THE DALI LAMA, BARBIE and COMMODITY FETISHISM

[alantjost]

The Dalai Lama is no more "holy" than I am. Tibet was a repressive feudal dictatorship. Quit making it look as if under these Lamas it was a little paradise on earth!

[EzraTerminal]

It is amazing how some idolize a former dictator like the Dalai Lama.

[TheRealChina]

That is lie.

Do your research, by that i mean go and travel see from you own eyes.

[uffx3]

David, at like 1:15 i was starting to REALLY worry about you having lost your mind, then I was reassured. Very good point, and whoa at USA talking about human rights to anyone, even the Chinese...THAT'S FUNNY indeed! And, Mr Fletwood: you don't need this Sardinian lady to tell you...but you are getting more and more on focus and neat.

[mopsius]

The elite is trying to buy their way out of this disaster--of their own making--by selling trinkets to the Injuns on Manhattan.

Except the Chinese have almost two trillion in USD reserves--that's a lot of "Barbies, hehe.

Besides Barbies are probably made in China, HAAHA.

[uffx3]

usd? u mean ameros

[mopsius]

At this point, neither the Mexicans nor the Canadians are about to fall for that.

By the way, there is a move afoot in the US military, engendered by Neo-Cons,

to intervene with military force in Mexico.

"Drugs" will be the excuse.

Won't work.

[uffx3]

ever since watergate and long before that of course mexico has always been the weaker country, making easy their tricks - still if it won't work, people will be hurt. Which is not like nothing.

And yes, drug, what an incredible thing it is the country which is the highst drug consumer and exporter can even utter a word on drugs, not to mention everything else. Have u heard Obama making his poor attempt again with terrorism and 'al qaeda' ?? Darn, and americans will buy it once more!!

[mopsius]

Yep.

On verra.

[uffx3]

and yeah maybe they won't fall ...but the treaty has been signed by the governments dude, what about that? and the transamerican highway is still there, rmaking it geographically easier...I dunno whether texas won with its resistence against it??

[mopsius]

Nothing short of a revolutionary restructuring of American political, financial, and monetary institutions will avert disaster or accomplish a goddamned thing.

Get that straight.

There is no "reform" of a system that is rotten to the core.

You fuckers want to scream about Socialists and Communists and Anarchists and the rest, and go along with what the predatory incompetent elite has in store for you and your children and your grandchildren--hey, be my fucking guests, dumbasses.

[mopsius]

Let's be clear at what the system is.

The Federal government is borrowing money at interest from private banks (Federal Reserve) against the collateral of Federal taxes to give it to private banks to lend it to you as debt and credit, at interest, to private banks.

So you dumbasses are paying twice at high interest--in taxes and in the "credit" the banks are giving you from your tax money.

Get this clear, folks. That is the system.

[mopsius]

"To encourage banks to lend again, the government will also pump $1 trillion into the financial system by buying up treasury bonds and mortgage securities in an effort to clear some of the "toxic assets" — devalued and untradeable assets — from banks' balance sheets...."

Gee, how nice of the US government to help the banks with their bad paper.

[AP today]

[mopsius]

Hey, Fleetwood, check out this dead giveaway, from the AP:

"OBAMA CONFIDENT LATEST BANK RESCUE PLAN WILL WORK....to ease credit for consumers and businesses and get the economy moving again..."

HAHAHAHA.

Go long on Barbie, go long on Barbie!

The hole is so deep now they are clutching at chopsticks, HAHAHAHAHAHA.

[buff114]

He looks better with his head buzzed and facial hair.

Also, love you Dalai Lama!

[mopsius]

Yes, but "Dali Llama" is the more surreal, don't you think?

Am untrammeled Das Es, so to speak.

[Gilliatt83]

davis this is one of ur best vlogs...

[mopsius]

Vidal has a passage about Burr that sound like your dart story, hehe.

[SailorWuvsPeanut]

" In one of history's more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to reincarnate, is "an important move to institutionalize management of reincarnation."

[msnbc]

hahaha

[SailorWuvsPeanut]

That was back in 2007, the "reincarnation law."

[mopsius]

About twenty earlier the mainlanders made "freedom of thought" legal.

Not freedom speech--freedom of thought, hehe.

