Mar 31st, 2006
From the DoD site, I stumbled on this United States government site:
ExpectMore.gov
The content on ExpectMore.gov is developed by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget and Federal agencies. Together, we assess the performance of every Federal program and hold ourselves accountable for improvement.
HOW WE ASSESS PROGRAMS – The Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART)
The Federal Government [...]
BBC
The Rohingya people of western Burma’s Arakan State are forbidden from marrying or travelling without permission and have no legal right to own land or property.
Not only that but even though groups of them have been living in Burma for hundreds of years, they are also denied citizenship by the country’s military government.
For decades [...]
Ignore the rural Chinese at your peril ought to be the watchword in Peking. More than one Emperor has found a revolt ending his tenure on the Peacock Throne.
BBC
In the last decade, two things have happened to make the tension between the city and the countryside worse.One is that the countryside has begun moving to [...]
Vanity Fair
This vision of a Pakistan teetering on the brink of anarchy simply doesn’t square with reality, however. In recent parliamentary elections, no candidate, including Islamic radicals, got more than 11 percent of the vote—hardly a threat to a military dictator. And the Pakistani military is configured to repulse a land invasion from India [...]
Mar 30th, 2006
Iraq Weekly Status March 22 2006 [PDF]:
National Democratic Institute’s (NDI) civic forum programs have reached nearly 37,000 Iraqis on the role of the national parliament. Despite curfews and increased violence, Iraqis remained committed to improving the political process by continuing to conduct training and grassroots organizing in civic forums. About 14,000 citizens received training on [...]
Go and read the whole document.
White House
The Advance Of Freedom Is The Story Of Our Time. Just 25 years ago, there were only 45 democracies. Today, Freedom House reports there are 122 democracies, and more people live in liberty than ever before. Since the beginning of 2005, remarkable democratic change has occurred across the globe [...]
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, March 29, 2006 – A once-unidentified sailor killed in the Pearl Harbor attack almost 65 years ago was laid to rest today with full honors and a grave marker bearing his name, thanks to sleuth work by a Pearl Harbor survivor and U.S. Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command’s expertise.Seaman 2nd Class Warren [...]
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, March 29, 2006 – An MQ-1B Predator unmanned aerial vehicle engaged three insurgents in the process of planting a homemade bomb along a road near Balad Air Base, Iraq, yesterday evening and launched an AGM-114 Hellfire missile against the group.
The Predator monitored the three terrorists for about a half hour while [...]
So, I was down the hall, er…, thinking. Yeah, that’s it. I was thinking. When I heard a huge crash. I thought someone had dropped a desk while moving it.
I quickly finished thinking, and went out into the hall. No disaster. I asked the West Pointer if he heard the crash. Nope. Then a secretary [...]