Quote The American People Must Grab Their Freedom Now
By Benjamin Fulford
9-29-08

The United States is about to go bankrupt. What happens next depends on the American people. We could either have World War 3 accompanied by genocide or World Peace followed by an era of unprecedented prosperity.

The situation in the US depends largely on whether the white hats in the Pentagon and the alphabet soup of government agencies take down the financial oligarchs. The important thing for them to realize is that the financial system you have lived in was nothing but a giant mirage designed to blind the American people from reality. Now that the financial system is collapsing, you will realize that you still have your factories, your military might, your land, your know-how and your people. All you need is to put your best minds at work to come up with a new system controlled by the people and not by a secret inter-married clan of Satan worshippers. You will realize that you have been enslaved in your own land by a parasitical financial class. These people got their hands on the dollar printing machine back in 1913. They then used a combination of bribes, murder and propaganda to slowly, slowly capture the once free people of America.

The people of the rest of the world will provide the people of America with generous financing to rebuild their schools, their infrastructure, their factories etc. as soon as you have freed yourself of the Satanists. The Pentagon and the military industrial complex will also be generously funded and offered a chance to become the core of a world army in charge of defending the planet and exploring the universe.

If the American people do not act, the Satanists will use their army of Blackwater mercenaries to put at least a million free-thinking Americans into concentration death camps. They will then install a horrific totalitarian slave state that will attempt to kill as many people as possible throughout the planet. They have been preparing a secret army in giant underground bases complete with suppressed technology capabilities such as anti-gravity and the control of vast amounts of primeval energy.

A source in the British Royal Family tells me the fiscal year end of your secret government is September 30th. He says a financial "black hole" will be evident on October 5th. The reason, he says, is that the European branch of the Western secret government, as well as governments throughout the world, have been robbed by the Bush/Clinton/Rockefeller clan of Satan worshipping Nazis. They have told them to pay up or be cut off from the rest of the world financial system. Of course, they cannot pay up because they have been spending all that money on project blue-beam, a planned fake Armageddon . The Rothschilds, whose real name is Bauer, are also a nasty bunch and their system in Europe may also implode, and if so, good riddance. However, it is important at this point to offer an amnesty to all members of the secret government who pledge to work for world peace and against the planned nightmare scenario. That might even mean plugging your noses and agreeing to work with the nuclear loving, tree-hugging fake CO2 global warming crowd. If we isolate the truly nasty Thule Society and Skull and Bones Nazis from the rest of the secret government, then a war scenario becomes increasingly unlikely.

The American people also need to install an interim government to replace the Bush regime and dismantle the Zionist propaganda machine before holding free and fair elections. That will mean replacing the puppet-actors McCain and Obama with real candidates. The members of the Senate and House who received Zionist bribes will also have to resign an appear before a truth committee.

Once the American people are free, a cornucopia of SF-like wondrous technology that has been kept in the hands of the secret government will be made available to humanity as a whole. Multiple US government sources tell me these technologies include free energy, warp-speed space travel, star-gate portals and more. As long as humanity ends its war-like ways and stops it ceaseless tribal warfare, it will enter an era so wonderful that nothing before, except perhaps the Cambrian explosion, will compare.

Americans now hold the future of humanity in their hands. What will it be: death and horror or freedom in a new golden age? What happens in the next few weeks will determine what happens over the next several billion years. We will either be allowed to expand exponentially out into the universe or we will be once again reduced to a primitive miserable state locked on the surface of a tiny vulnerable planet.
People of America, the eyes of the world are now on you.

Benjamin Fulford

U.S. should stop importing from China

From Bishop W. Bower,

Clarkridge:

Contaminated dog, cat and now chicken, cow and hog feed. In other words, everything we Americans consume in the food chain that's coming into this country from China is poisoned. America had better wake up to this new possible terrorist threat.

We already know the world hates us. We are in the same boat as Israel, so why should we purchase a food product from a country like China? We already know China is a filthy country (with) slack or no regulations at all. I understand this poison is now in toothpaste and has killed people in Panama.

I also understand that China is now building weapons for world domination. It is a known fact that China is severely overpopulated, and for China to survive they have no other choice but to acquire more land.

