Saturday, July 21, 2012
SOS Corruption, Scandal & Fraud
If you cheat the mass, you will no one will be punished, look at MF Global, Bailouts on AIG, GM, others.
If you cheat the entire world like the LIBOR scandal, no one goes to the jail, only pay fine, not by the person responsible, they only punish the company, not the people in the company.
Well, this happen every where. Some disguise it better than the other. Some got cheated, and they didn't even know. A simple example, when the Libor is pushed lowered, some mortgage borrower will gain with lower interest, BUT, the lower interest has created easy credit, government over geared, bubble created in houses, currency depreciates. One may gain USD100, but the entire countries suffer billions. So, the one who cheat gets away, well, Barlays, the company will pay the fine say 500million dollars, but they have cause damages in billions. Yes, class action will be indicted, companies will be fined, no one goes to jail (at least not many).
Corruption is hard to detect, because the responsible person already know how to go around the rules and regulations. Although it is not air tight. Most will get away. Even the Regulator is corrupted, so, how are you going to catch a thief when the police is part of the script. Yes, in between, some will get jailed, but not in proportion to the number of corruptions by politicians, who has controls the executors, judicial and other agency.
Until these people change in their HEART, nothing will change.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
SOS Another Lehman Meltdown
I believe it is more of a slow depression, with asset class that goes up very high due to gearing, it will deflate when no new credit is created or hard to creat. This is similar to boiling the frog slowly with one or two heart attack in between.
No QE can stop the wave of debt implosion, which is 20 to 50 times larger than the money printed, like a tsunami. The only way is to conserve cash and wait. Property prices or commodities may drop between 20-60%.
But there was a saying in Malaysia, property never drop, based on 30 years history. Well, we will make history just like the American.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
SOS Testimonial of a practitioner
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
SOS Best Predictions for 2012 by Charles Nenner
Global equity markets are set for precipitous declines mid-way through next year, according to leading technical analyst, Charles Nenner, head of research at the Charles Nenner Research Centre in Amsterdam.
Nenner has been dubbed the “cycle guru”, because he uses technical analysis to predict future market moves. He has developed a huge following among hedge funds, investment bankers and brokers because of his strong track record in predicting major market moves. Nenner attracted a lot of attention in 2007 when he warned of trouble ahead for the US market. In February 2009, he predicted a major rally would begin “in a few weeks” that would push the S&P index up over 1,000.
In an interview with Business Spectator, Nenner forecasts that 2012 will be a tale of two halves. “I still think we’ll see a little bit more positivity in equity markets until the middle of 2012, then they’ll really be in trouble.”
This bleak outlook for global equity markets is consistent with his economic outlook. Europe, he says, is now definitely in recession, while the United States never came out of recession. Even worse, he says, the decision by the European authorities to conduct stress tests on Europe’s banks has triggered a credit crunch at exactly the wrong time.
“I think we’re heading for a depression. We’re going to have deflation starting in Europe.”
Not surprisingly, Nenner is also predicting the eventual collapse of the eurozone. “It’s going to happen, but not right now. The people who put together the European Union and the euro had no clue what they were doing. But the politicians will try to keep it going as long as they’re in power, because no one wants to be remembered as the ones who presided over its collapse.
“I think they’ll be able to keep it going for another one or two years. They’d like keep it going for another three or four years, but they don’t have the money to do that.”
And Nenner warns that the Chinese economy will not escape the woes afflicting the global economy. He predicts that the Chinese government will move to stimulate the Chinese economy, which will provide a boost to global equity markets early next year. But, he warns, the Chinese are still heavily dependent on selling goods to the United States and Europe, and the Chinese banks face serious difficulties with problem loans.
But Nenner is much more optimistic when it comes to the Australian economy.
He believes that the local currency is set for a big move higher in coming months, which could push it up by around 15 per cent. At the same time, he says, the local economy is under control and interest rates are at a reasonable level.
He’s also bullish on gold, saying that he’s hoping to buy back into the gold market at the beginning of 2012. (Nenner went long on gold when it was trading at $US400 per troy ounce, but later closed out his position). He believes that the bull market in the precious metal will continue, with the gold price hitting $US2,500/oz in a year or so particularly if, as he predicts, a major global conflict erupts in late 2012 or 2013.]
Nenner also forecasts that in the middle of next year, the US dollar will enter a major bull market that will last several years.
Given the perilous outlook for the global economy, what are Nenner’s favourite investments for 2012?
“Buy land. I want something tangible – not anything connected with the financial system, not banks. And real estate is still over-priced.’
On the other hand, he says, land is an attractive option given that agricultural commodities such as wheat, corn and beans will be in a bull market for the next 10 years.
“I’m from the Netherlands. There the investment approach is to avoid losing money. And there will be a lot of wealth destruction next year.”
He adds that most of his clients are also focussed on avoiding losses.
“Their mood is very negative. Everybody is looking at which bank they should be keeping their money in. Everybody is very worried. Most of them are buying farm land – in Australia, in Canada and in the mid-west of the United States.”
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
SOS Back to Mythonomics
Is majority believe something, but the truth is opposite
Because of the majority believes, the financial market reacts based on this majority believe
The fact is this believe is actually the opposite of truth
This will continue for a long time, as long as majority and the mass media sells it,
Majority will believe it, because, they do not get sufficient information on the truth
That is how the world works,
The truth is irrelevant, the key is the perception is more important than the truth
So, now the REALONOMICS
The truth sometime is harder to understand, because, the fixed notions are formed in the majority mind.
Myth No. 1 - printing of money post 2008 crisis will cause hyperinflation.
During the 2008 crisis, the Fed has pump about USD1.7 trillion into the banking system. USD1.5trillion is still in the reserve of the bank, kept as reserve.
The velocity of money, M2, actually slows down since 2000, even with the injection of money.
There is no growth in new credits, as banks are afraid to give out loans.
Because of the wrong expectation that the printing of money will cause hyperinflation, many has bought gold and silver, in anticipating of spiral inflation. So the price of these precious metals rises to new high until May 11, 2012. The real fact and truth is, there is no hyperinflation as they thought it would be.
Why? Because the deflation is at work. The age of deleveraging as mentioned by Gary Shilling will eventually come to past, the debt that turn bad far exceed the new money that is printed, afterall, 88% is still in the banking system instead of reaching to the small and medium industries, which explain why the unemployment remain at 8%.
Yes, a lot of people expect USD currency become toilet paper, but against who? The Euro is much worst. EU has about 10% unemployment. PIIGS is causing lots of problems.
So what will happen next,
In the long run 5-10 yrs, various type of assets will deflate at different times, be it properties, equities, precious metals, iron ore, copper, nickle, and other consumable commodities, not because they are no demand for it, because of the debt implosion. The fear that set the commodities prices sore higher because of fear of hyperinflation did not turn out. So, when the truth are reveal, DEFLATION will prevail, and people will be then fear that the various assets price will drop (because it was inflated by fear of hyperinflation in the first place), prices will drop gradually for different type of assets.
There is no clear solution to this, USD will strengthen in the long run because the BAD DEBTS will wipe out many trillions from the world (after all most debt are denominated in USD). So, will there be short of USD or too much of it, give it a deep thought.
If you are on the wrong side of the coin, you may loss some money, if you are at the right side, you may gain some money. Whichever it is, don't take it seriously. Just money.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
SOS where is morality going?
15 yrs ago, we do not need auto gate
15 yrs ago, we do not have cctv
15 years ago, we do not need an alarm system
15 years ago, we do not have security guard
15 years ago, children walk to school when it is less than 1km, today, they take bus
Today,
Auto gate = RM4000
CCTV = RM2000
Alarm system = RM3000
Security guard = RM600 a year x 10 yrs = RM6000
Bus fare = RM200 per month or RM2400 a year
Who says government not responsible?
Cost of living already increase by RM15,000- RM17,000 just keep our home safer.
OK this is not about cost of living, this is about the morality. It is very obvious, morality has dropped, hence, more crime.
Monday, May 21, 2012
SOS What happen to China in 1992 & 1999
One gives the world with hope,
The other trying to take it away,
Such a contrast year apart,
One teaches truthfullness, compassion and tolerance,
The other preaches lies, violent and hatred,
1992, falun dafa is spread,
1999, the china communist party illegally persecute it,
20 years ago, falun gong was introduced,
It spreads quickly by word of mouth,
Not only it helps in physical health,
It also improve human moral,
It also given us a hope, in human spiritual levels
www.falundafa.org
Monday, May 7, 2012
SOS Just a few thoughts
A person's mind is very complex, it is not fully guided by rational, it is influence very much by emotions, which is based on a person's notion and experience. And it is often misguided by the influence of media who's main purpose is to instilled misguided information for its own benefits, whoever controls it.
In the case of China, it uses the media as a tools or propaganda in persecuting the Falun Gong practitioners, those who actually holding on to the principle of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance. How can the CCP, China Communist Party persecutes a group of practitioners that cultivate to be a good person by following the said principles.
And why does it only happen in China? Falun gong is practised in 70 other countries, and none actually persecutes Falun Gong. The CCP claims or accused falun gong practitioners are bad, i.e. involved in killings, suicides, murders, gone insane etc and that "strangely" enough, it only happen in China, but not anyway else around the world? And, also strangely, when it first started in 1992 to 1999 (prior to the illegal persecution in June 1999), there were no major media reported of such incidents like killings, suicides, murders, gone insane or causes major social issues.
