MERCENARY DEFINED = AQ CONTRACTORS + BLACKWATER CONTRACTORS

June 30, 2014 by concisepolitics

MERCENARY DEFINED = AQ CONTRACTORS + BLACKWATER CONTRACTORS

Ex-mercenary Defines Mercenaries: MORE PRIVATIZED FRAUD AND MURDER!

BLACKWATER NEAR CONSTANT NAME CHANGES TO RUN FROM ITS REPUTATION = BLACKWATER = XE = ACADEMI = Prince sold it to Triple Canopy = Constellis Holdings.

Mercenaries = Money gained by selling your skills and services “it was primarily for money that we were operating.” = You are fighting NOT for your family, NOT your men, NOT your countrymen, NOT your country, NOT for democracy or any other principle = PROXY WARS= “I didn’t find it difficult.” = Just “expected to do things that were not necessarily how we saw the world”

Click for Source Article on SophiaCo

Mercenaries = must MINIMIZE COST TO MAXIMIZE PROFITS! = Use less resources to accomplish a task versus saving a team members life = Dreadful civilian suffering by a very large number of civilians. = You know that fighting a mercenary war is illegal and you have to be prepared for the consequences of overthrowing a government

Mercenaries = Thrown into prison is part of the equation, it was just the part of the risk that we were running = The money was good enough for that risk to be taken if we were successful (NOT OTHERWISE) = Lots of money conditioned on a long chain of “ifs” – if we’d been successful, if the person that we’d backed was ultimately the leader, if he decided to honor the agreements he’d made, etc, etc. = you must realize that if it goes wrong, you are going to be on your own. If you’re not lucky, they’re going to chop you up and eat you. = The people who set you up in an operation, completely failed to back you up or help your family.

Mercenaries = It was wrong to meddle in a foreign country’s affairs + It was wrong because we caused so much suffering amongst a lot of people + We were trying to act in a very arbitrary way

Mercenaries = Child soldiers were very often on drugs, and the atrocities they committed were dreadful.

Mercenaries = Were asked to help start the Iraq war = Governments and intelligence services are close to mercenary soldiers = David Hart was close to Lady Thatcher wrote papers that were going straight to Tony Blair in the run-up to the Iraq invasion, so I guess this was in 2002, before the final decision had really been made.

Mercenary = “Toppling foreign governments is what democracy is all about.” = Well, democracy is about changing governments, but it’s about changing governments in a legal and, hopefully, non-military, non-violent way. = Iraq, Libya, NOW Syria + all these countries in the Arab Spring = Toppling democratic governments for democracy’s sake doesn’t usually bring democracy. = This opens a very big subject = Even the revolutions – the French, the British, the Russian – they were almost invariably followed by periods of great unrest. = For a revolution to go straight from being a violent upset of the existing order to being a well-run democracy is impossible, it just won’t happen = The act of the revolution is so violent that the aftershocks are so great, that there is a period of chaos.

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BLACKWATER CONTRACTORS = AQ CONTRACTORS = KILLERS FOR HIRE

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Blackwater guards = Fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in 2007

Abandoned PROSECUTION = Blackwater’s top manager issued a threat: “that he could kill” the government’s chief investigator in Iraq” = American Embassy officials sided with Blackwater. = Previously undisclosed documents show.

Chief investigator = Scathing report to State Department documenting misconduct by Blackwater employees = Management Iraq have become subservient to contractors = Pre investigator, Jean C. Richter (2007) = “Blackwater contractors saw themselves as above the law” = “hands off” management so “the contractors, instead of Department officials, are in command and in control.”

Newly disclosed State Department documents was alerted to serious problems involving Blackwater and its government overseers before the Nisour Square shooting. = HURT US presence in Iraq = Shooting was a big factor in Iraq’s refusal to agree to allowing US troops to stay.

Today 4 Blackwater guards involved in the KILLINGS in Nisour Square are on trial in Washington on charges stemming from the episode.

Prince sold the company = NOW named Academi = 2014 merger with Triple Canopy a Contractor. The new firm is called Constellis Holdings. = Blackwater-State Department relationship = “Dysfunctional” = “It involved everything from catastrophic failures of supervision…”

Blackwater’s security guards = Gung-Ho Swagger and recklessness = shooting wildly in the streets and even killing civilians. = drinking heavily and partying with frequent female visitors. = Investigators found that four drunk guards had commandeered one heavily armored, $180,000 vehicle to drive to a private party, and crashed into a concrete barrier.

1997 Prince formed Blackwater = Company providing shooting ranges and training facilities in rural North Carolina for the military and for police departments. = Became a global security contractor with $Billions in US contracts = Secret Missions even to China. = Employees Forced to swear an inappropriate Oath to Prince and his goals. = Discovery of a long list of contract violations by Blackwater.

