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The rape of the Olympic spirit : Comments

By Arthur Thomas, published 8/8/2008

The IOC has deliberately desecrated the Olympic spirit and has shown a lack of intestinal fortitude in enforcing conditions formally agreed to with China.

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THE OLYMPICS is a red herring destraction

the media is reporting on mere sport

here is some REAL NEWS
[but the media is talking about GOLD ]
not 'BLACK gold'
the ROOTcause of this beginning to armogeddon

US and israel assist georgia invasion for oil pipeline

Georgian forces, trained and equipped by the Pentagon and the U.S. and ISRAEL government, killed 10 Russian peacekeepers early this morning in a provocation attack that has escalated into military conflict,

but the subsequent corporate media coverage would have us believe that the U.S. and NATO-backed client state Georgia is a helpless victim,

when in actual fact a far more nuanced geopolitical strategy is being played out.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/us-attacks-russia-through-client-state-georgia.html
http://www.gcnlive.com/Listen_Live.html
http://www.infowars.com/
http://www.infowars.com/stream.pls

South Ossettia leader says 1,400 killed in conflict: Georgia launched a major military offensive today to retake the breakaway province of South Ossetia. Rebel leaders said about 1,400 had been killed.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/south-ossettia-leader-says-1400-killed-in-conflict-888487.html

Georgian troops withdraw from South Ossetia: "Using grenade launchers (South) Ossetian local defense forces are destroying Georgian tanks. According to eyewitnesses they (the tanks) are on fire throughout the city," the committee said in a statement.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/09/content_9062887.htm

Video: Georgian troops retreat from S. Osettian capital: Georgian troops have reportedly left Tskhinvali, ending a day of violence in the South Ossetian capital. The breakaway republic’s authorities say hundreds of civilians have been killed.

http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/28668/video

Timeline of Russia-Georgia tensions over separatists: Following is a timeline of Russian-Georgian tensions, which have spiralled with Georgia attacking the capital of breakaway South Ossetia and Russia reportedly bombing Georgian territory

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20080808-153525/Timeline-of-Russia-Georgia-tensions-over-separatists

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
enjoy your COVERAGE of the destractions
gold medal performances IN DEED

just like the romans did
when their way of life ended

cheer the winners by their sporting destraction

olym-pics BAH
Posted by one under god, Saturday, 9 August 2008 10:06:41 AM
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Good article. The IOC has a lot to answer for in playing "Clayton politics".

They either grant the rights to stage the Games on clearly defined criteria and honour the principles of Olympism, or rescind their obligations and the right to be representatives the of Olympic spirit. How spectacular or extravagant the games may be, is not the point.

I notice they omitted any mention of the major role Steven Spielberg played in the opening production.

I understand there is renewed interest in the trail of individual releases and formal statements by the IOC, BOCOG and Beijing.

Jack Rogge's recent word game on the Great China Firewall, proclaims it is out of his hands and that China is responsible for operating the internet in China, not the IOC. The way he keeps digging holes for himself, he will be out of sight soon. (In fact that may not be a bad thing.) Verbruggen is running support, further questioning the ability of the IOC to negotiate and enforce and uphold the principles of the Olympic Spirit.

To protect the health and well being of the athletes, I would have expected the IOC to adopt the global standard of WHO and not allow countries to set their own. Same for monitoring.

You obviously submitted this article before the Kashgar "terror police bombing".

Opinion is that Beijing is using it as an excuse to cover up the real reason.

I suppose if China continues to blame and persecute them, the Uighurs have nothing to lose by launching attacks anyway. On the other hand, the video could be using China's own propaganda as a cheap and effective means to raise fear in the general population and undermine investment.

What do you think?

There are a number of "secret" atmospheric monitoring stations in several locations throughout Beijing producing results that contradict China's claims of air quality and the current "fog" (not smog). It appears there is a lot of nasty particles in thet thar "fog" that ain't water.

