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60+ self-immolations may not be good; but it is worse to be misinformed. And when the Tibetan Government in Exile (TGIE) lies, Tibetans die.
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Nov 1, 2012, 10:03:48 PM11/1/12
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A burning Tibet cannot be good for China
http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/hutong-cat/2012/10/31/a-burning-tibet-cannot-be-good-for-china/
For possibly most of China, Tibet, or what officially is the Tibetan
Autonomous Region, is a serene sort of a place; a place where high
mountains shadow vast open valleys, where colourfully dressed Tibetans
lead a tranquil, pastoral lives going about their routines with their
heads down and where antique monasteries are home to ancient
mysticism.
A cheerful, young anchor from the national broadcaster CCTV - the
wonderful parallel to our very own, homegrown Doordarshan - took his
viewers across parts of TAR the other evening; it was in fact a
cheerful journey full of flags flapping in distilled air, rugged
terrain and jolly, welcoming people sharing hot cups of butter tea.
Wednesday's China Daily carried a one-page feature - which reminded
the-gullible-reporter in me of an advertorial - on "Tibet still on
steady path to growth."
The closest I have been to Tibet is Majnu ka Tila near Delhi
University and my information is based on statements from human rights
groups and the responses from the Chinese government. But maybe, just
maybe the situation is not as tranquil in Tibet, which China considers
inextricably its own.
Last week alone, seven ethnic Tibetans deliberately doused themselves
with the nearest can of fuel and lit themselves; six lit themselves
well enough to die of lethal burn injuries. They had nearly 50 other
examples to follow of ethnic Tibetans who have self immolated
demanding more freedom under Beijing's hard-line rule and the return
of their spiritual icon, Dalai Lama.
All the cases didn't take place in TAR; ethnic Tibetans are also found
in the four provinces of eastern China: Sichuan, Qinghai, Yunnan and
Gansu.
The protest suicides are all but blacked out in the
government-controlled media. When the state-run Xinhua does confirm
the rare death, the reasons given for the suicides are not political;
the reasons usually are domestic infighting, acting under the
influence of alcohol or acting under the influence of alcohol because
of domestic infighting.
Ironically, when questions about the suicides are raised at press
conferences - like at the one last week - the spokesperson, any
spokesperson for the day for that matter, are belligerent in blaming
Dharamshala-based Dalai Lama in inciting the simple, rustic Tibetan.
The self immolators are branded "terrorists".
Do terrorists usually burn themselves to death after a fight with his
wife? Or having too much chang? Or is he not brainwashed enough by
outside forces to carry out a suicide attack on government forces and
symbols? The terrorist, it seems, is brainwashed just enough to light
a match stick, or maybe a made in China lighter, to his own
oil-slicked body.
I agree with China Daily's Thursday advertorial - err, perceptive
feature stories - about the fact that "... TAR is on a trajectory to
maintain stable and balanced growth thanks to a set of preferential
policies from the central government and assistance across the
country" and "income growth rate in double digits for the ninth
consecutive year." I am certain that as rest of China progresses,
Tibetans too will have less chilly winds of progress blowing over
their mountainous homes.
But maybe Chinese leaders should put their ears to the hard ground of
eastern China to find out what's actually happening. The sudden rise
in protest suicides days before the 18th National Congress of the
Communist Party of China (CPC) is surely not coincidental; those
protesting China's rule know the world's focus is on Beijing. It
should also be remembered that the suicides took place in spite of
heavy presence of security personnel. It can't be great for China if
its own citizens continue to burn themselves to death. For the new
leadership readying to rule China, to douse the fire and make Tibet
actually serene and tranquil should be a priority.
POSTED BY SUTIRTHO PATRANOBIS ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2012 AT 1:47 PM
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The above article strikes me no less as a propaganda piece as the
"feature" piece in China Daily he criticized.
He sounds every bit ignorant of what he was talking about as his
extreme confusion of which part is west and which part is east inside
China. (Hint: Sichuan, Qinghai, Yunnan and Gansu are as far
west as you can get, except for Tibet itself. If they were in
the east, they wouldn't be so medieval.)
First, he boldly asserted:
"All the cases didn't take place in TAR; ethnic Tibetans are also
found in the four provinces of eastern China: Sichuan, Qinghai,
Yunnan and Gansu."
And then in the conclusion:
"But maybe Chinese leaders should put their ears to the hard ground of
eastern China to find out what's actually happening."
It is a little piece of geographic knowledge that every Chinese child
comes to learn as they grow up. And it should be a simple fact that
anyone who is concerned about Chinese citizens as the author of the
above article proclaimed to be should be familiar with before yelping
like a fool.
And no wonder! He claimed that the closest he has ever been to Tibet
was some place near Delhi University. And he was satisfied that
"maybe the situation is not as tranquil in Tibet, which China
considers inextricably its own"
because he had received his information about Tibet from
"statements from human rights groups and the responses from the
Chinese government"
the latter of which he refused to accept.
Clearly, the first question I would like to ask is:
how does he define "traquil"?
Is it tranquil in the eastern part of the United States right now?
Is it tranquil in the East China Sea?
Has it been tranquil in western Pakistan or the entire Afghanistan
since the turn of the century?
Is it tranquil in Libya?
Is it tranquil in Syria?
Is it tranquil in Kashmir?
Is it tranquil in a large part of Myanmar?
Is it tranquil in Greece?
Is it tranquil in Spain?
. . .
If we would recall Stephen Prothero telling us that there were more
than one hundred cases of self-immolation in Tunisia last year alone,
and yet hardly any attention was paid to them from the outside, what
are some 60 cases of the same thing in Tibet since 2009?
We are talking about the self-immolations in Tibet but not those in
Tunisia because Tibet is on the agenda of long term US foreign policy
while Tunisia is not. Even the year 2009 is noteworthy. It is the
year after 2008 - the year China hosted for its first ever Summer
Olympics. Nobody can forget the Free Tibet protests begining in the
early spring of that year. And I certainly cannot forget how some
Tibetan protesters went and roughed up a young double-amputee woman
for carrying the Olympic torch on wheel chair. The protesters were a
bunch of very angry people who think that a world peace gesture such
as the Summer Olympics should take place simply because they hated
China.
But those people never think quantitatively nor logically. How many
people felt the way they felt? And if China was such a horrible
antithesis of peace, then why did the IOC vote to let China host the
games in the first place?
Those people have neither numbers nor logic.
But they sure knew that they would grab plenty of attention because
the west and its media would be sure to devote maximal attention to
anything that would make China look bad!
Ok. That was clearly a propaganda move planned and organized by the
Tibetans in exile (based in India's Dharamsala), most likely with a
lot of funding from various NED-backed NGOs.
Anyone who thought that those protests were not timed to an event or a
series of events that would put China in the spotlight because of the
Summer games would be either grossly in delusion or incapable of using
the brain he or she has.
