Did the Pentagon cry wolf over sequestration?
Source: Charlotte Observer Online
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-22 14:23:47 -0700 | business-news
A funny thing happened on the way to a predicted disaster: The Pentagon is learning to live with the automatic budget cuts its leaders had warned would threaten national security if they took effect. The change from near-hysteria to sober...
Pepsi to march in, as foreign troops leave Afghan
Source: The Economic Times
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-20 11:16:51 -0700 | business-news
PepsiCo will open its first plant in Afghanistan in 2014, its Afghan partner said on Monday, the same year foreign troops complete their withdrawal from the country after 13 years of war. "It will go on stream in 2014," Hamed...
Betrayed? Citizen soldiers lose jobs; US government biggest offender
Source: The Olympia
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-20 00:52:54 -0700 | business-news
Bills would ease shift into civilian life as military shrinks Bills would ease shift into civilian life as military shrinks Gabriel Bowman left the Marines nearly two years ago with a plan. He'd hit the books hard in his home...
What A Deployment Looks Like Through An Air Force Photographer's Lens
Source: BusinessInsider
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-19 13:31:50 -0700 | business-news
Boy was I surprised when a Reddit User with the twitter handle RaptorClause got back to me about these images to say that they were all "public domain." They were public domain, he explained, because they had all been taken...
Father Accepts Ashford University Diploma on Behalf of Daughter Serving in Afghanistan
Source: PR Newswire
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-17 17:38:37 -0700 | business-news
It's very exciting to be able to be a part of your child's graduation, but to get it for her while she is serving our country is an honor," said Mr. Hoffmann. "Like any father, I pushed her to complete her...
CBO: Budget track would cut deficit $1.1T by 2023
Source: Fox
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-17 16:45:16 -0700 | business-news
Published May 17, 2013 Associated Press President Barack Obama's budget would trim projected federal deficits by $1.1 trillion over the coming decade, using nearly $6 in higher revenues for every $1 in reduced spending to achieve it, Congress' nonpartisan budget...
Obama budget would cut deficits, report says
Source: Los Angeles Times
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-17 19:23:43 -0700 | business-news
President Obama 's proposed mix of tax hikes and spending cuts would reduce future budget deficits more quickly than under current laws, according to a report issued Friday that could rekindle the dormant budget wars in Washington. The outlook from...
Little Girl Throws Rays First Pitch, Realizes Catcher Is Actually Her Father Returned From ...
Source: BusinessInsider
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-18 00:57:02 -0700 | business-news
Nine year-old Alayna Adams threw out the first pitch for the Tampa Bay Rays game last night, and when the catcher took off his mask, she realized her father had returned from a year-long deployment to Afghanistan...Will Adams appeared on...
Afghan Women Harassed into Unemployment
Source: Inter Press Service
Herāt :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-17 06:55:32 -0700 | business-news
The son of a mujahedeen leader credited with fighting to keep girls' schools open in his northern Takhar province during years of civil strife from the late 1970s until the end of the Taliban era in 2001, Bek is well...
Wanted, an Afghan statesman
Source: The Hindu
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-16 19:36:17 -0700 | business-news
Old feelings and emotions long suppressed, and new urges, are being expressed, even asserted, forcefully and publicly. In the process, the contradictions of Afghan society and polity are being pushed to the surface. The old are using traditional forms: the...
Afghan scrap yards eye US gear ...
Source: Qatar English Daily
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-15 19:26:28 -0700 | business-news
US forces in Afghanistan are hoping that a small steel industry can be born from the mammoth task of withdrawing equipment by the end of next year, jump-starting a scrap trade and injecting cash into local businesses. It will cost...
Transcending Commodities And Limited Imaginations
Source: Forbes
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-15 14:23:07 -0700 | business-news
18 views Transcending Commodities And Limited Imaginations I'm not a big fan of the word commodity. At least, not in how economists would define the term. Sure, it is a perfectly good word with a perfectly reasonable meaning a...
Pentagon staff sent on mandatory unpaid leave
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-15 01:39:07 -0700 | business-news
Defence secretary Chuck Hagel has acknowledged the decision, which will see staff forced to take leave in September, is an unpopular one. But he says he made the decision after every other option to meet the congressionally mandated cuts had...
Reopening old wounds comes at a price
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-14 04:39:37 -0700 | business-news
The Australian Defence Force's compensation bill for victims of sexual and other abuse in the military will reach $84 million more than double the $40 million the government originally forecast. With many more victims coming forward to the government's military...
The Top Veterans Advocate In DC Explains What Is So Cruel And Brilliant About Obama's Budget
Source: BusinessInsider
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-11 05:32:43 -0700 | business-news
This set of cuts comes in the form of Chained CPI, a fix that entails adjusting the economic indicator that determines the annual cost of living adjustments. This effect compounds over time, costing beneficiaries thousands. If you think that sounds...
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