Day: August 16, 2024
Chinese Company Caught Stealing Dead Bodies to Make Dental Implants
MONSTROUS!
From breitbart.com
Chinese social media users discovered they are no longer allowed to discuss a disturbing story about a medical supply company, Shanxi Aurui Biomaterials, caught selling dead human bodies and body parts.
The Chinese Communist Party’s vast army of social media censors began cracking down hard on the story three days after it broke, deleting a string of posts on the microblogging platform Weibo that lawyer Yi Shengua, president of the Beijing Yongzhe Law Firm, wrote.
Yi broke the story on August 7 with Weibo posts accusing funeral homes of sending vast numbers of human remains to Shanxi Aurui Biomaterials, which used the corpses as raw materials to produce dental bone implants.
According to Yi’s sources, the company took what it needed from the bodies, cremated the leftovers, and sent them back to families who had no idea their loved ones had been defiled. The company was accused of supplying its bone implant customers with forged consent paperwork from imaginary donors.
The story drew attention on Chinese legal social media because more than 70 families became aware of the scheme and are suing the biotech firm. Yi added to his account as he received information from lawyers across China who said they had become involved in the lawsuits.
More than 4,000 cadavers are believed to have been illegally diverted to the bone graft scheme, stolen from a dozen cities in seven provinces, generating $53 million in revenue over the past eight years.
The corpse-stealing scandal briefly received attention from Chinese state media, which claimed government investigators were all over the case, and some 75 suspects had already been taken into custody. One report said police seized more than 18 metric tons of human bones and 34,000 finished bone grafts from Shanxi Aurui Biomaterials as evidence in the case.
However, almost every state media report on the scandal abruptly disappeared, as did Yi’s original posts and many Weibo posts discussing the horrifying scandal. State media reports pertaining to investigations in the affected provinces have been changed to say officials are looking into “petty corruption” and “small-scale malfeasance” rather than body snatching.
“I can still see my Weibo post, but nobody else can. It seems that moves are afoot from higher up,” Yi said on August 9.
Yi said the scandal had been completely deleted from Weibo’s list of trending topics and Internet search engines. He was then dragged into a meeting with legal regulators, after which he began refusing to discuss the grave-robbing story any further with either Chinese social media users or foreign media.
Some observers suspect the Chinese Communist Party decided to censor the story because Shanxi Aurui Biomaterials is a subsidiary of the state-owned, Beijing-based China National Nuclear Corporation.
The Shanxi company is among China’s largest suppliers of bone grafts and substitutes, and demand is extremely high, so the communist government would not want the company to be ruined by a scandal. The case could also be extremely embarrassing for the regime, which has been aggressively pushing its subjects to forego burial in favor of cremation and burial at sea in order to conserve valuable real estate.
The Economist added suspicions that the Chinese Communist Party wanted to kill the story before it expanded to include state-owned medical giants, like Sinopharm, which may have purchased some of the tainted bone grafts. Sinopharm issued a statement on August 9 denying it was involved in the scandal.
The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that the body-snatching scandal had a major effect on the stock market portfolios of bone graft companies but not the effect one might think: their stocks surged after the scandal broke because eager investors concluded the demand for bone grafts must be overwhelming if criminal gangs were willing to steal corpses from funeral homes to fulfill it.
Stock prices for bone graft suppliers other than Shanxi Aurui Biomaterials gained 15 to 20 percent in daily trading after the corpse-stealing story broke, even as China’s market benchmarks slid by 0.3 percent.
“Some people are taking advantage of the scandal to buy on the news, a popular trading pattern this year given the weak fundamentals in the economy. The logic is that demand for substitute products will increase,” sighed Wang Chen, a partner in Shanghai’s Xufunds Investment Management company.
MARANATHA!
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Tim Walz’s ‘Holocaust Education’ Thesis De-emphasized Jewish Experience
This guy is a Train Wreck!
