Listening to the shortwave broadcasts of Radio China International I
never hear them address why their nation is ripping off the world by
mass producing poisonous and dangerously inferior products.

How many people have been killed by fires caused by their cheap
products? How many billions of dollars in property damage has been
caused by their cheap products? How many pets have been killed by
their poison foods?

The world has a right to know!

Boycott everything Chinese and e-mail Radio China International
http://english.cri.cn/ and tell them why.

Timeline courtesy of Jefferson at http://www.who-sucks.com/business/ma...anger-timeline

With recent high-profile incidents involving dangerous goods imported
from China, the American media has finally begun to warn consumers
about the dangers of cheaply producing goods in a country hardly known
for its strict safety regulations. After spending some time digging
through product recall press releases, we’ve found that the mainstream
media is still only reporting the tip of the iceberg when it comes to
dangerous products imported from China. Here’s a timeline we’ve
created, which shows the huge amount of faulty/dangerous Chinese
product scandals so far this year [this list will be regularly
updated]:

January 2007

* Toxic Overalls: Samarra Brothers recalled Chinese-manufactured
children’s two-piece overall sets because the coatings on the snaps in
the overalls and shirt contain excessive amounts of lead, posing a
serious risk of lead poisoning and adverse health effects to young
children.
* Fire Hazard Heaters: Family Dollar Stores recalled 35,000
oscillating ceramic heaters that were found to overheat and smoke,
which could pose a fire hazard to consumers.
* Bad Wiring In Fans: Holmes Group recalled about 300,000 Chinese-
manufactured oscillating tower fans that were found to have bad wiring
that creates a fire hazard.
* Dangerous Candles: Sally Foster recalled over 46,000 sets of
imported Tea Lights candles after it was reported that the candles
have a clear, plastic shell that can melt or ignite, posing a fire or
burn hazard to consumers.
* Dryers With Electrocution Hazard: Metropolis Beauty recalled
about 18,000 Travel’N Baby Mini Hair Dryers, which were not equipped
with an immersion protection plug to prevent electrocution if the hair
dryer falls into water. Electric shock protection devices are required
by industry standards for all electric hand-held hair dryers.
* Improperly Wired/Flammable Lamps: Hong Ten Trading recalled
about 4,000 electric oil lamps that had power cords that were not
correctly secured and had no strain relief on their switch housing.
The switch housing was also not flame-retardant, which poses a fire
hazard.

February 2007

* Overheating Remote Controls: Best Buy recalled about 10,000
Isignia DVD Player remotes after it was found that improper battery
placement in the remote could result in overheating and present a burn
hazard.
* Lead Poisoning Hazard: 115,000 Claudia Jublot children’s rings,
which were sold at Big Lots stores, were recalled because they
contained dangerous levels of lead.
* Defective Lamps: Currey & Company of Georgia recalled about
2,600 Chinese-manufactured lamps that had defective light sockets,
which could pose electrical shock and fire hazards.
* Lead Accessories: Kidsite jewelry sets, which were sold at Kmart
stores across America, were recalled for containing high levels of
lead.
* Toxic Jackets: Samara Brothers recalled thousands of its outwear
jackets for children because the snap closures on the jackets
contained excessive amounts of lead, which poses a lead poisoning
hazard.
* Lead Bracelets: Imported Chinese bracelets that were sold under
the “Ultra Gear” brand were recalled because they contained high
levels of lead.
* Hazardous Toy Batteries: JAKKS Pacific recalled over 240,000
battery packs for toy vehicles after dozens of reports of the
batteries melting or catching fire.
* Lead Rings: About 280,000 children’s Rachael Rose Kidz rings
were recalled after they were found to contain high levels of lead.

March 2007

* Breakable Bike Frames: Target’s made-in-China Triax PK7 and
Vertical PK7 bike frames were recalled after it was found that the
frames could break rather easily, injuring anyone unlucky enough to be
riding such a bike.
* Razor Blades For Kids: Tri Star International recently recalled
a made-in-China children’s stationary, which contained a dangerous
razor blade.
* Shocking Extension Cords: Dollar Stop Plus recalled 15-foot
extension cords that had undersized wiring, and failed to connect
properly at the plug and receptacle ends. This poses fire, shock and
electrocution hazards to consumers.
* Lead Easels: Discount School Supply recalled Elite about 2,500
5-
in-1 Easels after finding that the chalkboard side of the Chinese-
manufactured easels contained high levels of lead.
* Lead Necklaces: Children’s necklaces sold at Accessories Palace
were recalled because they contained high levels of lead.
* Toxic Paint: Toys R Us recalled over 128,000 Elite Operations
toy sets because the paint used by the Chinese manufacturer of the
toys contained high levels of lead.
* Lead Mood Necklace: About 47,000 children’s mood necklace
imported from China by Rhode Island Novelty were recalled for
containing high levels of lead.
* Dangerous Sconces: Home Dectorators recalled about 900 Chinese-
produced wall sconces, after finding that many were missing back
plates, which exposes consumers to live wires and poses a risk of
electrical shock to consumers changing the light bulb.
* Lead Paint On Baby Toys: Stuffed Fun Balls, which were sold at
dollar stores and other discount stores from June 2006 until March
2007, were recalled because the paint used by the Chinese manufacturer
of the baby toy contained dangerous levels of lead.

