So wandering around news sites came across this article about mercenary armies and their place in this violent era of history. Don't forget this private agency morphed into Academi (https://www.academi.com/.) As did Dyncorp International changed its name and continued its operation resulting from scandals of corruption and various laws broken so does Blackwater keeps it business doors open,

Here are a couple…

I had become curious of what the story is with Iceland and there dealings with the IMF.

This inquiry discusses what had transpired with their economic collapse and their banks. Still tied to the IMF, it says they had handled their debts differently than what most most countries would do. 

 Here is an excerpt from a website dealing in the matters of which I pondered, …

Found this article stating the proposed recreational marijuana stores are getting ready to open.  The article is from the Bellingham Herald. Heres a link to the source article, http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2014/06/25/3718861/three-pot-stories-in-bellingham.html?sp=/99/100/&ihp=1

"Three proposed retail marijuana stores in Bellingham are ready for final…

By GENE JOHNSON

Associated PressFebruary 27, 2014

By DIDI TANG

Associated PressFebruary 28, 2014 

23andMe to follow FDA order to halt test sales

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Genetic testing company 23andMe Inc. will comply with a Food and Drug Administration directive to stop selling health-related genetic tests during a regulatory review.

The Mountain View, Calif., company said late Thursday that it will continue to provide ancestry-related information to customers and raw genetic data without…

By BRAD SHANNON

Staff writerDecember  6, 2013

Tina Roose and Teresa Guarjado sign papers for a marriage license at midnight Dec. 6, 2012,  the first moment same-sex marriage became legal in Washington.

The Associated PressNovember 30, 2013

Blaze Bioscience has raised $9 million to further its clinical development of its first product designed to illuminate cancer cells during surgery.

By Seattle Times business staff

Blaze Bioscience has raised $9 million to further its development of its first product designed to illuminate cancer cells during surgery.

The financing, mostly from previous investors, brings the Seattle biotechnology company’s total funding since 2010 to $19…

The Metropolitan King County Council is considering zoning for pot businesses in unincorporated areas. Redmond Ridge residents are not happy that pot growers would be allowed in their community.

The Associated PressNovember 29, 2013 

By SCOTT MAYEROWITZ

AP Business WriterDecember 2, 2013

http://www.oregonlive.com/paths-to-a-deadly-encounter/#incart_hbx#incart_best-of

Follow the link to The Oregonian.  The lay out of this news story is way more elaborate than a cut and paste.  From the classes I've taken in journalism, this is by far the closest to what I was told that news writing was heading towards.

A Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden has been charged with murder over a 2006 surgery he performed, his lawyer said Friday, raising new doubts whether the physician will regain his freedom.

By RIAZ KHAN

QAZI RAUF / AP

Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi

Associated…

The former agent, James Contreras, resigned last year amid an internal investigation into his dealings with a rogue informant

By Mike Carter and Steve…

The Associated PressNovember 22, 2013

NEWTOWN, Conn. — A summary of the investigation into the shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School will be released Monday, Connecticut prosecutors said.

The report by the prosecutor who has led the investigation, State's Attorney Stephen Sedensky III, will not include the entire state police evidence file, which runs…