Company must recall faulty Chinese tires
Federal highway safety officials say the New Jersey company being ordered to recall as many as 450,000 faulty tires imported from China faces millions of dollars in fines if it fails to remedy the situation.
Most of this deals with business details of a possible recall, but the key point to the Chief is that the ChiComs are sticking us with more crappy product.
AGAIN: Get a clue and read the labels!
Thune refinery amendment falls short in Senate today
The U.S. Senate today voted down an amendment co-sponsored by South Dakota Sen. John Thune that would have given oil companies and economically-strapped communities an incentive to build more oil refineries.
Well, the Donks are up to their usual obstructionist crap again – no new refineries in 30+ years, and they keep squawking about high fuel prices. DUH!
Opponents portrayed the amendment as a giveaway to big oil. They attacked a provision that would allow companies to build new refineries on Indian reservations and closed military bases and that would give financially-strapped communities grants to build the infrastructure to accommodate them.
Nope, no economic growth needed here!
Thune said the amendment would not give any money to oil companies.
Chief would like to slap the Donks, except sh** splattters.
Gov. Rounds: $8.76 million project in North Sioux City will create 34 jobs
A joint venture between Genebiotech, a Korean biotechnology firm, and Nutra-Flo Protein and Biotech Products, a Sioux City, Iowa feed ingredient company, will create a high-tech soy fermentation facility in North Sioux City, Gov. Mike Rounds announced this afternoon.
The facility is the first of its kind in the United States, Rounds said.
Aside from this being a positive for the SD economy, etc., the Chief notes that protein processing has recently been the issue highlighting problems with importing such products from the ChiComs.
Anything that pulls us away from using their sourcing for protein or anything else just redoubles the positive impact.
Scam artists in poisoned pet food scandal destroy evidence
First – your tax dollars at work?!
Scam artists in the thriving food additive export industry are quickly giving the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the reputation of Keystone Cops.
FDA officials made much of heading off to the Orient to get down to the roots of the melamine sickening and killing off thousands of cats and dogs in the ongoing contaminated pet food scandal. But even as they were telling us “Bon Voyage”, melamine bossman Mao Lijun, who exported tainted wheat products to Las Vegas-based ChemNutra, was razing his own building.
That’s ONE way to get rid of evidence!
“It wasn’t authorities that finally acted: Mao himself razed the brick factory–days before the investigators from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration arrived in China on a mission to track down the source of the tainted pet food ingredients.” (latimes.com, May 9, 2007).
Not only did this perp scam us, he apparently did a pretty thorough job of fouling his own nest:
…Mao Lijun territory: “Farmers in this poor rural area about 400 miles northwest of Shanghai had complained to local government officials since 2004 that Mao’s factory was spewing noxious fumes that made their eyes tear up and the poplar trees nearby shed their leaves prematurely. Yet no one stopped Mao’s company from churning out bags of food powders and belching smoke–until one day last month when, in the middle of the night, bulldozers arrived and tore down the facility.
“In the end, Chinese authorities caught up with Mao and arrested him. And Tuesday, after weeks of denials, China acknowledged that Mao’s company and another Chinese business had illegally exported wheat and rice products spiked with melamine, a chemical used in making plastics and fertilizers. That chemical is banned in foods in the U.S.”
Yowch! You do NOT want to get arrested by the ChiComs, but it couldn’t have happened to a better guy.
Some more coverage of the ongoing sorry situation of the ChiComs dumping adulterated food products on the North American (and presumably other) markets. Not only is it pet food, but also as chicken feed hog chow, and now fish feed!
On the face of it, the FDA is grossly understating the problem:
Shame on the FDA for consistently claiming the number 16 for dead pets in the latest wave of dead pets from poison masquerading as commercial pet food; the latest because the massive Menu Food recall is only the deadliest recall to date. Some of the same pet food manufacturers whose products are on current recall have made recalls for other contaminanted products as recently as 2006.
