The Raw Story | U.S. government 'outsourcing its brain'

Due to its increasing practice of contracting out to private firms and agencies, the U.S. government is quickly losing its expertise and competence in vital national security and defense programs, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

"Since the 2001 terrorist attacks and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the federal government's demand for complex technology has soared," writes by Bernard Wysocki, Jr. for the Journal. "But Washington often doesn't have the expertise to take on new high-tech projects, or the staff to oversee them.

"As a result," he continues, "officials are increasingly turning to contractors, in particular the hundreds of companies in Tysons Corner and the surrounding Fairfax County that operate some of the government's most sensitive and important undertakings."

The number of private federal contractors has now risen to 7.5 million, which is four times greater than the federal workforce itself, the report indicates. Such a trend is leading the government to what Wysocki calls the "outsourcing [of] its brain."

The shift to private firms has not been without its

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Wasn't that part of the problem with 9/11? Isn't this part of the problem with the present abuses and corruption going in industrial military complex? What the hell?

Rep. Waxman's staff, in a Feb. 8 memo, said that "at least one contractor hired to engage in contract oversight on the border project, Booz Allen Hamilton, may have a conflict of interest with Boeing Co.," the prime contractor. Booz Allen has done consulting work for Boeing and has been a member of the Boeing team on other contracts.

Ralph Shrader, chief executive at Booz Allen, flatly denies the charge. "I take the greatest exception to the idea of conflict of interest," Dr. Shrader says, adding that Booz Allen is doing "support" and "coordination" work on behalf of the government, and doesn't "oversee" Boeing. He adds that Booz Allen has for decades taken pains to avoid conflicts of interest, and has a rigorous process to avoid such conflicts. (Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, has hired Booz Allen to help the company with its news strategy.)

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The American Monitor

Having all these companies private sure makes it easy for "public servants" to have their hands on 'no-bid contracts', say I had "no idea" they were do such and such, "I know nothing, I know nothing". No wonder all these public servants seem to serve other countries, are filthy rich, or border on deviants. All hidden behind National Security?

CompuDyne Corp. | 2006 | Post 200 | washingtonpost.com

Description: CompuDyne sells security products, prison locks and software used to manage 911 calls. Customers for its various products include jails, federal agencies, courthouses, U.S. embassies, the military and private institutions.

COMPUDYNE CORP

Look at the name, same person you think as listed above? Whoa...now he WOULD HAVE AN INSIDE TRACK, huh?


Neo-Con: 'Execute Rosie For Questioning the Government'

Maniacal Neo-Con attack dogs cannot debate Rosie O'Donnell on a level playing field about the issues she raises on her show and therefore always have to resort to ad hominem name calling, demands that she be fired and as was broadcast last night, public calls for her to be hanged.

Actor and radio host Danny Bonaduce, appearing as a guest last night on MSNBC's Scarborough Country, hosted by former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough, advocated the death penalty in response to Rosie O'Donnell's statements about the Iran hostage crisis and her questioning the official story behind 9/11.

Whoa, Bonaduce is a piece of shit! Why doesn't he do something about his own loud mouth? While he is at it, he really should clear up his stinkin' thinkin', the booze and drugs and his hunger for attention has made him ugly inside and out. Quit feeding the hate, Danny. Rosie isn't saying anything that millions around the world aren't researching and asking questions about themselves. If the government didn't lie, cover-up, spin to the people or become filthy damn rich as "public servants", the People might believe them. How did this mess all begin? Who benefits? Who is pulling down the profits? Who could give squat about the future of our children and blowback on them, or harm to all humanity? Who fails to look at both sides of the issues in order to strive for peace? Why is peace a dirty word? What are "Rods from God"? Search for it. keywords with it... 9/11/01, space, Rumsfeld.


Afghan war may be lost: experts

Two Afghanistan experts painted a sobering picture of the conditions there yesterday, arguing support among Afghans for NATO forces is plummeting, the U.S.-driven policy of poppy eradication is wrongheaded, and the war might not be winnable in its present form.

U.S. scholar Barnett Rubin and Gordon Smith, Canada's former ambassador to NATO, delivered their withering comments to a Commons committee only days after Canada's top military commander, Gen. Rick Hillier, touted progress being made there.

Hillier, the chief of defence staff, this week predicted Canadian troops in southern Afghanistan will soon see a rise in attacks from the Taliban. But he insisted on using the term "surge" rather than "offensive."

Do you ever wonder how things would have been in forgotten Afghanistan if Bush/Cheney/ THE CABAL in the Pentagon wouldn't have pushed to invade Iraq? The whole point of these wars was because of 9/11, correct? Where is bin Laden? I thought a month or so ago, we were told we needed to have a surge type event in Afghanistan?

Have you read too that the Taliban met Cheney and various oil officials for the pipeline in Afghanistan way before 9/11? Is it the natural gas, oil, minerals, metals, opium trade, water....what is it? Surely it is not the people of Afghanistan benefiting, now who is? How come the opium crops went up in Afghanistan? Who packs these crops out of there, who sells this drug, launders the money? Now where is bin Laden? I'm all for March Madness and the Prosecutor that shouted "Madness, Madness!" but get your eyes off A.I. and get to researching. KR, still an asshat!

