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Unbelievable debut, Solid State! 😮 Frankie Lor's Snitzel 3YO, formerly trained in Australia by Chris Waller, scores a ridiculous first-up victory in Hong Kong under Alexis Badel in the Philip Chen Trophy... FCLOR_RACINGSTABLE | #SummerSeries | #HKracing
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![HONG KONG’S BOUNTY CASH OFFERS: THE REAL STORY This is a shocker. Hong Kong is offering BOUNTIES for the capture of innocent pro-democracy activists overseas. The Chinese city, we read, is using its outrageous laws in a transnational way. How awful! That’s the story that the world is being told. As usual, the full story tells a different truth. Yes, Hong Kong is offering cash rewards for people evading justice – it is a technique this community learned... from the UK. And every step of the process in Hong Kong has been kept carefully in line with international law by British-trained lawyers. And here’s the really interesting bit: The UK, which is criticizing us over this issue, was, for a long time, the world capital of offering transnational bounties, and dominated that activity until another country (not China) took over. . STORY TIME Way back in 1696, the government of England offered one thousand pounds for the capture of a pirate named Henry Every. This was a massive sum in those days, and triggered the first global manhunt in history. There were no rules, just grab the guy if you see him. In the 1700s, the British offered bounties of up to £140 for each murderer or highway robber you could catch. In those days, a laborer earned £14 a year, an artisan earned £20 a year, so this was a huge sum, equivalent to many years salary. In the 1800s, Australia, which was under direct rule of the British, offered a mind-boggling £8,000 for a troublemaker called Ned Kelly, dead or alive. Today, British bounties are offered through a TV show called Crimestoppers, and range from a few £100 to £50,000 – that’s about US$70,000. . MEANWHILE IN THE U.S. The US government offers bounties of multimillion dollar sums. For example, they offered $15 million US dollars for information enabling them to locate and kill two of Saddam Hussein's children. One informant provided their address – Saddam’s children were duly killed – and the informant received $30 million US dollars. (Judas only got 30 pieces of silver.) Just a few weeks ago, in August, the US offered US$50 million for the scalp of Nicolás Maduro, the leader of Venezuela. . IGNORING INTERNATIONAL LAW And there’s a key difference. Unlike Hong Kong, which rigidly follows international law, the US simply ignores international law and grabs or kills whoever it wants to kill, anywhere on the planet – [Video shows relevant headlines]. And remember most of the (detained without trial) prisoners in the nightmarish Guantanamo Bay prison were grabbed by bounty hunters given generous sums of cash by the US government. . TARGETTING INNOCENTS? But wait, you say. The important difference is that Hong Kong is targeting innocent people. The UK and the US are targeting baddies. Actually, no. But I don’t blame anyone for thinking that, because that’s what gets reported in the media. The so called “pro-democracy” movement was financed by the USA to promote independence AGAINST the wishes of the Hong Kong people – surveys, whether taken by eastern or western researchers, show that 80 to 93% of people here oppose independence and want a positive relationship with mainland China. In Hong Kong, even among peaceful protesters, including my own social group, these subversive individuals who fled the city are seen as traitors, taking cash from hostile nations to harm our community. Here’s a clip of a Hong Kong overseas protest complaining bitterly about a cut in the funding they are getting from the US. [clip] . TRUTH ABOUT HK PROTESTERS Picture this. A group of shockingly violent criminals manufacture or distribute pipe bombs, Molotov cocktails and other illegal weapons. One had gathered the same explosives used in the 7/7 London bombing to create a terrorist level “mass casualty event” in the Hong Kong district of Mongkok, with the intention of killing a large number of people one of the world’s most densely populated areas. By any measure, several of these individuals would definitely qualify for the term “terrorist”. They jump bail and get on a smugglers’ boat. One of them revealed the full plan that had been arranged for him by someone. He would go to Taiwan first—but then he was to be taken on a diplomatic flight to Europe, and