Chinese government has invested $585 Billion as stimulus package to support the growth of Chinese economy despite recession. Big chunk of the money went towards speedy creation of cities such as Ordos in Inner Mongolia, north-east China. Ordos was built in just 5 years and was built to be big enough for 1 million residents, however the city is empty. Despite all the modern infrastructure, there is hardly anybody there and Ordos as seen for what it really is – an Empty City.
Thanks to its low population numbers, but high income due to nearby coal mines, Ordos has the second highest per capita income, after Shanghai. And even though Ordos remains an Empty City with hardly any inhabitants, management of construction companies claims that all units have been sold, it’s just that nobody’s moving in. Most of the house and apartments have been purchased by investors. At present time Ordos is an Empty City in China, but if it takes off, the value of these homes and other real estate will sky rocket which in the end will result in great return on investment.
The video about Ordos, China’s Empty City by Al Jazeera is below:
Meet Haisong Jiang, 28 year old man who triggered the shutdown of Newark airport terminal by sneaking through security checkpoint from the sterile side back to the unscreened side. Haisong Jiang was apprehended by the police and interrogated at the Port Authority Police building at Newark Airport in Newark, N.J. The police learned that Haisong Jiang wanted to bid his girlfriend good bye, which was the reason he went back to the other side. He didn’t realize it would wreak complete havoc and result in shutdown of an entire terminal at Newark.
As a result of his behavior, Haisong Jiang is facing trespassing charge and a fine of up to $500. Haisong Jiang lives in Piscataway, New Jersey but was born in Jiangxi, China. He moved to the United States in 2004. I don’t understand how he can be 28 year old. He looks more like 40 to me. I also understand that he didn’t mean no harm, but he caused a lot of damage, delayed and frustrated thousands of people yet he was fined $500. That leaves me speechless.
Haisong Jiang photo by Associated Press, Joe Epstein
China has carried out its first execution of a European Union national since 1951. 53 year old British citizen Akmal Shaikh was caught in 2007 trying to smuggle over 4 kg of heroin to China – a crime that bears the penalty of death in this communist country. Following two years of requests to grant Akmal Shaikh clemency, Chinese court has made its final ruling to go ahead with execution much to disappointment of British officials.
The execution of Akmal Shaikh prompted criticism of Chinese government by the Britons to which the Chinese responded with defiance. And as much as I am an opposer of the capital punishment, I must side with the Chinese on this one. Not with their right to execute their criminals, but with their right to retain judicial sovereignty. Akmal Shaikh knew what he was doing and knew that punishment for smuggling of such large amount of heroin to China may result in execution if caught yet he did it regardless. You play with fire, you get burned. As much as I don’t like capital punishment, I also don’t like heavy drugs such as heroin and most of all – I have no respect for people who do all they can to avoid working for their money. Opting for an easy way out by smuggling heroin to come by millions is the lowest form of being. I’m not saying Akmal Shaikh deserved to be executed, but he should have known better.
I like Karate Kid movies and watched each release as a “kid”. Now they are working on a remake of this classic – typical Hollywood. Everything that makes it must be milked out of its effin mind. Never the less, I’m looking forward to the 2010 Karate Kid Remake. And if it wasn’t for atrociously awful music in the trailer, I’d totally drool to it. The presence of Jackie Chan kind of ruins it a bit, but otherwise the trailer does have some merit to it so I predict a rather well done movie.
Karate Kid remake stars Jaden Smith as the “karate kid” and above mentioned Jackie Chan as Mr. Miyagi type karate mentor called Mr. Han. The story revolves around the kid who moves with his mother to Beijing, China where he quickly becomes a victim of bullying. His struggle is noticed by an eccentric kung fu tutor who takes upon himself a task to teach the kid karate so he can stand up for himself and fight the bullies back. yes, I did say Kung Fu instead of Karate and I’m sure martial arts experts will agree with me that the combat art presented in the Karate Kid Remake Trailer below is in fact Kung Fu. But SONY cares nothing about that. They’re just looking to milk the story which has “Karate” in its title so they are following the trend that leads to box office success. As a fan of martial arts, I find it ironic, but as someone who understands show business, the reasoning behind it makes perfect sense.
Anyway, the 2010 Karate Kid Remake Trailer is below. The movie is directed by Harald Zwart who also directed The Pink Panther 2 and the script was written by Michael Soccio. The remake of Karate Kid will hit the theaters near you on June 11th, 2010. The remake will not top the original, that’s for sure, but it could be a fun movie to watch. I will probably go to see it.
