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A naked Pamela Anderson will beckon from Chinese billboards in a new anti-fur campaign _ if the former "Baywatch" star can get past the censors. The posters, featuring the slogan "Give fur the cold shoulder" in English, show the Canadian-born actress topless with her back to the camera and an arm partly hiding her right breast. An image of falling snow appears above Chinese characters reading "cold shoulders are nothing compared to the pain they feel," and "please don't wear fur." China's straight-laced media regulators have yet to give the posters a green light, said Jason Baker, a Hong Kong-based...

Will work for national honor. We don’t know if the Chinese stonemasons who built the new Martin Luther King memorial got the job by shoving a sign bearing that message into the faces of its overseers. We know only that unpaid, nonunion, foreign nationals built the massive shrine on the Mall. They toiled for “national honor” and “to bring glory to the Chinese people,” one of them explained to an investigator hired by the DC-area stonemasons promised the job. Happy Labor Day! Martin Luther King died in Memphis supporting a strike by the city’s garbagemen. So it’s not a stretch...

The Great Ravelling Begins: China, Japan Stitch Up By David Morgan, editor of Silver and Industry Trend Investor This article first appeared on FreeMarketNews.com A recent article by Marshall Auerback “China and the U.S.: The Great Unravelling Begins?” was instructive not only for its sober tone but also for what Auerback only referred to in passing but that more paranoid types might find extremely noteworthy. Auerback’s analysis, written for the “Prudent Bear” is fine so far as it goes. It is always a pleasure to read an adult analysis of the global financial situation, one that recognizes the nature of...