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How Many Foreign Ministers Did *You* Speak to on Thanksgiving?
The New Republic - The Plank Feed —
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From todays State Department press briefing: QUESTION: Regarding what you just said, the French newspaper Le Monde reports that the Secretary has called her counterpart Kouchner and asked for France to send 1,500 additional troops to Afghanistan. Do you have any comment on that? MR. KELLY: She did speak to the ...1 day ago -
Web 2.0 Meets Cash 1.0
The Skeptical Bureaucrat —
Authority: 126
Heres Googles announcement - via YouTube, which Google owns - of a fascinating project to create a virtual tour of the Iraq National Museum and its renowned collections of artifacts. The New York Times story on the announcement ( Google Chief Announces Plan in Baghdad to Put Iraqi Artifacts Online ) is somewhat ...1 day ago -
The Downside of Smart Power
The New Republic - Health Care Feed —
Authority: 729
After ten months of waiting, USAID finally has a new chief: Rajiv Shah, currently the agriculture department’s top scientist. Directing the country’s principal agency for administering foreign aid is a heady position for someone who is all of 36. And it’s going to be a difficult one. Shah is stepping into the ...1 day ago -
U.S. Center at Copenhagen Meeting (State launches COP-15 Website for public information)
Stupidica —
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Original Message From: Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 9:03 PM Subject: Announcement on U.S. Center at Copenhagen Climate Change Meeting (State launches COP-15 Web site to serve as resource for public information) U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesman November 25, 2009 MEDIA NOTE U.S. Department of State ...2 days ago -
Obama refuses to sign landmine treaty
Corrente —
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AP : The Obama administration has decided not to sign an international convention banning land mines. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said Tuesday that the administration recently completed a review and decided not to change the Bush-era policy. [...]More than 150 countries have agreed to the Mine Ban Treatys ...3 days ago -
Voices of U.S. Diplomacy and the Berlin Wall
The Skeptical Bureaucrat —
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Better late than never. Although the Fall of the Wall anniversary was two weeks ago, I saw only today that the State Departments U.S. Diplomacy Center has put up a fine on-line Berlin Wall Exhibit named "Voices of Diplomacy and the Berlin Wall." Check out the Archive portion of the exhibit, in particular. That is ...1 week ago -
Contaminated Industrial Site Proposed for Diplomatic Security Training Center
The Skeptical Bureaucrat —
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A commenter brought to my attention the following article from the November 20 edition of the Frederick (Maryland) News-Post, Lawmakers hope to bring federal training center to Eastalco site : Lawmakers are lobbying to bring a Bureau of Diplomatic Security training center to Frederick County, with the hope it ...1 week ago -
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran Rejects Threats And Urges More Talks
Net News Publisher —
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that Tehran rejects threats as part of a continuing campaign of psychological warfare against it and calls for more talks on the nuclear issue. In a televised speech Friday night, Ahmadinejad said the West had launched a massive propaganda campaign against the country’s civil ...1 week ago -
Retired State Department Official Pleads Guilty to Espionage
The Skeptical Bureaucrat —
Authority: 126
From the FBI press release ( Former State Department Official and Wife Plead Guilty in 30-Year Espionage Conspiracy ): At a hearing before Judge Reggie B. Walton, defendant Walter Kendall Myers, 72, aka “Agent 202,” pleaded guilty to a three-count criminal information charging him with conspiracy to commit ...1 week ago -
US puts on happy face for Copenhagen
Global Warming: Change Starts Here —
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Check out the beautiful logo designed by the US Department of State for the 15th Council of Parties meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It’s part of a federal agency Website aimed primarily at foreigners wanting to know what the red, white and blue will commit to at the December ...1 week ago -
How Do You Say Reset in Pashto?
The New Republic - The Plank Feed —
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The WaPo s Rajiv Chandrasekaran reports that the Obama administration has decided to try a little tenderness with Hamid Karzai: The new approach, which one official described as a "reset" of the relationship, will entail more engagement with members of Karzais cabinet and provincial governors, officials said, ...1 week ago -
Be careful while in Sri Lanka, US says
Thaindian News —
Authority: 729
Colombo, Nov 20 (IANS) The security situation in Sri Lanka has improved since the defeat of the Tamil Tigers but Americans travelling to the country should remain careful, the US said Friday.“The Department of State warns US citizens about the risks of travel to Sri Lanka due to continued security concerns, ...1 week ago -
DV-2011... Have You Apply Yet!
Citynoise.org Latest Articles —
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Posted in: New York, NY by Peter . Though at first glance I assumed this was yet another example of classic fractured English from the streets of NYC s Chinatown , A quick Googling showed that this is actually in reference to the 2011 Diversity Visa Program (DV-2011), the Diversity Immigrant Visa lottery (or ...1 week ago -
Rich Ambassador, Poor Ambassador
The Skeptical Bureaucrat —
Authority: 126
It was said of the plays of George Bernard Shaw - or was it Oscar Wilde? - that they consisted of "the obvious portrayed as the scandalous." I had the same reaction to this new report from the Center for Responsive Politics: Two Dozen Bankrollers-Turned-Ambassadors Bundled At Least $10 Million For Barack Obama . ...1 week ago -
Different actors, same movie on Jerusalem construction
JW Political Insider —
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Haven’t we seen this movie before? The script goes like this: Washington objects to Israeli settlement construction; there are some angry words on both sides, and then an apparent coming together around some vaguely defined, transparent face-saving compromise. Both sides insist there’s no crisis in the ...1 week ago -
Secretary Clinton -- Leader or Figurehead?
The Skeptical Bureaucrat —
Authority: 126
Kenneth Weisbrode, a historian at the European University Institute in Fiesole, Italy, has some free advice for Secstate Hillary Clinton. See Secretary Clinton -- Leader or Figurehead? As for Clinton, she still appears unsure about the kind of role she wants. Until only very recently she appears to have ...2 weeks ago -
Travel Warning [Algeria]
Stupidica —
Authority: 176
Note: The following text is a quote: Travel Warning United States Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs Washington, DC 20520 This information is current as of today, Mon Nov 16 2009 14:36:47 GMT-0800 (PST). ALGERIA November 16, 2009 The State Department warns U.S. citizens of the risks of travel to Algeria. ...2 weeks ago -
What is NIAC?
The New Republic - The Plank Feed —
Authority: 150
On Friday, TNR Contributing Editor and Washington Times national security reporter Eli Lake published a blockbuster scoop about the National Iranian American Council, (NIAC), and its founder, Trita Parsi. I recently wrote about Parsis appearance at the J Street conference, where he waived away concerns about ...2 weeks ago -
Ecuador presses for U.S. immigration reform (south of the border news)
Stupidica —
Authority: 176
Thursday, 11/12/09 La Hora (Quito, Ecuador) 11/11/09 Ecuador asks U.S. for immigration reform The issues of security, commerce and immigration between the United States and Ecuador were dealt with at the U.S. Department of State when a 25 person delegation, including Luis Gallegos, the Ecuadoran Ambassador to the ...2 weeks ago -
Victims of Bomb Blast in Israel Recovering as Suspect Indicted
Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts —
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Messianic Jews hope for punishment from courts, mercy from God, for confessed killer.ISTANBUL, November 13 (CDN) — One morning during the week of March 10, 2008 in Ariel, Israel, David Ortiz opened his Bible randomly, read the words on the pages that opened before him and was filled with dread. “I opened the book ...2 weeks ago
