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I just saw this article and photo set about pollution in China today. It is truly shocking to see the horrible conditions that the combination of their own authoritarian regime and "free trade" with western nations has created there:

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Think about this next time you hit walmart and load on all the "made in China" toys, electronics, and other crap. Chinese children are being poisoned and our own US workers are ending up on food stamps as a result of our own foolish "free trade" policies with with world.

I am working towards and M.S. degree in engineering and in the process, I have taken tours of our own water and sewage treatment plants, and factories in the USA. Under the force of democracy and regulation, they do amazing things to control the pollution. In China, the situation is vastly different. THey have a population over 1 billion and a small and powerful regime in control. I don't believe the ruling party cares one bit if 10 million Chinese people just dropped dead. After all, it's only 1% of the population and there are plenty more where they came from.

They started off with a simple agriculture-based lifestyle for the majority of people. Then, due to the ambitions of the ruling party, they started building factories and without quality control or pollution control. Now, as you can see from the photos, the majority population in China is only beginning the pay the price, in premature death and disease, of it's government's short-sighted, power-hungry policies. I wonder how many many Chinese children must suffer and die and U.S. workers go on welfare before we all learn our lesson that simply offering the cheapest product is not always the best option. In the end, the Chinese poor end up with piles of worthless paper (a condition which will soon descride the US dollar, as Obama prints more by the day), and the US poor end up in debt, on welfare, and with a house full of broken, worthless gadgets. In the 1700's and 1800's, we committed a great sin by utilizing slave labor from Africa to boost our economy. Now, we are committing another one by exploiting the poverty and ignorance of the Chinese poor to produce the gadgets we buy. We are all about to pay the price.

I just re-visited a certain paysite (southern charms) yesterday looking for potential eye-candy. They have something like 800 "models" there, but, in my opinion, they suck for two reasons: (1) No quality control on photos that are uploaded. Example: you pay the $14.95 to become a member of one other their models sites, and you just don't know what you're going to get. It might be a guy in a trailer with a $100 point-and-shoot camera. Yes, you can still get good photos with these things, but that requires things like good light, composition, etc. which many of the boyfriends and husbands of the "models" simply don't understand. This lack of quality was apparent in the SC thumbnails, but is also confirmed in all the "web finds" I've found from SC on flickr, etc. (2) Automatic rebilling. You pay the $14.95, and it keeps billing your credit card every month until you cancel. What happens if you sign up, pay the $14.95, then immediately cancel. Hopefully, your subscription continues until the end of the month, but they don't say that in their terms of service.

After a quick glance through all 800 or so of their female models, I came to the conclusion that only about 1% actually have photos worth paying for. The rest, while they may look good, their husbands are uneducated as photographers. So you have lots of crappy photos of pretty ladies: poor light is the number one problem and poor composition is number two. For example, in the butt shots, most of the models are not looking at the camera at all. You don't see their eyes at all. Go to SI, etc., and this sort of photo is very uncommon. On SC, it's all over the place. Needless to say, I didn't sign up and don't plan on it anytime soon. Add to that all those models who call themselves "BBW", then when you see their thumbnails, their butt and belly are covered in most. Guys who want to see BBW's don't want them covering up the big parts.

Whatever is your fancy, I suggest you not waste your time or money on sites like SC. We have far better skilled and equipped photographers here on IP than the vast majority of the SC models's partners.

Sometimes, I read http://thongboard.aimoo.com/">thongboard.aimoo.com (handle is "great_cornholio"). It's a board that sometimes includes rather long-winded discussions of wearing thong swimwear in public areas, where it's legal and illegal, etc. There is some good info there, but sometimes it is overkill. Sometimes, all you need to know is that it's not illegal. My advice, especially if you're female, is get there early and show off your thong. By being there first, you set a precedent for everyone else that says "this place is for sexy women in thongs".

For all the criticism of Muslim extremists being not tolerating anti-Islam speech, now the Italian government is becoming guilty of the exact same thing. This is unprecedented. This woman is facing 5 years in prison for merely saying bad things about the pope. How long until the Crusades begin again?

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4732048.ece