Blackwater Going After Blackbeard?

Blackwater vs. Blackbeard off the coast of Africa
Europe sends warships to stop pirates off of Somalia while Blackwater offers private security for hire to shipping companies.
Salon- Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in Der Spiegel.
Nov. 25, 2008 |

The most important things in life are simple, at least in the world of Erik Prince. [...]

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Later Evening Jukebox… Crazy Little Thing Called Love :)

Queen – Crazy Little Thing Called Love

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We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This! What Say You America? Ready For Change?

Obama’s unusual transition: Already a co-president
McClatchy Newspaper- Posted on Monday, November 24, 2008
By David Lightman | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — America has never seen anything quite like this: The president and president-elect acting like co-presidents, consulting and cooperating on the day’s biggest crises.
“It’s pretty unusual,” said George Edwards, a presidential expert at Texas A&M University, in [...]

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Pro-War Group ‘Freedom’s Watch’ Going Out Of Business

Report: Pro-War Group Going Out of Business
TPM- Muckraker By Zachary Roth – November 24, 2008, 5:11PM
Call it a sign of the times…
It looks like Freedom’s Watch, the pro-war pressure group bankrolled by casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and talked up by former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, is wrapping up its operations — apparently [...]

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Evening Jukebox… China Bans “Democracy” And Declares War On Guns N’ Roses

China Bans Democracy, Declares War on Guns N’ Roses
Huffington Post- David Flumenbaum
Posted November 24, 2008 | 01:23 PM (EST)

Guess what’s never coming to China? Something that the world has patiently waited to see for years now. Something we all hoped we’d see some day but never really expected ever to see. If you said “Chinese [...]

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Multinational Monitor’s Annual List Of 10 Worst Corporations Of The Year

The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008

By Robert Weissman, Multinational Monitor. Posted November 24, 2008.

The financial meltdown and economic crisis illustrated that corporations will destroy even themselves in search of profit.

2008 marks the 20th anniversary of Multinational Monitor’s annual list of the 10 Worst Corporations of the year.
In the [...]

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