From: "Catherine Austin Fitts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Check out reference to Sudan ethnic cleansing. My understanding from a friend just returned is that they are using lots of mind control programming to help get this done. ============================================================================ ================================ GOLDMAN SACHS' PETROCHINA OFFERING WOULD FUND CHINA'S OCCUPATION OF TIBET Story Filed: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 8:00 AM EST NEW YORK, Feb 23, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The following was issued today by Students for a Free Tibet: Citing significant financial and political risk factors, key players in the Tibet Movement are calling on investors to not buy shares of PetroChina, a controversial state-owned company poised to list on the New York, London and Hong Kong Stock Exchanges. Engaged in a global effort to secure oil and gas resources, PetroChina and its parent company, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) -- a state-run monolith laden with debt and implicated in the deaths of nearly 2 million Sudanese-are seeking a massive injection of capital from foreign investors. The $5-$10 billion initial public offering (IPO) brokered by Goldman Sachs would help finance the extraction of Tibet's oil and gas resources for use in mainland China and provide funds to advance China's colonization of Tibet. An operation of this scale would severely impact the Tibetan people. Resettlement of large numbers of Chinese gas workers into northeastern Tibet would bolster China's decades long practice of moving Chinese settlers into Tibet to strengthen its grip on the occupied country. This policy of population transfer has already reduced Tibetans to a minority in much of their own nation and increased ethnic tensions in the area. Both Tibet and East Turkistan (Xianjiang), the regions targeted by PetroChina's operations, are tinderboxes of suppressed nationalist rage. Widespread civil unrest is prevalent, with bus bombs and attacks on oil pipelines reported in East Turkistan. "Goldman Sachs and PetroChina are really playing with fire," said John Hocevar, Executive Director of Students for a Free Tibet (SFT). "Heightened industrial operations in these already tense regions will only exacerbate the situation. With 500,000 Chinese soldiers deployed already, how many more will be needed to maintain control?" Adding to this, the environmental impacts of PetroChina's exploration and extraction in this fragile high altitude ecosystem would be disastrous. Given its record in China's Daqing oil fields, PetroChina's operations would likely shatter the delicate balance of the regions environment and further disrupt the traditional way of life of the Tibetan and Mongolian nomads. Tibet's oil reserves are in the Tsaidam Basin, the same region in which the World Bank drew a storm of international criticism for its proposed resettlement of nearly 60,000 Chinese farmers. That project has been stalled by intensive grassroots opposition, and is now under investigation by the Bank's Inspection Panel. Leading activist groups in the Tibetan Freedom Movement have begun distributing information about the offer and organizing a grassroots campaign to stop the PetroChina IPO. Coalition members like SFT, an organization with over 500 chapters worldwide, are calling on universities, public employee mutual funds and other potential investors to avoid the stock. If the IPO is successful they intend to launch a broad-based international divestment campaign against PetroChina. SOURCE Students for a Free Tibet (c) 2000 PR Newswire. All rights reserved. http://www.prnewswire.com CONTACT: John Hocevar or Lhadon Tethong, both of Students for a Free Tibet, 212-594-5898 GEOGRAPHY: New York China INDUSTRY CODE: OIL TRN EDU Copyright ) 2000, PR Newswire, all rights reserved. You may now print or save this document. MailCity. Secure Email Anywhere, Anytime! http://www.mailcity.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn more with SmartPlanet. It's a new way of learning online. SmartPlanet offers hundreds of courses to take on your time, in your space. Join for FREE today! http://click.egroups.com/1/1703/2/_/475667/_/951510112/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
