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Did the Beijing Games live up to its expectations? Did the Beijing Games live up to its expectations?
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How can the Chinese Government allow this endemic culture of fake foods and fake medicines, to keep going with business-as-usual. Why should anyone buy anything from China when the possibility is, that what they are buying is made of dangerous toxic chemicals, that are banned, yet OK for use in China. This incidence with baby milk is criminal and I have to say, I don’t believe the Chinese Government is clean as chances are the criminals responsible for this despicable act are either Communist Party members and therefore immune to the RULE OF LAW, or your average criminal, so full of cash, they know all the under-the-table means to buy off the police and government officials. I bet in the end all those arrested for this crime will be the little people of the group, and the big guys will just slip away into the background, only to emerge in a few years time to do the whole scam again. This is the second wave of fake milk powder. The first big case occurred in 2004. Nothing happened then, nothing will happen now and nothing will happen in the future. WELCOME TO CHINA. The Olympic Games has achieved nothing, but make the Chinese people believe Western people are so weak, they can totally ignore international law, and do anything they want.
Its interesting what WRATHOFGODLINESS FROM GOLD COAST had to say about God and Punishment. The Chinese press issued a scathing attack on the Western Media, and Western Bloggers for associating the Sichuan Earthquake with GOD punishing the Chinese people for all the evil deeds performed over the past hundred or so years, but what was not discussed was the fact that this is exactly what the Chinese people themselves were saying throughout China, printed in the media, and discussed on radio and TV, to explain their bad fortune. Isn't it strange that the Chinese press believe it is OK for the Chinese people to comment on GOD'S wrath, and the fate of China, but anything said by the West, is an attack on Chinese integrity.
I don’t know what to think about the Beijing Olympics. After reading the article provided by Dragon Killer, I have to wonder if the people in the West are ready for the Chinese. Here the Chinese are holding the Para-Olympics, and basking in the glory at how great they are, and yet at the same time, disabled and elderly people are being killed and sold as commodities. What type of people do this. Their actions are not civilised and not what I or anyone else in the Western world wants to be a part of. If the Chinese want a slice of our world, we demand they do something about their behaviour. Really, I will never go to China knowing the Chinese have no respect for life. What they are doing is not human. It truly is evil. I read an article in the Financial Times yesterday that the Chinese used the Beijing Olympic Games to tell the world that they HAVE ARRIVED, AND ARE NOW A GLOBAL PLAYER, but sorry, I can’t see this. I expect more that the power of money, and the ability to bully minorities in Tibet and Xinjiang. What they are doing just makes me sick.
From opening to closing ceremony the whole show exceeds the past standard and taken Olympics to a new height. Well done China.
It was a superb example of how blinded humankind is, to the fact that this nation kills those that worship God, and persecutes those that oppose it's willingness to support the devils new world order. So throw a spear, and turn a wheel, as democracy dies before your eyes. Why do you think earhquakes appeared before these games? Repent, sinning nations for the time is near. Oh! Have a nice day, and God loves you!
TO: DAVID FROM BRISBANE. So you think big evil America is a problem for the world, and that past Eastern Block countries, like innocent little China, are just victims of an egotistical WEST. Read on, and I wonder what you will think in 5 minutes time. This report is truly a story of such evil one really has to ask - IS CHINA READY FOR THE MODERN WORLD. OR, MAY I SUGGEST - DOES THE MODERN WORLD REALLY KNOW WHAT WE ARE GETTING INVOLVED WITH, BY EMBRACING CHINA AS A GLOBAL TRADE PARTNER, AND MAYBE A FRIEND. Throughout the Beijing Olympics so many AUSTRALIAN - SBS bloggers posted arguments which were so “politically correct,” so “pretty and nice,” that they totally missed the point of what a web-discussion is all about. Some bloggers actually discussed their anger that China’s troubles were being posted and that the community felt their web-site had been hijacked. How can this be the case when the issues of China’s rise are so intense, the problems of this great nation have enormous implications as to the effects on the rest of the world. Does the holding of the Olympic Games, in Beijing, really cleanse the Chinese Communist Party, and the Chinese people, of all wrongs over the past 100 years. The Chinese Communist Party tried this trick by telling the Chinese people the Olympic flame was “HOLY.” This problem, of political lying, is especially so of sensitive issues dealing with human rights and the rule of law, social issues, which are so well inbreed into the Australian condition, that when individuals criticise governments, such as China, North Korea, Iran, and Russia etc., many people believe the stories put forward to support such issues are simply too bizarre to be true. So, such reports are deemed, “made up,” or “the poison of a trouble maker”. The truth is that the issues discussed and arguments put forward are all true and can be proven to be true through known records. The Disabled Olympics