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	<title>Threshold</title>
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	<description>We are always standing at the edge of the nowhere.</description>
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		<title>Epoch Times &#8211; The Distorted Image of Tibet (Part I)</title>
		<link>http://friederishi.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/epoch-times-the-distorted-image-of-tibet-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interview with a Han Chinese woman who discovered that the Tibetan people are different than the image propagated by the Communist Party.
Go directly to Part I
See also Parts II, III, and IV
read more &#124; digg story
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		<title>Tibet report &#8211; Chinese Government à la G.Orwells 1984</title>
		<link>http://friederishi.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/tibet-report-chinese-government-a-la-gorwells-1984/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[vLog with Tibetan Connection Radio reporter Lhakpa Kyizom about staged news events, violence, continued repression and a new Chinese Policy implemented to gain control of selecting the next Dalai Lama.
Chinese Policy: &#8220;Order Nr.5 is all the reincarnations of the high lamas are selected by the Tibetans (&#8230;) but now the Chinese they want to control [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=friederishi.wordpress.com&blog=1733147&post=125&subd=friederishi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Forty five years</title>
		<link>http://friederishi.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/forty-five-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forty five years ago I came in direct contact with Tibetan culture for the first time. Prior to that I had seen Tibetan caravans traveling through Tansen, Palpa, Nepal. I was well aware of the situation on the other side of the Himalayan mountains and I had even been in the audience when the Dalai [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=friederishi.wordpress.com&blog=1733147&post=119&subd=friederishi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lhasa Leaders Sacked</title>
		<link>http://friederishi.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/lhasa-leaders-sacked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article in the Guardian today reported that two of the top people in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) have been sacked &#8211; Wang Binyi, police chief and Qin Yizhi, deputy governor of the region. Qin made the world media last summer when the Olympic torch relay went through Lhasa for saying the Communist party [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=friederishi.wordpress.com&blog=1733147&post=113&subd=friederishi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wedding Pictures in an Earthquake</title>
		<link>http://friederishi.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/wedding-pictures-in-an-earthquake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rishi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another friend of mine, John Chaffee, who is a professor of Chinese Studies sent the following series of pictures that were sent to him by a Taiwanese friend. The friend was taking pictures of a young couple at the White Deer Chapel in Pengzhau, Sichuan when the earthquake struck. The photographer was able to keep [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=friederishi.wordpress.com&blog=1733147&post=88&subd=friederishi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Nature</title>
		<link>http://friederishi.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/the-power-of-nature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rishi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gao Li Qiang sent another eye witness account &#8211; but not his own. This time it was a friend of his who went into the mountains after the earthquake to see what had happened there. Gao writes the commentary for the following pictures:

The following below pictures were not taken by me - they show another face [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=friederishi.wordpress.com&blog=1733147&post=78&subd=friederishi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Despite earthquake, Tibetan crackdown continues</title>
		<link>http://friederishi.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/despite-earthquake-tibetan-crackdown-continues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rishi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently Hong Kong reporters were allowed into Lhasa. They reported armed police in the streets and continued heavy-handedness by the local communist party. 
An article in Reuters, Hong Kong warns that the situation is getting worse despite international pressure. The earthquake in Sichuan is diverting attention from the Tibetan problem. This is being used as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=friederishi.wordpress.com&blog=1733147&post=77&subd=friederishi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Voices of Reason from Inside China</title>
		<link>http://friederishi.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/voices-of-reason-from-inside-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is something from Joey Ayoub on Facebook. He&#8217;s included a document written by several well-know Chinese dissidents that I thought worth repeating. Please read the following document realizing that there are people inside China who don&#8217;t automatically believe the government&#8217;s propaganda. This document accentuates how effective the Chinese media is in controlling what most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=friederishi.wordpress.com&blog=1733147&post=27&subd=friederishi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Olympic torch fiasco</title>
		<link>http://friederishi.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/olympic-torch-fiasco/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rishi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chinese people have put so much nationalistic pride into the Olympics and the Torch Relay. And now that protests have marred the glorious moment, they are turning their hurt pride and anger against the rest of the world. The Chinese government, taking this as an excuse, will crackdown harder than ever before on dissidents, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=friederishi.wordpress.com&blog=1733147&post=26&subd=friederishi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Folly of Force</title>
		<link>http://friederishi.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/the-folly-of-force/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rishi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its not working. Never has, never will.
No amount of preaching and moralizing will force things to happen. Nor will the use of force when your preaching and &#8220;you shouldings&#8221; or even &#8220;let&#8217;s all&#8221; (Confucianism/communism) fails.
People, especially the rugged, open-air Tibetan nomads, don&#8217;t respond to the group-mind of the hypnotized.
Societies like the Chinese have functioned for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=friederishi.wordpress.com&blog=1733147&post=24&subd=friederishi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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