http://www.thememoryhole.org Rescuing Knowledge, Freeing Information. Mon, 11 May 2009 20:51:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Description of an Experimental Psychosis Induced by Lysergic Acid Diethylamide." Official US government translation of an article from a Soviet psychiatric journal in 1962. [Released due to a Freedom of Information Act request filed with the Defense Technical Information Center by Russ Kick, 28 Feb 2009. The request was referred ... http://www.thememoryhole.org/2009/05/lsd-canine-psychosis/ I'm now on Twitter (because there's not already enough things to get done online): http://twitter.com/russkick The Memory Hole automatically feeds there, and I'll be posting news, links, etc. relating to freedom of information, government documents, and related topics. And lots of unrelated topics - books, lit, poetry, art, religion, food, life in ... http://www.thememoryhole.org/2009/05/on-twitter/ "Army Surveillance of Civilians: A Documentary Analysis" by the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate (1972). Posted online by The Memory Hole. (Thanks to Susan Maret, coeditor of Government Secrecy: Classic and Contemporary Readings.) Click here to download the report [PDF | 9 meg | 104 ... http://www.thememoryhole.org/2009/05/army-surveillance/ From the Humane Society of the US: In response to a lawsuit filed in January by The Humane Society of the United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will again be posting annual reports from registered animal research facilities on its web site. APHIS, ... http://www.thememoryhole.org/2009/04/usda-to-post/ ------------------------------------------------------------- ProPublica has set up a page, with a feed, that monitors any changes to whitehouse.gov, recovery.gov, and financialstability.gov. Whenever there's a change to any page on these sites, it's noted in the feed. You can then view the old and new versions of the page side by side, with the changes ... http://www.thememoryhole.org/2009/03/tracking-changes-to-the-white-house-website/ OpenTheGovernment.org has a fantastic section tracking what we know and don't know about the financial bailout. You'll find news, documents, links to sites, and more. The Treasury Dept & Federal Reserve are currently fighting court battles in order to keep details of the bailout secret. See also: ProPublica's Show Me the ... http://www.thememoryhole.org/2009/03/bailout-transparency/ Lots of document-related news to catch up on.. * Justice Dept releases nine Bush-era memos regarding legalities involving detainees, rendition, eavesdropping, using the military within the US, and that pesky thing called free speech: “First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war ... http://www.thememoryhole.org/2009/03/docs-in-the-news/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ "IRS Investigative Materials: A Guide to Internal Revenue Service Material Available to Other Federal Agencies." Obtained, scanned, and posted by The Memory Hole, it doesn't appear to be otherwise online. Printed and sent to Federal Depository Libraries in 1988, it's the kind of publication that the IRS no longer makes ... http://www.thememoryhole.org/2009/03/exclusive-irs-investigative-materials/ ------------------------------------------------------------ While profiling White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for The New Yorker, Ryan Lizza saw something interesting in Emanuel's office. It's mentioned only in passing: Next to his computer monitor is a smaller screen that looks like a handheld G.P.S. device and tells Emanuel where the President and senior White ... http://www.thememoryhole.org/2009/03/obama-and-biden-chipped-or/ From the New York Times: In a reversal of an 18-year-old policy that critics said was hiding the ultimate cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the press will now be allowed to photograph the flag-draped coffins of America’s war dead as their bodies are returned to the United States ... http://www.thememoryhole.org/2009/02/pentagon-to-allow-photos-of-soldiers%e2%80%99-coffins-when-families-permit/