Gee, isn’t that just swell? No puppy paws on a stick?

What are they going to do with all the dead dog carcasses?

I guess the gangs of dog killers are taking a month off to rest their swinging arms.

From the AP here:

Dog meat has been struck from the menus of officially designated Olympic restaurants, and Beijing tourism officials are telling other outlets to discourage consumers from ordering dishes made from dogs, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday.

Waiters and waitresses should “patiently” suggest other options to diners who order dog, it said, quoting city tourism bureau Vice Director Xiong Yumei.

Dog, known in Chinese as “xiangrou,” or “fragrant meat,” is eaten by some Chinese for its purported health-giving qualities.

Vienna is just two towns over from where I live. All streets in this crowded Washington DC suburb is restricted to 25 miles per hour. And after a fireworks mishap last year, the town is going with a laser light show.

From WJLA here:

Fireworks are a thing of the past in Vienna as the town replaced them with lasers for 4th of July celebrations after people were hurt in 2007 by a malfunctioning firework.

The switch to lasers has a lot of people upset. Right in front of an elementary school, a gigantic screen will go up for Friday’s laser show, but many residents said they’re not excited to see it, saying the holiday just won’t be the same.

Authorities blamed fireworks made in China for a devastating 2007 accident in Vienna. Eleven people were hurt, two seriously, when rockets ricocheted into a crowd.

But a lot of people are upset since the town tradition dates back at least 40 years. “I’ve seen a laser show. I don’t need to see another one,” resident Mary Suriani.

The Baltimore company’s laser show will cost more than twice as much as the $10,000 fireworks display. The show starts at 9:15 p.m.

Everyone should show up with laser pen lights and shine it into each others’ eyes. Then next year they won’t have a laser light show either. Maybe they will have a slide show in the town square showing photos of fireworks from towns that have the guts to celebrate Independence Day.

To make matters worse, this is how Vienna is going to create the light show:

Mikko Hypponen of F-Secure is in this video below describing some of the coolest threats discovered on the Internet in the first half of 2008. Much of it has been covered on this blog before regarding phishing attacks and malware backdoors. But one of his statements near the beginning caught me way off guard and was a bit shocking.

The unrest in China over Tibet has prompted some very targeted malware attacks against Pro Tibet groups. Since many of those humanitarian and human rights groups knew that their email communication was constantly being monitored by China, they had switched to encrypted email- specifically, PGP. Mikko tells a story about how some of the tarteted malware attacks against the pro-tibet groups were designed to steal the public and private PGP keyrings! Since the Chinese can’t crack PGP on their own, but assuredly have copies of the encrypted transmissions, they targeted and stole the PGP keys to decrypt the emails of the dissidents and human rights groups.

Wow.

I have a new post up at [GAS] on the latest mass defacements. 500,000 Microsoft webservers have had sql code injected with the intent on stealing logins to popular online Chinese Games.

I guess the bastards really want those powerups. Check your servers to see if you’ve been hit, then make sure you secure your databases.

Leave it to the French to extinguish the Olympic flame. The protesters rightly think that china is a horrible country, and they overwhelmed the police barricades, causing the torchbearer to flee in panic and snuff the flame.

From SkyNews here:

The Olympic torch has had to be extinguished three times amid protests by anti-China demonstrators in Paris.

Thousands of police sent on to the streets to protect the torch relay as it made its way around the city could not prevent protesters disrupting the event. The torch had to be extinguished three times and re-lit twice amid safety fears caused by the demonstrations.

Next the torch goes to San Francisco. Where they have lots of crazy protesters. Whoever wrote up the torch-route for the International Olympic Committee in China is going to get a bullet to the brain. Little known Olympic Fact: Every time the torch gets snuffed, a Chinese politician gets executed.

I’m hoping the torch gets captured and sold on Ebay.

If you are a tiger trapped in a Chinese zoo. The worst part is one hour later, the tiger was hungry again.

From Reuters here:

A tiger devoured a mentally ill man who entered the animal’s zoo cage in northeast China.

Zhang Yachun disappeared from his home on March 24 and five days later police told his parents he had been eaten by a tiger in a nearby zoo. “Only two legs and his skull were left,” the report said.