In fact, in its earlier years, surveys were conducted on falun gong practitioners and non practitioners and found that the practitioners health improved after practising and visits less doctors, therefore saving governments millions in medical expenses. Why out of a sudden in 1999, after 7 years it was spread to the entire China and overseas, the CCP condemned that falun gong practitioners are illegal? The same CCP government also given many awards, certifications and recognitions that falun gong actually is beneficial to health.
It is sad and dissappointing that CCP is misused its rights to persecute a group of elderly who has no political aims to overthrow the CCP or not interested in politics.
I personally has practiced and continuing to encourage others to practice falun gong because it helps the mind, body and spiritual improvements. And I and many other genuine practitioners can vouch the benefits they obtain from falun gong practice.
For those who likes to know more or try it out, feel free to visit, www.falundafa.org and read the benefits of falun gong and more importantly try it out if it does benefits the mind and body. If you can experience the positive changes, do continue the practice.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
SOS Chapter 64 China's True Story
To protect the gains of special-interest groups, the CCP has, on the one hand, eliminated their previous fa�ade and completely abandoned the workers, peasants, and the populace, and, on the other hand, has advanced their deceitful and villainous means as more and more of the CCP�s human rights abuses are exposed to the international community. The CCP has used popular vocabulary such as �the rule of law,� �market,� �for the people,� and �reform� to confuse people. The CCP cannot change its wicked nature even if it dresses itself up in a �Western-style suit.� Such an image is just more misleading than the CCP �in a Mao suit.� In George Orwell�s Animal Farm (published in 1945), the pigs learned to stand and walk on two legs. The newly acquired skill gave the pigs a new image, but did not change their pig nature.
A. Making Laws and Regulations in Violation of the Chinese Constitution
Laws and regulations in violation of the constitution are passed on to law enforcement personnel at various levels as the �legal basis� to obstruct the people�s efforts to stop persecution, gain freedom, and uphold human rights.
B. Non-Political Problems Are Handled with Political Means
An ordinary social problem would be elevated to the height of �competing with the Party for the masses,� �bringing demise to the Party and the country,� �turmoil,� and �enemy forces.� A non-political issue would intentionally be politicized, so that the CCP could use political movements as a propaganda tool to incite people�s hatred.
C. Political Issues Are Managed with Underhanded Means
The CCP�s latest ploy for attacking pro-democracy citizens and independent-thinking intellectuals is to set up traps in order to imprison them. Such traps include false accusations of civil offenses such as prostitution and tax evasion. The attackers keep a low profile to avoid condemnation by outside groups. These crimes, which are enough to ruin the reputations of the accused, are also used to humiliate the victims in public.
The only change to the CCP�s unscrupulous nature, if any, is that it has become even more disgraceful and inhuman.
The CCP Holds Over One Billion People Hostage to its Twisted Logic
Imagine that a licentious criminal broke into a home and raped a girl. At the trial, this criminal defends himself by arguing that he did not kill the victim; he only raped her. Because killing is worse than raping, he argues that he is innocent and should be released immediately. He says that people should also praise him for only raping but not killing.
This logic sounds ridiculous. However, the CCP�s logic in defense of its Tiananmen Massacre on June 4th in, 1989 is exactly the same as that of the criminal. The CCP has argued that the �suppression of students� avoided a potential �internal disorder� in China. In order to prevent �internal disorder,� the suppression of students was thus justified.
�Raping or killing, which one is better�? For a criminal to ask a judge in court such a question indicates how shameless the criminal is. Similarly, in the issue of the Tiananmen Massacre, the CCP and its cohorts did not reflect on whether it was guilty of killing. Instead, they asked society which one is better��Suppression of students or internal disorder that may lead to civil war?�
The CCP is in control of the entire state machine and all means of propaganda. In other words, the 1.3 billion Chinese people are held hostage by the CCP. With the 1.3 billion hostages in hand, the CCP can always argue its �hostage theory,� that if it does not suppress a certain group of people, the whole nation will be in turmoil or disaster. Using this as an excuse, the CCP could suppress any individual or group at will, and its suppression could always be justified. Given such deceitful arguments and fallacious reasoning, is there any criminal more shameless in the world than the CCP?
The Carrot and the Stick�from Bestowing �Freedom� to Escalating Suppression
Many Chinese people feel that they enjoy more �freedom� now than before, so they hold out hope for the prospect of the CCP�s improvement. As a matter of fact, the degree of freedom �bestowed� on people depends on the CCP�s sense of crisis. The CCP would do anything to maintain the collective interests of the Party, including giving so-called democracy, freedom, or human rights to the people.
However, under the CCP�s leadership, the so-called �freedom� bestowed by the CCP was not protected by any legislation. Such �freedom� is purely a tool to deceive and control people amidst the international trend toward democracy. In essence, this �freedom� is in irreconcilable conflict with the CCP�s dictatorship. Once such a conflict is beyond the CCP�s tolerance level, the CCP could take back all the �freedom� instantly. In the history of the CCP, there were several periods during which speech was relatively free, with each one followed by a period of strict control. Such cyclic patterns course throughout the history of the CCP, demonstrating the CCP�s iniquitous nature.
In today�s Internet era, if you visit the CCP�s official Xinhua website or the People�s Daily online, you will find that indeed quite a few reports there contain negative information about China. First, this is because there is too much bad news circulating rapidly in China these days, and the news agency has to report these stories in order to stay credible. Second, the standpoint of such reports conforms with the CCP�s interest, i.e., �minor criticism offers great help.� The reports would always attribute the cause of bad news to certain individuals, having nothing to do with the Party, while crediting the CCP�s leadership for any solution. The CCP skillfully controls what to report, what not to report, how much to report, and whether to have Chinese media or the CCP-controlled overseas media report it.
The CCP is proficient at manipulating bad news into something that can achieve the desired result of winning people�s hearts. Many youth in mainland China feel that the CCP now offers a good degree of freedom of speech, and thus have hopes for and are appreciative of the CCP. They are victims of the �refined� strategies of the iniquitous state controlled media. Moreover, by creating a chaotic situation in the Chinese society and then giving it some media exposure, the CCP can convince people that only the CCP can control such a chaotic society and can thus manipulate people into endorsing CCP rule.
Therefore, we should not mistakenly think the CCP has changed by itself even if we see some signs of its improving human rights. In history, when the CCP struggled to overthrow the KMT government, it pretended to be fighting for democracy for the nation. The CCP�s villainous nature is such that any promise by the CCP is not reliable.
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Chapter 63
From Usurping Democracy to Seize Power to Feigning Democracy to Maintain Despotic Rule
�In a democratic nation, sovereignty should lie in the hands of the people, which is in line with the principles of heaven and earth. If a nation claims to be democratic and yet sovereignty does not rest with its people, that is definitely not on the right track and can only be regarded as a deviation, and this nation is not a democratic nation�how could democracy be possible without ending the Party rule and without a popular election? Return people�s rights to people!�
Does this quotation sound like something from an article written by �overseas enemies� intent on slamming the CCP? In fact, the statement comes from an article in Xinhua Daily, the official CCP newspaper, on September 27, 1945.
The CCP, that had trumpeted �popular election� and demanded �returning people�s rights to the people,� has been treating �popular suffrage� as taboo since it usurped power. The people who are supposed to be �the masters and owners of the state� have no rights whatsoever to make their own decisions. Words are inadequate to describe the CCP�s unscrupulous nature.
If you fancy that what�s done is done and the evil CCP cult that has flourished on killing and has ruled the nation with lies will reform itself, become benevolent, and be willing to �return people�s rights to the people,� you are wrong. Let us hear what the People�s Daily, the CCP�s mouthpiece, has to say on November 23, 2004, 60 years after the public statement quoted above: �A steadfast control of ideology is the essential ideological and political foundation for consolidating the Party�s rule.�
Recently, the CCP proposed a so-called new �Three Noes Principle,� [6] the first of which is �Development with no debates.� �Development� is phony, but �no debates� that emphasizes �one voice, one hall� is the CCP�s real purpose.
When Jiang Zemin was asked by the renowned CBS correspondent Mike Wallace in 2000 as why China had not conducted popular elections, Jiang responded, �The Chinese people are way too low in education.�
However, as early as February 25, 1939, the CCP cried out in its Xinhua Daily: �They (the KMT) think that democratic politics in China are not to be realized today, but some years later. They hope that democratic politics should wait until the knowledge and education levels of the Chinese people reach those of bourgeois democratic countries in Europe and America� but only under the democratic system will it become easier to educate and train the people.�
The hypocritical difference between what Xinhua said in 1939 and what Jiang Zemin said in 2000 reflects the true picture of the CCP�s iniquitous nature.
After the Tiananmen Massacre in 1989, the CCP reentered the world stage with a miserable human rights record. History gave the CCP a choice. Either it could respect its people and truly improve human rights or it could continue to commit abuses inside China while pretending to the outside world to respect human rights in order to evade international condemnation.
