Category Archives: Africa

BP set to begin oil drilling off Libya

Oil giant BP has confirmed it will begin drilling off the Libyan coast in the next few weeks. BBC The deepwater drilling will take place in the Gulf of Sirte following a deal signed in 2007 with Libya on oil and gas development. The news comes amid major concerns over BP’s environmental and safety record [...]
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Shorter Question Everything

NSA | Immigration and Wingnuts | Right Wing Wingnuts | Flotilla Massacre 2 NSA: • READ: NSA Executive Leaked After Official Reporting Process Failed Him A former NSA executive who is fighting government charges of leaking classified information was part of a group that pursued several sanctioned paths to report concerns about an agency spy [...]
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Feds Won’t Charge Blackwater in Sudan Sanctions Case

Warren P. Strobel, Jonathan S. Landay and Joseph Neff/McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON – The security contractor Blackwater Worldwide tried for two years to secure lucrative defense business in Southern Sudan while the country was under U.S. economic sanctions, according to current and former U.S. officials and hundreds of pages of documents reviewed by McClatchy.
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$1 Billion Cocaine Bust in Gambia

Cryptogon So, we have Blackwater/Xe increasing “aviation support” activities in two of the hottest narcotics trafficking hubs in the world. Coincidences, of course. —Blackwater Worldwide Changes Its Name to Xe; Same Mercenaries, but Now with More “Aviation Support” Via: AFP: Gambian and British police seized more than two tonnes of cocaine worth about one billion [...]
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Israel | Louisiana Oil Spill | Nigeria | China | Bahrain | Ebola | Russia Israel: • READ: War Preparations? Israeli War Game Rehearses “Iran Attack” Israel has joined forces with Greece to conduct an aerial maneuver to practice long-range missions and mid-air fueling, a report says. The war game codenamed “MINOAS 2010″, is carried [...]
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