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Slaves in China

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:50:24 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong
clipper's remarks: Happenning in the 21st century

Chinese police rescue brick-kiln ‘slaves'

The Chinese media have estimated that 1,000 children – some as young as eight years old – were drugged or kidnapped near train And bus stations and then sold to factory owners for as little as 500 yuan (about $70).

The children were forced to work as many as 14 hours a day in cruel conditions with little food. Some were beaten by their bosses. Others were burned by hot bricks as they worked. Some of the children have spent up to seven years in slavery.

Another worker, also mentally handicapped, was beaten to death with a hammer last year. The workers were forced to sleep on the ground and were not permitted to wash or change their clothes. Their bodies were covered with bruises and burns from the hot bricks.

The factory was owned by the son of the local Communist Party boss. He employed five guards and six dogs to prevent the workers from fleeing.

Tags: brick, factory, slaves, children, china

30 tons of molten steel flood room, killing 32 in China

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:56:18 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong

Clip Source: english.sina.com

SHANGHAI, Apr. 18 -- Thirty tons of molten steel spilled from a falling ladle, killing 32 workers and injuring two in a Liaoning steelmaking plant this morning, Xinhua news agency reported.

The 32 victims were working in a room away from where the ladle was being operated when the accident happened at 7:45am in the plant owned by Qinghe Special Steel Co Ltd in Tieling City in Northeast China's Liaoning Province.

The ladle suddenly dropped when being moved to a new location, and 30 tons of molten steel spilled out and poured into the room five meters away, killing all the people inside.

Two operators were slightly injured and escaped from the scene by themselves, the report said.

Those responsible for the incident were under supervision, the report said.

Vice provincial governor Li Jia and vice provincial Party secretary Luo Lin reachedhave gone to the scene to guide the rescue work.

But the rescuer work was hindered by the heat from the molten steel, the report said.

Tags: 32 victims, china

Property Rights: China's most incredible holdout

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 03:12:49 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong

Clip Source: www.danwei.org

Dingzihu (钉子户) is a Chinese word that means a household or person who refuses to vacate their home to make way for real estate development. Virtual China translates the word as 'nail house' because "they stick out like nails in an otherwise modernized environment".

A photograph of the house in question has been circulating on the Chinese Internet during the last few days. It's posted on the popular Tianya forum: The coolest nail house in history.

The Tianya post has hundreds of comments representing many different points of view about the Property Law, the evils of state- and privately-owned real estate development, and the the rights of tenants.

The promising new blog Peering into the Interior has a translation of an interview with the owner of the nail house, Ms Wu Ping: Interview with China's Most Incredible Holdout

Also on Peering into the Interior: Media coverage emboldens nailhouse owners.

Tags: china, controversial, property law

ClipWeek!

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:23:27 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong
clipper's remarks: Just got this, the idea is great.

By the way, if you can enter my mailbox through the source link, let me know.

Clip Source: mail.google.com

Hi zephyrgong,

Welcome to the first ever edition of Clipweek, a weekly digest including Top Clips of the week, Featured Clippers, and all of the latest news and updates from Clipmarks.

This Week's Top Clips

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China Stutdents Riot. 25th Oct.

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 01:33:16 GMT

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Clip Source: xgongshe.org

Thousands of university students rioted in eastern China this week, officials and students said on Wednesday, as the police chief called for greater efforts to tame rising unrest. Students from Jiangxi province's Clothing Vocational College marched through campus on Monday after state media reported that school authorities had deceived new students about their eventual qualifications and issued fake diplomas. "They (students) committed extreme acts such as vandalising and looting," an officer at the Jiangxi provincial police department told Reuters by telephone. "Anti-riot police have been stationed on campus to maintain order."

Tags: china, education, riots, students

A Real Rocket Bike

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:13:05 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong
clipper's remarks: Really cool.

Clip Source: www.popsci.com

What does a propulsion engineer do when he wants to experience the power of a rocket without going to space? He simply bolts one to a bike

Tags: bike, rocket, howto

I'm not a look-a-like

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:06:49 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong
clipper's remarks: It'll be amazing if I found someone looks like me.

Clip Source: haha.nu

Interesting project by photographer Francois Brunelle. A collection of photographic portraits of North American and European look-alikes. Each photo features two look-alikes, who are not related, side by side.

Found your look-alike? Participate in the project.

Tags: fun, look-a-like

The Teleporting Cat Trick

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:12:55 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong
clipper's remarks: This is very impressive.

