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[TaiShang]

HK Supreme Court enacts injunction to ban protesters from blocking roads
2014-10-21

The Supreme Court of Hong Kong on Monday enacted a preliminary injunction to ban demonstrators from occupying roads in Mong Kok.

The move was made after groups of mini-buses and taxi operators filed for an injunction that would reopen the paralyzed roads in Mong Kok occupied by protesters for the last 23 days.

A lawyer representing the group said the ongoing movement in places like Mong Kok have blocked many roads and disrupted public transport, which inflicted losses on taxi and bus companies.

More scuffles erupted late Sunday, the third turbulent night in Mong Kok following the police's before-dawn operation on Friday, when most of the tents, canopies and barricades blocking main roads in the commercial area in Kowloon for almost three weeks were removed.

Mong Kok is an offshoot protest site across the Victoria Harbor from the main demonstration area in Admiralty where the government headquarters is located.

Hong Kong's Chief Secretary Carrie Lam said Saturday that region's government planned to have formal talks with representatives of the students participating in the Occupy movement on Tuesday, and each side will have five representatives.

Thousands of protesters, mostly students, joined the Occupy Central movement on Sept. 28 to express their discontent with an electoral reform package for choosing the region's next leader.

According to Hong Kong's Basic Law and the top Chinese legislature's decisions, more than 5 million Hong Kongers can choose the chief executive in 2017 through a "one man, one vote" election, which had never been realized under the British colonial rule.

 

[Keel]

A bunch of so-called pro-democracy protesters tried to expand their "territory" to other place in Hong Kong, yet they were shouted by the locals. They clapped when those protesters left.

Gutsy people
Very well done!

 

[Snomannen]

Gutsy people
Very well done!

Sth that the western medias wouldn't tell you.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

The party time is over, it is time to go back to school.

 

[TaiShang]

HK students at risk of anti-China scheming

The Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong has lasted more than three weeks. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government on Tuesday held talks with the Hong Kong Federation of Students. But given a lack of positivity on the part of the latter during the talks, it remains unknown when the Occupy movement will end.

The external political situation concerning Occupy Central is increasingly clear-cut. Western public opinion has given it full support. Besides, a mix of traditional forces that are confronting the current Chinese regime, including Tibetan, Xinjiang and Taiwan separatists, Falun Gong devotees, and pro-democracy activists, have beaten the drums for the Hong Kong protests like cheerleaders.

The Occupy Central activists and their adherents must wake up. They shouldn't act as a puppet of those hostile external forces.

With the Hong Kong radical forces becoming a new member, the anti-China camp seems to be expanding. If this is the case, it will yield terrible results.

Hong Kong, the Asian financial hub and a role model for the rule of law, will be held hostage by those hostile external forces, transforming into a battlefield between them and the rising China.

We suggest the Occupy Central activists not take on such a perilous role. Being already embroiled in the political competition in the Asia-Pacific region, they may have been pushed further than they originally intended.

The young Hong Kong students who have participated in Occupy Central should know that China, which is developing rapidly, is their home country and Hong Kong is a part of China's rise. They therefore enjoy more opportunities than their counterparts from a smaller country. Meanwhile, they have to accordingly take responsibility to safeguard China's security as it rises.

If the Occupy Central forces keep advancing, this will attract more international anti-China forces. The longer the protests last, the harder it will be for the Occupy Central forces to back down.

Incredible role reversals have often occurred throughout history. A marginal part or even central part of a camp could be converted into the enemies of that camp. We strongly hope the Occupy Central activities won't do so.

The West-supported external forces will continue cheering for Occupy Central. Exiles will take the Occupy movement as their chance.

Their aim is to strike a heavy blow against China and take it down, but is this the goal of the young student participants of Occupy Central? If not, they should withdraw from the protests as soon as possible.

And for a small number of hostile elements to China, the country knows how to deal with them.

 

[Keel]

Sth that the western medias wouldn't tell you.

Selective jounalism - working according to the West's hidden agenda and to the detriment of the majority People's wish

 

[Beidou2020]

Occupy Central – Follow the Money

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a U.S. non-profit soft power organization that was founded in 1983 to ‘promote’ democracy around the world. It is funded primarily through an annual allocation from the U.S. Congress, within the budget of USAID, the U.S. agency for development assistance, which is part of the U.S. State Department. Although administered as a private organization, its funding mostly comes from a governmental appropriation by Congress but was created by The Democracy Program as a bipartisan, private, non-profit corporation. Quote from the NED website.

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a private, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world. Each year, with funding from the US Congress, NED supports more than 1,000 projects of non-governmental groups abroad who are working for democratic goals in more than 90 countries.

