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Politics : ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION THE FIGHT TO KEEP OUR DEMOCRACY -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jackbnimble who wrote (1652)	6/12/2007 9:32:54 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 3197

China probes sale of fake blood protein By Audra Ang ASSOCIATED PRESS June 12, 2007 BEIJING -- China said yesterday it was investigating the sale of fake blood protein, a potentially dangerous and widespread practice that underscores the country's problems with product safety. State media reported one death from use of the counterfeits, but authorities have not said whether anyone has fallen ill. A shortage of albumin, a blood protein that chronically ill people often lack, triggered a nationwide investigation in March into whether fakes were being sold, China Central Television said. The report centered on an inquiry in the northeastern province of Jilin, where 59 hospitals and pharmacies were sold more than 2,000 bottles of counterfeit blood protein. It did not say what the products were made of, but said they could "make a patient's condition worsen and could cause death." CCTV's Web site showed two vials of albumin, the real product looking cloudier and more viscous than the translucent fake. Seven out of 36 batches of albumin tested by the Jilin Food and Drug Research Institute were found to be bogus, CCTV quoted the institute's deputy director, Xu Fei, as saying. "There was no element of protein, so it could not perform its intended function," Mr. Xu was quoted as saying. "They were through-and-through fakes." Albumin is a primary protein in human plasma that is important in maintaining blood volume. It is used to treat conditions including shock, burns, liver failure and pancreatitis, and is needed by patients undergoing heart surgery. "The harm could be very great," Chen Hongguo, head of the pharmaceutical section of the Jingyu County People's Hospital in Jilin, told CCTV. Mr. Chen said the hospital bought fake protein from the Jilin Yatai Wanlian Pharmaceutical Co. China, which has an across-the-board problem with food and drug safety, has come under growing pressure from the United States and the European Union to improve inspections of exports. Citing a Jilin food and drug safety official, CCTV said the product cost about $1.30 to make but was sold at $38 per vial. It said a salesman from the company has been detained. A woman who answered the telephone at the company said no managers were around and that she was "unclear" about the situation. Page 1 of 2 next » \| Email \| Print

To: jackbnimble who wrote (1652)	6/12/2007 11:09:00 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3197

It should be a 25 to 50 year moratorium on all immigration. from what i read we need immigration to grow. we need immigration to fill jobs that we cannot fill with existing people in this country. the problem is illegal immigration.

To: jackbnimble who wrote (1652)	6/12/2007 12:13:17 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3197

HOW TO CATCH WILD HOGS First, you find out where the wild hogs are roaming and feeding and then you put some corn out in the field. Soon they will come to eat the corn. You keep putting out the free corn. More wild hogs keep coming to eat the corn. After the hogs get used to your free corn, you put up a length of fence along one side of the feeding area. The hogs get used to it. You keep giving them the corn. Then you put up another section of fence at right angles to the first. You keep giving them the corn. The hogs get used to the second fence. Then you put up another length of fence at right angles to the second section. You now have a U-shaped fenced area. The hogs get used to that section of the fence. You keep giving them free corn. Then you put another section of fence with a gate in it, making a closed area except for the gate. You keep giving them corn. Now, the hogs no longer are out in the fields, working to find their own food. They keep coming into the area to eat the free corn. They get used to the fenced area with the open gate. Then, one day you slam shut the gate when the hogs are inside the fenced area. The wild hogs are caught - they are your prisoners. Now, the hogs will not get anything to eat unless you give them food. You are in control. They depend on you to feed them, or they will starve. They can't get out into the fields and forests anymore to find their own food. They have probably forgotten how, as it is. They are your servants, your prisoners. They must obey you. Or else they starve. The hogs, were so accustomed to having the free corn, that they ignored the building of the fences that would eventually trap them. When the gate slammed shut, it was too late for them to realize what they had been blind to. The free corn was enticing, so effortless to obtain, but eventually the cause of their loss of freedom. The fence had been built; the gate had been shut. This is what's happening in America today! People are being offered free corn by the government. People are being blind to the fences being built around them by the liberals - the socialists. The American people do not learn from history. And history shows that socialism/communism does not work. Take note of Russia. Has socialism been the best thing that ever happened to that country? Absolutely not! But socialism is what the American people are being fed, and they don't realize it. All they can focus on is the 'free corn.' They want more and more of the free corn. And this free corn is being fed to us little by little, and soon the gate will slam shut. The American people don't see what is being fed us, and for what purpose; being fed, and our growing addiction to the "free corn". We, the people of the United States of America, because of our ignorance of history, because of our addiction to the supposedly "free corn," could soon be prisoners of liberal socialism. Wake up, America! The fences are being built! Don't you see what is happening to us?" In the agenda of the new Congress governed by the liberal Democrats, there is much "free corn" being promised the American people. In our greed for this "free corn," will we ignore the incremental building of the fences and the inevitable shutting of the gate? Ponder the building of the fences now underway by the new Congress; remember the old adage, "there is always free cheese in a mousetrap." It seems the only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from history. By Lowell E. Hedges Received by e mail feel free to pass on to anyone you want.