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  • At least she cares. Well done bjork. Most artists do not care, she does, i admire her for that. Now let us wake up mankind and free Tibet.

  • @ageofbloom if Björk chanted "Hawaii Hawaii" in New York, no one would care. Honestly. They'd just be mesmerized by her.

  • what I am saying is that Bjork has every right to play this song where she wants and dedicate it to who she wants, fuck the censors, but she needs to consider what she is actually saying when she makes these dedications, and be equal in her denunciation of all colonialism, not just the one that's easiest to criticize because it's so "exotic" and removed from white people and japanese people's colonial guilt.

  • @ageofbloom shhhh!

  • what would you feel if you live in New York and Bjork performs this song and says "Hawaii! Hawaii!" would that make any sense to you? wouldn't you also be angry? but do you know that in fact, a bill in the US congress to protect the rights of indigenous Hawaiians failed last year, they continue to be oppressed, and they are certainly denied their independence. what if Bjork dedicated it to Native Americans in the middle of an independence riot by Natives that had killed many white people?

  • @ ageofbloom

    People in the US have human rights.

    .

    People in Tibet and China do NOT have human rights.

  • the idea that we can "save tibet" (one website is even called savetibet org) is an extension of colonialism. originally colonialism came out of "good intentions"- most europeans genuinely believed (and americans still believe) that christianity would "save" these "savage" peoples from hell. they wanted to "save" them, even though this idealism began a process that tortured, raped and killed them, destroyed their lands, and enslaved them. never trust a westerner who says he will "save" something.

  • @ ageofbloom

    Human rights is NOT colonialism

  • Bjork herself comes from a colonized country, Iceland, a country of white people which never, unlike most of them, went out and brutalized other cultures (although there is evidence that Iceland was inhabited by Inuit peoples before the Norsemen came...). So there is no hypocrisy in Bjork wanting to free Tibet. Most western Europeans and North Americans, though (and Australians) have very bloody hands in Asia and Africa and Latin America. They should focus on these injustices first, then Tibet.

  • when I say "wrong" I really mean it lacks balls. Bjork was kind enough to actually perform in China for her Chinese fans despite her strong beliefs in favor of Tibet independence- that alone shows respect. and obviously she showed some balls by offending the PRC government. but she has no balls if she doesnt do the same thing in every colonial country-and she DOESN'T. in Japan for instance, she dedicated it to Kosovo- not to Chinese or Korean (or Okinawa or Ainu) victims of Japanese colonialism.

  • @ageofbloom

    Bjork doesn't have to take on the whole world by herself.

    .

    Taking on the Regime of the World's most populous country is a impressive

  • @ageofbloom japanese colonialism is no longer a problem...you're welcome!

  • Bjork's song Declare Independence is indeed appropriate (even if not practical) for Tibet. However, it is equally true for people around the world who were oppressed by Japan and the UK and are still being oppressed by the US power that destroys their culture and colonizes their economy. Bjork would agree with that. She is a leftist. However, it's wrong she dedicated the song to Tibetans playing for a Chinese audience, but not say dedicating it to Palestinian freedom, in a white audience in NYC.

  • While I do sympathize with foreigners who have a great respect for Tibet, especially if they are Buddhist themselves, I think it shows what the most powerful people involved with the Free Tibet movement's goals are, that the main countries where the movement is based, are Japan, the UK and the US. The first two countries colonized China in the past, the second is the main economic competitor of China today, and all these countries' governments repressed many popular democracies around the world.

  • @ ageofbloom

    Tibet supporters come from around the World. And there are Tibet groups around the World. I've seen videos uploaded by a group in Portugal.

    .

    Many Tibetans live in India and Switzerland.

  • the reason the west was so upset about Tibet being taken by China was not any kind of feeling for the Tibetans, but the feeling that the west owned Tibet, the UK wanted to control it as a colony and buffer state near "their" India and Afghanistan. Today the same is true of the USA. if Tibet did become independent of China (which the Dalai Lama has publicly condemned- if he doesnt want it, how do westerners get off asking for it??) it would become a US puppet, not truly an independent country.

