Zero-covid “tragedy”. The most barbaric lockdown ever.

500 container ships stuck outside Shanghai as Xi's zero-Covid policy wreaks havoc

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/04/11/500-container-ships-stuck-outside-shanghai-xis-zero-covid-policy/

“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” #georgeorwell

記老師放學，以George Orwell句和之。
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#書法 #真相 #講真說話 #新聞自由

All fawning over the CCP’s pick for the poisoned chalice job of HK Chief Executive

Political, business leaders support John Lee's CE bid

Chief Executive hopeful John Lee has stressed the need to garner support for his policy initiatives and forge a consensus in society as he continued to meet with Election Committee members on Wednesday.Earlier in the day, the former chief secretary submitted his bid for the top job after securing the backing of 786 members of the 1,500-strong Election Committee, among them the city's political heavyweights and business leaders.That far exceeds the 188 nominations required to stand in the next month’s election. It also represents more than half of the members of the Election Committee tasked with choosing Hong Kong's next leader.“How many nominations I can get, of course, is a very pleasant thing to know. But what is important is that I should create the maximum consensus, so that my governance will be shared and supported by the majority of the people,” Lee said at an evening media session.He also thanked his family for their support. “I am very grateful to my family. They support me in this election. I love my family, I don’t think I need to tell them I love them every day."Lee held two more virtual meetings in the afternoon with around 100 people to discuss land and housing supply as well as labour issues.During a meeting with unionist Election Committee members that was available for public viewing, Lee was urged to improve labour policies, provide regular jobless assistance and narrow the wealth gap, among other suggestions. Among the 786 Election Committee members who’ve endorsed Lee so far include CPPCC vice chairman and former chief executive CY Leung and CPPCC Standing Committee member and former chief secretary Henry Tang, as well as property tycoons such as CK Asset chairman Victor Li and Sun Hung Kai Properties chairman Raymond Kwok.Lee, who has a police background, also received the nominations from former police commissioners Tang King-shing and Andy Tsang, and former security chiefs Regina Ip and Lai Tung-kwok, both from the New People’s Party. Non-establishment legislator and Election Committee member Tik Chi-yuen is among those who have not nominated Lee. Tik said he would wait for the CE hopeful’s election manifesto before deciding whether to support him.In a statement, the government said the returning officer of the election, Justice Keith Yeung, has received Lee’s nomination form. It added that a vetting committee will announce the list of validated candidates within seven days after the nomination period ends on Thursday.

2022-04-13 21:05:28 (1)

Indoctrination programme?

Hong Kong hails ‘de-radicalisation’ rehab programmes for 2019 protesters in custody

https://hongkongfp.com/2022/04/14/hong-kong-hails-de-radicalisation-rehab-programmes-for-2019-protesters-in-custody/

Article 23 proposal delayed by pandemic: Chris Tang

Security Secretary Chris Tang on Thursday said the current coronavirus outbreak has delayed plans to introduce national security legislation under Article 23 of the Basic Law.Many civil servants have spent the past few months working from home and Tang told legislators during a virtual meeting that the government's Article 23 proposal will be put to Legco in June, rather than May as originally planned.“We have planned to begin consultation before the term of the current administration ends and table the bill to Legco for scrutiny before the end of the year. But because of the epidemic, we are assessing the impact to the relevant work,” he said.Separately, prison officials told lawmakers that about 250 inmates had taken part in a voluntary rehabilitation programme for "deradicalisation".Officials said since the social unrest of 2019, a large number of “radical lawbreakers'' have been remanded or convicted of serious offences. The officials said they launched the programme to help inmates get rid of “radical thoughts and behaviour" and to "re-establish correct values", which involves understanding Chinese history, national education, and life planning, among other things.Planning sector legislator Tony Tse asked officials how they are going to encourage more prisoners to take part.The Commissioner of Correctional Services, Wong Kwok-hing, said his colleagues have been using various ways to encourage inmates to join the rehab programme.He said “successful” cases were the best way to attract interest in the programme, citing the example of a teenager who was convicted of protest-related offences and faced expulsion from university.“After attending the rehab programme, he has changed his criminal mindset and rebuilt the right values. We also helped him to resume study at the university and mend fences with his family,” Wong said.The commissioner said some young inmates were willing to take part in the programme after hearing about the teenager's experience and he called on the community to give such prisoners a chance.

2022-04-14 13:47:36 (1)

Hong Kong urged to regulate crowdfunding to prevent activities ‘endangering’ China’s security

https://hongkongfp.com/2022/04/14/hong-kong-urged-to-regulate-crowdfunding-to-prevent-activities-endangering-chinas-security/

Frances Hui says she is first Hong Kong activist to gain political asylum in the US

https://hongkongfp.com/2022/04/14/frances-hui-says-she-is-first-hong-kong-activist-to-gain-political-asylum-in-the-us/

Shanghai Polecei kills a dog

Shanghai residents screaming in the middle of the night after only one week lockdown. No permission to leave their own apartments. The narrator asked, “How long can this go on?”

Moral:

1. Imagine this for eternity. This is what HELL will sound like, except they will never ever leave.
2. If you don’t like lockdowns, then it’s a foretaste you won’t like hell. Avoid it by repenting of all your sins and asking Jesus Christ to save you from yourself.
3. Don’t live in apartments. Get land if you can afford it. Get a home.
4. Don’t live in China, unless God called you to.
5. Resist and pray against communism, Marxism and every totalitarianism. It’s man-made hell on earth.

CCP crackdown on freedom and rights has caused student unions to die out.

The Death of Hong Kong’s University Student Unions

https://thediplomat.com/2022/04/the-death-of-hong-kongs-university-student-unions/

 No, it’s not OK when China does it

➠ Read it on Off-Guardian.org! 

長子任銀行高層 幼子東莞辦高檔幼兒園 李家超兒子均與特首選委共事 - 雅虎香港

https://yns.page.link/UGP3S

The Department of Health has banned the purchase of cameras made by the Chinese state-backed technology company Hikvision amid allegations it has been used to spy on the country’s Uyghur minority.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/04/16/health-department-bans-chinese-cameras-caught-matt-hancocks/

China is tracking me, says Hong Kong dissident Simon Cheng

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/china-is-tracking-me-says-hong-kong-dissident-simon-cheng-xqjxcn5m6