The Swamp - Chicago Tribune - Blogs.

Gen'ls to Bush: Soldiers not props

Posted by Frank James at 1:15 pm CDT

A trio of retired generals concerned that President Bush might use his scheduled appearance this afternoon at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center to try and score political points against Democrats, urged the president, via a teleconference with reporters, to focus strictly on the problems with military medical care.

The generals were spurred into action by news reports that suggested the president might use the event to take on Democrats as both sides clash over the Iraq and Afghanistan spending bills just passed by the Senate and House which include timelines Bush fiercely opposes for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq.

Iraq War Coalition Casualties

The 4th Year of death in Iraq. I wonder if this is the real truth from some of the titles on this site. I think the numbers are higher myself. When the true numbers of dead US soldiers/Iraqis while Jessica Lynch distraction was going are finally reported will I believe. The numbers reported for the deaths in that time frame, manner and locality do not add up. More lies and spins. Battle of Baghdad (Airport).

L. Paul Bremer...a name to research before he was sent to Iraq. Did they ever find the missing money on his watch?

Democracy Now! | "This Isn't American Idol, We're Choosing the President of the United States" - Kucinich on Corporate Media Campaign Coverage

Go Dennis!

AMY GOODMAN: But what do you say to those make the argument that if president Bush has on his desk a bill that gives money, gives a fortune in continuing the war, and he has to veto it because he doesn't like the timetable, that this puts him in a very difficult position?

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: Our decisions have to be way above politics. We have the lives of our troops at stake here. There's no military victory in Iraq. We're there illegally. The occupation is fueling the insurgency. Democrats can still, after president Bush vetoes the bill, which he will, Democrats can still take the right position, which is refuse to fund the war, use money in the pipeline to bring the troops home.

The Raw Story | White House Power Point slides target 20 Democrats for 2008 defeat

House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) is seeking information about slides targeting 20 Democratic-controlled Congressional districts for the 2008 Election. In January, the White House sent J. Scott Jennings, an aide to Karl Rove, to present a slide show to a group of employees of the General Services Administration.

Waxman believes the presentation, and subsequent remarks made by GSA Director Lurita Alexis Doan may have violated the 'Hatch Act,' which prohibits federal employees from using their positions for political purposes. Doan is alleged to have suggested that she could use GSA contracts to help Republican Members of Congress hold their seats in the House.

Big fat sigh...for that big fat corrupt asshat Rove.

Suggested google...Results 1 - 10 of about 311,000 for Karl Rove + Texas Youth Commission.

Late Breaking: Upcoming Texas Youth Commission Rove-sparked pedophilia scandal promises to kill off Gonzales??!! | HongPong.com

"The U.S. attorney's office in Texas actually prepared indictments in this case," Angle told WND. "But when the word came from Washington, that's when [Asst. U.S. Attorney] Baumann wrote his letter declining prosecution. Sutton's office dropped the matter on the desk of the local district attorney, but nobody from [U.S. Attorney] Sutton's office said 'if you can’t go on this case, we'll help you out.'"

Mel Sembler's abusive Straight program

Filth, corruption, abuse, physical, sexual, mental, brainwashing, scandal, cover-up, evil, vile...what the hell does it take in this country to wake people up?

Video Testimony Confirms that Attorney Generals Abbott and Gonzales Ignored TX Youth Sexual Assault PDF

• The TYC referred more than 6,600 cases of abuse and neglect
• 684 reports of “staff sexual conduct”
• Only 18 cases have been prosecuted, all by local authorities
(Source: San Antonio Express-News, March 6, 2007; The Houston Chronicle, March 6, 2007)

Anyone hearing about this on Capitol Hill, the network news, WaPo, NYTimes, NYPost, Page damn Six?

Gonzales sure is taking care of child molesters and abusers, isn't he? He's covering up for them! What is this? First you isolate......

I better finish this later, when my blood pressure returns to normal and my stomach stops rolling. I'll look at my sleeping child, pet the pets and wonder what stench hides behind national security.

A whistleblower that was on a team working for Silverstein Group in 2002 has made public an extensive set of detailed architectural drawings of the World Trade Center, that prove beyond any doubt that the official reports into the collapse of the towers misrepresented their construction.

thanks to WRH.com
WTC Blueprints Leaked by Whistleblower

Interesting when the "facts" told never seem to add up.

Investigation fades while DeLay reemerges
When Alice Fisher was appointed by President Bush to serve as Chief of the Public Integrity section of the U.S. Justice Department, vigorous investigations were underway that would eventually end the careers of Congressmen Duke Cunningham and Bob Ney. Both are currently serving time in federal prisons. At the same time, the Jack Abramoff scandal was unraveling with new sordid revelations emerging daily. Eventually, Abramoff and two former DeLay staffers would plead guilty to felony charges and go to prison. Serious questions swirled around Tom DeLay himself and his official actions that appeared to benefit contributors and personal friends. However, since Fisher took over the Public Integrity section at DOJ, things have gone silent, particularly on the many questionable activities of Tom DeLay.

