CHINA QUAKE KILLS THOUSANDS

[Linda]

This might be the only thing that will stop the slaughter of innocent animals being slaughtered, tortured and boiled alive. Some animals will be gone during natures eruptions of damage to this country but alot of butchers will die.
It seems that the only thing that will stop the barbaric killing of innocent animals is of natures damage to these countries, more volcano eruptions, tsunamis, cycones, earthquakes and disease will have to strike these countries. One earthquake is not enough.

[Linda]

Comment from AOL discussions:

maryjeandawson 09:24:48 AM May 12 2008

I have been so dissappointed that the USA is not going to boycott the Olympics. Not just because of the Tibetans, but because they are a dictatorship.They falsely imprison Christians and others. While in prison, these innocent people are beaten and forced to work in factories where they make almost everything that is imported from China. The ones who are released often have been seriously injured through their beatings, are malnourished and their families had to pay huge fines to get them released.
We didn't boycott the Olympics, but maybe GOD is going to do it for us.

[Linda]

Here is mine, thinking some asians might read this.

crystalbluenet 09:36:40 AM May 12 2008

Earth Quake hits as God's hand for killing his animals, dogs and cats and bears in a horrified way of torture and skinning alive and boiled alive puppies. This is the only way that China and other Asian countries will stop the brutal killing of dogs and cats, all animals. The animals are God's children also and they breath the same as we do but yet they are ruthlessly slaughtered, and tortured for human consumption. God sees all and in the Bible their is a verse in the Bible where he says, that if harm done to any animal the same will be done to them. This is how God reacts to what he doesn't approve. Earth Quakes, Cyclones and diseased will strike.

[Linda]

Huge Quake Kills Thousands in China
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN,
AP
Posted: 2008-05-12 08:59:31
Filed Under: World News
BEIJING (May 12) -- Chinese media say the earthquake death toll in one Sichuan county is estimated at 3,000 to 5,000 people.

[Linda]

Disaster in China1 of 10 Men search for belongings in a collapsed home Monday in Dujiangyan, China, after a massive earthquake rocked the central part of the country. Up to 5,000 people died in one county alone, said China's state-run media, and nearly 900 children were trapped in the rubble of a school.

The official Xinhua News Agency said 80 percent of the buildings had collapsed in Beichuan county in Sichuan province after the 7.8-magnitude quake.

Xinhua reported that 3,000 to 5,000 people had died in Beichuan, which has a population of 160,000, raising fears the overall death toll could increase sharply. Another 10,000 people were believed to be hurt.

The earthquake sent thousands of people rushing out of buildings and into the streets hundreds of miles away in Beijing and Shanghai. The temblor was felt as far away as Pakistan, Vietnam and Thailand.

Four of the dead were ninth-grade students killed when their high school collapsed, Xinhua said. Photos showed heavy cranes trying to remove rubble from the ruined school. Xinhua did not say how many of the students were feared dead.

It said its reporters in Juyuan township, about 60 miles from the epicenter, saw buried teenagers struggling to break loose from underneath the rubble of the three-story building "while others were crying out for help."

Two girls were quoted by Xinhua as saying they escaped because they had "run faster than others."

The earthquake comes less than three months before the start of the Beijing Summer Olympics, when China hopes to use to showcase its rise in the world.

Shanghai's main index inched up Monday, but the advance was capped by worries over inflation and potential damage from the earthquake. Analysts said that shares of companies located in the Sichuan region may fall in coming sessions due to the quake.

It struck in the middle of the afternoon when classes and office towers were full, about 60 miles northwest of Chengdu. There were several smaller aftershocks, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site.

Calls into the city did not go through as panicked residents quickly overloaded the telephone system. The quake affected telephone and power networks, and even state media appeared to have few details of the disaster.

"In Chengdu, mobile telecommunication convertors have experienced jams and thousands of servers were out of service," said Sha Yuejia, deputy chief executive officer of China Mobile.

Although it was difficult to telephone Chengdu, an Israeli student, Ronen Medzini, sent a text message to The Associated Press saying there were power and water outages there.

"Traffic jams, no running water, power outs, everyone sitting in the streets, patients evacuated from hospitals sitting outside and waiting," he said.

Xinhua said an underground water pipe ruptured near the city's southern railway station, flooding a main thoroughfare. Reporters saw buildings with cracks in their walls but no collapses, Xinhua said.

The earthquake also rattled buildings in Beijing, some 930 miles to the north, less than three months before the Chinese capital was expected to be full of hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors for the Summer Olympics.

Many Beijing office towers were evacuated, including the building housing the media offices for the organizers of the Olympics, which start in August. None of the Olympic venues was damaged.

