(1) Welcome to the WTF Hong Kong protesters' 'I'm a barrister/former legislator, I ain't supposed to be in court or jail' Special Edition
during yesterday's court hearing for their bail applications, 4 out of the 47 HK opposition poilticians, all from hk.appledaily.com/local/20210303…
(2) the barrister-dominated Civic Party were choked with tears as they declared that they quit the Civic Party so as to have no political affilation (but failed to pledge if they would severe ties with US-backed NED operators & US sugar daddies)
(3) Alvin Yeung, known for coaching HK youngsters with slogans such as "having a criminal record is glorious", lamented that he never dreamed that as a barrister, he would be a defendant having to "fight for his own freedom" after "fighting for HK people", as reporters present
(4) & Yeung had to blow their nose, choking back tears - Yeung told reporters before the trial that he "might not see his 6-year-old chidlren again"
(5) 7 defendants told the court that they had terminated the services of their legal representatives & would go on with any legal pressentation, so that they could "represent themselves" in court & have fear-filled sessions
(6) HK Civil Assembly Team, which organised several anti-govt protests in 2019 & 2020 announced its disbandment in a Facebook post & its leader, Ventus Lau, known for his hatred of people from mainland China as a localist leader, is among the 47 charged
(7) meanwhile, they need to fill your newspapers with news stores about their "sufferings" such as not having time to have as many showers & changes of clothing as they'd like
(8) video for (3) above, with HK former Civic Party legislator & national security suspect, Alvin Yeung, who is himself a barrister (!), coaching HK youngsters with slogans such as "having a criminal record is glorious"
Video for (3) above, with HK former Civic Party legislator & national security suspect, Alvin Yeung, who is himself a barrister (!), coaching HK youngsters with slogans such as "having a criminal record is glorious"
(1) Welcome to the WTF Hong Kong Protest Series- "My US professor encourages me I should die & insist that HK should be independent from China" Special Edition
US academic at the Dept of Anthropology at the Chinese Uni of HK says he stays to "protect HK"
(2) after his teaching contract has been renewed for 3 years - he was hired by CUHK in 1994 after teaching in Japan - doesn't speak Cantonese, he claims to know HK extremely well as he's able to ask taxi drivers simple questions such as "Do U like the Chinese Govt?" - with no
(3) knowledge of the Chinese language, he teaches subjects such as “Culture of HK” - he remained on campus during the battle at Bridge No. 2 in CUHK in Nov 2019, drinking beer with students on a rooftop during the siege (knowing that as a white person, students would only adore
(1) Welcome to the WTF Hong Kong Protest Series: "You be the Judge if this is Subversion or Not" Special Edition
Now that Benny Tai, former academic from the University of HK & organiser of 2014 Occupy Central, is among the 47 opposition politicians & activists who are charged
(2) for subversion, let's revisit Benny Tai's declaration when he produced his grand plan in Jimmy Lai's Apple Daily in on 28 April 2020 - note text in red (English here, followed by Chinese - if you don't read Chinese, please skip 3-4 & jump to 5 below):
(3) let's revisit Benny Tai's declaration when he produced his grand plan in Jimmy Lai's Apple Daily in on 28 April 2020 (original Chinese text - traditional Chinese characters):
(1) Welcome to the WTF HK Protest Series "I should've fled earlier" Edition
Bye Bye! Winnie Yu, Chair of the anti-govt HK Hospital Authority Employees Alliance (HAEA) has just been suspended by the Authority - Yu is among the 47 opposition politicians
(2) who are being charged for subversion - Yu is known for organizing a 5-day strike of medical workers in 2/2020 in a bid to force the HK Govt to close the border with mainland China during the Covid outbreak - after that failed, she shifted the union's demand, urging the Govt
(3) to rule out penalising staff who participated in the strike, which was also not met in the end - on 7/2/2020 she failed to get the 2,000 votes required to extend the industrial action - meanwhile in April 2020
Welcome to the WTF HK protest "I told U so / I Save My Ass, U Go to Jail" Series
Former HK academic Chin Wan 陳雲 (前嶺南大學中文系助理教授, 主張並推動香港自治運動) - the "father" of HK pro-independence theory who's idolized by some young protesters before Lingnan University of
(2) HK cut his contract, wrote in his FB page: "certain political parties are silly - they are not aware that after being defeated at a battle, they'll become captives - after the 2019 battle, I was the only one who told people not to come out, that there
(3) no need to pull the rickshaw for rich people, & even if they were to do so they should've been extremely careful, at least to avoid yelling pro-independence slogans or singing such songs - cos in case they lost in the battle, those who remained would taste rotten fruit -
(1) Welcome to the China’s Push to End Poverty Series
Let's start with Hong Kong TVB Jade Channel's Current Affairs Programme: "Changes in Poverty Line in Mainland China" (summary in English in this thread)
(2) In the early stages of reform & opening up, China was a big country with the largest no of people living in poverty in the world. After more than 40 years, under the current standards, all the poor people in rural areas have been lifted out of poverty
(3) The Chinese authorities have adjusted the poverty many times - in 1978, according to the rural poverty standard of RMB100/USD15.43 per capita per year, 250 million people in the mainland lived under this poverty line - In 1986, the National Bureau of Statistics & the Poverty
(2) between anti-govt political parties & organized the illegal "35-plus election primaries" on 11-12 July 2020 ahead of the Sep 2020 Legislative Council elections (since postponed), will cease operations & disband - its Convenor Andrew Chiu 趙家賢 (a Democratic Party District
(3) Councillor) announced the decision at a press conference today & declared that the Group's founding members "must continue to serve HK society in a different way under the Basic Law, the HK National Security Law & the 1 Country, 2 Systems framework, obey the law, & maintain