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Tuesday, April 01, 2008
'Water Cube'
Workers wash the dirt off the National Aquatics Center, also called the 'WaterCube' in Beijing, China.
The center will be the venue for swimming and diving events during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
5 comments:
Anonymous
said...
I've been to Beijing and if they intend to keep this roof clean then theirs will be nonstop work. I hope that, in light of the crackdown in Tibet and Tibetans throughout China yearning and protesting for autonomy/independence, the USA leads the world by pulling out of the Olympics. What do you think?
Not to mention China's investment in the Sudan and lack of real pressure on the Sudanese to stop the atrocities of rape and genocide in Darfur.
Why must the world wait for the USA to take the lead? The US could have ended this genocide long ago but the corporations that run the US opted for the oil in Iraq instead.
LOL...It is not like we are begging all of you to come to the Beijing Olympics. It is a great event for the whole world, not just for China. Sure, as a hosting country, China would like to extend a warm welcome to everyone. But if you want to pull out of the games for whatever reason, it is not our loss.
And the whole BOYCOTT thing is soooooo 80's. Do you seriously believe that it will work in today's world and it is in everyone's interest? Go ahead, boycott Beijing Olympics, boycott Chinese products, pressure/lobby all the Fortune 500 non-Chinese companies to withdraw from China's market... we all will end up with a much better world! Hurray!!!
I love the propaganda of the last comment--there was an article in The Nation about how the Chinese govt. has actually organized their own army of blog commentators to divert or mislead people about bad publicity re Tibet/Olympics. Scary.
OMG, the secret force of the Chinese government is so ubiquitous, it even keeps a close eye on a FABULOUS gay blog!!!!!
Lighten up, would you? I would expect someone in a "democratic" society more open to different voices without resorting character attack and labeling my personal comments as government propaganda.
What I said is simply the truth. Boycott represents cold-war thinking and is a game nobody can afford in today's world. We are not "back to the USSR", we are head to, emm, BJ (as in BeiJing) this summer!
Workers wash the dirt off the National Aquatics Center, also called the 'Water Cube' in Beijing, China.
5 comments:
I've been to Beijing and if they intend to keep this roof clean then theirs will be nonstop work. I hope that, in light of the crackdown in Tibet and Tibetans throughout China yearning and protesting for autonomy/independence, the USA leads the world by pulling out of the Olympics. What do you think?
Not to mention China's investment in the Sudan and lack of real pressure on the Sudanese to stop the atrocities of rape and genocide in Darfur.
Why must the world wait for the USA to take the lead? The US could have ended this genocide long ago but the corporations that run the US opted for the oil in Iraq instead.
LOL...It is not like we are begging all of you to come to the Beijing Olympics. It is a great event for the whole world, not just for China. Sure, as a hosting country, China would like to extend a warm welcome to everyone. But if you want to pull out of the games for whatever reason, it is not our loss.
And the whole BOYCOTT thing is soooooo 80's. Do you seriously believe that it will work in today's world and it is in everyone's interest? Go ahead, boycott Beijing Olympics,
boycott Chinese products,
pressure/lobby all the Fortune 500 non-Chinese companies to withdraw from China's market... we all will end up with a much better world! Hurray!!!
I love the propaganda of the last comment--there was an article in The Nation about how the Chinese govt. has actually organized their own army of blog commentators to divert or mislead people about bad publicity re Tibet/Olympics. Scary.
OMG, the secret force of the Chinese government is so ubiquitous, it even keeps a close eye on a FABULOUS gay blog!!!!!
Lighten up, would you? I would expect someone in a "democratic" society more open to different voices without resorting character attack and labeling my personal comments as government propaganda.
What I said is simply the truth. Boycott represents cold-war thinking and is a game nobody can afford in today's world. We are not "back to the USSR", we are head to, emm, BJ (as in BeiJing) this summer!
Your secret agent man
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