Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Maryland Police: Non-Violent Activists Are 'Terrorists'

WOW! This article from Privacy Times is truely frightning!
Maryland Police: Non-Violent Activists Are 'Terrorists'

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Stormy Ray Cardholders' Foundation

MARIJUANA MYTHS

by Paul Hager, Chair, ICLU Drug Task Force

1. Marijuana causes brain damage.

The most celebrated study that claims to show brain damage is the rhesus monkey study of Dr. Robert Heath, done in the late 1970s. This study was reviewed by a distinguished panel of scientists sponsored by the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences. Their results were published under the title, Marijuana and Health in 1982. Heath's work was sharply criticized for its insufficient sample size (only four monkeys), its failure to control experimental bias, and the misidentification of normal monkey brain structure as "damaged". Actual studies of human populations of marijuana users have shown no evidence of brain damage. For example, two studies from 1977, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) showed no evidence of brain damage in heavy users of marijuana. That same year, the American Medical Association (AMA) officially came out in favor of decriminalizing marijuana. That's not the sort of thing you'd expect if the AMA thought marijuana damaged the brain.

2. Marijuana damages the reproductive system.

This claim is based chiefly on the work of Dr. Gabriel Nahas, who experimented with tissue (cells) isolated in petri dishes, and the work of researchers who dosed animals with near-lethal amounts of cannabinoids (i.e., the intoxicating part of marijuana). Nahas' generalizations from his petri dishes to human beings have been rejected by the scientific community as being invalid. In the case of the animal experiments, the animals that survived their ordeal returned to normal within 30 days of the end of the experiment. Studies of actual human populations have failed to demonstrate that marijuana adversely affects the reproductive system.

3. Marijuana is a "gateway" drug-it leads to hard drugs.

This is one of the more persistent myths. A real world example of what happens when marijuana is readily available can be found in Holland. The Dutch partially legalized marijuana in the 1970s. Since then, hard drug use-heroin and cocaine-have DECLINED substantially. If marijuana really were a gateway drug, one would have expected use of hard drugs to have gone up, not down. This apparent "negative gateway" effect has also been observed in the United States. Studies done in the early 1970s showed a negative correlation between use of marijuana and use of alcohol. A 1993 Rand Corporation study that compared drug use in states that had decriminalized marijuana versus those that had not, found that where marijuana was more available-the states that had decriminalized-hard drug abuse as measured by emergency room episodes decreased. In short, what science and actual experience tell us is that marijuana tends to substitute for the much more dangerous hard drugs like alcohol, cocaine, and heroin.

4. Marijuana suppresses the immune system.

Like the studies claiming to show damage to the reproductive system, this myth is based on studies where animals were given extremely high-in many cases, near-lethal-doses of cannabinoids. These results have never been duplicated in human beings. Interestingly, two studies done in 1978 and one done in 1988 showed that hashish and marijuana may have actually stimulated the immune system in the people studied.

5. Marijuana is much more dangerous than tobacco.

Smoked marijuana contains about the same amount of carcinogens as does an equivalent amount of tobacco. It should be remembered, however, that a heavy tobacco smoker consumes much more tobacco than a heavy marijuana smoker consumes marijuana. This is because smoked tobacco, with a 90% addiction rate, is the most addictive of all drugs while marijuana is less addictive than caffeine. Two other factors are important. The first is that paraphernalia laws directed against marijuana users make it difficult to smoke safely. These laws make water pipes and bongs, which filter some of the carcinogens out of the smoke, illegal and, hence, unavailable. The second is that, if marijuana were legal, it would be more economical to have cannabis drinks like bhang (a traditional drink in the Middle East) or tea which are totally non-carcinogenic. This is in stark contrast with "smokeless" tobacco products like snuff which can cause cancer of the mouth and throat. When all of these facts are taken together, it can be clearly seen that the reverse is true: marijuana is much SAFER than tobacco.