But then what after the games?
And that apparently was the beginning of self-immolations in 2009.
Yet most of the 60 plus cases of Tibetan self-immolations happened
this year.
And I've noticed that the distribution of the incidents has been such
that it was all pretty quiet during the London Summer Olympics as well
as around our 9-11 anniversary. So, we are feted with a bunch during
the last week. But what was so special about the last week? Well,
first, the news about the embassy attack in Libya has more or less
subsided in the west. But most importantly, the once-a-decade
leadership transfer was about to start. In western media, umpteen
articles about Chinese politics appear daily. All eyes are now
turning to China.
Also, maybe the heated dispute on the islands in East China Sea might
also give some group an idea that China is automatically some kind of
aggressor. For example, Lobsang Sangay, the so-called prime minister
of the Tibetan Government in Exile (TGIE), used the term "occupation"
to refer to the fact that there are Tibetans living in the four
provinces which the author of the above article ignorantly referred to
as being in the eastern part of China.
That island dispute (which really is in the east) certainly does not
make China an aggressor. To the contrary, even the New York Times in
the past week or so has used phrases such as "spoil of war" to
describe how Japan got hold of it in 1895. China had no choice but to
act in a way that the islands China had discovered and laid claim to
for several centuries would not just disappear because of Japan's
die-hard colonial attitude.
It is clear that the TGIE has been trying to exploit every moment the
west has a little time to think about China for propaganda purposes.
So the latest spike of Tibetan self-immolations is clearly timed to
the political transition in Beijing.
And yes, it is terrorism as far as its effect is concerned on the
society where self-immolations take place.
It is in fact a cynical ploy of the TGIE to, on the one hand tell the
west that it is not asking for independence or territorial separation
but only "genuine autonomy" when it is talking about aggression just
because there are Tibetans living in other parts of China outside the
TAR, while on the other hand holding large protest rallies or funerals
for those who have self-immolated who were calling for independence
and the return of Da Lama. And let us please not forget that Da Lama
was a well-documented CIA agent for many years nor fail to keep in
mind that the aegis of the CIA is subversion and the overthrow of
other countries on behalf of the government of the United States. The
net effect is there is deception and bad-faith everywhere in the way
the TGIE has been acting.
At the end of the day, it does not achieve any meaningful discussion
with China (and blames the latter even though the lack of making
concrete and specific the way China's sovereignty over Tibet, which it
claims to accept, should _interact_ with its notion of "genuine
autonomy" which it claims it does not have) while suckers continue to
burn themselves out thinking that Da Lama was the answer to whatever
they are unhappy about.
So, people die while the TGIE lies.
And one more thing: The latest news has it that the TGIE is calling
for a stop to self-immolations. First it is very strange that if the
perpetrators of those terrorist acts were just motivated by their own
"suffering", such a belated call would necessarily have any effect if
they hadn't been orchestrating those events that had transpired in the
first place. Second, maybe it is time for the TGIE to call it quits
before the monetary incentives for whistle-blowers might be too strong
for some of those in the know to resist. I have suggested that there
were promises of a financial nature to the perpetrators from the TGIE
before. I continue to believe that. So the amount of money the TGIE
has agreed to pay out may not be so appealing if the CCP is willing to
outbid them, then not sending out the signal to potential perpetrators
inside China now may result in whistle-blowers providing fodders for
the CCP to say: "See, i told you so... Here is a black hand, caught!"
Finally, as far as the "world" as
"those protesting China's rule know the world's focus is on Beijing"
goes, it is the US, which is paying attention.
And that's why US Ambassador Gary Locke was paying visits to Tibetan
monasteries and there abouts shortly before and during the latest
self-immolation spike. No wonder, there were a sudden burst of
events: the US ambassador has been sending out signals quietly to
monks in these monasteries to say that you have our sympathy, our
support, although it's never clear when it is not a "side-show" for
the US State Department when it has such a long list of foreign
governments to overthrow!
And no doubt, the self-immolators would rather take a gun and kill
some CCP security personnel than to just burn themselves up. But we
know that Da Lama has changed tack since G W Bush started the war on
terror - against the "terrorists, who else? So, Da Lama, as an agent
for the United States can't very well call for independence, which can
only be achieved through shedding at least some blood, without the CCP
saying:
"See, George W., you fight your terrorists, Vlad Putin is fighting
the Chechens with your approval because they say you're wrong to
call them freedom fighters. So we are going to fight Da Lama and
his gangs now and get rid of them once and for all ..."
But, in so doing, the Tibetans who want independence are stuck.
They depend on the United States for their independence dream, or the
dream of a free Tibet, to come true.
But the United States government isn't interested in what they think.
It is only interested in whether it can control China and therefore
its resources. So, Da Lama is its ticket to destabilize China, always
at the expense of the poor and powerless Tibetans. And that's why Da
Lama was giving interviews about the stupid jokes he told Obama the
last time he was invited to have a visit at the White House. He was
so relaxed about giving this stale and meaningless jokes as the TGIE
tells the world Tibet was "burning"! What a sad story for Da Lama's
followers. They are the real losers - not the majority who are rising
with China.
So, a "burning Tibet" may not be good for China. But Tibet is really
not "burning" except for the iconic image and the few who committed
suicide with the illusion that their acts would bring deliverance.
lo yeeOn
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1) Human Rights groups have tried to push for a Libyan or Syrian style
"international contact group" on Tibet. Therefore SUTIRTHO PATRANOBIS
cannot be more mistaken to rely only on reading their reports while
keeping himself in the blind alley of biased and partial information.
http://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2012/09/21/rights-group-pushing-for-intl-contact-group-on-tibet/
Rights Group Pushing for Int'l Contact Group on Tibet Posted September
21st, 2012 at 6:50 am (UTC-4)
A top human rights group is urging the international community to form
a contact group on Tibet in order to push the Chinese government to
improve what it says is the "worsening human rights situation" there.
In a statement Friday, Human Rights Watch calls on world governments
who are concerned about Tibet to discuss the formation of such a group
on the sidelines of next week's United Nations General Assembly.
The New York-based organization says a contact group could pressure
China to resuming "consider meaningful negotiations with Tibetan
representatives". It also says such an initiative "could demonstrate
heightened international concern" about Tibet.
About 50 Tibetans have set themselves on fire since 2009, mostly in
protest against what they see as Chinese repression of their religion
and culture - a charge Beijing denies. At least seven of the
self-immolations occurred last month.
Human Rights Watch says that Beijing has responded to the growing
number of self-immolations and protests with sweeping arrests and
detentions. China has also strengthened the blackout on information
coming from Tibetan areas.
China, which has the world's second largest economy, has put
diplomatic pressure on international governments that publicly condemn
its policies in Tibet. The country also discourages international
forums from addressing the issue, saying it is an internal dispute
regarding its own sovereignty.
