Chinese Locusts?

For many years, this Fairbank Report has been critical of Hong Kongers' hateful attitude toward their Mainland brethren.  We had accused them of being self-hating slaves who still worshipped their English overlords.  We are sure there's a small tranche of the HK population that fits this mold.  But now, we realize that the Hong Kongers' description of their Mainland cousins as locusts may not be that far-fetched.  The problem with the Chinese is their sheer number.  China's middle class -- at 500 million people -- is larger than the entire population of North America.  The number is larger than the entire population of the European continent!

So, when these "locusts" are on the move, they are terribly disruptive.  They raise property prices, buy up all daily necessities (such as baby formula, over-the-counter medicine, toiletry, etc.), take up hospital beds and university seats, and clog up the transportation systems.  It's not that they are individually terrible or objectionable.  In fact, they can be very nice and friendly.  And China's post-1990 generation is quite sexy and alluring.

But collectively in their large numbers, Mainland Chinese cause significant disruption, displacement, and inconvenience to the locals wherever they show up.  Throw in the general lack of sophistication (they've been rich for only 20 years), and we can easily see the Hong Kongers' angst.  In fact, people in Australia, New Zealand, and North America are beginning to experience the effects of the Chinese locusts, something that Hong Kongers have been dealing with for at least ten years.  We are beginning to feel the Hong Kongers' pain and experiencing their angst...

Living Dangerously in Communist China

From the beijinger.com

One of the most disturbing aspects of living in contemporary China is the seemingly endless stream of food safety bad news stories. The past week has seen some real doozies even by China standards, with a CCTV investigative report claiming many disposable chopsticks are highly toxic, and allegations that the use of oil dredged from drains is rampant in Chinese restaurants.



The CCTV report on the manufacturing of disposable chopsticks went to air last Monday (March 15), featuring images of workers happily walking over piles of the utensils tossed on factory floors and dogs sniffing around work areas.

More disturbing were the allegations summarized in a Global Times report last Friday (March 19): “Toxic chemicals including sulfur, hydrogen peroxide and paraffin are believed to be used to keep disposable chopsticks white and smooth, and also as an insect repellent, according to a CCTV program on March 15. Hydrogen peroxide is a powerful oxidizer used as a rocket propellant, among its many other industrial applications.”

The Global Times report also quotes Dong Jinshi of the Kaifa Environment Technology Consultation Center talking about disposable chopsticks: "Eighty percent of these things are not safe… and when you consider the packaging, it is only worse. Some plastic sleeves are made of garbage plastic.”

Then there were the reports that waste oil sourced from drains commonly finds its way back into restaurant kitchens. The Global Times reported this morning: “Huang Fenghong, deputy director of the Oil Crops Research Institute at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, told the Global Times that, after seven years of field research, his research team has concluded that the use of recycled oil is rampant in some areas, especially where cash-strapped migrant workers and students are major diners. Recycled cooking oil, dubbed ‘drainage oil,’ is refined from discarded kitchen waste and reused in the preparation of meals at restaurants and canteens. ‘The use of drainage oil will put the public's health in peril because it may contain heavy metal, waste antibiotics or aflatoxins, a highly toxic substance that could cause cancer,’ he said.”



The report continues: “He Dongping, a nutrition professor at central China's Wuhan Polytechnic University and a member of Huang's team, told the China Youth Daily on Thursday that people in China consume about 2 to 3 million tons of drainage oil a year. ‘China consumes about 22.5 million tons of cooking oil annually, which means that one in 10 meals in the country may be cooked with illegal cooking oil,’ the newspaper quoted him as saying.”



China Daily was more blunt: “Read this before you eat at Chinese restaurants next time. Every year, two to three million tons of swill-cooked dirty oil, soaked with poisonous carcinogens have sneaked back to our dining tables through an underground muck-money network so rampant that it's an open secret in the industry, the China Youth Daily reported Wednesday…. According to an undercover investigation in Wuhan by nine senior students of professor He, the conspiracy starts at night when swill-fishers hollow out the stinking hogwash from urban sewages, followed by filtrating, heating, subsiding, dividing, and then in the morning comes out the clear-looking ‘edible’ oil for unwitting customers.”



China Hush has translated a post that appeared on SINA in the wake of these allegations, supposedly written by an anonymous chef. The poster claims that “cases of fishing sewer waste oil are fewer now,” but sourcing oil from drains is still common practice.



The anonymous poster writes: “Where does it flow to after the drainage oil is collected? Of course the dinner table!... Drainage oil processing is simple: put it in a huge pot and heat it up, then add some chemicals, the residues and impurities in the waste oil are separated and sink to the bottom of the pot. The upper layer clear oil looks no different than the normal oil if just looking at it. The price for this oil is only 3 yuan per kg, and the normal edible oil costs 9 yuan per kg. The drainage oil is usually used by fast food restaurants, food stalls, street food stands and including some companies’ in-house cafeterias.”



