FREE TIBET! ACTION CAMP ,near Dusseldorf Germany 6 Juli, de 76ste verjaardag van HH Tenzin Gyatso, de Dalai lama Opmerkelijk dat net op 6 juli na 76 jaar de Lunar kalender samenvalt met de westerse kalender. Megastructures Nat. Geographic | documentaire | 30-06-2011, 22u00 - 23u00 documentairereeks over de bouw van historische gebouwen Extreme Railway De 1000 km lange Qinghai-Tibet-spoorweg gaat op grote hoogte door onherbergzaam terrein. Het is een opmerkelijk staaltje van megalomania. Tibetaanse nomaden moeten hun vee afstaan, en zijn verpicht in betonnen constructies te wonen, ver van de bewoonde wereld, waar ook geen werk, voeding of transport is. Daardoor zijn er weer dramatische ecologische rampen uit voorgevloeid. de grasssteppen worden overwoekerd, en een opgang van Tibetaanse soort hamsters hebben plaats genomen ipv schapen en yaks. Door de plotse booming van deze dieren strooit de Chinese overheid, massaal vergif, dat weer leid naar het afsterven van andere dieren zoals roofvogels die vergiftigd worden. De bedoeling van deze trein is uiteraard, 1 niet bestemd voor Tibetanen, tenzij de 1000 gevangen Tibetaanse monniken die naar Golmud zijn getransprorteerd (2008). 2 om de Tibetaanse mineralen te ontginnen en te transporteren naar de steeds hongerige Chinese draak. 3 om zoveel mogelijk Chinezen te laten imigreren in Tibet. 4 door de bouw van dit project, moet de Tibetaanse cultuur verdwijnen, alsook de Tibetanen. kijk ook naar Peking Lhasa trein, via deze link of via www.vriendenvantibet.be surf naar onder en kijk het bestand via Tibet infrmatief. June 27th, 2011 Controversy over blocked Tibet protest during Chinese premier’s visit to Hungary Invitation for demonstration on 5th July 2011 and for th celebration of the 76th birthday party of H.H. the Dalai Lama on 6 July 2011, with the announcement of the establishment of the European Council of Mongolia-Uyghur-Tibet-China Hungary Bans Falun Gong Protest of Wen Jiabao’s Visit Chinese regime pressure believed behind Hungary’s action Tibet among the ‘Worst of the Worst’ Phayul[Monday, June 06, 2011 13:33] By Sherab Woeser Phuntsok, a monk of Kirti monastery, set himself ablaze on March 16, 2011, exactly 3 years after bloody crackdown on Tibetans of Ngaba on March 16, 2008. Two more Tibetans have died since and scores arrested as the situation in Kirti monastery continues to remain tense. Tibet is among the world’s most repressive societies in the world with its citizens suffering from systematic and pervasive human rights violations, says a new report released on June 3 at the ongoing 17th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Freedom House, an independent watchdog organisation, in its report, Worst of the Worst 2011: The World’s Most Repressive Societies, listed Tibet and China in its list of the world’s worst human rights abusers. While Tibet is placed under the ‘Not Free’ category at the bottom of the Political Rights and Civil Liberties rankings along with Burma and North Korea, China is shown just falling short of the bottom of the ratings scale along with eight other countries including Cuba and Syria. Describing the current atmosphere in Tibet as one of ‘tight security’ similar to that of 2008, the report noted the lack of political freedom and representation of ethnic Tibetans in the administration. “Under Chinese rule, Tibetans lack the right to determine their political future or freely elect their own leaders … The few ethnic Tibetans who occupy senior positions serve mostly as figureheads, often echoing official statements that condemn the Dalai Lama and emphasise Beijing’s role in developing Tibet’s economy”, the report said. Highlighting the ‘tight control’ on the flow of information in Tibet and on all media, the report blamed Chinese authorities for enforcing ‘even more stringently in the TAR’ the online restrictions and cybercafé surveillance in place across China. Directly challenging China’s claim of religious freedom in Tibet, the report said, “Since March 2008, the authorities have intensified ideological education campaigns, forcing monks, nuns, students, and merchants to recognise the CCP claim that China “liberated” Tibet and to denounce the Dalai Lama”. Taking a jab at Tibet’s ‘abysmal’ judicial system, the report noted that ‘most judges lack legal education’ while defendants are given ‘minimal access to legal representation’. “Torture remains widespread, with coerced confessions routinely admitted as evidence”, the report observed. This is the 10th year in a row when Freedom House has assessed the human rights situation inside Tibet as among the worst in the world in its annual survey on the state of global political rights and civil liberties. Kardze Saka Dawa protests, pictures depict tense situation in the area below, the same article copied from Phayul Kardze Saka Dawa protests, pictures