The Chinese government has begun a process of buying wheat around the world, a sure indication that they do not expect their winter wheat crop to survive the drought that is currently devastating central China. This is not going to affect food supplies in the United States or anywhere else in the first world, but it is going to cause severe food shortages throughout the third world, and there is likely to be extensive unrest worldwide.
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Good or bad? – While Chinese medicine is causing the extinction of endangered species, Chinese herbs are turning up more and more in Western doctors’ offices. We are learning more and more new ways to heal ourselves–and our planet (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show).
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China is exporting a new kind of dangerous item: Spam. It’s not enough that they’re polluting our air, they’re also polluting our computers.

So far in 2009, nearly three-quarters of the websites advertised in computer spam have been traced to China. Researcher Gary Warner says, “China has become a safe haven for website operators that use spam to promote their products because of the willingness of some Chinese web-hosting companies to ignore spam complaints about those sites, which are hosted on their servers for a fee. The hosting companies don’t create the spam, but rather declare themselves bullet-proof hosting sites, meaning that regardless of the illegal activities being reported, they will not terminate their customer
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?.by buying General Motors and Chrysler – In The Truth About Cars website, Bertel Schmitt says that China’s daily business newspaper, the 21st Century Business Herald, has reported that a “senior official of China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology” has hinted that “the auto manufacturing giants in China have the capability and intention to buy some assets of the two crisis-plagued American automakers.”
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