Google has illegally broken into my Blogs over 100 times. Google has edited and illegally deleted some of my content. Additionally, X, Meta, and Google are still censoring many people, including me. Elon Musk never fixed any of the evil censorship that Jack Dorsey and his team built into the X software. We do not have online freedom of speech.
Thursday, February 12, 2026
Hong Kong, a vibrant Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China, boasts a rich and multifaceted history that spans millennia.
The History of Hong Kong: From Ancient Settlements to Modern Metropolis
Hong Kong, a vibrant Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China, boasts a rich and multifaceted history that spans millennia. Situated at the Pearl River Delta, its strategic location has made it a crossroads of trade, culture, and conflict. From prehistoric hunter-gatherers to imperial Chinese rule, British colonialism, wartime occupation, and its return to Chinese sovereignty under the "One Country, Two Systems" principle, Hong Kong's story reflects broader global shifts in power, economics, and ideology. This article explores its evolution, highlighting key events, figures, and transformations that have shaped its identity as a global financial hub with a unique blend of Eastern and Western influences. As of 2025, Hong Kong continues to navigate tensions between autonomy and integration with mainland China, amid economic resilience and political challenges.
A historical map of Hong Kong during the British colonial period, showing key territories like Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories.
Its history underscores themes of migration, adaptation, and resilience, offering insights into Asia's dynamic past and future.
Prehistoric and Ancient Times
Archaeological evidence reveals human habitation in Hong Kong dating back over 30,000 years to the Paleolithic era. Stone tools discovered in Sai Kung at Wong Tei Tung suggest early tool-making activities, possibly linked to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. An Upper Paleolithic settlement near Three Fathoms Cove yielded around 6,000 artifacts, confirmed by experts from the Hong Kong Archaeological Society and Sun Yat-sen University. These findings indicate that early inhabitants were hunter-gatherers who exploited coastal resources.
By the Neolithic period, around 7,000 years ago, the Che people settled in coastal areas like Cheung Chau, Lantau Island, and Lamma Island. These locations provided shelter from winds and access to marine food sources. The Warring States period saw an influx of Yuet people from the north, introducing bronze tools for fishing, combat, and rituals, excavated on Lantau and Lamma. Ma Wan hosts the earliest direct evidence of settlement, where Yuet and Che peoples interacted, leading to assimilation.
The Qin Dynasty (221–206 BC) loosely incorporated Hong Kong into China, marking its first formal ties to the empire. Under the Han Dynasty (206 BC–AD 220), population growth is evident from sites like the Lei Cheng Uk tomb, an Eastern Han structure excavated in the 1950s. Salt production may have begun around 2,000 years ago, and Tai Po Hoi became a prominent pearl-hunting harbor, peaking during the Southern Han (917–971). From the Jin Dynasty (266–420) to the early Tang, Bao'an County governed the region, transforming it into a trading hub. Tuen Mun served as a port, naval base, and salt production center, while Lantau Island faced salt smuggler riots.
This era laid the foundations for Hong Kong's maritime economy and cultural diversity, with indigenous groups like the Tanka and Hoklo establishing long-term roots. By the time of more structured imperial control, Hong Kong was already a peripheral but vital part of China's southern frontier.
Inside Hong Kong's Fight for Freedom | Faceless
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Key West Florida Vacation & Holiday - Boycott
By: Tom Forrest
Why You Should Boycott Key West Florida for Vacations & Holidays.
I flew into Fort Lauderdale Florida and drove down to Key West Florida with my family for my Mother's birthday party. I wish someone would have warned my about the evil scams the Monroe County Sheriffs implement on innocent tourists. Most of the drive is one lane and it becomes clogged up during the high season in January and February, except over a few spots where there are two lanes going each way. I never speed and have never had a speeding ticket in my entire life, I was following a black Dodge Charger in the right lane and it seemed odd when this Dodge Charger pulled over into the left lane illegally not using his turn signal, indicating that he wanted me to go ahead of him, and it appeared he was waving to me to go ahead of him as we were just about to merge into one lane again. Since I am a courteous driver I accelerated slightly and then Sheriff Bubba the evil scammer pulled me over, he was driving an unmarked black Dodge Charger and had heinously lured me into his evil unethical trap. I told Sheriff Bubba that I was not even speeding and he lied and said I was going 72 miles per hour and gave me a ticket. I told him I knew he was preying on innocent tourists and doing an evil scam. He could not even look me in the eyes and turned his head away because we both knew exactly the devious tricks he pulled on me. Then when he handed me the ticket he told me he did not know what the amount of the ticket was, and this was just another lie, because he stays in the exact same spot all day long pulling the same evil scam on tourists all day long. We phoned my brother to warn him and my brother told me when he went by the same spot on the road Sheriff Bubba was giving a ticket to another innocent tourist. So if this has also happened to you please email me at tomforrest@htpcompany.com and I will publish your story for free and promote it all over the Internet on Google, Twitter and Facebook. This is a worthy endeavor to help stop terrible Monroe County Sheriff scams like this on innocent people. This is the USA and I do not want tourists from Europe and other parts of the world thinking Americans will tolerate this sort of crap. Sheriffs should be here to serve and protect people, not use dirty tricks to rip off innocent tourists.
