Jul 24, 2013

Cambodia Rejects Opposition Leader's Bid to Run in Election

Cambodia Rejects Opposition Leader's Bid to Run in Election

Rebels with a Cause Slam Corporate Greed

Rebels with a Cause Slam Corporate Greed

What the N.S.A. Wants in Brazil : The New Yorker

What the N.S.A. Wants in Brazil : The New Yorker

Al Jazeera Accuses Egypt Authorities of Intimidation Campaign

Al Jazeera Accuses Egypt Authorities of Intimidation Campaign

CIA closing bases in Afghanistan as it shifts focus amid military drawdown - The Washington Post

CIA closing bases in Afghanistan as it shifts focus amid military drawdown - The Washington Post

Whites-only enclave resurrects old pains - The Washington Post

Whites-only enclave resurrects old pains - The Washington Post

Poll: Privacy concerns rise after NSA leaks - The Washington Post

Poll: Privacy concerns rise after NSA leaks - The Washington Post

Snowden Will Remain at Moscow Airport - Lawyer

Snowden Will Remain at Moscow Airport - Lawyer

Why NSA Surveillance Should Alarm Labor - In These Times

Why NSA Surveillance Should Alarm Labor - In These Times

Jul 18, 2013

Al-Jazeera Under Fire For Its Coverage Of Egypt : Parallels : NPR

Al-Jazeera Under Fire For Its Coverage Of Egypt : Parallels : NPR

In Today's Beijing, Flash Ferraris And Fading Traditions : NPR

In Today's Beijing, Flash Ferraris And Fading Traditions : NPR

The Dark Side of Green Growth | Human Rights Watch

The Dark Side of Green Growth | Human Rights Watch

No Ordinary Day in Moscow | Human Rights Watch

No Ordinary Day in Moscow | Human Rights Watch

Turkey: End Incorrect, Unlawful Use of Teargas | Human Rights Watch

Turkey: End Incorrect, Unlawful Use of Teargas | Human Rights Watch

Would an American Jury Even Convict Edward Snowden? - Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic

Would an American Jury Even Convict Edward Snowden? - Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic

Edward Snowden book coming from reporter Glenn Greenwald - latimes.com

Edward Snowden book coming from reporter Glenn Greenwald - latimes.com

Jul 17, 2013

Lawyers Try to Find a Way for Sam Rainsy to Contest Elections

Lawyers Try to Find a Way for Sam Rainsy to Contest Elections

Chinese Activist Held After Transparency Campaign

Chinese Activist Held After Transparency Campaign

Jailed Vietnamese Blogger in Fourth Week of Hunger Strike

Jailed Vietnamese Blogger in Fourth Week of Hunger Strike

Panama Finds Suspected Weapons On North Korean Ship | The Irrawaddy Magazine

Panama Finds Suspected Weapons On North Korean Ship | The Irrawaddy Magazine

Freedom of the Press, Vietnam Style | The Irrawaddy Magazine

Freedom of the Press, Vietnam Style | The Irrawaddy Magazine

China Detains Another Activist Who Pressed About Leaders’ Wealth | The Irrawaddy Magazine

China Detains Another Activist Who Pressed About Leaders’ Wealth | The Irrawaddy Magazine

Jul 15, 2013

Hostess Returns With 'The Sweetest Comeback in the History of Ever'

Hostess Returns With 'The Sweetest Comeback in the History of Ever'

Yahoo starts resetting IDs of inactive accounts, lets you build a wish list of five usernames for August release - The Next Web

Yahoo starts resetting IDs of inactive accounts, lets you build a wish list of five usernames for August release - The Next Web

ICC Lets Kenyan Vice-President Skip Court Appearances - Institute for War and Peace Reporting - P213

ICC Lets Kenyan Vice-President Skip Court Appearances - Institute for War and Peace Reporting - P213

Kenya: Too Little Action on Hate Speech? - Institute for War and Peace Reporting - P213

Kenya: Too Little Action on Hate Speech? - Institute for War and Peace Reporting - P213

The Promise: The Families of Sandy Hook and the Long Road to Gun Safety

Friends and Colleagues –

The PromiseBrookings has published a superb new essay by Matt Bennett that I wanted to call to your attention. It's the second offering in the new Brookings long-form series, The Brookings Essay.

In The Promise: The Families of Sandy Hook and the Long Road to Gun Safety, Matt Bennett tells the story of Sandy Hook Promise, the gun safety advocacy organization formed by the victims’ families in Newtown, Connecticut.  He offers an in-depth look at the difficulty in challenging one of the most sophisticated special interest groups in modern history and the perseverance by a uniquely dedicated team of advocates.