depict tense situation in the area TCHRD[Wednesday, June 29, 2011 21:04] The holy Buddhist month of Saka Dawa saw a series of protests in Kardze (Ch: Ganzi) in Tibet. Atleast 39 known Tibetans have been arrested in June 2011 for staging demonstrations calling for a "Free Tibet", "Long live the Dalai Lama" and "Return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet". Situation in the area is very tense and people live in a climate of fear. In the wake of protests, security troops in thousands have been deployed in the area to instantly crush any sort of a popular protest. A foreign tourist who recently visited Kardze gave following account of the situation in the area. There were thousands of police and army, in riot gear, in trucks patrolling the streets, and on foot in formation patrolling the streets. As well as many standing on street corners, and many more in plain clothes. The nuns I was walking with were stopped and told they could not walk on the streets. They were very brave and told the police to get lost and kept walking. There was something like armoured vehicles with big guns on the roof, trucks full of army personnel, police cars, unmarked police cars driving constantly around the streets at a rate of one vehicle every minute or two. There were police every few metres on the main road and many on each corner. I was in Ganzi twice. The first time, there were half the number of police/army. The second time, a week later, it was quite tense. There were rumours of monks calling for Free Tibet so perhaps that's why the numbers had increased. On the way back into Ganzi the second time, our vehicle was stopped twice on the outskirts -- looking for monks/ nuns and foreigners. They were taking down ID card details of all monks/nuns entering Ganzi. There is a large prison in town full of Tibetan political prisoners. In the evenings, they show a segment on TV of the prisoners repenting their crimes, after being beaten into submission. One was an old nomad lady -- about 80, crippled and bent over. Her three sons had been killed and she came into town to shout Free Tibet. My friends in Ganzi, who I won't name to protect them, had several members of the family in prison in the past. The father was in for two years and repeatedly tortured. The two neices, who are nuns, were most recently in prison in 2008 for writing an open letter asking the Dalai Lama to return to Tibet and in support of him. They are young nuns in their 20's and were locked up for two and three years successively. As they described their torture to me, they started crying, the emotional/mental wounds were still fresh. In addition to earlier reports of nuns and monks staging demonstrations in Kardze, the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) received confirmed information that two more nuns have been arrested for protest. On 18 June 2011 two nuns, Choesang and Peltruk, of Dhargye Nyagye Nunnery, Kardze County, staged a demonstration around 9 am in the main market of Kardze calling for the "Long Life of the Dalai Lama", "Freedom in Tibet", and "Return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet" while distributing leaflets. Around 10 minutes later the police arrived and immediately handcuffed the two and started to beat them severely. It is highly probable that the nuns are being tortured in the prison. Their families have been denied visitation as well as prohibited from giving food and clothes to them. Choesang (31) was born in Rangpa-Tsachung Village, Shitse Township, Kardze County to Kelgah (father) and Ngodup Dolmo (mother) of Chunangtsong family. Peltruk (34) was born to Ngepa (father) and Dechen Yangtso (mother) in Reedha Village, Shitse Township, Kardze County. Sun, July 10, 2011 7:05:28 AM[TibetNews] Weekly China: - a weekly updates on China From: Tibet News To: tibetnews@lists.riseup.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Weekly China: - a weekly updates on China The Chinese Black Swan July 5, 2011 | Posted by Vitaliy Katsenelson The WTO and China Hands slapped Jul 7th 2011 | from the print edition A ruling with ramifications Jul 7th 2011 | from the print edition China’s water war with India June 25, 2011 Claude Arpi Jiang Zemin Reported Dead 2011-07-06 | RFA Exploding watermelons in China Wednesday, May 18, 2011 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger China police harass Mongol activist's family Jul 8, 2011 in Detail: The Chinese Black Swan July 5, 2011 | Posted by Vitaliy Katsenelson Party rulers in China are trapped in a position that chess players deeply fear — zugzwang — where any move made puts you at disadvantage. In China, the potential cost of both action and inaction is economic collapse. China is slowly starting to face the consequences of its actions — loans grew over 30% a year over the last few years — and inflation is