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Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Academi: Company previously known as Blackwater agrees to $7.5 million fine in arms smuggling case
Academi: Company previously known as Blackwater agrees to $7.5 million fine in arms smuggling case
August 10, 2012
Jebus. I've been bitching about this pos company for 5 fucking years and the fuckers just keep getting govt contracts. Erik Prince may have bailed out and left the company to clean up the mess, but the idiot still thinks his right wing xian bullshit can save the world and he can get rich doing it.
It's kind of funny that I just read this article within 3 days of watching "Lord of War" with Nicholas Cage.
Thursday, June 05, 2008
The bureaucratic behemoth DoD and your tax dollars
Let's see how the fuckers are spending your money today.
Tomgram: William Astore, Militarizing Your Cyberspace
posted June 05, 2008 10:49 am
...it's now proposing a massive $30 billion cyberspace boondoggle, as retired Air Force Lt. Col. William Astore writes below, that will, theoretically, provide the Air Force with the ability to fry any computer on Earth...
Attention Geeks and HackersUncle Sam's Cyber Force Wants You!
By William J. Astore
... Part of the Air Force's new "above all" vision of full-spectrum dominance, America's emerging cyber force has control fantasies that would impress George Orwell. Working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Department of Homeland Security, and other governmental agencies, the Air Force's stated goal is to gain access to, and control over, any and all networked computers, anywhere on Earth, at a proposed cost to you, the American taxpayer, of $30 billion over the first five years...
Judge allows Blackwater to open San Diego center
By ALLISON HOFFMAN – 15 hours ago
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge Wednesday ordered the city to allow military contractor Blackwater Worldwide to begin using a new counterterrorism training center in a warehouse outfitted with an indoor firing range.
District Judge Marilyn Huff ruled that the company would suffer irreparable harm if it could not begin holding classes there for Navy sailors.
Frankly, I'm wondering who this judge, or her husband is playing golf with? So tell me again how judges interpret the law to benefit the people they are paid to serve?
Tomgram: William Astore, Militarizing Your Cyberspace
posted June 05, 2008 10:49 am
...it's now proposing a massive $30 billion cyberspace boondoggle, as retired Air Force Lt. Col. William Astore writes below, that will, theoretically, provide the Air Force with the ability to fry any computer on Earth...
Attention Geeks and HackersUncle Sam's Cyber Force Wants You!
By William J. Astore
... Part of the Air Force's new "above all" vision of full-spectrum dominance, America's emerging cyber force has control fantasies that would impress George Orwell. Working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Department of Homeland Security, and other governmental agencies, the Air Force's stated goal is to gain access to, and control over, any and all networked computers, anywhere on Earth, at a proposed cost to you, the American taxpayer, of $30 billion over the first five years...
Judge allows Blackwater to open San Diego center
By ALLISON HOFFMAN – 15 hours ago
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge Wednesday ordered the city to allow military contractor Blackwater Worldwide to begin using a new counterterrorism training center in a warehouse outfitted with an indoor firing range.
District Judge Marilyn Huff ruled that the company would suffer irreparable harm if it could not begin holding classes there for Navy sailors.
Frankly, I'm wondering who this judge, or her husband is playing golf with? So tell me again how judges interpret the law to benefit the people they are paid to serve?
Monday, September 17, 2007
Condi says she's sorry and can her Blackwater boys stay and play?
Rice apologises for US security firm shootings
The US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, apologised to the Iraqi government yesterday in an attempt to prevent the expulsion of all employees of the security firm Blackwater USA...
Well, well, well, I guess that answers one of my questions anyway. Betcha she ain't spillin' the beans on the Kurdistan question, though.
The US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, apologised to the Iraqi government yesterday in an attempt to prevent the expulsion of all employees of the security firm Blackwater USA...
Well, well, well, I guess that answers one of my questions anyway. Betcha she ain't spillin' the beans on the Kurdistan question, though.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Defense Appropriations Subcomittee hearing
Ok, this is the worst attempt at "live blogging" that I've ever seen. Well, not really live blogging, just streaming it and attempting to type what I'm hearing. Yes, I mean what you're going to read on this page right here. It's bad, I'll leave it just to remember how bad it is, but if you want to know what I was watching Here is a portion of it. Not the Jeremy Scahill part.
