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Sheikh delivers jurisprudence ain’t based either Quran or Hadeeth but based on a secret decree issued by his employer (the autocrat). When an Astronomist unable to see stars at daylight he looks into the well? This is your argument

May 22, 2013
Sheikh delivers jurisprudence ain’t based either Quran or Hadeeth but based on a secret decree issued by his employer (the autocrat). When an Astronomist unable to see stars at daylight he looks into the well? This is your argument by quranix
Sheikh delivers jurisprudence ain’t based either Quran or Hadeeth but based on a secret decree issued by his employer (the autocrat). When an Astronomist unable to see stars at daylight he looks into the well? This is your argument, a photo by quranix on Flickr.

Total Oman 2012 Imports from US $1,747.0 Exports to US $1,354.4
Total Oman 1992 Imports from US $257.4 Exports to US $185.9
Sheikh delivers jurisprudence ain’t based either Quran or Hadeeth but based on a secret decree issued by his employer (the autocrat). When an Astronomist unable to see stars at daylight he looks into the well? This is your argument – the rest of the evening is yours. Theorize it.
It’s another boring Review of Criteria Used by IRS to Identify 501(c)(4) Applications for Greater Scrutiny. The 207.9 minutes Dog and Pony show conduct by Max Baucus [pony], Orrin G. Hatch [dog], Mr. Steven Miller [the venom], J. Russell George [the clown] and Douglas Schulman [the Israeli who bonked IRS]. The scam is that since Schulman is Ashkenazi Jews. Republican Frugals advised him not show up at the IRS-Holocaust House Ways and Means Committee Chaired by Dave Camp lest the goood ol’ “DD” David Duke the Grand Wizard of Knights of Ku Klux Klan skew Schulman USDA-Subsidised-Fat- Kibbutz-rear on Kerosene Flame; lynch Schulman from his Hasidic Magein David Reeky Rectum on Fiery Cross. The goood ol! “DD” will Barbeque Schulman for free. Its “DD” Obsession to Relief USA from All-Time-Liability called the State of Israel and the CHOSEN ONES who murdered JESUS. Issa to Lois Lerner: Here Is Your Subpoena. So long! America.
Americans glued as zombies to FOXNEWS watching Assad committing genocide against elders, women and children and religiously polling to impeach Obama before he sends US Arm-Forces to save 23 million devastated Syrians. One hour Power of Moore tornado dwarfs Hiroshima bomb devastated Oklahoma is equivalent to 2 years stalemate in Syria that China, Russia & USA masterminded. Is my condolence in order and to whom? Probably myself.
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Assad & his father are Israel’s lapdogs for the past 50 years. Last week Assad enjoyed watching IAF jetfighters bomb his arms & chemical weapon depot and kill 50 of his best Alawites officers. Delhi is beasty desperate for Cheap Syrian, Iraqi & Iranian Hydrocarbons. Delhi is Pro-Assad as China & Russians from the beginning. Quarter of planet earth will never forget nor forgive Delhi stance in devastating 23 million Syrians. That’s UNINDIAN. I didn’t mean to lionize. I would worthy the worthless if I did. This ain’t new. Louis Mountbatten and Jawaharlal Nehru killed millions of Punjabis during rotten partition. I ain’t expecting an honest Indian precedent or commentary to this premise. To buy time for themselves and for Assad. Iran & Thugocracies around burn billions in media dark out, distortion. As a matter of fact they’re engaged in systematic propaganda to crow about Assad’s petty wins to demoralize McCain Germs supporters aboard. That’s ain’t working no mo. Rebels from around the world are traveling to Syria to share the ditches with FSA. They are ten times the Iranians, Hezbollah & Alawites warlords who’re defending Assad. They’re butchered as boars & their corpse are fed to dogs as we speak by McCain Germs. Back to Hezbollah reinforcements. If 40 Hezbollah militants yesterday killed then thousands must be killed of Assad’s Alawites & Iranian mercenaries in Qusaira. Assad stands no chance to conquer McCain germs that have nothing to lose but their lives. My advice for Assad to stay until all Iranians, Hezbollah & Alawites nuked. The countdown is if an unprivileged Sunni martyred 40 privileged Shiite killed. Shiite are majority then An-eye-for-twenty. Since al-Nusra Front vowed to liberate Iraq from Iran last month. It’s a Friday Ritual Showdown to kill Sunni praying crowds by Iraqi Police & Shiite Militiamen. Shiite-led Iraqi Government tag Sunni killings to al-Qaeda inspired groups who target Sunni Defectors. That’s too good to be true since Iraq is an Iranian-Bitch-State. Putin doled Assad missiles to finish him. Putin wanted him to devastate Israel. Putin wanted to settle old accounts with Jewish oligarchies that looted Russia treasuries and fled to Israel during Boris Yeltsin. Putin stoooopidly wanted to shake up the Zionist lobby at the Donuthole to push USA into Serious Syrian war not Facebook & Twitter. War always boost US economy and unify zombies. Putin knows that Assad’s days are numbered either by shot in the head or democratization. Putin is a loser; he lost Kaddafi 2 years ago.

