Chinese Lunar Probe Hits Moon

After mapping the Moon's surface for the past 16 months, the Chinese lunar satellite Chang'e 1 has been deliberately crashed onto the Moon's surface in what scientists are calling a controlled collision. Chang'e 1's mission was to map the entire surface of the Moon.

The Chinese government has announced plans to put a module into orbit and to have one of their space capsules dock with this module, called Tiangong-1, in preparations for a fully manned space station. In 2003 China became the third nation to put a manned vehicle into orbit around the Earth. They expect to launch the module sometime in 2010, and have tentative plans for a Moon mission in 2020. Amazing stuff.

Olympics are Over - The British give us Massive SUCK

Another 4 years of waiting are set to begin. The Olympic Closing Ceremonies blasted the Beijing Olympics into the stratosphere. Whereas the Opening Ceremony was focused on the elements Water, Earth and Air, and the shape of a Square, the Closing Ceremony was a celebration of Fire and of the Circle. The Chinese love to have balance and harmony in all things, for it is as Confucious, Lao Tse, and many other important mystics have taught. The Chinese take the sense of balance very seriously.
It was a beautiful ceremony and finished this 29th Olympiad of the modern games off correctly. Beijing has a lot to be proud for and the Chinese government have a lot to live up to now.
Having said that, -FUPPETS- noticed something very foreboding. The next Summer Olympic Games will be held in London, England in 2012. Let's compare the two nations.
China - a 4 thousand year history of deep culture, deep innovation, love of beauty, and harmony, and the power of one of the largest new economies with the largest population of any nation on Earth standing behind it. Britain - tiny island nation, history dating back to the Roman Empire times and before that, an economy that is sputtering at best, 15-18% unemployment rate, and, to be honest, not much in the way of a national culture to showcase and share with the world.

As a part of every Closing Ceremony, the nation that is to be the next host of the games gets an 8 minute "window" in which to present a small taste of what it will bring to the table for the forthcoming games and ceremony. For example, in 2004, in Sydney Australia, the Chinese had aerialists and mysterious formations of humans and a small girl in a red dress seemingly floating above the stadium. It was beautiful and extremely enigmatic, for we were just given a tease with no context. Upon seeing the Opening Ceremony two weeks ago, it all made perfect sense. It was a beautiful mental continuity. The Chinese are good at that, very good.
So, after the grandeur of a most brilliant fireworks display, the Bird's Nest Stadium quieted for what was to be the UK's presentation. An ultra-modern looking double-decker bus entered the stadium floor, and headed towards a "bus stop" with what looked like the understudies for RENT or STOMP or some such crap (to quote the wise Homer Simpson) prancing around in goddamn pantomime. The bus parks and the dancers go about miming their bullshit like they are all climbing into the bus. It looked nice on TV, but there was no way in hell that bullshit played to the stadium. Looking at the crowd of athletes in the mid-field all one saw was the backs of a thousand heads, for they had to, HAD TO, look at the big-ass screens in order to figure out what the hell was going on. It was decidedly underwhelming.

The top of the double decker bus opened up , in a quite cool way, to reveal the skyline of London. Again, it was neat, but it felt like it was designed for the stage of 3,000 seat theatre, not a gigantic stadium seating a hundred thousand people.
Then the truly horrific British melt-down began. Out of the top of the "bus" rose some pop star, and a goddamn decrepit old white haired idiot who barely could hold up his heavy Les Paul guitar. It was sexagenarian Jimmy Page. Fucking Jimmy Page. He looked like a fucking retired golf pro. He proceeded to "play" along to a piped-in track of "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin while the disposable pop-bitch who won some sort of TV show "sang." There are so many things wrong with this but -FUPPETS- will point out just one. The song, "Whole Lotta Love" is the ultimate COCK ROCK anthem! The entire song is about how much cock you are going to try to stuff in your woman's love-hole! It is about how fucking stretched out her pussy is going to get because you are going to bottom out hardcore because you are giving her SO MUCH COCK! Now, what in the holy fuck did the organizers of the London Games in 2012 think when they chose this particular song? Did they think no one would understand the original references and instead would assume the song to be a heavy metal ode to joy and a paean to the love and Olympic Spirit that the Olympics are designed to foster in the youth of the world? FUCK. It was terrible. Even the UK reporters are aghast at how fucking awful it was.

