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Aug 11, 2023 09:38:01   #
Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.
 
Many human rights organizations say it is....

Is this how China treats its political prisoners?

‘He Was Alive’: Tormented Chinese Doctor Recounts Harvesting Organs in Back of Van

By Eva Fu
August 10, 2023Updated: August 10, 2023

Stepping into the van guarded by armed soldiers with five surgeons and nurses, Zheng Zhi didn’t know he was entering into a world that would haunt him for the next quarter of a century.

Dr. Zheng, then a resident doctor at one of China’s largest military hospitals, knew little more than they were on a “secret military mission” near a military prison located around the northeastern Chinese city of Dalian.

A light blue fabric covered the four sides of the vehicle, shielding it from any curious glances.

When the door opened, four burly soldiers carried in a man whose limbs were bound with thin ropes that had cut deeply into his flesh. The man was no more than 18 years old; his organs, the surgical crew had been told the day before, were “healthy, fresh.”

A doctor instructed Dr. Zheng to “step on” the man’s legs and “don’t let him move.” He pressed the man’s legs down with his hands and to his shock, they were warm to the touch. Blood was now flowing from the man’s throat.

He watched a doctor slice open the man’s stomach and two others reach in to remove a kidney each. The man’s legs twitched and his throat moved—although no sound came out.

“Cut his artery and veins, quick!” a doctor told Dr. Zheng. As he did so, so much blood gushed out that it splashed all over Dr. Zheng’s gown and gloves. That was when he got the order to extract the man’s eyes.

Dr. Zheng looked at the man’s face. Staring back at him was a pair of wide-open eyes.

“It was horrifying beyond words. He was looking right at me. His eyelids were moving. He was alive,” Dr. Zheng recounted to The Epoch Times in July, the first time he agreed to use his real name to recount his story.

But, in the van in 1994, little did he know he was party to what would soon become an industrialized k*****g apparatus set up to extract organs from prisoners of conscience and sell them on demand.

In the van, he told the other doctors, “I can’t do this.” He felt his brain empty out as he sat there, shaky, sweating, and paralyzed.

The doctor across from him immediately pressed the man’s head to the floor of the van. With two fingers pressed on the eyelids and a hemostat in another hand, the doctor clamped out each of the man’s eyes.

The body, now motionless, was placed in a black plastic bag and taken away by soldiers waiting outside. The van sped back to the General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region, where Dr. Zheng did his residency. The nurses quickly gathered up the bloodied medical equipment.

Lights were on in two operation rooms when they reached the hospital. Another team of doctors was waiting to begin the organ t***splantations.

Dr. Zheng was too sickened to be useful, even though the department director wanted him to get his hand in at the operating table. He sat watching from a few yards away as the surgery progressed. When the t***splant operations were complete, the medical staff went into an upscale restaurant and feasted in silence, although Dr. Zheng said he couldn’t take a bite. After the meal, he took leave, developing a high fever at the same time.

That pair of eyes—desperate, fearful, and pained—has since tormented Dr. Zheng day and night.

“Under the light lay a young life, a fellow human being, whose organs were being harvested while he was alive,” he said.

Billion Dollar Industry

The horror Dr. Zheng witnessed in the van, and afterward at the hospital, took place in 1994, when the Chinese regime’s mass-scale, state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting was still in its infancy.

It soon ballooned into a billion-dollar industry, using prisoners of conscience, particularly adherents of the persecuted faith group Falun Gong, to fuel its rise. In the same city as the hospital was the Sujiatun concentration camp, which multiple whistleblowers revealed as a mass k*****g ground of imprisoned Falun Gong adherents for their organs since the persecution began in 1999. While the Sujiatun underground facility was abandoned after being exposed internationally, an untold number of other such camps exist in China.

Dr. Zheng is one of several witnesses who have come forward to The Epoch Times since 2006 to expose the regime’s grisly practice.

Since then, a multitude of independent reports have provided information on the severity and scale of the practice.

In 2019, a London-based independent tribunal concluded that China’s ruling regime k**led prisoners of conscience for their organs “on a significant scale,” and that Falun Gong practitioners are the primary victims.

U.S. lawmakers have taken steps to prevent Americans from embarking on “t***splant tourism” to China, and thus becoming complicit.

Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) is pushing for the passage of his Falun Gong Protection Act, which would sanction persecutors of Falun Gong. The bill would also ban cooperation with c*******t China in the organ t***splantation field.

The bipartisan Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2023, which seeks to punish enablers of the abuse, passed overwhelmingly in the House in March.

