Category Archives: Research Archive

from The London Evening Standard 70-year gag on Kelly death evidence 24.01.10 Evidence relating to the death of Government weapons inspector David Kelly is to be kept secret for 70 years, it has been reported. A highly unusual ruling by … Continue reading →

The quotation “the price of liberty is eternal vigilance“ has been attributed to a number of likely figures, including Jefferson, Lincoln, and Paine. (For you sticklers, there’s more on the probable original source here.) While I’m sure this thought occurred … Continue reading →

Well, it certainly was at the time, but not anymore. “The Biggest Scandal Ever” was the New York Times headline on May 29, 1990, referring to the Savings and Loan bailout. Half a trillion dollars was the high-end estimate of … Continue reading →

General Ali Fazli, who was recently appointed as a commander of the Revolutionary Guards in the province of Tehran, is reported to have been arrested after he refused to carry out orders from the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei to … Continue reading →

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from John Markoff at The New York Times Artificial intelligence is back in fashion, which raises the question: Will computer intelligence surpass our own? Others who have observed the increasing power of computing technology are even less sanguine about the … Continue reading →

The goal of this bill is simple: direct the Government Accountability Office to complete, before the end of 2010, an audit of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and of the federal reserve banks, and provide a … Continue reading →

Few science teams can match the flash and audacity of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.  Last week DARPA showed off 9 future projects that tackle building blazing, secure networks, longer-flying unmanned aircraft, faster vaccine delivery, and more. read … Continue reading →

I suppose the two books I’ve written (and the third that I’m working on now) are historical thrillers, in that there’s a lot of inter-mixing of things that actually did happen, with things that probably happened (though we may never … Continue reading →

from The Guardian An MP who was involved in last month’s G20 protests in London is to call for an investigation into whether the police used agents provocateurs to incite the crowds. Brake has produced a draft report of his … Continue reading →