So, to summarize: it appears the food supply and our milk are contaminated, the oil our food is cooked is often sourced from drains or sewers, and most of the chopsticks we eat with are highly toxic.



Bon appetite!

Is there at least ONE honest Chinaman around? Fake products, tainted foods, fake schools and now fake US Army Reserve...Jeesh

from the SGV Tribune

By Daniel Tedford, Staff Writer

Posted: 04/13/2011 08:43:45 PM PDT

Yupeng Deng, also known as David Deng, listens to his mandarin interpreter, Billy Lee, during his arraignment at Pomona Superior Court in Pomona on Wednesday, April 13, 2011. Deng faces charges for recruiting Chinese nationals for a phony Army special forces unit by promising recruits a fast-track to U.S. citizenship. Deng faces 13 counts of theft by false pretenses, manufacturing deceptive government documents and counterfeit of an official government seal. (SGVN/Staff photo by Watchara Phomicinda)

Chinese national and El Monte resident Yupeng Deng with some of the people who he recruited to his phony Army unit with promise of a path to U.S. citizenship. (Photos courtesy of FBI/DCIS)

POMONA - An El Monte man suspected of creating a phony military unit in an office in Temple City, who had recruits fitted with real army uniforms and charged them fees for service and ranks, was simply misunderstood, a defense attorney said on Wednesday.
Chinese national Yupeng Deng, also known as David Deng, is suspected of recruiting more than 100 Chinese nationals from as far away as Atlanta into a phony Army unit he led as the group's "supreme commander" by offering U.S. citizenship in exchange for service, according to Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office officials.
"I think the facts are going to bear out he wasn't counterfeiting," defense attorney Darren Cornforth said. "I am of the position that the state has one opinion ... and I think there is some misunderstanding."
Officials with the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office disagree.
"He preyed upon the aspirations of a very specific, targeted group," Deputy District Attorney Michael Yglecias said.
Prosecutors said they don't believe the unit was dangerous and was based around the immigration scam.
Deng was scheduled to be arraigned at Pomona Superior Court on Wednesday, but the hearing was postponed until May 2. Deng is being held on $500,000 bail after the District Attorney's Office requested a higher bail because they consider him a flight risk. Without the change, Deng's bail would have been $160,000, officials said.
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lawyer said he planned to challenge the bail amount at a hearing on Friday. "I think the bail is outrageous for these types of charges," Cornforth said.
Cornforth did not provide details on his defense or how his client was allegedly misunderstood.
Deng, 51, was arrested Tuesday by Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputies assisting the investigation, which is being conducted by the FBI and the Department of Defense Criminal Investigative Services.
Officials first began investigating when his recruits were caught using fake military IDs trying to get out of traffic tickets with police.
He faces 13 counts of theft by false pretenses, manufacturing deceptive government documents and counterfeit of an official government seal.
If convicted, Deng faces up to eight years and four months in prison.
Deng allegedly charged recruits between $300 and $450, along with renewal fees of $120 each year, to be part of his fake unit, which he dubbed the U.S. Military Special Forces Reserve. Recruits could move up in rank if they paid higher fees, officials said. And he gave himself the title of "supreme commander" of the fake military unit, officials said.
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Phony Army recruitment office in Temple City started by Chinese national and El Monte resident Yupeng Deng as part of an immigration scam. (Photos courtesy of FBI/DCIS)

unit began in October 2008 and was run out of Deng's office on Las Tunas Drive in Temple City, which was made to look like a legitimate Army recruitment office, complete with a fake official seal on its floor, officials said. Most of the recruits were from Los Angeles County, but there were some from as far away as San Jose and Atlanta, officials said.
"There is speculation there was more than 100 (recruits), but investigators told me they were comfortable with saying 100," Yglecias said.
The unit was supplied with real Army uniforms that could have been purchased at a surplus store or another outlet.
Deng trained the troops using mock weapons - BB guns - during the training, Yglecias said. And he taught the unit military conduct and thinking, he said.
"They were told they were indeed part of the U.S. military," Yglecias said.
Recruits also were told they could get a free pass on tickets from police and deals on airfare due to their status - promises that led to the investigation, Yglecias said.
The unit was also apparently part of a parade in Monterey Park and posed for pictures with local elected officials, prosecutors said.
Assemblyman Mike Eng was told he was in a picture with Deng, though he has not seen the photo himself. He said he has no recollection of Deng or his unit, but he was critical of the Deng's alleged actions.
"It is the worst moral implication," Eng said. "It plays on people's desire to be patriotic, to be loyal. It takes all that good cache ... and it bundles it up and prostitutes it into a cash transaction. This is a defilement of the hopes and dreams of immigrants."
Eng defended officials who may have been duped by Deng for photo opportunities.
"It is always disconcerting when people take advantage of the openness of our office," he said.
daniel.tedford@sgvn.com
626-962-8811, ext. 2730

