The blue whale is the largest animal ever to live on our planet, and one of the most intelligent and sensitive. In 1984 I visited the Greenpeace office in Adelaide, Australia, and they told me that blue whales are most likely already biologically extinct, because their were so few of them left that they couldn’t easily find…

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I attended this performance expecting an amazing Chinese cultural extravaganza, with a sprinkling of political messaging  about the persecution of the Falun Dafa religion (aka Falun Gong) in China. I knew that the program was sponsored by Falun Dafa. But what I experienced was something quite different. Overhyped Shun Yen had been HEAVILY advertised for…

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