Monday, October 30, 2017

fbi illegal arrest of FIFA chairmen being kept so quiet this so-called investigation (more like mafia style extortion. EU, how will you respond? Do u.s. businessmen behind this criminal action have enough money to buy your dignity and your silence?'

See how quiet the illegal attack against FIFA is being kept? How a cabal of greedy u.s. businessmen used the fbi to try an help them get control of fifa like a mafia shakedown? Now the only question is how will the international community respond to this outrage! EU, you're being punked by the u.s. gobernment! How will you respond? Your not some weak Arab country or southeast asian country. Will you stand for this outrage?

‘FIFA should remove ‘I’ and insert ‘A’ for American’

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‘FIFA should remove ‘I’ and insert ‘A’ for American’

Trying to take control of FIFA, the US is showing it wants to run the entire world and tackle every alleged crime, said Lew Rockwell, of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. It proves there is nothing Washington will not interfere in, he added.

Newly reelected FIFA President Sepp Blatter announced on Tuesday that he is stepping down. He has called an extraordinary FIFA congress to elect a successor.

RT:This story has generated a huge amount of interest around the world. From an economic point of view, there is also a lot at stake, isn’t there?
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Lew Rockwell: Well, there certainly is, but I think the political angle is more important. We’ve had this act of imperialism. Who put the US in charge of international football? They’re able to because FIFA made a mistake of having an office in New York. Probably that is a warning to anybody else: Don’t have an office on US soil because then they can use that to take control.
Maybe the corruption charges are true, I don’t know, but again: Why is it the business of the US? I think that’s entirely because FIFA gave the World Cup in 2018 to Russia. This is just another anti-Russian move, and the US wanting to run the entire world, be in charge of every crime or alleged crime every place on the globe.

Paul Craig Roberts, an economic analyst, said: “This is another Washington-British scam against Russia. It reminds me of the orchestrated press attack on the Sochi Olympics. Washington is trying to turn professional sport into a propaganda weapon against Russia. They are going to use this to take the World Cup away from Russia.”
Roberts added: “There is no rule of law in the US. Law is a weapon that Washington uses to achieve its agenda.”

RT:But doesn’t it have a case there, because there are allegations of $150 million being misappropriated? A lot of this money apparently went through American banks, so part of it happened on American soil. So do they have the right to investigate it?
LR: They can investigate what happens on American soil, but they don’t have the right to go and arrest people in Switzerland or elsewhere. Would you say that England or Switzerland can go and arrest people in New York without the US government’s permission?
I have to tell you, there is corruption in the US too: there is corruption in US sports; there is corruption in the US government; there is corruption in every government. The problem the US has with this is not corruption, the problem it has got is with the results – Blatter wasn’t doing what he was told to do. And I guess now he has done what he was told to do. Obviously something happened to him. Maybe it was just the sponsors’ withdrawing; maybe it was the CIA. Who knows, maybe he was personally threatened or his family. This is the way governments operate there, sort of big-time mafias. We don’t know what happened. But as I said, this is not a good thing for football, not a good thing for the world. FIFA has got to change its name, it’s going to have to take out the “I” and put in an “A” for American.
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RT:Do you think that major corporations, such as McDonald’s, played an important role here, forcing Sepp Blatter to resign?
LR: I guess, yes. Of course they are the ones that could be pressured by the US. Even aside the scandal thing, imagine that the US gave them their marching orders, and they took them. And I can understand why companies don’t want to be involved in something that’s potentially corrupt. Although they put on great football games. I don’t know whether they are corrupt or not. I think there is probably corruption in many different international sports associations, because there is so much money at stake. That is not a good thing – people shouldn’t be corrupt, people shouldn’t give bribes, people shouldn’t take bribes. But again, the US is using this to take control of international football; that’s what going on. Never again will the World Cup happen in a country that the US doesn’t like. The whole world is threatened by the US, which would like to be the world government; nothing is beyond its ken; nothing is outside of its control; nothing can stand against it in the view of the US.
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Thursday, October 26, 2017

I'm Still Standing!

