I'd give you the right to vote, were it up to me!
Anyway.
Bed Bella!
(Edit: "were", not "we're". Fucking idiot! I mean, it was 3:00am but still ...
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Hong Kong: what next?
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I'd give you the right to vote, were it up to me!
Anyway.
Bed Bella!
(Edit: "were", not "we're". Fucking idiot! I mean, it was 3:00am but still ...
)Woof
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didn't mao say something about a monk with an umbrella?/I'd give you the right to vote, we're it up to me!
Anyway.
Bed Bella!
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In the celebrated interview he granted Edgar Snow, Mao Tsetung allegedly described himself as “a lonely monk walking in the rain under a leaking umbrella.” With its mixture of humorous humility and exoticism, this utterance had a tremendous impact on the Western imagination, already so well attuned to the oriental glamour of “Kung Fu” TV series. Snow’s command of the Chinese language, even at its best, was never very fluent; some 30-odd years spent away from China had done little to improve it, and it is no wonder that he failed to recognize in this “monk under an umbrella” (ho-shang to san) evoked by the Chairman, a most popular Chinese joke. The expression, in the form of a riddle, calls for the conventional answer “no hair (since monks keep their head shaven); “no sky” (it being hidden by the umbrella)—which in turn means by homophony (wu-fa wu-t’ien) “I know no law, I hold nothing sacred.”
The Myth of Mao - Dissent Magazine
Some misunderstandings do acquire historical dimensions. In the celebrated interview he granted Edgar Snow, Mao Tsetung allegedly described himself as “a lonely monk walking in the rain under a leaking umbrella.” With its mixture of humorous humility and exoticism, this …
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free xinjiang!
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frankly i have no confidence that the hk authorities can take a joke or even the mildest form of criticism and i suspect that if anyone did draw a spunking umbrella or write 'free xinjiang' on the ballot they'd be locked away sharpish
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I'm not feeding seagulls
Yeah you are probably right unfortunately. i assume they note down the serial numbers.
Here we go.
New laws on the way to restrict the internet and "fake news".
news.rthk.hk
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New laws on the way to restrict the internet and "fake news".
Error - RTHK
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The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) was one of the most respected (and feared, if you were corrupt!) institutions in Hong Kong since its inception in 1974.
After its infiltration by the CCP (increasingly since 2012), it is now thoroughly corrupted.
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After its infiltration by the CCP (increasingly since 2012), it is now thoroughly corrupted.
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Further to the removal of all copies of nine books (authored by democracy activists,) from all public libraries, a further twenty nine (29) titles have been removed, all pertaining to (or mentioning,) the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
And, meanwhile, Disney is self-censoring The Simpsons (Season 16 Episode 12, from 2005), wiping it from its Hong Kong catalogue.
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And, meanwhile, Disney is self-censoring The Simpsons (Season 16 Episode 12, from 2005), wiping it from its Hong Kong catalogue.
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tofu eating wokerati
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Only just seeing this, but sounds like they won - if not a 100% total victory, then at least some improvements:
Hong Kong Foodpanda workers end strike after deal on wages, working conditions - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
Scores of Foodpanda delivery workers in Hong Kong have ended their strike after reaching an agreement with the company on improving wages and working conditions after a total of 14 hours of negotiations. The workers of the online food delivery app staged the strike last Saturday, and entered...
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The CCP are complete scum/ /stating the obvious.
I couldn't possibly comment: my Social Credit score is already way down the drain!
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This is sobering stuff.
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Timeline: 58 Hong Kong civil society groups disband following the onset of the security law - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
After Beijing’s national security law for Hong Kong came into force, at least 58 organisations -including unions, churches, media groups, and political parties – have disbanded since 2021. The trend accelerated in the second half of 2021, with bastions of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement...
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It's official now, from "C" at MI6. @ChiefMI6
SIS | Richard Moore First Public Speech
www.sis.gov.uk
"The Chinese Intelligence Services are highly capable and continue to conduct large scale espionage operations against the UK and our allies ... They also monitor and attempt to exercise undue influence over the Chinese diaspora.
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We are concerned by [China's] attempt to distort public discourse ... across the globe...Beijing believes its own propaganda about Western frailties and underestimates Washington’s resolve. The risk of Chinese miscalculation through over-confidence is real.
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Adapting to a world affected by the rise of China is the single greatest priority for MI6. We are deepening our understanding of China across the UK intelligence community, and widening the options available to the government
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Our intelligence targets have online lives. Our officers need to operate invisibly to our adversaries..we need to be able to run our agent & technical operations in an environment in which “Made in China” surveillance technology is found around the world.