[SailorWuvsPeanut]

"Israelis have no moral right to fight the Chinese occupation of Tibet. The president of the Israeli Friends of the Tibetan People, the psychologist Nahi Alon, who was involved in the murder of two Palestinians in Gaza in 1967 - as was revealed in Haaretz Magazine last weekend - chose to make his private "atonement" by fighting to free Tibet, of all places. He is not alone among Israelis calling to stop the occupation - but not ours."

[SailorWuvsPeanut]

"In a more just world, no occupation would exist - neither the Chinese nor the Israeli. But until that time, the Israelis have to look inward at their own home and protest what is being done there in front of the Israeli Defense Ministry, before they present themselves with colorful signs outside the Chinese Embassy." - Gideon Levy

[mopsius]

Automobiles and television, HAHAHAHAHA.

Morons.

[mopsius]

Hockey goalies too. Even more accomplished senses and reflexes.

[mopsius]

I guess his masters must have given him the rule--make sure you know whom you are killing when you make the kill move.

There was so much going on in that tenth of a second I could write a short story about it--for people who know slowed down time only.

No one else would believe it.

His masters probably said "who" instead of "whom" or maybe shui, hehe.

[mopsius]

Twain met Churchill in NY.

[mopsius]

Saw right through him.

That was when the US has some intellects.

[mopsius]

You never knew Hitler as a student of the British.

Concentration camps, genocide--the whole schtick.

And Winston Churchill was in the middle of it.

Mark Twain took one look at young Churchill and said--living, talking sleaze.

[SailorWuvsPeanut]

I can't stand that over-used Churchill quote that people parrot incessantly:

"If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain."

Is that along the lines of doublebind phraseology that you are often pointing out, mopsius?

As if its not possible to have a heart AND a brain.

Of course, like that Stalin quote, there is no actual record of Churchill saying it, which is odd. But that's besides the larger point.

[mopsius]

Churchill was a murdering genocidal lunatic when he was young--Boers, Iraqis, the whole schtick.

Heart? What heart did he have.

He sold out the Australian and British soldiers in Singapore too.

Read an unbiased history some time.

[mopsius]

Empire, the Master Race--tht was Churchill.

The irony is it was exactly Churchill who destroyed the British Empire, hehe.

[SailorWuvsPeanut]

Really, what the Dali Lama seems to be after doesn't seem that unreasonable, he isn't even after full independence, he is agitating for autonomy. Probably he realizes good relations with China are in Tibet's best interest, for reasons you've touched on (such as repelling invaders as one example, perhaps economical reasons as well).

[mopsius]

"I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence."

Vladimir Putin

[mopsius]

Oh, you folks thought that Winston Churchill was somehow morally superior to Adolf Hitler.

Poor babies.

HAHAHAHA.

[mopsius]

As I said, the Russians are laughing their asses off.

[SailorWuvsPeanut]

"A part of China's land since Yuan Dynasty, its proven in history books and even by National Geographics in 1936. The Tibet before China was one of the world's most poorest nations. 90% were slaves who worked till they dropped day by day for their masters who is consisted of 10% of the population. The Lama controlled everything imposed heavy taxes, cut off people's limbs, gauged eye balls, and took off baby's skins for artifacts. "

[SailorWuvsPeanut]

"There are full evidence of the Lama's heinous crimes , but many people are either too lazy or refuse to do research. Fifty years after China liberated Tibet, Tibetans became more civilized and recieves better rights than an average Chinese, but those exiled Lamas are jealous the fact that Tibet is 1 million times better than 50 years ago when they are in power."

[mopsius]

And Marinaro, who do you suppose was supporting the Chechens, even when they were blowing up schools?

In Britain they were "freedom fighjters", HAHAHA.

But in Osetia--well, that's a rebellion, hahaha.

[SailorWuvsPeanut]

Dumbya supported Chechen Independence while campaigning in 2000, then changed his tune after he gazed into Pooty-poots eyes during get together at the ranch in Crawford.

[mopsius]

Hehe, had second thoughts looking in those eyes, eh,

Putin presented a real problem to every presidential security service in the world.

Even his looks can kill, not to speak of his hands and feet, hahaha.

I wanted him to come to the US, get citizenship, and run for president instead of Clintona nd Bush, haha.

He might have saved the country.

Too late now..

[mopsius]

Well, when the Brits were there they had no problem with skinning children, eh?

