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xianzi hua: “We Must End This Pure Evil”: Documentary Screening and Forum on Illegal Organ Harvesting Held in Alabama
November 18, 2018 | By a practitioner in the U.S.

More than 100 faculty members, students, and healthcare providers from two colleges in Alabama were shocked to learn of the state-sanctioned organ harvesting in China, when they attended a series of events held on October 25 and 26.

The documentary Human Harvest was screened at Spring Hill College on October 25. Two forums on this issue where held on October 26 on the campuses of Spring Hill College and Southern Alabama University Medical School.

Three speakers answered audience questions, including David Matas, a well known Canadian human rights lawyer; G. Weldon Gilcrease, an Assistant Professor in the Oncology Division at the University of Utah School of Medicine and a Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) member; and Yu Ziqiang, a Falun Gong practitioner who was tortured in China. Falun Gong is a traditional spiritual discipline that has been brutally persecuted by the Chinese regime since 1999.

A woman weeps as she listens to Yu Ziqiang talk about his experiences in China.

Dr. G. Weldon Gilcrease gives a talk at a forum on state-sanctioned organ harvesting in China.

David Matas addresses forum attendees.

Yu Ziqiang tells his story of persecution after the documentary screening.

Human Harvest is screened at Spring Hill College.

The forum on forced organ harvesting in China, held at Spring Hill College.

Surgeon: “Organ harvesting is pure evil”
“This is pure evil,” said Dr. Matthews after attending the screening. Daniel Matthews is a local surgeon who came to the screening with his daughter, a student at Southern Alabama University. Dr. Matthews said he knew about the organ trade on the black market, but he had never heard about the systematic forced organ harvesting in China.

Dr. Matthews said that a doctor's ethical responsibility is to use their skill to save lives, not hurt people. He thought that the Chinese surgeons involved in the forced organ harvesting must have struggled with their consciences. He said he would pray that they would realize they've committed crimes.

Dr. Matthews is glad that the U.S. government has made some progress in formulating laws on this issue. He believes that healthcare organizations should take action to stop the illegal organ transplant travel to China, as without a market, the Chinese government would have to stop.

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xianzi hua: New Report: “Transplant Abuse Continues in China Despite Claims of Reform”
July 10, 2018 | By a Minghui correspondent and Annie Wu of The Epoch Times

) The China Organ Harvest Research Center (COHRC) presented its most up-to-date research results at the 27th International Congress of The Transplantation Society in Madrid, Spain, which took place from June 30 to July 5. The researchers documented their findings in a new 341-page report titled “Transplant Abuse in China Continues Despite Claims of Reform.”

A number of national news outlets in Spain and international media have covered the organ harvesting issue upon the report’s release. The new report can be found on the COHRC website at ChinaOrganHarvest.org.

David Li, a co-author of the new report, presents his team's findings at the International Congress of The Transplantation Society on July 2.

The Chinese government asserted in 2015 that it had ceased extracting organs from executed death-row prisoners and transitioned completely to ethical organ sourcing. However, international observers have raised doubt that a process that took decades in other countries could be accomplished overnight.

The authors of the report collected data on new developments in the Chinese organ donation system after 2015, analyzed hundreds of transplant hospitals, government and industry statements, official policies and legislation, actual donation figures from various regions, the abuse of brain death criteria, and the broader operation of China’s donation and transplant system. The new report concludes:

Transplants outpace donations: The number of voluntary donations in China remains extremely low relative to the size of the transplant industry. At the end of 2017, the official count of registered donors was 373,536. If one applies the ratio of registered and actual donors in the United States to this total, such a donor base would have yielded fewer than 29 organ donors for transplants in China. The sum of reported donation numbers (mainly from non-registered donors in intensive care units) in each region was also far fewer than the official figure of 15,000 transplants performed. Yet tens of thousands of transplants are performed at Chinese hospitals each year.

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"Lactation is the production and secretion of milk for the young and is a mammalian attribute. However, there have been several examples of milk provisioning in non-mammals. In a study published in the journal Science on November 30, researchers at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences report milk provisioning in Toxeus magnus (Araneae: Salticidae), a jumping spider that mimics ants.

In a field study, the researchers observed a jumping spider species whose breeding nest is composed of either several large individuals, with two or more adults, or one adult female and several juveniles. "It's a puzzling observation for a species assumed to be noncolonial. It's possible that the jumping spider might provide either prolonged maternal care or delayed dispersal. We decided to test it," said Dr. Chen Zhanqi, the first author of the study.