Got a sponsor. Like Elton John said: I'm still standing! HA!!!

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Russia Behind Black Protests

Oh brother. Now the Russians are behind Black Protests. Couldn't be the police murdering Black People. It's a Russian conspiracy. Okaaay then.

Russians Posing as Black Activists on Facebook Is More Than Fake News

Protesters congregate a day after authorities released a report on the death of Freddie Gray on May 2, 2015 in Baltimore, MD.

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This past summer, a Facebook account called Blacktivist posted a horrifying video. It depicted a black man handcuffed, his face planted to the concrete as a canine bit into his arm. “We live under a system of racism,” the post read, “and police are letting us know how they feel and where we stand.” We live in times of resistance, and the growing authority of social media has directly impacted the shape of activism. With that action increasingly moving online, recent revelations offer insight into just how critically the tide of control has shifted.

In late September, CNN reported on a Kremlin-supported plot to invade the online communities of the Black Lives Matter movement, the global network of civil rights organizations and justice-oriented nonprofits launched in the wake of Trayvon Martin’s 2012 death. The pro-Kremlin Russian firm Internet Research Agency had fabricated hundreds of accounts and bought $100,000 in ads during a two-year period; of the 470 groups it created to “exploit tensions” in U.S. elections, Blacktivist had become one its most accessible, signing on more than 500,000 followers and well outpacing the official Black Lives Matters account. That number bears little shock; it's simply a striking indicator of the movement’s unmistakable draw and necessity.

Time and again, urgent social and political crusades have attracted noxious efforts to infiltrate and dismantle them. The deeper reasons behind such a ploy are as unsurprising as they are obvious: black liberation movements have faced a constant and public threat from outside detractors since the 1950s, when the push for civil rights hit a national breaking point.

Under the leadership of J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI’s counterintelligence program—known as COINTELPRO—sought to disrupt supposed radical organizations such as the Black Panther Party, the SCLC, and the Young Lords. The bureau sent anonymous letters that threatened exposure, planted unfounded media stories, arrested members under false pretenses, and coordinated a barrage of illegal break-ins despite proof of unlawfulness. Most famously, the Chicago police department, with the help of the FBI, raided the home of local Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton, which resulted in the 21-year-old’s death.

Even now, infiltration remains a constant. White supremacists of today masquerade as kinfolk in digital town squares like Black Twitter, their sock-puppet accounts taking on handles like @c00ntown and @boojiiplaya832, a parade of ridiculous signifiers. (A @blacktivists account, now suspended, first appeared on Twitter in April of last year). In 2016, Andrew Anglin set out a blueprint on The Daily Stormer, the neo-Nazi site he founded. “How to be a Nigger on Twitter” outlined vicious, laughably simplistic guidelines for cultural assimilations, linking black identity to qualifiers like “large female buttocks,” combative behavior, “expensive Nike tennis shoes,” and a lack of punctuation in tweets. “Chaos is the name of the game,” Anglin wrote.

The Blacktivist account is all the more fascinating for where it sowed discord: not within, but without.

For followers of Blacktivist, the appeal of the account was instant and obvious. It took on the veneer of a real entity, posting videos about police brutality, promoting rallies, reaching out to users via Facebook Messenger, and selling merchandise with slogans like “Our Sons Matter” and “Young, Gifted, and Black.” As the entrance to social activism has become that much more attuned to the innovations of contemporary life, people are eager to align their beliefs with those in similar fights, and public Facebook accounts and groups serve as communal nerve centers, where information is disseminated and organizing is as swift as the click of your mouse. But because the barrier to entry requires little, the risk of intrusion heightens dangerously.

