Army Reservist Refuses Re-Deployment
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Type of Content: Article GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- A Wisconsin Army Reservist is refusing to return to his unit in Iraq, saying he's become disillusioned with the U.S. role there. Specialist Kristoffer Walker of Green Bay was supposed to fly to Atlanta on the way back to his unit yesterday, but he stayed home instead. He says he sent an e-mail to his squad leader, platoon sergeant and company first sergeant in Iraq, stating he won't return from his two-week leave. The military says in 30 days he can be considered absent without leave and subject to a possible trial. Read »
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Safety precaution? You mean Bush and Cheney were unsafe all this while? Gimme a break! It's not like Marine One was going to the Front Lines! It's not like Bush and Cheney were going to spend for this Flying Pork during the pre-Depression era of the early 2000s. Soldiers die on the Front Lines and you're needing safety precaution? Again, where in D.C. do you live?
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Green Bay (AP) - A US Army spokesman says a Green Bay soldier stationed out of Minnesota is "letting his battle buddies down" by refusing to return to Iraq.
Lieutenant Colonel Nathan Banks says leave is granted on a rotational basis -- so if Army Reserve Spc. Kristoffer Walker doesn't go back, some other soldier could be denied leave.
Walker refused to leave yesterday at the end of his two-week leave. He says he's disillusioned with the US role in Iraq.
He says he served one tour after the September 11 attacks and re-enlisted as a reservist. But he says he has since concluded the Iraq war is "an illegitimate, unnecessary campaign" and he shouldn't have to take part.
Banks said today that soldiers are entitled to their opinion but they still have a job to do.
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"FREEDOM AT ANY COST"
Battle buddies???
What? Are these supposed to be children playing at war? I wonder when the ignorance of people will cease to amaze me...
How dare he let down the Pentagon and Shell?
Pentagon Hands Iraq Oil Deal to Shell ( click here )
by Nick Turse
Global Research, October 4, 2008
The US government secretly facilitated dealings between Shell and the Iraqi Oil Ministry for no-bid contracts.
In June of this year, Andrew Kramer, writing in The New York Times, broke the story that the world's oil giants, "Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP ... along with Chevron and a number of smaller oil companies" were "in talks with Iraq's Oil Ministry for no-bid contracts to service Iraq's largest fields."
In fact, each of the oil giants named in the original New York Times piece - Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total, BP, and Chevron - regularly shows up on the Pentagon's payroll. In fact, last year, the five firms took home more than $4.1 billion from the Pentagon - with Shell leading the way with $2.1 billion.
While the Times didn't report it, Cook went on to say, "I am delighted that the Iraqi Government including the Ministry of Oil have supported Shell as the partner for joint venture with the South Gas Company. We look forward to moving jointly to implement the JV and begin investing in the energy infrastructure in Iraq." What the Times (and other major media outlets) also failed to mention . . . . . its own huge energy deal with Shell. On September 17th, Shell was awarded a $338 million contract for aviation fuel by the Pentagon. In fact, even before this contract, Shell had already awarded over $1 billion from the Pentagon during this fiscal year. If history is any guide, it will receive billions more before fiscal 2009 starts.
These complex issues go ignored because they are viewed as so routine as not to be worth mentioning, but in any other context the confluence of guns, oil and billions of dollars would certainly raise eyebrows.
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How can you let these non-American billionaires down? Don't you feel shame for letting down the following people?
Jeroen van der Veer
Linda Cook
Malcolm Brinded
Peter Voser
Rob Routs
Jorma Ollila
Maarten van den Bergh
Wim Kok
Baron Kerr of Kinlochard
Adelbert van Roxe
and the list goes on
"I'm so very sad."
Jeroen van der Veer
Director of Unilever
Here's your Weapons of Mass Destruction!
average joe
Nigeria Rebels Attack Oil Giants ++ click here ++
Abuja, Jul 9 (Prensa Latina) The Movement for the Emancipation of the Nigerian Delta (MEND) rejected presidential amnesty and claimed authorship of attacks against AGIP and Shell oil companies in southern Nigeria.
During early hours of Wednesday MEND sabotaged oil pipelines of the Italian AGIP in Nambe Creek in the state of Bayelsa and also installations of the multination Shell, both in the southern Delta province.
