>>Live and well in Ireland;
>>http://www.irishtimes.com/news/recession-out-of-the-picture-as-fermanagh-puts-on-a-brave-face-for-g8-leaders-1.1409112
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>Grof Potemkin was an amateur and didn't have sticky pictures. He had to erect real solid façades of nonexistent buildings.

That is right.
Even half talented media spin-doctor can easily twist it and interpret it as sign of technological progress brought to us by century of liberal capitalism... {g}