Afghanistan: U.S. Rule of Law and Justice Sector Assistance, Liana Sun Wyler Analyst in International Crime and Narcotics – Kenneth Katzman, Specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs, November 9, 2010 [via FAS] “Developing effective Afghan justice sector institutions is considered by many observers to be essential in winning the support of the Afghan population, improving the… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: November 2010
New TSA Sreening Procedures for Pilots Rolling Out
Follow up to previous postings on government implementation of whole body scanning technology at airports, this news release: “The Air Line Pilots Association, Intl (ALPA), welcomed the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announcement of expedited screening for airline pilots as important action to move the nation toward a threat-based strategy that focuses security resources where the… Continue Reading
A Proposal for Reviving U.S. Manufacturing and Creating Millions of Good Jobs
Reindustrialiazing America – A Proposal for Reviving U.S. Manufacturing and Creating Millions of Good Jobs, by Robert Pollin and Dean Baker, New Labor Forum 19(2): 17-34, Spring 2010 “The U.S. economy faces enormous questions and challenges in attempting to recover from the collapse of 2008-2009. Some of the most pressing questions are short term and… Continue Reading
Student Debt and the Class of 2009
News release: “College seniors who graduated in 2009 carried an average of $24,000 in student loan debt, up 6% from the previous year. Meanwhile, unemployment for recent college graduates climbed from 5.8% in 2008 to 8.7% in 2009 the highest annual rate on record for college graduates aged 20 to 24. The Project on… Continue Reading
DOD Establishes Wounded Warrior Task Force
News release: “The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness announced [November 19, 2010] the names of 14 people who will serve on the Department of Defense Task Force for Care, Management, and Transition of Recovering Wounded, Ill, and Injured Members of the Armed Forces. The four year mission of the… Continue Reading
SEC Proposes Rules on Security-Based Swap Reporting
Fact Sheet: “The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted unanimously to propose new rules entailing how security-based swap transactions should be reported and publicly disseminated. The rules are proposed under Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which generally authorizes the SEC to regulate security-based swaps. The proposed rules (Regulation… Continue Reading
New Yorker Commentary Challenges Investment Bankers
What Good is Wall Street, John Cassidy: “From the end of the Second World War until 1980 or thereabouts, people working in finance earned about the same, on average and taking account of their qualifications, as people in other industries. By 2006, wages in the financial sector were about sixty per cent higher than wages… Continue Reading
Commentary – Long Live the Web
Long Live the Web – “The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperityand even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending.” By Tim Berners-Lee “The world wide web went live, on my physical desktop in Geneva, Switzerland, in December 1990. It consisted of one Web site and… Continue Reading
Long Settlement Battle in 9/11 Case Reaches a Sad Conclusion
NYT: “After a wrenching seven-year battle, more than 10,000 workers who sued New York City over health damages they claimed after the 9/11 recovery efforts have approved a settlement, clearing the way for payouts totaling at least $625 million, lawyers said Friday. Their responses, delivered to a federal judge in Manhattan, ended months of wrangling… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Nuclear Weapons, Defense Logistics, D.C. Public Education, Social Security Reform, Surface Coal Mining
Nuclear Weapons: National Nuclear Security Administration’s Plans for Its Uranium Processing Facility Should Better Reflect Funding Estimates and Technology Readiness, GAO-11-103, November 19, 2010 Defense Logistics: Additional Oversight and Reporting for the Army Logistics Modernization Program Are Needed, GAO-11-139, November 18, 2010 District of Columbia Public Education: Agencies Have Enhanced Internal Controls Over Federal Payments… Continue Reading
Tablet Computing and Business vs iPad and the Public
Why Tablet Computing Hasn’t Been Big Business: “Shock, horror: Apple didn’t invent the tablet computer with the iPad. Tablets have been around since the last century, and poor old Microsoft has been hacking away at software to run on tablets for the same amount of time. In fact, Microsoft coined the term “tablet.” There have… Continue Reading
The European Library – search the content of European national libraries
“The European Library is a free service that offers access to the resources of the 48 national libraries of Europe in 35 languages. Resources can be both digital (books, posters, maps, sound recordings, videos, etc.) and bibliographical. Quality and reliability are guaranteed by the 48 collaborating national libraries of Europe.The European Library represents Europe in… Continue Reading
