A tribute to my Brave and Compassionate Tibetan Friends
Some past dots to connect to future events.
We have just passed the anniversary of what is called the Tibetan Uprising, it was really a backlash against the Chinese invasion of Tibet and the massive and brutal killing of almost one half of the population. Before I traveled to and stayed at the Lower Sange Monastery, AKA Wutun Monastery I had read estimates of between 200 thousand and 1.2 million deaths of Tibetans at the hands of the Chinese during the 3 years of their invasion and take over. Hard to tell what was true and real. My time in Tibet, talking to the various survivors of this horrible time led me to postulate that the 1.2 million figure was closer to the truth and may be shy of the real figure. I was asking for population numbers before the invasion and after the invasion from village leaders and the surviving monks and lamas at various monasteries. Over half of the population was killed. Just as one example at the Ghomar Monastery, there were over 200 monks at the monastery, and after they killings topped, only 17 monks were left alive. This scenario of deaths was repeated at each monastery I visited and each village.
I want to show some images of what a group of Tibetan nomads did with the help of some unnamed lamas and regular Tibetans that donated money and time to helping. After 50 years of Chinese rule, the illiteracy rate was 97% and the poverty rate just as high. They decided to change that.
During their short 8 or 9 year existence this association of nomads had 325 children of nomads in a boarding school, fed housed and educated them along with providing school uniforms to get them out of their rags. 8 young people made it through university on scholarships provided. Three medical clinics were established, people were trained as Emergency Medical Techs to provide additional services. Low interest micro business loans were made to people to start small businesses and additional guidance on operating those businesses. Projects were initiated to clean up the environment as Tibetans never had to be concerned with plastic, every thing they historically used was biodegradable.
Here are some images of these efforts.
Children at the Project Hope boarding school for nomadic children taking exams.
Images of the kitchen at the boarding school.
Children in the dorms at the school.
Children studying, notice the nice clothes.
The first issue of the school uniforms for the most raggedly clothed students, at a cost of $8.25 per uniform.
Interior of one of the clinics opened by Dronmi
Tibetans and the school children cleaning up the environment.
All of the people (except those here in the USA and Australia) involved with the education and eradication of poverty effort have vanished, school closed, and clinics closed. Everything good undone. Nomads have had their herds confiscated, sold on the cheap, and the money forcibly used to make a down payment on an apartment with a sizable mortgage, which they cannot pay and then are evicted as they have no job or income. Good plan.All of the people (except those here in the USA and Australia) involved with the education and eradication of poverty effort have vanished, school closed, and clinics closed. Everything good undone. Nomads have had their herds confiscated, sold on the cheap, and the money forcably used to make a down payment on an apartment with a sizable mortgage, which they cannot pay and then are evicted as they have no job or income. Good plan.
I wanted to remember what these people accomplished in a public forum, extremely brave and compassionate people, one and all.
Now that we have the images out of the way we can get onto the business at hand. It is a complex web that I shall try to make simple, yes I know, good luck with that.
Lettuce take a look at the much heralded Budapest Accord. If you are a Master of the Obvious, you can readily see it is a treaty with no teeth, no security for Ukraine, one sided and can I say it? STUPID
Ukraine gives up nuclear weapons and if they are invaded it will get talked about at the UN Security Council. That is some great protection and assurances. Here is the full accord or memorandum, full of technical and legal jargon and hard to understand, NOT.
The link to the following. Budapest Accord or Memorandum
MEMORANDUM ON SECURITY ASSURANCES IN CONNECTION WITH UKRAINE’S ACCESSION TO THE TREATY ON THE NON-PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Budapest, 5 December 1994
The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,
Welcoming the accession of Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons as a non-nuclear-weapon State,
Taking into account the commitment of Ukraine to eliminate all nuclear weapons from its territory within a specified period of time,
Noting the changes in the world-wide security situation, including the end of the Cold War, which have brought about conditions for deep reductions in nuclear forces.
Confirm the following:
The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the CSCE Final Act, to respect the Independence and Sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine.
The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, and that none of their weapons will ever be used against Ukraine except in self-defense or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.
The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the CSCE Final Act, to refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind.
The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine, as a non-nuclear-weapon State Party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, if Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used.
The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm, in the case of the Ukraine, their commitment not to use nuclear weapons against any non-nuclear-weapon State Party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, except in the case of an attack on themselves, their territories or dependent territories, their armed forces, or their allies, by such a state in association or alliance with a nuclear weapon state.
The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will consult in the event a situation arises which raises a question concerning these commitments.
This Memorandum will become applicable upon signature.
Signed in four copies having equal validity in the English, Russian and Ukrainian languages.
This has nothing to do with the topic of this posting, just wanted to show some high level stupidity that was touted as a great breakthrough in terms of world peace and supposed nuclear disarmament.
