| Author | Message | ||
     Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.181.152.177 |
Watch the video and read the article. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8471187.stm | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.181.152.177 |
Can't quite see how any governments have spent any money on this without ensuring it actually works. But then again... | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.181.152.177 |
Managing director's been arrested now... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/22/dowsing_rod_bomb_detector_bust/ | ||
| Nathaniel Tapley (Natt) Username: Natt Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 78.144.205.110 |
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. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.10.77 |
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...... | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.10.77 |
'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. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.10.77 |
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. :>) | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.50.170 |
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. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.204.111.196 |
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. |