Explosions near Olympic venues go unreported

Censorship, it's what's for dinner.

Ah, China. We've so much to learn from what we've taught them.

Unreported? Didn't you just report it?

This news just paradoxed itself out of existence!

Are they even telling the delegations from each country? This was my main concern in China hosting. A country that is capable of this level censorship should be taken out of consideration as host nation.

I wonder how much news is being kept under wraps. Hopefully people will break these stories once they're out of China and this farce of an IOC is no longer in control.

Although I agree these things should be reported. Wouldn't the dwelling and speculation on their motives take away from the games and give those blowing things up exactly what they wanted.

The Olympics are for athletes and healthy international competition. NOT POLITICS!!

anyway ...
Freedom can not be imposed.

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Sounds like Falun Gong is on the move...you can bet that the Chinese gov knows exactly what's going on... but will we ever find out..?

"If you look far enough to the left, pretty soon, you see them coming around from the right..." ...Clint Eastwood

Our gov and China's seem to have a lot in common, when it comes to manipulating the media...you can't avoid the politics of it...you can only play dumb...

I wonder who they'll massacr... er, blame.

Glad we have current. at least I know whats going on in the world.. No thanks to cnn.lol

What good is blowing up shit 50 km from the stadium anyway? What good is reporting it and getting everyone all bent out of shape over something beyond their control?

50 kilometers? Is that a joke?

That's like saying that a bomb exploded near LAX when it actually exploded in Santa Barbara.

This is retarded.

China is a military driven "socialist" republic. To be surprised by this is naive. The real story is how we help the people who are caught there by the chance of birth.

I don't see why people are surprised that China isn't reporting these kind of things. It's not like China ever wanted the rest of the world in their business in the first place.
Ever wonder about what kind of things went about unreported in China prior to the Olympics?

Many of the venues appear to have a lot of empty seats during the events. Were people scared from the beginning & decided not to go or did the brutal attack on an American couple early on contribute to this? The Chinese gov't is using the Olympics as a political showcase, carefully presenting themselves to the world as a major player. You certainly can't help but notice that they have a monopoly on gold medals while the U.S. is clinging to a small lead for the most medals won overall.

The aim of terrorism - and yes folks, contrary to propagandistic nonsense about them being "just evil", terrorists do have aims - is to effect desired sociopolitical change by generating fear and distress among a civilian population. Although the desired changes vary across [and even within] groups, the basic nature of terrorism is a universal.

Would making a big song and dance about this have caused distress? Yes. Would it have caused ordinary decent people to needlessly panic, to alter their plans for the enjoyment of the Beijing Olympiad, and to pointlessly suffer in innumerable ways? Yes.

So what would be the point?

Is it the business of governments to hand victories to terrorists? Plainly, in some cases it is - many governments [for those of us in "the West", mostly *our* governments] are all too happy to capitalise on the acts of terrorists to effect their own changes [oftentimes not in the best interest of their population].

Full credit to the Chinese authorities who appear to be just getting on with things [whether or not we agree with their policies is another issue] and refusing to surrender reason to terror.