In June, Texas adopted the country’s first law to counter the issue, banning health insurers from financing organ t***splant surgeries linked to China.

‘A Fresh One’

Fear still had a grip on Dr. Zheng as he slowly recounted his story for the first time in 2015, using an alias. During the hours-long interview, he struggled to utter a complete sentence; sometimes with his two hands held tightly to the edge of the table in front of him, other times fidgeting, standing up, and sitting down. His facial expression was contorted as he kept repeating that it was “too horrifying.” Tears filled Dr. Zheng’s eyes as he described in a trembling voice the removal of the young man’s eyes.

During his residency at the hospital, Dr. Zheng was favored by his superiors, thanks to his father’s influence in the local c*******t power circle. A sk**led doctor in traditional Chinese medicine, his father was sought by local officials. Some of the top military leaders were frequent guests at his family’s dining table. Knowing this, doctors treated Dr. Zheng deferentially, frequently allowing him to participate in surgeries when other interns couldn’t.

Soon after the organ extraction in the back of the van, Dr. Zheng left the hospital. He became a pediatrician and internist in the city of Liaoyang, some four hours drive north of Dalian. But that sense of horror only deepened over time as he glimpsed more from behind the scenes.

In 2002, Dr. Zheng accompanied a military official for his medical checkup, at the hospital where he once interned. The doctor told the official that he needed a new kidney to live.

“[We’ll] pick a top-quality one for you,” another military officer told his superior in the hallway. “A fresh one, from Falun Gong practitioners.”

That was the first time Dr. Zheng heard that Falun Gong adherents were a specific organ source.

On the way home, the official asked Dr. Zheng whether he should get a kidney t***splant.

“Don’t do it,” Dr. Zheng replied. “Isn’t that committing a murder?”

It was through that official that Dr. Zheng learned how widespread forced organ harvesting was in China.

“Armed police and officials above division ranks all know about it, and it’s pretty much known throughout the military. It’s nothing novel,” Dr. Zheng told The Epoch Times.

To make more money, he said, the military had opened many “green passages,” or fast lanes at airports, to quickly t***sport fresh human organs across the country. The infectious disease units at military hospitals had all become “dens” for forced organ harvesting, he said.

“In about one to two weeks—a month at the longest—a match would be found.”

The official whose kidney was failing opted not to get a t***splant. He lived three more years relying on dialysis and died in 2005.

Another acquaintance, an aide to officials at the seven-member Politburo Standing Committee, the core of elite Chinese leadership, told Dr. Zheng something even more shocking.

In the conversation, Dr. Zheng remarked that the persecution of Falun Gong in northeastern China was quite severe.

The acquaintance made no immediate response, but before they parted, he turned and looked straight at Dr. Zheng.

“In Hubei Province’s W***n City, under the back garden of the Hubei Province Public Security Bureau, it’s full of detained Falun Gong practitioners. Some are underaged kids,” he said, stopping at every word.

“I’ve been there,” he added after a pause. They didn’t discuss it further, but the implication that this was a mass source of organs weighed heavily on Dr. Zheng.

It marked a new piece of evidence into the forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners.

Dr. Torsten Trey, executive director of the medical ethics group Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting, said it was an indicator that “the practice was already widespread in China in 2002,” four years before the first investigative report on the subject was published.

“More than 20 years have passed. China’s t***splant system has committed medical crimes against humanity that far exceeds anything known in the 21st century. Where is the international response?” Dr. Trey told The Epoch Times in a statement.

Making a Choice

What the acquaintance said gave Dr. Zheng a “sense of mission” to expose the matter on the international stage, prompting his eventual escape to Thailand in 2005.

He obtained refugee status while in Thailand and moved to Canada in 2007.

In 2015, when he told his story for the first time to The Epoch Times, he said he felt so helpless that he wasn’t sure whether to lean on the reporter or the table.

“I felt that I was giving out my life and everything that I have,” he told The Epoch Times in late July, recalling the previous interview.

“There’s no way to describe how I felt at the time,” he said.

“Every word, every sentence I spoke was no different from a choice of life and death. I didn’t know what I’d be bringing to myself.”

During the eight years once he got to Canada, Dr. Zheng said he had been looking for the right media outlet to tell his story to. Should he make the wrong choice, not only would he get himself into trouble, the issue wouldn’t get the spotlight it deserved.

Dr. Trey commended Dr. Zheng’s courage in speaking up.

“It is the foundation for us to understand the cruelty and the extent of China’s barbaric t***splant practices,” Dr. Trey said.

