Archive for the 'Outsourced' Category
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,” […]
Forbes to Cryptogon: “We Think Your Blog Would be a Great Fit for Our Network”
April 6th, 2008I received an email from someone at Forbes inviting me to add Cryptogon to, “The new community of the high quality business and financial bloggers from Forbes.com.” A press release was attached, part of which is below: FORBES.COM TO LAUNCH BUSINESS AND FINANCE BLOG NETWORK Nicholas Ricci Tapped as General Manager, Sales for the Blog […]
The 22-Year-Old with the $300 Million Arms Contract
March 28th, 2008Sheesh! I need to create a Florida category. The strangest aspect of this situation is that Diveroli had the contacts on the black market side. There’s an old spook involved somewhere here. By the looks of it, more than one. Remember that the CIA has had procurement networks for Soviet Bloc weapons in place for […]
BMW Outsourcing Production to the U.S.
March 11th, 2008I wonder… Is the U.S. plan to pay back the trillions of dollars it owes to creditors with dollars that are worth, say, several cents on the original value of the dollars borrowed? Via: BBC: The luxury carmaker BMW has announced it will invest $750m (£373m) as part of plans to increase production in the […]
Top Iraq Contractor Skirts U.S. Taxes Offshore
March 7th, 2008Via: Boston Globe: Kellogg Brown & Root, the nation’s top Iraq war contractor and until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp., has avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Medicare and Social Security taxes by hiring workers through shell companies based in this tropical tax haven. More than 21,000 people working for […]
CIA Case Officer Tries to Get American Student to Engage in Espionage Activities: Hilarity Ensues
February 10th, 2008This is a gross simplification of how the game works. Inside every U.S. Embassy there are some number of CIA employees who are posing as U.S. Foreign Service personnel. (All countries do the same thing with employees of their respective intelligence agencies and their foreign embassies; this is not unique to the U.S.) Of the […]
The FBI and InfraGard
February 9th, 2008Via: Progressive: Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does—and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they provide information to […]
