China Poisoning More- Fire Breaks out in Shanghai Chemical Plant

A fire broke out in a Shanghai chemical plant which should do little to worsen the air quality here. Aside from this factoid one has to wonder just how badly the Chinese businesses will damage their land till it gives up. The air , the water supply and the general degradation of the environment surely cannot continue unabated.
Of course the locals will bitch and moan a bit but in the end will do little. Thousands of years of weak morals and dictatorial rule have left them apathetic in times such as these. Don’t get me wrong, every now and again they rise up, but as we saw in ’89 and more recently in XJ, Gzo , IM etc.. resistance is futile.’
Oh yeah, the official word on deaths was, ‘no dead bodies discovered’….

Gender Bender Clothing in Shanghai-chinesepeoplehavenostyle.com

Awesome pics here from chinesepeoplehavenostyle.com
The site is run by a guy named Tom who is an expert in the field. Each week he critiques Chinese fashion. His blog is airy and fun and he’s got a great way with word so give him a look.

excerpt from here:

Wow this week went by fast… But I that’s fine by me because that means it’s already Friday! So to wish everyone a happy Friday, here is the most cheerfully dressed old man I’ve ever seen in China:

It’s a pretty gay outfit in the happy sort of way, but probably not the other way. But this is some serious gender-bending regardless… he’s carrying that murse with conviction like it is undoubtedly HIS, not one he borrowed like most other guys do these days.

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Reality of the Depth of Corruption in China

The following excerpts are from the global integrity scorecard from globalintegrity.org

This is China
excerpt:
Wang Li embezzled 3,000 yuan (US$439) when she worked for Blue Moon, a Guangzhou-based
chemical company. Her husband, Hong Bo, says Guangzhou police detained her in her home in
Xingtai, Hebei province, at the end of April 2009.
Hong, a man in his thirties, went to Guangzhou in early May to ask lawyer Li Sheng for advice. “You
probably need to pay them 20,000 yuan (US$2,929),” Li told Hong, referring to how much money Hong
should pay to bribe the policeman in charge of his wife’s case.
But things did not turn out quite as badly as Li predicted. When Hong invited the policeman who
detained Wang to have dinner and “a talk,” the policeman replied, “OK. Don’t worry; your wife will be
released if you return the money to the company. We will be in a better mood to have a meal after her
release.”
A week later, Wang was released, even though Hong had not repaid the embezzled funds. Hong,
Wang, their friend Zhang Chong and three policemen sat together in a fancy restaurant and had a
“very happy talk.” After the meal, each of the three police officers was given ten packages of
cigarettes as “small gifts of appreciation.”

“I spent a total of 2,500 yuan (US$366) tonight,” Hong told Zhang. “These policemen are very nice
men. It is true that Wang Li’s wrongdoing is too minor for her to be jailed for, but if the police make
trouble for me, I am afraid I will have to pay 20,000 yuan (US$2,929), the amount that Li had said was
required to save Wang Li.”
“Don’t you think the police were being corrupt by attending the dinner and taking the cigarettes?”
Zhang asked. “Maybe,” Hong said, “but look, this is China, a corrupt country. I would say they are very
clean when compared to the police in my hometown.” Hong added that a policeman in his home city,
who helped Guangzhou police find Wang Li, had asked for a payment of 600 yuan (US$88) before he
would give Hong the Guangzhou police department’s telephone number.
“So you can see, Guangzhou police are clean and I am lucky,” Hong said. “Actually, I was prepared to
pay 20,000 yuan (US$2,929) to them but finally it came to only 2,500 yuan (US$366).”
“Hong Bo is lucky,” says Qian Yun, a woman in her forties from Hunan province who works in
Guangzhou as a nanny, after hearing the above story. “His wife did something wrong and he spent just
2,500 yuan (US$366). But, you know, the police took more than 4,500 yuan (US$659) from my cousin
when he was only watching other people gamble. The police said they were raiding the gambling
house and did not return the money to my cousin until he agreed that they could keep 3,000 yuan
(US$439). In fact, the police were not conducting a gambling raid at all. They were just grabbing
money. Everybody knows that every police officer, every official, only cares about money, money,
money!”