“What Dr. Zheng shared with the public is gruesome beyond words, and there is no explanation for why the international medical community is not acting on China’s horrific organ harvesting. Where is the WMA [World Medical Association]? Where is the WHO [World Health Organization]?”

Dr. Trey encouraged other Chinese doctors to follow Dr. Zheng’s example.

“Silence is akin to complicity,” he said.

Dr. Zheng said it was unrealistic for him to not worry about possible retaliation from Beijing. “Ordinary people can’t imagine how evil the CCP is,” he said—but the issue is bigger than himself.

“Slaughtering Chinese people and stealing their organs for profit, this is a crime with no bounds,” Dr. Zheng said. As someone living in a free country with a “basic conscience, I have no reason to stay silent.”

He said that he has carefully preserved his records. When the Chinese C*******t Party falls and faces judgment, he will come on the witness stand, he said, adding that he has no doubt “justice will prevail over evil.”

Yi Ling contributed to this report.

This article has been updated with quotes from Dr. Torsten Trey, executive director of Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting.

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Aug 11, 2023 09:51:13   #
thom w Loc: San Jose, CA
 
Blurryeyed wrote:
Many human rights organizations say it is....

Is this how China treats its political prisoners?

‘He Was Alive’: Tormented Chinese Doctor Recounts Harvesting Organs in Back of Van

By Eva Fu
August 10, 2023Updated: August 10, 2023

Stepping into the van guarded by armed soldiers with five surgeons and nurses, Zheng Zhi didn’t know he was entering into a world that would haunt him for the next quarter of a century.

Dr. Zheng, then a resident doctor at one of China’s largest military hospitals, knew little more than they were on a “secret military mission” near a military prison located around the northeastern Chinese city of Dalian.

A light blue fabric covered the four sides of the vehicle, shielding it from any curious glances.

When the door opened, four burly soldiers carried in a man whose limbs were bound with thin ropes that had cut deeply into his flesh. The man was no more than 18 years old; his organs, the surgical crew had been told the day before, were “healthy, fresh.”

A doctor instructed Dr. Zheng to “step on” the man’s legs and “don’t let him move.” He pressed the man’s legs down with his hands and to his shock, they were warm to the touch. Blood was now flowing from the man’s throat.

He watched a doctor slice open the man’s stomach and two others reach in to remove a kidney each. The man’s legs twitched and his throat moved—although no sound came out.

“Cut his artery and veins, quick!” a doctor told Dr. Zheng. As he did so, so much blood gushed out that it splashed all over Dr. Zheng’s gown and gloves. That was when he got the order to extract the man’s eyes.

Dr. Zheng looked at the man’s face. Staring back at him was a pair of wide-open eyes.

“It was horrifying beyond words. He was looking right at me. His eyelids were moving. He was alive,” Dr. Zheng recounted to The Epoch Times in July, the first time he agreed to use his real name to recount his story.

But, in the van in 1994, little did he know he was party to what would soon become an industrialized k*****g apparatus set up to extract organs from prisoners of conscience and sell them on demand.

In the van, he told the other doctors, “I can’t do this.” He felt his brain empty out as he sat there, shaky, sweating, and paralyzed.

The doctor across from him immediately pressed the man’s head to the floor of the van. With two fingers pressed on the eyelids and a hemostat in another hand, the doctor clamped out each of the man’s eyes.

The body, now motionless, was placed in a black plastic bag and taken away by soldiers waiting outside. The van sped back to the General Hospital of Shenyang Military Region, where Dr. Zheng did his residency. The nurses quickly gathered up the bloodied medical equipment.

Lights were on in two operation rooms when they reached the hospital. Another team of doctors was waiting to begin the organ t***splantations.

Dr. Zheng was too sickened to be useful, even though the department director wanted him to get his hand in at the operating table. He sat watching from a few yards away as the surgery progressed. When the t***splant operations were complete, the medical staff went into an upscale restaurant and feasted in silence, although Dr. Zheng said he couldn’t take a bite. After the meal, he took leave, developing a high fever at the same time.

That pair of eyes—desperate, fearful, and pained—has since tormented Dr. Zheng day and night.

“Under the light lay a young life, a fellow human being, whose organs were being harvested while he was alive,” he said.

Billion Dollar Industry

The horror Dr. Zheng witnessed in the van, and afterward at the hospital, took place in 1994, when the Chinese regime’s mass-scale, state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting was still in its infancy.

