Category: 2008 Olympics
2008 Olympic Profile: The People of Beijing, June 3-4, 1989.
On April 15, 1989 a man named Hu Yaobang died at a party Political Bureau Meeting in Beijing, China. Hu has once been the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and had been a loyal follower of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping but was forced to resign in 1987 in disgrace. He had [...]
2008 Olympic Profile: Yang Maodong (AKA: Guo Feixiong)
In July, 2005, the villagers of Taishi, China decided they had grown tired of being mistreated by the head of the village committee, Chen Jingsheng. They placed a recall referendum on the local election ballot. They got help from a lawyer named Yang Maodong (who also went by the pen name of Guo Feixiong). The [...]
Ralph Peters is Also Looking for an Olympic Disaster
From your lips to God’s ears, Mr. Peters. The butchers in Beijing thought they could buy a happy-face propaganda image, that they could stage-manage the Olympics the way Stalin’s PR boys seduced the New York Times as millions died. Boy, did their ignorance of the suppleness of today’s communications networks backfire. President Hu Jintao and [...]
2008 Olympic Profile: Mao Hengfeng
Today is the first day of the 2008 Summer Olympics games in China. Instead of writing about the Games, though, I’ve decided to write one post a day about someone the Chinese Government has snatched up and throw in one of their brutal prisons. I’ll be leaning heavily on places like Human Rights Watch because, [...]
The President Whiffs on the Olympics, but Our Athletes Come Through
There’s some so-so news and some very good news coming out of America’s preparation for the coming Olympic Games in China later this week. On one hand, the President looks to be headed to China to pay respects to the tyrants of Beijing with little but some tut-tutting and “deep concerns” . That adds up [...]
Why We Must Boycott the 2008 Summer Olympics
If you won’t agree that we should boycott the coming Olympic Games because the Chinese government is a bunch of despicable tyrants, maybe you’ll buy this: it’s a trap! What? You don’t think they’ve been doing nothing for a couple thousand years, do you? (via Hot Air)
Censorship? In China? The Deuce You Say!
Apparently, Captain Renault works for the International Olympic Committee. BEIJING (Reuters) – The media should have been told they would not have total Internet freedom before arriving for the Beijing Olympics, a senior IOC official said on Thursday, as rights groups piled criticism on both the IOC and host China. As the row over censorship [...]
IOC Gives the Tyrants in Beijing a Big Thumbs-Up!
It’s really tough for me to explain exactly how digusted this story makes me. BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing’s preparations for the Olympics were hailed as a “gold standard for the future” on Tuesday, a month before the opening ceremony, while China said its critics could not prevent the success of the Games. “The quality of [...]
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