USAID Hong Kong budget for 2012 was 754,552, in 2010 it was 1,591,547. Annual budgets for USAID projects in Hong Kong from 2008 to 2012 are available on the USAID website.





In a Wikileaks Plus-D cable release dated September 4, 2008 from the American Consulate in Hong Kong to the Secretary of State offices of then Condelezza Rice, we find not only a glimpse into the constant monitoring of the Hong Kong population’s political views, but also another very significant arm of this State Department funded project, The Hong Kong Transition Project.


In a HKTP report from January 2014



When they say regularly in the statement above they mean every 3 months at minimum.

To document where the USAID Hong Kong fund is distributed we go to the NED website for annual reports. Among other funded projects we find in the 2009 report the $272,140 infunding for the National Democratic Institute and in the 2012 report another $460,000 for theNational Democratic Institute for International Affairs.

Funds were stated to be for advancing the dialogue between citizens and political actors on constitutional reforms.

“Through sponsoring public forums and a political participation website (http://designdemocracy.hk/) NDI will support local civil society organizations to analyze and provide recommendations on the government’s proposal for constitutional reform.”

The website project directly funded by the US State Department through USAID grants to NED and NDI Is described on the NED website as “The Centre for Comparative and Public Law (CCPL) at the University of Hong Kong, with support from NDI, is working to amplify citizens’ voices in that consultation process by creating Design Democracy Hong Kong (www.designdemocracy.hk), a unique and neutral website that gives citizens a place to discuss the future of Hong Kong’s electoral system.”

Benny Tai the leader of the group ‘Occupy Central’ is on the board for CCPL and a member of the academic staff on Hong Kong University.




A quick click on the (www.designdemocracy.hk) website has Benny Tai and a slew of other public figures of the Pro-Democracy movement, which at a glance appears to encompass all of them, including Joshua Wong of Scholarism.



To what extent is the US State Department directly involved.

In another Wikileaks Plus-D cable we find China Program Director of NDI Christine Chung reports directly to the US State Department. In part two of a cable dated May 4th 2006 from the American Consulate in Hong Kong to the Offices of the Secretary of State, Christine Chung reports the following.




Wikileaks Plus D cables


Another classified WikiLeaks Plus-D cable dated July 2, 2009 from the American Consulate in Hong Kong to the offices of the Secretary of State titled HONG KONG JULY 1 MARCH: HEAT HALVES HOPED-FOR HUNDRED THOUSAND. We see how the discussion is about the turn out of a demonstration and the how’s and why’s of what caused a lower than expected turn out and Intel on how to attain, from their perspective a more successful event in the future.

 

[Beidou2020]

In another classified WikiLeaks Cable dated Mon, 4 Jan 2010 from the American Consulate in Hong Kong to the offices of the Secretary of State titled Hong Kong January 1 Democracy Demonstration: One March, Four Causes they describe how they feel the focus of the march was to broad to be effective for their interests and how to counter that in the future. Many more examples like these are available on the WikiLeaks site.



One of the above mentioned groups, Civic Exchange, received$45,000 from NED in 2005.

What is the Hong Kong Transition Project doing? A better question would be, what are they not doing?

The Hong Kong Transition project has been actively monitoring the political attitude of voting and non voting citizens of Hong Kong in every way they can think of it seems since 1997. The well prepared reports on their website encompass everything from every three month, demographically targeted Hong Kongese voter phone polling campaigns to the in-depth study on the various age ranges of Hong Kongese psychological attitudes on all aspects of current political topics, with the obvious goal of delivering the gathered intelligence to US State Dept for the basis of strategizing future endeavours.


Occupy Central Briefing Jan 2014.pdf Jan 2014


In our search for information regarding the Scholarism group and Joshua Wong we found that NDI has been monitoring Schlorism Founder and Student Movement leader Joshua Wong’s activities at least since he was 15.

There is also “student leader” Joshua Wong, who was arrested amid the protests. Wong has had his career tracked by the NDI’s “NDItech” project since as early as 2012. In a post titled, “In Hong Kong, Does “Change Begin with a Single Step”?,” NDI reports:

Scholarism founder Joshua Wong Chi-fung, 15, has become an icon of the movement, and his skillful interactions with media have been memorialized and disseminated on Youtube. Through this page, Hong Kong youth have coalesced around common messages and images – for example, equating MNE with “brainwashing” and echoing themes reminiscent of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement.

