The military did not disclose the victim's nationality, but Houston-based KBR confirmed he was one of its employees.
Reporting from Baghdad and Kirkuk, Iraq - A U.S. soldier was arrested in connection with the fatal shooting Sunday of a civilian contractor on an American military base in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, the military said.
The shooting occurred at 8:30 a.m. and the civilian died of his wounds later in the day.
AFP - Energy giants Total and Chevron are propping up Myanmar's junta with a gas project that has allowed the regime to stash nearly five billion dollars in Singaporean banks, a rights group said Thursday.
France's Total and US-based Chevron have also tried to whitewash alleged rights abuses by Myanmar troops guarding the pipeline, including forced labour and killings, two reports by US-based EarthRights International said.
The group urged the international community to… Continue
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Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, September 13, 2009
BALTIMORE -- It was a slow day for Maryland's hospitals. But one Baltimore emergency room and an intensive care unit were already maxed out. And the computer monitor tracking the ER and ICU at a medical center in nearby Washington was flashing yellow and red -- signaling that they, too, had run out of room. The next car crash victim would have to go elsewhere; the next heart attack patient risked losing precious minutes… Continue
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Sept. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize- winning economist, said the U.S. has failed to fix the underlying problems of its banking system after the credit crunch and the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
On September 11, 2001, the willful negligence of federal, state, and local politicians aided in the murder of 3000 people. These murders were the foreseeable, inevitable result of decisions made by Presidents and Congresses beginning in the 1960s. They dismantled procedures that screened out dangerous aliens attempting to get visas while masquerading as students, tourists, and business travelers; and concurrently, to… Continue
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…Slaves will only be allowed to populate babies of the male gender and only by permission, may birth be permitted of females. Permission will only be granted after an assessment of the population by the dominion requires that a female be born. Unless permission is granted to birth a female, the mother will be subject to mandatory abortion. A mother who does not peacefully submit to abortion shall be forcibly birthed and severely… Continue
VAN JONES the former Green Job CZAR gives us one great insight in an excerpt he wrote in the book "That's the Point". This comment can help us in the "War Against Humanity"
Jones " YOU HAVE TO BE CREATIVE ABOUT HOW YOU ENGAGE THE ENEMY,
BECAUSE IF YOU DO IT ON HIS TERMS,THE OUTCOME IS ALREADY KNOWN"
Alex Jones recent interview with Charlie Sheen engages the enemy with bait of Transcripts they took ,hook,line and sinker.This was "creative" and has great results. Must… Continue
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President Obama’s highly anticipated health care speech started on a totally different subject: The economy.
“When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, he told Congress and the peole at home. “We were losing an average of 700,000 jobs per month. Credit was frozen. And our financial system was on the verge of collapse.”
But,” he went on, “thanks to the bold and decisive action we… Continue
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The Wall Street gang is at it again! It's been one year since Wall Street's collapse and bailout took trillions from taxpayers and the sinking economy. The speculative instruments that pulled down the economy were those super-risky sub-prime mortgages, credit default swaps, collaterized debt obligations-you know-Las Vegas East, using other peoples' savings.
As if to elaborate their gigantic con job, the investment banks, guaranteed by you the taxpayers, are… Continue
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An inspector general's report found that Bradley Schlozman, the former head of the civil rights division, misled lawmakers about whether he politicized hiring decisions.
Criminal prosecutors eyed the matter but decided not to file any criminal charges for his under-oath denials of making personnel decisions based on politics.
At his February confirmation hearing, Holder pledged he would review that decision when he took over the… Continue
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The former chief of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Miami office who led the agency’s cases against infamous Panama strongman Manuel Noriega and Medellin cartel kingpin Fabio Ocho, was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday Sept 10, 2009 for ordering the shredding of records once belonging to disgraced banker Allen Stanford.
Tom Raffanello, who emerged as Stanford’s worldwide security chief after leaving the DEA five years ago, was charged with… Continue
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David and Goliath might be an appropriate title for this video. Because Jane Bürgermeister, as a committed Christian, possesses an almost unreasonable amount of courage in her single-handed stand - against what many perceive as being a giant that few people are equipped to fight.
Jane is a young woman living in Vienna who, while working as a medical editor, was horrified to learn in early 2009 of the fiasco in which a Baxter International research facility in… Continue
"Tax his tractor, tax his mule. Teach him taxes are the rule. Tax his work, tax his pay. He works for peanuts anyway. Tax his cow, tax his goat, tax his pants, tax his coat. Tax his ties, tax his shirt, tax his work, tax his dirt. Tax his tobacco, tax his drink, tax him if he tries to think. Tax his cigars, tax his beers, and if he cries, tax his tears. Tax his car, tax his gas, and find other ways to tax his ass. Tax all he has, then let him… Continue
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Watch as two powerhouse personalities collide in this no-holds-barred debate on one of the world’s most contentious issues. Patrick Bet-David, known for his ...