Zhang’s grieving parents said their 37-year-old son suffered mental illness and “especially loved tigers”.

In February, a circus lion ripped a 10-year-old boy’s arm off after grabbing him through the bars of its cage.

Last year, 16 government officials were sacked after a boy was eaten alive at a crocodile enclosure in southern China. And a zoo tiger attacked a 6-year-old girl waiting to have her picture taken with the animal, biting her head and killing her.

I have a great idea for a film. I take six blind kids and make them tight-rope walk across a pit of boiling lava. Or make them fight bulls in a bullring or outrun them in Pamplona. Maybe cliff diving or base jumping would be fun too. Or how about the ultimate? Lock six blind kids in a big walk-in freezer, tie them to stairmasters, and force them to climb about the equivalent of 30,000 feet. And you can suck out the air pressure too just to make it a bit tougher.

If you can make a bunch of blind kids do that, think what a statement it would make to the world?

No, I’m not the insensitive jerk here. Its the makers of Blindsight who are the jerks. Its a movie in which 6 blind tibetan kids are forced up Mt. Everest in order to “make a statement” about something or other. So its just like the scenario I describe above except the kids are falling down on lots of jagged rocks and could fall to their deaths at any time. It sounds like the Tibetan version of Jackass the Movie without all the gay genital groping.  Me? I’m getting two bags of popcorn for this one.

Beijing is crushing the protests in Tibet and censoring YouTube, the BBC, and other news media in China.  Reporters were ejected from the country as the death toll over the protests continued to mount. 

Meanwhile, the president of the International Olympic Committee was urging people not to boycott the games because he didn’t want the feelings of the athletes hurt.  Yeah, what’s a little human rights violations, animal cruelty, internment of retarded citizens, and execution of criminals for organ harvesting, when there’s feelings of athletes to consider?

Those solar panels? A byproduct of their manufacture is a deadly toxin that cannot be safely dumped anywhere. Except in China, where its okay because they still have too many people anyways, which is why they extended their one child per family policy for another ten years.

From the WaPo here:

Stopping between the cornfields and the primary school playground, the workers dumped buckets of bubbling white liquid onto the ground. This ritual has been going on almost every day for nine months.

The dumpers: It’s a green energy company, producing polysilicon destined for solar energy panels sold around the world. But the byproduct of polysilicon production — silicon tetrachloride — is a highly toxic substance that poses environmental hazards.

“The land where you dump or bury it will be infertile. No grass or trees will grow in the place. . . . It is like dynamite — it is poisonous, it is polluting. Human beings can never touch it,” said Ren Bingyan, a professor at the School of Material Sciences at Hebei Industrial University.

Forests are being cleared to grow biofuels like palm oil, but scientists argue that the disappearance of such huge swaths of forests is contributing to climate change. Hydropower dams are being constructed to replace coal-fired power plants, but they are submerging whole ecosystems under water.

The article makes you want to believe that this is not really a big deal. To say that silicon tetrachloride poses “environmental hazards” is like saying spent nuclear fuel rods are “dirty.” And why did they have to quote a professor in China on the hazards? There are plenty of sources in the US that could state plainly that the chemical is not to be trifled with.

This sounds like how bad the Prius is compared to the Hummer. Thanks to Moonbattery for the story.

Here is one more reason to avoid Beijing and the Olympics. The Chinese government is charging exorbitant fees for neutering and registration of pet cats, which is required by law, and then blamed the animals falsely for spreading SARS. The result is that cat owners in Beijing have had to dump their cats on the streets.

Teams of communist workers are going around collecting the cats for extermination and to include the excess meat in yummy Olympic Pies.

From the DailyMail here:

Thousands of pet cats in Beijing are being abandoned by their owners and sent to die in secretive government pounds as China mounts an aggressive drive to clean up the capital in preparation for the Olympic Games.

Hundreds of cats a day are being rounded and crammed into cages so small they cannot even turn around. Then they are trucked to what animal welfare groups describe as death camps on the edges of the city.
The cull comes in the wake of a government campaign warning of the diseases cats carry and ordering residents to help clear the streets of them. Cat owners, terrified by the disease warning, are dumping their pets in the streets to be picked up by special collection teams.