It soon ballooned into a billion-dollar industry, using prisoners of conscience, particularly adherents of the persecuted faith group Falun Gong, to fuel its rise. In the same city as the hospital was the Sujiatun concentration camp, which multiple whistleblowers revealed as a mass k*****g ground of imprisoned Falun Gong adherents for their organs since the persecution began in 1999. While the Sujiatun underground facility was abandoned after being exposed internationally, an untold number of other such camps exist in China.

Dr. Zheng is one of several witnesses who have come forward to The Epoch Times since 2006 to expose the regime’s grisly practice.

Since then, a multitude of independent reports have provided information on the severity and scale of the practice.

In 2019, a London-based independent tribunal concluded that China’s ruling regime k**led prisoners of conscience for their organs “on a significant scale,” and that Falun Gong practitioners are the primary victims.

U.S. lawmakers have taken steps to prevent Americans from embarking on “t***splant tourism” to China, and thus becoming complicit.

Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) is pushing for the passage of his Falun Gong Protection Act, which would sanction persecutors of Falun Gong. The bill would also ban cooperation with c*******t China in the organ t***splantation field.

The bipartisan Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2023, which seeks to punish enablers of the abuse, passed overwhelmingly in the House in March.

In June, Texas adopted the country’s first law to counter the issue, banning health insurers from financing organ t***splant surgeries linked to China.

‘A Fresh One’

Fear still had a grip on Dr. Zheng as he slowly recounted his story for the first time in 2015, using an alias. During the hours-long interview, he struggled to utter a complete sentence; sometimes with his two hands held tightly to the edge of the table in front of him, other times fidgeting, standing up, and sitting down. His facial expression was contorted as he kept repeating that it was “too horrifying.” Tears filled Dr. Zheng’s eyes as he described in a trembling voice the removal of the young man’s eyes.

During his residency at the hospital, Dr. Zheng was favored by his superiors, thanks to his father’s influence in the local c*******t power circle. A sk**led doctor in traditional Chinese medicine, his father was sought by local officials. Some of the top military leaders were frequent guests at his family’s dining table. Knowing this, doctors treated Dr. Zheng deferentially, frequently allowing him to participate in surgeries when other interns couldn’t.

Soon after the organ extraction in the back of the van, Dr. Zheng left the hospital. He became a pediatrician and internist in the city of Liaoyang, some four hours drive north of Dalian. But that sense of horror only deepened over time as he glimpsed more from behind the scenes.

In 2002, Dr. Zheng accompanied a military official for his medical checkup, at the hospital where he once interned. The doctor told the official that he needed a new kidney to live.

“[We’ll] pick a top-quality one for you,” another military officer told his superior in the hallway. “A fresh one, from Falun Gong practitioners.”

That was the first time Dr. Zheng heard that Falun Gong adherents were a specific organ source.

On the way home, the official asked Dr. Zheng whether he should get a kidney t***splant.

“Don’t do it,” Dr. Zheng replied. “Isn’t that committing a murder?”

It was through that official that Dr. Zheng learned how widespread forced organ harvesting was in China.

“Armed police and officials above division ranks all know about it, and it’s pretty much known throughout the military. It’s nothing novel,” Dr. Zheng told The Epoch Times.

To make more money, he said, the military had opened many “green passages,” or fast lanes at airports, to quickly t***sport fresh human organs across the country. The infectious disease units at military hospitals had all become “dens” for forced organ harvesting, he said.

“In about one to two weeks—a month at the longest—a match would be found.”

The official whose kidney was failing opted not to get a t***splant. He lived three more years relying on dialysis and died in 2005.

Another acquaintance, an aide to officials at the seven-member Politburo Standing Committee, the core of elite Chinese leadership, told Dr. Zheng something even more shocking.

In the conversation, Dr. Zheng remarked that the persecution of Falun Gong in northeastern China was quite severe.

The acquaintance made no immediate response, but before they parted, he turned and looked straight at Dr. Zheng.

“In Hubei Province’s W***n City, under the back garden of the Hubei Province Public Security Bureau, it’s full of detained Falun Gong practitioners. Some are underaged kids,” he said, stopping at every word.

“I’ve been there,” he added after a pause. They didn’t discuss it further, but the implication that this was a mass source of organs weighed heavily on Dr. Zheng.

It marked a new piece of evidence into the forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners.

Dr. Torsten Trey, executive director of the medical ethics group Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting, said it was an indicator that “the practice was already widespread in China in 2002,” four years before the first investigative report on the subject was published.

