Archive for the 'Outsourced' Category
Blackwater Worldwide Changes Its Name to Xe; Same Mercenaries, but Now with More “Aviation Support”
February 14th, 2009Blackwater has probably been used for U.S. Government narcotics trafficking operations before, but it looks like that is going to be a major component of their business going forward. Note the phrase “aviation support” in the story below. Aviation support is synonymous with narcotics trafficking. If you read, Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA, this […]
Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World
February 12th, 2009UPDATE: Contest Results The target was a picture of my ancient, tattered Audio Technica headphones sitting on the concrete floor. There were no direct hits, but 9 of 13 submissions had something to do with round things. For days, it looked like Evil Chopsticks was going to be the closest one, since he or she […]
Obama Sent Kissinger to Russia
February 7th, 2009* chortling * Via: Telegraph: Henry Kissinger, the pioneer of Cold War detente during the Nixon era, has made a return to frontline politics after President Barack Obama reportedly sent him to Moscow to win backing from Vladimir Putin’s government for a nuclear disarmament initiative. The Daily Telegraph has learned that the 85-year-old former US […]
Nigerian Victims of Pfizer’s Involuntary Medical Experimentation Can Sue Under International Law Established in Responce to Atrocities Commited by the Third Reich
February 1st, 2009Via: MSNBC / AP: Nigerian families can sue Pfizer in U.S. courts with claims that the giant drug maker violated international law banning involuntary medical experimentation on humans when it tested an antibiotic to treat meningitis, an appeals court ruled Friday. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned rulings by a lower court judge […]
U.S. Soldiers Did ‘Dirty Work’ for Chinese Interrogators
January 26th, 2009Via: ABC: U.S. military personnel at Guantanamo Bay allegedly softened up detainees at the request of Chinese intelligence officials who had come to the island facility to interrogate the men — or they allowed the Chinese to dole out the treatment themselves, according to claims in a new government report. Buried in a Department of […]
Pentagon Wants “Virtual Renditions” of Deployed Personnel to Interact with Their Children
January 8th, 2009“My real daddy died in Iraq, but daddy_lite v3.7.2 lives in my cell phone now. The kind man from the Army also gave mommy a backup disk in case we need to re-install daddy on any of our computers or mobile devices. Mommy cries a lot, but daddy seems happy inside the screen.” Via: Department […]
UK: Private Firm May Track All Email and Calls
January 2nd, 2009Via: Guardian: The private sector will be asked to manage and run a communications database that will keep track of everyone’s calls, emails, texts and internet use under a key option contained in a consultation paper to be published next month by Jacqui Smith, the home secretary. A cabinet decision to put the management of […]
GM Supplier Delphi Suspends Work at Chinese Factory
December 29th, 2008This is one example of thousands in China. Oh well, maybe GM will use some of that U.S. taxpayer bailout money to keep paying their Chinese workers. Via: AP: U.S. car parts maker Delphi Corp. has suspended work at a factory in Suzhou due to shrinking demand amid the global economic slump, a media report […]
Google Planning to Enable Mob Rule Ratings for Search Results
December 15th, 2008Get Ready for New and Improved Google Results: Now Powered by the Zombie Consumer Death Cult! I have to make jokes because this is very, very grim. If you want to understand what I mean, just spend some time using Reddit without filters. The imbeciles found their way into the machine, and they’re clicking up […]
AFRICOM China and Congo Resource Wars
December 2nd, 2008Via: Engdahl: If France was the covert target of US ‘surrogate warfare’ in 1994, today it is clearly China, which is the real threat to US control of Central Africa’s vast mineral riches. The Democratic Republic of Congo was renamed from the Republic of Zaire in 1997 when the forces of Laurent Désiré Kabila brought […]
