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Jan 24, 2022 Chris Patten

伦敦—我最喜欢的动画片之一是一位看上去像教授的年长男子与一位比他年轻很多的人交谈，可能是一名学生。“那些不研究历史的人，”老人说，“注定要重蹈覆辙。” 接着他又补充道，“而研究历史的人，注定会无奈地看着所有人重蹈覆辙。”

像许多笑话一样，这个笑话之所以有效，是因为它有一个真理的内核。但我仍然认为，最好还是要试图找出过去真的发生了什么，即使这样做会让人不舒服。一个体面的、开放的社会永远不应害怕探索昨天如何帮助造就今天，以及我们如何利用这些经验创造更美好的明天。

当然，这可能让历史充斥着清洗和暴动的主题。这就是为何威权国家想要强加自己fict虚构的、政治上便利的叙事。但是，重视自由的开放民主的社会也需要对自己的历史保持勇敢和诚实。

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C. F. Mar 1, 2022

When the young people asked for the fulfilment of the promise in the Basic Law which is an interpretation of the Sino-British Joint Declaration in 2014, it is not just a political demand. Politics have consequence in real life which is being played out in HK now. The public health system has turned 3rd world and is becoming untenable. This is due to the irrational politics of a dictator and a dictatorship. Instead of working with the success in the Covid policy in the rest of the world, HK is aligning with the policy of a dictatorship that does not work and which is fraught with lies. This is exposed in the decent of the public health systems in HK. It is inevitable. We are praying for a miracle in Ukraine. We are also praying for a miracle for HK, for its democracy, for the health care systems which is a medical Holodomor. Communism will come to an end for good as Our Lady of Fatima promised in 1917. It has come to an end in1984 in politics and is now in its continuation to a real end. Perhaps it would be good for a world leader to call up Putin to let him know the inevitable that he needs to clean up his communist act. As for HK, perhaps someone in medicine and politics needs to call up Mrs. Lam and give some advice and support on how to deal with the problem. To work with liars will only further sabotage the system. That communism will come to a real end is inevitable. The problem is to contain the damage in working with God who made heaven and earth.
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C. F. Feb 28, 2022

The situation in HK has become very adverse. The relentless irredication of of civil liberty has moved on to an irrational Covid policy in HK. This is leading to a collapse of the public health system. It is in the 3rd world.
HK was11 not China. It is China for now. The dictator and the dictatorship tell lies all the time with consequence. HK independence accused of by a Chief Executive widely know to be an underground communist member was in fact a trump-up accusation of a college student union project taken out of context by this communist. When liars take everything out of context, what will happen? There are 800 people being charged in the court systems for political reasons. Journalism is in tatters. Children have rarely been to school for nearly 3 years and are expected to be brainwashed. The public health system is in the 3rd world. This is a system that was a firewall that once held SARS back from the rest of the world and by working with the rest of the world. Now it works with a dictatorship. Despite everything, for those who have faith, we still pray and hope for God's mercy and 0for those who don't. There is no other way.
The Church told us that the Fatima message has been fulfilled with the consecration of Russia in 1984. Perhaps now is a continuation to a real fulfillment with Russia and HK. Perhaps the UK, probably one of the most successful countries in fighting Covid, can reach out to Mrs. Lam and offer some advice. HK is still, actually only half way, through the Sino-British Joint Declaration. Mrs. Lam is seen as being very obnoxious and is widely despised. But never mind she needs some help. She probably needs it from Day 1.
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C. F. Feb 16, 2022

"Covid-19: Hong Kong will ‘utilise support’ from Beijing says Chief Exec. Lam after Xi sends ‘important instructions’"
This guy is crazy, worst than Idi Amin, or just in another form. And he needs to go. That is our prayer to God. HK people have stood up to him. They have told the world. If the rest of the world still allows him to go on, they will become like HK. Let us pray to God to save HK and the world.
This is a man whose father was put in jail for over 20 years of which 16 years were in foot shackles. He was sent to live in a cave in the poorest part of his country as a child after his father was purged. When he escaped back home in the hight of the Cultural Revolution during which his step sister committed suicide from persecutions, his mom called the police on him. After his father was restored, he told his children to emigrate. This his brother and sister did but not before they became billionaires. He is a half illiterate in the only language that he knows. His Chinese is slangs and he cannot properly read from scripts and tells lies about his academic pursuits all the time. Now he wants to play doctor and is collaping HK's public health systems by his irrational idea on public health and dictating how HK should deal with the pandemic of which he may be a contributor with his usual lies and deceptions. If the world would allow this, then this is the world's tomorrow because deceases do not discriminate. If man cannot do anything, at least ask God to stop a man who should be put in a mental asylum but is now dictating the public health systems in HK. I am sorry. But whoever still said this guy is the rightful head of state of 'China', they should go to the mental asylum with him. Putting him in a mental asylum is better than putting him in a cave where he came from. He needs some exorcism. We ask the God of all power to put a stop to it NOW. It is about time.
- C. F. Feb 16, 2022
  
