其实也是刚刚才想起来今天是LA和Paris“支持奥运, 抵制CNN”的海外华人集会
赶紧上网看了看消息
总体感觉很好
很多标语强调“理性爱国”
这个在我看来是很重要的一点
希望纽约地区的五四集会可以有时间参加
最后贴张台湾mm在巴黎参加活动

有些人觉得青天白日旗碍眼
我倒觉得这种场合下可以接受
看到一个网友说
将来统一了后要使用一个国旗
我们大陆吃点亏
只保留五星那部分
剩下的部分都用青天白日旗的
hehe

洛杉矶活动的一些照片
巴黎活动的一些照片 Thanks to Vincent@CCF

另
最近还有看到国内抵制家乐福的活动
好像搞得很风风火火
而且连大卡车都动用了堵在某些分店门口
我觉得有些不解
首先家乐福里面的东西95%都是中国造吧？
假设家乐福销量减少
会不会影响到中国的供货商？
会不会影响到给供货商供货的农民/工人同志们？
其次国内的气氛有些过于火热
已经听说有砸的
会不会被少数人利用然后演变成“打砸抢”？
这样海外媒体可就过年了

再另
王￥1000 mm最近大火
连NY Times的头版都上了
而且接受各大西方媒体采访
俨然成为一代媒体宠儿
国内“肉搜”全力出击
找出家里地址
居然有人说去家门口扣了屎盆
这有点过了
王mm也21岁了
不应该因为她的行为而牵扯家人
还是那句话
理性爱国

Zhengyou（诤友）
老实讲我本已经忘了这个词是什么意思
知道看到澳大利亚总理Kevin Rudd上周三在北大的演讲
这个会讲中文的老外用一种崭新的手法来评论（或者说批评）中国的一些政体问题
他没有像一般的无知西方媒体一样上来就列举中国的种种不是
而是从鲁迅开始讲“言论自由”
从魏征开始讲“ 诤友 ”
在炫耀了一番他的中国历史知识后
他回到了”the concept of harmony”（和谐）
顺便又提了一把” 百日维新 “及其领导者 康有为
最后又以” 诤友 “来结束

老实讲我以前没听说过这个Rudd（米国新闻台除了伊拉克以外一般没有国际新闻）
但是看了这一篇讲演后他立刻成为my favorite foreign leader
这才是我们所需要的朋（诤）友

I am a Buddhist myself, and respect people’s rights to protest, but on this particular issue, I think the “free” media in the west present a much distorted picture of what’s really happening in Chinese Tibet. They keep talking about Chinese government’s crack-down of “peaceful protests”. They make it sound as if the Chinese government is the “bad guy” and that the Dalai Lama people are some kind of angels who “bring peace” to the world. But wait a minute, who’s killing whom in Tibet? The “Tibetan protestors” are the ones that are destroying shops, burning cars, and killing innocent Chinese people who are just trying to make a living. If they are peaceful protestors, fine, it’s their right. But they are anything but peaceful, they are violent rioters. What about the people that were killed or injured during those riots, don’t they deserve some kind of respect? How come no one in the west is criticizing the rioters?

It is one thing for Tibetans to protest, it is another thing for westerners to join them. Most westerners can’t even tell the difference between an ethnic Han Chinese and an ethnic Tibetan Chinese. But they hear words like “human rights” and “religious freedom”, exactly what they mean or how subtle the issues are, they don’t have a clue. This allows the few separatists in Tibet to sugar-coat themselves with these keywords, because they know that they will get westerners’ attention this way. They are taking advantage of the stereotype in the west that all people under a communist country must somehow suffer. When in fact, China today is anything but a communist country, and the vast majority of the people are much much much better off.

Another misconception is that if somehow China grants Tibet independence then there will be true democracy and prosperity in Tibet. Let’s face it, Tibet is probably one of the most isolated places on earth, and if it wasn’t because of the Chinese, Tibet would be hundreds of years behind the rest of the world in terms of industrialization and modernization. Do you really believe that in a place as poor and backward as Tibet, there would be “true democracy”? Wouldn’t it be more likely that Tibet will fall into the hands of a few “Buddhist fundamentalists”, and maybe even become the next Afghanistan?

Moreover, people in the US like to compare China’s Tibet to US’s Iraq, or Soviet’s Afghanistan. It’s not really an appropriate analogy, because Iraq and Afghanistan are sovereign countries, but Tibet, whether people like it or not, is part of China. In fact a better analogy would be:

Tibet is to China
Texas is to US

A majority of the Tibetans are now much better off than they were before. China has spent hundreds of millions of dollars building schools, hospitals, transportations in Tibet. The vast majority of Tibetans now have access to running water, education, something that they could never have dreamed of before the revolution, when they had a feudalist slavery society.

