Blood Red River is Not Supernatural But Chemical
- Posted on December 19, 2011 at 4:18pm by
Liz Klimas
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Although this may look like the set for a new filming of the Ten Commandments, this river hasn‘t been turned to blood and it’s not in Egypt. It‘s also not a symbol that we’ve entered the end days.
Two illegal workshops reportedly dumped dye — the complete health implications of which are unknown — into the Jian River in the Chinese province of Henan last week.
Watch the NTDTV report:
The Daily Mail reports that the factories have since been shut down by the Luoyang Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau. CNN reported that the bureau said the dye didn’t contain heavy metal or organic, poisonous elements and that the river had returned to normal color within a few days last week.
CNN also reports that residents are accustomed to changes in their river’s color. Pollutants as well as garbage contribute to color changes, including a dark green shade.
[H/T io9]
This story has been updated to correct a word choice error.
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Comments (51)
gmoneytx
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:58pmWhat’s the big deal, our country has been turning red for a while now!
Report Post »Skee
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:50pmThe color is kind of ironic.
Report Post »China will turn it into a positive.
Bottle it and sell it to us as coolaide.
beh0003
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 5:12pmLOL!!! Best comment of the day.
Report Post »tankyjo
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 1:46pmYUK YUK! soooooooooo tru dat bro.
Report Post »ltb
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 11:40am“CNN also reports that residents [in the Chinese province of Henan] are accustomed to changes in their river’s color. Pollutants as well as garbage contribute to color changes, including a dark green shade.”
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You know all of those regulations that corporations follow in the U.S., which prevent them from killing Americans? Yeah, China doesn’t have those regulations, which is why it’s cheaper for corporations to manufacturer crap in China and then ship it over here. Who knows what kind of toxins we’re exposing our families too with the junk that’s imported from China. And one can only imagine the stuff we’ve been ingesting with the food products we import from China. But, hey, let’s go ahead and keep the tariffs low on Chinese imports and that way we can kill two birds with one stone: 1) destroy the American economy; 2) poison the American people. Sounds like a good game plan.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 12:59pmLTB, you didn’t mention that in industrialized areas of China, the skies are covered 24/7 with smog from coal burning plants, and it’s like smoking a pack of cigarettes a day just living there (like it used to be in Denver and LA before the EPA).
However, if we get rid of the EPA and all those regulations that protect the average person, then we can increase profits for the wealthy polluters. That’s a trade-off many here would be happy to accept.
Report Post »Balpit
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 2:29pmMy jaw dropped when I learned these people are accustomed to the color changes. That means they’re constantly exposed to this crap on a regular basis. Do they get clean water to drink? Or is this polluted river their only water source? If you buy anything with the “made in China” label on it, you may have already welcomed such pollutants into your home.
Report Post »MammalOne
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 11:19amNewsflash: The entire universe is chemical, not supernatural.
Report Post »bald stick
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 12:51pmabsolutely true, but chemicals don’t just appear out of no where, the Chemist who CREATED it was GOD!
Report Post »pdw
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 9:52amThat make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
Report Post »Tattarax
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 1:14amhttp://xkcd.com/169/
Report Post »HuckleberryFriend
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 9:07amChina reports the factories were illegal. Sure they were, once they did something to get public and media attention.
This is how all the news from China comes out. A legit factory ran by government approved people (Probably even government unions) that has all been approved by a local official will suddenly become an illegal factory ran by criminals who were approved via bribe by a corrupted official the second something looks bad for the country. For all we really know, they got government approval to dump the dye in celebration of communist winter solstice.
Report Post »Devotedpatriot
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 8:21amIf you were to wash clothes with that water I bet it would turn your tighty-whities pink.
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 8:00amSweet an sour sauce !
Report Post »JohnnyMidknight
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 12:51pmOr the Kool-Aid they pass around to all the people! LOL
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 7:54amPopsicles!
Report Post »oldsoldier10
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 6:45amChina is great, i can’t wait till we can renew our contract on America with our Chinese landlord. Man when will the mighty Mississippi be turning red?
Report Post »PointBreak
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 3:14amIt‘s a shame when the hiring practices at theBlaze have sunk so low they can’t hire anyone smart enough to differentiate between ‘die’ and ‘dye’.
Report Post »elihu
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 4:10amI agree; but it isn’t only on the Blaze. I’ve never seen so many misspellings in my life by so-called editors. And you can’t even number the misspells found in the comments sections! “No Child Left Behind” I guess!
