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To: Snowshoe who wrote (48672)	4/17/2009 12:08:36 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217605

Please, do like Black Swan and don't read the press. Permit me please to enlighten you on the God Forsaken shirtless countries. This is nothing more than the local Vietnamese oligarchs afraid of the Chinese coming and creating a new scale of business in short time, thus taking their chair from around the table. Time Magazine takes a jounalist not versed in how the real world works and write such piece. Laughable. Luckily you have Elmat's thread to do the right thing. In a similar fashion, as soon as things going to get better in LATAM the locals will start complaining about the Chinese influence. They may be quiet now because they need the Chinese capital spreading. It has been always like that: They always revolt and want the money and the control alml by themselves. Take 1776 in the US as soon as they were on a steady foot the oligrachs -whom you guys call Founding Fathers- revolted and kicked the ass of the English. LATAM's oligarchs did the same with the Portuguese and the Spanish.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (48672)	4/17/2009 12:58:43 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217605

Pseudo-job: "With huge losses from food-poisoning recalls and little oversight from the federal Food and Drug Administration, some sectors of the food industry are cobbling together their own form of regulation in an attempt to reassure consumers. They are paying other government agencies to do what the F.D.A. rarely does: muck through fields and pore over records to make sure food is handled properly. ELMAT: If Brazil does not engage in such boondoggle the food is not safe! All that clamoring about China paint in toys, -the new one is dry-wall tainted with some stuff- is to create more pseudo-jobs There is more: But with industry itself footing the bill, some safety advocates worry that the approach could introduce new problems and new conflicts of interest. And they contend that the programs lack the rigor of a well-run federal inspection system. ELMAT: In Brazil is the same, you pay for the government to do somehting, and then you pay again in the private sector to really do it. In California, the “leafy greens” industry, which grows spinach and lettuce, was desperate after a 2006 outbreak of a harmful strain of Escherichia coli, the intestinal germ. As Americans stopped eating spinach for weeks, the industry suffered $100 million in losses. It now pays the state money so that auditors like Ms. Anderson can inspect farm fields for safety. The arrangement is called the Leafy Green Products Handler Marketing Agreement. ELMAT: Any time you read or hear about an "outbreak" of anything, just keep in mind that there are some pseudo-jobbers looking for the private sector to bribe them. Only that it is not called a bribe... nytimes.com