6. Legal marijuana would cause carnage on the highways.

Although marijuana, when used to intoxication, does impair performance in a manner similar to alcohol, actual studies of the effect of marijuana on the automobile accident rate suggest that it poses LESS of a hazard than alcohol. When a random sample of fatal accident victims was studied, it was initially found that marijuana was associated with RELATIVELY as many accidents as alcohol. In other words, the number of accident victims intoxicated on marijuana relative to the number of marijuana users in society gave a ratio similar to that for accident victims intoxicated on alcohol relative to the total number of alcohol users. However, a closer examination of the victims revealed that around 85% of the people intoxicated on marijuana WERE ALSO INTOXICATED ON ALCOHOL. For people only intoxicated on marijuana, the rate was much lower than for alcohol alone. This finding has been supported by other research using completely different methods. For example, an economic analysis of the effects of decriminalization on marijuana usage found that states that had reduced penalties for marijuana possession experienced a rise in marijuana use and a decline in alcohol use with the result that fatal highway accidents decreased. This would suggest that, far from causing "carnage", legal marijuana might actually save lives.

7. Marijuana "flattens" human brainwaves.

This is an out-and-out lie perpetrated by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. A few years ago, they ran a TV ad that purported to show, first, a normal human brainwave, and second, a flat brainwave from a 14-year-old "on marijuana". When researchers called up the TV networks to complain about this commercial, the Partnership had to pull it from the air. It seems that the Partnership faked the flat "marijuana brainwave". In reality, marijuana has the effect of slightly INCREASING alpha wave activity. Alpha waves are associated with meditative and relaxed states which are, in turn, often associated with human creativity.

8. Marijuana is more potent today than in the past.

This myth is the result of bad data. The researchers who made the claim of increased potency used as their baseline the THC content of marijuana seized by police in the early 1970s. Poor storage of this marijuana in un-air conditioned evidence rooms caused it to deteriorate and decline in potency before any chemical assay was performed. Contemporaneous, independent assays of unseized "street" marijuana from the early 1970s showed a potency equivalent to that of modern "street" marijuana. Actually, the most potent form of this drug that was generally available was sold legally in the 1920s and 1930s by the pharmaceutical company Smith-Klein under the name, "American Cannabis".

9. Marijuana impairs short-term memory.

This is true but misleading. Any impairment of short-term memory disappears when one is no longer under the influence of marijuana. Often, the short-term memory effect is paired with a reference to Dr. Heath's poor rhesus monkeys to imply that the condition is permanent.

10. Marijuana lingers in the body like DDT.

This is also true but misleading. Cannabinoids are fat soluble as are innumerable nutrients and, yes, some poisons like DDT. For example, the essential nutrient, Vitamin A, is fat soluble but one never hears people who favor marijuana prohibition making this comparison.

11. There are over a thousand chemicals in marijuana smoke.

Again, true but misleading. The 31 August 1990 issue of the magazine Science notes that of the over 800 volatile chemicals present in roasted COFFEE, only 21 have actually been tested on animals and 16 of these cause cancer in rodents. Yet, coffee remains legal and is generally considered fairly safe.

12. No one has ever died of a marijuana overdose.

This is true. It was put in to see if you are paying attention. Animal tests have revealed that extremely high doses of cannabinoids are needed to have lethal effect. This has led scientists to conclude that the ratio of the amount of cannabinoids necessary to get a person intoxicated (i.e., stoned) relative to the amount necessary to kill them is 1 to 40,000. In other words, to overdose, you would have to consume 40,000 times as much marijuana as you needed to get stoned. In contrast, the ratio for alcohol varies between 1 to 4 and 1 to 10. It is easy to see how upwards of 5000 people die from alcohol overdoses every year and no one EVER dies of marijuana overdoses.

WHAT IS THE ICLU DRUG TASK FORCE? The Indiana Civil Liberties Union (ICLU) Drug Task Force is involved in education and lobbying efforts directed toward reforming drug policy. Specifically, we support ACLU Policy Statement number 210 which calls for the legalization of marijuana. We also support an end to the drug war. In its place, we favor "harm reduction" strategies which treat drug abuse as what it is - a medical problem-rather than a criminal justice problem. The Drug Task Force also works to end urine and hair testing of workers by private industry. These kinds of tests violate worker privacy to no good purpose because they detect past use of certain drugs (mostly marijuana) while ignoring others (e.g., LSD) and cannot detect current impairment. In situations where public and worker safety is a legitimate concern, we advocate impairment testing devices which reliably detect degradation of performance without infringing upon worker privacy.