rising fast. Inflation in developed countries is unpleasant, but it is tolerable. For a developing country — and China, despite its size, is still a developing country — it can be catastrophic. In developed countries, we spend two or three times less on food as a percentage of our income as do people in developing countries. Therefore, though food inflation is unpleasant, we have a much greater tolerance (margin of safety) for it. While food inflation the US can mean fewer trips to restaurants or no summer vacation, food inflation in China leads to hunger. The Chinese government is desperately trying to put the brakes on the economy. It is shutting off lending to land developers and has raised bank reserve requirements five times this year. However, its success on the inflation front will likely lead to a slowdown of the economy and high unemployment. Ironically, those were the issues party planners tried to cure when they stimulated the hell out of the economy over the last few years. China bulls are arguing that the almighty Chinese government will be able to soft-land the economy. Unlikely, I’d say. Forced lending was at the core of Chinese economic growth. Simply put, there is too much debt to go bad. According to Ernst and Young, one-third of the $700 billion in loans taken out by local governments may face repayment problems. The People’s Bank of China estimates that Chinese banks’ exposure to local government loans is 14 trillion yuan ($2.2 trillion), according to the June 17 South China Morning Post. Once lending is cut off, property prices will stop appreciating (and likely collapse — that is what usually happens in a Ponzi scheme). Also, the overcapacity in the industrial sector and commercial real estate will come to the surface. And suddenly everyone will discover that the venerable emperor has no clothes. I often hear the argument that China will not have a real estate crisis of US proportions because home and condo owners have to put 30-40% down when they buy. So where do people get the money to buy a house that costs, on average, 8 times their annual income (a figure several times higher than in the US)? Some of it comes from savings, and some comes from borrowing from relatives. Let’s pause for a second. In the 1990s, the Chinese banking system basically collapsed. To revive it, the Chinese government took bad loans from banks’ balance sheets and put them into off-balance-sheet vehicles (Enron would be proud of that financial ingenuity). Banks started to function as though nothing had happened. To finance the off-balance-sheet assets, the government set deposit interest rates at very low levels: 1% or so. In a country with a very high savings rate and 5% inflation, this resulted in a 4% annual loss of purchasing power. Chinese consumers were punished severely over the last 10 years for the banking crisis of the late ’90s. And they’ll be punished even more soon. Keeping money in the bank didn’t make that much sense, and investment alternatives were limited. However, they could invest in an asset that supposedly never declines in price – a house or condo. So they did. As China slams the brakes on the economy and as housing prices fall, the banks will lose plenty of money. But more importantly, it is the people who bought tremendously overpriced houses, and their relatives who lent them money, who will lose. The wealth and hard work of more than one generation will be lost, and this kind of pain leads to political unrest. That is the Chinese Black Swan! Also see presentation – China The Mother of All Grey Swans Vitaliy N. Katsenelson, CFA, is Chief Investment Officer at Investment Management Associates in Denver, Colo. He is the author of The Little Book of Sideways Markets (Wiley, December 2010). To receive Vitaliy’s future articles by email, click here or read his articles here. Investment Management Associates Inc. is a value investing firm based in Denver, Colorado. Its main focus is on growing and preserving wealth for private investors and institutions while adhering to a disciplined value investment process, as detailed in Vitaliy Katsenelson’s Active Value Investing (Wiley, 2007) book. Source: http://contrarianedge.com/2011/07/05/the-chinese-black-swan/ …………………………….. The WTO and China Hands slapped A ruling with ramifications - Jul 7th 2011 | from the print edition WHEN China joined the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in late 2001, its share of world exports stood at 4.3%. By last year that share had soared to 10.6%, and the country had become the world’s biggest exporter. In addition to awe and envy, its rise has spawned a rapidly growing list of trade quarrels. China was a party to only two of the 93 trade disputes that were taken to the WTO between its accession and the end of 2005. But in the five years to the end of 2010, it was