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Falun Gong take it to the streets
johnboy 20 July 2009 20 July 2009 36
[First filed: July 18, 2009 @ 22:08]
Around midday this Saturday I was collecting some roast duck and noodles from the exemplary Tak Kee Roast Inn in Dickson and was a little surprised, as I walked back to the car, to see a column of traffic approaching all bearing placards bolted on to roof racks.
The Falun Gong organ, the Epoch Times, has an AAP story explaining that the Gongers are trying to use the Stern Hu hysteria to demonise the Chinese Government, particularly as it relates to their own oppression:
While the world watches China's handling of the Stern Hu affair, former residents took to the streets of Canberra on Saturday as a reminder of their decade-long battle for freedom.
Falun Gong disciple Elliot Fan led an unusual convoy of cars around the city to mark the 10th anniversary of the day Falun Gong was suddenly declared illegal.
While I have some doubts about Stern Hu's innocence (and consider that the main reason for the Australian Government's silence) I'll admit to an admiration of Falun Gong's persistent protest.
(Trying to separate anti-chinese sentiment from anti-chinese government sentiment probably isn't a bad idea either.)
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36 Responses to Falun Gong take it to the streets
tallong 5:49 pm 22 Jan 10
Just viewed this blog and would like to add my own experience.
I am an aussie mum 49years old and have been practicing FG for 7 years. It is the best thing I have ever done and will continue being a practitioner. Yes all the claims about health improvement, spiritual improvement and peace of mind are correct. After suffering severe sinus, asthma, low blood pressure all my life…Doctors,naturopaths, operations could not cure me…Falun Gong did, within one month of self teaching the exercises and reading Zhuan Falun, all these life long illnesses disappeared.
Not only my health has improved but my whole outlook on life has changed for the better.
The teachings of Li Hongzhi have made me more tolerant, caring and truthful.
The blogs from kzx33 show the full propaganda and hatred the ccp spouts and the devastation it has on moral and spiritual behaviour. This person has been another victim of the ccp.
Picter 9:39 am 14 Jan 10
Jenny said: "The fact that a group ( such as FLG) advocates its fake healing power…
# 33-34
Jenny, It looks to me you have been tainted severely by the work of the communist propaganda machine, which tries to muddy the waters of a clean and pure group of people.
As I have explained previously in this thread FG is not a cult: "There is no membership; there is no list of names; there is no building; there is no- prayer- nor worship. Some easy to learn exercises are practised at peoples convenience somewhere in a park. There is no secrecy of teachings; 100% of the teachings are available from the internet. There is no initiation ceremony; anybody can come or go when they like. There is no hierarchy, though there are event coordinators. There is no asking for monetary contributions; somebody who can afford it contributes for a particular event.
FG has spread to about 80 different countries. If it was a dangerous cult as the CCP claims how come that there are no court cases against it in any of those countries. How come that nobody has set themselves on fire in any of these countries or jumped out of windows, events like that being a common occurrence in China according to the CCP."
If FG had fake healing power, as Jenny claims, how come that 70-100 million people were practising FG before
the start of the persecution? Wouldn't the message get around that people's improvements were fake? If they were fake FG wouldn't have lasted for a year. Because such vast health improvements took place people had not to depend as much on medicine as they used to. There is no such thing that a FG practitioner is not allowed to take medicine. If people get such tremendous help does that make it a cult? Apart from that, the purpose of FG is not at all to heal illness, it is to cultivate to become a better person, which together with doing some simple exercises, can have extraordinary positive effects.
Jenny also mentions FG is not interested in a "democratic China". Democracy may be good for China, but it has nothing to do with FG; FG is a-political. The Communist Party tortures and kills FG practitioners. That is the truth that FG practitioners want to tell the world, because it is a crime against humanity that must be told and that must sooner or later be brought before an international court. If one wants to bring a murderer to justice that is not politics and that is not cultism either.
Jenny thinks that the claim of organ harvesting of FG practitioners is too far-fetched. One only has to "google" organ harvesting to find that a very thorough investigation was carried out by highly qualified people. Included are transcripts from telephone conversations ordering and inquiring about the quality of the organs. It is indeed difficult to believe that such a thing can happen. But is happening and it would make one a partner in crime not to tell this to the world.
Jenny finds it reasonable to accept that the CCP started persecuting FG the way the practitioners behaved at the time. The scientist, Jennifer Zeng, lived through that period and has given an account of it in her compelling book "one woman's fight for freedom and Falun Gong – witnessing history". Basically what happened was that peaceful FG practitioners started to get harassed more and more by the CCP, followed in 1998 by some arrests. FG practitioners then peacefully approached the government asking on what ground they were arrested. This followed by more arrests and peaceful demonstrations. That was a prelude to the crackdown that started in 1999 and the order was to eradicate FG in 3 months. To achieve that, a gestapo like 610 office was set up and a slanderous propaganda campaign of lies was instigated to turn the Chinese people against FG.
Extracts from Jennifer's book and interviews can be found by googling "Jennifer Zeng".
I agree with the ending of your comment, Jenny: "So in the face of the persecution of FG in China, and the lies spread by the CCP about FG, I have to tell people the truth, Falun Gong has only ever taught people to be kind, to be good." Whether you can discern the good from the evil is up to you, both are freely available. But the outcome of your choice would make a huge difference.
Jenny 1:52 am 17 Nov 09
The facts are, FG was supported by the Chinese government during the 7 years (1992-1999) prior to its ban. In 1999 the Chinese governement cracked down on FG because its popularity posed a threat to the CCP, between 70-100 million people were practising FG in China at the time. As early as 1994, the Chinese government tried to gain control of FG and make money off it. They approached the founder and tried to endorse and charge money for the practise. The founder, Master Li Hong Zhi said no, as FG was a spiritual discipline for the health of the people, and it was not for sale. It was actually the government who tried to caplitalize on the practise.
