Brazilian Workers 30% More Productive than Chinese

Brazil is a great country, I lived there twice, but they do have a more relaxed culture. But I’s have to say that in general, they are hard workers, but just like to relax. For instance while I was there I saw them badgered for their attitudes but in reality were pretty good. The Chinese, in an effort to foul up the world are now in Brazil and the Brazilians are pissed. Chinese arrogance and inflexibility are causing them problems as the Chinese do not respect Brazilian culture, nor any culture for theat matter. But interestingly enough, although all Chinese claim to work so hard and see the rest of us barbarians  as lazy, a report from  The Conference Board states that Brazilian workers were 30 percent more productive in 2010 than Chinese workers. This should come as a surprise to know one ass your typical chinaman spends more time on qq or bitching about house prices then putting his nose to the grindstone.

Contaminated Water in Northeastern China- Where Will China’s Eco-Refugees End Up?

articles from xinhua “HARBIN, April 24 (Xinhua) — About 9,000 people in a northeastern China county have to line up in front of temporary water supply stations to get drinking water after their tap water was found polluted, authorities said Sunday. Many local residents in Yilan County, Heilongjiang Province, have been reportedly infected with intestinal illnesses since Friday. Local government confirmed that the infection was caused by polluted drinking water after excessive amounts of e-coli bacteria was found in the drinking water. People in 2,675 households in seven residential areas have been affected by the impure water, as of Sunday afternoon. Zhang Wen, an official with the county, said some underground water supply pipes are aged and had fissures, so the underground water was polluted by waste water from the soakaway pits. Six temporary water supply stations had been set up so far. The local government is working to repair and disinfect the problematic water supply systems. Local residents wait to get drinking water from a temporary water supply station after the local tap water was found polluted in Yilan County, Heilongjiang Province, April 24, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua] Many local residents in Yilan County, Heilongjiang Province, have been reportedly infected with intestinal illnesses since Friday. Local government confirmed that the infection was caused by polluted drinking water after excessive amounts of e-coli bacteria was found in the drinking water. People in 2,675 households in seven residential areas have been affected by the impure water, as of Sunday afternoon. Zhang Wen, an official with the county, said some underground water supply pipes are aged and had fissures, so the underground water was polluted by waste water from the soakaway pits. Six temporary water supply stations had been set up so far. The local government is working to repair and disinfect the problematic water supply systems. A woman holds her child in her arm who got sick after the local tap water was polluted in Yilan County, Heilongjiang Province, April 24, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua]

Chinese Guy Fails to Pay Bribes

The Chinese love to run these little articles about how they are cracking down on various crimes. One of their favs is how they crack down on fake goods. In the excerpt below, they talk about cracking a gang who was going to export 30,000 fake bags, LV etc. The funny thing is that I can go right now to the Silk Market which is ten minutes from the head of the communist party, and buy any fake bag purse, golf club, whatever I want. So when I read articles like the snippet below, I just have to chuckle. chinadaily: “After a convoluted trail led to the recent arrest of suspects, Qingdao police solved the mystery of who was behind the largest cache of counterfeit goods set for export since a nationwide campaign against intellectual property infringement began late last year. Fourteen suspects have been detained for attempting to export more than 30,000 counterfeit handbags, suitcases and hats. Labeled as well-known brands including LV, Adidas and Puma, the trove had a total potential retail value of 232 million yuan ($35.3 million), according to police.

Chinese Growing Weed

From the Sentinel. Three Chinese are jailed for growing weed in the UK. It sounds like they were part of a large grow op. It makes no mention if these women were the leaders or merely foot soldiers, but they got caught and will do time. I remember seeing something about foreigners doing this in China. I think the foreigners got killed for a similar offence, but these women look like they will only get 2 years in the pokey and do half that time. excerpt: Chinese trio jailed for growing 3,600 cannabis plants worth £1.2m THREE Chinese women haven been jailed for growing thousands of cannabis plants worth more than £1 million.Youyin Lin, Mei Guo and Xiaoying Wu admitted being “gardeners” at a warehouse off Sutherland Road, Longton. Prosecutor Nick Tatlow yesterday told Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court police went to the modern warehouse behind the Aynsley China building at 6pm on October 11. Inside they found 3,650 cannabis plants being grown in pots. “There was lighting and ventilation and the set-up required plants to be watered and fed manually,” said Mr Tatlow. “There was also a living area and the three women were found inside.” Mr Tatlow said the set-up was capable of yielding three crops of high quality cannabis, known as skunk, a year.He said each crop would have had an estimated yield of about 135 kilograms. “This facility was capable of producing about 400 kilograms of such cannabis per annum, which amounts to a little over £4 million,” said Mr Tatlow. “The wholesale value would have been very much less, about £1.2 million.”

China’s Hack Addiction- CCTV Hacks a Scene From Top Gun

In an attempt to build her credibility around the world, CCTV has allegedly shanzai’ed some footage from the movie Top Gun and claim it as their own. How sad is it when you have to hack fighter scenes from the 80′s….

Click the link to see the video, how hilarious…

from here

On Jan. 23, China’s state broadcaster, CCTV, ran a story about an air force training exercise that contained some suspicious footage.

