Myanmar villagers still struggle year after storm
The Associated Press Wednesday, April 29, 2009; 3:15 AM
OAK-KYIUT, Myanmar -- The boat's owner points to a palm-covered bend in the river where dozens of bamboo huts perched on spindly stilts _ until Cyclone Nargis devastated this remote region a year ago.
"There were many, many bodies," Tin Maung Thein, 57, says through an interpreter, gesturing toward a lush expanse of green where bloated corpses once gently nudged the high tide mark.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/29/AR2009042900394.html
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
"What's fair is foul... and foul is fair" - Gary Ackerman (originally Macbeth)
U.S. Seeks New Tack on Burma
Carrot-and-Stick Approach May Replace Sanctions Diplomacy
By Tim JohnstonWashington Post Foreign Service Sunday, April 12, 2009
BANGKOK -- When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced recently that the United States was reviewing its policy of sanctions against Burma's government, it marked the final recognition of a global failure to modify the behavior of one of the world's most repressive regimes.
"Clearly, the path we have taken in imposing sanctions hasn't influenced the Burmese junta," Clinton said during a visit to Asia in February. "Reaching out and trying to engage them hasn't worked, either."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/11/AR2009041102320.html
Carrot-and-Stick Approach May Replace Sanctions Diplomacy
By Tim JohnstonWashington Post Foreign Service Sunday, April 12, 2009
BANGKOK -- When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced recently that the United States was reviewing its policy of sanctions against Burma's government, it marked the final recognition of a global failure to modify the behavior of one of the world's most repressive regimes.
"Clearly, the path we have taken in imposing sanctions hasn't influenced the Burmese junta," Clinton said during a visit to Asia in February. "Reaching out and trying to engage them hasn't worked, either."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/11/AR2009041102320.html
the congressman can write... he needs a new car though...
President Obama speaks at National Academy of Sciences
Hey, Prez... what about NIH budget ?
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENTAT THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ANNUAL MEETINGNational Academy of SciencesWashington, D.C.
9:12 A.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you so much for the wonderful welcome. To President Cicerone, thank you very much for your leadership and for hosting us today. To John Holdren, thanks, John, for the outstanding work that you are doing.I was just informed backstage that Ralph and John both are 1965 graduates of MIT -- same class. And so I'm not sure this is the perfectly prescribed scientific method, but they're sort of a control group -- (laughter) -- who ages faster: The President's Science Advisor or the President of the Academy? (Laughter.) And we'll check in in a couple of years. But it is wonderful to see them.
( read all at link belwo )
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-the-National-Academy-of-Sciences-Annual-Meeting/
( Now why did they announce all the pig flu news after the President's tour of Latin America ? Is it because there's no HHS Secretary appointed yet ? Who's gonna place the order for all the (Tami) flu contracts ? )
9:12 A.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you so much for the wonderful welcome. To President Cicerone, thank you very much for your leadership and for hosting us today. To John Holdren, thanks, John, for the outstanding work that you are doing.I was just informed backstage that Ralph and John both are 1965 graduates of MIT -- same class. And so I'm not sure this is the perfectly prescribed scientific method, but they're sort of a control group -- (laughter) -- who ages faster: The President's Science Advisor or the President of the Academy? (Laughter.) And we'll check in in a couple of years. But it is wonderful to see them.
( read all at link belwo )
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-the-National-Academy-of-Sciences-Annual-Meeting/
( Now why did they announce all the pig flu news after the President's tour of Latin America ? Is it because there's no HHS Secretary appointed yet ? Who's gonna place the order for all the (Tami) flu contracts ? )
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
OK... I get it...
My friend, the fund manager of RMH Enterprise Funds told me that my blog sucks because it doesn't offer anything to the reader. He said it's just esoteric news. I see... but I see the way the blind monks see the elephant... but I've thought of a catch - I will post the stock picks of RMH Enterprise Funds on this blog so that the readers can make money... Now, if you can make money because you read my blog, then, I think you will read my blog.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
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