On June 25 Nigerian president, Umaru Yar'Adua decreed amnesty for those rebels who decide to lay down their arms and renounce violent actions in the conflict zone.
The main insurgent group of the country immediately rejected the presidential pardon and announced it would continue attacking foreign oil companies and new investment projects in the region.
In 2006 MEND arose against the government demanding a better distribution of oil wealth, a rich and abundant resource in the region and using it to develop the impoverished province of Delta del Niger.
The insurgents threatened last Friday to destroy a Trans-Saharan project of 10 billion dollars signed by Nigeria and Algeria to deliver gas to the north African nation to be shipped later to Europe.
Oil production dropped to a little more than a million barrels a day due to actions against United States company Chevron, the Italian AGIP and English-Dutch Shell that operated in the largest oil and gas producing country in Africa.
Oil for the Rich.
average joe
US mil: 3 US soldiers, interpreter killed in Iraq ( click here )
Mon Feb 23, 3:39 pm ET
BAGHDAD – The U.S. military in Iraq says three US soldiers and an interpreter have been killed in combat north of Baghdad.
A statement says the soldiers and their interpreter were killed Monday in Diyala province.
Diyala is an area north of the capital that continues to be volatile despite an overall drop in violence nationwide.
At least 4,250 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003. That's according to an Associated Press count.
Please kindly follow this link ...
Soldier questions eligibility, doubts president's authority ( click here )
'As an officer, my sworn oath to support and defend our Constitution requires this'
Posted: February 23, 2009
9:35 pm Eastern
As an active-duty officer in the United States Army, I have grave concerns about the constitutional eligibility of Barack Hussein Obama to hold the office of president of the United States," wrote Scott Easterling in a "to-whom-it-may-concern" letter.
- In Texas, Darrel Hunter vs. Obama later was dismissed.
- In Ohio, Gordon Stamper vs. U.S. later was dismissed.
- In Texas, Brockhausen vs. Andrade.
- In Washington, L. Charles Cohen vs. Obama.
- In Hawaii, Keyes vs. Lingle, dismissed.
Obama "has absolutely refused to provide to the American public his original birth certificate, as well as other documents which may prove or disprove his eligibility," Easterling wrote. "In fact, he has fought every attempt made by concerned citizens in their effort to force him to do so."
Taitz told WND she had advised Easterling to obtain legal counsel before making any statements regarding the commander-in-chief, but he insisted on moving forward. His contention is that as an active member of the U.S. military, he is required to follow orders from a sitting president, and he needs – on pain of court-martial – to know that Obama is eligible.
Easterling, however, is subject to enemy fire and certainly would have a reason to need to know the legitimacy of his orders, [California Orly Taitz] argued.
"Until Mr. Obama releases a 'vault copy' of his original birth certificate for public review, I will consider him neither my Commander in Chief nor my President, but rather, a usurper to the Office – an impostor," his statement said.
. . . . . .
In addition, other cases cited on the RightSideofLife blog as raising questions about Obama's eligibility include:
( meanwhile safe behind the Front Lines )
Marine One Spending Under Fire ( click here )
by Mike Krumboltz
February 24, 2009 01:26:08 PM
President Obama has talked tough about the need to shed wasteful spending. But will he practice what he preaches?
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Naturally, all this talk of gazillion-dollar equipment has people searching. Folks are desperate to know more about the fancy helicopters, what they can do, and why they cost such an exorbitant sum of cash.
As for why the president needs 28 of them — apparently, it's a safety precaution.
But why in the world do these contraptions cost $400 million each?
Safety precaution? You mean Bush and Cheney were unsafe all this while? Gimme a break! It's not like Marine One was going to the Front Lines! It's not like Bush and Cheney were going to spend for this Flying Pork during the pre-Depression era of the early 2000s. Soldiers die on the Front Lines and you're needing safety precaution? Again, where in D.C. do you live?
If it walks like a pork and oinks like a pork, it must be un-Kosher,
average joe
28 pieces of Marine Ones and you say you honestly can't afford this for the brave men and women on the Front Lines . . .
Who is kidding who?
