Fraiku…….From ‘Free Tibet’…..
by Bernie Bell - 08:15 on 26 October 2025
Fraiku: Ripped from the Headlines
Trump wrecks White House.
No need for metaphor.
Life becomes parody.
https://bartbarkerpoet.com/2025/10/24/fraiku-ripped-from-the-headlines/
My comment was….
“I was wittering at Mike about how hard I'm finding it to accept the fact - and that it is a fact – that Trump is demolishing the East Wing of the White House.
I was thinking of the people who are driving the bulldozers and aiming the wrecking-balls - possibly having grown up with the White House as a symbol of their nation - then they’re told to knock it down. Strong symbolism there, too. They have to do what they’re told, or they're out of a job.
Unless, of course, they go on strike.
It’s used a bit too much now, but this is a ‘What the fuck?’ scenario if ever there was one.”
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From ‘Free Tibet’…..
“What if you were forcibly displaced?
You’ve been forced to pack your belongings and dismantle centuries-old sacred temples. Your home, heritage, and future stand in the way of China's latest monstrous mega dam.
The world’s largest hydropower complex was greenlit in December 2024, breaking ground in July 2025. It will devastate Tibet's sacred Yarlung Tsangpo River, displace Tibetan communities and melt 20,000-year-old permafrost, risking catastrophic flooding downstream.
The aim? Steal Tibet’s resources to power China’s eastern cities. All while elevating the risk of earthquakes in one of the world’s most seismic regions.
Tibet’s environment is under threat.
Tibet is Drowning
“If built, the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon’s defining characteristics – its towering cliffs, immense depth, narrow gorges, misty atmosphere, lush greenery, rugged terrain, and breathtaking beauty – will be lost forever.”
– Wang Weiluo, Hydrologist
Tibetans are at the front line of climate breakdown, paying the highest price for a government that is choking its rivers and tearing open its pastures.
But this is not just about Tibet: China’s mega project has repercussions on the whole region.
Strategically located at ‘the Great Bend’, where Tibet’s longest river cuts through the Himalayas before flowing south into India and onward through Bangladesh, the mega hydro project gives China dangerous control over a river essential to millions.
Despite warnings from Chinese scientists, including geologist Yang Yong, who’s studied the region for the past 30 years, the project is pressing ahead in the shadows, alarming researchers downstream in India.
This project must be challenged. Stand with us to defend the Third Pole.
Help defend Tibet’s environment
China is celebrating this mega-dam as a green energy win. Free Tibet is campaigning to expose this lie.
The truth is clear: this project intends to greenwash the depletion of Tibet’s resources and the forced removal of Tibetan people from their lands.
Last year we documented how courageous Tibetans protested against the construction of the Kamtok (Gangtuo) dam in the upper reaches of the Yangtze or Drichu river in the mountains of Kham.
The protests were crushed by military force. Because speaking truth to power in Tibet is met by imprisonment and torture.
But our role remains clear: we must increase international pressure by exposing the truth.
Because until Tibetans decide for Tibet, no one else should.
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