Archive for the 'Outsourced' Category
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 […]
Washington’s $8 Billion Shadow
January 11th, 2008SAIC is hind titty (in money terms) compared to the top armaments contractors, but it represents the glue that holds the technocracy together. With regard to the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of apparently botched projects: * pfft * There’s always next year’s budget! Americans pay their taxes, Washington brings the matches. Via: Vanity […]
Stressed Britons Flee Gloom for Laid-Back Life
December 14th, 2007When I ask British people if they’re happy in New Zealand, they almost chortle with glee. When I ask Americans the same thing, their faces take on serious looks, as if recalling a narrow escape from a bad traffic accident. I exchange an I-know kind of look and say, “You don’t even want to get […]
Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S. Government, Halliburton/KBR
December 11th, 2007Via: ABC News: A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident. Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under […]
New U.S. Army Helicopters Unsafe to Fly on Hot Days
November 11th, 2007This is my favorite story today. Via: Boston Globe: The Army is spending $2.6 billion on hundreds of European-designed helicopters for homeland security and disaster relief that have a crucial flaw: They are not safe to fly on hot days, according to an internal report obtained by the Associated Press. While the Army scrambles to […]