  • @ ageofbloom

    Tibet was an independent country in 1948.

    .

    HHDL is asking for Meaningful Autonomy

  • @ ageofbloom

    Tibet has never been threatened by the US.

    .

    Free Tibet and China from all sorts of human rights abuses

  • today of course communism is dead- all that's left is Chinese colonization, using the excuse of communism. kind of like all that's left in Middle East wars is American colonization, using the excuse of human rights. China and USA are both colonial powers- America is much worse, because it has more power, but when China becomes a true superpower, many people will regret it too, like they do with America (and did with Japan and Germany and especially UK, the model copied by all brutal colonizers).

  • Come to United State and sing indepenance for the America Indains. There would be a riot and she would ge beat up. Lucky chinese are easy going and just tell Bjork to F Off

  • Yeah guys, independence for Tibet, which had a regime more brutal than the Chinese.

  • @biocuts you need to back that up with something mate..................

  • @glovemonkey Tibetans did not want Chinese colonizing, but PLA troops did destroy a repressive traditional government in Tibet- like US getting rid of the Taliban. Dalai Lama was too young at that time to rule directly, but he is wiser than past Tibetan rulers. he has admitted that in the past Tibet was ruled badly. Tibetans in exile have been forced to become more democratic than their oppressors (PRC) but they werent always. Communism freed Tibet from slavery, even as it crushed their culture.

  • @ ageofbloom

    There were NO slaves or serfs in Tibet in 1948.

    .

    There are Slaves in Tibet in 2011

  • @biocuts yeah cos that dalai lama"s a real evil b"stard U KNOB

  • @biocuts yeah cos that dalai lama"s a real evil b"stard U KNOB

  • FREE TIBET , BOYCOTT CHINA ....from free Indipendent KOSOVO

  • FREE TIBET, BOYCOTT CHINA !

  • FREE TIBET GREEDY CHINA

  • @406356690 FREE TIBET GREEDY FUCKERS

  • @406356690 ...because? you don't like justice? you hate freedom of speech? maybe you are so twisted that you hate your mom and she hates you back and as a sign of family hatred you slap each other while hate-hugging? my point is you're all about hate. i hate that, of course.

  • WE Declared Independence!

    Republic of Kosova!

  • Raise Your Flag.............

  • free tibet !

  • @verbod shut the the fuck up. dare to say this in china?

  • @406356690

    anytime, stupid chinese. BOYCOTT CHINA, FREE TIBET !

  • FREE TIBET !!!!!

    BOYCOTT CHINA !!!!!!

  • @verbod free your ASS

  • @406356690 FREE TIBET GREEDY FUCKERS.

  • WTF Bjork and fuck you china, we will stop taxing all your shit soon and you will collapse assholes !

  • @verbod

    WTG Bjork !

  • you know what's funny, without any sort of cognitive argument the Chinese people who commented on her only managed to say "fuck you".

  • 306 people are chinese

    Bjork is so awesome.

  • damn, she has balls.

    and this song is scary. I remember not liking it the first time I heard it, but I really like it now. this is the kind of song you play for a rebellion.

  • Big fucking balls, bravo !!

  • Raise your flag!!!!

  • @haolesbrothers take a hike

  • I'm sure this has been pointed out before, but at about 0:28 someone in the audience yelled "I love you!".

  • よく言ってくれた! ありがとう!

  • Well done Bjork, show no fear.

  • i love bjork shes incredibly talented and smart too :D

  • @oasisbility That's not very nice.

  • you cant make an omlette without breaking eggs

  • A billion Chinese people will tell you that Tibet is and always has been a part of China. Singing "Tibet Tibet" at the end of this song would have made about as much sense to her Chinese audience as singing "California California" would if she had performed it in the US.

  • @duprie37

    yeah right, "always has been" yeaaaah right. DAMN COLONISTS, DAMN COMUNISTS

  • Somewhere in India, the Dalai Llama, Tenzin Gyatsu has the biggest grin on his right now!...

  • @haolesbrothers fuck you, imagine Bjork with balls is nasty as your shit!