Update: Here is Jeremy.
Click here for Kos diary
Hat tip to the fabulous Terry
Appropriations Subcomittee hearing. Basically it's about what's going on with contracting out in Iraq?
scroll down and click on webcast
I'm watching now.
(Terry watched it also, & she's much more calm about the whole thing .)
Fucking amazing, nobody knows who Aegis is.
Betcherass they don't.
Jeremy Scahill is coming up.
05/10/07
Defense Subcommittee
Contracting Out
10:00 AM, 1:30 PM 2359 Rayburn House Office Building
DoD contractor costs are 75% higher than they were in 1996? Am I hearing that correctly? Jeebus.
126,000 contractors in Iraq? (Did I Hear That Correctly?)
10:50 AM 5/10/2007 PST Scahill's up
1400 dead and wounded contractors as of Dec 06
48,000 private security contractors in Iraq with better weapons, better equipment.
Slang in Iraq is called "going Blackwater" for soldiers leaving military service for better pay with private contractors.
Contractors act like rock stars and are unaccountable.
Congress is asking a reporter for information on these contractors? (DIHTC?)
10:50 AM 5/10/2007 (pst) Robert Greenwald is up. On private contractors in Iraq.
He's talking about "burn pits"
Oh. My. God. Who is this asshole rednecked dickhead "conservative" attacking Scahill and Greenwald?
Ooops, found him. Rep. Jack Kingston (R) from GA
money from GD mil contractor fer ole Jack Hmmmm, Jack attacked Jeremy, for not being in Iraq since 2003. Wonder if Ole Jack went there & had Blackwater perteck him?
11:52 AM 5/10/2007 omigod omigod omigod, right now I want to punch that rednecked idiot, Kingston, yapping about all the money made in Hollywood...Does this guy have a button that you push somewhere on him and he spews talking points?
11:59 AM 5/10/2007 show's over, but before it cut off I spied Kingston hightailing it down to talk to Greenwald and Scahill he was laughing. I hope somebody out there is geekier than me and uploads this soon.
Update: Here is Jeremy.
Click here for Kos diary
Hat tip to the fabulous Terry
Appropriations Subcomittee hearing. Basically it's about what's going on with contracting out in Iraq?
scroll down and click on webcast
I'm watching now.
(Terry watched it also, & she's much more calm about the whole thing .)
Fucking amazing, nobody knows who Aegis is.
Betcherass they don't.
Jeremy Scahill is coming up.
05/10/07
Defense Subcommittee
Contracting Out
10:00 AM, 1:30 PM 2359 Rayburn House Office Building
DoD contractor costs are 75% higher than they were in 1996? Am I hearing that correctly? Jeebus.
126,000 contractors in Iraq? (Did I Hear That Correctly?)
10:50 AM 5/10/2007 PST Scahill's up
1400 dead and wounded contractors as of Dec 06
48,000 private security contractors in Iraq with better weapons, better equipment.
Slang in Iraq is called "going Blackwater" for soldiers leaving military service for better pay with private contractors.
Contractors act like rock stars and are unaccountable.
Congress is asking a reporter for information on these contractors? (DIHTC?)
10:50 AM 5/10/2007 (pst) Robert Greenwald is up. On private contractors in Iraq.
He's talking about "burn pits"
Oh. My. God. Who is this asshole rednecked dickhead "conservative" attacking Scahill and Greenwald?
Ooops, found him. Rep. Jack Kingston (R) from GA
money from GD mil contractor fer ole Jack Hmmmm, Jack attacked Jeremy, for not being in Iraq since 2003. Wonder if Ole Jack went there & had Blackwater perteck him?
11:52 AM 5/10/2007 omigod omigod omigod, right now I want to punch that rednecked idiot, Kingston, yapping about all the money made in Hollywood...Does this guy have a button that you push somewhere on him and he spews talking points?
