Sands of Beijing

[Alexandru H.]

In 2000, an American reporter ran this story

Beijing's Desert Storm
The desert is sweeping into China's valleys, choking rivers and consuming precious farm land. Beijing has responded with massive tree-planting campaigns, but the Great Green Walls may not be able to buffer the sand, which could cover the capital in a few years

By Ron Gluckman /Beijing, Fengning and Langtougou, China

http://www.gluckman.com/ChinaDesert.html

6 years later, we get this:

330,000-ton sand fell on Beijing
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-04/19/content_571196.htm

While a few hours ago, Beijing gets struck again...

[Razgovory]

Thank God people can't affect the climate.

[The Brain]

I took a 330,000 ton dump this morning. I STAND RELIEVED

[Josquius]

I heard of this quite a few years back, thought they'd managed to sort it with lots of money pre-olympics...shame they haven't.

[CountDeMoney]

Thank God people can't affect the climate.

No shit.  Couldn't happen to a better bunch.

[Neil]

Unfortunately, the Gobi has a long was to go before it absorbs all of that cursed country.  Still, it's a shame that something like this didn't happen during the Olympics.  Give China a real black eye.

[Razgovory]

Unfortunately, the Gobi has a long was to go before it absorbs all of that cursed country.  Still, it's a shame that something like this didn't happen during the Olympics.  Give China a real black eye.

Do they know you are saying that?  I thought China had bought out Alberta.

[Neil]

Unfortunately, the Gobi has a long was to go before it absorbs all of that cursed country.  Still, it's a shame that something like this didn't happen during the Olympics.  Give China a real black eye.

Do they know you are saying that?  I thought China had bought out Alberta.

Of course not.

Alberta remains the exclusive preserve of the ethnic Albertans:  White, anglophone heterosexuals.

[DGuller]

That picture looks familiar.  Are you sure it's not from a couple of years ago?

[Barrister]

Alberta remains the exclusive preserve of the ethnic Albertans:  White, anglophone heterosexuals.

[Viking]

Unfortunately, the Gobi has a long was to go before it absorbs all of that cursed country.  Still, it's a shame that something like this didn't happen during the Olympics.  Give China a real black eye.

Do they know you are saying that?  I thought China had bought out Alberta.

Of course not.

Alberta remains the exclusive preserve of the ethnic Albertans:  White, anglophone heterosexuals.

Yes, the white anglophone hetrosexual Stoney Nakoda Sioux for example...

here meeting the last royal of the age of dreadnoughts

[Barrister]

Not to mention the Franco-Albertans and the gay Albertans...

[Neil]

Not to mention the Franco-Albertans and the gay Albertans...

Second-class citizens.

[jimmy olsen]

That blows all the way over the sea to here.

[PRC]

Yes, the white anglophone hetrosexual Stoney Nakoda Sioux for example...

here meeting the last royal of the age of dreadnoughts

Stoney Nakoda now has a casino in the middle of nowhere just before the turn off to Kananaskis.  They should have knifed all those ethnic Albertans standing around them in that picture.