Glen Mills just forwarded this one:
Olympic nightmare: A red tide in the Yellow Sea
BEIJING: With less than six weeks before it plays host to the Olympic sailing regatta, the city of Qingdao has mobilized thousands of people and an armada of small boats to clean up an algae bloom that is choking large stretches of the coastline and threatening to impede the Olympic competition.
www.iht.com/.../china.php
Then there was this:
Olympics clean-up Chinese style: Inside Beijings shocking death camp for cats
Thousands of pet cats in Beijing are being abandoned by their owners and sent to die in secretive government pounds as China mounts an aggressive drive to clean up the capital in preparation for the Olympic Games.
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Olympics-clean-Chinese-style-Inside-Beijings-shocking-death-camp-cats.html
This was early on, but it sounds like they will have as much as half the amount of cars on the road by banning all government workers from driving:
Olympians air a gripe about Beijing
March 12, 2008
Matt Reed was 1,500 meters into the last segment of the triathlon when he found himself gasping for oxygen. His legs were still pounding away at the pavement, his body pumped up after cruising through the swimming and cycling contests, but his lungs were shutting down.
The 32-year-old triathlete from Boulder, Colo., blames air pollution for triggering his asthma attack during the September track meet.
articles.latimes.com/.../fg-olyair12
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I did not say this was my belief about Atlanta. I said that I have heard. I don't really care. I do know that several Christian groups were handing out flyers just about every where I went in Atlanta during the Olympics.
The People Republic of China can produce so much propaganda it is overwhelming. I am sure we will hear nothing about the people displaced from their homes so that stadiums could be built. We will hear nothing about the hundreds of people who were left homeless with promises of apartments that still haven't been made. Or the people sent to the countryside because there is no place of them. Or the country left with nothing but elders who don't have there daily needs met because all of the young people have gone into the cities to escape poverty. We won't hear about the plunging decrease of farm goods produced or the lowering of the age of death after about 35 years of it increasing in The Peoples republic of china.
I did not say this was my belief about Atlanta. I said that I have heard. I don't really care. I do know that several Christian groups were handing out flyers just about every where I went in Atlanta during the Olympics.
The People Republic of China can produce so much propaganda it is overwhelming. I am sure we will hear nothing about the people displaced from their homes so that stadiums could be built. We will hear nothing about the hundreds of people who were left homeless with promises of apartments that still haven't been made. Or the people sent to the countryside because there is no place of them. Or the country left with nothing but elders who don't have there daily needs met because all of the young people have gone into the cities to escape poverty. We won't hear about the plunging decrease of farm goods produced or the lowering of the age of death after about 35 years of it increasing in The Peoples republic of china.
