23 May 2012. Back in March local level governments in Japan set up a help hotline for refugees from Iwate, Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures. Supposedly this was to insure that refugees were able to be heard by local government officials.
So far only about 10% of those who call are getting through. Out of the 370,000 […] Continue Reading…
23 May 2012, two parliamentary committees have rejected the military pact signed in a midnight meeting between Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and U.S. President Barack Obama.
One of those committees is the Judicial Committee, which ruled that the military pact violates the national interests of Afghans. The pact must be approved by the Afghan parliament.
Qorban-Ali […] Continue Reading…
The following is ISAF commander, U.S. General John R. Allen’s 21 May 2012 statement following the NATO/Afghanistan summit in Chicago. It shows that not only will the U.S. stay in Afghanistan, but considers the whole region vital to U.S. national interest.
I am grateful for the overwhelming commitment from the international community to support Afghanistan […] Continue Reading…
23 May 2012, Hewlett-Packard (HP) is expected to layoff another 25,000 employees according to an unnamed source, reported in a CNN/Fortune article.
The original report of the 25,000 job cuts came from Bloomberg on 17 May 2012. It includes about “…10,000 to 15,000 from Hewlett-Packard’s enterprise services group.” HP’s enterprise services is headquartered in Plano, […] Continue Reading…
Preamble
We, the nations contributing to ISAF, and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, met today in Chicago to renew our firm commitment to a sovereign, secure and democratic Afghanistan. In line with the strategy which we agreed at the Lisbon Summit, ISAF’s mission will be concluded by the end of 2014. But […] Continue Reading…
22 May 2012, U.S. led NATO has agreed to hand over combat command to the puppet government of Afghanistan by mid 2013, and withdraw the majority of U.S./NATO and other occupying forces by the end of 2014.
And to prove that your tax money will still be hard at work in the Central Asian country, […] Continue Reading…
“Nobody had an inkling of the serious problem of false confessions until we had this data.”-Rob Warden, Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University
“We know there are many more that we haven’t found…It’s clear that the exonerations we found are the tip of the iceberg.” -Samuel Gross, University of Michigan
So much for the U.S. […] Continue Reading…
20 May 2012, Iraq revealed they will be using larger UAVs to patrol their Persian Gulf oil rigs. The program is known as Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS).
Iraq already operates the smaller Scan Eagle drones.
20 May 2012, at least two people killed in U.S. drone attack. Local officials say the Yemen army is on […] Continue Reading…
“We recognize the hardship that the Afghan people have been through. Both of us recognize that we still have a lot of work to do. The loss of life continues in Afghanistan. There will be hard days ahead, but we’re confident that we’re on the right track.”-Barack Obama, President of the United States, May […] Continue Reading…
May 20, 2012, Afghan Mujahideen claim they’ve killed or wounded 17 U.S. personnel in Khost Province. Mujahideen claim they attacked a U.S. outpost on the Afghan/Pakistan border.
Afghan and ISAF officials reported they killed four Mujahideen in Kunar Province. In Paktika Province four Mujahideen were killed as they attacked a military base. Also local police […] Continue Reading…