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Breaking News: State Dept Does Not/Not Like Nipples Nor Damn ACLU Letter
The Foreign Service blog community lit up today with the State Department’s brainless judgement and censorship in action. A community manager or two running the blog roll at careers.state.gov (managed...
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US Embassy Bangui: 15% Danger Post With Terrifically Bad Trimmings, It’s Not...
State/OIG recently posted its inspection report of the US Embassy in Bangui, a 15% danger pay post, as well as a 35% COLA and 35% hardship differential pay assignment. The inspection took place in...
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New Sounding Board Topic: “Please don’t share the Sounding Board with Al Kamen.”
Posted: 2:53 am EDT Rats and diplomacy: An unhealthy stew http://t.co/82mNHb5L4z Rats in cafeteria rattle State Department employees — Al Kamen (@KamenIntheLoop) June 9, 2015 . We have it in good...
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NEA and SPP Language Divisions Moving Out of the Foreign Service Institute?
Posted: 12:47 am EDT The Foreign Service Institute is located at the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center (NFATC) in Arlington, Virginia. An expansion of facilities on FSI’s...
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A Joke That Wasn’t, and a State Department Dialogue That Is Long Overdue
Posted: 2:41 am ET Apparently, there was a recent Sounding Board (SB) post about how “a DS agent made a rape joke in front of a whole class (60+) without thinking anything of the joke.” It took us a...
View ArticleTillerson to Shut Down @StateDept’s Sounding Board, Erase 7 Years of...
Posted: 5:11 am ET [twitter-follow screen_name=’Diplopundit’] On August 17, the State Department released an eDepartment Notice that the Sounding Board will be “retired” as of August 31st. A red...
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