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These technologies of control & surveillance are increasingly being exported to other governments by China: expanding the web of authoritarian control around the planet...we want other countries to be clear-eyed about the...vulnerability to political coercion."
Be very wary of the CCP's - generally hidden - United Front Works Department network. They are very strong in the UK. In ChinaTowns; in Universities (and many Chinese student unions); in community organisations; in Confucius Institutes; in Chinese language press, media and, particularly, social media; across numerous groups, activities and media, etc.; etc.
There have been escalating problems over the last few years in Toronto, Vancouver, Sydney, Melbourne, New York, Los Angeles, London, Warwick and every other global city and potential influence points. These networks have been built over many decades and incorporate Triad clans in every city (pro-CCP for obvious reasons and long time allies, especially in Hong Kong,) and are insidious throughout the global diaspora. They are poison. Poison.
The UFWD has deep roots and long tenticles, is pervasive and often misunderstood, seen as benign and "cultural" but is anything but. It is an enormously well funded network of global infiltration - at a local level - in major cities across the world.
Be very, very aware. Always look beneath the surface.
So much of this UFWD activity is underground, coercive, corrosive, and largely missed or dismissed by non-Chinese as innocuous cultural activities.
It's far, far fucking from it. It's a global United Front exercise that the CCP has been copiously funding for many multiple decades. And since 2012, the CCP has used its increasing superiority in global technological innovation to upgrade, strengthen and amplify these networks.
There's an online "Wumao" army, paid and unpaid - and over a million strong - pervasive across global social media. Just check out the comments in the (CCP-owned,) South China Morning Post on certain issues - swamped by pro-CCP propaganda. The party line is millions strong - and global.
There are terrorists in Xinjiang and Hong Kong. Tibet is thriving. Taiwan needs to be taken. Peng Shuai is safe. The narrative is loud and pervasive - it swamps any dissent.
Get it?
One, relatively limited, recent example comes from ChinaTown in London, UK, last weekend ...
"NO COLD WAR!" is fronted by a young, white, female "Tankie". It's funded by the UFWD and is associated with a plethora of UK-based UFWD-linked organisations and associations.
It co-opted the idea of "Stop Asian Hatred" (commendable, of course,) and conflated it with any kind of criticism of the CCP ('cos criticism of The Party promotes racism against Chinese people - don'tcha know?).
Some, recently arrived, HongKongers decided to hold a small, peaceful, vocal, counter-protest to point out the hypocrisy and mendacity of these groups (who all support the CCP and promote the suppression of the people of Hong Kong, Tibet and Xinjiang in China, support the forced taking of Taiwan and support the regimes in Myanmar, Belarus, Russia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, etc. etc.).
The HongKongers were physically attacked by CCP/UFWD thugs, with weapons. A fair few of the HongKongers required hospital treatment.
You get the idea, right?
Stay awake peeps. Stay very awake. It's insidious.
Be nice to each other. And keep thinking!
There are also some videos of the violence around that are easy to find.
Stay safe peeps. Wear a mask.
Woof
Fuck it. I can't do it properly.
Read it anyway. It's really fucking important.
Two fucking hours wasted with this shit trying to make it work.
Fuck off you cunts!
Fucking read it!!!11!1!1!
It's too fucking late for this fucking bullshit cut and paste cunting shit.
Bed Bell.
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Read this fucking shit. Did it work? Woof
I don't thing it did.
Fuck fucking computers. i fucking hate it!
Night.
Woof
I don't thing it did.
Fuck fucking computers. i fucking hate it!
Night.
Woof
Apologies for the sweary rant last night.
I dashed, damn, jolly well, hate and despise computers, was what I was trying to say.
As a dog, it takes me hours to research and then further hours to type (I prefer barking - it's sooooo much faster - but you all pretend to not understand me so I'm reduced to trying to communicate in ways that are a mystery to me and take far, far, far too long). Typing is not the forte of a dog!
And when it takes another two hours to try to cut and paste a post made elsewhere into this thread - and still failing - I lose my fucking shit.
Dogs may be smart but paws are a deficit for typing.
Still ...
Apologies.
It really is a fucking bastard. I'm just trying to explain.
Anyway ... Read the post and beware the UFWD. It's insidious. Wake up.
Online, the tentacles are hundreds of thousands, probably more than a million, swamping the narrative across all "western" social media platforms.
Stay safe good Urban peeps.
Wear a mask.
Rest well.
Come Bells ... bed now. The mental Arab Nihilist East German is here the morrows night. Christ knows what could fucking happen!
We should rest.
Be nice to each other peeps.
Woof
I dashed, damn, jolly well, hate and despise computers, was what I was trying to say.