But Sophie Richardson, the China director at Human Rights Watch says
"concerned governments should set aside their fears of irking Beijing
and press China to respect Tibetans' basic rights."
2) Human Rights organizations often push the US State Department
agenda. So again, SUTIRTHO PATRANOBIS should know his source before
he trust the information coming from it.
Subject: The Revolving Door of the Corporate Media and Human Rights
Politics Re: Amnesty International is US State Department Propaganda
In article <k1b3mr$cc5$1...@speranza.aioe.org>,
Peter Terpstra <pe...@dharma.dyndns.info> wrote:
>On 8/25/2012 9:14 AM, lovechina wrote:
>> Amnesty International is US State Department Propaganda
>>
>> by Tony Cartalucci,
>
>
>Thank you for this opinion by Tony Cartalucci.
>
>Honest Criticism is good for everyone, good for the USA and good for
>the US too improve and their shortcomings.
>
>I do not know about the reality of this article, looks like an
>political opinion to me
Certain things cannot be merely an opinion. Facts aren't opinions.
Catalucci's article stated that Suzanne Nossel, Executive Director of
Amnesty International USA, for instance was drawn directly from the US
State Department - again, utterly contradicting Amnesty's claims of
being "independent" of governments and corporate interests. Nossel
continued promoting US foreign policy, but simply behind a podium with
a new logo, Amnesty International's logo, attached to it. Amnesty
International's website specifically mentions Nossel's role behind US
State Department-backed UN resolutions regarding Iran, Syria, Libya,
and Cote d'Ivoire.
So, did Catalucci merely express an opinion of Ms. Nossel being
directly drawn from the US State Department?
It is easy to check.
Suzanne Nossel is Executive Director of Amnesty International USA,
since January 2, 2012. She was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for International Organization Affairs in 2009. She is former Chief
Operating Officer of Human Rights Watch. Earlier, she has been Vice
President of Strategy and Operations for the Wall Street Journal,
from 2005 to 2007. After leaving the UN, she worked as
vice-president of U.S. Business Development for Bertelsman Media
(2001-2005). She has served as a senior fellow at the Century
Foundation, the Center for American Progress and the Council on
Foreign Relations.
Nossel is credited with coining the term "Smart Power" the title of
a 2004 Foreign Affairs article in which she proposed a policy of
Liberal Internationalism, outlining the concept of the U.S. using
military power as well as other forms of "soft power", an approach
which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has made a defining feature
of U.S. foreign policy.
[Wikipedia]
What the Wikipedia paragraph says is illuminating:
a) not only that Ms. Nossel, current head of Amnesty worked for the
State Department as a Deputy Assistant Secretary before, but also
as a COO for Human Rights Watch (HRW) before.
b) HRW, Amnesty, ... they are all the same thing, which means none of
there pronouncement can be taken on face value any more.
(Not so many years ago, I was regularly making financial
contribution to these organizations. But not any more, after
seeing their blatant roles in the destruction of so many
countries in recent years.)
c) She was where? Senior fellow at such places as the Council for
Foreign Relations (CFR)! The CFR is well known for its
influential role in the US foreign policy. That is, Ms. Nossel
was schooled by the neocons, the guys who decided that the US
should go broke occupying Afghanistan, destroying Iraq and Libya,
and now trying to use mercenaries to bring Syria to its knees (and
should they fail to do the job, we'll send in the marines to take
over the fighting, clainming to secure chemical weapons stores.
d) and worked at Bertelsman Media, Wall Street Journal (WSJ), and
Century Foundation (CF), all propaganda organizations promoting
foreign policy with an eye for American business development!
These are facts! Therefore, not opinions.
It sounds like Cartalucci has established a clear basis for the
conclusion that many of these human rights organizations aren't
independent of the US government nor of the Corporate Media.
I can further say that many of these human rights organizations have
blood on their hands, as western media as well as the US government
regularly invoke their reports to justify causus belli against other
countries. Their reports on Assad no doubt formed the basis of such
propaganda lines as "the evils committed by Assad", "Assad slaughtered
his own people", ....
Good job, Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton, as henchwomen for the
neocon American foreign policy of the new century!
Cartalucci's piece is analytical, well-organized, and asks probing
questions. And part of his final observations cannot be more apropos:
When people erroneously believe that credible organizations are
handling "rights advocacy" they will not only become complacent,
they will become negligent of their own responsibilities to
objectively examine potential abuses and speak out against
them. Wall Street and London's corporate-financier interests have
filled a void - that should be occupied by their greatest opponents
- instead with a large advocacy racket of their own creation. Not
only are they given a free pass to abuse human rights globally,
they've actually used their controlled opposition to attack their
opponents.
It is clear that Amnesty International is by no means an "advocate"
of human rights, but rather an affront to human rights advocacy. It
goes without saying that it should be boycotted out of existence and
at the very least, identified as illegitimate and fraudulent - from
its funding to its compromised leadership.
. . .
That Amnesty is supporting the US State Department's agenda should
be no surprise, it is run literally by the US State Department's
Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Organizations, Suzanne
Nossel.
Image: Same lies, different podium. Suzanne Nossel previously of the
US State Department, is now executive director of Amnesty
International USA. Her primary function of dressing up aspirations
of corporate-financier global hegemony as "human rights advocacy"
has not changed.
So, human rights advocates, beware of bad guys in shining armors.
lo yeeOn
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Amnesty International is US State Department Propaganda
by Tony Cartalucci, Global Research, August 22, 2012
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=3Dva&aid=3D32444
Amnesty run by US State Department representatives, funded by
convicted financial criminals, and threatens real human rights
advocacy worldwide.
Mistakenly considered by many as the final word on human rights
worldwide, it might surprise people to know that Amnesty International
is in fact one of the greatest obstacles to real human rights advocacy
on Earth. In its most recent 2012 annual report (page 4, .pdf),
Amnesty reiterates one of the biggest lies it routinely tells:
"Amnesty International is funded mainly by its membership and public
donations. No funds are sought or accepted from governments for
investigating and campaigning against human rights abuses. Amnesty
International is independent of any government, political ideology,
economic interest or religion."
This is categorically false. Amnesty international is indeed funded
and run by not only governments, but also immense corporate-financier
interests, and is not only absolutely entwined with political ideology
and economic interests, it is an essential tool used for perpetuating
just such interests.
Amnesty International's Funding
Finding financial information on Amnesty International's website is
made purposefully difficult - specifically to protect the myth that
the organization is "independent." Like any organized criminal
operation, Amnesty separates compromising financial ties through a
series of legal maneuvers and shell organizations. Upon Amnesty's
website it states:
"The work carried out through Amnesty International's International
Secretariat is organised into two legal entities, in compliance with
United Kingdom law. These are Amnesty International Limited ("AIL")
and Amnesty International Charity Limited ("AICL"). Amnesty
International Limited undertakes charitable activities on behalf of
Amnesty International Charity Limited, a registered charity."
