
Private citizen contractors engaged in the theater of battle might seem common place now, thanks to the war on terror, but in reality it’s one of the most transformational changes our Military has ever gone through, and most of us never noticed.
ACT 1: A new once a day drug can help prevent HIV infection, but it’s been announced during a major FDA Spying scandal, plus the biggest threat facing the United States of America, according to Lamar Smith.
ACT 2: How did companies like Blackwater get their start, what major policy changes were put in place to make this legal, and what the future looks like for these companies. We answer those questions, and a lot more.
ACT 3: It’s your feedback, and some of our follow up.
All that and much more, is coming up right now on, Unfilter.
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Show Notes:
ACT ONE:
- Congress Now Trying To Outlaw Reporting On Government Corruption
Submited to the Unfilter Reddit Comunity by Mr_Gentoo - A little reminder “Amendment 1
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
+ Lamar Smith, who is pushing for this new legislation, is the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee which (according to his website) \”is the second oldest standing committee in Congress. In the last Congress over one thousand bills and resolutions were referred to the Judiciary Committee on such subjects as terrorism, crime, immigration, bankruptcy, civil liberties, constitutional amendments, and patents and copyrights. Lamar Smith is the first Republican Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee from Texas.”
- \’\’The greatest threat to America is not necessarily a recession or even another terrorist attack. The greatest threat to America is a liberal media bias.\’\’ – Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX)
ACT TWO: Blackwater
Basics
- How Erik Prince founded BLACKWATER – YouTube
- Blackwater Rebranded ‘Academi’
- 2009 Blackwater changed its name to Xe
- 2011 Xe changed its name Academi
- Academi Contractors Randomly Killing Civilians Video
- 9/10/2001: Rumsfeld says $2.3 TRILLION Missing from Pentagon – YouTube
Going Forward
- Canadian Soldiers Trained by private U.S. Contractors
- Blackwater illegally paid millions in taxpayer money
- ACADEMI buys back the contract that the company lost for the Nisour Square Massacre
- Monsanto hired Blackwater to infiltrate anti-GMO groups
ACT THREE: Feedback
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- Pro Water Fluoridation Video
- Another Pro Fluoride Email
Next week:
Headline edition of Unfilter. Tracking stories like:
- Two Buses With 40 Israeli Tourists Blown Up At Bulgarian Airport
- Breaking/Confirmed: Sec Clinton Assassination Attempt in Israel (updated)
- Iran says US can’t clear Gulf of mines
- HSBC ‘allowed drug cartels to launder money’
- Olympic Security Theater
Song pick of the week:
Mercenary by Of The I off their album Balance Instars which was ether released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) license (which is what it says on songs page on Jamendo) or the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales (CC BY-SA 2.0) (which is what the license file says when you download the full album)
The Dick Song by Ministry off their album The Last Sucker
UK version
Further Reading:
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- Audible: Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army Audio Book
- Sourcewatch: School of the Americas
- Time Magazine: Is It Time to Shutter the Americas’ ‘Coup Academy’?
- NPR: Foreign Policy Junta: Trained in The U.S.A.
- Foreign Policy: U.N. embraces private military contractors
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