From breitbart.com
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is often said to have written his master’s thesis on “Holocaust education,” but it reportedly de-emphasized the uniqueness of the Holocaust, and of Jews as victims, in favor of a broader view of “genocide.”
The story of Walz’s thesis could be yet another example of an aspect of his life that has been exaggerated to suit a political narrative. He is often described to Jewish groups — who are nervous about the Democratic ticket — as having written his thesis on “Holocaust education.”
Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV), for example, told a “Jewish Women for Kamala” Zoom call on Thursday evening that Walz “literally wrote his master’s thesis on Holocaust education.”
But the official title of Walz’s thesis is “Improving human rights and genocide studies in the American high school classroom.”
The title does not mention the Holocaust at all, because — according to a report by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) — its goal was not to focus on the Jewish experience of persecution, but rather to use the Holocaust to teach about other genocides, an pedagogical approach that was controversial at the time and which remains so today.
JTA wrote:
The thesis was the culmination of Walz’s master’s degree focused on Holocaust and genocide education at Minnesota State University, Mankato, which he earned while teaching at Mankato West. His 27-page thesis, which JTA obtained, is titled “Improving Human Rights and Genocide Studies in the American High School Classroom.”
In it, Walz argues that the lessons of the “Jewish Holocaust” should be taught “in the greater context of human rights abuses,” rather than as a unique historical anomaly or as part of a larger unit on World War II. “To exclude other acts of genocide severely limited students’ ability to synthesize the lessons of the Holocaust and the ability to apply them elsewhere,” he wrote.
He then took a position that he noted was “controversial” among Holocaust scholars: that the Holocaust should not be taught as unique, but used to help students identify “clear patterns” with other historical genocides like the Armenian and Rwandan genocides.
Few would disagree that one lesson of the Holocaust is that genocide should be prevented — that “never again” not only refers to Jews, but to anyone.
However, as some scholars argued at the time, the risk of de-emphasizing the suffering of Jews is that the dangers of antisemitism will be ignored — and that the “genocide” label will be abused to accuse Israel, falsely, of “genocide” against the Palestinians, turning the victims of the Holocaust into perpetrators.
That was one reason that then-Harvard professor Ruth Wisse, who fled the Holocaust in Europe, found refuge in Canada, and became a leading authority on Yiddish literature, opposed a chair in “Holocaust studies” at Harvard.
Wisse explained in 2020 (emphasis added):
Nothing I am saying here questions the obligations of commemorating the dead and establishing every detail of the historical record. Rather, the potential for corruption begins with the impulse to make the Holocaust a universal symbol of evil, Nazism synonymous with “hatred,” and Holocaust education a redemptive American pursuit.
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In the early years of planning the [Holocaust] museum project, [survivor Elie] Wiesel was defeated in his attempt to keep the focus on anti-Semitism. He eventually quit the Holocaust Museum commission, but without going public about his scruples.
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Support for Holocaust education was presumably intended to show opposition to anti-Semitism, but intentionally or not, this “opposition to hate” feeds the hideous ideology it pretends to resist.
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The liberal conscription of the Holocaust as a moral exemplum was misguided from the start, and as presently conceived, it conceals rather than confronts anti-Jewish aggression, falsifies both the nature of anti-Jewish politics and the nature of the Jewish people, advances political causes under false pretenses, and cultivates identification with victims rather than with the soldiers who protect and, if necessary, liberate the victims.
Wisse said that the Holocaust should instead be taught in the context of how it was overcome — specifically, by American soldiers fighting against the Nazis, just as Israelis fight to protect their new freedom.
“Now as ever, only the will to fight for the good can defeat the forces of evil, and a peace-loving people that does not train for self-defense will suffer the fate of the Jews of Europe,” she wrote.
Walz’s thesis should not be regarded as antisemitic; no such dissertation would ever have passed.
But it is likely inaccurate to call it a thesis on “Holocaust education” instead of what it claims to be: a shift away from “Holocaust education” and towards a more general “human rights and genocide studies.”
DESPICABLE is the only word that comes to mind right now.
