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AIG=Cockgobblers
Author: Travis8 Oct
I know I say it a lot, but FUCK AIG! On September 22nd, a week after the government gave these ass-holes $85 billion to essentially save their company, 70 of their top executives made a weekend trip to California to enjoy some sunshine and relax at a baller resort, St. Regis Monarch Beach. What’s the big deal you ask? The dick-heads at AIG spent almost $500,000 on this trip, and the money was pulled from the $85 billion they just received from the US government to save their asses from bankruptcy. The list of expenses and how they decided to spend the money blows my mind. $23,000 on spa treatments, almost $7,000 on golf, and a shade under $10,000 on room service. I’m just glad that as we are on the road to a global depression, these sons-of-bitches are spending money that was given to them to clean up their messes and hopefully save the economy on getting their nails done and playing golf. While thousands of Americans are loosing their homes and jobs, these guys spending our tax money on weekend trips to resorts that probably less than 5% of Americans could even afford to go to. If this is how AIG and other companies that received money are planning to use the funds, we either need to take that shit back, or be prepared to be even more fucked in the next couple of years.
Suspected Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Arrested in Thailand
Author: James6 Mar
Nicknamed “The Merchant of Death” and the inspiration behind the 2005 Andrew Niccol film the Lord of War, Viktor Bout was arrested by Thai police in a Bangkok hotel. The suspected arms dealer was believed to be attempting to “procure weapons for Colombia’s Farc Rebels,” according to Thai officials.
Bout, a former Soviet air force officer, had been targeted by an international arrest warrant and was under heavy US sanctions. From Reuters:
According to the United Nations and the U.S. Treasury Department, he has sold or brokered arms that have helped fuel wars in Afghanistan, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Sudan.
The U.S. Treasury Department seized his cargo planes and froze other assets in 2006.
However, according to this article, the US government may have actually been playing both sides of the fence. Planes owned by Bout flew US missions to Iraq. Paul Wolfowitz admitted in a 2005 letter to Congress that the Defense Department conducted business with “companies that, in turn, subcontracted work to second-tier providers who leased aircraft owned by companies associated with Mr. Bout.” These contractors doled out at least $60 million to Bout-controlled companies between 2003 and 2005, though, according Douglas Farah, co-author of the book Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Plans, and the Man Who Makes War Possible, the US may have been employing Bout’s services as recently as last year.
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