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PR viagra cannot revive the limp Olympic Torch
Some of our readers might remember how, around this time a year ago, Catherine and I blogged voluminously about the bloody stupidity of China’s Olympic Torch relay. Now here comes news that the IOC has decided, belatedly, to jettison the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ketchum, Lenovo, Olympic Torch, Tibet, Torch relay
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Great Moments in Olympic History
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Tagged Coca Cola, Ketchum, Lenovo
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The Visitors
The international legs of the Olympic Torch relay are over. What has the world learned about China and the Chinese, in the past few weeks? Something like this. An allegory from Monty Python’s, “The Visitors”: Setting: House = The Torch’s “host” … Continue reading
Beijing’s neo-pagans, please learn your Runelore
Further evidence that the developed world, including Beijing, is on the threshold of a New Dark Age. From (Australian) ABC: Anger in South Korea is growing over violence during Sunday’s torch relay, recorded on widely circulated video clips, in which … Continue reading
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Tagged Lenovo, Olympic Torch, Seoul torch relay
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Lenovo exploits a racist smear. Whose yak is gored?
Does anyone out there remember the infamous Willie Horton tv ad of George Bush’s 1988 Presidential campaign? Here it is again, to refresh your memory. It’s only 28 seconds. Now you might recall that rightly or wrongly, the American Left … Continue reading
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Tagged Jin Jing, Lenovo, Olympic Torch, Tibet, Willie Horton
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Serving China’s PR organs = loss of US citizenship, part two
Just in case this needs an illustration, Dramatis Personae: Ren (the penetrator) = the PLA Stimpy (the penetrated) = American PR whores in Beijing
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Tagged Ketchum, Lenovo, Olympic Torch
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Serving China’s PR organs = loss of US citizenship, part one
American PR whores serving China’s propaganda machine, beware. US Code Title 8, Chapter 12….section 1481: A person who is a national of the United States…shall lose his nationality by…entering, or serving in, the armed forces of a foreign state if…such armed … Continue reading
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Tagged Ketchum, Lenovo, Olympic Torch
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Unintended Consequences 102
Now as a supplement to Catherine’s post about unintended consequences, here is an illustration.
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Finally, the Torch goes where it’s perfectly welcome
They would have saved themselves and the world a lot of trouble if they had limited the entire international Olympic Torch relay to China’s number one ally, North Korea. It will arrive there in a few days, to an unreservedly … Continue reading
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Tagged Ketchum, Lenovo, Olympic Torch, Pyongyang torch relay
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The Flying Dutchman is now a Western expat in Beijing
The Flying Dutchman’s hubris doomed him to wander the Earth, homeless, a man without a country, for eternity. Today you can see many of his shadows in Beijing, most especially in the faces of some Westerners who sold their souls … Continue reading
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Tagged Ketchum, Lenovo, Olympic Torch
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