China’s Credibility Crisis- China Recruits Cheating Academician ?

China does a poor job of managing her researchers, or of vetting their work. As a matter of fact the number of Chinese researchers who have been shown to be frauds lately is astounding. A guy named Fang Zhouzi, is a leader on this front. And he recently found that a Chinese guy that China had recruited for the motherland had his lab privileges stripped for untoward conduct. Funny isn’t it? The Chinese cannot get away from fraud can they?

from here–
“Fang Zhouzi, known as China’s “science cop” for battling against weak evidence and academic misconduct, has disclosed on his microblog that Wang Zhiguo, one of the scholars recruited from overseas by China’s Thousand People Plan and also a prominent researcher with the Montreal Heart Institute, has been stripped of his lab, privileges and status following an investigation into scientific misconduct.
The institute launched an investigation into his work earlier this year after he informed its administrators in June that he had withdrawn two of his articles published in scientific journals.”

Production Leaving China

From here
”
Last week, Jonathan Anderson, a UBS economist, released a report after crunching the numbers of the US and European Union’s import data for the first half of 2011. He found China’s light manufacturing share is starting to decline from more than 50 per cent to about 48 per cent. The beneficiaries include Bangladesh (up 19 per cent in exports to the US) and Vietnam (16 per cent). The first half of 2011 “looks a pretty convincing turning point”, says Mr Anderson of a shift in labour-intensive manufacturing to south-east Asia. India and the Philippines, by contrast, which should be “natural destinations” for labour-intensive investment, appear to be sitting out the action, he says.”

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Red Marriage in China

This is a photo from the chinadaily.com . The bride and groom are dressed as Red Guards from the 60’s. I can see why these people were dressed as Red Guards as this element was essential in building the China of today.
The red guards were an organization with no legitimacy other than the blessing of mao. Their alleged goal was to root out those who had capitalistic tendencies and expose them for the frauds they were and convert them or stop them from breathing. Mao lent them a hand by allowing them free passage throughout china, at least in the beginning and they swarmed throughout the country killing and torturing those disbelievers.
China does not like to lose face thus they will only teach about history from thousands of years ago but not the recent past so we rely on anecdotal evidence to understand the horrors of the period. Some reports, however state that at least 1million and as many as 10 million people were slaughtered during these ten years.
Happy Red Guard Wedding Chinese People…

Chinese Sanitation/public Urination

Another day another Chinese family out taking a stroll but wait, their little one-disappointment needs to pee. No problem…No need for a bathroom although there are plenty around. “No it’s ok disappointment just pee here in public in the grass…”.

‘Red-economics’ Chinese Economic Policies

I went to mylaowai.com and randomly clicked on a date and link and of course came up with a gem, part of which I will now share with you…

from here
“Economics from Mao to Hu
Mao Zedong built a China designed to be self-sufficient and massively redundant. Every province, every city, every factory was supposed to be a self-contained unit, making the country capable of weathering nearly any military attack. Deng Xiaoping didn’t get rid of these redundancies when he opened the economy to foreign investment. Instead, he and his successors encouraged local officials to work to attract foreign investment and technology so as to raise China’s economic standard more rapidly. By the time Jiang Zemin was in power it had become clear that the regionally and locally driven economic policies threatened to throw China back into its old cycle of decentralization — and, ultimately, competing centers of power. Attempts by Jiang to correct this through the Go West program, for example, came to naught after meeting massive resistance in the wealthy c oastal provinces. The central government accordingly backed off, shifting its attention to reclaiming centralized authority over the military.
Hu Jintao has sought once again to try to address the problem of the concentration of economic power in China’s coastal provinces and cities through his Harmonious Society initiative. The idea is to redistribute wealth and economic power, regain central authority over the economy, and at the same time reduce redundancies and inefficiencies in the Chinese economy. With minimal external interference, ”

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