The researchers assessed how offspring developed and behaved under maternal care both in laboratory conditions and in the field. No spiderlings were observed leaving the nest for foraging until they were 20 days old. Closer observation revealed that the mother provided a seemingly nutritive fluid, hereafter called milk, to the offspring.

Milk provisioning in T. magnus involves a specialized organ over an extended period, similar to mammalian lactation. Observations under the microscope showed droplets leaking from the mother's epigastric furrow where the spiderlings sucked milk".

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xianzi hua: Slovakian Lawmakers, Media Concerned About Forced Organ Harvesting in China
January 01, 2018 | By a practitioner from Europe
) Thirty-nine National Council members of Slovakia jointly sent an open letter to Beijing on December 7, expressing their concern about the state-sanctioned killing of Falun Gong practitioners for their organs in China.

The letter told Chinese leaders that if China wants respect from the international community, the nation should respect human lives. The lawmakers also urged the Chinese president to stop the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and bring the perpetrators to justice, including former Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin, who launched and personally directed the persecution.

On the same day, the documentary “A Decade of Investigation” was screened at the parliament building. In the audience were eleven National Council members and five staff members.

The viewers were shocked by the facts presented in the documentary. They said more people should know about it and offered to help spread the message. Nine lawmakers signed the letter to the Chinese president. They also posted the information on their social media pages.

At a previous meeting with Falun Gong practitioners, National Council members Ondrej Dostal and Peter Osusky condemned the persecution of Falun Gong. They both believed that the international community should take action to help protect human rights, as it is the responsibility of those living in free countries.

From left to right: National Council member Ondrej Dostal, Falun Gong practitioners Marek Tatarko and Wang Haiyan, and National Council member Peter Osusky at a meeting on October 26

The largest TV station in Slovakia, RTVS, interviewed the organizers of a local human body exhibition on November 20 as part of its weekly investigative program, Reporteri, which has a viewership of 60,000. The 15-minute-long program also covered the state-sanctioned organ harvesting crimes in China and its investigation by the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong. The coverage has drawn widespread public attention.

In 2013, the European Parliament passed Resolution 2013/2981 (RSP) condemning forced organ harvesting in China.

The lawmakers who signed the open letter to the Chinese president include:

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xianzi hua: Missouri House of Representatives Passes Resolution Condemning China's Organ Harvesting Crimes
April 28, 2017 | By a Minghui correspondent in Missouri

) On April 25, 2017 the Missouri House of Representatives passed House Concurrent Resolution No. 7 condemning forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong and other prisoners of conscience and urging further action to stop the atrocities.

“The resolution is about trying to bring awareness to prevent a terrible injustice to humanity,” said State Representative Lynn Morris, R-Ozark, the sponsor of HCR 7, on the House floor.

State Representative Lynn Morris (3rd from the right) and State Senator Jill Schupp (3rd from the left) with Missouri Falun Gong practitioners.

Rep. Kip Kendrick, D-Columbia, spoke on the floor in support of HCR 7, “It's definitely a human rights violation that more people need to be made aware of. So I would encourage everyone to support HCR 7 and let's send a message to everyone.”

The resolution was met with overwhelming bipartisan support and a final vote of 149-1.

A strikingly poignant moment arose during the debate when Rep. Steve Cookson, R-Poplar Bluff, said to the sponsor, “I just want to say that as a person who needs an organ, that I am in full support of your resolution. It is the right thing to do, and thank you for bringing it forward. I support it wholeheartedly.”

Peaceful Group the Target of Forced Organ Harvesting
Rep. Dean Dorhman, R-La Monte, pointed out during the debate, “The resolution itself basically concerns Falun Gong, which is a traditional group, with a lot of Chinese tradition involved, some of it religious, and they're looked on as 'enemies of the state.' They're a 'political problem' for the Chinese Communist Party.”

“Only because the Communist Party makes it that way,” sponsor Rep. Morris further clarified. “Falun Gong is a group that is larger than the Communist Party itself. I think that's where the threatening part is. These people intend no harm to the Communist Party, and they are being persecuted.”

Rep. Randy Dunn, D-Kansas City, added, “This is an issue where many people who practice essentially an exercise are persecuted and find themselves having their organs ripped from their bodies because of their practice.”

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Instagram now lets you share Stories with just a list of "Close Friends"

Keep in mind that people on your close friends list will know they're on it, but they can't see who else is on your list. Only you can see your close friends list, and no one can request to be added. If someone has added you to their list, you'll see a green badge when you're viewing their stories and a green ring around their profile photo.

