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China's NSA Foiled By Smog
Chinese officials are worried. Not about inflation... not about growth... not even about pollution per se... but security. As the South China Morning Post reports, government officials are raising concerns about the function of its vast network of surveillance cameras because of the thick smog blocking visibility for some of them. In a truly central-planned world, there is nothing more dangerous that not being able to keep an eye on the population and officials fear that threat of terrorism could be heightened on smoggy days. Improving air quality in China has been often discussed but a new military team is looking for a solution (as security trumps health it would appear) - harsher punishments on polluters are needed to help improve air quality in China, a senior Chinese official said here on Tuesday.
So,
China Invasion 101 - Wait for a smoggy day...
To the central government, the smog that blankets the country is not just a health hazard, it's a threat to national security.
Last month visibility in Harbin dropped to below three metres because of heavy smog. On days like these, no surveillance camera can see through the thick layers of particles, say scientists and engineers.
To the authorities, this is a serious national security concern.
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Existing technology, such as infrared imaging, can help cameras see through fog or smoke at a certain level, but the smog on the mainland these days is a different story. The particles are so many and so solid, they block light almost as effectively as a brick wall.
"According to our experience, as the visibility drops below three metres, even the best camera cannot see beyond a dozen metres,"
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The government has come to realise the seriousness of the issue and commissioned scientists to come up with a solution.
The National Natural Science Foundation of China funded two teams, one civilian and one military, to study the issue and has told the scientists involved to find solutions within four years.
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"Most studies in other countries are to do with fog. In China, most people think that fog and smog can be dealt by the same method. Our preliminary research shows that the smog particles are quite different from the small water droplets of fog in terms of optical properties," she said.
"We need to heavily revise, if not completely rewrite, algorithms in some mathematical models. We also need to do lots of computer simulation and extensive field tests."
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"On the smoggiest days, we may need to use radar to ensure security in some sensitive areas," he said.
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"It has to be a contingency device," Zhang said.
And the harsher penalties are coming... (via English.cn)
Harsher punishments on polluters are needed to help improve air quality in China, a senior Chinese official said here on Tuesday.
Xie Zhenhua, deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission, told a press conference less use of coal and emission reduction for automobiles were also crucial to tackle air pollution.
He said increased air pollutants caused by growing social consumption of fossil fuels were the main cause of the worsening smog, which has severely affected people's health.
Those who take irresponsible decisions that lead to severe environmental consequences need to be punished according to the law, he said.
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Well at least we get to fight in the shade, right?
Bullish Oreck air purifiers
Dunno, from the post photo...looks like long-dead Spaniards looking for their gold...
this is good..
all it takes is simple smoke producing devices to foil the surviellance state.
..classic.. kind of like Dorothy spilling a bit of water on the witch of the East.
hmm.. “the right of the people to keep and bear stage fog machines shall not be infringed??”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szG6EcGoUrQ
Who'd have thunk that the CHICOMS would get all 'environmental' on a SEROIUS note, when their ability to SURVEIL could be detrimenally affected by forcing their slave population to endure MOAR CHICOM pollutions?
BAD smog is GOOD for 'proletariat', but NEVERENDING POLLUTION SMOG is BAD, when it comes to the NWO surveillance state CHICOM DOMINANCE, I suppose.
LONG on CHEMTRAILING, BITCHEZ!
Why is the world rushing headlong into environmental armageddon?
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http://cosmicconvergence.org/?p=3717
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"Our present reality on planet Earth is quite well marked by an inordinate number of planetary tipping points — countless thresholds beyond which environmental health and ecological balance quickly deteriorate — as well as a myriad of critical breaking pointsthroughout the global technosphere."
so they're having the fog-gest ideas, no?
Sounds like they need an upgrade to infra red. Gots ta keep an eye on those evil peasants.
The NSA is watching you. You're not a criminal so you don't think it matters. Well, as Stalin’s notorious chief of secret police famously said, "Show me the man and I will find the crime".
http://www.planbeconomics.com/2013/10/show-me-man-and-i-will-find-crime....
Spanish gold and Adrian Barbeau's tits.......nice
Right; in the shade of the storm of arrows. Oh, Irony.
You can't make this shit up.
Cleaner air is coming soon!
No, just security cameras that can see through smog. They'll probably drench the area in some kind of highly carcinogenic radiation so they can get a better picture.
Well, it would be difficult. Sometimes I think I tuned in to the "Onion" by mistake.
Even in America I highly recommend having your boating accidents on cloudy rainy days, or better yet during an inversion........
..... a boat inversion in particular
"Visibility dropped down to less than three meters."
Isn't that typically called a house fire?
Hey China, there's a real big clue about your current lifestyle choices about 3 meters in front of you, but you can't see it.
3.1 meters is exactly 10 feet for the metrically disinclined, which in roman terms would be the wingspan of two average people standing finger tip to finger tip.
That's tie a rope around you and your partners waist in order to travel without getting separated from one another smog......population control in ultra slow mo......cough
The Romans only averaged 5 feet tall? (on average, wingspan equals height)
So, are you saying that the Romans were short angels?
