Today is my birthday. And “Talk Like a Pirate Day”. I’ll post a pic of my students in pirate hats later.
On the bus yesterday a thought occurred to me. Only one, as any more may have overloaded my brain. There was an elderly woman standing on the bus and no-one gave their seat up for [...]
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China is clamping down on ‘dissidents’ for the Olympics which are due to start on August 8, 2008 (08/08/08). By clamping down they mean removing vagrants and other undesirables to anywhere but Beijing. Of course, civil rights groups are up in arms on this latest abuse of human rights.
For the Sydney Olympics in 2000, the [...]
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No one can understand what the Russians are fussing over. It’s a harmless Hollywood film after all. Never mind that it’s not quite accurate. Or that it was actually the Nazis who were searching for mystical artifacts.
Imagine if a film was made about the SS running around in Tibet in search of Aryan ancestry or [...]
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The Olympic Flame made its way through Seoul on Sunday. On my way to the English club I saw some people dressed in Beijing 2008 T-shirts. Apparently they were Chinese students with a small number having been flown to Seoul from China for the event (as counter-protesters I guess). Not much really happened in Gangnam [...]
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This is a link to an opinion piece on the Pravda website. Quite an interesting read as it is not the usual drivel you would expect from an opinion section.
At all times, it is important not to rely on just one source of information.
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Long time since the last post, and much has happened.
There was a protest by Muslim students about the reprinting of that cartoon. They were waving placards saying “Freedom of Speech, not freedom to offend”. Curiously, one is a right while the other a choice of the observer. Besides, I’m sure tolerance is one of the [...]
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