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My defense group, ACDA  is sponsoring the following book event on July 15th, 2009.

On June 10th, 2009, I helped to organize a transpartisan coalition meeting in DC on Patriot Act reform and other domestic intelligence programs and powers including Fusion Centers.  it was a co-sponsored meeting including cosponsorship by the Campaign for liberty, Transpartisan Center and the ACLU It was well

I spoke at a Senate briefing on medical privacy (or the lack there of).  I talked about the so-called privacy rule under HIPAA (actually a disclosure rule), Health Information Technology and the imperative that privacy be protected in order for

I helped to organize a book discussion for Rep. Hostettler on his new book "Nothing for the Nation: Who Got What Out of Iraq." We held it April 8th, 2009.

The following is from Anthony Gregory's blog on the event:

In my capacity as Coalition Development Consultant for the Campaign for Liberty, I helped to organize a briefing on the federal reserve and the lack of transparency around its activities which was held on March 25th 2009.  I have included Andrew Ward's blog on the briefing below.   As of today. June 2nd 2009, there are 179 co-sponsors of H.R. 1207 and now we are working to get R co-sponsorship of the Senate version.

Liddell Laboratories mentioned me in their recent press release on new health trends  I am not sure where their quote came from since I give talks and write many different places  but in the press release they said 


Michael D. Ostrolenk, public policy health consultant, says that the current medical trend "is about choice and experimentation ... where the patient is ultimately responsible for taking steps to improve their own health and well-being."

As the debate begins on 'healthcare' reform which is mostly about allocation and control of resources and not about health and care, hopefully someone is paying attention to the following studies by the Lewin Group.

 I Want My Bailout Money by Michael Adams the Health Ranger (explicit)

I start this coming week (January 2009) as the Campaign for Liberty's new coalition development consultant. I will be helping to expand the campaign into multiple transpartisan coalitions including one's dealing with civil liberties and foreign policy.

In an earlier blog, I mentioned that I pretty much ignore the American Mainstream Media (MSM). I will read a paper if I am in a waiting room, airport or walking by a newspaper dispenser but for the most part I mostly ignore American papers and most American cable news. That's not to say there are not individual reporters, commentators or specials that I find to be a good source of information.