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Dramatic Amateur Video Captures Moment Deadly Chinese Landslide Buries 33 Buildings

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In a year marked by numerous dramatic (and often deadly) infrastructure failures in China's industrial sector, culminating with several deadly explosions at its port towns, the latest tragedy to strike took place yesterday in China's southern town of Shenzhen where at least 91 people were missing after a giant mound of mud and construction waste spewed out of an overfull dump site in a southern China boomtown and buried 33 buildings in the country's latest industrial disaster.

As Reuters reports, the site should have been closed down in February, but according to local workers, mud and waste had continued to be dumped there, a news portal run by the city government in Shenzhen said. The latest incident takes place over a year after a government-run newspaper warned Shenzhen would run out of space to dump the waste left behind from a building frenzy.

The mudslide at the business park had covered an area of more than 380,000 square meters (94 acres) and was 10 metres (11 yards) deep in parts, Shenzhen Vice Mayor Liu Qingsheng told reporters, according to Xinhua. Almost 3,000 rescuers were at the scene, Xinhua said, with sniffer dogs and drones. Rescuers were focusing on several areas where sensors had detected signs of life, it added.

Fourteen factories, 13 low-rise buildings and three dormitories were among the buildings flattened. Xinhua said 14 people had been rescued and more than 900 people had been evacuated from the site by Sunday evening. State television said the 91 missing included 59 men and 32 women.

A nearby section of China's major West-East natural gas pipeline exploded, state television added, though it was not clear if this had any impact on the landslide. Xinhua said the pipeline was owned by PetroChina, China's top oil and gas producer, that the 400-meter-long ruptured pipe "has been emptied" and a temporary pipe will be built.

Premier Li Keqiang ordered an official investigation into Sunday's landslide in Shenzhen, just across the border from Hong Kong. The mudslide smashed into multi-storey buildings at the Hengtaiyu industrial park in the city's northwestern Guangming New District, toppling them within seconds in collisions that sent rivers of earth skyward. Villager Peng Jinxin said the mud came like "huge waves", as residents ran out of the way.

"At one point the running mud was only ten meters away from me," Peng told the official Xinhua news agency.

The frequency of industrial accidents in China has raised questions about safety standards following three decades of breakneck growth in the world's second-largest economy. Just four months ago, more than 160 people were killed in huge chemical blasts in the northern port city of Tianjin.

State television showed scenes of devastation in Shenzhen, with crumpled buildings sticking up from heaps of brown mud which stretched out across the industrial park.

Besides new buildings, a network of subway lines is being built in Shenzhen, and mounds of earth are being excavated and dumped at waste sites. "Shenzhen has 12 waste sites and they can only hold out until next year," the official Shenzhen Evening Post, published by the city government, said in October, 2014.

Once a quiet fishing village, Shenzhen was chosen by Beijing three decades ago to help pioneer landmark economic reforms, and it has boomed ever since.

The Ministry of Land Resources said the accumulation of a large amount of waste meant that mud was stacked too steep, "causing instability and collapse, resulting in the collapse of buildings".

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And in this age of ubiquitous cell phone use, there was an immediate amateur video recording capturing the landslide as it happened:

 

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Mon, 12/21/2015 - 08:37 | 6948312 Perimetr
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The "dramatic failures in China's industrial infrastructure, culminating with several deadly explosions" were engineered by Langley.  They occur in port towns because that is where access to China is easily obtained.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 08:46 | 6948331 VinceFostersGhost
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culminating with several deadly explosions"

 

About that last clip.....storing dynamite in those buildings?

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:00 | 6948356 StackShinyStuff
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Randsride! Randsride!  Lun fo you Rives!!!

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:18 | 6948393 NoDebt
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The pipeline explosion at the end was a nice touch.  I give it an 8 out of 10.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:37 | 6948448 RonArgent
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How can science hating Repukelickers still doubt man made global warming, man made climate change man made climate disruption after seeing this?

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:53 | 6948490 y3maxx
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...Wait till USSA's infrastructure begins collapsing en masse.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:09 | 6948528 VinceFostersGhost
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man made climate disruption

 

First it was global cooling (60's).

 

Then it was global warming.

 

Then it was climate change.

 

Now it's.....climate disruption.

 

Make up your freakin mind.

 

 

The 500 days have come and gone.....and that beach house is still there.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:13 | 6948559 LowerSlowerDela...
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Don't forget CO2 Pollution!

