Catching Up On Some Falun Gong News

Wow has it been 4 years? Blaming it on the pandemic. Anyway some news and some not so new news:
Epoch Times CFO charged with money laundering Weidong "Bill" Guan stands accused of laundering $67 million

How Shen Yun Tapped Religious Fervor to Make $266 Million The dance group has accumulated enormous wealth, in large part by getting followers of the Falun Gong religious movement to work for free and pay its bills.

Falun Gong-aligned media push fake news about Democrats and Chinese communists This article is more than 3 years old The Epoch Times, believed to be linked to the Chinese religious movement, is part of an anti-CCP influence operation tapping into the US right, according to a media watchdog

Head of Hong Kong Falun Gong Dead Despite Of Amazing Cultivation

Well, another one bites the dust. It's not my intention to maintain this blog, now that US government has withdrew the anti-Beijing Olympics money, but it's always satisfying to report another prominent follower of li hongzhi not saved by their living buddah (all lower case for emphasis):

"According to Hong Kong Media, morning of 12/19/2019 Hong Kong Falun Buddha Association president Jan Zhanghong died at Guang Hua Hospital due to brain aneurysm."

Shen Yun Hides Its Falun Gong Assciation

Here's a Falun Gong offer on LivingSocial without any reference to itself. You guessed it, It's Shen Yun:

https://www.livingsocial.com/events/1520888-ticket-to-shen-yun

Why is Falun Gong ashamed of itself? Seems Epoch Times, Sound of Hope, New Tang Dynasty - all try to wash away their sectarian linkage to Falun Gong in order to salvage some pretense of credibility.

Falun Gong Losing Case After Case In Courts

Falun Gong nutjobs loses yet another lawsuit: http://www.law360.com/articles/697278/cisco-still-off-hook-in-china-falun-gong-spying-row That is not the end. Apparently Falun Gong related asylum cases have been rejected big time as of lately.

Master Li Hongzhi Has Lost Another Disciple - Li Dayong Dead

Another Falun Gong leader dead. Li Dayong was the leader of "Quit the CCP" propaganda. Apparently practicing Falun Gong and bad mouthing the communist couldn't save him from liver disease.

Chinese:
http://blog.udn.com/amlink/12118459

English:
http://www.facts.org.cn/Feature/ofdf/201409/05/t20140905_1904429.htm

More Truth Clarifying Story about Falun Gong

Here's another follow-up by Asia Pacific Post:

http://www.asianpacificpost.com/article/5142-%E2%80%98canada-will-know-real-falun-gong-when-case-goes-trial.html

If you challenge his teachings or question his beliefs you will be repeatedly subjected to personal attacks, threats of litigation and frivolous lawsuits by his followers.

Welcome to the Falun Gong or Falun Dafa, who’s benign and sympathy seeking face as a heavily persecuted meditative practice is actually a façade for the intolerant, homophobic and racist teachings of its leader Li Hongzhi, say critics.

Another Falun Gong Leader Dead

Leader of Falun Gong in Japan dead.

This is not the first time prominent Falun Gong disciple have bit the dust despite of their cultivattion. UPFG covered this 3 years ago.