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1,200 Dead Pigs Found In Shanghai River
Over the past month the west had its "horsemeat" scare, where horse DNA traces have been found in pretty much everything. It is now China's turn to reciprocate, with 1,200 pigs found in Shanghai's Huangpu River. Why someone would dump thousands of dead pigs in the river? Who knows - we are confident that it is bullish, however, and it is time fro GETCO or K-Hen to do something about this strange reddish color in the futures. It is not helping with confidence in central planning...


From China.org
The municipal authorities said the retrieved pigs would be collected and handled in a harmless way.
According to the labels pinned in the ears of the pigs which are used to trace their information, the dead pigs are found to come from the upstream waters of the Huangpu River.
The local authorities are conducting coordinated efforts to stop the dumping of dead pigs from the source.
Local media reports said the pigs mainly came from Shanghai's neighboring Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.
The water quality of Shanghai has not been affected by the floating dead pigs, according to the city's water supply bureau.
But fear not: just like Fukushima (which has its 2 year anniversary today) was reported by the government for days and days to be just a minor blip and only conspiracy theorists were allowed to associate dangerous radioactivity with a nuclear power plant explosion, so pigs in a river are, according to China, perfectly normal:
"The data of water quality are all within the normal range," said the bureau.
One wonders how many pigs in the river would shift the water quality to "abnormal"...
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Unclean!
The water quality is not affected, until it is. So until that time, all is fine as long as you don't have enough money to go elsewhere.
Maybe they decided to run into the water and kill themselves.....it's happened once before.
Don't believe me.....Google it.
From what I heard, the water comes to you. Just don't try to live underneath it.
long crayfish.
'The water quality of Shanghai has not been affected by the floating dead pigs, according to the city's water supply bureau.'
Classic, absolute classic!
Maybe the pigs drank the river water, and then dropped dead.
Saving money shipping pigs to market...
Nothing more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtA-FpTZOQw
I had a hard time finding the pigs in the other trash. Jesus. The side of the river looks like a land fill
You should go to Africa, or Iraq/Kuwait. Same shit, it's unbeievable how much garbage they just dump wherever. Kuwait is a rocky/sandy landscape with white plastic bottles blowing like Tumbleweeds. Naturally they all end up in what few irrigation ditches they have. Iraq the same way but they have a variety of items, kids there play in streets where open pit sewers run down the middle of the road...with no shoes on. Oh and of course there's broken whisky bottles and herion needles on the ground everywhere too. So much for no drug use in a quasi-sharia-law country. Africa, well I dont' think I need to describe that, but even the "good" areas of Nairobi were filthy, and the landscape bordering any city, town or village was full of garbage, people lived among it. No wonder so many die from Cholera, Dysentary or other totally preventable diseases, that and just sheer overpopulation considering what the land can support.
Obviously, those indigenous upstream water pigs were not more equal than others.
Those little piggies went glug glug glug glug all the way home...
US sheep should be attentive to the progress of Chinese pigs.
Chinese need eplort froating pligs to Ilan and Tiglus and Ephlates livers :)
Amelican subelusve acrak
CIA prot
Not flunny gaigin dog
1200 dead pigs didn't change the quality of the water, it was shit before and its still shit now.
These are turncoat pigs that decided to help the government confiscate firearms...it was a peoples rebellion. But the Chinese government is covering up the story.
Water bottles in Iraq & Kuwait prolly = US soldiers dumping their shit...
In Saudi way back in the 70's during the energy embargo, etc., was doing bidnez in Saudi and same stuff all overe the place. Staying in 5 star hotels and look out the window and the landscape, particularly about construction sites, were littered with empty liquor bottles.
Indeed. In 2000 I stayed in a PH suite in Cairo. Cairo is filthy enough at street level, but from the PH vantage point it became apparent that all the building rooftops were garbage dumps. Yuck.
They do the same thing in Mauritania. The goats and the cows graze on the garbage piles around the city because there is nothing else to eat. (NW Sahra Desert).... And then the people eat the goats and the cows. Ocasinally you will see goats living on the roof tops of houses. I think this is done to control what they eat by some of the more discerning Mauritanians. This is definetly one place you do not want to eat the free-range meat.