"I've lived in Taipei and California and I've been through quakes before. This is the most I've ever felt," said James McGregor, a business consultant who was inside the LG Towers in Beijing's business district. "The floor was moving underneath me."

In Fuyang, 660 miles to the east, chandeliers in the lobby of the Buckingham Palace Hotel swayed. "We've never felt anything like this our whole lives," said a hotel employee surnamed Zhu.

Patients at the Fuyang People's No. 1 Hospital were evacuated. An hour after the quake, a half-dozen patients in blue-striped pajamas stood outside the hospital. One was laying on a hospital bed in the parking lot.

Skyscrapers in Shanghai swayed and most office occupants went rushing into the streets.

In the Taiwanese capital of Taipei, 100 miles off the southeastern Chinese coast, buildings swayed when the quake hit. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

The quake was felt as far away as the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi, where some people hurried out of swaying office buildings and into the streets downtown. A building in the Thai capital of Bangkok also was evacuated after the quake was felt there.

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake is considered a major event, capable of causing widespread damage and injuries in populated areas.

The last serious earthquake in China was in 2003, when a 6.8-magnitude quake killed 268 people in Bachu county in the west of Xinjiang.

China's deadliest earthquake in modern history struck the northeastern city of Tangshan on July 28, 1976, killing 240,000 people.

[Linda]

As of today, 10,000 people are killed in China.

[Linda]

[Renee`]

Now they are estimating the death toll could rise to 50,000 or more.
Linda, you have mirrored my thoughts on whether this could be a punishment.
I want to share an interesting e-mail forwarded to be by Shauna. It is another excellent way to strike back!!!!!

WHY WAIT UNTIL JUNE 4 - DO IT NOW!!


Subject: June 4 - July 4


Are we Americans as dumb as we appear or is it that we just do not
think? While the Chinese, knowingly and intentionally, export inferior
products and dangerous toys and goods to be sold in American markets,
the media wrings its hands and criticizes the Bush Administration for
perceived errors. Yet 70% of Americans believe that the trading
privileges afforded to the Chinese should be suspended. Well, duh..why
do you need the government to suspend trading privileges? DO IT
YOURSELF!!


Simply look on the bottom of every product you buy, and if it says
'Made in China ' or 'PRC' (and that now includes Hong Kong ), simply
choose another product or none at all. You will be amazed at how
dependent you are on Chinese products, however you will be equally
amazed at what you can do without. Who needs plas tic eggs to celebrate
Easter? If you must have eggs, use real ones and benefit some American
farmer Easter is just an example, the point is.. do not wait for the
government to act. Just go ahead and assume control on your own.


If 200 million Americans refuse to buy just $20 each of Chinese goods,
that's a billion dollar trade imbalance resolved in our favor...fast!!
The downside? Some American businesses will feel a temporary pinch
from having foreign stockpiles of inventory. ** Downside ??


The solution ?


Let's give them fair warning and send our own message. We will not
implement this UNTIL June 4, and we will only continue it until July
4. That is only one month of trading losses, but it will hit the
Chinese for 1/12th of the total, or 8%, of their American exports.
Then they will at least have to ask themselves if the benefits of
their arrogance and lawlessness were worth it.

Remember, June 4 to July 4.

Send this to everybody you know.

Show them we are Americans

and NOBODY can take us for granted.

If we can't live without cheap Chinese

goods for one month out of our lives,

WE DESERVE WHAT WE GET!

[Linda]

That's a good one Renee.
Shauna has a point there. It would be awesome if we all did that. That'll show them.
I also heard about the 50,000 or more, I am wondering if it will ever get to 240,000 like it did in 1976 and for a while there, they all thought another one was coming. It's too bad that it hit a lot of school children.

[Dia]

Do you know that you sound like horrible human being right now? The death of one innocent being for another is not acceptable either.

[Renee`]

Dia, I think perhaps you misinterpreted Linda's intent. No, we don't think the death of one innocent for another is acceptable. It is merely relief that yet another tremblor didn't hit and she was saying it was too bad that it hit a lot of school children.
Linda is one of the most gentle concerned, caring people here.
As for my post, we think boycotting Chinese imports would be a way to make a statement on their heinous acts of cruelty against animals.
Certainly not killing their children!! That would be worse than what the
Chinese do!!
Our speculation was one of a religious nature. We had spoken before on how judgments in biblical history always appeared to fall on the innocent children. We were comparing a disaster of this magnitude to former disasters that destroyed children. For some reason it always seems like the innocent pay the price.

[Linda]

Well said Renee. Very good! Thank you.