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Tibetan woman holds Olympic flame atop Everest

reuters.com — A Tibetan woman took the Olympic torch the last steps to the top of Everest on Thursday, realizing ''a dream of all Chinese people'', but rights groups criticized Beijing for politicizing the...

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  • ozymandias2012, on 05/08/2008, -15/+34She should've tossed it while she had the chance.
    • vfreak2, on 05/09/2008, -3/+6Bye bye Tibetan woman...
    • duckyinc, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2She obviously would have been shot on spot and her family taken, would you risk it?
  • NachoBusiness, on 05/08/2008, -4/+58I guess they finally found a place the protesters can't interrupt them.
  • whitecracker, on 05/08/2008, -19/+3Forget this "Free Tibet" crap. I say Low-Cost Tibet!

    (Alternatively Cheap Tibet, I can't decide).

    http://dickard.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/these-godd ...
    • Puffles, on 05/08/2008, -1/+3How about, "Free Tibet with Every Purchase of $50 or More"?
  • CYR1X, on 05/08/2008, -12/+3Too bad it isn't the actual torch, its just another one that was lit from the original.
    • basevillin, on 05/08/2008, -1/+15It's the flame, not the stick, that's important. Or something.
  • Alix7, on 05/08/2008, -10/+8Protest the olympics, or how about we protest our own multi-national corporations who are only supporting China's policies
    • inhaler, on 05/08/2008, -0/+6Then we need to withdraw from Iraq. Who do you think is footing the bill by purchasing US Bonds and granting us a loan of credit? The half a billion in debt we're in is mostly with China.
  • mark076h, on 05/08/2008, -18/+6***** CHINA!
    • donkeybat64, on 05/08/2008, -5/+5why are you so ignorant?
    • mark076h, on 05/08/2008, -8/+5that is not the question here, the question is why does China treat it's people like crap
      • paranoid123, on 05/09/2008, -2/+8And your government does not?
        • mark076h, on 05/09/2008, -3/+2nope i can go to any web page i want and blog about whatever is on my mind without getting shot, as i said ***** CHINA!
      • donkeybat64, on 05/09/2008, -2/+7because china DOSNT, im living proof, and so is the 16 million other chinese people who live in my same province. look seriously, just because a small portion of tibet is speaking out does not mean that all china is broke and the military is killing chinese, comon, get over that ignorant prejudice.
      • stormiscoming, on 05/09/2008, -1/+1***** YOURSELF!We will ***** you like an animal for 1.3 billion times
      • angilinmago, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1define crap
  • googooly, on 05/08/2008, -9/+4May one day Lolcat coveres this world and everyone would be happy
  • ZaZ2137, on 05/08/2008, -12/+20""During these times when the situation in Tibet is very grave and grim we felt it is very provocative to take the Olympic torch to the Tibetan side of the mountain," said Thubten Samphel"

    Wtf is your problem, they climbed up a highly dangerous mountain to hoist high a beacon of friendly competition and cooperation. If anything you should be congratulating them for making the trip safely without losing a limb or their lives
    • poidh, on 05/09/2008, -2/+2#low
    • LittleDas, on 05/09/2008, -5/+2The problem is that they were using the olympic torch relay to shill for china.
      Way to miss the point.
      • kittenman, on 05/09/2008, -1/+4wtf is your problem, every host of the Olympics has to do the same thing, the torch relay, it's not that only china is doing this to "shill for" herself, it's the tradition of Olympics. Ur way a Tool of the thugs.
  • dougdiggerton, on 05/08/2008, -13/+6Impressive, for a woman.
    • kpsfire, on 05/09/2008, -2/+1Yeah well, ***** you too.
      • tomtom13, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1Done with the laundry already? Back to the kitchen with you!
  • leeandjennie, on 05/08/2008, -14/+14China has no shame.
    • hippieben, on 05/08/2008, -7/+5agreed, such an obvious ploy
    • donkeybat64, on 05/08/2008, -6/+8this is simply a symbolic way to show that china and tibet are united, this problem CAN be solved. Not everything china does is propaganda or ploy to better their position in the world.
    • dakbonsa, on 05/09/2008, -7/+3Seriously, for months and months, the Chinese government has been saying "Olympic is always about athletes. It should never be politicized"
      Heck it was always the Chinese that politicized it first.
      • shortcircuit13, on 05/09/2008, -2/+4Yeah, it was totally the Chinese who took a fire extinguisher to the torch and assaulted torchbearers.