Wong’s work serves to challenge attempts by Beijing to reestablish Chinese institutions on the island, preserving Western-style (and co-opted) institutions including the education system

For anyone deeply involved in the Umbrella Movement and journalists the world over we highly urge you to use this article as a stepping stone to finding more information, because despite the depth of the material we gathered above, we have barely even scratched the surface on bringing the entire situation into the light. The US involvement in Hong Kong’s political atmosphere is a decades long project and Hong Kong is most certainly not the only ‘hot spot’ we stumbled upon.​

 

[TaiShang]

Time for HK local government to forcefully reveal the foreign meddling in China's internal affairs. In fact, CE of Hong Kong recently stated that the local government would be revealing the foreign interest involved in the whole occupy show.

This is a great opportunity to reveal the real nature and hidden agenda of the Occupier elite and forever discredit them.

 

[Beidou2020]

Time for HK local government to forcefully reveal the foreign meddling in China's internal affairs. In fact, CE of Hong Kong recently stated that the local government would be revealing the foreign interest involved in the whole occupy show.

This is a great opportunity to reveal the real nature and hidden agenda of the Occupier elite and forever discredit them.

It's time to name and shame this US-created movement and expose the role of the US and it's NGO's in this nonsense.

But the only way to stop this will be to completely ban all US NGO's in Chinese territory. Unless the CPC bans them, this kind of protest will restart.

It's also a MASSIVE failure of Chinese intelligence agencies because they either didn't know this was happening or they didn't do a good enough job of infiltrating and destroying this movement.

That's why you have intelligence agencies, to stop this kind of foreign infiltration. Chinese intelligence has been a complete failure in protecting domestic social stability.

 

[TaiShang]

It's also a MASSIVE failure of Chinese intelligence agencies because they either didn't know this was happening or they didn't do a good enough job of infiltrating and destroying this movement.
That's why you have intelligence agencies, to stop this kind of foreign infiltration. Chinese intelligence has been a complete failure in protecting domestic social stability.

China may need a military industrial and intelligence complex no smaller than the US. That's the ultimate goal, but, given China's other priorities such as lifting the remaining 85 million out of poverty and elevating China into a developed country status. It is no easy task and I can't help sympathize with those who have to manage all these at the same time.

 

[TaiShang]

Selective jounalism - working according the the West's hidden agenda to the detriment of the majority People's wish

Western propaganda is becoming more and more irrelevant now. That explain the sockpuppets and desperate Indian's recent hyped-up efforts to troll the whole internet with anti-China propaganda.

Meanwhile...

A very polite conversation.

‪#‎HK‬ student ‪#‎protesters‬ talk with ‪#‎government‬.

LOL. The SOW looks worn out.

 

[rashid.sarwar]

In Pakistan we can understand that every agent is/was like ramen devis roaming freely without check and balance thanks to our sold out politician, but in China, I am totally in blank and secondly can anyone tell me what is the problem(complications) in kicking the american/western backed NGO out of HK

 

[Beidou2020]

China may need a military industrial and intelligence complex no smaller than the US. That's the ultimate goal, but, given China's other priorities such as lifting the remaining 85 million out of poverty and elevating China into a developed country status. It is no easy task and I can't help sympathize with those who have to manage all these at the same time.

Yes I agree. But you don't ever sacrifice national security for anything. China can allow private sector to grow the economy but the protection and stability of the country must be the first priority for the central government.

China needs a similar military industrial AND intelligence complex to the US.

US is using modern methods to achieve their geopolitical goals and the rest of the world are still not aware of the new methods the US uses. Military is not the only option for regime change. The US even creates terror organisations and use them as an excuse to bomb countries.

In Pakistan we can understand that every agent is/was like ramen devis roaming freely without check and balance thanks to our sold out politician, but in China, I am totally in blank and secondly can anyone tell me what is the problem(complications) in kicking the american/western backed NGO out of HK

It's weak leadership and overestimation of American power.

Even Vladimir Putin is not tough enough on the US.

 

[TaiShang]

Yes I agree. But you don't ever sacrifice national security for anything. China can allow private sector to grow the economy but the protection and stability of the country must be the first priority for the central government.

China needs a similar military industrial AND intelligence complex to the US.

US is using modern methods to achieve their geopolitical goals and the rest of the world are still not aware of the new methods the US uses. Military is not the only option for regime change. The US even creates terror organisations and use them as an excuse to bomb countries.

I agree. National survival cannot be sacrificed for petty social security issues. Just need to strike the right balance. Because, in the end, an economically powerful country is also a big plus to the overall national power. I would hope to see bigger budget allocation for propaganda, international consent-making efforts, as well domestic and external intelligence apparatus.