  • @PiotrFerdinand haha, easy tiger, it's just an expression americans use, since we're ridiculously vulgar, to say somebody's brave. try not to actually vizualize bjork with testicles.

  • @raquelbeau hahahah, i'm gonna learn from what just happened with PiortFerdinand and never use that phrase while describing a female again

  • @totororororo ching chang king kong wa?

  • Nothing but outrageous provocation against her Chinese guests. Last time I seen this knucklehead banshee she was beating 57 varieties out of some Asian reporter in some airport. What a hypocrite. ...no wonder Iceland is down and out

  • @ Globalvisual

    All of those things are coming to China and Tibet when the evil communist party is gone

  • free my penis

  • Tibet indépendant > applaudissement du public dans la salle de Shangaï.

  • ricgore ,

    The Westerners have no spiritual grounding, they are mercenaries & will subscribe to any & every pseudo-religious cult! And, of course, they are led astray in 9 out of 10 cases.

  • Its the US where things are out of whack. There are supposed to be many Christians in the US but how many states have abolished the DEATH Penalty ???

  • You mean like China?

  • The death penalty still exists in many states in the US. The interesting thing is that Tibet abolished the death penalty in 1913 and showed Tibetans were quite advanced in their thinking 96 years ago.

    The number of executions per year in China is greater than than all other countries combined. One reason for that is that heaps of money can be made from selling prisoners organs in China.

    But sadly health Falun Gong practitioners who have committed no crime have their organ harvested as well.

  • yeah free Tibet right fucking now!

  • You're right, but not only tibet. Free all human beings right now. Make your ouw flag, not a country flag but an individual flag. Each one of us is born free from any and all goberment.

    This is my anarquist hymn from now on!!

  • Many people are free. But in Africa many people Starve to Death through no fault of theirs.

    STARVATION seems to be caused by 2 things.

    1. Rich countries who subsidise their farmers.

    2. Poor countries competing against each other to produce the lowest cost goods

    Free Africa from STARVATION

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  • @ MissInfidelle

    I sadly I'm not normally into movies. Documentaries are my thing

  • @ChinaKillsTibetans

    this has nothing to do with this clip. FREE TIBET, BOYCOTT CHINA !

  • @ verbod

    Talking about Tibet all the time gets boring and some brainwashed people think you are anti china. Sadly ChinaKillsTibetans had to be deleted because there wasn't enough compassion in that name.

  • what are you talking about? are you mad? We're talking about the freedom of a nation.

  • Was it the Apache Nation? Or the Sioux Nation? Or Nunavut? Or the Aztecs? Help me figure out how many native peoples have been suppressed by you 'libertines', ok?

    I'm fed up with the whole Western infatuation with Indian gurus. Hare Krishna, Deepak Chopra, Moonies, Sai Baba and now Dalai Lama. When will Westerners learn?

  • Hi Ricgore - deepak chopra is american, dalai lama is tibetan, moonies are essentially korean but mostly american, Hare Krishna is not a guru its a salutation - like saying 'Holy on High'. However there is a lot of infatuation with eastern gurus however the majority of westerners are infatuated with a middle eastern guru called Jesus!

  • Wow, lots of big words here, holy,blessed,justice,truth...I­t seems like someone needs sth imaginary waiting and wanting to be saved by that someone so that someone could feel better about themselves. Just guess. oh by the way la réligion est trop stupide.

  • This was brave.

  • Tibet is a Holy and blessend Land and it belongs to the Tibetan Buddhists.

    The Tibetans have so much support in the world because the Tibetan Cause is based on Truth and Justice.

    End the suffering of the Tibetan people by returning the right of self-determination to the Tibetans.

    The Tibetans will get Tibet back.

  • so u rather tibet go beck to live as serfs under dalai liar?

  • There were NO serfs, indentured farmers or slaves in Tibet in 1948.

    There were serfs in Tibet AFTER the communist invasion of the independent COUNTRY of Tibet in 1949.

    Friedrich Hayek and Mikhael Gorbachev argue that the PRC's experimentation with collective farming and People's communes in the 1950s and 60s amounted to a return to government-owned serfdom.