And it is there, at Amnesty International Limited, where ties to both
governments and corporate-financier interests are kept. On page 11 of
Amnesty International Limited's 2011 Report and Financial Statement
(.pdf) it states (emphasis added): "The Directors are pleased to
acknowledge the support of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation, the Oak Foundation, Open Society Georgia Foundation, the
Vanguard Charitable Endowment Programme, Mauro Tunes and American
Jewish World Service. The UK Department for International Development
(Governance and Transparency Fund) continued to fund a four year human
rights education project in Africa. The European Commission
(EuropeAid) generously awarded a multi-year grant towards Amnesty
International=92s human rights education work in Europe."
Clearly then, Amnesty does take money from both governments and
corporate-financier interests.
Amnesty International's Leadership
Amnesty's leadership is also telling of its true agenda. Suzanne
Nossel, Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, for instance
was drawn directly from the US State Department - again, utterly
contradicting Amnesty's claims of being "independent" of governments
and corporate interests. Nossel continued promoting US foreign policy,
but simply behind a podium with a new logo, Amnesty International's
logo, attached to it. Amnesty International's website specifically
mentions Nossel's role behind US State Department-backed UN
resolutions regarding Iran, Syria, Libya, and Cote d'Ivoire.
It has been documented at great length how these issues revolve around
a decades long plan devised by corporate-financier interests to
divide, destroy and despoil these nations who are seen as obstacles to
US global hegemony. In the case of Syria specifically, it was revealed
that the current "human rights" catastrophe stems back to a malicious
2007 conspiracy documented by "New Yorker" journalist Seymour Hersh,
between the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia which sought to purposefully
fund, arm, and deploy sectarian extremists to undermine and overthrow
the Syrian government - this knowing full well the human tragedy that
would unfold.
Nossel's "contributions" then are simply to dress up naked military
aggression and the pursuit of global corporate-financier hegemony with
the pretense of "human rights" advocacy.
A glance at AmnestyUSA.org reveals that each and every front the US
State Department is currently working on and has prioritized is also
coincidentally prioritized by Amnesty International. This includes
rallies and campaigns to support US State Department-funded Russian
opposition groups (currently fixated on "Pussy Riot"), undermining the
Syrian government, toppling the government of Belarus, and supporting
the Wall Street-London created Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar (still
called by its British Imperial nomenclature of "Burma" by Suu Kyi
herself).
Amnesty International Betrays Real Human Rights Advocacy
Amnesty does indeed cover issues that are critical of US foreign
policy, toward the bottom of their websites and at the back of their
reports. Likewise, the corporate-media selectively reports issues that
coincide with their interests while other issues are either under-
reported or not reported at all. And it is precisely because Amnesty
covers all issues, but selectively emphasizes those that are conducive
to the interests of immense corporate-financiers that makes Amnesty
one of the greatest impediments to genuine human rights advocacy on
Earth.
Ordinary people are given the false impression that "someone is
watching out" for human rights abuses, when in reality, all Amnesty
and other organizations like it are doing, is managing public
perception selectively of global human rights abuses, fabricating and/
or manipulating many cases specifically to suit the agenda of large
corporate-financier interests. This can be seen when entire reports
out of Amnesty or Human Rights Watch consist solely of "witness
reports" compiled from accounts of US-backed opposition groups.
In the rare instance that a report includes references to actual
photographic, video, or documented evidence, such as Human Rights
Watch's 2011 "Descent into Chaos" (.pdf) report, deceptive language is
intentionally included along with throwaway passages to enable
selective reporting and spinning by not only the Western corporate
media, but by a myriad of faux-NGOs funded and run by Amnesty
International and Human Rights Watch's sponsors and affiliates. The
Descent into Chaos report, regarding Thailand, was promply and amply
spun and manipulated by US State Department-funded faux-NGO and
"rights advocate" Prachatai.
When people erroneously believe that credible organizations are
handling "rights advocacy" they will not only become complacent, they
will become negligent of their own responsibilities to objectively
examine potential abuses and speak out against them. Wall Street and
London's corporate-financier interests have filled a void - that
should be occupied by their greatest opponents - instead with a large
advocacy racket of their own creation. Not only are they given a free
pass to abuse human rights globally, they've actually used their
controlled opposition to attack their opponents.
It is clear that Amnesty International is by no means an "advocate" of
human rights, but rather an affront to human rights advocacy. It goes
without saying that it should be boycotted out of existence and at the
very least, identified as illegitimate and fraudulent - from its
funding to its compromised leadership.
Additionally, we the people must tackle real violations of each others
rights at the grassroots - because it is absolute folly to believe
that global spanning organizations, funded by corporate-financiers,
echoing the agenda of governments driven by special interests has our
best interests and rights in mind.
Images: Manufacturing Dissent. "Free Pussy Riot" (above). Ironically,
FIDH is directly funded by the US State Department via the Neo-Con
lined US National Endowment for Democracy (NED) as well as George
Soros' Open Society. "Russia: Stop Arms Transfer to Syria!" (below).
If the US State Department wants it, be sure that US State Department-
run Amnesty International will stage a demonstration for it - and
regardless of size or legitimacy of the demonstration, expect the
corporate-media to make it headline news.
Image: From Amnesty International USA's website, "Free Pussy Riot."
"Help Amnesty International send a truckload of balaclavas to Putin."
This childish stunt smacks of US State Department-funded Gene Sharp
antics - and meshes directly with the US State Department's goal of
undermining the Russian government via its troupe of US-funded
"opposition activists" including "Pussy Riot." That Amnesty is
supporting the US State Department's agenda should be no surprise, it
is run literally by the US State Department's Deputy Assistant
Secretary for International Organizations, Suzanne Nossel.
Image: Same lies, different podium. Suzanne Nossel previously of the
US State Department, is now executive director of Amnesty
International USA. Her primary function of dressing up aspirations of
corporate-financier global hegemony as "human rights advocacy" has not
changed.
>(...and i do believe that Pussy Riot has done nothing
>wrong) , but maybe there is some truth in it than i wish the critics
>will have a healing power (Om Mani Padme Hum).
>There is much wrong in this society, but how can we really help that
>everyone can benefit? In the end when all constructions are collapsed
>there is only one truth.
>
>I love China too, maybe you mean something different with that
>statement, p.e. like supporting the CCP.
>
>Warm regards, Peter
http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/hutong-cat/2012/10/31/a-burning-tibet-cannot-be-good-for-china/
For possibly most of China, Tibet, or what officially is the Tibetan
Autonomous Region, is a serene sort of a place; a place where high
mountains shadow vast open valleys, where colourfully dressed Tibetans
lead a tranquil, pastoral lives going about their routines with their
heads down and where antique monasteries are home to ancient
mysticism.