Now let's all go watch LOWELL THOMAS,haha.

[mopsius]

Marinaro, in the US one percent of the population owns ninety-nine percent of the assets, capital, and real property.

Any idea who they are?

[SailorWuvsPeanut]

"Originally belonged to China for over 5000 years. Then the land of the Dalai Lama, raped and killed 1.2 million innocent Chinese people. Tibetans came from northeastern India. In the 50s, China retook its precious land from the evil Tibetan terrorists."

[mopsius]

Gee, where is Nepal?

Oh, right next door, oh.

Is that where the Gurkhas are from?

Really. Oh.

Like the ones that are hired by the British Army?

Gee, are you are kidding.

Is that the same British who ruled from the top China and then later kept Hong Kong?

No, oh no, really.

[mopsius]

In 1950 the Chinese moved into Tibet mainly to prevent the British in India from taking it, which naturally they would have done.

Look at a goddamned map, folks. And check your fucking dates.

With the US and NATO in Afghanistan China is supposed to withdraw from Tibet?

You fuckers are hilarious.

That does not mean the mainland Chinese arre treating Tibetans right.

But fucking Americans have no right to speak until they deal with their own fucking ass Fascists.

[SailorWuvsPeanut]

"But fucking Americans have no right to speak until they deal with their own fucking ass Fascists."

Fuck that, I have every right to have an opinion and speak my mind. I am capable of simultaneously criticizing the government where I live, and governments elsewhere.

[mopsius]

But, Marinaro, you are not American, you are a traitor.

Of course you have the right to speak.

That is not my point.

[SailorWuvsPeanut]

There is always "friend of my friend is my enemy" crap going on. IIRC, the Dali Lama wasn't critical of the Iraq invasion.

I think Gandhi once said something to the effect of (paraphrasing) "Hitler isn't such a bad guy", but that was probably largely due also, to his antipathy toward the British.

[SailorWuvsPeanut]

Haha, I meant, "enemy of my enemy is my friend"

and up is not down, unless the acid is really good.

[mopsius]

Irish too.

Germany never deliberately starved millions of Irish to death.

Boers--that's where the Brits originated concetration camps and genocide.

Hitler was their student.

[mopsius]

Gues who ws the first to gas the Kurds?

Brits in the in late '20's.

Some survivors where still alive a few years ago.

There is a letter from Churchill saying it was just apeachy keen idea.

Civilians--deliberately gassing civilians, hahaha.

HAHAHAHA.

[SailorWuvsPeanut]

"Gues who ws the first to gas the Kurds?

Brits in the in late '20's."

tinyurl(dot)com/c9vqk8

[mopsius]

You have to give Twain credit--as an old man he saw right through young Churchill.

No one else did.

[mopsius]

Hasta, Marinaro, a bientot. AS far as I know I am not blocking your mails.

But you seem not to be getting mine either?

I'll check again later.

[mopsius]

The US has just killed directly or indirectly a million Iraqis.

Sure, the mainland Chiense will list to US moral suasion HAHAHAHAHA.

The US and Israel just sponsored a sneak attack on Osetia and Russian peacekeepers.

Sure the Russians are listening to US moral suasion.....HAHAHAHAHAHA.

[SailorWuvsPeanut]

"What is going on here with all this Sinophobia? Disgusting"

/end sarcasm

It is too simplistic to state that Tibetan autonomy should be opposed, because Neocons, Zionists, etc, often seem supportive of the Tibetan autonomy movement. Sure, some people love it when another conflict distracts from what is going on in Palestine. And of course, there are always the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" sorts of shifting alliances.

[mopsius]

In 1904, a British expedition to Tibet under the command of Colonel Francis Younghusband, accompanied by a large military escort, invaded Tibet and reached Lhasa. The British were spurred in part by a fear that Russia was extending its power into Tibet, and partly by hope that negotiations with the Dalai Lama would be more effective than with Chinese representatives....

[mopsius]

... But on his way to Lhasa, Younghusband slaughtered many Tibetan troops in Gyangzê who tried to stop the British advance...

When the mission reached Lhasa, the Dalai Lama had already fled to Urga in Mongolia, but Younghusband found the option of returning to India empty-handed untenable. He proceeded to draft a treaty unilaterally, and have it signed in the Potala by the regent, Ganden Tri Rinpoche, and any other local officials he could gather together as an ad hoc government....