Indeed, the Blacktivist case is all the more fascinating for where it sowed discord: not within, but without. Spread across its web of sham accounts, Internet Research Agency targeted issues that had become fiery, schismatic national talking points during the presidential election and have remained so at dinner tables across America. Gun control. Race relations. Gay rights. (In November, Facebook and Twitter will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee in a hearing about Russian interference in the 2016 election.)

Facebook, for all its connectivity and purported good will, allows users a facade of engagement. We only opt in if we choose to. This is what makes Blacktivist such an interesting phenomenon: its popularity suggests that our social tools—and the import we draw from them—have not superseded the messages we spout on a given platform, nor vice versa. Think of Tahrir Square, of Ferguson and of Charlottesville. These realities, and the tools we utilize, live in accordance, one just as important to the vitality of the other.

Speaking to the Journal about the Blacktivist account, a pastor and Baltimore activist named Heber Brown III said there was always a “possibility that less-than-friendly actors would look for ways to align with the movement.” Yet, the Russian accounts didn’t weaken activist movements. These weren’t apparatuses of an oppressive federal watchdog or bilious hate group, bent on undermining any agenda that ran counter to their own. Rather, by strengthening the resolve of various communities with competing interests, they sought to throw all of the ideological continuum into chaos, setting the stage for a opportunistic candidate like Donald Trump.

But their success may have unintended consequences, too. In allegedly helping elect a president who sympathizes with white supremacists—or at the very least has done nothing to sway their allegiance to him—they seemed only to amplify the same concerns of the people Trump has done his best to quell. And in that, they may have further empowered black activism beyond what even a president can quash.

trump(chump) still hassling the NFL (only those I respect get caps)!! chump stands arm in arm with kkkop murderers!

What kind of scumbag occupies the seat of President in this country now. A scumbag named trump. He's no President, he needs to be in prison somewhere. He's still hassling the NFL coz' they're doing what his jackass is supposed to do; standing up for social injustice! He's supposed to be doing this! This dumass faggot doesn't even mention it! Now he wants to stop those who are trying to do something about MURDER in this country and racism! Now he's talkin all this BULLSHIT a bout respect for the c ountry and the anthem, but he ain't trying to stop kkkops from MURDERING UNARMED BLACKS!!! AIN'T SAID SHIT ABOUT THAT!!!! YOU AIN'T NO PRESIDENT! You want to use patriotism as an excuse to excuse MURDER?!!? We thought you said you were a christian? You think patriotism trumps God's Laws? And it's patriotic for the police to murder unarmed civilians? Is that what you're saying you worthless scumbag? Do your job, coz' you're gonna' destroy this 'great' country, so hurry up!!!! I think we've had all we can stand of you! Go ahead and nuke somebody and get it started so we can finally be rid of you!!!

NOTHING GREAT ABOUT A COUNTRY THAT JUSTIFIES VIOLATIONS OF GOD'S LAWS OF NOT COMMITTING MURDER ESPECIALLY BY THE police! ANYBODY FOR A RECALL ELECTION?!!?

'Total disrespect for our great country!' Trump tweets about NFL's national anthem non-decision

By Cindy Boren

October 18, 2017 at 8:43 AM

Malcolm Jenkins (in bow tie) was joined by former player Anquan Boldin (left), and Eric Reid of the 49ers. (Richard Drew/AP)

President Trump is turning his attention to the football field again in the aftermath of a meeting between NFL owners and players over the national anthem demonstrations that have roiled the league this season.

“The NFL has decided that it will not force players to stand for the playing of our National Anthem,” he tweeted shortly after 7 a.m. EDT. “Total disrespect for our great country!”

He was reacting to the announcement that players can continue to kneel or sit during the national anthem, a demonstration that was begun by Colin Kaepernick in the summer of 2016 to raise awareness of police brutality and social injustice. Since then, players at stadiums across the country have taken a knee and entire teams have stood with arms linked for the anthem. NFL owners and players met Tuesday in New York to discuss how to take the activism to action, and put the focus back on football.