Who Controls the Economy?

May 21, 2013

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via Who Controls the Economy?.

Ben S. Bernanke(Ashkenazi Jew) – Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System
http://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/bios/board/bernanke.htm

Janet L. Yellen(Ashkenazi Jew) – Vice Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System
http://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/bios/board/yellen.htm

William C. Dudley(Ashkenazi Jew) – President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
http://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/bios/banks/pres02.htm

Lee C. Bollinger(Ashkenazi Jew) – Chairman, Board of Directors, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
http://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/orgchart/board/Bollinger.html

Timothy F. Geithner(Jewish spouse: Carole M. Sonnenfeld) – Secretary, United States Department of the Treasury
http://www.ustreas.gov/organization/bios/geithner-e.shtml

Neal S. Wolin(Ashkenazi Jew) – Deputy Secretary, United States Department of the Treasury
http://www.ustreas.gov/organization/bios/wolin-e.html

Gary F. Locke(Chinese) – Secretary, United States Department of Commerce
http://www.commerce.gov/about-commerce/commerce-leadership/secretary-gary-locke

Rebecca M. Blank(Ashkenazi Jew) – Acting Deputy Secretary, United States Department of Commerce
http://www.commerce.gov/about-commerce/commerce-leadership/acting-deputy-secretary

Hilda L. Solis(Mestizo) – Secretary, United States Department of Labor
http://www.dol.gov/_sec/welcome.htm

Seth D. Harris(Ashkenazi Jew) – Deputy Secretary, United States Department of Labor
http://www.dol.gov/_sec/aboutosec/bio-harris.htm

Steven Chu(Chinese) – Secretary, United States Department of Energy
http://www.energy.gov/organization/dr_steven_chu.htm

Daniel B. Poneman(Ashkenazi Jew) – Deputy Secretary, United States Department of Energy
http://www.energy.gov/organization/daniel_poneman.htm

Gene B. Sperling(Ashkenazi Jew) – Director, National Economic Council
http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/nec/director

Alan B. Krueger(Ashkenazi Jew) – Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_B._Krueger

Jacob J. Lew(Ashkenazi Jew) – Director, Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/organization_office

Paul A. Volcker(Ashkenazi Jew) – Chairman, Economic Recovery Advisory Board
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ObamaAnnouncesEconomicAdvisoryBoard

Ron Bloom(Ashkenazi Jew) – Senior Counselor for Manufacturing Policy to the President
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/President-Obama-Names-Ron-Bloom-Senior-Counselor-for-Manufacturing-Policy

Steven L. Rattner(Ashkenazi Jew) – Director, Presidential Task Force on the Automotive Industry
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/President-Obama-Announces-Key-Administration-Posts

Jared Bernstein(Ashkenazi Jew) – Chief Economist and Economic Policy Adviser to the Vice President
http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/vice_president_elect_biden_announces_chief_economist

Fred P. Hochberg(Ashkenazi Jew homosexual) – Chairman and President, Export-Import Bank of the United States
http://www.exim.gov/about/leadership/fred_hochberg_bio.cfm

