China Defends Quality of Exports: “BEIJING (AP) – Faulty American designs and conflicting global standards for safety are at the root of the mass recalls of Chinese-made toys by Mattel Inc., a top quality official said Monday”

Then do us all a favor and stop sending your products over here.

NewsMax – America’s News Page: “The Asian economic tiger is aggressively making inroads in South America, Central America, and the Caribbean as it seeks the resources to feed its super-heated economy. Some critics wonder if China’s involvement will supplant the United States’ near-hegemonic role in terms of trade and finance. “

While we are so busy buying Chinese crap and spending over $200 billion more then we are buying from China every year the Chinese are taking our money and doing with it what we should have been doing in Latin America. Therefore, we paid China to undermine our own hemisphere. You can thank all the politicians and Corporate globalists who moved our jobs and technology to China so they could fill their own pockets at our expense. You can also thank yourself every time you buy that Chinese peace of crap that will break down in a year or poison your kids and pets. If you want this trend to continue just keep buying Chinese.

The Scotsman – Exposed: ‘brutality’ of Chinese toy factories: “WORKERS in eight Chinese factories making toys for multinational companies are subject to ‘brutal conditions’, according to human rights activists. China Labour Watch said in a report issued yesterday that the manufacturers – which served a handful of global players, including Disney, Bandai and Hasbro – paid ‘little heed to the most basic standards of the country’. The report, which followed several months of investigation, continued: ‘Wages are low, benefits are non-existent, work environments are dangerous and living conditions are humiliating.’ WORKERS in eight Chinese factories making toys for multinational companies are subject to ‘brutal conditions’, according to human rights activists. China Labour Watch said in a report issued yesterday that the manufacturers – which served a handful of global players, including Disney, Bandai and Hasbro – paid ‘little heed to the most basic standards of the country’. The report, which followed several months of investigation, continued: ‘Wages are low, benefits are non-existent, work environments are dangerous and living conditions are humiliating.’ “

FT.com / In depth – Poison clothes add to China export scares: “The safety problems affecting Chinese goods spread from toys to textiles on Monday as New Zealand said it would investigate allegations that imported children’s clothes contained dangerous levels of formaldehyde. The government ordered the probe after scientists hired by a consumer watchdog programme discovered formaldehyde in Chinese clothes at levels of up to 900 times regarded as safe. “

Olympic spectators ‘face smog risk to health’ – Telegraph: “High levels of air pollution in Beijing could damage the health of many spectators at next year’s Olympic Games, a leading World Health Organisation expert has said. Dr Michal Krzyzanowski said that air quality was so bad in the Chinese capital that those with a history of heart problems and those suffering from asthma should be aware that they could be harmed.”

Just think about those that have to live there year around and its not just polluted in Beijing. People that are buying products made in China are causing this pollution problem. If you claim to be green or believe there is man caused global warming and that we need to do something about it and you are still buying Chinese products you are a hypocrite.

American Thinker: NASA Flacks for Global Warming and Skirts Scientific Ethics: “Michael Fumento pointed out that NASA has issued no less than five separate PR releases on the Global Warming hypothesis just this year, ‘each one alarming.’ But the major correction to internationally-broadcast claims about Global Warming have not received even a NASA press release, much less an official correction in a peer-reviewed journal like Science magazine. This is unacceptable.

As Fumento wrote: In pooh-poohing the revision, the GISS ignores the tremendous emotional impact it’s had in practically claiming each year is hotter than the one before.

Honest scientists don’t dismiss the significance of data errors; PR hacks do such things. James Hansen of NASA is minimizing the importance of the changes by claiming that since the US is only a small potion of the total world, the overall global figures have not changed much. However, the US surface temperature record is considered to be the most complete, and longest, over the largest surface area, and also the most technically responsible available record. (It’s very easy to screw up a temperature record, especially in many different locations, due to local heat and cooling sources.) It is not inferential (like ice cores), and it does not come from a scientifically backward country. No other continent-wide temperature surface record comes up to that standard, over such a long period of time. So even though the US only covers 2 percent of earth surface, it’s a crucial 2 percent in terms of the quality of the record. “

You bring out some good points. There is no way that NASA or anyone else has significant data on the whole world since the 1900’s to prove less then 1 degree of global warming actually took place. Even the data they have in the US we now know was fudged to make it look like the world is getting warmer. Yet, they want to call this scientific proof of global warming? On the bases of this junk science the world should spend trillions of dollars trying to fix a problem that does not exist? These people are dangerous!