FG does not "lure" its followers, its popularity in China and around the world is due to it genuinely being righteous. It genuinely teaches people to be good.
I'd like to share my own experience, since my early childhood I've grown up in an unhappy family, for as long as I could remember, domestic violence was a serious issue in my household – for the most part of my chilhood/teens. It hurt me for a long time, to remember snippets of my life back then. Living in womens refuges, hotels was the norm for mum and us. Mum had developed back/spinal problems due to being beaten. My sister was on the verge of having a mental disorder and had to take medication. As I grew up, the pain has never eased off and almost consumed me. My dad had an affair after mum took him back. There were times when I thought I wouldn't make it. All that is in the past, I'm now in my mid 20s, finished uni/grad school and undertaking a PhD degree at one of the best universities in Australia. All my life, my pain has been what others, namely what an irresponsible parent has imposed on me. But now, I really feel no sadness or hatred. And our family is still in one piece and closer than ever, we have all forgiven.
That's the power of FG, not only does it cure illnesses, it heals the heart. I'm one person out of the hundreds of millions of people who have benefited from the practise of Falun Gong. Hunderds of millions each with their own story and from all walks of life. So in the face of the persecution of FG in China, and the lies spread by the CCP about FG, I have to tell people the truth, Falun Gong has only ever taught people to be kind, to be good.
In Australia (and other western countries) they claim the effect of practicing FalunGong is to achieve inner peace, harmony, reduce stress and etc. But back in China, FalunGong understood that this is not attractive enough to lure followers since there are many other traditional and conventional remedies (Tai Chi, Buddhism, Taoism)
Instead, under the disguise of Buddhism, they claimed that by practicing Falun Gong most of the serious illness can be self-healed, the illness include cancer, uraemia, heart disease, paralysis and the list goes on. People joint the FLG in hoping that their disease will be cured. This is the main reason how Falun Gong expand so fast in the 1990's (of course the followers will have purchase the over-priced Falun Gong Franchises for the "orthodox way" of practice)
At first, the government did not treat this kind of activity very seriously; in fact at the same time there were quite a few other groups in China just like FalunGong who were preaching the same principle for a living. In the eyes of government, although these groups seem a bit greedy but they have somewhat filled up the belief vacuum after the communist ideology shatter in the early 1990s (which could contribute to the furtherance of social stability), plus I guess it is better for people to do some exercise than sitting at home especially for the elderly.
The government became alerted when it realised a large number of followers were too obsessed with Falun Gong – typically refused to undergo medical treatment when getting sick and believed that Falun Gong was their only hope, plus the member was expanding exponentially including some communist officials and government views this as a threat to its ruling. The Falun Gong then summoned a few congregations outside some local and central government buildings to pressure the government to loosen its restriction. That was the last straw for the government and it subsequently banned FalunGong.
FalunGong had a pretty sophisticated internal management system to manage its members but it is obviously no match with an authoritarian government. I have to mention that although I support with the government's decision to ban Falun Gong, I do not agree how it was handled, a typical iron fist policy: detained the hardcore followers and forced to participate"Re-Education Program" in tandem with periodic reviews. I view the FalunGong members as a victim of cult but not as an offender, they shouldn't suffer the hardship for what they believed in. But FalunGong's claim that the government is performing organ harvest from followers is too far fetch.
When FalunGong came to Australia, it realised that by using the same slogan of "self-healing" they would only be featured in an episode of "today tonight" and won't be getting much sympathy from the Australian general public. So it started to portrait itself as self-righteous, non-for-profit, benevolence religious group and selectively forgot about its amazing ability to heal any illness known to human race. If you compare the content between its English and Chinese website, you will understand how drastic the different is.
We may have different understanding for cult group, for me, A cult does not necessary mean extreme ideas or group suicide. The fact that a group (such as FLG) advocates its fake healing power, mislead followers into obsession and benefit from the process should be regarded as cult. I think it is a bit ironic for people to support a cult group to promote human rights in China. I know it is out of good intention however the result has been undermined by the involvement of a group which is more interested to expand its member base than to see a democratic China.
Finally, allow me to coarsely translate a "case study" from FalunGong's official Chinese website and you can understand how FalunGong present itself in China:
http://www.falundafaradio.org/show_article.asp?id=8691
Topic: understanding the truth and leukaemia disappears
A 10-year-old girl living in the village near DaBie Mountain, without knowing the truth, she used a knife to cut a FLG amulet into half and in September 2005 she suffered the incurable disease – leukaemia, and dropped out of school.
After the news is spread, the school tried to raise money for her medical treatment, however the donation present little more than a drop in the ocean. The girl's condition was deteriorating day by day and her life was on the verge of death.
At this crucial point, a FLG practitioner came to her house, told her and her family about the truth of Falun Dafa, and the idea of "the heaven is destroying Chinese communist, the only way to survive is to quit communist party, youth league and young pioneer" he told the girl sincerely:"quite the young pioneer first, this will cleanse the communist demon possessed in your body, this is good for your healing process. You have also committed sins to FLG by cutting the FLG amulet into half; you need to apologize and committed to treasure the FLG amulet in the future. At the same time you also need to repeat in your heart: "Falun Dafa is good""ZhenShanRen is good" and you will recover from your illness"
The girl quit young pioneer, confessed to the FLG practitioner about the sins she had committed and expressed the feeling that she had rectified her mistakes and devoted herself to FLG
Ever since then the girl constantly repeats "Falun Dafa is good""ZhenShanRen is good", even during her sleep. Sure enough, her condition is noticeably getting better day by day. Other people cannot cure their disease of leukaemia despite spent tens of thousands Yuan, but her signs of illness disappeared only within a few months without any medical treatment. She had been fully recovered and went back to school by the new year eve of 2008.
