Archive for the 'Outsourced' Category
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 […]
Unloading Toxic Waste Mortgage Backed Securities: “We Americans Were Very Clever”
November 2nd, 2007We’ll see how clever they are when the Good Fellas show up to collect. At some point, this thing is going to start looking less like a financial crisis and more like a mob war. How do I know? Because I got a job that resulted from a decapitation strike against the computer systems of […]
Evidence of Tax Evasion by Blackwater
October 22nd, 2007Via: U.S. House of Representatives: New documents suggest that Blackwater may have engaged in significant tax evasion, failing to withhold and pay millions of dollars in Social Security, Medicare, unemployment, and related taxes, and sought to conceal its conduct from Congress and law enforcement officials.
Top Air Force Official Dies in Apparent Suicide
October 16th, 2007Another corpse with B-52 connections. Interesting coincidence. But Charles D. Riechers was a bit higher up the pay scale than the others. More than a bit, and on more than one scale, as it turned out. In fact, take your pick of which intelligence agency cutout activities you’d like to focus on with this guy. […]
Qwest Refused to Participate with Some Aspects of NSA Surveillance Program
October 11th, 2007Again, there’s something else that we’re not aware of yet. Something besides the run-of-the-mill surveillance. From the article about Qwest article below: Nacchio planned to demonstrate at trial that he had a meeting on Feb. 27, 2001, at NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, Md., to discuss a $100 million project. According to the documents, another […]
Sinking in a Swamp Full of Blackwater
October 4th, 2007Via: New York Times: “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster,†Nietzsche said. “And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.†We’re gazing into the abyss all right, and Blackwater is gazing back. Besides having an army for hire, brave kids […]
Blackwater Mercenary Wrote Government Report on Massacre
October 3rd, 2007Via: CNN: The State Department’s initial report of last month’s incident in which Blackwater guards were accused of killing Iraqi civilians was written by a Blackwater contractor working in the embassy security detail, according to government and industry sources. A source involved in diplomatic security at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad said a Blackwater contractor, […]