will be over in 14 days, and there are many more issues to discuss, and so let me ask everyone to understand that such discussion is necessary, if China is to grow into the safe partner, the Modern World, so desires. This story comes from the South China Morning Post, in Hong Kong, and it has been written by a Chinese Journalist, not a foreigner out to make trouble. - SCMP - Corpse-selling gang held for killing 100 frail victims in Guangdong - Fiona Tam - Sep 02, 2008 - More than 100 disabled or elderly people may have been murdered by a gang in Puning , Guangdong province, and their corpses sold for cremation to families wanting to bury their dead. Puning government and police spokesmen said yesterday wealthy people who did not want their dead relatives cremated had bought the corpses of the murder victims to replace their relatives' bodies, which were later interred according to traditional customs. Burial was a widespread tradition in China for several thousand years, and many Chinese believe it demonstrates a respect for the deceased that will be repaid with blessings and protection for the living. But the mainland outlawed the tradition in the 1950s and enforced cremation to eradicate superstitions and save on farmland, a move that many critics blame for the rise in the black-market corpse trade. They also say the policy shows no respect for folk customs and values. An officer from the Puning Public Security Bureau who declined to give his name said about seven suspects were arrested three weeks ago when police discovered the gang during a homicide investigation. A bureau spokesman said the suspects were being interrogated and the case was still under investigation. A Hong Kong newspaper reported yesterday that nine people from Nanxi town in Puning were arrested, and that the victim toll could exceed 100. The report said suspects would trail victims, usually mentally disabled or elderly, drag them into vehicles in remote areas and either strangle or poison them. Corpses would be sold for 10,000 yuan (HK$11,438) each and substituted for cremation. The report said the Jieyang funeral home confirmed it had collected many bodies from a site since identified by police as the gang's headquarters. Liu Hongbo , a newspaper columnist based in Wuhan , said the strict cremation system  violated traditional cultural values, and encouraged corpse sellers and buyers. "Obviously, buyers knew those bodies were people murdered by the suspects, but both parties simply treated life as a commodity to be used in their interests," Liu said. "Being afraid of cremation can never be a reason to murder someone ... It exposes a gruesome side of our society and deserves careful examination by authorities and the people." In 2004, a man from neighbouring Jiexi county in Guangdong was arrested for murdering 10 people and selling the corpses to the rich.
It was the best ever - stunning record breakings. Can't be surpassed!
How good was it to see Craig Foster hosting part of the Olympic Games coverage? What a pleasant change it was to see handsome new talent! Not only did he look good, but he knew his craft. I think the female viewers would agree! Thanks for the great talent SBS.
'Like the post by The Truth from China. It really is amazing how the communist party has rewritten Chinese history books to show even Genghis Khan as a Chinese. What a load of tosh. If it wasn’t for the chinese peoples knowledge of agriculture, basically to grow wheat and rice, the mongols would have exterminated the people of the Sung Dynasty (960 - 1279), just like the genocide the mongols committed when they slaughtered all the pastoral tribes on the steppes. If there was one resource the mongols treasured more than human life, it was grass; remembering the mongols were meat (cattle/goats/sheep) and butter eaters, and the Chinese grain and vegetable oil consumers (the Chinese are very well recorded for commenting on all the smelly barbarians who cooked using animal fat). The fact is that when the mongols conquered the Sung Empire, CHINA ceased to exist. With regard to chinese architecture, there really is no ancient record of any building in stone, and that compressed earth was the main structural medium until the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644). Of course, China is also earthquake prone, so building in stone, without cement would not have made sense, whereas compressed earth is much stronger, lighter, and less injurious if an building collapses. There again Italy is also an earthquake area, but this did not stop the Romans from building in stone, nor their use of cement, so building material may in the end just be a personal choice. Regarding the Great Wall, it is an incredible achievement, although there is no such thing as one wall, as the many different states (Chu, Han, Qin, Jin, Lu, Qi etc.,) which preceded the idea of a large Chinese state, built their own sections, along their own territorial borders, to keep unwanted tribes out. It was really only during the Ming Dynasty that many of the sections were joined together to keep out the mongol hordes, which continued to raid Chinese territory after the collapse of the Mongol Empire (1206 - 1368). The chinese people themselves describe the great wall as the wall of tears, as each section was built through forced labour, mainly slaves, and there are today, hundreds of thousands of skeletons buried within the earthen walls. The ancient chinese really did not like mixing races, preferring to keep the bloodline pure. Maybe the legacy of the Olympic Games will be the unification of all of the Chinese nation, as being truly one people, a feat, not possible at any other period in Chinese history.