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Nine Pollution Picture Perfect Days In Beijing
While one night in Bangkok is enough for most, the following images (via Reuters) taken over nine days in Tiananmen Square, Beijing should highlight just how appalling the smog situation is in that country. As we discussed recently, this is more than a major problem for health, the reforms that the government proclaims means significant shifts in the economy (to say nothing of the increasing appeals for clean water and purchased clean air).
Click image for interactive version at Reuters...
Day 1 - March 6th
Day 2 - March 7th
Day 3 - March 8th
Day 4 - Macrh 9th
Day 5 - March 10th
Day 6 - March 11th (misdated)
Day 7 - March 12th
Day 8 - March 13th
Day 9 - March 14th
Two out of nine ain't bad!
Source: Reuters
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Its only pollution if you live there
Plus corporate profits are at all time highs anyways... haven't you bitchez seen the Dow Jones?
What this pollution needs is more growth. Growth is the fix. If you REALLY want to put this whole thing back together growth is the answer. What we need are politicians, from either side of the aisle, to come together and figure out a looooooooong term plan for consistent growth.... put aside their differences, and GROW our way out of this...
The quickest way to job growth is to make more stuff with shorter life-spans and provide these services and products to all people through government subsidy and heavy taxes on the 5 corporations left who will make everything.
What you see here isn't pollution. It's progress. These are proud to be human moments caught on film.
Bernanke? Krugman?
No, I'm that thought many here refuse to face. The fix won't come from within the system. The problems are bigger than sound "money." Writing your congressman won't solve anything.
AS IF Maxine Waters "Mr. Bernanke told me low interest rates are so po people have access......." is gonna help you.
What you see in these pictures is Profit at ANY cost regardless of consequence. That's it. Otherwise it wouldn't look like that.
Say this in your head bitchez while you bitch about clean water...
"Product Sustainability is INVERSE to Economic Growth"
say that again...
+1 Free barbiturates will solve a lot of issues.
slaves dont need fresh air.
Or they pay to get a can of "clean" (read: nothin) air.
I know of no way to convey the glue smell of the Chinese hotel rooms built in the early 2000s. One must experience it.
Oh, I don't know...
I think China is lovely. I can think of nothing more serene than the sight of a lazy river with dead pigs floating by...
Capitalist pigs.
.
+Tuinal
The just haven't gotten the smoke vs. mirrors ratio quite right yet.
"Product Sustainability is INVERSE to Economic Growth"
Worth repeating as many times as needed to accomplish a permanent imprint.
Oh, oh, and raising the debt ceiling! That should fix some spending and junk...
Other see pollution, Charlie sees one word: 'winning!'
They grow the pollution in the U.S. with all the chemtrails. Our cities look the same and our skies are definitely polluted due to all the chemtrails they spray. They produce lots of jobs for pilots to poison the air.
+ 100 tickhound the sarc on that was pure
How about a tour beneath T'square. Rumor has it the chinese massive gold hoard is right there.
Time to trot out the last emperor and have him tour the vaults. Or have a mummified Mao Zedong stroll past them tungsten bars.
hmm-ever fly into LA?
My thought as well. The air in Beijing doesn't bother me as much as LA. One is a kind of sweet smell from outdated coal plants; the other is the plain old rotten smog we grew up with. There's a program to decommission or upgrade a bunch of the old plants, status unknown.
I was in Pittsburgh before there was an EPA. Sulfur dioxide does not smell sweet.
When I traveled to Beijng 10 years ago I was invited into private homes. What they were burning for heat and cooking was compressed coal dust. What yummie smoke came out of that dust. Milestones
Worst air in the USA is Salt lake city, and the Wasatch front. LA got nothing on us.
But you don't have to worry getting attacked while walking down the street. So there's that.
DASSS RAYCISSSS D000000D. Da truuuf hoits.
Yes. Beijing is worse. It smells of the incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons (in LA the gross thing is how much of the pollution is aerosol beef grease - seriously, look it up yourself). I remember that smell growing up before catalytic converters. In the national museum in the square there you can even see the opacity of the air looking across the main entrance hall.
Wow. When were you there? Must have been many years ago.
Money Squid,
We all live in this microcosm called Earth you f&*^% retard.
Go back to your other planet.
We ALL breathe Chinese pollution.
Japanese Fukashima radiation as well.
Denial is so cowardly.
COWARD.
The solution to pollution is dilution!
