China's Yangtze River Turns Red

redletterdave writes "The Yangtze River, the third longest river in the world traditionally known as the 'golden watercourse,' mysteriously blushed for the first time on Sept. 6. Residents in the surrounding area near the city of Chongqing, where the Yangtze connects to the Jialin River, literally stopped in their tracks when they noticed their once golden river had turned a shocking shade of red. Residents have carefully crept down to the riverbanks for the past few days to save some of the red, tomato juice-like river water in bottles. Early predictions from scientists say the red water was likely a result of pollution, but investigators are still investigating the unknown cause."

sounds familiar

[__aaltlg1547]

Soon Moh She will lead the workers out of their factories and part the Yellow Sea.

Obvious propaganda is obvious.

[fragfoo]

Obvious propaganda from the chinese communist party.

Apple has finally done it !!!!

[future assassin]

They've unleashed gods wrath on us with their patent wars....

Wrist slap or a bullet?

[Anonymous Coward]

When the polluter is caught, will he get a wrist slap or a bullet in the back of the head? Stay tuned!

Re:Uh-huh..

[turkeyfeathers]

Blood from sacrifices at Foxconn factory?

And now for a musical interlude

[dkleinsc]

When Android was in China's land ... let my cell phones go!
Just trolled so hard they could not stand .. let my cell phones go!
Go down, Samsung, way down in China's land,
tell ol' Jintao to let my cell phones go!

(Nah, it just doesn't quite have the same ring to it)

People's Republic Rejoice!

[Suffering Bastard]

Only Glorious Red Rivers for Glorious Red Chinese Communist Republic! Soon all waters and newborn babies everywhere will shine triumphantly with Glorious Red Hue!

Perfectly reasonable

[fredgiblet]

I blame Obama. Who's with me?

Listen

[Anonymous Coward]

Just let the Jews go. It only gets worse from here.

- Pharaoh

You know when you're in a flat with three girls?

[tbird81]

And then they get "sync'd"?

Now imagine that with 14 million women and poor sanitation.

Re:Obvious propaganda is obvious.

[Russ1642]

Hopefully Mother Earth has already had The Talk with the river.

Re:You know when you're in a flat with three girls

[codepigeon]

I have mod points, where is the option +1 Fucking gross comment.

Re:Listen

[jbeaupre]

If it gets to where all the first born children die, there won't be many people left to stop them from leaving in this one-child-only country.

Re:news!

[hawguy]

There most likely is no god

Why are you trying to turn this into a religious argument? There most certainly is a god, and I've got a Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] article that proves it.

Re:sounds familiar

[K. S. Kyosuke]

But not before the evil Pharaoh will have been humbled by the other nine plagues of Communism: shortage of diapers in drug stores, ten years of waiting time for a new Volga car, dirty tram seats, the darkness-causing industrial air pollution, attentive secret police agents on every corner, badly fitting shapeless clothes made of rough fabric that itches on your bum, badly maintained roads threatening to destroy your Volga car's shock absorbers on every kilometer (if you have one (a Volga car, not a kilometer)), oranges only for Christmas in shops, and worst of all, Soviet ballet movies with outrageous picture quality every night on the telly.