[mopsius]

The treaty made provisions for the frontier between Sikkim and Tibet to be respected, for free trade between British and Tibetan subjects, and for an indemnity to be paid from the Qing court to the British Government for its expenses in dispatching armed troops to Lhasa...

[mopsius]

The provisions of this 1904 treaty were confirmed in a 1906 treaty Anglo-Chinese Convention signed between Britain and China. The British, for a fee from the Qing court, also agreed "not to annex Tibetan territory or to interfere in the administration of Tibet", while China engaged "not to permit any other foreign state to interfere with the territory or internal administration of Tibet"....

[mopsius]

The position of British Trade Agent at Gyangzê was occupied from 1904 until 1944. It was not until 1937, with the creation of the position of "Head of British Mission Lhasa", that a British officer had a permanent posting in Lhasa itself....

[mopsius]

André Migot, a French doctor...described the complex border arrangements... "In order to offset the damage done to their interests by the [1906] treaty between England and Tibet, the Chinese set about extending westwards the sphere of their direct control and began to colonize the country round Batang. The Tibetans reacted vigorously. The Chinese governor was killed on his way to Chamdo and his army put to flight after an action near Batang; several missionaries were also murdered...

[SailorWuvsPeanut]

Gandhi was a religious fascist. Most of the Indian people were very happy that the British Imperialists were there, providing them with a western way of life. How else would they obtain a modern infrastructure that would enable them to host industrial, job-providing benefactors such as Union Carbide?

[removed previous comment to fix a major typo]

[mopsius]

Gee, has Tibet now become Chechnya?

Haha--I mean the fucking Chinese Communists have been in Tibet since the 1950's.

Why is it an issue now, hahahaha.

[mopsius]

The old KGB were master prosopographers.

Much better than the Mormons.

[mopsius]

The Russians are not the greatest chess players in the world for no reason, haha.

The "bombers" in themselves mean little.

You don' think they know that, hahahahahaha.

[mopsius]

MOSCOW A Russian Air Force chief said Saturday that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has offered an island as a temporary base for strategic Russian bombers, the Interfax news agency reported.

The chief of staff of Russia's long range aviation, Maj. Gen. Anatoly Zhikharev, also said Cuba could be used to base the aircraft, Interfax reported.

HAHAHAHAHA.

[mopsius]

Mainland China had almost $2 trillion on foreign reserves last summer, about two-thirds of it in USD.

Mainland China just regularized territorial relations with Vietnam.

Meanwhile the US Fascists are provoking the Chinese around Hainan.

See a pattern here?

No wonder one poster accused Fleetwood of being a Neo-Con.

Meanwhile, the Russians are laughing their asses off.

[DKfansown]

what the hell is wrong with us people?

[mopsius]

It is now being officially estimated that Madoff copped--are you ready--$65 billion, HAHAHA.

Mainly because Bush's SEC and others were turning a blind eye.

In fact a private citizen, a Greek from Mass., exposed him but feared for his life.

Meanwhile no unemployment for Texans, hahahaha.

[mopsius]

If you want the real poop, Madoff is the tip of the ice berg.

The bigger thief is Paulson, hahahaa.

[mopsius]

What's wrong? Almost everything. But one can narrow it down to some big things.

A Chinese microeconomist who somehow ran across the old hula hoop craze once said to me--"All the really irrational things people do are for money."

Maybe not true, but interesting.

He was talking about the people who made and marketed the hula hoops, haha

Well, the Chinese mainlanders certainly figured out the American penchant for endless amounts of junk, haha..

[SailorWuvsPeanut]

Was the microeconomist a fan of early Alice Cooper, too?

------

Roll out! Roll out with your American dream and its recruits, I've been ready.

Roll out! Roll out with your circus freaks and hula hoops, I've been ready.

-----

preview(dot)tinyurl(dot)com/6o­eqn5

[mopsius]

Jeje.

No, but I knew a martial arts nut who gave parites for Kiss, hehe.

One of the most intelligent students I ever had (long ago when I was teaching).

I actually got him to read a few books, jeje.

[mopsius]

"parties".

Geez, I even have the light on too.

[mopsius]

He was too young for the '60's.

But he surely would have fit in.

