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The Change in a Former Forced Labour Camp Guard
2008-04-10A few years ago he quit his job and went abroad to make a living. In western society, he came in contact with Falun Gong practitioners and became truly aware of the facts about Falun Gong. He learned that all practitioners are good people and that what he had been told in China about the practice were pure fabrications. -
FDI: Falun Gong Deaths Escalate as Olympics Approach
2008-04-10The speed with which Falun Gong adherents are being seized by police, abused, and turning up dead is alarming and reprehensible," says Falun Dafa Information Center spokesperson Ms. Gail Rachlin. "These are people who never should have been arrested in the first place. Arbitrary arrests, torture, and extrajudicial executions are no way to 'prepare' for the Olympics." -
Scientists Discover It Is Wise to Forgive Others
2008-04-09When other people ill-treat you, will you laugh it off or find a chance to take revenge? Recent research carried out by Harvard University has discovered that revenge not only doesn't bring any benefit to the person himself, but also does no good to the team or group, which also means that it is wise to forgive others. -
Thoughts about CCP Interference With the Divine Performing Arts
2008-04-08The CCP loses face throughout the world because of its criminal practices and attempting to have others be part in the persecution of Falun Gong. To get their way, they violate diplomatic conventions, interfering in the internal affairs of democratic countries, using economic relations as a bargaining chip. They wish to deprive people from enjoying true Chinese culture; a culture that they systematically tried to eliminate and destroy with Mao's Great Cultural Revolution. -
Chinese Communist Party Uses the Olympics to Cover Up the Persecution of Falun Gong
2008-04-06Perhaps for some, a convincing act of the Party's sinister intent is a mandatory liability pledge, which all of the regime's industry and commerce branches in Beijing were required to sign. The pledge listed Falun Gong as a "major target" for "strict discipline, strict prevention and strict control." It requires "intensified education and reform efforts. Those who cannot be resolved at the present, effective measures must be taken to solidly carry out administrative and control duties." "Reform" means forcing Falun Gong practitioners to renounce their beliefs. -
Catastrophe and Renaissance of Chinese Traditional Culture (Part 4)
2008-04-06During the process of human cultural development, some undesirable elements found their way into the process. This is only natural. The whole reflects both good and bad, beautiful and ugly. All must be represented to comprise the whole. Similarly there are people who believe in gods, and there are those who don't. To a certain extent, those who disbelieve in gods help to identify whether the others truly believe. The theory of mutual generation and mutual inhibition manifests in every aspect of our lives. -
Catastrophe and Renaissance of Chinese Traditional Culture (Part 3)
2008-04-05In Chinese traditional culture, harmony manifested not only from people's personal cultivation, but also from the the rule of the country. Harmony is a reflection of achieving a certain realm. It is the natural, interactive state that the people, society, nature, and universe tend toward. When the social atmosphere is pure, when people are steady and honest, when the government (the emperor or king) quietly rules the country and does not interfere with people's lives, when the policies, laws, rewards, and punishments are clearly followed, when the army is willing to defend the nation, the country is well-governed and in great harmony. -
CCP Uses Same Old Tactic to "Justify" Violent Repression - Party-Loyal Thugs Hired to Incite Violent Riots, Leading to "Justification" for Killings in Tibet
2008-04-05Tibetan monks recent protests of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) tyrannical rule have been bloodily suppressed. This tragedy has shocked the world, recalling the horrors of the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989. In the fifty years since the CCP came into power, its policies have directly or indirectly resulted in the untimely deaths of eighty million Chinese people. The CCP is a wolf in sheep's clothing that kills people without even blinking its eyes. Only by breaking away from, giving up, and completely disintegrating this evil Party, can all the ethnic groups in China regain their freedom. -
Catastrophe and Renaissance of Chinese Traditional Culture (Part 2)
2008-04-04According to Chinese traditional culture, every time a natural disaster occurred, besides praying for gods' blessings, the people would reexamine themselves to see where they had not done well. Even the emperors "proclaimed their own faults." History books recorded that when the Shang Dynasty's founding emperor, Cheng Tang, was in power, there was a long-lasting drought. As the emperor, he took a bath, fasted, and then piously prayed for rain in a mulberry tree forest. At the same he also deeply reexamined himself for his mistakes in governing the country. As a result, it started to pour. -
Catastrophe and Renaissance of Chinese Traditional Culture (Part I)
2008-04-03Mankind has come to the present day after going through several thousand years of ups and downs and numerous tribulations. The cultures that mankind has created are complete and rich. I believe that in terms of a culture's essence, origin, manifestation, and impact, mankind's cultures can roughly be divided into two major categories of belief or disbelief in gods. Because Chinese traditional culture is imparted by gods, the realm of "gods" is naturally reflected in the culture, which has endowed Chinese traditional culture with the characteristics of profundity, an all-encompassing nature, etherealness, elegance, nobility, beauty and sacredness. -
The Chinese Spectacular Video Purifies People's Souls: A China-Based Chinese Viewer's Reactions
2008-04-02I received a Chinese Spectacular Video-CD. Each and every number in that wonderful show touched me deeply. My heart rises and falls with the action – sometimes joyful, sometimes tearful, sometimes contemplative, and sometimes awestruck. In spite of the lack of thunderous live sound or the gigantic, bright backdrop, I still reacted strongly. I watched it again and again, every time feeling the cleansing of my being and the ascent of my soul. -
A Flower in Auschwitz? - An Example of How the CCP Media Twist the Truth to Serve Their Propaganda Goals
2008-04-02In Changli County, Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province, a little girl named Guo Yuetong whose mother and father were both Falun Gong practitioners, was illegally detained with her mother at a custodial station and brainwashing centre when she was just one year old. She was three years old when she was released. When she turned five, she was arrested again with her mother, and was illegally detained again. Why doesn't the media care for these young mothers and tender small children? -
Three Officials Meet with Karmic Retribution for Persecuting Dafa Practitioners
2008-04-01In both Western and Chinese cultures, the principle of karmic retribution, that is, being held ultimately accountable for one's own actions, is widely accepted. The fundamental teaching of Falun Gong is the characteristic of the universe, "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." The universe will reward acts that are in harmony with this principle, while doing things such as beating, torturing and murdering people will incur karmic retribution. Articles such as this one are meant as a compassionate reminder of this principle to those who would commit wrongdoing. -
An Extraordinary Road: Three Stories of People Standing Up for Falun Dafa in China
2008-03-29Everyone listened quietly lest they miss a single word. He cleared his throat and continued, "The Falun Gong practitioners are all good people. They have contributed a lot to our village. If the government wants to arrest these practitioners, let them take me first!" -
What Stepping up the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners Prior to the Olympic Games Says about the Chinese Communist Party
2008-03-25There are those who may think that, because the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is holding the Olympic Games, the human rights situation and social conflicts in China will improve, thereby quelling the international community's criticism of its human rights violations. Those who understand the true nature of the CCP do not see it this way.