On to the complex web I want to make simple; the diaspora of Islam and Muslims into the west. The CIA is great at starting conflicts, supplying arms and fomenting uprisings. The Middle East has been in conflict since the 1990s, the US invasion of Iraq under false pretenses, false intel provided to the US and world population of nuclear designs of Iraq, and the ongoing Arab Spring. Makes for lots of refugees. The question that no one answers is that question which should have been asked of the Eritrean conflict in Ethiopia.
Wow, this small group of people came up with some impressive military hardware, where did it come from? Who purchased it and supplied it?
Make your own dots.
One of the cool things about Islam is the Friday prayer get together’s, and the military style drills the men go through, during this prayer, all in unison. The promise of 72 virgins if you die for Allah, if you assault or kill anyone that offends Allah. It becomes so well entranced in the mind that they are willing to suicide bomb innocents for Allah. Great army to have them placed all over the western world. Some offense to Allah is perceived in Oklahoma, and they kill people all over the world to avenge this. You have read the news reports of this time and time again.
Again, make your own dots.
The common thought was that the US went into Iraq for the oil. The elites get the oil regardless of where it comes from or who controls the source, it gets refined and sold and that is where the profits are. The elites made billions off the no bid contracts for logistical support both in Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention all of the arms sales. This was the real profits, and yet they still make money from the oil sales. Quite the winning scenario. But I maintain that the diaspora was the objective, and the war profits a nice bonus.
About 6 or 7 years ago, and unfortunately I cannot find the link, there was a treaty signed between China, Pakistan and Afghanistan, shorter than the Budapest Accord that said if either Pakistan or Afghanistan’s government was threatened that China could come in and stabilize the situation. No mention of being invited, or what warrants this, just a perception and China can go in.
It does hinge on the Belt and Road, need to have the road to invade, and that road into and through Afghanistan is not completed. The government was overthrown, and now China is playing paddy-cake with the Taliban, actually more than paddy-cake. China has a new weapon in their arsenal for the time being and they are developing it; it is a case of “because we can”.
Interesting substack article about China and the Taliban. It fits with what I am dotting.
How to weaponize Islam, learning from the western elites.
My prediction is that this will escalate, and once the roads are completed, China will do an overt invasion and “stabilization” of Afghanistan and Pakistan. This will be followed by the de-Islamification of those two countries, all the while they are enabling Iran’s nuclear ambitions and missile capabilities. At some point, around the year 2028, this will backfire and Islam will avenge Allah and a nuclear war will result. Initially it will be aimed at China, and as these things go, escalate rapidly. This is when the 5th dimension really becomes active. Those seven candles with lips move into action, followed by the rest of the Host of Heaven a few years later.
To end up, some nice images, here is what I call my magic butterfly. He or she took the time to pose for me, which was good as my expensive digital camera likes to wait a bit between my pressing the button and actually taking the image. Want those Kodachrome days to return. The butterfly’s wings would change color from light blue to purple depending upon the angle viewed.
This point you made here is interesting David,
"It does hinge on the Belt and Road, need to have the road to invade, and that road into and through Afghanistan is not completed. The government was overthrown, and now China is playing paddy-cake with the Taliban, actually more than paddy-cake. China has a new weapon in their arsenal for the time being and they are developing it; it is a case of “because we can”.
Do you think it's possible that Biden was told to leave the billions of dollars of equipment in Afghanistan for this reason? To weaponize them against Chinese advancement?
Just thinking out loud here.
Fascinating analysis. China / de-Islamification. Makes absolute sense. Just export the Uyghurs giant prison camps and the use of arbitrary mass detentions.
Question, Announced in 2013, we are 10 years into the Belt and Road initiative. Is the steam running out?
I wonder if Foreign Policy ( https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/13/china-belt-and-road-initiative-infrastructure-development-geopolitics/ )is accurate in stating it's running out of steam:
Nearly a decade after its inception, momentum behind China’s sweeping Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) appears to be slowing as lending slumps and projects stall—forcing Chinese President Xi Jinping to again rethink a floundering initiative that he once hailed as his “project of the century.”
After doling out hundreds of billions of dollars, experts say China’s lending for BRI projects has plummeted, largely a casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic and the country’s own economic slowdown. Support has also waned as partner countries drown in debt and fractures emerge—literally—in projects, fueling uncertainty about the future of the sprawling initiative. In 2022, 60 percent of China’s overseas lending went to borrowers in financial distress, compared to just 5 percent in 2010, said Bradley Parks, the executive director of the AidData research group at the College of William and Mary.
And China's frustrations with regional countries:
https://thediplomat.com/2023/08/chinas-problem-with-nepal/
Thoughts?