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2007-05-19 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by Grunter 2007-05-19 12:20|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 At least your corpse with have a minty fresh breath!

Diethylene glycol, a poisonous ingredient in some antifreeze, has been found in 6,000 tubes of toothpaste in Panama, and customs officials there said yesterday that the product appeared to have originated in China.

Color me surprised! Who'd a thunk it?!?

Our preliminary information is that it came from China, but we dont know that with certainty yet, said Daniel Delgado Diamante, Panamas director of customs. We are still checking all the possible imports to see if there could be other shipments.

Let's check the roster of other countries with a solid track record of routinely exporting poisoned goods. Well whaddaya know, there's only one country on the list!

Diethylene glycol is the same poison that the Panamanian government inadvertently mixed into cold medicine last year, killing at least 100 people.

Those are people, not pets, mind you.

Records show that in that episode the poison, falsely labeled as glycerin, a harmless syrup, also originated in China.

You say gluten, I say glycerine, let's call the whole thing off!

Mr. Martínez said at a recent news conference that the toothpaste lacked the required health certificates and had entered the market mixed in with products intended for animal consumption.

Anyone sensing a pattern here?

Two weeks ago, The New York Times reported that a Chinese factory not certified to make pharmaceutical ingredients had sold 46 barrels of syrup containing diethylene glycol that had been falsely labeled as 99.5 percent pure glycerin.

"Oops, my marking pen accidentally slipped and somehow managed to write '99.5% pure', instead of POISON!. I can't explain how that happened."

That syrup passed through several trading companies before ending up in Panama, where it was mixed into 260,000 bottles of cold medicine.
At least 100 people died as a direct result, according to Dimas Guevara, a Panamanian prosecutor who is leading the investigation into the deaths.

I wonder if this will affect negotiations for communist China to take over management of the canal? Naaaaah, we're talking Latin America. What's a hundred peasants here or there?

Get ready for the corker!

Over the years, counterfeiters have found it financially advantageous to substitute diethylene glycol, a sweet-tasting syrup, for its chemical cousin glycerin, which is usually much more expensive.

Financially "advantageous", like they're merely cooking the books instead of knowingly POISONING PEOPLE. What is this horseshit? This is a hyper-corrupt government-insdustrial combine that routinely adulterates all sorts of food products with whatever garners them another percentage point in profit no matter how many people die.

When is the global community going to take China to task for its complicity in this ongoing serial murder outside its borders? Major boycotts and crippling inspection requirements need to be instituted in order to halt this fatal greed.

In light of yesterday's revelation that Bush's two top China policy advisors have huge conflicts of interest regarding profit-taking in connection with China, anyone want to bet on how severely our administration is going to react to yet another lethal round of Chinese exports? From the linked article:

The Bush administrations pro-China policies are the result of the growing power of two key players: Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolton. Both are staunchly pro-Beijing and have sought to prevent Chinas repressive human rights practices and unfair trade policies from influencing U.S. policy, said administration officials opposed to their pro-China policies. They also have sought to make sure that U.S. national security officials are not permitted to influence China policy with growing concerns about Chinas military buildup and intelligence activities.

Both Paulson and Bolton are former Goldman Sachs executives. The financial company, which has made hundreds of millions of dollars in business in China, is believed to be involved in a national conflict of interest in that it is headquartered in the United States.
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In light of the new immigration bill, I'd venture that it's not just the democrats that are selling us out to our enemies. This is an epidemic of elitism and contempt for the electorate not seen in many decades. Both sides of the aisle are selling us straight down the river.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-19 19:33|| 2007-05-19 19:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Zen - excellent point - until they can assure the produts from China are safe - we should boycott. I, for one, have boycotted Chinese trucks for the last 5 years

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-05-19 20:51|| 2007-05-19 20:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Thank you, Frank. If China's privatization process had not been a fire-sale to PLA cronies of what few lucrative corporate assets there were, then I might view this as more of a law and code enfocement issue. Instead, the politburo merely handed the reins over to its pet oligarchs in exchange for little or no interruption of the traditional graft, bribery and extortion associated with doing business in communist China.

Despite any lip service paid by the Mandarins for entry into the WTO, this still renders China directly responsible for the ongoing mayhem and murder that result from their poorly regulated industries. Life may be cheap in China, and you can be sure it is, but that is absolutely no reason for us to permit exportation of such a benighted view to our own more civilized societies.

In many ways this mirrors the current immigration debacle. Our own government finds it easier to do business with newly arrived participants from far more corrupt cultures than honestly answering up to the demands of its proper and far more deserving electorate. Such insulting preferential treatment for non-citizens is simply outrageous and nulls the moral authority of all who participate in this abortion of elected representation. Be it China or Mexico, both are regimes that continue to export their worst elements, be they tainted goods or criminals, in order that we must deal with them at our loss and their profit. ENOUGH ALREADY!

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-19 21:37|| 2007-05-19 21:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Guys___

read the label on any home-grown tube. There's a poison warning.

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