Fireworks in/about Beijing

First check your cable/sat web site to see if they set up special channels for the coverage. They have in Dayton. Problem being TW doesnt have our local NBC affiliate in their HD lineup. Not that it will affect soccer coverage.. I hope.

Besides not having met the pollution standards promised when they were given the host assignment, there's trouble aplenty around the world and we hope -not- in Beijing, itself.

The Uigher muslim separatists have said they will do something to call attention to their plight, could be a terror act. And a 'Free Tibet' protestor was injured in a fall from the Chinese consulate in SF. Claims are that when she rappeled from the building roof, the Chinese cut her ropes.

Interesting to me:

That for a one-time short-schedule protest. I would assume, then, that if the US allowed 'Free Tibet' to invade and occupy the DC Embassy, holding the staff hostage, for 400 plus days, the Chinese would consider it an act of war.

I would agree.