In my time I've witnessed countless Royal Variety Performances and the opening
ceremony of the Dome. This British fiasco was worse than any of them, and even
at only eight minutes seemed interminable. No wonder London mayor Boris Johnson looked so uncomfortable beforehand. He must have known what was coming.
I have two tips for you, Boris. Keep your hands out of your pockets when attending high-profile events like this, and secondly fire whoever responsible for this
fiasco and hire proper showbiz professionals – from Las Vegas if necessary – to
handle the opening and closing ceremonies in 2012. Another toe-curling
embarrassment like this would be unendurable. - Charles Spencer - Telegraph UK

It truly was like being kicked out of a brand new 4-star hotel in the heart of
NYC, and sent to a 30 year old Ramada Inn somewhere in Trenton, New Jersey. I can
just imagine the despair in the Brit's hearts when they saw such a fucking
catastrophe. Even the staging was rote and bullshit. The Chinese used their
high-wire expertise, bringing in talent from the Hong Kong film industry to create majestic performance ART. The British contingent used a fucking parade float with
generic platforms and railings. It sincerely looked like a high school theatre
production. It was so SUCK.

-FUPPETS- leaves you with this pathetic image.
It looks like goddamn Micky Dolenz from the
fucking Monkees.

China Hates Old People

Some more jack-assery by our newest "friendly economic partner," China.
When the Olympic Games were set to begin, the Chinese totalitarian government decided to create specific "Protest Zones" which would be the only places where protest would be allowed to occur, by the whim of those fascist assholes. Not only were they setting up specific, heavily fortified protest zones, anyone wishing to protest would have to actually file an official request with a specific Chinese government agency, the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau. If this Bureau saw fit to honor your request you would be assigned a date and time to go protest. what a load of SHIT! As if they would not turn down every single protest coming and possibly arrest those seeking to protest for "re-education," which the Chinese do regularly, fucking goddamn assholes.

So, the worst fears have been realized. From the Houston Chronicle,

Two elderly women were sentenced to a year of "re-education through labor"
after they applied for permits to demonstrate during the Olympics, according to
the son of one of the would-be protesters.
Wu Dianyuan, 79, and Wang
Xiuying, 77, went to police five times between Aug. 5 and Aug. 18 to seek
approval to protest against officials who evicted them from their homes in 2001.
The Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau did not approve or deny their
applications during the first three visits. On the fourth visit, the women were
told that they would receive a year's punishment, until July 29, 2009, for
"disturbing the public order."
According to a written order they received, they would not have to immediately go to a re-education labor camp, but their movements would be restricted. If they violated various provisions or regulations, however, they could be sent to a labor camp. Wu and Wang tried to return a fifth time to inquire about their protest application but they were told that their right to apply had been stripped.
"When I first heard about the possibility of being allowed to protest, I was very happy. My issue could be resolved. But it turned out all to be cheating ... I feel stuck in my heart," Wu said by telephone. Li Xuehui said his mother, Wu, and her friend are outraged.
Usually labor re-education is reserved for "prostitutes and thieves," Li
said. "What the two old ladies did is nowhere near that." He pointed out that
Wang is nearly blind.

The full article, written by Ariana Eunjung Cha for the Washington Post, can be read here. It is fucking pathetically stupid.

Here is the "seditious" old lady the Chinese fascist fuckfaces are so scared of that they are willing to make an example of her and sentence her to a forced-labor camp for a year.

Here is their fucking bullshit propaganda spin on this whole issue.

Earlier this week, the official New China News Service
reported that police had received 77 applications but none has been
approved.
Wang Wei, executive vice president of the Beijing Olympic organizing committee, cast the empty protest zones in a positive light, telling reporters Wednesday that the disputes brought by would-be protesters had been resolved.