  https://youtu.be/pxWXtxQxFxI
  This is too long to translate. But this is probably the most in depth analysis of the dictator and his crazy friends who think they are the master of the Chinese. They are the children of warlords who have taken the country to hell and back in the last 100 years. Now they try to do same to HK which has no recourse. This is the time for God to be God. And we need to ask God to do just that in our prayers. And we must ask the Church in heaven, on earth and under the earth to blind Satan and commit it back to hell. Amen.
  Bishop Francis Xavier Ford of Brooklyn who evangelized the Haka people in China in the vacinity of HK died a tragic death in a communist jail and whose cause for sainthood is being put forward. St. Joseph Freidanemetz evangelized a Haka village in HK with success and which gives the Church many priests and nuns. He is still fondly remembered by the villagers who do not live in the village anymore in their oral traditions. He died helping the patients in a plague in northern China. And we pray to Fr. Aloysius Yip and his bishop, Bishop Dominic Tang, S.J. who survived similar persecutions of imprisonment and exile from their diocese. We prayed to them for the release of the 2 Michaels of Canada with success. And of course St. JP II who was barred from visiting HK in his lifetime. The communists did not ask the people of HK. They thought that HK belongs to them when in fact what they did was against their own law on HK with respect to an international convention which they signed. He is invited again to straighten everything out with the communists this time around. And we pray to Our Lady of Fatima, the Immaculate Conception and St Joseph and all the angels and saints and Holy Souls to unit with us in our prayers: "Will God delay in answering our prayers?".
  They need to compensate their victims in HK. Of HK people, much was given and much was asked. But the dictator and the dictatorship need to compensate the victims so they learn a lesson they never learned. The fact that these people are crazy and mistaken make these all the more urgent to cry out for the one true God to be God. O, Lord have mercy!
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C. F. Feb 15, 2022

HK is in another humanitarian crisis of the collapse of the public heathcare system. Credible KOL HK watchers are of the opinion that the public health policy was dictated by a dictator and a dictatorship who do not allow free speech, free press or freedom of expression. This is against the one country 2 systems of the Sino-British Joint Declaration. This is for the simple reason that it would be illegal in the UK. This is further shown by the fruit that was born, i.e. the humanitarian crisis in the health-care system in HK. The dictator and the dictatorship need to be told and the consequences to them. It is not HK that is at stake. It is also the rest of the world. It is also the opinion of very seasoned Chinese watchers that the dictator may get what he wants. It is OK if we don't mind the end of the world. If man can do nothing as in the last 30 years, let us all pray to God and join the World Day of Prayers for HK. Let us cry out to God to stop nonsense. We need the help of God and man.
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C. F. Feb 12, 2022

Whatever happens in HK is a result of the non-compliance of a dictator and a dictatorship of an international Convention signed by them. It has by now become clear that they are not up to it. As such they need to compensate the victims. The dictator and the dictatorship, for the humanitarian abuse and crisis caused by them. It is up to the representatives of HK people.
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C. F. Feb 7, 2022

Let us pray to the shepherds of Fatima against the ignorance of the communists who want to brain-wash the young and persecute those who love the land of their birth. Let God foil thie plan of ignorance.
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NM Wander Jan 25, 2022

Not as well read as maybe I should be.....but it occurs to me that not many prognosticators, futurists, or social critics are looking towards the future these days.
Everyone is attempting to tie the "Future" to the "Past".
During the 1950s,the 1960s, and even for a few years into the 1970s.....writers were peering into the future and imaging our societies to be both incredibly "specialized"(ie...special interest groups, tribal) AND simultaneously "universal"(a world with instant global communications and a bland hodge-podge of mass produced culture).....
Refer to Marshall McLuhan, Alvin Toffler, and numerous SciFi writers of the Age.
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China.....a region of the world, overpopulated, often described as a single "Blob" that expands inexoribly, swallowing everything in its path(something like its infamous namesake 1950s movie..."The Blob").....but if we are honest about China's patterns.....it wavers between prosperity and total chaos....splintering time and again into at least Three different Kingdoms.
What if the Future holds more to this pattern(from the "past")?
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Ohene Aku Jan 25, 2022

Isn't what's going on in America today with critical race theory same as what you claim Putin is doing in Russia? Your article is just an attempt to argue a side that you want to dominate in discussions of the past.
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Dmitri Daniel Glinski Jan 24, 2022

Fortunately, Memorial International has not been closed down yet (the appeal is still under review) but alas it most likely will be.
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