Links for 2014 10 06

Added on by C. Maoxian.

This Is the First Weekend in America With No Saturday Morning Cartoons  

SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS A FIXTURE OF MY YOUTH (but i was born in 1970)

Barry Malone on Twitter: "This disturbing André Carrilho illustration on Ebola, and how the world sees it, is both powerful and accurate. http://t.co/5XHKQI1uhe"  

AND THE BLACK GUY ALWAYS DIES IN A HOLLYWOOD MOVIE

The Man Who Smuggles Trader Joe’s into Canada  

“At some point I asked, ‘Well what if corporate finds out?’” Hallatt said. “And Chris said, ‘They’re too stoned to find out.’” 

JUST LIKE TWITTER

Activation Lock  

IS MY IPAD STOLEN

The NSA and Me - The Intercept  

Not only did the classified file from the Justice Department accuse the NSA of systematically breaking the law by eavesdropping on American citizens, it concluded that it was impossible to prosecute those running the agency because of the enormous secrecy that enveloped it. 

THAT WAS 1981, INFINITELY WORSE NOW

Student leader Joshua Wong  

"Yvonne Leung, 20, is the president of the Hong Kong University Students Union. “My main concern is to end one-party rule in China,” she told CNN in June." ... BAD IDEA ... MAIN CONCERN SHOULD BE STUDYING FOR HK BAR EXAM

China’s Inscrutable Contraction by Kenneth Rogoff - Project Syndicate  

The main house-price indices measure only asking prices and not actual sales prices. (Data in many other countries – for example, Spain – suffer from the same deficiency.)

The Way Ahead in Hong Kong by Chris Patten - Project Syndicate  

No one told Hong Kongers when they were assured of universal suffrage that it would not mean being able to choose for whom they could vote. No one said that Iran was the democratic model that China’s Communist bureaucracy had in mind, with the Chinese government authorized to exercise an effective veto over candidates. 

AGAIN THIS IS SPIN

Who Loves China? by Ian Buruma - Project Syndicate  

"China’s government has promised Hong Kong’s citizens that they can freely elect their Chief Executive in 2017. But, given that candidates are to be carefully vetted by an unelected committee of pro-Chinese appointees, citizens would have no meaningful choice at all." 

NOT TRUE, ALBERT HO A CANDIDATE IN 2012 C'MON

Enough to cure your over-sharing habits and Twitter addiction > Domestic surveillance in a post-9/11 world abc.net.au/4corners/stori… @4corners  

MOST PEOPLE AREN'T WORTH WATCHING

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0HU0UN20141005?irpc=932  

REUTERS GROSS GUNDLACH DATING STORY

Bubbie's Dashboard  

FED HAS BLUNT TOOLS