Global Warming® (since rebranded Climate Change®, since rebranded CO2 Pollution®, since rebranded Climate Disruption®).  And the solution to a (pretend) warming earth is higher taxes and people/business suffocating, Central Planning, regulation.  Increase control/taxes, Earth's temperature goes down.  Lower control/taxes, temperature goes up.  The gubmint "scientists" are SO smart!...

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:22 | 6948580 DownWithYogaPants
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Globull warming is a scam and a power grab.  It is designed to create artificial scarcity in the energy sector.  Anybody who still pushes globull warming is a shill for the Ruling Class Oligarchy ( tm ) 

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:49 | 6948685 VinceFostersGhost
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Gosh Wally, they wouldn't do that to us.....would they?

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:52 | 6948696 Latina Lover
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Instead of Yiddish lightning, we now have Yiddish mudslides to reduce inventory and collect insurance.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 11:50 | 6948849 Manthong
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Coulda’ been worse.

‘Could have had your hair dissolved by acid rain.

I miss acid rain.

That was from the time before the collectivists institutionalized the myth of the destruction of the entire planet because of progress and just plain living.

Now the environment in China, on the other hand, is prima fascia evidence of what happens when corrupt corporations and individuals are allowed to run amok without the responsibility or concerns that comes from an understanding and respect of natural law.

There are some things that a responsible person just won’t do because he knows A priori that it is not proper.

That sensibility is being displaced with wrongheaded political correctness that only serves to herd people into the pen of the lowest common denominator and fulfills the collectivist’s agenda.

 

 

 

 

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 11:58 | 6949013 SuperVinci
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well said.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 13:24 | 6949443 Four chan
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too many chinese. earth.

Tue, 12/22/2015 - 00:53 | 6951846 Stainless Steel Rat
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It is such a sad thing to see happen, on this holiest of Chinese food holidays...

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 13:55 | 6949585 ZD1
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"Now the environment in China, on the other hand, is prima fascia evidence of what happens when corrupt governments, state-run corporations and individuals are allowed to run amok without the responsibility or concerns that comes from an understanding and respect of natural law"

Fixed it for ya.


Mon, 12/21/2015 - 14:11 | 6949686 Manthong
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Amended, rather than fixed.. yes, the state run enterprises have a whole lot to do with it, but they would not be where they are without the influx of the multinational corporations, initially from the U.S. who are just as much of the problem as the state.

I’ve done business there and seen it first- hand.

 

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 12:13 | 6949088 Somewhat Evolve...
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I thought that was the Fed? Or was it Lindsay Lohan? Or Putin? 

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:33 | 6948619 GhostOfDiogenes
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The unpopular beach I go to has had the same sea level since I started going to it 40 years ago.
The beach houses built in the 70's there are not underwater.

Someone is lying about one thing whilst letting other things happen.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 13:04 | 6949191 LowerSlowerDela...
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I'm counting on Algore being correct, moving my beach house from blocks away to ocean front in the near future.  Come on Global Warming®!!!  (Since rebranded Climate Change®, since rebranded CO2 Pollution®, since rebranded Climate Disruption®)

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 11:09 | 6948785 BandGap
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You left out how the ozone layer disappeared and we all died from skin cancer  (circa 1990).

Or AIDS or ebola or ........

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 13:15 | 6949402 Young Buckethead
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AIDS wasn't fast enough, Plan A. Ebola is Plan B. Faster, but not quick enough.

There is a Plan C and D.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 15:12 | 6949935 BuckShotJones
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The list is long and infamous...

 

Population Bomb in the 60s ..

2nd Ice Age in the 70s...

Ozone Hole ( depletion) in the 90s...

Global Warming in 2000...

Climate change in the current decade.

The scare of the next decade will be......?

 

All hyped by media to pave the way for more governement control.

 

 

 

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 19:56 | 6950938 cheech_wizard
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>The scare of the next decade will be......?

That Obama will still be in the public eye after he has to vacate the White House next year...

Tue, 12/22/2015 - 00:28 | 6951802 TBT or not TBT
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Thing is, it wouldn't be a 2nd ice age, it woukd the fifth or seventh or somesuch in a series of ice ages interspersed by short "interglacial" periids like our present one, which have lasted on average less than nine thousand years, unlike the present one, which is going on twelve.   The ice age panic made better sense.  

