(satire) … China's Ministry of Public Security asked the entire nation to pose Tuesday while millions of government security cameras took photographs.

Buddhist monk Wirathu has called for hatred towards Muslims for years. Now that he targeted Aung San Suu Kyi as well, he is wanted for arrest.

He must be a very bad Buddhist. In the same way, the supporters of the bully are very bad Christians.

Chinese "fishing boats" fired lasers at pilots of Australian planes flying from a carrier in international waters.

This sort of poking at each other seems to be typical of interactions between unfriendly navies when they are not at war. Usually they poke back. The question is, how do you poke at a "fishing boat" that fires a laser that could blind a pilot, but was set at a lower setting so that it didn't cause actual damage?

The US Geological Survey will cut off its climate modeling at 2040. This way, climate disaster will not appear in the results. It also creates an excuse to build facilities that will be flooded starting in 2050.

It's a great way to distract people from the coming disaster — for a while. But by then it will be too late.

UK local governments are discovering that outsourcing is ripping them off, and bringing various services into public activity.

This raises the question of how to kill off the remaining long-term outsourcing contracts that hold the state hostage. I recommend defining the concept of parasitic outsourcing -- outsourcing that should never have been allowed -- and giving the state the power to cancel such contracts with a year's notice even if the contract said it was to run for longer.

This would give Chicago a way to cancel Rahm Emanuel's contract for parking revenue farming.