Posted on 07/03/2008 6:51:56 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
China in major battle against locusts; hopes to prevent migration to Beijing
BEIJING - More than 33,000 exterminators have been dispatched to battle a locust infestation in northern China.
The official Xinhua news agency says officials hope the effort will prevent a potentially disastrous migration to the Beijing area during next month's Olympic Games.
The insects, which devour crops, routinely plague Inner Mongolia, which is home to one-fifth of China's grasslands.
Xinhua quotes one top agriculture official as saying China has launched a `full prevention plan' to prevent locust migration during the Games.
Under the plan, some 200 tonnes of pesticides, 100,000 sprayers and four airplanes are being used to kill the pests.
(Excerpt) Read more at sportsillustrated.cnn.com ...
Algae Overload Threatens Olympic Sailing Course
by Louisa Lim
Diggers load up trucks to carry away the algae in the city of Qingdao, China. According to local government officials, 170,000 tons of algae have already been cleared away.
It's an interesting and challenging place to sail. Michael Jones, Austrialian sailing program director
Thousands of volunteers are helping to manually scoop the green algae out of the sea. Experts say the Enteromorpha prolifera algae was flushed into Qingdao city waters by southerly winds and ocean currents.
"It's like a bad episode of Poltergeist," says U.S. Olympic windsurfer Benjamin Barger. "The green stuff will get on the board and you'll slip off. It's pretty nasty."
Morning Edition, July 3, 2008 · When China's leaders boasted they would host a green Olympics, they surely did not envision an entire coastline blanketed in great swaths of bright green algae. It is almost luminous green and smells absolutely foul.
Armies of volunteers are using rakes and even their bare hands to scoop algae off the surface of the Yellow Sea in an attempt to clean it up in time for the Summer Olympics in August.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92141130&ft=1&f=1001
Ping!
What food product we import will these algae be part of?
(the N. Koreans would be grateful for the food)
BAD KARMA
- to be continued -
I suppose I should be ecstatic at least its natural made vs toxic chemicals they send regularly
SUSHI !
Hmmm..
The China I remember wouldn’t have had a Front End Loader and all those Dump Trucks.....
If the people from the provinces make a move on Beijing prior to the Olympics, the Govt will make Tieneman (sp) Sq look like a day at the beach...
I think God has spoken.
ping
New “Dragon Puffies” make happy taste smile.
http://www.valcent.net/i/misc/Vertigro/index.html
Algae is actually good for oil production. We should make them a deal.
Stay tuned for the plague of frogs....
Hmmm.
Let’s see. China seems to be having parallels to the Plagues Of Egypt from the Bible.
1. Rivers and other water sources turned to blood killing all fish and other water life - Red Tide
2. Amphibians - those Chinese snakehead amphib fish
3. Lice or gnats - same
4. Beasts - same
5. Disease on livestock - same
6. Unhealable boils - seen their chemical victims?
7. Hail mixed with fire - recent geological activity?
8. Locusts - locusts
9. Darkness - smog blotting out sun in most Chinese cities
10. Death of the first-born of all Egyptian families - they’re working on this one.
Thanks. I read about this in the Seattle Times - but the photos are great. In the Times article a racer said he watched four sail boats have to get pulled free from the algae by a tugboat!
Several weeks ago there was an article talking about how in Bejing they were alternating vehicle use, no trucks, shutting down factories and construction to try to clean up the air. (A liberal’s wet dream!)
No kidding. Riots, Bird flu, earthquakes, algae, a plague of locusts, and what next? The Ancestors are signaling time for a new emperor.
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