Ronald Kirk(Negro) – U.S. Trade Representative, Office of the United States Trade Representative
http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/biographies-key-officials/united-states-trade-representative-ron-kirk

Douglas H. Shulman(Ashkenazi Jew) – Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
http://www.irs.gov/irs/article/0,,id=98192,00.html

David A. Lebryk(White European) – Commissioner, Financial Management Service (FMS)
http://www.fms.treas.gov/aboutfms/lebryk_bio.html

Van Zeck(White European) – Commissioner, Bureau of the Public Debt
http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/whoweare/people.htm

Debbie Matz(Ashkenazi Jew) – Chairman, National Credit Union Administration (NCUA)
http://www.ncua.gov/GenInfo/Members/Matz/Matz.aspx#

Martin J. Gruenberg(Ashkenazi Jew) – Acting Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
http://www.fdic.gov/about/learn/board/board.html

John E. Bowman(Ashkenazi Jew) – Director, Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS)
http://www.ots.treas.gov/?p=ActingDirector

John Walsh(White European) – Acting Comptroller, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
http://www.occ.treas.gov/about/leadership/biographies/bio-john-walsh.html

Edward DeMarco(White European) – Acting Director, Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)
http://fhfa.gov/Default.aspx?Page=67

Donna J. Gambrell(Negro) – Director, Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI)
http://www.cdfifund.gov/who_we_are/director/bio_dgambrell.asp

Karen G. Mills(Ashkenazi Jew) – Administrator, Small Business Administration (SBA)
http://www.sba.gov/aboutsba/administrator/index.html

Michael J. Astrue(Ashkenazi Jew) – Commissioner, Social Security Administration (SSA)
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pressoffice/factsheets/astrue.htm

Jon D. Leibowitz(Ashkenazi Jew) – Chairman, Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
http://www.ftc.gov/commissioners/leibowitz/index.shtml

Gary G. Gensler(Ashkenazi Jew) – Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
http://www.cftc.gov/aboutthecftc/commissioners/ggensler.html

Mary L. Schapiro(Ashkenazi Jew) – Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
http://sec.gov/about/commissioner/schapiro.htm

Daniel L. Goelzer(Ashkenazi Jew) – Acting Chairman, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)
http://pcaobus.org/About/Board/Pages/DanielLGoelzer.aspx

Kenneth R. Feinberg(Ashkenazi Jew) – Special Master for Executive Compensation, U.S. Treasury Department
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124416737421887739.html

Neil M. Barofsky(Ashkenazi Jew) – Special Inspector General, Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)
http://www.sigtarp.gov/about_ig.shtml

Adam J. Szubin(Ashkenazi Jew) – Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
http://www.treasury.gov/about/organizational-structure/Pages/szubin-e.aspx

Eric Hampl(Ashkenazi Jew) – Director, Treasury Executive Office of Asset Forfeiture (TEOAF)
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James H. Freis, Jr.(Ashkenazi Jew) – Director, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)
http://www.fincen.gov/about_fincen/pdf/bio_director.pdf

Edmund C. Moy(Chinese) – Director, United States Mint
http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/?action=directors_office

Larry R. Felix(Mulatto) – Director, Bureau of Engraving and Printing
http://www.moneyfactory.gov/aboutthebep/officeofthedirector.html

Douglas W. Elmendorf(Ashkenazi Jew) – Director, Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
http://www.cbo.gov/aboutcbo/organization/od.htm

Gene L. Dodaro(White European) – Comptroller General, United States Government Accountability Office (GAO)
http://www.gao.gov/cghome/gdbiog.html

Daniel K. “Dan” Inouye(Japanese) – Chairman, United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
http://appropriations.senate.gov/about-chairman.cfm

Timothy P. “Tim” Johnson(White European) – Chairman, United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
http://banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=CommitteeInformation.Home

Max S. Baucus(White European) – Chairman, United States Senate Committee on Finance
http://finance.senate.gov/about

Mary L. Landrieu(White European) – Chairman, United States Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
http://sbc.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Chair

Harold D. “Hal” Rogers(White European) – Chairman, United States House Committee on Appropriations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Rogers