April 2007

* Poison Pet Food: Two Chinese companies intentionally exported
contaminated pet food ingredients to the United States, killing
hundreds of American pets that ate the food.
* Unhappy Hanukkah: Aviv Judaica Imports recalled its Chanukah Oil
Candles sets after it was found that they can become engulfed in
flames and melt the plastic cups holding the candles in place,
allowing hot wax to leak out, which poses fire and burn hazards to
consumers.
* Oil Heater Fire Hazard: Holmes Group recalled about 300,000 of
its oil-filled electric heaters after discovering that a poor
electrical connection within the Chinese-manufactured heaters could
overheat and cause fires.
* Flaming Boomboxes: Coby Electronics recalled over 13,000 USB/
MP3/
CD boomboxes due to electrical problems that could cause them to
overheat and catch fire.
* Collapsing Baby Seats: Infant Bouncer Seats were recalled by
Oeuf LLC after reports the seats’ metal frame breaking.
* Flammable Baby Clothes: Disney Stores recalled its Baby Einstein
Caterpillar Sleepwear and Baby Einstein Duck Sleepwear because of a
failure to meet the children’s flammability standard, posing a risk of
burn injury to children.
* Hazardous Candles: McCormick Distilling Company recalled 60,000
Tequila Rose Strawberry Cream candle sets after finding that the
martini glass containing the gel candle can break while the candle is
burning, posing fire and burn hazards to consumers.
* Lead Bracelets: A&A Global Industries issued a recall for about
4 million of its Children’s Groovy Grabber Bracelets, which were
painted with paint that contained high levels of lead.
* Lead Key Chains: Dollar General Merchandising recalled about
400,000 Chinese-manufactured Keychains because they contained high
levels of lead.
* Shocking Palm Trees: iObjectSolutions Inc. of Georgia’s Chinese-
made Pre-lit Palm Trees was found to have electrical problems with its
lighting system, which could cause fires or electric shocks.
* Unguarded Blades: Sears warned customers to remove the
“Craftsman” logo label from their Chinese-made Craftsman Circular
Saws, after it was found that the label could become partially
detached, leading to exposure of the saw blade and injury to those
operating the saw.

May 2007

* Toxic Fish: It is believed that imported Chinese monkfish was
actually deadly puffer fish, a labeling disaster that lead to the
hospitalization of at least one person in America.
* Tween’s Lead Jewerly: Tween Brands Inc. of New York recalled a
set of Chinese-manufactured metal jewelry for children that jewelry
contained high levels of lead, which can cause adverse health effects
and is toxic if ingested by young children.
* Toxic Drums: The Boyds Collection of Pennsylvania recalled its
“Eli’s Small Drums and Liberty’s Large Drums” when it was found that
the paint used by its Chinese manufacturer contained dangerous levels
of lead.
* Children’s Rings: Cardinal Distributing Company of Maryland
recalled its “Children’s Turquoise Rings” for containing dangerous
levels of lead.
* More Lead Jewelry: Spandrel Sales and Marketing of Arizona
recalled 200,000 children’s necklaces, bracelets and rings because
they contained dangerous levels of lead.
* Collapsing Stools: Cracker Barrel Old Country Store recalled
over 2,000 Chinese-manufactured kitchen stools, which had been found
to unexpectedly collapse during use.
* Lead Bamboo: Anima Bamboo Collection Games, manufactured by HaPe
International Ltd., of Ningbo, China, were recalled when the toys in
game sets were found to contain lead paint.
* Hazardous Grills: Grills produced in China by Sagittarius
Sporting Goods were recalled after many were found to be missing a
hose that connects the grill manifold to its side burner, posing a
risk of fires and burn injuries to customers.
* Toxic Jesus Fish: Oriental Trading Company of Nebraska recalled
over 130,000 religious fish necklaces for children, which had been
found to contain high levels of lead.
* Hazardous Candles: Vivre Royal was forced to recall a set of
Chinese-produced candles when it came to light that their exterior
coating and decorations were highly flammable.

