JCB Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 Things are getting uglier quickly. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/hong-kong-police-pummel-university-with-water-cannon-as-officer-hit-by-arrow/2019/11/17/f004c978-091f-11ea-8054-289aef6e38a3_story.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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No Excuses Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 There are videos coming out of HK showing arrested students and protesters being mass loaded onto trains, which appear to be headed East into mainland China. Very likely they are starting to extradite protesters to mainland concentration camps. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Excuses Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 The CCP is already deploying the same forces used in oppressing Xinjiang and Tibet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jpyaks3 Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 (edited) Looks like the new Bolivian government is definitely interested in Democracy and fair elections, who could have seen this coming. I for one am shocked that the normal coup cheerleaders in the media are silent as the army and police kill indigenous protesters with impunity (and immunity according to the new government) leaders and members of the opposition party are being arrested and prevented from doing the jobs they were elected to do, and the coup government is led by the far-right who have zero interest in free or fair elections. Edited November 24, 2019 by jpyaks3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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No Excuses Posted November 25, 2019 Share Posted November 25, 2019 ICIJ reporting on unprecedented leaks of secret Chinese govt docs on Uyghur concentration camps and mass detention policies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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China Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 The Daily 202: Street protests across the world are a fitting coda to this uneasy decade of revolution and reaction THE BIG IDEA: A decade that began with the Arab Spring is ending with street protests from Asia to South America and the Middle East. Violent clashes between police and people across the planet foreshadow what will almost certainly be another volatile decade for geopolitics. The United States will need to contend in the 2020s with the growing risk of war with Iran, plus an expansionist China, a revanchist Russia and deepening cooperation between those strategic foes. When you widen the aperture, recent demonstrations underscore not just a pervasive discontent with authoritarian regimes but also the simmering anti-elite sentiments that led to Brexit and Donald Trump’s victory in 2016. The resignation on Sunday of embattled Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi amid sustained protests for sweeping reform has set the stage for a new political crisis as the ruling class scrambles to address demonstrators’ grievances. A human rights official said more than 430 demonstrators have been killed during two months of unrest. Thousands of demonstrators are still camped out in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square. This is the biggest challenge to Iraq’s political order since the U.S.-led coalition topped Saddam Hussein in 2003. Across the border, the Iranian regime is using more violence than at any time since the Islamist revolution four decades ago to repress protests. Between 180 to 450 people, and possibly hundreds more, have reportedly been killed since the government, facing pressure from punishing U.S. sanctions, jacked up gas prices two weeks ago. Another 2,000 have been wounded and 7,000 more have been detained, according to some reports. The last wave of major protests, which led to at least 72 people being killed, was in 2009 after a contested election. Mir Hossein Mousavi, the 77-year-old opposition leader who “lost” that election and has been under house arrest, released a rare statement on Saturday that compared this most recent crackdown to Black Friday in September 1978 when the Shah’s soldiers opened fire on demonstrators in Jaleh Square, a spark that ignited the revolution. Meanwhile, in Lebanon, members of the military formed a human chain on Sunday near the presidential palace outside Beirut to prevent violent clashes from breaking out between rival Lebanese protesters as a stalemate over forming a new government continues. Click on the link for the rest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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