Why does the Governor of Florida allow these dirty tricks by the Monroe County Florida Sheriff's Department?
It hurts tourism and now I am on a project to expose and help stop these evil scams.
Why does the Governor of Florida allow these dirty tricks by the Monroe County Florida Sheriff's Department?
It hurts tourism and now I am on a project to expose and help stop these evil scams.
My Rescue Dog Toby -- Toby is a professional dog model, LOL
Each year, it's estimated that more than one million
adoptable dogs and cats are euthanized in the United States, simply because too
many pets come into shelters and too few people consider adoption when looking
for a pet.
The number of euthanized animals could be reduced dramatically if more people adopted pets instead of buying them. When you adopt, you save a loving animal by making them part of your family and open up shelter space for another animal who might desperately need it.
Chinese BYD Reveals Solid State and Sodium Battery Breakthrough - 10,000 Cycles!
BYD sells more cars than Tesla.
Elon Musk should be grateful to President Trump for the tariffs on BYD cars.
Tesla FSD and Robotaxi: The Long Road from “Driver Assist” to Autonomous Mobility
Tesla’s story in self-driving is a mix of real technical progress, bold marketing, and a moving finish line. On one hand, Full Self-Driving (FSD) has evolved into a system that can handle complex navigation—turns, merges, lane changes, intersections, parking maneuvers—99% of the time with startling competence. On the other hand, Tesla itself is explicit that today’s product is not autonomous: it requires active driver supervision and does not make the car self-driving in the legal or technical sense. (Tesla)
Meanwhile, “Robotaxi” is the bigger promise: cars that don’t just help a driver, but replace the driver—turning vehicles into revenue-generating autonomous fleets. That leap is not merely incremental. It’s a jump across technology, regulation, safety validation, business operations, insurance, and public trust. This article explains what Tesla’s FSD really is today, how it works at a high level, what “Robotaxi” requires that FSD doesn’t yet deliver, and why the next phase will be harder than many people expect.
1) What Tesla FSD is today (and what it is not)
Tesla currently sells Full Self-Driving (Supervised). Tesla describes it as a system that can drive you “almost anywhere” under your supervision, and Tesla emphasizes that enabled features require active driver supervision and “do not make the vehicle autonomous.” (Tesla)
Regulators largely categorize this as SAE Level 2 driver assistance, meaning the system can control steering and speed in certain conditions, but the human driver remains responsible and must continuously supervise. NHTSA’s automation-level descriptions make that distinction clear: Level 2 still expects the driver to monitor the environment and be ready to take over immediately. (NHTSA)
This matters because “self-driving” is not one thing—it’s a ladder:
Level 2 (driver assistance): the human supervises everything.
Level 4 (true robotaxi in a defined area): the system drives itself within an Operational Design Domain (ODD)—for example, specific cities, geofenced neighborhoods, certain weather limits—without expecting a human to watch the road.
Level 5 (anywhere, anytime): full autonomy in all conditions.
Tesla’s consumer FSD today is still, by the company’s own characterization and by regulatory framing, on the Level 2 rung. (NHTSA)
2) How Tesla’s approach differs: “vision-first” and fleet learning
Tesla’s technical strategy has been distinctive: heavy reliance on cameras and neural networks, with a philosophy that the best path to scalable autonomy is to solve driving the way humans do—primarily through vision—then scale via software and data.
Over the last several years, Tesla moved further toward “Tesla Vision.” Tesla has published support material describing the transition away from certain non-vision sensors, including the removal of ultrasonic sensors (USS) from vehicles and the shift to camera-based replacements for some features. (Tesla)
(Separately, multiple automotive outlets documented Tesla’s earlier move toward camera-only for certain models/markets by removing radar, as part of the broader “Tesla Vision” shift.) (The Drive)
The upside of this approach is scalability: millions of cars can collect real-world driving data, and Tesla can iterate quickly via over-the-air updates. The downside is that vision-only autonomy has to be extraordinarily robust in the messy corners of reality: glare, heavy rain, occlusions, odd construction layouts, faded markings, emergency scenes, human gestures, and rare-but-critical edge cases.
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