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243 - Another week in Hong Kong

Roger Price

24 Oct 2026 • 11 min read

Lee Tung Avenue - spectacular as ever

🇭🇰 We have had a really busy week here. After our long trip we have lots to do and get sorted - we are working through our list. In addition to that we have been out and about, enjoying the best season of the year in HK.

Many days I have hiked Central to The Peak and back - you are welcome to join me any day, just say. We have also been island hopping with trips to Lamma and Cheung Chau. The Surf Club was unusually closed but we had a great lunch at J&J's, the pink place around the beach and they have an even better view of the beach.

I have also been getting out hiking with the groups. These are fun because the route is planned and you just need to turn up and enjoy yourself. You will always meet interesting people and I had fascinating conversations with people from UK, Germany and Philippines in addition to many from HK. Among other things we were discussing and sharing our recommended book reads. Obviously these included Animal Farm, Brave New World and 1984, all of which you should have read. Most were unaware of my strong recommendation for The Mandibles, by Lionel Shriver.

"The Mandibles" claims to be 100% fiction but every word feels like right now - or imminent - and even more so with all the nonsense that Trump and USA/Israel have been pushing recently. The Mandibles family once expected a huge inheritance from their 97-year-old patriarch Douglas Mandible; when the dollar is abruptly devalued after all the other countries become so fed up with USA behaviour that they club together and replace it with an international digital currency (the "Bancor"), that fortune evaporates overnight.

As Matt says - "it's Mandibles and then Bitcoin Standard" - click for details

The novel is split into two sections - 2029-2032, when the initial shock hits, and 2047, when the US has become a bankrupt, hyper-inflationary backwater policed by Mexican border guards. This is required reading.

Of course we got to Happy Valley midweek - we had a super evening although V's luck did not continue as strongly as before! I also got over Kowloon-side to Sham Shui Po for some camera and computer shopping - more on that in the coming weeks.

Next group hike is Saturday morning: 09:35 Tung Chung > walk to Tung Chung new Pier > ferry to Sha Lo Wan (10:00) > Sam Wat > Lantau North Obelisk > Tai O. You are welcome to join me and over 50 others - it should be great fun.

Thought for the week

Current events remind me a lot about how things were unfolding at the end of 2019 and into 2020. Those events are what caused me to start this newsletter and for V and me to begin our travels. In case you missed them I highly recommend that you go back and check those early newsletters - perhaps now you will see more clearly the truth and the messages within them.

ICYMI - go back and read Newsletter 7, Newsletter 8 and Newsletter 13

I have more to say on this - you can check Closing Thoughts below - suffice it for now to remind you: History does not repeat but it does rhyme and there are no coincidences.

🛠️ Project Updates

The following are updates from some projects that I am following, supporting and collaborating with. What are you doing?

Hands-on with my newsletters

This week I have been looking into how to get more from my newsletters and the archive of all of them. You may recall, from my first newsletter, that I felt guided to document what was happening in the world and how people were reacting to it as well as sharing my own insights and wisdom where appropriate.

Recently I have been taking active steps to preserve the content and also to allow it to be queried and to have it as a useful archive.

Step 1 was to build software to retrieve the content locally on my computer. I chose to do this using Python and .md files since these are reliable and highly accessible. Having got the content locally I put it under Git source control and it is available for you to view and check here.

Click to check out the Github repository - public and free to use

Step 2 is to use AI tools to facilitate searching and re-using the text. This is work in progress but I am already more than happy with what I have managed to do. If you are wondering how to do this sort of thing, recall that I have already pointed you to kagi.com and nano-gpt.com.

I have also been experimenting with my copy of Chronicon (Jason's history of the world). I see all sorts of possibilities to leverage this data in interesting ways and this will be one exploration thread I will be following in the weeks ahead.

The Bitcoin Standard - Lecture 2

Saifedean is powering ahead with his lecture course on The Bitcoin Standard. In this lecture he covers Chapter 1 of the book, titled "Money". No matter how well you think you understand this, I encourage you to listen; you will learn something valuable.

Click for notes and summary and to listen to the full lecture

TLDR - you will understand that money as a solution to the limitations of direct exchange, specifically regarding scale, space, and time. Money acts as a medium of exchange that enables economic calculation and complex capital production. The most critical property of any effective money is its hardness, which is measured by its stock-to-flow ratio and determines its ability to act as a store of value. Because money is a network good, markets naturally gravitate towards the hardest, most salable commodity available.

