Tag: tibet
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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…