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?

Moneyweb - Wall Street Journal - Toy recall shows challenge China poses to partners: “China makes nearly 80% of the toys that come into the U.S. and is a leading exporter of products from electronics to apparel to auto parts. Recent weeks have brought a spate of quality-control concerns about Chinese exports, from pet food to toothpaste to tires, which besides spooking consumers has heightened existing trade tensions with Washington. The events also are triggering questions about the role Western companies should play in monitoring the complex supply chain that links them to low-cost production facilities in China.
The Chinese government has tried to reassure consumers about the safety of its products. Chinese Minister of Commerce Bo Xilai said this week that more than 99% of Chinese exports are safe and of good quality.
The toy industry, along with other businesses, has moved so much manufacturing to China, in order to cut costs, that it remains exposed to problems despite laws and efforts on the ground to contain them. Public-health experts say Chinese manufacturers repeatedly revert to lead paint regardless of the rules because it is cheap and readily available, and helps factories meet relentless pressure to contain costs. Such violations slip through because of regulatory gaps in both nations”

The Chinese tell us that 99 percent of their exports are safe and of good quality. Why should I believe them? That is not my experience. In my experience the quality is pure crap. The Chinese commerce minister obviously does not even know what their manufacturers are doing. The toy companies stockholders should have thought of the consequences of moving the manufacturing of their toys to China. They wanted slave labor wages so they could make more money. Now they can count the cost of leaving the US when they add the cost of the recalls. By the way, don’t burn the products. I don’t want lead in the air. Don’t dump them either, I don’t want lead in the ground water. Pay the price of getting rid of these as the hazardous materials they are.

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.

Mother Nature Down For The Count, Part 1 - Frosty Wooldridge - Aug 02, 07: “Anson provides sobering metaphors about what most can’t see, but what continues accelerating as humanity adds one billion people every 12 to 15 years.

“Imagine an aircraft carrier traveling at full speed,” Anson said. “Because of its enormous momentum, such a massive vehicle travels ever onward for mile after mile—even if it attempts to stop with all engines full astern. This leaves the populations of nations like China and India still careening upward as their absolute numbers continue to climb. Even if China’s numbers stabilized or declined, the environmental impacts of its massive population seem poised to worsen as its economic engines and consumption produce more green-house gases, wastes and require increasing quantities of raw materials.”

Planet-wide, more than half the world keeps its fertility “pedal to the metal.””

For someone who posts on Christian groups Frosty seems to not get Christianity at all. God is quite able to provide for any population if the people on earth trust in Him. If they do not trust in Him they will have many distresses no matter how small the population. In the Millennium when Jesus rules and the earth is blessed by God I would be willing to bet that population will be more than 10 times what it is now without any negative consequences.

For Christians to teach birth control as the answer to our modern problems to other Christians shows a basic lack of faith in God. Mother nature does not exist. Nature is always under the control of Father God.

Fisher-Price recalls 1M toys - CNN.com: “‘Sadly, this is the most recent in a series of disturbing recalls of children’s toys. While the toys may be different, they have one thing in common — they were manufactured in China,’ he said. ‘With the current tools and resources the Consumer Product Safety Commission has, it cannot adequately protect American consumers.’”

This would not have happened if your toys were still made in the United States. There are costs association with having products made in China.

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Asia’s brown clouds ‘warm planet’: “Clouds of pollution over the Indian Ocean appear to cause as much warming as greenhouse gases released by human activity, a study has suggested.
US researchers used unmanned aircraft to measure the effects of the ‘brown clouds’ on the surrounding area.
Writing in Nature, they said the tiny particles increased the solar heating of the lower atmosphere by about 50%.
The warming could be enough to explain the retreat of glaciers in the Himalayas, the scientists proposed.
The clouds contain a mixture of light absorbing aerosols and light scattering aerosols, which cause the atmosphere to warm and the surface of the Earth to cool.
The main sources of the pollutants came from wood burning and fossil fuels, the team added.Clouds of pollution over the Indian Ocean appear to cause as much warming as greenhouse gases released by human activity, a study has suggested.
US researchers used unmanned aircraft to measure the effects of the ‘brown clouds’ on the surrounding area.
Writing in Nature, they said the tiny particles increased the solar heating of the lower atmosphere by about 50%.
The warming could be enough to explain the retreat of glaciers in the Himalayas, the scientists proposed.

If you go to industral parts of China the air is brown. Do greens still buy Chinese junk?

Author reveals ‘biggest unknown scandal of the Clinton years’ (OneNewsNow.com): “The book by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. is called 33 Questions about American History You’re Not Supposed to Ask. The publisher, Crown Forum, describes the book as ‘a provocative look at the hidden truths about our nation’s history — the ones that have been buried because they’re too politically incorrect to discuss.’
Among the topics discussed in the book: The Indians did not save the Pilgrims from starvation by teaching them to grow corn. The ‘Wild’ West was more peaceful and a lot safer than most modern cities. And the biggest scandal during the Clinton years did not involve a blue dress. Regarding the latter, Wood says despite the constant coverage of the Monica Lewinsky affair during the 1990s, the biggest unknown scandal of the Clinton presidency had to do with his foreign policy.”

I thought the Clinton administration foreign policy was to sell out the US to China and to make America look militarily and morally weak. They succeed.

OpinionJournal - Outside the Box: “To do that we must build many more nuclear power plants and increase our drilling for oil and gas. The NPC report says it takes 15 to 20 years from exploration until production begins, and it costs $3 billion to build an average 120,000-barrel-a-day oil refinery. That is just the opposite of the current congressional policy of reducing oil use, blocking access to existing domestic oil reserves, not increasing nuclear power generation, and touting ethanol as another subsidy for farmers. “

What you say in this article is correct and it is one more reason that proves that America is doomed. While America slept the socialist globalists have shipped all our manufacturing capabilities overseas and liberal environmentalist’s have hindered any meaningful energy development in the United States for the next two decades. Meanwhile our government has put us so far into debt that it can never be payed off.

They have almost accomplished their main objective and with new carbon laws they will go for the kill. The objective is for America to become a second world insignificant power. America will never again be the biggest CO2 emitter. That privilege has been given to China for whom we have now become dependent on for everything. While Conservatives slept the commies won.

We probably won’t need all these new energy resources now anyway. In the future decades of depression in America we will not be able to afford them. The demise of America is now certain. It is now too late for a cure to the cancer that has been eating away at America for four decades.

Carbon cap and trade, carbon tax, china, asia, gore, pelosi, kerry, kyoto, opec - HUMAN EVENTS: “Global warming alarmists are now pushing a scheme that will transfer money to the rich from the poor, dramatically increase energy prices, increase taxes, cause actual harm to the environment, eliminate Americans jobs and assist America’s strategic adversaries to build more energy production facilities. Large investment banks are adopting it. Brokers are seeking to cash in of what some suggest will be a $72 billion market by 2010. “

“The irony is that if the Kyoto treaty was fully implemented, the decline in world temperatures would be less than 2/10ths of one degree over nearly 50 years at a cost, according to one British study, of some $50 trillion in expenditures in the industrialized countries. Setting up C02 capture facilities in just the United States would require an infrastructure some 2-3 times that of the current refinery, distribution and transportation of petroleum products, whether we are speaking of new coal or natural gas fired power plants.”

There is simply no nice way to put this, there is too much at stake to sugar coat this problem. Those pushing the global warming hype and carbon cap and trade agenda have become a grave danger to the world. They will needlessly help bring about poverty and a world depression that could cause the death of millions. They need to be removed from public office at all levels and removed from all corporate boards.