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Stunning Drone Clip Reveals Massive Size Of Hong Kong Protest
Ferguson was for amateurs.
For those curious why the Hong Kong protests over the weekend have sent shivers across the world's capital markets, pushed the Hang Seng 2% lower, and impacted both European and US futures, not to mention leading to worries that China may get involved any second and result in another Tiananmen square event, the following clip from HK's Apple Daily, taken by a drone, shows just how massive the demonstrations, which according to some estimates involved just why of 100,000 people, taking place in Hong Kong are.
As Mashable adds, "far from a small protest by a limited number of outspoken citizens, the video shows just how large the movement to preserve Hong Kong's democratic elections has become. Currently, the protests have grown so large that parts of Hong Kong's business district have been brought to a standstill, prompting the temporary closure of 17 local banks. In addition to the drone footage, Apple Daily has also posted a live video stream of the protests, allowing the world to watch as events develop in real time."
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the mi6 never left old boy.
they just moved from a diplomatic office into banks and investment company.
still plotting and scheming.
china are so polite they call it outside interference : )
and calmly say it must stop.
yes sir the ngo of hong kong are fat with mi6,cia and mossad dough.
been mixing the ingrediants for years for a nice kosher blood and shit cake.
good point
During British rule there was no trace of democracy. However HK developed to be a global financial and commercial powerhouse with a disciplined and prosperous workforce, and there was little dissent.
Look at home .Voting in itself does not guaruntee the people anything. The process becomes subverted and corrupted.
I hope the HK people don't ruin their own very good situation.
Only "protest" that would make a difference is if the productive ceased being productive in the revenue generating sense for the state, and put their efforts to building alternate organizational systems.
The US is moving towards Communism and Hong Kong is moving toward Democracy. Bizzaro.
I guess it's the "grass is always greener" syndrome that people are always effected by, goes down to personal desire for better and better realities.
I used to live in Asia and was in and out of Hong Kong a lot. One night in Hong Kong I took a subway to a stop in town. When I came up it was to a triple-wide street with no car traffic on it, just solidly packed with people walking each way, tens of thousands of people. Just a normal night there. If a few people are interested in something there, then the crowds will be huge.
I'm in HK, and just returned from the protests in the Causeway Bay neighborhood that features many higher end shops, including a huge, multi-level Apple store. The protesters have blocked a long section of a major thoroughfare called Hennessy Road. They are very calm and well organized. There are volunteer med students from HK University ready to attend to any injured, and plenty of donated food and water.
Virtually no police presence this evening, but that is likely to change early in the morning.
What I continue to find striking is how well behaved and organized the protesters are, at least at this stage. They certainly aren't provoking violence in any way. They are overwhelmingly younger people.
The conundrum remains for the authorities, though: how will they ultimately disperse the protesters and free up the increasingly large blocks of the city that have been effectively closed to traffic without using violence?
You mentioned several times the well organized people.
Can you elaborate, who organized them?
I mean if it is spontaneous, then it cannot be organized.
I don't mean to suggest that the protests are centrally organized by a single entity, but rather that each place in which they have sprouted up there are basic (and intelligently thought out) protocols that are being followed. Social media is clearly the key to this organic type of organization, and the protesters have used various networks in order to attempt to stay ahead of any potential blocking by the authorities.
So, while there may well be an element of spontaneity, as soon as a site is chosen and develops enough of a crowd, others are drawn to it through social media.
The morning should be very interesting, as it is unclear how many of the protesters will stay the course, or return home and resume again tomorrow evening. Were they to stay the course, it would put the authorites in a particularly difficult position (i.e. much easier to disperse a smaller crowd).
heard the fireworks for National Day have been cancelled.
oh well, fireworks over the bay are pretty cool.
What no looting in HK like in Ferguson?
Yo 'Y'all want to buy something?'
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-looting-in-ferguson-mo-...
Thanks for the update, Tinky. I hope you post more.
