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Chinese Smog Claims "First" Victim As 8 Year Old Girl Diagnosed With Lung Cancer
Over the past year, pictures of China's unprecedented air pollution have been seen around the world (for a sample see here and here), Chinese smog has been exported to Japan, and there is even a dedicated hourly twitter update looking at the quality, or lack thereof, of Beijing air. As such, it was only a matter of time before the tragic consequences of China's unprecedented and unplanned scramble to industrialize started manifesting themselves. This happened overnight when an eight-year-old girl has become China's youngest lung cancer patient, reports said, with doctors blaming pollution as the direct cause of her illness. The girl, whose name was not given, lives near a major road in the eastern province of Jiangsu, said Xinhuanet, the website of China's official news agency.
Since this is just what is officially reported, one can only imagine just how bad the reality is behind the Ministry of Truth firewall, but at least China is finally starting to come clean on its pollution problem, in what one can only hope is an attempt to remedy it. However, if that means even slower growth and a less furious scramble to industrialize through the construction of ghost cities, this will likely mean even slower economic growth, even less of an inflation tolerance by the premier and the PBOC, and even more animosity toward Bernanke's QE, which as we reported earlier is the main reason for today's reddish tint in the equity futures.
AFP reports that according to a doctor at Jiangsu Cancer Hospital in Nanjing, the 8-year old girl had been exposed to harmful particles and dust over a long period of time.
Lung cancer cases among children are extremely rare, with the average age for diagnosis at about 70, according to the American Cancer Society.
But the incidence of the disease has skyrocketed in China as the country's rapid development has brought with it deteriorating air quality, particularly in urban areas.
Lung cancer deaths in China have multiplied more than four times over the past 30 years, according to Beijing's health ministry. Cancer is now the leading cause of death in the smog-ridden capital.
The report of the eight-year-old girl's diagnosis comes after choking smog enveloped the northeastern city of Harbin two weeks ago, bringing flights and ground transport to a standstill and forcing schools to shut for several days, with visibility in some areas reduced to less than 50 metres.
At the height of the smog, the city's levels of PM2.5 -- the smallest, most dangerous type of airborne particle -- reached 1,000 micrograms per cubic metre, 40 times the World Health Organization's recommended standard.
High levels of PM2.5 have been linked to health problems including lung cancer and heart disease.
And now with China finally admitting it has a health hazard problem, one wonders how long until Japan does the same with the even greater environmental catastrophe that is Fukushima, or will Abe continue to hide the disastrous health consequences of the worst nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl until his entire economic revitalization house of cards comes tumbling down and he is once again escorted out of the building in yet another epic case of diarrhea?
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We need to borrow more money to buy more stuff so China can burn more coal.
must keep treadmill going...must work hard...must spend money....
gotta destroy planet before planet destroys us!
Let's close all the coal fired plants here in solidarity with the nameless, faceless symbol of fine particulate emissions.
The rest of her organs are donorable. Next.
she got fuku'ed.
We need to borrow more money to buy more stuff so ...the Chinese can come over & buy more of our NAR Bubble Houses.
Boooyaaah!
Yes, the following is off topic - so red arrow me to death - "Silly bitch - your weapoons cannot harm me - don't you know who in the f-k I am??!!"
If you know the rest of the line - you are officially "cool."
Meanwhile, concerning keeping Hillary out of the WH:
Hillary - the Orwellian Joker-noire
IF YOU ARE A CREATIVE WEB OR VIDEO ARTIST, OR KNOW ONE, PLEASE READ THIS CREATIVE IDEA AND THINK ABOUT DOING IT:
The Hillary face on the button entitled "Ready" that her PAC is selling is almost a caricature of the Joker. Some minor touching up, and you'd have it.
In addition, the lack of background makes it perfect to use in the 1984 scene from the Apple Super Bowl commercial with the face up on the screen.
Creative idea: I don't do this professionally, or I would: 1) Crate the Joker take-off on her face; 2) Do a merge of the Obama Joker face merging into hers, communicating that this is really just one Joker followed by another; 3) Place her face on the screen that everyone is looking at in the "1984" Apple Super Bowl commercial;
If you are good at video, then 4) Create a YouTube video of the transforming Obama to Hillary Joker face in motion; 5) Take that segment of the "1984" Apple Super Bowl commercial with all the people walking in, and put her up as the face on the screen - of course, post it to YouTube.
