Most of the stuff they make is of little use and a waste of resources, like making little one child problems. Another waster product of their effort is buildings.

China is constructing the worlds largest building in Shanghai and its already doomed. Shanghai, lest you forget, is a swampland that just a few decades ago only supported microbial life and bums.

The chinese, however, do not care about the ground beneath shanghai, they just like pretty projects. So when they constructed this big building and the concrete around it began to crack, people got nervous.

The communists, however, said it is just natural and there is nothing to worry about…

The really scary thing is that they are building one floor every 7 days in that skyscraper. Do you trust a building that
a- is built by the chinese
b-is built with chinese goods
c-goes up at a rate of one floor per week

I see mass destruction in their future….

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-02-21/cracks-in-ground-near-shanghai-tower-not-a-concern-daily-says.html

As much as the Chinese lie, I kind of believe the Japanese guy…

From here
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20120222000064&cid=1101

“Looking at the 146 most selective colleges and universities, the study concluded that blacks and Latinos would account for 4 percent of the student body if admissions were based solely on grades and test scores. Race-based affirmative action increased that number to 12 percent. “

From here
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-02-22/college-affirmative-action-threatened-by-u-s-high-court-case.html

From the Brew Man
“Now, if the ladies and gents in the audience will all swallow all the Adderall in their bottles, and focus on another topic for a sec…

Ha! Ha! Ha! “What’s all the screeching and crashing?” you say. That is the sound of false hopes and dreams, pinned on the Millennium Falcon death coffins, crashing and burning like a pileup of turbo-charged bumper cars comprised of paper-thin shavings of shade tree wood: the piggy bank feeding the hungry, avarice-filled greed of the CCP’s glutenous machinations is busto; a few coins short, too much polish blown on 1.2 million yuan toilets (yes, 1.2 million yuan per toilet).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9095729/Chinas-high-speed-rail-project-runs-out-of-steam.html

The scoop:

“Out of 23 current railway projects, some 70 per cent have been suspended, partly suspended, or delayed, according to the Chinese state media.

Meanwhile, an unnamed source told Dow Jones, the news agency, that only nine new railways would be commissioned this year, compared to 70 last year.

Having run up enormous debts, the Chinese Railways ministry is struggling to persuade banks to continue to finance its ambitions.

Ticket sales, meanwhile, have been slow on some lines as travellers baulk at the price.

“The ministry cannot bear so much debt. It has already taken 240 billion yuan (£24 billion) of loans and if it takes much more how can it pay the interest?” said Wang Mengshu, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and senior consultant on the high-speed rail project.

[...]

At the height of the high-speed boom, trains were being fitted with toilets that cost 1.2 million yuan (£120,000) a piece, and taps imported from Japan that cost 7,000 yuan, according to an investigation by Century Weekly magazine.

[...]

In the wake of the crash, the Ministry found it increasingly expensive to borrow money, and no longer had access to the huge stimulus loans that were handed out in the wake of the financial crisis to keep the Chinese economy going.

“The Ministry’s debts are now worth 60 per cent of its assets, and some analysts think they may rise to 70 per cent this year,” reported the China Business Times.”

1.2 million yuan per toilet? Damn, I thought the US Pentagon was bad with “$20,000 toilets.” They look like Walmart shoppers by comparison.

Story and picture from here http://www.taliacarner.com/deadnewborningutter.html

Excerpt:
“To the Chinese authorities, abandoned girls are merely worthless trash. “I called the emergency services, but nobody came,” says the woman who found this latest little victim. (For fear of official reprisal, she wishes to remain anonymous.) “The baby was lying right near the government tax office, so many people in government just walked past.” Eventually, an old man picked up the child, put her in a box, and dropped her in a garbage bin. When the police finally arrived, they showed no interest in investigating her death. They instead arrested the woman who’d tried to save her. “I took some photographs, because it was so terrible; the police were more worried about my pictures than the baby,” she says. The police only released the woman once she handed over her film.”