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How the US Funds the Taliban
chestnut501
by chestnut501  11-12-2009    3
 Let's just hand them the money and bring our Men and Women home.
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Blackwater:Ain't Misbehaving, Saving My Contracts for You
ratilfar
by ratilfar  11-12-2009    3
 Of course the US government was blind to this - they didn't want to know, they turned a blind eye to what Blackwater was doing because it would have been too hard to arrange for another contractor to do all the security missions that it had ongoing. In both Iraq and Afghanistan, there are as many private contractors as there are uniformed military personnel. Most of them are not security guards as Blackwater's most visible function was. The lack of oversight is abhorrent but not surprising; the State Dept's failure to can this company is inexcusable. My only observation on this article is to suggest how the US government got into this predicament, and it's pretty easy to see. The Bush administration wanted to hold onto the fiction of a few conservative principles, one of those being the concept of a small federal government. Since it already blew that "principle" with the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, I'm betting there was White House guidance that directed "no mo
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Our Tax Dollars At Work-Blackwater
mcsmithblack
by mcsmithblack  11-12-2009    3
 More from the article as follows: "The Nisour Square shooting was the bloodiest and most controversial episode involving Blackwater in the Iraq war. At midday on Sept. 16, 2007, a Blackwater convoy opened fire on Iraqi civilians in the crowded intersection, spraying automatic weapons fire in ways that investigators later claimed was indiscriminate, and even launching grenades into a nearby school. Seventeen Iraqis were killed and dozens more were wounded." "Those responses deeply worried Blackwater officials. Before the Nisour Square shootings, the company had operated in Iraq without a license largely because the Iraqi government had never enforced the rules. Being blocked from the country would have been costly — the State Department deal was Blackwater’s single biggest contract. From 2004 through today, the company has collected more than $1.5 billion for its work protecting American diplomats and providing air transportation for them inside Iraq." "
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How war profiteers are raping Iraq
aperiozar
by aperiozar  11-9-2009   
 First invade them, kill more than 100 000 of their civilians, then profit from all the killings...
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Barbara Ehrenreich: The Swine Flu Vaccine Screw-up
Lexica
by Lexica  11-6-2009   
 More: According to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the government was misled by these companies, which failed to report manufacturing delays as they arose. Her department, she says, was "relying on the manufacturers to give us their numbers, and as soon as we got numbers we put them out to the public. It does appear now that those numbers were overly rosy." If, in fact, there's a political parable here, it's about Big Government's sweetly trusting reliance on Big Business to safeguard the public health: Let the private insurance companies manage health financing; let profit-making hospital chains deliver health care; let Big Pharma provide safe and affordable medications. As it happens, though, all these entities have a priority that regularly overrides the public's health, and that is, of course, profit…
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Oink Report - 3 November 2009
ColoradoRight
by ColoradoRight  11-5-2009   
 I am so glad that children who won't be born for decades yet will be paying the interest on the money spent to keep the Merry-Go-Round Museum open. That must save or create a gajillion jobs.
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Al Gore could become world's first carbon billionaire
sincitykitty
by sincitykitty  11-3-2009   
 Al Gore, the former US vice president, could become the world's first carbon billionaire after investing heavily in green energy companies.
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U.S. Offshoring and Multinational Corporations
sahara
by sahara  11-2-2009    1
 Perhaps the ultimate expression of capitalism results in the export of jobs to lowest-cost countries to enable what used to be “American companies”, now multinational corporations that have the sole goal of maximizing their corporate profits. The ultimate political expression has evolved to a sector of the world that is, in effect, ruled by multinational corporations. What is worse is that these multinationals fail to realize that ultimately they are undercutting their own profits and shrinking their own market by underminding their own profit center in formerly prosperous prime economies. The bonus from offshoring can only last so long and is highly subject to proper application and use within a given multinational corporation. Offshoring is not a cure-all for corporate profits, nor a real solution for long-term benefit to anyone. No government contracts should be given to multinational corporations, ever!
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Congress Must Pass Republican Leader Boehner’s Defund ACORN Act
merrie
by merrie  10-31-2009    2
  or any other form of agreement to this criminal organization. ACORN ally Representative Jerrold Nadler has lead the charge against the Defund ACORN Act. He has claimed that it is an unconstitutional *" Bill of Attainder " an argument that has been thoroughly rebutted by former FEC Commissioner Hans von Spakovsky. Nadler had no such reservations when he co-sponsered legislation to punish AIG employees who had been awarded bonuses. *A legislative act pronouncing a person guilty of a crime, usually treason, without trial and subjecting that person to capital punishment and attainder. Such acts are prohibited by the U.S. Constitution. Congress moving to cut off funds to ACORN for the next 50 days is a merely a first step. An organization with ACORN’s history of voter registration fraud, tax evasion, and criminal activity should never again be eligible to receive any federal funds. Stopping payment to this criminal enterprise is not enough.
