BS: China's new Olympic sport on film

Subject: BS: China's new Olympic sport on film
From: Stu
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 04:47 AM

I don't know how long the link will stay on the front page of the BBC website, but this makes for distressing viewing and reminds us that a Soveriegn nation is still under occupation from one of the most corrupt and brutal governments left in the world.

Shooting Tibetans in Self-Defence

Roll on the 2008 Olympics!

Tashi Delek,

stigWeard

Subject: RE: BS: China's new Olympic sport on film
From: mack/misophist
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 09:49 AM

Unfortunately, BBC blocks video outside the UK. Maybe Reuters.

Subject: RE: BS: China's new Olympic sport on film
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 09:56 AM

Very Sad, though the olympics is irrelevant. Events like the olympics are important as they bring the world together.

Maybe it's true that the focus is more on beating other nations than on it is on sporting excellence for many, but it's better than all out isolationaiism and paranoia.

There is something very sick and inhuman about that kind of cold hearted murder. Where there was a gently shining star there is a vacuum, the empty pointlessness of which I feel in my soul. I fail to understand how that is either not felt or ignored in good conscience by the soldier or his masters.

Climbing permits in the area may become harder to acquire, while refugees may begin to consider similarly "public" routes.

The poor woman. I hope it didn't hurt.

Subject: RE: BS: China's new Olympic sport on film
From: Stu
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 02:26 PM

"though the olympics is irrelevant"

In what way are they irrelevant? The huge amounts of cash they generate? The worldwide publicity for the host nation? The PR value of having a brutal, corrupt government host humankinds premier sporting event?

The 1936 Olympics weren't seen as irrelevant, and a good job too because they showed Hitler's belief in racial superiority was a load of cobblers. My hope for the 2008 Olympics is they will show China's illegal occupation of Tibet to be treated with similar disdain.

And that's before we've even started with torture, executions, jailing of dissidents, kidnapping and detention without trial of senior Tibetan lamas (and countless monks and nuns), dubious activities in Africa, forced eviction of peasants etc etc etc . . .

Subject: RE: BS: China's new Olympic sport on film
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 08:14 PM

We saw that on Public FTA TV in Australai - on all channels.

Subject: RE: BS: China's new Olympic sport on film
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 09:56 PM

Hmmmmm All I get from that link is the BBC news page. ?

Subject: RE: BS: China's new Olympic sport on film
From: Jeri
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 10:09 PM

The video is here - it's not on the front page anymore. I don't have broadband, so I don't know if it actually works, but it's the correct link.

Subject: RE: BS: China's new Olympic sport on film
From: Stu
Date: 17 Oct 06 - 04:45 AM

I didn't see it on the main news on the BBC, but then the BBC does show a pro-china bias much of the time, probably because of commercial interests there (I don't actually know this, I'm just guessing).

Subject: RE: BS: China's new Olympic sport on film
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 17 Oct 06 - 08:56 AM

China has outpaced almost every other country as Australia's trading partner...