    There are SLAVES in Chinese Slavery Prisons in 2009 working 16 hours a day 7 days a week.

    FREE youtube from LIES

    FREE Tibet and China

  • LOOOL! yep there were serfs before and after 1949. when the 17 point agreement was signed between beijing and dalai lama, one of the agreement was that the system in tibet wont be interferred with. therefore, serfs still existed under dalai lama until 1959 when he staged that epic fail uprising and fled like a coward to india. it was then that serfs was finally abolished

    LEARN ABOUT TIBET

    LEARN ABOUT CHINA

    FREE UR MIND FROM WESTERN PROPAGANDA

    OWNED!

  • HHDL didn't sign the 17 point agreement.

    Learn some chinese history.

  • so dalai lama sent delegates that didnt represent him? interesting....

    a white boy like u who doesnt know shit about china is telling me to learn about my own countrys history is pretty damn fuckin funny

  • HHDL wasn't there so how could he sign it ????

    Free you mind and China

  • so dalai lama sent delegates that didnt represent him? what a dumbass i knew it

    LEARN ABOUT CHINA

    FREE UR MIND FROM WESTERN PROPAGANDA

  • HHDL sent delegates but he never gave them approval to sign anything.

    Learn about Chinese history.

  • oh really? then i wonder why dalai lama sent a telegram to mao in 1951 to express his support? i wonder why dalai lama went to visit beijing in 1954 and accepted to become vice chairman of the national peoples congress?

    LEARN ABOUT TIBET HISTORY

  • Shortly after the invasion Tibetans did fully understand the communist party. When their monasteries where being BOMBED they did.

    Learn about the EVIL communist party.

    FREE the countries of Tibet and China and East Turkestan from Cultural GENOCIDE

  • correction

    Tibetans did NOT fully understand the EVIL communist party.

  • I'd like to learn about China - however my security settings won't let me access the two largest national chinese websites run by the government because the sites try to plant spyware. Don't have that problem accessing Tibetan sites. Also, Tibetan authorities did not ask google to turn over information on its citizewns online activity like the Chinese - Your shout

  • "We will dismember India." ~ Jaish-e-Mohammad, Pakistani terrorist, 2005

    "China can Dismember the so-called Indian Union with One Little Move ~ Zhan Lue, China International Strategy Net, 2009

  • Tibet should be free.

    There is no reason why they should be under a Chinese dictatoship of supression and failed communism. What makes me laugh is the fact that the Chinese defense is "It was worse before it was ruled by us!" Totaly missing the point that there is no REASON why they are STILL in the 21st century under Chinese supression. It is immoral and cruel to deny a race of people the freedoms all humans are allowed.

  • well done bjork, thank you very much for that, we need more people and artists like you, who are interested about the world and injustice

  • BurnED DOWN THE China town to free Chineses & Tibetan from the RED COMMUNIST OF CHINA . YES YOU CAN FREE NOW OR NEVER .

  • One thing here why are the Chinese audiance applauding at the end of the song? Oh well there is a big reason for that, they want their independance too...

  • Mao said 'a lie told a hundred times becomes the truth' and he learned that from the Russians and what happened to CCCP and communist Russia since?

  • western people hear lies about China since they were children. I am not surprise western people like a slave owner as dalie lama.

    by the way, your bbc in china, that ass hole young reporter is making a lot of lies about us. you may really enjoy in those lies.

  • Declare independence Tibet, The Independent Chinese and all countries under dictatorship. Declare your independence!!!! FREE TIBET - FREE CHINA - FREE TAIWAN don't be brainwashed like most communist people in China are!!

  • Western people well the real truth is that 195 independent countries in the world today know exactly what is going on in China, Tibet and Taiwan for years I am sure next thing you are going to try to convince us is that The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen Square massacre never existed...

  • Prominent Chinese lawyers and legal scholars who have "released a research report arguing that the Tibetan riots and protests of March 2008 were rooted in legitimate grievances brought about by failed government policies — and not through a plot of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader."

  • I can't understand why some Chinese feel so "offended" by someone expressing that Tibet should be culturally free.