With President Trump intensifying the spotlight on the demonstrations with tweets, calls for owners to suspend or fire any “son of a bitch” who doesn’t stand and his direction to his vice president to walk out of a recent game in which players knelt, the NFL has grappled with how to find common ground between players’ concerns and fans who have been angered. Owners and players met for the first time Tuesday, seeking to redirect the message, which was never intended as an insult to military members.

There wasn’t much actual movement, though — at least not enough for the president. Jed York, owner of the San Francisco 49ers, was asked about the impact of Trump’s tweets.

“We need to be above it. We need to be above petty attacks from anybody because racial and socio-economic inequality has existed in this country for too long,” York said after the meeting. “We need to get the focus on that and we need to make sure that we make progress there …. You’ve got to block out the noise and you have to go do your job. And that’s what we need to focus on. Are people going to slip? Is somebody going to say something or tweet something? Probably. But we can’t let that detract from the overall goal of progressing these issues and making sure that we are a unified front with the players.”

Owners, many of whom donated to Trump’s campaign and inauguration, realize that there may be an economic impact on the country’s most popular sport.

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Secret life Of Hollywood Celebrities - MUST WATCH DOCUMENTARY; they better have my money!!!!

The CIA’s Secret Experiments (Medical Documentary) - Real Stories

The Origin of HIV Aids - The best documentary - Channel 4

Another Wicked Act Hidden from History Books

Sunday, October 15, 2017

trump's Totalitarianism scheme

Trump is Like Mao and Stalin With 'Authoritarianism 101' Media Attacks: 'Morning Joe'

Stav Ziv

Newsweek12 October 2017

Trump is Like Mao and Stalin With 'Authoritarianism 101' Media Attacks: 'Morning Joe'

Donald Trump has long had beef with the press. His crusade against his version of “fake news”—defined more by what he likes than by anything to do with accuracy—has become a hallmark of his presidency. Less than a month after taking office, in one of his characteristic ranting tweets, he said that “the FAKE NEWS media”—including The New York Times, NBC News, ABC, CBS and CNN—“is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!”

On Wednesday, he attacked again. “It’s frankly disgusting the press is able to write whatever they want to write,” he said to reporters in the Oval Office. “People should look into it.” The comments came after NBC reported that Trump discussed multiplying the U.S. nuclear arsenal tenfold at a national security meeting, prompting Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to call him a “moron” in July.

When Trump calls the media the “enemy of the people,” he is “channeling Chairman Mao and Joseph Stalin,” Joe Scarborough said on Thursday’s episode of Morning Joe. The almost offhanded comment led into a segment discussing the latest of many “shocking things” Trump has said. It compared the American president to two of the 20th century’s most infamous dictators, Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin, who ruthlessly ruled Communist China and the Soviet Union, respectively.

Even though Trump’s past statements have already called to mind these men, Scarborough said the most recent remark about reporters being able to write what they want “may be the most frightening of all” and, to use Trump’s word, “the most disgusting.” The president, he said, is “dismissing the most sacred right Americans have had since 1787.”

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“It’s an attack on the media to be sure, but more profoundly, it’s an attack on the First Amendment,” said Mark Halperin, a senior political analyst for NBC News and a guest on Morning Joe. He went on to explain that “the whispers that you used to hear only on the left, about the notion that he should be removed or about a presidency in crisis, that is now said by people who are friends of the president, who are advisers to the president.”

When Trump makes such anti-press comments, Halperin added, it only heightens concern among those people about the president’s “state of mind” and his ability to do the job.

The hosts and their guests questioned Trump’s understanding of both the First Amendment and the media. Regardless of whether he is aware, news organizations “have strict protocols in place that mean that they cannot write whatever they want to write. You have to do your reporting,” said Katty Kay of BBC World News America. “For someone who watches an awful lot of television, you’d think he might be more curious about the way news organizations actually gather their news.”

Toward the end of the segment, co-host Willie Geist circled back to the Mao and Stalin comparison. “This is Authoritarianism 101. You delegitimize the press, you delegitimize your opponents, and then you try to destroy them,” he said.

