The decision to award the 2008 Olympics to Beijing said everything there was to say about the corrupt, secretive & unaccountable International Olympic Committee. Broken pledges on the Chinese government's side about unfettered web access for foreign correspondents during the Games were depressing, but unsurprising.
The autocratic regime's response to Tibet protestors & the media today sums up their moral & intellectual bankruptcy:
(The video footage on the Guardian link is highly revealing.)
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