ChemNutra, imported poisoned Chinese foodstuff
Finned friends join hogs chickens in the new Re-Use, Re-New, Re-Poison Recycle rage
ChemNutra, the Las Vegas-based company at the heart of the ongoing contaminated pet food scandal, exported from China tainted wheat gluten that was used to make fish meal in Canada. During a Tuesday FDA/USDA media conference, live blogged by www.ptconnection.com, David Acheson, the FDA’s assistant commissioner for food protection, confirmed ChemNutra as the export source of the tainted fish meal.
OK. What gets wierder and wierder is that not only did they ship us contaminated wheat gluten, but the “wheat gluten” was really nothing but spiked and doctored-up wheat flour!
At the Tuesday media conference, federal officials revealed what some would call startling information as though it were old hat: It is wheat flour not wheat gluten that is behind the pet food recall.
“Oh, yeah, by the way, it really wasn’t wheat gluten…they played switcheroo and shipped wheat FLOUR in place of gluten. (No big deal, don’t sweat it!)”
“The Canadian-made meal included what was purported to be wheat gluten, a protein source, imported from China. (Andrew Bridges, Associated Press Writer, May 8, 2007). “The material was actually wheat flour spiked by the chemical melamine and related, nitrogen-rich compounds to make it appear more protein rich than it was, officials said.
Of course there’s more details in the article.
SO, can we really trust ANY food stuff coming in from the ChiComs? Read your labels!
Poisoned pet food now on the human dinner table
You just HAD to know that this was going to be the outcome of this situation.
“Tainted-gluten-fed-pork has hit the dinner plates of humans, according to www.denverpost.com. “California officials have revealed that the contamination got into the food chain. About 45 residents ate pork from hogs that consumed animal feed laced with melamine from China. Melamine is used to make plastics, but it also artificially boosts the protein level and thus the price of the glutens that go into food.” (denverpost.com, April 29, 2007).
As always, the gummint is looking out for us:
Even after Captain David Elder of the FDA said, “The combination of melamine and cyanuric acid is of concern to human and animal health,” the FDA is saying that the recall of thousands of hogs was not warranted. (Italics, canadafreepress.com).
“Nope, nothing going on here folks. Don’t be alarmed…sit back and watch American Idol some more. Everything is being taken care of.”
Yeah. Right. SURE it is.
Given the way authorities have handled the contaminated pet food outbreak to date, we should be worried, very worried.
As Ann Hahn, of Atlanta wrote to Canada Free Press (CFP), “Pet owners believe we should all be very, very concerned. Why? Because cyanuric acid is a hydrolysis product of melamine. Melamine in and of itself is all right as long as you don’t eat it and your body metabolizes it. And notwithstanding the fact that the wheat gluten imported by ChemNutra in the Menu Foods pet food recalled was “human grade”.” (Emphasis added.)
And the scary chain of events that got its start months ago doesn’t even end there. We know where the tainted-gluten-fed pork is. Ergo, we know too where the wheat gluten-tainted pet food went. It went into the pigs. The pigs went into the human food supply.
“In a joint statement, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) stressed, “We are not aware of any human illness that has occurred from the exposure to melamine or by its by-products.” They added that they have identified no illnesses in swine fed the contaminated feed.” (Forbes.com, April 29, 2007).
Meanwhile, we’re told “let’s just ignore the 800 lb. gorilla in the room”:
No statement from either party about why salvaged pet food known to be contaminated was fed to farm animals.
After tracing more of the ChiCom business connections, the piece concludes with this:
The contaminated pet food which made ill and even killed off an untold number of cats and dogs and was then fed as “salvaged” food to hogs–which some 45 people have eaten–is a cautionary tale whose end could bring disaster for the human populations of North America, Puerto Rico and South Africa.
Bon appetit!
Will China’s poisoned pet food lead next to human food chain?
Pet food is bad enough…this is getting even worse. No progress is being made in figuring out exactly what’s going on. How Come? Read on:
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has hit a dead end in its
ongoing investigation into the pet food scandal: “U.S. senator Dick
Durbin (D-IL) and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) today met with U.S.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner, Andrew von
EschenbachÉ” “In the meeting, Durbin and DeLauro learned that the Chinese
government has blocked requests from the FDA to send personnel to China
to inspect the facilities suspected of producing the contaminated
products.” (Emphasis added.)