A cheerful, young anchor from the national broadcaster CCTV - the
wonderful parallel to our very own, homegrown Doordarshan - took his
viewers across parts of TAR the other evening; it was in fact a
cheerful journey full of flags flapping in distilled air, rugged
terrain and jolly, welcoming people sharing hot cups of butter tea.
Wednesday's China Daily carried a one-page feature - which reminded
the-gullible-reporter in me of an advertorial - on "Tibet still on
steady path to growth."
The closest I have been to Tibet is Majnu ka Tila near Delhi
University and my information is based on statements from human rights
groups and the responses from the Chinese government. But maybe, just
maybe the situation is not as tranquil in Tibet, which China considers
inextricably its own.
Last week alone, seven ethnic Tibetans deliberately doused themselves
with the nearest can of fuel and lit themselves; six lit themselves
well enough to die of lethal burn injuries. They had nearly 50 other
examples to follow of ethnic Tibetans who have self immolated
demanding more freedom under Beijing's hard-line rule and the return
of their spiritual icon, Dalai Lama.
All the cases didn't take place in TAR; ethnic Tibetans are also found
in the four provinces of eastern China: Sichuan, Qinghai, Yunnan and
Gansu.
The protest suicides are all but blacked out in the
government-controlled media. When the state-run Xinhua does confirm
the rare death, the reasons given for the suicides are not political;
the reasons usually are domestic infighting, acting under the
influence of alcohol or acting under the influence of alcohol because
of domestic infighting.
Ironically, when questions about the suicides are raised at press
conferences - like at the one last week - the spokesperson, any
spokesperson for the day for that matter, are belligerent in blaming
Dharamshala-based Dalai Lama in inciting the simple, rustic Tibetan.
The self immolators are branded "terrorists".
Do terrorists usually burn themselves to death after a fight with his
wife? Or having too much chang? Or is he not brainwashed enough by
outside forces to carry out a suicide attack on government forces and
symbols? The terrorist, it seems, is brainwashed just enough to light
a match stick, or maybe a made in China lighter, to his own
oil-slicked body.
I agree with China Daily's Thursday advertorial - err, perceptive
feature stories - about the fact that "... TAR is on a trajectory to
maintain stable and balanced growth thanks to a set of preferential
policies from the central government and assistance across the
country" and "income growth rate in double digits for the ninth
consecutive year." I am certain that as rest of China progresses,
Tibetans too will have less chilly winds of progress blowing over
their mountainous homes.
But maybe Chinese leaders should put their ears to the hard ground of
eastern China to find out what's actually happening. The sudden rise
in protest suicides days before the 18th National Congress of the
Communist Party of China (CPC) is surely not coincidental; those
protesting China's rule know the world's focus is on Beijing. It
should also be remembered that the suicides took place in spite of
heavy presence of security personnel. It can't be great for China if
its own citizens continue to burn themselves to death. For the new
leadership readying to rule China, to douse the fire and make Tibet
actually serene and tranquil should be a priority.
POSTED BY SUTIRTHO PATRANOBIS ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2012 AT 1:47 PM
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The above article strikes me no less as a propaganda piece as the
"feature" piece in China Daily he criticized.
He sounds every bit ignorant of what he was talking about as his
extreme confusion of which part is west and which part is east inside
China. (Hint: Sichuan, Qinghai, Yunnan and Gansu are as far
west as you can get, except for Tibet itself. If they were in
the east, they wouldn't be so medieval.)
First, he boldly asserted:
"All the cases didn't take place in TAR; ethnic Tibetans are also
found in the four provinces of eastern China: Sichuan, Qinghai,
Yunnan and Gansu."
And then in the conclusion:
"But maybe Chinese leaders should put their ears to the hard ground of
eastern China to find out what's actually happening."
It is a little piece of geographic knowledge that every Chinese child
comes to learn as they grow up. And it should be a simple fact that
anyone who is concerned about Chinese citizens as the author of the
above article proclaimed to be should be familiar with before yelping
like a fool.
And no wonder! He claimed that the closest he has ever been to Tibet
was some place near Delhi University. And he was satisfied that
"maybe the situation is not as tranquil in Tibet, which China
considers inextricably its own"
because he had received his information about Tibet from
"statements from human rights groups and the responses from the
Chinese government"
the latter of which he refused to accept.
Clearly, the first question I would like to ask is:
how does he define "traquil"?
Is it tranquil in the eastern part of the United States right now?
Is it tranquil in the East China Sea?
Has it been tranquil in western Pakistan or the entire Afghanistan
since the turn of the century?
Is it tranquil in Libya?
Is it tranquil in Syria?
Is it tranquil in Kashmir?
Is it tranquil in a large part of Myanmar?
Is it tranquil in Greece?
Is it tranquil in Spain?
. . .
If we would recall Stephen Prothero telling us that there were more
than one hundred cases of self-immolation in Tunisia last year alone,
and yet hardly any attention was paid to them from the outside, what
are some 60 cases of the same thing in Tibet since 2009?
We are talking about the self-immolations in Tibet but not those in
Tunisia because Tibet is on the agenda of long term US foreign policy
while Tunisia is not. Even the year 2009 is noteworthy. It is the
year after 2008 - the year China hosted for its first ever Summer
Olympics. Nobody can forget the Free Tibet protests begining in the
early spring of that year. And I certainly cannot forget how some
Tibetan protesters went and roughed up a young double-amputee woman
for carrying the Olympic torch on wheel chair. The protesters were a
bunch of very angry people who think that a world peace gesture such
as the Summer Olympics should take place simply because they hated
China.
But those people never think quantitatively nor logically. How many
people felt the way they felt? And if China was such a horrible
antithesis of peace, then why did the IOC vote to let China host the
games in the first place?
Those people have neither numbers nor logic.
But they sure knew that they would grab plenty of attention because
the west and its media would be sure to devote maximal attention to
anything that would make China look bad!
Ok. That was clearly a propaganda move planned and organized by the
Tibetans in exile (based in India's Dharamsala), most likely with a
lot of funding from various NED-backed NGOs.
Anyone who thought that those protests were not timed to an event or a
series of events that would put China in the spotlight because of the
Summer games would be either grossly in delusion or incapable of using
the brain he or she has.
But then what after the games?
And that apparently was the beginning of self-immolations in 2009.
Yet most of the 60 plus cases of Tibetan self-immolations happened
this year.
And I've noticed that the distribution of the incidents has been such
that it was all pretty quiet during the London Summer Olympics as well
as around our 9-11 anniversary. So, we are feted with a bunch during
the last week. But what was so special about the last week? Well,
first, the news about the embassy attack in Libya has more or less
subsided in the west. But most importantly, the once-a-decade
leadership transfer was about to start. In western media, umpteen
articles about Chinese politics appear daily. All eyes are now
turning to China.
