The Hong Kong Protests
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Winnie the Pooh and Piglet are going to tag team Hong Kong.
But only if her police shoot enough people.
But only if her police shoot enough people.
Up the workers!
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Democratic Republic of the Appple,
“It is no secret that technology can be used for good or for ill"
Over the past several days we have received credible information, that the Hong Kong Cybersecurity and Technology Crime Bureau, has been maliciously targeting individual pro democracy demonstrators for violence and to victimise individuals."
Coook wrote today to China, calling for the removal of Piglet
"We good now, freeworld?"
“It is no secret that technology can be used for good or for ill"
Over the past several days we have received credible information, that the Hong Kong Cybersecurity and Technology Crime Bureau, has been maliciously targeting individual pro democracy demonstrators for violence and to victimise individuals."
Coook wrote today to China, calling for the removal of Piglet
"We good now, freeworld?"
Up the workers!
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In a 2014 profile to mark Cook’s announcement as person of the year, the Financial Times noted his passion for doing “things for other reasons than a profit motive, we do things because they are right and just”.
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In a new development, causing traffic jams is now a shootable offence in Hong Kong.
The protester who was shot at close range lay on the ground in a pool of blood as police cuffed his hands behind his back
In a statement, the police said “radical protesters” had set up barricades in multiple locations, “causing serious obstruction to traffic”
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...One thing you should try to understand is that Hong Kong people do not consider themselves to be like their neighbors from the PRC -- in any shape or form. Of course many thousands of PRC people have gone to live in Hong Kong. But realize: people like Carrie Lam embody one thing and one thing only: the mutual coziness of the wealthy elites of China and Hong Kong. Carrie Lam is not for the people: she is for the rich and powerful clique in Beijing. That's it, she is no more complex than that. ...The real people of Hong Kong want to speak and think for themselves. She and Beijing can't have that. The citizens of Hong Kong want to choose their representation by collective vote, and they obviously do not want everything chosen for them by strange, foreign Beijing.
The year 2047 promises total control of Beijing over HK. Then there will be no more choosing of leaders, not even from among a small limited rich-group of pre-chosen Beijing-flunkies, as is now the case...
Of course, all the wise and racist cynics might shake their heads and pity the poor naive people and students of HK now sacrificing themselves. Just because everyone "knows" that they are "doomed" to be crushed. Well, Beijing itself, today or yesterday, announced the protests and the protesters are "doomed". What does THAT say!? Hmmm, I would liken Beijing's lingo to the screeching yell you get from a vintage low-budget villain in a Jackie Chan movie... Or maybe Beijing is doing a Kim Jong Un impersonation? After all, why has Jackie Chan betrayed his hometown people!? Because he owns A LOT of theater complexes in the PRC, so he has no choice but to lick Beijing Balls to keep the Fat Slice of Pie coming at him everyday -- that's the TRUTH of the big time!
The rich will triumph and oppress the poor, perhaps inevitably, again... And again and AGAIN. But do you realize that what is happening in HK is a WORLD HISTORICAL EVENT? Yes, the protesters may appear to many of us as being suicidal, naive and mad. But they are RIGHT to be mad, and to die standing up to the ugly ogre. And Beijing is "Bully Inc." at #1 Dickhead Castle Drive.
The protesters of HK, young and old, are in the right. Just as the ordinary starving citizens of France during the various Revolutionary Communes were right to revolt. Even if they were "doomed" to ignite a moronic series of bloodbaths. They, the starving peasants, exactly as the people of Hong Kong, had no choice and did not take a decision to revolt. They HAD to revolt against a starvation inflicted by their betters.
Nothing of opinion can understand history. Especially, "after-the-fact"... But if you live in Hong Kong right now, you also understand how mean and oppressive Beijing REALLY is. A messy kung-fu movie it may be, with ludicrous lines and senseless tragedy, loss of eyes, lives and all innocence. But the students and citizen protesters of Hong Kong rebel because they must express and call for freedom! That is easy to understand. Sadly, they may lose their minds trying to remove an insurmountable repressive force. But wouldn't you fight if you heard the awful order to "Be Silent and Obey!" crushing you down? The rich of HK may cash out and move to Vancouver, London and Melbourne. But the ordinary people can't!
Is this rebellion HK's last chance for freedom..? For there is no future for Hong Kong unless the people can cultivate rights and freedoms -- to live and to speak -- to define their freedom of mind and heart with action! To oppose the impulse of HK is to side with the death of imagination and to cower beneath the hypnotic might of lucre and the homogeneous-hegemony of despotism everywhere!
Of course, ordinary nice fascist people in the PRC, when asked about "democracy" say cynical things like, "Oh, we can't have democracy here, because if we tried to do that, we'd only see the one who buys the most votes win every election". Sounds like old Taiwan. And the new Taiwan, too. Oh well.
So, I agree democracy everywhere may be quite fake. But the freedom to think, and the freedom to speak -- and to make demands about what you believe in -- these are the concerns and feelings that are agitating Hong Kong's people. And the people are no minority, they are one big hopping mad collective intelligence. NOT brainwashed zombies squandering lots of loot to prop up Jackie Chan's show-shops or Jack Ma's pathetic-party-line. (...unless you need to buy a gas mask, or some bulletproof goggles, I guess...)
Chop, chop, chop !!! Eeeeeaaaaahhhh !!!
Pour on the oil, Hong Kong ---- Bonk and Konk ---- death or glory !
