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  1. The Cyberspace Administration of China has insisted that coverage of the explosions is limited to use of the dispatches published by Xinhua, the government news agency. Adding personal comments or opinions is strictly forbidden. Live video feeds are also forbidden. The Tianjin Propaganda Department has banned the employees of TV channels, radio stations, newspapers and microblogging platforms, including reporters, presenters and editors, from posting information about the explosions on social networks. In some provinces, online news media outlets have been ordered to withdraw text references and photos of the Tianjin disaster from their homes pages and from their lists of recommended articles. On 13 August, CNN correspondent Will Ripley was harassed and jostled by individuals while reporting live from a hospital that was receiving victims. As a result, he was forced to stop broadcasting. Policemen who were there made no attempt to intervene and even prevented a colleague from coming to his aid. http://en.boxun.com/2015/08/18/authorities-suppress-right-to-know-about-tianjin-explosions/
  2. I agree with 53-with the exception of Meeks over Buchanon. I am torn on Dixon or Bryce too
  3. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/21/chinese-authorities-investigate-mass-fish-death-near-tianjin-explosion-site Mass fish die off near Tianjin. Sure, reporters are being kept away from the sight, and China is not telling the whole story. But can our gutless reporters at least report on the fallout? What happened to that big, black, chemical cloud? Our media cannot blame China from preventing that story 4 new fires at sight today. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34014314 Facing continuing public fury, local authorities have in recent days been giving more information on chemical contaminants in waste water and in the air. However, the full list of chemical names has not been released. The government says that the person in charge of warehouse logistics is too badly injured to speak, making it difficult to know exactly what was inside the warehouse at the time of the blast. You are most welcome. It is hard to find current info. So I try and share. This is one huge story that is not being covered
  4. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/20/world/asia/tianjin-china-explosions.html The mayor of the northern Chinese city where huge explosions killed over 100 people last week took responsibility for the disaster on Wednesday, as the authorities sought to contain growing public anger about the accident. “I bear unshirkable responsibility for this accident as head of the city,” said Huang Xingguo, the mayor and acting Communist Party secretary of the metropolis, Tianjin, in his first news conference since the blasts at a chemical warehouse on Aug. 12. The mayor’s televised mea culpa appeared to signal a shift in the authorities’ response to the political fallout from the disaster. After days of official silence, the government has begun releasing information about the owners of the warehouse company, Rui Hai International Logistics, including their admission of corruption, in an effort to quash public accusations of a cover-up. On Wednesday, China’s state-run Xinhua news agency reported that two major shareholders in Rui Hai had admitted to using their political connections to gain government approvals for the site, despite clear violations of rules prohibiting the storage of hazardous chemicals within 3,200 feet of residential areas. Yu Xuewei, the company chairman, is a former executive at a state-owned chemical company, and Dong Shexuan, the vice chairman, is the son of a former police chief at the Tianjin port. The two executives, who deliberately concealed their ownership stakes behind a murky corporate structure, told Xinhua that they had leveraged their personal relationships with government officials to obtain licenses for the site. Both men have been detained.
  5. Aren't our courts backed up enough with legitimate cases, then burdoning the judicial system with a frivolous, micromanaging, NFL case?
