Category: corruption

September 8, 2008

News from the YIKES department: Drug Plane Used for Rendition Flights

This story came across my radar while I was reading What Really Happened . Quote: the European Parliament was investigating the private Grumman Gulfstream II, registered by the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation, for suspected use in CIA "rendition" flights in which prisoners are covertly transferred to a third country or US-run detention centers. It also said the US Federal Aviation Administration’s […]

August 29, 2008

Robber in the Vault

A damning critique of the current state of government in Canada.  Private corporations have infiltrated our democracy and are threatening to turn it into a police state in order to ensure all profits are maximized. Read more here. Not only have relatively harmless administrative matters formerly run by civil servants been “privatized”.  But whole, large bodies of privately employed workers (employees of CGI, for example) […]

August 16, 2008

Excited Delirium Book: Chapter 64 (The Great 08 Quake)

Author’s Note: The following is Chapter 64 of the my online book “Excited Delirium”. Please post comments. Please tell your friends about this story. If you’ve missed a chapter, please click here for Chapter 1 (Prelude) or here for the full index . The vague and distant tremors felt in Beijing might have been mistaken for a train rushing through town. Or joyous celebrations in […]

July 24, 2008

It was the oil all along

It’s not something that comes across mainstream media often, so I’m relieved to hear someone admitting that the Iraq war was really only about the oil. Here’s the full story from Bill Moyers. Now, for those of you who were following this story, you’ll know that this ‘news’ came out a couple of weeks ago. I have to admit that I’ve been delinquent with my […]

July 10, 2008

Excited Delirium Book: Chapter 53 (Greyrock – Bringing it Home)

Author’s Note: The following is Chapter 53 of the my online book "Excited Delirium". Please post comments. Please tell your friends about this story. If you’ve missed a chapter, please click here for Chapter 1 (Prelude) or here for the full index August 5, 2008 In Washington, a surprisingly large number of senior government officials have been working on a strict privatization plan for decades. […]