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 15:16 | 6949939 BuckShotJones
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My guess is AI scare is beign queued up for 2020

 

 

 

 

 

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:29 | 6948609 Antifaschistische
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I'm a fan of China, because I'm a fan of hard working people.   However, their infrastructure is all too commonly built on "get rich quick and get out" schemes that they are destined to have more dramatic failures.   Wait until a high rise collapses with people in it....then watch millions of people refuse to live in these pop-up high rises.   It's sad to me, because the real people of China do not deserve what the oligarchs are dishing out.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 11:56 | 6949005 Tsukato
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You're a fan of China?! Really?! I just finished a 7.5 year stint there, and whenever I read an article like this, think "yaaaay!!!! 91 less subhuman sacks of shit!". Maybe you are a fan of gungfu movies?

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 12:06 | 6949055 dochood
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Why did you stay there so long if you hate the people so much?

Tue, 12/22/2015 - 06:30 | 6952066 Tsukato
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Cash. No other reason. And I'm still making heaps off the backs of my own, personal, rat pack :)

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 12:54 | 6949309 roddy6667
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We are glad you left. Now you can bless some other country with your delightful personality.

Tue, 12/22/2015 - 09:27 | 6952297 Tsukato
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Haha! If you met me, like all the Chinese I know, you'd think I'm the nicest white guy you ever met. They still do. Gullible motherfuckers :) I got the best of your kind and it feels good. Chinese can study, steal ideas, bootleg, and put off living forever, but they'll never have that creativity of thought, that only white people have.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 13:27 | 6949461 FreedomGuy
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What species of sociopath are you? You really rejoice at 91 dead? You think all Chinese are subhuman? That is the real definition of racism, the real deal.

Maybe they felt the same about you and feel you left 7.4 years too late.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 14:02 | 6949639 Depression is Coming
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Why not? Thankfully everyone hasn't fallen victim to politically correctness.

Chinese are nothing but cockroaches, billions of these short little fuckers..they smell like shit, there is no culture cheaper than the Chinese (aside from Indians and Jews). It only seems like they work hard because there are 4 of them doing the job 1 Mexican does. 20 Mexicans will put up a house in the same time it takes 80 Chinese. I'm only sorry it's not 910 million of these cockroaches. Sick part is they would still have the 2nd biggest population afterwards.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 18:49 | 6950728 Antifaschistische
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Is your definition of "political correctness" being able to openly express your hatred for other people?  That is not "political correctness" although, it is a freedom of speech.

As for the comparison to Mexico...I like Mexico also, but you can put on your walking shoes and cross any major Chinese city east to west, north to south and you will be safe, well fed (more menu diversity than anywhere in the world...rivaled by India) and adequately sheltered (as in a plethora of hotels from $5 per/night to $400 per/night).   I can't get that in Mexico.

ps...and obviously you haven't been to China and don't know too many Chinese people.  They do not smell.  (however, their bathrooms do and if I had one wish it would be to upgrade all the bathrooms in China)

Tue, 12/22/2015 - 06:17 | 6952082 Tsukato
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Why do you and others, get in such a tizzy because I hate chinks? It's a basic human right, to hate. Without hate, there can be no love.
There's an old saying in China, and I'm not making this up- " everyone hates the Chinese, but not as much as the Chinese". It's true. The hatred of each other is the foundation of their culture. I should be enamored by such rats? Zhonghua is a country of miserable inhabitants. It's like hell. Should I love demons? Must we always make excuses for shit? That may be okay for the majority of you, but I despise political correctness. I left America in 99, and will never return to live that kind of emasculated life.
So call me a racist, bigot, misogynist, anti-Semite, anti homo/tranny. I feel nothing. I am a free man unaffected by the whining of slaves.

Tue, 12/22/2015 - 10:09 | 6952070 Tsukato
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Never mind

Tue, 12/22/2015 - 05:52 | 6952068 Tsukato
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Okay, I'm a racist. Boohoo.

Tue, 12/22/2015 - 09:32 | 6952319 Tsukato
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Good one...sociopath huh? You must not get out much into the real world. In fact I'm still "best bud-dies" with a lot of Chinese idiots. They weren't happy to see me move down to thaiguo and start my new shit. Then again, knowing Chinese, it's probably just jealousy :)

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 18:52 | 6950734 Antifaschistische
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ps...if you're attempting to use Pinyin for our Kungfu...the word is gongfu (with an 'o')  gong(first tone) and fu(first tone)

7.5 years....didn't learn much did you.

