Formerly Fifth Directorate, Ideology and Dissent: 10/2005

10/09/2005

Martha Stewart: No more Fur

Martha Stewart: I take back everything I ever said against you. I salute any celebrity who takes a stand in show of solidarity with PETA to eliminate the suffering of animals.

Remember: humans abusing animals also abuse themselves.

Please make informed consumer decisions. Please reflect on ways you can minimize the impact of suffering on people and animals by making informed decisions.

Martha Stewart narrates this short clip detailing the inhuman horrors of the global fur industries.

Martha Stewart on Fur

10/08/2005

Think Tanks

Rand Corp got their start thinking about the unthinkable:

Rand Corporation

"Mises.org consists of some 33,100 pages, uses 5 gigabytes of hard disk, delivers 15 gigs of logfiles, and produces 1.8 million page views for 750,000 visitors per month generating a monthly hit total of 16 million."

Ludwig Von Mises Institute

A conservative think tank in the Netherlands based off the ideas of the Philosopher Edmund Burke.

Edmund Burke Stichting

Naumann asserted that a functioning democracy needs politically informed and educated citizens.

Friedrich Naumann Foundation

MITRE works in the broad domains of aviation, defense and intelligence, and enterprise modernization. Our core areas of expertise, listed below, underlie all these domains.

MITRE

Economic Strategy Institute

ESI

"The formation of ESRF was based on the assumption that there was need and demand for an improved understanding of policy options and development management issues, and that the capacity for this was lacking in the Tanzania civil service."

Economic and Social Research Foundation

The ESRI's mission is to produce high quality research, relevant to Ireland’s economic and social development, with the aim of informing policy-making and societal understanding.

Economic and Social Research Institute

The purpose of the Institute for Food and Development Policy - Food First - is to eliminate the injustices that cause hunger.

Food First

"The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) in Cologne was founded in 1985 under the directorship of Prof. Renate Mayntz. It is one of the smaller institutes of the Max Planck Society, which maintains 80 institutes devoted to basic research in the natural sciences and the humanities."

Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG)