‘Uncategorized’ Archives
Worth a Read: Philippine War, Spice is Nice, and Brain Power
Oh, yeah THAT WAR: Stars and Stripes knows there's a fight in the Philippines. Philippine fight much different than in Iraq. So does GMA7. VANITY FAIR: Two great stories on contractors in Iraq and beyond. My former neighbor Robert Baer profiles Tim Spicer in Iraq's Mercenary King. Spicer's company, known as Aegis Defence Services, holds a $293 [...]
Connecting the Dots to Walter Reed Contractor
A THUMBSUCKING CONSPIRACY?: True or not, I have no idea, but the democraticunderground.com is all over the Walter Reed Army Medical Center story. This voluminous read connects a large $30 billion hedge fund, Cerberus Capital Management, to Vice President Dick Cheney, former Vice President Dan Quayle, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and [...]
Gulf Catering
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/wto/1841.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A19228-2004Jun30?language=printer
World’s Three Largest War Producers at War?
a proxy war taking place that involves three of the biggest oil producers on the planet. Levin asked McConnell during a committee hearing about the source of support for Sunni insurgents in Iraq. McConnell replied: "There is some flow to the Sunni side in terms of funding and weapons and recruits." Levin continued: "And what countries are those [...]
The State of Blogging
My foray into blogging is part experimentation, part work in progress and in part, a reporter's open notebook. And like a notebook: It is full of jottings, doodles and, in this case, occasional typos and mangled sentences. Hey, that's why this Blog is called The ROUGH CUT. I do try and fix what I can when I get around to it.... Roughly speaking. [...]
Pust to Privatize Walter Reed Eyed for Role in
The Bush Administration's management agenda to compete up to 50 percent of all government jobs against contractor bids from private companies wanting to do the same work may be responsible for the deterrorating conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. At issue is a January 2006 memorandum from Garrison Commander Peter Garibaldi claiming that [...]
Worth a Read: Mercenaries Pick up the Slack,
Custer Battles Off the Hook, Missing Billions
The Scotsman reports mumblings that private security may be used to fill gap left by UK drawdown in Iraq: Officials from the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence will meet representatives from the private security industry within the next month to discuss "options" for increasing their business in Iraq in the coming years. Custer Battles [...]
More Digging waste fraud
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070223/23dems.htm http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/23/AR2007022302049.html
Former Sandi Management
Feb. 24, 2007 -- RUBAR S. SANDI Chairman and CEO Mr. Sandi is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of The Sandi Group. For the past twenty years, he has directed, financed and managed various international projects worldwide. Mr. Sandi led The Sandi Group in the assessment of business opportunity, negotiation of governmental acceptance, arranging [...]
Iraq Objectives State Department
The United States and coalition members will remain to accomplish the basic objectives of removing the regime of Saddam Hussein, locating and destroying all weapons of mass destruction, and ensuring Iraq's territorial integrity. But the United States has an equal commitment to leave the area as soon as possible, demonstrating that the future of [...]
