Solice Kirsk posted:

Oh! Then maybe you can answer this, and I mean no offense, but what's up with you and henhouses?

Avenging_Mikon posted:

Shut up.

Pick posted:

google "sweet pool review"

Pick posted:

google "sweet pool review"

Solice Kirsk posted:

Solice Kirsk posted:

Avshalom posted:

i'm an actual fox irl

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Reports of organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners and other political prisoners in China have raised increasing concern in the international community. According to the reports, political prisoners, mainly Falun Gong practitioners, are being executed "on demand" in order to provide organs to recipients. The organ harvesting is said to be taking place both as a result of the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of Falun Gong and because of the financial incentives available to the institutions and individuals involved in the trade.

Reports on systematic organ harvesting from Falun Gong prisoners first emerged in 2006, though the practice is thought to have started six years earlier. Several researchers—most notably Canadian human rights lawyer David Matas, former parliamentarian David Kilgour, and investigative journalist Ethan Gutmann—estimate that tens of thousands of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience have been killed to supply a lucrative trade in human organs and cadavers, and that these abuses may be ongoing. These conclusions are based on a combination of statistical analysis; interviews with former prisoners, medical authorities and public security agents; and circumstantial evidence, such as the large number of Falun Gong practitioners detained extrajudicially in China and the profits to be made from selling organs.

cult member at airport posted:

Hope this hasn't been posted yet. Organ Harvesting from Falun Gong Practitioners in China


If you read the rest of the article it gives a good background on the issue and a good deal of supporting evidence.

Avshalom posted:

no the correct thing to do is to grab them by the tail, whirl them round your head and smack them on the ground

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“Before we get to your car questions,” my former next door neighbor, Terrance, said, “I need to tell you both something. My wife left me. My kids won’t talk to me. I lost my job. I embezzled almost a half a million dollars because I’m addicted to BMWs, and have been hiding them all over the state. I’ll probably be going to prison soon.”

Basticle posted:

http://jalopnik.com/the-bmw-addiction-that-completely-destroyed-this-man-s-1794882542

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He also had 12 other BMWs stored in the parking lot of the company he worked for.

Surprised his boss could just lose 24 spaces like that.

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A FEW DAYS before the Indian celebration of Holi, an emaciated man with graying skin, drooping eyes, and rows of purple needle marks on both arms stumbled up to a group of farmers in the sweltering Indian border town of Gorakhpur. The city is the first stop for many thousands of refugees streaming in from Nepal, a country even more perpetually impoverished than India. Over the years endless refugee hardship stories had dulled the farmers’ instincts for sympathy, and junkies were even lower on their list for charity handouts. at first the farmers ignored the man’s request for bus fare. But he persisted. He wasn’t a refugee, he said. He was escaping from a makeshift prison where his captor siphoned off his blood for profit. The farmers shook off their stupor and called the police.

For the last three years the man had been held captive in a brick-and-tin shed just a few minutes’ walk from where the farmers were drinking tea. The marks on his arms weren’t the tell-tale signs of heroin addiction; they came from where his captor, a ruthless modern-day vampire and also a local dairy farmer and respected landowner named Papu Yadhav, punctured his skin with a hollow syringe. He had kept the man captive so he could drain his blood and sell it to blood banks. The man had managed to slip out when Yadhav had forgotten to lock the door behind him.

The emaciated man brought the officers to his prison of the last three years: a hastily constructed shack sandwiched between Papu Yadhav’s concrete home and a cowshed. A brass padlock hung from the iron door’s solid latch. The officers could hear the muffled sounds of humanity through the quarter inch of metal.

They sprung the lock and revealed a medical ward fit for a horror movie. IV drips hung from makeshift poles and patients moaned as if they were recovering from a delirium. Five emaciated men lying on small woven cots could barely lift their heads to acknowledge the visitors. The sticky air inside was far from sterile. The sun beating down on the tin roof above their heads magnified the heat like a tandoor oven. One man stared at the ceiling with glassy eyes as his blood snaked through a tube and slowly drained into a plastic blood bag on the floor. He was too weak to protest.

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Villivakkam, a slum in the north of Chennai, is known as "Kidneyvakkam" or "Kidneytown" among the locals. Surveys conducted for the health ministry show almost every family includes someone who has sold their kidney. The situation is similar in the neighboring refugee camp of Tsunami Nagar, which was set up for the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Here, the kidneys of patients in good health can be bought "for between 20,000 and 40,000 rupees," one former middleman reveals.

"The kidney donors are often poor young women," reports George Kurian from the Christian Medical College Hospital in Vellore. "The buyers, on the other hand, are usually older and well-off men." According to press reports, about 100,000 Indians require a kidney transplant every year. In addition, some two million suffer from serious kidney problems. The demand is huge -- and the kidneys tend to go to those with the most money.