Quickest guy I ever saw (long story--I'll tell you sometime. I used to box).

[mopsius]

It was astounding the moves this guy could make, and still be controlled and able to stop, in a tenth of a second.

And that from an old linebacker.

[mopsius]

Geezus, it's a good thing he recognized my face in the last tenth of that tenth of a second or youtube would have to make do without me, jeje.

[mopsius]

You know when Fleetwood does his little dance moves.

Slow motion by comparison.

I doubt this guy would even appear on a video except as a blur.

[mopsius]

Most these guys are fakes--any boxer does them in.

Not this guy.

[mopsius]

After I saw this guy, I thought to myself--Oh, I see, Bruce Lee is slowing down for the camera, hahahaha.

[mopsius]

These guys are not fake either:

warofillusions(dot)wordpress(d­ot)com(slash)2008/09(slash)25/­harvard-gazette-report-on-tibe­tan-monks-who-can-heat-up-thei­r-bodies-at-will(slash)

[SailorWuvsPeanut]

fascinating article (about the Tibetan monks)

[mopsius]

It's a different kind of "recognition".

Looking for "kill" to "kill".

[mopsius]

Westerners are very naive physiologically.

They have numbed so many senses to fit machines and "science" they have become dummies.

But even a baseball pitcher can throw at ball at a hundred miles an hour.

But the real feat is the batter who can see it, predict its course, and hit it.

[SailorWuvsPeanut]

Speaking of baseball pitchers, I actually got to see Mark "The Bird" Fidrych pitch at a live game in Tiger Stadium (ugh, the new ballpark is named "Comerica Park", after a fucking bank!), when I was a kid. It was incredible, the festive atmosphere in the stadium. Total party.

tinyurl(dot)com/67ptkd

[SailorWuvsPeanut]

"They have numbed so many senses to fit machines and "science" they have become dummies."

Something really weird happened to me once that I will never forget. I was in a bar one night years ago, playing darts with some strangers. It was dive bar that featured local rock bands. Anyway I was very drunk. I was throwing so bad I would even miss the dartboard sometimes, haha. My partner was really good though and fairly sober, and kept us alive (we had a round of drinks riding on the game).

[SailorWuvsPeanut]

Anyhow, it got down to the wire, and it was my turn to throw. I said to myself "use the force" and like Luke Skywalker flying in the Death Star, hahaha. Sounds ridiculous, I know. But get this. I threw THREE BULLEYES. All three darts hit the bullseye that turn. I shit you not. Everybody started laughing and thought I was "conning them", and I wasn't really drunk. But I was! I have never thrown three bulleyes in a row in my life, before or after that night. I am a terrible at darts even sober.

[SailorWuvsPeanut]

Is this a doublebind?

preview(dot)tinyurl(dot)com/cj­lgsa

[PeaceIsRad]

Awesome video and piece of journalism! Bravo!!!!

Free, those that are not Free!

[mopsius]

Gee, it couldn' be--that there is something seriously, systematically wrong?

Whale, you just call up you local Republican Party--they'll explain it all to you, HAHAHAHA.

[mopsius]

And here's the real punchline--though the US has more people in prison than any other large industrial country, it has among the highest rates of serious crimes.

HAHAHAHAHA.

[mopsius]

Cuban has a higher literacy rate and better medical care than the US.

Africa has better cell phone networks.

Japan is at least 30 years ahead in technology.

Oh, prisons and technology--the US is in second place behind Israel, HAHAHAHA.

[mopsius]

corr:"prisons and security technology"

[mopsius]

"I am astounded to learn that the United States, public and private, has been robbed and raped deaf dumb and blind! Arrest the usual suspects!".

It's all them dumb nigras on welfare!

(Er, what welfare--Clinton got rid of that).

[mopsius]

Got it, dumbos?

[mopsius]

Okay, how about a clue, dumbos. Most Americans prisons are privatized, whole or in part, and work is contracted out, with funds also coming for the state.

A very profitable little business.

Now if less people go to prison, less profits--see.

So why should the Governor of Texas want to pay unemployment benefits, HUH?

[mopsius]

Mainland China has less people in prison both absolutely and per capita than the United States.

So does the Russian Federation.

[mopsius]

What are the human rights violations American government imposes on its own people?

Besides high taxes and nothing in return, not even work?

