Tag Archives: olympic

flambé

It continues! The burning of the flame. as in, ppl burning the flame. nvm
the protests continue in San Francisco.
interestingly:
Richard Gere, a prominent Tibetan Buddhist who has been a consistent advocate of human rights in Tibet.
Gere belongs to the International Campaign for Tibet, one of several organizations that took part in Tuesday’s protests.
but anyway what’s cool [...]

olympic flame

what a day. it was really amazing. the short summary of it is that there were widespread and highly charged up protests throughout the route, the procession was repeatedly disrupted, cut short, many banners were put up, lots of Tibetian and RSF flags were waved. stunning.

now for the details.

la casse-tête chinois

hell that title really caught my attention. now how to translate it..hm dum dum.. = “puzzle” or “brainteaser”. the chinese puzzle. [it came from a DirectSoir article. french free newspaper]

i suppose you (do you?) know that during the lighting ceremony of the Olympic Flame, there were 3 journalists from Reporters Without Borders who unfurled a [...]