Beijing Olympics may encounter unexpected guests -- Add locusts to China's list of calamities

-- Micky's humble opinion: What a fiasco with Chinese characteristics! Could it be the ghosts of
Tian An Men Square massacre seeking for revenge ? --

Add locusts to China's list of calamities
Riots -- check. Earthquake -- check. Flood -- check. Plague -- check. Such a concentration of woes
in this high-profile year has fanned rumors and superstition.
By Mark Magnier
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

July 3, 2008

BEIJING ― First there was the freak snowstorm in February. Then the Tibetan riots in March. Then in
rapid succession the controversial torch relay, Sichuan earthquake, widespread flooding and an algae
bloom that's tarnishing the Olympic sailing venue. Just when it seemed that nothing else could go
wrong this year in China, the locusts arrived.

Locusts? What is going on here? The litany of near-biblical woes would seem to lack only a famine,
frogs and smiting of the first born.

The Middle Kingdom's parade of problems has threatened to put a major damper on China's anticipated
moment of glory less than five weeks before the start of the 2008 Beijing Games.

"This sure has been a weird year," said Ma Zhijie, 20, who works in a coffee shop. "There are so
many disasters, it's hard to know what's happening."

After Earth Quake, China's Year of the Olympics Encounters "Volcano Eruption" -- 300 Protesters
Arrested After Riot

300 Protesters Arrested After Riot
One of the Worst Demonstrations since Tiananmen Massacre in 1989

By Li Xin, Lee Wen, and Xion Bin
New Tang Dynasty TV
Jul 05, 2008

Dozens of police vehicles were rolled over and set on fire by protesters. (The Epoch Times)

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The unrest started on June 28 in reaction to the authorities' cover up of the alleged rape-murder of
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victim, Li Shufen's, body was found. Zhou told The Epoch Times , he saw many armed forces vehicles
driving into the city. Locals warned Zhou it was dangerous to stay. Zhou took the advice and left.

Quitting the Evil and Criminal CCP -- As of 11:04 AM EST, 39,592,085 people have submitted
statements withdrawing from the Chinese Communist Party or its affiliated organizations

Quitting the CCP

As of 11:04 AM EST, 39,592,085 people have submitted statements withdrawing from the Chinese
Communist Party or its affiliated organizations (for the text in Chinese of all of the statements,
please visit the Tuidang website). Those who are current members of the CCP or its affiliated
organizations are with these statements resigning their membership; former members use these
statements to sever all association with these organizations. All are renouncing the CCP totally.