The main evidence for global warming is the ice melt in the Arctic but even that is not due to greenhouse gases. It most likely is due to black soot from China and India’s power plants and industry. The soot sits on the Arctic ice absorbing energy from the sun. We do that to melt ice on our roads.

No folks, Antarctica is not melting, most of its ice pack is getting thicker and the surface temperatures have been falling.

So if anyone is really worried about ice flows and polar bears they just might stop buying Chinese products. We are more likely to see future global cooling then warming. When that happens who will trust science anymore about anything? You knee-jerk scientists need to wake up. Your future may be at stake.

China: Who Shall Watch the Watchers? – HUMAN EVENTS: “In “The Republic” Plato’s lead character, Socrates, describes a perfect society as being one where there is reliance on laborers, tradesmen and slaves. There is then a guardian class to protect the city and the question is put to Socrates, who will guard the guardians? Who shall watch the watchers? Plato’s answer was simply that the guards would guard themselves against themselves because they were inherently noble figures.”

That is where the world is heading and it is starting big time in China because the government already has all power in China. There is a time of war coming to the free world where governments will be given power over the people for security. In the coming surveillance society that will result we can ask who will watch the watchers? The answer will not be inherently noble figures, at least not for very long. Tyrants and control freaks will rise to watch the watchers who are watching us.

Florida parent sues Mattel over toy after recall Health Reuters: “NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Florida parent sued Mattel Inc and its Fisher-Price Inc unit over a toy after the company recalled some 1.5 million units this month due to concerns about their lead paint content, according to a court filing. The plaintiff, Farrah Shoukry, is seeking a refund for toys and money for diagnostic tests for lead poisoning”

These lawsuits will be nothing compared to the ones they will face if kids are found to have lead poisoning. Today’s news says there will be additional recalls. This might be the beginning of the end for Mattel. All because they chose to make more money by having their toys made in China

1,340 rescued from forced labor: “Police found that 67,000, or 24.2 percent of the kilns, mines and workshops inspected nationwide were operating without licenses.”

That the story in China. One fourth of the businesses are illegal. As fast as they find illegal businesses — making who knows what — with labors who get paid a pittance or are even are slaves, new ones pop up.

We are abetting this activity by buying cheap Chinese goods.

FOXNews.com – Junk Science: New Science Challenges Climate Alarmists? – Opinion

In the second Science study, Desert Research Institute scientists report that increased levels of industrial pollution (soot) in Arctic snow during the late-19th and early-20th centuries may have caused the warming occurring in that region at that time. The researchers say the soot reduced the reflectivity of snow and ice, allowing the surface to absorb more energy from the sun.
If true, that line of reasoning may be relevant to the ongoing Arctic warming trend.
Though alarmists attribute that warming trend to increased atmospheric CO2, this argument seems easily batted aside by the observation that there is little correlation between atmospheric CO2 and temperature in the Arctic region.
Could ongoing Arctic deposition of soot be a possibility?

Soot is likely to be the cause of any ice melt in the Arctic not CO2 and soot mainly comes from China which has the worse pollution control laws in the world. So buying Chinese and then saying you buy green products is an oxymoron.

The Arsenal of the Iraq Insurgency: It’s made in China.: “One might wonder why Beijing, as a matter of policy, would sell weapons to Iran for the clear purpose of killing American soldiers. ‘There is a great shortfall in our understanding of China’s intentions,’ said Lawless of China’s overall military policies, and ‘when you don’t know why they are doing it, it is pretty damn threatening. . . . They leave us no choice but to assume the worst.’

Why China is ‘doing it’ need not be a mystery. In 2004, Beijing’s top America analyst, Wang Jisi, noted, ‘The facts have proven that it is beneficial for our international environment to have the United States militarily and diplomatically deeply sunk in the Mideast to the extent that it can hardly extricate itself.’ It is sobering to consider that China’s small-arms proliferation behavior since then suggests that this principle is indeed guiding Chinese foreign policy.”

