ORGAN DONOR PIRACY CONSPIRACY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Thomas Wheat]

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/organs-10052012185811.html/sendto_form

 Apple corporation continues the practice of deriving their products from sweatshop slave labor made in communist china. Inherently Apple's trillion dollar valuation on the NASDAQ needs to be called into question, by the securities and exchange commission. Apple's solitary mission is to expand its market share into the wireless 4g lte market, which relies on outdated cell phone towers, that only have a 30 mile range. Furthermore there is no comparable difference in performance between the Google / Android operating system and the operating system that Apple.inc manufactures for its overpriced hyped up iPhone which costs 1000 dollars to the american consumer, and the product is derived from sweatshop slave labor; thus invalidating Apple inc.'s, pricing scheme for the product. I recommend a american consumer boycott of all apple products, and that the US government begin taxing the Multinational company apple and its constituent contractor production factories in communist china, in addition to the taxes that they pay to the federal government, based on product sales in the american retail market. 

The DMV organ donor option, is also part of this conspiracy as well, given the personage of former Apple CEO, Steve Job's dalliances into the organ piracy market i n china to save his failing liver and kidney's, which ultimately proved unsuccessful for steve jobs  

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Lawmakers Want Info on Organs

US legislators ask the State Department to reveal records about China’s alleged organ transplant abuses.

Over 100 U.S. lawmakers have called on the State Department to release information it may have about organ transplant abuses in China, including any documents obtained from an ex-powerful Chinese police chief who sought refuge at a U.S. consulate.

In a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, 106 members of Congress said the information could help stop such abuses in China, where organs have been extracted from both living prisoners and executed convicts, according to experts.

“Medical doctors in the United States and around the world are growing increasingly concerned about alleged unethical organ procurement practices and abuses of transplant medicine abroad,” the letter said. 

“This is no truer than in China, where serious allegations suggest unimaginable abuses have occurred,” it said.  

'Personally involved'

The letter specifically requested the release of any information that may have been provided by Wang Lijun, the former police chief and deputy mayor of the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing whose 24-hour consulate visit in February is believed to have tipped off China’s biggest political scandal in decades. 

“It is claimed by some that Wang Lijun may have been personally involved in these horrific organ harvesting practices on living prisoners,” the letter said. 

The lawmakers referred to claims that Wang, who was sentenced last month to 15 years in prison for his attempted “defection” and other charges, may have revealed information about organs harvested from still-living practitioners of Falun Gong, the banned spiritual movement. 

Wang, who was the right-hand man of fallen political star Bo Xilai, was also convicted for covering up the confessed murder of a British businessman by Bo’s wife Gu Kailai in a trial that rights groups said lacked transparency.

According to the Falun Dafa Information Center, a New York-based Falun Gong group, Wang has publicly admitted to being present at thousands of organ transplant procedures performed on prisoners, describing the experience as “soul-stirring.” 

Congressional hearing

The lawmakers’ letter followed a congressional hearing on organ transplant practices in China in September, when medical experts and human rights researchers gave accounts of doctors in China taking organs from live prisoners. 

Reports have implicated Chinese hospitals and doctors in the practice of forced organ harvesting from prisoners, including living practitioners of the Falun Gong movement, Uyghurs, Tibetans, and House Christians.

Beijing admits it relies on executed inmates for organ transplants but strongly denies that it deliberately executes prisoners to harvest organs.

Chinese state media have reported that two-thirds of transplant organs in the country come from prisoners. 

The health ministry said in March that it plans to abolish organ harvesting from death-row inmates within the next five years.  

[Tom Jigme Wheat]

https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/23/asia/china-organ-harvesting/index.html

Report: China still harvesting organs from prisoners at a massive scale

By James Griffiths, CNN

Updated 11:45 PM ET, Fri June 24, 2016

(CNN)A new report claims that China is still engaged in the widespread and systematic harvesting of organs from prisoners, and says that people whose views conflict with the ruling Chinese Communist Party are being murdered for their organs.

The report -- by former Canadian lawmaker David Kilgour, human rights lawyer David Matas, and journalist Ethan Gutmann -- collates publicly reported figures from hospitals across China to show what they claim is a massive discrepancy between official figures for the number of transplants carried out throughout the country.

They blame the Chinese government, the Communist Party, the health system, doctors and hospitals for being complicit.

"The (Communist Party) says the total number of legal transplants is about 10,000 per year. But we can easily surpass the official Chinese figure just by looking at the two or three biggest hospitals," Matas said in a statement.

The report estimates that 60,000 to 100,000 organs are transplanted each year in Chinese hospitals.

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According to the report, that gap is made up of executed prisoners, many of them prisoners of conscience locked up for their religious or political beliefs. China does not report its total number of executions, which it regards as a secret.

The report's findings stand in stark contrast to Beijing's claim that, since the beginning of 2015, China has moved from almost completely relying on organs from prisoners to the "largest voluntary organ donation system in Asia."

At a regular press conference Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said China has "strict laws and regulations on this issue."