What pisses me off is if you point out any of that, you are being ethnocentric. Like living in trash is some kind of cultural good and we shouldn't judge or something. Fuck a bunch of that.
Right, like it's racist to say, "People in 3rd world, pardon, "developing nations" live in some pretty fucking shitty conditions." Racism, the ultimate divide and conquer strat.
Racist!
Flying pigs are so passé, these are submersible pigs! :>D
Unidentified FLying Pigs and Underwater Submersed Pigs.
UFP and USP
Next hit reality program on the History Channel.
Y'all ever take a good look thru the TV guide thingamajig on your trlly and look at what is being broadcast on some stations... Like NatGeo and History have shit like Border Wars, Alien Whatever, Junk Auctioneers, Troops of Freedom free another 300 countries yesterday afternoon...
Next'll be 2 hour specials showing grandmas in wheel chairs being thrown to the ground and dirty diaper and cavity searches
Shit's meant to get you accustomed to the "good" New Life of BigBro.
BTW, who counted the shit?
Maybe Jesus is back exorcising demons again.
I think the pigs were just so disgusted by the condition of the Chinese roadsides (nightsoil blobbing-up and depositionalizing and all that) that they tried in desperation to find a cleaner environment by swimming in the rivers instead.
Alas, alas, several more times alas, the joke was on them.
You mean they were demon possessed? How could that be? Did a Good Jewish Man have anything to do with it? Long pork.
Long long pig, the other other white meat.
Is jesus in China?
Notify Pat Roberts.
Natural causes no doubt... they probably died peacefully in their sleep dreaming of lollipops, cute little puppy dogs and their favorite ice cream
There has been some flash flooding in parts of China. If the number was small, I would guess that some local people upriver simply lost their private livestock. But 1,200 with industrial tags...!
Epidemiology, anyone? Remember the "Swine Flu" exercise following Barry Saetoro's trip to Mexico?
Dammit, I used to love Chinese bacon. It's getting so a guy can't enjoy any vices.
Reuters reporting 3,000
Three legions.....and counting.
They were rebuked. Perhaps Christ has landed already and he's a Chinaman? I could see that happening.
Yes maybe...but did you har the news? Justin Bieber concert cancelled!
http://music.yahoo.com/news/justin-bieber-concert-portugal-cancelled-110...
The world is coming to an end!
Perhaps his world.
Perhaps a negative "Bieber Sign" will be the new news on CNBC?
The Bieber Bottom
everyone thinks china is full of these resourceful, intelligent calculated people having read sun tzu and confusicus.
they are all a bunch of gimps like western kardashian loving fat fucks.
China is a fucking housing bubbled trampy hole like everywhere else
But when will the housing bubble burst?
who knows? but the yen is bursting now
and france bond yields look like a short for small profit till dragi releases OMT 2.0
I would be more glad to see the Japanese government bond market burst and give Paul Krugman the Dickhead a bitchslap.
good luck, when you have a central bank bending over to politicians
interest rates gonna cream Jap budget so badly its the end of keynsian bullshit
currency is going to shit the bag
You're dead wrong sir. It's politicians bending over to central bankers. Keynesian will kill itself in the end, we should not fear it, those of us who are prepared.
It can't burst until you fill it wit occupants. They have a 10 year stock of housing for all the growth expected over the next decade. If they were to wait until the growth occured, the housing would cost more. Now they sit abandoned waiting for farmers to migrate from the hills to the once beautiful coastal cities who's richer residents are fleeing and will need to be replaced.
I told the kids in one of my classes (I'm about 6 years older than the average undergraduate) not to copy off me like I'm a Korean Kid in Math class or they won't do well. I took the first 20 questions and shifted the answer one space to the right. If it was D I looped back to A. They all copied, I could see the eyeballs.
So at the end, when I was finished I simply erased the first 20 and shifted the answers, knowing that NOW they'd be right. I wonder if that confused them or if they didn't notice too much and thought maybe I was checking. Either way I hid my scantron well at this point (and after the first 20 I let them all see). Well grades are posted online, I got a 98% and the class average was a 73%. Hopefully I contributed to that low average, my own grade being what it was there certainly had to be some drag elsewhere. We'll see if anyone got the first 20 in a row wrong come Tuesday. Mwahahaha, Muhfuggarz, I told them not to.
