The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Medical Records: Stored in the Cloud, Sold on the Open Market Kim Zetter October 19, 2009 When patients visit a physician or hospital, they know that anyone involved in providing their health care can lawfully see their medical records. But unknown to patients, an increasing number of outside vendors that manage electronic health records also …
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Hot Topics AA: Shariah Asia Spread Appeases Islamists, Risks Rights 10/15/09 AU: Australia admits to fatal shooting in Afghanistan 10/13/09 BD: Bangladesh Hires US Law Firm in Bay of Bengal Dispute 10/14/09 CN: Big Gains by Yuan Could Destabilize China, ADB Economist Says 10/16/09 ID: Indonesian Military Misses Its Deadline 10/16/09 ID: Rudd seeks Jakarta’s …
Phi Beta Iota: In the interest of the public’s appreciation for the current situation, below are three graphics illustrating the current political situation and issue-bias spread; followed by a list of books with one point: We the People are ready to take our country back from Wall Street and the craven Demopublicans that have sold …
For the last hundred years, rightsholders have fretted about everything from the player piano to the VCR to digital TV to Napster. Here are those objections, in Big Content’s own words. By Nate Anderson | Last updated October 11, 2009 10:00 PM CT It’s almost a truism in the tech world that copyright owners reflexively …
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Important Essays, Left Me Blase October 13, 2009 Thomas Pogge and Keith Horton, Editors The three best things I can say about this volume: 1) A heroic work that carefully selected important essays on global ethics from the past 40 years (the book itself, Australian in origin, is published for the first time in 2008). …
Erudition Demanding Concentration–Need Lay Chapter or Pamphlet October 12, 2009 Paul A. Rahe This is an extraordinary book offering a very detailed and superbly integrated examination of the consistencies and differences among Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Tocqueville, both to illuminate precisely what was in the Founding Father’s minds when they sought to create a Republic of, …
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