Yan Chenglong crowned ‘Xiangqi King’ but overdid celebrations, as governing body also investigates whether he cheated using anal beads
The world of Chinese chess is in uproar over rumours of cheating and a bad behaviour scandal that saw the national champion stripped of his title on Monday after a victory celebration ended with him defecating in a hotel bathtub.
Xiangqi, or Chinese chess, has been hugely popular for hundreds of years across Asia – and 48-year-old Yan Chenglong beat dozens of contenders last week to win the title of “Xiangqi King” at a national tournament hosted by the Chinese Xiangqi Association.
But his joy was short-lived, with the CXA on Monday announcing that Yan would have his title revoked and prize money confiscated after had been caught “disrupting public order” and displaying “extremely bad character”.
The association was also forced to address rumours circulating online that Yan had cheated during the competition by using anal beads equipped with wireless transmitters to send and receive signals.
LISTEN 👉There were no "viral respiratory pandemics" in 1918, 1958, 1968, 2009, 2020… 👉All were propaganda campaigns and/or physical assaults against vulnerable groups 👉Bacterial pneumonia is a constant threat to physically stressed vulnerable individuals, and does spread in…
At one end, some say there are no such things a viruses, others say the viral pandemics were all fake, then at the other end some say the covid pandemic is close to becoming deadly to the vaxxed. I have tended to believe there is/was a covid virus because many doctors have said they saw symptoms unlike any they had seen before. It seems to me the pandemic was largely if not completely fake. Fake PCR tests were a major giveaway. Bleating government officials plus mandates was another. Censorship of opposing views was and is yet another. There are more but those three or four are enough. The main constant throughout the pandemic has been intense mind-control. ABN
From the minute after the US Central Command (CENTCOM) and the UK Maritime Trade Organisation (UKMT) learned that the oil tanker MV Chem Pluto had been hit by an exploding drone in the Indian Ocean 1,600 kilometres east of the Red Sea and Yemen coast (lead image, left), they also knew why. Through a joint venture between a Japanese and a Singapore holding company operating through a Dutch management cutout, the vessel is owned by Idan Ofer, an Israeli shipping magnate (lead image, right).
The Chem Pluto strike is the second by a drone against one of Ofer’s vessels in the Indian Ocean. The first strike was on November 24, when the container carrier CMA CGM Symi was targeted in the northeastern sector of the Indian Ocean. The Symi is owned by Ofer’s Eastern Pacific Shipping in Singapore.
On December 18, drone strikes were reported by CENTCOM against the Swan Atlantic oil tanker and the bulker MV Clara. The first vessel is owned by a Norwegian company but management, with hidden equity, belongs to the Israeli Zodiac group, owned by Idan Ofer’s brother, Eyal Ofer. The second vessel, the Clara, is owned and managed by a German company, Johann MK Blumenthal; no Israeli trace has been found to date, but the Houthis have yet to make a mistake in spotting and hitting Israeli ships.
thank you for this very informative article, this seems to confirm my suspicion that the iranians were implying that algeria would become a proxy in attacking the pinch point of gibraltar. if they do, don’t be surprised if they also declare war on israel as yemen has. this appears to be a gradated response, designed to slowly inflict as much pain as possible, using proxies in order to avoid direct confrontation between iran and israel as long as possible. the farther the israelis go the greater the response from the axis of resistance. soleimani in his unappreciated genius realize the true motivations of the occupation, plain and simply money. yes, it’s all about the benjamins. israelis will not put up with living in a warzone and fighting an enemy that has similar weapons to what they have, they fear a fair fight, while those opposing them would gladly give their lives. from what i’ve read almost half a million israelis have already left, get ready for exodus 2.0.
all of this aligns with my suspicion that we are watching the grand plan of gen. soleimani play out before us. bds with cruise missiles, isolating israel and destroying their economy in the process. if they continue their murderous genocide of the palestinians, they will be destroyed economically, their siege of gaza will be met with an economic siege. the ultimate goal of his plan is not just freeing palestine but driving the u.s. out of the middle east completely.
this is all part of ww3, which is largely an economic war, started by the zioneocons when they launched their covid bioweapon on an unsuspecting world, this is what the west is unable to grasp, because to a hammerheaded idiot everything is a nail. the west is being crushed in this war, both militarily and economically and both israeli and it’s zato golems are being into a trap to be bled to death. the only remaining question is whether that death will be literal or figurative.
…The reason I mention this economic and foreign policy aspect is because there’s little doubt this would again be the focus of President Trump in a second term. Trump is likely going to be the driving force of economic policy and foreign policy, in granular detail again. The VP needs to learn how Trump does it so effectively, so that MAGA continues into 2028.
Meanwhile, all of the other agencies need serious wolverines at the helm, fearlessly chewing down the mechanisms of, (a) the intelligence apparatus; and (b) the controlled bureaucratic and administrative state.
No executive can micromanage the details of this scale, the office of the president can only support their efforts and provide tools and resources for the dismantling.
Knowing this, and fully understanding the skills, strengths and weaknesses of each potential VP selection, I look at the Big Picture through the prism of who do I want at the helm, that has enough loyalty to ensure the deconstruction takes place and/or continues and holds the integrity/fortitude to provide me some measure of assurance. I guess this is the proverbial trust factor, only this time it’s even more important.
Right now, only one person hits that level of integrity for me, Dr. Ben Carson.