For more information about the activities of the Drug Task Force, call the ICLU at (317) 635-4059 or call Paul Hager at (812) 333-1384 or e-mail to hagerp@cs.indiana.edu on the InterNet.

SOURCES

* 1) Marijuana and Health, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, 1982. Note: the Committee on Substance Abuse and Habitual Behavior of the "Marijuana and Health" study had its part of the final report suppressed when it reviewed the evidence and recommended that possession of small amounts of marijuana should no longer be a crime (TIME magazine, July 19, 1982). The two JAMA studies are: Co, B.T., Goodwin, D.W., Gado, M., Mikhael, M., and Hill, S.Y.: "Absence of cerebral atrophy in chronic cannabis users", JAMA, 237:1229-1230, 1977; and, Kuehnle, J., Mendelson, J.H., Davis, K.R., and New, P.F.J.: "Computed tomographic examination of heavy marijuana smokers", JAMA, 237:1231-1232, 1977.

* 2) See Marijuana and Health, ibid., for information on this research. See also, Marijuana Reconsidered (1978) by Dr. Lester Grinspoon.

* 3) The Dutch experience is written up in "The Economics of Legalizing Drugs", by Richard J. Dennis, The Atlantic Monthly, Vol 266, No. 5, Nov 1990, p. 130. See "A Comparison of Marijuana Users and Non-users" by Norman Zinberg and Andrew Weil (1971) for the negative correlation between use of marijuana and use of alcohol. The 1993 Rand Corporation study is "The Effect of Marijuana Decriminalization on Hospital Emergency Room Episodes: 1975 - 1978" by Karyn E. Model.

* 4) See a review of studies and their methodology in "Marijuana and Immunity", Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, Vol 20(1), Jan-Mar 1988. Studies showing stimulation of the immune system: Kaklamani, et al., "Hashish smoking and T-lymphocytes", 1978; Kalofoutis et al., "The significance of lymphocyte lipid changes after smoking hashish", 1978. The 1988 study: Wallace, J.M., Tashkin, D.P., Oishi, J.S., Barbers, R.G., "Peripheral Blood Lymphocyte Subpopulations and Mitogen Responsiveness in Tobacco and Marijuana Smokers", 1988, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, ibid.

* 5) The 90% figure comes from Health Consequences of Smoking. * Nicotine Addiction, Surgeon General's Report, 1988. In Health magazine in an article entitled, "Hooked, Not Hooked" by Deborah Franklin (pp. 39-52), compares the addictives of various drugs and ranks marijuana below coffeine. For current information on cannabis drinks see Working Men and Ganja. * Marijuana Use in Rural Jamaica by M. C. Dreher, Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1982, ISBN 0-89727-025-8. For information on cannabis and actual cancer risk, see Marijuana and Health, ibid.

* 6) For a survey of studies relating to cannabis and highway accidents see "Marijuana, Driving and Accident Safety", by Dale Gieringer, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, ibid. The effect of decriminalization on highway accidents is analyzed in "Do Youths Substitute Alcohol and Marijuana? Some Econometric Evidence" by Frank J. Chaloupka and Adit Laixuthai, Nov. 1992, University of Illinois at Chicago.

* 7) For information about the Partnership ad, see Jack Herer's book, The Emperor Wears No Clothes, 1990, p. 74. See also "Hard Sell in the Drug War", The Nation, March 9, 1992, by Cynthia Cotts, which reveals that the Partnership receives a large percentage of its advertizing budget from alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical companies and is thus disposed toward exaggerating the risks of marijuana while downplaying the risks of legal drugs. For information on memory and the alpha brainwave enhancement effect, see "Marijuana, Memory, and Perception", by R. L. Dornbush, M.D., M. Fink, M.D., and A. M. Freedman, M.D., presented at the 124th annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, May 3-7, 1971.

