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The Olympics should be boycotted. China is directly responsible for whats going on in Burma: they prop up the military regime with money and weapons. The weapons that are killing people came from China.

China is a country that directly sponsors and supports and whats worse, PROTECTS regimes that are now, while I write this and when you read this, killing, starving, and holding hundreds of thouands of people in concentration camps.

China must be made to realize this is something that wont be acceptable. A boycott of these games would send them a clear message. Empty words mean nothing to Beijing. Spending billions on games that top olympics powers would not attend would certainly do that. What China seeks is legitimacy. They will perceive the world coming to Beijing as having been granted legitimacy. And unfortunately, they will see it as not only having been granted legitimacy as an economic power, but also as having been granted legitimacy vis a vis their evil foregn policy.

let's NOT give them the satisfaction.
Boycott these games. Do it for the people of Burma, North Korea and Darfour. The victims of China's ascendancy.

[igotthisguitar]

Stallone & Crew Saw Myanmar Aftermath
By JEFF WILSON, Associated Press Writer
Mon Oct 1, 4:53 PM ET

LOS ANGELES - Sylvester Stallone says he and his "Rambo" sequel movie crew recently witnessed the human toll of unspeakable atrocities while filming along the Myanmar border.

"I witnessed the aftermath � survivors with legs cut off and all kinds of land-mine injuries, maggot-infested wounds and ears cut off," Stallone told The Associated Press in a phone interview Monday. "We hear about Vietnam and Cambodia and this was more horrific."



The 61-year-old actor-director returned to the U.S. eight days ago from shooting "John Rambo," the fourth movie in the action series, on the Salween River separating Thailand and Myanmar, formerly known as Burma.

Stallone said he was in Thailand for six months, most of it along or on the river.

"This is a hellhole beyond your wildest dreams," Stallone said. "All the trails are mined. The only way into Burma is up the river."

This was before the crackdown last week against the largest pro-democracy protests in Myanmar in two decades. After the government increased fuel prices in August, public anger turned to mass protest against 45 years of military dictatorship. Last week, soldiers responded by opening fire with automatic weapons on unarmed demonstrators.

For decades, Myanmar's army has waged a brutal war against ethnic groups in which soldiers have razed villages, raped women and killed innocent civilians.

The "Rambo" script, written long before the present Myanmar uprising, features boatman John Rambo � the Vietnam War-era Green Beret who specializes in violent rescues and revenge � taking a group of mercenaries up the Salween River in search of missing Christian aid workers in Myanmar. The character "realizes man is just a few paces away from savagery when pushed."

"I called Soldier of Fortune magazine and they said Burma was the foremost area of human abuse on the planet," Stallone said.

Shots were fired over the film crew's head, he said.
"We were told we could get seriously hurt if we went on."

"I was being accused, once again, of using the Third World as a `Rambo' victim. The Burmese are beautiful people. It's the military I am portraying as cruel," he said.

Stallone is now editing "John Rambo," which will be released in January. He wants the Motion Picture Association of America will give the film an "R" rating.

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On the Net:

Sylvester Stallone: http://www.sylvesterstallone.com

[igotthisguitar]

People protest at the Union of Myanmar Mission to the United Nations, Monday, Oct. 1, 2007, in New York.



The Coalition for Regime Change in Burma today called for a boycott of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing to protest China's continued support of Burma's brutal military junta and its veto of the recent UN Security Council Resolution condemning the dictatorship's crackdown on monks and other peaceful protestors.

(AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh)

[igotthisguitar]

For the sake of all things good, keep that greedy GLOBAL trade deficit growing ...

China Human Rights An Especially Big Worry Post-Olympics
Thu Oct 4, 6:14 AM ET

HONG KONG (Reuters) - The beating of a Chinese lawyer even as the spotlight shines on Beijing
ahead of the Olympics has raised concerns about the government's conduct after the event,
but a Games boycott would not help ... a Chinese law expert said.

