Beware & Protect Yourself 03 (Sep 10 - Dec 14)

[winston]

Top official calls for crackdown as fake eggs found
Friday, February 10, 2012

Vice Premier Li Keqiang called for harsh punishments for food safety violations as officials removed fake eggs from a supermarket yesterday.

Li said China faces a grave situation in ensuring food supplies are kept safe and authorities should be proactive to deter violations, Xinhua News Agency reported.

About 3,000 eggs were taken off the shelves in Guangzhou, after a shopper claimed the ones he bought were fake and had upset his son's stomach, China Daily reported.

Officials from the local industry and commerce bureau have sealed up the eggs and sent samples to a laboratory for examination.

Eggs may be faked using chemicals such as sodium alginate, the newspaper said, citing an academic. While sodium alginate is edible, the chemical does not have the nutrients of real eggs.

The authorities will establish a long-term mechanism for food safety this year, Li said at a meeting of the State Council's food safety commission.

The measures will support Beijing's crackdown on illegal food additives since six babies died and 300,000 others were sickened by a milk formula tainted with melamine in 2008.

Last year an unapproved additive in pork and toxins in some milk products were found.

Source: BLOOMBERG

[kennynah]

eggs also can fake... how ingenious...if only they use such talents ethically, they would eventually become very successful...

[winston]

Taiwan man held in 'holy' Elmo muppet scam

A Taiwanese man was taken into custody for allegedly swindling millions of Taiwan dollars by selling Sesame Street dolls and other items, which he claimed had "magic powers," according to police.

The suspect, identified by his surname Lin, was accused of conning some Tw$3 million ($100,000) from a businessman with products including an Elmo doll, a Sesame Street muppet, which he said was "holy" and could bring luck, they said.

The man, who claimed Lin also asked him to "buy property in the underworld," later contacted the police after he realised he had been scammed.

Lin was also suspected of selling the dolls to other victims for up to Tw$1 million apiece, as well as touting a variety of products for their alleged healing effects.

Police said they will continue to investigate Lin, a temple keeper in northern Taoyuan county, after they found documents with information on a large number of "followers" from the past several years at his home and temple.

Source: AFP Global Edition

[winston]

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[winston]

I'm sure there's a malware on this one too, if I click on the link:-

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[winston]

FDA's Warnings About Mercury by Dr. David Brownstein

This week, the FDA released a consumer update titled, “Mercury Poisoning Linked to Skin Products.”

The article stated, “Federal health officials are warning consumers not to use skin creams, beauty and antiseptic soaps, or lotions that might contain mercury.

The products are manufactured abroad and sold in the U.S. illegally. If you have a product that matches these descriptions, stop using it immediately.”

http://lewrockwell.com/orig12/brownstein-d12.1.html

[iam802]

Saw on Facebook..

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Phishing scam on SingTel....

They are trying to get you to click the link in the email...be careful there.

[iam802]

Saw on Facebook..

Mummies, ppl are kidnapping children in Singapore!!! Do keep them in sight all the time!!!! Pls share this to alert more mothers!!

[winston]

MAKING THE UNWANTED UNREADABLE

If you don't have a paper shredder, and you have a large number of papers that you want to make unusable by someone that might discover them in your rubbish, just soak them for several hours in soapy water;

Remove them and then wad them into balls of mush and discard with your other rubbish.


Source: www.wisdomtips.com

[winston]

Cult leaders prey on the desperate
The Star/Asia News Network

GEORGE TOWN, Malaysia - Cult leaders or mediums are usually good at observing how desperate their intended victims are, according to a Buddhist expert.

Young Buddhist Association of Malaysia secretary-general Sek Chin Yong said they targeted people suffering from sickness, investment failure, marriage problems or psychological disorders.

"For example, if a woman has been suffering from an illness for a long time, she might believe the medium if he claims that she can be healed by having sex with him," said Sek.

He said some mediums would claim that devotees were possessed by the devil or did some bad deeds in a past life, and having sex with the medium would rid them of their ill fortune.

"They usually claim that they are transformed from other deities, or their bodies are virtuous.

"When people are desperate to find a solution to their problems, they would easily consider this offer as the last resort," he said here yesterday.

He said the typical cases of cheating were of mediums getting "do­nations" from devotees without issuing receipts.

He was commenting on recent reports about a medium in Nibong Tebal, said to be leading a cult that frowns on idols and ancestor worship, and allegedly turns children against their parents.

Sek, who had handled various controversies involving mediums, said the cause of people falling prey to fake mediums was usually lack of religious knowledge.

"For example, there are a lot of Buddhists who can't tell when monks are fake. Monks cannot accept money or jewellery as mentioned in the precepts," he added.

Malaysia Taoist Association Pe­­nang chapter chairman Daozhang (Taoist priest) Ooi Kok Chuan said the group had received a report on the cult.

The cult was not registered with the association but the chapter was checking on it, he said.

http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BN ... 36385.html