involved in 26 of the 84 cases filed at the forum. On July 5th the WTO’s dispute-settlement body found against China on three linked complaints. The cases were brought by America, the European Union and Mexico in 2009 and took issue with China’s policy of restricting the exports of certain industrial raw materials, including bauxite, magnesium, zinc and silica, of which it is a leading producer. The plaintiffs argued that China’s policies gave domestic firms that use these commodities an unfair competitive advantage, while also restricting world supply of these inputs and causing their prices to soar. China says its restrictions were motivated by its desire to conserve the world’s limited supply of these materials and to protect the environment from the pollution caused by their extraction. The problem with this line of argument, as the WTO panel noted, was that although China restricted the export of these commodities, it had done nothing to reduce their actual production. China’s policies were in clear violation of its WTO commitments, it found. China expressed “regret” at the WTO’s ruling and has up to 60 days to lodge an appeal. Jeffrey Schott of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a think-tank in Washington, DC, expects “several more big cases against China soon”. But the significance of this judgment goes beyond China. Many countries banned some food exports during the food-price spike of 2008. A renewed period of buoyant commodity prices and demand could easily tempt more governments to emulate China’s restrictions on exports of raw materials. The WTO’s judgment may dissuade at least some countries from doing so. And given the rotten state of the Doha round of trade talks, a show of teeth in defence of a rules-based trading system is more useful than ever. Source: http://www.economist.com/node/18925947?fsrc=nwl|wwp|07-07-11|business_this_week …………………………….. China’s water war with India June 25, 2011 Claude Arpi Is China trying to divert the Brahmaputra waters to its dry north and north-western regions? Or, is it merely trying to build small dams along the river? The Government of India seems clueless if SM Krishna’s recent remarks are any indication. Can the country afford to ignore such a momentous issue? Sometimes news found in the mainstream Indian media can be flabbergasting. Take the case of the purported ‘diversion’ of the Yarlung Tsangpo. A ‘serious’ national newspaper spoke of the “Yarlang Tsangpo, it is what the Brahmaputra river is called in Mandarin”. Yarlung (not Yarlang) Tsangpo is the Tibetan name for the river originating near Mt Kailash. It has nothing to do with Mandarin. The article further states that the Ministry of Water Resources has asked the Hyderabad-based National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) for a report on the Chinese activities near the Great Bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo, as it enters Indian territory: “Sources do not rule out the possibility that the ‘new’ images could be of existing structures, since the resolution of India’s satellite images has increased substantially in recent months... This means structures, which have been there, are now visible in much greater detail.” Great news, but the NRSC scientists are wasting their time looking for structures near the Grand Bend of the Brahmaputra. In reality, the diversion is planned a few hundred kilometres upstream, near the city of Tsetang in Central Tibet. It seems the Ministry hasn’t done its homework before sending a request to NRSC. Also, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna is not a good student. He mixes the ‘diversion scheme’ with the dams being built on the Brahmaputra. While answering a question on the diversion, he affirms that Zangmu Dam “is no cause of concern to India as it is a ‘run off the river’ dam”. In fact, Beijing is planning a string of six dams in this area — Lengda, Zhongda, Langzhen, Jiexu, Jiacha and Zangmu. There’s no need to mention here the utopian dream of a 38 GW power station (nearly twice the size of the Three Gorges Dam) in the Great Bend, near the Indian border. There are too many geological and technical issues involved to be taken seriously in the decades to come. The smaller dams (about 500 MW each) are not directly linked with the diversion scheme, which is proposed to be built a few hundred km upstream. It would make no technical sense to have such a project at a relatively lower altitude near the Great Bend, when the waters can be pushed up towards the north from a much higher altitude, near Tsetang. Headlines Today mentioned a confidential report prepared by the Cabinet Secretariat in Delhi on June 13. “Beijing is not responding to India’s concerns on the Brahmaputra dam. There is an urgent need to take up this issue with China as these dams will ‘severely impact’ the