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Old 04-03-2013, 10:24 AM
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Originally Posted by blueash View Post
The link in your post does not seem to work so I cut and pasted it out of the reply code. This "article" was written by a salesman for a company that charges high prices for its products which are not made in China. Want to bet they are loosing market share and this bit of scare tactic, xenophobia, might be just the thing to increase sales.
.........this author's ridiculous hyperbole.
Chinese environment official challenged to swim in polluted river | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Scare tactic? Xenophobia? Is Mayor Bloomberg of NYC a scare tactician or xenophobic because he doesn't want his voters buying/consuming foreign-produced sugar used in big-gulp sized sodas?

Talk about "shooting the messenger" and "labeling" people without knowing them.....