[OFFICIAL] - China

I thought about that too.

If you have educated, financially secure single women in a country full of uneducated labor drones, their pickings will be slim.

 

But women's rights there are horrendous. How can they be the minority, the least desired, and yet be the 'most educated', AND thus be unable to find a partner? Not buying the story.

 

Blackbull you have to follow the chronology and read carefully what she is saying.......Those women endure routine subjugation ,..their numbers, though at a deficit give them no advantage or preference in a male ruled society......All who is of age for partnering is probably already spoken for or already targeted for partnering through various apparatuses of pressure....This is NOT a rosey culture for the oriental women......

 

Sheraton hotel, Huzhou, China

 

22 Tons Of Fake Beef Seized In China

http://now.msn.com/fake-beef-seized-from-factory-by-police-in-china


Selling fake beef isn't only a crime in China — it's apparently also a huge problem. Over a period of three months at the start of 2013, there were 904 people arrested for "meat-related offenses."

Yes, that's really a thing that people were arrested for. Now the steak swindlers have struck again. Police in Xi'an in Shanghai province recently seized 22 tons of fake beef in a factory.

The mystery meat was actually pork that had been treated with paraffin wax and industrial salts to make it look like beef. Not quite a "Soylent Green" situation, but still: How disappointing would it be if you were really craving steak and got a lousy old pork chop instead?

 

At the Regional Education Center where I 'm getting technical training in computer networking. Half of the students enrolled there are asians. In my class eight are from Taiwan. I like talking to them about why education is so important to them. Their love for learning is infectious. If only we could get the same infectious fever in our American children. To compete against the next world superpower (China) to come in the next two years we need a national strategy in education that will help this nation compete for the decades ahead or we deserve to become the second rate power that is now envisioned for us as a nation.

 

China's Largest Conglomerate Buys Building Housing JPMorgan's Gold Vault

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-...ate-buys-building-houses-jpmorgans-gold-vault



In what is the most remarkable news of the day, which has so far passed very quietly under the radar, Fosun International, China's largest private-owned conglomerate which invests in commodities, properties and pharmaceuticals also known as "Shanghai's Hutchison Whampoa", announced in a statement filed just as quietly with the Hong Kong stock exchange, that it had purchased JPM's iconic former headquarters, the tower built by none other than David Rockefeller, at 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza for a measly $725 million.

Here is how Bloomberg described the transaction......

Over the past year, other Chinese developers and wealthy investors have been buying real estate in the U.S.

China Vanke Co., the biggest homebuilder listed in mainland China, said in February it joined a residential real estate venture in San Francisco. The families of Zhang Xin, co-founder of Soho China Ltd. (410), the biggest developer in Beijing’s central business district, and Brazilian banking billionaire Moise Safra this year bought a 40 percent stake in New York’s General Motors Building.

The landmark 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza, designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft and built in the 1950s, was once the headquarters of Chase Manhattan Bank. Rockefeller, as head of the bank’s building committee, selected the site and oversaw its construction.

JPMorgan intends to relocate about 4,000 employees, most of the people who work in the 60-story skyscraper, to other New York locations, Brian Marchiony, a spokesman, said in August. JPMorgan occupies about half of its space.

None of this is particularly newsworthy What is, however, is what Zero Hedge exclusively reported back in March, namely that the very same former JPM HQ at 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza is also the building that houses the firm's commercial gold vault: incidentally, the largest in the world.

What do we know about 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza. Well, aside from the fact that the 60-story structure, built in the 1950s, was the headquarters of the once-legendary Chase Manhattan corporation, and which when it was built was the world's sixth tallest building, not much.

So we set off to learn more....

To learn more, we first went to the motherlode: the Landmarks Preservation Commission, whose report describes everyone one wants to know about this building and then much more, such as that:


One Chase Manhattan Plaza combines three main components: a 60-story tower, a 2½ acre plaza, and a 6-story base, of which 5 floors are beneath grade.

So the old Chase HQ, once the stomping grounds of one David Rockefeller, and soon to be the other half of JPMorgan Chase, has 5 sub-basements, just like the NY Fed...


Reading on......

Excavations, said to be the largest in New York City history, reached a depth of 90 feet
Or, about the same depth as the bottom-most sub-basement under the NY Fed...

But then we hit the jackpot....

