Here’s a bit of information on China’s state-sanctioned organ harvesting. Another wonderful export from the Chi-comms.

Disturbing Practice in China Brings Canadian Dignitaries to NZ

Hon David Kilgour and David Matas will be in Wellington Tuesday 11 September to highlight new evidence from their painstaking research into the practice of state-sanctioned organ harvesting in China.

The former Canadian MP and the human rights lawyer have spent a year and a half researching and travelling in a global mission to raise awareness of the practice they conclude is “a form of evil yet to be seen on this planet.”

Kilgour and Matas released Bloody Harvest: Revised Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China in January this year.

The report almost doubles the evidence found in the first report, published July, 2006.

“The practice of organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners is even more widespread than we had originally reported,” Kilgour and Matas say in their report.

New evidence includes the heavy military involvement in organ transplants, evidence from transplant recipients, the lack of legislative enforcement and a coherent reply from the Chinese regime, and the large-scale persecution and vilification of Falun Gong practitioners.

snip….Bloody Harvest tells of one Asian man who was proffered eight kidneys over two separate trips to China before a match was found.

“In 2003 [the man] flew to Shanghai to obtain a new kidney for the $20,000 USD price negotiated before his departure… during the ensuing two weeks four kidneys were brought for testing against his blood and other factors. None proved compatible because of his anti‑bodies; all were taken away.”

The man returned to the hospital two months later, where another four kidneys were tested. The eighth proved compatible and was successfully transplanted.

The surgeon, Dr. Tan Jianming of the Nanjing military region, wore his army uniform at times in the civilian hospital and carried sheets of paper containing lists of prospective “donors”, based on various tissue and blood characteristics, from which he would select names, the revised report Bloody Harvest said.

“The doctor was observed at various times to leave the hospital in uniform and return 2‑3 hours later with containers bearing kidneys. Dr. Tan told the recipient that the eighth kidney came from an executed prisoner.”

And now Starbucks is planning on buying coffee from China! Course this might improve the the flavor of Starbucks coffee.

Starbucks to source coffee from China

Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O: Quote, Profile, Research), the world’s biggest coffee-shop chain, said it planned to source coffee from China for the first time as it expands in a country with more than 5,000 years of tea-drinking culture.

Starbucks has been working with coffee farmers in China’s southwestern Yunnan province to help them meet sourcing standards and has sent coffee shipments to the United States for testing, Starbucks China President Wang Jinlong said at the Reuters China Century Summit on Tuesday.

Don’t you love the Starbucks smoke and mirrors for buying product from China - it’s now called “sourcing”!

And then Mattel is once again recalling toys manufactured in China…….

Barbie accessories part of latest Mattel recall

Mattel Inc., in cooperation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, announced late Tuesday that it is recalling more than 700,000 Chinese-made toys that have excessive amounts of lead paint.

The recall covers 675,000 units of various Barbie accessory toys that were manufactured between Sept. 30, 2006, and Aug. 20, 2007. The action also involves 90,000 units of Geo Trax Locomotive Toys and 8,900 Big Big World 6-in-1 Bongo Band toys, both from the company’s Fisher-Price brand. The Big Big World products were sold at retailers nationwide from July through August of this year, while the Geo Trax toys were sold from September 2006 through August of this year.

The announcement marks Mattel’s third major recall of Chinese-made toys because of lead paint in a a month.

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