    It's a fact that the culture of the people of Tibet is very different from the Han culture.

    Instead of crashing and destroying Tibetan culture the Chinese government should embrace the cultural diversity of the country and let keep their culture. It would still being part of China geographically but it would add an extra charm to the country.

  • Same here. Here are the only few things I can say. Those within the Chinese government who've condemned Tibet are just stupid and worst. They to me act like a bunch of fucking fascists just because someone in China says Tibet. I like Bjork and always will. I agreed with her for calling out. "Tibet! Tibet! Raise your flag!"

  • u are an american. when are u going to give the land back to the natives?

  • Stupid. Taiwanese people are of han descent. Chinese people are of han descent. There is a difference in cultures, but that's it. Anything the "Chinese" did to the "Taiwanese" they pretty much did to themselves. There's no hate one, like the other.

  • AMERICAN CENSORSHIP

    ON YOUTUBE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    The Video "Tibet WAS,IS,and ALWAYS WILL BE a part of China"

    with 3.500.000 views,

    was removed by for copyright (political) reasons.

    Stop the U.S. Guantanamo for different opinions!

    COPY AND PASTE!!!

    SPREAD THE TRUTH ON YOUTUBE!

  • Yeah - I love American censorship! America can't censor YouTube dweebie! It is not controlled by the government - unlike ALL of Chinese media. By the way - the audience Bjork was singing to was joyfully happy at her statement. I was there. She offended no one except a very small affluent minority, and party bigwigs to whom the rape of Tibet is very profitable.

  • why is it that i've read she "shouted" it at the concert? i don't know much on the subject of Tibet being owned by China, but i think everyone's entitled to their opinion on a subject, and this is her opinion. she just expressed it in a different way. not everyone seemed offended, either. there were people cheering, after all.

  • Everyone was cheering. I was there. Most Chinese secretly HATE their government. Only the affluent minority (including those living in the US, Canada, and other countries) tend to praise the government, as it has given them the wealth and opportunity to live ELSEWHERE! You will not see ONE comment here from a Chinese citizen living in China.

  • Why i'm here?

  • You are not in China.

  • I'm in China right now.

  • Of course you are (stifles giggle). Mate - the ONLY way you could possibly access this video is A) you're in another country or B) You're working for China's Firewall and have access to security codes. I think A is more probable.

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  • I kown it's hard to visit this website in China , but not impossible. There're many solutions in Google or Baidu(China's search engine).

  • FREE TIBET! Free China from the CP and their mindless drones.

  • But the fact is Tibet belongs to China RIGHT NOW. And if you think YOUR opinion and belief are so meaningful and correct that they will someday effect a change you deem appropriate....again, good for you.

    Time will tell.

  • No point argue over personal triviality.

    No matter where you come from (US, UK or NZ), if you truely think your information source is unbiased, good for you. If you sincerely feel obligated to engage the human right "issues" of a neverland, good for you.

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  • Tu jih cheh ?

    What is that? A Chinese trying hard to sound like Tibetan?

  • The thing is its a war on youtube. Even CCP will say "Free Tibet" three times in a row to bury good comments now. That fools many people but not me.

  • I have no problem with you. But there are people who pretend to support Tibet and they probably don't. So if you put what you believe in on your channel, people know. There are issues with other people right now.

  • why do you support something that is so anti chinese?

  • I am only here because I saw communists lying on Nangpa La videos. I can remember the persons account. In effect I was recruited by communist lies. If you shoot someone then lie about it afterwards you are a criminal.

    But if you look at my playlists you can see i have a few Congo and a Zimbabwe video and even the communists wonder why i have congo. But I have congo because I am interested in many countries with human rights issues.

  • I am only here because I saw communists lying on Nangpa La videos. I can remember the persons account. In effect I was recruited by communist lies. If you shoot someone then lie about it afterwards you are a criminal.

    Dont ask me why I am here. Ask the communists why they lie !!!

    If you look at my playlists you can see i have a few Congo and a Zimbabwe video and even the communists wonder why i have congo. But I have congo because I am interested in many countries with human rights issues.

  • why not put who you support on your channel ????