Blackwater = MASSIVE OVER BILLING of US MIDDLE CLASS WHO PAY MOST OF THE COSTS. = Forced “third country nationals” as low-pay workers from Pakistan + Yemen = living in squalid conditions in cramped room with no bed. = Complaints over food quality and sanitary conditions at a Blackwater compound.

The Blackwater official threaten the GOV agent! = Mr. Carroll said “that he could kill me at that very moment and no one could or would do anything about it as we were in Iraq.” = “Mr. Carroll’s statement was made in a low, even tone of voice, his head was slightly lowered; his eyes were fixed on mine.” = In his memo. “I took Mr. Carroll’s threat seriously. We were in a combat zone where things can happen quite unexpectedly, especially when issues involve potentially negative impacts on a lucrative security contract.” = WITNESS CONFIRMED!

2007 as the State Department and Blackwater were being rocked by scandal finally responded to Mr. Richter’s August warning about Blackwater. Condoleezza Rice, then the secretary of state, named a special panel to examine the Nisour Square episode and recommend reforms, but the panel never interviewed Mr. Richter or Mr. Thomas. NOTHING HAPPENED LIKE 9ll INVESTIGATION!

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Pity the Children BY Chris Hedges

Click for Chris Hedges Source Article in Truthdig

Iraq and Afghan children face suicide bombings = Now brutalized and robbed of their childhood

US COSTLY FAKED AND USELESS wars in Iraq and Afghanistan leave behind the contagion of violence and hatred of people maimed physically or psychologically

US PROFITEERS appetite for empire and lust for industrial violence = Drums beating + False Flags waving + Politicians + NEO-PRESS hyperventilating = Willing to say anything to FAKE ANOTHER WAR! = Human Rights + DEMOCRACY + FEAR MONGERING + MASSIVE LIES = IGNORING THE MIDDLE CLASS COST OF $TRILLIONS AND THE DEATH OF THOUSANDS + 10s of Thousands Injured + 100s of THOUSANDS of CIVILIANS KILLED!.

Combat = Trauma for those who inflict the violence as well as those who suffer it = Most disturbing memories usually involve children = Bands of ragged, poor, dirty street urchins wandering about the edges of a conflict looking for something to eat in garbage dumps or line the sides of roads begging for food + Attempt to sell a few pathetic items to make money. + Even sell porn videos, whiskey, or fake heroin. Children living in constant fear + cower in terror during night raids + warily eyeing drones circling overhead day and night, never sure when death would rain down from the sky. They saw brothers and fathers killed. = They dream of growing up to revenge their deaths = Children threw rocks at convoys or patrols + Work as spotters for AQ Contractors and carry automatic weapons. = Children BECOME TARGETS. Vehicles carrying corpses to be buried commonly included the corpses of children.

Soldiers and Marines often throw URINE bottles from inside their vehicles at children begging for water along the road. I remember hearing over the radio some higher-up saying, ‘You are authorized to shoot children.’” Some days children were to be courted and on other days threatened. The children could never tell how troops would respond. = “The rules of engagement constantly changed” = Some days it was shoot anything in sight. Then it would be about hearts and minds. Giving out chocolate. “Next week the kids would scream ‘Chocolate! Chocolate!” and we would have been told to keep the kids away.” = A “kid can be killed for throwing a rock.”

SOLDIERS realized that what we were doing was just creating a new generation that would hate each other. We were making them mad. They are going to hate us. It’s just going to continue. People who carry weapons in armed units have a terrifying God-like power to humiliate = Demand unquestioned obedience or Die. Civilians with NO weapons live in states of unrelenting terror and powerlessness and seek to become invisible and avoid contact. = “When the elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.” = Militia would WIN A FIGHT and take everything and then be defeated by a new militia who would come in hungry, hungry to steal, hungry to rape. They would take everything = ALL OUR FOOD. ALWAYS A NEW MILITIA! = NIGHT RAIDS ON CIVILIAN HOMES = TRAUMATIZED CHILDREN WILL NEVER FEEL SAFE AGAIN! = LIVE FOR REVENGE! = “God, I don’t know what you have planned for me. But I am going back and kill 100 men.” Children want LOVE not THE FEAR AND HATE OF WAR!

Vietnam had same dynamics + added abuse of thousands of girls who populated brothels that sprang up outside the vast military bases.

