Deep Dives Research Challenge 7 | Wikileaks Archive | Winners Announced (42 SBD!)
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DD7 Official entrants
@geke
@krnel
@bifilarcoil
@gregorypatrick
@palikari123
Unofficial entrants
Syrian Supposed Civil War Oil and Gas Senators
By @shepz1
The Role of Psyops in Unconventional Warfare – The Case of Syria
By @v4vapid
Winners
First Place (21 SBD)
The Story Behind Tamiflu
By @geke
By stoking fear throughout the general public of a possible Avian and Swine Flu epidemics and through heavy lobbying by star Roche representative Evan Morris, the US government agreed to stockpile $1 billion worth of Tamiflu.
The larger goal was to spur the public to demand the type of federal government response that would include massive stockpiles of the drug.
Second Place (13 SBD)
Plans to Destabilize and Topple Syrian Government Began As Early As 2006
by @krnel
The aim is not to keep them safe, but to keep the foreign policy and economic interests of the U.S. safe.
…
Undermine the Syrian government was the goal, and Roebuck had a plan on how to do it. The main points were about "the conflict between economic reform steps (however limited) and entrenched, corrupt forces, the Kurdish question, and the potential threat to the regime from the increasing presence of transiting Islamist extremists."
Third Place (8 SBD)
Exit Festival
by @palikari123
it also explains how the main driving force of opposition was achieved through external forces, using local and grass roots efforts to obscure the external influences of material and economic support.
Fascinating piece, and keep up the wonderful work!
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Honored and excited! Thank you very much! I didn't catch all the entries, so I'm off to do that now. 😃
Congrats @geke and everyone on another excellent edition of deep dives. Great research as usual from all involved!
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Thanks buddy - congrats to you, too!
I totally agree, this was a great round and all of the entries were very well done. We have a small but very talented group of researchers here. Really happy with the quality of output. Cheers everyone :)
Thank you! Yes the quality is great and improving all the time. Now we just need a nudge in the numbers department and things will only improve further👍
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Congrats on winning this one!!
congrats!
All great articles! I hope we see more people writing DeepDives.
I think it will only grow soon.
I see people willing to write yet they don't, and that's odd ob a platform where everyone is writing. :-)
There is a very simple explanation for it...No matter how much we want to sugar coat it, a lot of people are unwilling to write on these topics, because they either think it's bullshit or they don't want to be associated with, or be branded as a conspiracy theorist from their own friends or relatives. They will gladly comment or read the material, but once you need to put your name to something, it's an entirely different proposal. 😉
but they have good intentions.
https://staging.busy.org/@bifilarcoil/message-from-banksy
I have an idea to fix that, I have to run past v4vapid today, one that may make this explode with information.
i had an idea in that direction as well. :-)
Congratulations to the winners, this is getting better every time, and also thank you kindly for the mention, most appreciated.
Great work all involved.
Awesome! Congrats to the winners. I've read the top 2 winners, I will go ahead and read the 3rd. Keep it up.
Wikileaks has so much information. How frequently do you run Wikileaks deep dives? Are you planning any "Local Employment Tribunal Records" deep dive?
Around every 3 weeks or so.
Congratulations to all the featured authors of @deepdives research challenge.
Congratulations to the winners. Getting article worthy info is a lot harder than I thought
I've realized that as well. I did a bunch of browsing their archives but was unsuccessful at coming up with something worth writing for.
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