"Tiananmen Square," "Tibet"

Those are the keywords.

Sadly, if, by improbable chance, a reporter covering the Olympics in China tries to access this post, it would be blocked by filters.

AP:

BEIJING - Olympic organizers unblocked some Internet sites at the main press center and media venues Friday while others remained off limits for journalists covering the Beijing games.

The move falls short of the "free and unfettered access" the organizers and Chinese officials had promised for months. However, it was an improvement from earlier in the week when sites for the likes of Amnesty International or Tiananmen Square could not be opened.

Here's some more of that scary, scary stuff:

Amnesty International

Also:

Today, The U.S. House of Representatives called upon President Bush to make a statement on the Chinese human rights atrocities and to request a visit to Chinese-occupied Tibet when he goes to the opening ceremonies to cozy up to the totalitarian rulers.

Chinese paramilitary police officers wait for instructions, inside the National Aquatics Center, known as the Water Cube, in Beijing Wednesday, July 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Icelandic horror!

China's totalitarian rulers have listed Bjork as a national security threat and are banning her from the county.

Yes, Iceland's pop star has the ability to do what centuries of warfare, natural disaster and everything in between couldn't: Bring about the end of the Chinese nation.

Can you blame them? Just look at how chilling she is!

This, of course, is due to the fact that Bjork has been openly critical of China's murderous occupation of Tibet

Earlier this year, Bjork shouted "Tibet! Tibet!" at a Shanghai concert having performed her song "Declare Independence," which she has used in the past to promote independence movements in other places such as Kosovo.

Bjork's position is unlike, say, our last few presidents (and especially the current one) who can't wait to honor such brutality with the reward of trade and U.S. dollars.

Photo AP

Olympic spirit

The Washington Post reports that China is cracking down on dissent on the eve of the games. George W. Bush is still going to coddle the tyrants by attending the opening ceremonies.

Huang, who had already served a five-year prison term for political material posted on his Web site, had just published an article about China's latest forbidden topic: shoddy construction of school buildings in Sichuan province, where more than 9,000 children were killed when their classrooms collapsed in the May 12 earthquake.

As Huang predicted, when he and two friends walked out of that restaurant in Chengdu on June 10, the police closed in. He is being held in a detention house in the city, the capital of Sichuan province, charged with illegal possession of state secrets, a catchall term often used to stifle dissent.

More than 1,000 'disappeared'

What a way to kick off the Olympics in our totalitarian trading partner's land!

Reuters:

HONG KONG - China's grip on dissent in Tibet remains tight after deadly riots there in March, with more than 1,000 people still detained without charge, human rights group Amnesty International said in a new report on Thursday.

"Many hundreds, possibly thousands of Tibetans languish in prisons or detention centers without the government publicly acknowledging their whereabouts or formally charging them with a criminal offence," the report read.

It's quite possible they could possibly be among the prison labor making junk to be sold here in the U.S.A.

More from Tibet

Police and protestors clash

From AP:

Eyewitness accounts and photos posted on the Internet portrayed a chaotic scene in Lhasa, the provincial capital, with crowds hurling rocks at security forces, hotels and restaurants. The U.S. Embassy said Americans had reported gunfire. U.S. government-funded Radio Free Asia reported two people were killed.

At a demonstration outside the United Nations in New York, Psurbu Tsering of the Tibetan Association of New York and New Jersey said its members received phone calls from Tibet claiming 70 people had been killed and 1,000 arrested. The reports could not be verified.

Also a crackdown in Nepal:

Police scuffled Friday with about 1,000 protesters, including dozens of Buddhist monks, during a rally in Katmandu in support of demonstrators in Tibet. About 12 monks were injured.

The U.S. ambassador has urged China to use restraint:

He also recalled that Washington has "consistently urged the Chinese government to engage in a dialogue with the Dalai Lama," the Tibetan spiritual leader.

Speaking of the Dalai Lama:

DHARMSALA, India - China must stop using force against protesters in Tibet, the Dalai Lama said Friday, calling the demonstrations a manifestation of the "long-simmering resentment of the Tibetan people."

The Tibetan spiritual leader and head of Tibet's government-in-exile said in a statement that he was "deeply concerned over the situation that has been developing in Tibet following peaceful protests."

Photo: Indian police drag Tibetan protesters who were protesting outside the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi, India, Friday, March 14, 2008. Police have clashed with scores of pro-Tibet protesters near the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi, arresting dozens of them. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)

Countdown to the Olympics

From AP:

DEHRA, India - More than 100 Tibetan exiles began a hunger strike Thursday after police in northern India dragged them away from a six-month march to their homeland to protest China's hosting of the Olympic Games.

The demonstrators had vowed to march from India to Tibet to coincide with the start of the Aug. 8-24 Games. Indian officials — fearing the march would embarrass China — banned the exiles from leaving the Kangra district that surrounds the city of Dharmsala — the headquarters of the Tibetan government-in-exile in India.

And from Times Online:

Beijing laid siege to at least three monasteries in Tibet today, leaving monks trapped with dwindling food supplies, as the biggest anti-Chinese demonstrations in nearly two decades intensified.

Monks at Ganden monastery, located on a hilltop near the regional capital Lhasa, were reported to have started a hunger strike to protest against the deployment of armed paramilitary police, who continued to surround them today after being sent in to restore order yesterday.

Soldiers were today also reported to have been stationed around the Sera and Drepung monasteries. Drepung, in particular, was surrounded by "three layers" of army personnel, a witness told the AP news agency, while the Sera monastery was surrounded by more than 2,000 police.

China continues to brutally occupy Tibet, support the military rulers of Burma and has worked to undermine the UN mission to Darfur. The Olympics will be a boost to the totalitarian government in Beijing and it's time for the calls to boycott the games and its sponsors to kick into high gear — not to mention an overdue reevaluation of U.S. trade policy (though that may be difficult, as our 'leaders' in Washington have this nation in debt to China to an appalling degree).

Photo: Indian police detain Tibetan protestors at Dehra, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Kangra district boundary that surrounds Dharmsala, the headquarters of the Tibetan government-in-exile in India, Thursday, March 13, 2008. Police detained more than 100 Tibetan exiles marching in northern India to Tibet in protest of China's Olympic Games early Thursday morning, organizers and officials said. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)