Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest against attempts of the Communist Party to crush democracy in Hong Kong. “The students are protecting the right to vote, for Hong Kong’s future. We are not scared, we are not frightened, we just fight for it,” [Carol Chan, a 55-year-old civil service worker who said she took two days off to join the protests after becoming angered over police use of tear gas Sunday, quoted by CBC News.] Beijing’s massive censorship team on Weibo, the Party-controlled censored internet engine created and supplied by American corporations, is working overtime preventing the people of China from seeing such images.
Canada’s Conservative Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, cuts a deal with the Communist Party to allow them the power to override Canada’s Parliament for the next 31 years. This took place in Vladivostok in 2012, but Harper has kept almost all information about the deal under wraps, and done everything in his power to prevent debate on the treaty. It was the subject of a single, one-hour “briefing” given to the parliamentary trade committee. Since then, only silence, until a few weeks ago, when its ratification and the announcement that it will go into effect on October 1 were revealed in a terse press release… issued on a late Friday afternoon, the time reserved for announcements the government hopes will not be noticed and forgotten by Monday.
Veteran CBC reporter Patrick Brown, an expert on East Asian affairs with more parliamentary and international news experience under his belt than anyone since the brilliant Joe Schlesinger, has remarked: “If Stephen Harper ever gets tired of being Canada’s Prime Minister, he might like to consider a second career in China – he’d fit right in.”
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