I think we should shut down all, and I do mean all, trade with China. This would help clean up our food supply and bring jobs back to America. As stated earlier, China is a filthy and extremely polluted country and with no desire to pass laws to regulate their own country's polluted state.

Prior to putting a halt on trade from China, as I know it takes much time for our government to implement these changes, every food product that comes into this country from China should be stamped "China," and if a farmer in America feeds his animals with anything coming from China, then let the consumer decide if they want to take a chance and feed contaminated food from China to their families.

Just before sending this letter to the editor, I see on CNN News a distributing company in Florida had to recall hundreds of thousands of tubes of toothpaste contaminated with an antifreeze ingredient. The name of the toothpaste is Shir, imported from China and, to top that off, I just heard that China is exporting contaminated blood. I wonder how many of our wounded military is being injected with contaminated blood imported from China?

Please call your senators, congressman and state representatives to put a stop on all goods from China.

7-7-07

Made in China’ difficult to avoid

Safety concerns leading shoppers to hunt for non-Chinese goods

By DIRK LAMMERS - The Associated Press

Poisoned pet food. Seafood laced with potentially dangerous antibiotics. Toothpaste tainted with an ingredient in antifreeze. Tires missing a key safety component.

U.S. shoppers may be forgiven if they are becoming leery of Chinese-made goods and are trying to fill their shopping carts with products free of ingredients from that country.

The trouble is, that might be almost impossible.

Chinese exports have been in the spotlight since the deaths of dogs and cats in North America attributed to tainted Chinese wheat gluten, followed by recent recall of Chinese-made radial tires and an alert last week by the Food and Drug Administration, warning about contaminated Chinese seafood.

My family hit some stores to see how hard it would it be for the average consumer to avoid the “Made in China” label — even for just a week.

My sons’ well-worn sneakers were starting to resemble sandals, so our family headed to the Empire Mall in Sioux Falls, S.D. in search of a couple of cheap pairs to get the boys, ages 10 and 12, through the summer.

The quest began in the J.C. Penney shoe department. We soon found out this was going to be no easy task: Adidas, made in China; Skechers, made in China; Reebok, made in China.

We finally found some New Balance shoes, and I recalled reading that the company still makes some running shoes in the United States. The first few said “Made in China,” but then we spotted three adult styles marked “Made in the USA of imported materials.”

To be sure, some of the products were made in other Asian nations — including Indonesia — but their exports have not been called into question as China’s have.

Shopping for non-China-made groceries at our local grocery store seemed to be presenting few challenges, but it turned out to be more of a case of blissful ignorance than well-informed consumerism.

Products in nonfood aisles communicated their origins better than their edible counterparts. Labels of Suave shampoo, Dial hand soap, Kleenex tissues, Ziploc bags, Solo cups, Bounty napkins, Tide laundry detergent, SOS pads and Dawn dish detergent all read “Made in USA,” although none of the labels got specific about the ingredients.

Toothpaste was a bit more confusing — a concern considering that some brands of toothpaste made in China recently were found to contain a chemical called diethylene glycol, which is used to make antifreeze.

Aquafresh said “Made in USA” right on the box, but boxes of Crest and Colgate named only the companies that distributed the product, Procter & Gamble Co. and Colgate-Palmolive Co. respectively.

Procter & Gamble on its Web site says the Crest toothpaste found in stores is made in North America, not China. Colgate-Palmolive on its site says Colgate toothpaste is safe regardless of where the company manufactures it.

The labels on most food products we looked at were of little help.

The 2002 Farm Bill passed by Congress mandated country-of-origin labeling for seafood, beef, lamb, pork, fish, fruits, vegetables and peanuts, but the Bush administration has delayed its implementation for everything except seafood until October 2008.

Some fruits and vegetables sported voluntary stickers, but shoppers always should consider the calendar when shopping for produce, as stores get a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables from Central and South America during winter months.

None of the sweets in the candy aisle said “Made in China,” but most of them probably are made with at least one ingredient that originated there, said William Hubbard, a former U.S. Food and Drug Administration official.

Companies in China produce about 80 percent of the world’s wheat gluten, common in most breads, cakes and cookies, and 80 percent of its sorbic acid, a preservative used in just about everything, he said.

