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    12/08/09

    In reply to The Gawker Post That Cost a State Department Contractor $189 Million
    Team Gawker!

    I'm still waiting for vodka asscrack shots to become a happy hour special somewhere..
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    12/08/09

    In reply to Tradition of Reporters Sleeping with Sources Still Alive and Well at the New York Times
    "You may have heard, for instance, that every member of Congress will be up for re-election in a year." Funny, no, I've never heard that. That may be because senators, whilst members of Congress like the House of Representatives, are not elected once every two years.
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    12/08/09

    @Owen Thomas: Pedant!
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    12/08/09

    In reply to AOL News Borg to Be Ruled by Former New York Times Reporter
    What does cyborg Steve Buscemi have to do with AOL?
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    12/08/09

    In reply to Dan Abrams Wants to Be the Next Nick Denton
    "aight" was dated even before "lol" was.
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    12/08/09

    In reply to AOL News Borg to Be Ruled by Former New York Times Reporter
    Hasn't "Seed" been plowed under by just about every citizen-farmer for the last ten years?
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    12/08/09

    In reply to Tradition of Reporters Sleeping with Sources Still Alive and Well at the New York Times
    This sleeping with a source is directly related to sleeping with the person hiring you for said journalism job. Worked for me.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    12/08/09

    In reply to The Laziest Journalists on Twitter
    J*l*a is down to interviewing her acupuncture guy??? And I thought I had trouble getting my calls returned!
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    12/08/09

    In reply to The Gawker Post That Cost a State Department Contractor $189 Million
    Hello boys. Something funky going on here, ya? Armor Group is now apart of the English company G4s, led by David Taylor-Smith, MBE no less.[www.armorgroup.com] buttboys themselves are led by Nigel Bilingham. What would you like to wager, guvnah, that this company doesn't play the deniability game for SIS? [www.g4s.com] Gawker exposed this, eh? A publication whose own chief just may be a modern master spy? They have (had?) at least one subsidiary here in the States which seems to have a large market share of the prisoner monitoring business. [goliath.ecnext.com] made his way up from division head of "Justice Services"http://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-2006-09/7016566-group-4-securicor-plc-acquisition-s-008.htm
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    12/08/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming:

    It gets better. Looks like Taylor-Smith is not only James Bond and Rambo and David Miliband all rolled into one, but he's a trustee of the World Wildlife Federation to boot.

    [www.wwf.org.uk]

    We really have to look into this WWF business more closely. Our own man in the Treasury, Paulson, is deeply involved.

    There was also something weird going on with that... remember the strange ad where dozens of airplanes were flying into WTC? Done, supposedly in Israel, for the WWF was it? (foggy)

    Amateur Marples, check out the other folks in the .pdf above and see if anything looks interesting.

    We're always making plans for Nigel

    Now, Nigel Billingham. He was heading up Armorwhatsit at the time of the buttcapades? Or was that pre G4S? No, no, it appears G4S was solidly at the helm:

    [www.telegraph.co.uk]
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    12/08/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming:

    Here are David and Nigel together, in flagrante depicto

    [www.info4security.com]
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    12/08/09

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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    12/08/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming:

    Oh dear. The last one didn't post. Need to do it all again. Grunt.

    To summarize, G4S is/was owned by Baird and heavily financed by Barclays, to all appearances. Baird is run by a Jesuit and Barclays is run by Marcus Agius (also a Jesuit?) who is tight with the Rothschilds and was CEO of Lazard, which was/is the majority shareholder of Barclays.

    So, again, illuminati heaven. These guys protecting the oil industry and running their own private armies and intelligence operations are being run by the same folks who are breaking the world financially.

    A little sick, no?
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    12/08/09

    In reply to The Gawker Post That Cost a State Department Contractor $189 Million
    Are their tattoos blurred?
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    12/08/09

    In reply to Dan Abrams Wants to Be the Next Nick Denton
    Of course Dan Abrams would want to be the next Nick Denton. Even Dan Abrams doesn't want to be Dan Abrams.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    12/08/09

    In reply to Tradition of Reporters Sleeping with Sources Still Alive and Well at the New York Times
    Thats' a GREATLY abbreviated list of Judith Miller's "conquests."
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    12/08/09

    In reply to Tradition of Reporters Sleeping with Sources Still Alive and Well at the New York Times
    Isn't this a problem with most of the reporting going on inside of the beltway, you trade chuminess for access. Hopefully at the end of the day you get the dirt and can air it out, but I feel that more often than not they're just sitting on a lot of stories so as not to burn bridges. YOu end up fucking them because you never really meet anyone else (except other reporters, and you've already fucked them).

    Then again I might just be extrapolating from my own experience, however unrelated it might have been.
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    12/08/09

    @rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny: Nail on the head. And, to raincoaster's comment directly above, which is related to what you're saying: Can anyone here really say that what Judith Miller was up to wasn't common knowledge?
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    12/08/09

    In reply to The Gawker Post That Cost a State Department Contractor $189 Million
    I hate to be a downer, but didn't Mother Jones break this story?
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    12/08/09

    @once: Not enough people care about what's in Mother Jones. I mean, I wish more people did care, but they don't.
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    Image of Elmo Keep Elmo Keep
    12/08/09

    @once: Ah, yeah. That's what I thought too.
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    Image of Sargasm Sargasm
    12/08/09

    @once: Pssst - stick to the script.
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    Image of John Cook John Cook
    12/08/09

    @once: POGO did the investigation and included the results in an open letter to Hillary Clinton, which they placed online. It's linked in the post above. Mother Jones linked to the POGO report early on--it's where I first read about it--but they didn't break it. They were the first to report news of the contract cancellation, though.
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    Image of Brad Brown Brad Brown
    12/08/09

    In reply to The Gawker Post That Cost a State Department Contractor $189 Million
    Is the Gawker team worried that these guards will find out where you work, then drive down in a pink Humvee and beat you to a pulp in a homoerotic manner?
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    12/08/09

    In reply to The Gawker Post That Cost a State Department Contractor $189 Million
    That hot piece on the right in the top picture, still hasn't called. :(
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