Huang boarded a flight in New York to search for his brother in Australia.
Huang’s worst fear is that his brother’s remains are on display as part of the controversial
“Real Bodies: the Exhibition” showing in Sydney—
a display of 20 real, plastinated human bodies and over 200 body parts that came from Dalian, China.
Communist China has long been in the spotlight for its rampant human rights abuse and
lack of transparency regarding the “crimes” committed by its political or religious prisoners.
There is also no transparency surrounding the whereabouts and treatment of prisoners
within the communist state’s detention system.
Many experts say it remains impossible to determine the validity of any ‘official’ documents from China,
such as those in the possession of ‘Real Bodies’ that claim their human remains were “legally donated.”
Similar exhibitions were banned by authorities in France, Hawaii, Seattle, Israel, and the Czech Republic
for failing to provide evidence that the body ‘donations’ in China were voluntary and gave consent for display.
[Dr. Huang WanQing, an American Chinese man]: Whenever I think that brother may have been tortured, then murdered for his belief and then put on
commercial display in the exhibition, I feel a knife-cutting sharp of pain in my heart.”
Huang’s brother is a Falun Gong practitioner.
Since 1999, the Chinese Communist Party has been brutally persecuting Falun Gong, a spiritual practice.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and International human rights lawyer David Matas has been
investigating the charge of a kill-on-demand organ transplant system operating in China for many years.
Matas explained that in addition to concerns about organ harvesting, body exhibits sourced from
China warranted similar attention.
[David Matas, international human rights lawyer] NO NEED: “Well, with organ harvesting, we are facing the situation where there's large volume of transplants,
and no official explanation that makes any sense of what the sources of all these transplants and
that's one of the reasons we came to the conclusion that we did, that the sourcing was
the prisoner of conscience, Falun Gong. We have a similar situation with the body exhibits.
We have no explanation of where these bodies come from, we know that with the Falun Gong when they're in prison,
a lot of them didn't self-identify to protect their families, so if they die in prison, of course their bodies are
going to be unclaimed, because the families don't know where they are.”
Huang suspects that after being killed for his beliefs, his brother’s body was deems ‘unclaimed’ and then
‘legally donated’ to be plastinated and flown around the world for display.
Huang WanQing: “If the exhibition company cannot provide the documents showing the voluntary [and]
informed consent of the deceased, [then] I'm requesting that all the bodies and
organ parts from the exhibit be submitted for DNA testing to ascertain the identity of the deceased.”
[Prof. Li HuiGe, Professor of Pharmacology at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz] “According to [common practice and professional] ethics,
if you can’t provide evidence for the source of these organs, then it should be shut down,
because if [something] this [unethical] Can happen, then anything can happen.”
For 15 years, Huang has travelled to many different organizations to search for his brother.
He says that no matter how hopeless the situation, he will never give up his search for the truth
about his brother’s disappearance. He hopes that his public appeal can raise awareness
about the human rights abuses suffered by Falun Gong, Uyghur, and other minority groups in China.
Small businesses are the most optimistic ever about their prospects, benefiting from tax cuts and deregulation under President Donald Trump, according to a survey by the National Federation of Independent Business.
The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index reached 108.8 in August, beating the previous record of 108, which dates back to the vigorous recovery of 1983 under President Ronald Reagan.
The NFIB has been producing the index since 1973, based on surveying some of its 325,000 members. Of the index’s 10 components, job creation plans and job openings both set new records in August. Capital spending plans were the highest since 2007 and inventory investment plans the most robust since 2005
“The small business engine continues to roar with the dramatic change in economic policies since November 2016,” the NFIB stated in the survey release. In December 2016, the index jumped eight points to 105.7, and it has run an average reading since then of 105.8.
Significantly more businesses reported sales gains than sales drops (net 10 percent) over the past three months, especially in construction, manufacturing, the wholesale trade, and transportation. “They are booming,” NFIB wrote.
Vastly more businesses reported paying their people more versus those that reported paying less (net 32 percent) over the past three months. The survey was responded to by 680 NFIB members. NFIB noted the August index has more “muscle” behind it. While the index started a record run nearly two years ago, the optimism had been driven by the “soft” part of the index—inventory satisfaction, good time to expand, expected business conditions, sales expectations, and expected credit conditions. Now, however, the index hit a record high through its “hard” components—job creation plans, job openings, capital spending plans, inventory plans, and earnings. “Now the Index is dominated by stuff that makes GDP grow,” the federation stated. While the economy bustles, 89 percent of small businesses that were hiring or trying to hire in August reported few or no qualified applicants for the open positions. A record 25 percent of respondents selected quality of labor as their most important problem—more than taxes (15 percent) and regulations (13 percent). With the unemployment below 4 percent and job growth continuing, there were more than 6.9 million job openings in July, with fewer than 6.3 million unemployed.
This is Msgr. Sladan Cosic’s second time seeing Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra, and he was again touched by the performance.
