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Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Map: US military overextended

44 countries all over the world have U.S. military bases. 56 countries have private military contractors conducting "training" . . .

Published on Feb 11, 2019

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Rick Sanchez explains how US military is now in 39% of the world’s countries. #NewsWithRickSanchez
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Monday, February 11, 2019

Elliott Abrams: The War Criminal Running US Policy in Venezuela

Published on Feb 11, 2019

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The recently named US Special Envoy on Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, is back in the halls of power after a career of supporting dictators, violence and genocide around the world

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Sunday, February 10, 2019

Now We Know Where That "Pecker" Story Came From

In the tabloid tradition, a good headline must do three things: 1. it must communicate the news
2. it must commit some act of wordplay
3. it must trigger a certain popping of the eyes in its reader, ideally accompanied by some kind of involuntary subverbal response—a squawk, a snort, a guffaw, a gasp . . .
Tabloid-headline excellence was achieved, when HuffPost declared, on its home page,
“Bezos Exposes Pecker.”
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The Current

New Yorker writers respond to the news.

The Story Behind the Instant Classic “Bezos Exposes Pecker” Headline

By Eric Lach

February 8th, 4:12 P.M.

" . . . The headline was the work of Hayley Miller, a HuffPost reporter in New York whose workday had already ended when the Bezos news came out. She was on the subway, heading home, her phone running out of battery and her reception going in and out between stations, when . . .

The idea for “Bezos Exposes Pecker” came to her quickly, but she hesitated before sharing it. . .

Both Miller and Snyder shrugged off the fact that the New York Post —a tabloid famous for its headlines—ran “Bezos Exposes Pecker” as the headline on its Friday front page. They were willing to accept that great minds had arrived at the same idea simultaneously, like Newton and Leibniz. “I think anyone in that business is brainstorming headlines with the word ‘Pecker,’ ” Snyder said

"Special Operations": Blackwater Mercenary Prince Has a New $1 Trillion-Gig

Ever wonder where or how or why all those PMCs [Private Military Contractors] don't get counted as American war troops or "Boots-on-Ground" in all of the fields of combat in The Middle East and Africa? Plausible denial that focuses on logistics and security, rather than paramilitary operations.
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Prince, the son of the late billionaire industrialist Edgar Prince, sold a rebranded version of Blackwater back in 2010, but he has other business interests. He runs a private equity commodities firm called Frontier Resource Group, that’s raising $500 million to mine metals in Africa and Asia to provide materials for electric cars.
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[Image from Bloomberg]

"Erik Prince, the former Navy Seal who founded Blackwater, hardly seems like the type who dwells on corporate niceties. He was, after all, America’s foremost mercenary executive.
But there he was in Beijing, bearing an unlikely gift for a man who might open China to a freelancer known for his band of private contractors. It was a copy of his Blackwater memoir, “Civilian Warriors.’’

Blogger Note: The image below left is from Prince's book, Civilian Warriors: The Inside Story of BLACKWATER and The Unsung Heroes of The War of Terror

He started out innocently enough as an EMT in Michigan

Prince, brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, has made no secret about his ambitions in China. But since he became chairman of Frontier Services Group in Hong Kong five years ago, CITIC, his mainland benefactor, has slowly cemented its grip on the firm. Prince stepped down as FSG Chairman in December to make way for a new boss from the conglomerate, which has amassed a bigger stake than Prince’s 9 percent.
. . . In an interview before the Xinjiang news broke, Prince dismissed concerns about his company’s work in China.

‘Proud American’

“I am a businessman, not a politician, but I am also a proud American who would never do anything against my country’s national interest,” Prince said in a phone interview.

The story from Bloomberg News by Blake Schmidt 09 Feb 2019

Erik Prince’s Belt and Road Map

Sources: Company filings and statements, reporting by Bloomberg

Note: Includes countries with operations that are publicly detailed . . .

. . . Critics are unmoved. The Xinjiang ceremony is more evidence that Prince is “serving the national interest of China, which competes directly with the U.S.,” said Sean McFate, a National Defense University professor who once built a private army in Liberia while working for U.S. military contractor DynCorp International. . . "

Investors are blind to a $5.3 trillion risk in America’s west, . . and it’s all about a lack of water

Overuse and climate change are sapping the Colorado river, source of a fifth of U.S. GDP and at least $1.3 trln of market value. The feds and basin states are struggling to adapt, but investors pay little heed.

Viewsroom: U.S. water crisis may evaporate wealth

7 February 2019 By Jennifer Saba, Antony Currie

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Breaking: U.S. CBP Conducts Drill At The Border Amid Renew Tension With ...

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Breaking: U.S. CBP Conducts Drill At The Border Amid Renew Tension With Migrant Caravan
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers from the Mobile Field Force conduct an operational readiness exercise at the Gateway to the Americas International Bridge. CBP is conducting operational readiness exercises like these in ports of entry across the Southwest Border in advance of the arrival of multiple Central American migrant caravans in Mexico. The move come after reports that migrant caravan in Mexico are frustrated of waiting in an improvised shelter.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen wrote Tuesday that a caravan of 2,000 migrants is approaching the Texas border. She added that DHS will "take all steps to ensure the safety and security of law enforcement personnel."

A Special Corner of HELL!

Pie's week-in-review . . .

Published on Feb 9, 2019

Views: 120,451++

Pie wonders if ALL politicians are heading straight to hell.
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COMMENTS: Well over 1,060+