Is there any example of developed country that did not go through the “transitional pains” of becoming industrialized? As civilizations leave behind agricultural based economy for manufacturing based substitute, how can we not pay for some kind of “penalties”?

1. Where are the supporters of the Kyoto Protocol every time this type of incident occurs? China is the world’s #1 polluter — and these disasters are related to that.

2. Where are the human rights defenders? As Stephen Pollard points out, There are few more perplexing phenomena than the workings of the modern liberal mind.

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Sir Paul [McCartney] and Lady Heather are so exercised by the plight of some cats and dogs that they will now refuse to travel to China, and are demanding a worldwide boycott of Chinese goods.

As for the imprisonment and judicial murder of thousands of dissident human beings, not a pip from either of them.

Not that anyone should be surprised. It is the same liberal mindset that lavishes praise on Fidel Castro as a hero, rather than condemning him as a tyrant. Castro learnt well from his Soviet backers, and rounds up and imprisons opponents just as they did. In March 2003, 75 prisoners of conscience (as Amnesty has designated them) were sentenced to prison terms of up to 28 years for peacefully opposing the regime

In addition to the human rights abuses on the living, China also has a thriving trade on corpses and organs for transplants, too.

I posted on the subject this morning.