MORE ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/olympics_beijing_rights_dc
;_ylt=AlAVJ7Y6WZf09i.W9Wf9iJ8DW7oF

[igotthisguitar]

Do many Koreans gamble here as well?

How can any of these people even be said to have a conscience?

Such greedy little piggies.

Chinese Flock To Casinos Across Myanmar Border
by Benjamin Morgan
Thu Oct 4, 9:19 AM ET

MAIJAYANG, Myanmar (AFP) - Far from the crackdown in the rest of the country, Myanmar's lawless northeast has a
distinctly Chinese feel as gamblers eager for a turn at the baccarat table cross into the Southeast Asian nation in droves.



Betting is illegal in China, so thousands of Chinese flock to the relative safety of Maijayang to try their luck at the
mafia-run casinos on this Myanmar frontier town.

Shielded by Myanmar's lush green mountains, surrounded by a wall of dense sugarcane fields, Maijayang rises from these ancient lands in Kachin State -- which is effectively run by former rebels -- like a forbidden fortress.

While world leaders condemn a bloody crackdown by security forces against mass protests in Myanmar's main city Yangon and elsewhere, little is taboo in this sinners' paradise.

Business is roaring here, handily located just 20 minutes by motorbike from the border along pot-holed dirt roads that wind through picture-perfect paddy fields.

"Whatever you need we can take care of, gambling, drugs, girls -- all of it can be arranged," a former casino employee surnamed Wang said as he escorted an AFP journalist past Myanmar border guards to Maijayang.

Visas are required to enter Myanmar but are easily bypassed here in Kachin, where the rebel Kachin Independence Organisation and a fragmented coalition of warlords hold sway over an area bordering China's Yunnan province.

After paying the guards, Wang buzzed through the town gates, past rows of low-slung, white-tiled buildings that advertise hotels, restaurants, gems and massage parlours that double as brothels -- all in Chinese script.

At first glance Maijayang may look like any other small town in China, but police with hard stares patrol the streets where cars with Myanmar plates make it clear what country this is.

Inside International Entertainment, one of 11 casinos here, slot machines buzz and sing, as Chinese croupiers in maroon vests call for bets at blackjack and baccarat tables crowded by mostly Chinese patrons.

Suggesting a professionalism behind the operations, cameras are trained on each of the seven sprawling rooms packed with players, while shifty looking men who do not appear to be betting move around the floor.

"If the odds were deliberately stacked or players felt that it was not professionally run they would not come," said Michael Backman, an Asia analyst and author who has researched cross-border casinos in the region.

"A lot of the border casinos are very professional."

According to one Chinese man who has worked in three of Maijayang's casinos, operations are headed by a Chinese mafia boss in Ruili, a Chinese border town built on the illicit drug, gemstone and timber trade.

The popularity of Maijayang and another frontier casino further north in Laiza exploded after Chinese authorities last year cracked down on the multiple gambling dens in Ruili, about 45 kilometres (30 miles) south of here.

Chinese casino owners in Maijayang operate with impunity, as the gambling dens' extra-territorial location means they are beyond the reach of Chinese law.

Protection money is paid to Kachin soldiers but Chinese police also turn a blind eye to the hundreds of daily border violations in return for a piece of the action.

"Everyone takes a cut," said the Chinese man, who asked that his name not be used.

"It is very difficult for the Chinese government to control because the government would need the cooperation of the Myanmar government but they have almost no control over this area run by (the) Kachin army."

But China insists it is doing something

In early 2005, with the agreement of officials in Shan state, a jungle area of Myanmar south of Kachin and also run by militias, Chinese police swept into the frontier town of Mongla, then a hub of Chinese gambling operations.

Meanwhile the number of casinos operating near China's borders in Myanmar and elsewhere dropped from 149 in 2005 to 28 last year, thanks to a crackdown that netted 445 million dollars in gambling related funds, China's official Xinhua news agency reported in January.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071004/lf_afp/lifestylemyanmarchinagambling_071004131914


Ah, i see. BEIJING is really doing something about it? Right

More like 445 million in TAXES!

Just like the story makes clear: EVERYONE gets their cut

Suckers.

