Oh hogwash. Capitalism can be done poorly at times but for real mass murder, mass starvation and mass misery nothing beats total government control of everything.

buddadon is right. All China's "One Child" policy has been is a human rights disaster with forced abortions and all the rest, plus a population way overweighted with boys instead of girls as boys are seen as more desirable if they can only have one. Be very careful what you wish for.  Finally in the US people who ha...more

Um, we never used biological weapons on Iraq. Thanks for playing though.  Want really bad bio weapons, google "Weaponized Smallpox." - Hint, that wasn't the US who developed that.  China has a huge farming industry and lots of people, so there is a huge population of viruses in the stock, and fast strains can spa...more

68shovelHead - A lot of China's energy is either from their own resources or imported from the Persian Gulf area. Fracking does less damage than a lot of other things.

And half their rivers apparently dried up in the last 20 years.... They don't seem to have an EPA. (Even if you survive the pollution OK, you still have to worry about mentioning stuff like Christianity, the Dalai Lama or Falun Gong.)

Good for her, she's never been silent about anything. Amazed some people who are in the art community don't get that, like what she says or not she keeps at it. They cancelled her show because she did what they hired her to do in the first place. If you want a filter don't go to a Performance Art show.

On the one hand I love horses. On the other Europeans have eaten them for years. What is surprising to me is that it has been the Obama Administration that moved to legalize slaughtering horses again, especially after the difficulty through the 60s, 70s and 80s in saving our wild mustangs. The Government just said ...more

You said it, Amen.

No, just people who understand reality. If they did launch armed attacks Australia would be criticised as a sponsor of terrorism and the Japanese would send the JMSDF and/or their Coast Guard in response to attack the Sea Shepherds. I highly recommend you look up the Youtube video of them intercepting a North Korean dr...more