Also, maybe the heated dispute on the islands in East China Sea might
also give some group an idea that China is automatically some kind of
aggressor. For example, Lobsang Sangay, the so-called prime minister
of the Tibetan Government in Exile (TGIE), used the term "occupation"
to refer to the fact that there are Tibetans living in the four
provinces which the author of the above article ignorantly referred to
as being in the eastern part of China.
That island dispute (which really is in the east) certainly does not
make China an aggressor. To the contrary, even the New York Times in
the past week or so has used phrases such as "spoil of war" to
describe how Japan got hold of it in 1895. China had no choice but to
act in a way that the islands China had discovered and laid claim to
for several centuries would not just disappear because of Japan's
die-hard colonial attitude.
It is clear that the TGIE has been trying to exploit every moment the
west has a little time to think about China for propaganda purposes.
So the latest spike of Tibetan self-immolations is clearly timed to
the political transition in Beijing.
And yes, it is terrorism as far as its effect is concerned on the
society where self-immolations take place.
It is in fact a cynical ploy of the TGIE to, on the one hand tell the
west that it is not asking for independence or territorial separation
but only "genuine autonomy" when it is talking about aggression just
because there are Tibetans living in other parts of China outside the
TAR, while on the other hand holding large protest rallies or funerals
for those who have self-immolated who were calling for independence
and the return of Da Lama. And let us please not forget that Da Lama
was a well-documented CIA agent for many years nor fail to keep in
mind that the aegis of the CIA is subversion and the overthrow of
other countries on behalf of the government of the United States. The
net effect is there is deception and bad-faith everywhere in the way
the TGIE has been acting.
At the end of the day, it does not achieve any meaningful discussion
with China (and blames the latter even though the lack of making
concrete and specific the way China's sovereignty over Tibet, which it
claims to accept, should _interact_ with its notion of "genuine
autonomy" which it claims it does not have) while suckers continue to
burn themselves out thinking that Da Lama was the answer to whatever
they are unhappy about.
So, people die while the TGIE lies.
And one more thing: The latest news has it that the TGIE is calling
for a stop to self-immolations. First it is very strange that if the
perpetrators of those terrorist acts were just motivated by their own
"suffering", such a belated call would necessarily have any effect if
they hadn't been orchestrating those events that had transpired in the
first place. Second, maybe it is time for the TGIE to call it quits
before the monetary incentives for whistle-blowers might be too strong
for some of those in the know to resist. I have suggested that there
were promises of a financial nature to the perpetrators from the TGIE
before. I continue to believe that. So the amount of money the TGIE
has agreed to pay out may not be so appealing if the CCP is willing to
outbid them, then not sending out the signal to potential perpetrators
inside China now may result in whistle-blowers providing fodders for
the CCP to say: "See, i told you so... Here is a black hand, caught!"
Finally, as far as the "world" as
"those protesting China's rule know the world's focus is on Beijing"
goes, it is the US, which is paying attention.
And that's why US Ambassador Gary Locke was paying visits to Tibetan
monasteries and there abouts shortly before and during the latest
self-immolation spike. No wonder, there were a sudden burst of
events: the US ambassador has been sending out signals quietly to
monks in these monasteries to say that you have our sympathy, our
support, although it's never clear when it is not a "side-show" for
the US State Department when it has such a long list of foreign
governments to overthrow!
And no doubt, the self-immolators would rather take a gun and kill
some CCP security personnel than to just burn themselves up. But we
know that Da Lama has changed tack since G W Bush started the war on
terror - against the "terrorists, who else? So, Da Lama, as an agent
for the United States can't very well call for independence, which can
only be achieved through shedding at least some blood, without the CCP
saying:
"See, George W., you fight your terrorists, Vlad Putin is fighting
the Chechens with your approval because they say you're wrong to
call them freedom fighters. So we are going to fight Da Lama and
his gangs now and get rid of them once and for all ..."
But, in so doing, the Tibetans who want independence are stuck.
They depend on the United States for their independence dream, or the
dream of a free Tibet, to come true.
But the United States government isn't interested in what they think.
It is only interested in whether it can control China and therefore
its resources. So, Da Lama is its ticket to destabilize China, always
at the expense of the poor and powerless Tibetans. And that's why Da
Lama was giving interviews about the stupid jokes he told Obama the
last time he was invited to have a visit at the White House. He was
so relaxed about giving this stale and meaningless jokes as the TGIE
tells the world Tibet was "burning"! What a sad story for Da Lama's
followers. They are the real losers - not the majority who are rising
with China.
So, a "burning Tibet" may not be good for China. But Tibet is really
not "burning" except for the iconic image and the few who committed
suicide with the illusion that their acts would bring deliverance.
lo yeeOn
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1) Human Rights groups have tried to push for a Libyan or Syrian style
"international contact group" on Tibet. Therefore SUTIRTHO PATRANOBIS
cannot be more mistaken to rely only on reading their reports while
keeping himself in the blind alley of biased and partial information.
http://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2012/09/21/rights-group-pushing-for-intl-contact-group-on-tibet/
Rights Group Pushing for Int'l Contact Group on Tibet Posted September
21st, 2012 at 6:50 am (UTC-4)
A top human rights group is urging the international community to form
a contact group on Tibet in order to push the Chinese government to
improve what it says is the "worsening human rights situation" there.
In a statement Friday, Human Rights Watch calls on world governments
who are concerned about Tibet to discuss the formation of such a group
on the sidelines of next week's United Nations General Assembly.
The New York-based organization says a contact group could pressure
China to resuming "consider meaningful negotiations with Tibetan
representatives". It also says such an initiative "could demonstrate
heightened international concern" about Tibet.
About 50 Tibetans have set themselves on fire since 2009, mostly in
protest against what they see as Chinese repression of their religion
and culture - a charge Beijing denies. At least seven of the
self-immolations occurred last month.
Human Rights Watch says that Beijing has responded to the growing
number of self-immolations and protests with sweeping arrests and
detentions. China has also strengthened the blackout on information
coming from Tibetan areas.
China, which has the world's second largest economy, has put
diplomatic pressure on international governments that publicly condemn
its policies in Tibet. The country also discourages international
forums from addressing the issue, saying it is an internal dispute
regarding its own sovereignty.
But Sophie Richardson, the China director at Human Rights Watch says
"concerned governments should set aside their fears of irking Beijing
and press China to respect Tibetans' basic rights."
2) Human Rights organizations often push the US State Department
agenda. So again, SUTIRTHO PATRANOBIS should know his source before
he trust the information coming from it.
