After years of booming business and unbelievable wealth creation, the economy has slowed, stunned by a mortgage crisis that has only reinforced the notion of big businesses as insatiable masters of the universe with little regard for the public. The critics of capitalism have emerged from every corner to harangue those who create wealth with charges of greed, thievery, and malice.
The Western press these days is full of stories on China’s arrival as a superpower, some even warning that the future may belong to her. Western political and business delegations stream into Beijing, confident in China’s economy, which continues to grow rapidly. Crowning China’s new status, Beijing will host the 2008 Olympic Games. But as Guy Sorman reveals in Empire of Lies China’s success is, at least in part, a mirage.
Here’s a roundup to celebrate our future dietary habits: according to Ted Turner the human race is doomed to cannibalism (due to global warming, of course). Note the sub-headline of this Atlanta Journal-Constitution article: “Billionaire environmentalist says world has too many people.” Solution: eat them!
Hungry? Why wait
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