Olympic Torch Relay full-length report now at zombietime

Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 5:57 pm

I covered the April 9 Olympic Torch Relay in San Francisco for Pajamas Media and posted on their site a “quickie” report about the protests (and other goings on that day) a couple weeks ago. I have now completed a full-length, three-part report about the Torch’s journey through San Francisco, and posted it here at zombietime.

It’s a big improvement over what originally appeared on Pajamas Media: This version has full-size vivid photos (PJM shrunk the pictures down substantially), ten action-packed videos that were not there before, and about three times the number of photos.

Here’s one of the more interesting videos that are in this new version of the report, showing a hair-raising clash between Tibet supporters and China supporters:

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1ProtestShooter on Apr 25, 2008 at 7:57 pm:

Whoo hoo!

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2sanddog on Apr 26, 2008 at 2:36 pm:

Excellent report!

Shame on Mayor Newsom…..once again.

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3Jonas on Apr 27, 2008 at 8:57 pm:

On page one of the Olympic Torch Relay under Burma, the flag of Lithuania rather than the 1943 Burma flag is being displayed. LoL!

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4zombie on Apr 27, 2008 at 11:05 pm:

Jonas:

Yes, it’s very odd — the Lithuanian flag! But then I realized — they were just doing their best to recreate an old Burmese flag. Really!

The picture in question is here (flag on left): http://www.zombietime.com/olympic_torch_relay/IMG_2096.JPG

The Lithuanian flag looks like this: http://www.friends-partners.org/images/flgs/lithuania.gif

The flag of the brief “Republic of Burma” during WWII was identical to the Lithuanian flag but with a peacock design in the center: http://www.worldstatesmen.org/mn_bia-corr2.gif

Not sure why they want to commemorate that flag though: the “Republic of Burma” was occupied by the Japanese Army until the end of WWI, when the nation was dissolved: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Burma . I suppose it was the last flag of the pre-communist dictatorship era in Burma, and they didn’t want to use the current flag.

I guess it’s not easy to find any spare Republic of Burma flags sitting around, so they bought a Lithuanian flag as a stand-in. Bizarre!

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5Jodi Nash on Nov 12, 2008 at 9:17 pm:

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