Don't be evil

80 Tibetans killed, more imprisoned as China cracks down on protests. The Dalai Lama warns of cultural genocide and demands international investigation.

Speaking from India, the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetans, called for an international investigation into China's crackdown on demonstrators in Lhasa, which his exiled government claims left 80 people dead. China's state media has said 10 civilians were killed.

Sunday's demonstrations follow nearly a week of protests in Lhasa that escalated into violence Friday, with Tibetans attacking Chinese and torching their shops, in the longest and fiercest challenge to Chinese rule in nearly two decades.

In a sign that authorities were preparing for trouble, AP and other foreign journalists were ordered out of the Tibetan parts of Gansu and Qinghai provinces by police who told them it was for their "safety."

Complicating Beijing's task, the spreading protests fall two weeks before China's celebrations for the Beijing Olympics kick off with the start of the torch relay, which will pass through Tibet.

And, of course, disinformation conglomerate, and willing fascist conspirators Yahoo! & MSN aided & abetted the brutal chi-coms as they blacked out Tibet news.

China's most popular search engines and portals are sticking to the official line, too. The only mention of Tibet on Baidu.com (BIDU), China's top search engine, is in a Xinhua story alleging the Dalai Lama is plotting to destroy social stability in Tibet, an effort that Xinhua says is doomed to fail. The Chinese versions of Yahoo! (YHOO) and Microsoft's (MSFT) MSN are running the same Xinhua item. The Chinese edition of Google News has links to the Chinese Web sites of the British Broadcasting Corp., Voice of America, and Taiwanese newspapers, but those sites are blocked within China (BusinessWeek.com, 10/20/07).

MM has word on the people's efforts to Circumvent the Great Firewall of China.

On Monday, the Gateway Pundit reported that the Chinese Parade Handcuffed Tibetan Activists Down Lhasa Streets.
And MTC wants to know why UN 'Peace' Ambassador (and BDS sufferer) George Clooney is still cashing checks from Beijing Olympic sponsor Omega while monks are getting shot in the street?