* 8) See "Cannabis 1988, Old Drug New Dangers, The Potency Question" by Tod H Mikuriya, M.D. and Michael Aldrich, Ph.D., Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, ibid.

* 9) See Marijuana and Health, ibid. Also see "Marijuana, Memory, and Perception", ibid.

* 10) The fat solubility of cannabinoids and certain vitamins is well known. See Marijuana and Health, ibid. For some information on vitamin A, see "The A Team" in Scientific American, Vol 264, No. 2, February 1991, p. 16.

* 11) See "Too Many Rodent Carcinogens: Mitogenesis Increases Mutagenesis", Bruce N. Ames and Lois Swirsky Gold, Science, Vol 249, 31 August 1990, p. 971.

* 12) Cannabis and alcohol toxicity is compared in Marijuana Reconsidered, ibid., p. 227. Yearly alcohol overdoses was taken from "Drug Prohibition in the United States: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives" by Ethan A. Nadelmann, Science, Vol 245, 1 September 1989, p. 943.

Stormy Ray Cardholders' Foundation

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Murky Conceptual Waters: The Public and the Private

Murky Conceptual Waters: The Public and the Private: "Abstract: In discussions on the ethics of surveillance and consequently surveillance policy, the public/private distinction is often implicitly invoked as a way to structure the discussion and the arguments. In these discussions, the distinction ‘public’ and ‘private’ is often treated as a uni-dimensional, rigidly dichotomous and absolute, fixed and universal concept, whose meaning could be determined by the objective content of the behavior. Nevertheless , if we take a closer look at the distinction in diverse empirical contexts we find them to be more subtle, diffused and ambiguous than suggested. The paper identifies a number of distinct meanings of the concepts. It argues that the public and private be treated as multi-dimensional, continuous and relative, fluid and situational or contextual concepts, whose meaning lies in how they are interpreted and framed. Those using the terms public and private would benefit from more clearly specifying which dimensions they have in mind and how they relate."

Monday, July 6, 2009

Measuring Everything That Moves

Measuring Everything That Moves: "This sensitizing and exploratory article considers recent changes in work monitoring. More intensive and extensive monitoring of both work and the worker are part of broader social changes in the nature of surveillance. The monitoring practices and rationales of an ideal-typical company are described. The implications of current surveillance trends for social control and deviance at work are discussed. Among issues covered are increased deviance (or at least greater official labeling of it); drowning in the data; difficulty in finding workers who measure up to the standards; a potential conflict between transparency and innovation and risk-taking; machines vs. managers as interpreters of work monitoring data; worker resistance and implications for equity. The often unintended and ironic outcomes of inappropriate monitoring must be understood if we are to have a society which is both productive and just, and in which the story of Dr. Frankenstein remains just a story."

RIAA v. The People | Electronic Frontier Foundation

RIAA v. The People Electronic Frontier Foundation: "RIAA v. The People
On September 8, 2003, the recording industry sued 261 American music fans for sharing songs on peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks, kicking off an unprecedented legal campaign against its own customers. The recording industry has now filed, settled, or threatened legal actions against well over 28,000 individuals, and there is no end in sight. While the strategy of forcing ordinary music fans to pay thousands of dollars to avoid even bigger RIAA-member lawsuits is itself troubling, many innocent individuals are also being caught in the crossfire."

Tom I. Voire (Revised). By Prof. Gary T. Marx

Tom I. Voire (Revised). By Prof. Gary T. Marx: "Forget Big Brother and Big Corporation: What about the Personal Uses of Surveillance Technology as Seen in Cases Such as Tom I. Voire?"