Unfortunately, consistent with its despotic nature, the CCP chose the second path without hesitation. It gathered together and sustained a large number of unscrupulous but talented people in the scientific and religious fields and specifically directed them to publish deceptive propaganda overseas in order to promote the CCP�s feigned progress in human rights. It concocted a range of rights fallacies such as �the survival right,� or rights to shelter and food. The argument went like this: When people are hungry, do they not have the right to speak? Even if the hungry cannot speak, would it be allowed for those who have eaten their fill to speak for the hungry? The CCP even tried to deceive the Chinese people and Western democracies by playing games with human rights, even blatantly claiming that �the present is the best period for China�s human rights.�
Article 35 of China�s Constitution stipulates that citizens of the People�s Republic of China have the freedoms of expression, publication, assembly, association, protest, and demonstration. The CCP is simply playing word games. Under the CCP�s rule, countless people have been deprived of their rights to belief, speech, publication, assembly and legal defense. The CCP even ordered that the appeal of certain groups be considered illegal. On more than one occasion in 2004, some civilian groups applied to demonstrate in Beijing. Instead of granting approval, the government arrested the applicants. The �one country, two systems� policy for Hong Kong affirmed by the CCP�s constitution is also a ruse. The CCP talks about no change in Hong Kong for 50 years, and yet it has tried to change the two systems into one by attempting to pass tyrannical legislation, Basic Law Article 23, within just five years after Hong Kong�s return to China. [7]
The sinister new ploy of the CCP is to use the fake �relaxation in speech� to cover up the extent of its massive monitoring and control. The Chinese now appear to speak their minds more freely and, besides, the Internet has allowed news to travel faster. So the CCP claims that it now allows freedom of speech, and quite a number of people have fallen for this. This is a false appearance. It is not that the CCP has become benevolent; rather, the Party cannot stop social development and technological advancement. Let us look at the role the CCP is playing regarding the Internet: It is blocking websites, filtering information, monitoring chat rooms, controlling emails, and incriminating net users. Everything it does is regressive in nature. Today, with the help of some capitalists who disregard human rights and conscience, the CCP�s police have been equipped with high-tech devices by which they are able to monitor, from inside a patrol car, every move net users make. When we look at the degeneracy of the CCP�committing evils deeds in broad daylight�in the context of the global movement toward democratic freedom, how can we expect it to make any progress in human rights? The CCP itself said it all: �It loosens up to the outside but tightens up internally.� The CCP�s unscrupulous nature has never changed.
To create a good image for itself at the UN Commission on Human Rights, in 2004 the CCP staged an array of events to severely punish those who abuse human rights. The events, however, were for foreigners� eyes only and had no substance. That is because in China the biggest human rights abuser is the CCP itself, as well as its former General Secretary Jiang Zemin, former secretary of the Political and Judiciary Commission Luo Gan, Minister Zhou Yongkang, and Deputy Minister Liu Jing, of the Ministry of Public Security. Their show of punishing human rights abusers is like a thief shouting, �Catch the thief!�
An analogy could be made to a serial rapist who, when hidden from public view, used to assault ten girls in a day. Then, there are too many people around, so he assaults only one girl in front of the crowd. Can the rapist be said to have changed for the better? His going from assaults behind the scenes to raping in public only proves that the rapist is even more base and shameless than before. The nature of the serial rapist has not changed at all. What has changed is that it is no longer as easy for him to commit the crime.
The CCP is just like this serial rapist. The CCP�s dictatorial nature and its instinctive fear of losing power determine that it will not respect people�s rights. The human, material, and financial resources used to cover up its human rights record have far exceeded its efforts in the true improvement of human rights. The indulgence of the CCP in wanton massacre or persecution throughout China has been the biggest misfortune of the Chinese people.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
SOS Chapter 62
People are often heard to say, �I know the CCP lied too often in the past, but this time it is telling the truth.� Ironically, in retrospect, this was what people would say each time the CCP made a grave mistake in the past. This reflects the ability the CCP has acquired over the decades to use lies to fool people.
People have developed some resistance to the CCP�s tall tales. In response, the CCP�s fabrication and propaganda have become more subtle and �professional.� Evolving from the slogan-style propaganda of the past, the CCP�s lies have become more refined and subtle. Particularly under the conditions of the information blockade the CCP has erected around China, it makes up stories based on partial facts to mislead the public, which is even more detrimental and deceptive than tall tales.
Chinascope, an English language journal, carried an article in October 2004 that analyzes cases whereby the CCP uses more subtle means of fabricating lies in order to cover up the truth. When SARS broke out in Mainland China in 2003, the outside world suspected that China had hidden information about the epidemic, and yet the CCP repeatedly refused to acknowledge it. To find out if the CCP had been truthful about its reporting on SARS, the author of the article read all 400-plus reports on SARS that were posted on the Xinhua website from the beginning to April 2003.
These reports told the following story: As soon as SARS appeared, governments at central and local levels mobilized experts to give timely treatment to the patients who later were discharged from hospitals upon recovery. In response to trouble-makers� inciting people to stock-pile goods in order to avoid going out when the disease became widespread, the government wasted no time in stopping rumors and taking steps to prevent their spread, so the social order was effectively ensured. Although a very small number of anti-China forces groundlessly suspected a cover-up by the Chinese government, most countries and people did not believe these rumors. The upcoming Guangzhou Trade Fair would have the largest participation ever from businesses around the world. Tourists from overseas confirmed that it was safe to travel in China. In particular, experts from the World Health Organization [who had been deceived by the CCP], stated in public that the Chinese government had been forthcoming in cooperating and taking appropriate measures in dealing with SARS, so that there should be no problems. And specialists gave the go-ahead [after over 20 days delay] to Guangdong province for field inspection.
These 400-plus articles gave the author the impression that the CCP had been transparent during these four months, had acted responsibly to protect the people�s health, and had convinced the people that the CCP hadn�t hidden anything. However, on April 20, 2003, the Information Office of the State Council announced in its press conference that SARS had indeed broken out in China and thus indirectly admitted that the government had been covering up the epidemics. Only then did this author see the truth and understand the deceptive, villainous methods employed by the CCP, which had also �advanced with time.�
Saturday, April 14, 2012
SOS Chapter 61 the truth on China
A Painful Cost for the CCP�s Economic Development
While the CCP constantly brags about its economic advancement, in reality, China�s economy today ranks lower in the world than during the Qianlong�s reign (1711-1799) in the Qing Dynasty. During the Qianlong period, China�s GDP accounted for 51 percent of the world�s total. When Dr. Sun Yat-sen founded the Republic of China (Kuomintang or KMT period) in 1911, China�s GDP accounted for 27 percent of the world�s total. By 1923, the percentage dropped, but still was as high as 12 percent. In 1949, when the CCP took control, the percentage was 5.7, but in 2003, China�s GDP was less than 4 percent of the world�s total. In contrast to the economic decline during the KMT period that was caused by several decades of war, the continuing economic decline during the CCP�s reign occurred during peaceful times.
Today, in order to legitimize its power, the CCP is eager for quick successes and instant benefits. The crippled economic reform that the CCP launched to safeguard its interests has cost the country dearly. The rapid economic growth in the past 20 years is, to a large extent, built on the excessive use or even waste of resources, and has been gained at the cost of environmental destruction. A considerable portion of China�s GDP is achieved by sacrificing the opportunities of future generations. In 2003, China contributed less than four percent to the world economy, but its consumption of steel, cement and other materials amounted to one third of the total global consumption. [3]
From the 1980s to the end of the 1990s, desertification in China increased from a little over 1000 to 2460 square kilometers (386 to 950 square miles). The per capita arable land also decreased from about two mu in 1980 to 1.43 mu in 2003 [4]. The widespread upsurge of land enclosure for development has led China to lose 100 million mu of arable land in just a few years time. However, only 43 percent of the confiscated land is actually used. Currently, the total amount of wastewater discharge is 43.95 billion tons, exceeding the environmental capacity by 82 percent. In the seven major river systems, 40.9 percent of the water is not suitable for drinking by humans or livestock. Seventy-five percent of the lakes are polluted so as to produce various degrees of eutrophication. [5] The conflicts between man and nature in China have never been as intense as they are today. Neither China nor the world can withstand such unhealthy growth. Deluded by the superficial splendor of high-rises and mansions, people are unaware of the impending ecological crisis. Once the time comes for nature to exact its toll on human beings, however, it will bring disastrous consequences to the Chinese nation.
In comparison, since abandoning communism, Russia has carried out economic and political reforms at the same time. After experiencing a short period of agony, it has embarked on a rapid development. From 1999 to 2003, Russia�s GDP increased by a total of 29.9 percent. The living standard of its residents has significantly improved. The Western business circles have begun not only to discuss the �Russian economic phenomenon,� but have also begun to invest in Russia, the new hotspot, on a large scale. Russia�s ranking among the most attractive nations for investment has jumped from 17th in 2002 to 8th in 2003, becoming one of the world�s top ten most popular nations for investment for the first time.
Even India, a country that, to most Chinese, is poverty-stricken and full of ethnic conflicts, has enjoyed a significantly expedited development and has achieved an economic growth rate of seven to eight percent per year since its economic reforms in 1991. India has a relatively complete legal system in a market economy, a healthy financial system, a well-developed democratic system, and a stable public mentality. The international community has recognized India as a country of great development potential.
On the other hand, the CCP only engages in economic reform without political reform. The false appearance of an economy that flourishes in the short run has hindered the natural �evolution of social systems.� It is this incomplete reform that has caused an increasing imbalance in the Chinese society and sharpened social conflicts. The financial gains achieved by the people are not protected by stable social systems. Furthermore, in the process of privatizing the state-owned properties, the CCP�s power-holders have utilized their positions to fill their own pockets.