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And kidneys are in ample supply: Sums of between €500 and €700 are no trifle in India, and there is a correspondingly large number of people willing to surrender a kidney. But in the long term, the organ vendors don't benefit. A study by the health ministry shows that the organ transplants are associated with enormous health risks. Morever, they don't even improve the donors' financial situation in the long term.

"Ninety percent of the organ donors live below the poverty line," says health expert Thiru V.K. Subburaj. "But by the time their debts have been paid off and enough food and clothing has been bought for the family, most of the money has been used up."

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But that isn't all. Many organ donors complain about having received too little aftercare and admit that they were left in a weakened state for a long time after the operation. They are no longer able to perform their everyday work as usual. This leads to the follow-up health costs being much higher, in the long run, than the financial benefits associated with the organ sale. It's not even unusual for the donors to "die from the effects of a negligently carried out operation," says Ravindranath from the Authorization Committee.

Vladimir Poutine posted:

I mean if we're doing the organ trade/red market ITT, the deeper down the rabbit hole you go the grimmer it gets. A little if you're having a bad day

Blood Farming
https://www.wired.com/2011/06/red-market-excerpt/


The neighbourhood of "Kidneyvakkam" in Chennai
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-pound-of-flesh-organ-trade-thrives-in-indian-slums-a-488281.html

Josef K. Sourdust posted:

(Waits for inevitable KLF joke.....)

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In 1922, one of Grace’s colleagues, Mollie Maggia, had to quit the studio because she was sick. She didn’t know what was wrong with her. Her trouble had started with an aching tooth: Her dentist pulled it, but then the next tooth started hurting and also had to be extracted. In the place of the missing teeth, agonizing ulcers sprouted as dark flowers, blooming red and yellow with blood and pus. They seeped constantly and made her breath foul. Then she suffered aching pains in her limbs that were so agonizing they eventually left her unable to walk. The doctor thought it was rheumatism; he sent her home with aspirin.

By May 1922, Mollie was desperate. At that point, she had lost most of her teeth and the mysterious infection had spread: Her entire lower jaw, the roof of her mouth, and even some of the bones of her ears were said to be "one large abscess." But worse was to come. When her dentist prodded delicately at her jawbone in her mouth, to his horror and shock, it broke against his fingers. He removed it, "not by an operation, but merely by putting his fingers in her mouth and lifting it out." Only days later, her entire lower jaw was removed in the same way.

Mollie was literally falling apart. And she wasn’t the only one; by now, Grace Fryer, too, was having trouble with her jaw and suffering pains in her feet, and so were the other radium girls.

On September 12, 1922, the strange infection that had plagued Mollie Maggia for less than a year spread to the tissues of her throat. The disease slowly ate its way through her jugular vein. At 5 p.m. that day, her mouth was flooded with blood as she hemorrhaged so fast that her nurse could not staunch it. She died at the age of 24. With her doctors flummoxed as to the cause of death, her death certificate, erroneously, said she’d died of syphilis, something her former company would later use against her.

As if by clockwork, one by one, Mollie’s former colleagues soon followed her to the grave.

QuoProQuid posted:

The Forgotten Story Of The Radium Girls, Whose Deaths Saved Thousands Of Workers' Lives


There's some very nasty pictures in the article, so be forewarned. The article is also infuriating, albeit for the right reasons.

Pingiivi posted:

If you want to read more about messed up radiation accidents and mishaps I'd recommend Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters book by James Mahaffey. There's a bunch of stuff from back in the day when people were selling all kinds of radiation stuff and ointments. Because it looks neat and glows in the dark. Nobody knew how dangerous that poo poo was.

Jose posted:

One of the people involved in the snowtown murders is up for parole. Not one of the killers mind

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-08/bodies-in-barrels-accomplice-could-be-released-this-year/8505958

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Dogetipbot’s failure is also most likely the death knell for Dogecoin in general. The currency has been slowly disintegrating since vape enthusiast Alex Green—formerly Ryan Kennedy, who stole millions in customer funds in another cryptocurrency scam—pushed out the original creators and moderators for Dogecoin in a soft coup to the benefit of his new dogecoin exchange, Moolah. Moolah has since declared bankruptcy after a “hack”. Kennedy has subsequently been imprisoned for abusing and raping three women.

Pick posted:

Dogecoin gets dark

Pick posted:

Dogecoin gets dark

POOL IS CLOSED posted:

Christ. I didn't realize someone had turned that joke into an actual cryptocurrency. The meme went too far.

theflyingorc posted:

You missed a lot. For instance, this is from a real NASCAR race:

POOL IS CLOSED posted:

Why?!