flow of water into India,” the report says. According to the same source, Krishna would assure Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi that “ISRO satellite maps showed no construction”. But that’s not true. On November 15, 2010, The People’s Daily had announced: “The Brahmaputra river, which has long been praised as a ‘heavenly river’, was dammed for the first time on November 12... the Zangmu Hydropower Station, the first large hydropower station in Tibet, will soon begin its main construction.” In fact, the construction began several months earlier. Let us, however, go back to the source of the ‘diversion’ story. A couple of weeks ago, Prof Wang Guangqian, a senior scientist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was quoted as saying: “Chinese experts have raised a new proposal to divert water from the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra river to the country’s north-western province of Xinjiang”. Prof Wang’s project is a variant of a scheme prepared some 10 years ago by two Chinese engineers — Guo Kai, a retired PLA General, considered by many as the father of the mega scheme, and his colleague Li Ling, who wrote a book, Tibet’s Water Will Save China. The project was then called the Shuomatan Canal (from Suma Tan in Central Tibet to Tanjing in China). Interestingly, Wang seems to have the backing of Li Ruihuan, a former member of the Standing Committee of the CCP’s Politburo and former chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. Many in the PLA as well as the mega dam companies are said to be supporting the project. Wang spoke about the proposed route: “Brahmaputra waters are expected to be re-routed to Xinjiang along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway and the Hexi Corridor — part of the Northern Silk Road located in Gansu Province.” He admitted, “We thought this would be a plan 50 years later,” adding that Chinese experts and officials are still studying the possible impacts — technical and political — of the proposal. Chinese engineers are clearly conducting a ‘feasibility study’, and no construction has started. But the project, planned to be undertaken in 50 years, might start much earlier. “Faced with severe challenges brought by reduced water resources and a severe drought that has affected a large portion of the country, China has started to consider diverting water from the Brahmaputra river,” said Wang. One can reasonably think that it would begin in 10 years at the earliest, keeping in mind the fact that it is a political decision which could only be taken at the highest level of the Chinese state. Wang admitted that his proposal, also called the Major Western Route, had been inspired by the work of Guo Kai. Fast developing China has less and less water and Beijing has to locate possible sources of water to survive. Scientists are looking in the only two possible directions — the sea (the Bohai Sea) or the mountains (the Tibetan plateau). Wang quoted a survey by the Chinese Academy of Sciences showing that “rivers on the Qinghai-Tibet and Yunnan-Guizhou plateaus, including the Yarlung Tsangpo, Salween and Mekong, carry between 637 billion cubic metres and 810 billion cubic metres of water out of China each year”. What disturbs some Chinese engineers is that most of these rivers flow down to India and Southeast Asia, becoming the Brahmaputra, Salween and Mekong; in other words, the waters are ‘wasted’ for China. The diversion project envisaged by Wang (and Guo Kai) could move some 200 billion cubic metres of water a year up to north-western China — the equivalent of four Yellow Rivers. According to Li Ling, the Institute of Advanced Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences is using supercomputers to simulate the project and evaluate the feasibility of the diversion project. Wang himself works with the South-North Water Transfer office to prepare a ‘scientific’ report. In 2006, the Chinese Government pretended that “a few mad men” were thinking of this pharaonic project. But if these few ‘mad men’ — supported by a former Politburo Standing Committee member — are able to use the supercomputers of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for their calculations, they may not be as mad as painted by the Government. Three important factors need to be understood. One, China’s hydropower lobbies have a financial interest in ‘concretising’ the project as soon as possible. Last week, an article in The Financial Times affirmed: “China’s Three Gorges Project Corporation has proposed a $15 billion hydropower scheme to Pakistan to dam the Indus river valley at several points, in a project aimed at controlling floods and tackling electricity shortages.” Dams, whether in Pakistan or Tibet, mean big business and the large Chinese corporations will continue to lobby hard to get