The following is some excerpts from a letter sent to me by the Students For A Free Tibet Activist group:

Dear Mario,

Nearly three weeks have passed since Tibetan monks from Drepung Monastery carried out peaceful protests demanding their freedom. Their action spread to Sera Monastery and then to the streets of Lhasa and into the hearts of Tibetans across Tibet and around the world, igniting a nationwide uprising.

Despite massive military presence, widespread incarceration, torture, and an ongo… Continue

Welcome to anyone who visits here, this is not the kind of thing that many people feel they want to be involved with, for whatever reason and I respect that.

By the same token, this is something I feel very strongly about and therefore I have pulled all this material together under one roof.

It is a fundamental principle by which every self-respecting, decent human being choose to live: To Not Be Brutally Assaulted, tortured, killed under any circumstance by a fellow human being on this planet… Continue

I have come up with the idea of this ning social network because of the ability of big coprporations or nation-states to skew reality and the flow of media information to suit a particular elite interest group.

I think this is fundamentally wrong, and that wherever such warping of reality do occur, someone should be courageous enough to say: "Hellooo, I do not think that you are being completely open and honest about what is actually happening here" and then speak up and say why precisely they… Continue