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Biotech Companies and Tissue Brokers
To draw out the bigger picture, I did some research on the tissue brokering industry. Here's what I found out:
Planned Parenthood operates its own fetal tissue harvesting network. How it works is they have tissue technicians placed in every abortion clinic that’s affiliated with them, and these techs are sent email orders from PP and fill whatever ones they can based on what they can collect from their daily scheduled abortions, and then they ship the tissues directly to the buyer through UPS. The buyers pay a 'service fee' in order to avoid legal issues for selling human body parts. [7]
The illegal organ trafficking trade involves a host of offenders. There is a recruiter who seeks out the ‘donor,’ there is a transporter of the organs, there are staff of the hospital or clinic that receives the organs, and of course the medical practitioners who perform the transplants. There are also middlemen, contractors, buyers and the banks that store the organs/tissues. [13]
Kidneys, which are by far the greatest in demand (for organs), are often bought from living donors for as little as a few hundred dollars, and can be sold for as much as $200,000. [13]
The average buyer spends $150,000 (though prices in excess of $200,000 are common) while the average donor gets $5,000. The big profits go the middle men and “organ brokers”. [14]
A living donor can give a whole kidney, a portion of their liver, lung, intestine or pancreas. Otherwise, the donor must be declared brain dead while circulation and oxygenation remain intact. [14]
There are "broker-friendly" hospitals, complete with surgeons who either don't know or don't care where the organs come from. [14]
Typically a broker will team up with a funeral home director, forging consent forms and a death certificate to harvest human tissue before the body is cremated or buried. [14]
The training required to be qualified to remove organs and tissues from fresh corpses is minimal. [15]
The process for setting up a tissue brokering business consists of filling out a form that can be downloaded from the FDA’s website. There is no wait for approval or inspections and you can start doing business right away. [20]
Bones, skin, tendons, and heart valves can be cut out and used to create medical devices that can be sold for profit around the world. [16]
Donated tissue routinely goes to for-profit companies, feeding a billion-dollar industry that uses those tissues for everything from repairing a knee to plumping up a penis. [16]
Overseas and in the US, some companies that profit from human tissue spend considerable resources cultivating sources of fresh bodies. Often, employees of tissue banks are pushed to compete hard with other tissue banks for access to bodies — courting hospitals, funeral homes and morgues. [16]
The demand for tissue grows more intense every year. One tissue buyer summed up the all-out competition for corpses this way: “Whoever has the most bone wins.” [16]
In the US alone, which is the biggest market and the biggest supplier, an estimated two million products derived from human tissue are sold each year, a figure that has doubled over the past decade. [17]
Inadequate safeguards are in place for ensuring that all tissue used by the industry is obtained legally and ethically. In contrast to tightly monitored systems for tracking intact organs such as hearts and lungs, authorities in the US and many other countries have no way to accurately trace where recycled skin and other tissues come from and where they go. [17]
One of the weaknesses of the tissue-monitoring system is the secrecy and complexity that comes with the cross-border exchange of body parts. The international nature of the industry makes it easy to move products from place to place without much scrutiny. [17]
It's illegal in the US, as in most other countries, to buy or sell human tissue. However, it's permissible to pay service fees that ostensibly cover the costs of finding, storing and processing human tissues. [17]
Ground-level body wranglers in the US can get as much as $US10,000 for each corpse they secure through their contacts at hospitals, mortuaries and morgues. Funeral homes can act as middlemen to identify potential donors. Public hospitals can get paid for the use of tissue-recovery rooms. [17]
Phillip Guyett, who ran a tissue recovery business in several US states before he was convicted of falsifying death records, said executives with companies that bought tissues from him treated him to $US400 meals and swanky hotel stays. They promised: “We can make you a rich man.” It got to the point, he said, that he began looking at the dead “with dollar signs attached to their parts". [17]
The for-profit companies set up non-profit offshoots to collect the tissue — in much the same way the Red Cross collects blood that's later turned into products by commercial entities. Nobody charges for the tissue itself, which under normal circumstances is freely donated by the dead (via donor registries) or by their families. Rather, tissue banks and other organizations involved in the process receive ill-defined “reasonable payments” to compensate them for obtaining and handling the tissue. [17]
No centralized regional or global system is in place to assure that products can be followed from donor to patient. [17]
About 35 per cent of active registered US tissue banks have no inspection record in the FDA database. The typical tissue bank operates for nearly two years before its first FDA inspection. [17]
Younger tissue is stronger and can be more lucrative for tissue processors because it can be used for higher-value grafts. [20]
So now that we have a general understanding of how the human organ and tissue 'donor' industry operates, we can see how easy it would be to exploit it if we knew a few of the right people and had a source of donors or fresh bodies. At $10,000 a body and as much as $200,000 for a fresh kidney, it could become tempting.
