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24 Jan 2011, 8:28 pm
WASHINGTON - Erik Prince, the founder of the international security giant Blackwater Worldwide, is backing an effort by a controversial South African mercenary firm to insert itself into Somalia's bloody civil war by protecting government leaders, training Somali troops, and battling pirates and Islamic militants there, according to American and Western officials. [read post]
19 Jan 2011, 1:01 pm
Xe Services, formerly known as Blackwater, came to notoriety for its controversial government contracts to supply private security in Iraq and Afghanistan. [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 9:43 am
The teen daughter of a one of four Blackwater guards slain during a 2004 ambush in Fallujah was charged in the murder of a friend, but prosecutors have dropped the charges after much of the evidence against nineteen-year-old Kelsey Helvenston was ruled inadmissible by Circuit Court Judge Norman Thomas. [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 9:28 am
Helvenston's father was one of four Blackwater guards killed in a 2004 ambush in Fallujah. [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 8:36 am
The murder charge against the teenage daughter of a Blackwater guard slain in a Fallujah ambush in 2004 has been dropped after a judge dismissed much of the evidence against the defendant. [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 1:59 am
Fish & Wildlife Service promised to revoke any authorization for further GE agriculture at Bombay Hook and four other refuges with GE crops--the Rappahannock River Valley Refuge and the Eastern Shore of Virginia Refuge, Montezuma Refuge in New York and Blackwater Refuge of Maryland--unless and until an appropriate NEPA analysis is completed, a condition that has yet to be met for GE agriculture on a National Wildlife Refuge. [read post]
17 Dec 2010, 11:36 am
The two firms are working on a deal that will see a group of Los Angeles-based investors take control of Xe Services, the private military contractor formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 8:01 pm
The sale of the embattled private security firm to investors with close ties to Erik Prince raises questions. [read post]
8 Dec 2010, 9:21 pm
Other than in Jerry Pournelle's Falkenberg series, where are the SF versions of Blackwater (if mercenary private military companies are your idea of a "good" coirporation)? [read post]
2 Dec 2010, 10:52 am
David Kinley (pictured) and Odette Murray (University of Sydney - Faculty of Law and University of Sydney - Faculty of Law) has posted Corporations that Kill: Prosecuting Blackwater (SHOOT TO KILL: THE LAW GOVERNING THE USE OF LETHAL FORCE IN... [read post]
12 Nov 2010, 6:09 am
., Blackwater-style crony capitalism, horrendously maldesigned executive compensation, and the undue growth of the financial sector), as opposed to winner-takes-all yet to a degree productive development of new consumer products (e.g., Microsoft or Facebook). [read post]
12 Nov 2010, 12:27 am
There's been a lot of hoopla about the various groups focusing on the U.S. deficit and their recommendations to Congress and the President. [read post]
11 Nov 2010, 8:11 pm
And employees of Halliburton, Blackwater, etc.? [read post]
11 Nov 2010, 1:57 pm
Department of Commerce, will spend at least the next year overseeing export controls at Xe Services, the company formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide. [read post]
11 Nov 2010, 1:47 pm
The signatories included major U.S. based firms, such as Triple Canopy, DynCorp, EODT, and even Xe (formerly known as Blackwater). [read post]
27 Oct 2010, 9:18 am
The employees also assert that Blackwater misled them into believing that they were not entitled to any overtime pay. [read post]
26 Oct 2010, 3:39 am
As an August 22, 2006 report released by WikiLeaks stated AFTER THE IED STRIKE A WITNESS REPORTS THE BLACKWATER EMPLOYEES FIRED INDISCRIMINATELY AT THE SCENE. [read post]
21 Oct 2010, 8:50 am
From The New York Times: WASHINGTON — Nearly four years after the federal government began a string of investigations and criminal prosecutions against Blackwater Worldwide personnel accused of murder and other violent crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, the cases are... [read post]
17 Oct 2010, 9:36 am
The lack of nutrients aggravated and accelerated their malaria dengue fever, blackwater fever, diphtheria, and pneumonia, and left them suffering from a host of painful, and lethal, conditions: wet beriberi (with its gross edema), scurvy (which made their noses bleed and their teeth fall out), pellagra (a feeling of pins in their skin accompanied by severe diarrhea), nyctalopia (night blindness), amblyopia (day blindness or loss of vision), tinnitus (ringing in the ears), vertigo (severe… [read post]
17 Oct 2010, 9:36 am
The lack of nutrients aggravated and accelerated their malaria dengue fever, blackwater fever, diphtheria, and pneumonia, and left them suffering from a host of painful, and lethal, conditions: wet beriberi (with its gross edema), scurvy (which made their noses bleed and their teeth fall out), pellagra (a feeling of pins in their skin accompanied by severe diarrhea), nyctalopia (night blindness), amblyopia (day blindness or loss of vision), tinnitus (ringing in the ears), vertigo (severe… [read post]
