Last evening I broke my fast for the first time in about 4 years, put on the long black coat, expensive scarf and headed out with the Spousal Unit to reacquaint myself with the high arts. The last time, we went to see Dudamel's premiere at the Disney.
Gays have long understood the close association between glamorous gowns, high pageantry and Dynasty, but it took me until the year of the boar to figure out that New Tang Dynasty TV (NTDTV) also spells good glamour with just as many shoulder pads as that Denver clan.
A certain religious group in China was apparently squandering Western public sympathy by selling tickets to Chinese cultural stage performances that contained explicit (but unadvertised) political and spiritual messages. This was making some Euro-Americans feel deceived.
Lately the Falun Gong have been extraordinarily active. Parading the streets of New York City in full costume, they create live-action dioramas depicting the Chinese government's illegalization of this spiritual organization.
The latest edition of the Epoch Times, a far-right free weekly newspaper associated with the pro-imperialist Falun Gong movement in China, is an all-out attack on two candidates for local New York City offices.
In order to strengthen physical health, I became one of the Falun Gong practitioners in August 1997 guided by Pan Quanying, a Falun Gong instructor in Congtai District of Handan. After I sobered up, I decide to share the story of Pan Quanying, who died after refusing medical treatment.
Now I'm not about to justify China's persecution of FG practitioners, clearly it's wrong, but this is why I get really annoyed every time they're described simply as a meditation group and the like, when really they're more like the Chinese version of Scientology.
Hey, did you see the Falun Gong protestors at the Chinese New Year parade? They were barred from marching in the parade -- organizers say it's because F.G. is too political -- but they showed up anyway. Those zany kids, always getting into mischief!
INTERNATIONAL human rights lawyer David Matas is banned from Russia, along with his report on the harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners' organs, according to Winnipeg Free Press on January 3, 2012.
As known to all, it is a difficult problem for the global medical circle to treat cancer, especially the terminal cancer. Should it be true that "Cancer has been removed for reciting 'Falun Dafa is good' in heart?" With the doubt, Wang Shanyan from Kaiwind.com inquired into the root of the matter ac...
My son Wang Shunian is 40 this year. As he had been obsessed with Falun Gong for a long period, he believed that he was under the protection of Li Hongzhi's Law Body. In March 2004, he banged on the wall to show "the skill of threading through the wall", but became an idiot for dashing too violently...
Falun Gong/Dafa is neither good nor great. It is a mind control cult that should be eradicated, and we should applaud the ChiComs, in spite of their brutal treatment of the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, in their effort at stamping out this Chinese version of Scientology in its early days.
The Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, Mary Dawson, issued a notice warning MPs against accepting tickets to Falun Gong’s Shen Yun show. She said they could violate federal conflict of interest rules if they accept free tickets to the show.
International experts have called for strengthened global cooperation in dealing with the rising negative social effects of dangerous cults, including the Falungong, amid increasing globalization and social networking.
My wife went with a friend to see this in Cupertino. For Westerners, it is certainly a visual treat to see a professional Chinese dance company, but my Chinese consultants ranked this as a B or B+. What was missing from the advertisements is that this is basically a proselytizing campaign for Falun ...