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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.181.152.177
Posted on Friday, January 22, 2010 - 06:47 pm:   

Watch the video and read the article.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8471187.stm
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.181.152.177
Posted on Friday, January 22, 2010 - 06:49 pm:   

Can't quite see how any governments have spent any money on this without ensuring it actually works. But then again...
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.181.152.177
Posted on Friday, January 22, 2010 - 06:51 pm:   

Managing director's been arrested now...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/22/dowsing_rod_bomb_detector_bust/
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Nathaniel Tapley (Natt)
Username: Natt

Registered: 11-2009
Posted From: 78.144.205.110
Posted on Friday, January 22, 2010 - 06:51 pm:   

Yes. I first heard about this a couple of months ago, in this article: http://www.ministryoftruth.me.uk/2009/11/05/british-company-sells-60000-dowsing- rods-to-iraq-as-explosives-detectors/

I'm glad the story's getting some more coverage now.
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Allybird (Allybird)
Username: Allybird

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 80.47.10.77
Posted on Friday, January 22, 2010 - 07:09 pm:   

Awful. Lock the manufacturer up and throw away the key.

I hate this sort of thing. Remember the babymilk scandal in China?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7624969.stm

Anyone, knowingly involved in this kind of crap for profit, that endangers life, has to be exposed......
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Allybird (Allybird)
Username: Allybird

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 80.47.10.77
Posted on Friday, January 22, 2010 - 07:15 pm:   

'Of those children made sick, more than 150 are said to have acute kidney failure.

Chinese police have arrested 18 people in connection with the scandal.

China's ability to police its food production industries has long been under question.

Health scares and fatalities in recent years have ranged from the contamination of seafood to toothpaste and, last year, to pet food exported to the US.'

Then there were the toys made there....
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSPEK30831320070830?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNe ws&rpc=22&sp=true

This is one of the topics that makes me sit up and write about the real horror in the world.
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Allybird (Allybird)
Username: Allybird

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 80.47.10.77
Posted on Friday, January 22, 2010 - 07:23 pm:   

I love travelling in China and Hong Kong but I get really pissed off about all this.

Three posts in a row from me. You've started something Mick. :>)
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Huw (Huw)
Username: Huw

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 61.216.50.170
Posted on Saturday, January 23, 2010 - 03:07 am:   

There is always a huge stink about this kind of thing over here in Taiwan, where many people remain very suspicious and resentful toward China.
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Steve Bacon (Stevebacon)
Username: Stevebacon

Registered: 09-2008
Posted From: 90.204.111.196
Posted on Saturday, January 23, 2010 - 08:39 am:   

I wonder what the Chinese version of Google would display if they typed in the words 'horror writer's message board'? Not a lot, I suspect.

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