China has come a long way. Remember, China used to be called the “sick man of Asia”, but now it’s hosting the Olympics. Obviously, China still has a lot of problems, and is still learning the ropes. The international community should help and encourage China, not boycott it. Having the Olympics in China sheds light on a lot of China’s problems. I genuinely hope and am confident that China will emerge as a better country after the games, so let’s give China a chance.

Finally, I just want to say to all the athletes, American, Chinese, Russian, etc, that you are innocent, and wish all of you the best of luck at the Olympics.

Peace

— Posted by Charles Harris

NBA是个非常会marketing的组织
每年都会搞出一系列非常好的commercials
今年playoff的广告系列是: There Can Only Be One
非常不错（今年常规赛的”Where Amazing Happens”系列也很值得推荐啊）

另
另一个很会拍广告的是Air Jordan
很煽情
以前贴过一些

Album #1 (Megaupload, 294MB) by asite

Album #2 (google picasa)

Album #3 (google picasa) by tuling

Album #4 (google picasa) by nuskfc

Album #5 (flickr) by stream

Album #6 (google picasa) by QUINN

Album #7 (google picasa) by foxwolf

and an article from WSJ
another article by Helen Zia 謝漢蘭
who was one of the torch bearers in San Fran yesterday
her interviews videos （视频） #1, #2

“老人力战脏毒” 视频
这就是昨天贴的那个照片里面的老人

UPDATE #2:
照片都是在第一线的同志们照得
不是每一张都找到原作者并征得同意转贴
所以在此先谢
有问题请联系我
立刻就拿掉
—————————————————–
UPDATE:
忽然发现今天上午在youtube传的几段新闻视频
12小时内有近10万人次看过
套用下面照片的标题
很有气势！
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很有气势

好象是mitbbs集资租的飞机打标语

这次买买提组织的不错
好像不到24小时就捐款$1xk
然后组织各地同学去三藩
坐飞机的报销机票
开车的报销油钱

http://www.youtube.com/cloudfan

今天奥运火炬抵达美国
唯一的一站是旧金山（三藩）
在湾区的华人以及加州附近的华人自发组织起来
在火炬接力的路线上为奥运打气助威
同时打打藏独的气焰
难得见到华人如此团结
从早上开始就和藏独打擂台
街道两侧红旗飘飘
非常有气势
可惜米国媒体一如既往的倾向藏独
转播的画面里难得见到我们的红旗
挑了一些现场的视频放在youtube (live video)
有兴趣的可以去看看
再次向今天去三藩助威的华人表示敬意！

UPDATE:
转一篇陈冲的文章

UPDATE #2:
转2个老人的照片
很喜欢前2张的沧桑感



点图片看全图

UPDATE #3:
毛同学今天战斗在第一线
贴张他高扯国旗的背影
辛苦啦
就知道你丫会去

嗯
很久没更新了
其实也没什么特别的
就是忙了点
其它一切正常
如果不算最近藏独群魔乱舞的话

说起藏独最近的行径
其实我平时属于最不愤的那类青
但是看到西方媒体的不实报道和大量无知的西方人盲目支持藏独
我还是没忍住
到处在网上和老外舌战
到处贴pro-China的文章和video
也着实是小愤了一把

不过愤归愤
咱们不能和老外似的连西藏在哪里都不知道就举个”free tibet”的牌子在那里乱叫
就算对骂也要有论有剧的骂
都说中国的媒体是censored或者biased
那我们就找些E文的来看
比如刚才发个的那个video
比如这里的一个长贴
比如有本书“Cultural Genocide and Asian State Peripheries” （作者是哥伦比亚大学毕业的博士，现在在香港教书）
最后无意中发现在Washington Post的网站新开了个blog
作者叫John Pomfret
虽然没有听说过他
但是从他的简历里看算是个中国通（起码去过中国，在那里呆过，其实不止呆过，这哥们是Post’s bureau chief in Beijing）
老实讲看了他的3个帖子
基本不能算是和我们一拨儿的
但总体还算中肯
起码没有特意的bash China
所以暂且推荐一把（另外也因为喜欢他的blog的站名：A Foreign Devil’s Take on the Middle Kingdom）

UPDATE:
最后补一句
其实中国人自己是最知道政府的种种问题的
不过我们自己关起门来怎么骂娘都行
你海外势力骂就不行