Hu farted
Po Lu Shun, and he has stinky car farts.
Hu Flung Dung
Hung So Lo did it.
I thought One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble.
It was Moo Goo Gai Mahn (he's half Jamaican)
Couldnt it be possible its just weather?
no
Well, you would know. Know any single fish dancers?
chance of smog Tuesday through next year.
No, it's smog. My daughter went to Beijing as a student ambassador in 2004 and all the pictures she took look like they were shot with a yellow-gray filter over the lens. She said the air looked, smelled and tasted awful. The only time the air is clean in Beijing is when a strong wind is blowing the pollution somewhere else.
No, it's CLIMATE.
The flag died on day 2.
Chi *cough!* nese *hack!* Citi *wheeze!* zen *choke!* ism *passes out*
Zhong Guo shi hui se de...
Doesn't look the same without the tanks.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/from-the-archive-blog/2011/jun/04/1989-t...
Every one said if China developed like the West it would be a pollution catastrophe - check.
I think the 6000 dead pigs floating down river was a pretty good confirmation of that hypothesis.
At last count, 22,000+
I guess that's what they get for telling everyone that Ikea's pudding is shit.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-06/step-aside-horse-hamburger-ikea-presents-poop-pudding
Someone tried to implement a shit flavored frozen yogurt to spur business, from a comedy central show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO8V72pDw1o
They dumped the pork because everyone's going Vegan.
Beijing is prone to dust storms from mongolia. The same dust looked like forest fire smoke in april 2000 in Yukon Canada.
dogbreath:
"Beijing is prone to dust storms from mongolia. The same dust looked like forest fire smoke in april 2000 in Yukon Canada."
A contributing factor, no doubt.Chinese Citizenism coal overconsumptionalizing and air pollution blobbing-up is very much something, the crustiest bit of the pulmonary mattering thing.
Be careful AnAnoyingpuss might get upset with you post an unreadable ramble about you. He might even come over and eat your cat for dinner.
Alas, alas, a few more times alas, will just have to bear with it.
Ah, ah, US 'american' citizen must be peking at pages of Mao's little red cookbook if knows to tell Roast Shanghai Kitten Crispy recipe preparings have bear with it.
That is very likely that.
Ah, laughings are in the making progress of, belly shaking me to all up! Soiling pants make squeeze involuntary inside them, so profusing do sagacious chucklings project firm!
Typical US 'american' citizenism citizen response, seeking symmetry in refusal to self-indict US 'american' eternal nature as blobbing-up parangong of scrapegoatery, consumptionalization, farming the poor and extortationalizing the weak.
This is very that, only more so. Very crusty, very much something.
Essence of non-'american' truth overlooked, as usual. Roast Shanghai Kitten Crispy nowhere including bear, no, more offuscations of the US 'american' mistruthcasting. Only McDaonords brand Kitten McNuggets including mincing bear penis as special ingredient --- "Ancient Chinese Citizenism Secret!".
But when the call of eternal nature hits, the chinese shitizenism bowel yearns for the nearest roadside to plant his scat. One can expect this with much vigor.
Free Tibet!
You miss him. Don't deny it. :D
Djeee, the roadside dung dropping little feller makes sense more often than Warren "Grandpa Incontinent" Buffett or Charlie "Sleestak Magoo" Munger.
Just giving credit where credit is due.
Chinese Citizenism spring's first wind uplifts peasant poo from provincial roadside and assaults Beijing clouds like Wu Song upon the tiger. Heaven's brown grains disperse widely.
Make me choke!
So it's safe to breath on day 5 and 8 .... you might take a quick gasp on day 2, but make it a short one.
stoopid fucking chinese
So? If they want to have a reform, I am glad. Good for them. Just move that company to Bangladesh. Angola. Somalia. Afghanistan. This world is great. You cannot run out of desperate workforce.
Reminds me of L.A. in the late 70's.
reminds me of LA now, or Phoenix or any one of a bunch of cities and it is variable from day to day.
Nothing a world war can't solve
OT-Cyprus congresman Marius Mavridis-we can return Cyprus Lira as soon as next week,if we dont find monney.Just hear his words on european radiostation.Also he says-we have commitment by law to pay all deposits up to 100 000 euro.I duuno how they will do that with Cyprus Lira,but this is what he says.
So they got Chemtrails.....Big fucking deal.....
Don't we all...????
Tylers choose to ignore chemtrails......
Why?