The CCP Cheats the Peasants Once and Again
CCP relied on peasants to gain power. The rural residents in the CCP-controlled areas in the early stage of its buildup devoted all they had to the CCP. But since the CCP obtained control of the country, peasants have experienced severe discrimination.
After the CCP established the government, it set up a very unfair system � the residential registration system. The system forcefully classifies people into rural and non-rural populations, creating an unreasonable separation and opposition within the country. Peasants have no medical insurance, no unemployment welfare, no retirement pensions, and cannot take loans from banks. Peasants are the most impoverished class in China, but also the class carrying the heaviest tax burden. Peasants need to pay a mandatory provident fund, public welfare fund, administrative management fund, extra education fee, birth control fee, militia organization and training fee, country road construction fee and military service compensation fee. Besides all these fees, they also have to sell part of the grains they produce at a flat rate to the state as a mandatory requirement, and pay agriculture tax, land tax, special local produce tax, and butchery tax in addition to numerous other levies. In contrast, the non-rural population does not pay these fees and taxes.
In the beginning of 2004, China�s Premier Wen Jiabao issued the �No. 1 Document,� stating that rural China was facing the most difficult time since the beginning of the economic reform in 1978. Income for most peasants had stagnated or even declined. They had become poorer, and the income gap between urban and rural residents continued to widen.
In a tree farm in eastern Sichuan province, upper level authorities distributed 500,000 yuan (approximately US$ 60,500) for a reforestation project. The leaders of the tree farm first put 200,000 yuan in their own pockets, and then allocated the remaining 300,000 yuan to tree planting. But as the money was taken away when passing through each level of the government, very little was left in the end for local peasants who did the actual tree planting. The government did not need to worry that the peasants would refuse to work on the project because of inadequate funding. The peasants were so impoverished that they would work for very little money. This is one of the reasons that products made in China are so cheap.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
SOS Chapter 60
What Is the Real Source of Turmoil?
Many people know and dislike the CCP's Machiavellian behavior, and loathe its struggles and deceptions. But, at the same time, they fear the CCP�s political movements and the resulting turmoil, and fear chaos will visit China again. Thus, once the CCP threatens people with �turmoil,� people fall into silent acceptance of the CCP�s rule and feel helpless in the face of the CCP�s despotic power.
In reality, with its several million troops and armed police, the CCP is the real source of turmoil. Ordinary citizens have neither the cause nor the capability to initiate turmoil. Only the regressive CCP would be so reckless as to bring the country into turmoil at any hint of change. �Stability overrides everything else� and �Nipping the buds of all unstable elements��these slogans have become the theoretical basis for the CCP to suppress people. Who is the biggest cause of instability in China? Is it not the CCP, who specializes in tyranny? The CCP instigates turmoil, and then in turn uses the chaos it created to coerce the people. This is a common action of all villains.
II. The CCP Sacrifices Economic Development
Taking Credit for the Achievements of People�s Hard Work
The CCP�s claim to legitimacy lies in the economic development over the past 20 some years. In reality, however, such development was gradually achieved by the Chinese people after the fetters of the CCP were slightly relaxed and, therefore, has nothing to do with the CCP�s own merit. The CCP has, however, claimed this economic development as its own achievement, asking people to be grateful for it, as if none of these developments would have taken place without the CCP. We all know, in reality, that many non-Communist countries achieved faster economic growth a long time ago.
The winners of Olympic gold medals are required to thank the Party. The Party did not hesitate to use the contrived image of a �great nation of sports� to eulogize itself. China suffered a great deal in the SARS epidemic, but People's Daily reported that China defeated the virus �relying on the Party's basic theory, basic line, basic principle, and basic experience.� The launching of China�s spaceship Shenzhou-V was accomplished by the professionals of astronautic science and technology, but the CCP used it as evidence to prove that only the CCP could lead the Chinese people to enter the rank of powerful countries in the world. As for China�s hosting of the 2008 Olympic Games, what was in reality an �olive branch� given by Western countries to encourage China to improve its human rights, the CCP uses to enhance its claims to legitimacy and to provide a pretext for suppressing the Chinese people. China�s �great market potential,� which is sought after by foreign investors, stems from the capacity for consumption of China�s population of 1.3 billion. The CCP usurps credit for this potential, and turns it into a keen weapon used to coerce Western society into cooperating with the CCP�s rule.
The CCP attributes anything bad to reactionary forces and the ulterior motives of individuals, while crediting everything good to the Party leadership. The CCP will make use of every single achievement to make its claim to legitimacy more attractive. Even the wrongdoing that the CCP commits can be turned into something �good� to serve its purposes. For example, when the truth about the rampant spread of AIDS could no longer be covered up, the CCP suddenly created a new identity. It carefully mobilized its propaganda machine, utilizing everyone from well-known actors to the Party�s general secretary, in order to portray the prime culprit, the CCP, as a blessing for patients, a destroyer of AIDS, and a challenger to disease. In dealing with such a serious life-and-death issue, all the CCP could think of was how to use the issue to glorify itself. Only as vicious a schemer as the CCP is capable of such ruthless behavior as brazenly or underhandedly taking credit and utterly disregarding human life.
Economic Disadvantage Caused by Shortsighted Behaviors
Facing a serious �crisis of legitimacy,� the CCP carried out the policies of reform and opening up in the 1980s in order to maintain its rule. Its eagerness for quick success has placed China at a disadvantage, termed by economists as the �curse of the latecomer.�
The concept of �curse of the latecomer�, or �latecomer advantage� as some other scholars call it, refers to the fact that underdeveloped countries, which set out late for development, can imitate the developed countries in many aspects. The imitation can take two forms: imitating the social system, or imitating the technological and industrial models. Imitating a social system is usually difficult, since system reform would endanger the vested interests of some social or political groups. Thus, underdeveloped countries are inclined to imitate developed countries� technologies. Although technological imitation can generate short-term economic growth, it may result in many hidden risks or even failure in long-term development.
It is precisely the �curse of the latecomer,� a path to failure, that the CCP has followed. Over the past two decades, China�s �technological imitation� has led to some achievements, which have been taken by the CCP to its own advantage in order to prove its legitimacy and continue to resist political reform that would undermine the CCP�s own interests. Thus, the long-term interests of the nation have been sacrificed.
Saturday, April 7, 2012
SOS Chapter 59
This is the ninth of Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party.
Foreword
The communist movement, which has made a big fanfare for over a century, has brought mankind only war, poverty, brutality, and dictatorship. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European communist parties, this disastrous and outrageous drama finally entered its last stage by the end of the last century. No one, from the ordinary citizens to the General Secretary of the Communist Party, believes in the myth of communism anymore.
The communist regime came into being due to neither �divine mandate� [1] nor democratic election. Today, with its ideology destroyed, the legitimacy of its reign is facing an unprecedented challenge.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is unwilling to leave the historical stage in accordance with the currents of history. Instead, it is using the ruthless methods developed during decades of political campaigns to renew its crazed struggle for legitimacy and to revive its dead mandate.
The CCP�s policies of reform and opening up disguise a desperate intention to maintain its group interest and totalitarian rule. Despite tight restrictions, the economic achievements earned by the hard work of the Chinese people in the past 20 years did not persuade the CCP to put down its butcher knife. Instead, the CCP stole these achievements and used them to validate its rule, making its consistently unprincipled behavior more deceptive and misleading. What is most alarming is that the CCP is going all out to destroy the moral foundation of the entire nation, attempting to turn every Chinese citizen, to various degrees, into a schemer in order to create an environment favorable for the CCP to �advance over time.�
In the historical moment today, it is especially important for us to understand clearly why the CCP acts like a band of scoundrels and to expose its villainous nature, so that the Chinese nation can achieve lasting stability and peace, enter an era free of the CCP as soon as possible, and construct a future of renewed national splendor.
I. The Unscrupulous Nature of the CCP Has Never Changed
Who Is the CCP�s Reform for?
Throughout history, whenever the CCP encountered crises, it would demonstrate some traces of improvement, enticing people to develop illusions about the CCP. Without exception, the illusions were shattered time and again. Today, the CCP has pursued short-term benefits and in doing so has produced a show of economic prosperity that has once again persuaded the people to believe in fantasies about the CCP. However, the fundamental conflicts between the interest of the CCP and that of the nation and the people determine that this false prosperity will not last. The �reform� the CCP has promised has one purpose � to maintain its rule. It is a lame reform, a change in surface but not in substance. Underneath the lopsided development lies a great social crisis. Once the crisis breaks out, the nation and the people will suffer once again.
With the change of leadership, the new generation of CCP leaders had no part in the Communist revolution, and therefore has less and less prestige and credibility in managing the nation. Amidst the crisis of its legitimacy, the CCP�s protection of the Party�s interests has increasingly become the basic guarantee for maintaining the interests of individuals within the CCP. The CCP�s nature is selfish. It knows no restraints. To hope such a party might devote itself to developing the country peacefully is wishful thinking.
Consider what People�s Daily, the mouthpiece of the CCP, said in a front page story on July 12th, 2004: �The historical dialectics have taught the CCP members the following: Those things that should be changed must change, otherwise deterioration will follow; those that should not be changed must remain unchanged, otherwise it will lead to self-destruction.�
What is it that should remain unchanged? The People�s Daily explains: �The Party�s basic line of �one center, two basic points� must last solidly for one hundred years without any vacillation.� [2]
People don�t necessarily understand what the �center� and �basic points� stand for, but everyone knows that the communist specter�s determination to maintain its collective interest and dictatorship never changes. Communism has been defeated globally, and is doomed to become more and more moribund. Nevertheless, the more corrupt a thing becomes the more destructive it becomes during its dying struggle. To discuss democratic improvements with the Communist Party is like asking a tiger to change its skin.