As a dog, it takes me hours to research and then further hours to type (I prefer barking - it's sooooo much faster - but you all pretend to not understand me so I'm reduced to trying to communicate in ways that are a mystery to me and take far, far, far too long). Typing is not the forte of a dog!
And when it takes another two hours to try to cut and paste a post made elsewhere into this thread - and still failing - I lose my fucking shit.
Dogs may be smart but paws are a deficit for typing.
Still ...
Apologies.
It really is a fucking bastard. I'm just trying to explain.
Anyway ... Read the post and beware the UFWD. It's insidious. Wake up.
Online, the tentacles are hundreds of thousands, probably more than a million, swamping the narrative across all "western" social media platforms.
Stay safe good Urban peeps.
Wear a mask.
Rest well.
Come Bells ... bed now. The mental Arab Nihilist East German is here the morrows night. Christ knows what could fucking happen!
We should rest.
Be nice to each other peeps.
Woof
As things stand, it's 2:15am and I need my doggybed. This website is my only outlet. I've self-censored everywhere else. Completely.
I'm assuming I'm monitored. All the signs are so. Including those hung on my gate: "We're watching you!", in Chinese and English.
It will take some time before I'm safe. To some extent I'm trapped. Zero Covid-19 is a thing. But the traps are deeper.
Keep your wits about you peeps. Nazism doesn't happen overnight, it's a day-by-day creeping thing.
The tentacles run deep and wide across every city in the world. Graduate students are a risk.
Obviously, I can't say too much - the rules have changed here - frequently and illogically.
Value your freedoms peeps. Protect your democracies. Fight now. Fight hard.
Everything is being clouded by misinformation and disinformation.
I'm not interested in conspiracy theory bullshit. Done with that.
But peeps really do need to wake up. very soon.
Climate change is not your friend.
Act now! Before it's all too late.
Oops! It's already too late.
Be nice to each other.
It's the only way.
Come Bella.
Bed.
(Edited for clarity [hopefully].)
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I blame the fucking Nihilists!
It's 4:30am and I'm fucked again. Yet another seven hours of drunken madness and psyche shredding on a Friday night.
It leaves me a total wreck and yet, guess what?
Nihilists!
They just don't fucking care!
Rest well peeps. Be nice to each other.
Come Bella.
Bed.
Woof
It's 4:30am and I'm fucked again. Yet another seven hours of drunken madness and psyche shredding on a Friday night.
It leaves me a total wreck and yet, guess what?
Nihilists!
They just don't fucking care!
Rest well peeps. Be nice to each other.
Come Bella.
Bed.
Woof
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Some recent stuff from Lausan:
lausan.hk
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Foodpanda strike: Neighborhood groups, translators, YouTubers—in the post-unions era, how do workers organize? - Lausan
Stand News interviews South Asian Hong Kong delivery riders on how their labor movement came about.
lausan.hk
This revolution may not have been won, but please would you stay and stand witness together - Lausan
Read this series of short statements and letters from members of HKCTU that were posted on their Facebook upon news of their disbandment.
lausan.hk
50 years after Baodiao: How Hong Kong struggled against all nationalisms - Lausan
Examining the legacies and afterlives of the Baodiao Movement is an important task for activists in the aftermath of the 2019 protests.
lausan.hk
Interesting survey on teachers and students leaving secondary schools - many to emigrate.
hongkongfp.com
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Brain drain fears as Hong Kong secondary schools lose 4,500 pupils and 1,000 teachers in one academic year - survey - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
Hong Kong’s secondary schools lost almost 4,500 students and 1,000 teachers in the last academic year – an average of 32 students and seven teachers per school – due largely to emigration and raising fears of a brain drain in the city, according to a survey by head teachers. Some 60 per cent of...
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I blame the fucking Nihilists!
It's 4:30am and I'm fucked again. Yet another seven hours of drunken madness and psyche shredding on a Friday night.
It leaves me a total wreck and yet, guess what?
Nihilists!
They just don't fucking care!
Rest well peeps. Be nice to each other.
Come Bella.
Bed.
Woof
IMO you should be getting the fuck out of Dodge instead of getting your psyche shredded by your nihilist pal.
Not directly HK related but important nevertheless. Twitter removes 2,160 accounts running a CCP influence campaign to muddy the waters over the appalling abuses in Xinjiang. There are always more accounts (hundreds of thousands, possibly millions,) and many are focused on rewriting the history of the protests in recent years. The CCP, as usual, wants to whitewash history.
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Merry Xmas!
Sure, but... not always easy to extricate yourself from a situation. Iirc, he doesn't have anywhere to go to, currently.
Hopefully am wrong and Jessiedog will be able to find somewhere to stay.
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