Who's Lovin' you, baby? - Kojak

This dude is smart... check out his work...

Amory Lovins - Global Energy Seminar Series, US State Dept on May 4th, 2009

Scientist Amory Lovins added two more awards to his collection, TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people designation and National Design Awards' "Design Mind" honor. The 2009 TIME 100 included Lovins with the likes of Edward Kennedy, Gordon Brown, Angela Merkel, and Barack Obama. A short write-up by Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club, credited Lovins for his foresight on energy strategy.

http://www.rmi.org/images/PDFs/Energy/E77-01_TheRoadNotTaken.pdf

From $3M to $50M... thank you, Nargis (?)

One Year After Cyclone Nargis: Aid to Burma Still Crucial - by Refugees International

Wed, 04/29/2009 - 16:50

Washington, D.C. - One year after Cyclone Nargis struck the Burmese delta on May 2, a sustained effort is still needed to ensure that aid operations continue to assist the Burmese people, Refugees International said today. Nearly 80 humanitarian agencies responded effectively to the disaster by restructuring their programs to meet the most pressing needs and successfully training thousands of new Burmese staff in humanitarian operations. As a result, the United Nations says that one million people received food aid, nearly 200,000 households got agricultural support and half a million children received help in education.

http://www.refugeesinternational.org/press-room/press-release/one-year-after-cyclone-nargis-aid-burma-still-crucial

"I'm just the cook... " - Casey Ryback

Myanmar ignores US request to see detained citizen
The Associated PressFriday, May 8, 2009 8:37 AM
YANGON, Myanmar -- The U.S. Embassy said Friday that the Myanmar government has ignored its repeated requests for access to an American arrested for allegedly swimming to the lakeside home of detained Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and sneaking inside.
The man's motives remained unclear, and the embassy said so far the only information the military-ruled government has offered is the man's name _ John William Yettaw _ and his passport number. ..

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/12/AR2009051200952.html

"What a tangled web we weave" - Walter Scott

U.S. Diplomat, Burmese Official Meet
White House Is Reviewing Policy Toward Nation

By Glenn KesslerWashington Post Staff Writer Thursday, March 26, 2009

A senior U.S. diplomat met with the Burmese foreign minister in the ruling junta's jungle capital yesterday, possibly signaling a softening in the tense relations between the two countries.
The Obama administration is conducting a high-profile review of its policy toward Burma, including whether unilateral sanctions have been effective, and the State Department issued a statement late yesterday saying the visit by Stephen Blake, director of the office for mainland Southeast Asia, "does not reflect a change in policy or approach to Burma."
read all - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/25/AR2009032503116.html

"Same as it ever was" - Talking Heads

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

"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

the congressman can write... he needs a new car though...

http://www.house.gov/list/speech/ny05_ackerman/WGS_041708.html

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 ? )

OK... I get it...

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