Originally constructed with white marble terrazzo paving and enclosed by a solid parapet of white marble travertine that was personally selected by Bunshaft in Tivoli, Italy, the L-shaped plaza levels the sloping site and conceals six floors of operations that would have been difficult to fit into a single floor of the tower, including an auditorium seating 800 [and] the world’s largest bank vault.

And there you have it: the JPM vault, recommissioned to become a commercial vault, just happens to also be the "world's largest bank vault."
Digging some more into the curious nature of this biggest bank vault in the world, we learn the following, courtesy of a freely available book written by one of the architects.....

On the lowest level was the vault, which rested directly on the rock - the "largest bank vault in the world, longer than a football field." It was anchored to the bedrock with steel rods. This was to prevent the watertight, concrete structure from floating to the surface like a huge bubble in the event that an atomic bomb falling in the bay would blow away the building and flood the area.

In other words, the world's biggest bank vault, that belonging to the private Chase Manhattan empire, and then, to JPMorgan, was so safe, the creators even had a plan of action should it sustain a near-direct hit from a nuclear bomb, and suffer epic flooding (such as that from Hurricane Sandy).

So, what the real news of today is not that JPM is selling its gold vault, we knew that 2 months ago, or that it is outright looking to exit the physical commodities business, that too was preannounced. What is extremely notable is that in one very quiet transaction, China just acquired the building that houses the world's largest gold vault.

Why? We don't know. We do know that China's gross gold imports from Hong Kong alone have amounted to over 2000 tons in the past two years. This excludes imports from other sources, and certainly internal gold mining and production.

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Cockroaches: the new miracle cure for China's ailments

Man, the stuff people will do to make a dollar.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10399443/Cockroaches-the-new-miracle-cure-for-Chinas-ailments.html

 

China is a massive ponzi scheme masquerading as a country.

When that bubble finally bursts it will do the whole world a favor.

 

China Reveals Nuclear Submarine Fleet

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/31/inside-china-nuclear-submarines-capable-of-widespr/


Chinese state-run media revealed for the first time this week that Beijing’s nuclear submarines can attack American cities as a means to counterbalance U.S. nuclear deterrence in the Pacific.

On Monday, leading media outlets including China Central TV, the People’s Daily, the Global Times, the PLA Daily, the China Youth Daily and the Guangmin Daily ran identical, top-headlined reports about the “awesomeness” of the People's Liberation Army navy’s strategic submarine force.

“This is the first time in 42 years since the establishment of our navy’s strategic submarine force that we reveal on such a large scale the secrets of our first-generation underwater nuclear force,” the Global Times said in a lengthy article titled “China for the First Time Possesses Effective Underwater Nuclear Deterrence against the United States.”

The article features 30 photos and graphics detailing, among other things, damage projections for Seattle and Los Angeles after being hit by Chinese nuclear warheads and the deadly radiation that would spread all the way to Chicago.

China’s sub fleet is reportedly the world’s second-largest, with about 70 vessels. About 10 are nuclear-powered, and four or more of those are nuclear ballistic submarines capable of launching missiles.

Heavily influenced by Soviet naval models that stressed underwater forces, China’s nuclear submarine development began with the reverse-engineering of a Soviet Golf-class conventional-powered sub in the 1950s.

In the 1980s, China developed its first ballistic missile sub, the Type 092 Xia-class, which has 12 launch tubes for the Julang (Giant Wave)-1 missiles. The JL-1 had a limited range and failed multiple test launches.

In 2010, a new class of missile sub, the Type 094 Jin class, entered the service. It is capable of launching 12 to 16 JL-2 missiles with a range of about 8,700 miles, covering much of the continental U.S. with single or multiple, independently targetable re-entry vehicle warheads.

Chinese calculations for nuclear attacks on the U.S. are chillingly macabre.

“Because the Midwest states of the U.S. are sparsely populated, in order to increase the lethality, [our] nuclear attacks should mainly target the key cities on the West Coast of the United States, such as Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego,” the Global Times said.

“The 12 JL-2 nuclear warheads carried by one single Type 094 SSBN can kill and wound 5 million to 12 million Americans,” the Global Times reported.

China also has developed land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles — notably the DF-31A, which has a range of 7,000 to 7,500 miles.