Subject: The Revolving Door of the Corporate Media and Human Rights
Politics Re: Amnesty International is US State Department Propaganda
In article <k1b3mr$cc5$1...@speranza.aioe.org>,
Peter Terpstra <pe...@dharma.dyndns.info> wrote:
>On 8/25/2012 9:14 AM, lovechina wrote:
>> Amnesty International is US State Department Propaganda
>>
>> by Tony Cartalucci,
>
>
>Thank you for this opinion by Tony Cartalucci.
>
>Honest Criticism is good for everyone, good for the USA and good for
>the US too improve and their shortcomings.
>
>I do not know about the reality of this article, looks like an
>political opinion to me
Certain things cannot be merely an opinion. Facts aren't opinions.
Catalucci's article stated that Suzanne Nossel, Executive Director of
Amnesty International USA, for instance was drawn directly from the US
State Department - again, utterly contradicting Amnesty's claims of
being "independent" of governments and corporate interests. Nossel
continued promoting US foreign policy, but simply behind a podium with
a new logo, Amnesty International's logo, attached to it. Amnesty
International's website specifically mentions Nossel's role behind US
State Department-backed UN resolutions regarding Iran, Syria, Libya,
and Cote d'Ivoire.
So, did Catalucci merely express an opinion of Ms. Nossel being
directly drawn from the US State Department?
It is easy to check.
Suzanne Nossel is Executive Director of Amnesty International USA,
since January 2, 2012. She was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for International Organization Affairs in 2009. She is former Chief
Operating Officer of Human Rights Watch. Earlier, she has been Vice
President of Strategy and Operations for the Wall Street Journal,
from 2005 to 2007. After leaving the UN, she worked as
vice-president of U.S. Business Development for Bertelsman Media
(2001-2005). She has served as a senior fellow at the Century
Foundation, the Center for American Progress and the Council on
Foreign Relations.
Nossel is credited with coining the term "Smart Power" the title of
a 2004 Foreign Affairs article in which she proposed a policy of
Liberal Internationalism, outlining the concept of the U.S. using
military power as well as other forms of "soft power", an approach
which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has made a defining feature
of U.S. foreign policy.
[Wikipedia]
What the Wikipedia paragraph says is illuminating:
a) not only that Ms. Nossel, current head of Amnesty worked for the
State Department as a Deputy Assistant Secretary before, but also
as a COO for Human Rights Watch (HRW) before.
b) HRW, Amnesty, ... they are all the same thing, which means none of
there pronouncement can be taken on face value any more.
(Not so many years ago, I was regularly making financial
contribution to these organizations. But not any more, after
seeing their blatant roles in the destruction of so many
countries in recent years.)
c) She was where? Senior fellow at such places as the Council for
Foreign Relations (CFR)! The CFR is well known for its
influential role in the US foreign policy. That is, Ms. Nossel
was schooled by the neocons, the guys who decided that the US
should go broke occupying Afghanistan, destroying Iraq and Libya,
and now trying to use mercenaries to bring Syria to its knees (and
should they fail to do the job, we'll send in the marines to take
over the fighting, clainming to secure chemical weapons stores.
d) and worked at Bertelsman Media, Wall Street Journal (WSJ), and
Century Foundation (CF), all propaganda organizations promoting
foreign policy with an eye for American business development!
These are facts! Therefore, not opinions.
It sounds like Cartalucci has established a clear basis for the
conclusion that many of these human rights organizations aren't
independent of the US government nor of the Corporate Media.
I can further say that many of these human rights organizations have
blood on their hands, as western media as well as the US government
regularly invoke their reports to justify causus belli against other
countries. Their reports on Assad no doubt formed the basis of such
propaganda lines as "the evils committed by Assad", "Assad slaughtered
his own people", ....
Good job, Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton, as henchwomen for the
neocon American foreign policy of the new century!
Cartalucci's piece is analytical, well-organized, and asks probing
questions. And part of his final observations cannot be more apropos:
When people erroneously believe that credible organizations are
handling "rights advocacy" they will not only become complacent,
they will become negligent of their own responsibilities to
objectively examine potential abuses and speak out against
them. Wall Street and London's corporate-financier interests have
filled a void - that should be occupied by their greatest opponents
- instead with a large advocacy racket of their own creation. Not
only are they given a free pass to abuse human rights globally,
they've actually used their controlled opposition to attack their
opponents.
It is clear that Amnesty International is by no means an "advocate"
of human rights, but rather an affront to human rights advocacy. It
goes without saying that it should be boycotted out of existence and
at the very least, identified as illegitimate and fraudulent - from
its funding to its compromised leadership.
. . .
That Amnesty is supporting the US State Department's agenda should
be no surprise, it is run literally by the US State Department's
Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Organizations, Suzanne
Nossel.
Image: Same lies, different podium. Suzanne Nossel previously of the
US State Department, is now executive director of Amnesty
International USA. Her primary function of dressing up aspirations
of corporate-financier global hegemony as "human rights advocacy"
has not changed.
So, human rights advocates, beware of bad guys in shining armors.
lo yeeOn
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Amnesty International is US State Department Propaganda
by Tony Cartalucci, Global Research, August 22, 2012
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=3Dva&aid=3D32444
Amnesty run by US State Department representatives, funded by
convicted financial criminals, and threatens real human rights
advocacy worldwide.
Mistakenly considered by many as the final word on human rights
worldwide, it might surprise people to know that Amnesty International
is in fact one of the greatest obstacles to real human rights advocacy
on Earth. In its most recent 2012 annual report (page 4, .pdf),
Amnesty reiterates one of the biggest lies it routinely tells:
"Amnesty International is funded mainly by its membership and public
donations. No funds are sought or accepted from governments for
investigating and campaigning against human rights abuses. Amnesty
International is independent of any government, political ideology,
economic interest or religion."
This is categorically false. Amnesty international is indeed funded
and run by not only governments, but also immense corporate-financier
interests, and is not only absolutely entwined with political ideology
and economic interests, it is an essential tool used for perpetuating
just such interests.
Amnesty International's Funding
Finding financial information on Amnesty International's website is
made purposefully difficult - specifically to protect the myth that
the organization is "independent." Like any organized criminal
operation, Amnesty separates compromising financial ties through a
series of legal maneuvers and shell organizations. Upon Amnesty's
website it states:
"The work carried out through Amnesty International's International
Secretariat is organised into two legal entities, in compliance with
United Kingdom law. These are Amnesty International Limited ("AIL")
and Amnesty International Charity Limited ("AICL"). Amnesty
International Limited undertakes charitable activities on behalf of
Amnesty International Charity Limited, a registered charity."
And it is there, at Amnesty International Limited, where ties to both
governments and corporate-financier interests are kept. On page 11 of
Amnesty International Limited's 2011 Report and Financial Statement
(.pdf) it states (emphasis added): "The Directors are pleased to
acknowledge the support of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation, the Oak Foundation, Open Society Georgia Foundation, the
Vanguard Charitable Endowment Programme, Mauro Tunes and American
Jewish World Service. The UK Department for International Development
(Governance and Transparency Fund) continued to fund a four year human
rights education project in Africa. The European Commission
(EuropeAid) generously awarded a multi-year grant towards Amnesty
International=92s human rights education work in Europe."
