Archive for the 'Outsourced' Category
UK: Private Firm May Track All Email and Calls
January 2nd, 2009Via: Guardian: The private sector will be asked to manage and run a communications database that will keep track of everyone’s calls, emails, texts and internet use under a key option contained in a consultation paper to be published next month by Jacqui Smith, the home secretary. A cabinet decision to put the management of […]
GM Supplier Delphi Suspends Work at Chinese Factory
December 29th, 2008This is one example of thousands in China. Oh well, maybe GM will use some of that U.S. taxpayer bailout money to keep paying their Chinese workers. Via: AP: U.S. car parts maker Delphi Corp. has suspended work at a factory in Suzhou due to shrinking demand amid the global economic slump, a media report […]
Google Planning to Enable Mob Rule Ratings for Search Results
December 15th, 2008Get Ready for New and Improved Google Results: Now Powered by the Zombie Consumer Death Cult! I have to make jokes because this is very, very grim. If you want to understand what I mean, just spend some time using Reddit without filters. The imbeciles found their way into the machine, and they’re clicking up […]
AFRICOM China and Congo Resource Wars
December 2nd, 2008Via: Engdahl: If France was the covert target of US ‘surrogate warfare’ in 1994, today it is clearly China, which is the real threat to US control of Central Africa’s vast mineral riches. The Democratic Republic of Congo was renamed from the Republic of Zaire in 1997 when the forces of Laurent Désiré Kabila brought […]
Australia: Private Intelligence Company Monitors Activists Online for Police
November 26th, 2008Via: The Australian: A PRIVATE intelligence company has been engaged by police to secretly monitor internet and email use by activist and protest groups, a report says. The company was hired to monitor and report on the internet activities of anti-war campaigners, animal rights activists, environmental campaigners, and other protest groups, Fairfax Media reported. It […]
Mercenary Firm Offers to ‘Detain Troublemakers’ on Election Day
November 4th, 2008Via: Wired: CIA-linked private military contractor Evergreen Defense & Security Services offered to post sentries at Oregon election offices on Tuesday, “detaining troublemakers” and making sure voters “do not get out of control.” In an e-mail to local election supervisors, obtained by the McMinnville, Oregon News Register, Evergreen president Tom Wiggins said he “recognized the […]
U.S. Schools Pay Classroom Informants
September 21st, 2008Via: BBC: When police armed response units pulled up at Scripps Ranch High School, it was bad news for the teenage boy carrying a replica machine gun around campus. For the student who tipped off the police, though, things were looking up. Under an incentive scheme at Scripps Ranch, a large San Diego high school, […]
U.S. Military and Mercenaries Trained Georgian Commandos
September 6th, 2008Full text follows. Via: Financial Times: By Charles Clover in Moscow and Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington Published: September 5 2008 18:49 | Last updated: September 5 2008 18:49 The US military provided combat training to 80 Georgian special forces commandos only months prior to Georgia’s army assault in South Ossetia in August. The revelation, based […]
Georgia Mobilizes Commando Units Near South Ossetia
September 3rd, 2008Hopefully the “Georgian Commandos” won’t lose their U.S. Passports this time… Via: rian.ru: Georgia is mobilizing commando units near its border with South Ossetia, a senior Russian military official said on Tuesday. Russia officially recognized South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states on August 26, saying the move was needed to protect the regions after […]
The Numerati
August 30th, 2008After staring down the bottomless abyss of formal schooling, this is what the best and brightest can expect when working for IBM: Full time, automated surveillance by a Magic 8 Ball system that will match “commoditized” workers to tasks and monitor their progress on a minute by minute basis. Via: Business Week: By building mathematical […]
