Tony Brunt

Organ Harvesting Murders & the International Criminal Court Providence is putting the squeeze on China, a good time to press for internat’l action to arrest & prosecute the 1,000s of culprits (surgeons, CCP planners) complicit in this atrocity. 2/

@MDsAgainstFOH @IanMurrayMP The Chinese medical system thinks it has obtained moral, ethical and spiritual exemption for its 25-year tsunami of surgical murder because its deity, the CCP, has given its approval. Wickedness unprecedented and at scale.

"The China Tribunal chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice KC, raised grave credible concerns about forced organ harvesting...the lack of transparency or independent scrutiny in China's organ transplantation system. Those conclusions cannot simply be ignored." @IanMurrayMP en.minghui.org/html/articles/…

@FalunInfoCtr @RepBrianMast The term organ harvesting is a polite euphemism that obscures this wickedness. In all cases it's surgical murder. Good on Congress for this achievement.

This Monday, @RepBrianMast gave a sobering speech on the House floor: “Among those most frequently reported as targets are the Falun Gong practitioners and Uyghur practitioners and the Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang province. These detainees, often imprisoned for their beliefs, are subjected to medical procedures that other prisoners are not. Blood draws, organ examinations, ultrasound scans. These are not for their health. These are the results are then entered into a database, turning them into a human inventory for a state-run organ harvesting system. This is barbaric. These crimes, they are abuses by the Chinese Communist Party, and I think we can all agree that they have to come to an end. The legislation before us today, the Falun Gong Protection Act, takes long-overdue action to confront this horror. It directs the U.S. government to identify and publicly name individuals and entities involved in forced organ harvesting in China.” More about FGPA: faluninfo.net/u-s-house-pass…

@CranmerWrites Can't wait for the Herald to restore balance. I used to be a reporter on it for many years but lost faith when it emarked on a 10-year campaign of anti-Trump madness, joining the legacy media feeding frenzy against an 'approved victim.'

Link to article: open.substack.com/pub/cranmer/p/…

As many of you know, I’m one of Jim Grenon’s nominees to form part of a refreshed NZME Board. Since our nominations became public on March 6, much of the media commentary has focused on speculation around Jim’s motivations and intentions for the company, and in particular, what this might mean for the editorial direction of the New Zealand Herald. Please read my article for my latest thoughts. Link in replies.

@MattNippert I can recognise AI-assisted FB posts instantly. They are full of bland, trite, formulaic syntax. It's a fad that will age quickly imo except for those who find joy in the meritritious.

Pretty amazing how the rise of GPT coincides with a surge of long but bland social media posts. Some of the latter spam even have the audacity to criticise the former.

@peterrhague Academic publishing is totally broken. It needs to be reinvented and channeled free through social media.

Academic publishing is a morally dubious racket which keeps science behind a paywall and exploits publicly funded research for obscene margins, contributing nothing to the enterprise itself. This is uncontroversial. What occurs to me is that the information they guard is a very useful corpus of knowledge for AI training. So there is another incentive for the state to break their monopoly on scientific publishing. We would all benefit from AI that could interpret science for us.

@StevenWMosher They left out an organ harvesting theatre.

China will make the world of perfect harmony—if we only give them total control. They are not hiding it an more.

@RnaudBertrand I doubt America's changing strategic priorities will convince Taiwan to engage more sympathetically with the Organ Harvesting Regime. Proximity to wickedness and circling cruisers is rather polarising, I would have thought.

That's a great point and there's a lesson there, Taiwan already offered Trump everything it could BEFORE the tariffs: moving semiconductors production to the U.S., additional arms purchases, buying US LNG, etc. Yet it got hit by tariffs just the same, and now has very few cards left. Trump doesn't respect submission and weakness, it just signals you're ready to be humiliated even further. Would they have been hit with tariffs if they'd dangled the possibility of restricting advanced semiconductor exports to the U.S. instead? I'm willing to bet Trump would at least have thought twice about it... And here's the uncomfortable truth - Taiwan's greatest leverage isn't even semiconductors. It's the possibility of reunification - whatever form it takes - with the PRC. Why not use that card? Not even only to get more out of Trump but simply to recognize that when you're in the middle of a great power rivalry, you need to maximize your strategic options. It makes very little strategic sense to commit unconditionally to one side, all the more when that side is now increasingly hostile to you and obviously doesn't care one bit about the outdated "liberal rules-based order" ideological paradigm. Why be faithful to a version of America that no longer exists? It's pure ideological fanaticism, which is literally deadly in an era of great power competition. All in all, the old adage is becoming truer than ever: 'A tree that cannot bend will break in the wind.' In geopolitics, pragmatism ensures survival.

