What's in the News

I want to go there and protest the protesters.

thanks, Calach. When I saw the avatar, I wondered if it was EL's home soylent factory. ("We put the family in our family meals", etc)

When we went to Beijing a few weeks ago, we passed by a restaurant. That in itself is not unique, neither is the fact that they prepare their own foods. Like the pics above, they had meat curing over the roof. The store was a few feet off a main road. I wish I could post it

Erik Prince: Out of Blackwater and Into China

The former CIA asset on his latest venture: After being 'blowtorched' by U.S. politics, he says, this time he's working for Beijing.


 

Baidu uses data to track world’s largest human movement as Chinese New Year begins


http://qianxi.baidu.com/

It's so pur-tee.

Every country has a way to monitor its people

Like fireworks. Everyone with a smartphone blasting out of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.


And yay for South China Sea, even if no one loves you enough to go home there, you will never leave us.





Ooooo, ETA: you can input a city name in the little search box (top right corner) and get more pretty data trails!

800,000 Yuan? Li Na Is Not Impressed




They'll get her in the end. You can't become this famous for being this uninterested in political mythos and not have the politicians start digging away at your foundation.

/paranoid

For that much money, I'd sleep with him.

That's chump change for her

They'll get her in the end. You can't become this famous for being this uninterested in political mythos and not have the politicians start digging away at your foundation.

/paranoid

I'm quite hopeful for the younger generation. They just grew up with capitalism and while they are still nationalistic and so on there is enough space between them and the Mao era for it to fly.
The generation after me (born in late 80s and 90s) who grew up with the internet and have had much more information available to them than anyone over 30.
There is the fact that corporations own their subconscious but I don't think that they identify with The Party as much as older people do

Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations

The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended on hiding in the shadows

Now he's up for a Nobel Peace Prize

Tired of getting set up for blind dates by well-meaning relatives?   Just try to get yourself locked safely away for psychiatric care.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2014-01/29/content_17264867.htm

I think this could be a great business opportunity.  Lunatic Treatment Centers, specializing in the tender care of lovely girls who are seeking refuge from meddling relatives.

http://m.thestar.com/#!/world/police-charge-18-in-new-york-city-prostitution-ring-that-advertised-on-cable-tv/b1b24f0eeac490569590290dd004f424

Now they advertise on tv. Wish I could have seen the spots

Town planning in China is a bit different to back home:

Millions to be relocated

The Beijing municipal government plans to relocate about 5 million residents to the neighboring Hebei province as part of efforts to control the population, the Economy & Nation Weekly reported.

Zheng Xinli, former deputy director of the Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee, told the magazine that Beijing and Hebei provincial governments have reached an agreement about the relocation.

Beijing's population reached 20.7 million in 2012, which has put great pressure on the capital's natural resources, including water and air.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/trending/2014-01/22/content_17250138.htm

The number to be shifted is about 1 million more than the population of New Zealand.