Tue, 12/22/2015 - 09:20 | 6952069 Tsukato
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Who fucking cares grammar boy. I learned enough as a solitary white boy to go into the den of jackals, use their own system of treachery, to beat them at their own game. Fuck them and their language that sounds like choking. The idiots I met over the years who were real study hounds, and loved China, are all broke assed motherfuckers, sucking chink dick. Chinese don't respect those people and neither do I. I got in, weaseled my way into meeting the right people, produced ideas they are incapable of, and did my best to extract every pond of flesh I could from those shits.
I have a real warning to you, and all other pussified white boys- grow the fuck up. Without becoming as treacherous, or even more, the white race is gonna become 2nd class global citizens. The Chinese give 0% fuck about social niceties, and are actually shocked by such a suicidal movement as political correctness. They thought I was joking. People need to toughen the fuck up, or prepare to be steamrollered by the people you're crying for. Pathetic.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 20:13 | 6950981 Casey Stengel
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Too bad for you. I stayed there 2.5 years and sadly left many friends. They are hard working folks who love their kids just like us. They do the best they can with what they have. That said, they also have a lot of corruption and terribly shoddy construction. Concrete and #6 verticle rebar is not meant to be the main support for buildings 200' high. imho. 

Tue, 12/22/2015 - 06:03 | 6952072 Tsukato
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I guess you didn't spend enough time to learn how friendship in China is different than America. Communism did nothing to chinese character either. Read western accounts of chinese behavior hundreds of years ago. Exactly the same. They never change. Jews of the orient. Just as likable.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 13:43 | 6949535 FreedomGuy
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I agree, AF. I think China suffers the legacy of Communism and the autocratic state. In an oppressive state you learn to lie to stay alive or even progress. You do NOT tell the State anything it does not want to hear. Those have severe negative consequences. Everything is "Yes!" and "Success!". Thus, every five year plan exceeds the economic goals except there were actually never any products on the store shelves. Yes, you can build that lovely new gray concrete barracks-like free housing for the masses on time and under budget. It will have 1/3 the rebar, the concrete will be watered down three times on the way to the project (the good stuff went to the local commisar's new home) and each place will have one electrical outlet that may or may not work. There will be a photo-op with the local governor, builder, political officer and one happy new resident waving a flag.

Move to today with some elements of free markets. You contract with the local toy maker to make toys for America and you ask them if they will meet all U.S. regulations and manufacturing standards. They immediately, with no hesitation say, "Yes!" even though they have no idea what the regs are and only two people can even read English from an American beer ad. This is the standard proper answer from their youth. It is normal and not even considered dishonest.

They then subcontract the cheapest paint which is lead based, use faulty toxic glues and plastics that break upon touch...because you got the low bid. The next earth trembler also flattens most every building in the city except the governor's home as the cheap earthen dam breaks letting loose the toxic waste from the company that passed all government inspections for toxic waste.

I suspect this is what you see here in Shenzen.

The culture of lying will take a long time to subside. BTW, everyone in China over the age of 4 knows that is how things work, even if they do not like it. They live by the phrase, "Buyer beware."  They love Western goods because they are reliable, higher quality and also have status (face). However, their benificent government puts at least a 100% tax on any foreign goods. Free trade goes only one direction, out.

The Chinese people are decent hard working people. I like them and I have family there. However, they have a Communist culture legacy that will take decades more to undo and they will continue to suffer the consequences.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:54 | 6948494 GhostOfDiogenes
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Republicans sold out to the dark side many moons ago.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:12 | 6948551 VinceFostersGhost
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It really got started when they blew Gary Caradori and his son out the the sky.

 

Google it.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:36 | 6948630 Bendromeda Strain
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Didn't need to Google it - and it is actually a good feeling, a feeling of cognizance. However, it didn't start there if you believe that Poppy was photographed outside Parkland Hospital. Two teams - one master.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 11:38 | 6948910 DblAjent
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And Chip Tatum (who washed up on a Panama beach without his face)

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 14:40 | 6949810 GhostOfDiogenes
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Chip Tatum is alive and well on youtube. Made a video last week.

Sorry.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:30 | 6948614 GhostOfDiogenes
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The FBI investigation of themselves concluded that they dindu nuffin in killing that guy for poppy bush.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:40 | 6948643 Bendromeda Strain
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Craig Spence nailgunned himself...

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 13:17 | 6949416 Young Buckethead
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Speaking of 'Dark Side':

http://www.dpa-international.com/images/75/31/17/74/00/00/thumb300_43_17...

Didn't someone tell the WH Stormtroopers work for the Evil Empire? Or is it a message?