Now, send the links to either the art or the video, or both to every on-line news outlet you can think of - might as well start here, or with The Hill, since they are the ones who posted the t-shirt that will be the jump-off point for this idea.
If you are a graphics, or video artist, never forget the great publicity those who did up the Joker of Obama received - it is still viral to this day.
And don't forget the impact your art and video will make in putting Hillary into her proper perspective - an Orwellian Joker-noire.
If you don't do this type of art work yourself, please copy and paste this in an email to everyone you know who does do it.
To find the picture I referenced, go to the web site readyforhillary, then go to / shop now / scroll down to the bottom of the page.
Please help us find someone to do the artwork - ridicule is amazingly effective.
Please take this creative suggestion seriously, and start Hillary’s campaign off as the Orwellian Joker-noire that it really is.
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We had to destroy the planet in order to save it.
boolish pfizer, merck, roche..go benny..barry..yelling
This is not just coal. I wonder if they use tetraethyl lead in their gasolines as an antiknock agent. And I'll bet their diesel fuels are no where near sulfur free.
I also wonder if this isn't an offshoot of airborne particles from wind erosion due to poor land management.
And air quality is one thing, China has an equally nebulous issue with water quality. A fucking nightmare manifesting itself right before our eyes.
Water problem? Just add lemon and sugar. Refreshing for stops by the roadside when the air is too smoggy.
Lemon and sugar does go well with dead pig.
she was a girl so they let her die.
We will know China has a real problem when the air is so bad their internal combustion engines no longer internally combust.
I have no idea if the Chinese gasoline is lead-free or not,
but western countries blowing out lead with their combustion engine exhausts for many, many decades and only finally putting a stop to it in the 80s and you have nothing better to do than now display your [supposed] superiority here - not to mention the crazy overshoot of lead-fear in California and other places (on neither mechnically nor chemically abrasively used alloys containing small amounts of lead!)
- I have to downvote you for that.
Come on we all know she was a smoker or her parents did or the people next door did or the people down the street did or she stood close to someone somewhere sometime that did, she knows someone that did, or one of her class mates knew someone that did or one of her classmates knew someone that knew someone that did, or her grandparents that died before she was born did, or she read an article in the newspaper about secondhand smoke or she knew someone that read an article in the newspaper about secondhand smoke!
Its just one vicious cycle after another!
Flash news report last night, Why is the marine life on the shore of San Diego suddenly dieing?
Nature is an externality, the invisible hand will take care of us all!
Garden of Eden lost, jealous God to take care of us all!
AMERIKAN DREAM!
That picture is a perfect metaphor for obamacare
that girl dying is the perfect metaphor, oh wait, it's a straight up message.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few......or the one.~Spock~. So what if little girls die of lung cancer. At least we have our throw away DVD players.
Nice photoshop.
Americans get Alzheimer's at 45, and breast cancer at 25 at an alarming rate. But hush, hush, it's $good$ for the healthcare complex. MOAR fluoride in the water, soda, beer, and Campbell Soup! We want nice smiles and docility.
You don't have to drink fluoridated water, and you definitely don't have to drink soda or beer or Cambell's Soup, if you think those things are bad for you. The soup? Really?
Yea, and you don't have to breath either, if you don't want to.
Over.
lol at the flouride conspiracy nut.
Lithium Catalyst: No Planes, No Trains, And No Automobiles As Record Smog Shuts Beijing
Now we have another confirmation of the very important trend that we have discussed yesterday and you can realise why China becomes now the Top player in the Lithium market under the radar screen of Facebook investment community. http://sufiy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/lithium-catalyst-no-planes-no-trains.html#
Lithium is why America is droning Afghanistan and Pakistan. To get the herders off the land...so they can begin mining....the rights have already been sold off to china.
Looks a lot like LA in the 70s to me.
Or London in the 1950's.
