Chinese Communist Parties Revision of History

If anything the CCP has destroyed the true Chinese culture. 

The party try’s to tell the world that they have one of the oldest and longest standing cultures, yet we don’t know that for sure because the communists have destroyed much of the Chinese people’s diverse cultures in different regions, as they are doing with the Tibetan culture. 

So sad, that they have to rewrite a false history teaching their children that false history, and people are to old or to scared to speak up and tell the truth, very sad.

China Is Wordless on Traumas of Communists’ Rise

CHANGCHUN, China — Unlike in other cities taken by the People’s Liberation Army during China’s civil war, there were no crowds to greet the victors as they made their triumphant march through the streets of this industrial city in the heart of Manchuria.

Even if relieved to learn that hostilities with Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist Army had come to an end, most residents — the ones who had not died during the five-month siege — were simply too weak to go outdoors. “We were just lying in bed starving to death,” said Zhang Yinghua, now 86, as she recalled the famine that claimed the lives of her brother, her sister and most of her neighbors. “We couldn’t even crawl.”

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.

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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Myanmar Omen; Day’s of the Junta regime are numbered

Sad this Pagoda collapsed, but perhaps that is a message for the Junta, that their day’s are numbered! 

You can’t indiscriminately kill people, or spiritual leaders, for speaking out, and then remodel a Pagoda expecting to cleans your Karma, that’s not the way it works.  Doing good just to try and cleans your dirtiness doesn’t clean your karma, in fact it would probably make it worse because it’s not happening for the right reasons.  Murdering all those people just so you can be the ruller of Burma, that’s blood on your’s and your family’s hands.  That’s a millinium of dirty karma on your hands.

An Ancient Pagoda’s Collapse Turns Myanmar’s Gaze to the Stars

It cannot have pleased Myanmar’s ruling family: the collapse of a 2,300-year-old gold-domed pagoda into a pile of timbers just three weeks after the wife of the junta’s top general helped rededicate it.

There is no country in Asia more superstitious than Myanmar, and the crumbling of the temple was seen widely as something more portentous than shoddy construction work.

The debacle coincides with the junta’s trial of the country’s pro-democracy leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, after an American intruder swam across a lake and spent a night at the villa where Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi has been under house arrest for most of the past 19 years.

After two weeks of testimony that began May 18, the trial has been suspended as the court considers procedural motions — and as the junta apparently tries to decide how to manage what seems to have been a major blunder, drawing condemnation from around the world.

The superstitious generals may be consulting astrologers as well as political tacticians for guidance. That would not be unusual for many people in Myanmar, formerly Burma.

Previously, currency denominations and traffic rules have been changed, the nation’s capital has been moved and the timing of events has been selected — even the dates of popular uprisings — with astrological dictates in mind.

“Astrology has as significant a role in policies, leadership and decision making in the feudal Naypyidaw as rational calculations, geopolitics and resource economics,” said Zarni, a Burmese exile analyst and researcher who goes by one name. He was referring to the country’s fortified capital, which opened in 2005. [see full article on the collapse of Burma's ancient pagoda]

Bill Passes House for Establisment of a US Consulate in TIbet

Wonderful new!

I know some will say that this is not enough, but to me it’s a start!  It’s about time we have people in congress with some backbone, not to mention the White House’s capability of dialog with other nations and being able to speak to people directly and form the heart.

“the US foreign relations bill authorizes scholarship and fellowship programs for Tibetans, and allocates money to protect Tibetan Culture and history, to support economic development, environmental protection, education and heaths care services in Tibet.

The Bill also asks China to cease “all interferences” in the religious affairs of the Tibetan people, including the reincarnation system of Tibetan Buddhism.”

I’m not sure why China would be so irate about all this?  This should help eliminate some of the tension that China has been causing in these areas.  The communist government doesn’t seem to like dialog of any kind.  Also, a lot of that said above appears to be the similar to the basic human rights that the communists agreed to with the Olympic Committee when they were given the opportunity to host an international of peace and harmony event, called the “Summer Olympics”  To this day, it doesn’t appear that the communists have implemented any of the human rights issues promised.

