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Mon Apr-07-08 07:33 AM
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Let me get this straight.... |
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....the Olympic flame, a symbol of money more than athletics, was briefly extinguished; the French authorities are going to spend untold millions to protect a fucking match; and meanwhile people in Tibet are being slaughtered and their rights are being trammeled.
Do I have that about right?
Is it any wonder that a whole range of people are praying for a rogue asteroid to fucking end the insanity of humanity?
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Mon Apr-07-08 07:36 AM
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Are posters allowed to swear at will? I don't mind it: just asking.
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Mon Apr-07-08 07:37 AM
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...this isn't a virgin, prissy forum like dainty Jim Robinson's FreeRepublic.com.
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Mon Apr-07-08 08:03 AM
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7. Will Pitt? Hell yeah! All the time! |
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Mon Apr-07-08 07:36 AM
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2. That pretty much sums it up. |
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Mon Apr-07-08 07:43 AM
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5. Great line about the asteroid |
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Mon Apr-07-08 07:53 AM
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6. Yes, it is a wonder, just as is also Bush's War. Same assumptions. nt |
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Mon Apr-07-08 08:34 AM
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8. here is some information on how bad the Genocide is in Tibet, >>link>> |
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THIS IS AFTER THE MURDER OF 1.25 BORN TIBETANS the following contains graphic discriptions of Genocide http://www.tibettruth.com/birthcontrol.html Tibetan women struggle against China's male-dominated state, characterise by deeply held racist convictions that operate a system of apartheid, reducing them to second-class citizenship in their own land. A commonly used Chinese term describing occupied people is shung-nu - 'barbarian slave'. It is within China's notorious population programme that women in Tibet face the most widespread human rights violations. Reports of this programme began emerging from Tibet in the early 1960s. It has resulted in unimaginable suffering for women across Tibet and China. Denied freedom of choice or control over their own bodies, women are forced, through a series of financial penalties, intimidation and other oppressive measures, to submit to population control.
One account documented a former health worker from Eastern Tibet. In 1988 she became pregnant for the second time. Resisting initial pressures from family planning officials to have an abortion, she was fined 1500 Yuan (an enormous amount of money for most Tibetans). On hearing of her pregnancy, a Chinese doctor at the hospital in which she worked, pressurised her by saying: "If you insist on having the child, the financial punishment is a small matter compared with the political crime you are committing. From now on, you will only get 30 per cent of your salary. Your salary will never increase. Your child will not have the right to claim his ration card and will not be admitted to school."
Some four months into the pregnancy she collapsed under incessant pressure and submitted to 'menstrual termination of pregnancy (MTP)'. She says about her operation: "The complications and pain I suffered in the course of this operation were so terrible that I can't talk about it. However, it was nothing compared to what women suffer when they are operated on during their sixth and seventh months of pregnancy, which happens quite often at this hospital. In such cases, 0.2 ml of a solution called le xun nur is injected into the foetal bag by using a 12-inch syringe. The foetus loses its blood and stops breathing. About 72 hours later the dead foetus is delivered. I know at least twelve women who underwent such operations."
As she recalled, the operation left serious emotional and physical damage. "My menstrual flow is erratic. I have constant pain in my back and intestines. My health is such that I am ignorant if I shall ever be a mother again."
There are also numerous detailed accounts of physical force being used against women who are dragged from their homes and beaten in preparation for 'birth control operations'. A disturbing account, 'China's wanted children' (Yin, 1991) was compiled by Liu Yin, a Chinese who was allowed to accompany a birth control 'task force'. Liu Yin's report documents a raid on a village in which houses are stormed and women carried out in blankets to be taken for sterilisations and abortions. Liu Yin comments on conditions at the temporary clinic: "I could not believe what I saw. Hundreds of women, some more than six months pregnant, were packed into dark corridors and makeshift tents, waiting to be operated on." She describes toilets filled with blood-soaked toilet paper and waste bins full of aborted babies."
MORE ..the search page.. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=tibetan+brutal+forced+abortions&btnG=Google+Search
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