Regardless, Let's Bring Them Home!
average joe
Kill, Burn and Loot
or was that
"KIDNAP, BEAT UP, and RAPE?" ++ click here ++
( gotta luv that Green Zone scene! )
The Candidate From Brown and Root: Bush Doesn't Know Dick
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By Robert Bryce
It was 1937, and the Mansfield Dam project (then called the Marshall Ford dam) was in limbo. Brown & Root, which had been a small Belton-based road-building company, was working on the dam even though Congress had not approved the $10 million project. Even worse, the project was illegal because the Bureau of Reclamation, which was overseeing the project, didn't own the land on which the dam was being built -- a minor fact that under federal law should have prevented the project from getting under way. But Herman Brown pressed on. He had received $5 million and was betting that he could get the federal approval and funding needed to finish the project. But he needed Johnson -- then a newly elected Congressman -- to get it. Johnson delivered. In July of 1937, with the backing of President Franklin Roosevelt, who made it clear he was doing it for "Congressman Johnson," the authorization and funding was approved.
Halliburton Corporation's Brown and Root is one of the major components of
THE BUSH-CHENEY DRUG EMPIRE
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[Lead story in the October 24, 2000 issue of "From The Wilderness"]
by Michael C. Ruppert
Of all American companies dealing directly with the U.S. military and providing cover for CIA operations few firms can match the global presence of this giant construction powerhouse which employs 20,000 people in more than 100 countries. Through its sister companies or joint ventures, Brown and Root can build offshore oil rigs, drill wells, construct and operate everything from harbors to pipelines to highways to nuclear reactors. It can train and arm security forces and it can now also feed, supply and house armies. One key beacon of Brown and Root's overwhelming appeal to agencies like the CIA is that, from its own corporate web page, it proudly announces that it has received the contract to dismantle aging Russian nuclear tipped ICBMs in their silos.
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Starting in the late spring of 1976 Teddy had wanted me to join her operations from within the ranks of LAPD. I had refused to get involved with drugs in any way and everything she mentioned seemed to involve either heroin or cocaine along with guns that she was always moving out of the country. The Director of the CIA then was George Herbert Walker Bush.
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"Big business complicity and political laisser faire is the only way that large-scale organized crime can launder and recycle the fabulous proceeds of its activities. And the transnationals need the support of governments and the neutrality of regulatory authorities in order to consolidate their positions, increase their profits, withstand and crush the competition, pull off the "deal of the century" and finance their illicit operations. Politicians are directly involved and their ability to intervene depends on the backing and the funding that keep them in power. This collusion of interests is an essential part of the world economy, the oil that keeps the wheels of capitalism turning."
Halliburton Deals Recall Vietnam-Era Controversy
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Cheney's Ties to Company Reminiscent of LBJ's Relationships
by John Burnett
More questions were raised when a consortium of which Brown & Root was a part won a $380 million contract to build airports, bases, hospitals and other facilities for the U.S. Navy in South Vietnam. By 1967, the General Accounting Office had faulted the "Vietnam builders" -- as they were known -- for massive accounting lapses and allowing thefts of materials.
Brown & Root also became a target for anti-war protesters: they called the firm the embodiment of the "military-industrial complex" and denounced it for building detention cells to hold Viet Cong prisoners in South Vietnam.
Today, Brown & Root is called Kellogg, Brown & Root -- a Halliburton subsidiary better known as KBR.
It never ends,
average joe
P.S. this last one takes the cake . . . . . . . .
Kellogg Brown & Root Skirts US Taxes Offshore
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Friday, March 07, 2008
Kellogg Brown & Root, the nation's top Iraq war contractor and until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp., has avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Medicare and Social Security taxes by hiring workers through shell companies based in the tropical tax haven, Cayman Islands.
'Coz D.C. is da sheeiT!
1. D.C. Metro Ghetto Area
D.C. Metro Ghetto Area - (noun) - Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area - The District of Columbia and immediately adjacent jurisdictions to include Montgomery County, MD, Prince George's County, MD, Fairfax County, VA, and Arlington County, VA.
