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Scary Statistic: 70% of China's Waterways are Polluted !
Boxun News ^ | 11/23/05 | vanity

Posted on 11/23/2005 4:17:45 PM PST by genefromjersey

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To: LasVegasMac

yes i did read it, along with sh#t in the fields, by I Flung Poo, a chinese classic.


21 posted on 11/23/2005 4:56:09 PM PST by pipecorp (Let's have a CRUSADE! , the muslims have already started. 1800 replies and not a single post!)
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To: genefromjersey

[SARCASM]It's Karl Rove's fault... he poisoned the waterways of china! I bet he did it to make Bush look good and such.... make the U.S. look cleaner.[/end sarcasm]


22 posted on 11/23/2005 4:56:36 PM PST by Cinnamon
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To: genefromjersey

FYI: There is NO threat of famine in China. Period. Ever.

From a cultural perspective, if invited to dinner, there is always more food prepared than can be eaten and you must leave food on your plate after a meal. Otherwise you will signal to your Chinese host that you did not get enough and will be propted to eat more.

The whole infrastructure of China is set up around providing jobs and ensuring the food supply. This keeps the nationalism strong.

Plus this crew eats everything. Take chicken's feet for instance, mmm. Sometimes it is best not to ask. I did this after a particularly tasty but unfamiliar bit of food. What was it? duck tongue. It wasn't as appealing afterwards.


23 posted on 11/23/2005 4:59:22 PM PST by Eddie01 (I'm coming to the conclusion I'm really not smart enough to post here.)
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"Plus this crew eats everything. Take chicken's feet for instance, mmm."


Actually chickens feet used to be commonly eaten in this country as well.


24 posted on 11/23/2005 5:06:34 PM PST by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: pipecorp

1.3 billion, but who's counting.


25 posted on 11/23/2005 5:09:38 PM PST by MarkeyD (Cowards cut and run. Marines finish the job. I really, really loathe liberals.)
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To: genefromjersey
And to think people are decrying the American non-committment to the Kyoto Protocol.

Does anyone notice that the worst pollution problems in the 20th Century all occurred in Communist countries? Look at the many industrial waste sites in the former Soviet Union--they make the infamous Love Canal fiasco seem like an extremely minor incident in comparison.

26 posted on 11/23/2005 5:11:31 PM PST by RayChuang88
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To: genefromjersey

What is the USA percentage?


27 posted on 11/23/2005 5:12:54 PM PST by Fawn (Try not---do or do not. ~~ Yoda)
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To: genefromjersey
guarantee you it is higher then that...my cousin was in china over the summer and toured the country- he said the most predominant smell everywhere was sewerage...
28 posted on 11/23/2005 5:14:18 PM PST by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: genefromjersey
the Communist nation has managed to foul 70% of its waterways

And the other 30% are drying up. Outlaw regimes like Red China are the hardest on the environment of any states on earth, and always will be. China has several Achille's heels, and this is one of them

29 posted on 11/23/2005 5:14:29 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: LasVegasMac
"The Yellow River".....by...I.P.Freely?

Odd----I was brought up believing that 'I. P. Daily" was that actual author.

30 posted on 11/23/2005 5:14:34 PM PST by Fawn (Try not---do or do not. ~~ Yoda)
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To: pipecorp

That's so strange.....I always grew up believing that the name of the book was "That smells bad", by 'Hoo flung Poo'.


31 posted on 11/23/2005 5:16:24 PM PST by Fawn (Try not---do or do not. ~~ Yoda)
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To: genefromjersey

The Kyoto treaty would solve this.... oops! Maybe not.


32 posted on 11/23/2005 5:16:49 PM PST by operation clinton cleanup
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To: MarkeyD

oops, sorry, sooo where do 1.3 billion....|-)


33 posted on 11/23/2005 5:16:54 PM PST by pipecorp (Let's have a CRUSADE! , the muslims have already started. 1800 replies and not a single post!)
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More U.S. Waterways Polluted by Mercury, New EPA Data Reveals

Problem Underscores EPA's Failure to Control Toxic Pollution, Says NRDC

WASHINGTON (August 24, 2004) -- More of America's waterways are polluted by mercury, leaving locally caught fish unsafe to eat, according to the Environmental Protection Agency's newly released summary of state fish consumption advisories (data available here). The advisories, issued by state health and environmental officials in 48 states, warn people to avoid eating fish contaminated by mercury, PCBs, dioxin and other industrial pollutants. Mercury, a poison that interferes with the brain and nervous system, is the pollutant of concern for most state fish advisories, with 45 states issuing mercury advisories in 2003. Eating mercury-laden fish can cause serious health problems, especially for children and pregnant women.

According to EPA's summary of 2003 data, three states -- Montana, Washington and Wisconsin -- now have statewide consumption advisories for mercury, raising the total to 21 states with statewide advisories for mercury contamination in every freshwater lake and/or river. Twelve states have statewide advisories for mercury contamination covering all their coastal water. In addition, the number of river miles with mercury contamination warnings nationwide has jumped 60 percent since 2002; likewise the number of mercury-contaminated lake acres has increased 8 percent.


34 posted on 11/23/2005 5:19:33 PM PST by Flavius (Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum")
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To: pipecorp
Anywhere they want.

One point three billion Chinese walk into a bar.

They order a beer, pay up, and then just sit there, sipping their drinks, not saying a word.

Finally, the bartender can't stand it anymore. "We don't see many Chinese in here," he says.

"And with this atmosphere of hedonistic individualism capitalistically exploiting the labor of the masses and wasting the people's agricultural resources," say the Chinese, "you won't see many more."
35 posted on 11/23/2005 5:19:52 PM PST by MarkeyD (Cowards cut and run. Marines finish the job. I really, really loathe liberals.)
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To: pipecorp
sh#t in the fields, by I Flung Poo

LOL

I swear, it was not 2 weeks ago that I mentioned that to my 11 yr old boy.

He giggled for 2 days.

LVM

36 posted on 11/23/2005 5:20:04 PM PST by LasVegasMac (HoOked on Fonics. Dun goOd For me?)
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To: Eddie01
There is NO threat of famine in China. Period. Ever.

you might do well to read up on a little history, say of the "Great Leap Forward" in the 1950's. Apparently, by your thinking, eating out was unthinkable back then, scarcely fifty years ago, because Chinese were eating grass and twigs, and the occasional afterbirth, to stay alive thanks to the policies of the Great Helmsman.

37 posted on 11/23/2005 5:20:17 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Fawn

that was co-written by Sum Dung


38 posted on 11/23/2005 5:20:26 PM PST by pipecorp (Let's have a CRUSADE! , the muslims have already started. 1800 replies and not a single post!)
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To: RayChuang88

Our Russian roommates father worked in some kind of chemical plant in the former Soviet Union. He made the mistake of asking why the vegetation all died and there was no wildlife around the plant. He was demoted and forced to work with little protection in even worse conditions. He died when he was in his 40s and they never did know what kind of chemicals he came into contact with.


39 posted on 11/23/2005 5:20:58 PM PST by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: Fawn
Odd----I was brought up believing that 'I. P. Daily" was that actual author.

Nope.

I.P. Freely was the author.

Who wrote, "Under the Bleachers" ?

This is a test.

LVM

40 posted on 11/23/2005 5:23:21 PM PST by LasVegasMac (HoOked on Fonics. Dun goOd For me?)
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