Frederick S. “Fred” Upton(White European) – Chairman, United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce
http://energycommerce.house.gov/about/about_chair.shtml

Henry A. Waxman(Ashkenazi Jew) – Ranking Member, United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce
http://democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/index.php?q=page/ranking-member-henry-waxman

Spencer T. Bachus III(White European) – Chairman, United States House Committee on Financial Services
http://financialservices.house.gov/singlepages.aspx?NewsID=397

Barney Frank(Ashkenazi Jew homosexual) – Ranking Member, United States House Committee on Financial Services
http://financialservices.house.gov/singlepages.aspx?NewsID=397

Samuel B. “Sam” Graves, Jr.(White European) – Chairman, United States House Committee on Small Business
http://republicans.smallbusiness.house.gov/About/Chair.htm

David L. “Dave” Camp(White European) – Chairman, United States House Committee on Ways and Means
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/About/Chairman.htm

Sander M. “Sandy” Levin(Ashkenazi Jew) – Ranking Member, United States House Committee on Ways and Means
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/About/Members.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sander_Levin

Robert B. Zoellick(Ashkenazi Jew) – President, The World Bank
http://go.worldbank.org/IHDUWCAI20

Dominique Strauss-Kahn(Ashkenazi Jew) – Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
http://www.imf.org/external/np/omd/bios/dsk.htm

John Lipsky(Ashkenazi Jew) – First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
http://www.imf.org/external/np/omd/bios/jl.htm

Summary:
Of the sixty(60) senior officials of the U.S. Government economic, financial, and monetary institutions, thirty-nine(39) are Jews or have Jewish spouses. This is a numerical representation of 65%. Jews are approximately 2% of the U.S. population.* Therefore Jews are over-represented among the senior officials of the U.S. Government economic, financial, and monetary institutions by a factor of 32.5 times(3,250 percent).

* Jewish Population of the United States by State:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/usjewpop.html

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19 Responses to “Who Controls the Economy?”

  1. January 2, 2011 at 12:45 pm[...] Jews DO NOT control the banks. Repeat: Jews DO NOT control the banks. Who Controls the Economy? Who Controls the Treasury Department? Who Controls the Federal Reserve System? (Part [...]

  2. Flanders Says:

    March 5, 2011 at 3:32 amHere is a link you may want, Z.O.G.

    Interlocking Directors – “…this is just a small sampling of how intertwined the elite are. How tight and cohesive a group they form. Don’t delude yourself it is US vs them.”

    http://www.truthinourtime.com/2011/03/interlocking-directors.html

  3. Flanders Says:

    March 24, 2011 at 1:09 am“Why Are the Media Ignoring Plans By George Soros to Remake the Entire Global Economy?” Access here:

    http://incogman.net/03/2011/the-jews-big-dumb-golem-attacks-libya/comment-page-2/#comment-99245

  4. Wheres your hope and change now Says:

    April 12, 2011 at 2:47 amThe Jews created the Cheka in Bolshevik Russia, after they took it over in 1917.

    Look for them to do the same in America with the Department of Homeland Security.

    Their main function was to murder Christians and Muslims under the guise of “Atheism”. But the Judaism was left alone.

  5. Franklin Ryckaert Says:

    April 19, 2011 at 7:43 amWhat strikes the eye is that so many of the Jews in this series do not look Jewish at all, some only slightly so; only a few look “typically Jewish”. There must have been a lot of admixture in their history in Europe, or is there a selection process going on here: the most European looking types make it to the top? As for the “moral expression” on their faces, some look really criminal others quite innocent. This is true for both Jews and Gentiles. The face of Robert Zoelick however(one of the masterminds of 9/11) with it’s almost satanic grin is really scary!

    • Z.O.G. Says:

      April 19, 2011 at 4:33 pm

      There must have been a lot of admixture in their history in Europe, or is there a selection process going on here: the most European looking types make it to the top?

      It’s both. Also note that most of the Jews on these lists have blue eyes, and many of them have blonde hair. This fact should shock most people familiar with the Jewish phenotype. It certainly shocked me when I was making the lists.

