August 30, 2011

$30 billion stolen by US military contractors

Wartime Contracting Commission warns of huge risk from unsustainable projects

“ARLINGTON, VA, June 3, 2011 – U.S.-funded projects that the Iraqi and Afghan governments can’t operate or pay for on their own threaten to create billions of dollars of new waste of American taxpayers’ money, according to a special report released today by the federal Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The report notes that “Potential waste from unsustainable projects exceeds $11 billion for just one program in Afghanistan, facilities construction for the national security forces.” The report points to other examples like a large power plant the Afghan government can’t afford to operate and an Iraqi water-treatment plant that is shut down much of the time and produces murky water when it does run.

Sustainability is a serious concern, the report says, because the U.S. military will be out of Iraq by the end of 2011, and the drawdown of U.S. troops from Afghanistan begins in July. Yet many of the programs and projects carried out under federal contracts in the countries lack plans for staffing, technical support, and funding for the long term.

Read the rest of release by clicking on the headline and look for the report on Wednesday at the same location.

June 21, 2011

Keiser Report: Financial No-Go Zone

This weeks Keiser Report covers –

“This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, report on how to improve your self esteem with mountains of debt. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Demetri Kofinas in Athens about the global insurrection against banker occupation happening in Syntagma Square and the role of credit default swaps and mountains of debt in making that occupation possible in the first place.”

httpv://youtu.be/KuavFM4cIZM

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May 18, 2011

Keiser Report: Snow Globe of Denial

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSQoiYKmbko

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May 5, 2011

Keiser Report: Banking Fee's Smothering Restructuring, Bin Laden Bounce & Greek "Racketeering" Lawsuit

From RT – “This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, report on talking up Greek debt fears, the short-lived Bin Laden bounce and buying gold if your government is trying to kill you. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Dr. Kiriakos Tobras about his lawsuit against investment banks and derivatives dealers for their crimes against Greece.”

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q5Hn2Frx0o

And closer to home be sure to send a message to your congress critter to tell them to vote Yay to S. 575/H.R. 1081 – a yes vote stops the banks from adding yet another fee to use your ATM card. Check it out and send a message!

Call to Action: Folks, those sneaky congress critters have given a green light to Banks to charge YOU greater fee’s to use your ATM cards – LET’S TELL THEM NO!!!

April 26, 2011

Keiser Report: Fleeing Dollar Flood & Fraud (Episode 141)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_RBbeIFeT8

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April 22, 2011

Max Keiser Report – As Gold As Gold

This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, report on downgrades, gold bars and third worlds. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Taki Oldham, director of The Billionaires Tea Party, about tea parties, astroturfing and Ayn Rand.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID9D2zTTjYA

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April 13, 2011

Is Depleted Uranium being used on the people of Libya? Conn Hallinan, columnist w/Foreign Policy in Focus discusses the likely possibility w/RT

While NATO is establishing democracy in Libya with carpet bombardment, what will be the toxic toll on the people there? The US dropped thousands of depleted uranium bombs upon Fallujah, Iraq in 2003, and the aftermath since has been catastrophic. Are they repeating the action in Libya? Conn Hallinan is a columnist with Foreign Policy in Focus and says it’s just a very bad idea.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXXq4ZG32Sw

The T-Room invited Gar Smith, Environmentalists Against War to cross post his groundbreaking article back in February. In case you missed it, we encourage you to read and watch the videos to learn what your government is doing in your name.

America’s Legacy of Mutagenic War (News Analysis). h/t The Berkeley Daily Planet (VIDEO)

Gar Smith, Environmentalists Against War

Wednesday February 09, 2011

A series of disturbing reports from Iraq and Vietnam (backed up by a horrific collection of videos) have exposed a hidden legacy of war — weapons that continue to create victims years after the conflict has ended.

Thanks to the US military’s embrace of Mutagenic Weapons — technologies that can poison cell tissue and ransack the human DNA far into the future — babies and children have become the latest form of “collateral damage.” Today, in Vietnam and in Iraq (and in Kosovo and Afghanistan), children are being born with deadly cancers, grotesque tumors, twisted or missing limbs, freakishly enlarged heads, and a range of horrific mutations.

In Vietnam, the US sprayed an estimated 20 million gallons of chemical defoliants over the country to kill vegetation that provided cover for the insurgent armies. The Pentagon and the manufacturer (Dow Chemical) knew as early as the 1950s that Agent Orange contained dioxin, an intensely dangerous chemical that could poison the ground and water and kill animals and people long after application. Today, 35 years after the war’s end, three million Vietnamese live with compromised health and crippling deformities attributed to exposure to Dow’s long-lasting poisons. Every day, mothers give birth to deformed babies as the latest generation of Vietnamese children struggles to survive America’s legacy of Agent Orange.

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