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The opening ceremony was amazing, truely exceptional and quite possibly the best we will see for decades to come.
Beijing looks amazing, much much cleaner and with far better facilities than I ever imagined possible.
Yes there is still a lot of pollution but your achievement in reducing the pollution levels, as well as the long term polution reduction steps you have taken in a very small period of time are truely amazing. In terms of actual reductions in pollution, you have delivered something that my government (Australia) and many others around the world can not even bring to the planning stages. This is an amazing accomplishment for a developing country with such a huge population and such massive resource and manufacturing requirements.
I am touched by the sacrifices individual chinese people have made for these games, many willing, many forced by the government, I don’t approve of the old traditional houses being cleared out of many parts of Beijing for the olympics, but I can not deny that the China and Beijing we are seeing at these olympics looks amazing, and more importantly, was built on the sacrifices of regular chinese people. You deserve to be proud of what your sacrifices achieved, even if there are those in the chinese government who should be ashamed of asking for those sacrifices. You paid too much so that we could have a more modern Olympics.
The chinese people and military have performed some amazing feats of people power, both in the opening ceremony and in other areas such as clearing the sailing area’s of algae after the massive algal blooms, this is a big problem in some areas of Australia too, but we have never succeeded in clearing the algae away, let alone by hand and in such a short time. This is thankless work and I know the world will be very quick to complain if the algae reblooms during the olympics. Some people fail to recognise how hard some people, real people have worked to try to present their country in the best possible light, no matter what it takes and regardless of what you had to work with (you can not compare the work it takes to make a highly polluted area pristine to doing the same in a relatively clean area).
The security of these games is astounding, it may have been perceived as excessive and has brought some ridicule from western media, but I think you have done a fantastic job. The criticism china has received for its city wide security crackdowns are nothing compared to the outcry that would have occured if a major (or minor) terrorist attack took place during the games. Never before has the risk of terror attacks been so real and you have done everything conceivable to protect the athletes, media and spectators.
On the topic of the chinese military, people and government. I am amazed at how much you have done to help your own people when the earthquake disasters struck. I would suggest more was done that in other recent disasters in much more developed countries. I am also amazed that in the face of this disaster you have still been able to produce such a magnificant olympic games.
Your athletes have been phenomenal so far, while i do not approve of the extreme training programs your athletes have gone through, I must give them credit for what they have achieved, their sacrifice was perhaps unnecessary, but the individual athletes deserve our respect as they have been through training most of us, even our top athletes, might not be able to imagine.
People of China, you have every right to be proud of what you have given us and what you have shown us. I think there is still a long way to go so that the governments of the world can accept the chinese government, but you have shown us you are capacble of great things and great change, I hope that in the future the area’s of human rights and freedom of speech will also show as much progress.
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The chinese government has been asking for the olympics to be kept politics free, this has been widely ridiculed for obvious reasons given the differences of opinion around the world relating to the chinese government and numerous issues such as human rights abuse etc.
But I can’t help but feel they have a point, I love the olympics, never before have I been so excited about them, including the sydney olympics which were held in my own country, Australia.
But my enthusiasm is dwindling because of what I am seeing in the media, the spirit of the olympics, racial tollerance, amazement in seeing what some exceptional people are capable of, is all being dirtied by media obsession with picking at every perceived flaw in the beijing olympics. In Australia the only broadcaster is channel 7 who have not spent a cent getting anyone with any knowledge of china, it’s history or people to commentate on the games. As a result we have been bombarded with racist commentary and news announcers with 0 acknowledgement of the good things about the games.
On the internet it is even worse, people are hiding behind the annonimity of the net and bashing china for all their worth whenever a flaw is found. The reason china has controlled these olympics so closely is EXACTLY that reason, no tollerance is being shown, no respect, every flaw is being made into a huge issue. The olympics should be about more that this, they should be about the best things in human kind, the best the worlds people can achieve, not an excuse to point out the flaws of others.
The flaws need work, but noone would take advice from someone who follows them around pointing out every minor mistake they made and never saying a positive word.
look at the current situation, every eye is turned on Beijing, there has never been so much negativity aimed at such a well executed event. The issues currently being discussed in the world media have been blown out of proportion in my opinion, not taking into account the two sides of the story or the facts on hand. Do faked images of real fireworks which were actually launched in exactly the way shown in the faked footage really matter this much? Lipsyncing, is this such a crime, has it never before been seen outside of china? Has anyone bothered to report on how proud the actual singer of the opening song was, how happy her family were and how insitant the director was to let the world know about her? Somehow the western media have changed her from a happy and proud performer, supported by a happy family and well respected director, into the ugly girl noone wanted who we should all pity. I put it to you that mistakes with losing 3 seconds of a national anthem, might be forgivable. I even suggest that an official in a shooting competition, might be human, and might have made a single bad call in one round of a single olympic event.
Give peace a chance, give china a chance, they are trying to show us their best, regardless of our political differences.
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Arizona borderlands that are covered:
• More than 60 miles stretching from about seven miles east of Sasabe to south of Fort Huachuca in Cochise County.
• More than 55 miles on the Tohono O’odham Reservation from just east of the village of Ali Ak Chin to about 21/2 miles west of Sasabe.
• More than 50 miles across the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge west of Lukeville.
• More than 20 miles from about seven miles east of Douglas to about 11/2 miles west of the Arizona-New Mexico state line.
• 13.3 miles along the Colorado River near Yuma.
• 61/2 miles south of Sierra Vista near the Coronado National Monument.
• 6.9 miles starting 10 miles west of Naco going east.
• 6.4 miles starting just east of Naco running east.
• 5.3 miles starting from about 31/2 miles west of Lukeville to east of the town.