Matt and I also recorded a video conversation about his piece, which is featured in the essay itself. You can read the essay and watch the video here:


Matt Bennett serves as Senior Vice President for Public Affairs and co-founder at Third Way, the D.C.-based think tank that has worked with Sandy Hook Promise on behalf of sensible gun safety laws in the wake of their personal tragedies. 

I think you'll find both his essay and his comments enlightening and inspiring, and hope you can join the conversation about The Promise with me on Twitter using the hashtag #ThePromise.

Sincerely,

Senior Fellow, Governance Studies at Brookings
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How to delete or move a lot of Gmail messages | PCWorld

How to delete or move a lot of Gmail messages | PCWorld

How to use Facebook's Graph Search (and why you would even want to) | TechHive

How to use Facebook's Graph Search (and why you would even want to) | TechHive

Time to Be Bold - By James Traub | Foreign Policy

Time to Be Bold - By James Traub | Foreign Policy

U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News To Americans | The Cable

U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News To Americans | The Cable

Search engine on Apakabar news archives 1990-2002 -- plus others

English: A panorama of 4 segments of an Amster...
English: A panorama of 4 segments of an Amsterdam Canal in summer. Français : Un canal d'Amsterdam en été. Image panoramique réalisée en combinant 4 clichés obtenus avec un appareil Canon 5D et une lentille 24-105mm f/4L IS. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
From Gerry van Klinken <Klinken@kitlv.nl> July 15, 2013



Dear all,

Ridho Reinanda, researcher in the Elite Network Shifts project (http://www.kitlv.nl/home/Projects?id=25), has opened up another historical news archive with his Lucene search engine. It is John MacDougall's apakabar news service, the first Indonesian online news service of the internet era, with tens of 1000s of articles dating between 1990 and 2002:
Try the ngram viewer ('document histogram'). Putting "*" into the search box yields a graph of the number of articles per year.

The others are these:
http://zookma.science.uva.nl/ENS/kb_search/ - Royal Netherlands Library - digitised Dutch newspapers, including some published in Indonesia.
http://zookma.science.uva.nl/ENS/islands_search/ - 'spidered' Indonesian newspapers from around the archipelago post New Order
http://zookma.science.uva.nl/ENS/joyo_search/ - Joyo English language news service.

The search interface is experimental, 'as is', without warranty. For example, there seem to be some connectivity issues for users far from Amsterdam.

Please read the help page to learn how to exploit its full potential (including proximity searching).

Feel free to pass this on.

Gerry


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Tough Times for Afghan Hindus and Sikhs - Institute for War and Peace Reporting - P142

Tough Times for Afghan Hindus and Sikhs - Institute for War and Peace Reporting - P142

Helmand Gathering Calls for Afghan Election Delay - Institute for War and Peace Reporting - P142

Helmand Gathering Calls for Afghan Election Delay - Institute for War and Peace Reporting - P142

Editorial: Follies of sequestration - Times Union

Editorial: Follies of sequestration - Times Union

Journalist: Snowden has enough information to cause US government worst damage in history | Fox News

Journalist: Snowden has enough information to cause US government worst damage in history | Fox News

Jul 12, 2013

Malaysians Must Know the TRUTH: ‘No need to replace Sedition Act’

Malaysians Must Know the TRUTH: ‘No need to replace Sedition Act’

Egypt's bruised Islamists protest as U.S. calls for Morsi's release - Middle East - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper

Egypt's bruised Islamists protest as U.S. calls for Morsi's release - Middle East - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper

Guangdong Anti-Nuke Marchers Win Concession

Guangdong Anti-Nuke Marchers Win Concession

Call for China Women's Rights Court to Address Labor Bias

Call for China Women's Rights Court to Address Labor Bias

Dozens of Inmates, Including Terrorists, Flee Indonesian Prison - NYTimes.com

Dozens of Inmates, Including Terrorists, Flee Indonesian Prison - NYTimes.com

U.S. life expectancy on the rise, but progress lags global peers’ - The Washington Post

U.S. life expectancy on the rise, but progress lags global peers’ - The Washington Post

Toshi Seeger, Wife of Folk-Singing Legend, Dies at 91 - NYTimes.com

Toshi Seeger, Wife of Folk-Singing Legend, Dies at 91 - NYTimes.com

Trafficking Monitor: BBC News - Why are so many of the UK's missing teenagers Vietnamese?

Trafficking Monitor: BBC News - Why are so many of the UK's missing teenagers Vietnamese?

Gaga for Google - In These Times

Gaga for Google - In These Times

Singapore Dissident: Singapore, brace for islandwide disorder and instability on 92 year old Lee Kuan Yew's death

Singapore Dissident: Singapore, brace for islandwide disorder and instability on 92 year old Lee Kuan Yew's death

Local university scholarships gaining popularity: survey - Channel NewsAsia

Local university scholarships gaining popularity: survey - Channel NewsAsia