Links for 2014 09 30
The Hong Kong Protests: What You Should Know - NYTimes.com
"Any changes to the Basic Law have to be ratified by the country’s legislature, the National People’s Congress, which is controlled by the Communist Party." ... THIS IS THE RUB
"The hitch: the “broadly representative nominating committee.” On Aug. 31, the National People’s Congress Standing Committee ruled that to appear on the ballot, candidates had to get more than half the votes of the nominating committee, which would be identical to the election committee that had picked previous chief executives. To Hong Kong’s pro-democracy activists, this was unacceptable because it guaranteed that only candidates approved by Beijing would be nominated. " ... YES, THIS IS WHAT THE UPROAR IS ABOUT
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China Strikes Back! | ChinaFile
"we agreed that it was dismaying not just that Carter was being kept at official arm’s length and had been personally offended, but that this entire episode was like so many others with which we had both recently been involved. What is more, it struck us as somehow emblematic of the suspicious, secretive, peremptory, punitive way in which official China now so often deports itself in the world, especially toward democracies, which it tends to view as especially seditious, even hostile." ...
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Zacks Investment Ideas feature highlights: NQ Mobile, WuXi PharmaTech and Amazon - Yahoo Finance
"If there was ever a stock to have no position in, this would be it." ... JUMPED 10% AFTER THIS WAS POSTED
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Gross’s Last Defiance Stuns Allianz, Pimco in Janus Move - Bloomberg
Gross, 70, had left the bond giant he helped found 43 years earlier without telling its executives, a last act of defiance by a great investor whose strained relationship with his lieutenants had brought him to the verge of being ousted ... “Ever since the Mohamed departure, the knives were out for Bill,” .. e picked up the phone and cold-called DoubleLine Capital LP, asking for Jeffrey Gundlach to discuss joining the much smaller crosstown competitor. The following day, the two men met at Gundlach’s house, where Gross expressed concern that employees were conspiring against him and Pimco might fire him
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Turkish Delight : Architectural Digest
Turkey’s Bodrum Peninsula ... Aegean Sea ... From $925/night;
Movies Watched -- The Conjuring
Horror movie. Relies on sound effects, scary music, and things popping out of nowhere to terrify you ... and it works! I grew up in a house with a dirt cellar, crawl spaces, and a ghost (only saw her once), so maybe I'm more susceptible. :) If you like scary movies, this one isn't bad ... if you don't like scary movies, you should miss it.
Movies Watched -- Mother of George
This one I liked ... hated the ambiguous ending (I think she loses the baby but I'm not sure), but what came before it was good ... cinematographer studied Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love closely, lots of imitation, but well done. Could have cut at least ten minutes of the slo-mo "mood" sequences to get the movie under 100 minutes since it was a touch over-long at 107 minutes. Recommended. (Other movies from 2013 that I can recommend (so far) are: All Is Lost, Blue Is The Warmest Color, Museum Hours, and Wadjda.)
Movies Watched -- The Great Beauty
Screenshot below shows how I felt watching this one ... fast forwarded from five minutes in ... running time two hours and twenty-two minutes, can't imagine anyone on planet earth has sat through all of it.
Movies Watched -- In a World...
Watched twenty minutes then fast forwarded ... about voice-over "artists" ... wasn't interested ... heart-warming tale of awful Dad connecting with estranged daughters, maybe?
Movies Watched -- Still Mine
Fast forwarded from ten minutes in ... about ageing ... interesting that it's set in New Brunswick though no one sounded Canadian ... cantankerous old guy railing against bureaucracy ... wasn't interested.
Movies Watched -- Blue Jasmine
Watched without fast forwarding ... another Woody Allen Konigsberg weird WASP fantasy ... tragicomedy ... dissipated Alec Baldwin as Bernie Madoff type scoundrel losing everything ... the story of the trophy wife left behind ... Cate Blanchett a talented actress, she can go dark really well ... did she win an award for this performance? ... anyway, it's dark, not fun. Good length, but not recommended.