“More than 20 years have passed. China’s t***splant system has committed medical crimes against humanity that far exceeds anything known in the 21st century. Where is the international response?” Dr. Trey told The Epoch Times in a statement.

Making a Choice

What the acquaintance said gave Dr. Zheng a “sense of mission” to expose the matter on the international stage, prompting his eventual escape to Thailand in 2005.

He obtained refugee status while in Thailand and moved to Canada in 2007.

In 2015, when he told his story for the first time to The Epoch Times, he said he felt so helpless that he wasn’t sure whether to lean on the reporter or the table.

“I felt that I was giving out my life and everything that I have,” he told The Epoch Times in late July, recalling the previous interview.

“There’s no way to describe how I felt at the time,” he said.

“Every word, every sentence I spoke was no different from a choice of life and death. I didn’t know what I’d be bringing to myself.”

During the eight years once he got to Canada, Dr. Zheng said he had been looking for the right media outlet to tell his story to. Should he make the wrong choice, not only would he get himself into trouble, the issue wouldn’t get the spotlight it deserved.

Dr. Trey commended Dr. Zheng’s courage in speaking up.

“It is the foundation for us to understand the cruelty and the extent of China’s barbaric t***splant practices,” Dr. Trey said.

“What Dr. Zheng shared with the public is gruesome beyond words, and there is no explanation for why the international medical community is not acting on China’s horrific organ harvesting. Where is the WMA [World Medical Association]? Where is the WHO [World Health Organization]?”

Dr. Trey encouraged other Chinese doctors to follow Dr. Zheng’s example.

“Silence is akin to complicity,” he said.

Dr. Zheng said it was unrealistic for him to not worry about possible retaliation from Beijing. “Ordinary people can’t imagine how evil the CCP is,” he said—but the issue is bigger than himself.

“Slaughtering Chinese people and stealing their organs for profit, this is a crime with no bounds,” Dr. Zheng said. As someone living in a free country with a “basic conscience, I have no reason to stay silent.”

He said that he has carefully preserved his records. When the Chinese C*******t Party falls and faces judgment, he will come on the witness stand, he said, adding that he has no doubt “justice will prevail over evil.”

Yi Ling contributed to this report.

This article has been updated with quotes from Dr. Torsten Trey, executive director of Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting.
Many human rights organizations say it is.... br ... (show quote)


I'm not saying it didn't happen, it may very well have happened, but if so, why not use a more reliable source.

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Aug 11, 2023 09:54:28   #
Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.
 
thom w wrote:
I'm not saying it didn't happen, it may very well have happened, but if so, why not use a more reliable source.


And just what evidence other than your own bias do you have that Epoch is not a reliable source?

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Aug 11, 2023 10:14:58   #
thom w Loc: San Jose, CA
 
Blurryeyed wrote:
And just what evidence other than your own bias do you have that Epoch is not a reliable source?


To begin with they are owned by the Falun Gong, hardly making them unbiased in this matter.

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Aug 11, 2023 10:51:43   #
DaveO Loc: Northeast CT
 
"Deja vous all over again...".

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Aug 11, 2023 11:12:46   #
Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.
 
thom w wrote:
To begin with they are owned by the Falun Gong, hardly making them unbiased in this matter.


Yes, since the Falun Gong has been the primary source for forced organ harvesting.... How about NBC will that help you to better understand the wickedness of the CCP Thommy? God forbid that China ever conquers us in a war Thommy because to them we are barbarians..... But let's keep our focus on the Ukraine while Biden drains our military of munitions.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests-organs-detainees-tribunal-concludes-n1018646

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Aug 11, 2023 11:19:46   #
DaveO Loc: Northeast CT
 
Blurryeyed wrote:
Yes, since the Falun Gong has been the primary source for forced organ harvesting.... How about NBC will help you to better understand the wickedness of the CCP Thommy? God forbid that China ever conquers us in a war Thommy because to them we are barbarians..... But let's keep our focus on the Ukraine while Biden drains our military of munitions.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests-organs-detainees-tribunal-concludes-n1018646


Given the history of the Hogg with respect to sources, perhaps this reference would have been more readily_ accepted.

I must admit that I would have used Falun Gong for the sake of the trolling I sometimes enjoy.

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Aug 11, 2023 11:32:15   #
Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.
 
DaveO wrote:
Given the history of the Hogg with respect to sources, perhaps this reference would have been more readily_ accepted.

I must admit that I would have used Falun Gong for the sake of the trolling I sometimes enjoy.


