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Rebiya Kadeer is the President of both WUC (World Uighur Congress) and UAA (Uyghur American Association
This video documents the elaborate advanced planing that was used to plan and instigate the deadly race riots in Xinjiang Province, China. On July 5th, Some Uighurs, incited by Ribiya Kadeer, president of the World Uighur Congress, and the Uighur American Association, staged "peaceful demonstrations," to attract police, then "killing squads" raged through side streets in Han Chinese neighborhoods, slaughtering dozens of people that "looked Asian." Uighurs are a caucasian ethnic Turkish speaking people. not all Uighurs living in Xinjiang, China support Ribyia's seperatism. Uighurs are not the only minority nor only Muslims living in Xinjiang.
The US Government funds Ribiya Kadeer primarily through the NED. US Congressmen support her racial hatred groups. The US Congress, and the Uighur seperatist and terror groups, together, spread disinformation about Xinjiang, Uighurs and China.
For example, they like to say that China invaded Xinjiang, the Uihgur homeland. You see, they are counting on your ignorance, indifference, and latent racist attitudes toward "Asian looking people." In fact, Uighurs migrated into Xinjiang, China, some 1000 years AFTER the Han Chinese.
Another lie the Uighur seperatists like to spread is that China is destroying Uighur culture. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth! China is the only country in the world that has preserved the writen arabic script of the Uighur language. In all other countries, including Turkey, Uighurs write their language either in Latin or Russian based scripts.
I have often wondered why the US continues to engage in such violent covert activities. I assume our government knows this is bad, evil, and unlawful, which is why they lie to Americans about what is actually going on. Is it lawful for the US gov to propagandise the American people? What about the People's Right to Know?
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Gun Violence in US Kills More Than War
In the US, 1 in every 31 adults is in prison, jail or on supervised release. geath by guns every yrer is more that US deaths in Wars overseas. Yet, the right to own guns continues, while those how incite using guns to kill do not have free speech protection, and can and are prosecuted.
Watch in this video, as a Coffee Klatch, neighbors question prospective DA about their fears about Philly being the wild west, and more dangerous that either detroit or Baltimore. The man speaking, a caucasion, refers to white people as "people like us," and to Affrican Americans as "animals."
Phildelphia is the City where the police actually droped a bomb on the hose of MOVe members, and allowed it to burn, destroying a whole city block, in 1985.
Tension between the "oppressive" police and the "oppressed African American" community continues.
many Affrican Americans contend that "Whites" are making money on black on black violence, by selling durgs and guns into economically depressed inner city neighborhoods.
Recently, a group of Affrican American kids were refused the right to swim at a privat pool, even though they had paid priveliges to do so. White folks left the pool, claiming that they felt afraid of the "black" children that looked different from them.
Look for updated to this story.
Watch in this video, as a Coffee Klatch, neighbors question prospective DA about their fears about Philly being the wild west, and more dangerous that either detroit or Baltimore. The man speaking, a caucasion, refers to white people as "people like us," and to Affrican Americans as "animals."
Phildelphia is the City where the police actually droped a bomb on the hose of MOVe members, and allowed it to burn, destroying a whole city block, in 1985.
Tension between the "oppressive" police and the "oppressed African American" community continues.
many Affrican Americans contend that "Whites" are making money on black on black violence, by selling durgs and guns into economically depressed inner city neighborhoods.
Recently, a group of Affrican American kids were refused the right to swim at a privat pool, even though they had paid priveliges to do so. White folks left the pool, claiming that they felt afraid of the "black" children that looked different from them.
Look for updated to this story.
Freedom of the Press Missing When covering Western Nations Crackdowns: How Do Western Nations Deal With Riots and Rioters?
Since Nixon paved the way for recognition of China, more and more attention has been focused on how China deals with dissent. Western media make a huge issue out of what is called china's reppression od dissent, and the use of crackdowns, while at the same time covering up their own practices od opressing dissent in their own countries. From time to time, I hope to att to this topic.
France crushes riots, sends rioters to jail with long harsh sentances.
France crushes riots, sends rioters to jail with long harsh sentances.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Carlson's Raiders Were Presented With a Silk Banner at The 70th Anniversary Celebration of the ICCIC" Held in Beijing
"With the memory of their sacrifice in mind, let us here dedicate ourselves to the task of bringing into reality the ideals for which they died, that their sacrifice will not have been in vain..."
That is so beautiful, and so inspireing.
What a great leader, and hero he was.
In Beijing, on June 29th, in the meeting hall of the former residence of Soong Ching Ling, The "70th Anniversary Celebration of the ICCIC" was held.
The "Gung Ho" marine, Lt. Col. Evans F. Carlson of the U.S. Marine Corps was honoured, when all the guests joined a chorus in singing the National Anthem of the People's Republic of China, and guests from the United States sang the "The Marine Corps Hymn."
Background: The History of the ICCIC
The Gung Ho movement was started in 1937 in Shanghai by Rewi Alley of New Zealand and some other foreigners together with a group of Chinese patriots. To win support from abroad, collect funds for development and ensure the proper use of foreign aid, the International Committee for the Promotion of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives (ICCIC) was founded in Hong Kong in January 1939. It is an international nongovernmental organization that aims to promote Chinese industrial cooperatives. Soong Ching Ling was elected as honorary chairperson. The work of the committee soon won support among the overseas Chinese and people worldwide.
It suspended its work in 1952 and revived it in 1987. Since that year, the ICCIC has supported a large number of cooperatives in different provinces in China for cooperative principle training, environment improvement and poverty alleviation.
