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News release: “Three consumer protection organizations on Thursday filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), demanding the commission investigate growing privacy threats in the Wild West online. The U.S. Public Interest Research Group, the Center for Digital Democracy and the World Privacy Forum challenged the commission to investigate the growing privacy threats to …
The Nuclear Vault: Resources from the National Security Archive’s Nuclear Weapons Documentation Project How Much is Enough? Part II “Prague Treaty Cuts Are Modest, Real” Old Cold War Proposals Went Even Lower, Thomas Blanton and William Burr, editors, April 8, 2010: “he new START Treaty signed today in Prague represents “real” but “modest” cuts in …
All-Terrain Vehicles: How They Are Used, Crashes, and Sales of Adult-Sized Vehicles for Children’s Use, GAO-10-418, April 08, 2010 American Samoa and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: Wages, Employment, Employer Actions, Earnings, and Worker Views Since Minimum Wage Increases Began, GAO-10-333, April 08, 2010 Nuclear Weapons: Actions Needed to Address Scientific and Technical Challenges …
New York Times: “Nancy Paterson, an international war crimes prosecutor who played a leading role in building the case linking the former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic to massacres, mass rape and ethnic cleansing in the Balkans in the 1990s, died on March 27 at her home in Bethesda, Md. She was 56.”
It’s official: Twitter isn’t Government Paperwork, by Heather West, April 7, 2010 – “As part of the 120 day deadlines in the Open Government Directive, OMB just released several sets of guidance for agencies in how they use new tools like social media or wikis. Currently, there’s a burdensome process for agencies who want to …
The future of public debt: prospects and implications, by Stephen Cecchetti, Madhusudan Mohanty and Fabrizio Zampolli, Working Papers No 300, March 2010 “Since the start of the financial crisis, industrial country public debt levels have increased dramatically. And they are set to continue rising for the foreseeable future. A number of countries face the prospect …
