China to be host of Global Peace Concert for Earth Day
Jeanwah
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This was on The Porch too (because of the chance of PJ being there), but I find the whole idea of this Earth Day Peace Concert held in China pretty questionable, with their issues with Tibet (far from peaceful) and their pollution record (they tie with the U.S. being the highest in the world).
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100113/en ... 0113165333
Led Zeppelin's Page, Aerosmith to play free China gig
Wed Jan 13, 11:30 am ET
BEIJING (AFP) – Legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, Aerosmith, and the Black Eyed Peas will headline a free April concert on Beijing's Olympic Green, promoters said Wednesday.
The "Show of Peace," is scheduled for April 17 to mark Earth Day, which is celebrated each year to promote awareness of environmental issues, promoter Rick Garson said.
He called it the first-ever global peace and environment concert in China featuring world famous celebrities and musicians.
"Tickets are free. You can't charge for peace and green. It is going to be for everybody, it's like China's gift to the world and the people," Garson told reporters.
"What we are going to do is raise money, obviously, from sponsorship, international distribution, merchandising, Internet, ringtones, DVDs, CDs. That's how we are doing it, it is being self-funded as we speak."
Organisers were also talking with other artists about performing, such as Pearl Jam, Lady Gaga, Green Day, and 50 Cent, while numerous Chinese musicians were being brought in too, he said.
Organisers hope the concert will be beamed live around the world via television and the Internet to mark this year's 40th anniversary of Earth Day.
"My belief in music as a universal language is the reason I returned to Beijing to voice my support for the Show of Peace," said Page, who performed the Led Zeppelin classic "Whole Lotta Love" at the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics last year.
"This (concert) is a tribute to the power of music and its positive effect. Music has been one of the most powerful languages that speaks to the heart of the people around the world."
Sponsors include the Chinese People?s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, the China-based non-profit Joint-US China Collaboration on Clean Energy, the United Nations? NGO Pathways to Peace, and Ted Turner's Captain Planet Foundation.
The Olympic Green is the park encompassing key venues built for the 2008 Olympics including the Bird's Nest Olympic stadium.
Discussions were under way on the numbers of concert-goers who will be allowed to attend, which organisers hoped would number up to 100,000, Garson said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100113/en ... 0113165333
Led Zeppelin's Page, Aerosmith to play free China gig
Wed Jan 13, 11:30 am ET
BEIJING (AFP) – Legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, Aerosmith, and the Black Eyed Peas will headline a free April concert on Beijing's Olympic Green, promoters said Wednesday.
The "Show of Peace," is scheduled for April 17 to mark Earth Day, which is celebrated each year to promote awareness of environmental issues, promoter Rick Garson said.
He called it the first-ever global peace and environment concert in China featuring world famous celebrities and musicians.
"Tickets are free. You can't charge for peace and green. It is going to be for everybody, it's like China's gift to the world and the people," Garson told reporters.
"What we are going to do is raise money, obviously, from sponsorship, international distribution, merchandising, Internet, ringtones, DVDs, CDs. That's how we are doing it, it is being self-funded as we speak."
Organisers were also talking with other artists about performing, such as Pearl Jam, Lady Gaga, Green Day, and 50 Cent, while numerous Chinese musicians were being brought in too, he said.
Organisers hope the concert will be beamed live around the world via television and the Internet to mark this year's 40th anniversary of Earth Day.
"My belief in music as a universal language is the reason I returned to Beijing to voice my support for the Show of Peace," said Page, who performed the Led Zeppelin classic "Whole Lotta Love" at the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics last year.
"This (concert) is a tribute to the power of music and its positive effect. Music has been one of the most powerful languages that speaks to the heart of the people around the world."
Sponsors include the Chinese People?s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, the China-based non-profit Joint-US China Collaboration on Clean Energy, the United Nations? NGO Pathways to Peace, and Ted Turner's Captain Planet Foundation.
The Olympic Green is the park encompassing key venues built for the 2008 Olympics including the Bird's Nest Olympic stadium.
Discussions were under way on the numbers of concert-goers who will be allowed to attend, which organisers hoped would number up to 100,000, Garson said.
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Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
I do like the idea of a free concert, just puzzled by the idea of having it in China...and it's supposed to be about peace and being green.
Anyway, I've always wished I could go to Franti's festival, and I'm still pining for that hoodie with that Power to the Peaceful graphic on it. I just love it!
actually china's a more peaceful nation, when you get down to it. they haven't invaded anybody in what? 50 years? 100? that's more than can be said of europe and the United States.
give them time.
*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
and considering invasions, tibet still stands fallujah does not.
all i've said is china is more peaceful than the US or europe
Perhaps they appear that way, but with the takeover of neighboring territories, I'd hardly say that they're more peaceful.
china has taken over a territory, the United States has taken over the world, spreading its capitalism violently. so its always been.
