Posts

Showing posts from January, 2015

Tibet a more semi religious political expose

Image
When Jesus was born, the Isrealites had been living under the Roman yoke for more than 60 years, suppressed with high taxes and living with Roman leadership and military presence everywhere. (Military outpost along the road down the mountains to mainland China) This is the situation of Tibet today. Bringing Chinese settlers, who receive the best jobs and imposing curfew hours and times on the Tibetan population, especially during religious festivals, when the police presence with full riot gear is on most corners very visible, this is the present daily lifestyle of Tibetans in the TAR (Tibetan Autonomous Region, a political misnomer if there ever was one) (We took the train back to China - actually former Inner Tibet) Every house is ordered to fly a Chinese flag to celebrate the friendship between the two peoples. Most Tibetan homes fly beside that flag, prayer ribbons en masse. (It is a barren land out there between nowhere and somewhere) The monasteries, in the past housing thousands