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)
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AND THE BLACK GUY ALWAYS DIES IN A HOLLYWOOD MOVIE
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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
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IS MY IPAD STOLEN
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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
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"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
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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.)
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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
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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
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MOST PEOPLE AREN'T WORTH WATCHING
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http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0HU0UN20141005?irpc=932
REUTERS GROSS GUNDLACH DATING STORY
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FED HAS BLUNT TOOLS