The facts are, FG was supported by the Chinese government during the 7 years (1992-1999) prior to its ban. In 1999 the Chinese governement cracked down on FG because its popularity posed a threat to the CCP, between 70-100 million people were practising FG in China at the time. As early as 1994, the Chinese government tried to gain control of FG and make money off it. They approached the founder and tried to endorse and charge money for the practise. The founder, Master Li HonZhi said no, as FG was a spiritual discipline for the health of the people, and it was not for sale. It was actually the government who tried to caplitalize on the practise.
garden11 2:55 pm 29 Sep 09
The truth of Falungong: ( TV program of CBC )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxmPpeJJhMw
Picter 9:58 pm 01 Aug 09
Thank you very much for your support Granny. If there were a lot more people like you this persecution would have ended a long time ago, together with the persecution of the Tibetans, Uighars, Catholics etc.
I must confess,when I knew little to nothing about FG I also had a vague feeling it could be a cult as there are so many cults around. One day I watched a FG band marching during one of the summer festivities in Canberra. I felt a strong energy coming from the band, something that never happened to me before. That prompted me to google FG on the internet.
I found the teachings very profound and interesting and the more i learned the more I became convinced it was exactly the opposite from a cult.
There is no membership; there is no list of names; there is no building; there is no prayer nor worship. Some easy to learn exercises are practised at peoples convenience somewhere in a park. There is no secrecy of teachings; 100% of the teachings are available from the internet. There is no initiation ceremony; anybody can come or go when they like. There is no hierarchy, though there are event coordinators. There is no asking for monetary contributions; somebody who can afford it contributes for a particular event.
FG has spread to about 80 different countries. If it was a dangerous cult as the CCP claims how come that there are no court cases against it in any of those countries. How come that nobody has set themselves on fire in any of these countries or jumped out of windows, events like that being a common occurence in China according to the CCP.
On the contrary most people who seriously practise FG have received tremendous improvements in their health and general wellbeing.
Pretty 11:05 am 31 Jul 09
kzx33 said
When FalunGong came to Australia, it realised that by using the same slogan of "self-healing" they would only be featured in an episode of "today tonight" and won't be getting much sympathy from the Australian general public. So it started to portrait itself as self-righteous, non-for-profit, benevolence religious group and selectively forgot about its amazing ability to heal any illness known to human race
I can understand your reasoning as you have lived for 16 years in China under a totalitarian regime. Let me help you. I am a Falun Gong practitioner for 10 years in Australia and also lived under a totalitarian government. Master Li Hongzi says in his book Zhuan Falun (www.falundafa.org): " I am not going to talk about treating diseases here, nor shall I treat diseases. However, as a true cultivator, you cannot cultivate yourself without a healthy body. So I'll purify your body, but only for those who really have come to learn the gong and the Law. Here I would like to point out emphatically that I have no way to help you if you cannot rid yourself of your attachments, and I can do nothing for you if you cannot let go of your diseases."
Falun Gong is a cultivation practice, it is not for healing illness, but a lot of people experience tremendous health improvements once they genuinely start practising. You think that in Australia we seem to hide this fact. Not so. We have 3 books full of people's healings and health improvements. Please check this out on the following website: http://clearwisdom.net/emh/31/
It is a sad fact that people who have undergone communist brainwashing for years are no longer able to accept anything of the supernatural.
I now like to give my own experience. I had a car accident in 1999 and instantly developed permanent neck damage and whiplash. I also had permanent backpain before the accident. These problems made me very unhappy and depressed. My sister was practising Falun Gong at the time. I could see the benefit it made in her behaviour and state of mind. So, I also started to practise it. Soon, I was able to cut down on medication for my back pain and my neck problem was gone completely. I now feel very content and pleased with my life.
I was offered compensation by Comcare, but I did not accept it as I was fit and healthy after practising Falun Gong.
So, kzx33, you have another case to be sarcastic about. The Chinese government could save itself billions of yuan, first by not having to spend huge amounts on the persecution of FLG and secondly on a substantial reduction in hospital costs.
Granny 11:09 pm 29 Jul 09
Picter said :
As for your brainwashing comment I rather be brainwashed, from my own free will, by people who belief in Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance, than under coercion, by a totalitarian regime that has killed millions of people and still is killing thousands of Falun Gong practioners according to the World Organisation to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG).
Frankly, Picter, having been in a couple of cults, it does sound like a cult to me. However, I do agree with you about freedom of belief and freedom of choice.
I think Australia gets the balance very right with regard to religious sects and cults, and that is the sort of society I would much prefer to live in.
Somehow we manage to protect freedom of religion, yet provide support for people wishing to exit a group, and limit the scope for abuse so as to minimise harm to their adherents. Mainstream religions can also hurt people just as much as cults in my experience.
Picter 9:14 pm 29 Jul 09
First kzx33 wanted us to believe that Falun Gong is a dangerous cult. Now he wants to turn the high level teachings of Falun Gong into ridicule. These are of course well known ploys of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The existence of aliens is well documented. What they are all about is not. Master Li has given us some clear insight about their intentions. The intention of your sources of information of course was to discredit Falun Gong, by omitting Master Li's final statement
on the subject, i.e. that aliens will NOT succeed in taking over human bodies; the Gods would not allow it.
Master Li does not approve of homosexuality (that certainly does not mean annihilation) and he beliefs it would be better if inter-race marriages could be avoided. Many Falun Gong practitioners live happily in inter-race marriages. Again, when something is best to avoid, it does not mean it is forbidden.
For your information kzx33, I have seen people levitate in a secluded environment when I was practising Transcendental Meditation. This power is locked up in most Falun Gong practitioners, so that they would not go astray in their cultivation showing themselves off. Many Falun Gong practitioners will tell you, though, that they feel very light when walking. As I understand there are many people in China who can levitate in secluded cultivation environments. China was once a very spiritual country, but spirituality and communism do not mix.
The CCP's ploy is to make comments out of context, distort and exaggerate them, in an attempt to create an image of fanaticism. The fact is, Falun Gong practitioners are all leading a normal life, having a normal job, and keeping good relationships with friends and colleagues.
