<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>China hits back over Olympics row : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/sports/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>51408</id><url>http://www.plime.com/sports/l/51408/1/</url><title><![CDATA[China hits back over Olympics row]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beijing has gone on the offensive following the resignation of Steven Spielberg as an artistic director to the Olympic Games.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>96</score><crdate>2/20/2008 8:14:18 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-20T08:14:18+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>57581</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/57581/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Berlin in 1936 or Beijing in 2008?]]></title><description><![CDATA[A fascist regime plans to host the Olympic Games. Critics call for a boycott, but the Games come off as planned. And on the field of world opinion, the host scores an enormous victory.<br/><br/><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-rutten9apr09,0,6543352.column" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">In 1936</a>, serious movements urging an outright boycott of the Berlin Games were mounted in the United States, Britain, France, Sweden, Czechoslovakia and the Netherlands. Adolf Hitler had come to power two years after the International Olympic Committee had awarded <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/olympics.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Berlin the Games</a> as a symbol of Germany's emergence from its post-World War I isolation. <br/><br/>Now that the Winter Olympics are over, all eyes will soon turn to the Summer Olympics. And that's just what the Chinese want. Like the Germans of the '30s, they will use the Olympics to showcase their economy -- and hide their repressive behavior.<br/><br/>But the rest of us don't have to help. Lest we repeat the errors of 1936, the United States should lead a boycott of the 2008 Olympics. Anything less will give the Chinese the same kind of propaganda boost that the Nazis enjoyed.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>116</score><crdate>4/9/2008 10:39:10 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-09T10:39:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>52247</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/52247/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Beijing's New Olympic Airport Is the World's LARGEST Building!]]></title><description><![CDATA[They made this bad-boy for the Olympics, and apparently it is unreal. <br/>&quot;From the sky, the new airport terminal is designed to look like a Chinese dragon&quot;<br/>Things are getting NUTS in Beijing with everything they are building for the Olympics - very interesting article!]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>28</score><crdate>2/27/2008 7:21:37 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-27T07:21:37+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>60328</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/60328/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Senator: China plans to spy on Olympic hotel guests]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Senate lawmaker accused the Chinese government on Thursday of ordering U.S.-owned hotels in China to install Internet filters that can spy on international visitors coming to see the summer Olympic games.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>15</score><crdate>5/1/2008 8:15:25 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-01T20:15:25+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>26440</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26440/1/</url><title><![CDATA[China will zap Olympic rain clouds with rockets]]></title><description><![CDATA[China is promising the 2008 Olympics in Beijing will be bathed in sunshine - because it is planning to disperse any rain clouds with special rockets.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>82</score><crdate>7/6/2007 12:59:38 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-06T12:59:38+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>70802</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/70802/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Digging a Hole Under the Great Firewall of China]]></title><description><![CDATA[With news that hotels in Beijing will be spying on internet users during the Olympics,Zach Honig (pop photo blogger) gives real world tips about hacking the firewall and dodging spyware while at the games.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>28</score><crdate>7/31/2008 4:19:48 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-31T16:19:48+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>21268</id><url>http://www.plime.com/sports/l/21268/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Boycott the 2008 Beijing Olympics.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I've been thinking this might happen since the IOC announcement of China getting the Olympics.  Now that trade, environment and currency devaluation are bubbling to the surface in the US I think we are one step closer.<br/>I see it as our last leverage against the monster who holds our debt, steals our secrets, pollutes, exploits, and destroys its own people and environment to feed our conspicuous consumption.  It was the first brick ripped from the wall in 1980, and it can be again in 08.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>23</score><crdate>5/24/2007 11:38:18 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-24T11:38:18+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>54932</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/54932/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Isn't Beijing beautiful?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Looking forward to the Olympics in Beijing? I know I am, it'll be one of a kind. But don't forget your gas mask!]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>55</score><crdate>3/19/2008 5:29:43 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-19T17:29:43+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>