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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Aug 25, 2023 at 09:36 PM PDT
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I labelled Blackwater [etc] in the same way. I despise mercenaries, basically they are hired thugs and killers. Private military contractors; what a disgrace of a phrase. Wagner Group, made up of ex military with nothing better to do, and convicts...
by LaFeminista
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on Tue May 09, 2023 at 12:16 PM PDT
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Meet a new hero of Russia: Igor Kusk, a Russian mobster serving a 23-year prison sentence for murder and other crimes. Kusk was killed near Bakhmut in the Donetsk region while fighting with the Wagner Group, Vladimir Putin’s shadowy mercenary army. And...
by Charles Jay
44 comments
on Tue Sep 27, 2022 at 01:35 PM PDT
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For many years, substantial military operations have been conducted by mercenaries, ranging from professional soldiers hired to fight wars for European potentates in the 14th century to the combat forces of Blackwater, a private company employed by the...
by Lawrence S Wittner
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on Fri Jul 08, 2022 at 10:20 AM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame and jck. Alumni ...
by Chitown Kev
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on Tue Aug 10, 2021 at 08:59 PM PDT
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Gov. Kristi Noem Pierre, SD Dear Gov. Noem: I was excited to read in recent media reports that you are now offering South Dakota’s National Guard units for rent in the open market. I assume your troops are available to any customer, and not just to...
by Crashing Vor
163 comments
on Thu Jul 01, 2021 at 10:11 AM PDT
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It’s entirely possible that to actively resist this government's incursion we must overcome the natural urge to argue merits of the protesting. Any justification from either side can suggest that reasonable people may disagree about what is happening....
by CementCanary
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on Sat Jul 25, 2020 at 03:17 PM PDT
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"If ever ye seek a reason to close down parochial schools, ye need look no further than Holland Christian's very own 'Prince of Darkness'.
----from "The Quotations of Chairman Joe"
For decades now, the Rescumlickan party has...
by Joseph Camfield
1 comments
on Sun Mar 25, 2018 at 02:00 PM PDT
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Official British Filing for Emerdata is HERE. Emerdata is presumed to be a new identity for the increasingly scandal-tainted Cambridge Analytica, in the tradition of Erik Prince’s Blackwater >Xe >Academi mercenary services. The papers indicate...
by SChelydra
11 comments
on Wed Mar 21, 2018 at 11:50 PM PDT
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Mark Hertsgaard at The Nation writes— Climate Denialism Is Literally Killing Us :
The tragedy of Harvey starts with the suffering of innocents like Jordyn Grace, the 3-year-old who survived the ...
by Meteor Blades
168 comments
on Wed Sep 06, 2017 at 08:01 PM PDT
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Seriously. How can the men and women of our armed forces not look at the latest smoke coming from the dumpster fire that is the trump administration (The White House’s bold new plan to “privatize” the war in Afghanistan) and not see it as a gigantic...
by JustaJ0e
18 comments
on Wed Aug 09, 2017 at 07:55 AM PDT
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February is Black History Month
Today is
International Polar Bear Day
International Sword Swallowers Day
National Kahlua Day
National Strawberry Day
by Tara Thralls
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on Sat Feb 27, 2016 at 11:22 PM PST
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I don't know about you, but if I never have to read another piece that mentions the Koch brothers in the first sentence that would be fine with me. Oops. It seems so unnatural to do so, especially ...
by Galtisalie
109 comments
on Sun Jul 26, 2015 at 03:00 PM PDT
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The sentences in the Nisour Square massacre trial have been handed down, following convictions in October of last year. From Reuters :
(Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday handed down lengthy ...
by ericlewis0
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on Mon Apr 13, 2015 at 02:02 PM PDT
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Welcome to my own personal ISIS/ISIL rant, but only on a very limited topic...This is something that has been nibbling around the edges of my fevered brain for a while, but I just recently managed ...
by Murfster35
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on Wed Sep 10, 2014 at 11:32 AM PDT
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Blackwater mercenaries, or is it Xe, or is it Academi, or is it ...
These are the un-American assholes conservatives idolize:
Just weeks ...
by kos
119 comments
on Mon Jun 30, 2014 at 05:40 PM PDT
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Yessiree !! That's the Craigslist ad. Posted Egypt, Turkey, Jordan CL pages.
First non-snarkalicious thing you and your buds need to know is you ain't getting big super-nasty weapons. You get ...
by waterstreet2013
29 comments
on Sat Jun 28, 2014 at 12:29 AM PDT
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The Green Man is in the leaves.
The Green Man is in the stones.
The Green Man is in the earth.
by ruleoflaw
9 comments
on Wed Jul 10, 2013 at 07:42 PM PDT
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UPDATE: Here is a picture of the Bulletproof Security paramilitary mercenaries beating it out of town... probably back to Arizona, where they are from!
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by noise of rain
150 comments
on Wed Jul 10, 2013 at 03:42 PM PDT
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UPDATE #1 This blog post is informed and thorough. Really worth the read! http://woodsperson.blogspot.com/2013/07/bienvenido-nicaragua.html
UPDATE #2 Paul DeMain, mentioned below, walked over ...
by noise of rain
315 comments
on Sun Jul 07, 2013 at 03:47 PM PDT
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