Granny 5:23 pm 28 Jul 09
Process? Piffle. Just stop the violence. Change the rotten policy. Now.
Skidbladnir 4:02 pm 28 Jul 09
Singapore's authoritarian 'democracy' with single-party, communist-factional reign since 1959?
I kind of like free-speech, trials by jury, avoiding the rattan, and not having a death penalty for drug offenses.
Chinese governance is a balancing act of giving its people more of the freedoms they demand, without the people simultaneously realising they could have many more freedoms their Government doesn't want them to have if only they got rid of their Government.
kzx33 3:41 pm 28 Jul 09
Granny said :
My ideas are that I'm not afraid of what they believe and I'm not afraid of what they say.
We have regulations here relating to medical and therapeutic claims that can be made by an organisation which seem to work perfectly well without us having to resort to physical violence and murder in order to police them.
I will support anybody who is suffering human rights violations at the hand of their government and so should you.
I agree with you in this regard and I salute to your humanitarian mind.
In order to achieve it, not only it requires Chinese government to be more democratic, it also requires a more educated demographic. However the current education system is not motivating the students to have a mind of their own. This is one of the major impediments for the democratic progress in China and ironically it is also becoming a problem for the ruling of communist government.
As a Chinese I would love to see China to have a democratic and egalitarian society (somewhere around Singaporean standard as the first step) and hopefully the process will be carried out as an evolution rather than revolution.
Picter Said:
"Master Li Hongzi makes it clear in his book "Zhuan Falun": "I do not talk about healing illness here, and neither will we heal illness. As a genuine practitioner, however, you cannot practice cultivation with an ill body. I will purify your body. The body purification will be done only for those who come to truly learn the practice and the Fa." (http://clearwisdon.net)
Falun gong members are strictly forbidden to heal illness. Master Li Hongzi repeatedly warns in his book about the dangers of fake healers."
Perhaps you should hear it from straight from the mouth of Master Li back in 1999 during the interview with TIME Magazine (http://www.time.com/time/asia/asia/magazine/1999/990510/interview1.html):
TIME: You have said that this type of qigong should not be used to cure illness. Why is that?
Li: Healing illnesses belongs to the lower level of qigong. A person with an illness cannot practice to a higher level. One has to purify one's body in order to have gong. Healing and fitness are for laying a foundation at a lower level of practice.
TIME: Would you use qigong to cure an illness?
Li: I can do all of this, but I won't do it.
TIME: What is the final goal?
Li: The ultimate purpose is to enable people to attain the Tao and to complete their cultivation practice
TIME: What happens after one attains the Tao?
Li: We have all heard about the Chinese deities. When one completes cultivation, one has special powers.
As master Li explained, the final goal for practicing FLG is to achieve "Tao" (immortal) where you will gain special powers, the healings are just the beginning as it is the "lower level" or "laying foundation", not to mention that he has the ability to "cure any illness" – but of course he won't do it.
If you read on the interview you will find that Master Li also firmly believes that aliens from other planets were responsible for corrupting mankind by teaching modern science.
TIME: Where do they come from?
Li: The aliens come from other planets. The names that I use for these planets are different. Some are from dimensions that human beings have not yet discovered. The key is how they have corrupted mankind. Everyone knows that from the beginning until now, there has never been a development of culture like today. Although it has been several thousand years, it has never been like now.
The aliens have introduced modern machinery like computers and airplanes. They started by teaching mankind about modern science, so people believe more and more science, and spiritually, they are controlled. Everyone thinks that scientists invent on their own when in fact their inspiration is manipulated by the aliens. In terms of culture and spirit, they already control man. Mankind cannot live without science.
The ultimate purpose is to replace humans. If cloning human beings succeeds, the aliens can officially replace humans. Why does a corpse lie dead, even though it is the same as a living body? The difference is the soul, which is the life of the body. If people reproduce a human person, the gods in heaven will not give its body a human soul. The aliens will take that opportunity to replace the human soul and by doing so they will enter earth and become earthlings.
When such people grow up, they will help replace humans with aliens. They will produce more and more clones. There will no longer be humans reproduced by humans. They will act like humans, but they will introduce legislation to stop human reproduction.
TIME: Are you a human being?
Li: You can think of me as a human being.
Many of his fundamental ideologies have been removed from the English version of indoctrination (including god will annihilate homosexuals and forbids inter-race marriage) in order to appear appealing to western value.
So if you use sources from FLG websites such as clearwisdom.net, minghui.org to defend FLG, it is as naïve as someone uses gov.cn website to defend the communist government.
When you conveniently accuse other people of being "brainwashed" perhaps it is just the reflection of yourself. I have never "accepting what …. says is a sure sign" and neither should you.
To lighten up the mood, here is another fun fact from the master:
TIME: In your book [Zhuan Falun] you talk about people levitating off the ground but you say that they should not show other people. Why is that?
Li: It is the same principle that Western gods in paradise should not be seen by ordinary mortals because they cannot understand its meaning.
TIME: Have you seen human beings levitate off the ground?
Li: I have known too many.
TIME: Can you describe any that you have known?
Li: David Copperfield. He can levitate and he did it during performances.
(I guess $400 per ticket does justify its value considering Mr. Copperfield is actually performing his achievement of Tao/Immortal)
Picter 9:20 am 24 Jul 09
kzx33 said:
". The fact that a group (such as FLG) advocates its fake healing power, mislead followers into obsession and benefit from the process should be regarded as cult."
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)wanted to destroy Falun Gong in 3 months. As you well know kzx33, they set their propaganda machine at work. They told 3 people to set themselves on fire at Thiannemen Square. They told them it would be without any danger to them, as they would be given fire proof clothing and the fire brigade would be in attendance to extinguish the flames as soon as the TV shots were taken.
