Monday, October 7, 2019

Hong Kong: After The Cash Machines Were Emptied There Was a Run On The Grocery Stores As The Homemade Catapault Was Rolled Out and..

...the protesters went from:
...It was shown that lasers have some efficacy when used against facial recognition cameras, either pointed directly at the camera or under the chin to make spooky campfire faces....
To shining the lasers in the cops' eyes.

A quick roundup of things we saw this weekend:

Climateer
Kyle Bass: "Bank runs all over Hong Kong now"

SCMP
Hong Kong shoppers panic-buy as city struggles to cope with protest chaos 

ZeroHedge:
Hong Kong Protesters Build Makeshift Catapult On Third Day Of Unrest Over 'Anti-Mask' Law

And it was the lasers that got the response from the army:
CNBC
...The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) garrison in Kowloon district warned a crowd of a few hundred protesters they could be arrested for targeting its troops and barracks walls with laser lights.
One officer shouted through a loudhailer in broken Cantonese — the main language of Hong Kong — “Bear consequences for your actions.”...
So no more of this:
Hong Kong Protests: What Have We Learned?

...they make pretty pictures when the protesters wanted to portray peaceful intent:

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