        That must be it.
    • notironic, on 05/09/2008, -0/+5They should just carve the faces of their most revered leaders into the mountain rock, you know, to put up their stamp of approval in stone, forever. I reckon it's been done before and wager that it'll be so popular people will go to see it by the busload!
    • yingjai, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2look who's talking lol. make sure ur own country is setting the world a good example before you badmouth others. we may disagree with what they're doing over there, but that doesn't absolve America from its own issues.
  • gritta, on 05/08/2008, -18/+14China's most recent *****: "We must respect the sovereignty of Myanmar and wait for permission before sending aid."

    Yeah lets listen to the arrogant opinions of 10-20 people and let 100,000+ people die for it.

    Sickening. China could use it's influence in the far east for so much good but doesn't.
    • fpaudon, on 05/08/2008, -3/+24Right, cause its so much better to go the American strategy of not giving any aid until Myanmar allows them to station troops there.
      • dakbonsa, on 05/09/2008, -9/+2Actually, U.S. already pledged to aid Myanmar...
        and now it's just sitting in Thailand.
    • donkeybat64, on 05/08/2008, -4/+20yeah just blame china on EVERY ***** PROBLEM we have in the world.

      • valkyries, on 05/09/2008, -5/+9well people seem to do it to the USA all the time, i guess its china's turn.
      • donkeybat64, on 05/09/2008, -6/+2well thats a shame because we all love our country...
  • vodakov, on 05/08/2008, -2/+3Can someone explain how it is possible for an open flame to stay lit on the top of Everest?
    • ZaZ2137, on 05/08/2008, -0/+6Everyone was huddled around it to stay warm :p Plus I seem to remember from somewhere that the torch is a chemical burning fire thats very hard to blow out and requires very little oxygen
      • valkyries, on 05/09/2008, -0/+6or the chemical has oxygen in it, because fires need the same amount of it to burn.
  • JohnnyHotballs, on 05/08/2008, -3/+28where were all those protesters who were too lazy to climb mount everest to protest?
    • someone173406, on 05/08/2008, -5/+14They all fell off the mountain from ignorance.
    • donkeybat64, on 05/08/2008, -5/+14i think the tibet protest is a fad, now it has died down, thats why we dont hear it much now in the news.

      now people have moved to blaming another country for problems (burma)
    • dakbonsa, on 05/09/2008, -2/+7"A special team of Nepalese police and army personnel has been given orders to use deadly force if necessary to stop anti-China protests on Everest."
    • notironic, on 05/09/2008, -2/+2Fairweather protesters can't be bothered!
    • zanderw00t, on 05/09/2008, -2/+2They were on the ground, too lazy to climb the mountain to protest.
    • digground, on 05/09/2008, -2/+2guess 'cause they get no money now from *** for organizing protest
  • usgovterrorists, on 05/08/2008, -14/+6Being the world's greatest terrorist isn't a great symbol or achievement either!
    United States Government are terrorists, war criminals, and horrific liars.
    • SaladCactusKing, on 05/08/2008, -1/+7"United States Government are terrorists" -usgovterrorists

      Lol.
      • usgovterrorists, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1Do you suppose they're laughing in Afghanistan or Iraq?
    • donkeybat64, on 05/08/2008, -1/+1i dont think that is the way to propose your argument.
      • usgovterrorists, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1Yeah, and you forgot to propose yours!
    • notironic, on 05/09/2008, -0/+0Don't diss the CIA, they'll blackop your ass to gitmo. Peace.
      • usgovterrorists, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1Why don't you send it to the CIA?

