US Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights, By Peter Phillips, Lew Brown and Bridget Thornton. “A Study of the History of US Intelligence Community Human Rights Violations and Continuing Research in Electromagnetic Weapons” Completed December 2006, Sonoma State University, Project Censored, Media Freedom Foundation.
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Daily Archives: January 8, 2007
Feingold and Obama Introduce the Lobbying and Ethics Reform Act
Press release: “U.S. Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Barack Obama (D-IL) have introduced legislation that would implement extensive changes to lobbying and ethics rules in Congress. The Feingold-Obama bill improves substantially on S. 2349, the lobbying disclosure and ethics bill that the Senate passed in March 2006 and that the Senate will begin considering today.… Continue Reading
Report on the Legislative and Oversight Activities of the Committee on Ways and Means during the 109th Congress
Report on the Legislative and Oversight Activities of the Committee on Ways and Means during the 109th Congress, December 22, 2006 (193 pages, PDF). Continue Reading
Energy DOE IG Report on Certification and Classification of Unclassified Info
DOE/IG Audit Report 0752, Certification and Accreditation of Unclassified Information Systems, January 2007. Continue Reading
Protecting Civil Rights: A Leadership Guide for State, Local, and Tribal Law Enforcement
Protecting Civil Rights: A Leadership Guide for State, Local, and Tribal Law Enforcement: “With funding from and collaboration with the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), a component of the US Department of Justice, IACP produced this guide as a comprehensive overview of the civil rights issues and challenges that face todays law enforcement… Continue Reading
DOJ OIG Report on Cooperation of SCAAP Recipients in Removal of Criminal Aliens from U.S.
Office of Justice Programs, Cooperation of SCAAP [State Criminal Alien Assistance Program] Recipients in the Removal of Criminal Aliens from the United States, Audit Report, January 7, 2007 (Redacted public version, 109 pages, PDF). Continue Reading
Trends in Manufacturer Prices of Prescription Drugs Used by Older Americans
AARP Public Policy Institute reports, January 2007 Brand Name Prescription Drugs, Updated 1/07 Third Quarter 2006 Update (Publication ID: DD151), January 2007 (PDF, 14 pages) Updated 1/07 Third Quarter 2006 Update (Publication ID: DD152), January 2007 (PDF, 3 pages) Continue Reading
A Look Back at the Net in 1995
WSJ free feature: Revisiting the Early Net – A Slate of Predictions Made for 1995 Reveal What Has and Hasn’t Changed Continue Reading
Pew Survey: Social Networking Websites and Teens
Press release: “More than half (55%) of all of online American youths ages 12-17 use online social networking sites, according to a new national survey of teenagers conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.” Social Networking Websites and Teens, January 7, 2007 (10 pages, PDF) Continue Reading
Historical Effective Federal Tax Rates: 1979 to 2004
Congressional Budget Office, Historical Effective Federal Tax Rates: 1979 to 2004, December 2006. Continue Reading
New Publication Tracks State Legislation on Courts in Seven Key Areas
“National Center for State Courts’ Gavel to Gavel will help identify trends in legislative activity as it relates to the courts in seven broad areas…” Volume 1, Issue 1 (January 4, 2007) Continue Reading
Collection of Recently Released CRS Reports
12/20/06 U.S. Army and Marine Corps Equipment Requirements: Background and Issues for Congress 12/15/06 Incapacity of a Member of the Senate 12/15/06 U.S. Arms Sales: Agreements with and Deliveries to Major Clients, 1998-2005 12/12/06 The WTO, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Access to Medicines Controversy Continue Reading