Cruel and unusual; back in the day, I transposed the function 'keys' on a TI SR-50 (Scientific) calculator for all those operations that had an inverse (+/-, mutl/div, sq/sqrt etc) ... mentally I transposed those ops so, no prob for me ... but for those 'borrowing' the calculator on test day beware the transposed functions!!!!!! HAhahahahahaha ...
What, were they zeroed in on you with cameras or something? How can everyone in the class copy your scantron sheet?
Easy ... CHAIN REACTION.
Student B, the closest one to student A (defined here to be the test-taking genius) first copies A's answers, followed by student C who copys student B's "answers", followed by student D who copies C's "answers" and so forth unto the last student desk row and column ...
Wasn't that a Chinee guy who played the Gimp in the basement scene of Pulp Fiction?
Butch: You okay?
Marsellus: Naw man. I'm pretty fuckin' far from okay.
Butch: What now?
Marsellus: What now? Let me tell you what now. I'ma call a coupla hard, pipe-hittin' niggers, who'll go to work on the homes here with a pair of pliers and a blow torch. You hear me talkin', hillbilly boy? I ain't through with you by a damn sight. I'ma get medieval on your ass.
Butch: I meant what now between me and you?
Marsellus: Oh, that what now. I tell you what now between me and you. There is no me and you. Not no more.
Just 1200 dead pigs not 1200 dead people. Why the fuss?
it's china... even if you wrote:
nothing would matter.
Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
Perhaps it is related to the weaker catering figures just released as part of the retail sales numbers.
http://www.mindfulmoney.co.uk/wp/shaun-richards/china-now-has-a-toxic-mix-of-rising-inflation-and-an-economic-slowdown/
Swine Flu to you.
Yes, or something worse.
The original "explanation" will be lies agreed upon.
bacon flavored water.....mmmmmmm.
delicious and nutritious or youre with al-qaeda
China is very green and very trendy.,.. listen to my soft NPR voice... these are not the droids you are looking for
Primus - Pork Soda (couldnt resist)
http://youtu.be/X9gqStFxAo4
But no big gulps say Bloomturd
Wildly bullish.
Don't worry. Some entrepreneur will start selling kosher water in China to go with the clean air cans. Pollution is good for business.
Floating pigs better then floating Baby Ruths?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPxiXGr9nFM
Don't panic everyone, it's just Napoleon and his cronies being expelled from the Communist party for not showing enough citizinism.
2 feet bad, 4 feet good, citinizism best.
Those aren't pigs. Those are investors in the Chinese housing market who commit suicide.
There's gonna be lots more given there are over 65 million empty houses and apartments there...
They should switch to making ammo.....hell of a market for it over here.
As a boar once told me "You reap what you sow."
I'd more worried about what's in our drinking waters.
But nah, it can't happen here cause we got laws n' stuff to protect us right?
Hope you're all on Well Water. Avoid the Floruide. My teath are doing just fine.
Long Pork Belly Futures
I wouldn't buy any Chinese made cat food for a while.
Or any "farm raised" Tilapia or shrimp.
pods
if bird flu has combined with swine flu
H5 + H1 = a bad thing
Why
Because bird flu is 80% fatal, but does not spread easily
Swine flu is mild but spreads every year in flu season, seasonal flu
they're waaay ahead of you on this. . .
"The data of water quality are all within the normal range," said the bureau
Pretty far-fetched. Like pigshit from China....
I'd like to see some pigs floating down the hudson river.
I guess... THOSE PIGS DIDN'T FLY!!!!
so... WHAT NOW?!!!
Pigs driving convertables with a car insurance app.
Everybody from the "water supply bureau" and their KIDS should line up and drink a cup of that perfectly good water.
No problem right.
Now when 12,000 bankers are floating down the Hudson with a little round hole in the forehead, then we will have something to talk about. Would love to see the talking heads report that and that they have reliable sources telling them they are next!
Woah, woah!!! You got it all wrong there pal, base of the skull is much more effective.
right behind the ear. Thinner bone.
This signals the beginning of The Great Leap Forward. Now that we have purged the pigs, the running dogs shall place their tails between their legs.
Oh wait....I was talking about MeriKa...
It was only 900 pigs two days ago.....Inflation gets everywhere
http://www.china.org.cn/china/2013-03/09/content_28191301.htm
Fixed the quote for you all...