Just in case someone in D.C. is REALLY interested in figuring things out with this, the article provides some helpful pointers:
Sherlock Holmes’ hint for FDA: ChemNutra Chinese headquarters, Zuhou
Anying Biologic Technology Development Co. Ltd. and Binzhou Futian
Biology Technology Co. Ltd. are all within the same 300 to 400-mile
region of each other, right there on the East coast of China.Detective tip two: ChemNutra President Sally Qing Miller is now plain
Sally Miller and according to information retrieved by Canada Free
Press (CFP) from www.thewaybackmachine dropped the Qing after February 2005.
The Chief has a feeling that this story is starting to get a long set of legs…and will…er, SHOULD get more attention form the MSM when the hoo-rah about the gunners dies down a bit. After all:
Earth to mainstream media: The story has deadly potential for bigger game than Fido and Fluffy. We all have to eat.
Yes, there IS that little detail!
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Something to think about:
China’s stock dive, triggered by news that communist leaders plan to recalibrate output, should serve as a reminder to U.S. investors that China still runs a command-and-control economy. And it’s anything but transparent. The West has no way to confirm the numbers the Beijing apparatchiks feed us, even as we hitch our fortunes closer to theirs.
Even more to think about:
U.S. state pensions are taking huge stakes in communist-run companies – including People’s Liberation Army fronts – even though they can’t trust their books. Financial transparency is a joke with Chinese stock listings. Investing in them is a huge risk, but one that state unions willingly take because they don’t want to miss out on the Great China Rush.
But it won’t be just the prospectors who get hurt in a crisis over there. Teachers and firefighters will be left holding the bag. Average Americans don’t realize it, but the People’s Republic of China holds a big part of their retirement security.
As we saw from this week’s sell-off, all of America may be overinvested in a monumental fraud.
The whole thing brings to mind a conversation the Chief had with a Vietnamese colleague, concerning something relating to the ChiComs. His comment about making a deal with them was essentially “How can you make a deal with them. They’re Communists. They lie.”
The Federal Railroad Administration said Monday that it denied a $2.3 billion loan request by the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad Co., which has tried for some 10 years to finance a third rail line into Wyoming’s prolific Powder River Basin coal mining district.
This is NOT good for the development of South Dakota’s economy and its infrastructure. Score points for the luddites amongst us. The Chief has to hope that the DM & E can figure out another way to leverage the project.
Daschle: DM&E made ‘strategic mistakes’
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle said today he thinks the Dakota Minnesota & Eastern Railroad made strategic mistakes and could have worked better with communities in the region. “I think the DM&E may have made some strategic mistakes with regard to their planning and their approach,” Daschle said, “but they have indicated that perhaps there are other ways to come back with another business plan and I’m sure they’ll attempt to do that.”
It’s worth noting that Daschle was appointed to the Board of Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic who vociferously opposed the project as an undue trespass on their private fiefdom in Rochester. He also was involved with their hiring former SD Governator and Congresscritter Janklow into their fold.
Thi$, after both Daschle and Janklow unre$ervedly $upported the D M & E project when they were in office in $outh Dakota. Well, now they are not in $outh Dakota office, and $o much for any $ense of re$idual loyalty to the voter$ of $outh Dakota who elected them repeatedly over the year$. I $uppo$e that no one $hould reali$tically expect anything el$e from the$e paragon$ of public $ervice – they are member$ of the legalocratic mercenary cla$$ after all, and demon$trably have $hifted their loyalty to the $ervice of other$ who were willing to pay for the be$t lawyer$ (and connection$) that their money could buy.
Asked what mistakes he was referring to, Daschle said “not working as effectively with local communities as they probably should have.”
How could they have “worked more effectively with local communities”? Presumably by hiring Daschle and Janklow to work for them.