My boys have been asking to get their own tennis rackets, so we headed to a couple of sporting-goods stores and Wal-Mart.

All of the rackets we found were made in China, but at least we were able to pick up a can of Penn tennis balls that were made in America.

We moved a couple of aisles down to Wal-Mart’s toy section and found tons of products originating in China, including action figures, vehicles, stuffed animals and games.

Packages of Hot Wheels miniature cars, once a U.S.-made icon, now read, “Made in China, Malaysia or Thailand as marked.” Matchbox cars hail from either China or Thailand.

The classic capitalist board game Monopoly still qualifies, though with a caveat. “Made in the USA with dice and tokens made in China,” the box reads.

Chinese manufacturing

The diddle kingdom

Jul 5th 2007 | HONG KONG
From The Economist print edition

Tainted Chinese goods prompt safety scares around the world

IT HAS been a rough few months for China's exporters. In March tainted pet food originating in China was found to be killing animals in America. Since then Chinese shipments of toxic toothpaste, toys and seafood, as well as hundreds of thousands of faulty tyres, have all caused big safety scares. The defective goods that have long bedevilled Chinese consumers are beginning to spread to the outside world—a trend that is exacerbating concern about China's burgeoning exports.

Tales of dangerously shoddy manufacturing within China are nothing new. In 2004 bogus baby formula killed dozens of infants. More recently the Chinese media have reported half a dozen dead and many ill from a flawed antibiotic, 11 dead from tainted injections, 56 people ill as a result of contaminated meat, toxic snacks pulled off shelves and fake blood protein discovered in hospitals. In May the head of the agency that regulates Chinese food and drugs, Zheng Xiaoyu, was sentenced to death for accepting bribes in exchange for licences to produce fake drugs and medical devices. And this week a report from the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, China's standards watchdog, said that 20% of domestic products tested had failed to meet safety standards.

But safety lapses have only recently begun to attract the attention of foreigners. On July 1st Charles Schumer, an American senator who is a vocal critic of China, issued a report noting that 60% of goods recalled by America's main safety regulator came from China. In June alone, the report says, dangerous faults or poisons prompted the recall of 68,000 folding chairs, 2,300 toy barbecue grills, 1.2m space heaters, 5,300 earrings, 1.5m “Thomas the Tank Engine” toy trains and 19,000 children's necklaces. America's Food and Drug Administration has also rejected several shipments of contaminated food from China this year, and a wholesaler in New Jersey has recalled Chinese chocolates containing potentially carcinogenic ingredients.

Skittish Americans are not the only ones worried about Chinese exports. In Panama around 100 people are reported to have died after ingesting tainted cough syrup from China. In Hong Kong, stores routinely sell staple goods such as eggs and milk from China more cheaply than those from other countries—a good indicator of the perceived danger. Legislators in the territory upbraided the government for lax safety standards on July 4th. In response, it pledged to develop a food supply “traceability system” to find and remedy problems at their source—in China. The European Union has also expressed concern.

Poor countries where manufacturing is booming often struggle to maintain quality standards at first. “Made in Japan” and “Made in Korea” were once synonymous with shoddiness. Post-war Japan was also an environmental disaster. Eugene Smith's photographs of the victims of mercury poisoning in Minamata Bay became international symbols of industrialisation gone awry. But the Chinese government's reflexive secrecy, as well as widespread corruption and tight curbs on the press, probably make matters worse.

Mr Schumer fears that many faults are never detected. After all, in America as in most countries, only a relatively small proportion of imports is inspected. Moreover, numerous agencies have the power to monitor and block shipments, creating a bureaucratic quagmire. He proposes an import tsar to oversee the scrutiny of Chinese goods. But critics of the proposal fear that such a figure would be susceptible to political pressure, and would soon resort to protectionism in the name of safety.

Besides, the problem might be solving itself. One manufacturer in southern China recalls how a factory dumped dyes in the water supply in the 1990s, turning all the locals' clothes blue—and doubtless wreaking havoc with their insides too. That factory has now closed. Another manager recalls appalling conditions at a juice factory that led, mercifully, to closure. Today a more typical factory would be one of PepsiCo's Chinese plants, he says, with safety standards among the most stringent in the world.

