Posted on June 18th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Blackwater is in the news again with a very interesting twist that should put the wingnuts in a tizzy:
The private military company Blackwater has cultivated a patriotic reputation, with its staff of retired military and former police officers, and the requirement that most of its workers swear an oath to support and defend the U.S. [...]
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Filed under: Afghanistan, Conservatives, In The News, Military, Political News, Politics, State Politics, War, Wingnuts
Posted on December 20th, 2007 by Darrell Prows
Where are the adults? Is there anyone in charge? Anyone at all? Yeah, I know we have “The Decider”. But I know that there is also supposed to be oversight. And I have the distinct impression that a very large majority of our population would be completely surprised to learn how far under radar the [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on December 17th, 2007 by Hank Edson
The Facts
The facts are despicable, criminal, worse than animal, just absolutely ugly. In 2005, 20-year-old Jamie Leigh Jones of Houston, Texas had just signed on to work in Iraq for a Halliburton subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown, and Root (KBR), one of the private military contractors most used by the United States military. Just two days after [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on December 13th, 2007 by Dizzy Dezzi
I’ve got work for the next three nights, so I may not be functioning at peak blogging mode for a few days. But, since my job involves music and in light of the fact that Ike Turner (he formerly of Ike & Tina Turner) has passed away I’m offering this video in his honor: River [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on October 30th, 2007 by Dizzy Dezzi
So many posts, so little time.
Without further ado…
From Brilliant at Breakfast.
* If parents didn’t buy these, there’d be no need to offer them:
I’m not saying that kids should be forbidden to have any allure until they’re in their 20’s, nor am I saying that a little bit of dress-up is always inappropriate. I went to [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on October 23rd, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
In response to reports that Blackwater USA “may have engaged in significant tax evasion,” Senator John Kerry called on the Small Business Administration (SBA) today to explain its potential involvement.
“The Bush Administration can’t hide Blackwater in the shadows anymore- it’s time to bring all of their dealings to light,” said Senator Kerry, Chairman of the Committee on [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on October 22nd, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Henry Waxman asserted today that Blackwater USA “may have engaged in significant tax evasion.”
In a letter to Blackwater Chairman Erik Prince, panel Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) noted that the IRS earlier this year ruled that the company “violated federal tax laws by treating an armed guard as an [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on October 15th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
Today’s L.A. Times has a piece on the Blackwater investigation and the implications it holds for the Bush administration: America’s own unlawful combatants?
As the Bush administration deals with the fallout from the recent killings of civilians by private security firms in Iraq, some officials are asking whether the contractors could be considered unlawful combatants under [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on October 14th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
There’s two pieces on the ever growing Blackwater mess, that are in the must read category, that I wanted to point out before calling it a night…
First, is a piece in the Sunday N.Y. Times: New Evidence That Blackwater Guards Took No Fire.
Fresh accounts of the Blackwater shooting last month, given by three rooftop witnesses [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on October 25th, 2006 by John Freeland
The film Iraq for Sale by Robert Greenwald showed at a local college last night. I went over and watched it after work. It’s being shown all over the U.S. and Canada this fall and Senator Kerry is scheduled to host a screening in Ohio tonight. This is a modest film, in a budgetary sense, [...]
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Filed under: Economy, Iraq, John Kerry, National Security, Politics