Of course it should be the communist party who does all the protection, education and health care of the Tibetan people and their culture, but they’ve been only supporting the ethnic Han Chinese who the party keeps sending into Tibet while giving them Tibetan jobs and  business with only further destroys Tibetan identity and culture and pushes the Tibetan’s out of Lhasa.  I’m glad to see that congress if finally helping our friends in Tibet.

US House approves Bill to establish US Consulate in Tibet

Dharamsala, June 12: US House of representatives on Wednesday passed a bill that further advances US policy on Tibet and authorizes its funding for wide-ranging programs that support Tibetans in Tibet.

The bill makes several improvements to an already existing Tibetan Policy Act of 2002 and directs the US government to encourage the Tibetan-Chinese dialogue by coordinating with other governments in multilateral efforts in order to reach a negotiated agreement on Tibet.

The bill further directs the US government to require the National Security Council (NSC) to ensure that U.S. policy on Tibet is coordinated with all executive agencies in contact with the Chinese government.

It also authorizes the establishment of a Tibet Section within the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, until such time as a U.S. consulate in Tibet is established. It further directs the government to seek to establish a U.S. consulate in Tibet’s Capital Lhasa.

The Bill requires the US Consulate in Lhasa to “provide services to United States citizens traveling to Tibet and to monitor political, economic, and cultural developments in Tibet, including Tibetan areas of Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, and Yunnan provinces.”

The new provisions were included in “H.R. 2410: the Foreign Relations Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011”, which passed the full House by a vote of 235 to187 on June 10, 2009, a move that could further irate China. [read more on US Consulate in Tibet story]

Chamdo Tibet’s Sacred Mountain is Safe for Now!

Seems that these issue should have already been learned from past experience in other country’s.  The poison left behind don’t affect those companies or the people the mining material goes to, it’s always left for the original inhabitants to suffer the consequence, and we know this from past experience.  A country that likes to point out other people mishaps, should also learn from those mishaps, even when it happened hundreds of years ago or more.

So glad this ordeal is over with, and these Tibetan people can go about their daily business.

Mine Dispute Largely Settled

Talks have resolved a standoff over a planned gold mine in Tibet, but questions remain regarding the disposal of poisonous waste at the site, according to sources in the region.

The dispute over operations at the mine, built by a Chinese firm at a site considered sacred by Tibetans, had continued for weeks, with hundreds of Tibetans protesting the mine’s planned expansion and blocking access to the area.

Both sides agreed June 8 that the mine—which had operated in Markham [in Chinese, Mangkang] county, in the Tibet Autonomous Region’s (TAR) Chamdo prefecture—would cease operations, sources said.

“It was agreed in writing that there will be no mining in the area,” said a local Tibetan man, speaking on condition of anonymity.

“All the Chinese security forces deployed in the area will be withdrawn. The Tibetans who are blocking the road will also return to their respective areas.”

“Chinese authorities will build concrete barriers to block the poisonous residue of earlier mining in the area so that this will not filter down into the drinking water,” he added. [read more on Chamdo Tibet's Sacred Mountain]

Chinese Lawyers and Legal Scholars Speak Out!

This is good news!  I’m glad that more media outlest are reporting this because their have been many other scholars and lawyers that did speak out, but the communist party keeps arresting them under some law that makes it easy to arrest anyone for anything they please.  Almost like the police using “disturbing the peace” in the US when the person didn’t do anything wrong, and the cop screwed up, so to protect himself they come up with “disturbing the peace.”  It’s easy to place the blame when you have that to use, but those can be argued as well.

We need more scholars and legal experts to come out!

Report Says Valid Grievances at Root of Tibet Unrest

A group of prominent Chinese lawyers and legal scholars have released a research report arguing that the Tibetan riots and protests of March 2008 were rooted in legitimate grievances brought about by failed government policies — and not through a plot of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.

The lengthy paper is the result of interviews conducted over a month in two Tibetan regions. It represents the first independent investigation into the causes of the widespread protests, which the Chinese government harshly suppressed. It blamed the Dalai Lama and other Tibetan exiles in Dharamsala for the unrest.

