Beijing Olympiad 2008

I am shocked that this hasn't garnered any opinions. Although I have nothing specific to say at this time.

Symbolic thread boycott due to China's human rights record.

Chinese Internet Hardmen, meet Have Your Say:

China just brushes off the rantings of these so-called human rights activists. We know what you are. Our country has nothing to learn from the West and India. We would be happy to export the Tibetans to you for free and see if you are prepared to give handouts to these people forever. China is for the Chinese people.
To those who say they visited China and then rubbish our Government-why did you come in the first place? You are hypocrits and unwelcome. Stay home.

John Li, Hong Kong

I have a suggestion that, How do you look?
You may come with the Chinese People's Liberation Army to hit a weaponry.
Takes the mouth to shout uselessly,
selects the practical action

li guo qing, beijing

TAKES THE MOUTH TO SHOUT USELESSLY

:D

i am already very stoked for the triple jump

olympic is part of politics. i am a chinese, but i think so.
but tibet is part of china,we will not let minority control majority. most tibet person do not want independence.it is the truth.
the riots there is cold and terrible, they kill, burn, smash,they should go to hell.
they are crazy.thay should die.

lisa, shanghai

fuck that olympiad

someone should invite lisa, shanghai, to ilx. i'm sure she's got a variety of valuable insights to share and could zing dom back to the stoneage.

and yes, fuck that olympiad. i am however, gonna have to get hold of some gymnastics dvds to sustain through the boycott.

I work near the Embarcadero in San Francisco, and there are a ton of people with anti-China (/pro-Tibet) and pro-China banners. Traffic is snarled. This could potentially end very poorly!

"the riots there is cold and terrible, they kill, burn, smash,they should go to hell.
they are crazy.thay should die."

"pro-China banners"

??????????

Like most of this country I will happily give up my usual five minutes of going "ooh, archery!" before losing interest and heading out to the pub, if it means showing solidarity to the people of Tibet.

"pro-China banners"

there are a lot of Chinese immigrants in SF.

anti-communist fervor not quite what it once was in the Chinese emigre community, evidently.

"pro-China" protesters were bused in this morning courtesy of the Chinese Govt.

SF immigrants from non-communist Hong Kong outnumber those from PRC 4:1.

I was wondering about that

did you just make that shit up or did Keith Richards tell you that

hahaha... :-D

^^^wuv
just funnin

"there are a lot of Chinese immigrants in SF."

If they are immigrants from China, that really doesn't explain why they would be waving pro-China banners. The only people I can imagine waving such a banner would be the board members of Nike and NBC, and whatever other whore corporation is profiting from these games.

NBC's actually going to lose a bunch of money on this if the Chinese Gov't doesn't allow live broadcasting (as they are threatening)

as for the pro-China stuff, hey I dunno I thought it was kinda odd too - maybe Shasta is right (altho I am uh unfamiliar with this bus route connecting China to SF)

It's the 64 Pacific Ocean. It goes through Lincoln Park.

it'll be easier to boycott this Olympics because of the time difference

pro-China demonstrators were studends bused in from Davis

"I'm proud to be Chinese and I'm outraged because there are so many people who are so ignorant they don't know Tibet is part of China," Yi Che said. "It was and is and will forever be part of China."

wtf lolz. personally, Tibet is pretty far down on the list of completely ffucked up things about Communist China, but I guess the Dali Lama makes for good PR/popular rallying point.

isn't Davis kinda hard to get into?

In what sense?

by bus?

Haha I'm sure the resources of the Chinese gov are quite capable of dealing with little inconveniences like chartering a couple dozen buses.

China begins to regret decision to hold Olympics in the shittiest air on Earth

I wish I could be a fly on the wall when environmental standards around Beijing go back to "normal" the day after the Olympics end. "That's right, citizens, our air quality may be too poor for the rest of the world - but it's good enough for you. Now get back to work constructing that coal plant!"

Beijing should never have been awarded these games anyway. The IOC and the Chinese government are now getting what they both deserve and will suffer a great deal of embarrassment over the next few weeks with the entire world looking on. The IOC braintrust may have been able to turn a blind eye to gross human rights violations as well as the CCP's blatant disregard for the rule of law, but the pollution is a story that simply isn't going to go away. They can take all the cars off of the road, shut down more factories, build giant fans to produce the winds they so desperately need, or perform rain dances in the middle of Tianamen square. None of it's going to help. I hope none of the athletes suffer too much, but it's simply ridiculous that this is even an issue with the games less than 2 weeks away.

if you haven't seen the footage of the Beijing Algae Bloom yet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4IAAa667EM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ZJkd2d8vQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJHKQlqVd1U

correction, Qingdao (where the sailing events are scheduled to take place)

oh gosh

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d6de6450-4f76-11dd-b050-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1

Published: July 11 2008

The algae outbreak that threatened the Olympic sailing competition in Qingdao has spread hundreds of kilometres up the coast to popular tourist areas, even as Chinese officials on Friday claimed near-victory over the thick green sludge.

...

Just as the algae problem appears to be worsening, Xinhua news agency said this week pest-killers were trying to prevent a plague of locusts in Inner Mongolia from descending on Beijing – adding to the sense of near-biblical woes afflicting China.

for people can't youtube @ office

http://seawayblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/qingdao-and-algae-bloom.html

A system of monitoring stations calculates a daily air quality rating on a scale of 1 to 500, with 500 being the worst.

That calibration system sounds like it was adapted from an aborted mission to Venus.

I know some people are hoping that these Games will be disastrous and humiliating for China, but I wonder if anyone else is worrying that such an outcome might result in some post-Olympics belligerence and saber-rattling.

What's to rattle against? The evil smogmonster?

...who will, no doubt, turn out to be based in Taiwan.

"Mankind has always dreamed of destroying the smog!"

As said by Mr. 烧, no doubt.

(Gwen Stefani to thread, apparently. Sheesh.)

Four days to go and the weather is great!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/08/03/philcam_3.jpg

...uh.

I just saw that trampoline is a sport, then I looked at it on youtube and it's a really cool one! Kind of like diving several times in immediate succession.