File Sharing Lawsuits at a Crossroads, After 5 Years of RIAA Litigation | Threat Level | Wired.com

This article, now somewhat dated, redirects my attention back to this fundumental problem with the world today. Should we allow The Machine to own all knowledge and effectively control its transfer and trading as if it were money? Should we allow the corporations to put a price the worth of knowledge, or a price on knowledge use value or the cost of knowledge? It seems to me we are headed to a pretty scary world in which you are not allowed to share your mind for you don't own anything in it, and therefore have no legal right to share what's in there with anyone under penalty of law.
File Sharing Lawsuits at a Crossroads, After 5 Years of RIAA Litigation Threat Level Wired.com

Papers - united states civil affairs

Papers of the Civil Affairs Training School, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1930-1945, (Donated Materials Group) held in NARA's Great Lakes Region (Chicago, IL)
12 Boxes

Box 1, 13 folders
Notes on Censorship and Security, Headquarters Army Service Forces, November 18, 1944

"The Nature of Japanese Totalitarianism," Army Service Forces Office of the Commanding General, July 2, 1945

"Notes on Commercial Aviation in Japan," Army Service Forces Office of the Commanding General, May 22, 1945

Observations on Military Government Operations, Pacific Areas, Maclean, Malcolm S., May 1, 1945

"Outline of the Organization and Activities of the Japanese Red Cross," Army Service Forces Office of the Commanding General, April 26, 1945

"Memorandum on Use of Silver Coins as Occupational Currency," Headquarters Army Service Forces Office of the Provost Marshal General, February 23, 1945

"List of Japanese Clubs, Societies, Associations, etc.," Headquarters Army Service Forces Office of the Provost Marshal General, December 27, 1944

"Organization and Missions of Public Health Branch G-5," Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), July 27, 1944

Foreword: Outline or Civil Affairs/Military Government (CA/MG) Public Health Technical Operations, Grasett, A. E., Lieutenant General, August 1944.

Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service Federal Communications Commission, Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcast, September 4, 1945, Part I: Far Eastern Section

Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service Federal Communications Commission, Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcast, September 4, 1945, Part II: European Section

Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service Federal Communications Commission, Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcast, September 1, 1945

Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service Federal Communications Commission, Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcast, August 27, 1945 (2 folders)

Box 2, 6 folders
Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service Federal Communications Commission, Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcast, August 28, 1945

Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service Federal Communications Commission, Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcast, August 29, 1945 (2 folders)

Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service Federal Communications Commission, Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcast, August 30, 1945

Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service Federal Communications Commission, Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcast, August 31, 1945

Proclamation to Belgians, Radio Address, September 8, 1944

U. S. Department of Labor: Labor Conditions of Women and Children in Japan, Matsuoka, Asa, November, 1931

Box 3, 18 folders
Japanese Government. South Seas Administration. Records (forms). (4 folders)

The Fundamental Character of the Japanese National Economy, Ishikawa-Koji, Nippon Bunka Chuo Renmei, 1938 (pamphlet)

The Problem of Japanese Trade Expansion in the Post-War Situation, Farley, Miriam S., Institute of Pacific Relations, 1939 (pamphlet)

Soldier and Peasant in Japan: The Origins of Conscription, Norman, E. Herbert, Institute of Pacific Relations, 1943 (pamphlet)

"My Japanese Wife: The Girl I Loved and Left in Tokyo," The American Magazine, Crawley, Raymond

"Wheat Studies of the Food Research Institute, Japan as a Producer and Importer of Wheat," Stanford University, July 1930

Introduction to Japanese Writing, Yamagiwa, Joseph K., University of Michigan, 1942

"Some Social Functions of Religion in Rural Japan," Embree, John F., September 2, 1941

The Dynamics of Population in Japan, Taeuber, Irene B., and Beal, Edwin G.

Foreign Policy Reports, Roosevelt's Foreign Policy, Bolles, Blair, August 1, 1945

Life Magazine, "Japan: A View of the Enemy's Homeland in Color Reveals Extremes of Charm and Violence," September 18, 1944

Friends Intelligencer: Are the Japanese Illogical, Rowell, Teresina, Northwestern University Civil Affairs Training School

Domestic Rates: Japan, International Bureau of Universal Postal Union

Domestic Rates: Japan, International Bureau of Universal Postal Union

Bankers' Almanac: 1943-4 (1945), Banks of Japan, Rand McNally, March 1945

Box 4, 24 folders
Geographical Study of a Village Community, Odauchi, Tubin, Civil Affairs Training School, University of Chicago, March 1945

