How can you see through it is the question:
"Chinese spacecraft blasts off with 3 astronauts" by Andy Wong | Associated Press, June 12, 2013
JIUQUAN, China — China’s latest spacecraft with humans aboard successfully blasted off Tuesday on a 15-day mission to dock with a space lab and educate young people about science.
The Shenzhou 10 capsule will transport the crew to the Tiangong 1, which functions as an experimental prototype for a much larger Chinese space station to be launched in 2020....
On the heels of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield’s popular YouTube videos from the International Space Station, the Chinese crew plans to deliver talks to students from aboard the Tiangong....
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Related: A jubilant China sends three astronauts on nation's first spacewalk
Time to shake things up a bit:
"Quake, landslides kill at least 89 in central China; Nearly 2,000 homes destroyed" by Christopher Bodeen | Associated Press, July 23, 2013
BEIJING — A strong earthquake that shook an arid, hilly farming area in central China sparked landslides and destroyed or damaged thousands of brick-and-mud homes Monday, killing at least 89 people and injuring more than 600, the government said.
The quake near the city of Dingxi in Gansu province toppled brick walls and telephone lines, shattered mud-and-tile-roofed houses, and sent cascades of dirt and rock down hillsides that blocked roads and slowed rescue efforts by crews trying to reach remote areas....
Hospitals set up aid stations in parking lots to accommodate large numbers of injured, while hundreds of paramilitary People’s Armed Police fanned out to search for victims in the region of terraced farmland about 760 miles west of Beijing....
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Does China frack for gas and oil?
If so, that would make one wonder about the water:
"Rainstorms flood China’s Sichuan province" by Andrew Jacobs | New York Times, July 11, 2013
BEIJING — Rainstorms that are said to be the worst in five decades have flooded large areas of southwest China, washing out bridges, triggering a landslide that buried dozens of people, and destroying a memorial to victims of the devastating 2008 earthquake in Sichuan province that flattened large parts of the same area. The state news media reported Wednesday that heavy rains, which began last weekend, have killed more than 50 people across China and disrupted 2 million lives.
The worst damage appeared to be in the city of Dujiangyan, where a rain-soaked mountainside gave way Wednesday, burying 11 homes and as many as 40 people. Xinhua, the state news agency, said rescue workers and sniffer dogs from Chengdu, the provincial capital, were rushing to the area, which only recently recovered from the 2008 earthquake, which left 87,000 dead or missing. On Wednesday evening, the state broadcaster CCTV reported that landslides had also trapped hundreds of people inside a tunnel along a mountain highway.
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Related:
"In China, a government news agency said the death toll from flooding in the northeast and southeast has risen to 43 and landslides blocked a major train line."
Also see: Floods, landslides kill 105 in China; 115 missing
An updated rewrite that omitted that the area is a major source of grain production in China and that also referenced the floods in Russia.
Also see:
Typhoon bears down on China
Typhoon kills two and batters islands
Typhoon skirts Hong Kong, hits China
Dozens missing off China after storm
Typhoon hits eastern China with strong winds, rain
What has China done to anger God (as blog editor looks skyward)?
Is it the problems with Tibet (what do you expect from a CIA operation) and Hong Kong (the remaining intelligence assets of the former occupier, no doubt) that my jewspaper reminds me (as if AmeriKa had any standing to criticize anyone), which makes one wonder about the school bombing and suicide bomber on the bus?
Well, it is getting close to lunch now and I won't be ordering Chinese, I can tell you that (dog for a lion, cat for chicken, rat for lamb, and who knows what passes for pork these days?). As for the drink I've already gone to the Globe well once too often.
