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Rivers Run Black, and Chinese Die of Cancer
NY Times ^ | September 12, 2004 | JIM YARDLEY

Posted on 09/18/2004 4:06:40 PM PDT by neverdem

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To: neverdem

I don't doubt that, but the NYT spouts it like facts. Even if they were off by a factor of ten and an annual income is closer to $5000 we're just supposed to swallow that the spring school fees are 5% of a family's income? Seems absurd to me. Then again we're talking about communism and the NYT. My guess would be more BS here than in the farm belt.


41 posted on 09/18/2004 9:33:49 PM PDT by ItsForTheChildren
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To: neverdem; abbi_normal_2; Ace2U; adam_az; Alamo-Girl; Alas; alfons; alphadog; amom; AndreaZingg; ...
Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.
42 posted on 09/18/2004 9:53:30 PM PDT by farmfriend ( In Essentials, Unity...In Non-Essentials, Liberty...In All Things, Charity.)
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To: neverdem

I think Derbyshire at NR could add something to this as well. If I remember right he has written about the looming ecological disaster that China faces.


43 posted on 09/18/2004 10:01:17 PM PDT by junta
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To: neverdem

We have some "spare" environmentalists we can send over to where it really *matters*.


44 posted on 09/18/2004 10:23:34 PM PDT by Libertina (Thank God we have President Bush in the White House.)
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To: neverdem

bttt


45 posted on 09/18/2004 10:55:29 PM PDT by lainde (Heads up...We're coming and we've got tongue blades!!)
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To: neverdem

This is terrible. Yet the same extreme leftists who claim to care so much about the environment also want to impose this kind of government on us.

Freedom and capitalism give us the means to protect the environment. Not communism. Never communism.


46 posted on 09/19/2004 12:28:32 AM PDT by exDemMom (Think like a liberal? Oxymoron!)
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To: neverdem

Bump!


47 posted on 09/19/2004 2:29:34 AM PDT by F-117A
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To: farmfriend

BTTT!!!!!!


48 posted on 09/19/2004 3:08:10 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: ItsForTheChildren

That's private school fees. Parents and grandparents throwing all their net worth and borrowing to spoil the youngest generation of children in China in (false) hopes of their having a better future.

Really weird demographics in China. Something's gotta give 10-20 years down the line.


49 posted on 09/19/2004 11:49:55 AM PDT by miyamoto
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To: ItsForTheChildren

$500 is the average annual income of the farmers. Middle class city folks can make as much as $2000.

Not everyone goes to these "expensive" schools in China although too many parents and grandparents are living beyond their means by borrowing for their kids education


50 posted on 09/19/2004 11:54:59 AM PDT by miyamoto
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Cuba did anything else beside tobacco, cane, and bananas, it would be a major polluter, I am sure

Cuba has destroyed their soil with chemical pollution. That's why Cuban cigars are now crap. They have hired a Spanish company to repair the damage, but it will take decades.
51 posted on 09/20/2004 10:02:46 AM PDT by mugs99 (Restore the Constitution)
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