Report Post »Pillar of Fire
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 5:25amI’d gladly proofread for free!! It’s a gift. Spelling & syntax. Software security features no problem. If “This is what democracy looks like”, the English language is changing too much to be useful. Now, the libs are changing the spellings as well as the meanings…so sad on so many levels.
Report Post »IslandMama
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 7:12amI offered to assist; I am a former editor and journalist with 20+ years of experience. I have won awards and rarely make a mistake in grammar or spelling. I even sent them my resume and told them I would work part-time for very, very little money – no phone call. I can’t believe it! They need help!
Report Post »pwatkins
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 2:25amChina has nothing on us with a blood Red River…we have a White House that is turning (commie)red.
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 2:00amI wonder how bad it would be like they dumped “dye” into the water.
Report Post »charleyrocks
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 2:14amChina puts tons of red dye in their dog food, if you read up on it, it says red dye causes some cancers but what do they care, they skin dogs alive to make fake ugg boots and you still buy them!!!!!!!
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:22pmI beg to differ sir. I would never wear fake UGG boots.
Report Post »sandy21957
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 10:57pmKyoto and the EPA want the USA to toe the line but China always gets a pass. Why?
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 1:30amBecause China would put hit squads out on the EPA morons who tried telling them what to do, and the green weenies know it.
Report Post »deeberj
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 2:00pmThis is exactly why it’s not all that smart for the EPA to enact new green laws so that we end up living in a third world country (restricted electric use and such) – because China isn’t!!! They have wayyyyy more people than us. Their not caring about our environment will cancel out and then some our greenie way of life. I say, lets be stewards of the earth but not slaves to the greenies.
Report Post »jim
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 10:33pmEEEUUUUuuu….
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 10:32pmYes, the Chicago river was once so polluted that it CAUGHT ON FIRE. Now they keep the water clean and the pollution is confined to the corrupt politicians. Or who wander from the Windy City into the District of Columbia…
Report Post »smokeysmoke
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 11:01pmChicago does this to the Chicago River once a year @ St Patricks day and everybody who is still not blacked out goes to see the river look a little more green and get even more drunk… i dont really see what the news is, its china
Report Post »Amarath01
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 2:39amI don’t remember the Chicago river on fire.
Report Post »I do know in the 1890s some fires were seen on it, but due to the lack of industrial pollutions.. or what it enables.
Otherwise stated, during that time horse, animal, and other poop along with trash and dead animals would collect and sometime catch fire. Of course the automobile and modernized meat packing/caning removed most of this.
The clean up of our waterways, roads, etc have come more from modernizaton and industrialization then government policy. And thats is matter of fact.
TH30PH1LUS
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 12:08pmChicago river fire: http://www.theboatingexperience.com/boating_destinations/chicago_river.html (read about South Branch) see also: http://www.environmentalcouncil.org/priorities/article.php?x=264 and here’s an original article from 1899: http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40B17F73C5414728DDDA00994DC405B8985F0D3
Report Post »Tattarax
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 1:22amActually there’s been a number of minor incidents where pollution caused small fires on rivers or lakes, but I think what you’re thinking of is the great Cuyahoga River fire outside of Cleveland in 1969. Randy Newman wrote a song about it that you can hear during the opening scene of the movie Major League.
Report Post »ZaphodsPlanet
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 10:19pmI thought they were killing their babies again. Even without the baby blood…. THEY SWIM IN THAT WATER?????? OMG
Report Post »Kiba
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 10:17pmOMG Look Al Gorlioni, ITS GLOBAL BLEEDING! Better open-up some more bank accounts! I can hear it now “weeeee haaayyyve huuurt thiiiyyss plaaaneyyt to wheeeree its bleeeediing!
Report Post »karaklev
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 10:24pmhaha! so true.
Report Post »ModerationIsBest
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 2:09amGlobal bleeding, hahaha.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 10:16pmWhere is china’s EPA???
Report Post »Gumbercules
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 12:50amWe’ll lend them ours . . . for good!
Report Post »Netsurfer2
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 10:08pmWe all know the environmentalism is nothing but a sham to shove down America’s throats while letting other countries have the right to produce industry! The socialist communists have always wanted it that way!
Report Post »last frontier
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 9:49pmIf it was only die in Chinese rivers.
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 9:44pmMy wife said she just had to pee! I’m so sorry, China! Not really!
Report Post »richard the lion-hearted
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 9:34pmHa-ha-ha, next it will be all police batons painted red (to hide the blood stains).
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 10:24pmI think you are on to something…hmmmm
Report Post »chershaw8
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 9:34pmThey can pollute all they want I guess…
Report Post »Conkuur
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 9:22pmOh thats why they call it Red China I get it….
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