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Beijing issues pollution warning as skies turn yellow
AP on Yahoo ^
| 4/6/05
| AFP - Beijing
Posted on 04/06/2005 8:03:15 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: farmfriend
To: NormsRevenge
I was there in November. Any amount of physical exertion produced a burning sensation in the lungs. Not pleasant at all.
To: this_ol_patriot
The old timers had a saying a dark sky meant a good payday or something like that.
Now-days it means lung cancer!
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posted on
04/06/2005 10:59:02 PM PDT
by
Fast1
(Destroy America buy Chinese goods,Shop at Wal-Mart 3/18/05 American was gone when I woke up)
To: Rocky
You think private business is responsible for this pollution? In China?
True private business doesn't even exist in china.
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posted on
04/07/2005 12:45:36 AM PDT
by
newfarm4000n
(God Bless America and God Bless Freedom)
To: followerofchrist
"They need environmentalists. We don't appreciate them often enough. Without them, we have...Bejing."I can't recall too many "environmentalists" objecting to China's pollution index. Have you?
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posted on
04/07/2005 12:48:31 AM PDT
by
Bonaparte
(Of course, it must look like an accident...)
To: this_ol_patriot
Sweet Lord! Is that for real??? High noon???
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posted on
04/07/2005 12:50:21 AM PDT
by
hoagy62
(The reason for the Second Amendment is in case all the others fail.)
To: hoagy62
Oh yes, here's a Google on
Donora smog and lots of interesting things come up, it was
the incident that brought air quality to the forefront back then. It was a lethal fog of sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide and metal dust, zinc, from the zinc works there. 20 people died. My Dad used to tell us about it.
We used to go past the Palmerton, PA zinc works back in the 60's on the way to Phillies games. It stripped an entire mountainside of trees and always stunk to high heavens but the money and the jobs were there. Here's a linked picture of that. It's cleaned up now.
Really though we weren't concerned that much back then. I grew up in the hard coal region of NE PA and we had culm banks in our back yards and coal trucks all over the place. We all burned coal and grew up blowing black snot all the time.
To: Rocky
You think private business is responsible for this pollution? In China?
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At least partially. I wonder what %. Although, I do recall Eastern Europe was much more polluted under the communists. Good point.
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posted on
04/07/2005 5:41:50 AM PDT
by
traviskicks
(http://www.neoperspectives.com/foundingoftheunitedstates.htm)
To: NormsRevenge
Red Chinese, yellow China.
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posted on
04/07/2005 5:45:10 AM PDT
by
manic4organic
(We won. Get over it.)
To: NormsRevenge
This is another reason why all the industrial jobs are going to communist China.
They don't mind poisoning their citizens/slaves as they crank out shoddy garbage for Wal Mart.
And no pesky lawyers or public activists to get in the way either, they just disappear in the middle of the night.
Yeah, communist China a capitalist paradise!
To: Torie
The Olympics should be an interesting event in this venue. Don't look for any record times. Coming to an Olympics near you!
Guy: "She said she choked on a chunk of air"
What's that stink?
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posted on
04/07/2005 5:58:59 AM PDT
by
jriemer
(We are a Republic not a Democracy)
To: Bonaparte
"I can't recall too many "environmentalists" objecting to China's pollution index. Have you?"
I wouldn't know, because they are probably illegal in China. As for leftists here, I have heard complaints. But what can they do?
To: NormsRevenge; abbi_normal_2; Ace2U; adam_az; Alamo-Girl; Alas; alfons; alphadog; AMDG&BVMH; amom; ..
Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.
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posted on
04/07/2005 1:20:18 PM PDT
by
farmfriend
( Why oh why didn't I take the blue pill?!?)
To: steel_resolve
WHen Cina breaks it will not be pretty, and it is coming.
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posted on
04/07/2005 1:22:43 PM PDT
by
TXBSAFH
(Never underestimate the power of human stupidity--Robert Heinlein)
To: farmfriend
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posted on
04/07/2005 1:27:44 PM PDT
by
E.G.C.
To: farmfriend
Dust from eroding yellow cake?
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posted on
04/07/2005 1:58:37 PM PDT
by
F.J. Mitchell
(Have the Democrats,our RINOs and their MSM ever met a skunk too stinking to snuggle up to?)
To: followerofchrist
Fortunately, they can do to environmentalists and labor union types in China (like in the photos of the Tibetans they executed) things we couldn't even consider here....
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posted on
04/07/2005 2:06:40 PM PDT
by
Schwaeky
(Hey Hey-- Ho Ho Haugen Haas have gotta go!)
To: F.J. Mitchell
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posted on
04/07/2005 2:32:02 PM PDT
by
farmfriend
( Why oh why didn't I take the blue pill?!?)
To: NormsRevenge
Pay no attention to the smoldering yellow haze smothering the failed socialist state.
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posted on
04/07/2005 2:36:22 PM PDT
by
ChadGore
(VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
To: NormsRevenge
I don't see the problem...These American companies couldn't wait to get out of the U.S. of A. fast enough to be free from all these environmental and safety regulations...Now they're free and making busloads of money...
If we can just get rid of precipitators, waste water treatment plants and the County sewage treatment facilities so the companies can go back to dumping that stuff into the lakes and rivers, maybe we can get some of that business back...Lousy regulations anyway...
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posted on
04/07/2005 6:07:55 PM PDT
by
Iscool
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