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Chinese HaHa

Posted by w_thames_the_d on October 31, 2011


Here is a hilarious post from uncle chicom. The article is about corruption and how uncle red has been chasing it down and winning. In addition to this, the article, which I read in its entirety, goes on to proclaim how China uses the rule of law and helps all of its citizens. After breaking my assbone from laughing so hard I was like WTF?
I mean its ok for me to complain more now, my sites blocked in China anyway. Interesting digression. WTF would they block my site? Do they think that Johnny Wang does not know how fked the government is and that corruption is endemic? If anything, mr W knows fifty times more than I. It should be I who is blocked from enjoying his blog shouldn’t it?
Anyway, I am bored now. I am happy that I will soon be getting a Kindle fire and some other goodies from the land of perpetual happiness- USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Chinese HaHa

Posted by w_thames_the_d on October 31, 2011


Here is a hilarious post from uncle chicom. The article is about corruption and how uncle red has been chasing it down and winning. In addition to this, the article, which I read in its entirety, goes on to proclaim how China uses the rule of law and helps all of its citizens. After breaking my assbone from laughing so hard I was like WTF?
I mean its ok for me to complain more now, my sites blocked in China anyway. Interesting digression. WTF would they block my site? Do they think that Johnny Wang does not know how fked the government is and that corruption is endemic? If anything, mr W knows fifty times more than I. It should be I who is blocked from enjoying his blog shouldn’t it?
Anyway, I am bored now. I am happy that I will soon be getting a Kindle fire and some other goodies from the land of perpetual happiness- USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Poor Chinese Welds

Posted by w_thames_the_d on October 31, 2011


These photos are of tacks or quick welds at the one site I showed a bit ago. Due to scads of people it is near impossible to get a perfect shot, but you can see the weld is not being run at the right settings. There is burn and splatter. Some may say that it is only a tack thus less important and I would say of the ten or fifteen welds I have seen at this site, only two or three look safe.

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Photos of China’s Swill Oil

Posted by w_thames_the_d on October 31, 2011


China has this stuff called gutter oil or swill oil. Swill oil is nothing less than oil that is removed from the plates and bowls of restaurants and then sieved and resold. The stuff is rancid and dank and although cigarette butts have been skimmed off. it is deadly with aflotoxin.
These containers shown here are omnipresent in China. They contain swill oil, or so I was told. The containers will be taken to a place then ‘purified’ meaning take out the large clumps of crap and repackage it as new.

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Beijing Pollution Watch- Pollution Photo

Posted by w_thames_the_d on October 30, 2011


China’s, or at least Beijing’s pollution is 400ppm today, meaning the stuff we breathe is better used in the combustion chambers of autos then in the lungs of humans. 50 ppm is considered harmful in civilization and in the west you would wear a surgeons mask when it reaches that level. But here in China, 50 ppm is for wimps, the Chinese go big. Thus a reading of 400 is not atypical here.
This photo shows a mashed potatoes type fluff that doubles as air here.
The photo was taken at noon and that white stuff is NoX and other irritants to mankind and all plant life here.

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Chinese Fake Everything 25% of Yamaha Bikes in China Are Fake

Posted by w_thames_the_d on October 30, 2011


According to this site, 25% of all Yamaha bikes in China are fake. Aside from this are fake batteries like Ever Ready which last a few days. The list goes on , but You can read more here.

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Chinese Communist TV

Posted by w_thames_the_d on October 30, 2011


China has said that ‘entertaining TV’ must be cut down in order to preserve China’s culture. As I have visitors that only watch Chinese TV, I have been privy to just what the communists mean by ‘wholesome TV’.
After suffering through hours of interviews of foreign old men who have married fat older chinese women, and couples with matching buck toothed igor looking kids, China’s elite then focused their TV talents on more heart warming things- war.
For the past week, i have seen more death than i believe I saw in all my years in the USA. The Chinese leaders have decided that although it is not a wise move to show people smiling, its ok to show the massacre of man, as long as those men are from the KMT or Japanese.
Thus, I have been suffering through some Chinese war flick whereby for hours per day I must watch not only the worst acting I have ever seen, but with story lines that would make award winners of your typical porn flick. What the Chinese lack in acting ability, in cinematography, in clothing and storyline they make up for in death. For in these terrible flicks. undoubtedly the wise communist military always finds a way to outsmart their foe and dispatch of them en masse.
My only question is if this even had a speckle of reality backed in, then why did the Japanese own this place a few decades ago? Aside from this, if the prowess of the party soldiers was so good, then what was the reason for them to turn tail and run during the long ‘hide me before I get my butt kicked’ march….

