece of legislation which would ban any oversea Bai Lungese born, is at the centre of another controversy as he openly denounced the 2012 East Pacific delegate election as ‘illegitamite’.
Speaking to the Daily Mail Dannistaan, the outspoken MLA has branded the nation Topdop, who was elected by a 2 to 1 margin, as an extremely far-left socialist and dangerous nation who would end individual freedom and liberties. He has called for the rest of the East Pacific countries to oust the delegate-elected peacefully or use military action in an attempt to collapse the government.
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‘It saddens me that an extremely far-left socialist and dangerous nation like Topdop is now our delegate, and one who was voted by an overwhelming margin. It is not a country that is fit to dictate the rest of us and it would do so at the expense of every individual nation. I call for the rest of the EP to de-legitimise this ultra-leftist state peacefully and pick a more suitable nation. Should this fail, I am in the process of writing legislation which would call for military action.’
Chen Lai-Cao
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The military intervention was widely condemned by all MLAs, denouncing Mr Chen as a ‘war-hawk’.
Birdy (a ThrushXpress post) from BLCTV News:
THE ASSEMBLY OF BAI LUNG HAS ALMOST UNANIMOUSLY VOTED FOR A RESOLUTION WHICH WOULD CONDEMN THE FIERY RHETORIC ESPOUSED BY MLA CHEN LAI-CAO, WHO OPENLY CALLED FOR MILITARY ACTION ON THE EAST PACIFIC DELEGATE TOPDOP. HE HAD ACCUSED THE NATION OF BEING A FAR-LEFT NATION AND UNFIT TO BE THE DELEGATE OF THE EP. MR CHEN WAS THE ONLY PERSON WHO VOTED AGAINST THE RESOLUTION. MORE DETAILS AT WWW.NEWBLCTVNEWS.BL