There is a whole lot to research for yourself on that one. Where is the media?


Mercury in energy-saving bulbs worries scientists | Reuters.co.uk

NEW YORK (Reuters) - There's an old joke about the number of people it takes to change a light bulb. But because the newer energy-efficient kinds contain tiny amounts of mercury, the hard part is getting rid of them when they burn out.

Mercury is poisonous, but it's also a necessary part of most compact fluorescent bulbs, the kind that environmentalists and some governments are pushing as a way to cut energy use.

With an estimated 150 million CFLs sold in the United States in 2006 and with Wal-Mart alone hoping to sell 100 million this year, some scientists and environmentalists are worried that most are ending up in garbage dumps.

Did they ever find out what is killing the honey bees so we can all eat? Think it has anything to do with companies like Monsanto and their terminating little seeds? Something is killing the bees. Do you ever wonder why so many babies are born autistic now, 1 in 150 babies? Compared to a few decades ago where it was 1 in 10,000; doesn't that make you go, hmmmm? Do you notice how many fires outside and so many house, office buildings there suddenly seems to be in the news? Do you notice how many roll-over accidents there are now, even though they tell us less people are dying. It sure doesn't seem like it. What ever happened to "55 saves lives" anyway? Why didn't Bush/Cheney start leading the country in conserving fuel 6 years ago? Oh yeah, that's right. They are the fuel masters.

Why, when, what, how, where? Never stop asking or seeking the answers.

Oh yeah, KR is a jackass and so is Bush.

Well wishes and prayers for Tony Snow. I hope he is able to return to his job soon. Elizabeth Edwards and Tony's courage should humble a few people...um, Rush cough..Katie.

The arrogance of Doctors at the DOD pisses me when they say soldiers that are ill from possible effects of anthrax vaccines (or worse, ssshhh...depleted uranium) is most likely in their heads. If you suffer from an autoimmune illness from chronic pain, fatigue, memory problems, and countless other symptoms you never had before in your life--there is something wrong.

The Pentagon resumed its controversial mandatory anthrax vaccinations program for selected troops last week despite the fact that its own doctors are quietly conducting research into adverse effects of the vaccine, a RAW STORY investigation has found.

A few days after receiving his third anthrax vaccination, Hernandez says, he developed a lesion on his leg that he was told was most likely a spider bite. He was put on a course of antibiotics and continued preparing for deployment.

"I had never had health problems," he said.

The lesion grew and other autoimmune problems developed. In May 2006, Hernandez was forced to return home to receive medical care.

"When I got back, I had 13 lesions," he said. "It was just too much for my immune system," he said of the vaccine. "They didn't know what the hell I had."

When he told the military he thought that his illness was related to the vaccine, he said, staff told him he was "delusional" and the relation between his mystery autoimmune illness and the shots "were in his head."

"For a while," he said, "I thought I was going crazy."

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Pentagon_conducting_research_into_adverse_effects_0327.html


Please if you read this blog, start reading the news. Research names, news items, things that doesn't seem right or make you think "another lie" or reminds you of something in the past---remember what it was because history is repeating itself with the same players or their offspring. Only this time along with the planet, people are getting sicker, babies are born autistic, soldiers come home thinking that they got lucky-only to discover they are sick for the rest of their lives and their hell has only just begun. They deserve better and so do our children. So do you. PEACE.

forums.plentyoffish.com/datingPosts6295508.aspx This link is chocked full of information why bloody war mongers in the industrial military complex hunger for more war.

If you don't google or research, or you believe everything you hear from the media, don't think outside the box, you are being naive.

News to look for: Sexual abuse to boys in Texas state run reform type school. Is someone trying to cover this up? The DOJ sure seems to be in a mess, did the ones prosecuting crimes get pushed out because the dots were connecting too much? How is Tom Delay's case coming? Rather strange Bush promoted prosecutor of Abrmahoff to judgeship. Flashback to Westar of Kansas + Tom Delay for some of his dirty dealings.

It really doesn't matter if crooks, pedophiles, fraudsters, murderers are Democrats, Republican, Independent or whatever...it matters that our country gets cleaned up in every area from the top down.

I'm not a computer whiz, so if you come across this blog don't expect much. You are welcome to blow off steam, speak your mind, out some truths in this country of ours where lies seem to taken over the place of facts and truth. Lies, cover-ups, spins, failure to report the good and the bad happenings....is soooo OLD.

Elizabeth Edwards, God Bless you, many people are praying for you and your family. You are the real deal in my humble opinion, so is your husband. Willing to stick up for the little guy, the average American. I wish you well so you can be back campaigning with Senator Edwards.


Ranting: It appears to me if you have to meet behind closed doors with no written record, no oath, everything secretive (as usual for the last 6 years) then something is wrong. What is being hidden again from the American people? I don't buy what Gonzales says about going after porn either, although what the hell has he been doing on that front? He would cover it up in a New York minute if it involved one of the elite deviants, politicians that might disturb his party, or be connected to his church or buddies. What do you think?