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2005-11-25 China-Japan-Koreas

Chinese cover-up raises fears over bird flu

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Posted by lotp 2005-11-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 a plentiful supply of high-quality water is needed to keep the machinery clean.

Where are they going to get that? Chinese rivers are NOT clean, even when they don't have toxic spills coursing through them. The two rivers in my city are filthy. You can stand on a bridge and watch (and sometimes smell) the nasty stuff float by.

Posted by gromky">gromky 2005-11-25 01:05|| http://communistposters.com/]">[http://communistposters.com/] 2005-11-25 01:05|| Front Page Top

#2 (With apologies to, gromky)

It couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of commies.

Posted by Shipster 2005-11-25 01:19|| 2005-11-25 01:19|| Front Page Top

#3 gromky, what's your city?

Btw, a newspaper (Financial Times or Wall Street Journal) theorized that the SARS "cover up" may have been instead been a disconnect and communications-networking failure between the central and local governments. The latter not wanting to report bad numbers, and the power of the central government to affect local matters (i.e. corruption) kinda supports this idea.

Posted by Edward Yee">Edward Yee 2005-11-25 01:40|| http://edwardyee.fanworks.net]">[http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2005-11-25 01:40|| Front Page Top

#4 EY: The latter not wanting to report bad numbers, and the power of the central government to affect local matters (i.e. corruption) kinda supports this idea.

This makes a lot of sense. In China, local governments report to the central government, which is to say that they are hired and fired by the central government. In countries, where local governments are autonomously elected by the local electorate and do not answer to the central government, they will tend to scream loudly when anything bad happens and blame the central government when things go south (as they did during Katrina). When they answer to the central government, you tend to get cover-ups by the local government in hopes that the issue will just go away before the central government decides to jump in and fire them all. I don't even think it's losing their jobs that is 100% of their concern - it's having newly-appointed officials look over their books, which may be full of diversions of funds from tax collections and the local government treasury.

Posted by Elmenter Snineque1852 2005-11-25 02:46|| 2005-11-25 02:46|| Front Page Top

#5 China's Agriculture Ministry said late today that it would vaccinate all of the nation's billions of chickens and other poultry against bird flu.

Chinese cover-up raises fears over bird flu

Kung Bao: whats the most diffucult problem when vacinating sick chickens every day?

pf: finding dem chicken hineys under all thos feathers.

Posted by Mr. poop feathers 2005-11-25 03:52|| 2005-11-25 03:52|| Front Page Top

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