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Timeline: Chemical weapons attacks | www.ajc.com - 0 views

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In Defense of Django | Mother Jones - 0 views

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    Is Django historically accurate?  This is an insightful film review.
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TEDxAtlanta - Harrison Dillon - Resolving Food and Oil at Scale - YouTube - 0 views

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    "http://youtu.be/Fj8ZkoL-_wA"  Solazyme--one of the solutions to oil; oil from algae: flexible, scalable, affordable. . . 
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How to Read in 2013 - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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As Coal Boosts Mozambique, The Rural Poor Are Left Behind - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Relates to Story of Stuff where Annie Leonard says "According to companies setting up shop in the third world, the locals "don't own these resources even if they've been living there for generations, they don't oven the means of production and they're not buying a lot of stuff.  And in this system, if you don't own or buy a lot of stuff, dou don't have value."
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Military spending: how much does the military cost each country, listed | News | guardi... - 0 views

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    Comparative military spending; you can reorganize data to rank by $; % of GDP, etc.  
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    Edward Said on the Clash of Civilizations debate.  
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In Sweden, Immigration Policies Begin to Rankle - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • who say that immigrants are not only failing to pay their way, but that they also are refusing to learn the ways of their host country.
  • “They do not respect Swedish people,” Mrs. Nilsson said. “As long as they learn the language and behave like Swedes, they are welcome. But they do not. Immigration as it is now needs to stop.”
  • They scoff at the notion that Swedes are somehow special — less racist and xenophobic than other Europeans. They believe the country has been generous with financial support, but little else.
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  • Sweden’s liberal policies have become costly. In the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, Sweden, which had more manufacturing jobs than citizens to fill them, invited immigrants in
  • In some of those apartment blocks, the unemployment rate among immigrants stands at 80 percent.
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