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Daily Archives: July 29, 2008
FTC Report Sheds New Light on Food Marketing to Children and Adolescents
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission today announced the results of a study on food marketing to children and adolescents. The report, Marketing Food to Children and Adolescents: A Review of Industry Expenditures, Activities, and Self-Regulation [see also Appendices A-F], finds that 44 major food and beverage marketers spent $1.6 billion to promote their products… Continue Reading
NASA and Internet Archive Launch Historical Online Library of Images, Video, Audio
NASA Images is a service of Internet Archive, a non-profit library, to offer public access to NASA’s images, videos and audio collections. NASA Images is constantly growing with the addition of current media from NASA as well as newly digitized media from the archives of the NASA Centers. The goal of NASA Images is to… Continue Reading
HUD's Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress
Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Community Planning and Development – The Third Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress, July 29, 2008 (144 pages, PDF) “…on a single night in January 2007, there were 671,888 sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons nationwide. At this point in time, nearly two-thirds of the nations homeless population… Continue Reading
Alaska Senator Ted Stevens Indicted In Probe of Corruption
DOJ press release: “United States Senator Theodore F. Stevens of Alaska was charged today in an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia with seven counts of making false statements related to Stevens financial disclosure forms, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division announced. The seven-count indictment… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: DOD Financial Management, Human Rights, Medicare Part D, Bankruptcy Reform
DOD Financial Management: Adjudication of Butterbaugh Claims for the Restoration of Annual Leave or Pay, GAO-08-948R, July 28, 2008 Financial Management: DOD’s Ability to Prevent, Identify, Investigate, and Report on Antideficiency Act Violations, GAO-08-941R, July 28, 2008 Human Rights: U.S. Government’s Efforts to Address Alleged Abuse of Household Workers by Foreign Diplomats with Immunity Could… Continue Reading
Combating Terrorism Center at West Point Report on al-Qa'ida
Bombers, Bank Accounts, and Bleedout: al-Qa’ida’s Road in and Out of Iraq, July 22, 2008 (126 pages. PDF): “The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point (CTC) launched the Harmony Project in order to release and analyze documents from the Department of Defenses classified Harmony Datbase. The Harmony Project unearths and releases documents that reveal the… Continue Reading
The Seoul Declaration for the Future of the Internet Economy
OECD Ministerial Meeting — The Future of the Internet Economy, Seoul, Korea, 17-18 June 2008. Shaping Policies for Creativity, Confidence and Convergence in the Digital World The Seoul Declaration for the Future of the Internet Economy Chair’s Summary Shaping policies for the future of the Internet economy Shaping policies for the future of the Internet… Continue Reading
OMB: FSIO issues framework for financial management practices
“The Financial Systems Integration Office within the General Services Administration released the Federal Financial Management Standard Business Processes [Word doc.], which establishes the framework for standardizing, consolidating, and optimizing financial accounting practices across government to improve the cost, quality and performance of financial management operations.” Continue Reading
Ensuring Security In An Unpredictable World: The Urgent Need For National Security Reform
News release: “The national security system created by the U.S. government in 1947 that served the nation throughout the Cold War is outdated and needs a massive restructuring to better protect the American people from terrorism, rogue states and other 21st century dangers, according to a study issued today by the Project on National Security… Continue Reading
Intelligence reform at the Dept. of Energy: Policy issues and organizational alternatives
News release: “The Committee on Energy and Commerce…released a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report that shows the Department of Energys (DOE) efforts to consolidate and streamline its counterintelligence program may be veering off course, potentially jeopardizing its ability to protect some of the country’s most sensitive national security secrets from foreign intelligence services.” CRS Report,… Continue Reading