Geographical Study of a Village Community, Odauchi, Tubin, Civil Affairs Training School, University of Chicago, March 1945

"Japanese Pipe Dream," Monahan, James, The Elks Magazine, May 1942

The Japanese Language, Harada, Henry

"A Sampling of the Contents of the Central Volume of the Japanese Postal Guide," The Ministry of Communication, Tokyo, November-December 1944

Army Map Service, Protostatic Translations by Transliteration Section (K. Okajima) Cleveland, Ohio on Transportation and Engineering

Pre-War Legal Requirements for Foreign Corporations: Japan

Pre-War Legal Requirements for Foreign Corporations: Japan

Captured Japanese Ration Book

"A Brief Survey of Japanese Law," Kauffman, James Lee

Courts in Japan, Yoedicke, Lieutenant Dudley U. and Dumas, Lieutenant J. F.

"Wartime Changes in Japan"

"Suki Yaki," Harada, H.

"Suki Yaki," Harada, H.

"Game of Go," Harada, H.

"Economic and Financial Notes," Compiled from December 8, 1941

"Japan and the Peace Settlement," Mickle, Joe J., June 10, 1944

"Extracts from Letters from Japan, 1935-1941," Mickle, Joe J.

Proclamations, Philippines

Translation of Column Headings from the Japan Municipal Yearbook

"Fundamentals of Human Nutrition as Related to a Chinese Soldier"

The Bureau of Publicity and the Department of General Affairs and the Japanese Military Administration, "The Official Journal of the Japanese Military Administration," Volumes 1-3 (3 folders)

Box 5, 18 folders
"Contemporary Opinions on Current Topics," Tokyo Information Bureau No. 380, Okamura, May 8, 1941

"Contemporary Opinions on Current Topics," Tokyo Information Bureau No. 375, Okamura, April 3, 1941

Monthly Circular, Analytical and Statistical Survey of Economic Conditions in Japan, January 1940

Monthly Circular, Analytical and Statistical Survey of Economic Conditions in Japan, April 1940

Japan's Finance and Industry, Kaya, Okinori, Finance Minister (pamphlet)

Japanese Wartime Price Control and Price Movements, 1937-1940, Bloch, Kurt, Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply, June 15, 1941

Japanese Character Structure, Institute for Intercultural Studies, Gorer, Geoffrey, 1942

Japanese Character Structure, Institute for Intercultural Studies, Gorer, Geoffrey, 1942

Japanese Character Structure, Institute for Intercultural Studies, Gorer, Geoffrey, 1942

An Outline of Inter-Governmental Relations in China, Bureau for Research in Municipal Government, Chan, Raymond Loi-Ming, August 1943

Feudal Background of Japanese Politics, Institute of Pacific Relations, Norman, E. Herbert, January 1945

Aspects of Wartime Economic Control in Japan, Institute of Pacific Relations, Bisson, T. A., January 1945

Films on the United Nations 1943-1944, United Nations Information Office

"The United Nations: Who They Are and What They Are Doing"

"Civilian Relief Activities in Sicily and Italy," War Department, November 9, 1943

Public Health in the Japanese Empire, Civil Public Health Division and Preventive Medicine Service and Office of the Surgeon General, September 1944

An Index of Japanese Organizations in the United States, Civil Affairs Division, June 1944 (2 indices)

Manual of Financial and Accounting Procedures, U. S. Armed Forces Civil Affairs, August 26, 1944 (Part One)

Box 6, 8 folders
Manual of Financial and Accounting Procedures, U. S. Armed Forces Civil Affairs, August 26, 1944 (Part Two)

Nation-wise Factory Guide of Japan, Foreign Economic Administration, February 1944 (4 folders)

Collection of Japanese Economic Control Laws, Ordinances, and Regulations, Foreign Economic Administration, May 12, 1945

Economic Who's Who in Japan, Foreign Economic Administration, January 1944 copy no. 230