The newly elected leader did say he was going to cut the embezzlement and pork out of the gubbermint there.....could this be it?
Pigs you say? Was Benny At The Fed and Jamie Girly Name Dimon among them?
SQWEEEEEEE!!
Oh noes - it dead Polar Bears!, so Al Bore was right all along, they are not saved, just shaved
"
It was an experiment to see if pigs can swim. They can't. :-)
Next experiment: can pigs fly?
At a time when the Kansas governor wants to let corporations start setting up pig farms with no permission needed. Kill off the rest of the farmers that are left. Unrelated just reminded me of the subject. "Normal water" in china, lol. I would put it in my pepper spray mix.
Can't believe the conspiracy theories -- this is obviously the work of the Pied Piper . . .
(. . . it's time to 'pay the flautist', lest the Shanghai Composite be submerged belly-up)
You can't teach a pig to 'sing' or 'swim' now I suppose. Those Chiners - always trying to innovate.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-11/shanghai-says-water-quality-nor...
Should I short SPAM or go long? Too much for Monday morning!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE
They should treat their cops a little better than that.
"BEIJING -- Thousands of dead pigs, a number of them diseased, were found in Shanghai's major drinking water supply in the last two days, officials said."
"...Some of the pigs were infected with porcine circovirus (PCV) virus, according to an official statement by the Shanghai Agriculture Committee. The statement posted on China's Twitter-like social media service Weibo said that the disease would not infect humans. "
http://behindthewall.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/11/17266070-more-than-280...
Shanghai Finds Pig Virus in Local River as Carcasses Pile Up
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-11/shanghai-says-water-quality-nor...
Water quality normal... Lol.. Maybe thats normal, but i aint drinking it.
Problem: thousands of dead pigs in the water.
Solution: just add more chlorine.
is there anything more chlorine can't solve?
Porkchop Flotilla
SOOOOEEEYY !!
Nature's Soup of the day
Pssst...
Don't buy the Findus Pork egg rolls.
Soggy bacon, yuck.
Pigs, meh. Usually it's newborn baby girls clogging up the waterways and getting stuck in the basket strainers.
Just another glorious morning in that paradise that is the cradle of civilization and the center of the heavens, isn't that right, AnAnonymous?
The crustiness of your throating of the mind makes you a US 'american' parangong of non-offuscationalizing truthiness vigorously dangdang.
akak said:
Ah ah, crustiness commentation did the remindings me.
Quality water the Shanghai not being affected with floating pigs adversely. Water Supplyment Bureau gives Chinese citizenism citizens water consumptionality advisement the cleanliness with much vigourance.
When river crusty bits do the support walking across expeditiously, water curtailment the drinkings for much good health prosperously.
Floating dead river pigs are double lucky omen of much propitious chinese citizenism ghost city prosperity in coming year.
Avoid pulled "from the river" pork sandwiches for a few weeks...
Now thats funny!
I spent 10 weeks in china in 2009. I was generally amazed at the country. I don't get upset about overpopulation because we did it to ourselves with global vaccination programs, feed the poor, and chest thumping evangelicals. Chinese rivers are disgusting. I was in Chengdu and walked over a brdge in the early evening. The small was awful.
That's impressive, coming from a guy named "dogbreath"!
+1
someone cast the demons out of a PTB and his name was legion so they went into the swineherd. That was easy...
You DO KNOW that you must know the name of a demon in order to cast him [them] out, don't you?
oh, and don't try if you're not born again (lest they pommel you and leave you runnin naked, see book of Acts)
Time to short hogs. Chinese eat roadkill and human placentas. Why would they throw a perfectly dead pig in the river?
Gives new meaning to getting water-boar-dead.
<Ba-dum-bump tssss>
I know, I know - don't quit the day job.
"The data of water quality are all within the normal range,"
i do not question the accurracy of their statement.
It's just rural Chinese moving swine flu into the main stream.
Just help me with the logic of throwing the dead piggies in the river. I can't seem to understand how the farmer(s) thought they could solve their problem by shipping it downstream such that nobody would notice the 3,000 dead pigs and communist hatchet men would not be arriving at their doorstep to drag them someplace where they will eventually be shot in the back of the head for doing this? The ChiComs don't fuck around, they execute people for jaywalking. Although I guess they just turn a blind eye to all the other pollution in that river.