IN MONTEREY PARK, CHINAMAN’S DEPRAVITY REIGNS

By Jonathan Fairbank, Editor-in-Chief

As late as 1982, Monterey Park, CA was a safe, clean and American suburb located a few miles from downtown Los Angeles. Then Chinamen from Hong Kong and Taiwan began to colonize the city by bribing City Councilors and buying out long-time residents. Beginning in 1983 and ending in around 1988, the largest and fastest white flight in American history quietly took place in this suburban town. These Chinamen thence constructed a large number of apartment buildings, which were rented out to immigrants from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Vietnam whom they recruited to settle in the town. Of course, these immigrants live(d) ten to a room, and the destruction of the once-beautiful Monterey Park started in earnest.

But things settled down for a few years in the city. These immigrants, for the most part, were family-oriented who raised their families on menial jobs, welfare fraud and tax evasion.

Then the monstrosity of Mainland Chinamen came on the scene in the mid-1990s. Unlike the overseas Chinamen of the 1980s, these Mainland Chinamen are young, single and looking for the fast buck. They live ten to a room, but they also run gambling and opium (YES, OPIUM) dens and brothels out of these dilapidating apartments.

They tout the law with impunity because, in their eyes, Monterey Park is a “Chinese town” where the mainly white and Hispanic police force is too timid to raise questions for fear of being sued by the ACLU or one of the ubiquitous ethnic-based “legal aid societies.”

The result is rampant criminal activities such as gambling, prostitution and drug- and women-trafficking. Old timers, mainly the Chinaman cohort of the 1980s, are paying the price of the latest crime waves to hit Monterey Park.

And there’s very little these old-timer Chinamen can do. The police doesn’t care because no one in the police force lives in the city or is intimidated by potential charges of racism. Because they never had to assimilate, these old-timer Chinamen do not know how to leverage institutional resources to address the crime waves from Mainland China, which seems to export everything under the sun to the United States including criminals.

One might quip, “Let these blasted Chinamen stew in the crap they made.” On one level, I agree. Let these bastards reap what they sowed in the 1980s. But if left unchecked, these criminal Chinamen, like sewage scum, will seep into other SoCal communities. In fact, the Fairbank Report has learned that there are attempts under way, which are funded in part or in whole by the Beijing regime, to Sinicize La Canada-Flintridge, Claremont, Upland, Rancho Cucamonga, Chino, Redland and other livable areas of the Los Angeles basin.

Moreover, by writing off Monterey Park as a loss to criminal Chinamen, we are, in effect, surrendering piecemeal the entire state of California to criminal elements and illegal aliens. California may appear to be a lost cause, but we should not go down without a good fight!

Made in China = Certain Death?

The Fairbank Report was the first to break several stories on tainted Chinese-made products, including tainted toothpaste in the United States and Panama, tainted medicine sold within China and exported to Latin America and of course the tainted pet food scandal, which resulted in numerous deaths of American pets.

And we were the first to call for a ban on all Chinese-made products, in particular foodstuffs, in the United States.

Yet, no action. Not quite. The Chinese did execute their FDA administrator. This is classically Chinese tactic: “Kill the monkey to scare the chickens.” In other words, symbolic justice. The stench of corruption is so deep and pervasive that there is very little the central government can do except for these showcased executions. Recall that in the late 1990’s, the former mayor of Beijing (who occupied a very high-level position within the Byzantine labyrinth of Chinese government) was executed for “economic crimes.” Yet, corruption remains rampant as before his execution, if not worse. Once again, symbolic justice over substantive reform.

So there will certainly be more cases of tainted Chinese-made products that will kill or maim thousands, if not tens of thousands, and the world will go on consuming them. Sigh!

Tainted Chinese Toothpaste!

Will these bloody Chinese stop at nothing to make money?

Ban all Chinese imports NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Panama traces tainted toothpaste to China
Published: May 19, 2007 at 1:15 PMPANAMA CITY, Panama, May 19 (UPI) -- Officials in Panama say they believe a toxic ingredient found in thousands of tubes of toothpaste can be traced back to a manufacturer in China.

The discovery of diethylene glycol in toothpaste comes on the heels of a scare over contaminated pet food blamed on a food additive made in China.

The New York Times said Saturday that diethylene glycol, which is found in some anti-freeze, has been used before by product counterfeiters as a sweet-tasting, low-cost substitute for glycerin.

Panamanian officials reported Friday that most consumers who used the tainted toothpaste spit it out because it tastes strange. Nevertheless, around 100 people died in Panama last year when diethylene glycol was mixed with cold medicine that also was sourced from China.