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Opponents of Hong Kongs pro-democracy movement stepped up their pressure Monday, scuffling with demonstrators and attempting to clear barricades near one of the main sit-in sites.

Hundreds of counter-demonstrators, including masked men, confronted pro-democracy protesters behind roadblocks on Queensway, a major traffic artery next to the sit-in site in the Admiralty area, which has been shut down for more than two weeks.

Dozens of taxi drivers joined the clash, honking their horns and demanding the occupiers open the road to traffic.

Police scrambled to separate the two groups. The counter-demonstrators urged the police to clear the barriers, chanting, Open the roads.

As police arrived in greater force, the masked men left the scene. Protesters suspect the group were triads organized gang members who police have said have been active at the citys other major protest site, Mong Kok.

At the same time, a truck with a mounted crane scooped up metal barriers and tents set up by demonstrators farther up Queensway.

It was unclear who was operating the truck. Associations of truck drivers said last week that they would clear barricades by Wednesday.

By late afternoon, students had reclaimed the road and began rebuilding barricades with steel railings, wooden planks and bamboo scaffolding.

Thousands of protesters remained at the Admiralty sit-in Monday night, many in brightly colored tents.

The clashes took place hours after police removed barricades blocking a key highway in Central, the financial district, in the early morning. Attempts to do the same in Mong Kok were met with stiffer resistance from the protesters, who were able to preserve some of their barricades.

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Four websites promoting democracy in Hong Kong have been rigged to deliver malicious software, according to a Washington, D.C.-based security company.

The findings show that "dissenting groups, especially those seeking increased levels of freedom, frequently find themselves targeted for surveillance and information extraction," wrote Steven Adair of Volexity in a blog post.

Security experts have seen an uptick in attacks aimed at spying on activists in Hong Kong, who have led demonstrations in protest of restrictions China has placed on the election for the territory's chief executive in 2017.

The websites are the Alliance for True Democracy (ATD), the Democratic Party Hong Kong (DPHK), People Power in Hong Kong and The Professional Commons. Browsing to the websites isn't wise since some of the attacks are still active, he wrote.

The ATD and DPHK websites both had code planted that pulls in a suspected malicious script from another domain, "java-se.com," which has been linked to malicious activity in the past, Adair wrote. That domain was also used in an attack on "www.nikkei.com" in early September.

Volexity was unable to obtain the script for analysis, perhaps because the attackers were filtering out certain IP addresses that are allowed to retrieve the script, Adair wrote.

The People Power in Hong Kong website contains a malicious iframe that points to a Chinese URL shortener address, which then redirects a visitor to an exploit page hosted on a Hong Kong IP address.

After polling the computer to see what software is running, the malicious page can load Java exploits and download malware. Volexity believes that this attack was executed by a different group and is not related to the one using "java-se.com."

The last website, The Professional Commons, contains suspicious JavaScript that loads an iframe which points to the website of a hotel in South Korea, Adair wrote. The iframe tries to load an HTML page that doesn't exist on the South Korean website, which Adair wrote indicates that it is a formerly active attack.

"If it is actually malicious, it is possible the code could be re-activated at any time," he wrote.

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From Conservapedia

Communism is a left-wing materialistic and often violently atheistic ideology created to justify the overthrow of Capitalism, replacing free market economics and democracy with a "dictatorship of the proletariat". Under Communism, the political system replaces the private ownership of the means of production with "collective ownership" of the economy, this is to be accomplished through direct "democratic" control by the workers.[1] Twentieth century Communism was based on Karl Marx's manifesto which proposed to establishment of a "classless society." However, all Communist societies have had a class structure, notably the USSR, which was dominated by a self appointed Nomenklatura.

In the belief that "people cannot change", governments under the banner of Communism have caused the death of somewhere between 40 million to 260 million human lives.[2][3][4][5][6][7] Dr. R. J. Rummel, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii, is the scholar who first coined the term democide (death by government). Dr. R. J. Rummel's mid estimate regarding the loss of life due to communism is that it caused the death of approximately 148,286,000 people between 1917 and 1987.[8]

President Ronald Reagan in an address before the British House of Commons said,

Today, communism continues to rule over at least one-fifth of the world's people.[10]

Communism is based upon Marxism, a philosophy which uses materialism to explain all physical and social phenomena. The theory of evolution influenced the thinking of the Communists, including Marx, Engels, Vladimir Lenin, and Joseph Stalin.[11] Marx wrote, "Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history." Marx offered to dedicate the second German edition of his polemic "Das Kapital" to Charles Darwin, but Darwin declined the "honour." [12][13]

Economically, communism advocates a socialist economy in which the government owns the means of production. In countries where communism has been imposed, the government has taken ownership of farms, factories, stores and so on in the name of the people; see "dictatorship of the proletariat". This drives all market-based economic activity underground and leads to inefficiencies and shortages. In both the Soviet Union and Red China, the number of people who starved to death when the government confiscated their farm products (animals and grain) is estimated in the tens of millions.

Even more important, one party controls every organization from the local labor union to the the army to the national government. The party is not elected. Its top officials (the "Politburo") select replacements when there is a vacancy. usually a dictator (like Stalin, Mao or Castro) controls the Politburo, but sometimes power is shared among five or six people. No dissent is allowed--all news media are controlled, and the Internet is heavily censored.

