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Premier of Iraq Is Quietly Firing Fraud Monitors
By JAMES GLANZ and RIYADH MOHAMMED
BAGHDAD — The government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is systematically dismissing Iraqi oversight officials, who were installed to fight corruption in Iraqi ministries by order of the American occupation administration, which had hoped to bring Western standards of accountability to the [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 18th, 2008 | Tags: Accountability, Bailout, Iraq, Iraq War, Nuri al-Maliki, Pentagon Corruption, United Nations, Waste | Category: Accountability, Bailout, Iraq, Iraq War, Nuri al-Maliki, Pentagon Corruption, Politics, United Nations, Waste | Leave a comment

Americans have become soft and impractical. Americans are consumer robots that are mesmerized by ‘image over substance’. That is exactly where America’s marketing geniuses have brought us. Some Americans are waking up to a world known by their grand parents and great grand parents. Frugal is no longer a ‘quaint concept’. Gas prices and their effect on food and necessities is the slap in the face we need to come out of the hypnosis we have been enjoying.

Posted by bosskitty May 25th, 2008 | Tags: big rigs, fuel crisis, Oil, transportation, trucking industry, trucks | Category: Accountability, Corporate corruption, Global Economy, Health, Mismanagement, Oil, Politics, Sino-Russian, Waste, changing planet, commercialism, consequences, consumerism, contradictions, denial, disinformation, economics, economy, fiscal responsibility, food, fuel crisis, fuel-efficiency, gas, marketing, profiteers, renewable energy, scams, trucking industry | Comments (2)

It used to be oil for food. Now, its oil substitute OR food. Super Powers are focusing on a dying concept. Cheap energy the old fashioned way is no longer viable.

Posted by bosskitty April 13th, 2008 | Category: Corporate Corruption, Environment, Foreign Policy, Global Economy, Global Power, Global Warming, Health, Human Rights, Mismanagement, Oil, Oversight, Planet, Politics, Power Shift, Public Health, Statistics, War Cost, Waste, World Health, World Order, contradictions, critical resources, economics, energy, fiscal responsibility, food, global community, hunger, jobless, negligence, oil-for-food, poverty, recession, refugees, renewable energy, unemployment | Leave a comment

Pentagon Warns of Civilian Layoffs If Congress Delays War Funding
Democrats Are Firm on Link to Troop Withdrawals From Iraq
By Jonathan Weisman and Ann Scott Tyson Washington Post
The Defense Department warned yesterday that as many as 200,000 contractors and civilian employees will begin receiving layoff warnings by Christmas unless Congress acts on President [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 21st, 2007 | Category: Afghanistan, Agendas, Bush, Casualties, Congress, Contractors, Corruption, Democracy In Action, Executive Branch, Hypocracy, Iraq, Joint Chiefs, Middle East, Nancy Pelosi, Outsource, PTSD, Pakistan, Pentagon Corruption, Politics, Propaganda, Soldiers, Tax Dollars, VA, War, War Contractors, War Cost, Waste, appropriation, betrayal, department of defense, deployment, disinformation, escalation, mental health, negligence, profiteers, responsibility, veterans benefits, victims | Comments (3)

 
 
Unravelling the sceptics

 
What do “climate sceptics” believe?

 
You might think that you know the answer, having heard, seen and read numerous counter-blasts aimed at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) over the course of this year, as the three components of its landmark climate assessment were published.
The IPCC and [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 12th, 2007 | Category: Air Quality, Disaster, Environment, Politics, Science, Waste, Water, changing planet, climate crisis, critical resources, global community, neglect, policy, responsibility | Leave a comment

Oil Price Rise Causes Global Shift in Wealth
Iran, Russia and Venezuela Feel the Benefits
High oil prices are fueling one of the biggest transfers of wealth in history. Oil consumers are paying $4 billion to $5 billion more for crude oil every day than they did just five years ago, pumping more than $2 trillion [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 10th, 2007 | Category: Accountability, America, Casualties, Children, Clean Energy, Dillusion, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Legacy, Oil, Oversight, Prophesy, Russia, Science, War Cost, Waste, World Order, administration, catastrophe, climate change, consumers, critical resources, displaced persons, infrastructure, liability, negligence, pollution, poverty, responsibility, state of emergency, survivors | Comments (1)

(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)

Judge Seamus McCaffery makes no bones about being a politician: He’s got a snazzy Web site, an unrelenting statewide travel schedule and more than $1 million in his campaign treasury. He’s also a judge. And the job he covets is an elected spot on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
Experts believe it is all [...]

Posted by bosskitty October 28th, 2007 | Category: Corruption, DEA, DHS, Deception, Dillusion, Drug Lords, FDA, Fundraisers, Health Care, Hypocracy, Insurance, Narcotics, Orwellian, Oversight, Politics, Preventative medicine, Tax Dollars, War Cost, War Czar, Waste, addicts, candidates, contributions, courts, cover up, crimes, drug war, drugs, election reform, fraud, illegal arms, pharmaceuticals, profiteers, resonsibility | Comments (1)

Walls are everywhere in Baghdad, put up by U.S. forces to offer a degree of security to hard-pressed residents. But do they merely perpetuate divisions? Critics argue the walls divide communities, stifle economic activity, imprison residents and only widen the sectarian rifts that remain at the root of Iraq’s political gridlock. Full Article

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Posted by bosskitty October 21st, 2007 | Category: Border, Border Wall, Bush, Contractors, Corporate Corruption, HSPD-20, Human Rights, Hypocracy, Immigration, Iraq, Legacy, Mexico, NSPD 51, Rio Grande, Tax Dollars, The Divider, War Contractors, War Cost, Waste, incompetence, national security, threat, troops | Comments (1)