The success of ICCIC's projects has strengthened its ties with other cooperative organizations at home and abroad.
http://sclf.cri.cn/1/2009/07/03/2s1125.htm
"Those who do not learn from the past, are condemned to repeat it. The purpose of this film is, thus, educational. We have no hatred for the Japanese people."
From 1931 onward, the US responded to increasing japanese agression in China with verbal "condemnations," while continuing to provide material support to Japan.
In 1932, photos of the bombing of Shanghai, shown bombs with "Made in the USA" on them.
As Japan continued to build their Navy, and move deeper into China, and word of horrendous atrocities reached Washington, the US continued to provide material support to Japan, in the face of this agression, even after the all out war against China, the second Sino Japanese war, support for Japan contin ued. Roosevelt confined himself to moral requests to business not to sell war materials to Japan.
October 7th, 1939, a Colliers editorial asked ...
"We're idealist american enough to base this motion for a war materials embargo against Japan chiefly on moral grounds, It is not decent, it is not right, at least by moral standards, for the US to be selling the japanese materials for the slow and merciless enslavement of a peacible nation. This is dirty money."
By 1937 American magazines sensational reports that 55.4% of material support for Japanese agression against China came from America. That included materials that were unavailable from any other source, including hi grade steel, machery and lubricating oils.
Dec 9th Japanese take Nanjing
http://www.usspanay.org/attacked.shtml
November of 1937 found the Japanese Army racing towards Nanking, its troops operating on the southern bank of the Yangtze and in the river delta. As Iris Chang recounts in The Rape of Nanking, the Japanese army left a swath of destruction in its path, murdering helpless civilians, committing countless rapes, and conducting wanton atrocities. The fall of the city would prove to be one of the bloodiest episodes in WWII, with more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers killed in a mere six weeks.
The death toll, Chang notes, “exceed(ed) that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined”.
(but only Chinese were killed, as Europeans, Americans and Nazi's looked on with much hand wringing)
On Dec 12, 1937, the Japanese bombed and sank the US Gunboat panay, in the Yangze river near Nanjing.
The Nanjing Massacre began on Dec 13th.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoW2WYdOsvg
Still the US continued to provide war materials to the Japanese for their war against China.
October 7th, 1939, a Colliers editorial asked ...
"We're idealist american enough to base this motion for a war materials embargo against Japan chiefly on moral grounds, It is not decent, it is not right, at least by moral standards, for the US to be selling the japanese materials for the slow and merciless enslavement of a peacible nation. This is dirty money."
In July 1940, the Japanese demanded britan close the Burma Road, and the US moved it's Naval Fleet from the west coast to pearl harbour. In september japan forced the Vichey government to asccept japanese Army bases to cut the supply routs to China. 11days later Japan signed the AXIS agreements.
Only then did Washington embargo more metals, aviation fuel and aviation techknowledgies.
Japan then signed a non agression treaty with the soviets, so they could focus on the conquest of China and So east Asia.
In 1941, ignoring US warnings not to do so, Japan moved troops into XSo Indochina.
Finally, Roosevelt froze Japanese assets, and the sales of all strageic war materials, including oil, leaving Japan with reserves for a two year war.
August 1941, Roosevelt and Churchil met at sea off Newfoundland, the Atlantic Charter.
Dec 7th, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbour.
At the same time they started south, and the western colonial possesions fell like dominoes. Within 6 months Japan had subjigated the great crescent of so east asia.
WWII became a global war for survival from AXIS agression.
http://books.google.com/books?id=ow5Wlmu9MPQC&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&dq=USA+material+support+japan+war+against+china&source=bl&ots=TGoY-EVjgT&sig=kJGHP2ZYDzKfVrYmTL9v-gBElnA&hl=en&ei=iiRdSsemJ5LSMtvjta4C&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10
Lt Col. Evans Carlson had warned Rosevelt not to trust Japan, and that he feared Japan would attack the US, but Rousevelt brushed aside this warning and Colson had to leave the Marines.
Carlson was returned to service immediately after hes "intelligence" was demonstrated to be spot on. He gave birth to Carlsons Raiders.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
The Tiananmen Affair
Chai Ling's confession of foreign involvement in an interview has been removed from Youtube!
Chai Ling suew maker of this video, Gate Of Heavenly Peace, and it has been removed!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6221258.ece
The lawsuit against Long Bow makes no mention of this interview.
Since its release in 1995 the film has drawn the anger of both the Chinese authorities and several student leaders and has become a significant source of material on the movement.
However, the makers now fear that the aim of Ms Chai is to put Long Bow, a non-profit organisation, out of business by bankrupting them through legal costs.
Their appeal says: “We believe that in commemorating the events of 1989 20 years on, it is important to reflect also on the value of independent thought, unfettered historical research, the collection and protection of archival materials and the freedom of speech in our own environment.”
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gate_of_Heavenly_Peace_(documentary)
Folks, this video of a confession by Chai Ling, one of those "students" who falsly claimed there was a massacre in Tiananmen, and which was translated into English, has been removed from Youtube! In fact, this tiny piece, whas Chai Ling in her very own voice, explaining why she left before the massacre, because as she said her handlers in Hong Kong had encouraged Her, and the students to stay in the Sq after the students had voted to end the protests and return to there respective colleges, and suffer bloodshed at the hands of the Chinese, was the only way to get thge world's attention.
Folks, you really gotta T H I N K about this.
No one was shot, killed, or run over by a tank in Tiananmen in June 1989. That is a proven fact, and Spanish TV as well as the Chinese Government have video to prove it.