these projects through. The second crucial factor is the cost-benefit perspective. The Chinese leadership has mostly been pragmatic. A friend who worked on the issue told me: “If the price of transferring water is cheaper than conservation or getting water from the sea, China will go ahead.” Why to divert the Yarlung Tsangpo and risk a conflict with India, if there is a possibility to avoid it? Three, China badly needs water and can’t import it. The diversion of the Brahmaputra is in competition with another diversion: From the Bohai Sea, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea on the coast of northeastern China and push it up to Xinjiang. But, why does China need water? It’s due to three reasons: To stop the desertification in Xinjiang, Gansu and Inner Mongolia. To help the dry and polluted Yellow river flow again. To feed its people, for which large amounts of water are required for agriculture. If such grandiose and seemingly unrealisable projects are even thought of, it is because the situation is quite desperate and nobody is able to foresee any ‘realisable’ solution. So far, China has refused to collaborate with downstream states. In May 1997, when the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses, China was one of three countries that voted against it. The rather mild convention “aimed at guiding states in negotiating agreements on specific watercourses”. In the long run, whether it will be by adopting such a convention or by signing a bilateral treaty like the Indus Waters Treaty (1960) between India and Pakistan, Beijing has no choice but to collaborate with its downstream neighbours on a crucial issue like water on which the future of Asia depends. The current ‘imperialist’ attitude does not tally with the status of ‘responsible power’ that China is striving for. Source: http://www.dailypioneer.com/348413/Chinas-water-war-with-India.html …………………………….. Jiang Zemin Reported Dead 2011-07-06 Chinese officials say they will make an important announcement following reports of the former president's death. China's cabinet, the State Council, said it will announce some "important news" at 10:00 a.m. local time Thursday, after a Hong Kong television station reported the death of former Chinese president Jiang Zemin.?? "We have received news that the former president, Jiang Zemin, has died of illness," said the Cantonese-language report from Asia Television (ATV). "He was 84."?? "Jiang presided over the rise of China to an economic superpower," the report said. "He was also the author of the political theory of the Three Represents."? Official media appeared to have been ordered to keep silent on the report, but the State Council announced an "important" news conference for Thursday morning.?? An employee who answered the phone at the Beijing People's Liberation Army General Hospital declined to answer questions about Jiang. An employee who answered the phone at the Shanghai Huadong Hospital said they didn't know about the reports. Info blackout?? Soon after the report aired, China's online network of filters and networks appeared to have added Jiang's name to the list of banned and filtered items.?? However, a total information blackout seemed unlikely, with Chinese Twitter users still able to pass on links from overseas sites.?? "Posted the photo of ATV reporting #Jiangzemin death on Sina Weibo," tweeted user Yolanda Ma, adding that the update was retweeted "286 times within 20 min, before it got censored."?? Meanwhile, the Shandong provincial news website also referred to reports of Jiang's death, with a mourning photograph and tribute in somber black and white characters.?? Beijing-based journalist Gao Yu said there had been no mention of Jiang on national TV so far, however.?? "They didn't report this on the news, nor on the evening current affairs show," Gao said. "If they had, it would have been the top story."?? "There has been nothing about this."?? Waiting for orders?? But a media source in Beijing said that all the major television and radio stations had been warned to expect a change to scheduled programming on Thursday. And one update to the Sina Weibo microblogging service said top-level Party officials had been warned to return to Beijing and await orders.?? Jiang's absence from the leaders' podium during the official celebration of the ruling Communist Party's 90th anniversary on Friday had already sparked widespread speculation about the state of his health.? Former chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists' Association Camoes Tam said he had been called by a number of Hong Kong media organizations earlier in the day to come on news shows as a political commentator to discuss Jiang. "But apart from ATV they are all standing still and waiting for orders," he said, adding that the report was unlikely to be unfounded. "I don't think these things come out of a clear blue sky," Tam said. "There's bound to be a source for it; perhaps he is still being kept alive by life-support machines and they haven't yet turned them off."