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3,989 petrol bombs, 1,339 pieces of explosives, and 601 bottles of corrosive liquid were found at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a major site for the violent right-wing insurgency against China

Very similar to the coup attempt against Nicaragua in 2018
scmp.com/news/hong-kong…
These tactics used in the anti-China insurgency in Hong Kong are the same used by violent right-wing forces in Nicaragua in 2018

Coup-mongers took over universities as bases, and then mysteriously got deliveries of weapons to kill state security forces
moderaterebels.com/transcript-nic…
Reminder that right-wing secessionists in Hong Kong are shooting state security forces with arrows and launching gasoline bombs with catapults.

Yet Western gov'ts and corporate media outlets falsely describe this violent insurgency as "peaceful protests"
time.com/5731192/hong-k…
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Welcome to the new dystopian era of woke imperialism, where the far-right female dictator installed after Bolivia's fascist coup is portrayed as a feminist icon, and fake women's rights groups backed by right-wing oligarchs try to push a new coup in Mexico
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More proof that Zionism is rooted in anti-Semitism:

Trump spewed a blatantly anti-Semitic rant at the conference of the Israeli-American Council.

Trump also attacked left-wing Jews who oppose Israeli apartheid.

And Zionists defended him

By @AliAbunimah electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abun…
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Conservative leader Boris Johnson wrote an anti-Semitic book in 2004 depicting Jews as controlling the media and being able to “fiddle” elections

It also uses racist ethnic slurs and refers to Muslims as having “hook noses”

But Corbyn is the one smeared independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
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The US empire is going down the list of left-wing independent countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and trying to overthrow all of them. Washington has been targeting Dominica for months now, which is an ally of Venezuela and has refused to kowtow
The Caribbean nation of Dominica has been an important voice in the OAS pushing back against US hegemony and standing with Venezuela.

So the US has been targeting Dominica's left-wing government for overthrow. And Washington has been pretty open about it:
usoas.usmission.gov/remarks-on-ele…
The US-backed right-wing opposition in Dominica has been using violent burning barricades to block roads, destabilizing the country and preventing flights

Its goal is to cancel elections and stop people from voting for the left - the US gov's same demands
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Protestors at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University are repelling down a rope at a bridge behind de campus, where people are blocking the bridge to be accessed by riot police in order to escape being arrested.

#HongKong #PolyU
#Update: Even a water cannon vehicle at the Polytechnic University from Hong Kong riot police has been damaged by the debris it drove over, slashing it's left front tire disabling the vehicle.

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#Update: This is the bridge what is being blocked by civilians in front of the Polytechnic University where it heads behind the campus where protestors are currently repelling down a rope trying to escape riot police to not be arrested.

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Hong Kong police threatened to use lethal force to arrest anyone who doesn't surrender at a nearly 24-hour standoff at a besieged university. Protesters have set fire to 2 bridges. Lawmakers have scrambled to stop riot officers from charging inside. nyti.ms/359qWTV
Here's footage of police officers firing tear gas and spraying water cannons at demonstrators as they continued a multiday occupation near Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Follow the latest: nyti.ms/341YhQM
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Meanwhile in #Hongkong students and protestors are occupying a University blocking roads and entrances at the facility, while riot police and army officials trying to clear the campus out, met by molotov cocktails and repelled the armoured vehicle to breach the line. #China
#Update: Now happening at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, riot police using Stun grenades and flash bangs in order to drive the students out of the University campus.

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So I am going to help explain why the Fuck these idiotic #HongKongProtests are happening. It has nothing to do with Chinese repression. It has nothing to do with supposed "peaceful protesters" who are being attacked. It's about the murder of a Pregnant Woman. #HongKongAirport
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These are the "poor kids" assaulting people with metal poles that have both British and American flags on them.
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#HonKong Thread: Hong Kong protesters abandoned Facebook for other platforms - "Facebook is not a useful tool for the movement except for those celebrities and parties, on which they make announcements and deliver statements." euronews.com/2019/07/12/hon…
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