From Wikipedia...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chai_Ling
The Gate of Heavenly Peace documentary contains footage, dated May 28, 1989, in which Chai says to American journalist Philip Cunningham:
"The students kept asking, 'What should we do next? What can we accomplish?' I feel so sad, because how can I tell them that what we are actually hoping for is bloodshed, for the moment when the government has no choice but to brazenly butcher us. Only when the Square is awash with blood will the people of China open their eyes. Only then will they really be united. But how can I explain this to my fellow students? And what is truly sad is that some students, and famous well-connected people, are working hard to help the government, to prevent it from taking such measures. For the sake of their selfish interests and their private dealings they are trying to cause our movement to collapse and get us out of the Square before the government becomes so desperate that it takes action." This gave rise to the public perception that the student leaders were making use of the students' lives and well-being to further their personal careers and financial interests.[1]
Chai claims that she was misquoted in that documentary.[20] In a letter in her defense submitted to the creators of The Gate of Heavenly Peace, a group of students also involved in the 1989 protests in Beijing say that filmmakers and other critics used "selective quotes and interpretive and erroneous translation" in their portrayal of Ling, and that she and the other student leaders remained united right up until the end of the protest when they fled the Square in the last hour.[21]
Chai and her firm have launched multiple lawsuits against the non-profit organization that created this film. An initial suit, in which Chai alleged defamation, has been dismissed. An additional ongoing suit claims that the organization infringed upon Jenzabar's copyright by mentioning the firm's name on its website. The filmmakers believe that the firm's intention is to bankrupt them through legal costs, irrespective of the merits of the cases.[22] Columnists for the Boston Globe and the New Yorker have argued that this represents a surprisingly undemocratic action by a leader of China's 1989 protests.[23][24] Chai claimed to have offered to drop the suit in June 2010.[25] However, the Boston Globe, in reporting the decision granting summary judgment dismissing the trademark suit, deemed the claim not credible. [26]
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http://articles.boston.com/2010-12-19/news/29320655_1_jenzabar-filmmakers-trademark-dispute
Last week, Ling Chai — a key leader in China’s 1989 prodemocracy movement — was in Oslo to see this year’s Nobel Peace Prize awarded to imprisoned Chinese dissident and free-speech advocate Liu Xiaobo. While she was in Norway, a Superior Court judge put a stop to Chai’s protracted assault on free speech here in Massachusetts.
With her husband, Chai now runs a Boston software company called Jenzabar Inc. And for three years, she has been trying to use the courts to go after two local filmmakers because she doesn’t like some material cited on their website.
The dispute between Chai and the filmmakers goes back to 1995, when Chai objected to the way she was characterized in their documentary about the Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989. The film, “The Gate of Heavenly Peace,’’ contains an interview with a very young, exhausted Chai near the end of the standoff, in which, according to the translation, she says student leaders “are actually hoping for bloodshed. . . .Only when the square is awash in blood will the people of China open their eyes.’’
Chai said the interview was mistranslated and taken out of context. The filmmakers, Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon, stand by their work.
Since the film’s release, the filmmakers have maintained a website that includes updates on Chai and Jenzabar and links to articles, including several from the Globe, that are unflattering.
Chai and her company sued the filmmakers and their company, the Long Bow Group, for defamation and trademark infringement. The trademark claim seeks to bar the filmmakers from using “Jenzabar’’ as a keyword on their website, which would prevent the nonglowing stories from coming up when somebody Googles the software company. The defamation charge was quickly thrown out. The trademark dispute dragged on until a judge dismissed it last week.
The suit is a transparent attempt to shut down negative publicity. Jenzabar hasn’t disputed the facts in the stories. It’s merely trying to make it more difficult to find them.
It’s no fun to have people write negative things about you, and to have those things live forever online. That’s a downside of the First Amendment. But free expression is vital to democracy, and it shouldn’t be vulnerable to endless legal maneuverings.
Going after websites using trademark law is the kind of tactic that deep-pocketed companies have been deploying more and more frequently to shut down negative commentary about them, said Paul Alan Levy, the filmmakers’ attorney and founder of the Internet Free Speech project at Public Citizen, a citizen advocacy nonprofit. Even if the plaintiffs in these cases don’t prevail in court, they can stifle their opponents by bleeding them of cash. Hinton and Gordon dropped $250,000 on private lawyers. If Public Citizen hadn’t stepped in to represent them pro bono, they would have been ruined by Jenzabar.
“The trademark case is an excuse to punish the filmmakers for having the audacity to portray Chai and others in a not completely favorable light,’’ said Levy.
Jenzabar’s general counsel sent along a statement yesterday making the ludicrous claim that it’s the financially-strapped filmmakers who prolonged the dispute — by not caving in, judging from the legal documents.
Levy is certain Jenzabar will appeal both the trademark and defamation losses, and the Jenzabar statement seems to promise just that, calling the dismissal “just one more step in a lengthy legal process.’’
Chai, who was unwell and couldn’t speak to me Friday, does good work through her Jenzabar Foundation, and she still pushes for democracy in China. But her fight should begin here at home.
Liu, serving an 11-year sentence for subversion, could not be in Oslo to accept his Nobel Prize. In his place, actress Liv Ullman read his last public statement.
It reads, in part: “To strangle freedom of speech is to trample on human rights, stifle humanity, and suppress truth.’’
Was Chai listening?
Yvonne Abraham is a Globe columnist. She can be reached at abraham@globe.com
Chai Ling suew maker of this video, Gate Of Heavenly Peace, and it has been removed!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6221258.ece
The lawsuit against Long Bow makes no mention of this interview.
Since its release in 1995 the film has drawn the anger of both the Chinese authorities and several student leaders and has become a significant source of material on the movement.
However, the makers now fear that the aim of Ms Chai is to put Long Bow, a non-profit organisation, out of business by bankrupting them through legal costs.
