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Has anybody noticed that the reports of toxic toys and poisoned food products from China disappeared from the front pages of our inept media outlets just as quickly as they appeared? What once used to be a weekly if not daily event just went away.

Now that 4 babies have died and over 6000 Chinese babies have been poisoned by chemically laced milk I was wondering why all that news went by the wayside.

I’ll give you two reasons why I imagine that this may have happened. The most obvious one is the Olympics. A close second would be US elections.

As the internatassional (not a typo) community embraced China’s so called glorious emergence on the world stage in a Disney like one world sporting event everyone seemed to forget communist China’s terrible record on just about everything imaginable.

Here’s a quick short list of recent “mishaps”:

Clinton fundraising scandal, AGAIN i.e. interfering in the election of a foreign country (Hey, what’s the update on that one anyway? Anyone? Anyone?)
Human rights abuses
Pollution that spreads well beyond the uncontrollable algae blooms and into the world’s air supply
Exported toys immersed in lead
Poisonous toothpaste sweetened with anti-freeze
Steamed buns made of flavored cardboard that was softened with industrial solvents
Clothes so contaminated with formaldehyde that men, women and children are sickened
Shrimp grown in the sewage falling from the butts of sick chickens that were eventually carved up and sent abroad
Political oppression
Fake teeth exported to American kids for Halloween that had to be recalled because they contained lead
Date rape drug in kids aqua beads
Internet censorship that could only have been accomplished by wiretapping and eavesdropping (matters when Bush does it and doesn’t abuse it in the search for terrorists, doesn’t matter when China does it as a matter of fact, everyday life)
Meddling with their currency to manipulate our markets
Working with Barack Obama’s half brother Mark Ndesandjo to promote cheap Chinese products in the United States and undercut US jobs (you forgot about that one huh?)
Squelching organized religion (a good thing to the American left)
Zoo’s where kids feed chickens and sheep to the lions instead of feed to the pigs
The massacre of Burmese monks
Recycled used chopsticks that weren’t even disinfected before being sent back on the market
Recall of vinyl baby bibs

Whew, thank God we have politicians and the FDA protecting us.

But suddenly with an election looming and Christmas coming China is all good. Heck we can even pump millions of dollars into their economy while playing a bunch of games.

Except for that little thing about Chinese baby food companies putting a banned chemical in their powdered milk to make it appear higher in protein. Now a bunch of babies are dead, over 6000 sickened and the Chinese government is once again promising to clean up their act. Of course that promise came before everyone learned that the same scam is happening with liquid milk.

The scandal of tainted dairy products in China has widened, with liquid milk now found to be contaminated.

Inspectors found that 10% of liquid milk taken from three dairies was tainted with melamine.

The scandal first came to light in milk powder that killed four infants and sickened more than 6,000 others.

Suppliers are believed to have added melamine, a banned chemical normally used in plastics, to diluted milk to make it appear higher in protein.

Public trust

China’s quality watchdog, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, tested liquid milk from three dairies.

Its website said 10% of the milk from the country’s two largest - Mengniu Dairy Group and Yili Industrial Group - contained up to 8.4 milligrams of melamine per kg.

Products from Shanghai-based Bright Dairy were also contaminated, it said.

The watchdog said it would “strictly find out the reason for adding the melamine and severely punish those who are responsible”.

Over here in my neck of the country we had a mini-victory. The wife noticed that our Market Day orders were full of food imported from China. We complained, neighbors returned food and many of us haven’t been back. Yes market day is used to help schools but it is no help if our kids are poisoned by the very food we buy from “the helpers”. Perhaps they should add “check to see if your veggies are from China” to the Market Day food safety guide.

Sadly that is just a small victory in a war that we have been losing for quite some time. Will it take a similar tragedy here before heads start to roll and the sad sacks in our government that support China are elected out of office? Let’s hope not.

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