[kj] OT: Tibet -- Last Train To Lhasa

[sade1]

> Scarey stuff. I was in Lhasa a few months ago.

    
    ~~ Ya think Peter West aka "fluke fluke" is out there right now, what with 
                                                                                     all that's happenin' ? ~~

    As i thought, the Chinese gov't. is now only trying to win its own people [ethnic Chinese] over: it's making it all look like an ethnic/racist lunatic assault on all ethnic
  chinese by Tibetans - and blaming the Dalai Lama to boot!
    China's long ago been branded as so evil in this issue in the eyes of the West 
  (no pun intended) that it gave up on trying to convince the West a long time ago, so it's just turning inward, even cutting off Youtube. Youtube!   ...the bastards......
   
    And  Richard Gere chimed in at last, of course.
  
Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz> wrote:
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  From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of Bob Barathy
Sent: Tuesday, 18 March 2008 6:35 a.m.
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] OT: Tibet -- Last Train To Lhasa

   
    Scarey stuff. I was in Lhasa a few months ago. You could feel the tension 'in the air' at the time. The Tibetains will never be content with the 'occupation' of their country by the Chinese authorities and everyone knows they would do the same to Taiwan if the thought they would get away with it! All news/media within China is carefully controlled so the average Chinese citizen is only going to get the angle fed to them by the State (seeing as most Chinese don't even know about the student uprising in Tiananmen Square; so tight is the control)

    -----Original Message-----
From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of sade1
Sent: 16 March 2008 22:20
To: real gathering; the Gathering
Subject: [kj] OT: Tibet -- Last Train To Lhasa
    Has anyone recently seen the news footage on Tibet? 

     

      Is it just me or is China** trying to make the Tibetans and their monks look

    hideous as responsible for all the fires, looting and mayhem happening over

    there right now.

     

    **the one with The Wall

     

    1) China blacked out the transmission and exportation of all news and

         evidence (to the best of their power),

    2) when the stuff does make it out, it happens towards thurs.night/friday 

         just in time for the weekend because no one watches news on the 

         weekend, so China won't be seen 'so bad, by so many, over so much...'

    3) what does make it out makes it look like the Tibetans are just animals

        on a rampage, and the official Chinese comments about it have the tone 

        of,  "oh poor us...you see, you see World, those reckless animals...." 

         [cue pics of cars on fire, of a monk kicking a storefront, etc.]

     

      Boycott China. Boycott the Olympics. 

    Take a small hit on cancelling your olympic tour packages to china and 

    spend the rest of your money at home supporting local merchants and jobs. 

     

    Didn't mean to make this a political rant; was just curious to see if 

    others saw different, better news coverage than what i've seen. (mine was

    from BBC World on Tv).

     

    "Last Train...": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVM9M6i9ZoU

    Youtube Tibet search: here 

     

   
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