Their appeal says: “We believe that in commemorating the events of 1989 20 years on, it is important to reflect also on the value of independent thought, unfettered historical research, the collection and protection of archival materials and the freedom of speech in our own environment.”
.........................
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gate_of_Heavenly_Peace_(documentary)
Folks, this video of a confession by Chai Ling, one of those "students" who falsly claimed there was a massacre in Tiananmen, and which was translated into English, has been removed from Youtube! In fact, this tiny piece, whas Chai Ling in her very own voice, explaining why she left before the massacre, because as she said her handlers in Hong Kong had encouraged Her, and the students to stay in the Sq after the students had voted to end the protests and return to there respective colleges, and suffer bloodshed at the hands of the Chinese, was the only way to get thge world's attention.
Folks, you really gotta T H I N K about this.
No one was shot, killed, or run over by a tank in Tiananmen in June 1989. That is a proven fact, and Spanish TV as well as the Chinese Government have video to prove it.
From Wikipedia...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chai_Ling
The Gate of Heavenly Peace documentary contains footage, dated May 28, 1989, in which Chai says to American journalist Philip Cunningham:
"The students kept asking, 'What should we do next? What can we accomplish?' I feel so sad, because how can I tell them that what we are actually hoping for is bloodshed, for the moment when the government has no choice but to brazenly butcher us. Only when the Square is awash with blood will the people of China open their eyes. Only then will they really be united. But how can I explain this to my fellow students? And what is truly sad is that some students, and famous well-connected people, are working hard to help the government, to prevent it from taking such measures. For the sake of their selfish interests and their private dealings they are trying to cause our movement to collapse and get us out of the Square before the government becomes so desperate that it takes action." This gave rise to the public perception that the student leaders were making use of the students' lives and well-being to further their personal careers and financial interests.[1]
Chai claims that she was misquoted in that documentary.[20] In a letter in her defense submitted to the creators of The Gate of Heavenly Peace, a group of students also involved in the 1989 protests in Beijing say that filmmakers and other critics used "selective quotes and interpretive and erroneous translation" in their portrayal of Ling, and that she and the other student leaders remained united right up until the end of the protest when they fled the Square in the last hour.[21]
Chai and her firm have launched multiple lawsuits against the non-profit organization that created this film. An initial suit, in which Chai alleged defamation, has been dismissed. An additional ongoing suit claims that the organization infringed upon Jenzabar's copyright by mentioning the firm's name on its website. The filmmakers believe that the firm's intention is to bankrupt them through legal costs, irrespective of the merits of the cases.[22] Columnists for the Boston Globe and the New Yorker have argued that this represents a surprisingly undemocratic action by a leader of China's 1989 protests.[23][24] Chai claimed to have offered to drop the suit in June 2010.[25] However, the Boston Globe, in reporting the decision granting summary judgment dismissing the trademark suit, deemed the claim not credible. [26]
..........................
http://articles.boston.com/2010-12-19/news/29320655_1_jenzabar-filmmakers-trademark-dispute
Last week, Ling Chai — a key leader in China’s 1989 prodemocracy movement — was in Oslo to see this year’s Nobel Peace Prize awarded to imprisoned Chinese dissident and free-speech advocate Liu Xiaobo. While she was in Norway, a Superior Court judge put a stop to Chai’s protracted assault on free speech here in Massachusetts.
With her husband, Chai now runs a Boston software company called Jenzabar Inc. And for three years, she has been trying to use the courts to go after two local filmmakers because she doesn’t like some material cited on their website.
The dispute between Chai and the filmmakers goes back to 1995, when Chai objected to the way she was characterized in their documentary about the Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989. The film, “The Gate of Heavenly Peace,’’ contains an interview with a very young, exhausted Chai near the end of the standoff, in which, according to the translation, she says student leaders “are actually hoping for bloodshed. . . .Only when the square is awash in blood will the people of China open their eyes.’’
Chai said the interview was mistranslated and taken out of context. The filmmakers, Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon, stand by their work.
Since the film’s release, the filmmakers have maintained a website that includes updates on Chai and Jenzabar and links to articles, including several from the Globe, that are unflattering.
Chai and her company sued the filmmakers and their company, the Long Bow Group, for defamation and trademark infringement. The trademark claim seeks to bar the filmmakers from using “Jenzabar’’ as a keyword on their website, which would prevent the nonglowing stories from coming up when somebody Googles the software company. The defamation charge was quickly thrown out. The trademark dispute dragged on until a judge dismissed it last week.
The suit is a transparent attempt to shut down negative publicity. Jenzabar hasn’t disputed the facts in the stories. It’s merely trying to make it more difficult to find them.
It’s no fun to have people write negative things about you, and to have those things live forever online. That’s a downside of the First Amendment. But free expression is vital to democracy, and it shouldn’t be vulnerable to endless legal maneuverings.
Going after websites using trademark law is the kind of tactic that deep-pocketed companies have been deploying more and more frequently to shut down negative commentary about them, said Paul Alan Levy, the filmmakers’ attorney and founder of the Internet Free Speech project at Public Citizen, a citizen advocacy nonprofit. Even if the plaintiffs in these cases don’t prevail in court, they can stifle their opponents by bleeding them of cash. Hinton and Gordon dropped $250,000 on private lawyers. If Public Citizen hadn’t stepped in to represent them pro bono, they would have been ruined by Jenzabar.
“The trademark case is an excuse to punish the filmmakers for having the audacity to portray Chai and others in a not completely favorable light,’’ said Levy.
Jenzabar’s general counsel sent along a statement yesterday making the ludicrous claim that it’s the financially-strapped filmmakers who prolonged the dispute — by not caving in, judging from the legal documents.
