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Steve Peacock
New Jersey
Creative & dramatic artist, journalist, and teacher
Interests: Steve Peacock is a writer, photographer, educator and actor/voice talent who lives in New Jersey with Jen--his wife of 14 years--and their two daughters. He has sold work to publications including WND, The Tampa Tribune, Drug Enforcement Report, Corrections Journal, and Patriot Update. He's currently working on a book-length memoir, an excerpt from which Creative Nonfiction magazine in 2011 selected as a finalist for its "Anger & Revenge" contest. He formerly covered Capitol Hill in Washington, DC for several media outlets centering on the telecom and broadcast industries. Peacock also is the author of Hotel Dick, a memoir of an earlier career as a hotel detective, or "hotel dick," of the posh Helmsley Palace in New York City. His poetry has appeared in Monkeybicycle, Edison Literary Review, InDigest, The Idiom, and South Jersey Underground. He performed the role of Officer Brophy in the play "Arsenic & Old Lace" in his 2011 stage debut at the First Avenue Playhouse, Atlantic Highlands, NJ. By late 2012 & early 2103 he will have appear as a background actor in several episodes of two separate NYC-based network TV cop shows.
Recent Activity
Millions of children will be targeted to improve their reading skills over the next five years under a new Obama administration literacy program in nearly 30,000 public and private primary schools. But the schools are not in the U.S., they’re in the Republic of Kenya. Continue reading
Steve Peacock is now following Bob Honiker
May 7, 2013
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The extrication of U.S. Special Forces injured in African military ventures soon will provide contractors with an additional revenue stream, now that the Obama administration plans to keep such vendors on stand-by, 24/7, for cross-continent airborne mobilization. Continue reading
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In terms of global competitiveness, Mexico ranks 58th among 142 nations—and U.S. taxpayers are stepping in to help raise that ranking. Continue reading
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The extrication of U.S. Special Forces injured in African military ventures soon will provide contractors with an additional revenue stream, now that the Obama administration plans to keep such vendors on stand-by, 24/7, for cross-continent airborne mobilization. Continue reading
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The Obama Administration’s Youth Workforce Development Program (YWDP) promises to deal with the growing number of “idle, disaffected youth” nationwide—that is, in the nation of Pakistan. Continue reading
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Over a month ago U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor broke the story on U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's pricey trip to Paris, during which time taxpayers shelled out $585,000 and $322,000, respectively, for hotel room and limos. CNN this past week reported on the trip -- using the same documents that the Monitor had discovered via painstaking database research -- and tooted its own horn on international TV as if that were its own discovery. Continue reading
Many thanks to Andrew C. McCarthy of National Review Online for using U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor today as a supplemental resource in his article "Shhh, Don't Tell Anyone Hamas Won." Continue reading
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The Obama administration recently issued warnings to contractors of potential sequestration-related spending cuts, but in the meantime federal spending continues unabated, domestically and globally. Some of the apparently indispensable projects include a environmental public murals in Hebron and Jericho along with similarly themed summer camps and field trips for Palestinian children, alternative energy outings to Turkey, and assistance to mango growers and hotel operators in Pakistan. Continue reading
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WND has uncovered plans by the FBI to spend up to $100 million over five years on millions of rounds for its machine guns and pistols. Continue reading
My latest from Patriot Update: "Obama Spending $500 Million on Foreign Readers." Continue reading
The Obama administration is launching new peace initiatives in and around Kenya, but acknowledges that chronic cattle rustling and other cultural practices – such as killing rivals “to prove their manhood or impress young women” – serve as impediments to progress. Continue reading
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The Obama administration is launching new peace initiatives in and around Kenya, but acknowledges that chronic cattle rustling and other cultural practices – such as killing rivals “to prove their manhood or impress young women” – serve as impediments to progress. Continue reading
Many thanks to Joel M. Skousen's World Affairs Brief for highlighting my recent PatriotUpdate.com article "U.S. Cost of U.N. 'Rule of Law' Project: $500 million." Continue reading
The Obama administration is preparing to give free health care to Pakistanis even as Americans who cannot get health insurance because of pre-existing conditions soon will be rejected by domestic programs due to a lack of funds. Pakistani nationals working at several U.S. embassies soon could get a boost in health care benefits as the U.S. State Department has begun shopping for top-tier services. Continue reading
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The U.S. Department of State spent $585,000 on hotel rooms and racked up $322,000 in transportation costs on for Vice President Joe Biden's recent trip to Paris, according to contracting documents that U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor located through routine database research. Continue reading
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As the U.S. Department of Homeland Security expands its outsourcing of detention across the nation, potential contractors are being forewarned to abide by the Obama administration’s kinder, gentler approach to detaining illegal aliens. Continue reading
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As the U.S. Department of Homeland Security expands its outsourcing of detention across the nation, potential contractors are being forewarned to abide by the Obama administration’s kinder, gentler approach to detaining illegal aliens. Continue reading
A half-billion-dollar Obama Administration program to help nations comply with United Nations-sanctioned governance reform has rolled out its first round of awards to several government-contracting behemoths. Continue reading
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The U.S. Department of State once again has resumed its search for providers of high-end crystal stemware and other tabletop glassware, only this time the estimated cost has leaped back up a couple of million. Continue reading
My latest from WND: "$110 million for Embassy ... in Suriname?" Continue reading
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Small businesses soon can expect a boost of support from the Obama Administration, which is launching the Growth Oriented Local Development, or GOLD, program -- in the Southeastern European nation of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Continue reading
As our beloved Harris Field is part of this famed park system, I thought it appropriate to link to this New York Daily News article about the celebration. Continue reading
Congress and the Obama administration have averted, for now, plunging the nation over the so-called “fiscal cliff” by postponing spending cuts and raising taxes on American families by $620 billion and confirming plans to try to bill taxpayers for another $1 trillion. Now the White House is spending millions collected from those same taxpayers to avoid another “fiscal cliff” – this time in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Continue reading
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The Millennium Challenge Corporation is assisting the nation of Tunisia in achieving greater economic growth by getting it to improve its government and private-sector institutions, which suffer from a bloated workforce and strict labor laws that keep that unwieldy labor market intact. Continue reading