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Not just for toys anymore. (China's gold medals are 99% lead, with lead-based paint)

by: Douglas E. Lindner

Wed Aug 13, 2008 at 13:55:41 PM EDT
A day after it comes out that parts of the Beijing Olympic opening ceremony were CGI, The Huffington Post is reporting that the Gold Medals (which are supposed to be solid gold, and are always produced by the host nation) are actually 99% lead and covered in a gold-colored lead-based paint.

That's downright Shakespearean.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Emphasis mine:

The medals, which were supposed to be made entirely of gold, were instead found to be composed of 99% lead alloy and coated with a gold-colored lead-based paint.

The shocking revelations roiled the Olympic complex today and sent officials looking for answers from the Chinese manufacturer of the medals, the Wuhan One Hundred Percent Gold Medal Corporation.

...

"I am very, very concerned about my extensive contact with gold medals," Mr. Phelps told reporters. "But what am I supposed to do? Stop being so awesome?"

"Wuhan One Hundred Percent Gold Medal Corporation"?  They might as well call it, "Really, Our Gold Medals Are Made of Gold!  We Swear! Really!, LLC"

Edit: It's a hoax.
Douglas E. Lindner :: Not just for toys anymore. (China's gold medals are 99% lead, with lead-based paint)
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Not just for toys anymore. (China's gold medals are 99% lead, with lead-based paint) | 4 comments
The gold standard (0.00 / 0)
I hope you know that this is actually from Borowitz who is mainly a commedian. Still, what is one more rumor?
AGH! (0.00 / 0)
I've been getting the feed from HuffPo Blog for about a week, not realizing I needed to check the fine print on each item to find out whether the entire article is BS.
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Difficult Olympics to Watch (4.00 / 2)
I love the Olympics, but watching them this year makes me feel complicit with the brutality shown to the people of that country by its government. Structurally unsafe schools, incredible amounts of pollution, severe restrictions on freedom of speech, press, assembly.  Over a million people moved out of their homes to build Olympic facilities. I still watch, but it isn't always comfortable.  

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt   [I'm an advisor to the NHDP Coordinated Campaign]
"Over a million people moved out of their homes to build Olympic facilities." (0.00 / 0)
Wow, I hadn't heard about that one.

The People's Republic of China (not the people of China) is an incredible danger to the world and to the Chinese people.  It is an absolute disgrace that we in the West are so complicit in their rise to international supremacy.

Here's an Orwellian example:

Just for the Olympics, the PRC decided to set up specially designated protest zones in three Beijing parks where one could go to protest after being granted a permit by his/her local police station.

A woman named Zhang Wei sought to protest "what she claims was the illegal demolition of her house", and applied for a permit earlier this month.  On August 6, she was taken into custody for "disturbing social order."  They gave her a month in prison for applying for a permit to protest.  And she's not the only one.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08...

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