Levy is certain Jenzabar will appeal both the trademark and defamation losses, and the Jenzabar statement seems to promise just that, calling the dismissal “just one more step in a lengthy legal process.’’
Chai, who was unwell and couldn’t speak to me Friday, does good work through her Jenzabar Foundation, and she still pushes for democracy in China. But her fight should begin here at home.
Liu, serving an 11-year sentence for subversion, could not be in Oslo to accept his Nobel Prize. In his place, actress Liv Ullman read his last public statement.
It reads, in part: “To strangle freedom of speech is to trample on human rights, stifle humanity, and suppress truth.’’
Was Chai listening?
Yvonne Abraham is a Globe columnist. She can be reached at abraham@globe.com
Monday, March 9, 2009
Tibet Human Rights Website Launched!
Grand Summons Ceremony heralds in the Tibet New Year, March 4th, 2009
Dreprung, Monastery, China
China has launched a new website in honour of the 50th Anniversary of the Emancipation of Tibetan serfs and slaves, called Tibet328.cn.
http://en.tibet328.cn/
China hopes to educate those who, for whatever reason, do not have the history or educational background to allow them to understand what they hear about Tibet. The Dalai Lama, who left China in the pay of the CIA in 1959, continues to make false and misleading statements about China and Tibet. Under the concept of 3 hands removed, the Dalai Lama often claimes he is not responsible for the trouble and violence that evolves from his disembling.
In a story from Xinhua, another renouned scholar, this one from Spain, deplores the way the western press, ie the Main Stream Media ignors many neutral educated witnesses and allows themselves to be used as a mouthpiece for the Free Tibet movement, which gets funding from the US government and NGOs.
http://en.328tibet.cn/01/02/200903/t276216.htm
http://en.tibet328.cn/
China hopes to educate those who, for whatever reason, do not have the history or educational background to allow them to understand what they hear about Tibet. The Dalai Lama, who left China in the pay of the CIA in 1959, continues to make false and misleading statements about China and Tibet. Under the concept of 3 hands removed, the Dalai Lama often claimes he is not responsible for the trouble and violence that evolves from his disembling.
In a story from Xinhua, another renouned scholar, this one from Spain, deplores the way the western press, ie the Main Stream Media ignors many neutral educated witnesses and allows themselves to be used as a mouthpiece for the Free Tibet movement, which gets funding from the US government and NGOs.
http://en.328tibet.cn/01/02/200903/t276216.htm
{{MADRID, March 7 (Xinhua) -- "What I have seen and heard in Tibet completely differed from the distorted propaganda by the Dalai Lama," a renowned Spanish Tibetologist has said.
The March 14 riot in Lhasa in 2008, involving violent crimes against people and property, was premeditated and masterminded by followers of the Dalai Lama, Inaki Preciado Idoeta told Xinhua in a recent interview.
"But the Dalai Lama neither made an apology for the riot nor condemned those who perpetrated the violence," said Precidao Idoeta, one of the first Spanish diplomats to China and also a famous sinologist in Spain.}}
When I started this blog, I hoped to let folks know the facts, but have come to realize that the facts, and the welfare of ethnic Tibetans living in China is not what they are really concerned about. It would appear there are sme hard core China Bashers out there, and they will not be happy until China, and 1.3 billion people are again thrown into chaos.
This is not the change that we voted for!
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
What is Accurate and Objective News Reporting?
Check this out. This will take careful reading.
But, be forwarned, some of these stories are not only false, but carefully crafted to poison your mind. Can you tell which stories are accurate and objective?
Voice of America
Trusted Source of News & Information since 1942
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-03-01-voa22.cfm
Report: New Protest by Tibetans Where Monk Set Himself on Fire
By VOA News 01 March 2009
A Washington-based advocacy group says several hundred Tibetan monks demonstrated Monday in the same town where a monk set himself on fire in an act of protest on Friday.The International Campaign for Tibet said the Buddhist monks marched after Chinese authorities barred them from observing a traditional prayer festival in the town of Ngaba (Chinese: Aba), in China's Sichuan province.Monks from Sey monastery reportedly demanded that authorities allow them to hold prayer ceremonies, and also release prisoners detained on Friday from a nearby monastery.China's official Xinhua news agency has confirmed that a monk from Kirti monastery lit himself on fire Friday.Activist groups say paramilitary police shot the monk several times.
Witnesses said the monk marched toward the town center after officials prevented monks at his monastery from observing the Great Prayer (Monlam Chenmo) festival. They said he carried a banned Tibetan flag and a picture of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual and political leader. Xinhua quoted a local Communist party officials as saying the monk, in his late 20s, suffered burns to his neck and head.Kirti monastery was at the center of pro-independence demonstrations last year which began in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, before spreading across the plateau. Tibetan exile sources said police shot killed at least 23 Tibetans - including Buddhist monks and a 16-year-old school girl - when they fired on demonstrators. Chinese authorities said security personnel fired in self-defense, but did not confirm any fatalities.Chinese authorities have heightened security in Tibetan communities and closed them to foreign tourists in the run up to a sensitive anniversary.
March 10 will mark the 50th anniversary of the launch of a Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule and the flight of the Dalai Lama and his government to India.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iAMqM2_Dwudz52KLQeY2ZKFQq9-gD96LSPBG1
Report: Tibetan monks protest New Year prayer ban
by Audra Ang (Mar 2 2009)
BEIJING (AP) — Scores of Tibetan monks in southwestern China marched in protest over the banning of a prayer service, rights advocates said — the latest incident in an apparent increase in acts of defiance against Chinese rule ahead of sensitive anniversaries.
The demonstration began Sunday when monks at the Sey monastery in the ethnically Tibetan county of Aba in Sichuan province gathered to observe a prayer ceremony called Monlam for the Tibetan New Year, which began last week, said International Campaign for Tibet.