What Would China Do Without the Communist Party?
As the CCP is waning, people have come to discover unexpectedly that for decades the evil specter of the CCP, with its ever-changing villainous means, has instilled its vile elements into every aspect of ordinary people�s lives.
At the time of Mao Zedong�s death, so many Chinese cried bitterly before Mao�s portrait, wondering, �How can China continue without Chairman Mao?� Ironically, 20 years later, when the Communist Party has lost its legitimacy to rule the country, the CCP has spread a new round of propaganda, making people again wonder anxiously, "What would China do without the Communist Party?�
In reality, the CCP�s all-pervasive political control has so deeply branded the current Chinese culture and the Chinese mindsets that even the criteria with which the Chinese people judge the CCP have the mark of the CCP, or have even come from the CCP. If in the past, the CCP controlled people by instilling its elements into them, then the CCP has now come to harvest what it sowed, since those things instilled in people�s minds have been digested and absorbed into their very cells. People think according to the CCP�s logic and put themselves in the CCP's shoes in judging right and wrong. Regarding the CCP�s killing of student protesters on June 4, 1989, some people said, �If I were Deng Xiaoping, I too would quell the protest with tanks.� In the persecution of Falun Gong, some people are saying, "If I were Jiang Zemin, I too would eliminate Falun Gong.� About the ban on free speech, some people are saying, �If I were the CCP, I would do the same.� Truth and conscience have vanished, leaving only the CCP�s logic. This has been one of the vilest and most ruthless methods used by the CCP due to its unscrupulous nature. As long as the moral toxins instilled by the CCP remain in the people�s minds, the CCP can continue to gain energy to sustain its iniquitous life.
�What would China do without the CCP?� This mode of thinking fits precisely the CCP�s aim of having people reason by its own logic.
China came through her 5,000-year history of civilization without the CCP. Indeed, no country in the world would stop social advancement because of the fall of a particular regime. After decades of the CCP's rule, however, people no longer recognize this fact. The CCP's prolonged propaganda has trained people to think of the Party as their mother. The omnipresent CCP politics have rendered people unable to conceive of living without the CCP.
Without Mao Zedong, China did not fall. Will China collapse without the CCP?
Thursday, March 29, 2012
SOS Chapter 58
What Is the Way Out?
The CCP has been moving towards its complete doom. Sadly, it is still trying to tie its fate to the Chinese nation before its demise.
The dying CCP is apparently weakening and its control over people�s minds is loosening. With the advance of telecommunications and the Internet, the CCP is finding it difficult to control information and suppress expression. As the corrupt officials increasingly plunder and oppress the people, the public is beginning to wake up from their illusions about the CCP, and many of them have started to exercise civil disobedience. The CCP has not only failed to achieve its goal of increased ideological control in its persecution of Falun Gong, but also further weakened itself while revealing its absolute ruthlessness. This opportune moment has made people reconsider the CCP, paving the way for the Chinese nation to free itself from the ideological bondage and completely break away from the control of the Communist evil specter.
Having lived under the evil rule of the CCP for over 50 years, the Chinese people do not need a violent revolution; rather, they need redemption of their souls. This can be achieved through self-help, and the first step towards that goal is to become aware of the evil nature of the CCP.
The day will come when people cast aside the Party�s organizations that are attached to the state apparatus, allowing the social systems to function independently, backed up by the core forces of the society. With the passing of a dictatorial Party organization, the efficiency of the government will be improved and enhanced. And that day is right around the corner. In fact, as early as the 1980�s, the reformers inside the Party advocated the idea of �separating the Party from the government,� in an attempt to exclude the Party from the government. The reform efforts from within the CCP have proven to be inadequate and unsuccessful, because the ideology of �the absolute leadership of the Party� has not been totally rejected.
The Party culture is the environment necessary for the survival of the communist evil cult. Removing the CCP�s possession of people�s minds may prove to be more difficult than clearing out the CCP�s possession of state administrations, but such a removal is the only way truly to uproot the evil of communism. This can be achieved only through the efforts of the Chinese people themselves. With their minds set right and human nature returned to its original state, the public would regain its morality and succeed in a transition to a decent non-Communist society. The cure for this evil possession lies in the recognition of the evil specter�s nature and harmfulness, eradicating it from people�s minds, and clearing it out, so that it has no place to hide. The Communist Party stresses ideological control, since it is nothing but an ideology itself. That ideology will dissipate when all Chinese reject the Communist falsehood in their minds, actively wipe out the Party culture, and rid their own mentalities and lives of the influences from the communist evil cult. As people save themselves, the CCP will disintegrate.
Nations ruled by Communists are associated with poverty, totalitarianism, and persecution. There are very few such nations left, including China, North Korea, Vietnam, and Cuba. Their days are numbered.
With the wisdom of the Chinese people, inspired by the historical glory of the Chinese nation, a China freed from the evil possession of communism will be a promising nation.
Conclusion
The CCP no longer believes in communism. Its soul has died, but its shadow remains. It has inherited only the �skin� of communism, but still manifests the nature of an evil cult: arrogance, conceit and selfishness, and indulgence in wanton destructiveness. The CCP has inherited the Communist denial of the law of heaven, and its rejection of human nature has remained unchanged.
Today, the CCP continues to rule China with the methods of struggle mastered over the years, using its close-knit organizational system coupled with the ruling form of �Party possession,� as well as evil propaganda that functions as a state-religion. The six features of the Communist Party outlined previously place today�s CCP firmly within the definition of an �evil cult�; it does no good, only evil.
As it nears death, this Communist evil cult is accelerating the pace of its corruption and degeneration. What is most troublesome is that it is stubbornly doing what it can to take the Chinese nation with it into an abyss of corruption and degeneration.
The Chinese need to help themselves; they need to reflect, and they need to shake off the CCP.
Monday, March 26, 2012
SOS Chapter 57
VII. Reflections on the Evil Rule of the CCP
What Is the Communist Party?
This seemingly simple question has no simple answers. Under the pretense of being �for the people� and in the guise of a political party, the Communist Party has indeed deceived millions of people. And yet it is not a political party in the ordinary sense, but a harmful and evil cult possessed by an evil specter. The Communist Party is a living being who manifests in this world through the Party organizations. What truly controls the Communist Party is the evil specter that first entered it, and it is that evil specter that determines the evil nature of the Communist Party.
The leaders of the Communist Party, while acting as the gurus of the cult, serve only as the mouthpiece of the evil specter and the Party. When their will and purpose are in line with the Party and can be used by it, they will be chosen as leaders. But when they can no longer meet the needs of the Party, they will be ruthlessly overthrown. The mechanism of struggle of the Party makes sure that only the craftiest, the most evil, and the toughest ones will hold steadily to the position of guru of the Communist Party. A dozen or so ranking party leaders have fallen from grace, which proves the truth of this argument. In fact, the top leaders of the Party are walking on a very narrow tight rope. They can either break away from the Party line and leave a good name in history, as Gorbachev did, or be victimized by the Party like many general secretaries of the Party.
The people are the targets of the Party�s enslavement and oppression. Under the Party�s rule, the people have no rights to reject the Party. Instead, they are forced to accept the Party�s leadership and fulfill the obligation to sustain the Party. They are also subjected to regular cult type brainwashing under the threat of coercion from the Party. The CCP forces the whole nation to believe in and sustain this evil cult. This is rarely seen in the world today, and we have to recognize the CCP�s unmatchable skill in such oppression.
The party members are a physical mass that has been used to fill up the body of the Party. Many among them are honest and kind, and may even be quite accomplished in their public life. These are the people the CCP likes to recruit, since their reputation and competence may be used to serve the Party. Many others, out of their desire to become an official and enjoy a higher social status, would work hard to join the Party and aid the evil being. There are also those who chose to join the Party because they want to accomplish something in their lives and realized that under the Communist rule they could not do so unless they joined the Party. Some joined the Party because they wanted the allocation of an apartment or simply wanted a better image. Thus among the tens of millions of Party members, there are both good and bad people. Regardless of motives, once you swear your allegiance in front of the Party�s flag, willingly or otherwise, that means you have voluntarily devoted yourself to the Party. You will then go through the brainwashing process by participating in the weekly political studies. A significant number of Party members will have little if any of their own thoughts left and would be easily controlled by the evil specter of the CCP host body as a result of the indoctrination by the Party. These people will function within the Party like the cells of a human body, and work non-stop for the Party�s existence, even though they themselves are also part of the population enslaved by the Party. Sadder still, after the bondage of the �party nature� is imposed on you, it becomes very hard to take it off. Once you show your human side, you will be purged or persecuted. You cannot withdraw from the Party on your own even if you want to, for the Party, with its entrance-yes and exit-no policy, would regard you as a traitor. That is why people often reveal a dual-nature: in their political life the nature of the Communist Party, and in their daily life human nature.
The Party cadres are a group that retains power among Party members. Though they may have choices between good and bad and make their own decisions on specific occasions, at specific times, and specific events, they, as a whole, have to follow the will of the Party. The mandate dictates �the whole Party obeys the Central Committee.� The Party cadres are the leaders at different levels; they are the Party�s backbones. They too are merely tools for the Party. They, too, have been deceived, used and victimized during the past political movements. The CCP�s underlying criterion is to test whether you are following the right guru and are sincere in your devotion.