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Any Way these Firms Can be Experts in Everything?
nedhamson1
by nedhamson1  10-30-2009   
 What these government contractors are expert at is: 1. Placing job sites in states and districts of Congressional Members who serve on funding committee for Defense, IT, and Homeland Security. 2. Have Political Action Committees that donate money to candidates on same committees. 3. Having paid representatives at every meeting in Congress or government agency that could affect their funding.
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Billions of stimulus going to shoddy contractors
pkronfield
by pkronfield  10-29-2009    3
 And you want this inept three stooges governemtn to be responsible for your health care??????
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Stumulous jobs created were overstated by thousands
pkronfield
by pkronfield  10-29-2009    1
 Overstated? Hardly. These are lies pure and simple. This administration will say anything, do anything, to deceive the American people that it's insane policies are harmful to our country and taking us deeper into a hole
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Stimulus jobs overstated by thousands
jatfla
by jatfla  10-29-2009    5
 I think we already knew this and it's interesting that the AP is actually investigating & reporting it. The WH plans to "fix" these errors. I wonder how they'll go about doing that. Does this mean that the university in Michigan (I think) will lose it's money to study volcanos in S. America?
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Can you hear me now????
mountainpalm
by mountainpalm  10-28-2009    2
  I had a former employee call me earlier today inquiring about a job, and at the end of the conversation he gave me his phone number. I asked the former employee if this was a new cell phone number and he told me yes this was his “Obama phone.” I asked him what an “Obama phone” was and he went on to say that welfare recipients are now eligible to receive (1) a FREE new phone and (2) approx 70 minutes of FREE minutes every month. I was a little skeptical so I Googled it and low and behold he was telling the truth. TAX PAYER MONEY IS BEING REDISTRIBUTED TO WELFARE RECIPIENTS FOR FREE CELL PHONES. This program was started earlier this year. Enough is enough, the ship is sinking and it’s sinking fast. The very foundations that this country was built on are being shaken.. The age old concepts of God, family, and hard work have flown out the window and are being replaced with “Hope and Change” and “Change we can believe in.”
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Invested In War
sahara
by sahara  10-28-2009   
 n 2004, the first full year after the current Iraq war began, Republican and Democratic lawmakers-both hawks and doves invested between $74.9 million and 161.3 million in companies under contract with the DoD. No wonder the Democratic congress kept approving the enormous spending bills on the war, since a significant portion of it happens to end up in their deep pockets. Interestingly, the report also mentioned that members of the senate foreign relations and armed services committees which oversee the Iraq war had between $32 million and $44 million invested in companies with DoD contracts. The burning questions for many people are the following: Are there any ethics left in politics? Could the universe ever exist without wars? The answer is no, because wars have been a major part of our social make up, in addition they force geostrategic changes, make profits for the elite, and reduce population.
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Cut Military Retirement to PAY for Weapons
leevardi
by leevardi  10-26-2009   
 ...GOOD IDEA...we don't need those old "farts" anymore....the quicker they DIe, the more WEAPONS we can buy.
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Conservative media misrepresent 30K stimulus job count
nosebleedlouie
by nosebleedlouie  10-24-2009   
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Abolish marriage
jay8h
by jay8h  10-23-2009   
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Stimulus jobs reporting by government in gross error
pkronfield
by pkronfield  10-18-2009   
 Folks, big government is not efficient at anything. I don't care which party. To entrust your health care to big government is like depending on the Three Stooges for your finanacial well being.
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Government Efficiency Reaches Fever Pitch
merrie
by merrie  10-16-2009   
  Stimulus Success: At Only $533,000 per Job http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MGI4MGViZDI4OTA0YjFhMDIzZmI1NjVkNjY0YzZjMzg=
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Rape case to force US defence firms into the open
foxyarse
by foxyarse  10-15-2009    2
 Halliburton/KBR used a clause in her contract requiring disputes to be settled by arbitration to block legal action – a policy which, her lawyer says, has encouraged assaults by creating a climate of impunity. Franken described it as a denial of justice. "Contractors are using fine print to deny women like Jamie Leigh Jones their day in court," he said in a Senate debate. In legal papers Jones, who was 20 at the time, says she was fed a knockout drug while drinking with KBR firefighters. "When she awoke the next morning still affected by the drug, she found her body naked and severely bruised, with lacerations to her vagina and anus, blood running down her leg, her breast implants ruptured and her pectoral muscles torn‚ which would later require reconstructive surgery. Upon walking to the rest room, she passed out again," the papers say.