This staged set-up is well documented by the World Organisation to Investigate the Persecution of Falun gong.(google WOIPFG and click HOT CASES)
The mission statement of WOIPFG is: Mission Statement
To investigate the criminal conduct of all institutions, organizations, and individuals involved in the persecution of Falun Gong; to bring such investigations, no matter how long it takes, no matter how far and deep we have to search, to full closure; to exercise fundamental principles of humanity; and to restore and uphold justice in society.
The fact is, the CCP's mighty propaganda force fabricated this and many other incidents to brandish Falun Gong as a cult.
Just accepting what the CCP says is a sure sign you have been brainwashed by the CCP during your 16 years in China kzx33.
BerraBoy68 8:33 am 24 Jul 09
AH, kzx33…. Who is to say what the majority of Chinese people believe? State broadcasts? Publically releasable survey results (audited by truly independent third parties? Or are you just saying what you think the majority of Chinese beleive? Each of ehse is vastly different.
I personally believe that the State is afraid of anything it does not understand or control. Don't get me wrong I would love to go to China and I've never myet met a Chinese person I haven't liked, but I am very wary of the State and what it says.
Long live freedom of expression and religion.
Oh, and on your earlier point about FG saying in some material in China that a girl was cured of a fatal disease, the Catholic Church repeatedly says that too. In fact, they make saints out of ordinary mortals to whom they prescribe mystical and almost magical healing powers.
Granny 2:32 am 24 Jul 09
kzx33, whatever they believe or practice, does it give someone the right to bash them, and torture them and harvest their organs?
Do they eat babies? Is there any other offficial propaganda you'd care to share?
No doubt every day in Australia we would be poised on the brink of a cult-induced national disaster if we weren't so brilliant at national security ourselves.
Or maybe it's just not such a threat to us because we allow people to think what they want to think. Now there's a novel idea!
Granny, if you have read my comment, you should know what my stance is: I do not support the government handled the situation in such manner, the government should be respectful towards FLG practitioner's belief. However I do think by supporting an organisation viewed as a cult group by a majority of Chinese people to promote human right in China may not be the best idea, but once again, are they promoting for human right or are they just promoting for themselves?
I did not use any propaganda material, what I have said is just based on my own understanding and observation, after coming to Australia at least I bother to read books and material about FLG from another perspective. It would be intellectually immature if someone filters away information or label it as propaganda just because it is contradicting to his/her own ideas.
BerraBoy68 said :
I love democracy too, but I also love freedom of expression and religion. We may not like cults here but we don't certainly don't beat and imprison their members. I've taken the time to meet with a few Falun Gong practitioners and haven't yet met one that seems other than just a normal person, and they're certainly not obsessive about their beleif's as have been members of some cult that I have met with.
But please, don't try to make an argument against Falun Gong by making this about race or some assumed Australian prejudice against the chinese ex-pats (re: your reference to china-bashing). It won't wash.
Welcome to Australia.
Thank you for your response. Perhaps we are all somewhat prejudice base on our stance. When I put myself in your shoe and believe that Falun Gong is how they portrait themselves in Australia, I am sure I will be sympathetic towards them as well. However my experience in China says otherwise.
"I do hope this could one day happen in China as well, but I just don't think China-bashing is the solution, especially by cult group such as FalunGong."
The Falun Gong people want the best for the Chinese people and they are not interested in politics; they certainly do not do any China bashing at all. What they do want is freedom of belief. Because this freedom of belief was changed into freedom granted to the Communist government agencies to destroy Falun Gong by any means, Falun Gong, believing in truthfulness, told the truth of what the Communist party was doing to them.
If the US had done to Falun Gong what the Communist Party did, Falun Gong would have told the truth of the US's actions just the same. This is not China bashing, this is letting the Chinese people know what type of government they are dealing with, that is capable of committing such attrocities. This is for the good of the Chinese people. Only if you look at the history of the Communist party is it possible to understand how this persecution is possible.
Turning a blind eye to such crimes is not going to make China a better place, nor is it going to make the world a better place. It is only going to lead to decadence of the human race.
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"The Making of a "Pacifist": Adam Shapiro and Our Goebbelsian Media";
"'Pacifist's' Brother Threatens Journalist"; and
"Soros, Europeans: Die Juden sind Unser Unglück! Holocaust II?"]
"There's a saying, "Jews are just like the rest of us, only moreso."
"Liberalism" is a genocide/suicide cult, whereby one embraces one's mortal enemies that white gentile leaders have embraced throughout the Western world, with the exception of certain formerly Communist, Eastern European states (Hungary, Poland, Russia).
Outside of Israel, Jews are even worse than the gentiles.
Why have former communist states rejected "liberalism"? Because they know that the term is a euphemism for socialism/communism/whatever, and if there's anything they hate, it's that.
Every now and then, I'll rib Eastern European acquaintances, Jew and gentile alike, "You fled communism, to come to America and… communism!"
They never dispute me.
Almost all of our political problems in this country are due to the triumph of communism.
I have one minor problem with Jonathan Neumann's op-ed: He uses the phrase "social justice," which is a euphemism for Marxism, really communism. Marxists came up with that euphemism, in order to pull the wool over people's eyes. One may never let one's enemies dictate one's rules of engagement, including the language one may use.
Liberal Jews are Destroying Their Own Religion
By Jonathan Neumann
June 23, 2018 | 9:33 a.m.
American Judaism is broken.
When two of the Jewish community's most celebrated writers, Michael Chabon and his wife Ayelet Waldman, write an open letter stating that: "Any Jew, anywhere, who does not act to oppose President Donald Trump and his administration acts in favor of anti-Semitism; any Jew who does not condemn the president, directly and by name, for his racism, white supremacism, intolerance and Jew hatred, condones all of those things," you don't have to look far to see why.
American Judaism is broken because the Jewish left broke it.
A tiresome fixation on "tikkun olam," which literally means "repair of the world," has allowed Judaism to fall into disrepair.
