Archive for the 'Outsourced' Category
Private Prison Company Allegedly Partnered With Violent Gangs To Save Money
December 4th, 2012Via: Think Progress: A new lawsuit brought by eight inmates of the Idaho Correctional Center alleges that the company is cutting back on personnel costs by partnering with violent prison gangs to help control the facility. Court documents and an investigative report issued by the state’s Department of Corrections show how guards routinely looked the […]
Syria: Internet Taken Down
November 30th, 2012My guess is that U.S. Special Forces are restoring “Internet” access right now. *wink* Well, what this probably means is that, when you’re connected to .mil’s PSYOP ISP, you may get a ‘special’ version of the Internet. For example, when you type in cnn.com or google.com, what you see may be quite different from what […]
Corrections Corporation of America Used in Drug Sweeps of Public School Students
November 28th, 2012Via: Center for Media and Democracy: While such “drug sweeps” have become a routine matter in many of the nation’s schools, along with the use of metal detectors and zero-tolerance policies, one feature of this raid was unusual. According to Casa Grande Police Department (CGPD) Public Information Officer Thomas Anderson, four “law enforcement agencies” took […]
Pentagon Wants to Keep Running Its ‘Afghan Drug War’ From Blackwater’s HQ
November 22nd, 2012You’ll love this. Via: Wired: The U.S. war in Afghanistan is supposed to be winding down. Its contractor-led drug war? Not so much. Inside a compound in Kabul called Camp Integrity, the Pentagon stations a small group of officers to oversee the U.S. military’s various operations to curb the spread of Afghanistan’s cash crops of […]
‘Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves’
November 2nd, 2012“For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.” —Sun Tzu, The Art o War Update: Nicholas Negroponte Is the Brother of John Negroponte Reader DW tipped me off to something pretty remarkable that I hadn’t noticed […]
Moscow Police Discover Brothel on Monastery Premises
October 30th, 2012Via: Telegraph: Moscow police have discovered a brothel on the premises of a monastery whose abbot is thought to be President Vladimir Putin’s spiritual adviser. Two women were arrested on suspicion of prostitution after seven rooms were found in a building close to Sretensky Monastery where sexual services were offered from 1,750 roubles (£35) per […]
‘Marines, Police Prep for Mock Zombie Invasion’
October 28th, 2012Maybe zombie invasion is supposed to sound better than civil war. Via: AP: Move over vampires, goblins and haunted houses, this kind of Halloween terror aims to shake up even the toughest warriors: An untold number of so-called zombies are coming to a counterterrorism summit attended by hundreds of Marines, Navy special ops, soldiers, police, […]
Crimes by ATF and DEA Informants Not Tracked by Feds
October 20th, 2012*yawn* Via: USA Today: The nation’s top drug and gun enforcement agencies do not track how often they give their informants permission to break the law on the government’s behalf. U.S. Justice Department rules put strict limits on when and how agents at the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and […]
U.S. Mercenaries Drunk, Shooting IV Drugs in Afghanistan
October 18th, 2012Via: ABC News: Cellphone video recorded earlier this year at an operations center of a U.S. defense contractor in Kabul, Afghanistan appears to show key personnel staggeringly drunk or high on narcotics, in what former employees say was a pattern of outrageous behavior that put American lives at risk and went undetected by U.S. military […]
Honduras Sets Stage for 3 Privately Run Cities
September 6th, 2012Update: It’s Over for Now: Honduran Supreme Court Rejects ‘Model Cities’ Idea This was sent in by almaverdad2. Via: AP: Honduras’ Supreme Court has struck down a plan to build a series of model cities with their own independent tax and justice systems, a proposal that was meant to spur economic growth in this Central […]
