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Mia Farrow speaks out on Spielberg and China's 2008 Olympics
By Stone Martindale Mar 29, 2007, 16:52 GMT
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You go Mia, George and Don! I think Americans are so in the dark concerning the link and associations between the wealthy and the offenders in this world, all in the name of money, power, and world dominance.
Spielberg is a big fan of China? China wants to have an Olympics, and someone objects? Good.
I guess we do have something in common. Chinese soot is polluting the Pacific Northwest, and some kind of boycott would be in order here.
It's a great way to produce some focus on just how corrupt China really is.
The olympics are an envoronmental disaster. Every four years they build new facilities at great cost just so some country can feel as though they have 'made it'. The facilities normally go to rot thereafter. How much building materials, fuel, people relocation (in the case of China), etc. go into this exercise in stupidity? Can't we just renovate existing facilities?
As for Darfur, there are many sponsers of the government in Sudan. If Mia owns any index funds, she is supporting the creeps.
Just a couple of things to bear in mind. First is that China, with the largest population in the world, has an itinerant migrant labor force that exceeds the entire population of the US(over 350 million). I note this because in China, today as it has always been, the number one, most important thing in their society is not communism, socialism or even capitalism, it's stability. Throughout history the most damaging thing to China has been social unrest. With that thought in mind, now picture several dozen drunk Olympic athletes, Australians, Italians, Danes, Germans, Americans, Canadians, Argentinians, (you get the picture), deciding that rebuilding the Lady Liberty statue in Tienneman Square would be a good idea, and then watch the Chinese authorities trying to stop them. As soon as Beijing activists and the media realize the game is afoot, the world can watch what would only be described as a nation-sized train wreck. You know it's horrific, but you can't look away. Giving the Olympics to China wasn't a blessing, it is a curse. Trust me, they deserve this. It all brings to mind the old Chinese curse, 'May you live in interesting times'.
Corrupt Marxists are the worst possible thing for China, not unrest. If they pursued social justics instead of socialism, they'd be better off.
Let's not forget to raise the human rights issue with China. Peoples' rights are guiding principles that dignify human existence, without such principles, said peoples are mistreated and suffer royally from the oppressor's rule.
It is with great shame and the poorest of judgments that some corporate entities and celebrities trod down the path of profits before honor. At least Mia Farrow is condemning the cruelty supported by those doing it wittingly or not.
“On with the games!” the cry, and may the winners take all…
coffeegurrl sez : ' I think Americans are '
Yes , ' They ' are different . The world will never change because people nver change . There are 2 times more people in the world now than in 1938 . If you believe all Humans are equal then there are 2 times mor Evil people in the world thatn there was in 1938 . Who are ' They ' ? Who were the ' bad guys ' in 1938 ?
Good luck , have a nice life .
I hate to have to ascribe motives to peoples' actions, especially when these people are personally unknown to me.
That said, a potent mix of common sense, historical record and analysis usually serves to interrogate the actor's possible motivation, in relations to her/his actions; rendering the above-stated Good Intentions moot.
Consequently, when in a recent BBC report the CHINESE-born UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is quoted as saying in an editorial for The Washington Post newspaper in June, that climate change was partly to blame for the conflict in Darfur, one is given further cause to ascribe Motive to Personality.
Is Secretary-General Ban asking us to believe that it was mere GEOLOGY in Darfur, and not HUMAN GREED and its consequent SELF-INTERESTED RELUCTANCE TO ACT, both at the National and Global levels, that led to and subsequently exacerbated the appalling, and appallingly extended crisis STILL being played-out in that country?
It is more disengenuous than cunning for ANYONE, regardless of the lofty heights from which they make such pronouncements, to attempt to palm-off ideological sophistry in the guise of salient facts, for what REALLY lies behind the curtain of horror that has for too long now been dropped callously onto the Darfur human stage.
Who's Mia Furrow?
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