Freedom of Information Act

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• Help for UK researchers

  
  GenWeekly — Authority: 126
  Following on the heels of a similar success, one UK researchers appeal to the Information Commissioner under the Freedom of Information Act "could unlock details from the 1939 National Registration of the UK - an emergency, census-like survey of the country at the beginning of the war," as noted in a recent BBC ...
  8 hours ago

• ClimateGate Data Series Part I: A break-down of large data file for manipulating global temperature trends from 2006-2009

  
  The Betrayal — Authority: 158
  By Computer Scientist J. Smith of ( repubx.com ) Overview of the Global Warming Myth Data Al Gore, George Soros and other Carbon Pirates have got Congress to fund and direct Billions of dollars towards “Green Energy” and “Carbon Control” projects based on bogus data claims. These data claims stem from ...
  14 hours ago

• ClimateGate Update: CEI Files Notice of Intent to Sue NASA

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  Yesterday, on behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, I filed three Notices of Intent to File Suit against NASA and its Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), for those bodies’ refusal – for nearly three years – to provide documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act. The ...
  2 days ago

• CRU FOIA request scandal – sound familiar?

  
  BLOGDIAL — Authority: 462
  Image from FOI2009.zip which contains the entire contents of the liberated CRU files, featuring the heads of well known scientists that smelled a rat, and who are detested by ‘Global Warming’ / ‘Climate Change’ / ‘Climate Chaos’ alarmists for telling the truth. The CRU CLimate Gate affair continues to ...
  2 days ago

• Regulators Need to Keep their House in Order Too

  
  CA on Information Governance — Authority: 117
  A recent High Court challenge to the findings of an employment tribunal hearing in the UK has highlighted the need for Regulators to be as careful with their records as those they regulate. The need to keep supporting material as carefully, in particularly sensitive cases, was also raised. When the former head of a ...
  4 days ago

• US Army toyed with telepathic ray gun

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 569
  Source: New Scientist A recently declassified US Army report on the biological effects of non-lethal weapons reveals outlandish plans for “ray gun” devices, which would cause artificial fevers or beam voices into people’s heads. The report titled “Bioeffects Of Selected Nonlethal Weapons” was released ...
  5 days ago

• Obama’s Labor Department Ignores Freedom of Information Act

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  On Friday, 20 November 2009, The National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation (Foundation) decided enough was enough and filed a complaint with the U.S. District Court demanding that they compel the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to comply with the Foundation’s April 6th Freedom of information Act (FOIA) ...
  5 days ago

• It’s beginning to look at lot like…fraud

  
  KHdN - Kenneth Hynek (dot Net) — Authority: 434
  Okay, long-time readers of this blog (or my previous one) will know that when it comes to global warming and climate change, I’m pretty much a dyed-in-the-wool skeptic. Not of changes in the Earth’s average temperature, I should hasten to note, nor of upward changes therein. No, what I am ultimately skeptical of ...
  6 days ago

• Important News, still breaking, about Climate Science propaganda

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 558
  This major theft and release of information from the UK Climate Research Unit has validated long-held suspicions about the AGW story.  It’s a look behind the veil at the Global Warming propaganda campaign.  More broadly, this shows the power of the Internet, and (using John Robb’s phrase) super-empowered ...
  6 days ago

• Cry Freedom

  
  HMRC Is Shite — Authority: 124
  Data obtained by the law firm McGrigors shows that 27 people have registered with HMRC, since the Liechtenstein Disclosure Opportunity was opened on September 1. However, HMRC have refused a similar Freedom of Information Act request wrt how many people have registered for the New Disclosure Opportunity (NDO). The ...
  1 week ago

• The Law of Access to Government

  
  Legal Research Plus — Authority: 467
  “The Law of Access to Government”RICHARD J. PELTZ, University of Georgia School of LawThis is the only casebook geared entirely to the study of the law of access to government, or freedom of information law, in the United States. The book takes a multistate approach, familiarizing students with norms of state and ...
  1 week ago

• UTMB AND UT FIGHTING RELEASE OF ER CONTRACT--TOO!

  
  UT: THE EYES OF TFA ARE UPON YOU! — Authority: 133
  Image by ifindkarma via Flickr UT and UTMB seem to be employing a new tactic with the Blogmeister and TFA: fight every Texas Public Information Act request I send.  At least thats what has happened the last couple of times Ive tried it.  Readers already know that UT is trying to block release of the its ...
  1 week ago

• Some Sad Facts About Todays Antidepressants

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
      There are a lot of sad facts about todays antidepressants.  The list is a long one.  Im going to put down what I reckon are the saddest of the sad facts; others are welcome to add their own.     I want to emphasize the word "facts."  In this post I report the findings of scientific research.  Findings ...
  1 week ago

• Todays Antidepressants: Some Sad Facts

  
  Genius and Madness — Authority: 92
      There are a lot of sad facts about todays antidepressants.  The list is a long one.  Im going to put down what I reckon are the saddest of the sad facts; others are welcome to add their own.     I want to emphasize the word "facts."  In this post I report the findings of scientific research.  Findings ...
  1 week ago

• The Power of The Department of Justices Office of Legal Counsel

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  It is easy to forget that the United States Government and its citizens have distinctly different relationships with the law.  While citizens and corporations look at statutes to see what they are prohibited from doing, governments must look to statutes to see what they are specifically authorized to do .  In ...
  2 weeks ago

• Database creator appeals for counties’ land records

  
  GeoData Policy — Authority: 112
   Author: Meghan Molloy, Kennebec Journal, November 11, 2009Source: Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday TelegramA Cumberland-based business owner who intends to create a statewide database of land records has gone to court in an effort to compel 13 Maine counties to provide the records he needs.John Simpson, owner ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mayor Daley sued for not providing info about Olympic bid

  
  Chicago Bar-tender — Authority: 584
  The non-profit organization Judicial Watch is suing Mayor Daley and his office for failing to respond to their Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Judicial Watch, which describes itself as a non-profit organization seeking to promote integrity, transparency and accountability in government, says that on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Follow Up on Nat’l Endowment for the Arts Scandal

  
  Count Us Out — Authority: 152
  NEWLY REVEALED DOCUMENTS Contradict NEA Chairman Landesmanby Patrick Courrielche “The former NEA Director of Communications acted unilaterally and without the approval or authorization of then-Acting Chairman Patrice Walker Powell.” – Rocco Landesman, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, on September ...
  2 weeks ago

• Royal Sands development Ramsgate and the freedom of information act.

  
  thanetonline — Authority: 474
  Due to my continued exasperation, mostly with getting the council and the developer to tell us in Ramsgate what exactly is going on, I put in some freedom of information requests and an official complaint a while ago. Now it may come as a bit of a surprise to some people but this is the first time I have made freedom ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Permanent Select Committee on Financial Misclosure

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Question: When is it ok to cook the books of a public company? Short Answer: When the head of any of an indeterminate number of Federal departments or agencies says so. Or more specifically: 15 USC 2B § 78m imposes obligations on any issuer of a security registered pursuant to [15 USC 2B § 78l] to: ...
  2 weeks ago

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