The phrase "tikkun olam" was quietly lifted out of context from a Jewish prayer before the Second World War to mean social justice. It was popularized in the 1970s and 1980s by radicals like Michael Lerner, who founded the extreme left-wing magazine, Tikkun.
Since then, we have been led to believe that the purpose of the Jews in the world is to campaign for higher taxes, sexual permissiveness, reduced military spending, illegal immigration, opposition to fracking, the banishment of religion from the public square and every other liberal cause under the sun — all in the name of God.
But the truth is that tikkun olam and its leftist politics have no basis in Judaism. Tikkun olam is not Judaism at all but a distinct religion, whose adherents, it might be said, have culturally appropriated this ancient faith.
This religion of tikkun olam commands the allegiance of most non-Orthodox Jews (and some Orthodox ones), who make up the overwhelming majority of the American Jewish community. The dogma of this religion is appealingly simple: Judaism is tikkun olam, which is social justice, which is liberalism. The Jews are called upon to do no less — and no more — than cultivate a liberal paradise in America.
In this, liberal Jews have often had the hypocritical backing of the celebrity corps — literati, Hollywood executives, academics, politicians and financiers — who say one thing in public while, in several cases, doing unspeakable things in private.
But above all, this liberalism — this tikkun olam — teaches that the Jewish People is an outdated and chauvinistic relic, with no need for a nation-state of its own in its ancient homeland. Consequently, Jewish social justice activists help to defame Israel and weaken America's bond with the Jewish State.
Jewish social justice activists help to defame Israel and weaken America's bond with the Jewish State
This dangerous ideology culminated in the election and administration of Barack Obama, who was hailed as the "tikkun olam president" and (synonymously) as the "first Jewish president." He repeatedly referenced the significance of tikkun olam to his own life, nurtured by his liberal Jewish mentors in Chicago, and it was because of this commitment to tikkun olam, not in spite of it, that he was the most hostile president toward Israel in history.
But now the tikkun olam movement is in disarray. Its activists have been evicted from the White House, together with their messiah, replaced by a coalition of religious Christians and traditionalist Jews. And natural as it comes to the political exiles to oppose the new administration, these activists are discovering that left-wing social justice marches have no place for Jewish warriors.
And so the Jews have to choose between social justice and being Jewish. Chabon and Waldman have made their choice.
But there is an alternative.
A new generation of traditionalist Jews, proud of their heritage and jealous to preserve it, is unimpressed with America's broken Judaism. These Jews know that their ancestors did not live to worship a political party nor die for faddish causes.
They recognize that the American Jewish future depends on overcoming the superficial and ignorant equation of Judaism with leftist politics. What is needed is a real Jewish renewal — a community that stands for religious liberty, not against it; affirms the alliance between America and Israel, rather than undermines it; and above all believes it is a community that has a compelling reason to persist.
It's time American Jewry repaired itself instead of the world.
Jonathan Neumann is the author of "To Heal the World? How the Jewish Left Corrupts Judaism and Endangers Israel" (All Points Books) out Tuesday.
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David In TN said...
That communism has triumphed in this country has also occurred to me. A year or so ago I read Herbert Philbrick's book, I Led 3 Lives, about going undercover in the Communist Party USA in the 1940's.
The things the Party was advocating then have in large part come to pass.
Monday, June 25, 2018 at 1:10:00 AM EDT
Most persons left/liberal at best are agnostics. Many are atheists. Religion seen in many instances as "right wing" or "reactionary". Especially the Catholic church.
Jews left/liberal predominantly racially Jewish by birth but not religious other than to agree that JESUS was the first communist.
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When it comes to the arts in Bradley County, one name comes to mind—Connie Gatlin. Gatlin has had a lifetime of achievement in the area of the arts, always working tirelessly to provide programs, training, education and support to her community. She began her career of inspiring and educating future thespians and show choir singers at Bradley Central High School and continued for 20 years. She established a theatre program with 2-3 full length performances yearly with high school performances running the gamut from South Pacific to Little Shop of Horrors, from Grease to Steel Magnolias.
She also founded the education program at the Museum Center at 5ive Points and led a team of fellow artists to create a local council—the Allied Arts of Cleveland, celebrating its 25 th Silver Anniversary this year. Through her work on the Allied Arts Council, Gatlin co-founded a fund-raising project called "Chair-rees Jubilee" which has now raised in excess of $450,000 for local teacher-written grants for the children of Cleveland and Bradley County in classroom arts-based experiences.
When a long standing dance studio was about to shut the doors, Gatlin purchased the studio in 2005 and continued its tradition of quality and classical dance instruction for children in our community. The Cleveland City Ballet is in its 80 th year of serving our community because of her commitment.
But, of all of her accomplishments in her life, there has never been a prouder moment than when she watcher her daughter, Abigail, dance as Cleveland's first and only Radio City Rockette in New York City!


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By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Lisa Galarneau: Could I Have Your Attention Please?, Relevancy November 28, 2005
Lisa Galarneau is right to point to this presentation by Tantek Çelik (the same person behind microformats.org) about Attention.xml. This is a clear example of what I have been calling 'second party metadata' - the idea here is that the use of a resource is as important, if not more important, as the nature of the resource. More...
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Brian Lamb - who manages wiki support at UBC - runs across a bunch of UBC students pondering their own wiki in a conversation at LiveJournal. He offers the official services, but is told, "using a UBC-hosted wiki requires us to comply with a certain set of standards and forces us to give UBC the final say in content... a wiki should be democratic, and any university-owned pages and servers aren't". More...
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Berry Announces Capacity Enhancements for Hygiene and Healthcare Nonwoven Production in North America
EVANSVILLE, Ind.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 20, 2020-- Today, Berry Global Group, Inc. (NYSE: BERY) announced an investment towards the expansion of its spunmelt nonwoven capacity in Statesville, North Carolina. The Statesville facility will install $8 million of new equipment and enhance existing production lines, allowing Berry to further optimize its production of in-demand spunmelt applications used in the fabrication of medical gowns, face masks, and other personal protection equipment.