Movies Watched -- The Past
Watched 80 (!) minutes of this then went to fast forward ... the only thing that kept me going that long were these beautiful Persian? women (and men and children) speaking French ... the story didn't interest me much. Way too long at 130 minutes.
Links for 2014 09 29
LET'S TALK
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2014 Hong Kong electoral reform - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The NPCSC Decision rules out the universal suffrage in the 2012 CE Election and 2012 LegCo Election but on the other hand provides the possibility of universal suffrage for CE in 2017 and LegCo in 2020.
"The decision states that for the 2017 Chief Executive election, a nominating committee, similar to the present Election Committee system, be formed to nominate two to three candidates, each of whom must receive the support of more than half of the members of the nominating committee." NPCSC's 31 August decision
THIS IS THE BIG DEAL, NO LONGER ONLY 150 MEMBERS (1/8TH) OF NOM COM, THIS IS WHAT THREW A SPANNER IN THE WORKS
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Hong Kong Chief Executive election, 2017 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On 4 December 2013, the Task Force on Constitutional Development headed by the Chief Secretary for Administration Carrie Lam, Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen, and Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Raymond Tam published the Consultation Document on the Methods for Selecting the Chief Executive in 2017 and for Forming the Legislative Council in 2016 and launched the five-month consultation period, to generate a consensus for a set of reform proposals for the 2017 Chief Executive election and 2016 Legislative Council election.
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Hong Kong Chief Executive election, 2012 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
689 TO 285 TO 76 ...
"Each candidacy for Chief Executive must be supported by at least 150 nominations from members of the Election Committee (EC)"
"The election proper takes place by secret ballot, with each EC member having one vote"
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Hong Kong Voting for Legislature Is Heavy - NYTimes.com
The poorly financed Civic Party, lacking a grass-roots network to guide its supporters, ran a single slate in each constituency and tried to persuade as many voters as possible to vote for it. The party’s best known politician, Audrey Eu, and its rising star, Tanya Chan, listed themselves second on slates in the New Territories West constituency and Hong Kong Island, respectively. Both ended up losing their seats.
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日期：2013-09-12
梁家杰先生：
8月26日来函收悉。香港行政长官普选制度源自基本法规定，必须以基本法为依据。基本法的有关规定是讨论行政长官普选办法的前提和基础。就行政长官普选时候选人提名办法而言，基本法第45条已明确规定“由一个有广泛代表性的提名委员会按民主程序提名”，并无其他选项。而且，2007年12月29日全国人大常委会的有关决定也进一步明确：“在香港特别行政区行政长官实行普选产生的办法时，须组成一个有广泛代表性的提名委员会。提名委员会可参照香港基本法附件一有关选举委员会的现行规定组成。提名委员会须按照民主程序提名产生若干名行政长官候选人，由香港特别行政区全体合资格选民普选产生行政长官人选，报中央人民政府任命。”我不久前出席立法会午餐会时已讲过，讨论香港行政长官普选的办法问题，正途是沿着基本法和全国人大常委会有关规定的轨道往前走，而不是脱离法律规定的轨道走弯路。从事法律职业者，更应深谙法治要义，不可逾矩。
我是先从报纸上获悉你邀请我出席以“公民提名何惧之有”为题的研讨会。如上所述，“公民提名”漠视基本法明文规定，诚不攻自破之说。莅会之邀，恕不应约。
此复。
张晓明
HE'S RIGHT ... THEY'D HAVE TO CHANGE THE LAW TO ALLOW "OPEN NOMINATIONS"
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Liaison Office sent a letter to the Civic Party: "Citizens nominated" disregard Basic - News
hang Xiaoming, director of the Civic Party leader Alan Leong reply letter
Mr Leong:
August 26th letter of the Hong Kong Basic Law, the Chief Executive by universal suffrage system is based on the provisions, you must use the Basic Law as a basis for discussing the relevant provisions of the Basic Law, the Chief Executive by universal suffrage means the premise and foundation. Universal suffrage for the Chief Executive in terms of candidate nominations , Article 45 of the Basic Law clearly provides that 'by a broadly representative nominating committee in accordance with democratic procedures for the nomination,' there is no other option. Moreover, December 29, 2007 the relevant decisions of the NPC Standing Committee also made clear: 'In Chief Executive to implement universal suffrage, shall constitute a broadly representative nominating committee. nominating committee may refer the Hong Kong Basic Law, Annex I regarding the Election Committee to the current provisions. nominating committee in accordance with democratic procedures nominate a certain number of administrative Executive candidates, all eligible voters by the HKSAR Chief Executive by universal suffrage candidate to the Central People's Government for appointment(http://www.instant-news.us/). 