Such improvements are driven by enlightened self-interest. Many manufacturers are aware of what a slur the phrase “Made in China” has become, and are taking precautions to preserve their reputations. Small and ill-supervised suppliers and subcontractors have been responsible for many of the worst disasters. So Coca-Cola has banned its subcontractors from subcontracting again, to ensure strict quality control. McDonald's, aware that one bad hamburger could destroy its reputation, has gone even further, setting up a whole proprietary supply chain within China with more than 40 facilities producing beef, chicken, lettuce, cucumbers, rolls and even special sauce. And companies such as Li & Fung vie to help manufacturers monitor their supply chains and improve the quality of the goods they buy.

Perhaps the most encouraging aspect of the recent scandals is that they are emerging at all. For the first time in decades, the Chinese government has gone so far as to appoint respected professionals who are not members of the Communist party to run the ministries of science and health. Both of the ministers concerned have studied and worked in Europe. The better they do their jobs, the greater the number of scandals and problems that are likely to emerge. Last week the government said it had shut down 180 food factories in the past six months. If the quality of Chinese manufacturing is to improve, the first step is to expose its flaws.

China quality watchdog says meat from diseased animals found in local markets

By Scott McDonald

BEIJING – The Chinese government warned Friday that some of the country's markets were selling tainted meat and threatened tough punishment against those behind the practice.

China is fighting to overcome intense international criticism for exporting unsafe products – from tainted pet food to popular children's toys made with lead paint – ahead of next summer's Olympic Games in Beijing.

“Recently, the illegal selling of pork from pigs which died of disease was discovered in some parts of the country,” the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said in a notice posted on its Web site.

The agency did not give specific examples, but reports of people becoming sick after eating tainted or poisoned food occur almost daily in China.

Anyone caught selling the tainted meat would be “severely dealt with,” the agency said.

The notice also said meat that had been injected with water was being sold in China's markets.

Pork prices have jumped by more than 40 percent over the past year, partly due to a shortage caused by the spread of blue-ear disease. The ailment, also called porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, does not affect people but can be fatal for pigs.

China's government says the disease has killed at least 18,000 pigs. Premier Wen Jiabao appeared on national television last month to assure the government is tackling the problem, but many farmers have stopped raising pigs, authorities say.

Chinese-made toothpaste has been rejected by several countries from Latin America to Asia, while Chinese wheat gluten tainted with the chemical melamine was blamed for dog and cat deaths in North America.

Other products turned away by U.S. inspectors include toxic monkfish, frozen eel and juice made with unsafe color additives.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission last week announced a voluntary recall of dozens of Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway Toys. Some of the wildly popular toy train sets – a spinoff from the British television series for youngsters – were manufactured in southern China and contained potentially poisonous lead paint.

Another case unfolded earlier this week after a company was found reusing the filling from two-year-old rice dumplings. Officials in Anhui province ordered a recall of all “zongzi” – a traditional snack made of glutinous rice and other fillings usually wrapped in bamboo leaves – made by the manufacturer.

Associated Press
Avoiding 'Made in China' Labels Not Easy
By DIRK LAMMERS 06.29.07, 6:52 PM ET

Poisoned pet food. Seafood laced with potentially dangerous antibiotics. Toothpaste tainted with an ingredient in antifreeze. Tires missing a key safety component. U.S. shoppers may be forgiven if they are becoming leery of Chinese-made goods and are trying to fill their shopping carts with products free of ingredients from that country. The trouble is, that may be almost impossible.

Chinese exports have been in the spotlight since the deaths of dogs and cats in North America attributed to tainted Chinese wheat gluten, followed by this week's recall of Chinese-made radial tires and an alert Thursday by the Food and Drug Administration, warning about contaminated Chinese seafood.

My family hit some stores to see how hard it would it be for the average consumer to avoid the "Made in China" label - even for just a week.

My sons' well-worn sneakers were starting to resemble sandals, so our family headed to the Empire Mall in Sioux Falls in search of a couple of cheap pairs to get the boys, ages 10 and 12, through the summer.

The quest began in the J.C. Penney shoe department. We soon found out this was going to be no easy task: Adidas, made in China; Sketchers, made in China; Reebok, made in China.

