Being completely ticked off with NBC’s TV coverage, my rant is here. I decided that it was time to move to the Internet coverage, this supposedly was live. Of course there are a couple of Olympic ‘hoops’ that you need to jump through. For reasons that only the brain the size of a Peacocks (not [...]

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For once I cannot pin the blame of NBC. Everyone does it. The damn medal rankings. In my mind a Gold Medal has greater weight than a Silver, which in turn has more weight than a Bronze. Now to be fair, winning any of these medals is a lifetime achievement for any athlete. An Olympic [...]

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   Photo: Mayor Gregor Robertson  On Friday, Vancouver Police were asked to conduct a criminal investigation into Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson; Vancouver City Manager Penny Ballem (also a Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee member); the City’s Security Co-ordinator at Carnegie Center, Skip Everall; and Director of Carnegie Center and the Olympics Homeground Festival, Ethel Whitty. These [...]

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Photo: Demonstrators gather at Thornton Park on Saturday, the morning after the opening of the 2010 Olympics. Anarchists in Vancouver, Canada have been promising “Riot 2010″ for a few years now, and it happened Saturday. A crowd of roughly 200 people, mostly in their 20s, many dressed in full black regalia with their faces covered [...]

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Photo: Party lights at Vancouver’s Pacific Central train and bus station mark the opening of the Winter Olympics The struggle to put a stop to the alleged persecution of bloggers by the City of Vancouver has now reached the White House. President Barack Obama has been asked to back bloggers when he sends Vice President [...]

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As the torch for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic games approaches Vancouver after being carried across Canada, the torch for a parallel games arrived yesterday. It was the torch for the 2010 Poverty Olympics, carried from city to city across British Columbia. It’s arrival was cheered by about 500 people packed into the Japanese Hall [...]

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Shame the sponsors. That sums up the remedy advised by Vancouver Olympics Organizing Committee member and Vancouver City Manager Penny Ballem on Wednesday Jan. 13, after she was briefed at City Hall on evidence of persecution of bloggers and other computer/internet users by the City of Vancouver.  Ballem (in photo above outside City Hall) encouraged [...]

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When agreeing to sponsor Vancouver’s 2010 Winter Olympics, Acer, a manufacturer of laptop and netbook computers,would have been aware of well publicized complaints against the City of Vancouver of human rights abuses targeting computer users and bloggers. Acer has therefore been asked to pull out as a sponsor.  The request was made to Acer’s public relations representives Stella Chou and Henry [...]

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The Washington Post’s Scott Wilson writes a 692-word article on a topic President Barack Obama “just can’t seem to get right.” Is it getting Iran to take him seriously? A bailout exit strategy? What to do with the committed jihadis currently warehoused at Gitmo? No, it’s bowling: A president who this week spoke fluently about [...]

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  Judy Rogers has been fired after ten years as Vancouver’s City Manager. While Rogers acknowledged to the media that it had not been her choice to leave the job she “loved”, Mayor Robertson was twisting his tongue into euphemisms: “Technically, it’s a cessation of her duties by mutual understanding.”  The firing has swept Rogers [...]

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The nerve. Ethel Whitty, Director of Vancouver’s Carnegie Community Center who has established a reputation for banning poor and homeless people from Carnegie quicker than you can say “Nixon’s enemies list”, has now announced that she is a prime organizer of a “refuge” for the poor and homeless at nearby Oppenheimer Park. It is called [...]

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David Schussler This is a story of a brave American hero Lindsey Carmichael, 2008 Paralympic bronze medalist archer. Hailing from Lago Vista, Texas, Lindsey has McCune Albright Syndrome, a disease that creates severe weak spots in her bones. After struggling for years in and out of wheelchairs and therapy, Lindsey has attained a goal she [...]

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The sporting success of the Beijing Olympics, and not least Great Britain’s rich haul of medals, has raised interest and expectations in the UK about London 2012. There have been sceptics about London’s Olympics adventure for years, but now these   doubters are pretty marginalised – there isn’t a lot to complain about and much to [...]

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David Schussler In the news again today, and for over two decades now, there has been a lot of exposure of the use of steroids by both amateur and professional athletes. Steroids have mostly been used to enhance their physique and competitive performances. Even with all of the warnings from the medical profession, anabolic steroid [...]

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During the Olympics in Beijing, the Chinese media asked British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell tough questions about how he intended to clean up the homelessness and drug abuse on Vancouver’s impoverished Downtown Eastside before hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics. They were legitimate questions. The Chinese media had obviously been well briefed about the Downtown Eastside. [...]

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Rashid Ramzi ran a terrific race to win the blue riband event of the Beijing Olympics – the 1500 meters. He was wearing the Bahrain vest as he did so and his win will go down in the record books as Bahrain’s first Olympic medal. But Mr Ramzi is really no more Bahraini than any [...]

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It’s increasingly unfashionable in some circles to celebrate your Britishness in England. A significant section of the Conservative Party are English Nationalists who think that it is smart to deny their Britishness – to his credit David Cameron is not one of them and he is on record as a supporter of the Union. The [...]

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I wonder how many of those going to the boxing at the Beijing Olympics remember the opening ceremony of Atlanta  1996 when the shambling figure of Muhammed Ali struggled nobly to light the Olympic flame. In Atlanta, and since, Muhammed Ali’s suffering from “Pugilistic Parkinson’s syndrome” was visible for all to see. Like other great [...]

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Advertising Age reports that “Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign will be among the TV sponsors of NBC Universal’s Olympics coverage” and “has taken a $5 million package of Olympics spots that includes network TV as well as cable ads.” The Associated Press notes that ‘[s]uch an extensive purchase of ad time would give Obama wide exposure [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 City” earlier this [...]

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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 [...]

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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 things [...]

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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 by the Chinese [...]

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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 post for weeks; [...]

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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 their [...]

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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 and why the announcement was kept so [...]

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