Justin Fung a.k.a. gershom's journal

Links of the Day, August 6

News

• Stimulus spending is patchy.
• Britain mourns its last surviving World War I veteran, Harry Patch, who died aged 111.
• Rupert Murdoch says the age of free news is ending.

Human trafficking

• New book "The Snakehead," by Patrick Raddan Keefe, delves into human trafficking in New York's Chinatown. Excerpted on NPR here.
• The Rio Grande Valley called the "front line" against human trafficking.

Green

• Greenpeace win a victory for virgin forests re tissue production.
• The climate bill (aka HR 2454, or the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009) will cost Americans about ... 23c per day.

Miscellaneous

• Psychologists reject gay 'therapy'.
• Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's book, due to come out in 2010, is going to be called "No Apology: The Case for American Greatness." My friends living outside the US love him already.
• David Bromwich looks at the character of Barack Obama.
• How Netflix does it.
• Twitter went down this morning ... *gasp* (Update: phew, it's back up and running.)

Related posts:

1. Links of the Day, August 4
2. Links of the Day, August 5
3. Oasis: Week 6
4. Practicum with Oasis; first thoughts
5. A little bit on human trafficking