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(CBS) There are still 50,000 families along the Gulf Coast living in travel trailers given to them by FEMA. Six months ago we began investigating reports of toxic formaldehyde fumes making some of those people sick. And as Chief Investigative Reporter Armen Keteyian reports, FEMA has done more to cover their own backs than help [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 7th, 2007 | Category: CBS, Corruption, Disaster, Excuses, FEMA, Hypocracy, Ignorance, Katrina, R. David Paulison, Tax Dollars, Waste, chemicals, cover up, incompetence, taxpayers | Comments (1)

The Quakers have a wonderful website, AFSC.ORG , that keeps tally of the dollars being flushed down the war toilet. They have posted alternative directions this enormous amount of money could be better spent. This country contains well over 300 Million souls. The quality of life is rapidly being thrown in two [...]

Posted by bosskitty September 23rd, 2007 | Category: 1984, Accountability, Anti-War, Armageddon, Black Ops, Bush, CHIPS, Children, Clean Energy, Collateral, Corruption, Crooks, Dollars, EPA, Education, Excuses, FDA, FEMA, Health Care, Hypocracy, Immigration, Mercenaries, Oil, Oversight, Povery, SCHIPS, Tax Dollars, US Treasury, War, War Contractors, War Cost, Waste, arrogance, budget, civil liberties, displaced persons, economics, executive privilege, fraud, infrastructure, negligence, no-bid contract, profiteers, resonsibility, troops, veterans benefits | Comments (6)

Al Jazeera in depth research into Iraq’s many armies: Four years ago the fighting in Iraq was just beginning. The armed group al-Qaeda in Iraq did not even exist and Sunni and Shia groups were working together against the US-led forces.
Three years ago, sectarian divisions escalated into a battle some believe [...]

Posted by bosskitty September 8th, 2007 | Category: Al Qaeda, Anbar, Anti-War, Baghdad, Bechtel, Black Ops, Blackwater, Bush, Casualties, Civilian Army, Collateral, Corporate Corruption, DOD, Deception, Excuses, Executive Branch, Halliburton, Holy War, House Armed Services Committee, Hypocracy, Iraq, Islamic Jihad, Joint Chiefs, Moqtada al-Sadr, Nuri al-Maliki, Occupation Army, Outsource, Oversight, Pace, Pentagon Corruption, Politics, Private Armies, Propaganda, Shadow Government, Shi'a, Shiite, Sunni, Tax Dollars, The Divider, The Liar, Time Bomb, War Contractors, War Cost, battlefield, conspiracy, cover up, covert, destruction, displaced persons, escalation, genocide, incompetence, profiteers, refugees, resonsibility, taxpayers | Comments (13)

Documents Show Troops Disregarding Rules
by Ryan Lenz
New documents released Tuesday regarding crimes committed by U.S. soldiers against civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan detail a troubling pattern of troops failing to understand and follow the rules that govern interrogations and deadly actions.
“The simple fact of the matter is interrogation is supposed to be stressful or you [...]

Posted by bosskitty September 5th, 2007 | Category: ACLU, Abu Ghraib, Accountability, Baghdad, Casualties, Collateral, Cowboys and Indians, Education, Excuses, Gangs, Hypocracy, Ignorance, Iraq, Law, Legacy, Mercenaries, Occupation Army, Outsource, PTSD, Pentagon Corruption, Private Armies, Propaganda, Rumsfeld, Scandal, Soldiers, Tax Dollars, The Liar, War Cost, War Crimes, abuse, arrogance, battlefield, betrayal, cover up, crimes, department of defense, deployment, disinformation, documents, escalation, ethics, humanitarian, incompetence, innocents, lies, mental health, military, profiteers, resonsibility, training, troops | Leave a comment

Military Briefs Bush On Troops’ Welfare
Effects of Lengthy Deployments Discussed
By Michael Abramowitz Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, September 1, 2007
President Bush went to the Pentagon yesterday to hear firsthand the views of top military advisers concerned about the impact of extensive Iraq deployments on the overall health of the U.S. armed [...]

Posted by bosskitty August 31st, 2007 | Category: Accountability, Afghanistan, Bush, Casualties, Cheney, Crocker, DOD, Excuses, Foriegn Policy, Gates, Iran, Iraq, Joint Chiefs, Occupation Army, Orwellian, Pentagon Corruption, Petraeus, Propaganda, Soldiers, Tax Dollars, VA, War Cost, Widows, arrogance, deployment, disinformation, military, troops, veterans benefits | Leave a comment

Rice ’sways Musharraf on emergency’
LAHORE, Pakistan (CNN) — U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice helped persuade Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf to hold off declaring a state of emergency, high level Pakistani government sources said Thursday. Musharraf was said to be considering the move, which would bolster military rule and suspend democratic freedoms, amid security concerns [...]

Posted by bosskitty August 12th, 2007 | Category: Bhutto, Bush, Cheney, Cowboys and Indians, Crooks, Disaster, DoubleSpeak, Election, Excuses, Fear, Holy War, Hypocracy, Islamabad, Islamic Jihad, Lal Masjid, Legacy, Musharraf, cover up, crimes, dictatorship, disinformation, executive privilege | Leave a comment

Most Seem to Favor Low-Key Approach Over Confrontational One
By Anton Troianovski Special to The Washington Post Saturday, August 11, 2007

… with a small gay rights movement taking shape amid a more frank pop culture, gays are struggling with altogether different questions. Should they openly confront what many [...]

Posted by bosskitty August 11th, 2007 | Category: Earth, Excuses, Fear, GLBT, GLTB, God, History, Hypocracy, LGBT, Religion, civil liberties, equality, gay, homophobia, homosexuality, human, injustice, resonsibility, sexuality, trans-sexuality | Comments (1)

Pakistani Official Says Musharraf Rejects State of Emergency
Chosun Ilbo, South Korea - 28 minutes ago
Pakistani officials say President Pervez Musharraf does not intend to declare a state of emergency. Ruling party head Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain made the …
No emergency rule’ for Pakistan
CNN International - 38 minutes ago
LAHORE, Pakistan (CNN) — Pakistan’s embattled president Gen. Pervez Musharraf will not [...]

Posted by bosskitty August 9th, 2007 | Category: Bush, Cheney, Corruption, Democracy In Action, Disaster, DoubleSpeak, Excuses, Executive Branch, FEMA, Homeland Security, Musharraf, Orwellian, Pakistan, Scandal, Tax Dollars, The Liar, War Crimes, conspiracy, crimes, disinformation, emergency, marketing | Comments (1)

That’s SIIC — or Is It?

By Al Kamen    Washington Post  Wednesday, August 8, 2007

The administration is engaged in a never-ending struggle over acronyms. Loop Fans may recall that senior officials a couple of years ago wanted to stop talking about a Global War on Terrorism, the GWOT or the WOT, and come up [...]

Posted by bosskitty August 8th, 2007 | Category: Bush, Cheney, Corruption, Excuses, Executive Branch, Gangs, Humor, Hypocracy, Impeach, Reich, Rove, bigotry, conspiracy, executive privilege | Comments (1)