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[video=youtube;bI9MGFH8WJw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI9MGFH8WJw[/video]Emily Lau of the pan-democrats gets called out for taking going to the hair salon
 

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A pro-democracy protester takes a photo with a camera attached to his helmet during a standoff with riot police in the Mongkok shopping district of Hong Kong early October 19, 2014. Violent clashes erupted early on Sunday in a Hong Kong protest hotspot as unarmed pro-democracy activists once again confronted riot police despite the confirmation of talks between protest leaders and officials early this week. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

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Pro-democracy protesters shout at advancing riot police on their encampment in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong, early Sunday, Oct. 19, 2014.

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Riot police officers advance on a pro-democracy protest encampment in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong, early Sunday, Oct. 19, 2014.

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Riot polices arrive at a protest site during clashes with pro-democracy protesters at the Mongkok shopping district of Hong Kong October 19, 2014. Hong Kong pro-democracy activists recaptured parts of a core protest zone from police early on Saturday after hours of turmoil that the city's police chief warned undermined order and jeopardised public safety. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

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A pro-democracy protester is taken away by police offers at an occupied section of a roadway in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong early Sunday, Oct. 19, 2014.

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Iconic umbrellas used in the pro-democracy protests dubbed '"The Umbrella Revolution" are used to display portraits of Hong Kong's embattled leader Leung Chun-ying in an occupied area in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong, Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014. Hong Kong riot police battled with thousands of pro-democracy protesters for control of the city's streets Saturday, using pepper spray and batons to hold back defiant activists who returned to a protest zone that officers had partially cleared. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

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Pro-democracy protesters remove barriers before clashing with police on a road in the Mongkok district of Hong Kong early on October 19, 2014 (AFP Photo/Ed Jones)

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Protesters cry as some of the protesters are beaten by riot police in the occupied area in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong, early Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014. New scuffles broke out Friday night between Hong Kong riot police and pro-democracy activists in a district where police cleared protesters earlier in the day. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

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Riot police officers use batons against protesters at a main road in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Hong Kong riot police struggled to hold back hundreds of defiant pro-democracy activists who returned to a district that officers had partially cleared earlier Friday. Police used pepper spray and batons to fend off a huge crowd that had gathered in Mong Kok, and several protesters were seen knocked to the ground or carried away by police. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

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Riot police officers use batons against protesters at a main road in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong Friday, Oct. 17, 2014
 

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維園現場 數千市民靜坐在地上 支持香港警察及反對非法佔領運動。
Victoria Park, thousands of people sat on the ground in support of Hong Kong police and the campaign against illegal occupation. (Translated by Bing)
 

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Pro-democracy protests took a violent turn in Hong Kong early Sunday morning, as police officers clashed with demonstrators in the territory's Mong Kok neighborhood. The scuffles, which caused at least three injuries, occurred amid news that Hong Kong's government plans to meet with student leaders on Tuesday in an effort to resolve the crisis.

Mong Kok's role as a separate front in the protest movement, however, will complicate efforts at a resolution. The neighborhood, located in Hong Kong's Kowloon district, is a densely populated, working-class area where residents living cheek-by-jowl mingle with shoppers drawn to Nathan Road's famous retail area.
“Mong Kok is very self-organized; it's a real people's movement.”

Previous protests, by contrast, have occurred in Admiralty, a neighborhood on Hong Kong Island. Hong Kong Island encompasses the city's most elegant commercial streets and its main government buildings. Protests there, while spirited, have been more orderly than those on Mong Kok, where a lack of sophisticated crowd-control infrastructure has exacerbated the chaos. In Admiralty, groups like Occupy Central for Peace and Love and the Hong Kong Federation of Students are representatives of the students. The protests in Mong Kok, by contrast, have been more spontaneous, and appear to ebb and flow based less on political developments than on behavior by the police.

Trey Menefee, a professor at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, who described this contrast in great detail in a recent blog post, told me that "Mong Kok is very self-organized; it's a real people's movement. There isn't a representative with whom the government can negotiate."

