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• The Real Face of Obama’s “Good War”

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 444
  australia.to | Dec 14, 2009 by Bill Van Auken “WSWS” — Reports that mercenaries employed by the notorious Blackwater-Xe military contracting firm participated in CIA assassinations in Iraq and Afghanistan have further exposed the real character of so-called “good war” that is being escalated by the Obama ...
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• CIA cancels Blackwater drone missile-loading contract

  
  Question Everything — Authority: 142
  BBCThe CIA has cancelled a contract with US private security firm Blackwater for its operatives to load bombs onto drone aircraft in Pakistan and Afghanistan.CIA Director Leon Panetta wanted such work to be done by the organisation’s own employees only, officials said.The New York Times revealed the existence of the ...
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• California Companies Fight Same-Sex Marriage Nationwide

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 443
  A New York Times story looks at those companies who would be profiteers off of the efforts of the Christianists and Mormons to deprive LGBT Americans of equal marriage rights. These PR mercenaries place making a buck - or a lot of bucks - over integrity and respect for religious freedom as they deal with ...
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• Blackwater CIA Updates

  
  Civilianism News — Authority: 128
  Head Mercenary, Erik Prince of Blackwater With friends like Blackwater, who needs enemies? The infamous mercenary group, Blackwater,  is not just a band of armed killers anymore.  They have been revealed to be soldier/assassins working with the CIA, and working with them in Pakistan and Afghanistan.   Congress ...
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• Mercenaries and assassins: The real face of Obama’s “good war” By Bill Van Auken

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 447
  Dandelion SaladBy Bill Van Aukenwww.wsws.org12 December 2009Reports that mercenaries employed by the notorious Blackwater-Xe military contracting firm participated in CIA assassinations in Iraq and Afghanistan have further exposed the real character of so-called “good war” that is being escalated by the Obama ...
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• Video: Chris Redfields Sexy Wasteland Threads In RE5 Merc Reunion

  
  GayGamer.net — Authority: 561
  Who didnt play the hell out of Mercenaries in RE5 after completing the main game? It was perfect. Bite sized crescendo events set on memorable maps from throughout the game. Tasked with both survival and chaining kills easily makes this a go to stress release after a hard day. Each stage (after being unlocked) ...
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• Mexico’s Drug Warriors: The Right to Bear Arms Together?

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 489
  Robert Haddick from Small Wars Journal has an update on the Mexican Narco Wars. His is really a review of Manwaring’s 51 page paper from the Army War College. Key quotes…. Los Zetas was born in the late 1990s when the Gulf Cartel began recruiting soldiers from the Mexican army’s Airborne Special ...
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• Blackwater, ‘CIA’s partner in secret operations’

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 447
  Dandelion Saladpresstv11 Dec 2009 The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has recruited private security guards from Blackwater for clandestine operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, a report says.The New York Times cited statements by former company employees and intelligence officials as evidence that Blackwater ...
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• New footage from Resident Evil 5: The Mercenaries Reunion

  
  The Tanooki — Authority: 442
  Two new videos for Resident Evil 5: The Mercenaries Reunion today, one of Chris in his new warrior costume, and one of Sheva in her new folklore costume (something of a mix between Red Riding Hood and stripper). Watch them kick some ass in their frilly new digs. OK, Chris’ is more spiky that frilly but you get the ...
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• GoGamer.com announces "White Friday" sales deals

  
  Big Download Blog — Authority: 631
  Filed under: Biz , RPG , RTS Two weeks ago was "Black Friday" for GoGamer.com and last week it was "Green Friday" for the retail game web site. Today its apparently "White Friday" at the site as GoGamer.com continues to cut prices to the bone on a number of PC games (and a few PC hardware products too). ...
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• C.I.-Blackwater

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 729
  Reports are coming out that Blackwater mercenaries played central roles in some of the C.I.A.‘s most sensitive missions, including clandestine raids and the transport of detainees. Many guards claimed that their participation was so routine that the lines between military and contractor were blurred. —JCL. ...
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• Resident Evil 5 Mercenaries Reunion’s Chris And Sheva’s Alternate Costumes Revealed

  
  TrueGameHeadz .:Video Game Previews, Reviews, Videos and News For Gamers Everywhere:. — Authority: 463
  If there are any of you out there that decided to wait to pick up “Resident Evil 5,” particularly after hearing that it was going to be rereleased in an expanded version, it’s time to start getting excited. Check out the videos below for your first looks at Chris Redfield’s Warrior and Sheva Alomar’s Fairy ...
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• CCP Asia on innovation and risk with DUST 514

  
  Massively — Authority: 656
  This past Augusts announcement from CCP Games of a new title -- DUST 514 , a console MMOFPS set in EVE Onlin es New Eden galaxy -- drew both great interest and intense criticism from gamers. If successful, CCP Games will be the first game company to tie a console FPS in with a separate MMO. (Not entirely ...
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• The Disposable Single Man

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 439
  I’m reading a book about mercenaries in Iraq called Big Boy Rules . On page 83, the author Steve Fainaru writes: “Sometimes Cote would say it didn’t really matter if something happened to him, because he didn’t have a wife, or kids, or anyone he was responsible for.” I think almost every single man feels ...
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• Mercenaries 2 (2008)

  
  they.misled.us — Authority: 118
  EA recently announced that it was closing Pandemic studio. I wish they would not have, because this action resulted in hours of torture for me.Initially, I thought this was a bad idea because I always remember them as the creators of Star Wars: Battlefront II, which is a fantastic game. I still go back and [...]
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• Mid-week PC game download sales hit the interwebs

  
  Big Download Blog — Authority: 631
  Filed under: Downloads , Action , RTS Its only Tuesday but we have a batch of new PC game download sales to tell you about today: Direct2Drive s next one-day game sale is for Mercenaries 2 ; you can download the game for just $4.95 until 1 pm Eastern time Wednesday. Also you can download all of the Empire ...
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• Obamas shame

  
  BlueNC - The people's think tank — Authority: 435
  Being the most mercenary friendly state in the nation, North Carolina should be especially excited about Obamas unprecedented reliance on private armies to carry out the growth strategies of America, Inc. Gotta love those free markets . Now that the much despised George W. Bush is out of the way and a more popular ...
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• Phyllis Bennis: US no business in the middle of Afghan civil war

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 447
  Dandelion Saladhttp://therealnews.comPhyllis Bennis: Obama said that there was no military solution, but that’s all he’s really offeringPhyllis Bennis is a Senior Analyst at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC. She is the author of Before and After: US Foreign Policy and the September 11 Crisis , ...
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• Is Erik Prince ‘Graymailing’ the US Government?

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 444
  The Nation | Dec 4, 2009 By Jeremy Scahill The in-depth Vanity Fair profile of the infamous owner of Blackwater, Erik Prince, is remarkable on many levels–not least among them that Prince appeared to give the story’s author, former CIA lawyer Adam Ciralsky, unprecedented access to information about sensitive, ...
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• Erik Prince: Tycoon, Contractor, Soldier, Spy for the CIA

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 444
  Erik Prince, founder of the Blackwater security firm (recently renamed Xe), at the company’s Virginia offices. Photograph by Nigel Parry. Erik Prince, recently outed as a participant in a C.I.A. assassination program, has gained notoriety as head of the military-contracting juggernaut Blackwater, a company dogged ...
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