China’s leaders are convinced that animals pose a serious urban health risk and may have contributed to the outbreak of SARS - a deadly respiratory virus - in 2003.

The round-up of cats has led to a surge in the number of restaurants in the capital serving cat meat.

Paranoia is so intense that six stray cats -including two pregnant females - were beaten to death with sticks by teachers at a Beijing kindergarten, who feared they might pass illnesses to the children.

The kindergarten - where staff at a Beijing cigarette factory leave their children - is the most striking illustration of the city-wide fear of cats.

A teacher at the nursery said: “We did it out of love for the children. We were worried the cats might harm them. These six cats had been hanging around the kindergarten looking for food.

“So three male teachers put out plates of tuna in cages for bait, trapped the cats and then beat them to death with sticks.”

Why is it that Chinese people are always beating animals with sticks?

How do you get a goat to walk tightrope with a monkey on its back? And how do you get it to stand on a big gulp cup on that tight rope? And how the hell do you get the monkey to do handstands on the goat’s head while all of this is going on? Hit the goat with the stick, of course.

In the crowd, they are enjoying kabobs made from the previous goat that fell. Either that or they feed it to the lions at this zoo.

The Chinese shipped poisoned dumplings to Japan and are now lying about it. This is the latest product safety snafu by a country that is desperately trying to polish up their image in time for the olympics. but no matter how hard they try, they can’t hide their hopelessly backwards culture.

From Reuters here:

Chinese-made dumplings which made 10 people sick in Japan were sabotaged, most probably in Japan, China’s security and quality watchdogs said on Thursday.

No one has died from the poisoned food but the case has prompted frenetic media coverage in Japan following a series of health scares over Chinese products ranging from pet food and toys to toothpaste.

“After comprehensive, careful investigation and tests, we believe there is little chance that methamidophos (a pesticide) was put into dumplings in China,” said Yu, deputy director of the ministry’s criminal investigation bureau.

Japanese police have said that it was highly unlikely that the sabotage happened in Japan, citing the fact that methamidophos was strictly banned there and the packages of some of the problematic dumplings remained intact.

I mentioned what a danger it was to eat Chinese dumplings in a post here. So I think the Chinese are lying.

In honor of the Olympics in Beijing, Belch.Com presents its recipe for severed puppy paws, a Chinese delicacy.

A French association of animal lovers on Monday launched a petition aimed at encouraging China to ban, by the Summer Olympics, the killing of dogs for food.

Club puppy in skull, remove paws with hatchet. Burn off fur over open flame; wash.

Sauce
1/4 cup bulldog broth
1 tablespoon rice vinegar
2 tablespoons dark soy sauce
1 tablespoon sugar
2 teaspoons sesame oil
2 tablespoons cooking oil
6 small dried red chilies
1 tablespoon garlic, minced
2 tablespoons fresh ginger, minced
2 green onions, cut into 1-inch lengths
1/2 teaspoon crushed dried red chilies
1 1/2 teaspoons cornstarch, dissolved in water
1/4 cup peanuts, coarsely chopped

Mix sauce ingredients well in a small bowl.

Place a wok over high heat and add oil, swirling to coat sides. Stir-fry the chilies for 30 seconds. Add severed puppy paws and cook five minutes. Stir in garlic, ginger, green onions, and crushed chilies; cook for one minute.

Pour in sauce and stir fry for one minute.

Serve puppy paws garnished with a sprinkling of peanuts.

A Taiwanese man was arrested for stealing the heat sensors from a public restroom. What did you think I meant?

Long Duk Dong does not need toilet sensors to detect “Hot Stuff.”
From Chinapost here:

A young mechanic, Wang Chi-sheng, is suspected of stealing a urinal sensor, which he said he planned to use to modify a Mercedes Benz car.

Wang has been accused of trespassing for entering a closed-down gas station restroom and stealing the heat sensors used on the urinals. Police escorting Wang stated that they laughed as they listened to his plan to use the sensors to test out his latest designs for improving a Mercedes Benz car.