"As for the testimony and the published report, I want to say that such stories about forced organ harvesting in China are imaginary and baseless -- they don't have any factual foundation," she said.

The National Health and Family Planning Commission, which oversees organ donations in China, did not respond to a request for comment for this piece.

Patients queue at a hospital in China. More than 300,000 people require organ transplant operations every year.

Secret transplants

According to the report, thousands of people are being executed in China in secret and their organs harvested for use in transplant operations.

So who is being killed? The authors say mainly imprisoned religious and ethnic minorities, including Uyghurs, Tibetans, underground Christians, and practitioners of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement.

While much of China's organ transplant system is kept secret, official figures show that 2,766 volunteers donated organs in 2015, with 7,785 large organs acquired.

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Official figures put the number of transplant operations at around 10,000 a year, which the report disputes.

The authors point to publicly available statements and records released by hospitals across China claiming they carried out thousands of transplant annually, and interviews with and official biographies of individual doctors who claim to have carried out thousands of transplant operations during their careers.

"Simply by adding up a handful of the hospitals that have been profiled in this (report), it's easy to come up with higher annual transplant volume figures than 10,000," the authors write.

According to official statistics, there are more than 100 hospitals in China approved to carry out organ transplant operations. But the report states the authors have "verified and confirmed 712 hospitals which carry out liver and kidney transplants," and claims the number of actual transplants could be hundreds of thousands larger than China reports.

Falun Gong members stage a protest against China in Hong Kong.

'Ghoulish and inhumane practice'

The apparent gap in official transplant figures, the report claims, is filled by prisoners of conscience.

According to Amnesty International, "tens of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners have been arbitrarily detained" since the government launched a crackdown on the practice in 1999.

China regards Falun Gong as a "cult" and claims followers engage in "anti-China political activities."

"The government considers Falun Gong a threat to its power, and has detained, imprisoned and tortured its followers," says Maya Wang, China researcher for Human Rights Watch.

The report says detained Falun Gong practitioners were forced to have blood tests and medical exams. Those test results were placed in a database of living organ sources so quick organ matches could be made, the authors claim.

This massive supply of organs served to benefit hospitals and doctors, making for an ever growing industry.

The report's authors testified before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Thursday.

"The Chinese government has been trafficking in organs for profit for far too long and we have strong evidence that Falun Gong practitioners were singled out for organ harvesting," said Representative Chris Smith, who co-chairs the committee.

In a statement released online, Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, former chair of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the Chinese government's "ghoulish and inhumane practice of robbing individuals of their freedom, throwing them in labor camps or prisons, and then executing them and harvesting their organs for transplants is beyond the pale of comprehension and must be opposed universally and ended unconditionally."

'Good intentions'

For decades, Chinese officials strenuously denied that they harvested organs from prisoners, calling claims to the contrary "vicious slander."

Finally in 2005, officials admitted that the practice took place and promised to reform it.

Five years later however, Huang Jiefu, director of the China Organ Donation Committee, told medical journal The Lancet that more than 90% of transplant organs still came from executed prisoners.

China carries out more executions annually than the rest of the world put together, at least 2,400 in 2014, according to Death Penalty Worldwide. Official Chinese figures are not reported.

In late 2014, China announced that it would switch to a completely voluntary donation-based system.

This pronouncement was greeted with great skepticism however, given that between 2012 and 2013, only around 1,400 people signed up to donate (compared to the more than 300,000 in need of organ transplants every year).

Since then, the government has seen limited success in getting people to sign up to the national register.

One 86-year-old woman, surnamed Zhou, told CNN she had wanted to donate her organs in 1996 but at the time her local Red Cross chapter had never heard of someone doing so.

"Since I wasn't able to have a medical career myself, I want to make a contribution after I die," she said.

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Zhou said that while her family was mostly supportive of her decision, "in China, the conventional wisdom is that it's improper to mutilate a body when someone is dead."

While people like Zhou have stepped forward to fill the gap left by prisoners, experts warn that there is nothing to stop those condemned to be executed from also "volunteering," and regulations legalizing the use of prisoners' organs remain in force.

The 2014 announcement "is only at best a statement of good intentions but has no force of law," the medical journal BMJ said.

The phasing out of executed prisoners' organs is a "semantic trick," Professor Li Huige of Johannes Gutenberg University said in a recent report commissioned by the European Parliament.

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He pointed to statements by Huang to Chinese state media that "death row prisoners are also citizens."

"If (they) are willing to atone for their crime by donating organs, they should be encouraged," Huang told People's Daily.

By redefining prisoners as regular citizens, Li says, "China's national organ donation system may be abused for the whitewashing of organs from both death row prisoners and prisoners of conscience."

In an open letter to the Lancet, five doctors wrote that "China is still using death row inmates' organs. The only difference is that these organs are now been classified as citizens' voluntarily donated organs."

Huang did not respond to a request for comment. Speaking to the New York Times, he said his comments had been "distorted" and were not in keeping with government policy.

Testifying before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday, Francis Delmonico, president of the Transplantation Society, praised Huang as a "principal ally to change the outrageous practice" of using prisoners' organs.

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