Thursday, 24 November 2011

The effectiveness of anti-illicit-drug public-service announcements: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Factories don't burn down by themselves, they need help from others - learn to burn

Beyond 2012 - Evolving Perspectives On the Next Age

Wanted

Graffiti in Tahrir of wanted poster for CSF officer seen in video shooting the eyes of protesters and celebrating
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Intelligent move

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RT @LifelineProject : Packs containing life-saving drug Naloxone are being handed out to drug users leaving Perth Prison bit.ly/s9Gh4N

Billy Bragg on political songwriting

Prosecutors investigate link between Breivik and Polish chemicals dealer

Egypt protests: 'The wailing of sirens never stops'

The writer Mona Eltahwy, who has being released after being detained for 12 hours at the interior ministry, has claimed, in a series of tweets, that she was beaten and sexually assaulted by the central security forces (CSF).

5 or 6 surrounded me, groped and prodded my breasts, grabbed my genital area and I lost count how many hands tried to get into my trousers.
.@Sarahngb is coming to kindly take me to the hospital. Besides beating me, the dogs of CSF subjected me to the worst sexual assault ever
Another hour later I was free with apology from military intelligence for what CSF did. Took pics of my bruises and recorded statement 1/2

Eltahwy also said she was blindfolded for two hours and posted a picture of her swollen hand. She indicated that she intends to write about her ordeal.
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Thee Balancer - Reorder Reality (In Remembrance of Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson)

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Prison slaves

Once an isolationist communist state, over the last 20 years China has become the world's biggest exporter of consumer goods. But behind this apparent success story is a dark secret - millions of men and women locked up in prisons and forced into intensive manual labour.
China has the biggest penal colony in the world - a top secret network of more than 1,000 slave labour prisons and camps known collectively as "The Laogai". And the use of the inmates of these prisons - in what some experts call "state sponsored slavery" - has been credited with contributing to the country's economic boom.
In this episode, former inmates, many of whom were imprisoned for political or religious dissidence without trial, recount their daily struggles and suffering in the "dark and bitter" factories where sleep was a privilege.
Charles Lee spent three years imprisoned for religious dissidence. He says: "For a year they tried to brainwash me, trying to force me to give up my practice of Falun Gong. They figured me out ... so they changed their strategy to force me to feel like a criminal ... because, according to their theory, a prisoner should be reformed through labour .... So they forced me to do slave labour."
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Richer & Poorer

Deaf, Disabled Senior Citizen on Bicycle Deemed Threat by Police, Tased to Death

Michael Cebon on Ethical Jobs

Michael Cebon founded EthicalJobs.com.au to help people and organisations work towards ‘a more equitable, more just or more sustainable world’. He discusses the definition of an ‘ethical job’, the impact of the GFC on this trend, and the increasing trend to ethical career pathways across all demographic groups. “In the past 10 years people want more purpose and meaning,” says Michael Cebon. “The GFC was a wake-up call that money won’t always be there”.