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A Richer China Isn’t Happier, and That Spells Trouble

By SparkleCowboy On May 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment

http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/5/15/a-richer-china-isn-t-happier-and-that-spells-trouble–1

A new study, led by Richard Easterlin, a professor of economics at the University of Southern California, shows that despite a rate of economic growth that is unmatched in human history, Chinese people are less happy overall than they were two decades ago.

In 1990, at the start of China’s economic [...]

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90 Percent of Corn Seeds Are Coated With Bayer’s Bee-Decimating Pesticide

By SparkleCowboy On May 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Two points are interesting in this article:

The link between the seeds (not just corn) and the loss of the world’s bees – followed soon thereafter, of course, by the loss of the world’s world The apparent ease with which crazy-ass modified seeds and tech are approved, despite, apparently, not working.

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Connecticut Cop Arrested After Pulling Gun On Cop Who Photographed Him

By SparkleCowboy On May 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment

And yet people hate cops.

http://www.pixiq.com/article/connecticut-cop-arrested-after-pulling-gun-on-cop

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Every copy of Gove’s specially printed Bible has “presented by the secretary of state for education” written on it. In gold. On the spine. Not inside in small letters, but on the outside in shiny ones.

By SparkleCowboy On May 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment

I wonder whether Gove has read any of the Bible (for sure I can’t imagine he’s read much of anything to do with anything he’s ever done or said as a government minister).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/20/michael-gove-bible-school-david-mitchell

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How do you insult someone legally?

By SparkleCowboy On May 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18102815

For decades the law has sought to regulate the latter categories. In 1986, section five of the Public Order Act made it illegal to engage in “insulting words or behaviour” in England and Wales.

But a backlash has been brewing amid concerns that efforts to protect the public’s sensibilities have gone [...]

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‘GOP Solutions’ Tab On Boehner’s Website Leads To 404 Error

By SparkleCowboy On May 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Oh universe. Always trying to show us the truth in your own way.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/gop-solutions-tab-on-boehners-new-website-leads

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Britain, although outside the single currency and committed to a hardline deficit reduction programme at home, would like to see the ECB be more interventionist, and stimulate demand through capital spending.

By SparkleCowboy On May 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment

… Wow.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/19/g8-camp-david-germany-euro

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Taliban Seek Support ‘in Rushdie’s Name’

By SparkleCowboy On May 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=107846

Taliban members have resorted to invoking fictitious links of academics with writer Salman Rushdie in a bid to boost their popularity.

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“The Taliban who are active in Pakistan’s lawless tribal region near the Afghanistan border will make any move that brings them some respect in the public eye,” Prof Javid [...]

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Accidentally Released – and Incredibly Embarrassing – Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in ‘Naked Short Selling’

By SparkleCowboy On May 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment

That. Was awesome.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/accidentally-released-and-incredibly-embarrassing-documents-show-how-goldman-et-al-engaged-in-naked-short-selling-20120515#ixzz1v0HLbfvH

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Punishment shooting: My son ‘had to be shot’

By SparkleCowboy On May 15, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Holy freaking hell. People have actual lives like this.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9720000/9720942.stm

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