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Further reading...
https://amp.scmp.com/comment/opinion/ar ... -ease-fear
https://www.statista.com/statistics/260 ... e-revenue/
The year 2047 promises total control of Beijing over HK. Then there will be no more choosing of leaders, not even from among a small limited rich-group of pre-chosen Beijing-flunkies, as is now the case...
Of course, all the wise and racist cynics might shake their heads and pity the poor naive people and students of HK now sacrificing themselves. Just because everyone "knows" that they are "doomed" to be crushed. Well, Beijing itself, today or yesterday, announced the protests and the protesters are "doomed". What does THAT say!? Hmmm, I would liken Beijing's lingo to the screeching yell you get from a vintage low-budget villain in a Jackie Chan movie... Or maybe Beijing is doing a Kim Jong Un impersonation? After all, why has Jackie Chan betrayed his hometown people!? Because he owns A LOT of theater complexes in the PRC, so he has no choice but to lick Beijing Balls to keep the Fat Slice of Pie coming at him everyday -- that's the TRUTH of the big time!
The rich will triumph and oppress the poor, perhaps inevitably, again... And again and AGAIN. But do you realize that what is happening in HK is a WORLD HISTORICAL EVENT? Yes, the protesters may appear to many of us as being suicidal, naive and mad. But they are RIGHT to be mad, and to die standing up to the ugly ogre. And Beijing is "Bully Inc." at #1 Dickhead Castle Drive.
The protesters of HK, young and old, are in the right. Just as the ordinary starving citizens of France during the various Revolutionary Communes were right to revolt. Even if they were "doomed" to ignite a moronic series of bloodbaths. They, the starving peasants, exactly as the people of Hong Kong, had no choice and did not take a decision to revolt. They HAD to revolt against a starvation inflicted by their betters.
Nothing of opinion can understand history. Especially, "after-the-fact"... But if you live in Hong Kong right now, you also understand how mean and oppressive Beijing REALLY is. A messy kung-fu movie it may be, with ludicrous lines and senseless tragedy, loss of eyes, lives and all innocence. But the students and citizen protesters of Hong Kong rebel because they must express and call for freedom! That is easy to understand. Sadly, they may lose their minds trying to remove an insurmountable repressive force. But wouldn't you fight if you heard the awful order to "Be Silent and Obey!" crushing you down? The rich of HK may cash out and move to Vancouver, London and Melbourne. But the ordinary people can't!
Is this rebellion HK's last chance for freedom..? For there is no future for Hong Kong unless the people can cultivate rights and freedoms -- to live and to speak -- to define their freedom of mind and heart with action! To oppose the impulse of HK is to side with the death of imagination and to cower beneath the hypnotic might of lucre and the homogeneous-hegemony of despotism everywhere!
Of course, ordinary nice fascist people in the PRC, when asked about "democracy" say cynical things like, "Oh, we can't have democracy here, because if we tried to do that, we'd only see the one who buys the most votes win every election". Sounds like old Taiwan. And the new Taiwan, too. Oh well.
So, I agree democracy everywhere may be quite fake. But the freedom to think, and the freedom to speak -- and to make demands about what you believe in -- these are the concerns and feelings that are agitating Hong Kong's people. And the people are no minority, they are one big hopping mad collective intelligence. NOT brainwashed zombies squandering lots of loot to prop up Jackie Chan's show-shops or Jack Ma's pathetic-party-line. (...unless you need to buy a gas mask, or some bulletproof goggles, I guess...)
Chop, chop, chop !!! Eeeeeaaaaahhhh !!!
Pour on the oil, Hong Kong ---- Bonk and Konk ---- death or glory !
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Further reading...
https://amp.scmp.com/comment/opinion/ar ... -ease-fear
https://www.statista.com/statistics/260 ... e-revenue/
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So much, for all those who were saying it was only the radicals that supported the demonstrators, and that the silent majority of Hong Kongers didn't support them. Dallow.
But the pro-democratic landslide was a defiant rebuke to the government’s frequent argument that its hardline policies had the support of a “silent majority”, who had been cowed by protester violence. In a peaceful vote, the city’s people came out against them.
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This is very sad... New law imposing harsh restrictions on intellectual freedoms came into effect yesterday in Hong Kong.
It will become just another faceless, speechless Chinese city. Within a generation, its uniqueness will be effaced. Many intelligent people will move away and mainlanders will replace them. Unless some miracle happens to and HK achieves independence... but that seems really impossible, doesn't it?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/worl ... china.html
It will become just another faceless, speechless Chinese city. Within a generation, its uniqueness will be effaced. Many intelligent people will move away and mainlanders will replace them. Unless some miracle happens to and HK achieves independence... but that seems really impossible, doesn't it?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/worl ... china.html
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What a pity for Hong Kong. Back in the nid-nineties, when I first visited, it was such a diverse, interesting place... Now, overnight, it has gone to hell and will never come back...
"Books pulled from library shelves, songs banned...it’s the new normal in Hong Kong"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... hong-kong?
"Books pulled from library shelves, songs banned...it’s the new normal in Hong Kong"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... hong-kong?
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As each day passes, Hong Kong becomes more and more like Cambodia and China... How sad. No freedom of thought or opinion, no choice of government... Just like Crapbodia...
BBC News - Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-53717843
BBC News - Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-53717843
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Lai offers warning to youth after arrest, and says its the beginning of a long fight for freedom...
BBC News - Jimmy Lai: Arrested Hong Kong tycoon tells protesters to be 'careful'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-53748285
BBC News - Jimmy Lai: Arrested Hong Kong tycoon tells protesters to be 'careful'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-53748285
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