Archive for the 'Outsourced' Category
U.S. Army Contract for “Internet Awareness Services”
July 10th, 2008Via: Federal Business Opportunities: STATEMENT OF WORK The contractor shall conduct internet awareness services in support of the Governments activities to include Indications and Warning, Force Protection, and situational awareness. The purpose of the services will be to identify and assess stated and implied threat, antipathy, unrest, and other contextual data relating to selected internet […]
Telecom Amnesty Flip-Floppers Got More Telecom Dollars
June 27th, 2008People wonder, “What’s a good investment?” Corporations buy off elected representatives for bum change. It’s not quite something for nothing, but owning an elected representative for a few grand seems pretty close to it. Via: Wired: Democrats who switched from opposing to supporting legal amnesty to telecoms that aided the government’s warrantless wiretapping program received […]
ATF Raids Blackwater Armory, Seizes Automatic Weapons
June 27th, 2008Via: AP: Federal agents have raided an armory owned by security contractor Blackwater Worldwide. The North Carolina-based company said the raid was part of an investigation into a deal that allowed a local sheriff’s office to store high-powered assault rifles at the company’s armory at its headquarters in Moyock. Blackwater spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell says that […]
Giant Oil Companies to Return to Iraq Under No Bid Contracts
June 19th, 2008Imagine my complete and total shock. Via: IHT: Four Western oil companies are in the final stages of negotiations this month on contracts that will return them to Iraq, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power. Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP — the original partners in […]
British Mercenary to Stand Trial for Attempted Coup in Equatorial Guinea
June 13th, 2008Via: Reuters: British mercenary Simon Mann will go on trial on Tuesday for leading a failed 2004 coup in Equatorial Guinea, the West African state’s public prosecutor said on Friday. Jose Olo Obono said that Mann, arrested in 2004 in Zimbabwe with 70 mercenaries en route for oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, will face three main charges: […]
Food Is Gold, and Investors Pour Billions Into Farming
June 5th, 2008One of two things is about to happen to people who can’t or won’t take responsibility for the food that crosses their own lips: 1) They’re going to be ripped off; or 2) They’re going to be killed off. Hmm. Why not both? Via: New York Times: “Farmland can be a bubble just like Florida […]
Some U.S. Farms Outsourced to Mexico
May 27th, 2008Via: AP: Antonio Martinez used to pay smugglers thousands of dollars each year to sneak him into the United States to manage farm crews. Now, the work comes to him. Supervising lettuce pickers in central Mexico, Martinez earns just half of the $1,100 a week he made in the U.S. But the job has its […]
Indictment for Former #3 Spook Over Hookers, Bribery
May 22nd, 2008You know, the usual. Via: AP: A new indictment of a former top CIA official alleges that he received bribes in the form of “sexual companionship” in exchange for helping a friend get an edge in landing multimillion-dollar contracts from the agency. Federal prosecutors in Alexandria, Va., on Tuesday obtained a superseding indictment against Kyle […]
China ‘May Lease Foreign Fields’
May 2nd, 2008Via: BBC: China could lease overseas farming land to beat rising food prices, according to reports from Beijing. Soaring grain prices have encouraged the ministry of agriculture to consider the scheme, according to the Beijing Morning newspaper. Chinese enterprises would lease or even buy farmland in Latin America, Australia and the former Soviet Union. The […]
In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop
April 8th, 2008Yikes! I like the one about the guy who stirs protein powder in with his coffee. Madness. It sounds like these bozos don’t need to worry about going to hell; they’ve made it real in their lives already. Now, where are these $30,000 per-year-to-start blogging jobs? If that’s the going rate in a “digital-era sweatshop,” […]
