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

[Brendan]

TOR helps with this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)

It's not perfect, indeed the Chinese govt is rumoured to have a lot of
state-sanctioned hackers. News articles have mentioned several
governments, Germany and Australia come to mind, that suspect the Chinese
govt. of deliberate attempts to hack them.

(In the game Command & Conquer Generals when you play the Chinese you can
build hackers to steal your opponent's money :)


> 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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