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:57 | 6948505 Montani Semper ...
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I must have missed something...like the part where climate change had anything to do with a dangerously over-full construction dumpsite.

 Did I overlook the /sarc/ tag?

 

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 11:11 | 6948787 LawyerScum
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Global Warming causes Terrorism and lax waste disposal techniques. It is the greatest threat to mankind.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 12:43 | 6949240 Occams_Chainsaw
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Global warmin' coolin' climate changin' turned me into a newt.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 13:18 | 6949421 Young Buckethead
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I'm sorry for your Gingrichitis...

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:34 | 6948624 shovelhead
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Ron still has training wheels on his brain...

He'll get the hang of it eventually.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:54 | 6948705 thecondor
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Ya, like landslides haven't been happening for millions of years.  I hope you are being sarcastic. 

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 11:53 | 6948986 Guitarbill
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Yes! Pay your carbon tax and save the world!!! Carbon derivatives our new saviour!

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 12:55 | 6949321 lincolnsteffens
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Evidently there was a huge magnetic storm ejected from the sun which reached earth yesterday causing varying electrical problems (power surges, transformer fires, airplane troubles, etc.) and some earthquake activity.

See    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZLUHLnaW-c

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 16:50 | 6950371 beemasters
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Wars have done much worse damage. We don't hear any of those climate-disruption politicians nor climate nazis calling to end wars. Why?

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 11:32 | 6948879 DblAjent
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Uh . . . environmental impact study, anyone? Anyone?

Tue, 12/22/2015 - 02:48 | 6951979 August
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CIA is really getting pretty good at this stuff!

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 12:55 | 6949317 roddy6667
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You are a fucking retard. Go back to your trailer and wait for the short bus.

Tue, 12/22/2015 - 01:15 | 6951877 Zero Point
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How fuckin hard is it to hold your phone sideways. HOW FUCKING HARD?

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 12:05 | 6949048 abyssinian
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Preview of the US dollar flooding back to the US, it will bury 3300+ business

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 12:25 | 6949140 A Nanny Moose
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Pull it.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 14:34 | 6949778 Papi_Al-Mahdi
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu3-Masunao

 

The ground was percolating... Doesn't look at all like a landslide..

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:32 | 6948430 wizteknet
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There's a reason for building codes....

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:44 | 6948468 GhostOfDiogenes
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China not know what 'building codes' mean?
China have own codes. China build building. China have own secret building codes! Chine numba 1!

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 12:26 | 6949146 A Nanny Moose
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Yeah....it's called crony capitalism.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 12:57 | 6949330 lincolnsteffens
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building codes for a waste dump used by multiple contractors??

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 11:34 | 6948886 Das Capitalist
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Jet fuel can't melt the Chinese economy!

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 08:35 | 6948313 stant
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Is this good for cat?

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:32 | 6948428 El Oregonian
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No-No-No... Shantui Bulldozer SD22 Cummins Engine 220HP
Mon, 12/21/2015 - 08:36 | 6948315 chubbar
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We landslided some folks.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 11:58 | 6949015 Ass Burger
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* We "Barried" some folks.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 08:36 | 6948316 Canadian Made
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Putin did it..

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 08:37 | 6948317 ersatz007
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Hasnt this already happened in Idiocracy?

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 08:57 | 6948348 clooney_art
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It will happen in 2500 and it will be called "The great garbage avalanche".

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:53 | 6948491 css1971
Mon, 12/21/2015 - 08:42 | 6948324 youngman
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Progress..now they get to rebuild all of that..its like breaking windows...economic development 101

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 08:46 | 6948332 Arnold
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If you build it , they will die.

If we build it, you might not.

 

 

--Great Wall Masonic Lodge No. 1725

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:20 | 6948400 Ghostdog
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I wish that could happen here... -Paul Krugman

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 08:52 | 6948344 Kickaha
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Off topic: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/to-halt-venezuelan-currency-n...

Off course, nothing like that could ever be happening here in the USA.

 

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 08:55 | 6948347 YHC-FTSE
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Could have been worse. At least they were able to evacuate hundreds of people before it happened. I don't know what to call these incidents - teething pains? cost of progress? 21st century developments with 19th century mentality? culture of disregard for health and safety? Deeply frustrating whenever, wherever glimmers of the Idiocracy come so violently into view.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:01 | 6948358 Ghordius
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there was one case of a high-speed train derailing... and the local authorities started to bury it, including corpses of the victims

until the central authorities showed up and started to shout around that there was no way that this would be a workable solution

many ways to look at that

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:32 | 6948433 Solarman
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It is called corruption.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:00 | 6948352 J Mahoney
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I feel the earth move under my feet

I feel the sky tumblin down.

