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*US Intelligence Is More Privatized Than Ever Before
The Sign of Intelligence (older, 06/14/13) [0:28]

The Nation | Tim Shorrock | 09/16/15

Almost 14 years to the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks drove intelligence spending into the stratosphere, two of the largest business associations in the spying industry held a “summit” meeting to discuss the current state of national security. Two realities were immediately apparent.

First, US intelligence is more privatized than ever before, with for-profit corporations operating as an equal partner with the surveillance state at nearly every level.

And second, a more troubling theme that ran through the meeting. Americans are now more sensitive than ever before to the risks associated with contractors, from Edward Snowden’s leaking of NSA secrets to the recent hacking of a government database of 21 million federal workers that was supposedly protected by cybersecurity contractors. ... Read more

*Meet the Private Corporations Building Our Nuclear Arsenal
The Nation | Richard Krushnic | 09/21/15

Imagine for a moment a genuine absurdity: Somewhere in the United States, the highly profitable operations of a set of corporations were based on the possibility that sooner or later your neighborhood would be destroyed and you and all your neighbors annihilated. And not just you and your neighbors, but others and their neighbors across the planet. What would we think of such companies, of such a project, of the mega-profits made off it?

In fact, such companies do exist. They service the American nuclear weapons industry and the Pentagon’s vast arsenal of potentially world-destroying weaponry. They make massive profits doing so, live comfortable lives in our neighborhoods, and play an active role in Washington politics. ...

Nuclear Weapons Producers

Aecom
Airbus
ATK
Babcock & Wilcox
BAE Systems
Bechtel
Boeing
CH2M Hill
Finmeccanica
Fluor
GenCorp
General Dynamics
Honeywell International
Huntington Ingalls Industries
Jacobs Engineering
Larsen & Toubro
Leidos
Lockheed Martin
Northrop Grumman
Raytheon
Rockwell Collins
Safran
Serco
TASC
Textron
Thales
ThyssenKrupp
URS
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Don’t Bank on the Bomb
ICAN | author | current

ICAN has identified more than 300 banks, pension funds, insurance companies and asset managers in 30 countries with substantial investments in nuclear arms producers. Our study Don’t Bank on the Bomb provides details of financial transactions with 20 companies that are heavily involved in the manufacture, maintenance and modernization of US, British, French and Indian nuclear forces. ... Read more

War would now be fought not for or by the citizen, but quite literally for and by Lockheed Martin, Halliburton, KBR, DynCorp, Triple Canopy, and Blackwater (later Xe, even later Academi).

The Arrival of the Warrior Corporation
TomDispatch.com | Tom Engelhardt | older, 02/23/12

... War would now be fought not for or by the citizen, but quite literally for and by Lockheed Martin, Halliburton, KBR, DynCorp, Triple Canopy, and Blackwater (later Xe, even later Academi). ...

... According to Dana Priest and William Arkin of the Washington Post, by 2010, about 265,000 of the 854,000 people with top security clearances were private contractors and “close to 30% of the workforce in the intelligence agencies [was] contractors.” ... Read more

*$52.6 Billion Black Budget
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52.6 Billion Black Budget
**Daily Ticker | Find the $8.5 Trillion the Pentagon Can't Account For (2014) [5:32]
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Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, September 23 [10:29]
DN | Calling for Revolution of Tenderness, Pope Touches Down in Richest Nation (09/23/15) [7:05]
DN | Cancer Patient Married to Undocumented Man Among 100 Women Who Marched 100 Miles to See Pope (09/23/15) [9:57]
Masters of Intelligence
TYT | James Clapper Caught Lying About The NSA (older, 06/12/13) [3:42]
Environment
CNN | Is climate change to blame for this? (09/16/15) [1:26]
TRNN | Jean Ross: Price Gouging In Health Care Is The Rule, Not the Exception (09/23/15) [8:13]
*TYT | Price Gouging Drug CEO Claims He’s The Good Guy (09/22/15) [7:15]
TYT | Marines Expose Afghan Army's Child Sex Slaves (09/22/15) [11:55]
Rampant sexual abuse of children has long been a problem in Afghanistan, particularly among armed commanders who dominate much of the rural landscape and can bully the population. The practice is called bacha bazi, literally “boy play,” and American soldiers and Marines have been instructed not to intervene -- in some cases, not even when their Afghan allies have abused boys on military bases, according to interviews and court records.

The policy has endured as American forces have recruited and organized Afghan militias to help hold territory against the Taliban. But soldiers and Marines have been increasingly troubled that instead of weeding out pedophiles, the American military was arming them in some cases and placing them as the commanders of villages -- and doing little when they began abusing children.
TYT | Trump On Global Warming (09/22/15) [9:53]
TYT | Right Wing Turning Their Hate Toward Jews? (09/22/15) [6:32]
TYT | Koch Bros To GOP Field: Time For Some Of You To Leave (09/22/15) [7:26]
RT | CrossTalk: on Syria: When Hubris Rules (09/23/15) [24:56]
RoF | Price Gouging Drug CEO Is The Donald Trump Of The Pharmaceutical Industry (09/22/15) [8:06]
Martin Shkreli, a 32-year-old CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, has steered his company into some controversy this week when it was revealed that they would be raising the price of the drug Daraprim from $13.50 to $750, a near 5000% increase in price. Greed in the pharmaceutical industry is nothing new, but with this story, it is hitting the mainstream media like it never has before.
RoF | Ring of Fire (E177) - Domestic Spying Is Just Getting Started (09/21/15) [29:00]
RoF | Ring of Fire (E178) - GOP's Biggest Enemy: Voting Rights (09/22/15) [29:00]
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
ThomHartmann | Time for Big Pharma to go Not For Profit... (09/22/15) [7:51]
ThomHartmann | The Similarities Between Bernie Sanders and Pope Francis... (09/23/15) [5:29]
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