      • Franklin Ryckaert Says:

        April 20, 2011 at 2:30 amI think it is in the human sphere what is called “mimicry” in biology (both with animals and plants), all for the sake of parasitism. Some Jewish families seem to have engaged in it deliberately. Since Jewish identity is inherited only via the mother this leaves opportunities to “mix while staying the same”. For example a rich Jew lets his daughter marry an impoverished nobleman. Their children inherit their father’s title and (partially) his good looks, while still being Jews(this happened often in England). Or a rich Jew marries a poor but good looking gentile girl. His children are not Jewish but he lets his sons marry Jewish women, who’s children are thus again Jews, but now “genetically enriched” with precious gentile genes. Repeat this process for a few generations and you get perfectly European and good looking persons who still feel and act as Jews. Jews are thus not only economical but also genetic parasites.

      • Z.O.G. Says:

        April 20, 2011 at 12:38 pmYou are exactly right, Franklin. This is how Jews engage in gene theft and slightly interbreed with their host population.

  6. July 15, 2011 at 2:37 pm[...] see the whole system is run by Jews from the top down and we know for a fact who’s the controlling management in the economy, international banking and corporate media. Hell, everyone and his brother [...]

  7. July 16, 2011 at 4:58 pm[...] first place! You can see the whole system is run by Jews from the top down; they are the majority controlling management of our economy, international banking and big corporate media. Hell, everyone and his brother [...]

  8. aa Says:

    November 2, 2011 at 2:31 amonly 2 people do not look evil!!

  9. February 27, 2012 at 7:08 pm[...] Who Controls the Economy? This entry was posted in Uncategorized by Henrik. Bookmark the permalink. [...]

  10. Maurice Says:

    March 1, 2012 at 2:51 amThis is the Jewish input into my country’s economy, politics, human rights and law. The worst of the worst is former Chief Judge Spigelman. They call him Australian Adolf Hitler. If you finish in his court you are the same as survivors’ of tsunami; left with nothing. No family, home, jobs..This man would take everything you have and if you complain he would go after you until you commit suicide. And many did just that. Follow links included and you’ll see

    http://t.co/HHhX0oo
    http://t.co/25TedxE
    http://t.co/jc5rk9f
    http://t.co/sRg5qlrcbcc
    http://www.natvan.com/adv/2005/12-24-05.html
    http://t.co/qC4A2VW

    I do believe that Americans knows about this problem but like Australia, they lost control over their own country.

  11. March 18, 2012 at 3:41 amReal power structure

  12. March 19, 2012 at 1:12 amIt remains to be seen what is behind the selection of these people. Are they serving the people of America, the incumbent, Israel, or a secret society? The more one digs into history the more skeletions crop up. Jews have always been respected so much. The stories of Jonah and the big fish, Noah and his ark, Joshua and Jerico, moses and parting the Red Sea, more fantastic than Greek mythology and the Christian Churches of Europe saying that the foods of the New World, tomatoes, potatoes, corn, pumplin, peppers, vanilla. chocolate, etc. were Satanic because they weren’t mentioned in the Old Testament or Bible. And the famous calculations that the earth was only some 5,000 years old buy tracing the lineage back to Adam are all part of respect for Jews. There seems to be some suspicion that is growing. I wonder why.

  13. Danny Says:

    June 4, 2012 at 5:42 pmIm trying to get in touch with the creator of this blog to work alongside me in a project aimed at exposing just this kind of control. If you read this can you email me at theravens@gmx.com and just put thezog in title so I know it is you.

    Thanks and great work

  14. Batman Says:

    August 16, 2012 at 5:58 amDo you have all of this in a PDF format? Just in case it gets shutdown.