If the authorities are wise, they will just wait out the protesters. The residents will surely get tired of the unrest. And if Beijing blockades (no foreign businessmen permited in) the island, the Western economy will suffer a devastating blow and will be hoist on their own petard.
Thank you for your reporting.
...and the Chinese now prove they even make better protests than the Americans.
At least we still lead in 3rd world immigrants.
I can understand HKers not wanting direct rule from Beijing and I don't know how good the democracy is that Beijing is trying to dump. But HKers should by-pass the democratic system altogether because it would quickly become what all western nations already have become: a corrupt system of politics run by criminals and fraudsters, moving rapidly towards totalitarianism.
HKers should go straight for the only system "that works if properly supervised": A Constitutional Republic which delegates very limited powers to an elected government, with whole areas of society which it has no authority to meddle in.
Unfortunately, a constitutional republic requires an informed and active citizenship to direct govt. decisions and hold their elected representatives accountable for their actions.
We certainly dropped the ball on that one and now the govt. has been usurped and corrupted beyond repair.
I might be encouraged if humans learned from prior example, but it's quite apparent they don't.
Fair points. But you know, Asian people may have less tolerance than in the West to the political crap that is spewed out like a sewage overflow pipe. And they are very smart people over there, often eclipsing Western people in sharpness of mind. If I were them, I'd give it a go and make sure there is a tight compliance supervisory process in place.
Oh yes? North Koreans, Thailanders, Myanmar, Singaporeans, Mainland Chinese, etc.
As long as these protests are confined to the island of Hong Kong -- because it is infinitely easier for the CIA to get on to the island and subvert the local government there -- the CIA is certainly not as well organized on the mainland and the protests in Hong Kong will have no more legs on the mainland than Occupy Wall Street had outside of Manhattan.
If they can create a universal protest in all of China, well
that will be another story.
I doubt that the CIA will pull it off.
Thailand has had a lot of political unrest in recent times and it continues. And we have HK. Both are examples of people not being willing to accept top-down corrupt government.
I wasn't aware that the CIA was in HK stirring it all up.
And I wasn't aware the CIA kept you informed of their plans. :o)
Surely you don't think the CIA operates in Syria, Russia, Germany, Italy, South America, etc. but has no assets in China.
How can a spy agency operate more successfully in China than to have a major presence in Hong Kong, where so many businessmen come and go for a day or two.?
The Hong Kong protest is the Asian version of the one in Kiev, albeit with a much larger population. The racial and cultural differences are also self evident.
The major difference is that in KIEV the CIA bedfellowed with the scum of the Pravy Sektor and Svoboda NAZIS, while in Hong Kong they could only incite intellegent, thoughtful but inexperienced students.
China can, if it wants, accuse the US of promoting this unrest, using the same non-existent evidence that the West used against the separatists of Donbas.
And if they are willing to spend scores of billions of dollars, they can send the economy of the US and the West into a recession from whose bourne no profit wil ever return.
Thanks for that, you raise some very good points.
It would be very sad if HK gets into serious civil unrest or a government crackdown which affects life there. It's one of the most vibrant places I've ever been to. The Chinese in Beijing need to take a very urgent reappraisal of the situation and ask themselves if they really want to destroy all that for the sake of hubris. "Give 'em what they want."
If Beijing was willing to fight for uninhabited islands of rocks in the South China Sea, why won't they do all within their power to keep Hong Kong the way it was?
"...why won't they do all within their power to keep Hong Kong the way it was?"
Good question given that HK is a world centre of commerce and global banking.
But it seems they want that to remain and at the same time want to bring it under the Beijing umbrella of political control. Can the two MO's co-exist in HK? It's probably difficult. Over time people lose their drive and ambition for success as we see across Europe.
Good for them....Go Hong Kong .....
Yes. Xianggang jiayou!
Where are the window smashing affirmative action Keynsians?
You know you have lost your super power status when HK has out protested your American made Ferguson.
