Archive for the 'Outsourced' Category
Several U.S. Corporations Support Colombian Death Squads
July 2nd, 2007One for your same-shit-different-century file. Via: Los Angeles Times: A former paramilitary soldier told a congressional panel Thursday that several U.S. companies provided financial support to illegal militias accused of killing Colombian civilians. Edwin Guzman, a former Colombian army sergeant who later became a paramilitary member, testified that his military units were responsible for guarding […]
Blood Money and More Blood Money
June 28th, 2007On the one hand, you’ve got a reporter talking about Cheney and his privatized genocide and ripoffs. Then you’ve got a story about how the U.S. Army has just awarded $150 BILLION worth of contracts for more of the same, except with three corporations, instead of one. It’s just a nonstop meat grinder of doom […]
The Corporate Takeover of U.S. Intelligence
June 3rd, 2007We’re solidly into the post-mortem phase of the analysis now. Via: Salon: More than five years into the global “war on terror,” spying has become one of the fastest-growing private industries in the United States. The federal government relies more than ever on outsourcing for some of its most sensitive work, though it has kept […]
Big Brother, Big Business
June 3rd, 2007Here’s a two hour CNBC piece about privacy, surveillance and the emerging biometric lockdown. Even though the situation presented here is grim, we know that it’s much worse. If, however, you or someone you know is looking for a general, easy to understand presentation on these issues, and have about two hours to spare, this […]
Is IBM About to Fire 150,000 Employees?
May 5th, 2007Via: pbs.org: The IBM project I am writing about is called LEAN and the first manifestation of LEAN was this week’s 1,300 layoffs at Global Services, which generated almost no press. Thirteen hundred layoffs from a company with more than 350,000 workers is nothing, so the yawning press reaction is not unexpected. But this week’s […]
Pentagon to Merge Next-Gen Binoculars With Soldiers’ Brains
May 3rd, 2007If you think that the ultimate goal for this project is a set of “Star Wars”-style binoculars, you’ve got another thing coming. Of course, we can’t leave it up to the Wired reporter to connect the dots. The article asks, “Why all the rush?” Three years ago, I wrote: The ultimate goal is to replace […]
Deputy Secretary of State Revealed as Prostitution Service Customer; Resigns Abruptly
April 28th, 2007Family values. Via: Daily Background: Tobias, the Deputy Secretary of State (and Condoleeza Rice’s right-hand man) resigned today after ABC News discovered that he had been a customer of a notorious DC prostitution service, Pamela Martin and Associates, which the Department of Justice has brought to court. Mr Tobias, who had previously been appointed by […]
Virginia Tech Shooting: I’ve Already Seen Enough
April 18th, 2007I thought that I should designate a single post to all of the Virginia Tech related analysis, to parse out some of the key signals from the noise. Within 30 minutes of actually sitting down to read about the incident, I had already seen enough. At first, I was looking for—and found—indications of trauma induced […]
Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army
March 14th, 2007Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill Via: Amazon: From Publishers Weekly Scahill, a regular contributor to the Nation, offers a hard-left perspective on Blackwater USA, the self-described private military contractor and security firm. It owes its existence, he shows, to the post–Cold War drawdown of U.S. armed forces, […]
Spies, Lies & KPMG
February 21st, 2007Social engineering is the easiest hack of all. Via: Business Week: In the spring of 2005, Guy Enright, an accountant at KPMG Financial Advisory Services Ltd. in Bermuda, got a call from a man identifying himself in a crisp British accent as Nick Hamilton. Hamilton said he needed to see Enright about matters of utmost […]