Washington, D.C. is one of the largest and most violent urban regions in the United States. In the 1990's, D.C was the murder capital of the U.S. In present day America, the Washington Metropolitan Area is home to some of the largest and most notorious gang population including the Bloods, Crips, MS-13, Latin Kings, Vatos Locos and Gangster Disciples to name a few. Violent crime is a daily occurence in D.C. and its immediately surrounding areas of Maryland and Virginia. The area is a cess-pool of illegal immigrants and a melting pot of cultures. Crime and events that once topped the nightly news have become second-page information in the Washington Post and regional nightly newscasts in the D.C. Metro Ghetto Area. Drugs and weapons flow on the streets like the blood they draw. The D.C. Metro Ghetto Area is the home of the most powerful politics on the planet. Daily commuter traffic tops the charts of the worst place to drive during rush hour, and environmental pollution is a rapidly increasing danger. The D.C. Metro Ghetto Area is home to a multitude of prime terrorist targets, including the White House, multiple international airports, the Metro system and home base of countless federal government offices. The area is a prime example of the failure of gun control and a drug laws, and the poster child for the need of expanded public safety services, better education and hardened government.
People who proclaim to be from D.C. must reside within the confines of the District of Columbia and immediately adjacent jurisdictions to include Montgomery County, MD, Prince George's County, MD, Fairfax County, VA, and Arlington County, VA. The D.C. Metro Ghetto area is rapidly expanding by population to include Frederick County, MD, Anne Arundel County, MD, Charles County, MD and Prince William County, VA.
Here's the plan . . . .
Get rid of public safety.
Get rid of better education.
Just go with the hardened government at $400 million apiece for a total twenty-eight pieces of Marine Ones.
Go! Go! MARINE ONE!!
Cleaning up D.C. the easy way! Just shoot 'em up!
average joe
Hardened government is good on heads of state
Careful what you wish for. You're definitely gonna get it.
Eat hot lead, D.C.!
"The Exalted One, Big O, promised change!"
US Nuclear B-1 Bomber On Iran ‘Attack Run’ Shot Down ( click here )
April 5, 2008
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
When contacted by US Air Force officials stationed at Qatar’s Al Udeid Air Base, these reports continue, this B-1 nuclear bomber ‘squawked’ what is called a ‘CIA Identification Code’, and not, what Russian Military Analysts say, was the correct code for American fighter aircraft over flying Middle Eastern Nations, whereupon it was ordered to land or face an ‘immediate’ shoot down.
Russian Military intercepts of US Air Force communications, during this incident, portray a chaotic scene where after refusing to change its course, American Military Officials ordered a US F-16 Fighter Jet to ‘strafe’ the B-1 nuclear bomber, but then a US Naval Carrier, stationed in the Persian Gulf, ‘ordered’ its fighter jets to attack those of the US Air Force.
As US Air Force Commanders launched more of their fighter jets into the air against their own Naval Forces, the B-1 nuclear bomber was reported to have been hit by cannon fire from the F-16 fighter jet, after which it changed its course for an ‘emergency’ landing at the Al Udeid Air Base and which upon landing ‘exploded’. These reports state that no further hostilities between the US Air Force and its Navy counterparts during this incident occurred.
American propaganda media sources, though acknowledging the destruction of this B-1 nuclear bomber, have failed, so far, to complete their fabrication of this incident into the final coherent form they deem suitable for their citizens, and as we can read as reported by the Dakota Voice News Service, and as we can read:
"The Rapid City Journal is confirming that the B-1 bomber which was involved in the incident in Qatar earlier today was from Ellsworth Air Force Base here in Rapid City.
The crew made it to safety, and the article says that details are uncertain as to whether the crew was from Ellsworth or from another base. Sgt. Sandra Lucas of the Al-Udeid Air Base public affairs office confirmed Friday afternoon that the incident involved an Ellsworth plane. But she could not confirm whether any or all of the plane’s crew members were from Ellsworth.
The Air Force says the bomber was taxiing after landing at Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar and caught fire. Few details are available, although the Air Force says the aircraft was involved in a ground incident. All four crew members aboard the plane safely evacuated, according to the Air Force.
It was initially reported that the bomber crashed, but reports now say that wasn't the case. One report said that some of the munitions aboard exploded, but I've only seen that in one place, so don't know for sure if it's accurate."
Trying to figure out this one,
average joe