  • why does it matter where I am from ???

  • who do you support ?

  • Do you think Tibet is a country ?????

  • chinesheart

    who do you support ????

  • The communists have been LOOTING Tibet for 60 years.

  • you have been looting videos with ur bias

  • Do you spend all day watching BS on the BBC and LIES on CCTV ?????

  • no

    but you have no life beside bullshitting china

  • DALAI LAMA GOT MONEY FROM C.I.A. (NEW YORK TIMES)

    World News Briefs; Dalai Lama Group Says It Got Money From C.I.A.

    Dalai Lama's administration acknowledged today that it received $1.7 million a year in the 1960's from the Central Intelligence Agency, but denied reports that the Tibetan leader benefited personally from an annual subsidy of $180,000.

  • FYI

    The US supports Tibet.

  • who pays to watch this crazy woman shout?

  • The audience paid.

    The communist rule in Tibet is crazy and brutal.

  • not as bad as your proproganda

  • CRIMES OF THE DALAI LAMA'S THEOCRACY

    Heinrich Harrier in his Seven years in Tibet described all the Tibetan medieval slavery sistem

  • There was NO slavery in Tibet before the brutal communists INVADED Tibet in 1949.

  • YOU ARE SO FULL OF YOURSELF

    IT IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO HAVE NO SLAVERY IN A COUNTRY AT ALL

    brutal

    brutal to idiotic people like you

    again you are dumb enough to believe western media

  • downrightignorant

    you must have been brainwashed by communist lies

    I don't believe the BBC aka BSBC

  • downrightignorant

    Learn about the West. Many countries in the West have no slavery.

  • PSHHHHHHHHHH SURE

    (sarcasm)

    with all the illegal immigrant brought over as prostitute secretly

    i freaking live in the west LMAOS

    something called usa

  • US is the wild west.

    But in the West the law will stop legal things happening if you tell them about it.

  • that is a mere fantasy

    its like asians admiring korean popstars

    most of the things aren't reported

    and the law don't even stop you

    it all depend on lawyers and money and power

    like oj simpson

    and that korean immigrant laundry in which got sued by a judge for so much money like 54 million dollars over pants

  • Many many strange things happen in the US. I am not even sure it is a real or proper democracy. Many things that happen in the US are

    CRAZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZY to say the least.

    You need to go to other countries to see how democracy works much better.

    Have you heard of NZ ???

  • of course

    my best subject are history and geography

    NZ = new zealand

    south of australia

    there democracy is better becuz they are not rlly western and do not get involve in worldly affairs

    OMG DID YOU SEE A VIDEO OF AMERICAN PEOPLE POINTING TO AUSTRALIA THINING IT IS IRAQ AND SAY BOMB IT FROM THE EAST?

  • FYI

    NZ had the highest per capita body count of the allies or whatever in WW1. We had troops in Vietnam, Korea, East Timor.

    Special forces in Afghanistan. Peacekeepers all over the place. Even some guys getting rid of cluster bombs dropped by Israel in Lebanon.

    People tell me that the US and Canada have little International news in their newspapers, compared with NZ, so maybe they are not interested in world events.

    If Israel never apologised for dropping cluster bombs they are a JOKE.

  • thats why people today in the west are so ignorant about the world

    they go to support something they dont know like free tibet when they dont even know where it is

  • Many people in NZ know that Tibet is occupied and many will know where it is but that is all that most know.

    Coverage of Tibet in NZ is limited to say the least and the most knowledgable person i know who knows heaps had not heard of East Turkestan and knew little about Tibet !!

    We hear about Pakistan, the Taliban and Afganistan, but not Tibet, ET, Inner Mongolia.

    So things must be different in the US. The US was scared or paranoid of communism, but the US does not represent the world view.

  • correction

    But in the West the law will stop ILLEGAL things happening...

  • LMAOS yeah

    i sort of realize that but i didnot put it because of the limit on the 500 words thing

    did you know the leader of zimbabwe bought a huge cake for this birthday and yet the people are starving?

    the inflation rate in zimbabwe is like 1000000000000

    like they print money in the millions<