1 day ago by still4hill

Having proven himself the Super-Ambassador, traveling to Homs and other hot-beds of Syrian conflict, Ambassador Robert S. Ford is maintaining his contact with the Syrian people via Facebook even though our physical Embassy Damascus is closed and American personnel have been recalled. In today’s pres ...

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1 day ago by Christopher Coen

Left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing? According to an article from Chattanooga, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) David M. Robinson claims that Tennessee’s new law – that mandates refugee resettlement agencies to report quarterly to local ...

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1 day ago by still4hill

Public Schedule for February 10, 2012 Public Schedule Washington, DC February 10, 2012 SECRETARY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON 11:30 a.m. Secretary Clinton attends a meeting at the White House. (MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE) 1:30 p.m. Secretary Clinton meets with Counselor Cheryl Mills and Administrator ...

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1 day ago by carlunegbu

Funnyman Jay Leno is back in court and we have seen this script before. Just last month, the Sikh religion found itself at the butt of Leno’s jokes and the Sikh faithful did not find the stuff amusing. So, early the next week, Randeep Dhillon, an Indian-American and a Sikh, filed a defamation lawsui ...

O'Carl's Law - Reflections ... - carlunegbu.wordpress.com · 2 references

1 day ago by Chairman Ku

I have been puzzled by the Obama administration's policy in the Middle East in general, but especially with how it has handled Iran and Syria . The administration's rhetoric wants to use the negotiation route with Iran but then in Syria it wants to overthrow Assad. Obviously Assad is killing many pr ...

Chairman Ku's Little Blue Book - chairmanku.blogspot.com · 2 references

1 day ago by Sarah Laskow

By Sarah Laskow The State Department’s Inspector General has delivered his report on the Keystone XL environmental review process, and concludes that TransCanada did not improperly influence the assessment. The gist of the report is that the review wasn’t corrupt, just incompetent. Two nuclear new r ...

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2 days ago by Carrie La Seur

The State Department’s Inspector General has just released its Special Review of the Keystone XL Pipeline Permit Process, conducted at the request of several members of Congress. The question boiled down to: “To what extent and in what manner did TransCanada improperly influence the Department in th ...

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2 days ago by Charles II

When in doubt: The bizarre hypocrisy of the State Department in the Honduras coup, in which the machine gunning of the presidential palace in the early hours of the morning, and the exile of the elected president was deemed not to be a military coup has now been amplified by its strange response to ...

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2 days ago by Reliable Sources

… our goal has been to shift our reliance on contractors to basically hiring local Iraqis. This is what the Iraqis want, and quite frankly, that’s what we want because it’s cheaper, it’s more important to be part of the community. And so first and foremost, our goal has always been to, over this yea ...

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2 days ago by Zuo Shou / 左手

By Heather Cottin Published Feb 5, 2012 10:23 PM When the New York Times publishes an op-ed piece stating that Honduras is “descending deeper into a human rights and security abyss” and adds that this is “in good part the State Department’s making,” something is changing. (Jan. 26) Since the U.S. go ...

Sweet & Sour Socialism ... - sweetandsoursocialism.wordpress.com · 26 references