June 2007

* Kerosene Eyeballs: Gemmy Industries recalled several hundred
plastic “Floating Eyeballs” because they contained kerosene, which if
broken, presents a chemical hazard to children.
* Deadly Tires: Tire importer Foreign Tire Sales, based in Union,
N.J., recalled as many as 450,000 tires after it was reported that the
treads on light-truck radials manufactured by Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber
Co. in Hangzhou, China, were shoddily manufactured and could separate.
Several traffic deaths have been blamed on such tires.
* Tainted Seafood: The FDA detained imports of three types of
Chinese fish — catfish, basa and dace — as well as shrimp and eel
after repeated testing turned up contamination with drugs unapproved
in the United States for use in farmed seafood.
* Toxic Thomas the Tank Engine Toys: American toy company RC2 was
forced to recall a series of wooden toys based on the popular
children’s show after it was revealed that they were painted with
dangerously toxic paint.
* Lead Earrings: Accessories・Silver Stud Earring Sets, jewelry
for kids that was sold in Kmart stores across America, were recalled
after being found to contain dangerous levels of lead.
* Deadly Cribs: American company Simplicity Inc. recently found
that the directions for its made-in-China Nursery-In-A-Box crib had
been improperly produced. If followed, the Chinese-made directions
could cause the crip to come apart and trap/injure babies.
* Poisonous Toothpaste: The FDA recently found that several low-
priced toothpastes imported from China contained diethylene glycol,
which poisons the liver and kidneys and depresses the central nervous
system.
* Lead Necklaces: Geocentral’s Butterfly Necklaces for kids were
recalled when it was found that the metal clasps on the necklaces
contained dangerous levels of lead.
* Unexpected Shattering: Pier 1 Imports recalled over 200,000
Chinese-made glassware pieces after it was found that they can crack
or break unexpectedly, posing a laceration hazard to consumers.
* Collapsing Recliners: Rockingham Deluxe Lounge Chairs, imported
from China by Rockingham Deluxe Lounge Chairs, were recalled because
the chairs can collapse or fall backward due to faulty support
brackets or weak frames, posing fall and severe laceration hazards to
consumers.

July 2007

* Dangerously Crappy Hammocks: A free-standing hammock
manufactured by the Chinese company Danlong Industries has been found
to break quite easily, sending anyone unlucky enough to be resting in
the hammock to the ground. Several people have reported injuries.
* “Essential” Lead Jewelry: Future Industries of New Jersey
recalled their “Essentials for kids” jewelry product line after the
Chinese-manufactured jewelry was found to contain dangerous levels of
lead.

On Jul 9, 9:20*pm, Tex wrote:

- Listening to the shortwave broadcasts of Radio China
- International I never hear them . . .

-ps- Tex it is China Radio International (CRI)
-not- 'Radio China International'
Learn to Listen better and you may Hear more.

Hear It Your Self on China Radio International (CRI)
http://www.chinabroadcast.cn/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Radio_International

CRI English - http://english.cri.cn/

CRI - Shortwave Frequencies in North America and Caribbean Sea

English Language Service Broadcast Frequencies and Times

Always a good Listen is the "China Drive" Program
on China Radio International (CRI).
http://english.cri.cn/webcast/chinadrive.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Drive

ABOUT - People's Republic of China (PRC) "China"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%...ublic_of_China

Tex wrote:


I hope for you this is the next *dangerous* product:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Kil...lectric_Car%3F

300 miles with new battery technology ...



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user wrote:
Tex wrote:


I hope for you this is the next *dangerous* product:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Kil...lectric_Car%3F

300 miles with new battery technology ...








Tesla is getting 225 and better. With snappy performance.

When EV1 was just introduced and called 'Impact',--what a tragic name
for a car, BTW--I saw a video of a test track race between Impact and a
Porsche 911. Off the line, Impact walked away from the Porsche like it
was standing still. It took the Porsche a full quarter mile to catch up.

I saw a similar video with an Impact and a Corvette.

At that time, Impact had 4 electric motors, one on each wheel. And a
decent range of a little over 100 miles per charge. Fresh thinking.
Brilliant engineering. Bean counters at GM put a stop to THAT. Dramatic
cost cuts revised that strategy and reduced it to one motor with a more,
or less, conventional drive train. Which also reduced the range to about
70 miles, due to the increased mechanical loads and losses, weight and
reduced motor efficiency.

Bean counters had done to the Electric Car what they'd done to
Fiero...made it so undesireable as a product it was nearly sale-proof.

****ed me off, too. I had money ready and waiting for the release of
that car. I would have fought a steel cage match with Gloria Steinem's
entire family to own one.

