The Communist Chinese government's preparations for the Beijing Olympics are insanely surreal, like something out of a Science Fiction novel, except it is SO bizarre, nobody could make it up! If you want the perfect example of how not just Americans, but the World is still in denial", look no further than Beijing, China.
While the Chinese try to make their Air 'temporarily' breathable for their foreign guests and that rare Species, the Olympic Athlete, a very timely MOVIE is showing in Theatres, here in America: "WALL-E", about a Cartoon Robot wandering through a desolate future Earth, a Planet abandoned by Humans, where nothing will grow, a Toxic Wasteland.
The "PIXAR" movie is intentionally trying to convey a warning message, while the Beijing Olympics organizers & the various government "leaders" of countries attending this Televised spectacle, are desperately trying to "hide" the true reality of what life is like for the people of Beijing.
The nightmarish environmental conditions,the drastic steps the Communist Chinese are forced to take, just to clear the AIR enough so Olympic runners can breathe (not to mention the foreign leaders & tourists, those than show up), the picture ain't pretty!
It should be a REALITY CHECK for President Bush, and for Senator John McCain, but sadly they have their heads in the sand, still in denial of the truth staring them in the face, about the Environmental threats we face, as mortal Humans, on this Planet we are despoiling. Pres. Bush and his fellow Republican, Sen. McCain, are blinded by greed, hubris, ignorance, ideology, and just plain old stubborn human nature.
I wish I could shake them and say, LOOK! Look at what your wonderful Neo-Con Dreams have wrought, your "Globalization" and "Free Trade". LOOK! Look at what Raw Capitalism, incestuously married to Communism, is doing to China's and to our beautiful Planet! What our "hyper-consumerism" based economy is doing to America. What eight years of delay on facing the challenges, "the fierce urgency of NOW", has cost us & will cost us.
George W. Bush and a few other World Leaders will show up in Beijing, "kiss the Ring" of the Chinese Communist Leader, and act as if everything is lovely, a beautiful summer day with blue skies, but the TRUTH will be there for all who want to see.
For any Americans who actually want to watch this particular Olympic spectacle on their T.V.'s, try to look behind the "Bread and Circuses". The Beijing Olympics of Summer, 2008 are a cautionary WARNING: This is what the entire EARTH will look like, if we as Americans, and the rest of the World's peoples, don't wake up.
We will turn our Planet Earth into a nightmarish vision that the Cartoon Robot "Wall-E" would find, tragically, very familiar! The environmental plight of the Chinese who actually have to LIVE in Beijing, China is a harbinger of things to come.
"The key challenge is to see whether this Draconian measure will indeed succeed in improving air quality," Victor Gao, director of the China National Association of International Studies, told state television.
Air quality is a more serious issue than at any Olympic Games in decades, and many athletes will train abroad in cleaner environs until only a day or so before their events. China has shut down polluting factories or moved them away from the city, and halted construction projects that raise the dust that occasionally coats the city.
China glosses over the air pollution problems by declaring, in an Orwellian twist of language, that any day when the outline of the sun can be seen through the smog is a "blue sky day".
That penchant for dictating public thought and behavior also was apparent last month when the ruling Communist Party's Office of Spiritual Civilization and Guidance helped created an Olympics patriotic cheer, encouraging spectators to cheer alike."
Exerpt from: "With A Month To Go, China Grows Anxious", by Tim Johnson, McClatchy Newspapers, July 7,2008
Gee, the Communist Party's "Spin Machine" operates a lot like the Right-Wing Neo-Con Spin Machine here in the good old US of A. Did Karl Rove and Shawn Hannity of FOX NEWS learn how to create their Propaganda Machine, by studying at the "Office of Spiritual Civilization and Guidance" in the People's Republic of China?
The "Orwellian" language sure sounds familiar, doesn't it?