I won't be watching, not even when my country's athletes are competing. I plans to unplug my home cable tv and radio for the duration of the games and depends solely on dvd and internet for my entertainments and news.
I have nothing against athletes participating for they had trained very hard and sacrificed for their sports. I wishes them all the best, especially the Iraqi who nearly did not make it .... stupid IOC.
I pray for the reporters and media personnel, may you not get into too much trouble with the CCP and don't get imprisoned or killed.
I pray for the protesters still in China. I don't know how much you hope to achieve with your sacrifices when the IOC, UN and governments around the world are deaf, blind and mute.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Beijing Special Protest Zones - SHAM
Beijing pulls yet another fast one on the world. It's not the first and definitely won't be the last... how naive do they think we are.
“They said that in order to maintain stability they would certainly not approve our protest,” said Zhang Wei, a group member whose home was levelled two years ago to make way for an upmarket retail and residential complex.
Beijing gags Olympic protests
Hells Square - 1989 or 2009
Will there be a repeat performance after the Shame & Sham Games in Beijing (or in 2009)?
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Britons held in Beijing protest
Two Britons have been held in Beijing after a protest about Tibet as the Olympic torch toured the city.
Olympic protest outside of Vancouver, B.C.'s Chinese consulate building
Protestors blocked the entrance to the consulate office with a replica tank.
Police in China detain, beat Japanese reporters; Reuters staffer threatened
Japan’s Kyodo News Agency reported today that police in Kashgar dragged Masami Kawakita, a photographer from the Chunichi Shimbun newspaper's Tokyo headquarters, and Shinji Katsuta, a reporter for Nippon Television Network’s China general bureau, from a spot near the explosions that killed 16 police officers on Monday.
The two journalists suffered slight injuries. Kyodo reported that “police forcibly disrupted the Japanese journalists’ reporting activities near the base, took them to a room in a nearby hotel, and beat them before releasing them two hours later, according to people with knowledge of the situation.”
Reuters reported that its correspondent in Kashgar, Emma Graham-Harrison, was driven away from the attack scene by baton-wielding policemen. Reuters said she was not injured and continues to report from Kashgar.
© 2008 Committee to Protect Journalists
IOC admits Internet censorship deal with China
Some International Olympic Committee officials cut a deal to let China block sensitive Web sites despite promises of unrestricted access, a senior IOC official admitted.
"I regret that it now appears BOCOG has announced that there will be limitations on Web site access during Games time," IOC press chief Kevan Gosper said, referring to Beijing's Olympic organizers.
"I also now understand that some IOC officials negotiated with the Chinese that some sensitive sites would be blocked on the basis they were not considered Games related," he said.
"We condemn the IOC's failure to do anything about this, and we are more skeptical about its ability to ensure that the media are able to report freely," the group said in a statement.
IOC President Jacques Rogge had insisted that no deal had been struck with Beijing Olympics organisers to censor internet sites.
Chinese architect "disgusted" by his Beijing "Bird's Nest"
Ai Weiwei, one of China's top architects and co-designer with starchitects Herzog & de Meuron of the National Stadium in Beijing, now says he's "disgusted" by the $400 million "bird's nest" stadium and won't be photographed with it:
He told Reuters, “I’ve already forgotten about it. I turn down all the demands to have photographs with it. I’m not interested. I would feel ashamed if I just designed something for glamour or to show some kind of fake image”.
The designer’s personal experience includes being raised in a labour camp after his father, regarded as one of China’s finest modern poets, was purged in the 1950’s after being denounced as “an enemy of the state and a rightist”.
Ai said, “I spent five years with him at a labour camp where he cleaned toilets, but these stories become so catchy today. I have my own problems”.
Ai reportedly likened China’s embrace of the Olympics as “pretend smile”. He said it was “kind of fake smile which is disgusting…so I hate this”.
Ai said the 91,000-seat Bird’s Nest remained a beautiful, if regretful, commission. “I did it because I love design and the idea of how it would be looked at by others”.
China’s Olympic Crossroads: Bird’s Nest Designer Ai Weiwei on Beijing’s ‘Pretend Smile’ By Flora Zhang
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
IOC 'naive' over China internet access
"WE WILL give the media complete freedom to report when they come to China." So promised one of the most senior Chinese Olympic officials, Wang Wei, in 2001 on the eve of the International Olympic Committee awarding Beijing the 2008 Games.How could IOC officials (President Jacques Rogge included), a global organization claim to be naive for their failure to see China's broken promises and human rights abuses. Their inhuman actions have been there for everyone to see, from newsreports to internet media. Does IOC lives in a cave or bury their heads in sand! Be a man (& woman) and admit your incompetency. Be accountable and take responsibilities, apologize and resign.
Monday, August 4, 2008
Young Girll Stripped, Paraded in Public & Raped
This young girl was stripped by 3 girls she never met before and paraded in a crowded Internet cafe and streets. Not a single soul came to rescue her! She was 'given' to 4 guys who took turns to rape her. All were caught but nothing mentioned about their punishments.
Hainan Young Girl Drugged & Raped by Classmates
This 17 year old Hainan girl was drugged and raped by 3 of her classmates. The drug they used was so strong and contaminated that she is hospitalized for brain damage.
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