[Vicissitude]

There already IS a global boycott that's started and gaining strength all over the world as people protest China's support of the Burmese junta. The 2008 Olympics in China isn't the only entity that should be on the boycott list. Daewoo has invested in the junta very heavily. Daewoo has given the junta the means to mass produce large scale rounds of artillery that's been used to kill innocent people. The company also has no plans to end their huge investments in Myanmar's oil projects. They are unmoved by the recent events.

Boycott Daewoo!!!

[igotthisguitar]

Prince Charles Will Not Attend Games:
Tibet Rights Group
by Prashant Rao

LONDON (AFP) - Prince Charles will not be attending the opening ceremony of this year's Olympic Games in Beijing, he told a group that campaigns against human rights abuses in Tibet in a letter disclosed Monday.



A spokeswoman for the prince at Clarence House declined to comment, saying only: "We would not be able discuss any private correspondence."

According to the Free Tibet campaign group, it wrote to Charles, the heir to the throne, calling on him not to attend this summer's games hosted by the Chinese capital.

In response, the prince's deputy private secretary Clive Alderton wrote: "As you know, His Royal Highness has long taken a close interest in Tibet and indeed has been pleased to meet His Holiness the Dalai Lama on several occasions."

"You asked if the Prince of Wales would be attending the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics in 2008. His Royal Highness will not be attending the ceremony."

MORE ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080128/en_afp/oly2008britainchinaroyalstibetrights
;_ylt=AlSF.pJ1Tu0tnHBd05fyZ0RxFb8C

[igotthisguitar]

Chinese Dissident Watched, Then Kidnapped
By AUDRA ANG, Associated Press Writer
Wed Jan 30, 3:37 PM ET

BEIJING - Nearly two dozen plainclothes police swarmed the apartment on a December afternoon, confiscating laptops, cell phones, bank cards and books.



The wife, who was bathing her 6-week-old daughter, heard nothing. The husband, China's brashest dissident, was quietly whisked away.

In a matter of minutes, Hu Jia had vanished into the country's state "security" system.

The Dec. 27 raid sent a clear message that the Chinese leadership is determined to silence critics ahead of this summer's Beijing Olympics.

Although not a household name in China or abroad, the 34-year-old Hu exercised an outsize influence from his airy, fourth-floor apartment, even while under house arrest. Using the telephone and the Internet, he tirelessly detailed the arrests, harassment and detention of other activists to a network of dissidents, reporters and diplomats in China.

When he was taken away, he had been confined to his home for 223 days.

Now Hu faces a charge of "inciting subversion of state power" � a nebulous accusation often used to imprison dissidents for years.

MORE ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/china_life_of_dissent;_ylt=AiJzuzdOYoa2wQ7SbysD_6MDW7oF

[igotthisguitar]

China Says 7 Killed In Tibet

BEIJING, March 15, 2008 (AFP) - China warned Saturday it would use a firm hand to quash the biggest protests in Tibet for decades, acknowledging (claiming) seven people had been killed in unrest there just months before the Olympic Games.



Witnesses said tanks were in the streets of the Tibetan capital Lhasa as part of a heavy security clampdown after violent riots erupted on Friday following days of protests against China's "controversial rule" in the region.

CONT'D ...

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/080315/world/china_unrest_tibet_rights_1

[vertical loser]

The best way to bring China forward is to HAVE the Olympics. Look at al the pressure its putting on them. What better way to get the govt. to address the key issues? If anyone pulled out of the Olympics thay would be hated by all in Chna, and just reinforce the paranoid Chinese that the world is out to get them. So, let 'em continue, and watch the officials squirm. China dn the world will be the beter for it.

[igotthisguitar]

http://www.freetibet.org/

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=free+tibet&search_type=

http://search.cnn.com/search?type=video&sortBy=date&intl=true&query=tibet

[igotthisguitar]

CBC News Covers "Free Tibet" Protest on Great Wall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj-QMxmh9gA&feature=user

[I-am-me]

FREE TIBET!!!!

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