Maybe they ought to just cancel this years coming Olympics ;) This has become such a mess.

Things just aren't what they used to be. Weren't the summer games always a cause for celebration in the past. Those days are over.

This is clearly just the start of this sort of statement. I heard a US official yesterday saying that it wasn't right to stop emerging countries from doing all the things that the so-called 1st world countries did in the past. There's a huge hole in this logic and I hope people wake up to it before it's too late. When we were developing (and polluting), there were so few car in America, Japan & Europe compared to what is coming on-line (on the roads) with China and India starting their motors. Also, we weren't nearly as aware of the dire consequences of our actions. Of course, all of us wish we would have developed a gas alternative sooner, but we ALL have to start now. This planet will not withstand the onslaught of a doubling or tripling of the exhaust fumes that we currently emit.

STOP THIS CRAZY CYCLE!

From a distance, the collection of quaint wooden farmhouses folded into lush, terraced hills is a picture postcard of rural Asia, complete with colorful ethnic garb, water buffalo and lush green fields.

Get closer and you're at ground zero of China's AIDS epidemic.

Intel gets U.S. nod to build plant in China

I don't know about you, but the last time I checked geopolitics and geobusiness didn't mix. In fact, at least with the current American administration, mixing these two usually results in disaster. Here's a Washington Post story you might want to read. It's on a much smaller scale than the IBM deal, but with a similar outcome; ridding Americans of jobs while producing undesirable, unpredictable results.