Not enough vegetation planted on the hillside--so it was Bush's fault !!

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:47 | 6948477 krispkritter
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I think there are way more 'vegetables' in Bammy's Cabinet and Czars list than Bushy's fridge...

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:10 | 6948377 Relentless
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This isn't unique to China, just look at the record of industrial accidents in 19th and 20th century western nations. Mine accidents, explosions and creating central banks, all the result of chasing money over safety.

 

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:19 | 6948397 NoDebt
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Without YouTube videos it didn't happen.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:17 | 6948391 DirkDiggler11
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MOAR cheep TV's and disposable shit !

A country only Oscar the Grouch would love...

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:21 | 6948403 overmedicatedun...
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yellen's rate hike did this..the media can use this film to show the effects of 100yrs of fed crime..think of that hill side as wall street. i wish.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:22 | 6948406 didthatreallyhappen
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earth happens

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:26 | 6948414 restelle
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Hmmm...  33 bulidings, eh?

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:58 | 6948508 yudd
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looks like fake news story and the overview shot is def CGI, they cut away form that pretty quickly to zoom in on some rescue effort which could be taking place anywhere , anytime.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:23 | 6948588 Montani Semper ...
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 It's good to be sceptical in today's world.

 Often the truth is hidden in news reports, but sometimes a landslide is just a landslide.

 That was a nice CG explosion in that last video, don't you think?

 Occams' Razor can be your friend, yudd.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 13:35 | 6949497 yudd
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why do people always mention occams razor when its a logical fallacy in most cases the simpler answer is never true and things are always more complex than they appear in the real world. Ask any engineer or mechanic or whatever, its not always simple.

iphone- simplest form, screen battery case - false - lot more complex

seed - add sunlight, water > grows - false - lot more complex, science still cannot explain the process fully and how something which is non living can become alive with few essential and the process from dead to live is yet not fully explained.

 

Syria Conflict- two sides fighting in proxy war- false - lot more complex with multisides fighting based on many self evident  / non-self evident motives and sometimes motives appearing contradictory in nature. Explain how USA supports shia militias in iraq while supporting their enemies in syria, jsut one example of many

 

Take most cases an OCCAMS RAZOR falls flat.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:28 | 6948416 northern vigor
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One less asshole in the world beeping his horn. 

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:06 | 6948534 Chump
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That's the spirit!

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:32 | 6948425 L Bean
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So they just piled up the excavated dirt from the workers' village construction, right next to said workers' village.

At some point the workers will weigh their options. As ever in the cycle.

 

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:41 | 6948460 GhostOfDiogenes
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Yup,

Only a matter of time before the sheeple of the USA revolt against the government that fucks them up the ass daily with all those guns we have.

Oh, wait.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:47 | 6948473 L Bean
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Oh don't worry, after China really falls manufacturing will come back to the US, and then 19th c. here we come. Again!

It will be so fun, Pinkertons and everything. I can't wait for our grandchirren to get the black lung again. It'll be like a folksy re-connection to our past, can you say; uh-MAZING?

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:51 | 6948484 GhostOfDiogenes
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And here I thought with all the religious wars going on we didn't get out of the dark ages. Silly me.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:58 | 6948509 krispkritter
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From my reading, there were concerns raised about the huge amount of man-made construction debris being piled up.  Now that it's come to people losing their lives, .GOV will finally get concerned enough to do something about it. Why is it that it takes people dying to raise any action after people have already voiced their concerns?  You know, thsoe pesky tax-payers asking for some of it back to make something safer for themselves.  A kid being run down at a dangerous intersection with no School Crossing signs. A village saying 'Do you think that pile of shit is high enough already?' Some annoying nit saying 'Do you think it's a good idea to build all those reactors near an active fault line and put all that highly radioactive shit on top of the building while you've failed to protect backup generators?'.  'Should we let the Harbinger of Doom, Haliburton, work on our oil rigs?'

