Archive for the 'Resistance' Category
Riot Police Clash with Protesters at Hong Kong Airport as Chinese Forces Mass at Border
August 13th, 2019Via: CBS: Riot police clashed with pro-democracy protesters at Hong Kong’s airport late Tuesday night, moving into the terminal where the demonstrators had shut down operations at one of the world’s busiest transport hubs for two straight days. Officers armed with pepper spray and swinging batons confronted the protesters who used luggage carts to barricade […]
Hong Kong: Flights Cancelled After Demonstrators Take Over Airport
August 12th, 2019Update: Clashes at Hong Kong Airport Via: Reuters: Protesters clashed with police at Hong Kong’s international airport on Tuesday evening after flights were disrupted for a second day, plunging the former British colony deeper into turmoil. The scuffles broke out in the evening between police and protesters, after an injured person was taken out of […]
False Self Employment: Google’s YouTube Business Practices Possibly Illegal in Europe
July 26th, 2019LET ME SHOW YOU ITS FEATURES! Via: JoergSprave: Related: FairTube
Parents Who Won’t Vaccinate Their Kids Turning to Home-Schooling in California
July 24th, 2019Via: Los Angeles Times: In 2016, California implemented one of the strictest immunization laws in the country, requiring that all children be up to date on their vaccinations to attend school unless a doctor says otherwise. The law, however, does not apply to children who are home-schooled, a loophole that parents seem to be increasingly […]
New Zealand Gun Owners Refusing to Turn Over Firearms to Government
July 8th, 2019Via: Reason: Once again, responding to a horrendous crime by inflicting knee-jerk, authoritarian restrictions on innocent people proves to be an ineffective means of convincing people to obey. Specifically, New Zealand’s government—which also stepped up censorship and domestic surveillance after bloody attacks on two Christchurch mosques earlier this year—is running into stiff resistance to new […]
Drone Over Hong Kong Protests
June 15th, 2019Via: Team BlackSheep:
HONG KONG LEADER SUSPENDS EXTRADITION BILL
June 15th, 2019Via: Reuters: Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Saturday indefinitely delayed a proposed law that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, in a dramatic retreat after anger over the bill triggered the city’s biggest and most violent street protests in decades. The extradition bill, which would have covered Hong Kong’s seven million residents as […]
Thirty Years After Tiananmen…
June 3rd, 2019Via: Reuters: Three decades after China’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, increased government suppression of rights activism has pushed the demonstrators’ original goals further away than ever. In April 1989, weeks before Chinese leaders ordered a military assault to clear the protesters from central Beijing, tens of thousands of […]
3D-Printed Guns Are Unstoppable
May 24th, 2019Via: Wired: A new network of 3D-printed gun advocates is growing in America – and this time things are different. Unlike previous attempts to popularise 3D-printed guns, this operation is entirely decentralised. There’s no headquarters, no trademarks, and no real leader. The people behind it reckon that this means they can’t be stopped by governments. […]
U.S. Charges WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange with Espionage
May 23rd, 2019Via: Reuters: The U.S. Justice Department unveiled 17 new criminal charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday, saying he unlawfully published the names of classified sources and conspired with and assisted ex-Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in obtaining access to classified information. The superseding indictment comes a little more than a month after the […]
