The revolution is reactionary.

China's "Security forces" have begun killing demonstrators. 20 are known killed, up to fifty are missing. The story doesn't really explain how this came about until the 6th graf. The government is definitely getting jumpy as the populace is getting fed up with the pollution from the countries rapid industrialization.

The use of live ammunition to put down a protest is almost unheard of in China, where the authorities have come to rely on rapid deployment of huge numbers of security forces, tear gas, water cannons and other non-lethal measures. But Chinese authorities have become increasingly nervous in recent months over the proliferation of demonstrations across the countryside, particularly in heavily industrialized eastern provinces like Guangdong, Zhejiang and Jiansu.

The villagers in Dongzhou said their dispute with the authorities had begun with a conflict over plans by a power company to build a coal-fired generator in their area, which they feared would cause heavy pollution. Farmers said they had not been compensated for the use of the land for the plant. Others said plans to reclaim land by filling in a local bay as part of the power plant project were unacceptable because people have made their livelihoods there as fishermen for generations. Already, villagers complained, work crews have been blasting a nearby mountainside for rubble for the landfill.

74,000 riots!

Could this affect the Beijing Olympics? This would make them resemble the Berlin Olympics empresarioed by the Nazis. It also raises questions about what price the Chinese people are paying in order to sell us all those cheap goods. I'm sure Walmart will get some blame for this, the idiotarian attitude toward it being what it is.