Chinese inmates had hearts or lungs removed during executions, study says

Look, I'm Polish, I'm critical of the current Polish government for a variety of reasons (including its stance on European Union), but your description of what Poland is today is just outrageous.

> wealth amass in a tiny sliver of the population

Yeah, right. /s https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI?locations=P...

> their political spectrums can be resumed as ‶corrupted right-wing guy sucking on the EU tits″

No, it can't, it's more complicated than that. I think your language alone says a lot about how much thought has gone into your statements.

In short, Poland has seen a shift in its policy towards the EU after around 2015. A lot of it can be attributed to pre-Brexit Conservative Party-style anti-EU populism (and, if that's the case, why make it appear like a post-Soviet phenomenon alone?), but a part of it is genuinely related to the general debate about the future of the EU and its policies. The last words quoted, aside from their vulgarity, are just totally inaccurate. One thing to consider is the cohesion funds (which, by the way, the European Commission has blocked, and rightly so, from Hungary) and the pandemic recovery fund (which it has barred Poland from, also rightly so), but you can't reduce the discussion to those, especially in the recent weeks when Poland has shouldered the lion share of the European cost of welcoming Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war.

And, of course, the Polish political parties include a very significant pro-EU liberal opposition stronghold, usually just slightly trailing the populist ruling party in the election polls. So, no, your description of the spectrum is far from the truth.

I mean, even the three countries mentioned are vastly different from one another in where they stand. Today's Hungary, admittedly, has gone the farthest in terms of limiting the freedom of media and dismantling the judicial system. Poland's ruling party has not gone that far, and I would say it's very unlikely it will, for historical reasons – the anarcho-democratic political traditions are just too strong, as is the civil society.

So, in short, I'm all for being alarming when that's warranted, and there are things to be alarmed with, to various extent, when looking at last years' developments in Poland (can't speak for other countries). But one needs to stay truthful at the same time.

Oh yeah, the China Tribunal, I dont know if many people ever read the document that was published[1], but it has got several key points, which at the time I didnt quite understand why they were worded the way they were, such as repeating the "holiness" of the people's bodies, or phrases such as "the physical integrity of their beings", which, are just awkward phrases

At the end, when digging a little bit few years ago, it turned out that this "China Tribunal" was itself not a "real group", but a spin off of ETAC[2], which is a small group that is against "End Transplant Abuse in China", itself stacked with Falun Gong practitioners, so ETAC reached out to doctors, lawyers, whom would go and oppose organ harvesting in China and added them as members of the "Tribunal"[A1], then financed/rented the halls which the "China Tribunal" would use to do their decree to oppose the Chinese organ harvesting of Chinese death row inmates, but, most of their pieces are not per-se dedicated to oppose the Chinese organ harvest methods in general, but focused on shedding light of Falun Gong's victims [3]

Then to get the word out of their Tribunal, they invited Reuters Foundation, not Reuters, the NGO politically active foundation of the same name, and then Reuters proper, published a Reuters Foundation article on their website [4]

Now days, we have new Uyghur groups, which will be doing similar schemes such as declaring these tribunals, these Uyghur groups themselves, being funded by the National Endowment For Democracy [5][6]

[1] https://chinatribunal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ChinaTr...

[2] https://chinatribunal.com/about-etac/

[3] https://endtransplantabuse.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Bl...

[4] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-china-rights-idUS...

[5] https://endtransplantabuse.org/?s=Tribunal

[6] https://www.ned.org/wp-content/themes/ned/search/grant-searc...

[A1] Note that several of the people involved with this China Tribunal, were themselves involved on the older "Iran Tribunal" dedicated to highlight the crimes of the People's Republic of Iran, that tribunal itself also had several of their members financially benefiting from US National Endowment for Democracy grants and payments, and these same people are highly regarded members of this new "China Tribunal" [7]

[7] https://hopoi.org/?p=2250

Mind you, that this post is not to deny the situation of China harvesting the organs of death row inmates, but rather to shed light on just how murky the funding of all these groups is, and how incestuous they are on the people orchestrating them, note that EndTransplantAbuseInChina (ETAC) doesnt have a "who funds us" page

Everyone always goes straight to outsourced manual labor as a solution. It's a bad solution. If we weren't a nation run by corrupt middle managers trying to inflate their own salaries and sense of purpose we'd have stuck with the tried and true method of innovating on the manufacturing process itself making it more automated and less dependent on human labor. Human labor is always slow, prone to mistakes, and expensive. It's the favorite tool of the incompetent. If you think that's wrong then ask yourself which is better, harvesting a field with 100 workers with hand tools or with 1 farmer and a tractor?

It’s paradoxical how companies aren’t self motivated. Look at fossil fuel car companies.

But yeah, Apple would have automated things. Except the part where they pass the savings on to end customers.

Furthermore in Apple’s case, they want China to be rich, too, because that’s a big market.