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They lied about the air too

By tigtog on August 1, 2008

Like Andrew Bartlett, I agree entirely with Andrew Bolt regarding the shameful weaseling by the International Olympic Committee regarding the whole idea of granting the 2008 games to the authoritarian dictatorship of China in the first place. crossposted UPDATE: It [...]

Posted in Authoritarianism, China, Ethics, Media, Sociology, Sport, The Web | Tagged andrew bartlett, andrew bolt, authoritarian, China, conroy, Culture, dictatorship, false positives, games, international olympic committee, internet filtering, intolerance, ioc, ISP filtering, Nationalism, Olympics, Sociology, sports&spectating | 35 Responses

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