Clearly then, Amnesty does take money from both governments and
corporate-financier interests.
Amnesty International's Leadership
Amnesty's leadership is also telling of its true agenda. Suzanne
Nossel, Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, for instance
was drawn directly from the US State Department - again, utterly
contradicting Amnesty's claims of being "independent" of governments
and corporate interests. Nossel continued promoting US foreign policy,
but simply behind a podium with a new logo, Amnesty International's
logo, attached to it. Amnesty International's website specifically
mentions Nossel's role behind US State Department-backed UN
resolutions regarding Iran, Syria, Libya, and Cote d'Ivoire.
It has been documented at great length how these issues revolve around
a decades long plan devised by corporate-financier interests to
divide, destroy and despoil these nations who are seen as obstacles to
US global hegemony. In the case of Syria specifically, it was revealed
that the current "human rights" catastrophe stems back to a malicious
2007 conspiracy documented by "New Yorker" journalist Seymour Hersh,
between the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia which sought to purposefully
fund, arm, and deploy sectarian extremists to undermine and overthrow
the Syrian government - this knowing full well the human tragedy that
would unfold.
Nossel's "contributions" then are simply to dress up naked military
aggression and the pursuit of global corporate-financier hegemony with
the pretense of "human rights" advocacy.
A glance at AmnestyUSA.org reveals that each and every front the US
State Department is currently working on and has prioritized is also
coincidentally prioritized by Amnesty International. This includes
rallies and campaigns to support US State Department-funded Russian
opposition groups (currently fixated on "Pussy Riot"), undermining the
Syrian government, toppling the government of Belarus, and supporting
the Wall Street-London created Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar (still
called by its British Imperial nomenclature of "Burma" by Suu Kyi
herself).
Amnesty International Betrays Real Human Rights Advocacy
Amnesty does indeed cover issues that are critical of US foreign
policy, toward the bottom of their websites and at the back of their
reports. Likewise, the corporate-media selectively reports issues that
coincide with their interests while other issues are either under-
reported or not reported at all. And it is precisely because Amnesty
covers all issues, but selectively emphasizes those that are conducive
to the interests of immense corporate-financiers that makes Amnesty
one of the greatest impediments to genuine human rights advocacy on
Earth.
Ordinary people are given the false impression that "someone is
watching out" for human rights abuses, when in reality, all Amnesty
and other organizations like it are doing, is managing public
perception selectively of global human rights abuses, fabricating and/
or manipulating many cases specifically to suit the agenda of large
corporate-financier interests. This can be seen when entire reports
out of Amnesty or Human Rights Watch consist solely of "witness
reports" compiled from accounts of US-backed opposition groups.
In the rare instance that a report includes references to actual
photographic, video, or documented evidence, such as Human Rights
Watch's 2011 "Descent into Chaos" (.pdf) report, deceptive language is
intentionally included along with throwaway passages to enable
selective reporting and spinning by not only the Western corporate
media, but by a myriad of faux-NGOs funded and run by Amnesty
International and Human Rights Watch's sponsors and affiliates. The
Descent into Chaos report, regarding Thailand, was promply and amply
spun and manipulated by US State Department-funded faux-NGO and
"rights advocate" Prachatai.
When people erroneously believe that credible organizations are
handling "rights advocacy" they will not only become complacent, they
will become negligent of their own responsibilities to objectively
examine potential abuses and speak out against them. Wall Street and
London's corporate-financier interests have filled a void - that
should be occupied by their greatest opponents - instead with a large
advocacy racket of their own creation. Not only are they given a free
pass to abuse human rights globally, they've actually used their
controlled opposition to attack their opponents.
It is clear that Amnesty International is by no means an "advocate" of
human rights, but rather an affront to human rights advocacy. It goes
without saying that it should be boycotted out of existence and at the
very least, identified as illegitimate and fraudulent - from its
funding to its compromised leadership.
Additionally, we the people must tackle real violations of each others
rights at the grassroots - because it is absolute folly to believe
that global spanning organizations, funded by corporate-financiers,
echoing the agenda of governments driven by special interests has our
best interests and rights in mind.
Images: Manufacturing Dissent. "Free Pussy Riot" (above). Ironically,
FIDH is directly funded by the US State Department via the Neo-Con
lined US National Endowment for Democracy (NED) as well as George
Soros' Open Society. "Russia: Stop Arms Transfer to Syria!" (below).
If the US State Department wants it, be sure that US State Department-
run Amnesty International will stage a demonstration for it - and
regardless of size or legitimacy of the demonstration, expect the
corporate-media to make it headline news.
Image: From Amnesty International USA's website, "Free Pussy Riot."
"Help Amnesty International send a truckload of balaclavas to Putin."
This childish stunt smacks of US State Department-funded Gene Sharp
antics - and meshes directly with the US State Department's goal of
undermining the Russian government via its troupe of US-funded
"opposition activists" including "Pussy Riot." That Amnesty is
supporting the US State Department's agenda should be no surprise, it
is run literally by the US State Department's Deputy Assistant
Secretary for International Organizations, Suzanne Nossel.
Image: Same lies, different podium. Suzanne Nossel previously of the
US State Department, is now executive director of Amnesty
International USA. Her primary function of dressing up aspirations of
corporate-financier global hegemony as "human rights advocacy" has not
changed.
>(...and i do believe that Pussy Riot has done nothing
>wrong) , but maybe there is some truth in it than i wish the critics
>will have a healing power (Om Mani Padme Hum).
>There is much wrong in this society, but how can we really help that
>everyone can benefit? In the end when all constructions are collapsed
>there is only one truth.
>
>I love China too, maybe you mean something different with that
>statement, p.e. like supporting the CCP.
>
>Warm regards, Peter
Peter Terpstra
Nov 2, 2012, 4:28:31 PM11/2/12
to
lo yeeOn wrote:
> 60+ self-immolations may not be good; but it is worse to be misinformed.
> And when the Tibetan Government in Exile (TGIE) lies, Tibetans die.
How much longer will the CCP keep playing the role of a giant fool?
Best wishes for mister lo yeeOn.
Peter
--
A beautiful song from Tibet
I miss Dalai Lama
http://youtu.be/_zo3kYvJr38
> 60+ self-immolations may not be good; but it is worse to be misinformed.
> And when the Tibetan Government in Exile (TGIE) lies, Tibetans die.
How much longer will the CCP keep playing the role of a giant fool?
Best wishes for mister lo yeeOn.
Peter
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A beautiful song from Tibet
I miss Dalai Lama
http://youtu.be/_zo3kYvJr38
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