The difference is the Hong Kong protests are for freedom, for independence and self-determination as promised by the British arrangement with China; the Ferguson protests are against freedom, against individual rights and for collectivism.
The Ferguson “protesters” want cultural control over US law and property rights so that absolute tyranny the likes of diversity, affirmative action and the welfare society supersedes law and order and economic justice. They are the constituency of the "new aristocracy" of bankers, professional politicians, bureaucrats, socialists, teachers, public union organizers, the corporatocracy and the media...
Quite a contrast, isn't it?
indeed, shame on the tylers for equating the two.
this site is getting as click baity as CNN.
Overpopulation, that's what Ebola's for.
They have larger free speech zones than we do.
Until they don't.
"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese."
-Charles de Gaulle
Too funny Goose! Very true.
I thought they had dirt roads and grass huts.
we're still one election away before you can compare hong kong protest, to the ferguson looting.
i seen different short clips of the tearing gasing in hong kong before they're seemed to be a news black-out, (ha-ha), but didn't see anyone carring tv's, stereos, cigaretees, beer, and shopping carts full of misc..
ferguson was a trial run, they got to practice with their tanks, armoured carriers, and how they manuver on the streets, 2017 there will still be peaceful protests, because looters will be shot, along with throwers of anything at police, that calms down the protests.
most don't see it in america but their voting in a chinese govt. as fast as they can, of course most are making their making a living at it also, that will stop, ask the chinese.
It is still uncertain if the police are knowingly cooperating with the banker strategy leading to a police state or if many are being forced to cooperate with the raging welfare-diversity-cultural tyranny that is taking place.
Regardless, the underlying intent of all tyrannies is to crush all opposition, be it in China or America.
George Orwell, who saw Soviet tyranny first hand and at the same time witnessed the developing totalitarianism in England in the 1940s, wrote that “by comparison with that existing today, all the tyrannies of the past were half-hearted and inefficient…” He went on to explain how and why:
“Part of the reason for this was that in the past no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant surveillance. The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and radio carried the process further. With the development of television, and the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit it simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end… the possibility of enforcing not only complete obedience to the will of the State, but complete uniformity of opinion on all subjects, now existed for the first time.”
Orwell wrote that in mid-20th century on the way to the 21st century and NSA - a century whereby already the language has been destroyed with “Newspeak” and “Double-think,” whereby America’s history either has been wiped out or rewritten, whereby the consolations of America’s Christian religion have been erased and everything distinctly human debased…
This is the utopianism of socialism being imposed upon America by government cultural intervention and by interventionist economics with its efforts to redistribute wealth to the least productive and unproductive.
Is Victoria Nuland in the crowd handing out cookies and saying "fuck the SCO?"
Sum Ting Wong
It's a pretty big crowd but it ain't no 100,000 people.
There are four protest sites , thiis one of them.
Did they open a new bubble tea store nearby?
At least they have good music while they protest. Sure it is a protest and not a dance party?
Ho Lee Fook!
"US stocks sink anew amid Hong Kong protests"
So, once the tanks roll in, we will be looking at a 3% surge. Fucking awesome.
The next problem is when you get democracy.
Here are the parties you can vote for and they are all fundamentally the same and support the status quo:
US - Republican/Democrat
UK - Liberal Labour Conservative or LibLabCon (collectively)
My belief a few years ago was that the first destabilization will happen in China when the growth wears off. There will be a lot of disillusioned people.
The USA is orchestrating the complete disintegration of world civilization.
This is the result of concentrating world power in the hands of the international bankers who control the Federal Reserve, i.e., the world's reserve currency; it is the final result of the concentration of their power to impose their collectivist ideas for a one-world socialist state, for their Socialist Utopia.
“There is bitterness in the thought that there may be no hell; for…if there is no hell, there is no justice. When it becomes evident that the world’s rewards are not adequate to the world’s pain, and the possibility of other reward is denied, simple calculation demands the ending of it all.” – Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences
so people pining for more freedom and self-determination and the resultant increase in prosperity that wealth that stems from such liberty is pushing markets lower?
yep, that's messed up. but I know I am preaching to the choir here...
