Posts Tagged ‘Olympics’

Olympic Legoland!

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

I never thought that I would see a more complex lego city than Lego Venice but a Hong Kong Lego users group has painstakingly reproduced the 2008 Beijing Olympic summer games complex.

The group used over 300,000 Lego bricks and 4,500 Lego people to create the gigantic display. The stunningly crafted miniature panorama measures 10ft by 26ft and features famous venues including the “Birds’ Nest” Stadium and the “Water Cube” swimming centre. The one thing I could never locate in the lego masterpiece though were the police detaining and arresting protesters…

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Rogue pastor is “on the run” in China

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Eddie Romero, a pastor from the United States filmed himself in upscale hotel rooms Beijing paintings protests on the walls and vandalizing the room. From AP:

On Tuesday, in a sometimes unsteady hand – he had to teach himself how to paint – the California-based pastor splashed the walls of his two hotel rooms with demands for the release of five Chinese activists. He slashed pillows and staged mock killings with stuffed people propped on the bed, red paint spattered like blood on the headboard.

“One down,” Romero whispers, looking into the video camera. Bespectacled and gray-haired, he holds up a finger in his transformed Novotel Peace Hotel room. “One down.”

Romero, who appears to be alone, tells the camera he doesn’t want to disrupt the games. He talks about religious freedom for groups that remain highly sensitive with the Chinese government – Tibetan Buddhists, Uighur Muslims, the Falun Gong spiritual movement.

“Freedom’s a scary thing for them, and by them I mean the Chinese communists,” he says.

GO EDDIE !!!!!!

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