We finally found some New Balance shoes and I recalled reading that the company still makes some running shoes in the United States. The first few said "Made in China," but we then spotted three adult styles marked "Made in the USA of imported materials."

That sounded as close as we could get, so I asked my 12-year-old which of the three he liked.

"This one," he said, pointing to the $75 shoe he'll likely outgrow in months.

"Let's keep looking," I said.

We headed to a couple of other shoe stores - Famous Footwear and Payless - and found several other styles of sneakers mostly made in China.

Famous Footwear had one U.S.-made New Balance sneaker on sale for $40, but my oldest didn't like the color combination so we moved on. I guess those well-worn sneakers can last another week until this little experiment ends.

To be sure, some of the products were made in other Asian nations - including Indonesia - but their exports have not been called into question as China's have.

Shopping for non China-made groceries at our local Hy-Vee grocery store seemed to be presenting few challenges, but it turned out to be more of a case of blissful ignorance than well-informed consumerism.

Products in nonfood aisles communicated their origins better than their edible counterparts. Labels of Suave shampoo, Dial hand soap, Kleenex tissues, Ziploc bags, Solo cups, Bounty napkins, Tide laundry detergent, SOS pads and Dawn dish detergent all read "Made in USA," although none of the labels got specific about the ingredients.

Toothpaste was a bit more confusing - a concern considering some brands toothpaste made in China were recently found to contain a chemical called diethylene glycol, which is used to make antifreeze.

AquaFresh said "Made in USA" right on the box, but boxes of Crest and Colgate named only the companies that distributed the product, Procter & Gamble Co. and Colgate-Palmolive Co. respectively.

Procter and Gamble on its Web site says the Crest toothpaste found in stores is made in North America, not China. Colgate-Palmolive on its site says Colgate toothpaste is safe regardless of where the company manufactures it.

The labels on most food products we looked at were of little help.

None of the sweets in the candy aisle said "Made in China," but most are likely made with at least one ingredient that originated there, said William Hubbard, a former U.S. Food and Drug Administration official.

Candy wrappers typically list just the U.S. distributor of the products, so label readers can't determine the origin of the vanillin found in a Nestle Crunch bar, the carageenan in a Baby Ruth or the gum arabic in a pack of Mentos.

Those three ingredients, and numerous other flavoring and preservative additives, commonly come from Chinese companies, Hubbard said.

"The cocoa might come from another country and the sugar might be American, so you're not going to get a country of origin on that product," Hubbard said.

Companies in China produce about 80 percent of the world's wheat gluten, common in most breads, cakes and cookies, and 80 percent of its sorbic acid, a preservative used in just about everything, he said.

We found a bit of irony in the ethnic food section, where a box of Golden Bowl fortune cookies and a bag of Kokuho Rose Rice brand sushi rice both sported "Product of USA" labels.

My boys have been asking to get their own tennis rackets - ours look like they once belonged to Bjorn Borg and Chris Evert - so we headed to a couple of sporting goods stores and Wal-Mart.

All of the rackets we found were made in China, but at least we were able to pick up a can of Penn tennis balls that were made in America.

We moved a couple aisles down to Wal-Mart's toy section and found tons of products originating in China, including action figures, vehicles, stuffed animals and games.

Packages of Hot Wheels miniature cars, once a U.S.-made icon, now read, "Made in China, Malaysia or Thailand as marked." Matchbox cars hail from either China or Thailand.

The classic capitalist board game Monopoly still qualifies, though with a caveat. "Made in the USA with dice and tokens made in China," the box reads.

At least a deck of Bicycle playing cards is still homegrown, although we'll have to switch our game to rummy as the cribbage board was born in China.

With the Fourth of July approaching, I decided to check out the store's display of U.S. flags and found that all were domestic, with the exception of one style made in China.

I knew the small appliance section would likely be a lost cause for this quest, but I decided to take a look. All of the toasters and all but one of the coffee makers originated in China. A Bunn 10-cup professional brewer said it was assembled in the United States, but it was priced in the higher end of Wal-Mart's selection.

Hubbard said all consumers receive value from the ubiquity of Chinese-made appliances, but when it comes to food products and ingredients, companies need to be more vigilant in tracking their supply chains.

