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UK Parliament Defence Committee Session 2007-08, 20 March 2008, Publication of Report – Conclusions – The Future of NATO and European Defense: Ninth Report of Session 2007-08 “NATO’s achievements over the past sixty years in ensuring the stability and prosperity of Europe are remarkable. But the NATO Summit at Bucharest in April 2008 takes place …
News release: “China sold over $55 million worth of small arms to Sudan as the violence escalated in Darfur, a new report…finds. While other countries were decreasing their arms sales to Khartoum, China stepped in to fill the void by providing Sudan with some 90 percent of its small arms during 2004-2006. This makes China …
Iran, Terrorism, Transnational Security Threats, Nuclear Weapons, Weapons of Mass Destruction, March 2008. Daniel L. Byman, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. “Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran has been one of the worlds most active sponsors of terrorism. Tehran has armed, trained, financed, inspired, …
News release: “Washington-Baltimore area consumers paid more for utility (piped) gas (14.8 percent) and electricity (6.0 percent) than the U.S. city average, while the price of gasoline was similar to the average price charged throughout the country in January 2008 as measured by the Consumer Price Index, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. …
Workshop 8 Monitoring & Current Awareness: Mining Blogs & RSS for Research, 9:00 AM 12:00 PM, Sunday April 6, 2008 – Sabrina I. Pacifici, Law Librarian, Founder/Editor/Publisher, LLRX.com and Author, beSpacific.com. This workshop focuses on identifying and leveraging the best of free and low-fee web sites as well as web-related services to support …
Follow up to March 20, 2008 posting, Energy Efficient Compact Fluorescent Bulbs Require Proper Disposal Procedures – this interesting news: The lightbulb of the future? Luxim’s plasma lightbulb – “Silicon Valley’s Luxim has developed a lightbulb the size of a Tic Tac that gives off as much light as a streetlight. News.com’s Michael Kanellos talks …
Still Seeking a Truly Digital Life – Analysis: “The French call it ‘dematerialization’ but the search for a paperless existence continues to elude even technophiles.” Peter Sayer, IDG News Service.
“The new AIDS.gov home page provides easier access to site information and offers new features.” Prominently displayed at the top right side of the page are links to: a well designed and organized Blog, Podcasts to which users may listen and for which transcripts are provided, RSS Feeds to the podcasts, resource announcements and alerts. …
2008 Federal Disaster Declarations Declared Disasters by Year or State Major Disaster Declarations Emergency Declarations Fire Management Assistance Declarations Declaration Policies and Guidance Declaration Process Fact Sheet for Media
News release: “Sixty-five million Americans depend on broadband services for work, education, entertainment and communications. But too many other Americans have no access to broadband services, according to a new telecom industry survey. Aggravating the country’s broadband gap is the current Federal Communications Commission (FCC) definition of broadband, 200 kilobits per second. At that rate, …
“The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have initiated a joint national data center energy efficiency information program. The program coordinates a wide variety of activities from the DOE Industrial Technologies Program Save Energy Now initiative, the DOE Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP), and the EPA ENERGY STAR program. …
“Change Congress is a movement to build support for basic reform in how our government functions. Using our tools, both candidates and citizens can pledge their support for basic changes to reduce the distorting influence of money in Washington. Our community will link candidates committed to a reform with volunteers and contributors who support it.” …