I trust Dr Ben Carson to understand the MAGA vision; to understand how the MAGA vision becomes manifest through policy; and, more importantly, to stay true to the MAGA vision if called upon to execute.
More than 85% of the grass-fed beef sold in the U.S. is not raised in the U.S., yet it’s labeled “Product of the USA.” As a result of a loophole in the labeling law, American farmers who produce grass-fed beef are forced to compete against far less expensive imported grass-fed beef.
In 2017, raising grass-fed beef in Australia cost 59 cents per pound, whereas the cost per pound in the U.S. was $1.55 for large producers and as much as $4.26 per pound for a small farm.
One of the reasons for this price discrepancy is the fact that countries like Australia and New Zealand have relatively temperate weather year-round. As a result, their cows can graze on pasture throughout the year, whereas American farmers must purchase feed during the winter.
There’s a globally coordinated assault on agriculture. The G20, the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) are all pushing for radical reductions in farming to reach “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions.
The “sustainability” that globalists are calling for is not the sustainability of the human population. What they’re referring to is the sustainable growth of a new global economic system based on the allocation of finite resources to the technocratic “rulers.” The rest of us will “own nothing,” because they intend to strip us of our ownership rights. It’s crucial that people understand that the “sustainability” solutions currently offered will result in the eradication of a large portion of humanity.
Muckraker has obtained multiple maps, handed out by non-government organizations across South and Central America, that detail the routes to take to the U.S. and where to cross the U.S. border.
The collapse of the U.S. southern border is the result of a carefully planned and deliberately executed industrial mass migration program.
MAP #1 – Distributed by Doctors Without Borders (Médicos Sin Fronteras in Spanish).
The front shows the routes from Panama to Mexico.
The back shows the routes across Mexico to the United States.
A new study on speech comprehension shows that humans respond to the “contextual semantic content of each word in a relatively time-locked fashion.”
These findings demonstrate that, when successfully comprehending natural speech, the human brain responds to the contextual semantic content of each word in a relatively time-locked fashion. (Source)
This process is roughly illustrated here:
While I do not doubt these findings for simple speech in simple contexts, I do wonder what the results would be for speech in psychologically complex contexts, whether that speech is simple or not.
I wonder this because I am certain that in almost all psychologically complex contexts (those rich with subjectivity, emotion, idiosyncratic memory or association, etc.) the “contextual semantic content of each word” will necessarily be different, often very different for each speaker.
Psychologically rich interpersonal speech is almost always fraught with contextual differences that can be very large. Sometimes participants know these differences exist and sometimes they don’t. It is very common for speakers to make major mistakes in this area, the most important area of speech for human psychological well-being.
It seems possible that EEG with increased sensitivity might one day be able to detect “context diversion” between speakers, but even if complex emotional information is also included, people will still have to talk about what is diverging from what.
My comments are not meant to detract from the very interesting findings posted above. I make them because these findings illustrate how inherently problematic real-time mutual comprehension of the “contextual semantic content” of all spoken words actually is.
FIML practice is the only way I know of today to find profound real-time mutual comprehension of complex interpersonal speech.
Humans tend to think that we are the most intelligent life-forms on Earth, and that we’re largely followed by our close relatives such as chimps and gorillas. But there are some areas of cognition in which homo sapiens and other primates are not unmatched. What other animal’s brain could possibly operate at a human’s level, at least when it comes to one function? Birds—again.
This is far from the first time that bird species such as corvids and parrots have shown that they can think like us in certain ways. Jackdaws are clever corvids that belong to the same family as crows and ravens. After putting a pair of them to the test, an international team of researchers saw that the birds’ working memory operates the same way as that of humans and higher primates. All of these species use what’s termed “attractor dynamics,” where they organize information into specific categories.
Unfortunately for them, that means they also make the same mistakes we do. “Jackdaws (Corvus monedula) have similar behavioral biases as humans; memories are less precise and more biased as memory demands increase,” the researchers said in a study recently published in Communications Biology.
Two interesting thinktank policy papers were released over the past two weeks, which somewhat flew under the radar. I wanted to examine them in light of not only Ukraine’s now-announced major battlefield reorientation, but the general pivotal inflection point on which the conflict stands at the cusp of 2024, to see what projections for the future can be gleaned.
I read both of the papers so you don’t have to, so I’ll highlight the most important points and see how they can tie together into some semblance of a Western/NATO ‘strategic’ redirection.
The first of the two is from the Estonian Ministry of Defense, which has been active in various prognostications and reports from their supposed confidential ‘sources’ within the Russian MOD:
The gist of this paper revolves around hatching ideas for how Ukraine can use its reorientation period to rebuild into a force that can defeat Russia.
It begins with the same tired gloat of how much larger NATO/EU’s combined economies and military spending are over Russia. It’s a bit of a sophomoric take, as they expect this to innately convert into victory, as if it’s just a ‘given’ that “bigger is better.”
This is an excellent analysis, well-worth reading in full. The first part is a discussion of an unremarkable Estonian Defense Ministry report (still worth reading). The second part contains the meat—a well-deserved takedown of American neocons and their destructive fantasies based on their report, The High Price of Losing Ukraine.
Taken together both of these reports reveal the total failure of American neocon policies and the tragedy of allowing a rogue group of committed anti-Russian neocons to take over governance of USA. If these powers had been stopped thirty years ago and USA & NATO had formed a healthy alliance with Russia, all members of that alliance would have benefitted enormously. Instead, the West now faces disaster wherever you look. ABN
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