Another typical Chinese Communist way of doing things: lying to everyone.
Ping!
The water that we pay way too much for where I live isn't safe to drink either. We get a postcard about every other month from the water company reminding us of that fact. I drink Ozarka, it tastes pretty good. And I bathe quickly. It's kind of a shame that the tap water would be poison in America, let alone Texas. But I'm a realist and I am therefore not drinking it.
Hopefully this will spark a rebellion of some kind.
Ah yes, the wonders of communism. Always looking out for the people and the environment.
This isn't China's fault. It's the US's fault. If we took our military budget and split it up among the world's poor and needy, underdeveloped nations, and whatever else the Left wants, this would have been prevented. Nothing bad would ever happen again.
Nice warm up for the Chinese response to a pandemic.
Maybe this is China's Chernobyl.
When these things happen it tends to unmask the lying communist dictators for what they are. And it isn't pretty... It is the thing revolutions are made of.
Where's Erin Brockovitch when you need her? I vote we send her to China.
Lord only knows what they've dug up in the place that's got them all so worried, but they're going to a lot of trouble to make it look like a chemical spill somewhere else that has them concerned.
The conclusion is the Chicoms found some interesting leftovers from WWII and refuse to lose face to Japanese technological superiority by advertising it.
Bet they now know more about the kind of atom bombs the North Koreans have than they ever wanted to know.
Hmmmm ... Didn't China sign onto the Kyoto Treaty??
http://chinese-school.netfirms.com/news-article-China-Kyoto-Protocol.html
The approval manifests China's positive stance towards international environmental cooperation and world sustainable development," said the Chinese premier in a press release.
In communism, the government and businesses become one; they become the ultimate corporatist/monopolist economy. Likewise, the more government regulates business, the more business the government absorbs. This is the end result.
And they say capitalists are the business whores--what irony.
Communists and Liberals have a problem with the truth. Even when their lies are backed up with truth they just can't seem to admit that they lie.
What's the big deal? Last time I voted, I was told that Bush was going to raise arsenic levels in drinking water and kill a whole bunch of people.
This kinda puts a whole new twist on buying American.....
(checking all my bottled water for that "Made in China" sticker....)
".........with the Deputy Party Secretary of the Jilin Petroleun Benzine Production Plant"..........
This says it all.
Leni
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?
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.
"Another typical Chinese Communist way of doing things: lying to everyone."
I'm sure you must believe the FAA's storytale about Flight #800 and the OKC explosion.