Economic Who's Who in Japan, Foreign Economic Administration, January 1944 copy no. 228

Box 7, 8 folders
Japanese Techniques of Occupation: Key Laws and Official Documents, Foreign Economic Administration, September 1943, Vol. I (2 folders)

Japanese Techniques of Occupation: Key Laws and Official Documents, Foreign Economic Administration, September 1943, Vol. II (2 folders)

Japanese Techniques of Occupation: Key Laws and Official Documents, Foreign Economic Administration, September 1943, Vol. III (3 folders)

"Abstracts on Finance," The Interdepartmental Committee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publications (1 of 2 folders)

Box 8, 11 folders
"Abstracts on Finance," The Interdepartmental Committee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publications (2 of 2 folders)

"Japan: Area and Present Population Increase According to Provinces, Urban Prefectures and Prefectures," The Interdepartmental Committee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publications, 1940

"Abstracts on Public Relations," The Interdepartmental Committee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publications

"Abstracts on Population," The Interdepartmental Committee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publications

"Abstracts on Social Insurance," The Interdepartmental Committee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publications

"Abstracts on Labor," The Interdepartmental Committee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publications

"Abstracts on Industry and Commerce," The Interdepartmental Committee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publications

"Abstracts on Price Control and Rationing," The Interdepartmental Committee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publications

"Abstracts on Industry and Commerce," The Interdepartmental Committee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publications

"Abstracts on Industry and Commerce," The Interdepartmental Committee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publications

"Abstracts on Industry and Commerce," The Interdepartmental Committee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publications

Box 9, 28 folders
"Abstracts on Food and Agriculture," The Interdepartmental Committee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publications

Final Report on the Vesuvius Emergency Operation, Allied Control Commission Headquarters Naples Province

"Requisitioned Hotels," Italy, Allied Control Commission, September 28, 1944

"Public Health, Monthly Report for August," Allied Control Commission September 4, 1944

"Public Health Sub-Commission, Report for the month of July," Allied Control Commission, August 1, 1944

"Public Health Sub-Commission, Report for the month of June," Allied Control Commission, July 11, 1944

"Invasion of Sicily," AMGOT, Public Health Division

"Invasion of Sicily," AMGOT, Public Health Division

"Invasion of Sicily," AMGOT, Public Health Division

"Bulletin of the Prefecture of Palermo, Orders Issued by the Allied Military Government (AMG) of the Province 25 October 1943 to 10 February 1944"

"Bulletin of the Prefecture of Palermo, Orders Issued by the Allied Military Government (AMG) of the Province 25 October 1943 to 10 February 1944"

"Bulletin of the Prefecture of Palermo, Orders Issued by the Allied Military Government (AMG) of the Province 23 July 1943 to 30 October 1943"

Sewerage Treatment and Disposal Plants in Japan, Ford, R. B., November 6, 1944

Sewerage Treatment and Disposal Plants in Japan, Ford, R. B., November 6, 1944

Sewerage Treatment and Disposal Plants in Japan, Ford, R. B., November 6, 1944

Japan: Economic and Industrial System, Sansom, Sir George B., September 12, 1944

A Study of Traits of Japanese Behavior and Characteristics which May Influence Civil Affairs in Japan, Army Service Forces

English Translation of the Ethics Textbooks Volumes I. To II. As Used During the First Two Years in the Japanese Elementary Schools, (as of 1936) 1945.

Japanese Railways, Layng, Charles

Notes of Public Relations, Clarke, Col. Inf. Bruce E.

An Analysis of Japanese Ethics Textbooks and the Imperial Rescript on Education, Ehret, Lieut. Paul D. and Lockard, Capt. E. N.

