Archive for December, 2009

  • Innovation: The sinister powers of crowdsourcing – New Scientist

    Innovation: The sinister powers of crowdsourcing – New Scientist

    When an ad hoc team of 5000 people who assembled in just two hours found 10 weather balloons hidden across the US by the Pentagon's research agency earlier this month, it was just another demonstration of the power of crowdsourcing – solving a task by...

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  • Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009 | Project Censored

    Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009 | Project Censored

    # 1 Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation # 2 Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA # 3 InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business # 4 ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America? # 5 Seizing War Protesters’ Assets #...

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  • America’s Secret ICE Castles

    America’s Secret ICE Castles

    "If you don't have enough evidence to charge someone criminally but you think he's illegal, we can make him disappear." Those chilling words were spoken by James Pendergraph, then executive director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Office of State and Local Coordination, at a...

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