Eh, it must be a competition between countries; Which country is the first back in Middle Ages?

* Ireland: freedom of speech, gone
* Australia: big fricking firewall
* US: War mongering and Guantanamo.. etc.
* ... please feel to add your country of choice ...

First they thought Dalai Lama is a cool poster boy and later they did some rethinking.

Chinese suppression of Dalai Lama seems to increase his popularity. In Tibet, his status among locals (non Chinese) is close to our rock stars. Almost every Tibetan who I met in Lhasa showed me a photo of him (secretively) and to my knowledge it is even illegal to have his photo over there.

And, frankly, the whole country is close to bankrupt. So, terrorist might win the war on terrorism sooner than anyone expected. I am pretty sure that even they were not really thinking about winning that big. It was coincidence of expensive wars and Wall Street crisis. Resources are running thin and wars just keep going. The biggest problem will soon be increasing cost of new loans when rating goes down. Old loans expire too and they need to be refinanced, which becomes easily vicious circle if you have a bad rating. To think of it does losing 'world leader' status count already as a small victory for terrorist.

Is it savage? They would probably argue that it is humane not to let a crippled being to struggle through its life. A crippled child/adult might burden parents/tribe as they might not be productive or very limited with their contribution and making everybody's life harder, which might not be easy beginning with. "Western" moral or something says it is just wrong, but it could be thought to be a late form of abortion. Any form abortion is already under heated discussion among religious sects. And if abortion gets banned among western countries it becomes later morally wrong thing in the same way as drowning crippled babies.

The business world seems to have gone advertising crazy!

Google's business is advertising.