Protesters in both Admiralty and Mong Kok share political goals. Hong Kongers in both neighborhoods want Leung Chun-ying, Hong Kong's chief executive, to resign, and they want the government to grant residents universal suffrage in choosing its leadership. Leung, while refusing to consider these demands, has vowed to work with Hong Kong's protest leadership to seek a political solution to the crisis.

Hong Kong's student leaders, however, have far less influence in Mong Kok, the site of Sunday morning's violence.

"The consensus among the Mong Kok protesters was that, even if Admiralty could be negotiated into packing up, the movement in Mong Kok would stay," said Menefee.
 

shen

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[video=youtube;S_5nXlpEKCg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_5nXlpEKCg&list=UUqUhYNPzxfRwD73W84xMUSQ[/video]

龍和道200個示威者尋日凌晨包圍三個警察呢條片勁瘋傳,當時就係因為紫色衫既呢個示*威者掟左個兩公升水 樽出馬路,中咗部私家車,三個警察即刻拉咗呢個男人,嗱嗱嗱,睇下*喇!係示威者迫到埋身先架 。。。。。。

不過同一單新聞,唔同既傳媒就有唔同演繹喎,嘩,生菓報居然話「警員喪打記者」?咦,*睇下呢幅相,仲以為 個差人打中個記者添?唔係喎,呢個明明係差人,下面嗰個就係掟樽既*示威者吖嘛;曾經公信力第一果份,就出 左張齋用胡椒噴霧既相,都幾嚇人架!

另外兩份似乎比較為忠於原片,呢份影到支警棍扑中自己友添,講到警員力敵200人,話*有個督察講唔係人多 聲大就可以無王管;呢份標題話二百人兇差人想「搶犯」呀;有網友有*感而發,即時SEND左呢張圖出來,話 傳媒就係咁運作既,真係眼看未為真,呢啲係咪叫*各取所需,睇番條片,大家心照啦!

Three police officers defend themselves against 200 protesters. Apple Daily report it as "police beat reporter".
 

shen

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[video=youtube;ClkwPbLoTU8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClkwPbLoTU8&list=UUqUhYNPzxfRwD73W84xMUSQ[/video]

Protesters delay ambulance, firefighters, chain up fire hydrant.

佔領中環持續20多日,其行動對民生以至救人救災的影響繼續浮現,甚至惡化。副消防總*長梁偉雄指出,在本 月10日早上約九時,消防接報有人在香港公園高處墮下,救護車到場*後發現該名人士心肺功能已經停頓及有多 處骨折,救護人員當時預計能在約五、六分鐘把傷*者送到最近的律敦治醫院,惟因多處道路嚴重擠塞,救護車需 要改道往瑪麗醫院,需時17*分鐘,傷者到達醫院後證實死亡。梁偉雄擔心,堵路行為會令載有傷病者的救護車 被困車龍*,呼籲有關人士不要再做出「害人害己」的行為。

另外,銅鑼灣怡和街「佔領區」內一大廈日前有一大型廣告牌起火,消防到場後發現道路被*示威者的鐵馬阻擋, 消防員需要剪開鐵鏈,在場警員要協助移開鐵馬及雜物,消防車才能順*利通過,小火迅速被救熄。梁偉雄表示, 「佔中」者於星期一(10月13日)加固了銅鑼*灣的路障,幸而警方翌日清晨清除了加固的路障,否則消防處 須用更多時間進入現場救火,*後果就未必是「小火」,甚至會危害居民安全。

傷者延醫,火災延救,我們還要讓「佔中」行動繼續下去,直至悲劇發生,恨錯難返嗎?正*在街上參與佔領行動 的人,在盤算自己的政治訴求時,會想一想其他人的生活、生計甚至生*命嗎?

Central continued occupation of more than 20 days, the impact of their actions on people's livelihood as well as rescue and relief continues to emerge, even worse. Deputy Chief Fire Officer LEUNG, noted that in about 9 am on the 10th of this month, the Fire received a report that someone fell in Hong Kong Park high, after the ambulance arrived, they found the person cardiopulmonary function has stalled and there are multiple fractures, the ambulance crew was expected to in about five or six minutes the injured to the nearest Ruttonjee Hospital, but due to many serious road congestion, ambulance diversions needed to Queen Mary Hospital, takes 17 minutes, the wounded arrived at the hospital confirmed the death. LEUNG, worry, Dulu behavior will make ambulances carrying sick and wounded trapped in queues, called on people not to make "harm to others' behavior.

