Re: China Boycott update, Friday 9 May 2008

On May 11, 12:17=A0pm, "OM ****VA!108" <grimus...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On 10 May, 20:16, "RussellT" <RussellDTur...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "YaluRiverRosie" <kink...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > My dear brother bought a made-in-China ceramic vase at a Target here
> > > in Madison, Wisconsin. Cost, $19.95. =A0But by the time he'd gotten
> > > home, the lead that was in the paint on the vase had somehow
> > > penetrated his skin and he died of a brain hemorrage within three
> > > hours. =A0Then, his wife took the vase back to the Target, but she,
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> > > had a stroke that a later autopsy determined was caused by massive
> > > lead poisoining. =A0Later, four store stock clerks also died of lead
> > > poisoning after placing dozens of the vases on the shelves for sale.
> > > Is there no end to this?
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> > The story, above, is perhaps more satire than actual. However, it is
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> > that China has not at this time, developed a high level of product
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> > both in the people and in the institutions. It will some time before
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> > reach the more acceptable levels that exist in developed nations. It
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> > been re****ted, for example, that 76% of Japanese distrust food from
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> > More and more that has become the perception worldwide. I, myself,
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> > food sources, and try to avoid items that originate or were partly
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> > in China. I do that for my own safety. I do not record that on a
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> > list. it does not matter what China says, I decided myself.
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> There are a nasty bunch of CCP s*** operating here as in China and
> occupied Tibet. These are the criminals that equate the Burma crisis
> with the hot summer in France last year. They had to invade and trash
> Tibet in order to control her. They have no right to occupy Tibet
> other than that of might is right.

Whatever right China has to occupy Tibet may be, it can not be
compared with America's occupation of Iraq.