London Braces for Sunday's Olympic Torch Relay
Apr 7th, 2008, 03:11 AM
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Paris is next weekend right?
Will CW be ferried over their to help - expertise and experience?
Seems CW must still be sleeping it off - no doubt given Monday off after being on the front lines for some days
Good show London. Like flanner says seems lots of valid protestors made their points but no violence.
They still seem bent on taking that torch to Tibet - well torch then will be a good word
I'll wage a bet at Ladbrookes that the Torch Charade never makes it to Lahsa.
Will CW be ferried over their to help - expertise and experience?
Seems CW must still be sleeping it off - no doubt given Monday off after being on the front lines for some days
Good show London. Like flanner says seems lots of valid protestors made their points but no violence.
They still seem bent on taking that torch to Tibet - well torch then will be a good word
I'll wage a bet at Ladbrookes that the Torch Charade never makes it to Lahsa.
Apr 7th, 2008, 03:33 AM
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Paris WAS today
And NPR just reports that Parisian cops didn't mollycoddle the Chinese Torch Charade but indeed doused the torch to abort the charade.
something London would have done and should have done perhaps.
The French had balls to do something substantive to embarrass the Chines
Sarko is guess is boycotting the opening cerermonies - i expect the Queen will still done some fancy hat and be there as U.K.'s head of state
Of course London has the games next so would be expect to mollycoddle the Chinese.
And NPR just reports that Parisian cops didn't mollycoddle the Chinese Torch Charade but indeed doused the torch to abort the charade.
something London would have done and should have done perhaps.
The French had balls to do something substantive to embarrass the Chines
Sarko is guess is boycotting the opening cerermonies - i expect the Queen will still done some fancy hat and be there as U.K.'s head of state
Of course London has the games next so would be expect to mollycoddle the Chinese.
Apr 7th, 2008, 03:40 AM
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Well that was fun. There was a lot of violence - but in the background. We didn't let the herberts get close.
The chinese "police" (ie secret police) got seen to as well. That was the best bit.
I am wounded (broken thumb and a cut on my knee) but happy.
Fun fun fun till our daddy takes our t-bird away. Roll on 2012.
The chinese "police" (ie secret police) got seen to as well. That was the best bit.
I am wounded (broken thumb and a cut on my knee) but happy.
Fun fun fun till our daddy takes our t-bird away. Roll on 2012.
Apr 7th, 2008, 04:06 AM
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More on Paris coming in
Paris Police were JOGGING along side the torch and twice put it out and moved it along to a new part of the course and relit it
Seems the real flame that supposedly never goes out is carried in a special vehicle or something and was used to relit the fake torch in the relay
CW - note Paris police were jogging along side the torch
every cop should have to do jogging IMO
Paris Police were JOGGING along side the torch and twice put it out and moved it along to a new part of the course and relit it
Seems the real flame that supposedly never goes out is carried in a special vehicle or something and was used to relit the fake torch in the relay
CW - note Paris police were jogging along side the torch
every cop should have to do jogging IMO
Apr 7th, 2008, 04:06 AM
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All of the above.
Plus a liberal sprinkling of Middle England, just pissed off at letting these subhumans stage a publicity stunt on our streets.
Apparently the freedom-loving Chinese government has described their exposure to public opinion in a tolerant society as "vile behaviour".
With luck, San Francisco should provoke them into something absurder still. Get a few of Maupin's gays dressed as nuns out demonstrating and we'll have the Beijing dinosaurs foaming at the mouth in no time.
Plus a liberal sprinkling of Middle England, just pissed off at letting these subhumans stage a publicity stunt on our streets.
Apparently the freedom-loving Chinese government has described their exposure to public opinion in a tolerant society as "vile behaviour".
With luck, San Francisco should provoke them into something absurder still. Get a few of Maupin's gays dressed as nuns out demonstrating and we'll have the Beijing dinosaurs foaming at the mouth in no time.
Apr 7th, 2008, 04:09 AM
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BTW:
Given that our boys in blue were "protecting" the Chinese filth, how come the poor darlings got seen to?
You're not saying CW's colleagues put the boot in? And if they did, who do we send the medal recommendation to?
Given that our boys in blue were "protecting" the Chinese filth, how come the poor darlings got seen to?
You're not saying CW's colleagues put the boot in? And if they did, who do we send the medal recommendation to?
Apr 7th, 2008, 05:27 AM
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You're not saying CW's colleagues put the boot in?>>>
They got hammered.
