So much for the Summer Olympics and false promises

What happened to the spirit of the Summer Olympics in Beijing?  What happened to those promises of human rights for the Chinese people and the Tibetan People?

Oh, yeah!  These people didn’t file the proper paper work, so they were shut down, just so happens that these people are legal experts on the laws, and we can’t have that in China because the Communist Party is the law….

China shuts down legal center, revokes licenses

A legal research center in Beijing was shut down Friday and the licenses of more than 50 lawyers – many known for their politically sensitive human rights work – were revoked in what appeared to be one of China’s most drastic moves to restrain activist lawyers.

The actions underscore a renewed official push to control these lawyers, who already run the risk of being detained, harassed, attacked and threatened with disbarment for their work. China is also preparing for the communist state’s 60th anniversary on Oct. 1 – a particularly sensitive period when dissent is not tolerated.

About 20 officials from Beijing’s Civil Affairs Bureau showed up Friday morning at the offices of the Gongmeng rights group’s legal research center and confiscated computers and other equipment, said office manager Tian Qizhuang. They also questioned researchers and other employees on the nature of their work.

“They said the research center was not properly registered,” Tian said. “We didn’t want to resist them, but what they are doing violates the law. … Shutting us down is the same as shutting down Gongmeng.”

China may be less politically stable than they want you to think

China had a long time to change the way the communists ruled or not, so now it appears they’ve lost the opportunity to open up and bring democracy to the people, while keeping the economy afloat or untarnished.  With information taking seconds instead of weeks or months to reach people like it used to 10 or 20 years ago, more and more people in the world are aware of the dealings of the communists and the western corporate world.  As well as the way the Chinese communists have been treating other ethnic people while favoring the Han communist party leaders and their families over the native people of the these lands.  If anyone has any respect for humanity they would deal with these corporations.

Why Investors Should Care About Uighers

That’s pronounced “Wee-gur,” just so you know. By now you’ve probably read about this Muslim minority in China, who are clashing with Han Chinese in the country’s remote Xinjiang province. While this is mainly a political story about Chinese repression of ethnic minorities, it has some important economic lessons. For starters, Xinjiang is an area rich in oil and minerals–not incidental to the fact that the Chinese authorities are eager to make sure it stays part of China. But second and more importantly, the ethnic violence reflects what may be the biggest deterrent to Chinese growth–autocracy. I recently saw a very interesting study by the Carnegie Endowment looking at the connection between political freedom and economic growth within society. The link is strong.

Communist Annexationists Cause Economic Disparity Among Uighur

The communist regime should stop blaming westerners, especially single individuals for these common problems in the communist controlled areas.  Just looking at this tells me a lot about communist colonialism in central Asia.  Communist annexationists should stop transplanting Han to these regions because the communists favor them by transplanting them, and the communist party gives them business’s and money, and the ethnic Han [the Chinese] don’t help the local community because their Uighur people.  That’s the problem, it’s colonialism in the 21st century, and unfortunately it’s still happening.

Local officials say they would like to hire Uighurs, but have trouble finding qualified candidates. “One common problem of the western region is that the education and cultural level of the people here is quite low,” said Wang Lequan, Xinjiang’s Communist Party secretary.

Love how they always talk below others…. as if their honor is better than the Uighurs honor.  They use the same mentality with regard to the Tibetan people.

They claim these regions belonged to the Han Dynasty, that might be plausible, though not the Communist Dynasty, their is a BIG difference.  The Mongolian’s ruled much of those area’s before the Chinese people, and China’s borders were clearly marked to keep others out, but the Mongolian Empire fell because it was to big.  Then all those states ruled themselves, but some groups want to alleged that they ruled it as if they were the Mongolian Empire.  It’s unfortunate the communists party officials have destroyed so much of Chinese culture, much like they’re destroying the Tibetan culture over the generations.  It’s understandable that other regions have their own cultural practices regardless of where they may live within alleged borders, but people should be able to practice their own culture, not be forced on with alleged Han communist party culture.  Communism isn’t even part of Han Chinese culture, it’s a recent practice, but definitely shouldn’t be forced on Uighur.

Why Xinjiang spiraled out of control

The Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), a territory in western China, accounts for one-sixth of China’s land and is home to about 20 million people from thirteen major ethnic groups. The largest of these groups is the Uighurs [PRON: WEE-gurs], a predominantly Muslim community with ties to Central Asia. Some Uighurs call China’s presence in Xinjiang a form of imperialism, and they stepped up calls for independence —sometimes violently— in the 1990s through separatist groups like the East Turkestan Islamic Movement. The Chinese government has reacted by promoting the migration of China’s ethnic majority, the Han, to Xinjiang. Beijing has also strengthened economic ties with the area and tried to cut off potential sources of separatist support from neighboring states that are linguistically and ethnically linked with the Uighurs.

[Read more of the ethnic tensions and economic disparity]

Science Connects to Buddha Nature and Inner Consciousness

Everyone should learn the basic concepts of science and evolve with it. I’ve always loved science because it’s connected to everything around us, the trees, the birds, the insects to the foods we eat!  The world is an amazing place! Having a degree in science, and coming from a family of Buddhists for many generations, I can understand the Dalai Lama’s interest and excitement in science, I’m still evolving.   I agree, totally love Dhondup’s question, because my knowledge and understanding of science has helped me to understand Buddhism better, though I still have a lot more to learn about Buddhist teachings into consciousness, my inner being.

Wouldn’t mind taking the course myself, so I hope the scientists eventually bring the Buddhist science teaching model home to America, so we can educate ourselves here to.

Teaching the Dalai Lama’s Monks: Better Religion Through Science

Do bacteria require light?” Tashi, one of my best students, wants to know. He sits there in Dharamsala, India, like his Buddhist monk colleagues, cross-legged on the floor in maroon robes, six hours a day learning science from a tall white Jewish guy from North Carolina.

Religion often has a hard time of it, especially among academics, and especially among scientists. Of course academics have no problem studying religion and raising big money to establish endowed chairs, centers, and institutes devoted to just that. But when actually being religious or even discussing personal beliefs or spirituality at all, is rare and, if anything, discouraged. To me this is an odd and disturbing social conundrum: let’s take our best thinkers and idea-people, theorizers, and policy developers and eradicate any discussion of personal belief, religion, or spirituality from their official discourse. Brilliant.

So, it’s refreshing to be part of a project, an experiment really, in which academics are actively engaging religious tradition and belief. Even better, and ironically, this engagement is driven by scientists; the very folks many blame for hammering personal belief out of intellectual conversation in the West in the first place.

[read the full article on Better Religion Through Science]

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