Minefield for China coal workers - 26-Dec-07
AlJazeeraEnglish asked:
Coal fuel’s China’s booming economy, but the country’s coal mining industry has the worst safety record in the world.
Al Jazeera’s Tony Birtley reports from Sunjiawan, where local people have paid a high price to keep China’s coal power stations burning.
they want to live high energy use lifestyles like westerners. this is the price of progress.
and about tibet, we’ve seen secular yugoslavia break up into lots of fragmented countries and recently kosovo. that hasn’t really worked
do you really want a world where muslim kashmir is independant secular india/pakistan and muslim chechnya is independant from secular russia and secular malaysia splits along religious lines?
religion is dividing up the world. **** religion
Then Read Wallstreet Journal, or other business papers.
Between the human rights violations, its poor working standards, and its occupation of Tibet, it is a wonder how china could be have the honer of hosting the 2008 Olympics.
Why shouldn’t this make news in the US? Unless this evil government run media at home is trying to hide the fact that we do indeed have it better than anywhere else. I don’t know maybe it’s just me but I would think this sort of news would be exactly what they would want to feed us. If they are in fact not showing the true side of America that everyone says we should see.
Either that or it’s an ending note to a story about toxic toys or melomine in pet food. This story didn’t waste time telling me about how China is shifting it’s outlook and they’re going to replace all the jobs of hard working, red blooded Americans. It didn’t start off by trying to scare me into a stuper in the run up to holiday shopping. It just talked about and to the workers who suffer. That’s the difference.
Perhaps I seek nuance that the msm just doesn’t have time for. Or maybe there’s a bias to their stuff that you’re not picking up on. I watch the news constantly and when ever they talk about the conditions of Chinese workers it seems to me that they’re more interested in talking about the ideology of Chinese economy compared to the U.S., not the lives of the workers.
You must have had your head in the sand for the last 10 years. I see a story about the **** poor conditions of Chinese workers, not to mention the massive pollution problems in China, every other day on the major American stations. Is your tunnel vision ideological or what? Because what you just said is not true at all.
Al Jaseera covers stories that you just aren’t going to hear on corporate U.S. style news. Is Paris Hilton really more important than this?