11:59 AM 5/10/2007 show's over, but before it cut off I spied Kingston hightailing it down to talk to Greenwald and Scahill he was laughing. I hope somebody out there is geekier than me and uploads this soon.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Lobbyist-Free Romney?
Home » Spin of the Day » Jan 26, 2008
...Although U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney "has cast himself as a Washington outsider and blasted his opponents' ties to lobbyists," in fact he "has more than a dozen federally registered lobbyists raising money for him...
Oh and then there's this:
... Meanwhile, Blackwater is deep in the camp of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Cofer Black is Romney's senior adviser on counterterrorism...
Fuck.
Any of the candidates that were interesting to me have been kicked to the curb by the MSM, while it focuses on candidates that it can do business with.
Shit.
No wonder people don't bother to vote.
Update: 10:00 PM 1/30/2008
What an amusing little title:
The Supreme Court Forgets the Little People
The conservative-dominated court is totally out of touch with the rest of the country.
(Snort) Gee ya think?
...Although U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney "has cast himself as a Washington outsider and blasted his opponents' ties to lobbyists," in fact he "has more than a dozen federally registered lobbyists raising money for him...
Oh and then there's this:
... Meanwhile, Blackwater is deep in the camp of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Cofer Black is Romney's senior adviser on counterterrorism...
Fuck.
Any of the candidates that were interesting to me have been kicked to the curb by the MSM, while it focuses on candidates that it can do business with.
Shit.
No wonder people don't bother to vote.
Update: 10:00 PM 1/30/2008
What an amusing little title:
The Supreme Court Forgets the Little People
The conservative-dominated court is totally out of touch with the rest of the country.
(Snort) Gee ya think?
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Mixed feelings this AM.
First the funny stuff. Amita Sharma has a lovely voice with slight inflections that are interesting to try to figure out. This morning on the local NPR station I really don't know where she was emotionally, but I was laughing my ass off:
San Diego Wants Blackwater to Make Training Facility Wheelchair Accessible
I can't stand Bonfiglio, & I love Mike Aguirre AND his brother.
Still plugging along until the isp sends the right driver. Dayang I miss reading y'all, but this thing is just sooooo slow. Oy. Be back soon. Vista is a pain in the ass so far.
Not happy with the Supreme Court this morning either:
Court rejects death penalty for raping children
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 58 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has struck down a Louisiana law that allows the execution of people convicted of a raping a child...
and
The Supreme Court on Wednesday also cut the $2.5 billion punitive damages award in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster to $500 million.
and watch the Supreme Court be responsible for more dead cetaceans:
Supreme Court to decide Navy sonar appeal
Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:29pm
Seriously. Who does the Supreme Court protect in these cases? It ain't the whales.
San Diego Wants Blackwater to Make Training Facility Wheelchair Accessible
I can't stand Bonfiglio, & I love Mike Aguirre AND his brother.
Still plugging along until the isp sends the right driver. Dayang I miss reading y'all, but this thing is just sooooo slow. Oy. Be back soon. Vista is a pain in the ass so far.
Not happy with the Supreme Court this morning either:
Court rejects death penalty for raping children
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 58 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has struck down a Louisiana law that allows the execution of people convicted of a raping a child...
and
The Supreme Court on Wednesday also cut the $2.5 billion punitive damages award in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster to $500 million.
and watch the Supreme Court be responsible for more dead cetaceans:
Supreme Court to decide Navy sonar appeal
Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:29pm
Seriously. Who does the Supreme Court protect in these cases? It ain't the whales.
Monday, December 17, 2007
Republican congressman defies Bush administration, pledges probe into destroyed CIA tapes
Sunday, Dec. 16, 2007
HOPE YEN Associated Press Writer
Mmmmm hmmm, sure, when monkies fly out of my ass.
Maybe Hoekstra can investigate Blackwater also.
Sure, he'll just check out his hometown cronies,rrriiiiiigggghhhhttt, sure buddy.
The FCC is up to their old tricks and the above article looks like more junk news to me.