?? Reported by Xin Yu for RFA's Mandarin service and by Grace Kei Lai-see for the Cantonese service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.? Source: http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/jiang-07062011153752.html ………………………….. Exploding watermelons in China Wednesday, May 18, 2011 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) Beyond melamine in the powdered milk and plastic in the rice, Chinese farmers have managed to achieve a little more food history with a new chemical monstrosity: Exploding watermelons. This was accomplished by applying a chemical growth promoter to the melons. A day later, one farmer saw 180 watermelons explode. Other farmers lost up to two-thirds of their watermelon crops as the melons exploded in the field. The growth chemical used on watermelons is also used on grapes and other crops, even in the United States, by the way. It's called forchlorfenuron, and research shows that it is implicated in human cancers and neurological disorders (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/...). It's routinely used on melons and other crops grown in China. Any chemical for an extra dollar of profit China is best known around the world for using any chemical whatsoever -- no matter how toxic -- to make an extra buck. In China, clever hucksters will use black dye to paint regular sesame seeds so they look like black sesame seeds which bring a premium price. When harvesting rare fish that fetch a high price per pound, Chinese fishermen have been known to inject the fish with mercury to increase their weight. The Communist Chinese culture, which utterly lacks any ethics, religion, spirituality or any principles of respecting life, is the source of all this food insanity. The culture is very similar to modern-day conventional scientists in America who also believe there is no such thing as consciousness, free will, spirit or soul (http://www.naturalnews.com/032359_T...). Without any belief in religion, karma or a spiritual existence after death, Chinese farmers have no philosophical foundation from which to respect life. This is why China is poisoning itself in a sea of toxic chemicals. This is why Chinese powdered milk producers will poison their own neighbors by putting melamine in the mix. This is also why China will soon give rise to a generation of mutants suffering from widespread infertility and physical deformities. Mainland Chinese rivers are so toxic that no one dare bathe in them anymore. You'd probably die from convulsions. The land is heavily sprayed with obscene quantities of toxic pesticides, fungicides and growth accelerators. While there are certified organic suppliers in China who are legitimately cultivating healthful foods, the bulk of the food and supplements coming out of China are so extremely toxic that eating them is risking death. That watermelons are exploding in the fields there is no surprise. The real surprise is that Chinese couples are still able to have babies at all. Give it another generation and that may no longer be the case. Sources for this story include: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi... http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/0... …………………………….. China police harass Mongol activist's family Jul 8, 2011 BEIJING - THE detained wife of leading Mongolian activist Hada met with her brother in north China for the first time in months, as authorities continue to harass her family, a rights group said on Friday. Xinna and her son Uiles were arrested in December in Hohhot city in Inner Mongolia, just as her husband Hada was due to complete a 15-year jail term, the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Centre (SMHRIC) reported. But Hada was never released, and his wife and son were later charged respectively with 'illegal business practices' and 'drug possession,' rights groups have said. Both have denied the charges and maintained their innocence, according to the SMHRIC. The group said Xinna's brother visited her on Tuesday at a detention centre in Hohhot, where she is held separately from her son and husband - the first time in over four months that a relative has been allowed to meet with a Hada family member. The detention centre refused to comment when contacted by AFP. – AFP Source: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_688524.html -- Weekly China: - a weekly updates on China ( an initiative of TibetNews in updating on China through a Weekly Mail) ........ Tibet News Information on Human Right and Freedom Repression in Tibet E: TibetNews@thinktibet.info For more options, visit this link: at www.tibetnews.tibetlist.com