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🔗 Youku

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This site has all the TV shows you can think of. Don't let the Asian language discourage you, just use the search.

🔗 GDP Fetishism

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Another marked change in most societies is an increase in inequality. This means that there is increasing disparity between average (mean) income and the median income (that of the “typical” person, whose income lies in the middle of the distribution of all incomes). If a few bankers get much richer, average income can go up, even as most individuals’ incomes are declining. So GDP per capita statistics may not reflect what is happening to most citizens.

🔗 Land of hypocrites

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The ordinance, promulgated in 1981 under Zia-ul-Haq, makes it illegal for anyone – young, old, infirm, pregnant, lapsed – to eat, drink or smoke in public and applies across the board to Muslims and non-Muslims

🔗 Evidence that we work our ass off in this country for nothing.

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People living in Cairo work the most number of hours in the world! Follow the link to the UBS site and download the PDF: lots of data. You will find that despite the greatest number of hours, this really buys us nothing. The data was collected via questionnaires administered to people from 14 different professions. The questions is: do people in Cairo report a higher number of working hours or is it true we work more than anyone else?