        BTW:
        I thought the CIA was too busy smuggling drugs!
  • goodbick, on 05/08/2008, -9/+4It's good to see that america isn't the only place where people are willing to sell out for 15 minutes of fame
  • crushtheenemy, on 05/08/2008, -9/+4of course they send a woman...how PC of them
  • harrisbradley, on 05/08/2008, -9/+4She should have wiped her butt with it
    • freak3295, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1wipe your butt with a flame, no thanks.
    • notironic, on 05/09/2008, -1/+0Ah, the old leave-a-burning-bag-of-***** on Tibet's doorstep gag. So funny.
  • SugarCoatedBomb, on 05/08/2008, -3/+1Picture nine of the image slide show from that website has a picture of a man in uniform holding up a banner in the foreground, and the caption says hes holding a banner congratulating the Everest climbers, but it actually says "Tibetan Firemen..." and the rest of the banner is off of the picture, but obviously it doesn't say anything about congratulating the climbers.
    • gamulater, on 05/09/2008, -0/+0I have to disagree since I believe the banner to the left says roughly "lenovo employees wish the success of the everest climbers"
  • danconia, on 05/08/2008, -1/+1"also known as Qomolangma"
    Seriously how annoying does that get... read through all the different slides if you don't know what I'm talking about.
  • aargh01, on 05/09/2008, -5/+7Free China.
  • donkeybat64, on 05/09/2008, -3/+13I think this is great for china - tibet relations, it is a symbol for peace and encourages the violence to stop in tibet. I think there is a way to work this problem out. write something nice.
  • poidh, on 05/09/2008, -8/+6It was only so long before it happened: the Chinese "government" recognise the power of Digg and send in people especially to digg down the anti-human comments and to digg up the pro-Chinese comments.
    • orangedude, on 05/09/2008, -3/+7No, Digg just came to its senses, that's all.
    • donkeybat64, on 05/09/2008, -2/+7no its just people who believe that blaming china for all the world's wrongs is simply not right, and the ignorance and immaturity of some diggers needs to stop.
    • prism1029, on 05/09/2008, -1/+1I'd digg down "anti-human" comments too. What's wrong with humans?
  • glucoseboy, on 05/09/2008, -2/+6The Modern Olympics have never been free from politics.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Olympic_Games# ...
  • bpollay, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1Why do they have multiple torches in the video? I thought there was just supposed to be one.
    • yip144, on 05/10/2008, -0/+0they pass the fire, not the torch.
      every torch bearer can actually keep the torch.
  • sramkrishna, on 05/09/2008, -2/+5She should have shouted "By the power of greyskull!"

    sri
  • asskicker32, on 05/09/2008, -4/+3a spokesman for the rights group was quoted as saying "Beijing is wrong for politicizing the torch and exploiting Tibetans by posing at the top of Everest. Thats our job and theyre ruining all our fun"
  • anbublackops, on 05/09/2008, -8/+5This is obviously propaganda. Just saying.
  • collinong, on 05/09/2008, -0/+1Did anybody congratulate the camera operator who was the real first one up the mountain?
    (since there is video of the woman coming up the mountain towards the camera as she nears the summit)
  • cramming, on 05/09/2008, -2/+3like anbublacktops has said, this is propaganda.

    "The torches and fuel used in the relay were specially developed by Chinese research, allowing the flame to continue burning at such high elevations, Etzler said."

    cached CNN story.

    link: http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:dUF75Lq7mQgJ: ...

    at the moment, that sentence reads differently

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/07/oly.ev ...

    "The torches and fuel used in the relay were specially developed by the Chinese space agency, allowing the flame to continue burning at such high elevations, Etzler said."
    • Skooma714, on 05/09/2008, -2/+1China does research? I thought they just stole everybody else's.
  • LoJack, on 05/09/2008, -3/+5Oh, the jealousy and the hatred of any achievement by the Chinese...
  • NaitYevrah, on 05/09/2008, -3/+0"Communist China"
  • miborovsky, on 05/09/2008, -1/+4"Tibetan exiles criticized Beijing for politicizing the Games"

    Man, irony is taken to an extradimensional level...
  • smek2, on 05/09/2008, -1/+1No matter what, you won't be satisfied. The US has secret prisons and torturing people, but it's ok, because we're told its all for freedom and all that jazz. Meanwhile, no matter what China does, it is all propaganda and wrong. The olympic torch atop Everest? A propaganda show. A Tibetan woman holding it? China is "politicizing the Games." The whole western world is politicizing the games as of late, for christ sake.
  • KireGoTI, on 05/10/2008, -0/+1How dare those Chinese politicize the Olympics! Western countries would never use something like the Olympic flame, which is supposed to tie the world together in the spirit of sportsmanship, to make a political statement!
  • fracardi, on 05/13/2008, -0/+0Tibet, China and the Olympics, a big imbroglio
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