China: CNN/Olympics/Health/Internet

Awhile back, Jack Cafferty called China's leadership "a bunch of thugs and goons". They took offense to the truth and demanded an apology. Sadly, CNN caved in to their demand.

Some recent news items:

• Visit Google to search for news of China's ongoing occupation of Tibet. For example, China's Tibet spin.


• A blog post on the air in China

  The smog here is amazing. Good luck to the athletes in 3mths time. It cleared a little after some very heavy rain but was back soon afterwards. At night you can see the beams of car headlights in the smog. Also the willows are in flower and the place is full of willow pollen/fluff. There is willow stuff drifting through the air inside the room I am in now.
  
  The over-riding impression of everything here is BIG. The city has a population similar to Australia in total and has hundreds of 20 story apartment blocks, giving the city a flat and lumpy appearance. Accentuated and made all the more dour by grey smoggy skies. In contrast, there are areas of Beijing that have some quite adventurous architecture.

• Child-killing virus may be yet to peak: WHO
  

  An outbreak of a virus (EV71, an intestinal virus) that has killed dozens of children across China may be yet to reach its peak, but will not threaten Beijing's Olympic Games in August, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday.

• China Wants US-Owned Hotels to Censor Internet The Chinese government is demanding that US-owned hotels there filter Internet service during the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing, US Senator Sam Brownback has alleged.


• Amnesty UK's videos on China's human rights record and the Olympics The sad reality of their Communist leadership.


• China's Cyberwar Against India China's cyber warfare army is marching on, and India is suffering silently. Over the past one and a half years, officials said.