Population Control: Two Paths

You could take China's path: Forced abortions, sterilization, and other punishments for women who have more than one child. This policy has resulted in:

Average Population Growth Rate: 0.70% (2005-2000)
Total fertility rate: 1.75 children born/woman (2007 est.)

Or you could take Sweden's path: increased gender equality and economic justice.

Average Population Growth Rate: 0.10% (2000-2005)
Total fertility rate: 1.66 children born/woman (2007 est.)

Amazing Photographs from China

"Humanizing China" - from EastSouthWestNorth

From the Survival Page:

It is necessary to purchase admission tickets in order to pick garbage

A mountain resident carries his wife home. She just had her tubes tied.

Postman delivering mail on difficult rural route


From the Relationships page:

A peasant is about to transplant his kidney to his diabetic son

Chatting with an admirer on the other side of the barbed wire fence of the factory

Modern garbage


From the Desires page:

The lucky winner at an instant lottery game

Sales distributors receive news of a ban

Curbside beauty parlor

Via Neatorama

Media Face Off: China's Stock Market vs. Migrant Workers in the News

China migrant 'underclass' emerging
According to Amnesty International "China's millions of migrant workers are denied access to healthcare, education and good working conditions and are fast becoming an 'urban underclass'".

But all we hear about is the freakin' stock market crash. Search for China Stock Market in Google News today, and you get over ten thousand results:


Now, search for china migrant workers. Under 600 results.

It's even worse if you search for china underclass: 107 results.

Just a simple example of how capital gets far more coverage than labour. china business gets 32,766 results today while china labour gets 1,710.

Ever notice there's a business section in all newspapers, but no labour section? This makes no sense when you think about the proportion of people who work for wage or salary, compared to those who own a business or live off of investments. Somehow the interests of capital and those who own it have become paramount, overshadowing the interests of everyone else.

Neolithic Noodles Unearthed in China

Apparently solving the argument of who invented the noodle, stone age noodles were recently uncovered by archaeologists in China.

And here I thought the food in my fridge was old!

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