(1) Flashback to 3/9/2014: Brilliant 4-min speech by Irish MP Richard Boyd Barrett from Irish Solidarity–People Before Profit & Chair of the Irish Anti-War Movement calling Israel "a state built on violence, oppression and apartheid" - he also called for the expulsion (vid 1/2)
(2) (vid 2/2) of the Israeli Ambassador - you won't see this in the mainstream media
(3) his speech on YouTube:
(4) Irish MP calls for expulsion of Israeli ambassador
People Before Profit party spokesman urges parliament to support motion to expel ambassador (from
19.05.2021) - still the same position now
(2) among those who pleaded guilty: Democratic Party’s Albert Ho, Sin Chung-kai & Yeung Sum; Labour Party’s Cyd Ho & Lee Cheuk-yan & Richard Tsoi of the HK Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, League of Social Democrats' “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung,
(3) Avery Ng & Figo Chan, who is also convenor of the Civil Human Rights Front - Chan, Lee, Albert Ho and Leung additionally admitted their guilt on one further count of inciting others to take part in an unauthorised assembly, while Ng & Tsoi pleaded guilty to the additional
(1) today a Hong Kong taxi driver was jailed for 4 years for possession of 40 petrol bombs, 3 bottles of petrol and two igniters (found in the trunk of his taxi in 10/2019) #RaamWTF
(2) aged 32, the taxi driver denied the charges of conspiracy to arson & possession of dangerous items with intent to damage property, & was convicted of conspiracy to arson after the trial- he argued that he had only transported "a box of goods said to be medical supplies at the
(3) request of a familiar customer - his lawyer pleaded that he was only responsible for the transportation, & there was no evidence that it was connected to the unrest - judge did not but his story as the bombs were assembled & ready to go off & stored in the
(1) Not looking good in Taiwan - Taiwan confirms 333 new domestic Covid cases, of which 155 were linked to a cluster of infections involving hostess "teahouses" in Taipei's Wanhua District, while 86 involved people who've been to Wanhua; total passes 2,000 focustaiwan.tw/society/202105…
(3) Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je said that it would now be impossible to conduct contact tracing of hundreds of confirmed cases anymore given the wide spread & called on patients to inform relatives & friends if they'd been to infected areas
(1) Hong Kong art student in Taiwan has returned to HK as the no of Covid cases surge in Taiwan - she told HK01 news that she didn't flee Taiwan because of Covid, but merely wanted to return to HK to be "useless youth" & that she didn't mind hotel quarantine ss she likes hotels
(2) more than her home - this is sadly the only "strength" of some HK youngsters who excel at talking back with bitter, sarcastic remarks, coming up with meaningless slogans (with poor Chinese & English) & "empowering" themselves with piggy cartoons & keychains to draw attention
(3) but hardly anything constructive - but are extremely useful as Western tools of racist attacks against fellow Chinese people in the mainland - they give a bad name to the other HK youngsters who aren't like that at all but who are much less visible or who don't dare to speak
(27) Bye Bye Falun Gong! A 3-judge panel at Hong Kong's Court of Final has rejected an application for judicial review by a HK student in support of Falun Gong against the move by the HK Food and Environmental Hygiene Department to confiscate its exhibits displayed in #RaamWTF
(1) The Hong Kong 'shot in eye' girl - the atrocity actress - loses case over police warrant, as 3 judges at the HK Court of Appeal unanimously ruled that the police's decision not to give the woman a copy of a search warrant for her medical record had
(2) not obstructed her right to access the courts - judges stressed that while medical reports do contain personal information, police investigations are conducted on a confidential basis - she was allegedly shot in the eye during an illegal protest in 2019 but it was unclear how
(3) she got injured - it was the second time she lost the appeal & the medical record might shed light on that issue - after she was shot, many local & foreign media hyped up the rumour that she was hit by a police beanbag during the violent protest, yet the police clarified the