Brazil, Hong Kong, Spain —take your pick. International uncertainty is the order of the day, and it's spilling over into U.S. markets. Investor concerns hitting bond and equity markets
http://investmentwatchblog.com/brazil-hong-kong-spain-take-your-pick-international-uncertainty-is-the-order-of-the-day-and-its-spilling-over-into-u-s-markets-investor-concerns-hitting-bond-and-equity-markets/
you call that a massive protest?
ever been there on a sunday when the Filipinos have their once-a-week working day off?
very funny and subtly biting social commentary there.
Too droll for most ZH these days, I'm afraid...
Im sure they are all very pleased a drone playing techno music is flying above them as they protest.
The most vital thing for Beijing is keeping the protest confined to Hong Kong Island.
To do that the internet must be controlled on the island and on the mainland.
I am glad to see the protesters are organised and non violent. I believe they will remain so when the tide slowly goes against them, to the chagrin of the CIA.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29409533
1st and 2nd October are a public holiday in Hong Kong , think the market may have just realised
Just like the occupy wall street hipsters... they'll get tired, worn down and hungry... they'll go home.
Things do change... they only get worse.
Just like when you get married. Well said, my friend. Well said.
Seems genuine. The only thing that worries me is that it's shown on the MSM, therefore endorsed by the PTB. Much more massive protests (fourteen million protesters across Egypt in 2013, nearly two millions in France in 2013) have been hushed. When the PTB don't like the protest marches for democracy, they pretend nothing's happened.
So, what do they like so much about the Hong Kong protests that even Apple should cover them?
Ever been to Hong Kong? 7M people packed into a few football fields of land, just a TINY land mass. 100,000 people is really nothing when you consider that all of them could be at the same place with not more than a 15 minute walk. 18,000 people per SQUARE MILE in Hong Kong. Where I live there are about 80 people in the square mile around my property.
Someone just mentioned to me that the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997 just be rolled on not long after the handover of HK to China.
That crisis was meant to shake up the Chinese takeover of HK.
Then came Pinto Currency's post # 5264855
On September 18 China opens the FTZ gold exchange in Shanghai giving Yuan / gold exchange vehicle for petrogold Yuan trade – riots in Hong Kong 1 week later.
Charles de Gaulle had a simlar experience in 1968
“...At the same time, he strongly opposed the global economic dictate of US currency, insisting on establishing the golden standard as the base of international economic relations.
De Gaulle's efforts were deliberately undermined by the architects of dollar-based globalization. The student movement in Paris started, without any significant domestic social reasons, literally a month after the meeting of Bilderberg Club where Baron Edmond de Rothschild and leading CIA strategist, rabid anticommunist James Jesus Angleton launched a far-reaching scenario of destabilization of Europe, instrumentalizing an ambitious George Pompidou for a political change in France that should be fairly recognized as a sophisticated coup d'etat. ...”
http://www.globoscope.ru/eng/content/articles/295/
Not sure thats a protest ...... I think the iPhone 6 just got released there
Wow - what could get that many Americans out to protest?
If the EBT cards stopped working, maybe - but what else?
If Americans lived 18,000 per square mile on a tiny landmass, a sporting event would bring hundreds of thousands.
That country needs NFL football badly. Based on population there could be 150 teams. 300 mil. divided into 1.4 bil. X 32. That's a lot of beer and hotdogs. Oh, no women to do cheer leading, bummer..
Nah, the Chinese have never been into homo-eroticism Try the Finn's, especially Tom
Looks like a lot of Facbooking going on down in that crowed.
The fact that Bejing hasn't said this is capitalist utube fakery with ants and post-it notes means they are in fright mode. The real fear is that, if China doesn't give in to Hong Kong's insistence on special democratic treatment, the protests will draw even more attention and embaressment, and if they DO give in the rest of China may get similar ideas.
Speak now . . . or, forever hold your peace.