This investment reflects Berry's commitment to meet the growing demand for premium spunmelt applications in the hygiene and healthcare markets. The increased capacity will support products used for personal protection equipment like medical gowns and masks, as well as those used in hygiene applications such as baby diapers, adult incontinence, and feminine care. These spunbond and spunmelt products will include Berry's proprietary technology developments which provide consumers with improved visual, tactile, and comfort attributes. Adding to the Company's expansive global footprint, the Statesville expansion further supports localized converting for healthcare products in North America.
"We are excited to announce this investment as our Statesville site plays an important role in our global nonwoven footprint. This expansion supports our ability to provide maximum output for our products," said Robert Weilminster, General Manager for Berry's Hygiene business in the United States and Canada.
The announcement of this additional investment further highlights Berry's commitment to provide the highest level of protection materials. The additional equipment and expanded capacity are expected to be operational in December 2021.
Berry Global Group, Inc. (NYSE: BERY), headquartered in Evansville, Indiana, is committed to its mission of 'Always Advancing to Protect What's Important,' and proudly partners with its customers to provide them with value-added protective solutions that are increasingly light-weighted and easier to recycle or reuse. The Company is a leading global supplier of a broad range of innovative rigid, flexible, and nonwoven products used every day within consumer and industrial end markets. Berry, a Fortune 500 company, has over 48,000 employees and generated $12.6 billion of pro forma net sales in fiscal year 2019, from operations that span over 290 locations on six continents. For additional information, visit Berry's website at berryglobal.com.
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The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Chief Audu Ogbeh has assured Nigerian farmers that there would be no mandatory fees for protecting them and their farms under the Civil Defence Corps special force unit being planned in conjunction with the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
He gave the assurance today while reacting to a news report published in a daily newspaper and circulated in the social media alleging that he said Nigerian farmers would be made to pay fees to be protected under the scheme.
The claims, which have generated huge controversies, were drawn from a media report after the Honourable Minister's media interview at the State House, following the endorsement of the Road map of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Green Alternative.
The Minister wishes to reassure Nigerian farmers that no security fees will be imposed on them, and that the government will continue to protect and support them with relevant incentives to help them grow and stay in business, adding that the special unit force idea was primarily conceived to protect Nigerian farmers in fulfilment of government's responsibility to secure the lives and properties of its citizens, in addition to providing security at the proposed ranches to guard against rustlers and prevent the cows from wandering around.
For the avoidance of doubt, and to clear the confusion that has been generated by the media report, the Honourable Minister wishes to state unequivocally that the NSCDC officials will be available on request by big farm corporation especially those in which the owners live, who can apply for them just as big companies and corporate organisations apply, requesting for security personnel to secure their businesses for a token.
Chief Ogbeh urges the Nigerian public to therefore ignore the mischievous stories in circulation that the Minister will impose some fees on all farmers, big and small, for security services to be offered by the NSCDC. He further encourages Nigerians to remain hopeful that with the implementation of the new policy roadmap for Nigeria's Agricultural development, the economy will improve and the present food crisis and hardship being faced by Nigerians will be over.


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Top John Durham Aide Resigns Out of Concern Barr Is Pressuring Team for Results Before Election: Report
Alberto LuperonSep 11th, 2020, 4:25 pm
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The so-called Durham probe–the investigation of the investigation into the Trump campaign's connections to Russia–just lost one of its top prosecutors. Nora Dannehy, an aide to U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut John H. Durham, has resigned, according to The Hartford Courant. She reportedly stepped down at least in part because of concern that Attorney General Bill Barr is applying political pressure on investigators come up with a report before their work is completed, according to colleagues cited by the newspaper.
Really big. Nora Dannehy is an incredibly well-respected prosecutor – not the type of person who would take this step for no reason. https://t.co/Oc4y2Foiv0
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) September 11, 2020
Nora Dannehy is highly regarded. She investigated the firings of 9 US Attys during the Bush administration & is widely viewed as a non-partisan professional. https://t.co/jla0svnMxJ
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) September 11, 2020
Dannehy publicly kept things low key. In an email sent Thursday evening, she reportedly kept it to a short farewell, and did not mention concerns about political pressure.
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Canary in coal mine dead.
Looks like profound corruption in Barr-Durham probe—attempted October surprise.
Top Durham aide, Nora Dannehy resigns partly because "team is being pressed for political reasons to produce a report before its work is done"!https://t.co/JvXtU8k4bY
— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) September 11, 2020
But according to colleagues, Dannehy worried about what she thought was pressure from Attorney General Barr to get results before the upcoming presidential election in November. The outgoing prosecutor, who is described as not being a supporter of President Donald Trump, reportedly struggled between her loyalty to longtime cohort Durham and her worries about undue political influence.
I've been on the other side of cases from Nora Dannehy for decades. I've found her to be principled, diligent and nonpartisan. Her participation was one of the reasons I had confidence the Durham probe wouldn't go off the political rails. Stunning, esp given her loyalty to Durham https://t.co/Pukb4cq2En
— Ross Garber (@rossgarber) September 11, 2020
As part of the Durham probe, Obama-era FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith agreed to plead guilty to forging a document to renew Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act wiretap on former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page.
Barr has denied using the Durham probe for political purposes.
"I've said there are going to be developments, significant developments before the election, but we are not doing this on the election schedule," he said in an August interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News. "We are aware of the election, we are not going to do anything inappropriate before the election, but we are not being dictated to by this schedule, what's dictating the timing of this are developments in the case and there will be developments. The way out of the politicization and corruption of the justice system where it's used as a political weapon by one party against another is not to deliver tit-for-tat, it's not to use the tactics of the other side, it's to uphold the rule of law, use the right standard, and that's what I'm trying to do."
The attorney general recently said that more charges in the probe could be possible, but declined to say if this would happen before election day. Barr was asked recently if he feels like he has been pressured by the president to come up with results. He said no.