eventually to London, with his final destination being to go back to the United States, which he had visited recently. Those are the facts. But how were the arrests of these terrorist bombmakers reported? All western mainstream media portrayed them as heroes. - The Wall Street journal said the “daring” group were “a small group of dissidents”. - The Times of London said they were “Hong Kong boat people”. - The New York Times delivered a truly McCarthyist report about desperate “activists” escaping “the Communist Party's tightening grip” in Hong Kong. - The Guardian described them as “Hong Kongers” as if all Hong Kong residents gathered enough explosives to bring down buildings. Sigh. . READ WIDELY Whenever you see mainstream media reports on Hong Kong or mainland China or Taiwan, or Russia or Venezuela or Iran for that matter, a little bit of healthy skepticism is a good idea. And always remember. Read widely. Think for yourself](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1968116270139838661/amplify_video_thumb/1968111709962506240/img/ZFarvSLFU0sT2Mi3.jpg)
![EXCLUSIVE: HONG KONG ANTI-CHINA GROUPS AWASH WITH MYSTERY CASH Investigators found millions of dollars delivered to Stand News "in a clandestine manner", a court heard. The loss-making anti-China media outlet in Hong Kong suddenly went from deep debt to having millions in spare cash. The discovery, revealed in court recently, is an example of how China-hostile groups in Hong Kong acquired donations equivalent to tens of millions of US dollars between 2014 and 2020. The G-7's Financial Action Task Force warned during this period that crowdfunding donations had become the new way for clandestine funders to transfer cash around the world at high speed without being traceable, with the cash sometimes used for terrorism--which is what happened in Hong Kong. . CROWDFUNDED TERRORISM In a case in point, a mysterious woman came to visit a Hong Kong protest group called Dragon Slayers Brigade and gave them instructions on where and when to set up a crowdfunding bid. They did so – and money quickly poured into their bank account, more than they could use. After setting up a Molotov cocktail factory, obtaining an AR15 assault rifle and financing a team of staff, leader Wong Chun-keung gave himself a stress-relief break in which he spent some of the funds on football betting. “I used about HK$300,000 [US$40,000] of the donations to gamble. For me, it was a way to de-stress,” he told a court. The suddenly wealthy group obtained high grade explosives and planned a terrorist-level bombing in Wan Chai which would have caused massive casualties, had police not stopped them hours before they set the bombs off. . CELEBRATING VIOLENCE The anti-China Stand News carried interviews with members of the Dragon Slayers Brigade, presenting them positively and "romanticizing" their violent mission, a court heard. In fact, it has become clear that money is the key to fully understanding the protests in Hong Kong. From 2014 onwards, anti-government activists and anti-China media groups found themselves awash with cash. These tens of millions of dollars were in addition to the tens of millions handed out in Hong Kong since 1994 by the National Endowment for Democracy, a US group specializing in overseas political interference "to advance US interests". The cash is also in addition to the secret sum of US$2 million set aside for the Hong Kong protests by America's Open Technology Fund, a unit of Radio Free Asia, a Washington DC "news" outlet. And it is in addition to the millions of dollars known to have been handed out to anti-China activists by Mark Simon, a one-time US intelligence officer working for Jimmy Lai's Apple Daily. TOO MUCH, TOO FAST While most crowdfunding activities are legitimate and harmless, examples in which large sums of money are moved in a highly charged political atmosphere are suspect, particularly if the money arrives very quickly, investigators said. Hong Kong journalists watched one anti-China group in the city obtain a large sum of cash at high speed using crowdfunding in August of 2019. "A new gofundme campaign created yesterday has raised over US$1.97m in two hours this morning," amazed journalists at Hong Kong's Dimsum Daily reported. This was extraordinary, not just because of the speed, but because the group was virtually unknown. Called "Freedom Hong Kong", it supported a gathering of protesters under the slogan "Alliance of United States, United Kingdom and Hong Kong, sovereignty lies with the people". It presented itself as Hong Kong people