  6. Marjoe blew that lid off in 1972. That documentary I linked is one of the better ones I have ever seen. Check it out
  7. https://archive.org/details/Marjoe.1972.Legendado Marjoe is the story of an abused child preacher who grows up to become an Evangelical con man, living a double life as a dope-smoking, girl-chasing hippie in LA. The documentary went on to win the 1972 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and earned massive amounts of critical acclaim. But despite the accolades and outrageous story, the film was only played in a handful of theaters on the coasts and was never screened below the Bible Belt. It was eventually forgotten and thought to be lost for good due to the only known copy being badly damaged. However, in 2002, the original negative was rediscovered and the film was released three years later on DVD, introducing Marjoeto a new generation with a greater appetite for films that were critical of religious institutions. http://www.vice.com/read/marjoe-director-sarah-kernochan-talks-about-her-incredible-doc-on-the-evangelical-conman-456
  8. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-33957536
  9. pretty much the only song besides the Zappa tune that belongs in this thread IMO edit- + Dr John
  10. **** music from the guy who tried to steal the Bills from Buffalo
  11. 1,400 killed? http://en.boxun.com/2015/08/15/tianjin-explosion-at-least-1400-killed-over-700-missing/ Poison rain feared today. 700 tons of sodium cyanide is a **** ton
  12. There are a few web sights if I visit, I am surfing for hours. City Data is one. Archives.org is another Peanut stick doughnuts! I haven't seen those outside Buffalo
  13. In 2014 Clay was ranked 89 on top 100 players in the NFL. He is a mismatch that can line up anywhere
  14. beautiful ladies, ****ty music. But to each their own. I am not going to let bad music ruin the sight of gorgeous women
  15. The site is temporarily unavailable because of traffic exhausted That is the message I get when I visit Ruihai Logistics web page corporate "news" is entertainment. People watch corporate CNN/MSNBC/FOX etc and think they are informed LOL Very true. People can be pretty wonderful sometimes. And they step up in the worst circumstances
  16. I read Karlos hurt himself weightlifting earlier. And later that day he went to the hospital with a pain in his side
  17. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/af116316-44bd-11e5-af2f-4d6e0e5eda22.html Adding to the speculation, Tianjin’s online corporate registry database was inaccessible for four days after the blasts. When access resumed on Monday, a search for Ruihai Logistics yielded a curious gap. The company was registered in 2012 but its current legal owners only bought their shares in 2013. The historic list of changes that should have reflected the previous owners did not appear. The records reveal that many Ruihai executives are former employees of Sinochem, the giant state-owned chemicals, fertiliser and iron ore trader that owns the largest hazardous warehouse operation in Tianjin. The individuals named in the corporate records were just “ants”, carrying crumbs on behalf of others, Caijing concluded. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/08/17/chinese-paper-promises-there-will-be-no-tianjin-blast-cover-up-why-nobody-believes-them/ BEIJING — Trust nothing. That’s pretty much the mood in Tianjin almost five days after amassive, chemical-fueled explosion rocked the city, turning swathes of the port into an apocalyptic hellscape, and killing more than 100 people, including scores of firefighters sent to fight the flames. From the outset, the government has insisted that everything is under control, that the levels of toxic chemicals in the air and water are normal — despite the fact that there were hundreds of tons of highly toxic sodium cyanide on site. On Sunday, China’s premier, Li Keqiang, showed up to tour the scene, posing for pictures without a mask of any sort, and calling for “transparency” in the investigation. But the visit, and the call, came rather late. And few, it seems, are buying it. Today is supposed to storm in Tianjin. So China is shutting our media out. I would like to see our media report what happened to that large black, chemical cloud. Instead they are covering Kylie Jenners new bunny
  18. What the hell is a participation trophy? This country is !@#$ed!
  19. Goodwin brings something Hogan doesn't. He must be accounted for every play. There is no way we keep more then 6 WRs. And Thompson has been impressive all camp, and when he was with the Ravens. Not to mention he can return kicks and brings more speed. I like Hogan and his special teams play. But he has had the drops all preseason. That doesn't bode well. I hear everyone on Tarpley. Maybe Tarpley over Steward. No way do we keep 4 TEs IMO. We have too deep a squad, and those last few cuts are going to hurt. We can't keep a tomato can over a talented LB or WR. If we had 4 decent TEs, maybe. But we don't have that luxury And we keep 3 QB's. Any could still end up starting on this team. And they all are talented in their own way. Most every team keeps 3 QBs. I love boobie too. But it's a numbers game. Who are you going to cut to make room for boobie? Cuts are going to be tough.
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