The president, for his part, has said Barr's legacy depends on what happens.
Colin Kalmbacher contributed to this report.
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TWELVE BUSINESS associations and economic policy groups, including the Makati Business Club (MBC) and the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP), expressed "serious concerns and reservations" over the proposed Maharlika Wealth Fund (MWF), saying it will do more harm than good in the long run.
"There is at present no gap or 'missing institution' in the economy that needs to be solved by the creation of a sovereign wealth fund. The country does not have a bonanza of commodity surpluses that need to be deployed," the groups said in a joint statement signed by the MBC, MAP, Foundation for Economic Freedom (FEF) and Financial Executives Institute of The Philippines (FINEX), among other groups.
"Instead of leaving a legacy of surplus funds to be managed for future generations, the current generation is leaving a legacy of heavy indebtedness that future generations need to pay or refinance. There is no need, or even justification, to pool the reserves of government financial institutions and pension funds into larger amounts in order to earn higher returns," they said.
Several lawmakers led by House Speaker Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez, a cousin of President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr., recently filed a bill seeking to create a sovereign wealth fund.
The proposed fund will make investments by pooling money from the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), Social Security System (SSS), Land Bank of the Philippines (LANDBANK) and Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP).
However, the groups said there is no reason why GSIS and SSS funds should be diverted to a sovereign wealth fund "as it would simply expose the members' retirement funds to investments in assets with additional market and performance risks."
Under the latest version of the bill, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) must contribute 50% of its annual dividends to the fund.
"Instead of putting in more capital to the BSP, the bill, in effect, deprives it of quicker capitalization and in the process, undermines the BSP's independence and its ability to discharge its role as the country's central monetary authority and systemic risk regulator," the groups said.
'ENOUGH RESERVES'
The Philippines has more than sufficient foreign exchange reserves that can be set aside for a proposed sovereign wealth fund, Finance Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno said, allaying the central bank's concerns about the plan.
There's "too much ammunition," Mr. Diokno, a former central bank governor, told reporters, referring to the foreign reserves. He was responding to questions on whether using the reserves for the wealth fund would hurt the central bank's ability to use it as a tool against foreign exchange volatility.
Establishing the Maharlika fund won't affect the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas' independence, he said, adding that the central bank should have a say on how much foreign reserves it will contribute to the fund.
BSP Governor Felipe M. Medalla last week cautioned against the sovereign wealth fund plan, raising issues on governance and the central bank's independence.
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The House ways and means committee on Monday approved the tax provisions of the fund, which would ensure the tax savings will go back to the investment fund.
"Some P680 million in tax savings will inure to the fund every year as a result of this exemption. That goes towards making the SSS and GSIS funds more robust. That means more funds for pensions," Albay Rep. Jose Ma. Clemente "Joey" S. Salceda, who chairs the committee, said.
In response to criticisms, Mr. Salceda also proposed safeguards for the Maharlika bill. He introduced an amendment that will ensure all transactions follow the "arm's length principle and the prudent person rule."
"This ensures that the fund does not take positions that disadvantage it," he said.
Mr. Salceda noted the fund would have several layers of accountability, such as the board of directors, advisory board and the joint congressional oversight committee composed of five members from the House and Senate. The proposed board will be headed by the president of the Philippines, and include representatives from government financial institutions and two independent directors.
He also proposed that at least one of the independent directors be an SSS or GSIS member or pensioner, to address concerns about pensioner representation on the board.
Also on Monday, House Senior Deputy Speaker and Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo endorsed the creation of the wealth fund.
"In the current version of the Maharlika Wealth Fund, the President of the Philippines chairs its governing Board. This is a powerful statement that the highest official of the land will hold himself as ultimately accountable to the Filipino people for the performance of the fund," the former Philippine president said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) President George T. Barcelon said in a Viber message lawmakers should delay the creation of the fund "due to the funding issue coming from government agencies."
Mr. Barcelon is the private sector representative to the Legislative Executive Development Advisory Council.
"(We should) put this (MWF) in the backburner in the meantime because we don't want to do something that might affect our credit standing… With a good credit standing, we do get preferential or lower rates from foreign banks. That is more important for us — maintain our good credit standing," Mr. Barcelon said in a television interview.
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Kim Kardashian claims she would eat poop to seem younger, but internet users don't believe her
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Regarding skincare and her comments, many individuals agreed that it was past time to stop making people, especially women, feel bad if they "looked their age" and that there was nothing wrong with appearing older.
Kim Kardashian often makes headlines online, whether it's because of her style choices or company endorsements.
However, the strange declaration made by the American TV personality and socialite that she would eat "crap" if it made her appear younger caused her to become a current worldwide sensation.
Kim said in an interview with The New York Times, "I'll try anything."
"I may do that if you told me that eating crap every day would make me seem younger.
As she talked, she hinted that she would create her line of skincare.
Now, the remark has made the majority queasy and sparked discussion online.
On June 21, Kim is slated to debut "SKKN BY KIM."
She explained the reason for her most recent cosmetic endeavour in a newly released promotional video, which she claims gives her "years of knowledge and facials and dermatologist consultations" in bottle form.
Her nine-step skin care regimen does not, however, include any faeces.
Netizens couldn't stop talking about the bizarre comment rather than her future endeavour.
On Twitter, it rapidly gained a lot of attention.
Others used the chance to make fun of her, while others disregarded it as "yet another foolish comment" and that she would genuinely "never do it."
On the platform, there were plenty of jokes and memes, but many people also chimed in with serious remarks.
"I'm not behaving as if it's simpler or just normal.
Simply put, you don't get up and use whatever.
You utilise the ingredients after waking up.
She went into detail on what it takes to appear beautiful, including P.R.P. facials, stem cell facials, and lasers.
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Pandora Kaaki's colorful swimsuit that put her in everyone's sights
Ninel Conde and a perfect miniskirt to stand out at any event