The Montana Meth Project is a drug prevention project known for its graphic ads depicting life on meth. The ads have been very effective in droping the rate of meth use in the state of Montana.
However, a new ad has been deemed too graphic and will be taken down.
From Montana’s News Station:
You may have noticed [...]
May 9, 2008
In an interesting twist, US Border Patrol Agents are now setting up checkpoints at the US-Mexico border and are catching illegal migrants ON THEIR WAY OUT.
From the Los Angeles Times:
U.S. border authorities no longer apprehend illegal immigrants only as they enter the country. Now they’re catching them on the way out.
At random times near the [...]
May 9, 2008
The New Yorker published a great article this week on the human trafficking situation in Moldova.
From The Countertraffickers:
Even those in the group at highest risk—poor young women—tend to see trafficking as something that may happen to someone else, but not to them. In surveys, most Moldovans say that they don’t know anyone who’s been trafficked. [...]
May 8, 2008
The US city of Houston is confronting a flood of fake identity documents that are being sold to illegal immigrants.
From the Houston Chronicle:
Illegal immigrants fearful of being caught in stepped-up workplace raids are fueling a growing market in Houston for phony immigration and work documents.
The result, experts say, is a glut of false, altered and [...]
May 8, 2008
BBC News reports on how to make money in Zimbabwe when the country is facing inflation of 165,000 percent.
From BBC News:
The lack of international traders, the scarcity of foreign currency to import basic goods has opened up the markets to anyone with a calculator and the patience to ride the Zimbabwe dollar and its falling [...]
May 8, 2008
Determining the actual levels of P2P traffic on the Internet is proving to be quite difficult.
From Ryan Singel of Threat Level:
How much of the traffic on the internet is peer-to-peer file trading?
Everyone seems to agree it represents a lot of the traffic, but the truth is no one knows (with the possible exception of the [...]
May 7, 2008
Two new reports highlights the disparity between the arrests of blacks and whites for drug violations.
From the New York Times:
More than two decades after President Ronald Reagan escalated the war on drugs, arrests for drug sales or, more often, drug possession are still rising. And despite public debate and limited efforts to reduce them, large [...]
May 7, 2008
David Kravets over at Threat Level brings attention to the fact that the RIAA has not taken any actions action Harvard University. The post raises the questions of whether Harvard students simply do not illegally download as much as other university students, or is the RIAA hesitant to go after Harvard.
From Threat Level:
Harvard, however, seems [...]
May 7, 2008
In a first for a major music performer, rock band Nine Inch Nails is giving away their new album “Slip” for free on their website.
From the International Herald Tribune:
In a post on the band’s Web site, www.nin.com, the band’s leader, Trent Reznor, said, “Thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - [...]
May 6, 2008
A new law in Malaysia would force women who travel abroad to carry letters from parents or employers to prove that they are traveling for legitimate business and not working as “mules”.
From the AFP:
The proposal comes as 119 Malaysians, 90 per cent of whom are women, have been imprisoned worldwide on drug-related charges with the [...]