A person in Andre Balazs’ position wouldn't even need to go near any bodies or donors. He would just need to put the seller in touch with the buyer and collect his cut later on.
A person in Katie’s position wouldn't need to know that she's raising funds or warehousing people in shelters as part of a human trafficking operation. She would just think she was setting up shelters and helping people that had little hope otherwise. Even if she visited the shelters, she wouldn't be clued in. Her non-profit might serve to hide the money flowing between the parties involved in such an operation.
A person like Laura Silsby, who was in a state of financial desperation, probably thought she could get herself out of debt by taking part in a 'rescue' operation and wouldn’t ask too many questions. She didn't have to know who was actually backing her if she was funded by a foundation, and she didn't have to know what the children were being used for if she just held them for 'adoptions' that someone else took care of.
Everyone can be compartmentalized.
Let's review the puzzle pieces:
- Modeling agencies that scout and recruit young people from around the world
- Non-profit foundations that collect 'donations' and give 'grants' for 'causes'
- Celebrities who promote 'causes' to draw in 'donations' and make it all appear sincere and legitimate
- 'Donations' that could be used to fund human trafficking operations
- 'Causes' that serve as possible fronts for human trafficking operations
- 'Rescue' operations that require funding
- Shelters and orphanages that warehouse possible donors/slaves for later sale
- Organ and tissue brokers that must constantly look for 'donors'
- Abortion clinics that harvest fetal tissue
- Hospitals, morgues, mortuaries, and funeral homes that supply brokers
- Biotech companies that constantly need human tissue, will pay big $$$
- Rich people who need fresh organs, want expensive biomedical cures/treatments, will pay big $$$
- Rich degenerates who want sex slaves, will pay big $$$
Did I miss anything?
Here's a clue to another piece of the puzzle:
Who, besides the medical industry, depends on human tissue to manufacture many of their products? What type of human tissue is used to make these products? How much is this tissue worth on the black market? Who uses these products more than anyone else? Who is used to promote these products more than anyone else? What is the annual revenue from this industry?
Here's one more hint: Deciem.
I'll leave you with that to ponder.
You stripped out all my references:
[1] AreStandard Hotel, Obama, Schiff and Soros Connected? [2] American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery: Endre A. Balazs, MD [3] UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY - JOHN SNYDER vsBIOMATRIX, INC., ENDRE A. BALAZS AND RORY B. RIGGS [4] Andre Balazs - Revolvy [5] Justice Dept. Investigating Fetal Tissue Transfers by Planned Parenthood andOthers [6] Genzyme - wikipedia [7] ThePlanned Parenthood Investigation: One Year Later [8] Katie Ford - wikipedia [9] Free the Slaves work Featured in Vogue profile o Katie Ford - FTS Blog [10] Katie Ford Foundation Produces PSA for the Philippines - FTS Blog [11] More Press on Free the Slaves NYC Benefit - FTS Blog [12] Katie Ford: From Fashion Icon To Hero Of Countless [13] Organ Harvesting, Human Trafficking, and the Black Market [14] Body Snatchers: Organ Harvesting For Profit - Psychology Today [15] Inside the Morbid World of Organ Harvesters [16] Abusing The ‘Gift’ Of Tissue Donation [17] Human corpses harvested in multimillion-dollar trade [18] Q post 1121272 [19] André Balazs checks out of Standard hotels – Financial Times [20] Body Brokers Leave Trail Of Questions, Corruption
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You stripped out all my references:
[1] AreStandard Hotel, Obama, Schiff and Soros Connected? [2] American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery: Endre A. Balazs, MD [3] UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY - JOHN SNYDER vsBIOMATRIX, INC., ENDRE A. BALAZS AND RORY B. RIGGS [4] Andre Balazs - Revolvy [5] Justice Dept. Investigating Fetal Tissue Transfers by Planned Parenthood andOthers [6] Genzyme - wikipedia [7] ThePlanned Parenthood Investigation: One Year Later [8] Katie Ford - wikipedia [9] Free the Slaves work Featured in Vogue profile o Katie Ford - FTS Blog [10] Katie Ford Foundation Produces PSA for the Philippines - FTS Blog [11] More Press on Free the Slaves NYC Benefit - FTS Blog [12] Katie Ford: From Fashion Icon To Hero Of Countless [13] Organ Harvesting, Human Trafficking, and the Black Market [14] Body Snatchers: Organ Harvesting For Profit - Psychology Today [15] Inside the Morbid World of Organ Harvesters [16] Abusing The ‘Gift’ Of Tissue Donation [17] Human corpses harvested in multimillion-dollar trade [18] Q post 1121272 [19] André Balazs checks out of Standard hotels – Financial Times [20] Body Brokers Leave Trail Of Questions, Corruption
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Yeah sorry about that. I'm only a nigger.
No probs. Just wanted people to know they're there.
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