@TheConsultant18 Ye gods, it's all of 6 months since the ship crashed and burned and they're trumpeting with great solemnity that a "disciplinary investigation" is now under way. I guess it has to follow "protocols," "best practice", "established procedures", "counselling" etc.

New Zealand 🇳🇿 🚨 The Final Court of Inquiry into the sinking of HMNZS Manawanui has been completed. Findings released, which is shocking. A series of human failures was responsible. The crew & the ship were NOT qualified to underake allocated tasks. nzdf.mil.nz/navy/navy-news…

@palladiummag @mmjukic A fun - and thought provoking - read.

Forget about AI. There is a much more alarming type of intelligence arising in the oceans beneath us. Most people don’t even know about it. Without a solution, humanity will be overwhelmed. Read the prescient and dire warning by @mmjukic here: palladiummag.com/2019/04/01/its…

@MeiWangv @NoCCPGenocide The Organ Harvesting Regime is an existential threat to our planetary civilisation. A daily production line of surgical murder. #CannibalismWithChineseCharacteristics

So, while #XiJinping & the CCP parrot "progress," their brutal organ harvesting machine is still in full swing, ripping organs from innocent people while they’re still alive. This isn't a "myth" — it’s ongoing, and it’s horrifying. #ForcedOrganHarvesting @NoCCPGenocide 2/4

"Organ harvesting" in #China is still happening. The #US House has approved the Falun Gong Protection Act after a survivor’s chilling testimony in D.C. Meanwhile, #CCP continues to target #Tibetans, #Uyghurs & #FalunGong practitioners. @zhangtruth1 @CROWSPLAY1 @FreeUral1 1/4

@aniobrien If Grenon can bring balance and sanity back to the Herald and end their legacy media feeding-frenzy campaigns against 'approved victims' on the right (such as Trump) the sooner I'll start reading them again. Headlines we've had to put up with ....

The Left are really doubling down on this anti-immigrant stuff. Jim Grenon has lived in NZ since 2012 and his kids went to school here. "Foreign billionaire" suggests he is living overseas & just buying shit up over here.

@JordNZ All power to Jim Grenon to bring back some semblance of balance in the Herald's far left news columns. For years we've had to put up with the cowardly targeting of 'approved victims' on the right by the Herald's editorial staff. E.g. Here's a headline selection about Trump.

If you’ve got the votes, you don’t delay the meeting. nzherald.co.nz/business/media…

Media moralisers warning darkly of the dangers of Jim Grenon’s threat to editorial independence of the NZ Herald conveniently ignore the utter madness of the paper’s Trump Derangement Syndrome of the last 10 years. DJT was an 'approved target' for a legacy media feeding frenzy.

You can't make this stuff up. Furniture manufacturer, Ikea, now lecturing New Zealanders to eat less red meat to save the planet. What part of, "stay in your lane," does this busybody not get? nzherald.co.nz/business/compa…

@MarkAWoodland Awesome thread. Tks so much, Mark.

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@hkdc_us @kevinkfyam Four Australian judges still sit on the Hong Kong Court of Appeal!? Tell me that's not true...

.@kevinkfyam on recent letters sent to neighbors in Australia basically encouraging them to kidnap him. He reminds 4 Australian judges still sit on HK's Court of Final Appeal despite bounties on HKers in Oz & Australian Gordon Ng a political prisoner in HK theage.com.au/national/i-hav…

@opngate @DoD_AARO @DeptofDefense AARO is Project Bluebook in civvies.

@DoD_AARO AARO is a SHILL of the @DeptofDefense and LITERALLY EVERYONE knows it. Your lame attempts to not even look at this issue are so obvious. The last report you put out was ATROCIOUS and ridiculous. WE CANNOT TRUST YOU.

In April 2013, a Customs and Border Protection aircraft captured footage of a UAP event over the airport near Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Read AARO's assessment, watch the video, and see a reconstruction of the event here: spr.ly/60050tcUU

@SpoxCHN_LinJian @ChineseEmbinUS The Organ Harvesting Regime wants to take over Taiwan? I'm sure the Taiwanese will have something to say about that horrific prospect.

Taiwan is an inalienable part of China’s territory. This is the history and the reality. Taiwan’s return to China forms an important part of the post-war international order.

@RnaudBertrand What a pious, pretentious puff piece. I don't care if Xi travels in a Trabant, the fact is the most anonymous, inoccuous looking vans in China are those carrying prisoners of conscience and ethnicity to hospitals to be surgically murdered for their organs.

