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If you ever see blue skies at the Beijing Olympics you should remember it is just another lie perpetrated by the Chinese government and at a cost to the Chinese people.

Reuters: Beijing still hazy with three days to go

Organizers want clean and crisp skies for the Games and have closed factories and pulled half the capital’s 3.3 million cars off the roads to achieve their ambition.

Just think what it would be like being told you can not go to work or drive because your government wanted the world to believe a lie. WOW!!! Sounds like a play from the piece of sh*t president Bush play book.

A friend sent this to me and I couldn’t resist putting on here. Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

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Why was Beijing chosen to host the 2008 Olympics? How much did the brutal and corrupt Chinese government pay the International Olympic Committee? And why is the rest of the world so willing to look the other way?

These are questions I have when I hear about the upcoming Olympics. Then I read about more about how the Chinese government treats it’s citizens.

Today on the BBC: Limits to China’s pledge of change

He is in jail. It took great courage for his wife, Zhang Qing, to speak to us.

“While in Guangzhou prison, his hands were tied to his feet for 42 days. His arms were twisted backwards and he was then hung up so all his weight was on his two twisted shoulders.

“In February 2007, the police used electric shock batons on his genitals. After all this torture, Guo Feixiong confessed. The government is absolutely disgusting.”

Torture and censorship most likely will not deter many people from visiting China for the Olympics. So what will it take?

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Here is something I found in the Chicago Tribune.

I think having the Olympics in smog filled Beijing a is a disservice to the athletes who have trained so hard.

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For athletes to train for years to participate in the Olympics, then have to compete in such poor environmental conditions, is just plain wrong.

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With today’s protest, I found this image to be very appropriate.

How would you feel if you were evicted from your home? According to The Center on Housing Rights and Evictions about 13,000 people a month are being evicted in time for the Beijing Olympics. It estimates 1.5 million people living in Beijing will be evicted in time for the 2008 Games. These evictions are so the Chinese will have room to build Olympic facilities and remove homes which will not reflect positively on China.

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What will the protests against the Olympic torch and the Beijing Olympics be like in San Fransisco?

United States Olympic Committee chairman Peter Ueberroth is returning to the United States cutting short his stay at the Olympic meetings. This comes as protesters in London and Paris have turned out in the thousands, while in Paris the Olympic torch was extinguished by police due to protests.

The torch visits San Francisco on Wednesday, which is expected to draw thousands of protesters.

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How much is the Chinese government paying IOC President Jacques Rogge? Rogge spoke to reporters at a press conference today in Singapore where he told the reporters,

“The health of the athletes is absolutely not in any danger. It might be that some will have to have a slightly reduced performance, but nothing will harm the health of the athletes. The IOC will take care of that.”

That is easy for him to say because you know Rogge does not give a sh*t about an athletes health. All he cares about is getting his money and having the games played in Beijing. In the meantime the Chinese government continues to insult the world with it’s blatant lies about the air quality and violence.

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Why does the global community continue to support the Olympics and the International Olympic Committee? How much is the Chinese government paying the IOC for the privilege to host the 2008 Beijing Olympics? Here is a report on more violence against the unarmed monks and citizens of Tibet.

The Associated Press is reporting Police Fire on Tibetan Protesters; 8 Die:

BEIJING (AP) — Police fired on hundreds of protesters in a Tibetan area of western China, killing eight people, overseas activist groups said. State media reported one government official was seriously injured in what it called a riot.

“We should strengthen patriotic education so as to guide the masses of monks to continuously display the patriotic tradition and uphold the banner of patriotism,” the paper quoted Hao Peng, Tibet’s deputy Communist Party Chief, as saying.

Thursday’s violence in Sichuan province came when the government attempted to enforce “patriotic education” at the Garze monastery, according to the activist groups.

With no access by outside reporters I am sure this only very small amount of the violence which is being perpetrated by armed government thugs against the people of Tibet.

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