Pius XII Memorial Library Government Documents

Homeland Security is concerned about an upcoming threat to national security — winter.  Add a new color to the rainbow-schemed Security Advisory System -WHITE.  Read all about it at “Ready America“.  This and many other chilling publications are available to authorized subscribers to the Homeland Security Digital Library. My personal favorite is from the arctic [...]

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Web 2.0 has taken hold at Whitehouse.gov as the web site moves to reliance on Drupal (?) open source code for the underpinnings.

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Considering the 1000+ page  length of the America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009 and America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 bills currently being considered by Congress it is interesting that the Executive branch is now spinning an Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder explanation…
From Whitehouse.gov
Got four minutes? Watch a quick video that sums up [...]

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Dan Brown’s latest blockbuster, The Lost Symbol, drones on for 528 pages but has nothing on one of the latest incarnations from the US Weapons Lab at Los Alamos, MaRIE, (Matter-Radiation Interactions in Extremes).

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An Internet blackout may be the news that ends the annual August news lull (forces the reporters back to work from vacation). A report by Homeland Security implies that the “internets” are at risk…  Summary here at the Financial Times.

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So much about the bureaucracy that I will never understand — here is a little gem from FedBizOpps.gov:
Under the authority of FAR 6.302 1, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) intends to award purchase orders to Professor Frank E. Vecchio, Dr. Gene Corley, Professor Jerome F. Hajjar, and Professor James Jirsa to allow them to [...]

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OK, so we have a bit of ugly “discourse” taking place over America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 which has probably been read only by those that wrote it.  In the spirt of public service you can download the full 1017 triple spaced pages PDF here. Congressional Research Service summary follows:

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Mercury contamination is getting attention from the USGS. This is a problem in lakes and in oceans.

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The Unclassified Report on the President’s Surveillance Program has been released — let the investigations begin.  And if there is an aspiring director out there who wants to produce the next “All the President’s Men” here is the contact at the CIA –the Entertainment Industry Liaison.

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Oh to be a fly on the wall  during presidential meetings — looks like the wish has come true to the tune of 154 hours of Nixon banter. Recorded during 1973 these new tapes augment the more than 2300 hours previously released.  In total (according to the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, the National Archives, and nixontapes.org) [...]

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