Zerohedge focuses on industry and markets. China is a market. It's industry has produced renowned smog and pollution. There are plenty of chemtrails sites and this does not fit into their narrative. It's like me bitching about them not having articles on the hipocricy of PETA. Doesn't fit the site's theme.
The site yer looking for is ---------> www.godlikeproductions.com
please don't ... they'll just come back
chemtrails?
You talking coke or just plain old glue?
Whatever it is, give it up, that stuffs bad for your health...
Wow....
You can even see the tell tale HARRP rings......
There is chemtrail photos from the USA....AND Canada and Europe that would blow those phots out of the fucking water.......
Fuck.....
Show some of the real juicy X chemtrail lines in our skies or the big wavey clouds HAARP generates......
And days so fucking dark at noon that it's fucking erie.....
Wheres the CHEMTRAIL articles TYLERS......
Huh....????? where are they?
For the life of me I cannot understand why people are so resistant to facts and observable phenomenon.
Chemtrails and HAARP effects are real, can be seen ...
It's not like its hidden.... Ok well in plain sight FFS
The Beijing photos remind me of the USA in the late 60's and early 1970's. Perhaps a bit worse but not by much. I cut lawns in air as bad as the worst photos of this post. Looked just like that, with similar distance visibility. It's stunning how spoiled and out of touch people can get in just 45 years.
It also reveals the age and life experience of those who drone on about it, HAARP and Chemtrails.
If you are under 35 and have no knowledge of the world from that time, you would seize upon any website as 'reality and the truth'.
If, on the other hand, you are an adult and lived in a time before the PC, you know that this is just normal air pollution from industry and autos before emissions controls.
That pollution blows over to California about five days later. Gasp.
And when the levels get too high, the Feds sue the counties in the Central Valley.
Chemtrails would be so easy to prove or disprove that it's not even worth bothering.
Just take a swab of the hot section exhaust duct after shutdown or even better just analyze the fuel, if there's something odd going out the tailpipe Surely it would take less that 30 minutes for a chemist to find out.
Hell why not just call your local airport refueler and get them to deliver you a drum of their current batch jet fuel then you can fart about with all kinds of tests yourself..
This Chemtrail nonsense is perplexing to say the least, if there is something going on prove it or shut up.
Cospriracy crazy Chemtrail kooks.
And odds are that if they are a chemtrail kook then they also think AGW is a NWO hoax...
It is called "Conspiratorial Ideation"......
AGW is a scientifically created meme that is hard to disprove or prove.
Also very useful for the NWO (and profitable for governments) How convenient!
Therefore its A different fish altogether...
You ain't following the data closely enough if you think there is any doubt in the matter....
You are aware that the "meme" was first investigated in 1896? BTW, scientists refer to "memes" as theories....
I have a chemtrail hockey stick graph here somewhere...
..but can't seem to find amongst all this other "green" agenda BS !
And here is an excellent example of what I just posted above...
Saw some nice ones over NW Illinois back in January. Nice and parallel and straight. Kept the kids inside that day...
Because watching tv is so much better for kids than seeing an aircraft actually flying along.
Keep them away from the car too, those things are DEADLY...
Bansters...
You did forget the \sarc flag, didn't you? Please say you did...
so did the city shut down on day 5 and 8??
I'll go ahead and down arrow myself for posting a link to the NYTimes...
China to suspend some heavy industry as Games nearhttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/world/asia/06iht-pollute.1.14265379.ht...
I have been to several different parts of China from north to south. I have yet to see a clear blue day. Sometimes, I wasn't sure if it was water vapor, fog, mist, etc. but mostly I think it was various amounts of pollution.
I have been to several different parts of China from north to south. I have yet to see a clear blue day. Sometimes, I wasn't sure if it was water vapor, fog, mist, etc. but mostly I think it was various amounts of pollution.
1st thing, I would like it documented the exact time alll pics were taken. 2nd thing, I would to know the weather forcasts for those days. People will think I am stupid... but it's relevant. I have traveled A LOT.... I can tell you the things over the time periods in mention (9 days) can be extremely different. I am NOT EXCUSING OR DENYING, I just wish a better outline of the sample was given.
Last time I went there, my nose bleed every single day for almost the whole day. Same thing with most big cities in China. People living there are insane.
Is the coke that good there?