“I like this connection between West and East, because for the East, there are some stories behind [the music],” said Msgr. Sladan Cosic. “I like very much the stories that are expressed through the music. This is what is personally very touching.”
“While you listen to the music, you try to imagine what is really happening—and also understand the music better.”
He said he could receive the messages conveyed by the Shen Yun musicians.
“The musicians are gifted people, who are, while performing, providing this kind of spiritual experience, which also benefits them too.”
“I think they [the orchestra] are very good at this, because you get involved in the music itself.”
Msgr. Sladan Cosic said Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra brings the East and the West closer and has a positive impact on society.
“Bringing [musicians] together to become one. There are good things in both sides, West and East. So you try to combine the best things from both sides [to] make one piece, and this is the special characteristic of this orchestra.”
“In Western culture, we also see values, including spiritual values. So in this sense, I think the concert is somehow giving its own contribution to society.”
— Monsignor Sladan Cosic, Chargé d'Affaires, the Holy See's apostolic nunciature in Taipei
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This year's 9/11 events in New York City drew people of all beliefs to remember loved ones, and frontline civil servants who made sacrifices for their country.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city has learnt many lessons from the 2001 disaster that claimed nearly 3,000 lives at the former World Trade Center in Manhattan.
"When we say ‘when you see something say something’ people take it really seriously, and we know even recently the incident on 23rd Street a couple years ago, in fact it was an everyday New Yorker who saw something who helped make sure people were safe, because they called something very important in. So I think we’re better prepared because the people are more engaged," Mayor de Blasio said at a press conference in City Hall.
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That's the main goal, to show people the true facts about it, because a lot of people, especially in China, have a lot of misgivings about it - and it's not their fault, because they've been exposed to false propaganda.
For them to know the truth about it and understand it, that's a very precious thing
I also try to share the music, the beauty of the art, and just who I am as a Falun Gong practitioner through this art. Essentially it's all very positive, even the stories that inspire me, the persecution stories, are very positive stories because people come through that hardship, come out of it as stronger people.
I came across people who went through unbearable suffering, but they're some of the most positive people I have ever met.
It's actually very bright; I see it as a very bright thing. And it can't last forever eventually the world will know the truth.
Whoever you are as an artist, whatever it is the art that you make, that substance of yourself is going to be embedded into what you do. It's inseparable. If you create something that feeling, people will get it. And it's often way more powerful than words. It transcends languages, it transcends any kind of boundary.
People from any part of the world can hear something that has that universal message and relate to it.
If it's really sincere and true, it can bypass a lot of preconcieved notions we create in our daily life and just hit you straight into your heart. So that's the power of music. So even if the piece is instrumental, it doesn't tell you the words, it carries that feeling.
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No one was harmed in the incident, which took place just outside the heavy blast walls that surround the embassy in Garden City, a leafy neighborhood in the heart of the capital. The US Embassy is next to the British Embassy, which is also heavily fortified.
The Interior Ministry identified the man as 24-year-old Abdullah Ayman Abdel-Sameea, and said his backpack contained a bottle of flammable chemicals. It said he embraced an "extremist" ideology and that he intended to use the material he carried in a "hostile" act.
The ministry did not provide further information to support its accusations.
Video footage posted on social media showed police arresting the man, who was led away after his pants and shoes were stripped off in the search.
The US Embassy said in a tweet that it was "aware of a reported incident" near the embassy and advised American citizens to avoid the area.
The area around the embassy is heavily policed, with concrete barriers blocking vehicular traffic in its immediate vicinity.
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Trump Honors Federal Immigration Officials at WH celeste.li 2018-08-200 views President Donald Trump used a White House event Monday to pay tribute to federal immigration officials, returning to the fight over the U.S. southern border.
The president was honoring employees of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Customs and Border Protection. The federal agencies have been thrust into the debate over the Trump administration's separation of migrant children from their parents after they illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.
"We love you, we support you, we will always have your back," Trump said. He added: "For America to be a strong nation, we must have strong borders."
Trump has assailed some Democratic lawmakers for seeking to abolish ICE ahead of the November midterm elections. In a letter to state and local leaders, Trump wrote that ICE workers had been subjected to a "nationwide campaign of smears, insults and attacks" by politicians "catering to the extreme elements in our society."
Surveillance video from the Walmart in the Cedarbrook Plaza Shopping Center shows a man identified as Keenan Jones, 30, and a female companion waiting in line to check out around 6 p.m. on Aug. 14.
The video seems to show Jones take a pistol concealed in his companion’s waistband.
Jones shot a customer ahead of him in line, striking him in the leg.
He then fled toward the front of the store, continuing to fire his weapon at customers and store employees all of whom were fleeing.
Chilean Navy frees trapped whale celeste.li 2018-08-15249 views In heartwarming news, a trapped whale was rescued by Chile in the seas of the Chilean Patagonia region this week thanks to a coordinated effort.
The whale was stuck in fishing net, leading Chile's Maritime Authority to call on fishermen to remove the nets after the rescue.
