Time - Research.

OBJECTIVE TIME.

Pair of aluminum atomic clocks reveal Einstein's relativity at a personal scale.

Contractors research

US Contractor Accused of Fraud Still Winning Big Afghan Projects.
Blackwater's Black Ops.
SourceWatch: Private Military Corporations
BlackwaterWatch - Press coverage of Blackwater.
Cowboy Contractors: Armed and Dangerous.
This Year, Contractor Deaths Exceed Military Ones in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Prison Industrial Complex Research

Etnicitet og fængsling.
IPS NEWS: Money for Prisons, Not for Social Services.
Litteraturhenvisninger.
Wikiartikel om The Prison-Industrial Complex.

PRISONS: HUMAN RIGHTS.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/30/090330fa_fact_gawande
http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/11/confronting-human-rights-abuses-in-us-prisons/
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0712-08.htm
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Human_Rights/Rights_Police_USA_RFA.html

War on drugs.

According to FBI data released yesterday, police arrested 1,663,582 people on drug charges in the United States last year, slightly fewer than the 1,702,537 arrested in 2008. A little more than half of the drug arrests involved marijuana, and nearly 9 out of 10 marijuana arrests involved possession, as opposed to sale or manufacturing. The number of marijuana arrests, 858,408, was up slightly from the previous year's total, 847,863, but still lower than the historic peak of 872,721 in 2007.

As I've noted before, there is no obvious relationship between marijuana arrests and marijuana use. Although arrests have more than doubled since the early 1990s, the number of pot smokers was no lower in 2008 than it was in 1990 and perhaps somewhat higher, even allowing for methodological changes that seem to have boosted self-reported drug use after 2001.

http://reason.com/blog/2010/09/16/drug-arrests-down-pot-arrests


Omtale af en ny rapport som omhandler narkorelaterede fængslinger i USA.


“Despite comparable usage of illicit drugs, in 2008, African Americans, who make up 12.2 percent of the general population, comprised 44 percent of those incarcerated for drug offences, according to the report.

Researchers say that disproportionate enforcement of drug laws in communities of colour destabilises families and communities and decreases the likelihood of positive outcomes for children and other family members left behind.

Due to the prolonged economic meltdown, many states are now making drastic cuts in funding for social services - such as health, education, and public housing - but not on policing and prison improvement and expansion.”

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52868

Greenwald om Obama

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/09/17/obama/index.html