Archive for the 'Outsourced' Category
Mercenaries in Afghanistan: “Lord of the Flies Environment”
September 2nd, 2009Via: New York Daily News: Secretary of State Clinton ordered an investigation on Tuesday into the Animal House revels of private guards at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan – including booze, hookers and other “deviant behavior.” “These are very serious allegations, and we are treating them that way,” State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said of […]
CIA Hired Blackwater for Assassination Program
August 21st, 2009“Blackwater is a CIA cutout that got so big that it just happened to become a household name.” —Feds Investigating Blackwater USA for Selling Weapons to Iraqi Insurgency I’ve asserted (for years) that Blackwater was a CIA contractor. Now that Blackwater’s involvement with CIA covert assassination programs has been admitted, my guess is that it’s […]
Massachusetts Deputizes Dentists, Others to Help with Vaccinations
August 13th, 2009Via: Boston Globe: Massachusetts health authorities took the unprecedented step yesterday of deputizing dentists, paramedics, and pharmacists to help administer vaccines against both the seasonal flu and the novel swine strain expected to make a return visit in the fall. In another emergency measure, regulators directed hospitals and clinics to provide vaccine to all their […]
Unemployed? Work to Pass Obamacare, $9 to $14 per Hour
August 10th, 2009The organization behind this is called Fund for Public Interest Research. Via: Craigslist: Aug 7 – Make social change – Help Pass Obama’s Health Care Reform!!! – (Sacramento) Jul 31 – Help Pass Obama’s Health Care Reform! Earn $325-550 per week! – (Sacramento) Jul 29 – Work to Pass Obama’s Plans this Summer! Earn $9-14/hr! […]
Blackwater Mercenaries Had Child Prostitutes on Base in Iraq
August 8th, 2009Video Backup: RawStory Research Credit: ltcolonelnemo
Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder
August 5th, 2009Via: The Nation: A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company’s owner, Erik Prince, may have murdered or facilitated […]
Detroit: The Post-Apocalyptic Future of American Cities?
July 23rd, 2009Update: Is This Story Bullshit? A couple of readers from Detroit have written in and are saying that this story is bullshit and that they they haven’t seen any barbedwired burbclaves. —End Update— Burbclaves. Via: Al Martin: Here’s a glimpse of a Turn Key Approach to Urban Wasteland Management ™. Last week I had a […]
Fears for the World’s Poor Countries as the Rich Grab Land to Grow Food
July 5th, 2009A pants shitting, must read. Via: Guardian: The acquisition of farmland from the world’s poor by rich countries and international corporations is accelerating at an alarming rate, with an area half the size of Europe’s farmland targeted in the last six months, reports from UN officials and agriculture experts say. New reports from the UN […]
China Loans Zimbabwe US$950 Million
June 30th, 2009There will be something in the dirt that China wants to dig up. Or, maybe just the dirt would do. More: China arable land fears end reforestation drive Arable land shrinking fast Via: BBC: China has agreed to give Zimbabwe a loan of $950m (£573m) to help it revive its battered economy, Prime Minister Morgan […]
More Obama Lies: Signing Statement on $106B War Bill
June 28th, 2009Via: The Hill: President Obama signed the $106 billion war-spending bill into law Friday, but not without taking a page from his predecessor and ignoring a few elements in the legislation. Obama included a five-paragraph signing statement with the bill, including a final paragraph that outlined his objections to at least four areas of the […]
