Comments on: China, Beijing Olympics http://www.dianaswednesday.com/2008/04/spielberg-drops-out-as-adviser-to-beijing-olympics-in-dispute-over-darfur/ Where the world comes together Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:37:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: An Xin http://www.dianaswednesday.com/2008/04/spielberg-drops-out-as-adviser-to-beijing-olympics-in-dispute-over-darfur/#comment-2899 An Xin Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:30:27 +0000 http://www.dianaswednesday.com/2008/04/spielberg-drops-out-as-adviser-to-beijing-olympics-in-dispute-over-darfur/#comment-2899 Fearful about the prospect of human-rights protesters ruining the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China today announced a plan to move the summer games to a remote location where no one can find them. A spokesman for the Chinese ministry of sport, Wu Qingxiu, said that the plan to move the Olympics to an undisclosed location has "advanced from the planning stage into the doing stage." The reasoning behind the move was simple, Wu told reporters: "You cannot protest what you cannot find." While rumors swirled about where the Olympics might be relocated, the Chinese official said that all such speculation is futile: "China is a very large country, and if you want to hide the Olympics, it is a very easy thing to do." In order to keep the new location a secret, Wu revealed that China had not even disclosed it to NBC, which has a contract to televise the 2008 Summer Games. This decision drew an outraged response from NBC Chairman Jeff Zucker, who told reporters in New York, "If NBC doesn't know where the Olympics are, no one will watch them." Wu took exception to Zucker's comment about no one watching the Olympics, responding, "That sounds like a typical NBC show to me." I wish I could take credit for this but apparently it was in <a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/" rel="nofollow">The Onion</a>, and posted on one of several blogs in Beijing frequented by some foreigners. <strong>An Xin</strong> Fearful about the prospect of human-rights protesters ruining the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China today announced a plan to move the summer games to a remote location where no one can find them.
A spokesman for the Chinese ministry of sport, Wu Qingxiu, said that the plan to move the Olympics to an undisclosed location has “advanced from the planning stage into the doing stage.” The reasoning behind the move was simple, Wu told reporters: “You cannot protest what you cannot find.”
While rumors swirled about where the Olympics might be relocated, the Chinese official said that all such speculation is futile: “China is a very large country, and if you want to hide the Olympics, it is a very easy thing to do.”
In order to keep the new location a secret, Wu revealed that China had not even disclosed it to NBC, which has a contract to televise the 2008 Summer Games.
This decision drew an outraged response from NBC Chairman Jeff Zucker, who told reporters in New York, “If NBC doesn’t know where the Olympics are, no one will watch them.” Wu took exception to Zucker’s comment about no one watching the Olympics, responding, “That sounds like a typical NBC show to me.”

I wish I could take credit for this but apparently it was in The Onion, and posted on one of several blogs in Beijing frequented by some foreigners.
An Xin

]]> By: Diana Thébaud Nicholson http://www.dianaswednesday.com/2008/04/spielberg-drops-out-as-adviser-to-beijing-olympics-in-dispute-over-darfur/#comment-1833 Diana Thébaud Nicholson Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:21:39 +0000 http://www.dianaswednesday.com/2008/04/spielberg-drops-out-as-adviser-to-beijing-olympics-in-dispute-over-darfur/#comment-1833 April 16, 2008 <strong>SAVE THE OLYMPICS Campaign</strong> The Beijing Olympics are a crucial chance to persuade China's leaders to support dialogue and human rights in Tibet, as well as Burma and Darfur, and we need to seize it. China wants the Olympics to be a coming out party for a newly modern, powerful, and respectable nation. But the Olympics are about humanity and excellence--we can't celebrate them in good conscience while ignoring the suffering of Tibetans and others. So <a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/en/save_the_olympics/1.php?cl=77005868 " rel="nofollow"><strong>Avaaz</strong> is launching a major new campaign</a>: SAVE THE OLYMPICS. We'll ask China to save the Olympics for all of us, by making specific, reasonable progress in dialogue with the Dalai Lama, securing release of Burmese and Tibetan political prisoners, and supporting peacekeeping in Darfur. April 16, 2008
SAVE THE OLYMPICS Campaign
The Beijing Olympics are a crucial chance to persuade China’s leaders to support dialogue and human rights in Tibet, as well as Burma and Darfur, and we need to seize it.
China wants the Olympics to be a coming out party for a newly modern, powerful, and respectable nation. But the Olympics are about humanity and excellence–we can’t celebrate them in good conscience while ignoring the suffering of Tibetans and others.
So Avaaz is launching a major new campaign: SAVE THE OLYMPICS. We’ll ask China to save the Olympics for all of us, by making specific, reasonable progress in dialogue with the Dalai Lama, securing release of Burmese and Tibetan political prisoners, and supporting peacekeeping in Darfur.

]]> By: Jana http://www.dianaswednesday.com/2008/04/spielberg-drops-out-as-adviser-to-beijing-olympics-in-dispute-over-darfur/#comment-1692 Jana Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:31:39 +0000 http://www.dianaswednesday.com/2008/04/spielberg-drops-out-as-adviser-to-beijing-olympics-in-dispute-over-darfur/#comment-1692 What Steven Spielberg did was a righteous action and one that he can of course afford to do. The CCP has shown and will continue to show its true colours to the world and this will definably sort out the righteous from the evil in this dharma ending period in the world today. It’s the CCP who has politicised these Olympic games by jailing, persecuting and removing the basic human rights of the Chinese especially the Human rights activists and human rights defenders and the people of faith while spewing forth massive amounts’ of propaganda to brainwash all Chinese citizens. BTW the Chinese communist regime boycotted the Moscow Olympics in 1980 citing political issues. This info needs to be spread widely Why would the international community expect the Chinese communist regime to stop Genocide in <strong>Darfur</strong> or anywhere else in the world when they are committing their very own Genocide on the peaceful practitioners of <strong>Falun Gong </strong>in China. Spielberg would do better in exposing the atrocities committed inside China. Read <a href="http://organharvestinvestigation.net/ " rel="nofollow">the report </a>about the Chinese communist regime committing live forced organ harvesting to the Falun Gong and selling their organs for large money to the rich foreigners. Crimes Against Humanity and the Olympics cannot co-exist in China. Some truths are intolerable Our Governments know about it Our media know about it Human Rights organisations know about it Now you know about it PLease do something now!! What Steven Spielberg did was a righteous action and one that he can of course afford to do. The CCP has shown and will continue to show its true colours to the world and this will definably sort out the righteous from the evil in this dharma ending period in the world today.
It’s the CCP who has politicised these Olympic games by jailing, persecuting and removing the basic human rights of the Chinese especially the Human rights activists and human rights defenders and the people of faith while spewing forth massive amounts’ of propaganda to brainwash all Chinese citizens.
BTW the Chinese communist regime boycotted the Moscow Olympics in 1980 citing political issues. This info needs to be spread widely
Why would the international community expect the Chinese communist regime to stop Genocide in Darfur or anywhere else in the world when they are committing their very own Genocide on the peaceful practitioners of Falun Gong in China.
Spielberg would do better in exposing the atrocities committed inside China.
Read the report about the Chinese communist regime committing live forced organ harvesting to the Falun Gong and selling their organs for large money to the rich foreigners.
Crimes Against Humanity and the Olympics cannot co-exist in China.
Some truths are intolerable
Our Governments know about it
Our media know about it
Human Rights organisations know about it
Now you know about it
PLease do something now!!

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