Yeah but London in the late 1950s had Eddie Cochran. Poor guy died in the UK in 1960 in a car crash near Bristol. Sadly China today and LA in the 1970s had/have total shit and Charlie Manson.
Twenty flight rock...
"Sent to Chicago for repairs, until it's fixed Ima using the stairs"
"They're gonna find my corpse draped over a rail"
My favorite dead rockabilly.
And speaking of London: HAPPY GUY FAWKES NIGHT !! "A penny for the guy"
should run some anticigarette ads on tv in china. china needs to scapegoat better. have they tried blaming Bush yet?
So in reality, China is having an epidemic of lung cancer in children, and is realizing that they have to start to admit there is a problem. This is going to be interesting. I have a solution, send all children to Japan, specifically a Fukashima prefecture camp for free treatment.
Posted this in another thread, but it bears repeating...
What is with so many of you ascribing greatness to the Chinese??? They have their good and bad traits just like any other culture but the ONLY reason they have been the super-charged economy of the last 20 years is TPTB gave them the opportunity. Their oligarchy is not innovative. They do not design new products. They manufacture with slave labor in factories that pollute the environment that were gifted to communist party synchophants. If they were so "Forward looking" they wouldn;t be in such a rush to damage their ecology and build cities that fall apart before they are completed.
Liberals like Pelosi, Feinstein et al think China's model should be emulated by the USA. They want to be our overlords so we can be even bigger serfs.
Still making shit up I see...
And still buying the phoney left/right bluestate/redstate divide TPTB have been selling them through its propaganda channels (though Freddy will protest until he's blue in the face he doesn't). Boehner/Cantor/Cruz/Paul (the lesser offspring) are as willing and wanting to dance on our graves as Obomber/Pelosi/Feinstein. And will be be laughing at tools like Freddy while they are doing it.
You likely know this but TPTB helped Mao get into power after WW2 and also the Communists into Russia during WW1. - - - Though MacArthur warned about the dangers of getting bogged down in an Asia land war, they managed to get into Korea and later the useless pit of Vietnam. Vietnam was a disaster for America on many levels, including economic. (And very likely a major reason they got rid of JFK who was going to pull out of Vietnam.) - - - Kissinger opened up China, which would later eventually lead to US manufacturing being off shored there and the destruction of American industry and much of the middle class. When these moves were first put into place, China had difficulty feeding themselves and was a backward country. They couldn't have done it on their own. China is the perfect model for the psychopath oligarchs vision of a global police state. (Global governance does not mean respect for individual human rights including their pursuing their own happiness as they determine it, as long as the rights of others aren't violated. No, TPTB governance is about control and dominance over everyone else and power that is perpetual and unchallengeable.)
There may be real rivalry between the various global oligarchs in China, USA, and Russia (Putin in particular). And it could all be an illusion for the purpose of bringing global governance . . the new world order. Who knows ?
This may seem to be a rather 'outrageous' possibility for some people. For those of you Boomers old enough to remember watching Walter Cronkite give his news casts on t.v. - websearch his speech when accepting the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award. Cronkite called for global governance and the need for nations to give up their sovereignty. He admitted to being a globalist for years and was happy to say so loudly since he had retired from t.v. 'Uncle Walter' may not have been who you thought he was.
Mother nature sending forth messages...and the politicians continue to instead listen to the money....
Wait. Does this mean they are now no longer the 'Undying Chinese'? I'm confused.
Anecdotal professional experience: we are seeing a veritable epidemic of breast and other cancers. Also, we frequently see patients with 2, 3 and even 4 different malignancies, something that was almost unheard of 20 years go.
BTW, this website crashs my PCs at work and at home repeatedly. It is a fucking PITA and I blame too many ads and scripts running. The owners need to either tone it down or offer a paid subscription with no ads. I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem and I'm not visiting or posting nearly as much because of it. I am tired of reloading this site 4, 5 and 6 times in the AM!
ZH crashed 2 more times since I posted this.
ZH just crashed again.
ZH just crashed again.
Use Firefox as your browser. Install these add-ons: a) NoScript (you will get to control which scripts run on each website you visit), and b) Ad Blocker Plus (will block all those pesky pop-up and banner ads that slow the site load). There are other tweaks you can perform, but these will get you past the majority of the site-related headaches you mentioned.