This is what bothers me about this whole story.this is a lot of protein to waste for such an overpopulated country. There must be something more to this story. Hell,the Chinese poisoned their own population with melamine, why not feed them some diseased pig? I remember the heparin contamination issue when 80 people died. This was obviously done on purpose because heparin can only be made from pig intestines. There was a shortage of pigs so their solution was to adulterate the product and hope to sneak it through. Now there are 1200 pigs in a river? Makes no sense to me.
Miffed;-)
Maybe the pigs were members of the Falun Gong?
Somebody should check the back of their heads for bullet holes.
Sigh, as often the fate is to those who fight the state. I pray you, I and many here do not meet such an end. Those who don't study history are condemned to repeat it. Today it's not about lack of study rather than a willful determined ignorance that seems so pervasive in our country today. I shudder at the pig slaughtering that may come.
Miffed;-)
That really says it all right there, doesn't it?
Yes. This is my summation of our world today. It can even be seen here in a forum that is supposed to foster dialog and debate. I guess this is what saddens me so much. How do you fight this? If I bring you my " truth" you are to examine it, accept it or reject it. In counter you volley back your reaction to my truth and I reexamine my premise. I then counter you and so on and so on. We either end up in agreement, " push" or hopelessly in disagreement. At least there is some form of interaction. Now there are just dead zombies with no memories of their humanness. I should really reread Alan Blooms book The Closing of the American Mind again. I thought he was radically off base in many ways. I think I would find more commonality now.
Miffed;-)
I recently reread "Fahrenheit 451" by Rad Bradbury, after having last read it around 30 years ago. The parallels with modern Western society --- the banal shallowness and greyness of everyday life, the death of reading, the overall social disconnectedness, the passive acceptance of crushing authoritarianism, even the the obsession with vapid television programming on oversized screens --- were positively eerie, especially considering that the book was written over 60 years ago.
Now there's a book I always meant or have read and never got around to picking it up. Thanks for reminding me, I will add it to my kindle. Look how many books foreshadowed things today. Brave New World, Animal Farm, CS Lewis's trilogy:Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength(particularly loved his N.I.C.E. National institute of Coordinated Experiments- the central social planning agency designed to annihilate humanity) HG Wells The Time Machine. How funny science fiction of yore, which I,at the time, just read for pleasure seems so prophetic today! I guess I was too young and couldn't hear or see the message.
Ok akak, I've gotten too much pleasure talking to you and this has got to stop so please pick a topic that will piss me off royally and we can have a blood spattering like this forum has never seen. Or else someone will call me a pussy and that is an indignity I will not suffer! ;-)
Miffed;-)
And you, Miffed, have added to my near-term reading list as well. Thank you.
As for purposely pissing you off to start a fight .... well, you could always try selling me on the (spurious) idea that the cost of living has been flat for the last five year ....
Dear lord man...is that the best you could muster? i couldnt attempt that without hysterical bouts of laughter or endless streams of vomiting. Besides there are people here that do a better job of that then i could. i certainly dont want to add that kind of abuse of the senses. i will have to learn more about you to sniff out a good topic for a nice volatile exchange. i will be patient.
miffed;-)
Bankrupt.
Water-added ham.
Sow what, boaringgggg!
Where these pigs P ortuguese, I rish, I talian, G reek or S panish?
It makes a difference ya know.
I've walked along the Huangpu River in Shanghai; on both the Bund and the Pudong side. I would believe the local authorities. Several thousand dead infected pigs would not negatively affect the quality of that river's water. Might even improve it somewhat. I bet hundreds of thousands, if not a couple million, Chinese people per year die of environmental pollution in one form or another. Not like their government cares. Going back 5000 years, all the Chinese government has concerned itself regarding the people is whether or not they're going to revolt. In that I'm not singling out the Chinese government, necessarily. But since this story is about China...
Finally the Angry Birds live up to their name and exact their revenge. I'll miss Snowball and Napoleon.
normal range
does that mean Jesus is in China?
http://www.bcbsr.com/survey/jcm33.html
yup. juz not the way you think... me thinks
my bad, you right.
Cancel the missing persons alert on Hilary
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