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Let’s talk about the Beirut explosion. It’s only a small talk with some interesting information, please read it if you’re interested, otherwise, please feel free to skip it.
 
(5 Aug) According to BBC, officials reported that the explosion at Beirut’s port is most likely linked to a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored for six years in one of the port’s warehouse.
 
//Around a decade ago, ammonium nitrate was still somewhat profitable, but it has been declining year after year... Because of the overcapacity.
 
//Who push the market to excess capacity? China... the situation was so bad that even their own people discussed and warned them

//CCP does not encourage people to farm at all; they prefer demolishing and bulldozing good lands to build buildings, for better prices.
 
//Rather than storing the ammonium nitrate in China, we might as well treat them as a favor, half-gifted, half-sold. It doesn't matter if the buyer doesn't have the money, Bank of China could be the syndicated loan guarantee
 
//China began its massive export orders... 2014-2015 were the good years, soon foreign warehouses are full and they were telling China not to send out fertilizer anymore.

//why would a country, and even the capital city Beirut, need to store 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer into its port warehouse

//why we, the ordinary citizens, need to keep an eye on politicians... just like the epidemic, if you don't care about politics, politics will come and kill you.

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https://telegra.ph/Lets-talk-about-the-Beirut-explosion-Its-only-a-small-talk-with-some-interesting-information-please-read-it-if-youre-interested--08-12

Source: Facebook
Reference: China Export Ammonium Nitrate 2002 - 2020 (CEIC), China's Ammonium Nitrate Exports up in July 2015

Translated by: Hong Kong Echo

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#Analysis #HealthCode #MassSurveillance
Health Code is worse than National Security Law

Part 1/4

The National Security Law is at its best a totalitarian tool to suppress people’s freedom, but Health Code can strip away your freedom, privacy and from then on, everyone in the society will live in a scrupulous, and technology-empowered totalitarian surveillance.

Author of The Great History of Mankind, Yucal Noah Harari once said, 50 years ago, the Committee for State Security for the former Soviet Union was the world’s most efficient intelligence agency. Despite of its wide-ranged intelligence network, it still could not track down a population of 240 million every day, not to mention effectively processing the information collected. However, with ubiquitous monitoring codes and AI analytics in place, the old totalitarian’s dream could be easily fulfilled.

Health Code is the breakthrough tool.

The Health Code that we are discussing has been implemented in China's Huang Zhou as early as March 2020, which was soon rolled out to cover the rest of the cities in China. The code collects your name, your ID number, contact number and recent activities in great detail. Based on which, a two-dimensional code in either Green, Yellow and Red will be generated. A green code means one can carry out the desired activities without restriction, while a yellow code means a 7-days home quarantine is required and a red code means longer quarantine period for 14-days.

In China, the display of this Health Code is made mandatory for entrance of any public places, including riding on public transportation. Without it, one will lose his/her freedom in daily routine.

The same thing is coming to Hong Kong as pro-Beijing lawmaker Lam Kin-fung has been advocating for “wearing a Health Code in public place such like shopping malls and eateries.”

In other words, without wearing a health code, you are not allowed to enter shopping mall, eateries and even ride a bus.

To be continued
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24316

Source: 書生百用 #Aug13

#SocialCreditSystem #BigData #Privacy #CCP #YucalNoahHarari #SovietUnion

#Analysis #HealthCode #MassSurveillance
Health Code is worse than National Security Law

Part 2/4

Continue from Part 1:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24292

Do not envisage that you would be alright by staying healthy.

According to international media, including WIRED, Financial Times, and New York Times, many Chinese, while being 100% healthy, their Health Codes, however, showed yellow or even red color, which forced them to live in isolation, shutting from the outside world.

Even worse, the aglorithm of health code has never been transparent, nor has it been disclosed to public. Even the person concerned does not know why his/her Health Code appears to be red, and the reasons why it has switched to green. Since there is no complaint mechanism in place, it could be a dreadfully vulnerable experience when being grounded for a prolonged period of time because of a color shown on the health code.

You would never know how Health Code defines “healthy”. If you raise this question to the government, likely that you would be told it is result of AI Big Data Analytics. They claim that “it is completely reliable, but unable to disclose further details”. Even if the government is disclosing some of the details, it remains unknown whether any unspoken rules has been imposed.