'Not long ago I attended a luncheon at the Legislative Council have said, to discuss ways of Hong Kong Chief Executive by universal suffrage question, the right path is along the relevant provisions of the Basic Law and the National People's Congress walked the track, rather than from the law track detours. those in the legal profession, the rule of law should be well versed in essence, can not transgressing.
I was the first newspaper was informed that you invited me to attend a 'citizen nominated why fear' in the title of the seminar mentioned above, 'citizen nominated' disregard Basic expressly provides that proved unfounded, says Cheng. Director Mr invited without should be about.
This complex.
Zhang Xiaoming
August 30, 2013
LOL THAT'S SOME GOOGLE TRANSLATION OR SOMETHING
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Xi Says Hong Kong Political Reforms Must Follow Constitution - Bloomberg
"The Basic Law states that candidates for the chief executive position have to be nominated by a “broadly representative” committee, Zhang Xiaoming, director of China’s Liaison Office in Hong Kong, wrote last month in an open letter to Civic Party leader Alan Leong. Zhang’s comments were the clearest China had made in rejecting activists’ demands for an open nomination."
RIGHT ... SO THE PROTESTERS WANT TO CHANGE THE BASIC LAW TO AN OPEN NOMINATION, THAT'S WHAT THIS IS ABOUT, I THINK?
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Civil nomination proposal violates Basic Law, says Zhang Xiaoming | South China Morning Post
"The electoral method for the chief executive has to comply with the Basic Law," Zhang wrote. "Article 45 of the Basic Law states that nomination is by a broadly representative nominating committee … there is no other option. Civil nomination has neglected the requirements stated in the Basic Law."
YES, HE'S RIGHT ABOUT THAT
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SHARP COOKIE ... LEFT BBG PRETTY FAST THOUGH
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Why do Chinese women date western men?[2]- Chinadaily.com.cn
BECAUSE OF THEIR THICK, EIGHT INCH LONG COCKS, OBVIOUSLY
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Basic Law — the Source of Hong Kong’s Progress and Development
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development towards the ultimate aim of universal
suffrage must progress in a gradual and orderly manner
step by step. The pace should not be too fast. The
progress should accord with the actual situation in the
HKSAR, in order to preserve its prosperity and stability;
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IT'S A JPEG ;-)
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White Paper on "The Practice of the 'One Country, Two Systems' Policy in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region"
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Instagram blocked in China as democracy reform protests sweep Hong Kong ift.tt/1qM8hkI (TechinAsia)
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"Western men… supposedly shower and change their underwear every day." china.org.cn/china/2014-09/…
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Nyt-Glum Sign for Apple in China: Smuggled iPhones Go Begging mobile.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/tec…
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Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
THE BOY AND I WILL VISIT ON WED OR THU
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WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS?
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SCRUBBED FROM WEIBO ... CENSORS MUST BE WORKING OVERTIME
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Illegal assembly in Hong Kong leads to clashes ow.ly/C2Jl9
STATE MEDIA
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STATE MEDIA