ka-Ching Hai is very clever.
She knows that old fashioned human greed trumps most other values.
And that is how she buys people.
How to buy friends and influence people...with cash.

Just recently, she bought the endorsement of others as well, this time with $50,000 of her followers money.
Wayne Pacelle of the Humane Society of the US.

ka-Ching Hai knows that cash is king.
Just buy people with Other People's Money, money from her followers.

Do John Robbins, and Wayne Pacelle have any common sense or shame?



-------QUOTE excerpt for archival reference----------------

[humanewatch.org]

Jul 05 2011

The Murky Sea of Cult Money

Remember “Supreme Master” Ching Hai? She’s the reputed Taiwanese cult leader we reported on last year. That’s when HSUS’s top (vegan) M.D., Michael Greger, got cozy enough with Ching Hai to appear on her “Supreme Master TV” network. Now we’ve learned that Ching Hai’s international empire recently gave HSUS a $50,000 donation. Is it any surprise that HSUS CEO Wayne Pacelle is now a big admirer?

For the unfamiliar, websites promote Ching Hai as God’s "Immediate" and "Direct" Contact. Hear any alarm bells yet?

Here’s how a Sydney Sun Herald article described the self-promoting demigoddess in 1994:

The Supreme Master Ching Hai, leader of what is reportedly the fastest-growing cult in the world, is a 44-year-old divorcee with a penchant for funny hats, tacky jewellery and gold lamé.

As she steps into her shiny limousine, an attendant dressed like a bridesmaid fussing with the three-metre satin train of her self-designed gown, the Master looks not unlike a young Imelda Marcos. […]

A rabid anti-communist, the Master inspires feverish adoration like a kind of deity-cum-rock star among her followers who, on mass meditation expeditions, don matching luminescent hats for the obligatory 2-1/2 hours' daily invocation of her name in a heavenly chant.

And then there’s this from a 1997 Chicago Tribune report on Bill Clinton’s “Whitewater” legal defense:

With a bumbling ally of President Clinton serving as cheerleader and unofficial accountant, members of a tiny Buddhist sect were cajoled into donating $400,000 to Clinton's legal defense fund, a sect official told a Senate panel Thursday. …

According to a report given the panel, a sect [Ching Hai] started and named after herself emphasizes spiritual improvement, self-knowledge, a vegetarian diet and occasionally drinking the leader's therapeutic bath water.

How, um … interesting.

But let’s get down to business: Why is a cult leader investing $50,000 in HSUS?

The Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association’s donation is for “medicine and vegan food for animals under [HSUS’s] care.” (Fast forward to 9:20 and 11:00 in this report.) That’s fairly benign, but let’s hope HSUS isn’t caring for any cats (which are natural carnivores).

Ching Hai’s larger, stranger dietary dictates are in line with those of HSUS. She preaches a quasi-Buddhist lifestyle that requires veganism. She claims people need to convert to veganism in order to “save” the planet. (Perhaps coincidentally, she also owns 160 vegetarian restaurants.) Satellites beam her 24/7 “Supreme Master TV” and its anti-meat message across the globe in a multitude of languages.

Wayne Pacelle seems hopeful that the recent $50,000 ka-Ching (pun intended) won’t be the last. In April he even inscribed a copy of his book The Bond to the cult leader. (We’re not making this up.)

“Supreme Master Ching Hai — Thanks for the incredible leadership + vision you provide through the world! You are an inspiration. Wayne Pacelle 4/15/11”

How far off the fringe is Ching Hai’s “incredible leadership + vision”? The Phoenix New Times has more:

The consequence of ignoring Hai's edicts will be that Earth will end up like Mars or Venus, which she contends once had "water, life, and people similar to us." That is, until the Martians and Venusians "raised too much livestock," triggering an "irreversible greenhouse gas effect." She even posits that there were at one time "four Venuses," two of which went bad from global warming.

Material for Pacelle’s next book, perhaps?

If Pacelle wants to cozy up to a cultist, that’s his prerogative. (Perhaps he missed her not-so-flattering profile in last fall’s VegNews.) But we understand his motive: Ching Hai may be creepy, but her money is still green. And if oddball mystics are the kind of supporters HSUS is recruiting, the next stop on Pacelle’s book tour may as well be at 1424 Sixteenth Street, NW.

Posted on 07/05/2011 at 05:27 PM by the HumaneWatch Team

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One has to wonder, is Ching Hai and her recently purchased "friends" trying to also force animals to be vegans?
As in, trying to make cats/dogs vegans?