calling for western nations to impose sanctions on their own community. This made no sense, but since the crowdfunding sites were in the US, police could not trace the origin of the funds. Hong Kong journalists noted that Freedom Hong Kong was registered in the United States. . STAND NEWS MONEY MYSTERY The donations money-transfer technique can be traced back a decade. In 2014, an anti-China media group called House News, which attracted too little advertising and was losing $600,000 a month, closed down. But six months later, it relaunched itself as Stand News. It still had almost no advertising, but was suddenly cash rich, through "donations". When the media outlet wiped its website and stopped posting material, investigators found a reserve cash account containing HK$61 million (US$8 million): an extraordinary amount of spare cash for a non-profit website without a functioning business model. . APPLE DAILY PUZZLE Similarly, Stand News' former partner Apple Daily was losing more than HK$1 million a day, sometimes twice that, during this period. That means it was losing between US$1 million to US$2 million a week, month after month, year after year. But it always had vast amounts of spare cash in its bank account. Business reporters from other Hong Kong publications openly expressed puzzlement about where Apple Daily's money came from. "We cannot help wonder if its existence were a powerful propaganda machinery…" said business writers at Dimsum Daily. . ANTI-CHINA PROPAGANDA Stand News overseas director was a man named Evan Fowler, who co-founded a China-hostile website called the Hong Kong Free Press, before returning to the UK to work for a hard right group called the Henry Jackson Society. In 2017, that society was revealed by the Times of London to be taking 10,000 pounds a month (more than US$13,000), delivered by Japanese contacts, to spread negative news about China to the mainstream media, including The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and The Economist. . VIOLENCE, HOSTILITY AND CASH It's clear that the key to fully understanding the Hong Kong anti-China movement is cash, and it's easy to find multiple examples. Here are four more: 1) In another Hong Kong court case, a 17-year-old Hong Kong youth arrested for violent protests, revealed to a court that he maintained "a spare flat to keep his bombs in". Hong Kong is literally one of the most expensive places in the world – how can a 17-year-old afford a spare apartment? 2) At yet another court hearing, an anti-China activist called Wayland Chan talked about being given a company by Mark Simon, a former US intelligence agent, working for Apple Daily. Simon told him that the company was of covert nature and could be used to liaise with foreign organizations and collect funds. 3) One group using crowdfunding to attract large sums of money at speed called itself the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund. A court heard it received HK$270 million (US$34 million) in donations between June 2019 and October 2021, and cash went to anti-China lawyers, international lobbyists, and hostile foreign organizations. Two of its trustees were directors of Stand News, and one worked with the "revolution industry", a cluster of hybrid warfare consultants which uses street protests to promote US interests. Not Hong Kong interests, US interests. 4) In yet another case, HSBC in 2019 closed the accounts of a group called Spark Alliance, which also claimed that the HK$80 million (US$10.3 million) in their account came from crowdfunding. That group presented itself as a noble foundation providing support for arrested protesters. But investigators found the account was managed by an 18-year-old involved in drug trafficking, with some cash withdrawn and spent on unrelated items. . FALSE NARRATIVE Why is the narrative you see about Hong Kong in the media so different to the truth? The western press is doing its job, which is to demonize China to manufacture consent for the US to go to war against a developing country which is daring to rise peacefully. That doesn't mean that individual western journalists are necessarily bad people. Some probably really believe that America is a wonderful country that wouldn't dream of interfering in politics outside its own borders, and that the Chinese are warlike people who will shortly invade Australia as a prelude to taking over the world. All the rest of us can do is to try to present a fairer picture of what's going on and hope the truth will spread.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1841414346150379706/amplify_video_thumb/1841411426965245952/img/beij8DQZNqDGsE4L.jpg)
