The Parliament of Iceland is the oldest parliament in the world.
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The U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act grants US citizens resource rights to celestial bodies. If you can put a mining operation on an asteroid, you stand to make a fortune.
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In Sweden, you can get a tax break if you fix things like your refrigerator, bicycle, clothes and washing machines instead of throwing them away.
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From the Efficiency in Government Department:
The World Bank is an organization of 10,000-plus employees whose mission is the eradication of poverty. One element of what they do is writing policy reports about how to make the world better.
About 31 percent of all reports put online by the World Bank have never been downloaded by anyone in the world.
Dumbass Tweet O’Day – Climate Change
Earth Day 2016 is highlighted by President Obama signing the Paris Climate Agreement that will impose more governmental regulations on energy and everyday living in industrialized nations to reduce CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions, while simultaneously requiring the same western nations to provide funding to help developing countries implement more “green” technologies.
If there was ever a moment in history where the hubris of the political elite is on full display, it is with this keen idea that signing this document will now stop the climate from changing. Here, I give you Senator Barbara Boxer and her proclamation:
So, do you suppose signing a document will now stop Climate Change that has been happening for the past four billion years?
These are our elected leaders. No seriously, this is what California elected to a governing body.
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