Watch the junk news video.
Heh, it's only three minutes, and the music is fun. I love the stuff Danny digs up.
Oh. My. God. listen to this.
Well well, whadaya know?
Fitrakis & Wasserman were right, and I knew it!
HOPE YEN Associated Press Writer
Mmmmm hmmm, sure, when monkies fly out of my ass.
Maybe Hoekstra can investigate Blackwater also.
Sure, he'll just check out his hometown cronies,rrriiiiiigggghhhhttt, sure buddy.
The FCC is up to their old tricks and the above article looks like more junk news to me.
Watch the junk news video.
Heh, it's only three minutes, and the music is fun. I love the stuff Danny digs up.
Oh. My. God. listen to this.
Well well, whadaya know?
Fitrakis & Wasserman were right, and I knew it!
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
No words needed
Good for the country.
Unfortunately the Blackwater and Mormon bigots temporarily won this battle in California. They have not won the war. The Proposition 8 ballot measure is unconstitutional, unfair, discriminatory and wrong.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Death Toll for Contractors Reaches New High in Iraq
...At least 146 contract workers were killed in Iraq in the first three months of the year, by far the highest number for any quarter since the war began in March 2003, according to the Labor Department, which processes death and injury claims for those working as United States government contractors in Iraq.
That brings the total number of contractors killed in Iraq to at least 917, along with more than 12,000 wounded in battle or injured on the job, according to government figures and dozens of interviews...
...A top security industry official said he was told recently by American military and contracting officials that 50 to 60 percent of all truck convoys in Iraq were coming under attack. Previously, he said, only about 10 percent had been hit...
U.S Fatatlities confirmed by the DoD
This war sucks. Actually, all war sucks.
You expected me to make some smart-ass remark about Blackwater or DynCorp ?
That brings the total number of contractors killed in Iraq to at least 917, along with more than 12,000 wounded in battle or injured on the job, according to government figures and dozens of interviews...
...A top security industry official said he was told recently by American military and contracting officials that 50 to 60 percent of all truck convoys in Iraq were coming under attack. Previously, he said, only about 10 percent had been hit...
U.S Fatatlities confirmed by the DoD
This war sucks. Actually, all war sucks.
You expected me to make some smart-ass remark about Blackwater or DynCorp ?
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
The Complex and the Gulag
Since my friend is ok, ( 5.4 aint no big deal ) & I'm sick of bad news, I think I'll just read today. These two titles together make me think of Blackwater and Halliburton.
Predators of press freedom
Bilbray sighting in San Diego
Dang, where's my rotten tomatoes when I need them?
Friday, September 28, 2007
Well, um.. the trailer's funny, but only if you've been paying attention
"We don't do body counts," Gen. Tommy Franks, who directed the Iraq invasion, has said.
Saturday, May 3, 2003
In their testimony, Sergeant Vela and other soldiers described how their teams were pushed beyond limits by battalion commanders eager to raise their kill ratio against a ruthless enemy.
Published: September 28, 2007
Senate wants Blackwater answers
Posted by Jim Tankersley on September 28, 2007 11:32 AM Permalink
Veterans of PTSD
9.28.07
War Inc. trailer
John Cusack interviews Naomi Klein
Milton Friedman is dead.
The fantasies he sold are being exposed as fantasies.
Naomi Klein's the Shock Doctrine
The Shock Doctrine: Naomi Klein on the Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Monday, September 17th, 2007
Watch or listen to the Amy Goodman interview.
Saturday, May 3, 2003
In their testimony, Sergeant Vela and other soldiers described how their teams were pushed beyond limits by battalion commanders eager to raise their kill ratio against a ruthless enemy.
Published: September 28, 2007
Senate wants Blackwater answers
Posted by Jim Tankersley on September 28, 2007 11:32 AM Permalink
Veterans of PTSD
9.28.07
War Inc. trailer
John Cusack interviews Naomi Klein
Milton Friedman is dead.
The fantasies he sold are being exposed as fantasies.