CTO's perspective

CTO Larsson (Anders Larsson) is an interesting character. He is a Swedish investor and technology educator. After a two-decade telecommunications career at Ericsson, he now focuses on technical analysis of crypto and tech stocks, producing educational content such as the Larsson Line along with his own analytical tools, while maintaining a significant presence on YouTube and social media.

Click for notes and summary and to listen to the full explanation

Here he reflects on a decade of technological acceleration, emphasizing that while human behaviour remains constant, the rise of AI renders traditional career paths increasingly unstable. He argues that in an era where intelligence and agency are commoditized, the only durable edge lies in the ownership of assets, including financial, technological, and relational capital.

🔗 Links for your edification

The following are links from my Liferea RSS feeds - learn, enjoy and share.

What fun - how interesting

I had great fun this week watching several of Evan's videos. He is a most interesting character, living in central USA he is forging a career pursuing his passion for artistic creation with excellent technical and hands-on skills. This first video explores something I had always wondered about - how to repair camera lenses!

I highly recommend that you check out his channel. He has many interesting videos, documenting and demonstrating his skills of construction and innovation. For example - testing his old camera collection and moving his studio to a new house - part one and part two.

Remember Olof Palme? - the story does not add up

Ole Dammegård concludes from his research that the 1986 assassination of Olof Palme was a failed self-arranged exit strategy. He argues that Palme, allegedly suffering from HIV, intended to stage his death to become a martyr and escape into exile, but a second, NATO-backed team intervened with live ammunition. Dammegård links this event to the Gladio clandestine networks and suggests a recurring pattern of staged terror events controlled by intelligence agencies.

Click for summary and to listen to the full interview and evidence

The Palme case is structurally similar to JFK, MLK and RFK — not in the shooting itself but in the “non-investigation”: witnesses harassed, real evidence neglected, and a trail of convenient deaths. His examples: the coroner and his wife allegedly committing suicide on the same day (reported as a “Romeo and Juliet” suicide), and several journalists killed — in car accidents, and one pushed in front of a subway train.

What a load of Bollocks!

I must admit that I missed this one entirely, having exited the matrix. Thankfully, James spotted it and he explains it for those still in the matrix or who struggle to see what is going on.

Without a doubt, the report of a fatal tiger attack is a manufactured psyop. He argues that the narrative is staged to test public gullibility and promote deception as a tool for control. He further claims that skepticism is discouraged by intelligence-linked accounts that label critics as mentally ill or insensitive. He concludes that authorities use such fabricated incidents to foster division and undermine public trust in independent conspiracy research.

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If it is in the news - it is a ruse. There are no coincidences.

🤔 Closing Thoughts

As I was enjoying life here in HK, meeting and discussing with folks on my hikes and while at the Races, it became increasingly obvious to us that there is quite a sentiment of 2019 returning. Be in no doubt that mainstream sources (and many corrupted alternative sources) are feeding you disinformation and confusion. Remember 2019 and what happened next. Also realise that there are no coincidences and while history does not repeat, it does rhyme.

Exploring the Zeitgeist

In this video, Wayne McRoy examines patterns (some would claim, coincidences!) in current events. He suggests these occurrences, including mass violence, a papal illness, and political commentary, are orchestrated rituals aimed at normalisation and public control. He further argues these incidents constitute an information field used to justify a transition toward a digital surveillance state. He encourages you to exercise critical thought, maintain free will, and withdraw emotional energy from engineered narratives - like James' article above!

Click for summary and to listen to the full explainer

TLDR - a week of violence, a papal cancer diagnosis and a rock star's remarks on politics were woven together by occult and astrological timing into a media ritual whose function is to normalise mass violence and soften the public for a surveillance-and-digital-ID "solution". The defence is to read the symbolism, refuse the emotional reaction, and decline to comply. The pattern is real as a pattern of dates and names; the causal claim rests on a single misheard name and at least one incorrect occult anniversary.

Remember 2019?

2019 was defined by mass protests worldwide, major disasters, and the first documented cases of what would become the global pandemic. Key events include:

First known human case of COVID-19 was documented in Wuhan, China, preceding the pandemic declaration.
Hong Kong protests erupted over a proposed extradition bill, escalating into month-long clashes with police and anti-establishment mobilization.
Notre-Dame Cathedral fire in Paris consumed the 850-year-old landmark.
Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand killed 51 people, triggering a global debate on extremism.
US – Donald Trump became the third US president to be impeached.
Brexit deadlock continued to dominate UK and European politics.
Climate activism surged, with global strikes and growing public pressure on governments.

The year was broadly characterized by widespread street protests (Hong Kong, Chile, Iraq, Sudan, France) and a sense of geopolitical upheaval heading into the 2020s.

Click to refresh your memory and recall what happened NEXT...

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