Posted on 11/26/2005 2:49:24 AM PST by NZerFromHK
This kinda puts a whole new twist on buying American.....
(checking all my bottled water for that "Made in China" sticker....)
I don't give out details about my location on the internet, but does Toledo Bend ring a bell?
Yeah, someone notify the UN and Kofi Anus!
I have a well and my own treatment plant....about 300 feet of dirt!
".........with the Deputy Party Secretary of the Jilin Petroleun Benzine Production Plant"..........
This says it all.
Leni
It is Bush's fault!
I was reading in the Vets Corner yesterday about the Unit 731 atrocities. I finished wondering if the current flu crisis could be leftovers from WW2.
Better idea: send China all the eco-commie organizations that stifle development and jobs here so they can get started on that country. One commie helping another!
Here's my list-feel free to add your own
Environmental Defense Fund
Sierra Club
Get daily updates on the eco-commies at Greenie Watch
http://antigreen.blogspot.com/
Covering one's derriere is a universal human instinct, not specific either to China or to the Communists. There is simply more room for it under totalitarian rule.
it was a "runaway reaction", not merely an "explosion.
Precisely what chemicals were in the system and what temperature was reached to cause the reaction to run away?
Bet me, this is far far worse than "benzene in the river".
What products did this plant produce?
was phenol also a constituent of this "benzene" reaction?
was chlorine also a constituent of this "benzene" reaction?
Communist utopia to citizens; "Forget about it, there's a billion and a half more where you came from".
Now, if we could get some dependable epidemiological statistics, we could possibly tell whether or not our eco-weenies here are full of sh*t or not.
Thought I read it was making aniline. So, there could be a mix of aniline, nitrobenzene, benzene and other chemical dogs & cats.
Just a few weeks ago the poison gas plant left there by the Japanese Army was finally located. People who think there's no WMD in Iraq because we haven't found it yet should note this well ~ the Chicoms have been looking for this stuff since 1950 and just now found one plant.
Odds are someone was poking around in the Harbin watershed and churned up some other kind of WMD; I'm thinking it was probably a degraded atom bomb or two, or maybe some enriched uranium that'd burned through it's containers, and it got loose into the local water table.
There's a thousand reasons here for the Chinese to want to save face (although this wasn't their fault), so they came up with the benzene story ~ and maybe even let loose a bunch of it as a cover.
Or maybe the wonders of free and unregulated market. Costs of production are much lower if you do not need to worry about pollution. If we want to compete we must do the same! Much better than obsolete and quaint tariffs (which could compensate the costs of environment protection). Free market is way of the future.
"Free and unregulated" doesn't mean "completely immune from devastating liability lawsuits."
The only time that a polluter doesn't need to worry is when government's got their back, and that happens all too often in the environment of cash-stuffed cronyism in politics.
In China? He, he. No, in order to compete we have to adopt Chinese standards. The price of free trade.
I think you missed my point - you slander the idea of "free and unregulated market" by using China as example of the concept.
If those individuals damaged by the actions of a business are not permitted to sue the crap out of said business to recover their losses, then that's not a "free market," it's "crony capitalism."
Thanks for the ping! More corroboration of what has been initially reported.
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