• 3.8 miles from Yuma County south of Somerton toward San Luis.
• 21/2 miles from a couple of miles west of Sasabe to east of the town.
• 1.6 miles on the western edge of the Tohono O’odham Reservation south of the village of Ali Ak Chin.
• A one-mile section west of Douglas.
Sources: Department of Homeland Security, International Boundary and Water Commission.
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Rules waived to add security along 220 miles of AZ border
By Brady McCombs and Howard Fischer
Arizona Daily Star Capitol Media Services
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 04.02.2008
advertisementThe Department of Homeland Security laid claim Tuesday to at least 220 of the 350 miles of U.S.-Mexican border in Arizona to build fences, roads and towers without having to comply with environmental regulations.
A congressionally mandated deadline to have 670 miles of fences, barriers, roads and lighting along the U.S.-Mexico border in place by the end of the year drove Secretary Michael Chertoff to invoke the waiver. To date, the agency has completed 309 miles of projects, leaving it with 361 miles to complete in nine months.
What Tuesday’s order does, Chertoff said, is ensure that the rest of what is necessary can be built without having to complete full-blown environmental-impact statements — and without fearing that one or more sections will become tied up in court.
The announcement, however, was greeted by disdain from local environmental-protection groups and a pair of Arizona legislators.
“I think every American should be up in arms that the federal government is waiving these laws,” said Sean Sullivan, co-chairman of the Sierra Club Rincon Group, which covers Southeastern Arizona. “They are just going to bulldoze ahead in order to get all the projects they had lined up completed.”
The waiver encompasses nearly two-thirds of Arizona’s international border, including swaths of land from as far west as Yuma to near the Arizona-New Mexico state line. Some of the larger expanses revealed by Homeland Security include:
● More than 60 miles stretching from about seven miles east of Sasabe to south of Fort Huachuca in Cochise County.
● More than 55 miles on the Tohono O’odham Reservation, from just east of the village of Ali Ak Chin to near Sasabe.
● More than 50 miles across the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge west of Lukeville.
● More than 20 miles from east of Douglas to near the Arizona-New Mexico state line.
In total, Homeland Security identified 13 areas in Arizona. The detailed plans — or what’s already under construction or has been completed — for each of the areas weren’t available Tuesday. None is a new project, said Amy Kudwa, Homeland Security spokeswoman.
“We are simply moving forward with their expeditious construction,” Kudwa said.
The projects will fall under the general category of “pedestrian and vehicle fence construction, towers, sensors, cameras, detection equipment and roads in the vicinity of the border,” Homeland Security said.
It’s the fourth time Chertoff has used the waiver, created in the 2005 Real ID Act to waive compliance with federal regulations for all border projects. He invoked the waiver on the previous three occasions for individual projects: in October 2007 for construction of two miles of fencing in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area in Southeastern Arizona; in January 2007 on the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range in Southwestern Arizona; and in 2005 in San Diego.
Each use has elicited harsh criticism from environmentalists and critics who say no one person should have such overreaching power.
Chertoff’s use of that 2005 waiver authority “has created a lawless border,” said Matt Clark, Southwest representative of Defenders of Wildlife.
The waiver continues a pattern of neglecting important environmental, health and safety laws to build an ineffective and environmentally damaging border wall, Clark said.
“That arbitrary deadline has resulted in lawlessness along the border and a disregard for environmental health and safety laws,” he said.
In a statement, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., called the use of the waiver “outrageous,” saying neither her office nor local or state elected officials were consulted.
“This is unacceptable,” Giffords said. “A federal government construction project of this magnitude will impact significantly on local residents, communities and the environment. Those of us who live on the border and represent border communities deserve a seat at the table.”
U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz., called such a broad and poorly conceived waiver lazy.
“Secretary Chertoff is abusing the authority granted him by the Congress with this ham-handed waiver,” Grijalva said in a statement. “With the stroke of his pen, he overturns 36 laws — some of which have been protecting our resources and our health for more than a century — in an area stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean.”
In a prepared statement Tuesday, Chertoff said his actions are justified.
“The flow of illegal traffic through the border region imperils our ability to fight terrorism by stopping the illegal entry of terrorists, and exposes our border communities and the rest of the United States to the ill effects of drug smuggling, human smuggling and gang activity,” he said. “Illegal border traffic has also caused severe and profound impacts to the environment.”
Invoking the waiver will prevent legal wrangling that could delay projects, he said. That’s exactly what happened last year when two environmental groups sought to halt construction of fences and vehicle barriers along the southern edge of the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area. Challengers said federal officials did not properly consider ways to minimize the impact of the new construction.
Chertoff eventually invoked the waiver, and construction continued.
Chertoff denied that environmental concerns are being ignored. He said that there is at least a “draft environmental assessment or environmental impact statement” for all of the miles where his agency is erecting new pedestrian fencing. And he said most of the other projects — aside from fences to keep pedestrians out — also will have those kinds of assessments.
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My boss is provoking me to be insubordinate. I have refused to be disrepscetful and her insults are getting crueler.
I work in our Los Angeles office. My immediate supervisor works in our New York office. The HR Director works out of our Miami office.
My boss flew into Los Angeles uknown to anyone walked up to me and said to join him in the conference room. We dialed a call to the HR director.
The HR director accused me of being a hacker and stealing informatin and providing to my friend who filed suit against my company. She had no proof, used vague examples to her reasoning and specifically asked what items and how I was able to provide the suing party with.
Her tone was very bitchy. I was threaten of criminal charges and told any hacking found I did is a federal offense.
I was suspended until further notice with no pay. I was not given a specific reason why or documentation for the suspension.
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