Property Reinsurance for Civil Affairs Officers with Special Reference to Japan, Hoffman, Lieut. V. Manning, January 1945

Insurance in Japan, Manes, Alfred, January 1945

Emergency Relief during the Earthquake of 1923, Headquarters Army Service Forces, October 11, 1944

A Study of Physiographic and Agricultural Features by Areas, Headquarters Army Service Forces, October 6, 1944

Colonial Administration, Brown, Gordon, August 1944

Japanese Fishing Industry, Masland, J. W. and Burrell, R. W., Stanford University

Key to Mission Boards and Churches, Military Government Division

Box 10
Legal Affairs in Japan, Office of Strategic Services, August 23, 1944

Legal Affairs in Japan, Office of Strategic Services, August 23, 1944

Legal Affairs in Japan, Office of Strategic Services, August 23, 1944

Japanese Films: A Phase of Psychological Warfare, Office of Strategic Services, March 30, 1944

Japanese Organization of Indian Minorities in East Asia, Office of Strategic Services, December 8, 1944

Public Safety in Japan, Office of Strategic Services, July 13, 1944

Japanese Administration: National Government, Office of Strategic Services, May 1, 1944

German Military Government over Europe, Office of Strategic Services, 1939-1943, November 11, 1943

Structure and Personnel of the Nanking Puppet Government, Office of Strategic Services, January 12, 1945

Transportation and Communications in Japan, Office of Strategic Services, May 12, 1945

The Government of the "New Philippines," Office of Strategic Services, May 15, 1944

Japanese Manpower Mobilization, Office of Strategic Services, February 23, 1945

Manpower Mobilization Measures in Japan, Office of Strategic Services, December 1944

Box 11, 15 folders
American Military Government of Occupied Germany 1918-1920, Officer in Charge of Civil Affairs and Third Army and American Forces in Germany, 1943

Subject Index to Keizai Toseiho Nempo (Annual Report of Economic Control Laws, 1942, Japan), Interdepartmental Committee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publications, February 1, 1945

Japan: Forest Resources, Forest Products, Forest Policy, Department of Agriculture, Sparhawk, W. N., May 1945

Medical and Sanitary Data on Japan, Medical Intelligence Division, February 1945 (2 folders)

"Counter Intelligence Corps: G-Men in Khaki," War Department, December 16, 1944

"Counter Intelligence Corps: G-Men in Khaki," War Department, December 16, 1944

Japan - Money and Credit Institutions, Federal Reserve, April 1944

III. Credit Cooperative and Mutual Loan Societies in Japan, Office of Chief of Naval Operations, February 15, 1945

Civil Affairs Guide: The Fishing Industry in Taiwan (Formosa), Office of Chief of Naval Operations, November 1, 1944

Military Government: A List of References, Library of Congress, 1944

The Japanese Empire: Industries and Transportation, Library of Congress, 1943

General Climatic Information Guide, (25 different Japanese Locations), Weather Division, Air Force, 1944 (various months) (2 folders)

Japan: Total Population, by Sex, 1940 Census, by Ken, Shi, Gun, Machi, and Mura, U. S. Department of State, August 1944

Box 12, 2 folders
Japan: Area and Population by Ken, Shi, and Gun 1930-1940, U. S. Department of State, March 1945

Monday, May 18, 2009

Checkout RevSpace.com

Revin F Floyd is currently posting new content and a shitload of links to pages on www.revspace.com. Rev's sight is hoped to be a revolution in its own right, at least for Rev it is, as he has difficulty with even the simplist of tasks in everyday life. Revspce should be up to date with the most straight-up analysis, political commentary on anarchist philosophy from the most Extreme Right Wing Whackos and Far Left Nutjobs and other Fringe Elements. So, after you visit the sight, you can go fuck yourself!

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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Thereby hang's a tale: Neocon Phoenix

Thereby hang's a tale: Neocon Phoenix

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

essential reading

essential reading

The Fourth World: Apocalypse No! part 3: The Law of Life and the Law of Death

The Fourth World: Apocalypse No! part 3: The Law of Life and the Law of Death: "“The endpoint of civilization is assembly line mass murder. The assembly line mass murder of the Nazi Holocaust is production stripped of the veneer of economics. It is the very essence of production. It took the living and converted them to the dead. That’s what this culture does.”"

Monday, March 2, 2009

Educational Conscription: Shock News: Schools are not so bad!

Educational Conscription: Shock News: Schools are not so bad!: "reasonably"