The Group of Thirty has recently published a 249-page- US$95 report entitled The Structure of Financial Supervision: Approach and Challenges in a Global Marketplace. This report discusses supervision principles, instability, rescues, and independence. The report started in July, 2007 with a 17-jurisdiction review of financial regulations, saying “Today, those issues are even more salient and important for national and international financial supervisors and policymakers as they seek to restore financial stability…We hope it will contribute to the international dialogue on the key matter of supervisory architecture.” See also, The Geithner-Zhou Connection.
National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends 2025 Report U.S. economic and political clout will decline over the next two decades and the world will be more dangerous, with food and water scarce and advanced weapons plentiful, U.S. spy agencies projected. The National Intelligence Council analysis "Global Trends 2025" also said the current financial crisis on Wall Street is just the first phase of a global economic reordering..
Status of Forces Agreement - SOFA This is an unofficial translation from the Arabic of the agreement between Iraq and the United States for the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq.
THE ANTI-BANK DEMOCRAT - By an Association of Democrats of Dutchess County - 1842 Oh, for the good ol' days, when democrats had principles.
Atmospheric brown clouds stretch from Dubai to Shanghai, intensifying global warming, reduce crop yields by blocking sunlight,and contribute to extreme weather that also hurts agriculture. The polluted clouds come from burning fossil fuels.
U.S. National Intelligence Estimate - Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Abilities This is the document that you are not meant to see. The Bushies and "anonymous senior officials" vowed that the NIE would not be allowed to enter the national debate on this issue and that they would ignore it and go on insisting that Iran has a weapons program.
Towards a New Blast Zone: Washington D.C.'s next-generation hunting forest. You do want to live outside the blast zone, don't you?
World Bank Unprecedented Crisis Email 07/22/08. This is the original internal email, which notifies World Bank staff of the security failure within the World Bank's computer systems.
Comptroller of the Currency Quarterly Report of bank trading and derivative activities. If you want to see why JP Morgan is next to go down, read this.
Building a North American Community published by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The CFR report connects the dots between the Bush administration's actual policy on illegal immigration and the drive to create the North American Union.
The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists Most counterterrorism policies fail, not because of tactical problems, but because of a fundamental misunderstanding of what motivates terrorists in the first place. If we're ever going to defeat terrorism, we need to understand what drives people to become terrorists in the first place.
Investigation and Prosecution of Illegal Money Laundering: A Guide to the Bank Secrecy Act Written and published by the Criminal Division of the Justice Department, this is the apparently identical version published by the IRS for its staff. IRS and Justice have long since stopped voluntarily releasing publications that reveal their tactics and inner workings.
Strategic Trends A view of the future, as seen by the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Center, of the UK Ministry of Defense
US Treasury Strategic Directions 2009 through 2011 (July,2008) from the Office of Intelligence and Analysis
Broken Laws Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel and Its Impact
No Defense: Soldier Violence Against Palestinian Detainees
Mc Cain POW Interview by a Cuban psychiatrist, in Hanoi, 1970 (translated from Spanish)
Songbird John McCain 'Sang Like a Canary' to the North Vietnamese -Material Supplied by Colonel Ted Guy, John McCain's SRO at the POW prison
Nicolas Sarkozy - CIA agent at the presidency of the French Republic
Russia's 2020 Strategic Economic Goals
A Resolute Strategy On Georgia
Safety of collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), near Geneva
US State Department Telephone Directory - Give Condi a call !
Requisite documents for renouncing US citizenship - Vote with your feet.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights The UN General Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and "to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories." It is the most translated document on earth and is the standard of rights due to each citizen of the world, though it is largely unknown in the USA, where people are losing their 'civil' rights.
Records of the Rosenberg Grand Jury Transcripts Contains the voices of an earlier American age emerged fresh and harsh in more than 900 pages of secret grand-jury testimony from the defining espionage case of the Cold War.
Closing Guantanamo From Bumper Sticker to Blueprint
Deep Events and the CIA's Global Drug Connection
Global Water Futures A roadmap for future policy
The Rising Intensity of Conflict 2001 - 2007
The "Future Group" set up by the Council of the European Union include a range of highly controversial measures including new technologies of surveillance, enhanced cooperation with the United States and harnessing the "digital tsunami". In the words of the EU Council presidency: "Every object the individual uses, every transaction they make and almost everywhere they go will create a detailed digital record. This will generate a wealth of information for public security organisations, and create huge opportunities for more effective and productive public security efforts."
The Transparency International CPI measures the perceived levels of public-sector corruption in a given country and is a composite index, drawing on different expert and business surveys. The 2008 CPI scores 180 countries (the same number as the 2007 CPI) on a scale from zero (highly corrupt) to ten (highly clean).
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