Eh, I had a beer with my eggs this morning so I'm probably just being cynical...silly me.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:36 | 6948432 GhostOfDiogenes
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China is no paper tiger. China don't know what 'plumb' is. China big and strong. China no collapse after major earthquake! China burn lead in open pits. China dump mercury in river. China fog make you cough up lung. China is communist and China good! China steel is very good! Mix in aluminum and cover with steel! Chinese Steel! China food grown near chemical treatment and fallout from dirty coal power plants. China children born retarded. What happen to China dead? Who care! Many many China be born every day. People no care. People underground workers like orcs. China have to many cars, not enough roads. China wait long time to go 20km. China no bring back slavery, China perfected it. China is very better. Chinese eat dog. Yum yum. China eat baby yum yum good. Cat too but not much meat. China put bear in cages and milk for bile for Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine fueling ivory trade and animal abuse. China no care. China eat Fukushima rice very good. China take money and buy USA land and houses. China bring refugees in cargo containers to USA cause China so good. China better than everyone because make love like Disney creatures and multiply eating everything in sight!

China better. China A numba one!

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:28 | 6948606 Bub Ba
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China No.1 in skinning dogs alive for fur trade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLcgxIGTFRs

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:35 | 6948627 Monetas
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Excellent "Rant Poem" .... a new genre .... I'd could use you .... in my effort to reform Islam ?

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 11:17 | 6948813 GhostOfDiogenes
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Just pull on the string and...

http://youtu.be/zw0EXt1CXt4

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 11:04 | 6948748 Arthur Schopenhauer
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Our company had a company barbecue luncheon, and this Chinese guy who works for us showed up a little late. I told him 'hey man, get you some of that meat over there... its DOG meat!'. He makes himself a plate and walks over to the table and sits down and takes a bite of the barbecue...

Then he looks at me and says 'You LIE! Thats not DOG!!!'. 

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 11:19 | 6948822 GhostOfDiogenes
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Predator flesh is different than vegetarian animal flesh.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 11:15 | 6948804 Zero-risk bias
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Hehehe

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 23:12 | 6951602 Skiprrrdog
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Uhh, it might be time to consider an appointment with your psychiatrist for a med check...

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:39 | 6948453 I AM SULLY
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I saw this movie ...

(it was called IDIOCRACY)

So, what happens when you turn your air into coal-dust and your land into a toxic heap?

(all to make iPhones?)

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:46 | 6948475 GhostOfDiogenes
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Yup. The only thing China makes us iphones. It's their only export./s

Btw, just got my 6s large. Thanks chinamen! You work long time for me!

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 09:45 | 6948470 Monetas
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It's a total "Loess" ?

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:02 | 6948514 flysofree
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they should drop Jimmy Rogers from a helicopter into that pile of stink and for good measure drop Peter Schiff into the Yellow River too.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:06 | 6948533 I AM SULLY
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It's a good thing China doesn't have a history of massive peasant revolts ...

It's especially good that they spent the bulk of the last century in civil war ...

Yep - nothing but "stable days" ahead for China.

(sarc /off)

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:34 | 6948623 Kaeako
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If there's one thing worth fearing, it's the Chinese peasant (the poor). I know I'd be scared shitless if I was part of the Chinese establishment, knowing the history.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 12:51 | 6949297 I AM SULLY
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Yeah ...

That "Cultural Revolution" never happened ...

Mao never met Kissinger in a bunker because he was TOO F'ING AFRAID to walk around Beijing.

(great point)

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:09 | 6948546 ToSoft4Truth
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Rod O’God, Bitchez! 

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:27 | 6948600 GRDguy
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Gotta blame something, might as well be anything but the people directly responsible.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:39 | 6948639 ToSoft4Truth
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Allah, Allah?

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 14:42 | 6949817 Papi_Al-Mahdi
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu3-Masunao

 

The percolating ground does NOT look like a landslide.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:22 | 6948584 Zero-Hegemon
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Bullish for Caterpillar?

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:40 | 6948585 ---------
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how would a christian judge the accident:  it happend because they are bad people and sinners and god punished them for their sins by killing them.

why christians are so stupid? how can you believe in such nonsense? thats why the christian world is failing. how about seing facts instead of trying to be ignorant? jesus just now killed innocent chinese people. he is a murderer and you are praying to him.

jesus in fact is a bad guy, who punish only the weak and force them later to pray to him

 

1 minute silence for the chinese people who died because jesus punished them for no reason

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:53 | 6948700 novelator
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How do you know what Christians think?

 

The world and what's within and without it belongs to our Creator, Nature's God. Whatever labels people want or need to follow is up to them under the free will provision of Life. By their own free will the Chinese CHOSE to pile too much shit up in one place and it fell down and went boom.