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No Cheese Country Coup d’état

March 29, 2012

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China’s Power Struggle
Is a Dangerous Divide Opening Between Beijing Leaders?
By Wieland Wagner AFP
For weeks, China’s communist leaders have been embroiled in a bitter power struggle that could jeopardize a carefully planned transition in the national leadership and the course charted by more moderate reformers. Although the state has tried to keep the feuding under wraps, the Internet is awash with rumors — including those of a possible coup.
The 7 p.m. news isn’t one of the best parts of Chinese state television. Two newscasters, a man and a woman, stiffly rattle off the achievements of the nine members of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, including stories about the model companies they have visited and the mines they have toured. They read off the names of the workers who have received awards from the party leaders, and of the state guests being received by leaders in Beijing.
Still, last week, many Chinese paid close attention to the evening propaganda ritual, searching for signs indicating which of China’s leaders are still in power in Beijing.
There had been rumors and speculation about a possible coup, prompting many to wonder whether President and party leader Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao would even appear on the screen. Or would the newscast suddenly show other top officials?
The rest of the world, alarmed by reports from bloggers, also looked to China with concern. The country has enjoyed enviable successes for the last three decades. It has become the world’s second-largest economy, it now has the largest foreign currency reserves (about $3.2 trillion, or €2.4 trillion) and it controls the most dynamic growth market in the world — and one that German industries are increasingly dependent on.
Some Western businesspeople have even come to believe that the Chinese economic miracle is proof of the superiority of its authoritarian system. They have raved that the Chinese — unlike their counterparts in the West — don’t waste time in endless debates but, instead, make quick and clear decisions, thereby enabling them to govern more efficiently. And hasn’t it been true, they have argued, that the top political players are selected much more carefully and are not brought into senior government positions until they have proven their worth in the provinces?
It certainly seemed that way. But, in reality, China’s communist leaders have been embroiled in bitter power struggles for weeks, the details of which are only gradually reaching the outside world.
It is also becoming clear that the supposed competitive advantages of the Chinese one-party dictatorship — with no freely elected parliament, no independent judiciary, no meddlesome press — could become the biggest threat to the stability of this country of 1.3 billion people.
Rumors of a Coup
Last week’s uncertainty was triggered by rumors of a coup, which appeared online on the night of Monday, March 19, via the migroblogging website Sina Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter. Although government censors quickly deleted the messages, they had already been rapidly disseminated.
Bloggers reported that gunshots had been heard on the edge of Zhongnanhai, the downtown Beijing neighborhood surrounded by high walls in which Chinese leaders live and work. They also described sightings of military vehicles on Changan Avenue, the long parade route along the Forbidden City and the Great Hall of the People.
Life seemed to be proceeding normally in Beijing, and many of the photos posted online of allegedly sighted tanks subsequently turned out to be old. Nevertheless, a state of emergency prevailed on the Internet in China. For instance, anyone searching for key words or phrases, such as “gunfire” or “Changan Avenue,” got the following message: “These terms are not being displayed in accordance with the applicable laws, regulations and political guidelines.”
Still, in posting these statements, the censors merely fueled additional speculation over what was happening in the government district. According to websites run by Chinese exiles, Zhou Yongkang, 69, a leading Poliburo official in charge of the police and judiciary, had been neutralized by his rival, party leader Hu, who enjoys the support of the military.
The security chief was mentioned in the TV news on Thursday, but it was unusually brief and without a photo. Like so many things in Beijing, his future has seemed uncertain.
A Leadership Shake-Up
The Chinese capital hasn’t experienced a power struggle like the one now underway since the bloody suppression of the democracy movement in Tiananmen Square in 1989. At the time, there were also deep divisions within the country’s communist leadership.
The current showdown threatens to jeopardize the carefully planned change in the party and national leadership. Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, 58, is expected to succeed Hu as party leader in the fall and replace him as president in March 2013.
The shake-up had been prepared for so long that it didn’t seem to be in jeopardy. On the other hand, China’s communists have only managed to achieve a smooth transition of power once since the death of Chairman Mao Zedong in 1976. That was in 2002, when the current Communist Party leader took office.