They were acting the twat all day long and once they were out of sight of CCTV.........
Lets see the yanks beat that.
CW - wounded and happy.
They got hammered.
They were acting the twat all day long and once they were out of sight of CCTV.........
Lets see the yanks beat that.
CW - wounded and happy.
Apr 7th, 2008, 05:34 AM
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Interesting Flan that there were pro-chinese demonstrators to me at least
thot it would all be antis
sounds like police brutality to me and in this country there would be three simultaneous investigations going on already - local, state and national
ah CW back to checking out those pubs, a more riskier proposal perhaps
thot it would all be antis
sounds like police brutality to me and in this country there would be three simultaneous investigations going on already - local, state and national
ah CW back to checking out those pubs, a more riskier proposal perhaps
Apr 7th, 2008, 06:04 AM
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The pro-Chinese seem to have all been Chinese expats - the sort who intend going home with their British PhDs to run Lenovo or PetroChina, not the sort who want to stay here working in a Chinese takeaway.
Interviews on the box showed they didn't think Tibetans should be allowed to demonstrate in Tibet. But they were adamant that illiberal Chinese should be allowed to demonstrate here - so at least we've taught them something about freedom of speech.
Interviews on the box showed they didn't think Tibetans should be allowed to demonstrate in Tibet. But they were adamant that illiberal Chinese should be allowed to demonstrate here - so at least we've taught them something about freedom of speech.
Apr 7th, 2008, 07:25 AM
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Apparently the Paris protests are much large than London even as Tibetans and others including Green Party types flock in from all over ?Europe and promise to follow the torch throughout Europe
Green Party promises to extinguish the torch in Paris
How long will chinese carry on this torch Charade?
Green Party promises to extinguish the torch in Paris
How long will chinese carry on this torch Charade?
Apr 7th, 2008, 07:36 AM
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The relay has had to be aborted in Paris
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7334545.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7334545.stm
Apr 7th, 2008, 07:51 AM
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After the people of San Francisco have added to the Chinese discomfort, the torch is mostly scheduled to visit places less friendly to peaceful dissidence and - if we're honest - with more things to worry about.
I really can't imagine the people of Pyongyang, for instance, demonstrating for a free Tibet. So the likelihood is the torch will have a much easier ride till it gets to Canberra and Seoul at the end of the month.
There'll obviously be a fair bit more embarrassment there (apart from anything else, Aussie pride's at stake. They're not going to let the Poms do a better job of China-bashing, are they?) But then the torch, with its attendant thugs, will then have a gentler journey through China, where doubtless the masses will spontaneously gather to celebrate the wisdom of their rulers and the enlightened state they have the privilege of living in.
The charade will go on. Not least because, with coverage blacked out in China, it really doesn't hurt the geronocrats that much. It just makes us feel a bit better.
I really can't imagine the people of Pyongyang, for instance, demonstrating for a free Tibet. So the likelihood is the torch will have a much easier ride till it gets to Canberra and Seoul at the end of the month.
There'll obviously be a fair bit more embarrassment there (apart from anything else, Aussie pride's at stake. They're not going to let the Poms do a better job of China-bashing, are they?) But then the torch, with its attendant thugs, will then have a gentler journey through China, where doubtless the masses will spontaneously gather to celebrate the wisdom of their rulers and the enlightened state they have the privilege of living in.
The charade will go on. Not least because, with coverage blacked out in China, it really doesn't hurt the geronocrats that much. It just makes us feel a bit better.
Apr 7th, 2008, 07:56 AM
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Have a look at the English version of the People's Daily at http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/
The headline is
"Olympic torch relay resumed in Paris, spectators annoyed by protests" ;-)
The headline is
"Olympic torch relay resumed in Paris, spectators annoyed by protests" ;-)
Apr 7th, 2008, 09:05 AM
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Apparently protestors nearly snatched the torch before gendarmes intervened and snuffed it out and spirited it away
Now that would have been a spector
anti-Chinese demonstrators running around with a presumably extinguised Olympic torch!
Now that would have been a spector
anti-Chinese demonstrators running around with a presumably extinguised Olympic torch!
Apr 7th, 2008, 09:40 AM
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Meanwhile, back in China, Nike opens an average of one new store every day. (Per CNBC Money News.)
Two questions: Which will have the greater, more lasting impact on China, Nike or the Olympics protests? Where are the Nike shoes sold in China made?
Two questions: Which will have the greater, more lasting impact on China, Nike or the Olympics protests? Where are the Nike shoes sold in China made?