Because if they are, that is extreme animal abuse, as in animal starvation.
Cats are carnivores, dogs are carnivores.
They evolved to hunt and eat meat, and that is what they require. Of course, many dogs will eat anything! But they require meat.

Is Ching Hai, or any of the animal organizations she is funding with her followers money, abusing animals in this manner?

The only veggies cats eat is cat-grass, probably to help with their meat diet.
Are these fringe cultists abusing animals in this manner with their beliefs?

And one has to wonder why these vegan CEO's are shilling for Ching Hai?
Of course they believe in their cause.

But vegan CEO's also probably believe in their own 6-figure salaries as well, plus generous expense accounts. Someone has to pay for that, so they must figure Ching Hai's followers might as well be the ones who pay.

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As she steps into her shiny limousine, an attendant dressed like a bridesmaid fussing with the three-metre satin train of her self-designed gown, the Master looks not unlike a young Imelda Marcos

Using a limo is total hypocrisy for someone purporting to offer a way to save the planet.

Ditto for a gown with three meters of satin. Thats conspicuous consumption of expensive resources, right there. So is having clothing so bulky that one needs a servant to carry the rear end of the gown for you.

She's preaching veganism and self denial but its clear Ching Hai herself has a greedy ego.

She's demontrating what the Great Zen Master Thorstein Veblen termed conspicuous consumption.

And leaving big ego foot prints all over the planet.

There's evidently something deep rooted in the DOS system of the human psyche in which we need something to adore, and under stress this comes to the fore.

Anyone clever enough to spot this when we are vulnerable can get us to imprint on them and follow them, the way naturalist Korad Lorenz arranged for newly hatched goslings to see him first and they 'imprinted' him as their mother and thus followed him everywhere.

THis tendency was kindly described and satirized by the folks who created the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

[www.venganza.org]

And, like Mr Rick Ross, Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster displays its hate mail proudly online.

[www.venganza.org]

Ching Hai is the Vegan Noodle Monster. And by her tycoon lifestyle, making a large carbon footprint, while exorting her followers to engage in vegan self denial so as to save the planet.

Saving Ching Hai's own tycoon lifestyle is more like it.

And by being a tax exempt, tax payers are indirectly subsidizing this tycoon, just as they do the other male and female gurus who have gotten folks to imprint on them and exploit the generousity of US tax law.

Unbelievable, "EarthSave" is into promoting trying to force your poor cat to be a vegetarian. This is animal abuse and yes, animal torture.
And of course, they are cross-marketing some "supplement" on their website for cats!!
Who are these EarthSave folks, and what is their real ideology?
Vegetarian cats, and marketing supplements for cats.

Jumping in bed with Ching Hai Inc fits in right with EarthSave's business plan.

Ching Hai also keep flocks of exotic birds locked-up as her playthings. EarthSave must also think everyone should keep a flock of exotic birds in cages as toys, and have 20 dogs like Ching Hai.

Something smells really bad about this.



[www.vegetariancats.com]

[4] Bryanna Clark Grogan. "Vegetarian Cats and Dogs" from Soybean Diaries, 1996. Reprinted by EarthSave Canada.

www.earthsave.ca/articles/ethics/vegetarian_cats_and_dogs.html

Exotic birds fall into the luxury catagory as pets. They need lots of expert care, excellent diet. Cages/aviaries must be kept scrupulously clean. And if these birds are parrots they need lots of attention and opportunities to play and exercise. Parrots are intelligent sensitive and become upset if cages are too small and they are bored.

Unless Ching Hai takes time out from tycooning to clean her bird's cages, you can bet some servants do it.

And you cant keep birds in any old place. Their living space has to be kept warm. That means tempreture controlled living quarters.

A large carbon foot print is being left here, folks.

Left by the Vegan Noodle Monster.

[supremeleak.over-blog.com]

The Chinese and Vietnamese content is essential to reach the Ching Hai target demographic with accurate information.
That new website seems to be the clearinghouse for information about Ching Hai on the internet.


Now count the days until Ching Hai's expensive hired PR department contacts the website host to attempt to suppress freedom of thought and freedom of speech, with some bogus fake claim.
They just concoct a fake claim and try to bully the web host, like many other cults and sects.


What Ching Hai doesn't understand, is the more she tries to suppress freedom of thought, the worse it gets for her.
The more Ching Hai tries to silence anyone who criticizes her, the more she shows herself as a cultish leader who cannot tolerate freedom of thought.