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Contractor Liability Considerations for Government and Defense Contractors
samsonlaforet
by samsonlaforet  10-15-2009   
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Obama's Senior Moment
merrie
by merrie  10-15-2009    1
 voluntary private contracts and rationing via government. An Atlantic Ocean, in fact. Virtually every European government with "universal" health care restricts access in one way or another to control costs, and it isn't pretty. The British system is most restrictive, using a black-box actuarial formula known as "quality-adjusted life years," or QALYs, that determines who can receive what care . If a treatment isn't deemed to be cost-effective for specific populations, particularly the elderly, the National Health Service simply doesn't pay for it. Even France"which has a mix of public and private medicine "has fixed reimbursement rates since the 1970s and strictly controls the use of specialists and the introduction of new medical technologies such as CT scans and MRIs. Yes, the U.S. "rations" by ability to pay (though in the end no one is denied actual care). This is true of every good or service in a free economy and a world of finite resources . . .
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Fighting Fraud
disenchantedcitizen
by disenchantedcitizen  10-9-2009    2
 To put it into perspective, ACORN received about $53 million of federal funding over the past 15 years. Meanwhile, Blackwater, the private military contractor to which the U.S. government has farmed out security duties, may owe the government as much as $55 million for allegedly failing to fulfill the terms of one of its federal contracts. Yet Blackwater (now known as Xe), a company that has five of its employees facing murder charges in a massacre of Iraqi civilians in 2007, got a $217 million contract from the Obama administration to provide security in Iraq. The former Haliburton subsidiary, KBR, got $80 million in contract bonuses to provide electrical wiring in Iraq -- wiring that has fatally electrocuted 16 soldiers and two contractors. They haven’t been defunded by Congress. According to the nonpartisan Project on Government Oversight, the biggest three defense contractors -- Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Northrop Grumman -- have been cited 109 times for misconduct since 199
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The cost of supporting Israel
foxyarse
by foxyarse  10-7-2009   
 These have cost the U.S. $1.5 trillion, excluding the additional costs incurred since 2001. The cost of supporting Israel increased drastically after the 1973 Israeli-Arab war. U.S. support for Israel during that war resulted in additional costs for the American taxpayer of between $750 billion and $1 trillion. When Israel was losing the war, President Richard Nixon stepped in to supply the Jewish state with U.S. weapons. Nixon’s intervention triggered the Arab oil embargo, which cost the U.S. as much as $600 billion in lost GDP and another $450 billion in higher oil import costs. The 1973 oil crisis cost the U.S. economy no less than $900 billion, and probably as much as $1.2 trillion. As a result of the oil embargo the U.S. government created the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to “insulate Israel and the U.S. against the wielding of a future Arab “oil weapon.” The billion-barrel SPR has cost taxpayers more than $134 billion so far. Making things worse, Israel gets “first
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Dem Rep: Treat Felonious Corporations At Least as Harshly as ACORN (Which Committed No Felonies)
sincitykitty
by sincitykitty  10-5-2009   
 McCollum makes the case for the "Against Corporations Organizing to Rip-off the Nation (A.C.O.R.N.)" Act in an interview with Mike McIintee of The UpTake:
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Dem Rep: Treat Felonious Corporations At Least as Harshly as ACORN
katsteevns
by katsteevns  10-4-2009   
 (Which Committed No Felonies)
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Here’s What Israel Is Really Costing American Taxpayers
The Infowarrior
by The Infowarrior  10-3-2009    5
 Want to know what's really sinking America? These have cost the U.S. $1.5 trillion, excluding the additional costs incurred since 2001. The cost of supporting Israel increased drastically after the 1973 Israeli-Arab war. U.S. support for Israel during that war resulted in additional costs for the American taxpayer of between $750 billion and $1 trillion. When Israel was losing the war, President Richard Nixon stepped in to supply the Jewish state with U.S. weapons. Nixon’s intervention triggered the Arab oil embargo, which cost the U.S. as much as $600 billion in lost GDP and another $450 billion in higher oil import costs. The 1973 oil crisis cost the U.S. economy no less than $900 billion, and probably as much as $1.2 trillion. As a result of the oil embargo the U.S. government created the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to “insulate Israel and the U.S. against the wielding of a future Arab “oil weapon.”
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List of high/most briber countries
bruceh
by bruceh  10-1-2009   
 "The survey also evaluated 19 business segments to determine which were most likely to use illegal payments to influence government decisions. Worst ranked were public works contracts and construction, real estate and property development, oil and gas, heavy manufacturing, and mining. The cleanest were information technology, fisheries, and banking and finance."
