I mean, the reporting is o.k., and there is no ripping of media access; however, other disasters are either never covered or go away in far less time.
What up, Globe?
"China to drain lake that threatens quake region; 1 million told to be ready for evacuation
MIANYANG, China - Chinese authorities prepared yesterday to drain a swelling lake formed by the May 12 earthquake, completing work on a channel to divert water that threatens hundreds of thousands downstream.
Officials are expected to discharge flood water from the lake into the channel between today and Tuesday, the official Xinhua News Agency reported, quoting Yue Xi, deputy chief of the water and electricity section of the People's Armed Police.
The lake, called Tangjiashan, formed above the town of Beichuan in the Mianyang region of Sichuan Province after a hillside plunged into a river valley during the May 12 quake.
Chinese authorities had removed nearly 200,000 people by yesterday and warned more than 1 million others to be ready to leave quickly if the lake floods.
Several hundred members of the People's Armed Police and other relief workers were being airlifted from the banks of Tangjiashan over the weekend as the water continued to rise.
The confirmed death toll from China's worst quake in three decades was raised yesterday to 68,977, an increase of about 120 people from a day earlier. An additional 17,974 were still missing, the State Council, or Cabinet, said. The daily increase was the smallest since the government started announcing death tolls shortly after the quake hit.
Xinhua said 197,477 people were evacuated to safe ground but did not say how the number was determined. Some of the people might have been in the path of the planned runoff.
State television showed bulldozers and other heavy earth-moving equipment working on the water diversion channel. It did not show how far up the landslide the channel had been carved.
Xinhua said Tan Li, the Communist Party chief of Mianyang, had issued another order for all 1.3 million people in the area to be evacuated if "the barrier of the quake lake fully opens" and floods the area.
There was no sign that the banks of the lake were about to burst. Troops have sealed off Beichuan to the public. Tangjiashan is the largest of more than 30 lakes that have formed behind landslides caused by the quake, which also weakened man-made dams in the mountainous parts of the disaster zone.
Millions of people in Sichuan are living in tent camps and prefabricated housing, which have taken on the tone of new villages.
What happened here in America with Katrina.
The scale of this disaster is so massive, readers, it makes my heart cry for the Chinese!!!
In Mianyang, about 200 families left their camps in flood-prone areas of the city and moved to higher ground in a wooded park on Fule Mountain. Most had tents and shelters made of tarpaulins pitched under trees amid ornate gazebos and tea houses with traditional sloping yellow-tiled roofs. Red signs on the buildings said, "Dangerous building, don't come near."
One woman who gave only her surname, Wang, said life was uncomfortable but fine under the circumstances. "We've got all the basics. Those who are out of work are being given food, but my company is taking care of me," said Wang, who was living in a camouflaged tent set above the ground on wood planks.
Would any American company do that?
I've never heard of one -- except for the Malden Mills guy!!!
"Aaron Feuerstein spent millions keeping all 3,000 employees on the payroll with full benefits for 3 months."
One man, who also gave only his surname, Zhang, said he has been unhappy since moving to the camp two days ago. "We were living near the river and the Mianyang officials got on TV and said the area was dangerous because of possible flooding and we were ordered to move here. They promised they'd take care of us, but we've been given no food, no tents," he said, pointing to the simple structure of tarpaulins his family of three was living under.
"I had to rig this up myself," he said. "We've just been eating instant noodles and bread that we brought."
Now THAT sounds like AmeriKa!!!!
Nearby, a woman selling tomatoes, green peppers, and eggplants along the narrow park road was loading the vegetables back on her three-wheel motorcycle cart. "I'm packing things up because no one is buying," she said. "They have no pots or pans. No way to cook the food."
Xinhua also reported that President Hu Jintao arrived yesterday to check on relief efforts in Shaanxi Province. He was shown on state TV at a shelter talking to children who had been left homeless by the earthquake.
What is known as a PHOTO OP!
Just to the north of Sichuan, Shaanxi also suffered damage in the earthquake. Another province hit by the earthquake, Gansu, plans to complete its rebuilding by the end of 2010, the governor said yesterday.
The rebuilding will include houses, schools, and hospitals and the restoration of infrastructure such as telecommunications, power supply, and transport, Xu Shousheng was quoted as saying by Xinhua. The earthquake killed more than 360 people in Gansu.
Many fund-raising events have been held around China, with the latest planned for Tuesday when Chinese pianist Lang Lang and the Philadelphia Orchestra will play a nationally televised charity concert in Beijing to support the earthquake relief effort."
You know, that is interesting, because I didn't see the AmeriKamn MSM offer up the help lines for China.
Well, America has always been racist toward the Asian man:
They were the West's black man in the 1870s; China's alleged spying makes the headlines, while Israel's is covered up; the Japanese were interned in concentration camps during WWII; Korea, Vietnam, how many did we kill there based on lies?
Heck, the MSM was even bashing China the past two weeks, so what else should an American expect from his Zionist-controlled news source?
