Midweek link dump

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• Bob Herbert of the New York Times reports that China has become the world's leading producer of sustainable energy generation technology.
• Amnesty International suspended long-time activist Gita Sahgal for questioning Amnesty's promotion of Taliban supporters as "human rights activists".
• Saudi Arabia sentenced a man to five years in jail and a thousand lashes for discussing sex outside of marriage on a television program.
• Iowa manga collector Chris Handley was sentenced to six months of jail for owning pornographic comic books.
• The BNP's attempts to mainstream itself are still in epic fail mode.
• Nate Anderson at Ars Technica writes about the broad copyright claims made by U.S. sports leagues.
• Victor Davis Hanson digs up Vice President Joseph Biden's wobbly record on the Iraq war.
• The auction website E-Bay has banned the selling of the pro-marijuana magazine High Times.
• A "Progressive" newspaper in Atlanta fired reporter Jonathan Springston for believing in "the notion that there was an objective reality that could be reported objectively".
• Dale Wexler of the Associated Press credits North Dakota's relatively strong economy to the presence of the state-controlled Bank of North Dakota, an old Socialist project from the 1910s.