Well, that Angela Davis is still waiting for you--you know the one about the prison-industrial complex.

Like the American Gulag?

[SailorWuvsPeanut]

"Well, that Angela Davis is still waiting for you--you know the one about the prison-industrial complex"

Has Fleetwood ever tackled this issue, mopsius?

[mopsius]

Angela Davis--not that I know of, Marinaro.

Interesting that he hasn't, eh?

[mopsius]

I checked everything, Marinaro--where do I look to see if your are blocked and how do I remove it?

Do you know?

I can't find any pertinent box.

[SailorWuvsPeanut]

It is hard to explain mopsius, and, a lot of youtube's user navigation/menus aren't very intuitive.

This is a link to the help section entry on it, tho.

tinyurl(dot)com/deszyw

[mopsius]

Muchas gracias, Marinaro. I will look. I am certain I did not block you deliberately, but who knows which buttons have been pushed. Have you had this problem only with Mopsius" channel?

[mopsius]

Incidentally, with the darts, Marinaro, whatever you call it, it is there.

You must be the only person I know that accesses it drunk, jeje.

Are you Russian or Polish or Serbian?

[SailorWuvsPeanut]

My father was Estonian. That's closer to Finnish than anything (at least linguistically), I think there are some slav ancestors a few generations back tho, on his side.

[mopsius]

Aha, Aestius! Tens of thousands of years metabolizing alcohol in the ice and snow.

Your "force" may be the spear through the mammoth's heart.

You don't get many misses, hehe.

Leningrad here we come.

[mopsius]

I was going to look up Wooly Mammoth in the Old Testament, but apparently they are an imaginary creature that never existed.

Anyway, Wikipedia has the whole fiction in detail:

en(dot)wikipedia(dot)org(slash­)wiki(slash)Woolly_mammoth

[mopsius]

Is it just me or haven't you dumbos learned to read the American newspapers yet, and the more American approach to, like high finance, and, like, millions of people out of work and starving?

Maybe Mao had a point?

Too bad most Americans are not smart enough to qualify as peasants.

[Ryuujin9]

Mopsius who are you to talk about intelligence? You're barely on par with a high functioning autistic.

SPAMMING RANDOM FACTS I MADE UP ABOUT UNSEEN CONSPIRACY IS FOR TEH WINZ!

[mopsius]

Ryuujin9--you know shit about Mopsius and what Mopsius knows or does not know.

About as much as the man who told Chuangtzu to consider the happiness of fishes.

You really should read Arthur Danto on Nietzsche, hehe.

Meanwhile go suck kosher hot dogs in the cafeteria.

[mopsius]

Bai ma fei ma.

Now go fuck yourself Ryuujin9.

[mopsius]

Hey, Ryuujin9, ever try to define "random", hahaha.

You can't even define "spam" on youtube.

Now go suck off Jim Robinson at Free Republic and lick his wheelchair.

[mopsius]

It's a conspiracy all right, a conspiracy of complete incompetents.

HAHAHAHAHA.

[mopsius]

Tidbits for today:

(1)Madoff pleaded guilty to charges including fraud, perjury and money-laundering, telling the judge that the scheme began in the early 1990s, when the country was in a recession and the market was not doing well.

(2)Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday rejected $555 million in federal stimulus money that would expand state unemployment benefits, saying the money would have required the state to keep funding the expanded benefits after the stimulus money ran out.

[PeaceIsOK]

This is a great message!

I have been smothered by the commercialism and contstant race for more, more, more. Newer, better, stronger, faster.....ect.....

-You will buy, NOW!

-While atrocities continue!!!

 *** Long live the message of peace! ***

[GretchenDawntreader]

this new video essayist fellow is certainly quite the orator. Well made and sums up this injustice pretty concisely.

[mopsius]

Fleetwood, you cannot follow what I have to say on mainland China in a few words, and this is not the place.

As a schtick on American stupidity you are doing fine.

But you know shit about China and have fallen for the elite's mythology.

More than ninety percent of the mainland is peasants.

Mattel and other American financial morons are even more incompetent than you think they are.

Tibet is complex--I can go back to a conversation partly in Chinese, with a mainlander thirty years ago.