If the guy had a Mercedes, couldn’t he afford the new factory replacement parts?

Along with rounding up all their retarded citizens to keep them from drooling and doing retarded things in front of Olympic visitors, the Chinese government is also forbidding anyone from watching anything having to do with ghosts or other horror-themed fiction. They are even banning the sale of ghosts in the pirated videos they sell on the street corners.

From smh.com.au here:

China has added ghosts, monsters and other things that go bump in the night to its list of banned video and audio content in an intensified crackdown ahead of the Beijing Olympics.

Offending content included “wronged spirits and violent ghosts, monsters, demons, and other inhuman portrayals, strange and supernatural storytelling for the sole purpose of seeking terror and horror.”

The new guidelines aim to “control and cleanse the negative effect these items have on society, and to prevent horror, violent, cruel publications from entering the market through official channels and to protect adolescents’ psychological health”.

China, where graphic, pirated sex and horror movies are available on most street corners, is keen to step up its control of the cultural arena ahead of the Beijing Olympics in August.

For any of you going to the Olympics in China, be sure to pop over to the zoo for some really fun times. There you can dine on tiger meat and dangle live chickens over the lion’s pit. And if you are quick with your camera, you can catch a great shot of a live goat being tossed 35 feet onto packed dirt, where injured, it is torn limb from limb by lions.

This post is dedicated to Nancy Zhang, an LA paralegal who wrote to remind me that a 3000 year old culture like the one in China is obviously so much better than our own, since it is old and all. And Chinese.

From the DailyMail here:

The smiling children giggled as they patted the young goat on its head and tickled it behind the ears. Some of the more boisterous ones tried to clamber onto the animal’s back but were soon shaken off with a quick wiggle of its bottom.

It could have been a happy scene from a family zoo anywhere in the world but for what happened next.

A man hoisted up the goat and nonchalantly threw it over a wall into a pit full of hungry lions. The poor goat tried to run for its life, but it didn’t stand a chance. The lions quickly surrounded it and started tearing at its flesh.

“Oohs” and “aahs” filled the air as the children watched the goat being ripped limb from limb. Some started to clap silently with a look of wonder in their eyes.

Just an hour’s drive from the main Olympic attractions in Beijing, Badaling is in many ways a typical Chinese zoo.

Next to the main slaughter arena is a restaurant where families can dine on braised dog while watching cows and goats being disemboweled by lions.

The zoo also encourages visitors to “fish” for lions using live chickens as bait. For just £2, giggling visitors tie terrified chickens onto bamboo rods and dangle them in front of the lions, just as a cat owner might tease their pet with a toy.

You can also visit other zoo animals like the following:

A pair of endangered moon bears with rusting steel nose rings are chained up in cages so small that they cannot even turn around. One has clearly gone mad and spends most of its time shaking its head and bashing into the walls of its prison.

There are numerous other creatures, including tigers, which also appear to have been driven insane by captivity. Predictably, they are kept in cramped, filthy conditions.

Zoos like this make me want to boycott everything Chinese,” says Emma Milne, star of the BBC’s Vets In Practice.

“I’d like to rip out everything in my house that’s made in China. I have big problems with their culture.

“Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised by their behaviour towards animals, as the value of human life is so low in China.”

And wait, there’s more! Nancy Zhang loves what they do to tortoises in the Chinese zoos. What is it about the Chinese obsession with finding good luck?

And what would hurting tortoises have to do with it?

Simply put, Chinese families now gather in zoos to hurl coins at tortoises.

Legend has it that if you hit a tortoise on the head with a coin and make a wish, then your heart’s desire will come true. It’s the Chinese equivalent of a village wishing well.

To feed this craze, tortoises are kept in barbaric conditions inside small bare rooms. When giggling tourists begin hurling coins at them, they desperately try to protect themselves by withdrawing into their shells.

But Chinese zoo keepers have discovered a way round this: they wrap elastic bands around the animals’ necks to stop them retracting their heads.