Inside their borders or outside? I assume you mean outside.
Which is more peaceful inside their borders?
Which delivers more humanitarian aid?
Which is for more free speech?
*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
waco ring a bell? ruby ridge?
You really think there's going to be a lot of Free Speech going on at this concert in April? With their current regime?? Are they aiding Haiti? Better yet, have they ever come to the aid of other countries in turmoil? (They did aid Indonesia after the tsunami in 2004).
yup, it does.
(US) Waco = 75 dead
(US) Ruby Ridge = a few dead (i cannot find an accurate number)
Does Tiananmen Square ring a bell?
(China) Tiananmen Square = 300 dead
Lets also look at death penalty estimates, since that occurs steadily every year:
2008 (US) Death Penalty = 37
2008 (China) Death Penalty = 1,700 according to Amnesty International (though Dui Hua Foundation say it's at least 5,000)
*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
don't forget the 3300 US death row inmates that we are currently waiting to murder. there time will come. i'm sure our yearly killing figures would be a lot higher if we disposed of those people as quickly as the chinese do. we still kill them eventually, just takes us longer to do it.
and whether we like it or not, we should be judged on our actions outside our borders. some of the things we do, we're a disgrace.
Edit to add: just to be clear, i don't condone some of Chinas actions either, and before anyone suggests it, no, i do not wish to move there :? , i just think that sometimes we have to be honest and look in our own backyard when we are quick to criticize others.
Which is precisely why they should stage it in China - in the belly of the beast!
Could America's relationship with the Middle East be considered "peaceful"?
Yes, they are.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010- ... 806338.htm
China sends rescue team to quake-hit Haiti, donates one million dollars
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010 ... 322317.htm
China's rescue team in Haiti for 15-day mission
By Xie Jingwei (chinadaily.com.cn)
2010-01-14
China's National Earthquake Disaster Emergency Rescue Team arrived at the Port-au-Prince International Airport in Haiti on Thursday. [Photo/Xinhua]
China's National Earthquake Disaster Emergency Rescue Team has arrived in the quake-devastated country of Haiti Thursday to conduct a 15-day rescue mission.
The charted Air China plane carrying the 60-strong team arrived at the Port-au-Prince International Airport before the dawn on Thursday local time, according to Airplane Operating Control Center of Air China.
The team consists of search and rescue personnel and three sniffer dogs, Liu Xiangyang, deputy chief of the National Earthquake Disaster Emergency Rescue Team, told Xinhua at the Beijing Capital International Airport before leaving.
Provisions such as food and medicine carried with the team can sustain its operation in the country for 15 days. Rescuers also need to rest after 15 days of work over health and safety concerns. The team is equipped with advanced acoustics, optics and infrared facilities, according to a cnr.cn report.
It is the sixth time the Chinese rescue team has carried out an overseas mission since 2001.
A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti Tuesday, collapsing a hospital and damaging buildings in its capital city of Port-au-Prince, and may have caused tens of thousands of deaths...'
This is the second response to my question regarding China being peaceful where the response is not a direct answer, but refers to the U.S. I'm not talking about peace in the U.S., we all know we're not that peaceful internally, nor with other nations. I'm talking about China, here.
So you choose to apply different standards to China than those you apply to the U.S. Why is that?
Why is it that you can't answer a question directly, but rather twist it around? Are you a politician?
I'm asking a direct question...Do you think that their relationship with Tibet could be considered "peaceful"?
If the U.S. had a global concert for Peace and the Environment on Earth Day, I'd think it was somewhat of a joke too. It's no secret that China and the U.S. are the two most polluting countries in the world. It's hardly awareness when the host country demonstrates the worst in environmental awareness on the whole, nor are they the most peaceful.
So maybe Pearl Jam shouldn't play anywhere, but just sit at home instead.
Your question is irrelevant. The concert isn't being put on in order to support China's actions in Tibet. I expect it's something closer to the opposite. And this thread became tiresome as soon as you hopped on your moral high horse.
You really never answer a question.
It's comical the way you blast the US, Europe and yet defend China.
I wondered at what point you were gonna chime in with your two cents worth.
Your question is irrelevant.[/quote]
...and there's the answer to your question. :roll:
*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
But, I am willing to bet that it doesn't have any effect/impact on China in regards to environmentalism. The same arguments were given for awarding the Olympics to China, and little to no progress was made.
But in reality, any time just about anyone wants to put on a free concert, I think it's a great idea.
I'm glad I could ease your mind.
In all seriousness, it seems out of character for you to be defending China the way you do. It doesn't appear to be consistent at all.
Just putting things in their proper perspective is all. Like I said elsewhere, Americans are currently engaged in ransacking two sovereign countries, whilst also blocking any attempt at peace in the Middle East. The U.S is also the worlds biggest polluter. And yet you jump at the chance to get on your moral high horse when it comes to China? Why is that?