“If we launch our DF 31A ICBMs over the North Pole, we can easily destroy a whole list of metropolises on the East Coast and the New England region of the U.S., including Annapolis, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Portland, Baltimore and Norfolk, whose population accounts for about one-eighth of America’s total residents,” the Global Times said.

All the state-run press reports stressed the point that the PLA’s missile submarines are now on routine strategic patrol, “which means that China for the first time has acquired the strategic deterrence and second strike capability against the United States.”
“Our JL-2 SLBMs have become the fourth type of Chinese nuclear missiles that threaten the continental United States, after our DF-31A, DF-5A and DF-5B ICBMs,” said the Global Times.

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Feds Deny They're Lifting China Chicken Ban

http://thehill.com/blogs/regwatch/a...feds-push-back-against-chinese-chicken-claims


Federal food safety regulators are denying Democrats’ claims that they are preparing to let raw chicken parts be imported from China.

The the Food Safety and Inspection Service in a statement late Sunday said it “has not found China's poultry slaughter system to be equivalent and therefore poultry slaughtered in China is not allowed to be imported to the United States.”

“The U.S. food supply is among the safest in the world, and the Food Safety Inspection Service is dedicated to maintaining that status," continued the service, which is housed in the Department of Agriculture.

The announcement came after Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) criticized the Obama administration for “getting ready” to allow Chinese chickens to be sold in American stores.

Schumer said on Sunday that a USDA report to Congress indicated that imports could happen “within a year.”

“There are so many disturbing incidents about foods that comes from China,” he said at an event in New York City. “China has a terrible record when it comes to food safety, and because of cutbacks, our U.S. Department of Agriculture does not do the inspections that are needed and necessary.”

The USDA is currently conducting an audit of China’s poultry slaughter system. That report has not yet been finalized. When it is, the food safety agency said that China would be required to fix any flaws in its food safety regime.

In late August, the Agriculture Department allowed four Chinese poultry processors to ship some cooked meat to the U.S. The department said that only birds raised in the U.S. and Canada and then sent to China could be imported into the country.

The food safety agency is legally required to review all requests from foreign countries, it said.

 

Average (and safe) index is 93...there it's 600

China's smog now 20 times worse than safe levels

Air pollution in Beijing reached hazardous levels earlier this week.
CBS News' Seth Doane reports on how China's problem is becoming a worldwide concern.

http://news.yahoo.com/video/china-39-smog-now-20-135346198-cbs.html

 

Concern for who? Not the people making money they're building their Elysium right now. Not a care in the world.

 

*sigh*, when will the world learn, we cannot eat/drink paper(aka money). Just ask a west Virginian.

 

There is a thing called the Jet Stream.

It blows west to east in the northern hemisphere. All those factory emissions make their way into the upper atmosphere, blows in our direction, and comes down as rain/snow.

Right now we are getting bombarded with radiation from that Fukishima nuke plant in Japan that is still hot.

We are getting fucked so bad, it's not even funny.

 

You can't tell rich people that shit. Money is God to the dummies of this world we are too short sighted to recognize the effects and really understand how it affects us.

 

USDA To Allow Chickens From U.S. To Be Shipped To China For Processing & Return To US

http://ecowatch.com/2014/03/05/usda-chickens-shipped-china/


John Deike, March 5, 2014

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Scores of Americans are in an uproar since Food Safety News revealed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will soon allow U.S. chickens to be sent to China for processing before being shipped back to the states for human consumption.

This arrangement is especially disturbing given China’s subpar food safety record and the fact that there are no plans to station on-site USDA inspectors at Chinese plants. Also, American consumers won’t know which brands of chicken are processed in China because there’s no requirement to label it as such.

To ease concerns, lobbyists and chicken industry proponents argue no U.S. company will ever ship chicken to China for processing because it wouldn’t work economically.

“Economically, it doesn’t make much sense,” said Tom Super, spokesman for the National Chicken Council, in a recent interview with the Houston Chronicle. “Think about it: A Chinese company would have to purchase frozen chicken in the U.S., pay to ship it 7,000 miles, unload it, transport it to a processing plant, unpack it, cut it up, process/cook it, freeze it, repack it, transport it back to a port, then ship it another 7,000 miles. I don’t know how anyone could make a profit doing that.”

Yet, a similar process is already being used for U.S. seafood.

