Vietnam Histories: “This release consists of six declassified histories volumes and describes the CIA’s role in Indochina during the Vietnam War. These histories written by Thomas L. Ahern, Jr., are based on extensive research in CIA records and on oral history interviews of participants. The release totals some 1,600 pages and represents the largest amount of Vietnam-era CIA documents yet declassified.”
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Daily Archives: March 15, 2009
Sunshine Week 2009 Survey Of State Government Information Online
News release: “The Sunshine Week 2009 Survey of State Government Information online found that while more and more government records are being posted online, some of the most important information is being left offline. And in some cases governments are charging taxpayers to access records that they already paid for, such as death certificates.” Information… Continue Reading
Gov Docs Open Source Advocate Seeks Job As Public Printer
Columbia Journalism Review: In just the last two years, Malamud, as the sole staffer of Public.Resource.Org, a 501c3 nonprofit based in Sebastopol, California, has posted over 80 million pages of legal documents on his Web site, many of them federal appeals court decisions. Hes also freed from private control the only remaining copy of a… Continue Reading
Responding to a Historic Economic Crisis: The Obama Program
On March 13, 2009 the Brookings Institution hosted Lawrence Summers, Director of the White House National Economic Council, for a discussion of the Obama administrations economic program and the prospects for the American economy. “Transcript Larry Summers: Our single most important priority is bringing about economic recovery and ensuring that the next economic expansion, unlike… Continue Reading
Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2008
“The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) is the independent and quasi-judicial control organ monitoring the implementation of the United Nations drug control conventions.” Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2008: “The historical development of international drug control is viewed through the lens of an increasingly globalized world, over a century that has seen… Continue Reading
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry: Problems in the Past, Potential for the Future?
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR): Problems in the Past, Potential for the Future? Report by the Majority Staff of the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives to Subcommittee Chairman Brad Miller, March 10, 2009 “Last April the Subcommittee on Investigations and… Continue Reading
Nuclear Loan Guarantees Another Taxpayer Bailout Ahead?
Nuclear Loan Guarantees Another Taxpayer Bailout Ahead?, March 2009. Advocates of nuclear power are now promoting a nuclear renaissance based on claims that a new generation of reactors will produce relatively cheap electricity while solving threats posed by global climate change. The industry has proposed building almost 30 new nuclear reactors, with some calling for… Continue Reading
U.S. G-20 Fact Sheet , Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors' Communiqué
US Fact Sheet in Advance of G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting March 11, 2009, Economic Recovery and Financial Reform: “The G-20 countries together must take aggressive action on two fronts first, to ensure economic recovery and restart global growth, and second to reform supervisory and regulatory framework to prevent economic crises… Continue Reading
Human Health Implications of Non-Therapeutic Antibiotic Use in Animal Agriculture
An HSUS Report: Human Health Implications of Non-Therapeutic Antibiotic Use in Animal Agriculture “In 1951, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the addition of penicillin and tetracycline to chicken feed as growth promoters, encouraging pharmaceutical companies to mass-produce antibiotics for animal agriculture. By the 1970s, nearly 100% of all birds commercially raised for… Continue Reading
Graphical Database Tracks Bailout Funds to Specific Banks
Nicolas Rapp, Art Director for the multimedia and graphic department at AP, posted a link to one of his many outstanding infographics of special value to financial researchers. As noted on his site, since November 2008 he has been tracking the financial sector bailout, and the resulting infographic, [Flash application developed by Sean McDade], is… Continue Reading
List Of Expiring Federal Tax Provisions 2008-2020
Joint Committee on Taxation: JCX-20-09 (March 09, 2009) List Of Expiring Federal Tax Provisions 2008-2020 Continue Reading
