Archive for the 'Outsourced' Category
Schwarzenegger: Pay to Build Prisons in Mexico to Incarcerate Illegal Alien Convicts (Not The Onion)
January 28th, 2010Via: Sacramento Bee:
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday offered yet another way California can save on incarcerating illegal immigrants: pay to build prisons in Mexico.
Schwarzenegger said in a Sacramento Press Club speech that rather than raise taxes, the state could find money by cutting pension costs, allowing offshore oil drilling and lowering prison expenditures.
His budget calls [...]
Military Outsources Rescue Operations
January 21st, 2010How much of the military can the CIA spin off into its cutouts?
Via: Wired:
In the American military, few missions are considered more important than rescuing missing or kidnapped troops. So it’s more than a little odd that U.S. forces in Iraq have decided to outsource that operation to a private company. The military’s Joint Contracting [...]
Did the CIA Deploy a Blackwater Hit Team in Germany?
January 11th, 2010Via: The Nation:
German prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation into allegations that the CIA deployed a team of Blackwater operatives on a clandestine operation in Hamburg, Germany, after 9/11 ultimately aimed at assassinating a German citizen with suspected ties to Al Qaeda. The alleged assassination operation was revealed last month in a Vanity Fair profile [...]
‘Fonz’ Thanked for Bringing Clinton to NZ
January 11th, 2010Anyone who thinks that U.S. billionaires are good for New Zealand should travel to the U.S. to inspect the aftermath of their handy work.
In other news:
We just roll over, put our legs in the air, and say ‘do what you like to us’.
NZ, US Set to Resume Joint Military Drills
Lockheed May Train Singaporean Air Force [...]
Two Former Blackwater Guards Charged with Murder
January 8th, 2010Via: BBC:
Two US men have been charged over the murder of two Afghans after a traffic accident in Kabul last May.
Justin Cannon, 27, and Chris Drotleff, 29, worked for a subsidiary of security firm Xe, formerly known as Blackwater.
The men were sacked after the incident for failing to comply with the terms of their contract.
The [...]
BLACKWATER CHARGES DISMISSED
January 1st, 2010Via: Reuters:
Iraq expressed its disappointment on Friday with a U.S. federal court ruling that threw out all charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of gunning down Iraqi civilians in 2007.
Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the five men had committed a “serious crime” in the September 2007 shooting in Baghdad, which strained U.S.-Iraqi relations [...]
Drug Money Saved Banks During Global Drisis, Claims UN Advisor
December 14th, 2009Via: Guardian:
Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations’ drugs and crime tsar has told the Observer.
Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said he has seen evidence that the proceeds of organised crime were “the only [...]
Is the “Wonga” Running Out for Africa’s Mercenaries?
December 7th, 2009Via: Reuters:
Africa’s infamous “dogs of war” may still be going strong, but it seems the rewards of the mercenary life aren’t quite what they used to be.
Only this month, Britain’s Simon Mann won a pardon for his part in a foiled 2004 coup attempt on Equatorial Guinea, an old-style adventure whose glittering prize [...]
Britain: Cash Prizes for Catching CCTV Criminals
December 5th, 2009Via: BBC:
There are 4.2 million CCTV cameras in Britain watching our every move.
In London, there are more CCTV cameras than any other city in the world with one camera for every eight Londoners.
But as victims of crime have found to their cost, catching criminals on camera is dependent on the equipment being both monitored and [...]
Vanity Fair on Blackwater’s Erik Prince
December 3rd, 2009Blackwater 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
We get into the Coincidence? category because the article just happens to be written by a “former” CIA attorney.
Via: Vanity Fair:
The truth about Prince may be orders of magnitude [...]
