APRIL 25, 2021 |
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Hour 1 |
"China's
Historic Persecution of the Falun Gong" |
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Dr. Shizhong Chen |
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Hour 2 |
"The Dictatorship of
Woke Capital" |
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Stephen R. Soukup |
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"China's
Historic Persecution of the Falun Gong" |
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About Dr. Shizhong Chen
Dr. Shizhong Chen has been active in projects concerning China
for over 30 years. He has founded, co-founded, or been
spokesperson for a number of organizations concerning China, and
has spoken extensively on issues related to China.
Dr. Chen began his activism in 1989, when he helped to organize
supporting activities during the 1989 Beijing Student Movement.
Outraged by the June 4th Massacre,
Dr. Chen founded the Tiananmen Square Foundation, has served on
the Board of the Press Freedom Guardian, and was elected as the
vice president of The Independent Federation of Chinese Students
and Scholars in the U.S.
Upon learning the brutal persecution of Falun Gong in China, Dr.
Chen founded the Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group in 2001, and
has since submitted over 100,000 cases of human rights abuses
against Falun Gong practitioners to UN Special Rapporteurs. He also
founded and is President of the Conscience Foundation, a non-profit
organization to publicize and remind people that the human
conscience is the very essence of humanity.
Dr. Chen has spoken extensively on the issue of human rights in
China. Since 2001, he has frequented meetings of the U.N. Human
Rights Commission in Geneva (now the Human Rights Council), spoken
to the Council, to Special Rapporteurs, and at many forums to
forward the cause of human rights. He was a panelist at an annual
meeting of the California Bar Association, has spoken to Amnesty
International’s US West Region, and has made numerous appearances at
various forums and on radio and TV shows and interviews.
Among the books that Dr. Chen has authored or co-authored are:
Stories of Conscience, The Falun Gong Report, Falun Gong, Humanity’s
Last Stand, now in its third edition, and, most recently, a
comprehensive report on the extensive psychiatric torture taking
place in China.
In 2005, Dr. Chen conceived the idea of the Courageous People,
Spirited Land TV series and implemented the project. The programs
have since become very popular in China where viewers have been
disseminating them defying Chinese regime’s prohibition.
From 2010, Dr. Chen has given a presentation on The Renaissance of
Chinese Culture over one hundred Rotary Clubs, Kiwanis Clubs, Lion
Clubs, and various colleges.
From 2012, Dr. Chen has been working with a group of activists in
China to use China’s current laws to defend civil rights.
Dr. Chen was born in China in 1962. At 15, he entered the gifted
program at China University of Science and Technology. He came to
the U.S. in 1982 to study and received his Ph.D. degree in molecular
biology at University of California, San Diego. He currently owns
and runs a molecular biology startup in San Diego. |
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Here is a link to
one of the manuscripts mentioned in Dr. Chen's bio,
and may provide some background to a topic that will be covered in
our show:
http://www.falunhr.org/newsletter/TheLastStand-2009.pdf
Here are links to one episode of
the documentaries that The Conscience Foundation have produced, in
case you are interested:
http://www.falunhr.org/RJDL/English/TiananmenMission-1.mpg
http://www.falunhr.org/RJDL/English/TiananmenMission-2.mpg
http://www.falunhr.org/RJDL/English/TiananmenMission-3.mpg
http://www.falunhr.org/RJDL/English/TiananmenMission-4.mpg
From our guest for today's
show:
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"The Dictatorship of Woke Capital" |
Stephen R. Soukup |
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About Stephen R. Soukup
Stephen Soukup is
the senior commentator, vice president, and publisher of The
Political Forum, an independent research provider that delivers
research and consulting services to the institutional investment
community, with an emphasis on economic, social, political, and
geopolitical events likely to have an impact on the financial
markets in the United States and abroad. He is also the director of
The Political Forum Institute, a nonprofit educational organization
dedicated to creating and preserving community, primarily among
those who earn their living and create wealth for the nation through
the capital markets.