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I love the redskins, but this is getting ridiculous. I'd rather have a decent QB in Kaepernick right now than Bruce Allen.

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Mike “MS3inDC” Arnwine: +Brendan Foley obviously, if only Kaepernick played in the NFL, everything would be right in your world. But he's not. Nor will he ever again. Accept it. Move on. He was an average QB at best. Like him. Love him. Think whatever you want of him, but do not confuse him with elite QBs in the NFL.

I don't know how you got yourself so hung up on Kaepernick, and then use him as a barometer to measure the state of the Redskins organization morally.

We signed a linebacker... lol Last I checked, Kaep doesn't play linebacker.

But... if he did sign here... ever... for any reason... he wouldn't be competing for a starting job anyway. Agree to disagree. Moot point is moot.

Brendan Foley: +Mike Arnwine Everything wouldn't be peachy, but it would be at least more understandable and defensible. I expect the Redskins to at least try to do what's necessary to win games, that's the point of the organization. I don't expect them to play petty politics and not even consider picking up better players at a critical time when we have a playoff shot.

I could even understand if, from a business perspective, they simply didn't want to deal with controversial players as they think it may harm the bottom line. But then they wouldn't keep picking up controversial players.

Kaep doesn't play linebacker, you are right, he plays QB. Maybe you missed the game less than 2 weeks ago where our QB got a season ending (and honestly, likely career ending) injury. Maybe you missed how we looked around to pick up another QB for the season and Kaepernick wasn't even on the list of considerations, and we ended up with Sanchez, and definitively inferior QB. I don't see how you can think he's not better than Colt McCoy for that matter, as much as I like Colt. Only reason anyone has heard for this? Bruce Allen won't allow it.

You may call him an average QB, but he's an average QB that went to the Super Bowl and is better than the one we signed.

Morris Bates Sr.: Point blank period! We got a woman beater and a whip a child ass on our team and we cant even whip other teams asses! Get a fucking grip! We fans are tired of this shit and its pissing us off!

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xianzi hua: Lectures at San Diego Universities Spotlight Human Organ Trafficking in China
November 19, 2017 | By a Falun Dafa practitioner in San Diego

) The International Coalition to End Organ Pillaging in China co-hosted panel discussions at two large public universities in San Diego, California earlier this month. The events aimed to raise awareness of China’s massive organ transplant abuses and support a resolution introduced by State Senator Joel Anderson in the California Senate condemning human rights violations in China. The resolution, SJR 10, was pulled from the Senate floor after threats from the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco.

Panel members at San Diego State University, November 1, 2017, (L to R): Ms. Grace Huiying Li, Dr. Shizong Chen, Senator Joel Anderson, Hon. David Kilgour, and David Matas. California State Senator Joel Anderson (center) speaks about the importance of getting SJR 10 back on the Senate floor. He said, “We cannot tolerate interference from a communist foreign power with the state legislature.”

Approximately 200 students and faculty members attended the event at the Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center at San Diego State University (SDSU) on the evening of November 1.

A second event took place the following evening at the Price Center Theater on the University of California San Diego (UCSD) campus.

Among the speakers at both events were Senator Joel Anderson, former Canadian Secretary of State Hon. David Kilgour, and international human rights lawyer David Matas.

Mr. Kilgour and Mr. Matas co-authored the book Bloody Harvest and two investigative reports on forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong prisoners, the main victims of this crime.

They spoke about their investigation over the past decade, in particular, their 2016 updated report which estimates that the Chinese regime is performing 60,000-100,000 transplants per year, as opposed to 10,000 per year, as Chinese authorities claim.

“I was a prosecutor for ten years, so I know something about evidence,” Mr. Kilgour said. “Our investigation found evidence of large-scale organ seizures from unwilling Falun Gong practitioners. Their vital organs, including kidneys, livers, corneas, and hearts, were seized involuntarily for sale at high prices, sometimes to foreigners, who normally face long waits for voluntary donations of such organs in their home countries.”

As a result of the overwhelming evidence of the illicit organ trade in China, Israel, Taiwan, Italy, and Spain have passed laws to stop their citizens from receiving illegally-sourced human organs. In June 2016, by unanimous consent, the House Representatives of the U.S. Congress passed House Resolution 343, expressing concern regarding persistent and credible reports of systematic, state-sanctioned organ harvesting from non-consenting prisoners of conscience in China, including from large numbers of Falun Gong practitioners, as well as Christians, Tibetans, and Uyghurs.

