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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. ...

King Abdullah of Jordan is none to please about the United States threats to cut off financial to his country (Photo from AFP) When we act like this, it makes it really hard for anyone who knows the entire story for us to continue screaming at the nutcase Ahmadinejad and more sanctions on his Supreme Leader's final say government . The United States has threatened to cut financial aid to Jordan, if the Hashemite Kingdom continues to develop its nuclear program without coordinating with Israel, the Arab media reported on Monday. The American threat comes after Amman rejected Israeli demands to participate in extraction and enrichment of uranium, and Jordan's failure to obtain US approval for its nuclear plan, despite talks between the two parties, which lasted six months. According to reports, the ultimatum was probably given to Amman days after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judah. This action by our State Department giv...

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...

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...

Sigh : Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been privately asking foreign leaders to "dial down" criticism of Israel until all the facts of the flotilla attack are known, according to a source who personally discussed the matter with her. "She says she's been working the phones for last 24 hours trying to get people to cool off a little bit, to see what the facts are," the source tells me, adding that she said she was trying to "dial down some of the rhetoric of the inernational community." "It's difficult," the source adds. "She says people are furious." Covering up for them again I see. It not surprisingly though, especially when you see Anthony Weiner do his same usual "love for Israel forever" dance , no matter what stuff the IDF and the Netanyahu Administration does. We'll only hold accountable anyone who is not named Israel, that is the top policy model for the State Department to follow. I sure...

So despite almost everyone else criticizing Israel , the State Department of this nation declines to do just as so . The State Department says its supports "expanding the flow of goods to the people of Gaza." But it adds that it must be done "in a spirit of cooperation, not confrontation." Officials are reacting to today's Israeli commando raid on a flotilla of ships carrying aid and hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists to the blockaded Gaza Strip. Nine passengers were killed, provoking international outrage and a diplomatic crisis. President Barack Obama is voicing "deep regret" over the incident. The White House says he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed by phone to hold White House talks orignally set for tomorrow "at the first opportunity." Meanwhile, here is video from Al Jazeera contradicting the one released today from the IDF . I really do believe that if this was Iran attacking some activists from Israel, the re...