![BREAKING NEWS: JIMMY LAI WAS TODAY FOUND GUILTY of illegal collusion with foreign forces to hurt Hong Kong. The decision follows a lengthy trial in which overwhelming evidence was presented against him – a lot of which came from the Apple Daily publisher’s own phone, filled with secret messages from hostile political operatives in the US and the UK. The court also heard about the massive distribution of secret cash from Lai and his assistant Mark Simon to fund anti-China groups in Hong Kong working under “pro-democracy” banners. These payments were ON TOP of overt and covert financing from US regime-change organizations. The guilty conclusion was seen as further inevitable after numerous members of Jimmy Lai's senior staff and other associates pleaded guilty to related charges, including one who said a bank account had been set aside for funding “from foreign forces”. Here are seven myths about Jimmy Lai—and the truth. . 1. JIMMY LAI IS A PUBLISHER LOCKED UP FOR SPEAKING UP FOR THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG, right? WRONG. NOT TRUE. Jimmy Lai of Apple Daily worked for the United States government, not for Hong Kong people. His assistant Mark Simon was the son of a man who worked for the CIA for 35 years. Mark himself worked in US military intelligence from 1987 to 1991 before moving to Hong Kong and working closely with anti-China campaigner Jimmy Lai. Lai liked to remind US administrations that he was fighting on their side. For example, he went to the White House on 10th of July 2019 and said: "We are fighting your war in your enemy camp." He made the same point at a seminar on the same tour. When the White House prepared to pass bills that would badly hurt the Hong Kong people, they would secretly show Jimmy Lai first – in every case, he told them to go right ahead, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT. The trial heard numerous instances of this. This was undeniable evidence that he worked directly to hurt the Hong Kong people, on behalf of the US authorities. . 2. JIMMY LAI’S TRIAL WAS UNFAIR. NOT TRUE. International legal indexes have long rated the Hong Kong legal system higher than other equivalents in Asia and many countries in the west, including the United States. [chart in video] . 3. JIMMY LAI RAN A PRO-DEMOCRACY NEWSPAPER. NOT TRUE. Apple Daily was an anti-China newspaper which successfully campaigned AGAINST democracy. It opposed the Hong Kong authorities’ attempt to introduce universal suffrage for the city in 2017, telling representatives to reject it on the basis that an electoral committee would be involved in the candidate selection process. . 4. JIMMY LAI IS A HEROIC FIGHTER FOR JUSTICE AND TRUTH. NOT TRUE. Lai’s political views were hard right. He’s a huge fan of Donald Trump and is hostile to migrants. Apple Daily popularized the term “locusts” for immigrants who came to Hong Kong from Mainland China. His paper regularly praised people who smashed up or set fire to shops and cafes owned by such immigrant families. . 5. APPLE DAILY WAS A BRAVE, CRUSADING NEWSPAPER. GET REAL. Apple Daily was like the UK’s News of the World but worse. It was a sex-and-scandal tabloid with a daily "porn page". The paper was famed for its misogynistic coverage of actresses' private lives. Reporters repeatedly ended up in court. The company would pay the fines and carry on doing the same thing, year after year. . 6. BUT IT WAS HONG KONG’S MOST POPULAR PAPER, right? NO. I know that western newspapers and new agencies report this but it was simply untrue. Apple Daily never caught up with the market leaders, Oriental Daily and the Sing Tao papers. Its digital edition was also far behind the leaders. Apple Daily lost US$1 million every week, month after month, year after year, but someone somewhere made sure it never ran out of cash. Wonder who that was? . 7. APPLE DAILY WAS CLOSED DOWN BY THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT No. Again anti-China groups such as Reuters claim that, but it’s not true. Listed companies have to write the truth in filings with the stock market. Those clearly say that the decision to close the paper was taken by the board. Who were the big noises on the Apple Daily board? Three Americans with links to Washington and or the Pentagon. What a surprise. Don’t be fooled. Know the truth, share the truth.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2000410595141788103/amplify_video_thumb/2000408152400134144/img/1RSHyjaYUz_3inbk.jpg)