Clip Source: undeniablefacts.blogspot.com

This is a truly astounding illusion which you can use to bewilder your friends. To be honest, you can use any small animal or object for the trick, but I think a cat gives it an air of mystique. The video below shows the illusion performed by my cat Benjamin Franklin. (I was reluctant to name him after such a scoundrel, but I already had Crenshaw and Spartacus, and I had to complete the set).

Tags: tricks, teleportation gates, teleporting cat

A Bite to Eat

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:18:34 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong
clipper's remarks: It is possible to eat a meal with a bite...miniature fast-food. This is a meal made by a couple for the Craft Challenges. Looks pretty yum. The burger was a little over one inch tall and about one inch width...

Clip Source: www.craftster.org

Tags: miniature food, craft, cooking, fun

Chinese professor strips in art class

Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:47:12 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cnn.com

BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- A Chinese culture ministry official has denounced a university professor who stripped naked in front of students and teachers during an art class, a Chinese newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Mo Xiaoxin, a 56-year-old assistant professor at a university in Changzhou, in eastern Jiangsu province, shocked students by stripping during a lecture on "body art" to emphasize the "power" of the body and to "challenge taboos," the Beijing News said.

"There are no taboos in the field of research, but to do this directly in the course of teaching is obviously not appropriate," the paper quoted Tian Junting, a culture ministry official, as saying.

The lecture was part of a course within a newly established "human body art and culture" research institute -- China's first -- at Jiangsu Teachers University of Technology, the paper said.

Mo arranged for four other models, including a man and woman in their 70s or 80s, and a younger couple, to strip naked in front of the class while he lectured, the paper said.

During the nearly hour-long class, Mo also invited students to take their clothes off.

"Professor Mo appeared emotionally excited at the time," the paper quoted a student as saying. "As he was talking, he undid his belt and took off his pants, and stood naked in the middle of the lecture podium."

The naked lecture made many of the 30 or so students feel "uneasy," the paper said. "Some kept their eyes trained on the ceiling, some awkwardly bowed their heads and stared at the ground".

Tian, the culture ministry official, said the course was still in a "research phase" and it wasn't yet known whether it had produced "positive or negative effects."

Tags: china, professor, strip

Baby Toupee

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 04:35:50 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong

Clip Source: www.babytoupee.com

Tags: fun, baby, toupee

The Tattooed Banana

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:18:24 GMT

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Clip Source: tattooedbanana.blogspot.com

Tags: banana, art, fun

Reflections on the Summer of 2006

Sat, 02 Sep 2006 14:55:00 GMT

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Clip Source: bloglines.com

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

-George Orwell (attributed--if he did not say it, he should have)

No holiday for tyranny and terror.

In the United States, Friday saw the start of the long Labor Day weekend, which traditionally marks the end of America's summer vacation season.

It was some summer. Proxy rocket attacks by Islamist Iran on northern Israel and provocative rocket launchings by Stalinist North Korea ... Islamist mass murder in Mumbai ... and foiled Islamist mass murder in the sky ... Venezuela brazenly siding with Iran/Hezbollah, Hamas, and Syria ... and North Korea and Cuba ... while closing big energy deals with supposedly Peacefully Rising China ... Beijing and Moscow drawing closer, committed to blocking meaningful moves against Pyongyang and Tehran at the United Nations ... while the lunatic leaders of the rogue states dream of a world without America ... and Israel ... still the only democracy in the barbarous Middle East.

And everywhere, appeasement is in the air.

What will autumn bring?

Tags: summer 2006, reflection, the messed world

The common of super heros

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:06:48 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong
clipper's remarks: They all have their super suit

Clip Source: en.lifevine.org

A pair of level six trousers

0 Comments Published 0 minutes ago in Misc

In X-Men: The Last Stand, grade system of mutants are used for the first time. Iceman and Pyro are level 3, Professor Charles Xavier and Magneto are level 4, Jean/Phoenix is the only one level 5 mutant. And Wolverine, I dont know his level, maybe level 3, almost level 4? But his trousers, obviously is level 6, because even Phoenix cant destroy it.

However, the trousers is not unique, Superman’s red briefs is bulletproof, and Bruce Banner, he has the biggest pants all over the world!

fun, supers, trousers

Tags: fun, trousers

World War of ant

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 01:57:02 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong
clipper's remarks: It said that the war lasted 4 days.

Clip Source: main.tianya.cn

Tags: ant, war