I always thought Reporters Without Borders was a wonderful thing, because, you know, free speech! free press! Alas, now I’ll have to be more critical. From Reporters Without Borders - SourceWatch:
Robert Menard, the Secretary General of RSF, was forced to confess that RSF’s budget was primarily provided by “US organizations strictly linked with US foreign [...]
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Before I began researching Tibet, you could’ve asked me if the CIA worked through a lot of quasi-governmental organizations, and I would’ve nodded. But if you’d offered me a million dollars to name one, I would’ve gone away broke. Now I have a name.
Wikipedia is a reasonable place to start: National Endowment for Democracy:
The National [...]
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Posted in seeker, tagged dalai lama, Tibet on May 8, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I’ve quoted Patrick French’s New York Times piece, He May Be a God, but He’s No Politician, because French admits some of the Dalai Lama groups “use questionable information.” But here’s what matters more:
The question that Nancy Pelosi and celebrity advocates like Richard Gere ought to answer is this: Have the actions of the Western [...]
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Posted in seeker, tagged dalai lama, Tibet on May 7, 2008 | No Comments »
In 1959, a Time magazine article, The Three Precious Jewels, said about Tibetans:
About four-fifths of them work to support one-fifth, who are shut up in lamaseries. What little land is not owned by the monks belongs either to the Dalai Lama or to about 150 noble families.
From Peter Hessler’s Tibet Through Chinese Eyes:
From the Chinese [...]
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Posted in seeker, tagged dalai lama, Tibet on May 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Michael Parenti’s Friendly Fuedalism - The Tibet Myth is the best online source for facts about Tibet and the Dalai Lama. Two essential bits from it:
Many Buddhists maintain that, before the Chinese crackdown in 1959, old Tibet was a spiritually oriented kingdom free from the egotistical lifestyles, empty materialism, and corrupting vices that beset modern [...]
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Posted in seeker, tagged dalai lama, Tibet on May 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have a ludicrous obsession with truth. I don’t mind when my friends joke about it: I know that being nice is more important than knowing the truth, and I’m much fonder of ignorant people who care for others than I am of knowledgeable people who care only about their cleverness. I know that many [...]
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1. He is not a pacifist. Though the CIA-supported rebels in Tibet began fighting in the mid-1950s, he did not tell them to stop until 1974, after the CIA cut off their funding. As recently as 2005, he said, “The Iraq war—it’s too early to say, right or wrong.” (Dalai Lama brings his brand of [...]
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Posted in seeker, tagged dalai lama, Tibet on October 6, 2007 | 5 Comments »
“Dalai” is a Mongol word that means “ocean.” “Lama” is a Tibetan word that means “master.” The kind interpretation is the Dalai Lama has an ocean of wisdom. The harsher one is the Dalai Lama was an absolute ruler. Historically, the Dalai Lama was subject only to the Emperor of China, as the Mongolian part [...]
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Posted in seeker, tagged dalai lama, Tibet on October 5, 2007 | 32 Comments »
As The Central Tibetan Administration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama tries to gain power in Tibet, it focuses on religion, so the Chinese respond in kind. From China slaps ban on reincarnation:
China has rather brilliantly declared that, from next month, Tibetan Buddhist monks must have official permission to reincarnate… The new legislation lays down [...]
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