{"id":220,"date":"2003-11-07T11:19:28","date_gmt":"2003-11-07T15:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=220"},"modified":"2003-11-07T11:19:28","modified_gmt":"2003-11-07T15:19:28","slug":"casual-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"Casual Observations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bremer has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn\/A9898-2003Nov6?language=printer\">announced<\/a> plans to expand the US-led occupation authority with the appointment of two deputies to oversee the disbursement of the recently approved $20 billion to private American contractors.  Bremer claims this will free him up to work on an Iraq constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting to me are the responsibilites Bremer&#8217;s designated for U.S. Army Lt. General, Ret., Joseph Kellogg:<\/p>\n<p><i>Kellogg, the former commanding general of the Army&#8217;s 82nd Airborne Division, will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the occupation authority, including the training of new Iraqi security forces and the reconstruction of the oil and electricity sectors.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Kellogg is a highly decorated veteran who hasn&#8217;t exactly been sitting on his laurels since retiring from the Army where he<i> &#8220;served as Director of command, control, communications, and computers (C4), J-6, for The Joint Staff.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2100-1009-5073237.html\">In July<\/a> of this year, Kellogg <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontechnology.com\/news\/18_9\/defense\/21328-1.html\">joined Oracle<\/a>, the Redwood Shores, Calif., software firm, as senior vice president of homeland security solutions.<\/p>\n<p>If he takes stock option tips from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizen.org\/pressroom\/release.cfm?ID=1167\">Oracle CEO Larry Ellison<\/a>, his new position should be a very profitable one. <\/p>\n<p>Then on <a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/bw\/031029\/295843_1.html\">October 29, 2003<\/a>, the commerical e-commerce and reseller <a href=\"http:\/\/www.us.net\/signal\/Archive\/Jan01\/federal-jan.html\">GTSI<\/a> announced the election of Kellogg to its Board of Directors.  <a href=\"http:\/\/ragingbull.lycos.com\/mboard\/boards.cgi?board=GTSI&#038;read=1201\">GTSI<\/a> has the war on terrorism to thank for its rags to something near riches story.<\/p>\n<p>I expect that story is about to add a very profitable chapter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bremer has announced plans to expand the US-led occupation authority with the appointment of two deputies to oversee the disbursement of the recently approved $20 billion to private American contractors. Bremer claims this will free him up to work on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=220\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}