Today’s hall of famer’s name is… Lai Jiansheng – 66 year old retired soldier who got fed up with indecisive suicidal man and solved his dilemma in style. This is what went down on Thursday May 21, 2009 in China: Lai Jiansheng was on his way to do some personal shit but got stuck in a major traffic jam on Haizhu Bridge in Guangzhou. He went out to find out what the hell was keeping him away from moving on and was told that there’s a guy by the name of Chen Fuchao contemplating suicide. Chen Fuchao has been up there for 5 hours and the police had the Haizhu bridge shut off and looking for the way to help suicidal man out. But Lai Jiansheng was not having any of that cheap crap.
66 year old grandpa Lai Jiansheng climbed up the construction of the bridge, reached Chen Fuchao, shook hands with him and pushed him off the bridge ultimately solving his “to jump or not to jump” dilemma. Grandpa Lai Jiansheng but have watched The Good, The Bad and The Ugly – especially the “When you have to shoot… shoot! Don’t talk!” part with Tuco and passed it on to Chen Fuchao in a little altered form – “When you have to jump… jump! Don’t don’t keep the traffic stuck for 5 hours!” See video reminder below.
After Lai Jiansheng pushed him off the bridge, Chen Fuchao fell 8 meters and landed on a partially inflated air cushion surviving the fall. He’s recovering in the hospital and claims that debt worries were the reason behind his suicide tendencies. While still on the Haizhu bridge, Lai Jiansheng waved at other by passers (that’s when photo above was captured – copyright AP) and climbed down. He was taken to police custody and said that he was fed up with Chen Fuchao’s selfish activity.
According to the police, Chen Fuchao was 2 Million yuan in debt (equivalent to $293,000 US) after his construction project failed. Now he’s gonna be pretty mad at Lai Jiansheng cause he’s alive which means he’ll have to pay off his debts. On the other hand, the bank that loaned Chen Fuchao money or the insurance company which would have to shell out if he went poof will surely appreciate Lai Jiansheng for saving them from losing 2 Million yuan. 66 year old grandma should be getting an appreciation check in the mail soon.
…and an actual video recording of Lai Jiansheng gracefully ending the suicide contemplation of Chen Fuchao:
Look at this beauty. This is a picture of a Gumbrechts Green Pit Viper (Trimeresurus gumprechti). Aside from Gumbrechts Green Pit Vipers, scientists have discovered over 1000 species of animals in Mekong Delta in south-east Asia in last 10 years, many of them believed to have been extinct.
Mekong delta spans from Cambodia, through Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and province of Yunnan in China. Gumbrechts Green Pit Viper is the coolest animal I have seen in a long time.
Pictured above is a fine young man from Shanghai by the name of Chen Jun. Chen Jun admitted to killing Canadian model Diana O’Brien by repeatedly stabbing her after she caught him trying to steal her laptop. Chen Jun, who’s a migrant worker from eastern China’s Anhui Province is now facing a death sentence in China.
22 year old Diana O’Brien thought her vagina was worth crap loads of money and left for Shanghai. After two weeks of realizing her vagina wasn’t worth all that much she started planning to come back home to Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada. On July 7, 2008 – a month before the Olympic Games in China, Diana O’Brien was found in a pool of her own blood.
18 year old Chen Jun had a trial yesterday and admitted that he walked into the apartment where Diana O’Brien lived because he saw the door open. Diana O’Brien caught him stealing her notebook, Chen Jun pulled out the knife. She ran to the stairwell, he ran after her. She was clumsy and couldn’t run, he was young and athletic so he caught her. And started stabbing her like there was no tomorrow.
The body of Diana O’Brien was discovered by the janitor the following morning. She was already modeling in heaven. Shanghai police had video surveillance footage that lead them to Chen Jun who was arrested 4 days after the murder. Chen claimed he’d lost the job and needed money to get back home. He went to the choker instead. The final verdict is yet to be delivered, but according to Chinese laws, Chen Jun could be facing capital punishment.