 

Geez. Even Atheism is a form of religion, like politics, because atheists appear to spend every waking moment opposing a God they claim doesn't exist, just like liberals appear to spend every waking moment opposing the morals they claim aren't valid anymore.

Bite me, moron, and shut the fuck up. 

 

 

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 13:17 | 6948885 ---------
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i know what christans think   when the tsunami in japan occurred few years back i heard a pstor saying this people were punished by god for sinnig.   this actually is true from the point of christian. why did they died? its not because they are livnig near the coast of pacific in a reagion with extreme seismographic activity. yeah, its because god decided to kill them all.

 

see your comment? you say they choose to pile up the trash

what a joke

may some of the people are forced to live in this place, because they are not rich and can not afford a better apartment

may they have to live there because of work. in commusnist china they did not decide to pile up the trash, it was an authority, which decided to pile up the trash! not the innocent people

and why do you call me a moron? as a christan you sure do not know that you will go to hell for calling other people that way

you are not clean and full of anger. there is no place for people like you in heaven. you proved yourself righ now, you dont have values

 

atheism is not a form of religion   you are educated on a level of a brick

Tue, 12/22/2015 - 10:28 | 6952491 cherokeepilot
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You claim that the previious poster is "educated on a level of a brick" but at least he/she can spell and express a clear thought.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:58 | 6948723 shovelhead
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Wow.

Christmas at your house must be a blast.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 13:22 | 6949437 duck dodgers
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A childs logic from a childs brain.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 13:53 | 6949572 ---------
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idiots logic from an idiots brain

 

christanity do not work and makes people retard. end of discussion

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:23 | 6948587 GRDguy
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Just like the coming economic tsunami, I wonder how many people pointed out the dangers of the mud/waste pile before it came down on the town, and wiping out victims. Those that could kept piling on more until the collapse. Sigh. 

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:44 | 6948665 ToSoft4Truth
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Did you write a metaphor for the U.S. Debt Burg? 

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 11:34 | 6948894 cordial savage
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Based on Trump comments, I'm sure he saw this coming long ago.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:49 | 6948683 Monetas
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I love it when the rest of the world .... get's the anal exam .... we get every day .... by our own leftists ?

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 10:50 | 6948691 shovelhead
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Jeepers...

Have you ever noticed that China is just fucking weird?

Even their disasters are weird. Rivers filled with floating pigs and now garbage landslides...

I mean what kind of people eat birds nest soup made from larks vomit and hundred year old eggs?

Fucking weird shit.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 11:15 | 6948747 ---------
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in china they cure homosexuals with electroshocks - the therapy cost half of a years income

and one game addicted boy cut off his own right hand to stop playing computer

 

they are eting stuff like frog in a frog - they put a small living fog in a big living frog  and then they eat it

they catch stray cats on steets and skin them alive, then they trow them alive in a skillet and cook them alive

they cut off monkeys head and eat the brain with a spoon while he is still alive

i have seen this all on video


http://www.china-underground.com/magazine/7-animals-eaten-alive-in-china-graphic-content

 

in my opinion they are completely insane

may there is some genetical mistake which made them lose all feelings of cruelty

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 11:21 | 6948833 Zero-risk bias
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Well.. I wonder what animals would think about the way we coexist if they used words.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 11:34 | 6948890 cordial savage
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Americans watch the Kardashians, so let's not cast too many stones at our friends in China.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 13:17 | 6949415 Kprime
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I've never seen the Kardashians, but I thought they were Chinese?

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 23:01 | 6951566 Skiprrrdog
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I aint never seen a Chinese person with an ass as wide as Texas...

Tue, 12/22/2015 - 02:54 | 6951985 Kprime
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give them a couple more decades of KFC and MCD's

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 14:11 | 6949684 Ward no. 6
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it is horrible what some do to animals, but they are not all like this.

Many don't eat meat and have only tofu considered the "poor man's meat"

 

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 11:47 | 6948953 J Jason Djfmam
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Funny how the older the civilization is, the more fucked up it is.

It is time to start over.

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 11:32 | 6948880 silentboom
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Wow no one yet?  Ok I'll be the dick.

 

Ho lee fuk, sum ding wong!

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 11:41 | 6948915 J Jason Djfmam
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Fuk Dat Bich!

Mud Cum Now!

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 11:47 | 6948950 dogbreath
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This is only sad.  

Mon, 12/21/2015 - 12:31 | 6948976 dizzyfingers
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Liquid earth. Choices, consequences. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzlodnjPAuc

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