Rioters in Hong Kong at the weekend Saturday again resorted to escalating violence. They stormed government and legislative offices, threw petrol bombs at police and set fire to multiple locations including police HQ’s. Facing flagrant violent acts, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government and the Hong Kong police took decisive measures to enforce […]
Police fired water cannon and tear gas in running battles with brick-throwing anti-government protesters in Hong Kong on Sunday, the second day of violent clashes in the Chinese-ruled city. The protesters, many in masks and wearing black, threw several petrol bombs, some taking off down narrow side streets in the pouring rain. Water cannon have […]
Last week, voter enrolment for the 2019 local government elections closed in New Zealand and concerns about low voter turnout resurfaced. During a panel discussion run by Auckland Council, the idea was raised to pay people to vote to encourage participation. The concerns about low voter turnout are well-founded. Voting rates in local government elections […]
Saturday, Hong Kong protesters threw bricks and gasoline bombs at police, who responded with tear gas, as chaotic scenes returned to the 12 Summer-long anti-government protests for the first time in nearly 2 weeks. Hundreds of black-clad protesters armed with bamboo poles and baseball bats fought with police officers wielding batons on a main road […]
Hong Kong’s embattled leader Carrie Lam yesterday said she hoped ‘calm will prevail after a massive weekend march passed without clashes between police and demonstrators, but again refused to give ground to protester demands. Hundreds of thousands of people marched through the heart of the city on Sunday in a show of peaceful protest after escalating […]
Twitter and Facebook said Monday they had uncovered a campaign by China to use the social media platforms against pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. “We are disclosing a significant state-backed information operation focused on the situation in Hong Kong, specifically the protest movement and their calls for political change,” Twitter said in an online post. […]
Hong Kong’s citizens are still waiting for the government to respond after an estimated 1.7 million people joined the city’s largest demonstration on Sunday, which ended peacefully and without any tear gas in the air. Entering its 11th week of demonstrations since June, which have at times caused chaos in the financial hub as masked […]
Beijing, August 18: Anti-China forces in the West have colluded with local anti-China elements to cause the prolonged unrest in Hong Kong, the Chinese official news agency Xinhua says in a detailed report. ‘Foreign nationals were seen meeting and talking with radical protesters. Recently, leaders of “Hong Kong independence” groups secretly met with officials of […]
“Get those foreign agents outta town”, roars a music video by a patriotic Chinese rap group, one of a slew of creative efforts by Beijing attacking Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement as violent and spurred on by overseas governments. The rap video, overlaid with clips of protesters clashing with police and breaking into Hong Kong’s legislative […]
Fact: Washington has held an Independence Day celebration for decades, featuring a parade along Constitution Avenue, a concert on the Capitol lawn with music by the National Symphony Orchestra and fireworks beginning at dusk near the Washington Monument. And Thursday, the 4th of July, President Trump continues the tradition and presents a show of the […]
Global-strategy adviser Parag Khanna describes the ways that the world economy is increasingly Asia-centric and will be moving even more swiftly in that direction. Here’s why More than 50% of the world’s population lives in Asia, where economies are growing quickly and becoming increasingly interconnected in culture, business, and trade. In this piece Parag Khanna, […]
In high school I learned that in Y 1887 Professor Alexander Tyler at the University of Edinburgh taught that Democracies and Republics last about 200 years. The Big Q: Has our Republic outlasted the timeline? The Big A: Little did I think 65 yrs ago that could happen in the USA, but in Y 1964 […]
The Democratic Party is the Party of Jihad It will be the death of American democracy if the Democrats are successful in overthrowing the government of President Trump The Democratic Party has gone on the offensive and adopted the strategies of Jihad to overthrow the government of President Donald Trump, they have dubbed it “Resistance” […]
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President Trump, ‘#Fake News Is Distorting Democracy’ The “#fake news” media is “distorting democracy,” US President Donald Trump wrote in his latest Sunday morning Tweet storm, adding a defense of his son Donald Trump Jr. amid another tumultuous week of “slanted” and “fraudulent reporting.” Follow Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump With all of its phony unnamed […]
Fake News Promulgated by Hussein Obama’s Saboteurs Threaten Our Democracy These Leftists need to GROW UP! We are witness to an attempted coup branded as the “resistance movement” being perpetrated by left-wing liberals led by EX-president Barack Hussein Obama and the saboteurs he left behind in the US government. The mainstream media has colluded with […]
Democracy at Work: President Trump’s 1st 100-Days Trump voters can see that the president has had both successes and failures in the 1st months in office. That’s normal. The successes have been ignored by the Democrat press, but we inform ourselves by going to our own, more truthful, news sources. There is much to celebrate. […]
Protesters & Police Clash In Hong Kong Over Crackdown Police fired pepper spray as thousands of demonstrators took to the streets Police fired pepper spray in running battles with thousands of demonstrators on the streets of Hong Kong Sunday as they tried to encircle China’s representative office in protest against Beijing’s attempts to stop independence […]