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With his various cohorts, The Rock (Mathayus) uses a long list of weapons in battle, including his chin, a gong and every type of sharp and throwable utensil in the business...
Will the court attempt to prosecute the leaders of China for their population transfers into Tibet and their repression of the Falun Gong? Will the court go after Saudi Arabia’s ruling family for its oppression of women? That would...
...last Friday, scores of police vans wove through the donkey carts on Liaoyang's streets. Workers were demanding the release of four leaders detained by police and the sacking of government official Gong Shangwu, a delegate to the National People's Congress?a dangerous appeal that smacked of political dissent. "It's the first time I've heard of worker demands going beyond economics and into politics," says Ching Kwan Lee, a sociologist at the University of Michigan who researches labor. "Now we have great power," said one worker, "especially if we stay united...
...Twice during prime time that evening all eight cable channels went dead "and then there was Li Hongzhi speaking," a viewer told the Reuters news agency. Shots of banners reading FALUN GONG IS GOOD were followed by a documentary called Self Immolation or Deception? that accused the government of staging protest suicides in Tiananmen Square last year and blaming them on Falun Gong...
...Falun Gong is a techno-savvy group. It has a coterie of underground activists that stay in touch through encrypted e-mails and temporary mobile-phone numbers. Hacking into a cable network is as simple as hooking up a portable DVD player to one of the cable's unprotected transmission points. It takes about 10 min. and "everything they need is available at Radio Shack," says a foreign cable executive in China. There's not much the government can do except encrypt transmissions or lay state-of-the-art digital cable lines?both far too expensive solutions for rusting industrial...