I personally find this quite interesting in terms of what it says about China and the Communist Party. If you look at the end of the video you'll see that Xi travels in a nondescript common minivan: this is actually the official car for senior party officials when they travel around China. No fancy "beast" like the American president or luxury armored limousine like Putin, just a humble minivan that you commonly see all around China. I've personally seen it several times myself. For instance just a few months ago I was driving around in the Sichuan countryside and suddenly I start to see more and more police on the streets (which is actually rare in China: you see surprisingly few policemen patrolling the streets, especially in the countryside) until it reached a stage where there was a policeman stationed at every single corner. Something was definitely up! I then look in my rearview mirror and see some police cars approaching from the back. I slow down, get a bit on the side and we get overtaken by a motorcade: maybe a dozen police cars, some SWAT looking vehicles and, in the middle of all this, this type of very ordinary minivan 😅 It's obviously all about the symbolism, but symbolism matters enormously in Chinese political culture. I understand the risk and limitations of any analogy but they can sometimes be useful to frame something people aren't familiar with. In this spirit, I sometimes say that an interesting way to understand the CPC for a Westerner who knows very little about China is to compare it with a religious order, like maybe a mix between the Franciscans and the Jesuits. Obviously the analogy completely fails when you look at the religious aspects of things - China at a governmental level has always been deeply committed to secularism - but organizationally, there are interesting parallels and even very senior Vatican officials have been struck by the similarities (like Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, the chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, who once said that "at this moment, those who best realize the social doctrine of the Church are the Chinese", thecatholicherald.com/china-is-the-b…). Like the Jesuits, the party emphasizes intellectual rigor, intensive study of canonical texts, and the formation of disciplined cadres willing to serve a mission that goes far beyond their individual interests. The training of officials through party schools bears remarkable similarities to how religious orders cultivate their leadership through years of doctrinal study. The minivan symbolism connects more to the Franciscan element – an outward commitment to simplicity and rejection of ostentation that traces back to the CPC's original revolutionary values. Just as Franciscans took vows of poverty while still wielding significant influence, party leaders project an image of modesty while holding enormous power. The contrast with Western leadership styles is deliberate and meaningful: "we display power by showing we embody common virtues, by showing that we are the people" as opposed to displaying power through symbols of superior status. What also makes the comparison apt is the internal discipline. Just as Catholic orders maintain strict hierarchies while demanding uniformity in key practices, the CPC enforces standardized behaviors among its leadership. The identical modest vehicles (and also, always, the same way of dressing) reinforces party unity – no official, regardless of rank, is permitted to visibly elevate themselves above others through displays of luxury, excess or individualism. Joining the CPC as a senior party official represents a level of personal abnegation that frankly only finds parallels in the West among religious orders. I don't think many Western politicians could bear living just a week in the shoes of a senior Chinese party official: completely opposite cultures! Where one emphasizes modesty and uniformity, the other is all about ego and building your own personal brand. All of this isn't merely performative, it's profoundly anchored in ideas that have been part of Chinese governance for centuries, with for instance Mencius (a key Confucian philosopher), saying: "The people are of supreme importance; the altars of the gods of earth and grain come next; last comes the ruler." Or the idea that power gets legitimized through demonstrations of virtuous service and moral exemplarity. This also all serves to strengthen institutional resilience: the party's emphasis on discipline, uniformity, and symbolic continuity has helped it maintain cohesion through China's dramatic modernization process. To many, such a system would imply inflexibility but in fact the exact contrary is true: it is thanks to this strict adherence to the doctrine that they gain legitimacy for considerable changes in policies. It's a way of saying: "We remain faithful to our core principles, therefore you can trust us on how we apply them." A bit like a strong root system allows a tree to bend considerably without breaking. So all in all, our humble minivan is more than just a curious detail – it's a window into the very complex institutional culture of the CPC that operates on fundamentally different premises than Western political systems. Neither approach is inherently superior; they simply reflect radically different ways of organizing political power, each with its own internal coherence and distinctive strengths. The question of which is "better" isn't all that relevant given how they're each anchored in their historical experiences and cultural values. What's really interesting is to move beyond imperfect analogies to understand each system in its own terms – to appreciate the logic and cultural foundations that make the minivan symbolism meaningful.

@rosey_nz @drayeshaverrall @chrishipkins @nzlabour She failed to adhere quietly and obediently to the Great National Patriotic Campaign for universal injection of an experimental vaccine. Respect.

I'm waiting for you to speak out in defence of Dr Samantha Bailey's right to freedom of speech @drayeshaverrall & @chrishipkins. But as we know by your govt's actions, health professionals only have freedom of speech if they tow the @nzlabour party line.