links for 2010-09-16
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Not to be flippant but how do we think that drugs get into all of our prisons?
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What a fun decor idea for the old school gamer.
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A good article by Danah Boyd on the internet and human trafficking.
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Martin E. Marty takes on Frankin Graham and some of his wrong headed views on Islam.
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Multinationals and hedge funds trying to lock up the world's food supply. This isn't going to end well. Even the World Bank has questions about it, "The Bank implicitly questions whether it is wise to divert half of the world's increased output of maize and wheat over the next decade into biofuels to meet government “mandates". It will be another decade before the stalks and other inedible parts of plants can be used in bulk."
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Apparently the book is so embarrassing, the Pentagon doesn't want anyone to read it. Does anyone think this is going to work? Anyone?
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Chronicle of the rise of Foxconn, China’s billion-dollar tech company, and the suicides that brought it down
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Top one percent now captures 18 percent of the national income, with no more skills than workers beneath them.
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