Archive for the 'Outsourced' Category
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 […]
U.S. Contractors Becoming a Fourth Branch of Government
February 5th, 2007The shop has already been looted; this is the final sweep to pull the fixtures off the walls before the criminals torch the place. Via: International Herald Tribune: In June, short of people to process cases of incompetence and fraud by federal contractors, officials at the General Services Administration responded with what has become the […]
Uncle Sam Robs You to Pay Lockheed
February 5th, 2007If we could know just how much control this one corporation exerted over the domestic and foreign policies of the United States, I’m quite sure that it would be so astonishing that hardly anyone would believe it. Via: Corpwatch: Even without all the specifics, it is clear that Lockheed is supplying the U.S. war in […]
The Private Arm of the Law
January 4th, 2007Yes, corporate pigs. Via: Washington Post: With the sleeve patch on his black shirt, the 9mm gun on his hip and the blue light on his patrol car, he looked like an ordinary police officer as he stopped the car on a Friday night last month. Watt works, though, for a business called Capitol Special […]
U.S. Military: Extend Citizenship to Foreigners for Service to American Empire
December 26th, 2006Standard operating procedure for all empires… I kinda wondered what the endgame was going to be for the illegal immigration situation in the U.S. (This ENDGAME just didn’t do it for me.) I’m not wondering anymore. Isn’t it amazing how Their plans come together!? I’d like to believe that immigrants wouldn’t fall for this scam, […]
