This is unreal! The Western love for liberty and freedom seems to be gone down the tube to Communism and it is going to be coming to your hometown very soon!
‘Police: “It’s against the law to say ‘Father Christmas isn’t real.” Watch footage from Christmas Eve of eight police officers arriving in Taunton town centre to shut down Christian preacher, Mike Overd, and a group of carol singers. Watch what a member of the public says to the officers at the end.
This is another example of the police misusing section 5 of the Public Order Act to suppress freedom of speech and anything that might upset members of the public.
I have seen interviews with Jimmy Lai on Sky News Australia before he was arrested and he said he would be willing to die for Hong Kong’s freedom. Well, many politicians and well to do business people in America and Australia don’t seem to have the same love for their country as Jimmy does for Hong Kong. Jimmy Lai’s situation should disturb all of us who love liberty!
‘Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been charged under the territory’s controversial new national security law.
Mr Lai, 73, is accused of conspiring with foreign forces to endanger national security, and could face a lengthy jail term.
He is the most high-profile person charged under the new law.
Mr Lai founded the Apple Daily newspaper and is a fierce critic of the Beijing authorities.
Beijing has said the new security law will return stability to the territory after a year of unrest, but critics say it has silenced dissent.
Mr Lai also holds UK citizenship and a spokesman for PM Boris Johnson said on Friday that the UK remained “deeply concerned about the Hong Kong authorities’ focus on pursuing legal cases against pro-democracy figures like Jimmy Lai”.
image captionMr Lai was seen in handcuffs after his arrest on 2 December
Ms Fan, a Chinese citizen, had been missing since Monday when she was seen being escorted from her apartment by plain-clothes security officials. Her detention was confirmed on Thursday. A Bloomberg spokesperson said they were “very concerned for her”.
In a separate case in Hong Kong earlier, teenage activist Tony Chung was convicted of desecrating the Chinese flag and unlawful assembly. He could now be facing up to five years in prison.
Chung, the leader of a now disbanded pro-democracy group, is also the first public political figure to be prosecuted under the national security law. He faces a charge of secession, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.
China has accelerated its crackdown on Hong Kong’s opposition since the law was imposed in June, with legislators disqualified and dozens of activists charged or investigated.
One of the city’s most prominent supporters of the pro-democracy movement, Mr Lai is estimated to be worth more than $1bn (£766m). Having made his initial fortune in the clothing industry, he later ventured into media and founded Next Digital.
Next Digital publishes Apple Daily, a well-read tabloid which is frequently critical of Hong Kong and mainland Chinese leadership.
In a local media landscape increasingly fearful of Beijing, Mr Lai is a persistent thorn for China – both through his publications and writing.media captionJimmy Lai told the BBC he would not give in to intimidation
It has seen him become a hero for many residents in Hong Kong but on the mainland he is viewed as a traitor who threatens Chinese national security.
Interviewed by the BBC before his arrest earlier in December, he said he would not give in to intimidation.
“If they can induce fear in you, that’s the cheapest way to control you and the most effective way and they know it. The only way to defeat the way of intimidation is to face up to fear and don’t let it frighten you.”
What is in the National Security Law?
A former British colony, Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997 but under the “one country, two systems” principle.
It was supposed to guarantee certain freedoms for the territory – including freedom of assembly and speech, an independent judiciary and some democratic rights – which mainland China does not have.
But the National Security Law has reduced Hong Kong’s autonomy and made it easier to punish demonstrators.
The legislation introduced new crimes, including penalties of up to life in prison. Anyone found to have conspired with foreigners to provoke “hatred” of the Chinese government or the Hong Kong authorities may have committed a crime.https://emp.bbc.com/emp/SMPj/2.36.7/iframe.htmlmedia captionHong Kong security law: The BBC’s Stephen McDonell explains what it means, and what people there think
Trials can be held in secret and without a jury, and cases can be taken over by the mainland authorities. Mainland security personnel can legally operate in Hong Kong with impunity.
After the law was introduced, a number of pro-democracy groups disbanded out of fears for their safety.
The Chinese government defends the law, saying it will help return stability to the territory, which has been shaken by pro-democracy protests, and bring it more into line with the Chinese mainland.’https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55271020
China is truly a threat to the free world. The following article is interesting in that according to the article many Chinese are considering immigrating to the West for financial reasons but one might wonder (or at least this blogger does) how many of them would actually be CCP spies?
‘While some affluent Chinese would like to emigrate to escape a perceived harsher environment for private entrepreneurs at home, they are increasingly reluctant to do so – at least in the next few years – because of concern about the coronavirus pandemic in popular destinations abroad, consultants and businesspeople say.