You know, dangling chickens, throwing goats and pelting tortoises with coins sure can be thirsty work. If only there was some type of drink that was made by abusing animals that could slake your dual thirst for fluids and animal cruelty- wait! The Chinese have thought of everything! How about taking a tiger, grinding its bones down, and sprinkling it into wine? Would that be a delicious beverage for Red Commies? You Betcha!

Astonishingly, the zoo also sells tiger meat and wine produced from big cats kept in battery-style cages. Tiger meat is eaten widely in China and the wine, made from the crushed bones of the animals, is a popular drink.

Although it is illegal, the zoo is quite open about its activities. In fact, it boasts of having 140 dead tigers in freezers ready for the plate.

The wine is made from the 1,300 or so Siberian tigers reared on the premises. The restaurant is a favorite with Chinese Communist Party officials who often pop down from Beijing for the weekend.

I have been writing about the cruelty of the Chinese for a while now. See here, here, here and here.

I have a great new post up over at Geeks Are Sexy. I write about the panic that Pennsylvania State experienced when they detected Chinese IPs probing four separate servers of the State Government.

Rather than blackhole the Chinese and patch the webservers, the State of Pennsylvania’s response plan was to pull the ethernet cable from their firewall.

So if you are a hacker and want to take a whole state off the Internet? Just probe four servers and watch the State disconnect itself in a panic.

Way to hang tough, Pennsylvania.

Or is this something… sinister?

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Anyone that is planning to go to China for the Olympics needs to pack a bag lunch. Those whacky Chinese have no regard for food health safety. Its almost as if they are trying to create some super disease, because SARS just wasn’t deadly enough.

Civets look cute, but taste like Chinese Chicken.

From Reuters here:

Scorpions scamper in bowls, water snakes coil in tanks and cats whine in cramped cages, waiting to be slaughtered, skinned and served for dinner.

Welcome to the Qingping market in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, where everything from turtles to insects are sold alongside fowl and freshly caught fish.

An outbreak of the SARS virus in 2002 resulted in a local gourmet favorite — the civet — being banished to the black market. The raccoon-like animal was blamed for spreading SARS, which infected 8,000 people globally and killed 800.

Frozen civets confiscated in 2004.

But exotic wildlife and squalor have returned to the Qingping market, making health officials worried that another killer virus could emerge.

In a dark shop near the new medicine mall, feces and urine drip like goo thorough stacked cages of squawking chickens and meowing cats.

Although Guangdong authorities culled thousands of civets in January 2004, investigators recently found the animals, as well as badgers and pangolins, on the black market and in Guangdong’s “wild flavour” restaurants, where diners hope exotic meats will bring good fortune.

A kitchen worker hits a water rat on the head to stun it before it is killed for a meal in a restaurant in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. Take note of the puddles of fluid on the floor. Heh, those whacky Chinese! Is there anything they won’t eat?

Health inspectors found 14 frozen and one live civet cat, and 22 kilograms of civet cat meat from 18 animals in a sweep of restaurants across the province.

Among Qingping’s cats and chickens were tiger paws, turtles, insects of myriad varieties, and bundled strips of shredded toads — some food, others medicine.

So exotic meat brings the Chinese good fortune? Is the fortune cookie not good enough?

People email me to ask why I always seem to be picking on China. That their culture is thousands of years old and therefore isn’t it at least equivalent to our own if not far superior? No way Chester! Those Chinese are commie bastards and are evil. Is evil too strong of a word? You tell me.

The liger disapproves of Chinese zookeepers.

From Reuters here:

Tigers in a north China zoo that was too poor to properly feed them turned on each other, killing and eating one, zoo authorities said on Monday.

“There is no money. Of course (the incident) was caused by a lack of food,” a woman in the director’s office at the Shenyang Bingchuan Wildlife Park told Reuters.

“We only receive 1,000 yuan (65 pounds) per month in government subsidies and the park is only able to generate another 1,000 yuan each month from the sale of tickets, which is the main source of income,” the official said.

In the incident, which happened on Sunday, four tigers got into a fight, killing one and devouring its innards.

Do you think this is the only Chinese zoo that mistreats their animals? No, of course its not. Check out how they feed the tigers in a zoo farther to the north- They toss in live cows and goats!