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Salvador Dali in China

Posted by w_thames_the_d on October 29, 2011


My humble but horribly overpriced abode has some visitors, one of whom is a self-styled salvadore dali. as far as I can tell, his contributions to mankind, aside from spitting in the trash on my living room floor and belching, is occupying my large kitchen table with some monstrous calligraphy drawing thing.

This man with no mission, who doubles as a teacher/communist party member from Chongqing , is as separated from reality as the rest of his ilk. The majority of his time is spent hunched over that ridiculous calligraphy mat as he etches barbaric words in water which soon dry up, and watching CCTV-better known as cerebral chemotherapy.

The man, i am sure, once possessed goals and possibly a soul, but whats left of those is anyone’s guess. too much time tugging out a little red book and calling his parents ‘capitalist pigs’ has probably left him irreparably damaged. The interesting thing is that he is not alone. The next leaders in China all share this same past, leading us to wonder what is next for China.

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China’s Problem Our Problem- Pig Theft in the USA

Posted by w_thames_the_d on October 29, 2011


China used to be less rapacious in their consumption, I guess that’s easy when feasting on the flesh of the neighbors child. But even before this hideous period, the Chinese had at times lived in harmony with nature, the Mongol rule may provide a good example. But currently, in a country where ‘whats in it for me’ could.be carved onto all of their tombstones, this problem has a global impact.
Pork prices have risen and to accommodate this the chinese have done everything from dye red meat to look like pork, to adding illegal substances. Now they are heisting US pork , or maybe we are heisting it for them. It would not be too bad if the reason that the Chinese need our pork were more benign. But the reality is that has they pollute their own land and water, they will be ransacking our harvests. Too much water and resources are used to process coal so they can pollute our earth and make toxic toys and entertain the useless chicoms whose real function is to siphon off funds then ship them overseas for the fateful days ahead.
The real issue is that if they do not maintain their land in a sustainable fashion, they will only suffer more.
story here
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?cid=1102&MainCatID=&id=20111030000013

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China, Price Controls and More

Posted by w_thames_the_d on October 29, 2011


Great Comment from Brewskie
“What’s more is Shanghai home owners have been rioting over price discounts. Indeed, property developers are in deep trouble, as roughly 1/3rd reported negative growth in the third quarter; sales of Vanfound Real Estate, Yihua Real Estate, Hianan Haide Industry and Binjiang Group dropped more than 40%.

http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?cid=1102&MainCatID=11&id=20111027000038

I also found out China’s in bigger trouble than I originally imagined. The crux the optimists like to lean on is the “$3 trillion in currency reserves crutch.” Yeah, the banks are in big trouble, and I figured the CCP would bail out the Big 4′s asses (for real this time, too, not shuffle it around debt as the last 2 times), but it wouldn’t cure the underlining suffrage at the base of the economy: namely, death in real estate, lower revenues collected by local governments as a result – along with the armies of people with money stuffed in property market related-vehicles – nor the wazillion suffering SMEs choked by dirty shark loan bastards. Historical case in point: did bailing out Wall Street banks cure America’s underlining economic problems – will employment and Main Street be revitalized soon? And $3 trillion in currency reserves is no Miracle Grow formula that’s going to shake Playdough-srength freeway ramps into titanium shape quickly, either.

However, leave it to “Genius” Jim Chanos to throw down the gauntlet: the reserves have liabilities, meaning, exporters who collected dollars exchanged transferred them for RMB at the PBOC, which they spent, meaning when China has to bail out the banks, she’ll have to print currency to save them (and what’s already suffocating many Chinese?). In a video linked below, this gets spelled out around 1:44; most of the video pertains to information China bears already know.

http://www.valuewalk.com/warren-buffett-berkshire-hathaway/jim-chanos-situation-china-deteriorating-rapidly/

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