According to the Seattle Times, domestically caught Pacific salmon and Dungeness crab are being processed in China and shipped back to the U.S. because of significant cost savings.

“There are 36 pin bones in a salmon and the best way to remove them is by hand,” said Charles Bundrant, founder of Trident, which ships about 30 million pounds of its 1.2 billion-pound annual harvest to China for processing. “Something that would cost us $1 per pound labor here, they get it done for 20 cents in China.”

Bureau of Labor Statistics data estimates that American poultry processors are paid roughly $11 per hour on average. In China, reports have circulated that the country’s chicken workers can earn significantly less—$1 to 2 per hour—which casts doubt on Super’s economic feasibility assessment.

China’s food safety system, which is said to be decades behind America’s, is highly questionable given some of the more recent food safety scandals that have surfaced in the country:

•More than 300,000 Chinese children have suffered illness, and several have died, from melamine-tainted milk powder.
•Dangerously high levels of mercury have been found in Chinese baby formula.
•More than $1 million worth of rat and other small mammal meat has been sold to Chinese consumers as lamb.
Food Safety News aims to spread awareness of the pending USDA agreement and stop Chinese-processed chicken from ever reaching supermarkets or school lunchrooms.

 

Chinese military unit charged with cyber-espionage against U.S. firms

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...6c9992-df45-11e3-810f-764fe508b82d_story.html



The Justice Department has indicted five members of the Chinese military on charges of hacking into computers and stealing valuable trade secrets from leading steel, nuclear plant and solar power firms, marking the first time that the United States has leveled such criminal charges against a foreign country.

The landmark case paves the way for more indictments and demonstrates that the United States is serious about holding foreign governments accountable for crimes committed in cyberspace, officials said at a news conference Monday.

The Obama administration “will not tolerate actions by any nation that seeks to illegally sabotage American companies and undermine the integrity of fair competition in the operation of the free market,” Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said.

The decision to confront China grew out of a White House strategy formulated two years ago to impose increasing costs on Beijing if it didn’t respond to requests to stop its widespread hacking for commercial advantage. The indictment is intended to address what President Obama and senior intelligence officials have called one of the top threats to national and economic security, with an estimated annual cost to the U.S. economy that ranges from the tens of billions of dollars to more than $100 billion.

The criminal charges provoked a response from Beijing, which said Monday that it was suspending high-level cyber talks with the United States that began in June.

China has summoned the U.S. ambassador over the hacking charges. According to an online notice posted Tuesday by state-run Xinhua on Weibo, Assistant Foreign Minister Zheng Zeguang summoned Abassador Max Baucus to complain that U.S. authorities published their indictment ignoring the strong protests by Chinese authorities.

“Given the lack of sincerity by the United States for cooperation to solve cyber security problems through dialogue, China has decided to suspend the activities of the Sino-U.S. Cyber Working Group,” Foreign Ministry Spokesman Qin Gang said in a statement.

The charges are “purely ungrounded and absurd,” Qin said. He added that the United States had “fabricated facts” in the indictment, which he said “seriously violates basic norms of international relations and damages Sino-U.S. cooperation and mutual trust.”

The leaks from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden already had complicated the talks. Beijing has pointed to disclosures by Snowden of vast NSA surveillance activities — including spying on Chinese companies — to assert that the United States is the greater aggressor in the area.

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said, “We regret China’s decisions.” But she added that she does not think the development will affect strategic and economic dialogue meetings with China, scheduled for early July.

The indictment, which was filed May 1, charges five officials in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) — hackers with handles such as UglyGorilla and KandyGoo — with computer fraud, conspiracy to commit computer fraud, damaging a computer, aggravated identity theft and economic espionage.

China has no extradition treaty with the United States and none of the suspects is likely to see aa U.S. courtroom. Nonetheless, Holder said he hopes Beijing will “respect our criminal justice system and let justice take its course.”

The indictment is the result of years of work, officials said, in which investigators followed a complex trail of computer bits to one building in one Chinese city.

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Is there something special about China to warrant a special thread on them or is it the usual United States' morbid fear of losing the top spot in terms of power and money to China?

 

You answered your own question.

But to go more in-depth, look thru the first 10 pages of "In The News".

Lots of the threads are BS news stories about some celibrity/high profile white person using the "N-Word", Rape story (Hmmmm...) or somebody doing something stupid.