Nigel Jaquiss at Willy Week has an update on the Minnis Mess, complete with a statement from John Minnis' attorney Michael Staropoli:
Mr. Minnis cooperated fully with the Department of Justice investigation. He was both forthright and candid with investigators. Mr. Minnis voluntarily resigned his position at the Department of Public' [...]By Gregg Carlstrom
I started writing a post this morning about the incoherent military operations in Afghanistan that have followed Obama's surge announcement. I left it unfinished because I had to run to Capitol Hill for an interview about Lebanon; I came back to this tweet from Matt Yglesias, which' [...]
41BCT PATCH: The Sunset Patch is the official unit insignia of the Oregon Army National Guard's 41 Infantry Brigade Combat Team. It features the setting sun over a field of blue water. In 2005, the unit participated in search and rescue operations in Louisiana following the [...] By Steve Hynd
We've already covered some of the news on Afghanistan readers might have missed over Thanksgiving. Now, what about its neighbour Pakistan?
Well, the big pre-Turkey story was Jeremy Scahill's expose of the involvement of a Blackwater subsiduary in gathering intelligence, drone operation and covert operations there. The U.S.' [...]
By Dave Anderson:
In a non-cooperative, multi-iteration game, the best strategy to ensure cooperation or at least non-douchebag behavior is tit for tat. This means make a choice that punishes the opposition for being a douchebag when they previously made a choice to be douchebags, and make a choice that rewards [...]
Nigel Jaquiss reports in today’s Willamette Week that Nike, PGE and other large Oregon corporations are funneling money to oppose two tax measures on the ballot in January through the Portland Business Alliance and Associated Oregon Industries.
PPS School board director Pam Knowles recently resigned as Chief Operating Officer [...]
By Steve Hynd
Our good friend Jeremy Scahill broke a truly massive story yesterday at The Nation.
At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of [...]
Many organizations outsource customer service operations. This has been good for Sykes, a company of 33,000 employees which turned a profit last year of $60.6 million on revenues of about $820 million. Its customer service center in Milton-Freewater OR--which is less than 10 miles south of Walla Walla [...]
No money shortage, no labor strife is enough to stop the public relations juggernaut in our many local government agencies. Here's a 9-by-27 full-color glossy mailer that arrived at our place yesterday:
Ronald Kessler investigative reporter for Newsmax reports that “Imams preach jihad and extremism in 10 percent of the 2,000 mosques in the United States, the FBI estimates.”
My God, that’s 200 mosques with how many worshipers in each mosque? That’s a considerable amount of people that may be operating as [...]
Oil companies start to shut GOM operations in preparation for hurricane Ida. Currently packing winds of 105 mph, Mobile. Alabama may be target for landfall sometime on Tuesday morning.
Ida “could be a mildly bullish event” if production gets shut in, said Toby Hassall, a research analyst at CWA Global [...]
by Nancie Koerber of Central Point. Koerber started her career in sales more than 30 years ago. She has owned and operated a successful insurance agency, real estate brokerage and currently runs Champions Realtime Training in Central Point.
I've just returned from a three day trip to Washington DC with 134' [...]