Love = sappy to US VIOLENCE ADDICTED citizens
War = Addictive in US violence filled MEDIA

KRISTOL = JOIN THE IRAQ ARMY = NEOCONS LIKE KRISTOL = WILL ALWAYS HAVE A MUSHROOM CLOUD OVER THEIR HEADS AND WILL NEVER BE LISTENED TO AGAIN

June 29, 2014 by concisepolitics

KRISTOL = JOIN THE IRAQ ARMY = NEOCONS LIKE KRISTOL = WILL ALWAYS HAVE A MUSHROOM CLOUD OVER THEIR HEADS AND WILL NEVER BE LISTENED TO AGAIN

NEOCONS MUST SERVE IN IRAQ ARMY THEMSELVES TO PROVE THEY CARE SO MUCH ABOUT IRAQ:

Vanden Heuvel called out NEOCON Kristol = WAR MONGERING MULTINATIONAL SCAMMER OF THE MIDDLE CLASS BY BILLIONAIRE PROFITEERS AND AIPAC SYMPATHIZERS = An “architect of catastrophe” and LIAR by pushing the WMD LIES! = NOT YET held accountable for their FRAUD AND FAILURES “that have so grievously wounded this nation.”

FACT: Bill Kristol’s ALLIES = AIPAC + BIG OIL MONARCHS = FUND THE ISIS AQ CONTRACTORS TO CREATE WARS US FIGHTS TO LOOT THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS.

FACT: B B B B OUR REAL ENEMIES THE OIL MONARCHS FUNDING THESE CONFLICTS
MULTINATIONAL BILLIONAIRE PROFITEERS PAY FOR THIS AND ALL FUTURE WARS!

USA GOV + MIDDLE CLASS = BROKE BECAUSE BILLIONAIRES + CORPORATIONS TAX-DODGE AND SCAM THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS!

Vanden Heuvel – “We’re sitting here at a moment, George, where we’re talking about John Boehner, but the central question of war and peace for the country — there’s no military solution to Iraq,” vanden Heuvel stated. “And I have to say — sitting next to Bill Kristol, man — the architects of catastrophe that have cost this country trillions of dollars, thousands of lives — there should be accountability.”

Vanden Heuvel — “If there are no regrets for the failed assumptions that have so grievously wounded this nation, or politics and media accountability. We need it Bill, because this country should not go back to war. We don’t need armchair warriors. And if you feel so strongly, you should, with all due respect, enlist in the Iraqi army.”

“America must not lgnore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of periI, we cannot wait for the final proof, the SMOKlNG g un that could come in the FORM of a MUSHROOM CLOUD.”

— GW BUSH (R)

“Those WMDs have got to be somewhere – Maybe under here. Nope no WEAPONS of MASS DESTRUCTlON under there, maybe under here.”

— GW BUSH (R)

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“No one was more SHOCKED or ANGRY than I was when we didn’t find the WEAPONS. I had a SlCKENlNG feeling every time I thought about it.”

— GW BUSH (R)

“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.”

— GW BUSH (R) – sounding like 1984

“They hate our freedoms — our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other.”

— GW Bush (R) – September 2Oth, 2OO1

“The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.”

“Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the TER RORlSTS.”

— GW BUSH (R) and the SlCKNESS OF NEOS! He forgot to tell them we are BOTH!

— GW BUSH (R)

“Some have argued that confronting the threat from lraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by lraq is cruciaI to winning the war on terror.”

— GW BUSH (R)

“Saddam HUSSElN is a HOMlClDAL DlCTATOR who is ADDlCTED to WMDs.”

— GW BUSH (R)

SALLlE MAE = GOV WELFARE = FEEDS OFF GOV AND STUDENTS

June 29, 2014 by concisepolitics

HIGHER EDUCATION has become a big SCAM ON OUR CHILDREN!

UPDATE: 40 MILLION Americans carry more than $1.2 Trillion in Student Debt:

Highest in History
More than Credit Card Debt
High-Interest Debt = 10’s of Times higher than BANKSTERS’ PAY
CANNOT be discharge through bankruptcy or reduce it with a settlement.
CANNOT be REFINANCED

Must pay whether they can afford it or not. = No Family Formation + No House Buying + No option to start a Business + No Way to Run a Country

Even their Social Security checks at 65 can be garnished.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s bill = Helps by allowing education debt to be refinanced at lower rates (STILL BANKSTERS PAY LESS). = Fewer defaults + More money in people’s pockets + A chance to CONTRIBUTE TO THE ECONOMY

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UPDATE June 2014: NAVIENT CORP = Former Sallie Mae Unit = Accused of Cheating US Soldiers = Dept of Education considers granting $Billion Contract = Originating + Disbursing + Servicing + Collections of Federal Student Loans/Grants = TRUSTING CROOKS DOJ FINED = PRIVATIZED FRAUD!

