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Here’s the timeline: On November 8, the first day that Chinese leaders gathered for their once-in-a-decade Party Congress to announce the next generation of leaders, a Chinese-language Facebook page posted a clearly doctored photo of the party’s top officials doing the dance from South Korean pop hit Gangnam Style. On November 13, popular China blog Beijing Cream picked it up. The congress ended two days later, and on the 17th, a widely followed user on China’s popular Twitter-like service, Weibo, posted the image with a banal message about the song’s popularity. Censors pulled it down almost immediately.

via Why is China censoring a fake photo of its leaders doing ‘Gangnam Style’?.

The team spent 2012 designing and analysing new hydrofoils, but still experienced the same 50 knot limit: there seemed no way past this “bubble barrier”.

via One Per Cent: Sailing boat smashes world speed record.

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Democratic Solution To The Filibuster: Make Them Talk.

Seattle Police Produce a Users Guide to Pot – ABC News.

Dauman, Moonves Battle for Sumner Redstones Empire – Hollywood Reporter.

Where Barack Obama Lost The Debate.

Voters in the excluded states will still be interviewed as part of a national exit poll, but state-level estimates of the partisan, age or racial makeups of electorates won’t be available as they have been since 1992. The lack of data may hamper election night analyses in some states, and it will almost certainly limit post-election research for years to come.

via Networks, AP cancel exit polls in 19 states.

Heres his response, portions of which likely would have been prepared ahead of the debate:”Well, clearly in a campaign with hundreds if not thousands of question and answer sessions, now and then youre going to say something that doesnt come out right. In this case I said something thats just completely wrong. And I absolutely believe however that my life has shown that I care about the 100 percent and that has been demonstarted throughout my life. This whole campaign is about the 100 percent. When I become president itll be about helping the 100 percent.”

via Romney On 47 Percent: I Said Something Thats Just Completely Wrong | TPM LiveWire.

“You rescue girls from brothels?” Meg Ryan asks a Cambodian activist in Half the Sky, a documentary based on the work of Nicholas Kristof and his wife Sheryl WuDunn in 10 developing countries. This idea of “rescue” is at the heart of a growing critique of Kristofs journalism and activism from a variety of journalists and activists, and in some cases from sex workers themselves. And the anti-Kristof backlash raises a bigger question: is it even possible for American journalists to ethically tell the stories of women in the developing world?

via The Anti-Nicholas Kristof Backlash.