In addition, the "occupied territories" Yee Wo Street, a building with a large billboard before the fire, the fire scene found the road blocked by protesters cavalry, firefighters need to cut the chains, the presence of police officers to help remove iron railings and debris, fire engines can be successfully passed, a small fire was put out quickly. LEUNG, said, "representing the" who on Monday (October 13) reinforce the barricades in Causeway Bay, fortunately the police cleared the next morning reinforced barricades, otherwise the Fire Department is required to enter the scene with more time to put out the fire, the consequences would not be "a small fire, "and even endanger the safety of residents.

Injured seek medical, fire rescue extension, we have let "accounted for the" actions continue until the tragedy, hate wrong and difficult to return it? People are participating in the occupation of the streets, contemplating his own political aspirations, it will think about other people's lives, livelihoods and even life? (Translated by Google Translator)
 

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The umbrellas are taking their toll on Beijing. The Central Committee may have managed, so far, to avoid major bloodshed in its standoff with Hong Kong demonstrators, but the clash between democracy defenders and guardians of Communist doctrine is reverberating in many of China’s provinces and is dimming its hope of peacefully annexing the independent island of Taiwan and uniting it with the mainland.

The pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong are sending a grim signal to businesspeople in the region. After years of improved commercial ties between Taiwan and its giant neighbor, many Taiwanese sense that the thaw is moving too fast for comfort. The clashes in Hong Kong between the Beijing-backed authorities and demonstrators bode ill for Taiwan’s advocates of further integration with the mainland.

Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou has done more than any of his predecessors to ease tensions, signing dozens of treaties with Beijing that seemed unthinkable until very recently. Yet, even before events in Hong Kong started to dominate our television screens in late September, young Taiwanese protested against his cozying up to China, forcing him to rethink a major trade agreement with the Communist monolith the island separated from in 1949.

Now, as Ma’s Kuomintang party faces a challenge, in a round of local elections on November 29, against candidates of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party, the president has sharply rebuked Beijing’s leadership, expressing solidarity with the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.

“This is a major test case for the new leadership in China,” said a senior diplomat from the region, who has managed his country’s relations with Beijing. Speaking on condition of anonymity, as criticism of China is a delicate matter in the region, the diplomat said that Xi Jinping, not yet two years in office as China’s leader, seems “unpredictable.” The way he brings the Hong Kong crisis to a conclusion—peaceful or otherwise—will not only put to the test Xi’s ability to handle internal affairs but also China’s relations with its neighbors.

As the Hong Kong crisis grew, Xi displayed his political tin ear by inviting pro-China businessmen from Taiwan to visit the mainland. “One country, two systems” was the best way to realize reunification between the mainland and the independent island, he said. But Hong Kong’s business district was being besieged by protesters—hardly the right time to resell that dubious idea, which China seems to have unilaterally reneged on in Hong Kong.
 

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When we think about the origins of the Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong, the US National Endowment for Democracy - and its subsidiary the National Democratic Institute - should be considered one of the originators of the student protests in the special administrative region. The organisation means to promote US national interests, but the truth is that its actions could put the US in great peril.

Hong Kong was a British colony with a successful track record of amassing great wealth that captured the attention and imagination of the world, but London never attempted to introduce democracy. It is ironic that Hong Kong today is more democratic than it was during its time under British rule. The first elements of local democracy were only introduced after the agreement to return Hong Kong to China was signed.

The prevailing wisdom is that the Occupy Central movement is in line with US President Barack Obama's "pivot to Asia" strategy. The discontented students, who admire American values of representative democracy, a multiparty system, local self-governance and the like, are challenging Beijing's authority, and paralysing Hong Kong's central business and governmental district. It seems as if this may enhance US soft power, showing to the world that the Americans rule Hong Kong through their ideas, and some students here are willing to be vanguards of Washington's rebalancing strategy in Asia.

