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Re: China’s Lockdowns: Even Crazier
« Reply #25 on: November 27, 2022, 06:49:27 pm »
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To understand why the lockdowns became so severe in China in the last few weeks, you have to know the context. Xi made lockdowns a show of support for himself as undisputed leader before the October CCP congress

Local cadres outdid one another to crackdown in displays of fealty

12:51 PM · Nov 27, 2022  ·Twitter for iPhone

Exactly what Mao did in his last days.
The Republic is lost.

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Re: China’s Lockdowns: Even Crazier
« Reply #26 on: November 27, 2022, 09:06:25 pm »
"BREAKING (Beijing): Protestors try marching on Tiananmen Square while chanting, “We want freedom, equality, democracy, rule of law.” Reports indicate crowd is being held at bay by police a few blocks away from their departure point."  (Video)


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Re: China’s Lockdowns: Even Crazier
« Reply #27 on: November 27, 2022, 09:52:44 pm »
I've watched those two guys on Youtube, fascinating.

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Re: China’s Lockdowns: Even Crazier
« Reply #28 on: November 27, 2022, 10:30:45 pm »
Either people come out en masse across the country or remain under the boot of their masters. Anything less will be crushed.

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Re: China’s Lockdowns: Even Crazier
« Reply #29 on: November 27, 2022, 10:43:57 pm »
Those poor people will be slaughtered...

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Re: China’s Lockdowns: Even Crazier
« Reply #30 on: November 27, 2022, 11:32:22 pm »
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I wonder when President Biden is going to make a statement in support of freedom and Democracy in China
4:52 PM · Nov 27, 2022

Anti-riot vehicles spotted in Shanghai. The crackdown is coming.

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1596983490054328321
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Re: China’s Lockdowns: Even Crazier
« Reply #31 on: November 27, 2022, 11:37:31 pm »
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BREAKING: BBC reporter Edward Lawrence arrested and dragged to the ground by CCP officers in Shanghai
The journalist can be seen being seized upon by officers and dragged to the ground. Lawrence has been reporting from Shanghai.
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Re: China’s Lockdowns: Even Crazier
« Reply #32 on: November 28, 2022, 09:08:29 am »
Joni Job
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I wonder when President Biden is going to make a statement in support of freedom and Democracy in China
4:52 PM · Nov 27, 2022

Anti-riot vehicles spotted in Shanghai. The crackdown is coming.

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1596983490054328321

Never. 

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Re: China’s Lockdowns: Even Crazier
« Reply #33 on: November 28, 2022, 01:56:51 pm »
Chinese bots swamp Twitter with porn to hide news of mass protests
By Lee Brown   
November 28, 2022 8:14am
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Chinese bots are swamping Twitter with sexually explicit posts about porn and escorts in an apparent bid to stop the spread of news about the massive protests against lockdowns and President Xi Jinping.

Searches for major Chinese cities that have seen mass protests will “mostly see ads for escorts/porn/gambling, drowning out legitimate search results,” said Air-Moving Device, sharing a series of charts.

“Data analysis in this thread suggests that there has been a significant uptick in these spam tweets,” the outlet said, sharing data retweeted by Stanford Internet Observatory Director Alex Stamos.

The “vast majority” — more than 95% — appear to be spam accounts that “tweet at a high, steady rate throughout the day, suggesting automation,” the analysis said. ...
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Re: China’s Lockdowns: Even Crazier
« Reply #34 on: November 28, 2022, 02:21:51 pm »
How fortunate for Xi.
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Apple hobbled a crucial tool of dissent in China weeks before widespread protests broke out
Zachary M. Seward
Sun, November 27, 2022 at 1:51 PM

Anti-government protests flared in several Chinese cities and on college campuses over the weekend. But the country’s most widespread show of public dissent in decades will have to manage without a crucial communication tool, because Apple restricted its use in China earlier this month.

AirDrop, the file-sharing feature on iPhones and other Apple devices, has helped protestors in many authoritarian countries evade censorship. That’s because AirDrop relies on direct connections between phones, forming a local network of devices that don’t need the internet to communicate. People can opt into receiving AirDrops from anyone else with an iPhone nearby.