[jagrankiran]

Watch out for the new Dalia Lama doll... complete with 'Ohm' sound, just press its belly for that authentic Tibetan chanting, buy one soon while stocks last, this could be your last opportunity to ever hear the sounds of Tibet. $21.95, at a store near you...... Warning....., may contain toxic substances, not recommended for under 21's. Do not listen to chant whilst driving or operating heavy machinery. Always seek medical advice if item comes into contact with the eyes, DO NOT INHALE!

[jagrankiran]

oh i forgot to mention.... made in China.

[trichenosis]

HAHAHAHAHA!

KUMBAYA!!!

[Pippilly]

Doing research on the Dali Lama changed my world, amongst other things! Deception at it's finest

[berrypievision2]

What? I can't believe, despite with all the information about Tibets recent history, the Dalai Lama and his dictatorship (which continues in the exiled tibetan community), the lack of support for the uprising in the late 50s by common tibetans, and the fact that the Chinese have done a lot for Tibet at the expense of Mandarian Chinese, that people still think the Lama is just some friendly guy fighting for human rights and peace.

[Beadbud5000]

Do you read or are you a Neo-Con?

[berrypievision2]

Nope. Neo-Conservatives are normally pro-tibet. I mean, it was neo-conservative republicans and democrats in the US that helped finance Tibetan guerrilla operations against the Chinese.

[berrypievision2]

I'm not Pro-Chinese or anything, but Tibetans are, since they'd rather be under the Chinese that at least give them infrastructure, education and allow them to practice buddhism rather than be surfs and live in crap under a theocrat.

[radjabov44]

Well it doesn't change the fact that the human rights abuses are real in Tibet. China is no UNICEF. Lastly, it's interesting to hear the Dalai Lama called a dictator. He and his followers are non violent...He teaches and spreads understanding and love. Have you looked into him deeply? I have read a lot of his work and learned a great deal about him. I think you are tossing the word 'dictator' around to freely, I do not agree.

[berrypievision2]

Well, violence isn't the only sign of oppression, but many buddhist complain about abuses of their rights in those buddhist only (isn't that a tell-tale sign?) exile communities. Watch this: watch?v=wC-F6VUyGZM

Plus, he and his kind were pretty violent when they ruled Tibet. Ya know, with the torturing of slaves and executions and such.

[radjabov44]

'He and his kind'? What is that supposed to mean. Have any factual evidence or did you read some Chinese nationalist website loaded with crap?

[berrypievision2]

{'He and his kind'?}

Uh...his underlings? His goonies? His autocrat ministers? What did you think I meant?

[Chinese nationalist ]

Did the video I link to have anything to do with Chinese nationalism at all? Did you even watch it?

[radjabov44]

I already watched it and it doesn't change a thing. I repeat myself; I assume your talking about the fuedal theocracy in Tibet before the invasion. The current Dalai lama was 15 when he took power in '50 during the invasion. Your video had nothing to do with said 'injustices'. Back up your argument before you patronize me. And this whole debate we are having misses the point entirely. CHINA annexing Tibet and committing abuses is the issue here. Let Tibet have a democracy without CHINA.

[berrypievision2]

[I already watched it and it doesn't change a thing. I repeat myself; I assume your talking about the fuedal theocracy in Tibet before the invasion.]

Yes, it doesn't change a thing. I mean Buddhist complaining (with evidence) about abuse and oppression under the Dalai Lama going on now in the exiled communities doesn't mean anything. Geesh, people just put on their rose-bead glasses whenever it suits the situation.

[berrypievision2]

[The current Dalai lama was 15 when he took power in '50 during the invasion.]

Yeah, but that has nothing to do with the video in question. All that says right there is he comes from a line of oppressors.

[Your video had nothing to do with said 'injustices'.]

Yeah, it does, but then again, I doubt you even watched it.

[berrypievision2]

[HINA annexing Tibet and committing abuses is the issue here. Let Tibet have a democracy without CHINA. ]

Um, why can't Tibet have a democracy with China? Where are these major abuses being conducted that make the prior abuses under the Buddhist theocracy worse? If you want democracy in Tibet, why are you supporting the Dalai Lama and his gaggle of anti-democratic goons? Nothing are you are saying makes sense.

[berrypievision2]

Lets see, the Dalai Lama wants autonomy, not independence, plus he acts like his forebears in the exiled communities, and Tibetans largely dont want independences! They didnt even support the uprising in the late 50s, which was a failed CIA plot.

