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May 31, 2013 04:04 pm PDT
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Northern Ireland builds a Potemkin Village for theG8
The G8 Summit is coming to Fermanagh, a county in Northern Ireland that has been devastated by austerity. To spruce things up and maintain the fiction that austerity will get us out of the global economic depression, the county has spent 300,000 giving local businesses "a facelift" -- including installing a fake butcher-shop window full of imaginary meat in a derelict storefront.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/LarYsPlI5O8/story01.htm
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