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Archive for November 5th, 2011

Why China Never Investigated the Deadly Milk Scandal

Posted by w_thames_the_d on November 5, 2011


From
“The Party-new11 (Richard Mcgregor)

‘For reasons that everybody knows, we were not able to investigate the Sanlu case, because harmony was needed everywhere. I was deeply concerned because I sensed that this was going to be a huge public health catastrophe, but I could not send reporters to investigate.’ (Fu Jianfeng, Southern Weekend newspaper)

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China’s History

Posted by w_thames_the_d on November 5, 2011


How sad would it be to be from China? What kind of TV shows can you have?

The starving 50’s
The slaughter of the intellectuals
Those crazy Red Guards
Or…. That funny little happening in ’89

I mean think about it. They cannot make fun of Mao nor the dwarf and they cant talk about from 56-62. Then they cannot address ’66-76′ nor ’89. I guess that is why they still show us the ’08 Olympics

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LA Smog, China Smog

Posted by w_thames_the_d on November 5, 2011


According to this site, LA has the second worst air with air that is sometimes unsafe to breathe. I wonder what the people who researched this would think of most cities in China where air is almost never fit to breathe

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