If the Tyler's business model relies on all that, then they have problems.
Conspiracy hypothesis: The script kitties load up the ZH data stream with so much junk that a user can no longer justify the time spent hacking through delays. Conspiracy hypothesis; The Tylers are taken over by the script kitties.
I'd pay for a junk-free service.
Firefox + Adblock + Flashblock = Bob's your uncle
also add ghostery, smart referer, cookie monster (set it to block all by default)
Doesn't happen to me, which porn sites do you visit?
Paid subscription lol.
Don't get mad get even.
Over.
So you're a professional but you are making unscientific claims. Great job. What is a 'veritable epidemic' to you? You do realize that the US population is aging, it would make sense that the disease rate would increase just on that factor alone. I fail to see how Cambell's Soup causes breast cancer, as suggested by another poster in this thread.
Fluoride in the water is the base building block for Alzheimer's.
2rd ingredient? Does it come from the municipal water supply or a Pristine Glacial Rockey Mountain Spring?
Oh, look at that wheat flour, a known source of aluminum powder a catalyst for Alzheimer's.
Campbell's CREAM OF CHICKEN SOUP
INGREDIENTS
CHICKEN STOCK, WATER, VEGETABLE OIL, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, WHEAT FLOUR, CREAM (MILK), CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF: SALT, DEHYDRATED MECHANICALLY SEPARATED CHICKEN, SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, CHICKEN FAT, YEAST EXTRACT, FLAVORING, BETA CAROTENE FOR COLOR, CHICKEN FLAVOR, BUTTER (CREAM [MILK]).
"DEHYDRATED MECHANICALLY SEPARATED CHICKEN"
Yummy...
I was responding that I said ANECDOTE, and ZH crashed again.
I'm just about done with this site. Seven fucking crashes ina couple of hours. And who the hell does business with a pop up ad anyway? No one!
It's been running for a couple of weeks for me withou problems 5Ffox adblock etc..)
My guess is you have a system problem, but keep on bitching, we need the entertainment.
I had the same problem until I switched to Firefox with adblocker. Fixed it up, no more lockups or crashes.
If it were the us they'd say she was an avid smoker.
Hey all you free market anti-regulation types, this is merely the result of unfettered industrialization....
Are you really sure that you want to gut the EPA and the Clean Air Act just so the Kochs and thier ilk can make a few more bucks?
I had enough of you. You are a bought off creep. You are a monster. A fuck who feeds on misery.. Fuck off and die.
This place has been sounding more and more like Breitbart, or Drudge Report. How about we maintain some civility. Reading a chain of back and forth insults is, among other things, extremely dull...
And as the dialogue regresses the (theoretically adult) children start to dominate the comments puffing out their chests and throwing around the usual buzzwords: commies, libs, lefties, feminazis, teabaggers, ect. so nothing worthwhile is ever discussed and the angry (usually)man-child can continue to feel better about himself. I find when I need to take a break from this site it is because I get sick to death of constant bleating of these losers.
I agree, as one of the old hands here, nearly 4 years and counting, my patience with know-nothing bloviating ideologues is wearing thin....
Yeah. Good thing they have no anti-pollution laws over there, or we might not be able to afford to have any toys with our Happy Meals.
BE CAREFUL, You speak the truth...people can't handle the fact that the free market fairy tale is a nightmare...
So you are saying China has free markets? Wow..when they asked you if you wanted a cup of Koolaide, you drank the whole pitcher!
can you produce cheaper anywhere in the world than china?
This doesn't have a damn thing to do with free markets. This is the result of government controlled, grow at any cost misallocation of capital. There is no way in a free market that private capital would invest into empty cities without the government backstopping the whole proccess.
Normally you are a bit more on target, but the above statement is simply ideological claptrap. It is not as if we have not seen the same scenario play out in the industrialized West. I had no idea that London in the 19th century was a centrally planned and driven economy...
BTW, You are aware that per capita C02 emissions in China is at the same level and Britain and the US circa 1900? Just a little perspective...
You think CO2 emissions are China's biggest problem? Oh my.
Nice strawman...