[berrypievision2]

[He teaches and spreads understanding and love. ]

Uh...I've never actually seen him do that. He does hallmark messages from time to time, that is it.

[I think you are tossing the word 'dictator' around to freely, I do not agree. ]

Have you actually ever read about the history of the guy, from an objective standpoint?

[radjabov44]

so china is the lord and savior huh? You cannot deny the abuses committed by china, they are NOT handling Tibet well at all. Now they push out journalists, this isn't about the Dalai Lama this is about the people of Tibet. Their voices are being silenced and It makes no difference who is in the minority or majority, they shouldn't be silenced while the oppression balloons.

[berrypievision2]

[so china is the lord and savior huh?]

Didn't I say I was not pro-chinese?

[You cannot deny the abuses committed by china, they are NOT handling Tibet well at all.]

They are handling it better than the Tibetan theocrats did though. I recommend you read Michael Parentis: Friendly Feudalism. Excellent article that introduces nearly a hundred sources and a detailed history on tibet, china, the CIAs dealings there and the real story.

[radjabov44]

I watched the video and your an idiot for the way you choose to argue. I never said it didn't matter I said it doesn't change anything. It does not support your point, oooo religious exile oh dear me how horrible. China is bloody killing people more so than I can say the Dalai Lama has ever done. You have an agenda and no amount of logic will overcome it. Screw off.

[berrypievision2]

[your an idiot ]

Nothing funnier than seeing, "your an idiot." I see it a lot...but whatever.

[it doesn't change anything.]

Uh...doesn't that amount to not mattering in your opinion? You wouldn't have even acknowledged it if I didn't bring it up. I doubt you even knew about it before me.

[berrypievision2]

[oooo religious exile oh dear me how horrible.]

Yes, exiling people, like what China does with dissents, is not horrible. Being forced from your homeland, having family members punished by proxy for things you did, being economically disenfranchised and forced into poverty for your views, yeah these things are not horrible. Yep, either you're very selective with who you care does the oppressing, or just a clueless idiot.

[berrypievision2]

Oh yeah, the Dalai lama doesn't kill. I guess it's because he doesn't control a country any more, and his shitty exile communities are in a country that won't allow said communities to have weapons or to have the means to kill several people, especially a group hostile to China, a country with tense relations with India. Nah, it's just out of the goodness of his heart! Pfft, the Dalai Lama is a poor mans dictator and fraud.

[radjabov44]

If you have never seen him teach and spread understanding and love then perhaps your the one who has not read about him from an objective standpoint. He is an author you know, of a lot of books. Read some. Learn.

[karmastar06]

very interesting stance. where did you get this info?

[berrypievision2]

From various pieces of history, I cant list all the sources, but the article Friendly Feudalism by Michael Parenti is a very good compilation of them.

[karmastar06]

one reference!!! can't have a valid stance on this from one source

[berrypievision2]

I don't remember that rule, plus it isn't one source, if you bothered to even look it up (which you didn't) you'd see it is a collection of sources. 68 in total. Geesh.

[radjabov44]

Yeah of course that is because you googled it and clicked on the first link. That is the problem, not thorough research.

[berrypievision2]

Uh, googled what and found what? This article is years old (but it is sometimes updated) and is from an author I have read and listened to constantly throughout the years. I don't agree with everything he says, but he seems to be one of the only Communist left in the US that has a basis, and that interest me, even if I am not a Communist.

[berrypievision2]

Also, I don't understand how finding it on Google (how do you know if I found it on their originally or if I use Google?) makes it an invalid source. I have actually read responses to the article and similar articles from Pro-Tibetans, and most are very poorly done, always focusing on how young the Dalai Lama was, even though that doesn't mean the oppression didn't go on, and always silent when brought up how badly Gyatzo treats the exiled communities.

[berrypievision2]

They didn't even any form of democracy until a few years ago! And even then, they are low-level elections used to save face for the international community.

[wmg111]

Excellent video.

George Carlin did a great bit called "stuff" which touches on the essence of this theme.

The lust for gain is what we are supposed to be evolving out of.

Slow process, evolution.

[devtamagi]

These are possibly my favorite videos on all of Youtube. Informative and entertaining, yet not sensationalized up the ass.

[thpt]

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[karmastar06]

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[SuperAtheist]

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[custno08]

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