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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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 Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:24 pm Post subject: CBC pulls Falun Gong documentary |
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documentary just hours before it was to air on Tuesday night, prompting complaints that the network bowed to pressure from Chinese government officials.
The network, which had actually already broadcast the documentary once in English and once on its sister French service, Radio-Canada, switched the program at the 11th hour to rerun a piece about Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf.
A CBC spokesman said the network is simply doing its �due diligence� in holding Beyond The Red Wall: The Story of Falun Gong for prime time, in order to make it �more solid� before airing it at an unspecified date.
�If there is re-editing that's required, we're going to do that,� CBC spokesman Jeff Keay said. He confirmed the network had been talking with Chinese diplomats who had expressed concerns about promotions the CBC had aired in the runup to this week's broadcast.
�I was actually contacted myself by a gentleman who is a cultural consultant with the Chinese embassy,� Mr. Keay said. �He was very polite.� CBC will run a new version of the documentary �sooner rather than later,� the spokesman added, but couldn't say precisely when.
The Canadian director of Beyond The Red Wall says he has no intention of re-editing a piece that he spent three years working on. �We have to quote-unquote give balance,� veteran filmmaker Peter Rowe said in an interview. �� I've never experienced anything like these kinds of demands.�
The Falun Gong and Beijing are locked in a global campaign against one another. Falun Gong members said they interpret the delayed documentary as the latest example of China-sponsored interference against their movement, which Beijing considers a cult that represents a security threat.
The documentary draws attention to Falun Gong practitioners' complaints of persecution, including beatings, torture and labour camps in China.
It also explores an investigative report done by the former Canadian MP David Kilgour and Canadian civil-liberties lawyer David Matas, who concluded last year that a �large but unknown number of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience� were being executed and their hearts, kidneys, livers and corneas harvested for transplant. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Canada has been spineless pretty much for the last few decades. |
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yawarakaijin
Joined: 08 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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| That little cartoon is awesome. What more do you need to say about China? I dont think I will be able to think of anything else when I see that logo from now on. Kudos to the artist. |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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| yawarakaijin wrote: |
| That little cartoon is awesome. What more do you need to say about China? I dont think I will be able to think of anything else when I see that logo from now on. Kudos to the artist. |
It is quite good. I hope it is widely disseminated to cause maximum damage to the official logo. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 2:08 am Post subject: |
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| Is there a bigger size of that funky logo? |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 2:49 am Post subject: |
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| I'm not sure. I pulled it off the FEER site. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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The Beijing Olympics is NOT a celebration of human rights abuses.
What a one-sided article. The mass of the Chinese populous is not complicit much less remotely involved in the power struggle between Jiang Zemin and the Falun Gong cult.
But your dissent does not matter. The Olympics will go on. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
The Beijing Olympics is NOT a celebration of human rights abuses.
What a one-sided article.
The mass of the Chinese populous is not complicit much less remotely involved in
the power struggle between Jiang Zemin and the Falun Gong cult.
But your dissent does not matter. |
So Kuros, you support brutal dictatorships?
Screw basic individual rights & freedoms, simply bring on more of the investment greed-fest? |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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| igotthisguitar wrote: |
So Kuros, you support brutal dictatorships?
Screw basic individual rights & freedoms, simply bring on more of the investment greed-fest? |
I dunno, IGTG, do you support complete anarchy?
Do you hate sports? |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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I'll take that as a yes.
Commie Panda, eh? Thanks. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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| igotthisguitar wrote: |
I'll take that as a yes.
Commie Panda, eh? Thanks. |
Why do you hate China?
Are you racist? |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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Don't hate nothing.
Not even deluded Pandas 
Human greed is a problem, esp. when it leads to the trampling of basic human rights & the environment. |
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loose_ends
Joined: 23 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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| igotthisguitar wrote: |
Don't hate nothing.
Not even deluded Pandas
Human greed is a problem, esp. when it leads to the trampling of basic human rights & the environment. |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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crazy! if people want to do backflips in a park let them!
whats the big deal with some old people practicing an old art which was considered taboo 500 years ago... traditions, cultures give me break!
its 2007!!! |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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| itaewonguy wrote: |
crazy! if people want to do backflips in a park let them!
whats the big deal with some old people practicing an old art which was considered taboo 500 years ago... traditions, cultures give me break!
its 2007!!! |
Yah, well why should anyone care about that kinda stuff?
Just keep that great bleed & greed-investment machine rolling!  |
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