China banned Monlam during the Cultural Revolution, when most religious practices were outlawed. The weeklong ceremony, also known as the Great Prayer Festival, was prohibited again in 1990, the year after Beijing launched a crackdown on anti-government protests in Tibet, likely an attempt to prevent mass gatherings.
Tensions have been high in the area since last week, when a Tibetan Buddhist monk from the nearby Kirti monastery was reportedly shot after setting himself on fire to protest the prayer ban and restrictions on religion.
It was not immediately clear who shot him. Chinese authorities on Monday denied that police had been involved in the shooting, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
But the presence of paramilitary police has noticeably increased in Tibetan communities in recent weeks ahead of the upcoming anniversary of last year's deadly Tibetan riots and the anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising that sent the Dalai Lama into exile.
When Chinese officials stopped Sunday's ceremony, the monks left the prayer hall and marched toward the main town, shouting that they should be allowed to observe Monlam, the Washington D.C.-based International Campaign for Tibet said in an e-mail statement citing unidentified sources.
"They walked for around five to 10 minutes ... before they were apprehended by officials who urged the monks not to proceed further for fear of a violent response from troops stationed in the area," the campaign said.
Armed security officials soon arrived and the monks returned to their monastery, the group said. "They are now surrounded by armed police personnel and are likely to be under lock-down after the protest," it said.
ICT's sources said about 600 monks were involved, while Students for a Free Tibet, another rights group, said 50 monks took part.
Information on politically sensitive topics like Tibet is difficult to obtain from authorities and ordinary citizens, who often fear official retaliation if they talk. The region is sealed off to journalists and foreigners.
China claims Tibet has always been part of its territory, but many Tibetans say the Himalayan region was virtually independent for centuries and that Beijing's tight control is draining them of their culture and identity.
An official surnamed Nong at the Communist Party's propaganda office in Aba county said Monday "no such thing happened." Another official at the party's propaganda office in Aba prefecture, which oversees the area, said he had not heard about the incident.
Several Aba residents and hotel clerks who answered calls said they had not seen anything.
Tibet's self-proclaimed government-in-exile in Dharmsala, India, confirmed that the protest occurred but said no details were available.
"These actions show the religious intolerance shown by the Chinese authorities," said government spokesman Thupten Samphel.
The move comes as China prepares for the possibility of more unrest in Tibet this year with the approach of the one-year anniversary of the deadly March 14 riots in the capital Lhasa. The unrest — the biggest and most sustained among Tibetans in decades — spread into neighboring Tibetan communities and Chinese troops flooded the region.
The Chinese government says 22 people died in the March 14 Lhasa protests, but Tibetan rights advocates say many more were killed, while monks, nuns and villagers were beaten, fined or jailed.
Many Tibetans reportedly are heeding calls to boycott festivities marking the new year to protest the crackdown
The Dalai Lama has said celebrations would be "inappropriate" under the circumstances.
March also marks the 50th anniversary of a failed 1959 uprising against Chinese rule that led to the spiritual leader's flight into exile.
Associated Press writer Ashwini Bhatia in Dharmsala, India, contributed to the story.
Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Tibetan monastery surrounded
Published: Monday 02 March 2009 12:53 UTC Last updated: Monday 02 March 2009 16:01 UTC
Chinese security forces have surrounded a Tibetan monastery in the southwestern province of Sichuan. On Sunday, several dozen monks there held a demonstration against Chinese repression. Last week, a Tibetan monk set himself alight in protest against China's occupation of the region. Next week marks the 50th anniversary of a failed uprising against the Chinese presence in Tibet, which prompted the country's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, to go into exile. Last year, many Tibetans marked the anniversary by taking part in demonstrations for greater autonomy.The Chinese authorities have taken extensive security measures to prevent similar protests at this year's anniversary of the uprising. Chinese state-controlled media say the unrest in Tibet is being orchestrated by the West.
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Report: New Protest by Tibetans Where Monk Set Himself on Fire
By VOA News 01 March 2009
A Washington-based advocacy group says several hundred Tibetan monks demonstrated Monday in the same town where a monk set himself on fire in an act of protest on Friday.The International Campaign for Tibet said the Buddhist monks marched after Chinese authorities barred them from observing a traditional prayer festival in the town of Ngaba (Chinese: Aba), in China's Sichuan province.Monks from Sey monastery reportedly demanded that authorities allow them to hold prayer ceremonies, and also release prisoners detained on Friday from a nearby monastery.China's official Xinhua news agency has confirmed that a monk from Kirti monastery lit himself on fire Friday.Activist groups say paramilitary police shot the monk several times.
Witnesses said the monk marched toward the town center after officials prevented monks at his monastery from observing the Great Prayer (Monlam Chenmo) festival. They said he carried a banned Tibetan flag and a picture of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual and political leader. Xinhua quoted a local Communist party officials as saying the monk, in his late 20s, suffered burns to his neck and head.Kirti monastery was at the center of pro-independence demonstrations last year which began in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, before spreading across the plateau. Tibetan exile sources said police shot killed at least 23 Tibetans - including Buddhist monks and a 16-year-old school girl - when they fired on demonstrators. Chinese authorities said security personnel fired in self-defense, but did not confirm any fatalities.Chinese authorities have heightened security in Tibetan communities and closed them to foreign tourists in the run up to a sensitive anniversary.
March 10 will mark the 50th anniversary of the launch of a Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule and the flight of the Dalai Lama and his government to India.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP.
