I think I just threw up a little internally On 3/25/08, Steve Desjardins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Union of Shanghai Associates. ;-) > > >>> Gonz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3/25/2008 10:47 AM >>> > > I had to replace my electric charcoal starter for my barbeque (a major > food group here) recently, and as I walked through my local home > improvement store, I dreaded the possibility that it would be made in > China along with pretty much everything else there. When I picked it > up, I turned it over and it read "Made in the U.S.A." . I almost > cried with joy. I bought two. > > Gonz > > On 3/23/08, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Boris Liberman" > > Subject: OT: The world is over > > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > I went today to one of the local shops to buy me a pair of > trousers. > > > Apparently the shelves were almost empty. So, I asked salesperson, > when > > > do you expect a new shipment? We don't was the answer. The > Olympics in > > > China are the reason. > > > > > > I chuckled and went out of the shop... > > > > > > I did a quick survey a while back, and concluded that it is now > virtually impossible to live > > without Chinese manufactured goods, as there are, in many instances, > no options to buy non > > Chinese manufactured products. > > > > What this means to me is that it is very difficult to not buy > products manufactured in what I > > consider to be a human rights nightmare. > > I prefer to support economies that are not built on slave labour, I > would rather not support > > regimes that use an iron fist to squash freedom of speech and > association or legitimate protest > > against the governing power. > > > > What this also means is that China now has the economic clout to > pretty much shut down any > > country that crosses it by protesting the way it mistreats it's > citizens (the onging abuses in > > Tibet as an example) by cutting off trade to that country. > > > > Don't chuckle too much... > > > > > > William Robb > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > > !SIG:47e9139377419950413463! > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. >
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