“He’s saying to people who support him and the American people, ‘Don’t believe your eyes and your ears when it comes to things that criticize me,’” Geist added. “Any authoritarian in history has done this early and often.”

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Friday, October 13, 2017

trump trying to blow smoke in our eyes after he undermined American Healthcare for Americans

I'm sitting here listening to the bullshit of trumps talking about Iran, after he's undermined the Healthcare of all Americans here. We could care less about what's going on in Iran, and our fight is with you and you terrorist organization who is working to undermine the health and welfare of the people who live in THIS country! We could care less about Iran. The people you're working for seem to be overly concerned about Iran. We're worried about us! And all your sharp talk and less than clever words; save it! Ya'll need to focus on THIS COUNTRY and obeying the Will of the People rather than your rich friends who hide behind conference room doors kicking us in the teeth then telling us we're un-patriotic if we don't agree with all the fucked up shit you want to do! You and your bosses are international criminals who need to be tried by a new world court! All the other countries of the world who are not western europeans need to come together and form a new world court and put these monsters on trial. Coz as long as the United Nations is in new york, and the world court is in belgium, the rest of the world will never see justice. The british and united states government are guilty of all kinds of world crimes that never come up because they've managed to get control of these entities to use against 'their' enemies rather than serve the true office of world justice and peace. The united states government constantly starts war against other nations and the u.n. and the world court dropped it's case against george w.bush for attacking Iraq, again after the U.N. told him not to. So what good are they if the united states, britain, and france get to do whatever they want? And who made them God and ives them the right to say who can and can't have nuclear weapons? Why don't they give up theirs? One of these days God is gonna' shut you satanic hypocrites up permanently!!! And no, I'm not o nyour side! Not never, not ever!

Trump will refuse to certify Iran nuclear deal as part of broad new strategy against Tehran

President Trump will refuse to certify to Congress that the nuclear deal with Iran is in the U.S. national interest, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says.
The 2015 deal lifted sanctions on Iran in exchange for limits on its nuclear program.
Tillerson says Trump will not instruct Congress to impose new sanctions, and his administration will instead begin a broad new strategy to contain Iran.

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Trump to decertify Iran deal, defer action to Congress 1 Hour Ago | 03:11

The Trump administration is expanding its efforts to contain Iran, announcing Friday that the president will tell Congress the 2015 nuclear agreement with Tehran is no longer in America's interest.
The announcement sets in motion a high-stakes campaign to "fix" the deal.
In a briefing with reporters, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson outlined the new strategy, which aims to address not just problems the administration sees in the nuclear deal but also in Iran's ballistic missile program and its role in conflicts throughout the Middle East, issues that were not addressed as part of nuclear negotiations.

The plan includes a diplomatic push to persuade U.S. allies to negotiate a new agreement that would effectively supplement the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. The administration will also ask European partners to join the United States in imposing new sanctions on elements of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a military unit loyal to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

trump and his repugnicans determined to defy the will of the people; undermined Healthcare, Demand Recall Presidential Election

The repugnican party just proved they don't give a damn about the American people; none of them!!! We need to demand a recall election and give trump da' boot!!!

Trump Signs Executive Order On Healthcare

October 12, 2017 | by Robert Fowler

President Donald Trump signs an executive order

President Donald Trump has signed an executive action ordering federal agencies to relax several health care rules under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), making it easier for insurance companies to sell cheaper plans that contain minimal benefits.
The Trump administration has touted the directive as a step towards providing patients with more flexibility while critics warned that it could penalize people with pre-existing conditions and sabotage the ACA markets.

On Oct. 12, Trump signed an executive order directing the Department of Labor to review current ACA regulations. The directive called for lifting limits for Americans to purchase short-term insurance plans with low costs and low coverage. It would also enable small businesses to link together to purchase insurance plans as a group.
Trump pitched the executive order as a first step towards repealing the ACA.
"The cost of the Obamacare has been so outrageous, it is absolutely destroying everything in its wake," the president said during the signing ceremony.

GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who had advocated for the executive order's two key proposals, participated in the signing ceremony. The Kentucky senator praised the measure as a step towards offering Americans more flexibility in their health plans.
"Why don't we let the little individual -- the plumber, the baker, the accountant, the small doctor or attorney -- let them join together in associations and so they can have the same buying power that the big corporations have," Paul told CNN.
Meanwhile, several health care experts warned that the directive's loosening of ACA reforms would spike premiums for Americans with pre-existing conditions and destabilize the health care markets.

Health staff fellow Dave Dillon of the Society of Actuaries asserted in a statement that allowing Americans to purchase cheap plans that offered skimpy coverage would be to the detriment of sickly patients.

"Healthier consumers will likely be able to enroll in plans with lower insurance rates, while more medically complex consumers may be subject to significant rate increases," Dillon said, according to NBC News.
Senior fellow Edwin Park of the progressive-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities asserted that allowing small businesses to band together to purchase insurance would have a similar effect.
"They would tend to cherry pick the healthy younger workforce, which in turn destabilizes the rest of the market," Park said.
"Insurers hate uncertainty and they hate rules that will enable healthy people to opt out of the insurance markets," said law professor Nicholas Bagley of the University of Michigan. "So the (order) could destabilize the market, even if the (order) itself doesn't do anything."

The insurance options mandated by Trump's directive are expected to go into effect by 2019. State Attorney General Xavier Becerra of California has already warned that he will sue the Trump administration if the president's directive undermines the ACA markets, Reuters reports.

Sources: CNN, NBC News, Reuters / Feature Image: U.S. Department of the Interior/Flickr / Embedded Images: Gage Skidmore/Flickr, Daveynin/Flickr

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Las Vegas Shooting; kkkops search for 'motive';here's the reason like the fire in kalifornia; God is punishing you for your evil racist ways

Listen at how the white establishment screams bloody murder when something happens to them; They're crying about the shooting in las vegas, they're screaming about the storms, they're crying about the fire in kalifornia. Nevermind all those unarmed Black people murdered by white police; several of them women. They still ain't brought nobody in for lynching that Black woman in South Carolina and posted the video online. You strongarmed your way back onto those naval bases in the Phillipines and those people want you whites to leave them alone! You've kept a war going on in the middle east in Iraq and Afghanistan torturing those people and making their lives hell. You keep hassling Iran and your pets in Israel, honkey invaders, keep murdering Iranian scientists when they can and Iraniana government officials. You're doing something in Nepal, got those people fleeing their own country. You're stealing oil from the Somalians without paying, you've destroyed some twenty odd villages in Somalia over that 'blackhawk down shit' murdering several thousand people because they fought back when you illegally invaded their country (yeah, thought we wouldn't find out didn't you?) and countless other things you've done that I'm so proud of you for. You have finally made God weary of you and He's going to destroy you! You think you're whining now, just wait; more is coming. You just won't learn that you're not gonna' continue to do evil and just get away with it! The world is tired of you and God is too with your arrogance and your insane vain quest for godhood. Like the old folks used to say (not today coz' a lot of these old folks are stupid as hell!!) when you do wrong wrong will follow you! What you think God is dead or something? He might let you get by for a little while, but you won't get away! God is watching. Everything you label as top secret God is gonna' have it shouted from the rooftops. Like your 'secret' weapon in Alaska you used against China and Mexico, the HAARP program. or your 'secret' weapon you have on that 'international space station' you also used against China, Japan and Thailand. And everyone knows you sabotaged China's space station. And no I have no spies reporting to me; God is exposing you for all the information I got was in the news! Your're wasting your time trying to keep everything top secret. So you got no empathy and no sympathy coming from me and from nobody else who knows how evil and no good you are!! You're getting what you deserve and thank God, more is coming! You pissin' a fit coz' the NFL players are taking a knee in protest of honkie police officers murdering their brothers, their cousins, their friends and you racist sons of bitches wanna' talk that bullshit about the country respect for your country (your countries are in europe somewhere!!! We got more claim to this damned country, but this country belongs to the true native Americans! Not you pale skinned european bitches!!! And then since when does patriotism trumps God's Commandment that THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT MURDER?!!? Is that in your stinkin' constitution too? That your version of patriotism is more important than obeying The Lord's Commandments?!!? That's why it's time for you to go and God is erasing you from the playing board. After this next war, you will no longer be world movers nor superpowers. Then the fun will being, for the king wants revenge and can taste it!!! Enjoy the time you got left!!!!

