Review: Surviving the Toxic Workplace–Protect Yourself Against Coworkers, Bosses, and Work Environments That Poison Your Day

Worst Case Stories, Depressing, But Relevant, May 6, 2010 Linda Durre Disclosure: the publisher sent me this book after asking for permission to do so, and I agreed to read and review the book. Then I got a job that took me overseas and I am just now catching up with my commitment on this …

Review: Corruption and Anti-Corruption–An Applied Philosophical Approach

Beyond Six Stars: Superb Foundation Work–Should Be Translated, May 5, 2010 Seumas Miller, Peter Roberts, Edward Spence Corruption is the pervasive, pernicious, pathological, preemptory, and predatory commonality within the ten high level threats to humanity as identified by the United Nations High-Level Threat Panel and published in 2004 in A More Secure World: Our Shared …

Court Decision (NOT Congress Oversight) Declared NSA Warrantless Wiretapping Illegal

Court document: Alharamain versus National Security Administration (From Secrecy News) WARRANTLESS SURVEILLANCE OF CHARITY RULED UNLAWFUL Warrantless surveillance of an Islamic charity in Oregon in 2004 violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a court ruled (pdf) on March 31. In the culmination of a four-year lawsuit, Judge Vaughn Walker of the Northern District of …

Journal: OUT OF CONTROL–The Demise of Responsible Government “Intelligence” III

Message from sender: I am sure they do see a threat. If the Pentagon were not engaged in such a broad spectrum of illegal and corrupt practices wikileaks would not be seen as such a threat. Phi Beta Iota: We ran this story earlier, but now that the New York Times is running it, it …