China Plans To Mine the Yellow Sea Floor

eldavojohn writes "Details are limited but state media is reporting on $75 million being put into a new research facility in Qingdao, Shandong Province that will conduct research into mining the sea floor. From the article: 'Scientists believe sea beds at a depth of 4,000 to 6,000 meters hold abundant deposits of rare metals and methane hydrate, a solidified form of natural gas bound into ice that can serve as a new energy source.' The research center's first goal is to do surveying and exploration with a new submersible named 'Jiaolong' (a mythical aquatic Chinese dragon). Hopefully these quests yield energy resources to meet growing demand for resources like liquefied coal in China."

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Re:Paying the Cost to Be the Boss

[Doc Ruby]

Yes. The Teabaggers out in the streets and on TV will never pay any taxes if they can avoid them. They oppose taxes one by one, because they're organized and funded by corporate orgs each with their own agenda of taxes to get out of. But there's no end to the list. They're "taxed enough already", want to "take their country back", even though they're taxed less than when the country was run by the people they voted into power through the last two generations.

Libertarians always seem like they're the mayor of Sim City. In the real world, we need government, which costs money, which comes from taxes, which Teabaggers refuse to pay.

Re:Paying the Cost to Be the Boss

[Doc Ruby]

The "Contract" you gave is just propaganda. Like the Newt Gingrich "Contract With America" that got Republicans elected on tax promises a decade and a half ago, but was ignored once the propaganda got them into office.

The point of the Tea Party (it's not a party) is for Republicans to call yourselves something else, because the Republicans you put and kept in office crashed the country. You never call for cutting the military/intelligence budget down from the $TRILLION+ to something actually justifiable like $200B. You want to get government out of healthcare, but hands off your Medicare. You talk about entitlement as if people aren't entitled to things like Social Security they paid into and which don't add a penny to the deficit. You never complained while you were voting for Bush/Cheney twice, but the moment a Democrat is elected you answer the call of your corporate funders and organizers like Dick Armey and Glenn Beck to "take back" your country - that you and your fellow Republicans brought to ruin. As for the Constitution, you want to gut the 14th Amendment, ignore the 4th Amendment, add a homophobia amendment... and march with racists who really just prefer the original intent of the Constitution that protects slavery.

As for namecalling, you walk around waving and wearing teabags. You're Teabaggers.