Around the segment’s one minute 12 seconds mark (see above), as the China-U.S.-oriented blog Ministry of Tofu pointed out, “the way a target was hit by the air-to-air missile fired by a J-10 fighter aircraft and exploded looks almost identical to a cinema scene from the Hollywood film Top Gun.”

Viewers were led to believe that what they were seeing was a live fire exercise. But according to Ministry of Tofu: “A net user who went by the name “刘毅” (Liu Yi) pointed out that the jet that the J-10 ‘hit’ is an F-5, a US fighter jet. In Top Gun, what the leading actor Tom Cruise pilots an F-14 to bring down is exactly an F-5. Looking at the screenshots juxtaposition, one cannot fail to find that even flame, smoke and the way the splinters fly look the same.”

Not convinced? The Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report put the videos side-by-side.
http://s.wsj.net/media/swf/main.swf

The seemingly doctored footage has been removed from CCTV’s website. But Real Time China Report notes that Chinese media has in the past been caught red-handed lifting fictional U.S. material in news reports.

“In 2002, the popular Beijing Evening News tabloid translated and published as genuine a satirical news article by The Onion about U.S. Congress threatening to leave Washington D.C. unless the city built them a new building with a retractable roof,” writes Josh Chin. “Five years later, the state-run Xinhua news agency infamously used an x-ray image of Homer Simpson’s head to illustrate a story about the discovery of a genetic link to multiple sclerosis.”

CCTV has declined to comment in media reports.

The Fat Lady is Singing- China is Buying US Gas Leases

Read it and weep…

exceprt:

“SHANGHAI (Dow Jones)–China’s Cnooc Ltd. (CEO) is buying into several shale oil and gas leases in the U.S. owned by Chesapeake Energy Corp. (CHK) for US$570 million in cash, in the latest move by a Chinese oil company to learn a technology that has transformed the U.S. gas industry.

Also, Cnooc will fund two-thirds of Chesapeake’s share of drilling and other costs up to maximum of US$697 million, the two companies said in a statement Monday.

The deal follows a similar Cnooc-Chesapeake agreement in October 2010 under which the Chinese company bought one-third of Chesapeake’s 600,000-acre Eagle Ford, Texas, shale oil and gas project for US$1.08 billion–a pact which was the first major investment by a China state-run company in onshore energy reserves in the U.S.

Chinese companies had until then been reluctant to invest in U.S. energy reserves, following Cnooc’s 2005 bid to take over California-based Unocal Corp. being blocked by a nationalist political uproar.

Blast upends Bus in China

America Say Goodbye To Your Pensions-20% of Chinese Companies Listed in USA Stock Market Accused of Fraud

Many Americans are betting their retirement and pensions on the stock market. China now has companies listed in the American Stock Market and being Chinese, they may do things different-they have a different definition of morals, ethics and cheating. More than 20% of all Chinese companies listed in the USA stock exchange have been accused of fraud.
I say kudos to them, we dont really need our hard earned money do we? This is pretty scary and if we allow it, then we are fools and deserve it.
China does not play by the same rules, check your portfolio, talk to your brokers….

excerpt:
“More than 20 of the Chinese companies listed on the United State’s exchanges have been accused of fraud, China Business News reported Monday.

About 80 percent of Chinese companies listed on the US market meet the nation’s standards, but 10-20 percent of the firms provided false information, the report said, citing Stephen Paul Monticelli, president of Mosaic Investments LLC, a San Francisco-based company that has invested in Chinese firms over the past five years.”

Chinese Oil Spill Forces Dalian China to Close Beaches

This is scary for mother earth. The Chinese are not known for quality and oil spills can happen. Thus, to sate China’s voracious appetite for oil, more must be drilled, leading to more spills.

excerpt:

Two crude oil pipelines exploded in Dalian’s Xingang port late last Friday, triggering a fire that was extinguished after 15 hours. The blasts, however, caused an oil slick that had stretched 183 sq km off the Dalian coast by Tuesday.

Hundreds of soldiers and local residents on Tuesday joined in the efforts to clean up the Bangchui island beach, which reeked of oil.

News Flash Chinese Company Suing Google!

Actually to China it is a news flash, but to me its bullshit. Basically some online shoe company in China is trying to sue google ads for an advertisement of a competitor.

here is an excerpt of the official story I have removed the name of the company bringing suit, screw them, they dont deserve the ink.

“In early May, a xxxx employee searched the name of the company on google.cn, and the second result showed: “If you want to buy sneakers, OKBuy is better than xxxx.”

xxx claims the Beijing company OKBuy maliciously tarnished its reputation by placing such an online ad link.

Letao then made several phone calls to Google.cn and asked it to remove the advertisement, but without success, the company said.”

In theory what they are saying (company xxx) is that the competitor used their search name to actually drive hits to a competitors site. I dont know about the legality of it, but it sound pretty good to me. The problem is that China has no rule of law, and right now the pack mentality is kicking in whereby the ruling communist party probably wants  to punish Google. Thus, this cowardly company may win. This is what you can call the China cost of doing business.