corporatism

Hooray guys! We've hit the big time! Rupert Murdoch's memetic war machine knows who we are!

Over the last 10 years, government outsourcing has spread to some of the crown jewels of US intelligence.

The Bush administration is launching a new government agency that will rely heavily on private security contractors to conduct surveillance in the U.S.  Click here for more at my other blog.

Fascism, in this day and age, seems a rather nebulous concept. I can't count how many times I have asked someone to define fascism only to draw a blank stare or an amibiguous collection of rants against the Anglo-American power structure that, while often true, do little to define fascism.

"IMMEDIAST projects are against all forms of coercive communication, cultural monologue and media control. We acknowledge non-violent public insurgence as a legitimate response to sustained violations by media and state. We recognize the air as public property, and the signals that travel through it to be the domain of the public."

There is so much overlap anymore between transnational corporate power and American politics and government that it ought to be no surprise that the Director for National Intelligence has ties to Booz, Allen, & Hamilton, Iran-Contra and John Poindexter, and TIA: Total Information Awareness. This piece is not new but the information in this, put out before McConnell's confirmation, bears repeating.

You have been lied to by people that are experts at lying, some of them decorated 9/11 researchers. NO ONE is immune to manipulation. I merely was in a good position at the time of the attacks to notice a few things that others weren't. I hope you will consider my research. I am willing to answer any questions you might have.

The National Reconaissance Office, Mitre Corporation, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, and Booz, Allen, & Hamilton

BLACKWATER, the secretive private army now emerging into public view, is a perfect hinge linking two key elements of the Republican political base: America's war machine and a muscular form of fundamentalist Christianity.

A year and a half ago: Under cross-examination during a congressional hearing, Yahoo's top lawyer refused on Wednesday to say whether the company opens its records for government surveillance without a court order.

"Because of the cloak of secrecy thrown over the intelligence budgets, there is no way for the American public, or even much of Congress, to know how those contractors are getting the money, what they are doing with it, or how effectively they are using it.