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Rewarding Their Dangerous Coke Loving Ways Once More

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Our government continues to love murderous mercenaries who caused serious harm to our nations troops because of their pestilent actions. From Mr. Ackerman : Never mind the dead civilians. Never mind the stolen guns. Never mind the murder arrests, the fraud allegations, and the accusations of guards pumping themselves up with steroids and cocaine. Through a “joint venture,” the notorious private security firm Blackwater has won a piece of a five-year State Department contract worth up to $10 billion, Danger Room has learned. Apparently, there is no misdeed so big that it can keep guns-for-hire from working for the government. And this is despite a campaign pledge from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to ban the company from federal contracts. The State Department is so silent about this so far, that they have yet to indicate this news on their website as of this post. And no one in the State Department's Press Briefing today asked about this to Assistant Secretary Philip J. ...

The Live Thread for 8/31/10: A Centrist Is A Centrist, Even On Iraq

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It was the typical down the middle stuff from President Obama in his Presidential address tonight, where despite an obvious recognition of the history of events as always, the 44th executive chief continued to protect the previous Administration's screw ups and not tell the full narrative to the America public about our dumb wars. Maybe the most salient moment of the address did not stem from talk about Iraq or relating its cost to how it has contributed greatly to our current pathetic economical situation. Rather, the comments he made on Afghanistan in regards to "conditions on the ground" being the bases on how fast the troop withdrawal will be is the one that should raise the most eyebrows in my mind. It is the typical safe centrist crap answer, where we are beholden to the military complex no matter what. "Conditions on the ground" for withdrawal in Afghanistan could easily mean just a few troops leaving at a very slow pace. This will certainly give a s...

The 1st Thread For 5/24/10: The CIA's Turn To Hire Murdering Mercenaries

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Just a few days after the State Department gave them a nice lovely contract , the CIA (Mr. Leon Panetta) wanted to make sure that they did the same themselves , as we all focus on McChrystal to Petraus gate. The CIA has hired Xe Services, the private security firm formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide, to guard its facilities in Afghanistan and elsewhere, according to an industry source. The previously undisclosed CIA contract is worth about $100 million, said the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the deal, which is classified. "It's for protective services . . . guard services, in multiple regions," the source said. Two other security contractors, Triple Canopy and DynCorp International, put in losing bids for the CIA's business, the source said. Beating out their rivals of Canopy and DynCrop shows that they are still the premiere contractor in the game by far, as the choice by our nation's most powerful to continue providing wo...

The Murders Get A Chance To Be More Murder-Xe! How Pleasant

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No matter who is in charge of Capital Hill or the Oval Office, we are still beholden to our insane, clever military industry folks : The U.S. State Department has awarded a part of a firm formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide a contract worth more than $120 million to provide security services in Afghanistan, CBS News reported on Saturday. The report, quoting an unidentified State Department source, reported that the firm called U.S. Training Center, a business unit of Blackwater, now called Xe Services, was awarded the contract on Friday. We just love giving away our own taxpayer dollars still to murderers who actually endanger the lives of our soldiers with their reckless, insensitive, and pestilent actions constantly. It doesn't matter who it is in charge, we still follow the same amazing levels of non-common sensical behavior here. Do we really cherish harming ourselves? I believe so, although the real reason though is that we are still clearly in the hands of "sta...

ACORN Will Disband

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Photo from Getty Images' Mark Wilson Sadly, there has been one area where the Brebitbartapalypse did fall and caused a stupefying impact. Just a few days after announcing that they would file for Chapter 7, ACORN will disband as of April 1 , as only the separate ACORN housing will remain . And it's fitting that it closes for good on that day, as the foolish nutty actions of Fake Pimp telephone operator and his further demented Red Eye master has led to that. Not only they, however, are accountable for ACORN's rapid downfall into oblivion, as the New York Times and the rest of the media know the roles that contributed in this happening. So the downtrodden once again take the hit in America thanks to the rabid elite. If only they had re-named their organization Xe or KBR, they wouldn't have had to suffer like they have under the life and times of Bishop Tragic Don Operator Fail, his pathetic prostitute accomplice, and a poor man's Drudge.

Lovely: Your Tax Dollars Payed For Blackwater To Have Fun With Prostitutes And More!

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Prepare for your jaw to possibly reached the Earth's core when you read what you are about to read. In an outrageously explosive story from Mark Mazzetti of the New York Times , your favorite corrupt and dangerous contracting company (wannabe holy war crusaders) that was thankfully told to get out Iraq today has been given more of your tax payers dollars than they deserve for a litany of fun frivolous things like messing with prostitutes. Oh yes, you read correctly: Two former employees of Blackwater Worldwide have accused the private security company of defrauding the government for years by filing bogus receipts, double billing for the same services and charging government agencies for strippers and prostitutes, according to court documents unsealed this week. Amazing enough, this lawsuit didn't just pop up out of the blue today or yesterday. In a December 2008 lawsuit , the former employees said top Blackwater officials had engaged in a pattern of deception as they ...

The $1 Million Bribe

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From left, Gerry Broome/AP; Mark Wilson/Getty; Brendan Smialowski for NYT You got to love how they cover up their disgraceful feces Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, according to former company officials. Gets better. They actually had a moral rift because of the bribe: Blackwater’s strategy of buying off the government officials, which would have been illegal under American law, created a deep rift inside the company, according to the former executives. They said that Cofer Black, who was then the company’s vice chairman and a former top C.I.A. and State Department official, learned of the plan from another Blackwater manager while he was in Baghdad discussing compensation for families of the shooting victims with United States Embassy o...

The One Sentence Thread For 9/24/09: Maybe The Only Way

Maybe there needs to be a pimp and prostitute to go to both Blackwater and KBR/Halliburton's offices in order for Congress to defund them.