Monday, October 29, 2007

Blackwater set California wildfires

She doesn't say it, but she does. Randi Rhodes of Air America accuses Blackwater of setting the fires in San Diego County, California, in the town where it wants to build a police training center.

According to Rhodes, Blackwater might have set the town on fire because of protests there against its planned facility. Here's what she said on Air America (click here for the audio):

"It spooks me, I just can't explain to you how creepy this whole thing is, you know, you've got these fires, some of them are thought to be the work of arsonists, and in the same breath you've got a community that's on fire that just recently protested Blackwater West, just recently said no to Blackwater. . . .

"Noboby's saying that Blackwater set the fires, that is, nobody that doesn't want their house burned down, nobody's saying that, but it's all so bizarre that this is America and you have to sit there and wonder: Arson, same place Blackwater West wants to be, people protesting, and then you find out that some of the guys that used to work for Blackwater are now in [California Governor] Schwarzenegger's administration. . . "

Blackwater might re-start the Korean War

"Blackwater . . . could easily spark renewal of the Korean War."

- Professor Arthur I. Cyr, Carthage College. China Post (Taiwan), October 27, 2007.

Friday, October 26, 2007

Blackwater is a gay and lesbian issue

Blackwater is an issue of compelling interests to gays and lesbians, according to some gay activists. One of them posted a poll on a "Gay/Lesbian Forum" titled, "Should Blackwater be Investiaged?" We think the pollster meant "Investigated," but anyway. . .

The lesbian Avalon Farm Blog sings the praises of Henry Waxman for his probe. Blogette Stealth Lesbian has a constant rant against Blackwater and the Catholic Church, among other things. TPMMuckraker is obsessed that the head of Blackwater is a "gay hater" and that the secretary of state is a lesbian, and somehow finds a connection between it all. The San Diego Democratic Party, which considers Blackwater a partisan issue, passed resolutions slamming Blackwater and pushing gay causes. Gay Species doesn't like those hunky boys at Blackwater but appears to have a thing for Jeremy Scahill.

Blackwater one of 'Fascist private agencies'

Lyndon LaRouche's foil-hatters call Blackwater one of the world's "fascist private agencies" bent on "global warfare."

The Executive Intelligence Review tries to link a tattooed sheriff in Loudoun County, Virginia who's against illegal immigration to "mercenaries gone murderous-wild in Iraqi streets." "The Blackwater scandal ripped through Congress, as Washington was haunted by the specter of global warfare to be run by fascist private agencies," according to the report.

The Executive Intelligence Review is run by LaRouche (pictured).

Naturally there's a big conspiracy behind it all: "This is the agenda of British System über-financiers Felix Rohatyn and George Shultz, as implemented by Dick Cheney's and Donald Rumsfeld's 'Revolution in Military Affairs.'" Congressman Waxman oughtta look at this one quick!