A convoy led by the Alacalufe General Service boat made the three-plus hour trip off the coast at Puerto Williams to arrive at the site where the whale was trapped.
[make sure you have timestamp on this frame with this text]: Teams were out for a third day looking for the remains of the missing girl, Leia.
Leia fell overboard in the San Vicente Reservoir in Lakeside, over the weekend.
[Lt. Rich Stropky/San Diego Lifeguards]: No end in sight, except that we want to find Leia today.
Thirty-six divers from multiple agencies are assisting in the search.
A spokesman for the agency was getting visibly emotional as he talked about their efforts.
[Lt. Rich Stropky/San Diego Lifeguards]: It's... it hits home... way too close"
They are using helicopters, search dogs, and advanced underwater technology to look for Leia.
[Lt. Rich Stropky/San Diego Lifeguards]: "We do have some areas that we're putting a lot of divers in and retracing some steps to be very thorough with this search."
One of the bright red "urinoirs" installed on the Ile Saint-Louis, not far from Notre Dame cathedral and overlooking tourist boats passing on the Seine, has caused particular indignation.
Locals have written to the town hall to demand its removal and are planning a petition.
"This model is not attractive at all and where it has been set up is not appropriate at all," 50-year-old Paris resident Moubi said.
The urinal is on a pavement a few metres from the door of a well-known townhouse the Hotel de Lauzun where 19th-century French poet Charles Baudelaire lived.
Neighbours also fear that the urinal, around 20 meters (22 yards) from a primary school, could become a target for exhibitonists.
The designer of the "Uritrottoir" -- a combination of the French words for urinal and pavement -- said it offered an "eco solution to public peeing". The device is essentially a box with an opening in the front and a floral display on top, containing straw which transforms into compost for use in parks and gardens.
But Ile Saint-Louis locals said the receptacle, with no stall around it of any kind, could blight their ultra-chic neighbourhood.
"Seeing people urinating right in front of your door is not the nicest thing," 28-year-old Paris resident Mounia said.
Local mayor Ariel Weil insisted the devices were necessary, however. Paris authorities have rolled out four of the stand-up loos in spots where public peeing has been a problem, and a fifth is planned.
One of the bright red "urinoirs" installed on the Ile Saint-Louis, not far from Notre Dame cathedral and overlooking tourist boats passing on the Seine, has caused particular indignation.
Locals have written to the town hall to demand its removal and are planning a petition.
"This model is not attractive at all and where it has been set up is not appropriate at all," 50-year-old Paris resident Moubi said.
The urinal is on a pavement a few metres from the door of a well-known townhouse the Hotel de Lauzun where 19th-century French poet Charles Baudelaire lived.
Neighbours also fear that the urinal, around 20 meters (22 yards) from a primary school, could become a target for exhibitonists.
The designer of the "Uritrottoir" -- a combination of the French words for urinal and pavement -- said it offered an "eco solution to public peeing". The device is essentially a box with an opening in the front and a floral display on top, containing straw which transforms into compost for use in parks and gardens.
But Ile Saint-Louis locals said the receptacle, with no stall around it of any kind, could blight their ultra-chic neighbourhood.
"Seeing people urinating right in front of your door is not the nicest thing," 28-year-old Paris resident Mounia said.
Local mayor Ariel Weil insisted the devices were necessary, however. Paris authorities have rolled out four of the stand-up loos in spots where public peeing has been a problem, and a fifth is planned.
Audio from stolen plane reveals final moments before deadly crash celeste.li 2018-08-111K views Audio recordings of a conversation between an air traffic controller and an airline worker that stole an empty plane from Seattle's airport shed light on the final moments before the stolen plane crashed on a remote island near Seattle on Friday (August 10).
An Horizon Air ground service agent took the controls of a Bombardier Q400 turboprop airplane in a maintenance area at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport at about 8 p.m. local time Friday (0300GMT) and took off, embarking on flight over Seattle before crashing about an one hour later on Ketron Island in Puget Sound.
The 29-year-old man, who has not been identified, was suicidal and appeared to have acted alone, the Pierce County Sheriff's Department said on Twitter, adding the employee was probably killed in the crash.
Federal authorities were searching on Saturday (August 11) for what drove the airline worker to steal the empty airplane and spark a security scare that saw U.S. fighter jets scrambled.
There was no indication that the incident was an act of terror and no passengers were aboard the plane, the FBI said in a series of tweets.
Timothy Hochstedler started giving people rides in his horse and buggy in Colon, Mich.
[Timothy Hochstedler , Amish Uber driver]
"Uber is a cool thing, every single year something new comes in and Uber is hot right now, so we have the Amish Uber. We can deliver people to their front doorsteps.”
He charges just $5 a ride.
People who want a ride, though, must flag down Hochstedler as he's driving by.
Riders said they enjoyed themselves, taking in the scenery while getting to their destinations.
[Becky Phelps, Amish Uber rider]
"I don't think there's Uber down here, so it's pretty cool. It gives people that option that can't drive or don't want to drive or shouldn't drive.”