Soukup is a frequent media guest who has appeared on major radio and
television programs nationwide. He is also author of the new book,
The Dictatorship of Woke Capital. Soukup has followed politics and
federal regulatory policy for the financial community since 1996,
when he joined the award-winning Washington research office of
Prudential Securities. He is also a fellow in culture and economy at
the Culture of Life Foundation. |
The Dictatorship of Woke Capital
How Political Correctness Captured Big Business
By Stephen R. Soukup |
Washington, DC—For the better
part of a century, the Left has been waging a slow, methodical
battle for control of the institutions of Western civilization.
During most of that time, “business”—and American Big Business, in
particular—remained the last redoubt for those who believed in free
people, free markets, and the criticality of private property. Over
the past two decades, however, that has changed, and the Left has
taken its long march to the last remaining non-Leftist institution.
In THE DICTATORSHIP OF WOKE CAPITAL: How Political
Correctness Captured Big Business (Encounter Books, February 23,
2021), Stephen Soukup—Vice President and Publisher of The Political
Forum—reveals how a politicized Corporate America threatens our
nation, the freedoms we all cherish, and the fundamentals of
capitalism itself. Soukup authoritatively demonstrates how the
political Left is harnessing the power of business, and especially
capital markets, to advance overtly and exclusively political ends
with an eye towards unconstrained control over every aspect of our
lives.
The “ESG” movement, an investment trend focused on Environmental,
Social, and Governance matters in assessing a company’s long-term
value, is rapidly replacing traditional measures of analyzing
corporate success that were meant to direct capital to more
profitable enterprises and guarantee shareholder value.
“Sustainability”—not profitability—is rapidly being embraced as the
value by which investments should be measured. But “woke capital” is
even more insidious. As Soukup argues, it is ultimately a top-down,
antidemocratic means by which some of the most powerful and
best-known men and women in American business are endeavoring to
change capitalism, the securities markets, and the fundamental
relationship between the state and its citizens—and to “save” the
world.
Few had observed the radical leftward drift of business until 2019
when the activists of woke capital pushed too far in a concerted
effort on the part of several multibillion-dollar companies trying
to dictate moral matters to the American people. As THE
DICTATORSHIP OF WOKE CAPITAL notes, “Specifically, several large
media companies—“Disney, Netflix, and Warner Media”—had begun a
campaign to punish the people of Georgia by crippling the state’s
economy. Why? Because the elected representatives of the people had
passed a law—in keeping with the values and beliefs of the state’s
residents—to restrict abortion after a fetal heartbeat could be
detected. These mega-media corporations were unhappy with the law,
so they were threatening to pull production of their projects from
the state. It was blackmail pure and simple. Pulling business from
Georgia would serve only to hurt Georgians, including, of course,
many women. But the media companies had their principles—or had,
more likely, been told by activist employees and shareholders what
their positions should be—and they were determined to make a stand,
a blatantly undemocratic and coercive stand.”
Over the course of the past two years or so, a small handful of
politicians on the Right—Senators Tom Cotton, Marco Rubio, and Josh
Hawley, to name three—have begun to sense that something is wrong
with American business and have sought to identify the problem and
offer solutions to rectify it. While the attention of high-profile
politicians to the issue is welcome, to date the solutions they have
proposed are inadequate, for a variety of reasons, including a
failure to grasp the scope of the problem, failure to understand the
mechanisms of corporate governance, and an overreliance on
state-imposed, top-down solutions.
THE DICTATORSHIP OF WOKE CAPITAL provides a comprehensive overview
of the problem and the players involved, both on the aggressive,
hard-charging Left and in the nascent conservative resistance. It
explains what the Left is doing and how and why the Right must be
prepared and willing to fight back to save this critical aspect of
American culture from becoming another, more economically powerful
version of the “woke” college campus.
Ultimately, THE DICTATORSHIP OF WOKE CAPITAL contends that
our nation must depoliticize business. Soukup argues: “The choice
here is simple. If we as a civilization allow even the spirit of
capitalism to become part of “the political” and part of the total
state, then we will have order—for however long that lasts. If we
resist the politicization of business and of capital markets,
however; if we determine for ourselves that disorder and
depoliticization are the preferable options, then we not only
preserve liberty but also preserve the spirit of innovation and
expression that harnesses liberty to create wealth and prosperity.”
To arrange an interview with The Dictatorship of Woke Capital author
Stephen Soukup, please contact Stephen Manfredi at 202.222.8028 or
smanfredi@ManfrediStrategyGroup.com . |
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