Monthly Archives: August 2005

banksy.co.uk/manifesto/

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.banksy.co.uk/manifesto/ An extract from the diary of Lieutenant Colonel Mervin Willett Gonin DSO who was among the first British soldiers to liberate Bergen-Belsen in 1945. Camp I can give no adequate description of the Horror Camp … Continue reading

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Cambodia – Facts on Trafficking and Prostitution

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/cambodia.htm From the page: “Virgins, who have been sold to brothels by trafficking agents, are confined to the brothel or a hotel room until the first client comes. Due to the belief that sex with a … Continue reading

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Sex Traffic (2004) (TV)

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419365/ From the page: “It’s easy to understand why someone who is starving and homeless might risk everything in search of a better life abroad. But there are countries in which, although they are poorer than … Continue reading

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Facts on Trafficking and Prostitution

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/factbook.htm From the page: “The Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation was compiled from media, non-governmental organization and government reports. It is an initial effort to collect facts, statistics and known cases on global sexual exploitation. Information … Continue reading

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Mandragora (1997)

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119608/ From the page: “The Black World of Self-Destruction, 4 January 2005 Author: thinker1691 from USA Wiktor Grodecki’s masterful film entitled “Mandragora” is by any standard, a stirring and gut wrenching example of poverty gone amok. … Continue reading

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Stolen Youth: Child Prostitution Plagues German-Czech Border | Germany | De

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1016270,00.html From the page: “The United Nations children’s agency says child prostitution is rising across the German border in the Czech Republic. Even children under the age of six are sold to German sex tourists. The … Continue reading

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Cyberspace Links

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/social/cyber.html From the page: “(Sociology of) Cyberspace Links” Roll up roll up, GASP! at the semiotic man, CRINGE! at the trangenderal narratives, MOO! at the ermm MOO….

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CALResCos Introduction to Complex Systems

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.calresco.org/intro.htm From the page: “A Complex System is any system which involves a number of elements, arranged in structure(s) which can exist on many scales. These go through processes of change that are not describable by … Continue reading

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Cybernetics, Systems Theory, and Complexity

Stumbleupon Review of : http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc/complexity.html From the page: “Cybernetics, Systems Theory and Complexity” A Marvellous Miscellany of links thereupon.

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Memetics

Stumbleupon Review of : http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MEMES.html From the page: “Meme: an information pattern, held in an individual’s memory, which is capable of being copied to another individual’s memory. Memetics: the theoretical and empirical science that studies the replication, spread and evolution … Continue reading

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