Current contract = Accenture LLP = Valued at $880 Million

60,000 troops Cheated = NAVIENT CORP = SALLIE MAE = Arne Duncan vowed to hold accountable = NOW HAS 4 Servicing = $126 Million = Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) Put them on “off-limits” list. = WHY IS THIS PRIVATIZED IN THE HANDS OF CROOKS.

FSA oversight of PRIVATIZED FRAUD = Inadequate investigation is “too little, too late.” = Navient CORP = “It’s incomprehensible that the Education Department keeps Navient in the running after finding all these problems at the company. It’s an indication that they don’t seem to be taking these violations seriously.”

Duncan = Should Suspend current loan servicing contract with Sallie Mae

Duncan + “The Department of Education’s actions show how tone deaf they are to what is going on around them.”

Nation’s largest UNION = DOE’s decision to select Navient as a finalist = “too big to fail.” = “It’s really discouraging” = LIE that borrowers would be inconvenienced without Navient

Ending Sallie Mae’s contract = Transition to smoothly transfer Millions of Loans

When “enforcement is inadequate or irregular or weak…when regulators are not doing their job, abuses proliferate. If we don’t do enforcement right, abuses will grow….There’s no real oversight there. There’s always a one-step-ahead-of-the-sheriff phenomenon.” — Senator Brown (D-OH)

Obama officials are spooked by UNIONS advocating for student borrowers by criticizing Duncan DOE could hurt Democrats in elections. = Unions concerned Duncan will NOT hold Navient accountable. = DOE told Navient in October it would renew its main servicing contract for 2015

December: DOE told Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) it would NOT levy any fines against Sallie Mae despite the FACTS OF FRAUD. = Dismissed as “compliance issues.”

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UPDATE: May 2014 STUDENTS Screwed by High Usury Debt

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Warren = Greedy special interests = Messed up way of financing student debt.

Warren = NO other country goes out of their way to screw students and people with student debt the way we do.

Warren = Big banks can go to the FED Reserve Discount Window and NEAR ZERO% Interest to speculate.

Warren = Every other kind of debtor can refinance and renegotiate their debts = WHY NOT STUDENT DEBT?

Warren = This predatory law specifically prohibits student loans from ever being refinanced at a lower interest rate.

Warren = Talks about the stupidity of the student debt situation and her plans to change it = REFI at 3% to 4% = BETTER YET 0% since young people are OUR FUTURE!

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SALLlE MAE = GOV WELFARE = GOV maintains its profitability while Students face fees and penalties AS DEBT SLAVES!

SENATOR Warren described a “pattern of breaking the rules and ignoring its contractual obligations,” and Education and Treasury departments “appear to have given little more than a slap on the wrist” to the company….“I am particularly concerned about this approach because of the enormous benefits the GOVERNMENT has provided SALLlE MAE.” = $600 million in profits off selling loans to the Education Department in 2009 and 2010.

SALLlE MAE = USES ECASLA Middle CLASS TAXPAYER BACKED credit facilities to borrow $Billions at “astonishingly low interest rates.” = NEAR ZERO%SALLlE MAE = CORPORATE RlPPlNG OFF STUDENTS AGAlN!

SALLlE MAE = VlOLATlONS of FEDERAL LAWS and GOV CONTRACTS

SALLlE MAE = Contends with numerous BANKlNG REGULATlONS of student LOANS.

SALLlE MAE = FDlC Enforcement actions = VlOLATlONS for “unfair or deceptive” practices and discriminatory lending.

SALLlE MAE = FDlC will publicly accuse them of VlOLATlONS of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act on active-duty members of the military.

SALLlE MAE = WILL LOSE lucrative contracts or fines = lower its share price.

SALLlE MAE = GOT a threat from Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

SALLlE MAE = State allegations of improper marketing of federal student loans in 2007

Warren is questioning = Education and Treasury departments = NO public steps to rebuke the company’s FRAUD by imposing fines or revoking federal contracts.

Obama administration continued rewarding of federal contracts to CRlMlNALS AT SALLlE MAE

Obama administration continued its “relentless” pursuit of struggling student borrowers

Treasury Department + Education Department = NO RESPONSE TO Warren’s letter

SALLlE MAE = PUNlSHES STUDENTS = MASSlVE FEES, PENALTlES, WAGES GARNlSHED, withholding of tax refunds, federal benefits and “onerous collection practices.”

Senator Warren asked Duncan has EDUCATlON DEPARTMENT ever used its authority to fine companies up to $35,000 for individual violations, and whether the department has ever fined or penalized Sallie Mae, investigated the company or determined that it has violated federal contracts.