CHINA BLOCKS iTUNES (Everyone Wants to Kiss China's Ass)

The totalitarian assholes in the Chinese government are at it again. They seek to exert total control over their own population, and do so masterfully, nearly Nazi Germany-like.
This control extends quite rigorously to the Internet, which China filters and censors using what become know as "The Great Firewall of China." The Chinese call it The Golden Shield Project. Does that not sound wholesome and safe? Kind of like when the US Government called the Iraq invasion "Operation Eduring Freedom?"
The Apple website iTunes, is now blocked from access by anyone in China, due to several of the Olympic athletes downloading "protest" music. Here is an article from the Guardian UK describing this bullshit.

It started with Songs for Tibet, a compilation produced by the Art of Peace Foundation, a US-based Tibetan activist group. The Foundation invited Olympic athletes to download the album free of charge. By listening in Beijing, the
activist group said, athletes would communicate that "compassion and
non-violence can overcome intolerance and oppression - beautiful ideals to be
associated with the Olympic spirit".
More than 40 athletes downloaded the album, according to a press release, which includes songs by Sting, Rush, Damien Rice, Underworld and Alanis Morissette.
And then China turned off the iTunes music store.

What the FUCK? -FUPPETS- hates the way the world has kissed China's backwards ass. What a fucking load of shit. Now the athletes will have to just download these songs illegally! Yay! Apple cannot be seen as laughing in the face of the Chinese, since they are actively seeking to sell them a billion iPhones, and they have just opened up their first Apple Store over there. Fuck the Chinese government.

Olympic Medals

-Fuppets- has noticed the beautiful medals that are awarded at the Beijing Olympic Games. Each medal is inscribed on the front with the standard I.O.C. approved image, a drawing that represents the winged goddess of victory Nike and Panathinaikos Arena. On the reverse side is a ring of Jade and the Beijing Games emblem. The Gold Medal has the purest white Jade. It is very beautiful, almost like a ring of milk.

Sucking In The Filthy Beijing Air

The pollution levels in Beijing are astronomical. Even from outer space it appears that hundreds of square miles of China are covered in the thickest, grayest smog ever seen outside of Mexico City.

The spin doctors in China have asked all the media to avoid mention of this as much as possible. Not only that, they have also asked for it to be referred to as "Haze", not "Smog." They both mean the same thing really. "Smog" is just a more negative word. Beijing is one of the most humid cities on Earth, and when that humidity combines with massive amounts of pollutants, it creates what are essentially very heavy, very filthy clouds.

All clouds are composed to water droplets of various sizes. These water droplets develop usually around a "seed' of some kind, oftentimes a grain of pollen or some bit of dust. The large amounts of airborne particles in Beijing's air creates a perfect "surface" for the proliferation of very filthy smog.

Television, with it's sole focus being on beautiful presentation, has avoided showing the skies over Beijing as much as possible, because it truly is depressing to look at! They built a studio for Bob Costas and his crew overlooking the Olympic Village, with massive windows affording a gorgeous view. Due to the filth in the air they have had to place a gigantic flat screen monitor behind Bob Costas, between him and the large windows.

Notice the heavy red curtains behind Bob Costas' left shoulder. Early on in the broadcasts there was no curtain, so in that small rectangle of space behind him and the large TV screen you could see a bright grey. It looked like smoke soup.

The cut-away shots of the "Bird's Nest" Stadium they have been showing every time they cut to commercial have crystal clear skies and empty streets, obviously filmed weeks or maybe months before the Olympics. China and their ruling party are obsessive to the point of being anal-retentive when it comes to how their city, country, and Olympic effort are portrayed by the world's media. That is understandable, but to have them be able to essentially gag the US media from discussing the filthy filthy air pollution conditions in Beijing scares me a bit.

The Chinese own around 25% of the United States. That includes real estate, corporations, buildings, etc. If they were to get mad at us and pull away the money they shove into our economy, the money keeping the USA from going into a fully catastrophic depression, it would be an ugly situation.

Kind of makes you wonder who is "top dog" in the world, huh?