The government has quashed the expression of any dissenting opinions on the causes of the protests, which spread quickly across western China. The research paper was quietly posted last month on Chinese Web sites, and an English translation was released this week by the International Campaign for Tibet, an advocacy group based in Washington.

The authors of the report are members of a Chinese group called Gongmeng, or Open Constitution Initiative, which seeks to promote legal reform in China. Lawyers in the group also tried to file lawsuits on behalf of families whose babies suffered in the tainted milk scandal last year, and two members have defended Tibetans in court this year. [read more of the valid grievances of Tibet]

An act of Tibetan patriotism against the foreign invaders!

There was a report that the communist party made the news media reporters who report on TV to wear fur as well…

What is it with the communists infatuation with killing precious animals?  I don’t get it…many of them don’t even bother to put them to “sleep” before removing the fur off their backs, it’s very disturbing… “A Shocking Look inside China’s Fur Farms” See that video here!  People don’t wear fur!  If you want fur take some pills and grow hair on your own backs!

It was also discovered that they are taking endangered tigers and raising them for their fur! “From Human Organs to Tiger Farming”

New images of burning of wild animal pelts in dramatic act of dissent

27 May, 2009
International Campaign for Tibet
New images of burning of wild animal pelts in dramatic act of dissent

New images received from Tibet depict thousands of dollars worth of wild animal pelts being burned in the Tibetan area of Amdo, eastern Tibet, in a dramatic assertion of Tibetan identity at the height of the current crackdown on dissent. The photographs were taken in February 2009, during Tibetan New Year, at a time when Tibetans sought to mark the festival by mourning those killed in the protests. This was in defiance of the Chinese authorities’ attempts to enforce celebration of the New Year.

The Tibetan source who provided the images said: “The purpose of the action is to show that Tibetans will give up wearing animal skins completely and that they did not want to celebrate the New Year in 2009, because everyone thought it was a very black year for all Tibetan people in and outside of Tibet. Also by organizing this action, they would like to show their solidarity for the people who have sacrificed their precious lives for the freedom of Tibet after the violent crackdown in Lhasa last year and across Tibetan areas inside Tibet by the Chinese military forces.” (Photo: ICT)

The burning of the wild animal furs as an expression of Tibetan loyalties was originally inspired by a statement made by the Dalai Lama during a major religious festival in 2006 in which he said he felt “ashamed” when he saw Tibetans wearing the pelts of endangered animals such as tigers or leopards.

Immediately after he made the comments, Tibetans all over Tibet began to burn animal skins – in monetary value the equivalent of burning family cars or houses. Their actions were expressions of loyalty both to the Dalai Lama and to the Tibetan Buddhist culture, which advocates compassion for all sentient beings. This is the first known instance of wild animal pelt burning linked to the protests that broke out across Tibet in March, 2008.[Read More]

Military Disbars One of Aung San Suu Kyi’s Attorney

One of here charges is for encouraging “illegal swimming”, LOL!  Wow!  Can they come up with a better excuse!  It’s very clear they are trying to prevent her form being the leader of the people, after she won the elections.

Myanmar bars Suu Kyi lawyer, U.S. renews sanctions

Myanmar’s junta has barred a prominent activist lawyer from defending opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, as pressure intensifies on the regime to drop new charges against the Nobel Peace laureate.

Aung Thein said the order revoking his license was issued on Friday, a day after a prison court charged Suu Kyi with breaking the conditions of her nearly six-year house arrest, which is due to expire on May 27. “I went to Insein Prison to be one of the five defense lawyers for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and they issued the order the next day,” Aung Thein told Reuters.

Critics of the regime have denounced the trial of Suu Kyi and two female companions, due to start on Monday, on charges stemming from the mysterious visit of an American intruder who was arrested after he claimed to have spent two days at her lakeside home in Yangon.

Suu Kyi, 63, faces up to five years in jail if convicted.

Her lawyers insist she is innocent and did not invite U.S. citizen John Yettaw, who according to state media swam to her tightly-guarded lakeside home using homemade flippers.

Yettaw’s motives remained unclear, but he has been charged with various offences, including encouraging others to break the law and “illegal swimming.”  [read more]

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