This fall, however, seven of the nine positions on the Politburo Standing Committee are to be filled with new people. This is almost more important than the presidential succession because it is this committee that ultimately sets the agenda in China. Even the president and party leader has to negotiate compromises within the committee.
Seeking to Avoid a ‘Historical Tragedy’
The tussle over the replacement of the seven members has been going on for months. On March 15, one of the most promising candidates for a top post withdrew, albeit involuntarily. The Beijing leadership deposed Bo Xilai, 62, the popular party chairman in Chongqing, a city of 32 million on the Yangtze River in central China.
The ambitious and charismatic Bo’s fall from grace came as a surprise because he is considered a “princeling.” His father became one of China’s “immortal” revolutionaries after making a name for himself fighting the Japanese. His son Bo encouraged the citizens of Chongqing to revive the custom of singing revolutionary songs in the city’s parks. He had thousands of corrupt officials and underworld figures arrested. And he helped the poor by forgiving their school fees and providing them with inexpensive apartments.
Conservatives in the Communist Party applauded Bo, believing that he could resolve the contradictions of communist state capitalism, especially widespread corruption and the growing chasm between the rich and the poor.
But moderate reformers, such as Premier Wen Jiabao, saw the Chongqing-based populist as a new Mao, a dictator who could threaten them and their families’ business interests. Speaking on the day before Bo was deposed, Wen said that China had reached a “critical stage.” “Without a successful political structural reform, it is impossible for us to fully institute economic structural reform, and the gains we have made in this area may be lost,” Wen said. In fact, he added that, if China could not get to the root of its problems, it might experience another “historical tragedy like the Cultural Revolution.”
The assessment by a Chinese academic in a US diplomatic cable that was disclosed by WikiLeaks in 2010 shows how deeply Bo had alarmed the party bosses in Beijing. According to the academic, in an effort to make himself politically unassailable, Bo had even denounced his own father during the Cultural Revolution. As the professor stated in his assessment, since the Chinese value family ties above all else, many viewed Bo as a “base traitor.”
The Wang Lijun Affair
In addition to quarreling over positions, Beijing’s leaders are also at odds over the future positioning of the superpower. Should China be more “revolutionary” again — that is, more directed from above — as Bo demonstrated in Chongqing? Or should the party embark on reforms leading in the direction of a constitutional state, as the southern province of Guangdong, a key center of the country’s export industries, is currently practicing with the support of party leader Hu and Premier Wen?
Although personal and political issues are difficult to separate in this power struggle, a public contest to determine the best arguments has so far been avoided. Instead, Hu, Wen and their supporters employed a tried-and-true method for eliminating the upstart from Chongqing: corruption charges.
An incident in early February provided the necessary excuse. At the time, Wang Lijun, Bo’s recently demoted vice-mayor and police chief, had fled to the US Consulate in Chengdu because he allegedly wanted to seek asylum. But the effort fizzled, and he only stayed in the consulate for a single day. The former official is now being questioned in Beijing, where he has reportedly provided authorities with incriminating material about Bo and his family.
Whether the ousted “princeling” will be put on trial or relegated to a more minor position within the party was still unclear last Friday. Bo has powerful allies in Beijing, including Zhou Yongkang, the chief of security in the Politburo who, according to rumors among Chinese bloggers, has now been deposed. To fool the Internet censors, net activists have made a code name out of the last character in his name. They refer to him as “Kang Shifu,” the name of a Chinese brand of instant noodles.
Trusting the Internet More than the State
And what is Xi Jinping saying, the man who — at least at the moment — is in line to become the next party leader and president? He has remained tight-lipped on where he intends to take China. Such is consistent with the approach he has used to climb to the top of the party: not attracting attention and not making enemies.
Granted, this is a recipe that has proven effective in the past, as was also the case with censorship. But how effective is this approach today, when an alternative to the government’s propaganda — and one accessible to millions of Chinese — has taken shape on the Internet? And when there are two versions of the truth?
The most recent events must even give a man like Xi pause. The Communist Party is beginning to have trouble maintaining secrecy on issues of personnel and power. Too much information is leaked, and it rapidly spreads online.
Meanwhile, the party remains silent, which only fuels additional speculation. Even when Zhou was shown on television on Friday, many bloggers were unimpressed: “It’s all an illusion, full of twists and turns,” one blogger wrote.
Indeed, many Chinese have become so cynical that they don’t even trust the party media, such as state-run television, when they actually are telling the truth. But they do believe every rumor on the Internet.
Perhaps that was why they still didn’t know, at the end of last week, what was actually happening in their country.


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