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Report: Tibetan monks protest New Year prayer ban
by Audra Ang (Mar 2 2009)
BEIJING (AP) — Scores of Tibetan monks in southwestern China marched in protest over the banning of a prayer service, rights advocates said — the latest incident in an apparent increase in acts of defiance against Chinese rule ahead of sensitive anniversaries.
The demonstration began Sunday when monks at the Sey monastery in the ethnically Tibetan county of Aba in Sichuan province gathered to observe a prayer ceremony called Monlam for the Tibetan New Year, which began last week, said International Campaign for Tibet.
China banned Monlam during the Cultural Revolution, when most religious practices were outlawed. The weeklong ceremony, also known as the Great Prayer Festival, was prohibited again in 1990, the year after Beijing launched a crackdown on anti-government protests in Tibet, likely an attempt to prevent mass gatherings.
Tensions have been high in the area since last week, when a Tibetan Buddhist monk from the nearby Kirti monastery was reportedly shot after setting himself on fire to protest the prayer ban and restrictions on religion.
It was not immediately clear who shot him. Chinese authorities on Monday denied that police had been involved in the shooting, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
But the presence of paramilitary police has noticeably increased in Tibetan communities in recent weeks ahead of the upcoming anniversary of last year's deadly Tibetan riots and the anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising that sent the Dalai Lama into exile.
When Chinese officials stopped Sunday's ceremony, the monks left the prayer hall and marched toward the main town, shouting that they should be allowed to observe Monlam, the Washington D.C.-based International Campaign for Tibet said in an e-mail statement citing unidentified sources.
"They walked for around five to 10 minutes ... before they were apprehended by officials who urged the monks not to proceed further for fear of a violent response from troops stationed in the area," the campaign said.
Armed security officials soon arrived and the monks returned to their monastery, the group said. "They are now surrounded by armed police personnel and are likely to be under lock-down after the protest," it said.
ICT's sources said about 600 monks were involved, while Students for a Free Tibet, another rights group, said 50 monks took part.
Information on politically sensitive topics like Tibet is difficult to obtain from authorities and ordinary citizens, who often fear official retaliation if they talk. The region is sealed off to journalists and foreigners.
China claims Tibet has always been part of its territory, but many Tibetans say the Himalayan region was virtually independent for centuries and that Beijing's tight control is draining them of their culture and identity.
An official surnamed Nong at the Communist Party's propaganda office in Aba county said Monday "no such thing happened." Another official at the party's propaganda office in Aba prefecture, which oversees the area, said he had not heard about the incident.
Several Aba residents and hotel clerks who answered calls said they had not seen anything.
Tibet's self-proclaimed government-in-exile in Dharmsala, India, confirmed that the protest occurred but said no details were available.
"These actions show the religious intolerance shown by the Chinese authorities," said government spokesman Thupten Samphel.
The move comes as China prepares for the possibility of more unrest in Tibet this year with the approach of the one-year anniversary of the deadly March 14 riots in the capital Lhasa. The unrest — the biggest and most sustained among Tibetans in decades — spread into neighboring Tibetan communities and Chinese troops flooded the region.
The Chinese government says 22 people died in the March 14 Lhasa protests, but Tibetan rights advocates say many more were killed, while monks, nuns and villagers were beaten, fined or jailed.
Many Tibetans reportedly are heeding calls to boycott festivities marking the new year to protest the crackdown
The Dalai Lama has said celebrations would be "inappropriate" under the circumstances.
March also marks the 50th anniversary of a failed 1959 uprising against Chinese rule that led to the spiritual leader's flight into exile.
Associated Press writer Ashwini Bhatia in Dharmsala, India, contributed to the story.
Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Tibetan monastery surrounded
Published: Monday 02 March 2009 12:53 UTC Last updated: Monday 02 March 2009 16:01 UTC
Chinese security forces have surrounded a Tibetan monastery in the southwestern province of Sichuan. On Sunday, several dozen monks there held a demonstration against Chinese repression. Last week, a Tibetan monk set himself alight in protest against China's occupation of the region. Next week marks the 50th anniversary of a failed uprising against the Chinese presence in Tibet, which prompted the country's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, to go into exile. Last year, many Tibetans marked the anniversary by taking part in demonstrations for greater autonomy.The Chinese authorities have taken extensive security measures to prevent similar protests at this year's anniversary of the uprising. Chinese state-controlled media say the unrest in Tibet is being orchestrated by the West.
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Now, here is the same story from China.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-03/03/content_10937010.htm
Local official: no lama protest in southwest China monastery
March 3, 2009
CHENGDU, March 3 (Xinhua) -- An official in southwest China's Sichuan Province said Tuesday that a ritual held Sunday by dozens of lamas in the Se Monastery was a case of normal religious activity, and not a "Tibetan monks protest" as reported by some foreign media.
Shi Jun, secretary of the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), said lamas in the Tibetan-inhabited areas in Sichuan enjoy full freedom in practicing religious beliefs.
"Having elected a lama to the post of a monastery administrator, known as "tiebang lama", which is literally translated as 'iron-rod lama', Sunday, lamas with the Se Monastery were overjoyed and congratulated the electee on his success," the official recounted.
In accordance with Tibetan Buddhism, "tiebang lama" is in charge of the monastery roster and overseeing discipline enforcement within the monastery.
"This was a normal religious activity but had been distorted as 'Tibetan lamas protest' by some foreign media with ulterior motives, we are indignant toward the distorted news reports based on hearsays and are disappointed at those western media which have long touted they are observing 'objectivity and fairness' in news reporting", said Shi.
Some local residents also said they did not hear or see any lama protest on Sunday.
According to foreign media reports, some Buddhist monks in Aba started protest on Sunday morning when local officials stopped them at the Se (foreign media use Sey) monastery in Sichuan Province as they gathered to pray. The reports cited the International Campaign for Tibet based in Washington D.C. which did not identify any sources.
