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Originally Posted by Pierre
The Dalai Lama
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Ooops
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzin_...4th_Dalai_Lama
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In October 1998, The Dalai Lama's administration acknowledged that it received $1.7 million a year in the 1960's from the U.S. Government through the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)[15], and also trained a resistance movement in Colorado (USA). [16] When asked by CIA officer John Kenneth Knaus in 1995 whether the organization did a good or bad thing in providing its support, the Dalai Lama replied that though it helped the morale of those resisting the Chinese, "thousands of lives were lost in the resistance" and further, that "the U.S. Government had involved itself in his country's affairs not to help Tibet but only as a Cold War tactic to challenge the Chinese."[17]
British journalist Christopher Hitchens wrote a scathing criticism [18] of the Dalai Lama in 1998, which questioned his alleged support for India's nuclear weapons testing, the "selling of indulgences" to Hollywood celebrities like Richard Gere, and his statements condoning prostitution.
The Dalai Lama is sometimes criticized for modifying his message to be as palatable as possible to his audience, sometimes changing viewpoints according to the situation. He is also sometimes reproached for taking one side of an issue at one time and changing it later on, usually in response to criticism. This tendency has led opposing sides of an issue to believe that the Dalai Lama supports their cause, e.g. homosexuality[19], abortion, the Iraq war, Kashmiri independence, nuclear weapons, etc"
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Originally Posted by freezin
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Above is the link you quoted
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my link was pointing out the site you had quoted was run by this man -
Anthony Cowgill - well, his name was at the bottom of the web-page above, and this was one of the (very few) review(s) I could find of his book.
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Originally Posted by foreverwar
...snip....And yes, thanks for providing a link to a Eurosceptic's site to back up your argument 
http://www.europeanfoundation.org/docs/April%202005.pdf page 25
" The choice of material in the foreword alerts the reader to the author’s fundamentally British Eurosceptic view of the Constitution, whilst the legal and constitutional analysis reflects the thinking of Bill Cash and the European Foundation" |
mmmmm - not very Europhile, eh?
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Originally Posted by freezin
Have you met any of the Maastricht Rebels?
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I've met, at various party conferences, elections and by-elections, and at the House, when I used to do research for, and visit, my MP there -
Liam Fox
David Willetts
Tony Marlow
Teresa Gorman
Teddy Taylor
James Cran
Michael Spicer
Rupert Allason
Bill Cash
Nicholas Winterton
Ian Duncan Smith
George Gardiner
Have you met any of the Maastricht rebels?