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• A New Era of Responsibility (pdf, 2.0mb)
  The budget blueprint for the Obama administration. A frightening read.
• DefensibleBorders-GolanHeights (pdf, 473k)
  "This 30-page report was written by Maj.-Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Eiland chaired Israel’s National Security Council from 2004 to 2006, and served as head of the IDF’s Operations Branch and its Planning Directorate, where he was responsible for designing and implementing the IDF’s operational and strategic policies. Eiland explains that ever since 1967 - when Israel captured the Golan after years of Syrian attacks from the Golan plateau upon Israeli towns below - it has been a matter of consensus that the Golan provides strategic depth and other advantages that would effectively forestall a Syrian attack on Israel."
• Coverage Measurement in the 2010 Census (pdf, 915k)
  "The census coverage measurement programs have historically addressed three primary objectives with varying degrees of emphasis: (1) to inform users about the quality of the census counts for various applications; (2) to help identify sources of error to improve census taking; and (3) to provide alternative (“adjusted”) counts based on information from the coverage measurement program. In planning the 1990 and 2000 censuses, the main objective was to produce alternative counts based on the measurement of net coverage error, although the alternative counts were never used for either reapportionment or redistricting. Subsequently, a 1999 Supreme Court decision precluded the use of alternative counts, when based on sampling, for use in reapportionment. In addition, it is difficult to provide alternative counts in time for reapportioning congressional districts. Consequently, for the 2010 census coverage measurement program, the Census Bureau has stated its intent to deemphasize the goal of providing alternative counts and is instead planning on focusing its coverage measurement program on the second goal of improving census processes."
  This document was written in 2008. What will Obama do to corrupt the census now?
• UN Climate Plan (pdf, 861k)
  Another frightening read.
• North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Feb 09 [Congressional Research Service] (pdf, 316k)
  "This report summarizes what is known from open sources about the North Korean nuclear weapons program—including weapons-usable fissile material and warhead estimates—and assesses current developments in achieving denuclearization."
• Restructuring Federal Climate Research to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change.pdf (pdf, 1.92mb)
  "The U.S. Climate Change Science Program is developing a new strategic plan to replace the one that has guided federal research since 2003. The new strategic plan is expected to be released early in the next administration. There is thus an opportunity to step back, examine what has been learned, and chart a new course for the future."
  "Climate change is one of the most important global environmental problems facing the world today. Evidence of a changing climate is all around us, from rising sea level to retreating mountain glaciers, melting Arctic sea ice, lengthening growing seasons, shifting animal migration patterns, and other changes." If you beleive the premise of man-made climate change, you might agree with some of this document.
• War in Afghanistan Jan 09 [Congressional Research Service] (pdf, 2.92mb)
  "As the 111th Congress convenes and the Obama Administration assumes office, the war in Afghanistan has entered its eighth year. With a deteriorating security situation and no comprehensive political outcome yet in sight, most observers view the war in Afghanistan as open-ended. By early 2009, a growing number of Members of Congress, Administration officials, and outside experts had concluded that the effort – often called 'America’s other war' – required greater national attention. ..."

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