Why Do People Remain Unaware?
The CCP has acted viciously and wickedly throughout its more than 50-year rule over China. But why do the Chinese people lack a realistic understanding of the CCP�s evil nature? Is it because the Chinese are dumb? No. The Chinese constitute one of the wisest nations in the world and boast a rich traditional culture and heritage of 5000 years. Yet the Chinese people are still living under the CCP�s rule, completely afraid of expressing their discontent. The key lies in the mind-control practiced by the CCP.
If the Chinese people enjoyed freedom of expression and could debate openly the merits and demerits of the CCP, we could imagine the Chinese would have long ago seen through the evil nature of the CCP and freed themselves from the influence of this evil cult. Unfortunately, the Chinese people lost their freedom of expression and thought over half a century ago with the advent of the CCP�s rule. The purpose behind persecution of the rightists among the intellectuals in 1957 was to restrain free expression and to control people�s minds. In a society so lacking fundamental freedoms, most of the youth who had wholeheartedly studied the works of Marx and Engels during the Cultural Revolution have ironically been labeled as an �anti-Party clique� and are subsequently persecuted. Discussing the CCP�s rights and wrongs was simply out of the question.
Not many Chinese would even dare to think of calling the CCP an evil cult. However, were that assertion made, those who have lived in China would not find it hard to discover strong evidence supporting the argument, from both their own experience and those of their family and friends.
The Chinese people have not only been deprived of freedom of thought, they have also been indoctrinated with the teachings and culture of the Party. Thus, all that people could hear have been the praises of the Party, and their minds have been impoverished of any thought other than ideas that reinforce the CCP. Take the Tiananmen massacre for example. When shots were fired on June 4th, 1989, many people instinctively ran to hide in the bushes. Moments later, despite the risks, they came bravely out of hiding and sang �The Internationale� together. These Chinese were indeed courageous, innocent and respectable, yet why did they sing �The Internationale,� the Communist anthem, when confronted with the Communist killing? The reason is simple. Educated in the Party�s culture, all the pitiable people know is Communism. Those in Tiananmen Square did not know any other songs than �The Internationale� and a few others that praise the Communist Party.
Some may wonder why I posted such a long history of CCP and its nature. One, to unveil the TRUTH and to STOP CCP from persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners. Innocent people are being persecuted for believing in TRUTHFULNESS, COMPASSION & TOLERANCE. And non practitioners also being poisoned for the lies that CCP machinery created, and deter/brainwash ordinary people into not believing in spiritual belief.
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Chapter 56
VI. The Degeneration of the Evil Cult of the CCP
The CCP evil cult essentially rules in opposition to human nature and the principles of heaven. The CCP is known for its arrogance, self-importance, selfishness, and brutal, unrestrained acts. It consistently brings disasters to the country and the people, yet it never admits its mistakes, and would never reveal its true nature to the people. The CCP has never hesitated to change its slogans and labels, which are regarded by the CCP as the means to maintain its control. It will do anything to keep in power with total disregard for morality, justice and human life.
The institutionalization and socialization of this evil cult are bound to lead to its collapse. As a result of the centralization of power, public opinion has been silenced and all possible monitoring mechanisms have been destroyed, leaving no force to stop the CCP from sliding into corruption and disintegration
Today�s CCP has become the largest ruling �party of embezzlement and corruption� in the world. According to official statistics in China, among the 20 million officials, officers or cadres in the Party or government over the past 20 years, eight million have been found guilty of corruption and disciplined or punished based on party or government regulations. If the unidentified corrupt officials are also taken into account, the corrupt party and government officials are estimated to be at over two thirds, of whom only a small portion have been investigated and exposed.
Securing material benefits by means of corruption and extortion has become the strongest coherent force for the unity of the CCP today. The corrupt officials know that without the CCP, they would have no opportunity to connive for personal gain, and if the CCP falls, they would not only lose their power and position, but also face investigation. In Heaven�s Wrath, a novel that exposes behind-the-scenes dealings of the CCP officials, the author Chen Fang spelled out the CCP�s top secret using the mouth of Hao Xiangshou, a deputy director of a municipal CCP office, �corruption has stabilized our political power.�
The Chinese people see it clearly, �if we fight corruption, the party will fall; if we do not fight corruption, the nation will perish.� The CCP, however, will not risk its own doom to fight corruption. What it will do is to kill a few corrupt individuals as a token sacrifice for the sake of its image. This prolongs its life for a few more years at the expense of a small number of corrupt elements. Today, the only goals of the CCP evil cult are to keep its power and steer clear from its demise.
In today�s China, ethics and morality have degenerated beyond recognition. Shoddy products, prostitutes, drugs, conspiracies between officials and gangs, organized crime syndicates, gambling, bribery�corruption of every kind is prevalent. The CCP has largely ignored such moral decay, while many high ranking officials are the bosses in the back room who are extorting protection fees from people who are afraid. Cai Shaoqing, an expert studying mafia and crime organizations at Nanjing University, estimates that the number of organized crime members in China totals at least one million. Each syndicate figure captured always exposes some behind�the-scenes corrupt Communists who are government officials, judges, or police.
The CCP is afraid the Chinese people might gain a sense of conscience and morality, so it does not dare to allow the people to have faith in religion or freedom of thought. It uses all its resources to persecute the good people who have faith, such as the underground Christians who believe in Jesus and God and the Falun Gong practitioners who seek to be Truthful, Compassionate and Tolerant. The CCP is afraid that democracy would end its one-party rule, so it does not dare to give people political freedom. It acts swiftly to imprison independent liberals and civil rights activists. It does, however, give people a deviated freedom. As long as you do not care about politics and do not oppose the CCP�s leadership, you may let your desires go in any way you want, even if it means you do wicked, unethical things. As a result the CCP is deteriorating dramatically and social morality in China is experiencing an alarmingly sharp decline.
�Blocking the road to heaven and opening the gate to hell� best describes how the evil cult of the CCP has devastated Chinese society today.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
SOS Chapter 56
Marx and Engels instilled a wicked spirit into the Communist Party. Lenin established the Communist Party in Russia and, through the violence of scoundrels, overthrew the transitional government built after the February Revolution, [8] aborted the bourgeois revolution in Russia, took over the government, and obtained a foothold for the Communist cult. However, Lenin�s success did not make the proletarians win the world. Just the contrary, as the first paragraph in the Communist Manifesto says, �All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter...� After the Communist Party was born, it immediately faced the crisis of its survival and feared elimination at anytime.
After the October Revolution [9], the Russian Communists, or Bolsheviks, did not bring the people peace or bread, but only wanton killing. The front line was losing the war and the revolution worsened the economy in the society. Hence, the people started to rebel. Civil war quickly spread to the entire nation and the farmers refused to provide food to the cities. A full-scale riot originated among the Cossacks near the River Don; its battle with the Red Army brought brutal bloodshed. The barbaric and brutal nature of the slaughter that took place in this battle can be seen from literature, such as Sholokhov�s �Tikhii Don� and his other Don River story collections. The troops, lead by the former White Army Admiral Aleksandr Vailiyevich Kolchak and General Anton Denikin, almost overthrew the Russian Communist Party at one point. Even as a newborn political power, the Communist party was opposed by almost the entire nation, perhaps because the Communist cult was too evil to win the people�s hearts.
The experience of the Chinese Communist Party was similar to Russia�s. From the �Mari Incident� and �April 12th Massacre,�[10] to being suppressed five times in areas controlled by the Chinese Communists, and eventually to being forced to undertake a 25,000-kilometer (15,600 miles) �Long March� � the CCP always faced the crisis of being eliminated.
The Communist Party was born with the determination to destroy the old world by all means. It then found itself having to face a real problem: how to survive without being eliminated. The Communist Party has been living in a constant fear of its own demise. To survive has become the Communist cult�s top concern, its all-consuming focus. With the international Communist alliance in disarray, the CCP�s crisis of survival has worsened. Since 1989, its fear of its own doomsday has become more real as its demise has come nearer.
V. The Treasured Weapon for the Communist Cult�s Survival�Brutal Struggle
The Communist Party has constantly emphasized iron discipline, absolute loyalty, and organizational principles. Those who join the CCP must swear,
�I wish to join the Chinese Communist Party, to support the Party�s constitution, follow the Party�s regulations, fulfill the member�s obligations, execute the Party�s decisions, strictly follow the Party�s disciplines, keep the Party�s secrets, be loyal to the Party, work diligently, dedicate my whole life to Communism, stand ready to sacrifice everything for the Party and the people, and never betray the Party.� (See the CCP Constitution, Chapter One, Article Six)
The CCP calls this spirit of cult-like devotion to the Party the �sense of Party nature.� It asks a CCP member to be ready anytime to give up all personal beliefs and principles and to obey absolutely the Party�s will and the leader�s will. If the Party wants you to be kind, then you should be kind; if the Party wants you to do evil, then you should do evil. Otherwise you would not meet the standard of being a Party member, having not shown a strong �sense of Party nature.�
Mao Zedong said, �Marxist philosophy is a philosophy of struggle.� To foster and maintain the �sense of Party nature,� the CCP relies on the mechanism of periodical struggles within the Party. Through continuously mobilizing brutal struggles inside and outside the Party, the CCP has eliminated dissidents and created the red terror. At the same time, the CCP continuously purges Party members, makes its cult-type rules stricter, and fosters members� aptitude towards the �Party nature� to enhance the Party�s fighting capacity. This is a treasured weapon the CCP uses to prolong its survival.