Naomi Klein's the Shock Doctrine
The Shock Doctrine: Naomi Klein on the Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Monday, September 17th, 2007
Watch or listen to the Amy Goodman interview.
Thursday, November 08, 2007
WaPo Nov 8 2007
D.C. Tax Workers Charged In Scam
2 Accused of Taking $16 Million Worth Of Illegal Refunds
By Carol D. Leonnig, Clarence Williams and David Nakamura
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, November 8, 2007; Page A01
Clinton, in Particular, Draws Equal Parts Cash and Vitriol
By Jose Antonio Vargas For Candidates, Web Is Power And Poison
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 8, 2007; Page A01
How Blackwater Sniper Fire Felled 3 Iraqi Guards
Witnesses Call Shooting From Justice Ministry Unprovoked, But State Dept. Cleared Its Security Team After a Brief Probe
By Steve Fainaru
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, November 8, 2007; Page A01
Kaine Hails 'Balance' in New Political Landscape
By Tim Craig and Anita Kumar
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, November 8, 2007; Page A01
Bhutto Urges Protest Against Musharraf
By Griff Witte
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, November 8, 2007; Page A01
2 Accused of Taking $16 Million Worth Of Illegal Refunds
By Carol D. Leonnig, Clarence Williams and David Nakamura
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, November 8, 2007; Page A01
Clinton, in Particular, Draws Equal Parts Cash and Vitriol
By Jose Antonio Vargas For Candidates, Web Is Power And Poison
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 8, 2007; Page A01
How Blackwater Sniper Fire Felled 3 Iraqi Guards
Witnesses Call Shooting From Justice Ministry Unprovoked, But State Dept. Cleared Its Security Team After a Brief Probe
By Steve Fainaru
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, November 8, 2007; Page A01
Kaine Hails 'Balance' in New Political Landscape
By Tim Craig and Anita Kumar
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, November 8, 2007; Page A01
Bhutto Urges Protest Against Musharraf
By Griff Witte
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, November 8, 2007; Page A01
Friday, October 19, 2007
Zeitgeist the movie
What a fun time waster. Pretty basic stuff.
L R & Center
PBS NOW
Immigration on Main Street
Bill Moyers tonight,
Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater
The Military-Industrial Complex
The Balance of Trade
L R & Center
PBS NOW
Immigration on Main Street
Bill Moyers tonight,
Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater
The Military-Industrial Complex
The Balance of Trade
Saturday, December 08, 2007
EU-Africa summit begins
Muammar Gaddafi called for compensation from former colonial powers [AFP]
The second ever EU-Africa summit has started in Lisbon, the Portuguese capital, in the presence of 67 leaders from the two continents, including Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe.
Terry has a great post on local Blackwater shenanigans
Thursday, February 05, 2009
State Department To Blackwater: You're Fired, Leave Iraq by May
$1.2 Billion Contract Won't Be Renewed Following Iraqi Refusal to License U.S. Firm
By BRIAN ROSS and KIRIT RADIA
January 30, 2009
By BRIAN ROSS and KIRIT RADIA
January 30, 2009
How the hell did I miss this one?
WOOOOO HOOOOOO!!!!!
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Yes on 8 wingnuttia in action
They piss me off. ( It's been fixed now, but I was so pissed off I screwed up the last post on this issue.) I flipped them off again, and the idiots told me I was intolerant and I was infriniging on their freedom of religion, and that I wanted to infringe on their freedom of speech. Huh? They want to change my constitution to specifically exclude what the CA Supreme Court decided should not be excluded and I'm intolerant? I flipped them off, that's MY freedom of speech, bitches.
I've noticed something about Rethugs: everything these shitheads accuse you of, they themselves are usually guilty of.
These people are lying, hypocritical sacks of shit. It's Ok to get paid billions of taxpayer dollars to kill Iraqi kids, but better not let an American kid witness a gay marriage, even if the parents approve of the marriage, the ceremony, And don't want their kids pic used in a "YES ON 8" AD. I hate the wingnut fucking fucks.
