For four years in the late 1980s I lived and worked in Hong Kong – it was an exciting time. Hong Kong’s political future had been decided by the signing of the Joint Declaration with China in December 1984 and the Territory would revert to Chinese sovereignty with effect from 1st July 1997. But although […]

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Can’t people think of a color other than blue for a scarf? I thought the Blue Scarves were conservatives who meet at the Vancouver Public Library on Thursday evenings to discuss the threat to modernity by Islamo-fascism. But now people on the political Left are wearing blue scarves too, as they stand on Vancouver street […]

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The City of Vancouver admits it screwed up.  And today groups fighting gentrification in Vancouver in the lead up to the 2010 Winter Olympics fought back. 
The Carnegie Community Action Project and other groups in the Citywide Housing Coaltion held a rally to express outrage that the City had evaded the legally required consultation process for a 7 story […]

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Some 1,500 Chinese Americans protested outside CNN’s offices on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood - a similar demonstration also occurred at the cable news outfit’s Atlanta headquarters – demanding that commentator Jack Cafferty be fired over these comments he made on “The Situation Room” April 9th:
“We continue to import their junk with the lead paint […]

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With China as the location of this year’s Olympic Games, the recent crackdown in Tibet and alleged lack of general human rights in Mainland China are creating protests around the world.  These protests follow the Olympic torch on its international publicity tour.  Although supporters from both pro-China and pro-Tibet groups have been at the protests, […]

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The news of late has been full of pleas, propositions and petitions calling on a U.S and/or world boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympics by not sending their athletes. Have all these brains turned to mush?
China, granted, is a very evil empire and no true friend to any country. China eagerly sends their goods around […]

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 The Democratic presidential hopefuls positions toward unrest in Tibet, typifies the stark difference between those who offer solutions based on text book foreign policy and statesmen who offer experience.
The Liberal left automatically blames China and demands condemnation, the reality is the peace loving Dali lama is to blame for the death’s and detentions, The blood […]

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With just two years to go before the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the Poverty Olympics were held on Sunday. Participants marched up Hastings St. to Carnegie Center on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside carrying an Olympic torch and a banner in which the Olympic rings were handcuffs. Inside the Carnegie Center theatre, a packed audience watched as […]

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You get a strange feeling reading the different links cited in this article. See if you get the same impressions as the ones I will list. They are only impressions, not necessarily facts, but they do form a pattern.
“Haas ‘was not poisoned.’” The suspicious illness of German tennis star Tommy Hass was thus dismissed after […]

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Roughly ten brightly colored cardboard fish were held by people standing on the steps on the Vancouver Art Gallery at lunch time Tuesday.The weather was more suitable to fish than to people, wet with puddles. But the sun appeared shortly after about 60 people gathered in front of the Art Gallery. They listened to speakers protesting […]

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On September 9th, actress and U.N. Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow kicked off a symbolic torch relay on behalf of Olympic Dream for Darfur from Dag Hammerskjold Plaza across the street from the Sudanese Mission to the United Nations. Genocide and holocaust survivors from Darfur, Armenia, Auschwitz, Berlin, Cambodia and Rwanda passed the torch to each […]

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You think it takes a long, long time for a death sentence to be carried out? Try suing the MSM for libel and collecting.
Richard Jewell, the part-time security guard who discovered a lethal bomb at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and helped hundreds of spectators flee from harm’s way minutes before […]

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If Jacquie Forbes-Roberts, the Mayor’s top woman in his Civil City project to make Vancouver more civil before the Olympics, can’t be civil, she is going to be slapped with a Cease & Desist order. “This is bullying!”, says Carnegie Centre Board member Grant Chauncey of the behaviour of Jacquie Forbes-Roberts’, who is also General Manager of Community […]

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Back in June, China announced that it planned to build a highway on the side of Mt. Everest to aid climbers as well as provide an easy path for the Olympic torch to reach the peak of the mountain at the 2008 Beijing Games. However, the $19.7 million project is being put on hold because […]

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In Vancouver you will find sailing, hiking, skiing. And fighting. Vancouverites are fighting over preparations for the 2010 Winter Olympics, preparations that involve efforts to curb aggressive panhandling, sleeping, crack smoking, pissing and even shitting on the streets by Vancouver’s underclass.
On the right is Mayor Sam Sullivan. Sullivan introduced “Project Civil […]

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On Tuesday, an International Olympic Committee member visited Chicago to prepare for the world boxing championships to be held at the University of Illinois from October 17 to November 1. This is a worldwide event featuring 500 boxers. Chicago hopes to gain international support from the world in hopes of winning the spot for the […]

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Scales Sports Project:Latest News on Gambian sports!!

Gambia’s under 20 team
By Our Chief National Correspondent Landing Badjie, Banjul.
Paid for And Commissioned by the Freedom Newspaper.
Soccer fans across The Gambia would in less than one hour troop down to various stadia in the country for scintillating and earth-trembling matches in the GFA 2nd Division league. In […]

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A man awarded the title, “Mr. Black”, in 2004 by Vancouver’s Black community, was sentenced today after being convicted on Saturday of second degree murder.Judge Arne Silverman told the packed courtroom that he had taken into consideration Dennis Knibbs’ involvement in the Black community in sentencing him. Knibbs’ lawyer, Glen Orris who has helped prepare […]

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My opera singing, voice-over specializing bud in the states, who has a set of pipes you can hear through email, sent me an article on the boring-down of the next Supergirls competition in China. Crying, “unhealthy songs, non-mainstream dress, potty words, Simonesque judges who humiliate contestants and “wild hair” are a few of the […]

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Air China flights from Tokyo to cities near the birthplace of the world’s tallest man Bao Xishun, also known as Xi Shun or “The Mast” (Simplified: 鲍喜顺; Traditional: 鮑喜順) born in 1951, are booked for the next three months in light of a recent discovery by barfoot doctors in the area. Comissioned […]

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I am a believer in synchronicity. I am convinced that external events happen in concert with internal “business” that begs attention. And, I believe, that these seemingly random, unplanned instructional happenings occur with a intuitive precision that defies the laws of chance. I had been struggling with the writing of this this […]

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I hope not… I was/am a certified trainer, a coach, and an athlete in four sports. I have helped, via sports psychology methodologies and training schedules, many sports figures improve their chances for, and secure, many a medal or professional championship. In every sport, from Archery to Body Building, I have met players and […]

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I just read on China Rises that the government has changed the name of the Beijing Mascots from Friendlies to Fuwa (gesundheit!) which means “good fortune”. This should be good news to folks who bought commemorative coins with the old name inscribed. Why the name change was made […]

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