Among CCP leaders, Mao Zedong was the most adept at mastering this treasured weapon of brutal struggle within the Party. The brutality of such a struggle and the malevolence of its methods began as early as the 1930�s in areas controlled by the Chinese Communists, the so-called �Soviet Area.�
In 1930, Mao Zedong initiated a full-scale revolutionary terror in the Soviet area in Jiangxi Province, known as the purging of the Anti-Bolshevik Corps, or the AB Corps. Thousands of Red Army soldiers, Party and League members and civilians in the Communist bases were brutally murdered. The incident was caused by Mao�s despotic control. After Mao established the Soviet area in Jiangxi, he was soon challenged by the local Red Army and Party organizations in southwest Jiangxi led by Li Wenlin. Mao could not stand any organized opposition force right under his nose and he used the most extreme methods to suppress the Party members he suspected of being dissidents. To create a stern atmosphere for the purge, Mao did not hesitate to start with troops under his direct control. From late November to mid December, the First Front Red Army went through a �quick military rectification.� Organizations for purging counterrevolutionaries were established at every single level in the army, including division, regiment, battalion, company, and platoon, arresting and killing Party members who were from families of landlords or rich peasants and those who had complaints. In less than one month, among more than 40,000 Red Army soldiers, 4,400 were named as AB Corps elements, including more than 10 captains (the AB Corps captains); all of them were executed.
In the following period, Mao began to punish those dissidents in the Soviet Area. In December 1930, he ordered Li Shaojiu, Secretary General of the General Political Department of the First Front Red Army and Chairman of the Purge Committee to represent the General Frontier Committee and go to the town of Futian in Jiangxi Province where the Communist government is located. Li Shaojiu arrested members of the Provincial Action Committee and eight chief leaders of the 20th Red Army, including Duan Liangbi and Li Baifang. He used many cruel torture methods such as beating and burning the body�people who were tortured like this had injuries all over their bodies, fingers fractured, burns all over, and could not move. According to the documentary evidence at that time, the victims� cries were so loud as to pierce the sky; the cruel torture methods were extremely inhumane.
On December 8, the wives of Li Baifang, Ma Ming and Zhou Mian went to visit their husbands in detention, but they were also arrested as members of the AB Corps and cruelly tortured. They were severely beaten, their bodies and vulvae burned and breasts cut with knives. Under the cruel torture, Duan Liangbi confessed that Li Wenlin, Jin Wanbang, Liu Di, Zhou Mian, Ma Ming and others were leaders of the AB Corps and that there were many members of AB Corps in the Red Army�s schools.
From December 7 to the evening of December 12, in merely five days, Li Shaojiu and others arrested more than 120 alleged AB Corps members and dozens of principal counter-revolutionaries in the severe AB Corps purge in Futian; more than 40 people were executed. Li Shaojiu�s cruel acts finally triggered the �Futian Incident� [11] on December 12, 1930 that highly astounded the Soviet Area. (From Historical Investigation of Mao Zedong�s Purge of �AB Corps� in Soviet Area, Jiangxi Province by Gao Hua)
From the Soviet Area to Yan�an, Mao relied on his theory and practice of struggle and gradually sought and established his absolute leadership of the Party. After the CCP came to power in 1949, Mao continued to reply on this kind of inner-party struggle. For example, in the eighth plenum of the Eighth CCP Central Committee meeting held in Lushan in 1959, Mao Zedong launched a sudden attack on Peng Dehuai and removed him from his position [12]. All of the central leaders who attended the conference were asked to take a stand; the few who dared to express different opinions were all labeled the Peng Dehuai antiparty bloc. During the Cultural Revolution, the veteran cadres at the CCP�s Central Committee were punished one after another, but all of them gave in without putting up a fight. Who would dare to speak a word against Mao Zedong? The CCP has always emphasized iron discipline, loyalty to the Party, and organizational principles, requiring absolute obedience to the hierarchy�s leader. This kind of party nature has been engrained in the continuous political struggles.
During the Cultural Revolution, Li Lisan, once a CCP leader, was driven to the limit of his endurance. At 68 years of age, he was interrogated on average seven times per month. His wife Li Sha was treated as a �Soviet revisionist� spy, and had already been sent to jail; her whereabouts were unknown. With no other choice and in extreme despair, Li committed suicide by swallowing a large quantity of sleeping pills. Before his death, Li Lisan wrote a letter to Mao Zedong, truly reflecting the �sense of Party nature,� according to which a CCP member does not dare to give up, even on the verge of death:
Chairman,
I am now stepping onto the path of betraying the Party by committing suicide, and have no means to defend my crime. Only one thing, that is, my entire family and I have never collaborated with enemy states. Only on this issue, I request the central government to investigate and examine the facts and draw conclusions based on truth...
Li Lisan
June 22, 1967 [13]
While Mao Zedong�s philosophy of struggle eventually dragged China into an unprecedented catastrophe, this kind of political campaign and the inner-party struggle, which is widespread once �every seven or eight years,� have ensured the survival of the CCP. Every time there was a campaign, a minority of five percent would be persecuted, and the remaining 95 percent would be brought to an obedient adherence to the Party�s basic line, thereby enhancing the Party organization�s cohesive force and destructive capacity. These struggles also eliminated those �faltering� members who were not willing to give up their conscience, and attacked any force that dared to resist. Through this mechanism of struggle, those CCP members who have the greatest desire for struggle and are best at using the methods of hoodlums have gained control. The CCP cult leaders are all fearless people rich in the experience of struggle and full of the Party spirit. Such brutal struggle also gives those who have experienced it a �blood lesson� and violent brainwashing. At the same time, it continuously energizes the CCP, further strengthening its desire for struggle, ensuring its survival, and preventing it from becoming a temperate group that gives up the struggle.
This kind of party nature required by the CCP has come precisely from the CCP�s cult nature. In order to realize its goal, the CCP is determined to break away from all traditional principles, and use all means to fight unhesitatingly with any force that hinders it. Therefore it needs to train and enslave all its members to become the Party�s heartless, unjust and faithless tool. This nature of the CCP originates from its hatred toward human society and traditions, its delusional self-evaluation, and its extreme selfishness and contempt for other people�s lives. In order to achieve its so-called ideal, the CCP used violence at all costs to smash the world and eliminate all dissidents. Such an evil cult would meet with opposition from people of conscience, so it must eliminate people�s conscience and benevolent thoughts to make people believe in its evil doctrine. Therefore, in order to ensure its survival, the CCP first of all must destroy people�s conscience, benevolent thoughts and moral standards, turning people into tame slaves and tools. According to the CCP�s logic, the Party�s life and interest override everything else; they even override the collective interest of all Party members, thus any individual Party member must be prepared to sacrifice for the Party.
Looking at the CCP�s history, individuals who retained the mindset of traditional intellectuals like Chen Duxiu and Qu Qiubai, or who still cared about people�s interests like Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang, or who are determined to be clean officials and bring real service to the people such as Zhu Rongji�no matter how much they contributed to the Party, and no matter how devoid of personal ambitions they were, they were inevitably purged, cast aside, or restricted by the Party�s interests and discipline.
The sense of Party nature or the aptitude for the Party that was fostered in their bones over many years of struggle often made them compromise and surrender in critical moments, because in their subconscious, the Party�s survival is the highest interest. They would rather sacrifice themselves and watch the evil force within the Party commit murder, than challenge the Party�s survival with their conscientious and compassionate thoughts. This is precisely the result of the CCP�s mechanism of struggle: it turns good people into tools that it uses, and uses the Party nature to limit and even eliminate human conscience to the greatest extent. Dozens of the CCP�s �line struggles� brought down more than 10 top-level Party leaders or designated successors; none of the top Party leaders came to a good end. Although Mao Zedong had been the king for 43 years, shortly after he died, his wife and nephew were put in jail, which was cheered by the entire Party as a great victory of Maoism. Is this a comedy or a farce?
After the CCP seized political power, there were unceasing political campaigns, from inner-party fights to struggles outside the Party. This was the case during the Mao Zedong era, and is still the case in the post-Mao era of �reform and openness.� In the 1980�s, when people just began to have a slight bit of freedom in their thinking, the CCP launched the campaign of �Opposition to Bourgeois Liberalization,� and proposed �the Four Fundamental Principles� [14] in order to maintain its absolute leadership. In 1989, the students who peacefully asked for democracy were bloodily suppressed because the CCP does not allow democratic aspirations. The 1990�s witnessed a rapid increase in Falun Gong practitioners who believe in Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance, but they were met with genocidal persecution beginning in 1999, because the CCP cannot tolerate human nature and benevolent thoughts. It must use violence to destroy people�s conscience and ensure its own power. Since entering the 21st century, the Internet has connected the world together, but the CCP has spent great sums of money in setting up network blockades to trap online liberals, because the CCP greatly fears people freely obtaining information.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
SOS Chapter 55
Social Controls Go to Extremes
This evil cult was able to become a state religion, because the CCP had complete social control and deprived individuals of freedom. This kind of control is unprecedented, since the CCP deprived people of private property, which is one foundation of freedom. Before the 1980�s, people in urban areas could only earn a living by working in Party-controlled enterprises. Farmers in the rural areas had to live on the farm land belonging to the communes of the Party. Nobody could escape the CCP�s control. In a socialist country like China, the Communist Party organizations are ubiquitous�from the central government to the most grass-roots levels of society, including villages and neighborhoods. Through the Party committees and branches at all levels, the CCP maintains an absolute control over society. Such strict control completely squelches individual freedom�the freedom of movement (residence registration system), freedom of speech (500,000 rightists were persecuted by the CCP because they exercised free speech), freedom of thought (Lin Zhao and Zhang Zhixin [7] were executed for having doubts about the CCP), and freedom to obtain information (it is illegal to read forbidden books or listen to �enemies� radio stations�; internet browsing is monitored as well.)