I didn't realize that the Romans had wings.
Probably just imagined they did like the pirates in manhattan and DC today.
most italians i know barely reach 5'6" so it's not a stretch to say they averaged 5 ft back then
Ya and if they try and curb their pollution with stricter regulations it will cripple their industries. Just as improving worker conditions would do. If they attempt either they hasten their economic collapse. If they don't you get Shanghai with unbreathable air and a population ready to revolt. They are so screwed.
Nice avatar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrEvQGKi_TI
Some relatively low-yield tests about 65 years ago in Nevada.
NO, WE are 'so screwed'!
How's that CANCER doing? Metastisizing nicely, I see...
False leadership behaves the same.
See how productive it could be, if all directed attention to the appropriate places.
I love chewy air.
well, jon-boy,
I love AMERICANS!
I just had TWO, for LUNCH!
(IDI AMIN DADA)
How's that shitstorm of pollution coming over the Pacific and settling on your ASSets smell right now? Doesn't it make you want to go out and buy another BLACKBERRY at WALMART?
Don't breathe.
Oh, hell. BREATHE. It won't matter, soon.
PPHHPHHHH!
Jon Ashcroft, perhaps? The band's name is (fucking) 'BUSH'!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG8lyFwopyg
I like Captain Crunch. With 'Crunchberries'.
It's FUN when hundreds of millions get diseased and DIE because a FEW want to enrich themselves, isn't it?
Fucking punks...
You hate my words?
If you are a Chinese dissident facing the firing squad, the smog could come in handy.
With three metre visibility I would lso like to be at an international soccer match in China.
On a more serious note, I am of the understanding that quite apart from the health issues created the more serious side effect will be genetic damage to the populace which will manifest itself within the next one or two generations.
Alas, alas, eighteen divided by six times alas, evidences are in the mounting for suchlike genetic damage having arrived in the now (being here the past) via the magical time-traveling flying rickshaw of Benjamin Franklin US 'american' inventionizing.
As proofs of this, I submit the insanitationalized ananonymystical ZH postings of a certain Chinese Citizenism citizen.
Blobbing-up the environmental destruction is part and package of monolistic Chinese Citizenism.
Hey, same tune sung since 15,June, 221 BC. Can't escape the subhumanity.
"next generation" lol
There is no "next generation" of Chinese in China, all the women that can afford to have kids aren't having kids, they're shopping, and the ones that can't afford kids, they're aborting.
I know a lot of blue eyed devils that have Chinese wives & Asian kids, but they're not Chinese.
The Chinese dream is to escape the Chinese govt.
smog is probably why I got away with more in the seventies
SMOG, who knew it would ever become the freedom fighters solution to the Google/NSA Cloud.
Cloud vs. Cloud. Sounds like you just invented the new hit video game.
Oh God it takes radar to see thru the smog.
peace and security through microwaves..
Long live the state.. long live Doppler!
Without DOPPLER, life itself would be impossible!
(this message brought to you by your freinds at the Getty Institute and MONSANTO)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVZIW4LzRnw
Thanks, ZH'ers!
I have been searching for the archived commercial where the 'Monsanto-suit Dude' declared that 'without chemicals, life itself would be impossible' while showing examples of unrefrigerated spoiled cheeses.
Sum Yong Guy made me search, and I FOUND an ARCHIVED VIDEO of this, from 1978!
Ho Lee Fuk!
It must be the DOPPLER RADAR WAVES that also seem to be able to uncannily PREDICT the RAINFALL...
sigh ,,, reality is becoming funnier than SNL skits ... and wierder than onion article ...
Frigging amazing, isn't it?
TRUTH becomes TREASON in the EMPIRE OF LIES!
Oops. I didn't mean to reference 'REALITY', 'Saturday Night Live' and 'The Onion' in this reply. It just sort of 'appeared'...didn't it?!?
I like the opening pic of Steven King's 'The Fog'. At least, I think that was the screenshot promo ad...It MIGHT have been one of the fucking knockoff movie trailer ads from that era, churned out north of Holly Wood Land (anywhere in the San Fernando Valley). That zombie with the glowing eyes kind of looked like Linda Lovelace on a better day...or the kids at the Galleria, lining up to get Nike shoes...
They could ask Washington D.C. to stop funding it on foggy days.
They're going to shut down their "excess" steel & cement production one way or another, Africa is the new toxic dump.
Funny, we have an interesting feedback loop going with China, we export debt and smog and they export credit and crony green solar socialism.
I guess their long term "strategery" is to make our manufacturing so expensive we won't be able to ever wage war against them, our strategery is to let their greed kill their population with cancer.
Boy, I sure hope we win.
Grey is the new black. Location services deactivated.
High-resolution IR reconnaissance doesn't exist.
#dream_on
Nothing is foiled. Those people all have cell phones, And the tracking via those cell phones works no matter what the smog level. And the Chinese government still tracks emails, phone calls, snail mail, any conversation that anyone has anywhere in the country.