Elites do not disappear. Members of the ruling party (see Nomenklatura) have special stores in which ordinary people are barred, stores which are allegedly immune to the shortages which the lower class must endure.

Various communist doctrines have evolved or been adapted to the time and place they have been implemented. Marxism, developed by Karl Marx, and its modifications under Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong, advocates the overthrow of the existing order by a revolution of the proletariat, the social group which does not control the means of production. The goal of Marxism is supposedly to create a classless society which would result in no longer the need for any government (Communism).

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Socialism has its roots in visions of imaginary ideal societies, from thinkers who drew up elaborated designs and concepts for creating what they considered a more equal society, along collectivist lines or abolished private property; the primarily ideas came from British and French thinkers like Saint-Simon, Charles Fourier, Louis Blanc, and Robert Owen preceded by Thomas More, Tommaso Campanella, and Jean Meslier. One of Karl Marx's titles was the father of socialism. Currently it is considered a leftist economic system which advocates state ownership or direct control of the major means of production and distribution of goods and services.[4] Socialism is the economic system imposed by Communism, but another one of the most well known political parties of the 20th century that was socialistic was the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi), headed by the fascist, but anti-communist[5]Adolf Hitler. Often socialism is a matter of degree and numerous economies in the world are very socialistic such as European countries (many of which are facing financial difficulties due to over taxation and excessive spending).[6]

The Ludwig von Mises Institute declares:

The basis of the claim that Nazi Germany was capitalist was the fact that most industries in Nazi Germany appeared to be left in private hands.

What Mises identified was that private ownership of the means of production existed in name only under the Nazis and that the actual substance of ownership of the means of production resided in the German government. For it was the German government and not the nominal private owners that exercised all of the substantive powers of ownership: it, not the nominal private owners, decided what was to be produced, in what quantity, by what methods, and to whom it was to be distributed, as well as what prices would be charged and what wages would be paid, and what dividends or other income the nominal private owners would be permitted to receive. The position of the alleged private owners, Mises showed, was reduced essentially to that of government pensioners.

De facto government ownership of the means of production, as Mises termed it, was logically implied by such fundamental collectivist principles embraced by the Nazis as that the common good comes before the private good and the individual exists as a means to the ends of the State. If the individual is a means to the ends of the State, so too, of course, is his property. Just as he is owned by the State, his property is also owned by the State.

Because many businesses still are privately owned, ipso facto, the United States is not a socialistic government. "That definition is confuted by the earliest theoretical writings on socialism. In France, Henri de Saint-Simon, in the first decades of the 1800s, and his pupil and colleague Auguste Comte, in the 1820s and 30s, along with Robert Owen contemporaneously in England, stated that the essential feature of what Owen called socialism is government regulation of the means of production and distribution." [7] When the government controls the volume of money and its economic applications, it has the economy in a stranglehold. When government controls education so that nothing other than secular socialism may be taught, as Saint-Simon advocated, it controls the future destiny of a nation.

In April of 2010, American political consultant Dick Morris wrote:

If our government is to continue spending 40 percent of our GDP, we will morph into the European model of a socialist democracy. But if we can roll the spending back to 30 percent, while holding taxes level, we will retain our free market system.[9]

Anita Dunn, the political strategist and former White House Communications Director, admitted that one of favorite political philosophers, one that she turns to the most, is Mao Zedong, the communist dictator responsible for the starvation, torture, and killing of 70 million Chinese.[10] Critics of the Obama administration have coined the word "Obamunism" to describe Barack Obama's socialistic and "fascism light" economic planning policies (Benito Mussolini defined fascism as the wedding of state and corporate powers. Accordingly, trend forecaster Gerald Celente labels Obama's corporate bailouts as being "fascism light" in nature).[11][12] Obamunism can also allude to Obama's ruinous fiscal policies and reckless monetary policies.[13][14][15]

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By Enrique Andres Pretel

LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivian President Evo Morales declared a landslide re-election victory on Sunday, hailing it as a triumph for socialist reforms that have cut poverty and vastly expanded the state's role in the booming economy.

Official results were slow coming in but an exit poll and a quick count showed Morales, a former coca grower, trouncing his opponents with about 60 percent of the vote and easily winning a third term in power.

Morales, who became Bolivia's first indigenous leader in 2006, will now be able to extend his "indigenous socialism", under which he has nationalised key industries such as oil and gas to finance welfare programs and build new roads and schools.

"This was a debate on two models: nationalisation or privatisation. Nationalisation won with more than 60 percent (support)," Morales told thousands of cheering supporters from the balcony of the presidential palace.

A prominent member of the bloc of socialist and anti-U.S. leaders in Latin America, Morales dedicated his victory to Cuba's former communist leader Fidel Castro.

"This win is a triumph for anti-imperialists and anti-colonialists," Morales said.

His folksy appeal and prudent spending of funds from a natural gas bonanza to finance welfare programs, roads and schools have earned the 54-year-old wide support in a country long dogged by political instability.

Fireworks exploded over the palace - dubbed the "Burned Palace" in reference to Bolivia's history of coups - as Morales loyalists chanted "Evo, Evo".

A Mori exit poll released by Unitel television showed Morales winning 61 percent of the vote. His closest rival, businessman Samuel Doria Medina, had 24 percent.

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