One might say that private ownership is allowed now by the CCP, but we should not forget that this policy of reform and openness only came about when socialism reached a point where people did not have enough to eat and the national economy was on the brink of collapse. The CCP had to take a step back in order to save itself from destruction. Nevertheless, even after the reform and opening, the CCP has never relaxed its control over the people. The ongoing brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners could have only occurred in a country controlled by the Communist Party. If the CCP were to become an economic giant as it wishes, it is certain that the CCP would intensify its control over the Chinese people.
Advocating Violence and Despising Life
Almost all evil cults control their followers or resist external pressure through violence. However, few have resorted to the extent the CCP has to violent means without compunction. Even the total number of deaths caused by all other evil cults across the world cannot compare to the number of people killed by the CCP. The CCP cult sees humanity as merely a means to realize its goal; killing is just another means. Thus, the CCP has no reservations or scruples in persecuting people. Anyone, including supporters, members and leaders of the CCP, can become a target of its persecution.
The CCP fostered the Cambodian Khmer Rouge, a typical case of the Communist Party�s brutality and disregard for life. Inspired and guided by Mao Zedong�s teaching, during its reign of three years and eight months, the Pol Pot-led Cambodian Communist Party slaughtered two million people�about one-fourth of this small country�s entire population�in order to �eliminate the system of private ownership.� Out of the total number of deaths, more than 200,000 were of Chinese ethnicity.
To commemorate the crimes committed by the Communist Party and memorialize the victims, Cambodia set up a museum for documenting and exhibiting the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge. The museum is in a former Khmer Rouge prison. Originally a high school, the building was transformed by Pol Pot to the S-21 Prison, which was used specifically for dealing with prisoners of conscience. Many intellectuals were detained there and tortured to death. Displayed along with the prison buildings and various torture instruments are also the black and white photos of the victims before they were put to death. There are many horrible tortures documented: throats cut, brains drilled, infants thrown to the ground and killed, etc. All these torture methods were reportedly taught by the �experts and technical professionals� that the CCP dispatched in support of the Khmer Rouge. The CCP even trained the photographers, who specialized in taking pictures, whether for documentation or entertainment, of the prisoners before they were executed.
Precisely in this S-21 Prison a head-drilling machine was devised to extract the human brains for making nutritious meals for the leaders of the Cambodian Communist Party. The prisoners of conscience were tied to a chair in front of the head-drilling machine. The victim would be extremely terrified, as a rapidly turning drill bit punctured the head from behind and quickly and effectively extracted the brains before the victim died.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
SOS Chapter 54
When incidents like Aum Shinri Kyo (Supreme Truth) killing people with sarin nerve gas, the Solar Temple�s ascending to heaven by suicide, or the mass suicide of over 900 followers of Jim Jones� �People�s Temple� are mentioned, everyone trembles with fear and outrage. The CCP is, however, an evil cult that commits crimes a thousand times worse, harming countless lives. This is because the CCP possesses the following unique features that ordinary cults lack.
The Evil Cult Became a State Religion
In most countries, if you do not follow a religion, you can still enjoy a happy life without reading the literature or listening to the principles of that religion. In mainland China, however, it is impossible for one to live there without a constant exposure to the doctrines and propaganda of the CCP cult, as the CCP has turned this evil cult into a state religion since its seizure of power.
The CCP begins to instill its political preaching in as early as kindergarten and elementary school. One cannot receive higher education or promotion to higher office without passing the Political Examination. None of the questions in the Political Examination allow independent thinking. Those taking the exams are required to memorize the standard answers provided by the CCP in order to pass. The unfortunate Chinese people are forced to repeat the CCP�s preaching even when they are young, brainwashing themselves over and over again. When a cadre is promoted to a higher office in the government, whether he is a member of the CCP or not, he has to attend the Party School. He won�t be promoted until he has met the requirements for graduation from the Party School.
In China, where the Communist Party is the state religion, groups with different opinions are not allowed to exist. Even the �democratic parties,� which are merely set up by the CCP as a political screen, and the reformed �Three-Self Church� (i.e., self-administration, self-support and self-propagation) must formally acknowledge the leadership of the CCP. Loyalty to the CCP is the first priority before entertaining any other beliefs, according to the very cultish logic of the CCP.
Friday, March 9, 2012
SOS China Chapter 54
Mao Zedong said, �A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.� [4]
Deng Xiaoping recommended �Killing 200,000 people in exchange for 20 years� stability.�
Jiang Zemin ordered, �Destroy them (Falun Gong practitioners) physically, defame their reputation, and bankrupt them financially.�
The CCP promotes violence, and has killed countless people throughout its previous political movements. It educates people to treat the enemy �as cold as the severe winter.� The red flag is understood to be red for having been �dyed red with martyrs� blood.� The Party worships red due to its addiction to blood and carnage.
The CCP makes an exhibition of �heroic� examples to encourage people to sacrifice for the Party. When Zhang Side died working in a kiln to produce opium, Mao Zedong praised his death as being �heavy as Mount Tai [5].� In those frenzied years, �brave words� such as �Fear neither hardship nor death� and �Bitter sacrifice strengthens bold resolve; we dare to make the sun and moon shine in new skies� gave aspirations substance amidst an extreme shortage of material supplies.
At the end of the 1970s, the Vietcong dispatched troops and overthrew the Khmer Rouge regime, which was fostered by the CCP and committed unspeakable crimes. Although the CCP was furious, it could not dispatch troops to support the Khmer Rouge, since China and Cambodia did not share a common border. Instead, the CCP launched a war against Vietnam along the Chinese-Vietnam border to punish the Vietcong in the name of �self-defense.� Tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers therefore sacrificed blood and lives for this struggle between Communist Parties. Their deaths had in fact nothing to do with territory or sovereignty. Nevertheless, several years later, the CCP disgracefully memorialized the senseless sacrifice of so many naive and bright young lives as �the revolutionary heroic spirit,� irreverently borrowing the song �The elegant demeanor dyed by blood.� 154 Chinese martyrs died in 1981 recapturing Mount Faka in Guangxi Province, but the CCP casually returned it to Vietnam after China and Vietnam surveyed the boundary.
When the rampant spread of SARS threatened people�s lives at the beginning of 2003, the CCP readily admitted many young female nurses. These women were then quickly confined in hospitals to nurse SARS patients. The CCP push young people to the most dangerous frontline, in order to establish its �glorious image� of �Fear neither hardship nor death.� However, the CCP has no explanation as to where the rest of the current 65 million party members were and what image they brought to the Party.
5. Denying Belief in God and Smothering Human Nature
The CCP promotes atheism and claims that religion is �spiritual opium� that can intoxicate the people. It used its power to squelch all religions in China, and then it deified itself, giving absolute rule of the country to the CCP cult.
At the same time as the CCP sabotaged religion, it also destroyed traditional culture. It claimed that tradition, morality and ethics were feudalistic, superstitious and reactionary, eradicating them in the name of revolution. During the great Cultural Revolution, widespread ugly phenomena violated Chinese traditions, such as married couples accusing each other, students beating their teachers, fathers and sons turning against each other, Red Guards wantonly killing the innocent, and rebels beating, smashing and looting. These were the natural consequences of the CCP�s smothering human nature.
After establishing its regime, the CCP forced minority nationalities to pledge allegiance to the communist leadership, compromising the rich and colorful ethnic culture they had established.
On June 4, 1989, the so-called �People's Liberation Army� massacred many students in Beijing. This caused the Chinese to completely lose hope in China�s political future. From then on, the entire people turned their focus to making money. From 1999 to this day, the CCP has been brutally persecuting Falun Gong, turning against �Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance� and thereby causing an accelerated decline in moral standards.
Since the beginning of this new century, a new round of illegal land enclosure [6] and seizure of monetary and material resources [by the corrupt CCP officials in collusion with profiteers] has driven many people to become destitute and homeless. The number of people appealing to the government in an attempt to have an injustice settled has increased sharply, and social conflict has intensified. Large-scale protests are frequent, which the police and armed forces have violently suppressed. The fascist nature of the �Republic� has become prominent, and society has lost its moral conscience.
In the past, a villain didn�t harm his next door neighbors, or, as the saying goes, the fox preyed far from home. Nowadays, when people want to con someone, they would rather target their relatives and friends, and call it �killing acquaintances.�
In the past, Chinese nationals cherished chastity above all else, whereas people today ridicule the poor but not the prostitutes. The history of the destruction of human nature and morals in China is vividly displayed in a ballad below:
�In the 50s people helped one another,
In the 60s people strove with one another,
In the 70s people swindled one another,
In the 80s people cared only for themselves,
In the 90s people took advantage of anyone they ran into.