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THE WAY THINGS ARE: The meaning of life is to be found in thinking about what is reality and the beauty of reality is to be found in our DNA's memorization of all forms that have been successfully retained along the four billion years of evolution of the principle of life on Gaia our earth. In the end what I mean to say is that beauty is something objective and what we call ugliness is then simply our unconscientious feel of something evolution did not retain.
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  • http://media.hoover.org/documents/clm20bn.pdf

    Rated Jul 13 2007 • 2 reviews • china • hoover.org

    Beijing Moves Against Local Government Control of Land
    by Barry Naughton in the Winter, 2007, issue of China Leadership Monitor, a publication put out by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

    During the past year there have been numerous signs of an increasingly assertive central government in China. Now, Beijing has promulgated a series of measures that aim to dramatically change the way urban land markets work, curtailing local government discretion and greatly increasing central government oversight. These measures strike directly at the most important single source of power and income for local government officials. Combined with the fall of Shanghai First Party Secretary Chen Liangyu, these actions indicate a significant shift in the balance of political power in China away from local governments and toward the center.

    Beijing Moves Against Local Government Control of Land 11 pages PDF


    An excellent study that analyzes China's institutional future that is shaping through the political maneuvering by the State Council to re-assert its control over the country's local institutions.

    China's deepest and also its most urgent problem today is the utter corruption of its local officials that is the root-cause of social discontent often ending in violence. The greatest source of income for local corruption is the "land use rights". The State Council hopes that by having the last say in those matters it will profoundly curb local corruption that is the source of social discontent...