I was downwind of that crap in South Korea awhile back. One day was so bad you couldn't see the stoplights just two blocks down the street. Not hazy, not cloudy, total invisibility. It did, however, produce the chunkiest, gnarliest lugee I've ever hawked. Looked like a resected tumor. Stay away. Dat shit is Baaaad, yo.
Not sure about chemtrails over in China. The globalist geo-engeneering and weather modification is all behind that action. There are several theories around that, from slowing down the planets spin, to covering up the massive amounts of solar energy that is coming down now. The worst is yet to come. One need only look out the window and take some pictures on some days to see it. There is plenty of info on the net about it also. We have watched them since 1996.
Irregardless of whether this is chemtrail stuff as more so maybe just chemicals and unrestrained industrial airborne wastes, what many are not taking into account is the back-flow of dangerous radiation from fukushima that sorta rocks and flows back and forth all over that entire Asian continent. The oceans all up and down the china coast, as well as all the others are inundated in the fukushima slam of daily radiation. This is prolly the greatest guarded secret that the babylonians want to cover-up. The babylonians responsible for this slow kill population reduction event do not want people to know how bad this huge ugly horrendous fukushima disaster really is. By the time anyone of significance says anything about it, or the people actually realize how bad it is, they will already have two feet in the grave.
There is no need for war, other than to hurry up the diabolical plans of these banksters. The fukushima radiation is ONLY accumulating all over the planet and will take it's toll eventually on every country in the world, especially as it is only getting worse and there is no fixing the meltdowns it in sight. Add that to what else is leaking and flowing all over the planet, and it is not a hard thing to figure out that life expectancy is not as long for the world's people as some would like to think. The ignorance of this horrendous crime against humanity is right up there with the crime of 9/11, and several assassinations of some good presidents in the past. Same darn crew that needs to be brought to the table of world justice if any of this insanity is going to be stopped. The hundredth monkey is starting to understand that. Let truth prevail.
Got Geiger?
Thankfully, California is getting most of it since it is drifting west with the teh jet stream. So, before much longer all those Californicators will be glowing in the dark and dying off. That should bring property prices there down significantly.
Unfortunately for the rest of the country, a large number of them have already managed to escape to, and infect, Colorado, and they are in the process of turning that state into a liberal shithole like the one they came from. Give it another ten years, and Denver will resemble LA, on it's way to looking like Detroit.
RSBriggs,
Same with Austin where my son used to live. Ausitn is now called, "Little LA" with all the crime, gangs, traffic and polluton and crap that goes along with it. He moved to a tiny town the Californicators have not found ....yet.
They wrecked Austin?! Fuck. It was such a nice place.
Bullish, blue sky every day would be concerning.
dumbfk americans think this is worse than chemtrilful sky. LOL stupid fat arses.
Good you are in whatever portion of the world that does not get effected by.....wind and air.
The smog isn't that bad...I can still see the flagpole...
Instead of using tanks to crush them, China now uses smog to hide protestors.
Instead of using tanks to crush them, China now uses smog to
poison protestors. (fixed that for you)
I travelled through China a few years ago and the pollution was unbelievable. There is a city called Lanzhou where not even grass grows and noone in living memory has been able to join the army as they all fail the medical test....and when all this toxic crap in the air leaves China it passes over Japan where it picks up radiation from Fukushima and makes its way to America...and noone does anything about this!!!
those were nice days
seen it 10x worse..
Someone trying out different settings on his camera. I don't seen anything special.
How do they explain the clear days? Is the wind blowing the other way, or did the slaves get a day off?
Its obvious... #5 & #8 taken at noon. #2 taken at dawn. #1 on a rainy day, etc.
Denile is a river in Egypt...
There is a serious pollution problem in China, not just the air but water etc...
However, I found these pictures bullshit, (should have had an opacity meter included in the shots,,,, duhhhh)
I prefer my facts and data "hard"..... not that I consider official Gov of China data creditable... however
"The Chinese government has acknowledged the existence of "cancer villages": areas where rates of cancer are unusually high, probably because of industrial and agricultural contamination of drinking and irrigation water."
"According to recent data, deaths from cancer in China increased by 80 per cent between 1970 and 2004. The disease now accounts for 25 per cent of deaths in cities and 21 per cent in rural areas."
http://english.caijing.com.cn/2013-02-21/112520130.html?utm_source=Sinoc...
Social Darwinism at work?
I hope u also do not consider US government data credible.
Oncologists are standing by and shovel ready.
Rots of porrution.
