Hold Fast

My former co-blogger and close friend Austin has started blogging again. His new tumblr blog is called Lax Scrutiny and I highly recommend it. It’s mostly a law blog, but includes Austin’s musings on food and coffee and pictures of an adorable pup named Murphy.

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http://www.vimeo.com/890732

Lhadon writes:
The photos in this video are hard to look at. They are of Tibetans shot and killed inside Tibet over the past month. This is the reality of Chinese rule in Tibet and what Chinese authorities do to Tibetans who dare to protest. This is what we can expect if the IOC allows China […]

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Business Week has an in-depth, cover article on cyber attacks originating from China on top US defense contractors and military and intelligence agencies in the American government. Tibetan support groups like Students for a Free Tibet also receive frequent cyber attacks.
Peng’s 3322.org and sister sites have become a source of concern to the U.S. […]

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Josh Schrei, former Chair of Students for a Free Tibet and producer of the Tibetan Freedom concerts, had a really interesting interview with BBC Radio in Australia. Give it a listen.
Update:
Josh also has a piece in Alternet today.

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Good for him, but again, a little late for Newsom to come to Jesus.

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Glenn Greenwald points out that the Republicans may be dropping FISA as an imperative issue for the remainder of the legislative session. He makes the case that the reason this happened was the strong principles shown by Democrats:
This is the first time in a long time that right-wing fear-mongering on Terrorism hasn’t succeeded. Given that […]

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The Beijing Olympics continue to lend themselves to satire. I wonder why…

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3q7Gq5AINI

This is video of monks in Labrang protesting during a dog and pony show put on for foreign and Chinese journalists by the Chinese government. You can hear them shouting “Bhod Gyalo,” which means victory for Tibet and is a common cry among supporters of Tibet’s independence. You can also see them carrying a large […]

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Kirk James Murphy M.D. has a great post at FireDogLake about the San Francisco torch relay and the protests surrounding it.
As the whole watching world knows, today China’s attempt to torchwash nearly sixty years of brutal imperialism in Tibet, the massacres of Tienanmen Square, and the genocide that is Darfur failed on the streets of […]

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This is a map of the torch route and the sorts of protests, crowds, and events that took place along the way - as well as alterations to the route.

I was getting updates on my cell phone from the SMS feed going out on Twitter; this succeeded in conveying the true chaotic nature of the […]

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