British politician denied entry into Hong Kong China.

England still thinks they have rights in China. They have the nerve to talk about human rights after all of the terrible things they did to the Chinese when they occupied them as a colony. Bruce Lee remembered those signs put up by brits on the entrance of Chinese parks there in Hong Kong;' No dogs or Chinese!

British Conservative party activist barred from entering Hong Kong

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© LightRocket via Getty Images The deputy chair of the Conservative Party’s human rights commission has been barred from entering Hong Kong. A leading British human rights activist who has been a vocal critic of China’s erosion of Hong Kong’s political freedoms has been barred from entering the former colony on the eve of a key political summit in Beijing.
Benedict Rogers, the deputy chair of the Conservatives’ human rights commission, flew into Hong Kong on Wednesday morning on a Thai Airways flight from Bangkok but said he was stopped at immigration and refused entry.
“They gave me no explanation at all,” he told the Guardian by phone as he prepared to fly back to Thailand on Wednesday afternoon.
He added: “It is absolutely bizarre ... I feel shocked. I had received a warning that this might happen so I was mentally prepared for it but was hoping it wouldn’t happen. I feel very shocked. I feel it is yet another example of if not the death then the death throes of ‘One country, two systems’”.
Rogers lived in Hong Kong for five years, from 1997 until 2002, and said he had been coming back on a private visit to see friends, including a number of prominent democracy activists.
“I wanted to come and meet people learn about the current situation.”
As he was escorted to his flight out of Hong Kong, Rogers said he turned to the immigration officer taking him to the plane and thanked him for treating him well.
“I said, ‘Does this mean one country, two systems is dead? Is it one country one system now?’”
“He looked at me actually very sadly, almost with tears in his eyes, and said, ‘I’m just doing my job, I can’t comment.’”
“I feel very sad for it. I feel sad for Hong Kong,” Rogers added. “If a private citizen from Britain who is coming basically to meet old friends and new friends ... is denied entry then it is a very sad day for Hong Kong.”
Rogers has been an outspoken critic of Beijing’s refusal to grant greater democracy to Hong Kong and its treatment of young activists such as umbrella movement leader Joshua Wong.
He was one of the organisers or a recent letter denouncing the “outrageously unjust” imprisonment of three of Hong Kong’s best-known pro-democracy activists, Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow.
At the time Beijing rejected the letter’s criticism.
“Hong Kong is ruled by law, and its citizens fully enjoy their own rights and freedoms. However, nobody can use the guise of ‘democracy and freedom’ to conduct illegal and violent activities [or] movements,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters.
Earlier this month Rogers met with a number of prominent Hong Kong activists in London, including Eddie Chu, Derek Lam and Raymond Chan.
“With courageous and intelligent people like these, working together and building unity among the democratic camp, Hong Kong has a bright future despite its recent setbacks. And I pledge to support them in their struggle,” he wrote on Facebook.

In a subsequent Facebook post Rogers added: “I have been criticised for being too outspoken for freedom, democracy and human rights. I have also been criticised for being too diplomatic. The reality is this: if you want freedom, democracy and human rights you have to fight for it.”

King of Ghana's £350k cash deposit costs London top banker's job

King's £350k costs top banker his job