Full Disclosure or The Disinformation Book of Lists

Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency

Author: Archon Fung

Which SUVs are most likely to rollover? What cities have the unhealthiest drinking water? Which factories are the most dangerous polluters? What cereals are the most nutritious? In recent decades, governments have sought to provide answers to such critical questions through public disclosure to force manufacturers, water authorities, and others to improve their products and practices. Corporate financial disclosure, nutritional labels, and school report cards are examples of such targeted transparency policies. At best, they create a light-handed approach to governance that improves markets, enriches public discourse, and empowers citizens. But such policies are frequently ineffective or counterproductive. Based on an analysis of eighteen U.S. and international policies, Full Disclosure shows that information is often incomplete, incomprehensible, or irrelevant to consumers, investors, workers, and community residents. To be successful, transparency policies must be accurate, keep ahead of disclosers' efforts to find loopholes, and, above all, focus on the needs of ordinary citizens.

Book review: Beach Cuisine or Fresh Cut Fruits and Vegetables

The Disinformation Book of Lists

Author: Russ Kick

Can you name five military leaders who were -transgendered?

Twelve cases of involuntary human experimentation by the U.S. government?

How about the four porn novels written by famous authors, 11 books left out of the Bible and over 50 side effects of NutraSweet that have been reported to the FDA?

In 1977, David Wallechinsky, Irving Wallace and Amy Wallace published The Book of Lists, causing an immediate sensation. Not only did it lead to three direct sequels (in 1980, 1983 and 1993), it also created a new genre. Soon, shelves were lined with The First Original Unexpurgated Authentic Canadian Book of Lists (1978), The Book of Sports Lists (1979) and Meredith's Book of Bible Lists (1980), among many others. Using this popular, enduring format, Russ Kick's Disinformation Book of Lists delves into the murkier aspects of politics, current events, business, history, science, art and literature, sex, drugs, death and more. Despite such unusual subject matter, this book presents hard, substantiated facts with full references.

Among the lists presented:

Innocent People Freed from Prison
Members of the Skull & Bones Secret Society at Yale
Drugs Pulled Off the Market After They Killed Too Many People
Legal Substances that Will Get You High
Dead People Surrounding Bill Clinton
Scenes that Were Cut from Movies
Raunchy Songs that Were Never Released
Military Officers, Government Officials, Astronauts, and Airline Personnel Who Say UFOs Are Real
Words and Phrases No Longer Allowed in Textbooks

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	3
	About the author	5
	Acknowledgments	11
	Drugs
	39 famous people who used drugs	14
	42 famous drinkers of vin mariani	24
	20 famous drinkers of absinthe	26
	A dozen US politicians who have smoked pot	28
	31 products containing hard drugs	29
	9 US companies allowed to manufacture illegal drugs	31
	6 illegal substances that occur naturally in our bodies	33
	12 songs about drugs	35
	16 legal substances that can cause false positives on drug tests	39
	12 strange drugs	41
	82 brands of heroin	47
	42+ things that have been made out of hemp	49
	10 of Chong's bongs	51
	12 ways of alter your consciousness without drugs	52
	Crime and punishment
	13 innocent people who went to prison	58
	36 botched executions	61
	13 last meals requested by executed Texas prisoners	70
	8 handmade prison objects	72
	3 states where cockfighting is legal	74
	14 criminal cops and their "punishments"	75
	Feds and spooks
	25 tips for interrogating a prisoner, from the CIA	80
	7 CIA plots to kill Castro	87
	34 CIA cryptonyms	90
	5 designations of importance used by the CIA	92
	10 CIA front companies	93
	111 people who are the subjects of FBI files	94
	8 bands that are the subjects of FBI files	100
	9 things that will disqualify you from employment with the FBI	101
	17 questions you'll be asked when applying to become an FBI agent	102
	10 oldest still-classified documents at the national archives	104
	War and peace
	23 quotes regarding the 2003 invasion of Iraq	108
	12 arguments against the police state at Guantanamo Bay	111
	13 exotic guns and knives	119
	11 materials that have been made into guns	122
	20 mishaps that might have started nuclear war	123
	13 nuclear tests that spread radiation into civilian areas	133
	46 nuclear tests by the US	136
	33 names of defense department internal investigations	138
	13 programs from DARPA's defunct information awareness office	140
	40 US interventions in Latin America in the 1800s	145
	Corporate responsibility
	36 corporations that ripped off the US government	152
	9 visitors who died at Disneyland	154
	32 cigarette additives	157
	55 companies reportedly doing business with enemy nations	158
	Top 100 corporations laying off US workers due to NAFTA	160
	Sex
	12 erotic works by well-known writers	166
	12 olde-timey porn books	176
	52 items from the Delta Collection of the Library of Congress	178
	12 unorthodox sex practices	181
	6 sex acts that are illegal	184
	21 natural aphrodisiacs	186
	32 famous people involved in triads	187
	23 strange genres of porn movie	192
	63 gay animals	196
	4 unreleased raunchy songs	198
	153 bizarre and revealing spam subject lines leading to sexually oriented messages	200
	11 quotes about sex	207
	Religion
	5 "family-safe" Bibles	210
	18 Biblical atrocities	211
	21 Biblical contradictions	215
	8 books that didn't make it into the Bible	221
	18 celebrities involved with the Church of Scientology	225
	6 celebrities involved with the Church of Satan	226
	87+ people Mormons have baptized by proxy	227
	815 people killed by religious rituals and objects	228
	12 godly people	230
	9 religious quotes	233
	Movies, music and pulp fiction
	16 movies banned in the US	236
	10 unusual forms and genres of music	239
	19 profanely-named bands	247
	25 Iranian rock bands	249
	58 pulp novels	250
	Odds & ends
	15 things that cause or mimic "mental illnesses"	258
	11 super cures your doctor won't tell you about	260
	11 whistle-blowers	268
	23 early cases of involuntary human experimentation	273
	8 stupid politician quotes	276
	12 Amazon reviews of Senator Bill Frist's family history	278
	11 quotes about politics and government	281
	10 reasons why cars suck	283
	3 uncommon sources of power	285
	12 things to do with your body after you're dead	288
	19 suicide notes	289
	10 top magicians of the twentieth century	291
	17 tarot decks	294
	44 substances that soup up your brain	298
	24 toxic chemicals in Bill Moyers	299
	12 acceptable levels of fifth in food	301
	7 edible flowers	303
	References	308