Ricktloml wrote:
My apologies. I didn't mean that CCP exporting c*******m isn't in/of itself bad...only that as a freedom loving society we should have been able to turn it to our advantage. We have abdicated our responsibilities to INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY/FREEDOM of SPEECH by eagerly accepting the CCP...with no conditions, and just about everything it does.
My apology for not being understanding.
Here is a better version of that old movie that is much more audible, the speech and music is so much clearer here.
Kundun by Martin Scorsese (1997) FHD 1080p full movie [Good soundtrack]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfaNtUU_Oec44,254 views Oct 1, 2023
"Kundun is a 1997 American epic biographical film written by Melissa Mathison and directed by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the life and writings of Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, the exiled political and spiritual leader of Tibet. Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, a grandnephew of the Dalai Lama, stars as the adult Dalai Lama, while Tencho Gyalpo, a niece of the Dalai Lama, appears as the Dalai Lama's mother.
"Before the film was released, China's leaders hotly objected to Disney's plans to distribute the film, including to the point of threatening Disney's future access to China as a market. Disney's steadfastness stood in stark contrast to Universal Pictures, which had earlier 'turned down the chance to distribute Kundun for fear of upsetting the Chinese.' Scorsese, Mathison, and several other members of the production were banned by the Chinese government from ever entering China as a result of making the film. China retaliated by banning Disney films and pulling Disney television cartoons.
"Disney apologized in 1998 for releasing the film and began to 'undo the damage', eventually leading to a deal to open Shanghai Disneyland by 2016. Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner has apologized for offending Chinese sensitivities, calling the film 'a stupid mistake.' He went on to say, 'The bad news is that the film was made; the good news is that nobody watched it. Here I want to apologize, and in the future we should prevent this sort of thing, which insults our friends, from happening.'
"By 2015 Scorsese's ban had apparently been lifted as he attended the premiere of his short film The Audition in Macau.
"As of 2022, the movie is unavailable on U.S. streaming platforms. However, it was released on DVD and Blu-ray by Kino Lorber in 2019."
Talk about censorship, look at what happened to this film made 1997:
This little biography is included on YouTube - exposing Michael Eisner of Disney shutting down this very movie in China and at home here in the States just so he could open up Disneyland in Shanghai.
Mao actually interviewed the young 18 year old Dali Lama and told him "religion was poison - the opiate of the people" just as bad as the British poisoning China with opium to put the public to sleep and subjugate it.
What Mao did not tell the Dali Lama is that the c*******t had spread plagues of brucellosis amongst the livestock and Chinese populace driving them stark raving mad to o*******w "the imperialists," with the aid of the Soviet Union BW crippling its own citizens into submission. If you watch closely, you will see a rat drinking amongst the brass water goblets at Llasa, the public drinking bowls unpasteurized milk, and buzzards consuming the dead, all rather symbolic of such incredible persecution and cruelty.
The very government that cripples its own citizens with disease and drugs next offers government socialized medicine as the antidote. Total loonytoons.
The Tibetan children were given guns to shoot their own parents, the monks and nuns forced to fornicate in the streets at gunpoint. Tibet's silos of barley were confiscated to feed the Red Army. The Tibetans starved. Chinese Tanks and aircraft mowed down the unarmed Tibetan people in the streets. This documentary is very graphic and truly demonstrates how deranged China was, and still is today.
These same plagues of violence and insanity are prevalent today in the Middle East, Mexico, and the Orient.
How about rat wars instead of people wars?There is no purpose to inciting r**ts and revolution to redistribute the wealth.
Men go to war and women go shopping. Free markets work.