Whether they be governments or corporations worldwide I have lost my faith in them. Money has corrupted them all. It is really a time for back to basics. I actually believe now the only person you can really trust is yourself. Survival systems are breaking down.
Look at Burma for a perfect example of the horrendous breakdown in civil society. Has their government saved them? No it just let about 200,000 people starve. They are still starving, the ones that aren't already dead or have gotten more sick from drinking contaminated water.
Look at China. China is helping its own people and for that I'm grateful and I'm proud of China stepping up to the plate in this way. However, the main reason that the United States and other western and eastern nations can't do more to help the Burmese people is that China is buying northern Burmese forests from the Burmese military junta. Because China is in bed for timber with the Burmese Junta 100's of thousands of Burmese will die! It is no longer if "They have or they will DIE!" because of the China Burma Timber connection.
This is the real problem of the way china does business. The Chinese only care if the people are Han or Mandarin. If you are anything else(tibetan? Weezy" anything else?" then you can just starve to death or die. This is an unfortunate truth of China in the business world worldwide. I think this is historical and comes from 5000 years of continuous culture. And this worked quite well until TV and the internet. China can no longer hide what it does. Nor can any country on earth!
As a result I believe we are all worldwide on our own. Some governments can be trusted more than others in certain ways. However, we are all on our own! It is every man and woman and child for themselves with the changes coming now!
note: I found the following url talking about 78,000 dead and still 2.5 million in jeapordy ongoing in Burma (myanmar).
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
20080516/ap_on_re_as/myanmar
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