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		<title>Two More Monks Self-Immolate in Lhasa, Tibet</title>
		<description>Discuss Two More Monks Self-Immolate in Lhasa, Tibet</description>
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			<title>David Starr says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Just a note, although it may be not neccessary, since I've already made some rants and observations related to another article: I do stand by my original post related to the Jagger article. But I add my above post to my stand: It can't be argued with. Additionally, I checked the footnotes of the Parenti peice, looking up each source. They checked out O.K. One I couldn't get confirmation for but I realized later that I was checking the wrong newspaper source. It would obviously be appropriate to have a United Nations panel or committee to mediate in a serious dialogue between China and Tibet. And no single nation is allowed to interfere. But if it were appropriate, I think I would take a reality tour of Tibet. I'm sure there's still tourism there, but I would be more interested in checking out how people interact with each other, going to various areas to see what's happening.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>David Starr</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2012 11:01:07 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>zippybob says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[To give up ones body in a most painful was illustrates the Buddhist concept of non attachment this is an extreme sacrifice too make a political statement as too how bad life if under the CCP Which = Chinese Mafia Party it makes my cry Someday I hope and pray the Tibetan people will at least have the freedom too practice there faith and not too be forced too speak Chinese and Etc Etc]]></description>
			<dc:creator>zippybob</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 17:33:07 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Rangzen says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[His Holiness the Dalai Lama seems willing to compromise in order to alleviate the suffering of the Tibetan people. If Tibet cannot be free, it could at least be autonomous in running its own affairs and maintaining its own religion, language and culture without brutal intervention. It is not that Tibet "benefits" from allegedly being a part of China (almost every "benefit" goes to the Han population anyway), but that it would cease to suffer so horrically with autonomy over internal affairs. Not all Tibetans agree with this compromise but all, whether through freedom or autonomy, want an end to suffering.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Rangzen</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 15:53:05 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Rangzen says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[As a Tibetan, I can only pray from the bottom of my heart for those who have given their lives in a desparate cry for freedom from the unremitting agony of China's occupation of Tibet. Chinese oppression is intolerable indeed, every day, every moment. The Chinese do not want to leave, ever, because of the vast mineral and other natural resources of Tibet, its position as a strategic plateau and as a place for its own over- populated Han. Pressure of every kind must be exerted on the Chinese government to relent in their treatment of the Tibetan people. Pray too that it may soon be free. Bod Gyalo!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Rangzen</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 15:44:42 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>David Starr says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[There's something I realized recently regarding the China-Tibet conflict. China is basing its case on history, specifically going back to Yuan-China when Tibet was incorporated into it as a province. BUT, this can't be accurate since China is using only a part the history, ignoring the previous history as if it didn't exist. Obviously, the overall relationship has to be taken into account to be accurate. Thus, we can go back further, being aware of the historical knowledge, to when both China and Tibet where separate entities, in fact, it's said they first encountered each other about 640 A.D. This means an obvious original separation. So if this is the criteria China is using to justify its assesertion, then it doesn't hold ground, since only a part of the history is taken to account. I don't see how anyone could rebute this; there's no way to. Tibet has a stronger case based on what came previously, getting to the roots if it. I have to say then that Tibet has the right for some model of self-determinat ion, it being a fair and accurate judgement. Ironically, the Dalai Lama would agree to genuine autonomy rather than independence, seeing that Tibet would benefit from being in China's sphere of influence. (Don't beleive? Look it up.) Meanwhile I would keep my eye on the U.S. A neoconservative think tank called Foreign Policy Initiative sees Tibet as a strategic rather than moral issue. Given the neocons, I wonder what will this will lead into?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>David Starr</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 11:36:33 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>BradFromSalem says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA["More than 30 people have set themselves on fire in China's Tibetan-inhabit ed regions since the start of March 2011 in protest at what they say is religious and cultural repression by the Chinese authorities." When one person sets himself on fire in protest, that person may very well be crazy, and we can ignore him. When two people set themselves on fire in protest, it is possible they are gay, and many will ignore them. When three people set themselves on fire in protest, it is probably just some radicals and we can ignore them. But when 30+ set themselves on fire in slightly more than a year, these people are f-ing serious. I first heard of this type of extreme protests just prior to our involvement in Viet Nam. Could Tibet turn into the Chinese Viet Nam, just as Afghanistan became Russia's? The Chinese oppression must be intolerable, to push people into such unthinkable acts of protests. And the Chinese government must know that sooner or later something will change into something the government won't like.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>BradFromSalem</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 05:11:05 -0800</pubDate>
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			<title>Tango-Tensity says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[This has been going on for so long... i understand that China had to invade tibet to kick the DL off his ass and start spreading Tibetan Buddhism to the rest of the world. But that has happened. The only reason China stays now is Pride. I think if the chinese people truly had a say they would also say "out!" if we can have KONY 2012 we can have FREE TIBET, FREE IRAQ, FREE PALASTINE.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Tango-Tensity</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 23:15:50 -0800</pubDate>
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