If you visit New Delhi or Rio or anywhere with lots of factories and no regulations for the black smoke rising plus high growth in number of cars, this is bound to happen! Not to mention the high population growth. If you add a large dose of corruption, the potential for pollution reaches sky high!
That is the reason, Chinese are looking to buy real estate outside of Beijing and Shanghai causing all the rumpus. This rumpus goes all around the world to countries such as Singapore, Thailand, HK, Canada, Australia, UK, US to name a few. In parts of Africa, they just end up acquiring the entire mine or a farmland while bringing hundreds or thousands of employees setting up supermarkets, buildings everything. In Bulgaria, they just started a car production facility in 2012.
Here in Dubai, they created the single largest trading centre in the world called Dragon Mart with over 3,000 Chinese traders with premises under one roof. This supports an entire ecosystem of housing for over 15-20k employees and businessmen, their food needs and everything else. They did not stop in Dubai, last year also opened another Chinese mall called China Mall in Ajman, a neighbouring city, about 45 minutes drive from Dubai with over 1,500 trading shops with physical premises under one roof. Currently, they are busy expanding the Dragon Mart in Dubai to have another 570 shops for trading.
Confucius says: The more the pollution in China's big cities, more they will resort to investing, residing and conducting business abroad. :)
High GDP growth = High Pollution (when high density persists).
That's nothing. You should have seen the yellow/brown/green smogs that used to settle on Teaxs City in the 60's. The fumes from the chemical plants, refineries, and yards where giant sulfur blocks were constructed and deconstructed would sometimes combine with the morning or evening fog to produce something you would swear was cooked up by a Hollywood movie company. Ahh, those good old days; but I don't miss the rashes.
Petr Beckman wrote a book that fits as a commentary on this situiation in Beijing...
"The Health Hazards of Not Going Nuclear"
For those of you who think that this is on par with LA, well no cigar. Nineteenth century retro coal burning tech plus desertification blowing loess means yellow peril. Hold your breath until the gov central p's choke then maybe something will be done.
I'd say a themonuclear World War there would be an upgrade - overpressure blasts clear out the skies. LOL
"Two out of nine ain't bad!"
I can Meatloaf singing it now...
Anyone notice that as soon as unavoidable bad news about the US economy comes out, we start seeing news about how bad another country is? As if they're saying, "Yeah, things are bad, but U should feel lucky U don't live in that awful fill in the blank country!"
Boo!
My son's girlfriend is studying in Bejing this semester for her dual major in Chinese and Economics at CU Boulder. Most pictures she sends back include her wearing a mask over her nose and mouth due to the severe pollution. She can't wait to get back to breathing Colorado mountain air.
My wife and I spent a week in Beijing in 2010. We had Chinese guides that of course spoke English. Anyway,
when I asked one of the guides, about the bad 'smog' in Beijing, she replied"Oh, that not smog, that dust"
I thought to myself, these people are not going to state the obvious, so Why NOT?
Could it be, that the Government would take such comments as being critical of the Chinese Govt? In which case
could the person speaking honestly, receive a knock on their door at 1:30 in the morning from their
friends in the Chinese Govt?
VO
The last three times we went, either my wife or I got sick like dogs and came back with something nasty; skin rash, bronchitis ... the food doesn't taste right any more. I used to go dreaming of that delicious Sichuan cuisine on Guijie; last time I was there I could only fantasize getting back to a good salad and Trader Joe's greek yogurt with raspberries on top. We went to a new duck restaurant in Beijing and I couldn't taste any of it.
China has royally fucked up their environment. Their mindset for eons has been, 'there's plenty of land, it never ends ...' Well, they came to the end of it and befouled every stream and lake in the country. They are well and truly fucked.
My wife is in her mid-40's and many people she knew in school are coming down with virulent cancer; and these are upwardly-mobile types, well-off; so I can imagine what the LaoBaiShin are getting.
Someone can make a fucking fortune shipping & distributing vitamins and supplements into the PRC, because their in-country product is (of course, it goes without saying), pure placebo crap. Call it 'California Sunshine' or something. They will line up around the block to get it. Shipping it past the iron curtain is the bitch though; and then you instantly get knocked off and some hustler is selling your brand with wax and sugar pills in the bottle.
Voamerica; I have heard that repeatedly in the PRC. It's not fear so much as they are so brainwashed they actually do think it's dust. 'Fog' is another one.
There's no info because every media outlet in the country is completely controlled by the party. All the loaves are of one dough.