Yeah, funny thing about the Attic rather than verify or discredit an actual story with other reporting that disputes a claim we find it so much easier to simply discredit the reporting agency, I think that this happens more so on the left than the right simply because the MSM does everything within its power to discredit conservative media but clearly both sides do it.

One reason this particular story was posted is because it best illustrates the horror and total lack of empathy for human life exercised under the control of the CCP.

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Aug 11, 2023 11:38:27   #
DaveO Loc: Northeast CT
 
Blurryeyed wrote:
Yeah, funny thing about the Attic rather verify or discredit an actual story with other reporting that disputes a claim we find it so much easier to simply discredit the reporting agency, I think that this happens more so on the left than the right simply because the MSM does everything within its power to discredit conservative media but clearly both sides do it.

One reason this particular story was posted is that it illustrates the horror and total lack of empathy for human life exercised under the control of the CCP.
Yeah, funny thing about the Attic rather verify or... (show quote)


I get it, but I would have skipped the partisan bs…didn’t add anything to the message.
Den-den proliferates his every post with such and letting him be the prolific purveyor works best due to the fact it’s all he has.

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Aug 11, 2023 11:56:57   #
Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.
 
DaveO wrote:
I get it, but I would have skipped the partisan bs…didn’t add anything to the message.
Den-den proliferates his every post with such and letting him be the prolific purveyor works best due to the fact it’s all he has.


On another note.... I just came across this, maybe some inspiration for your upcoming trip.... Not Yellowstone but some pretty awesome landscape photography that makes me want to go out and get some of my own.

https://500px.com/p/dzaslavsky/galleries/favorites

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Aug 11, 2023 12:02:33   #
DaveO Loc: Northeast CT
 
Blurryeyed wrote:
On another note.... I just came across this, maybe some inspiration for your upcoming trip.... Not Yellowstone but some pretty awesome landscape photography that makes me want to go out and get some of my own.

https://500px.com/p/dzaslavsky/galleries/favorites


Photography offers endless opportunities in so many different venues. To be able to capture and share things we enjoy is a privilege.

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Aug 11, 2023 16:52:00   #
thom w Loc: San Jose, CA
 
Blurryeyed wrote:
Yeah, funny thing about the Attic rather than verify or discredit an actual story with other reporting that disputes a claim we find it so much easier to simply discredit the reporting agency, I think that this happens more so on the left than the right simply because the MSM does everything within its power to discredit conservative media but clearly both sides do it.

One reason this particular story was posted is because it best illustrates the horror and total lack of empathy for human life exercised under the control of the CCP.
Yeah, funny thing about the Attic rather than veri... (show quote)


You can't be talking about my post, unless you are reading impaired. I made a point of saying "it may well have happened". I asked you why you used this source. I'm agnostic as to whether or not it happened,. Your choice of sources doesn't mean it didn't happen. It also doesn't mean it did.

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Aug 11, 2023 17:02:23   #
thom w Loc: San Jose, CA
 
Blurryeyed wrote:
Yes, since the Falun Gong has been the primary source for forced organ harvesting.... How about NBC will that help you to better understand the wickedness of the CCP Thommy? God forbid that China ever conquers us in a war Thommy because to them we are barbarians..... But let's keep our focus on the Ukraine while Biden drains our military of munitions.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests-organs-detainees-tribunal-concludes-n1018646


I didn't follow your link, but if it says what you imply, it probably happened. There have been stories of them harvesting organs from prisoners for years. I haven't heard any as graphic as this recalling, but it certainly isn't a stretch to believe it. You're not required, but since you have two sources, it wouldn't have been a bad idea to have cited both. I'm sure that Epoch prints plenty of stories that are true, but they also print stories that are at least a stretch.

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Aug 11, 2023 17:38:15   #
DaveO Loc: Northeast CT
 
thom w wrote:
I didn't follow your link, but if it says what you imply, it probably happened. There have been stories of them harvesting organs from prisoners for years. I haven't heard any as graphic as this recalling, but it certainly isn't a stretch to believe it. You're not required, but since you have two sources, it wouldn't have been a bad idea to have cited both. I'm sure that Epoch prints plenty of stories that are true, but they also print stories that are at least a stretch.


That description applies to several sources frequently cited and we know there are others that rarely print stories that are true.

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Aug 12, 2023 11:20:23   #
dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho
 
thom w wrote:
I'm not saying it didn't happen, it may very well have happened, but if so, why not use a more reliable source.


And NOW everyone knows first hand why you are rightfully called, waffle boy.

Dennis

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