Not So Strange Bedfellows: Blackwater and Yes on 8
by: Lucas O'Connor
Tue Oct 28, 2008 at 11:10:54 AM PDT
Happy Halloween from Molly McMooseturd, Crowned Queen of Wingnuttia
I've noticed something about Rethugs: everything these shitheads accuse you of, they themselves are usually guilty of.
These people are lying, hypocritical sacks of shit. It's Ok to get paid billions of taxpayer dollars to kill Iraqi kids, but better not let an American kid witness a gay marriage, even if the parents approve of the marriage, the ceremony, And don't want their kids pic used in a "YES ON 8" AD. I hate the wingnut fucking fucks.
Not So Strange Bedfellows: Blackwater and Yes on 8
by: Lucas O'Connor
Tue Oct 28, 2008 at 11:10:54 AM PDT
Happy Halloween from Molly McMooseturd, Crowned Queen of Wingnuttia
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Blackwater
Potrero Mounts Up - Taking a Stand
by: Lucas O'Connor
Sat May 12, 2007 at 21:44:23 PM PDT
The link to the UT article and the comments that the UT chose to publish are telling.
The article was a bit irritating, but I expect that from the fishwrap. This comment started out with a jaw-dropper:
"I am mystified by the hostility in some of the comments..."
ewh wha?
Especially in a military town.
Let's review.
Accountable
Unaccountable
Private security company seeking to establish training camp near San Diego
Last modified Sunday, May 13, 2007 1:00 AM PDT
By: North County Times Wire Services -
Locals Against Training Camp In East County
POSTED: 10:15 am PDT May 12, 2007
UPDATED: 11:07 am PDT May 12, 2007
by: Lucas O'Connor
Sat May 12, 2007 at 21:44:23 PM PDT
The link to the UT article and the comments that the UT chose to publish are telling.
The article was a bit irritating, but I expect that from the fishwrap. This comment started out with a jaw-dropper:
"I am mystified by the hostility in some of the comments..."
ewh wha?
Especially in a military town.
Let's review.
Accountable
Unaccountable
Private security company seeking to establish training camp near San Diego
Last modified Sunday, May 13, 2007 1:00 AM PDT
By: North County Times Wire Services -
Locals Against Training Camp In East County
POSTED: 10:15 am PDT May 12, 2007
UPDATED: 11:07 am PDT May 12, 2007
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
LA Times T Dec 4, 2007, & today's UT
Iran's nuclear ambitions on hold, U.S. agencies conclude
Intelligence experts say such work has been shelved for now -- a change in consensus with major implications for U.S. policy.
By Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 4, 2007
China's man at the anchor desk
BROADCAST NEWS IN CHINA: “I don’t feel that any of us are employed to be stooges,” Edwin Maher says of fellow foreigners at China’s English-language television station, CCTV. “But obviously there are limits.” Above, he relaxes in Beijing.
Westerner Edwin Maher reads government 'news' for Beijing TV. He ignores those who call him a sellout.
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 4, 2007
A desire to curry voters' favor outweighs earlier calls for fiscal responsibility.For Congress, election imperils balanced budget
By Noam N. Levey, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 4, 2007
BASEBALL
Walter O'Malley's long road to the Hall of Fame
Ex-priest pleads guilty in molestation scandal
Michael Stephen Baker's case was a key part of Cardinal Roger M. Mahony's fight to withhold records.
By John Spano, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 4, 2007
Former Roman Catholic priest Michael Stephen Baker, who authorities say ranks among the Los Angeles Archdiocese's most prolific child molesters, pleaded guilty Monday to sexually abusing two boys and was sentenced to 10 years and four months in prison.
Chavez revolution takes hit in election
Crime, shortages, student opposition combine to help erode support for the Venezuelan president. His constitutional reform plan is narrowly defeated.
By Chris Kraul, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 4, 2007
Powell's turns the page
The legendary Portland, Ore., bookstore has been a how-to guide for surviving Internet and chain rivals. So why is its owner so nervous?