Actually it is water...
really, nothing to do with free markets? then why is production occuring in china? why are MNCs factories located there?
You might want to go do a little research on Trade Treaties like TPP before you denigrate free markets or use the current world manufacturing paradigm as the yardstick for today's global market.
It is not "Free"!
DaddyO
trade treaties are written by whom? for whom? i'm looking at reaclity objectively....using common sense...
money flows across borders...all it seeks is less regulation to make more money...less governance, or governance willing to go along with big business will see this flow of money...which is why china and america are #1 trading partners.
1.3 billion people...
So what are natural odds that 1 8 year old would get young cancer?
Never let a good crisis go to waste....
This but no Fukmeshima little girl deaths..
Yeah, but she's been a two pack a day smoker since she was 4.
If this was Indonesia, you might be on to something...
Stay strong Prius owners, you're still making a difference in global polution!!!
The Prius is nothing but a marketing gimmick, but I think you know that.
if the 8 year old worked a longer shift in the air conditioned T shirt factory and gave up Marlboros ... this would not have happened.. china sacrificing their youth for the buck.. ah wonderful communism workers paradise... obumblers goal for amerika...
Let's give China preferrerd trading partner status and sweep the pollution issue under the carpet... oh wait, been there, done that.
Folks should look into detoxing their bodies...
The Party actually outlawed smoking in public places years ago; the law was immediately and roundly ignored.
A man could make a good living moving some Western-flavored, GNC-like health supplement outlets into China. The problem is it's the Wild West and you would soon find your product ripped lock, stock and barrel and even your entire retail store copied virtually overnight. China made its own bed here.
Central planning will come to the rescue.
Children die all over the world because of the misguided policies of "their" gubmints. She is expendable in their eyes. Life is cheap in a country that has mandatory abortion laws.
I am wondering how close the pollution levels are to having people start to pass out on the street. Must be getting there.
Look how sick consumerism is making us all, we are litterally building factories next to baby hospitals , sacrificing untol unborn / newborns just to sell an ipad for 999$.
This has to end somewhere.
Koch Bros: "we dont need no stinkin EPA"
That's not entirely true--the Kochs would probably argue that stronger property rights could solve the same problem. It would make it actionable if a company let their pollution enter my property (my body). EPA isn't doing that great a job you know.
Tragedy of the commons writ large....
Moreover, how much time and money do you have to take the Kochs to court?
The existence of the EPA does not make polluters immune from civil suits, but damages are hard to prove legally. Consider how DuPont fought the 10000% higher than normal incidence of pancreatic cancer among workers for years. That is an inefficiency which only benefits lawyers.
So many are clueless as to the EPA true goals, mission, and what it really is. If you think it is about protecting the environment and people, you couldn't be more wrong. The EPA is both a taxation body, and enforcement arm of the administration in power. See how the Kenyan wonderboy is using the EPA as an end round to eliminate bullets. They are wanting to class lead as a hazardous substance, and destroy the commercial ammunition industry. They are at work to destroy the US coal market, while our adversaries buy up our most abundant energy source for pennies on the dollar. Like most gubmint agencies, the EPA is a farce. Clean air and water? HA! They could care less.
Take your conpiratorial ideation and leave, please....
Larry Summers came up with the plan to export pollution to other countries, saying they needed the work more than clean air and water. Seems the plan is working perfectly. China is being turned into a poisoned wasteland unsuitable for human inhabitation.
On my trip to China I saw about 4 birds in the wild. The Chinese like to eat wild birds (big cities without pigeons!), but considering the canary in the coal mine effect, there might be more reasons for the absence of birds.
If it moves, the chinese will eat it; bats, cats, snakes, birds, spiders and other large insects, you name it, just smother it with pepper sauce-IT'S ALL GOOD!
We export smog and credit to China, and they return the favor with debt from green energy crony socialist solar tyranny.
Eventually we'll end up with a mountain of solar e-waste and bad debt, and the Chinese peons get sick and stuck with bad debt.
I think it still cost more energy to produce solar cells than the cells produce before the cells wear out, and all that energy e isssions ( the dirtiest energy in the wold) used to produce the cells gets dumped in their air.
.... And we do this to "protect the environment".