[Buddha-l] Tibet uprisings: staged violence?

Curt Steinmetz curt at cola.iges.org
Fri Mar 21 13:19:09 MDT 2008


I admit it - I have a weakness of this kind of thing. But it wasn't that 
much work - the "Canadafreepress" website has a sulphurous smell to it, 
bigtime.......
Curt

jkirk wrote:
> Wow--what a pilgrimage of reading in order for me to 'get it"!
>  
> Cautionary tale of how nut-job the web really is.
> Joanna
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>
>
> The original article comes from a right-wing Christian fundamentalist outfit
> based in Canada ( see: 
> http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/categories/C11 ). The article is
> written by a sensationalist hack-writer with connections to the Mossad and
> British intelligence.
>
> The article is also prominently featured at two other other right-wing
> Christian nutjob websites: "freedomthirst.com" (whose motto is "it was for
> freedom that Christ set us free..."), and g2.wnd.com (run by evangelical
> christian Joseph Farah who was part of the Arkansas Project)
> - and has been virtually ignored by the rest of the world.
>
> Gordon Thomas' "article" has the look, feel and smell of deliberate
> dis-information. Probably a slap-dash joint project by very-low-level folks
> at MI6 and Unit 8341 of the PLA.
>
> The point of the dis-information is to try to dampen support for the
> uprising that has been happening in Tibet for going on two-weeks now. 
> Right-wing Christian nutjobs want ALL of China to themselves - they do not
> want any competition from Buddhists. So they want to discredit what is going
> on now.
>
> I can neither confirm nor deny that any of the above reflects my actual
> beliefs or knowledge. This conversation never happened.
>
> Curt
>
> jkirk wrote:
>   
>>  I don't 'get" why this tactic makes any sense. They seem to be 
>> working on claiming that HHDL is the mastermind of protests. Joanna 
>> Propapanda?--hm--a nice way of saying Chinese propaganda?
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>> "The Chinese are masters of propopanda - and they would like nothing 
>> better than to convince Tibetans (and everyone else) that the leaders 
>> of this resurgence are just Chinese agents."
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