By Scott Timberg, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 3, 2007
Today's fiswrap
Tecate police official slain
Killing occurs hours after tunnel is found
By Anna Cearley
and Sandra Dibble
STAFF WRITERS
December 5, 2007
Juan José Soriano Pereira, 35, who was described as second in command of Tecate's police force, was shot to death in his bed about 2 a.m. yesterday, said Sonia Patricia Navarro, who oversees Baja California's state investigative police force. Soriano was hit by 45 bullets, Navarro said...
...An armed man escaped by ducking into the passageway, leaving behind bundles of marijuana. The Drug Enforcement Administration said yesterday that the drugs weighed 13,776 pounds. No detentions had been made on either side of the border...
Almost seven tons of pot abandoned and a dead high-ranking local Mexican cop. Could someone please tell me why marijuana is illegal again? I don't get it, & neither does Norm Stamper who started out as a San Diego beat cop, and he doesn't think the "War on Drugs" has been successful.
Leslie over at No Quarter has a fantastic blog post on the military-industrial-congressional-complex and their insidious inclusion in the "war on terrorism."
Documentary on Blackwater in Potrero
COUNTY WILDFIRES
Tracing the root of a fire takes time
Power lines, transformers likely caused most of blazes
By J. Harry Jones and Kristina Davis
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS
November 11, 2007
Intelligence experts say such work has been shelved for now -- a change in consensus with major implications for U.S. policy.
By Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 4, 2007
China's man at the anchor desk
BROADCAST NEWS IN CHINA: “I don’t feel that any of us are employed to be stooges,” Edwin Maher says of fellow foreigners at China’s English-language television station, CCTV. “But obviously there are limits.” Above, he relaxes in Beijing.
Westerner Edwin Maher reads government 'news' for Beijing TV. He ignores those who call him a sellout.
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 4, 2007
A desire to curry voters' favor outweighs earlier calls for fiscal responsibility.For Congress, election imperils balanced budget
By Noam N. Levey, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 4, 2007
BASEBALL
Walter O'Malley's long road to the Hall of Fame
Ex-priest pleads guilty in molestation scandal
Michael Stephen Baker's case was a key part of Cardinal Roger M. Mahony's fight to withhold records.
By John Spano, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 4, 2007
Former Roman Catholic priest Michael Stephen Baker, who authorities say ranks among the Los Angeles Archdiocese's most prolific child molesters, pleaded guilty Monday to sexually abusing two boys and was sentenced to 10 years and four months in prison.
Chavez revolution takes hit in election
Crime, shortages, student opposition combine to help erode support for the Venezuelan president. His constitutional reform plan is narrowly defeated.
By Chris Kraul, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 4, 2007
Powell's turns the page
The legendary Portland, Ore., bookstore has been a how-to guide for surviving Internet and chain rivals. So why is its owner so nervous?
By Scott Timberg, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 3, 2007
Today's fiswrap
Tecate police official slain
Killing occurs hours after tunnel is found
By Anna Cearley
and Sandra Dibble
STAFF WRITERS
December 5, 2007
Juan José Soriano Pereira, 35, who was described as second in command of Tecate's police force, was shot to death in his bed about 2 a.m. yesterday, said Sonia Patricia Navarro, who oversees Baja California's state investigative police force. Soriano was hit by 45 bullets, Navarro said...
...An armed man escaped by ducking into the passageway, leaving behind bundles of marijuana. The Drug Enforcement Administration said yesterday that the drugs weighed 13,776 pounds. No detentions had been made on either side of the border...
Almost seven tons of pot abandoned and a dead high-ranking local Mexican cop. Could someone please tell me why marijuana is illegal again? I don't get it, & neither does Norm Stamper who started out as a San Diego beat cop, and he doesn't think the "War on Drugs" has been successful.
Leslie over at No Quarter has a fantastic blog post on the military-industrial-congressional-complex and their insidious inclusion in the "war on terrorism."
Documentary on Blackwater in Potrero
COUNTY WILDFIRES
Tracing the root of a fire takes time
Power lines, transformers likely caused most of blazes
By J. Harry Jones and Kristina Davis
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS
November 11, 2007
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