Financial Times once reported that Health Code of a journalist was switched to yellow for unknown reason, such that he could not leave the hotel room to conduct interview. Even after going through virus test and a 14-day quarantine period which has proven him healthy, his Health Code continued to show yellow. He was asked to stay home in isolation. The journalist being “imprisoned” described it a dire experience of data purgatory.”

Even if Health Code is effective in epidemic prevention, a democratic and free society would resist it as the code will overturn the whole city’s order of life, pushing it towards totalitarianism.

To be continued

Source: 書生百用 #Aug13

#SocialCreditSystem #BigData #Privacy #CCP

#Analysis #HealthCode #MassSurveillance
Health Code is worse than National Security Law

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Today, the government is still talking about privacy protection, however no one knows where one’s personal data will eventually be passed to.

A report on New York Times revealed that in China users' personal data were dispatched to Police Department. When anyone presenting his/her Health Code, the person’s location, personal details, and past activities could all be sent to the police server in one go. Regarding this, the Health Code application has never informed its users.

In other words, whether you have visited some pro-democracy shops, your daily routine, shops and places most frequented, people you have dined with and spoke to, all personal social activities could be blatantly examined and analyzed by data analytics, and these data could also be shared with the police one day.

Other than that, most people might have overlooked that the execution of Health Code could only be realised by hardened administrative grip and tougher policing efforts.

For instance, when carrying a red health code, you will be rejected from entering shopping centers, taken back home or even being arrested by “enforcement personnels”.

The whole world in fact, is concerned about growing public power amidst pandemic prevention, which in its "exceptional state", would be normalized as routine social order even in post-pandemic era.

A mega survelliance system that the totalitarian government failed to impose 50 years ago would now become true.

Source: 書生百用 #Aug13

#SocialCreditSystem #BigData #Privacy #CCP #BlackMirror

#Analysis #OpinionArticle #HealthCode #MassSurveillance
Why Health Code is worse than National Security Law

Part 4/4.

A researcher of the Human Rights Watch once said, “the outbreak of Coronavirus is becoming a milestone for China to carry out large scale surveillance.” (n.b. China has recently sanctioned the Chief Executive of Human Rights Watch.)

The long-deployed social credit system in China failed to perform rigorous surveillance, which was criticized for giving rise to “loopholes” during epidemic outbreak.

When designing Health Code, it was meant to gear up suvellience control. Its encroachment to people's privacy is appreciably worse than social credit system.

Today the government may collect your health data, personal data, and details of daily activity for Health Code. Soon afterwards, collecting people's vital data, contents of their online chats will no longer be a fantasy Arabian Nights.

Once the Health Code is put in place, you do not need a prison cell to be imprisoned as your home will become a prison, sparing also court deliberations.

"Want to go out? Denied. … A red health code! "
"Want to ride a car? Denied. … A red health code!"
"Want to go shopping? Denied. … A red health code!"

Compred to Health Code, the detriment of National Security Law is nothing at all.

Source: 書生百用 #Aug13

#SocialCreditSystem #BigData #Privacy #CCP #BlackMirror

Further Reading
Part 1:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24292

Part 2:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24316

Part 3:
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24336

#SupportAppleDaily
Authorities' Suppression of #AppleDaily Fuels #PublicAnger Online, #Analysis Shows

Source: Hong Kong Citizens News #Jun21

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According to ASI #BigData Analysis by Hong Kong Citizens News, in the week following the police raid of Apple Daily, there were over 56,000 posts relating to the now-shut-down pro-democracy newspaper on Facebook.

Statements containing foul language peaked on Thursday, June 17, 2021, constituting 75% of the posts. It indicates that the public were very concerned about Apple Daily, and showed huge discontent towards the government's treatment of the pro-democracy newspaper.

June 17, 2021 was the day the Hong Kong police raided the Apple Daily office and arrested 3 editors and 2 executives, accusing them of #NationalSecurity breaches.

On forums used mainly by young non-pro-Establishment Hongkongers, around 36,000 posts have been made in the past 7 days. The use of foul language peaked on the afternoon of Friday, June 18, 2021, constituting 30% of the comments.

June 18 marks the day when the Hong Kong police presses charges at the newspaper's editor-in-chief #RyanLaw and #NextDigital CEO #CheungKimHung with the #NationalSecurityLaw.

Source: Hong Kong Citizens News #Jun21
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