Just days before two former Blackwater employees alleged in sworn statements filed in federal court that the company's owner, Erik Prince, "views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe," the Obama administration extended a contract with Blackwater for more than $20 million for "security services" in Iraq, according to federal contract data obtained by The Nation. The State Department contract is scheduled to run through September 3. In May, the State Department announced it was not renewing Blackwater's Iraq contract, and the Iraqi government has refused to issue the company an operating license.
Despite its scandal-plagued track record, Blackwater (which has rebranded itself as Xe) continues to have a presence in Iraq, trains Afghan forces on US contracts and provides government-funded training for military and law enforcement inside the United States.
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/08/07-10
Obama said during his campaign that he would keep Blackwater. I believed him when he said that. He told us everything he intended to do but it seems only a few of us were listening. Blackwater/Xe isn't going anywhere no matter what they call themselves or how many protest.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, I think they will be used to control the wee people (us), patrolling our streets when the sh** hits the fan since our national guard units are busy fighting the "war to incite terror" in the middle east.
“views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe,”
ReplyDeleteAnd here in lies the problem. Religion. The scourge of the world. All of them!
One day it will be crusaders under another religion doing exactly the same thing. When will mankind be smart enough to move beyond the stupidity of false fabricated religions?
When will the nightmare end?
As it stands right now, three of the world's religions which are in perpetual conflict all originated with one man: Moses.
We all have Moses to thank for judaism, christianity, and islam. All three came from him!
Thanks Moses for a screwed up world!
President Obama certainly did Jersey girl. He ran his campaign on change, and never explained to the credulous sheople who exactly Blackwater was, or what the were doing, how much they're being paid and that they'd still remain wreaking havoc on the innocent people of the Middle East. And if it gets too outta control here in 'merica? We could see those jack-booted armored authoritarians, whose orders could very well be shoot for thrill, making Kent State look like a walk in F'n the park.
ReplyDeleteYa know you read an article like this and you have to then ask, "why isn't this corporate media covering the story?" Oh, silly me. I've already answered that question. "Corporate media." These lousy bastards, the hucksters of half-truths who foment and perpetuate the mendacity, fear and hatred, which keeps this deadly cycle churning.
As usual, the vast majority of sheople (who're now fighting amongst themselves) swallow it hook, line and sinker.
While I admire Scahill's candor, he could also do a story on the events of 9-11? He won't though.
Levin, quit blaming religion, as if it wasn't that it would be ethnicity, political affiliation, gender, social doctrine, physical disease or some other divisive tool. The Cold War was never a case of religion as much as social ideology.
ReplyDeleteWhat you see here in this triad is the fact that the military of our era has lost it's faith in Government and Pentagon. As the ONE WORLD kills nationalism it kills patriotism. The Committee knew they were incapable of keeping military morale and enlistment with their pathetically transparent M.O. The WHISTLEBLOWER problem being their greatest concern.
The Xe is one of many PDA's emerging in a global setting that will converge on V-Day for the transition. The living veterans of all wars represent the biggest threat and most dangerous to the NATO/PDA conversion.
This explains the recent history of poor support and benefits and the continued efforts to put these veterans in a weakened state of mental disorders, homelessness, alienation and health issues like agent orange and gulf war syndrome.
We have clear information and data on the criminals and thugs that the army and marines were taking into service. They are easily tranferred to PDA duty for Xe or Wackenhut.
Killers, mental cases and insect type intelligence and morals make for the prototype type foot soldier.
http://puddydunne.wordpress.com/2008/08/31/blackwater-hiring-mercenaries-for-gustav-aftermath/
ReplyDeleteMy mother had a blind date with George Wackenhut in 1973 and said he was a very serious man and a gentlemen but scary. He reportedly called G.H.W. Bush "that pinko", which bodes well for the theory of the Fabain New World Order and the Pilgrim sector headed by that cretin who spoke of a kinder, gentler nation.
Wackenhut Corp will be a major domestic player in FEMA and has likely been the initial collector of info on us blue labeled types. They were a major player in Iran-Contra and Inslaw-PROMIS scam.
They don't care, that of all things should be the most obvious or the obvious.
ReplyDeleteWhen you can get away with murdering 3,000 people in broad daylight, and another 1,300,000+ in it's wake, you can rape babies on the WH lawn, and rub our nose in it.
Your mother had a date with Wackenhut? Yikes.. I'd like to hear more about that !
ReplyDeleteShe was not interested in him or the date. Uneventful and boring.
ReplyDeleteWackenhut sold out for half a billion and dies in 94. Since then they have really racheted up their contracts. Prisons, Area 51, Military and Defense Corporations etc. They are very strong in the surveillance technologies.
I needed clearance when going into the Palm Beach Gardens office. RCA, Pratt Whitney, all of them under Wackenhut security. Remember they were the security at the Holocaust Museum. Hmmmmm?
I agree. Outrage here does no good what so ever. All they will do is change from one company to another and the same game rolls on and already is. You can't solve the problem by cutting off just one arm of the octopus. You must go after the beast itself and that is not Blackwater.
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