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WikiLeaks: Dalai Lama Says Climate Change, Not Politics, Should Be Focus In Tibet

Jason Burke in Delhi   12/17/10 06:25 AM ET   AP

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NEW DELHI — A leaked U.S. diplomatic cable says the Dalai Lama told American officials that the issue of Tibet's political future should be temporarily shelved in favor of concerns over climate change.

The cable sent from the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi last year says the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader appealed to the U.S. to reach out to China on climate issues in Tibet.

The cable said the Dalai Lama, who seeks more autonomy for the Himalayan region, indicated that political talks with Beijing can be sidelined for five or 10 years but addressing the mountains' melting glaciers, deforestation, and increasingly polluted water could not wait.

The cable was obtained by WikiLeaks and released Friday by The Guardian newspaper.

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NEW DELHI — A leaked U.S. diplomatic cable says the Dalai Lama told American officials that the issue of Tibet's political future should be temporarily shelved in favor of concerns over climate ...
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Balzac
627 Fans
04:57 AM on 12/22/2010
I hate to contradict him, but there won't be much progress against climate change without social harmony. Preserving Tibetan culture against Chinese cultural imperialism must remain the priority in Tibet. The political boundaries of Tibet aren't as important as preserving Tibetan language and tradition, in that order.
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Pod-gers
Jeremy Lin = Game Change
1196 Fans
04:29 PM on 12/21/2010
The Da Lie Lama, and his family, have been on the CIA payroll since the early 1950s. He says and does nothing his handlers do not want him to say. If he says that climate is now more important than politics, it is because that is what the state depd script calls for.

WARNING: No, I am not a pinky commie fink, nor am I brainwashed, nor am I paid to say this. This info is available on line, and in books publ;ished in the US. It is in many declassified documents, and of course in Congressinal Testimony.

The strange but true fact is tha Da Lie Lama is a paid tool of the USA.
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Pockybox
11 Fans
04:18 PM on 12/21/2010
Again, I like how these leaked cables continue to make the good guys actually look like good guys. Transparency is obviously a good thing. I'm not surprised by this one bit, even to the point that it doesn't even seem like a "leak".
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CarmanK
democrat, retired tax acct
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10:48 AM on 12/21/2010
Dalai Lama is a wise man who leads responsibly. He spends little time denying the obvious or building his OWN personal empire. He is an honorable man. By, I just wonder, why the old men in this country are just bitter and uninspiring as they age. Or like Barbour of Mississippi just devolve into convenient memory loss.
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Pod-gers
Jeremy Lin = Game Change
1196 Fans
04:31 PM on 12/21/2010
As you describe the Da Lie Lama, he sseems like a great man, so, I wonder why he refused, for 9 years, to emancipate his over 6000 serfs and 107 slaves? Now that China has emancipated them, why has the Da Lie Lama failed to apologise to them? Just wondering, since you claime he is such a great man.
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quintus
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06:02 PM on 02/06/2011
Another CCP goon?
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OnAndOnSOH
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07:46 AM on 12/21/2010
Long live the Dalai Lama.
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Ramkshrestha
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05:29 AM on 12/20/2010
Dalai Lama, what happened to you? Your all books collapsed here. Narrowing mind.
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Pod-gers
Jeremy Lin = Game Change
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04:35 PM on 12/21/2010
Ain't that the truth!
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quintus
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06:03 PM on 02/06/2011
Go back to ELS school.
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iriemeditation
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01:28 AM on 12/20/2010
Heal the Earth.
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wdw505
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03:40 PM on 12/19/2010
big deal.........he should be trusted why?
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tamsinstead
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08:12 AM on 12/19/2010
The same could be said (apart from the glaciers) here in Thailand ...
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JHKH
384 Fans
08:40 PM on 12/18/2010
Now that is a leader who is thinking about the needs of the people, their environment, and the consequences to all humanity first. If all governmental leaders could think as selflessly, humanity might stand a chance of long-term survival.
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Blackorpheus
the decisive blows are always struck left-handed
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11:41 AM on 12/18/2010
The Dallai Lama is not just a religious leader, he is an extraordinarily sensitive human.
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wdw505
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03:41 PM on 12/19/2010
who cares......
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Blackorpheus
the decisive blows are always struck left-handed
623 Fans
09:26 PM on 12/19/2010
Not you, obviously.
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Pockybox
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04:19 PM on 12/21/2010
because he has influence and a following of millions of people?
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Ragnar Danneskjold
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09:57 AM on 12/18/2010
Another leftist kool aid peddler putting the Hoax above the suffering of his people.
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Steve Brian Davis
How is my micro-bio empty, I'm a microbiologist?
568 Fans
10:40 AM on 12/18/2010
'rightist' credo:

Climategate Hackers = Good
WikiLeaks Hackers = Bad
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alteredstory
Hold on to the center
916 Fans
11:12 AM on 12/18/2010
You've got it the wrong way around, and I don't think you have much of a leg to stand on accusing this guy of not caring about the suffering of his people. In this case, he's just exhibiting acceptance of reality and deep caring for the long-term welfare of his people.
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krummlaw
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09:29 AM on 12/18/2010
How unChristian of the Dalai Lama! To push a Socialist agenda simply because the glaciers are melting, the forests disappearing. We ought to send Sen. James Imhofe over there to bring a little Christian Enlightenment.
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michael3ov
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09:03 AM on 12/18/2010
The extreme right will say that the dalai lama is pushing an agenda for maitreya, whom many of them think is the antichrist. I have already heard them talking about it. Maitreya is coming forth to push his socialist green agenda. I am getting frustrated with these people. They are getting more and more support and the outlook for our home is looking worse and worse. I probably will not be around to see it but I hate to think that my grandchildren may have to pay for our actions, ignorance, and our inaction. It is so frustrating when all we have to do is make very simple changes in the way we live and take care of our home. What happened to us?
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Nyingje
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08:52 AM on 12/19/2010
Buddha Maitreya will only come when the last Buddha's (Shakyamuni's) teachings have vanished and no one even remembers that there was a Buddhadharma. So if the evangelicals want to delay the coming of the Antichrist, they ought to lend support to Buddhist institutions to ensure that Buddhism remains around for a long, long time.
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Pema
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07:27 PM on 12/17/2010
FREE TIBET!
FREE THE PANCHEN LAMA!
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alteredstory
Hold on to the center
916 Fans
11:14 AM on 12/18/2010
nono - he's saying put a PAUSE on that and turn the attention of your capslock button to climate change.

That way when we do get around to a free tibet, it'll still be habitable. The country's on the edge of survivability as is, it can't really afford a serious change in its climate.
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Pema
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12:10 PM on 12/18/2010
i can still want a free tibet. i have friends there. i have been yelping for years about what the chinese are doing ecologically. i can still want a free tibet and the panchen lama free.
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wereeverywhere
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07:41 PM on 12/18/2010
We can multitask, and it's not very wise to abandon the demand for a free Tibet. It's very easy to get a skewed picture from one leaked document, especially given Dalai Lama's life work for his people.
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