Yet, in reality, the movement may bring damage, if not disaster, to America's China policy. The idea of universal suffrage has been sold to the public on the premise that the Communist Party would not suppress the movement by force, and that the party's restraint would enable the democrats to assume power in Hong Kong.

The plan has obviously ignored domestic politics in mainland China, in particular the case of Zhou Yongkang , the first Politburo Standing Committee member, either retired or sitting, to be investigated over corruption and abuse of power since June 1981. Undoubtedly, a large number of his followers and supporters are also under investigation and will be charged in the near future.

Unsurprisingly, such anti-corruption reforms have been put on hold because of the Hong Kong crisis, and the campaign will not gain full momentum again until the party gets Hong Kong's house back in order.

The danger is that corrupt politicians within the party have been waiting for a chance to fight back. If riots break out in Hong Kong, the authority of President Xi Jinping would be correspondingly reduced and those hardliners will take over. To establish and then increase their legitimacy, they will opt for flawed, aggressive policies, rather than the "new type of great power relations" between the US and China, a strategic concept promoted by Xi.

Questions of foreign policy are hotly debated in China, and the current leadership team has been walking a tightrope to strike a balance between the hardliners and softliners. The aim of Obama's "pivot" is to ensure China's peaceful rise, but if the hardliners win in China's domestic politics, the increasingly powerful People's Liberation Army will take on the US military in the Asia-Pacific region.

I am not convinced the Obama administration's policy is to see China trapped in chaos by the Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong because Washington greatly needs China's support to maintain the US-led unipolar international order.

Western sanctions against Russia seem to have been put in place as warning messages to President Vladimir Putin, rather than to the Russian government per se, amid fears that Chinese and Russian leaders may try to turn the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation into a second Warsaw Pact. The unease of pulling down the Pax Americana by antagonising both China and Russia at the same time has made the US determined to avoid direct, major clashes with China at almost any cost.

Islamic State has emerged as a deadly threat to the regional order in the Middle East under Pax Americana. Washington is not expecting China to join the US-led military actions against IS, but needs its diplomatic support. US National Security Adviser Susan Rice has already requested China's support in forming a coalition of nations battling the extremists.

Ironically, the decline of US influence in Iraq is probably one factor leading to continued rapid Chinese expansion in the Middle East - a huge market for China's weapons of mass destruction, alongside consumer goods from Chinese online marketplaces like Alibaba.

In last year's fourth quarter, China became the world's largest oil importer, which tipped the balance of power in the Middle East away from the US. Oil-rich nations, such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq, will become more dependent on the Chinese economy, and it is hard to imagine them not accommodating China's interests regarding such weapons.

Therefore, Obama needs to continue to support the reformist Xi in his efforts to develop a society based on rule of law, and to achieve progress through top-down reform. The Communist Party can be successfully transformed into a Confucian organisation and the people may see elected governors and selected party secretaries, which would show the values of both Confucianism and liberal democracy.

China does not have to be an enemy of the US, so, please, keep out of Hong Kong's affairs.

Dr Junfei Wu is a research fellow at the Tianda Institute think tank, Hong Kong
This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as Unwelcome forces
 

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Hong Kong High Court grants 2nd injunction to bar demonstrators
English.news.cn 2014-10-20 22:05:26 [More]

HONG KONG, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- The High Court of Hong Kong late on Monday granted an interim injunction to bar protesters from continuing to occupy the section between Tim Mei Avenue and Lung Wui Road.

The application was filed by proprietors of the CITIC Tower, who complained that blocked roads have affected operations of emergency vehicles and threatened their safety.

The injunction is the second of its kind granted by the High Court on Monday. The first injunction, applied by groups of minibus and taxi operators, forbid the demonstrators from occupying the section of Nathan Road between Argyle Street and Dundas Street in Mongkok, and from putting up barricades there to block traffic.

The first injunction is due to expire on Friday morning.
 

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Blackstone, you shouldn't have left out this gem from the newsweek article:
But the recent clashes in the streets seemed to have ended any hope that Beijing would let the city’s long-established democracy continue to thrive.
I know, the remainder of the article was not very interesting.
 
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