Many are conflicted and feel under pressure given changing rules in China and around the world: move now and risk infection, or delay and risk assets being seized by the government in what is perceived to be a campaign against private businesspeople.It is not uncommon for Chinese entrepreneurs, who have benefited most from the nation’s rapid growth in recent years, to fall foul of the authorities. The high-profile arrest of Chinese entrepreneur Sun Dawu in November and a squeeze on the country’s tech giants has sent chills through some quarters of the business sector, even though the Chinese government has repeated assured the country’s private business owners in recent months that they will be cherished and protected.
“All of a sudden, policies could change in any sector – fintech, financing, energy and entrepreneurship – and we private companies that might be forced to make adjustments,” said Ken Liu, a Zhejiang-based senior executive of a foreign trading firm. “It requires us to rethink the risks in the future for what we own and how to protect it.”
For many wealthy Chinese, the aim is to gain residency in a second country to safeguard family and financial assets, while keeping China as their primary place to live and work. But the pandemic has complicated the calculation.
Wendy Zhao and her husband own properties worth more than 20 million yuan (US$3 million) in Shenzhen, China’s hi-tech hub, and currently disagree over whether to move to New Zealand next year to start a new life.
“To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:27)
‘The last six words of this text have been the theme of many sermons, and surely they are worth our study, for the concept is used throughout Scripture. They also are included in the final verse of “Jesus! What a Friend for Sinners.”
Jesus! I do now receive Him, More than all in Him I find; Christ in me, the Hope of glory, I am His, and He is mine. Christ does indeed live in each believer and fills and controls as allowed by the individual. But for those filled with His abundance, He provides the certain “hope” of glory. We have assurance of salvation, adoption, grace, Spirit-filled life, and eternal glory as we are in Christ. “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me” (Galatians 2:20).
Scripture specifically teaches that God loves sinners as they are and moves as a gracious “Friend” to pay the penalty for their sin. “If thou shalt…believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved” (Romans 10:9).
The words “believe” and “receive,” while not the same, can often be used interchangeably in Scripture. Once we truly believe, we can receive Him, for when we believe we simultaneously receive God’s forgiveness and salvation. And we can affirm, “I am His, and He is mine.” His sweet “friendship” will last for all time.’https://www.icr.org/articles/type/6
It’s a chilling moment when the speech of an elected US President is banned, anywhere. This is why we fight. This is why we resist the censorship of self-appointed Leftist elites, in all forums. If it can happen to President Trump, kicked off Twitter and Facebook, then what hope do the powerless have in society? It’s also bizarre, even amusing, to read media elites, none of whom saw Trump coming, on what it means now. These conceited spoilt children of the Left are blind to how their own arrogance and manic need to control other people embeds the Resistance to them. Among outsiders, the urge for free speech grows stronger day-by-day. There is a large and growing backlash in Australia (and other countries) to the way in which self-appointed, always-opinionated Lefties are trying to make everyone just like them, to control our speech, our words, our values, our behaviour. Everyday I get tremendous feedback from people, urging me to continue the fight for commonsense, evidence-based policy and person freedom. It’s the greatest encouragement and commitment of my public life not to let these people down. The great people of the suburbs and regions, away from the inner-city control freaks. I’ll always speak out and fight for what’s right. Mark Latham’https://www.facebook.com/MarkLathamsOutsiders/?ref=page_internal
The purge of anything not held by the Left in America and in most if not all of the West has begun. That purge is against not only conservatives of all stripes but I believe conservative Christians especially. The Left hate, literally hate God and His Word, the Bible. Censoring truth is the ultimate aim in dictatorial governments. In this article we read about the censoring by YouTube of Ivermectin, a medicine that works as a treatment for the China virus. YES, ‘THE PURGE HAS COMMENCED Dr Lawrie’s urgent appeal to the British Prime Minister to consider ivermectin against Covid-19 has been censored by youtube. Yesterday I received a call from a representative of FaceBook ‘requesting’ that I remove a post that contained comments (referenced with links) made by Australia’s Professor Tom Borody commenting about Ivermectin as a treatment Covid – otherwise by FaceBook would have ‘restrictions’ placed upon it. I have since removed the post containing Professor Borody’s comments under protest. He have entered a very dark time in human history when scientific debate and freedom of speech is being suppressed. Here’s the link that has now been suppressed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXV42xkk8cMIvermectin poses a threat to the ideology of ‘’we must inject everyone with the vaccine” perhaps that’s why there is such extraordinary suppression of free speech to shut this down.’https://www.facebook.com/CraigKellyMP