The comparisons should be interesting, as will be China's response.
Posted by expat China Journo, Saturday, 9 August 2008 6:21:07 PM
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When Steven Spielberg saw that the task as "artistic director" was too difficult for him to handle, he pretended to identify with the looney-left of the West and blamed China for what the Islamists are doing in Dafur, Sudan. He walked away in "protest". Truth is the project was too big for him to handle.

China's very own Zhang Yimou was able to handle the opening and closing ceremonies for summer Olympics. Anglo-Western directors and actors/actresses are more hype than substance witnessed from the many films and play produced.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080808/wl_uk_afp/oly2008ceremonybritain

'expat China Journo' would do well to know that the Uighurs problem in China's Xinjiang is symptomatic of radical Islam faced by many countries. They are funded by Saudi Arabia leaders who came to power because of the West and grew very rich because of the US and European insatiable demand for oil.
Posted by Philip Tang, Sunday, 10 August 2008 1:11:58 AM
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From what I recall the purpose of the Olympics was to bring together warring factions and to foster understanding.

The spirit referred to in the article certainly did not exist until recently, and even so only exists as standard some would like to see applied.

In holding the Olympics China has had its feet held to the fire, and been forced to clean up its act far more than it would have done without the Olympics. To expect much more would be naive.

To restrict the Olympics to only those that met our exacting standards of civilisation, would actually be even more against the spirit of the Olympics and would restrict the games only to the OECD.
Posted by Democritus, Sunday, 10 August 2008 8:11:16 AM
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Could you imagine the uproar in the western socialist dominated media if any western country had:
restricted the media in the ways China has:
limited involverment in the open ceromany to members of it's subservient military,
limited attendance at the opening ceremony to members of it's political elite, dominant party members, and subserviant police and military,
ringed the opening ceremony stadium with storm troopers,
saturated the olympic city with a military presence
prevented spectators from watching the olympic bike road race
detained tourists and competitors relatives
been unable to prevent atttacks on and murders of US citizens (Replace US with any socialist country)
sat by while the US anthem at a medal ceremony attend by the US president was botched (Replace US with any socialist dictatorship),
pretended the smog wasn't an issue... despite committments,
had transfered events from the Olympic city without authority or agreement(Equestrian),
watched as the olympic venues were built with unpaid labour,
saw peoples homes destroyed and evicted ... without compensation,
saw the ejection of citizens because they might reflect badly on the vision the regime wanted portrayed.

watch the list grow over the next two weeks

and imagine the uproar in the media if these disgraces were perpretrated by a western liberal democracy.

Instead we have media commentators and china sympathetic western leaders excusing, ignoring and kowtowing to the chinese totalitarian regime which is perpretrating these disgraces.
Posted by keith, Sunday, 10 August 2008 5:53:42 PM
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It never ceases to amaze me how idealism trumps reality, time after time.

>imagine the uproar in the media if these disgraces were perpretrated by a western liberal democracy.<<

It's like that old story about the two blokes in the pub, watching the news on TV, which is showing a man on a building ledge high above the city.

"He won't jump" says the first bloke.

"Sure he will" says the second bloke, "want to bet on it?"

"You've got it. Fifty says he'll climb down"

At that moment, the guy jumped. The first bloke reaches for his wallet.

"Hey," says the second, "don't bother. This was on the news earlier, I saw it an hour ago"

"So did I," says the second bloke "but I didn't think he'd go through with it again."

News flash.

China is not a democracy.

Why anyone would believe that a sporting event would succeed in suddenly bringing massive political change to a country, beats the hell out of me.

The Olympics have been for sale to the highest bidder for decades. China bought the right to stage the Games this year, as a massive publicity stunt to its own people, as a means to show the populace how great their government is.

Much the same as every other Games since Atlanta.

So the expression of indignation at their ability to continue to thumb their nose at world opinion shows a pleasant, if ineffectual, idealism.

He who pays the piper, I seem to recall, also calls the tune.
Posted by Pericles, Monday, 11 August 2008 9:57:48 AM
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