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Obama Administration Moves to Shutdown Disclosure of Big Labor-ACORN Connections
merrie
by merrie  9-25-2009    2
 U.S. Big Labor Department swings into action Instead of focusing on the economy or the alarming unemployment trends, Obama’s Big Labor Department seems to have focused little on the men and women behind those numbers. Instead, Secretary Solis has focused like a laser beam on eliminating disclosure of labor bosses perks and their spending of money collected as a condition of employment from millions of workers. And that is not all; Obama’s Labor Department creatively and without rulemaking eliminated 2008 Bush Administration reform of Labor Officer conflict-of-interest reporting. The following is the de facto rulemaking: Note: The Office of Labor-Management Standards will publish in the spring 2009 Semi-Annual Regulatory Agenda notice of an intended rulemaking to revise the Form LM-30 (Labor Organization Officer and Employee Report). The rulemaking is intended to review questions of policy and law surrounding these reporting requirements. ......
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Iraq's oil: the sale begins
katsteevns
by katsteevns  9-25-2009    1
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Ont. gives green energy price guarantee
Socratoad
by Socratoad  9-25-2009    2
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If You Thought ACORN Was Bad ...
chestnut501
by chestnut501  9-24-2009    4
 Check Out the Defense-Related Contracts.
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Top 100 Thieves of our tax and private dollars
nedhamson1
by nedhamson1  9-24-2009   
 Good source to find out who really are the biggest thieves from us/US. No ACORNs here, just mighty Oaks: Selling nuclear technology to Libya a few years back - Halliburton pled guilty to additional criminal charges and accepted “a criminal penalty of $1,200,000 for three violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act in connection with the export of the pulse neutron generators to Libya.” A Denver federal court ordered Boeing and Dow Chemical Company to pay 12,000 homeowners $926 million for contaminating their property with radioactive waste from the Department of Energy’s Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant. The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation ordered Humana Insurance Co. to pay a $500,000 fine to resolve complaints that Humana enrolled Illinois citizens into more expensive and/or duplicative health plans. GlaxoSmithKline agreed to pay approximately $3.4 billion to settle charges by the IRS that the company under-reporte
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Commercial Espionage
fergalbarry
by fergalbarry  9-17-2009   
 Not only do I think it would be stupid not to believe the Chinese do it...when the stakes are high, everyone does it. Governments, companies, whatever. The Chinese are kind of right to suggest commerical and political victimization. This is an everyday reality with all contacts.
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Government Owned and Operated AIG Failing
Eaglewings
by Eaglewings  9-12-2009    26
 Another example of what happens when government sticks its nose into private industry. FAILURE! AIG was failing before US taxpayers were forced to bail them out, and guess what they are still failing. How much more taxpayer money is going to be needed to continue to prop up this failed company? And OBAMA wants to run our health care! GET REAL!
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lettering stencils
vasefox
by vasefox  9-11-2009   
 Businesses of all sizes have used Stencils Online to create custom stencils for product marking, sign making, shipping crate and pallet labeling, floor marking, and the list goes on... Shipping and crating companies as well as companies that crate and ship their own goods love Stencils Online. Exporting your large products to other countries can be a hassle. Many international shipping regulations require specific markings on your crate. Even shipping within the US, large company purchase orders and government contracts are becoming more and more specific about shipment markings.
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Don't Worry Be Happy if you are a communist in ZAF
dmoonme1
by dmoonme1  9-10-2009   
  Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande is often seen wearing a Mao cap and is known for breaking out into his favorite tune: "My mother was a kitchen girl, my father was a garden boy. That's why I am a communist." But his new wheels have soured his relationship with his close ally COSATU, the country's largest labor organization. COSATU has asked ministers to return their costly cars and instead opt for cheaper ones favored by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, who bought two cars for the same price as Nzimande's one. "Nzimande was the one least likely to go on a profligate expedition ... when the (SACP) often rails against the excesses of unchecked capitalism," said a Wednesday editorial in Johannesburg's daily newspaper The Star. But the SACP has defended Nzimande, saying the German luxury sedan was bought on the recommendations of the police VIP protection unit. The rule book for ministers also allows for such purchases. over the limit....sorry not much more anyway.
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Shocking documentary uncovers the subversion of Americas democracy.
brightlight4
by brightlight4  9-6-2009    1
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On Facebook, MySpace? Obama's got your e-mail
nuttyriv3r
by nuttyriv3r  9-5-2009    1
 In fact, according to the Electronic Privacy and Information Center, federal agencies have negotiated agreements and contracts with social networking sites like Google, YouTube, SlideShare, Facebook, AddThis, Blist, Flickr and VIMEO to collect information on visitors for federal websites. All of these private companies are known to have agreements with federal agencies, but the public has never seen them. In public comments submitted to the Office of Management and Budget, EPIC notes it has obtained documents that show federal agencies have negotiated these contracts with the private sector in violation of "existing statutory privacy rights." Those agencies include: Department of Defense, Department of the Treasury, and the National Security Agency. There are suspicions the White House is already involved. According to Obama "technology czar" Vivek Kundra, the "compelling need" driving this major policy reversal is the administration's desire to create "more open" government
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