Tag: olympics
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beijing olympics end as countdown to 2012 begins
beijing closes olympic games with another spectaclefrom mcclatchy: The most expensive and lavish Olympic Games in history came to a close Sunday as Beijing officially passed the Olympic flame to London, and the countdown started for 2012 games that the British say will be frugal but fun. To the deafening roar of fireworks, Beijing marked…
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elderly women sent to chinese re-education/labor camp
from time: Two Beijing women in their late 70s have been sentenced to a year of administrative detention after applying to protest in the Chinese capital’s Olympic protest zones. Wu Dianyuan, 79, and Wang Xiuying, 77, are former neighbors who are upset about being forcibly evicted from their homes in 2001. This month, they visited…
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are you enjoying the fake olympics?
from natural news: Are you enjoying watching the fake Olympics? By “fake,” of course, I’m referring to all the fabrications that have emerged since the opening of the event. Each day, it seems, brings news of yet another fabrication by China. Here’s a short list of the fabrications that have been discovered so far: •…
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totalitarian olympic updates
white house press corps plane detained in chinafrom ap: A charter airplane carrying the White House press corps was detained for nearly three hours Friday at Beijing’s international airport not long after President Bush arrived to attend the Olympic Games. The flight crew of the Northwest Airlines 747 had been expecting to park at a…
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beijing olympics: weather mod, rfid & vulgar display of power
china’s rain stoppers face big testfrom financial times: Of all the Chinese officials working behind the scenes to produce a flawless Olympic opening ceremony on Friday evening, few face a task as daunting as those in charge of making sure it does not rain. Staff from China’s “weather modification” departments have deployed aircraft, artillery and…
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the totalitarian olympics to begin in beijing
china grateful bush crime family is coming to olympicsfrom mcclatchy: When Chinese leaders gaze into stadium stands Friday and see President Bush and his extended family watching the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, they’ll feel strong gratitude for his presence. Gone will be any ill feeling about his lashing of China’s human rights record…
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the beijing olympics: are they a trap?
‘In The Know’ panelists discuss whether our athletes will be able to escape the bamboo cages the Chinese government will try to imprison them in.
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geopolitiks: dog meat, poison & weather wargames
china may modify weather for olympicsfrom xinhua: If bad weather threatens the August 8 opening of Beijing’s Olympic Games, then meteorologists may change the weather, according to a Chinese meteorology official. Chen Zhenlin, a vice director with the China Meteorological Administration (CMA), made the statement Tuesday afternoon at a press conference held at the Beijing…
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beijing missiles, israeli aid, reconquista & ‘plan mercator’
beijing deploys missiles around the olympic stadiumfrom epoch times: The Opening of the Beijing Olympics will occur in about 40 days. The Chinese Communist regime has deployed surface-to-air missiles in Beijing City to prevent an airborne terrorist attack on the Olympics. According to a June 22 report from Hong Kong’s Sing Tao Daily, Beijing’s surface-to-air…
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‘thousands dead’ in chinese quake
from time: Between 3,000 and 5,000 people have been killed by an earthquake measuring 7.8 in one county of Sichuan province in south-western China, reports say. Some 10,000 people are also feared to have been injured in Beichuan county. update1: toll mounts in china earthquakefrom time: As many as 8,500 people have been killed by…
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‘flame protection unit’ or chinese paramilitary police
from steve watson: A 30 man squad of crack trained Chinese paramilitary cops will today march through the streets of San Francisco, policing the one and only US stop on the Olympic torch relay, and tackling any American protesters who get in their way. The news follows revelations that the London and Paris Olympic torch…
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extinquished torch, internet2, absolut raza & swatkids
olympic torch put out three timesfrom ap: Security officials extinguished the Olympic torch three times Monday as protests against China’s human rights record turned a relay through Paris into a chaotic series of stops and starts. Despite massive security, at least two activists got within almost an arm’s length of the flame before they were…
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tibet protesters disrupt olympic flame ceremony
from guardian: Pro-Tibetan protesters today disturbed a high security ceremony to light the Olympic flame in Greece. International dignitaries were gathered at Olympia, the site of the ancient Olympics, when three members of the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders ran onto the field to disrupt a speech by Liu Qi, president of the Beijing organising committee…
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china’s weather control brigade
from danger room: By now, you may have heard about China’s efforts to keep the Beijing Olympics from being rained out. Fox News visits the Chinese weather controllers. Despite their arsenal of 4,000 rocket launchers, 7,000 anti-aircraft guns, and 30 airplanes for reverse cloud-seeding, they do not sound too sure they can hold China’s traditional…
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china locks down as protests blow up
beijing sends in tanks as tibet eruptsfrom guardian: China flooded the streets of Lhasa with riot police, yesterday, as the international community urged an end to the bloodshed in Tibet that has already claimed at least 10 – possibly dozens more – lives… “The army and police forbid us from walking down the road, so…