Tesla has proven that it can be done, and done well. And interest in
Tesla is high. And so is the interest in lower range, lower speed,
so-called Neighborhood Electric Vehicles--electric cars that are
strictly for making local runs. Trouble is, that in the last year, some
interesting obstacles have arisen to deployment of electric vehicles in
a couple of states. One being Wisconsin, where 12 counties and rising
have banned electric vehicles from the roads. Not just NEV's, but
electric vehicles in general.

And there are more states making this move. California is debating a
statewide ban.

There are a lot of reasons why. But the primary reason is because
there's no effective way to tax an electric vehicle. Road use tax is
tied to fuel sales. Fuel excise taxes are on fuel. Electric cars are
going to be charged, or refueled, in people's homes. There's no way to
collect these taxes on electric vehicles. And, especially in communistic
states, like Wisconsin, where the government tells a gas station owners
what price he must charge for a gallon of gas in order to protect fuel
tax collection, the concern is that consumers may get off the fossil
fuel merry-go-round and escape the repetitive and recurring taxation.

So, if you have interest in an electric vehicle, as I do, now is the
time to begin your move. Before--as happened with the gas
turbine--government involvement removes all advantages to making the
change.

One interesting advantage to an electric car, like Tesla....there's
no ignition system. So--is he...I think he IS....YES, including RADIO
CONTENT--dropping a rig like my Becker 2340 Mexico in the dash makes a
lot of sense. AM/FM/SW in a vehicle that is without most vehicle radio
noise sources.

In article ,
D Peter Maus wrote:

One interesting advantage to an electric car, like Tesla....there's
no ignition system. So--is he...I think he IS....YES, including RADIO
CONTENT--dropping a rig like my Becker 2340 Mexico in the dash makes a
lot of sense. AM/FM/SW in a vehicle that is without most vehicle radio
noise sources.

No ignition. Just a switching power supply controlling hundreds
of kilowatts.

Mark Zenier
Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:14:47 +0000, D Peter Maus wrote:



I've never had trouble with it. Ignition noise is a PITA to remove.

I have switching power supplies all over the house. Including the UPS
for the buildling. I don't get noise in my radios from the UPS.

But if I fire up my motorcycle, whole bands become unlistenable. I
never did get all the ignition noise out of the radio on my 308. Even
the Caravan had some ignition noise.

Are diesels still quiet (electrically)?

Dave wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:14:47 +0000, D Peter Maus wrote:



I've never had trouble with it. Ignition noise is a PITA to remove.

I have switching power supplies all over the house. Including the UPS
for the buildling. I don't get noise in my radios from the UPS.

But if I fire up my motorcycle, whole bands become unlistenable. I
never did get all the ignition noise out of the radio on my 308. Even
the Caravan had some ignition noise.

Are diesels still quiet (electrically)?



You're joking, right?

D Peter Maus wrote:

Dave wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:14:47 +0000, D Peter Maus wrote:



I've never had trouble with it. Ignition noise is a PITA to remove.

I have switching power supplies all over the house. Including the UPS
for the buildling. I don't get noise in my radios from the UPS.

But if I fire up my motorcycle, whole bands become unlistenable. I
never did get all the ignition noise out of the radio on my 308. Even
the Caravan had some ignition noise.

Are diesels still quiet (electrically)?


You're joking, right?

Like Pancho, Rickets is always a joke.

In article ,
Billy Burpelson wrote:

Mark Zenier wrote:
In article
, D
Peter Maus wrote:

One interesting advantage to an electric car, like
Tesla....there's no ignition system. So--is he...I think he
IS....YES, including RADIO CONTENT--dropping a rig like my Becker
2340 Mexico in the dash makes a lot of sense. AM/FM/SW in a
vehicle that is without most vehicle radio noise sources.

No ignition. Just a switching power supply controlling hundreds of
kilowatts.

D Peter Maus wrote:

Easier to filter than ignition noise.

Sounds backwards. Heavy current switchers are -notorious- for generating
interference. Also, any "brute force" filters you used would have to
withstand the heavy current. So, do you have any references as to why
the low voltage/high current case would be "easier" to filter? Quieting
down the switching of hundreds of amps is not the trivial case.

There is nothing worse than a spark Billy. Do some research on it.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

In article ,
Dave wrote:

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:14:47 +0000, D Peter Maus wrote:



I've never had trouble with it. Ignition noise is a PITA to remove.

I have switching power supplies all over the house. Including the UPS
for the buildling. I don't get noise in my radios from the UPS.

But if I fire up my motorcycle, whole bands become unlistenable. I
never did get all the ignition noise out of the radio on my 308. Even
the Caravan had some ignition noise.

Are diesels still quiet (electrically)?

Yes.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California