MetaFilter posts tagged with blackmarket

Kava Abuse in Australian Aboriginal Communities

jason's_planet — Tue, 01 May 2007 12:24:28 -0800

"Troy is only 8, but he knows the words to Yanguna, an Arnhem Land song celebrating kava. He sings in tune with Saltwater Band's anthem to the drug as the car bumps along the dirt track. Kava came to Arnhem Land 20 years ago as a ray of hope. Aboriginal community leaders believed the calming drink from the Pacific could be a peaceful alternative to alcohol, then raging through Aboriginal communities like a cyclone. But kava became just another abused substance.”

Io schiavo in Puglia. I was a slave in Puglia.

Mo Nickels — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:57:34 -0800

I was a slave in Puglia. A long first-person exposé, in English, about immigrant slave labor in Italy, from Fabrizio Gatti writing in the Italian newspaper L'Espresso. "I can hire you. Tomorrow," he promises. "Do you have a girl friend?" "A girlfriend?" "You have to bring me a woman. For the boss. If you bring him one, he'll put you to work right away. Any girl will do." He points to a twenty year-old woman and her companion, working on the conveyor belt of a huge tractor that is being used to gather tomatoes. "Those two are Romanians, just like you. She slept with the boss." "But I'm alone." "No work for you then." Photo galleries. Italian version (includes additional sidebars not found in the English version, including local and government reaction to the exposé and more photo galleries under the sidebar "Reportage Fotografico.")

the antiquities blackmarket

raaka — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 03:53:57 -0800

With the apparent theft of ancient maps from Yale and the Getty admitting to displaying stolen antiquities from Italy, what does the blackmarket antiquities trade look like?

Transdniester

srboisvert — Sun, 07 Dec 2003 07:40:29 -0800

Transdniester. The unrecognized Moldovian breakaway republic is your one stop shopping solution for black market arms.

The Gun Industry Exposed

lilboo — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 08:47:24 -0800

The Gun Industry Sins Exposed? (nyt - registration required)

But Mr. Ricker, who has been working for more than two decades in the gun industry, including a stint as a lawyer for the N.R.A., said the gun makers had long known that "the diversion of firearms from legal channels of commerce to the black market" takes place "principally at the distributor/dealer level."
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bondcliff — Tue, 02 Jan 2001 06:58:17 -0800

Finally, a product that Amazon.com doesn't sell. Now that the holiday season is over, it's time to start saving for next year's gifts. Just the thing for the couple that has almost everything.