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Spotify’s library of music, while great, can never truly be complete. There will always be rare tracks, B-Sides, and bootleg versions that aren’t available for streaming. On desktop, Spotify is willing to let you import your local files to mingle with…

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xianzi hua: Raising Awareness about Falun Gong in Halmstad, Sweden
March 18, 2017 | By a Falun Gong practitioner in Sweden

) Falun Gong practitioners in Sweden raised awareness about Falun Gong in Halmstad on March 11, 2017. Halmstad is a city with a long history, beautiful beaches, famous castles, and Halmstad University. Many people stopped to learn about Falun Gong and the brutal persecution of the practice by the communist regime in China.

Falun Gong practitioners demonstrate the exercises in downtown Halmstad.

An elderly gentleman who had visited China many times signed the practitioners' petition against China's state-sanctioned organ harvesting from imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners. Another man spent a long time with the group asking questions and finally said,“The organ harvesting is evil! I have to sign the petition!”

A woman approached Falun Gong practitioners who were demonstrating the exercises and asked, “Where can I learn the exercises?” Another young man said he had recently learned the practice on his own, and would like to attend a group practice site.

A Chinese man who has lived in Sweden for many years stopped and asked many questions about Falun Gong, including about the so-called “self-immolation on Tiananmen Square” and other things he had heard from China's state-run media. The practitioner answered his questions one by one. He realized Falun Gong had been slandered and unjustly persecuted by the regime and took some additional informational materials with him as he left.

A Chinese young man learned the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong and decided to take a stance against the Communist Party by quitting the Young Pioneers, which he had joined as a child.

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xianzi hua: Canadian Lawmaker Urges Co-workers to Back His Organ Trafficking Bill
May 29, 2017

) Conservative MP Garnett Genuis raised the issue of forced organ harvesting in China this week in the House of Commons, in hopes of securing government support for his organ trafficking bill.

MP Garnett Genuis gives a speech at the celebration of the 18th World Falun Dafa Day in Ottawa this May.

“Canada needs to be vocal in standing up for international human rights, and in particular for the rights of persecuted minorities. Even above that, Canada needs legislation which would define in Canadian law our opposition to involuntary organ harvesting in cases where it comes back to our shores,” Genuis said on May 17.

Genuis was referring to the harvesting of organs from Falun Gong prisoners of conscience in China while they are still alive—an atrocity that was first exposed in a 2006 report by Canadian lawyers Davd Matas and David Kilgour.

“Sometimes these organs are cut out of a person while he or she is still living and without anesthetics, screaming in pain as the person’s body is cut apart. In many cases, organ harvesting is a form of further abuse, targeting members of persecuted religious minorities,” he said.

According to “Bloody Harvest/The Slaughter: An Update,” released last June by Kilgour, Matas, and investigative journalist Ethan Gutmann, other religious minorities besides Falun Gong practitioners being killed to supply China’s highly lucrative organ transplant industry include Uyghur Muslims, House Christians, and Tibetans.

The report estimated that “between 60,000 and 100,000 organs are being transplanted in Chinese hospitals every year, with the source for most of those organs being prisoners of conscience, primarily Falun Gong practitioners.”

“There is a real urgency to move forward with this kind of basic human rights legislation given escalating human rights problems around the world, and given the emphasis this government is putting on Canada’s relationship with China,” Genuis said.

Genuis pointed out that Bill C-350, which aims to counter forced organ harvesting, is the same as Bill C-561 put forward by former Minister of Justice and Liberal MP Irwin Cotler. That bill only made it to first reading in the last Parliament. Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj seconded Bill C-350 when Genuis introduced it on April 10.

Bill C-350 would amend the Criminal Code to impose penal sanctions against those who, whether in Canada or abroad, knowingly acquire or trade in human organs that have been removed without donor consent or for financial gain. It would also amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to render inadmissible those non-Canadians who engage in the trafficking of human organs.

Marco Mendicino, parliamentary secretary to Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, was concerned that the bill “raises some complex legal and social policy issues.”

For example, Mendicino said, “the bill would impose a duty on the person who receives an organ to obtain a certificate establishing that it was donated and not purchased.”

Genuis said “there is a lot of detail” in the bill and explained the importance of that.

“The detail is important for ensuring that there is effective administration of the provisions that are in place, that we are actually not just saying that we are against organ harvesting, but we have a mechanism in place to address it concre

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