He’s NOT my President! That is Biden IS NOT MY PRESIDENT!! Cheating in life and a fraudulent election does not give one the authority to hold a high position such as the Presidency of the United States. The votes of dead people does not mean LEGAL VOTES! Here in Australia the Sky News ran this piece; ‘President-elect Joe Biden says Donald Trump is one of the “most incompetent” presidents in US history and the “quickest” way to get him out of office is the inauguration on January 20. “I’ve been saying now for well over a year, he is not fit to serve,” Mr Biden said. “He’s one of the most incompetent presidents in the history in the United States of America. “I think that what 81 million people stood up and said is it’s time for him to go. “So, I think it’s important we get on with the business of getting him out of office. “The quickest way that will happen is us being sworn in on the 20th, what action happens before or after that is a judgement for the Congress to make, but that’s what I am looking forward to”. Mr Biden said President Trump’s indication he will not attend the inauguration on January 20 is one of the “few” things they have ever agreed on. “If we were six months out, we should be moving everything to get him out of office, impeaching him again, trying to invoke the 25th Amendment,” he said. “But I am focussed now on us taking control as president and vice president on the 20th and to get our agenda moving as quickly as we can”./https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6221369502001?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Sky%20News%20Australia%20%20Newsletter&utm_content=Daily%20Sky%20News%20Australia%20%20Newsletter+CID_196c8a394312caf099cf1e4a2d84019e&utm_source=Daily%20newsletter&utm_term=Donald%20Trump%20is%20one%20of%20the%20most%20incompetent%20presidents%20in%20US%20history%20Biden
Biden is an old man with dementia. Harris will be the real President whether Biden is in the WH or the old folks home and she will be ruling with her Marxist ideas being implemented with haste. The Demoncrats and Biden/Harris will sell the USA to China on a platter. America’s middle class will soon be a thing of the past. America must get right with God the Creator! That is the God of the Scriptures, the Holy Bible. What was true of old Israel is true of America and Australia. We have accepted sin as normal and godliness as radical! What God said in 2Chronicles 7:14 is as true today as when He said it and that is If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Genesis 5:2 “He created them male and female, and blessed them and called them Mankind in the day they were created.”
‘“God created them male and female.” That simple phrase heaps a world of problems on those who believe in evolution.
Evolutionists tell us that in the early stages, evolution would have produced creatures that reproduce without the need for male and female. They then suppose that some mutation would have produced the gender differences, but what advantage would these differences offer? Quite the contrary, these differences would be a disadvantage and become quickly selected out. An even more serious problem is that, according to evolution’s history of life, the male and female sexes must have developed in different kinds of creatures dozens of times.
No one has the slightest idea how one or a dozen mutations could have produced male and female. To change a creature from having no gender into a male or a female requires developing several new organs, changing some others, creating entire, new hormone systems, and changing others. New organs and systems would have to be immediately integrated into the workings of the rest of the body. In addition, the independently developed male changes would have to work with the independently developed female changes. Changes would also have to be made in the brains of the new creatures so that they would want to mate with each other. And evolutionists tell us this must have happened dozens of times!
This is a MUST read! It will open your eyes on what the CCP is doing in the West. It will be seen soon that Bide/Harris and the Demoncrats are puppets of China.
America can expect a LOT of things from the Biden/Harris Leftist/Socialist/Climatescam camp in the next four years. One thing to be sure is the climate scam will be pushed harder and will require LOTS of money!
‘Democrats will control the entire executive branch for the first time since 2011 as Georgia sends two Democratic senators to Congress. The last time this happened, Barack Obama was entering the White House in 2009, backed by commanding Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress.
What followed was a stimulus bill that transformed the US economy in ways that accelerated the clean-energy transition faster than anyone imagined.
The $831 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act earmarked $90 billion for clean energy and climate-related programs. Its massive size, more than 10 times larger than previous clean energy bills, placed thousands of bets on energy efficiency, grid modernization, transportation, and renewable energy technologies across the country. “And it worked, unbelievably,” said Michael Grunwald, a journalist who wrote a book on the 2009 stimulus plan.
History is poised to repeat itself. Joe Biden ran on the most ambitious climate plan in US history, and while he didn’t embrace the entirety of the Green New Deal (Biden has referred to it as a “crucial framework” with the “epic scope” needed to meet the climate challenge), its spirit is reflected in the president-elect’s day one agenda. From redirecting the $500 billion federal government procurement budget to reestablishing methane pollution limits and rejoining the Paris climate agreement, the new White House has planned a sweeping climate term.
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