"Unfortunately in the case of foods and drugs, there's a safety issue on top of the quality issue," Hubbard said. "If the toaster doesn't work you just take it back to Wal-Mart and they give you another one. But if the food is unsafe, that's a different matter."

China stakes claim in labels

‘Made in the USA’ can be a challenge to find

By DIRK LAMMERS

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

July 4, 2007 - 7:55AM

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota - Poisoned pet food. Seafood laced with potentially dangerous antibiotics. Tires missing a key safety component.

U.S. shoppers may be forgiven if they are becoming leery of Chinesemade goods and are trying to fill their shopping carts with products free of ingredients from that country.

The trouble is, that may be almost impossible.

Chinese exports have been in the spotlight since the deaths of dogs and cats in North America attributed to tainted Chinese wheat gluten, followed by this week’s recall of Chinese-made tires and an alert Thursday by the Food and Drug Administration, warning about contaminated Chinese seafood.

My family hit some stores to see how hard it would be for the average consumer to avoid the “Made in China” label — even for just a week.

My sons’ well-worn sneakers were starting to resemble sandals, so our family headed to the mall in search of a couple of cheap pairs to get the boys, ages 10 and 12, through the summer.

The quest began in the J.C. Penney shoe department. We soon found out this was going to be no easy task: Adidas, made in China; Sketchers, made in China; Reebok, made in China or Indonesia.

We finally found some New Balance shoes, and I recalled reading that the company still makes some running shoes in the United States. The first few said “Made in China,” but we then spotted three adult styles marked “Made in the USA of imported materials.”

Shopping for non-China-made groceries at our local grocery store seemed to be presenting few challenges, but it turned out to be more of a case of blissful ignorance than well-informed consumerism.

Labels of Suave shampoo, Dial hand soap, Kleenex tissues, Ziploc bags, Solo cups, Bounty napkins, Tide laundry detergent, SOS pads and Dawn dish detergent all read “Made in USA,” although none got specific about the ingredients.

Toothpaste was a bit more confusing — a concern considering some brands of toothpaste made in China were recently found to contain a chemical called diethylene glycol, which is used to make antifreeze.

AquaFresh said “Made in USA” right on the box, but boxes of Crest and Colgate named only the companies that distributed the product, Procter & Gamble Co. and Colgate-Palmolive Co., respectively.

Procter and Gamble on its Web site says the Crest toothpaste found in stores is made in North America, not China. Colgate-Palmolive on its site says Colgate toothpaste is safe regardless of where the company manufactures it.

The labels on most food products we looked at were of little help.

The 2002 Farm Bill mandated country-of-origin labeling for seafood, beef, lamb, pork, fish, fruits, vegetables and peanuts, but the Bush administration has delayed its implementation for everything except seafood until October 2008.

Some fruits and vegetables sported voluntary stickers, but shoppers always should consider the calendar when shopping for produce, as stores get a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables from Central and South America during winter months.

None of the sweets in the candy aisle said “Made in China,” but most are likely made with at least one ingredient that originated there, said William Hubbard, a former U.S. Food and Drug Administration official.

Candy wrappers typically list just the U.S. distributor of the products, so label readers can’t determine the origin of the vanillin found in a Nestle Crunch bar, the carageenan in a Baby Ruth or the gum arabic in a pack of Mentos.

Those three ingredients, and numerous other flavoring and preservative additives, commonly come from Chinese companies, Hubbard said.

“The cocoa might come from another country and the sugar might be American, so you’re not going to get a country of origin on that product,” Hubbard said.

Companies in China produce about 80 percent of the world’s wheat gluten, common in most breads, cakes and cookies, and 80 percent of its sorbic acid, a preservative used in just about everything, he said.

We found a bit of irony in the ethnic food section, where a box of Golden Bowl fortune cookies and a bag of Kokuho Rose Rice both sported “Product of USA” labels.

Wal-Mart’s toy section had tons of products originating in China, including action figures, vehicles, stuffed animals and games.

Packages of Hot Wheels miniature cars, once a U.S.-made icon, now read, “Made in China, Malaysia or Thailand as marked.” Matchbox cars hail from either China or Thailand.

The classic board game Monopoly still qualifies, though with a caveat. “Made in the USA with dice and tokens made in China,” the box reads