The United States Army in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, May 2003January 2005. ON POINT II: Transition to the New Campaign. Dr. Donald P. Wright, Colonel Timothy R. Reese with the Contemporary Operations Study Team, Combat Studies Institute Press, US Army Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Released June 29, 2008. [Note: this report is 720 pages,… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2008
Google: U.S. copyright renewal records available for download
Inside Google Blog Search: “U.S. Copyright Office records. Records from 1978 onward are online but not downloadable in bulk. The Copyright Office hasn’t digitized their earlier records, but Carnegie Mellon scanned them as part of their Universal Library Project, and the tireless folks at Project Gutenberg and the Distributed Proofreaders painstakingly corrected the OCR. Thanks… Continue Reading
United Nations Waste Treaty Postpones Long Awaited Toxic Waste Dumping Ban
News release, Basel Action Network: “The week-long 9th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention ended [June 27] with little progress in breaking the deadlock that is preventing a global toxic waste dumping ban from entering the force of international law. An effort promoted by Japan, Canada, New Zealand and India… Continue Reading
Senlis Council Report: Winning over Angry Young Men is key to enduring stability in Iraq
News release: “The Senlis Council [The Senlis Council is an international policy think tank committed to implementing change at all policy levels, by bridging the gap between people and policy in three key areas] has maintained an operational base in the southern provinces of Afghanistan since 2004. Initially aimed at providing a firsthand view of… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: American Samoa, CDC Human Capital Planning, Homeland Security: DHS Risk-Based Grant Methodology, Secure Border Initiative
American Samoa: Issues Associated with Potential Changes to the Current System for Adjudicating Matters of Federal Law, GAO-08-655, June 27, 2008 Bureau of Indian Education Schools: Improving Interior’s Assistance Would Help Some Tribal Groups Implement Academic Accountability Systems, GAO-08-679, June 27, 2008 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Human Capital Planning Has Improved, but Strategic… Continue Reading
Commentary: U.S. Escalates Covert Actions Against Iran
The New Yorker: The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran, by Seymour M. Hersh,July 7, 2008. “Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the… Continue Reading
Pentagon Report Details Resilient Insurgency in Afghanistan
WSJ, sub. req’d: “In a remarkable shift, Afghanistan, where U.S. officials were once confident of victory, is now rivaling Iraq as the biggest cause of concern for American policymakers. According to a new Pentagon report, Taliban militants have regrouped after their initial fall from power and “coalesced into a resilient insurgency.” The report paints a… Continue Reading
National Geographics: North Pole May Be Ice Free for First Time This Summer
Aalok Mehta aboard the C.C.G.S. Amundsen, National Geographic News June 20, 2008: “Arctic warming has become so dramatic that the North Pole may melt this summer, report scientists studying the effects of climate change in the field. “We’re actually projecting this year that the North Pole may be free of ice for the first time… Continue Reading
UN 2008 World Drug Report
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime – 2008 World Drug Report (310 pages, PDF): “This Report provides evidence of a surge in the supply of illicit drugs in 2007. Afghanistan had a record opium harvest, and world opium production (because of higher yields) almost doubled between 2005 and 2007. Coca cultivation increased in the… Continue Reading
SSA OIG: Benefit Payments in Instances Where the Social Security Administration Removed a Death Entry from the Beneficiary's Record
OIG, Social Security Administration, Benefit Payments in Instances Where the Social Security Administration Removed a Death Entry from the Beneficiary’s Record, A-06-07-27156, 06/19/08: “The DMF [Death Master File] is a publicly available database maintained by SSA that contains detailed information on more than 82 million deceased numberholders. Each year, SSA receives death reports for more… Continue Reading
Conyers Issues Subpoena to DOJ for Valerie Plame Documents
News release: “House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) today issued a subpoena to the Department of Justice (DOJ) to provide to the committee a number of previously requested documents by July 9. The Subcommittee on Commercial and Adminstrative Law voted this week to authorize committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. to issue the subpoena… Continue Reading
Update on Salmonellosis Outbreak in Certain Types of Tomatoes
FDA news release: “June 27, 2008: At this time, FDA recommends consuming raw red plum, raw red Roma, or raw red round tomatoes only if grown and harvested from the following areas that HAVE NOT BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE OUTBREAK…. CDC Investigation of Outbreak of Infections Caused by Salmonella Saintpaul, Update for June 27, 2008… Continue Reading