That changed on Nov. 9, when Apple released a new version of its mobile operating system, iOS 16.1.1, to customers worldwide. Rather than listing new features, as it often does, the company simply said, “This update includes bug fixes and security updates and is recommended for all users.”

Hidden in the update was a change that only applies to iPhones sold in mainland China: AirDrop can only be set to receive messages from everyone for 10 minutes, before switching off. There’s no longer a way to keep the “everyone” setting on permanently on Chinese iPhones. The change, first noticed by Chinese readers of 9to5Mac, doesn’t apply anywhere else. ...
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Re: China’s Lockdowns: Even Crazier
« Reply #35 on: November 28, 2022, 02:37:56 pm »
How fortunate for Xi.More at Yahoo Finance

Wow.  Apple is wholly in bed with the Chinese Communists.

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Re: China’s Lockdowns: Even Crazier
« Reply #36 on: November 28, 2022, 04:06:03 pm »
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New statement out from the White House as protests break out in China over the governments zero COVID policies



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Re: China’s Lockdowns: Even Crazier
« Reply #37 on: November 28, 2022, 04:09:08 pm »
Those poor people will be slaughtered...

And the CCP doesn't care. They would be fine losing a third of their population, especially if they get to pick and choose.
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Re: China’s Lockdowns: Even Crazier
« Reply #38 on: November 28, 2022, 04:10:12 pm »
New statement out from the White House as protests break out in China over the governments zero COVID policies
No condemnation of China's oppressive actions?
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Re: China’s Lockdowns: Even Crazier
« Reply #39 on: November 28, 2022, 04:14:52 pm »
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New statement out from the White House as protests break out in China over the governments zero COVID policies



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Basically, namby-pamby nonsense, and no clear challenge to the actions of the CCP.

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Re: China’s Lockdowns: Even Crazier
« Reply #40 on: November 28, 2022, 04:16:13 pm »
No condemnation of China's oppressive actions?

Why would it?

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« Reply #41 on: November 28, 2022, 04:29:22 pm »
Why would it?
Exactly. Heaven forbid the Biden White House ever say anything negative about their Chinese overlords.
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Re: China’s Lockdowns: Even Crazier
« Reply #42 on: November 28, 2022, 04:31:28 pm »
'CCP officers cracking down on the protesters in Hangzhou, mass arrests'  (Video)


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« Reply #43 on: November 28, 2022, 04:32:36 pm »
Exactly. Heaven forbid the Biden White House ever say anything negative about their Chinese overlords.

Biden's probably taking notes and updating his own playbook .......

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Re: China’s Lockdowns: Even Crazier
« Reply #44 on: November 28, 2022, 04:42:11 pm »
If Chinese government remotely switches your health passport to code yellow, you will become homeless.

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Re: China’s Lockdowns: Even Crazier
« Reply #45 on: November 28, 2022, 04:43:13 pm »
"Hundreds of protesters in Beijing march with blank paper as part of the White Paper Revolution  They are chanting "We don't want testing, we want freedom"  (Video)



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Re: China’s Lockdowns: Even Crazier
« Reply #46 on: November 28, 2022, 04:43:15 pm »
If Chinese government remotely switches your health passport to code yellow, you will become homeless.

https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1597238144600244225

That is absolutely insane.  And yet, that is what the G20 is contemplating bringing to the Western countries, like the U.S.

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« Reply #47 on: November 28, 2022, 04:45:00 pm »
That is absolutely insane.  And yet, that is what the G20 is contemplating bringing to the Western countries, like the U.S.

Yup.  Pretty frighening.

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« Reply #48 on: November 28, 2022, 04:46:26 pm »
Yup.  Pretty frighening.

Couple that with digital currency, and a social credit score, and we'll all start to think that the old dystopian novels were tales of a utopia instead.

Michel Foucault's theories on steroids.

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Re: China’s Lockdowns: Even Crazier
« Reply #49 on: November 28, 2022, 05:38:16 pm »
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God Bless the brave protestors in China.

Don’t take for granted what we have in the USA.

10:55 AM · Nov 28, 2022   Twitter for iPhone
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