Yet, we keep sucking up to the Chinese.

China threatens ‘nuclear option’ of dollar sales – Telegraph
Two officials at leading Communist Party bodies have given interviews in recent days warning – for the first time – that Beijing may use its $1.33 trillion (£658bn) of foreign reserves as a political weapon to counter pressure from the US Congress.
Shifts in Chinese policy are often announced through key think tanks and academies.
Described as China’s “nuclear option” in the state media, such action could trigger a dollar crash at a time when the US currency is already breaking down through historic support levels.
It would also cause a spike in US bond yields, hammering the US housing market and perhaps tipping the economy into recession. It is estimated that China holds over $900bn in a mix of US bonds.

So now China is blackmailing us with the surplus dollars they hold. I keep telling people to quit buying Chinese junk. If they are stupid enough to do this it could cause a world depression which of course will crash their own economy as well.

China tells living Buddhas to obtain permission before they reincarnate – Times Online: “Tibet’s living Buddhas have been banned from reincarnation without permission from China’s atheist leaders. The ban is included in new rules intended to assert Beijing’s authority over Tibet’s restive and deeply Buddhist people. “

The gods need permission from those who do not believe in gods.

Mattel: Recall Has $30 Million Impact: “Mattel apologized Thursday to customers affected by a recall nearly a million toys from its Fisher-Price division and said the move will cut pretax operating income at the world’s largest toymaker by $30 million.
The plastic preschool toys were made in China with paint found to have excessive amounts of lead.
‘We apologize to everyone affected by this recall, especially those who bought the toys in question,’ Robert A. Eckert, Mattel Inc.’s chairman and CEO, said in a statement.”

If you think this is only going to cost Mattel $30 million just wait until they get the class action lawsuits from the parents of the children who are found to have raised lead levels from the Chinese toys. The question might be, will they even survive?

US economy ‘in danger zone with oil price’ – New Zealand’s source for business, stock market & currency news on Stuff.co.nz: “Qatar’s Oil Minister Abdullah al-Attiyah said today that Opec – which pumps about a third of the globe’s oil – can do nothing about the high price of oil and that there is no shortage of crude in the market. “

Enough is enough. It is time to tell OPEC that we do not want your stinking oil at $80 a barrel. This is not an issue of free markets and supply and demand. The world is clearly being held hostage by a cartel of racketeers that get the stuff out of the ground for a few dollars a barrel and who purposely limit their production to rape us all. It is time for the world to get rid of cartels and for it to become a free market.

It is time to tell OPEC we have an American game they we are pretty good at. It is called Poker and you are about to learn that game.

The West and some nations of the far East need to get together and flatly tell OPEC that we will not be held hostage to artificially high oil prices anymore and that we will not pay more than a reasonable market price. Say, we set that price at $50 a barrel. We tell them effective immediately no one in the West and other nations like Japan, India, S. Korea etc. will pay above that price.

What could they do about it? Do you think all those nations would cut their own throats and stop pumping oil? If they kept pumping oil and not selling it within weeks they would have nowhere to store it and they would have to stop pumping. If they did not sell most of their oil some of those nations would have a revolution in their countries within months. We would also stop selling all exported goods and services to these nations and freeze their assets worldwide. We would stop all military and economic aid to them as well. If oil shortages damaged the economy of the West they know they would be a bigger loser.

If they would not meet our demands we could meet part of our oil needs by confiscating any tankers who came out of any OPEC countries that would not participate. We could continue to buy oil from non OPEC nations, nations who would find it in their best interest to participate and we could also use our national reserves. We could find other ways to make up the shortfall including mandatory rationing.

The big wild cards would be the reaction of China and Russia. We probably could convince China that lower oil prices were in their interests as well and see to it they got their share of the oil. Russia has been part of the problem with their recent blackmailing of Europe over energy. It is time to send a loud and clear message to Russia who is now getting delusions that she can become the leader of the world through the path of Fascism.

If we were serious about it. I think the OPEC cartel would be history within a few months and supply and demand would truly set the price of oil in the future. If it turns out that they don’t fold and somehow hold the winning hand in this high stakes poker game with their kings and jackass showing against our three aces we can always teach them another American game called Hardball.