Chen Jun Photo by Associated Press
Hal Turner was a host of a controversial radio show “Hal Turner Show” but got booted out after he allegedly exposed government conspiracy involving shipment of large amounts of Amero to China. Amero is a new currency destined to replace American Dollar, Canadian Dollar and Mexican Peso and will be the official currency of the North American Union. Hal Turner flooded internet with pictures of what was supposed to be the first Amero that he got his hands on last year. Many people believed Hal Turner, many debunked it. I don’t even know myself what was true and what was not. Each time you have a conspiracy theorist, you also have a conspiracy theory debunker and a debunker of debunkers and it gets to be rather messy, with neither party slacking out on their beliefs.
In this YouTube video, Hal Turner claims that United States government shipped 800 Billion Ameros to the China Development Bank as preparation for the collapse of the US dollar as a currency.
Hal Turner bases his claim of Amero shipment to the China Development Bank on the fact that he’s got one of the Ameros from that shipment. He shows the Amero in the video, but whoever filmed that video sucks snail penis at video taping as picture always gets blurred as he/she tries to zoom in on the coin. Never the less, Hal Turner knocks the Amero against the metal table and it does sound like a coin.
When showing off his 20 Ameros coin, Hal Turner particularly highlighted little D at the bottom of the coin, which as he explains signifies that the coin was minted at the Denver Mint in Colorado. The reason this Amero currency has been shipped to China, Hal Turner explains, is because China presently holds $2.5 Trillion in US cash, as result of US trading balance with China.
US dollar is gonna fail. It’s gonna get worthless as a currency. Hal Turner predicts that US currency will collapse by February 2009 and in anticipation of this collapse, Amero is being minted. Hal Turner explains the way US dollar is going to collapse like this:
At some point, the amount of money USA owes and the interest charged won’t be serviceable. US will get to the point that it won’t be able to even pay the interest. When that happens, the treasury secretary of the US will declare Force Majeure. That will be a repudiation of the US debt. As a result, everyone will try to dump US dollar and nobody in the world will want it. US dollar will become worthless. The treasury secretary will then demonetize US dollar, which means it will no longer be money. Everyone that will have any assets whatsoever in US dollars – anything that’s denominated in US dollars, will have no value.
Government is hoping to get as much panic as possible and will tell people that they would get some of their money back if they accept Amero as their currency. This is what Hal Turner predicts and this is how according to him the introduction of Amero and the robbery of citizens will go down. This is what the government is planning, according to Hal Turner.
The advice to avoid losing everything, is to wire all US fund to foreign banks and exchange it into foreign currency, but not Euro. It’s pretty shocking what Hal Turner has to say. I would definitely recommend everyone to listen to it and let me know what you think? Does he have a point or is he messing with everyone? Is current financial situation not a sufficient reason to believe that collapse of US dollar is inevitable? Is illuminati’s preparation for the North American Union and introduction of Amero not something that’s been boiling down for quite a while behind our backs?
I myself am not surprised by this shocking revelation but I have not been blind to reality those past few years. Let me stress the importance of watching Zeitgeist movies if you haven’t seen them yet. Go watch it and do a research for yourself. The answers are out there.
Hal Turner video where he explains what’s going on and how US Government shipped 800 Billion Ameros to China is below:
Chellsie Memmel is a 20 year old American Gymnast originally from Wisconsin’s Milwaukee. Chellsie Memmel’s biggest achievement was in 2005 when she became world champion in all-round gymnastics. She’s currently in Beijing, China as part of United States’ 2008 Olympic Games women’s gymnastics team.
Chellsie Memmel managed to injure her foot during practice last week so she won’t be able to compete in all gymnastics disciplines, but will still participate on the uneven bars which is the weakest link for the US Olympic Gymnastic Team. Gosh how I love flexible girls…
Kendra Zanotto, a bronze medalist in synchronized swimming from 2004 will not be going to Beijing for 2008 Olympic Games, because her Visa application has been revoked. Chinese government has not specified the reason, but said it was uncomfortable” with some of her affiliations, which likely means that she was shown a finger because she part of Team Darfur.
Kendra Zanotto, Los Gatos, California native was hired to attend the summer Olympics in Beijing as a freelance journalist. Team Darfur she’s affiliated with is a group of athletes started by Joey Cheek – gold medalist in speedskating. The aim of Team Darfur is to draw attention to the crisis in Darfur, Sudan.
Like Kendra Zanotto, Joey Cheek doesn’t have a visa anymore either. He was set to fly to Beijing and Chinese authorities revoked his visa only hours prior to the take off. China simply doesn’t put up with anyone that’s not playing by their rules. Firm hand, I tell ya.
