Baby's first experience with chinese propaganda
The Olympic flame was to pass through San Francisco today and watching that undying flame of world peace have to hide out in warehouses, take alleys, and flee to the airport, couldn't be a better metaphor for where that flame is finally going! Even in protests, does that flame serve as a fine symbol!
But, having seen protesters do everything in their might to stop the flame right outside my own office, I was faced with these two news reports
The Telegraph covers it or check any other major newspaper
Xinhua covers it with 20 freakin' pages of photos with smiling people waving flames and chinese flags
The contrasts were shocking!
posted by yangry star @ 11:18 PM
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Has the age of innocence surely ended? The Tibetan monks protesting is so indicative of the change that has been thrust on what I have considered -- so far -- the most peaceful of religions (yes, Thailand, Sri Lanka bucked the trend earlier).
The silver swan, who living had no note,
When death approached unlocked her silent throat,
Leaning her breast against the reedy shore,
Thus sung her first and last, and sung no more:
Farewell all joys, O death come close mine eyes,
More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise.
[anon]
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