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

[Bob Barathy]

All internet activity is monitered in China with many sites blocks and lots
of internet cafes raided and closed down if any of their customers manage to
peek where they should not.
  -----Original Message-----
  From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On
Behalf Of sade1
  Sent: 18 March 2008 06:35
  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.

    ~~ 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:
    Good on them for using the opportunity of the Olympics to highlight the
issue. And good on those athletes who boycott it, that’s an extremely tough
call for people who have devoted so much to their passion.


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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


      ... ... ... ... ... ...
      (looking at the current state of things)

      'Save me
       save from Tomorrow..
       I don't want to sail in this Ship Of Fools...!'

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