The reports said that security forces have surrounded the monastery. As many as 2,000 police officers are on guard in this region while telephone communications have been cut, according to rights groups.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-03/03/content_10935785.htm
Offcial denies lama riots in southwest China
BEIJING, March 3 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese official on Tuesday denied lama riots in southwest China.
There was no such riots as some foreign media have reported, said Wu Zegang, head of the Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Aba, southwest China's Sichuan Province, who is here to attend the forthcoming annual session of the National People's Congress.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-03/03/content_10932128.htm
China refutes shooting Tibetan man who attempts to set himself alight
CHENGDU, March 2 (Xinhua) -- Chinese authorities refuted Monday that police had shot a young Tibetan who attempted to set himself on fire Friday in the southwestern Sichuan Province, as was claimed by some "Tibet independence" groups.
The 24-year-old man, identified as Tashi, also known as Tapey, was a Buddhist student at the Kirti Monastery in the Aba County of the Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Aba.
He attempted to set himself alight using inflammables while holding a portrait of the Dalai Lama and a "snow lion flag" in token of "Tibet independence" on a street in the Aba county seat at about 1:38 p.m. Friday.
When local police saw that, they immediately put out the fire and sent the young man to hospital.
Some "Tibet independence" groups said Tashi was shot by police, but that was totally fabricated, the authorities said.
Tashi is in stable condition now and local authorities are investigating the incident.
Local monks and residents are averse to Tashi's action. They believe he was deluded by the Dalai clique and such an action went against doctrines of Tibetan Buddhism.
Now, here is the same story from China.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-03/03/content_10937010.htm
Local official: no lama protest in southwest China monastery
March 3, 2009
CHENGDU, March 3 (Xinhua) -- An official in southwest China's Sichuan Province said Tuesday that a ritual held Sunday by dozens of lamas in the Se Monastery was a case of normal religious activity, and not a "Tibetan monks protest" as reported by some foreign media.
Shi Jun, secretary of the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), said lamas in the Tibetan-inhabited areas in Sichuan enjoy full freedom in practicing religious beliefs.
"Having elected a lama to the post of a monastery administrator, known as "tiebang lama", which is literally translated as 'iron-rod lama', Sunday, lamas with the Se Monastery were overjoyed and congratulated the electee on his success," the official recounted.
In accordance with Tibetan Buddhism, "tiebang lama" is in charge of the monastery roster and overseeing discipline enforcement within the monastery.
"This was a normal religious activity but had been distorted as 'Tibetan lamas protest' by some foreign media with ulterior motives, we are indignant toward the distorted news reports based on hearsays and are disappointed at those western media which have long touted they are observing 'objectivity and fairness' in news reporting", said Shi.
Some local residents also said they did not hear or see any lama protest on Sunday.
According to foreign media reports, some Buddhist monks in Aba started protest on Sunday morning when local officials stopped them at the Se (foreign media use Sey) monastery in Sichuan Province as they gathered to pray. The reports cited the International Campaign for Tibet based in Washington D.C. which did not identify any sources.
The reports said that security forces have surrounded the monastery. As many as 2,000 police officers are on guard in this region while telephone communications have been cut, according to rights groups.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-03/03/content_10935785.htm
Offcial denies lama riots in southwest China
BEIJING, March 3 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese official on Tuesday denied lama riots in southwest China.
There was no such riots as some foreign media have reported, said Wu Zegang, head of the Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Aba, southwest China's Sichuan Province, who is here to attend the forthcoming annual session of the National People's Congress.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-03/03/content_10932128.htm
China refutes shooting Tibetan man who attempts to set himself alight
CHENGDU, March 2 (Xinhua) -- Chinese authorities refuted Monday that police had shot a young Tibetan who attempted to set himself on fire Friday in the southwestern Sichuan Province, as was claimed by some "Tibet independence" groups.
The 24-year-old man, identified as Tashi, also known as Tapey, was a Buddhist student at the Kirti Monastery in the Aba County of the Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Aba.
He attempted to set himself alight using inflammables while holding a portrait of the Dalai Lama and a "snow lion flag" in token of "Tibet independence" on a street in the Aba county seat at about 1:38 p.m. Friday.
When local police saw that, they immediately put out the fire and sent the young man to hospital.
Some "Tibet independence" groups said Tashi was shot by police, but that was totally fabricated, the authorities said.
Tashi is in stable condition now and local authorities are investigating the incident.
Local monks and residents are averse to Tashi's action. They believe he was deluded by the Dalai clique and such an action went against doctrines of Tibetan Buddhism.
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VOA was a department within the US Information Agency until Oct 1, 1999. Now we have what is called the Broadcasting Board of Govenors, BBG. an Independent Agency of the US Government.
The US President, now Barack Obama, appoints 8 members to the BBG board, four from each party, and the 9th member is the Sec of State, now H Clinton.
The BBG Mission Statement: To promote and sustain freedom and democracy by broadcasting accurate and objective news and information about the US and the world to audiences overseas.
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Therefore, I ask you, is there a difference between a free press and the people's right to know?
VOA was a department within the US Information Agency until Oct 1, 1999. Now we have what is called the Broadcasting Board of Govenors, BBG. an Independent Agency of the US Government.
The US President, now Barack Obama, appoints 8 members to the BBG board, four from each party, and the 9th member is the Sec of State, now H Clinton.
The BBG Mission Statement: To promote and sustain freedom and democracy by broadcasting accurate and objective news and information about the US and the world to audiences overseas.
Now, I ask you, do you think the VOA story above meets the accurate and objective criteria?
Therefore, I ask you, is there a difference between a free press and the people's right to know?
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