The News Review:
- Overstretch: Modern Army’s weakness
- UPI NewsTrack Entertainment News.
- Meaningful UN Reform
- Kanye Modestly Hypes New LP – News Story | Music, Celebrity, Artist…
- Kanye West’s new album is put back
Overstretch: Modern Army’s weakness
BBC News – Jun 16, 2005
Britain’s armed forces are struggling to maintain comparability and more importantly interoperability (the ability to safely work together) with their American counterparts. "The overall result has been armed forces that in many ways are viewed as the model of modernity by many of our European partners" At the same time the level of operational deployments overseas has risen sharply. Britain has sent military personnel on operations in such diverse areas as East Timor, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, the Balkans and most recently, Iraq. Sustaining this deployment rate has been a challenge for the services. For example, during Operation Telic, the invasion of Iraq, the British army had almost 60% of its personnel engaged in, or preparing for, operations. And the average Royal Navy destroyer or frigate spends more time at sea now than its World War II counterpart. Partly offsetting this has been the end of the requirement to counter the Soviet threat.
UPI NewsTrack Entertainment News.
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Meaningful UN Reform
Washington Post – Jun 16, 2005
peacekeepers have sexually abused children in Bosnia, Congo, Sierra Leone and elsewhere. A culture of concealment makes rudimentary financial oversight virtually impossible. A casual attitude toward conflict-of-interest rules undermines trust in the organization’s basic governance. Today the House will vote on a comprehensive U.
Kanye Modestly Hypes New LP – News Story | Music, Celebrity, Artist…
MTV.com – Jun 16, 2005
“The lyrics are very good, trust me,” he said. On the track, Kanye says the government intentionally spreads AIDS and implicates Ronald Reagan in bringing down the Black Panthers. ‘I’mma kill you, n—a, I’mma kill you, n—a, I’mma kill you, n—a’ — but saying, ‘I’m going to dinner with a white woman’ or ‘Diamonds come from Sierra Leone’ is way more disruptive,” Kanye explained. “But I had to get it off my chest. Then he played “Bring Me Down,” which was arranged by the album’s co-executive producer Jon Brion (Aimee Mann, Fiona Apple) and has a chorus sung by Brandy. West said he thought it would be interesting to have the former sweetheart say, “I always knew that one day they’d try to bring me down.
Kanye West’s new album is put back
RTE.ie – Jun 16, 2005
The tracklisting for the album has not been finalised, but West previously said that John Legend and John Mayer would appear as guests. Rapper Common told Billboard. com that he also expected to appear. The video for the album’s first single, ‘Diamonds from Sierra Leone’, premiered last night in the US.