France is not very friendly to cults or "secte".

Search Google for:

secte "ching hai"

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The Anticult
France is not very friendly to cults or "secte".

Search Google for:

secte "ching hai"

I'm sorry to contradict you, but this search on google doesn't lead to many material in french (nothing else than a few of what have already been linked in the french section of SupremeLeak).

I gave my point of view about the situation in France toward sects : April 29, 2011 03:45PM . I'm not specialist of the question, of course, but just someone looking for information in french about the question. And the first thing I find, is that there's almost no information.

And I notice it's very strange that the investigation about Ching Hai in Roquebrune hasn't gone anywhere else deeper... what about the rest of the story? It was pretty exciting but eventually we'll never know what happened to Ching Hai after all this noise... And about the Roquebrune meditation center? I know it's still working because I saw the invitations for disciples this summer. At the time of these articles, the police case was not closed, but who knows... maybe the money fell in the good pockets and everybody forgot.
Some of the concerned articles (english translation) :
Roquebrune: followers of Supreme Master Ching Hai decamped
Master Ching Hai is adept selects sites of Monaco!
Roquebrune Cap Martin: Is there a sect in the city

I also remind you that in France even if most cultish groups are officially known as "sects" (since the repport of the french parliament in 1995), they are still perfectly legal, not prohibited. In France since 1995 sects try to keep underground, they avoid proselytism on the public place, but I've been in Berlin recently, I felt like being in something like a New Age kingdom. There, veganism is a huge fashion, lots of people are involved in many kind of yoga meditation (I recognized some of them which are classified as cults in France), and streets are covered with posters of various metidation sects as Ching Hai, Sri Chinmoy, etc... In Spain, the Scientology Church was considered as a sect, but since december 2007 it is now an official religion, and the church is based in a 7 stairs building next to the spanish parliament... how convenient. Recently I have read a very interesting blog article of a french lawyer, Maitre Eolas, about the legal case of scientology in 2009, and how they succeded to change the french law just 2 weeks before the jugement so that Scientology can avoid dissolution. That's a real scandal which proves that french government is deeply infiltrated by Scientology Church. Wikipedia quicly mention that event here : Scientology and the legal system : Cases in France

About CICNS it's probably an association financed by Scientology (and probably other cults, who all have same interest in promoting "religious freedom" in order to cover their criminal activities). For me it is the french equivalent of the "Religious Freedom Watch". Both spend tons of energy debunking any criticism about any cults, and accusing all opponents of any kind of sects to "bully" small innocent religious groups. That's quite obvious when you read here [www.religiousfreedomwatch.org] :

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Religious Freedom Watch
Clearly, though, it’s now up to these member states to actually put that into action, as more than just Christians have been the subject of much discrimination on the basis of religious belief. Whilst many European countries would seem to the uninformed outsider to be fair-treating of all religions, countries like France have discriminated against Muslims for simply wearing a burqa, or have discriminated against Scientologists for simply practicing their own religion.

[personal comment : Religious Freedom Watch is such a blind watcher, as they forget to consider that Scientology was NOT sued just for "practicing religion", but for crimes like swindle, intelectual fraud, mind control and financial abuses on vulnerable people, illegal confinement, etc... the practicioners (or believers) have never been concerned by these prosecutions! Only the organisators, the responsibles (6 persons) were sued. So that is a totally fallacious speech to say that "countries like France (...) have discriminated against Scientologists for simply practicing their own religion. That's just a lie.]

Admittedly in France, the public debate is opened, and as far as I know there's no cencorship for criticism about cults on television, but people just don't care, they have no idea about what a cult is, and there is no active public information. That's not a fasionable subject, so you rarely hear about that on TV in France. I believe it's the same in all other countries in Europe, except Belgium maybe, where anti-sect opposition seems more active.

Don't mistake, Europe is definitely a great place for sects.

There is nothing to contradict.
The comments about France are not so much about Ching Hai, but about other sectes that have been exposed and drummed out of France.

France 3 documentary: "Voyage to the Land of the New Gurus"
[www.culteducation.com]


No of course they are not illegal, as any "new religion" is not illegal in a western society, only illegal activities are illegal.
But the french media has gone after sectes more than many other countries.
But no question, new cults, sectes, new religions are exploding, as that is where the money is.
No taxes, lots of free money to be had. It gets worse, much worse, it seems every year.

The only difference now is there is some critical information available on the internet.