Not super surprising. I figured it was just the plaything of a couple rich Chinese expats. Never let a good slush fund go to waste, am I right?
actually it is vaguely surprising. They know how to launder money?
Not very well, it would appear.
Chinese laundry businesses have been around as long as Chinese in the Americas.
I agree I am not sure how to do this with a business that isn’t cash based. Pretty sure I could pull it off with say a restaurant or a barbershop or something that people use paper money for.
Also not sure how true this is but I heard from an accountant that if you run a legit cash business you are more likely to be audited compared to a money laundering scheme. Since a fake business can make itself look 100% statistically aligned with the models the IRS uses while a real business is much more likely to be slightly off.
What the hell is it? There’s a giant billboard in town that just says something like #1 trusted source and has some guys picture I don’t recognize and… that’s it.
It’s part of the media wing of a cult. Shen Yun is another part of it that a lot of people are familiar with - they perform all over the place doing “ancient Chinese dance” (which was invented in the 1950s). Epoch Times is the “news” piece. It’s all propaganda.
Holy shit just looked this up. Unbelievable lol some scientology shit
Scientology with Chinese characteristics
Kind of like the moonies
I did catch Shen Yun show once. I saw some dancing. What I have heard from everyone else is that my session was unusual and it’s usually loaded with politics.
Also I have a friend who holds dual citizenship and she told me the PRC takes pics of Chinese ethnic people who attend the shows and refuses to let them come back to the China, so she has never gone.
It’s such a weird situation.
They’re very popular in right-wing circles. They also give away their paper for free in boxes on street corners, so people will just pick it up for something to read.
Every once in a while their lies will end up on my doorstep. Straight into the fucking trash.
Do you live in Denver or do they have those same billboards posted everywhere? I suppose it must work, if you’re an idiot. So it does work…
They’re in other states as well, if not all.
I have seen those posters in every remotely urban area I have ever been to in the US.
I always knew January 1st 1970 was a fucking lie
Ahhh a fellow dude of culture
No shit. It funnels money to a cult.
Now welcoming the feds to what everyone else has known for years now.
Anyone who didn’t know it was a Chinese owned propaganda factory was refusing to follow the money.
Its actually the opposite. Its a publication supporting the Falun Gong which the CCP vehemently hate.
