What should we expect from a depraved Communist pit like China? Deliberately poisoning pet food has exposed the nihilistic corruption of that tyranny, just as it has plagued every communist/socialist regime in history. And while we have been living with the aftermath of Chin’s massive poisoning of our pet food supply, it has now been revealed that China is responsible for a similar massive poisoning of exported medicine.
Finding source of tainted medicine
Diethylene glycol trail leads to China
NEW YORK — A syrupy poison, diethylene glycol, is an indispensable part of the modern world, an industrial solvent and prime ingredient in antifreeze.
It is also a killer. The kidneys fail first. Then the central nervous system begins to misfire. Paralysis spreads, making breathing difficult, then often impossible without assistance. In the end, most victims die.
Many of them are children, poisoned at the hands of their unsuspecting parents. Over the years, the poison has been loaded into all varieties of medicine — cough syrup, fever medication, injectable drugs — a result of counterfeiters who profit by substituting the sweet-tasting solvent for a safe, more expensive syrup, usually glycerin, commonly used in drugs, food, toothpaste, and other products.
Toxic syrup has figured in at least eight mass poisonings around the world in the past two decades. Researchers estimate that thousands have died. In many cases, the precise origin of the poison has never been determined. But records and interviews show that in three of the last four cases it was made in China, a major source of counterfeit drugs…
Last week, the US Food and Drug Administration warned drug makers and suppliers in the United States “to be especially vigilant” in watching for diethylene glycol. The warning did not specifically mention China.
Especially vigilant. In other words, we haven’t bothered to check that product from China as it entered the country, anymore than we checked anything else coming in from that cesspool. The news coverage and general commentary to date moves along the presumption that these chemical attacks have been launched out of greed. At what point, however, is our government in going to contemplate that these actions, which have caused mass deaths in people and animals, have originated in a country which routinely mass murders its own citizens?
And speaking of euphemisms, as I did in the post prior to this one, they’re not all used only in regard to Islamist fascists. I’m struck by the continued use by the press of the term “tainted” to describe deliberate chemical poisonings. It never ends.
It’s time to completely boycott China.
One of the big negatives with both Bush Presidents is their lack of trying to be fair with China. They both let Communist China (not free China) sell virtually without restriction to America while Communist China places so many restrictions on America that the only pratical way to sell there is to build plants there (with the Red Army being a part owner of the business).
The new “get tough with CommunistChina” policy is as disengenuous as Randall Tobias’s anti-prostitution policy is/was.
The Bush family really thinks we are all dolts!
It’s not just China. Friends who lived in Mexico for several years setting up a Ford assembly plant tell horror stories about food production methods there, and plenty of our food now comes from Mexico. Also, take a look at the labels on cans and jars of food you buy. Artichokes from Greece; dates and dried apricots from many Mid-eastern countries. What if the islamofacists infiltrate food production facilities around the world that sell to us? They can’t defeat us militarily, but they can wreak havoc in other ways a lot easier. A few years back, I toured a major West Coast port. Over half the goods sent west of the Mississippi come through that port, and we were told there is absolutely no way every load can be checked. One hidden dirty bomb would shut down that port for an awfully long time. Imagine living west of the Mississippi and losing half of your imported goods. The China problem is big, but just the tippy top of a huge iceberg.
I read over the weekend in the paper that the idiot used car salesman that masquerades as the commissioner of baseball, Bud Selig, wants two teams to play a season-opening series in China next year. Can you believe it? America’s pasttime being showcased in a communist pit like China.
Seeing as the guy refuses to do tell the player’s union to go to Hell and institute a REAL enhancement policy – and turns a blind eye to the circus side show freak that is Barry Bonds – why am I not surprised he’d do something shill-a-riffic like this in the name of dollars and cents?