Canberra-Flame of Shame Torch Relay Gets Uglier

It's odd how little coverage the US media is giving to the ongoing littany of Human Rights abuses associated with the Beijing Olympics Flame of Shame Torch Relay as it runs into serious problems at every stop, as storm troopers, military personnel and local police abuse human rights in the name of protecting China's disgraced Torch as it makes its way around the world. Though almost nothing appeared in America's media on this greek tragedy, the Torch Relay's visit to Australia was an abusive one with local police even doing a bit of smack down on China's well deserving torch attendents.

China Draws Line In Sand, Defies Astralia-Australia Should Cancel Torch Relay, BOOT CHINA TORCH TEAM OUT OF COUNTRY

China is getting just a little too big for its breeches, is defying the Australian Government, stating that the bruttish thugs known as the Chinese Torch Attendents would use their bodies (they are trained killers) to defend the torch against Australia's wishes and stated desires. Fine, kick the MOTHER FUCKERS OUT OF THE COUNTRY, cancel the Torch Relay and tell China to go fuck itself. That is not likely to happen, so I would suggest that the Pro Tibetan Protesters that will be out in force tomorrow be prepared to use OVERWHELMING FORCE if they intend on making and atttempt o extinguish the Torch of Shame. It will be hard for the Lady Boys in Blue Suits to defend the torch if they are laying face down on the ground restrained for 100 or more protesters. Simply stated, like it or not, you have to meet force with force, fight fire with fire.

China firm on torch defence

Brendan Nicholson Canberra Mary-anne Toy Beijing and Annabel Stafford Sydney
April 23, 2008

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CHINA'S ambassador to Australia has defied Prime Minister Kevin Rudd by declaring that Chinese attendants travelling with the Olympic torch will "use their bodies" to protect it.

On the eve of the torch's arrival in Canberra from Jakarta this morning, Zhang Junsai made it clear that the blue-tracksuit-wearing attendants would become involved physically if anyone tried to extinguish the flame.

"Their role is to make sure that the flame will not go out," he told the Nine Network. "Was the flame attacked, I believe they will use their bodies to hold this, not to let flame go out."

His statement contradicts repeated assertions by Mr Rudd that the Chinese attendants would have no security role in tomorrow's Australian leg of the torch relay.

Time For World To Bail On China and Their Junk Products?

Setting aside the China Olympic's of Shame, the shambled Torch Relay that is an embarrassment to both China and the IOC, ignoring the government of China's hostile abuse of the people of Tibet has the time come for the world to bail on this Iran like insecure bully and their cheap, poorly made products? No one can argue that China's coming out party has been a horrid public relations disaster, the upcoming Olympic's in Beijing permanently and forever soiled because of China's antics, a spoiled child angry at not getting their way. How many of us are rooting for someone, anyone to extinquish the flame, are hoping something huge happens in Canberra to bring more attention to the plight of the Tibetan people? Yes, because of their antics, their hostile Nationalism, we want China to fail, to fall flat on their face as they try to present themselves to the world. However, setting all that aside, is it time for the financial markets and world nations to bail on China and their plan to open up to the world?

1. Perhaps through stupidity, China does not play fair with the rest of the world. They believe it is their right, their destiny to dictate the terms by which they will interact with everyone else, believe it is their right to manipulate their currency to benefit only themselves, believe it is their right to dump products on the world market at a time and place of their choosing...it might work for them and their communist government, but it is not really working for everyone else.

2. China cannot support its own population base, is dependent on the world to feed its masses...at what cost, and does this reality contribute to their massive funding of their military machine?

3. The China Stock market is imploding. There are reasons for this, including the fact that China has again stacked the deck in their nation's favor...in short, it is a MOCK CAPILISM. There was money to made in betting the market, but it seems to many of those investments have no real chance of providing a real financial return to out of country investors.

The Flame of Shame Relay, the bristling Nationalism that is sprining up should be warning signs that the time has come for the rest of the world to shun China until they can get their act together. No investments in their market, no investments in their infrastructure projects, and ceasing of trade with China until they are willing to level the playing field, are willing to play by international rules rather than thinking they have the right to rewrite the rules to suit their own needs and National Insterests.

China Stocks, Once Frothy, Fall by Half in Six Month

From the Wall Street Journal, reported by James T. Areddy in Shanghai and Craig Karmin in New York: The sharp decline in Chinese stocks is approaching a milestone: With a 4% drop Friday, the market has fallen by nearly half since its peak last fall. The decline has wiped out nearly $2.5 trillion of wealth and [...] Read more » (Is your investment in the Chinese Stock Market really wise? Is it time to BAIL?)

China’s Growing Thirst for Milk Hits Global Market

From NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday:

“I have a dream,” Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China once said. But his dream wasn’t about civil rights for all or racial harmony. It was about a future where every Chinese child would have enough milk to drink — a half-liter a day for each child, to be exact.

Wen’s vision has given rise to a gigantic new market of milk drinkers in China, even as the demand there and in other developing nations has driven up prices worldwide.

In the United States, for example, a gallon of milk now costs about the same as a gallon of gasoline. And in China, some shoppers say they’ll have to cut back if the government doesn’t subsidize milk. (Let's keep our milk, let China raise its own dairy herds.)

Australia Says No To Chinese Thugs as Torch Security

Unlike weak lame duck United States President George (weak) Bush, Australia's government has bitch slapped China and the IOC, saying no to Chinese military thugs having anything to do with Flame of Shame security for the torch relay while it is in Canberra. Only six of the bruts will be allowed to attend to the flame while in Australia, and can only serve as torch lighters, barred from Security if (as it should) the torch comes under attack.

Chinese flame attendants to accompany Canberra torch

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Controversial: Chinese torch relay security officials in Dar es Salaam (Reuters: Radu Sigheti)

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The head of the ACT Olympic torch relay says six Chinese flame attendants will accompany the torch when it makes its way through Canberra next week, but they will not provide security.

The presence of blue-tracksuited Chinese guards - dubbed "thugs" by London Olympic chief Sebastian Coe - has been the subject of controversy after widespread pro-Tibet protests on relay legs in Europe, the US and India.

Earlier this week International Olympic Committee member Kevan Gosper said the guards would travel behind the flame in a bus and could be called on to help if protests got out of hand.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd quickly rebuffed Mr Gosper, repeating his earlier pledge that the guards would not be allowed to provide security in Canberra on April 24.

Now torch relay boss Ted Quinlan has confirmed that two teams of three Chinese flame attendants will take turns to accompany the torch during the 16-kilometre event.

Their role will be to relight the torch at the start of each leg and not to provide security.

Mr Quinlan says the the torch will change hands and need to be relit every 250 metres along the route and this is the most efficient way to do it.

But Mr Quinlan says security will be provided by the Australian Federal Police.

"The arrangements we have come to with the Chinese are that these people will not involve themselves in security," he said.

"When and if push comes to shove, these people are required by our arrangement to stay out of any fracas and retreat to the support bus behind them."