You post is quite excellent, Good Citizen Spy Hunter, but I must take exception with you when you state:
The problem of government corruption is just too complex to confront head-on, and it's okay to admit that.
In 1978 two pivotal bills were passed by a heavily "purchased" US Congress. First, the bill allowing corporations, via lobbyists and other methods, to buy off Congress, whereas previously they hadn't been allowed to contribute to political campaigns due to legislation created and successfully lobbied for by President Teddy Roosevelt.
The second bill, thanks to a bought-off Black Congressional Caucus, gave tax breaks to corporations for laying off American workers and offshoring their jobs - they created and passed this in the name of "diversity" - evidently they considered "diversity" only to apply to foreign Asian workers and not Black American (and other American) workers.
These bills, especially when examined together, have brought us (along with soooo many other corrupt practices - please see sites below) to where the USA is today.
Of course, others have influence as well over US elections. Please read this excellent article blog as well as this outstanding blog.
Exactly how is our entire election system privatized?
Geez! Are you truly that oblivious to what's been taking place? Well, ignorance is curable, stupidly ain't, so just on the remote chance you are simply ignorant:
I refer you to everything S.A.I.C. (the primo government intelligence contractor) has been involved in with regard to the privatization of the American voting process, from doing the original code for some of those voting machine companies to being called in to audit those very same coded machines when "irregularities" have occurred. I refer you to the fact that FOUR voting machine companies will be "recording and counting" over 100 million votes (the bulk of the voting) for the 2008 presidential election. Those four companies: ES&S, Hart InterCivic, Premier Election Systems (formerly known as Diebold) and Sequoia Voting Systems have some pretty deep interconnections with one another, S.A.I.C., and Accenture, which has rigged votes in America, Italy and Mexico. I refer you to the fact that Accenture will be the entity responsible for all overseas voting which will be recorded over the Internet for the 2008 presidential election. I refer you to the company, VoteHere (or Dategrity - that name keeps changing) which is connected to both Accenture, S.A.I.C., etc., and has been lobbying to place their encrypted security code into every voting machine in existence in America, and has successfully, to date, place their code in ES&S and Sequoia machines. (Just research, Accenture and elections/voting, SAIC and elections/voting, those four companies previously mentioned, and all those election "irregularities" - over 900 plus, now - along with the Ahmanson family and voting/elections, the McCarthy Group and voting/elections, Accenture and Berlisconi/Italy/elections, etc., etc., etc.)
...they're not built to easily allow rigging of elections..
And yes, those machines are indeed designed and made to allow for ease in rigging....
Not counting that "missing" $2.3 trillion, reported shortly before 9/11/01, of course. One can buy an awful lot of voting machine companies and "defense" and "security" companies for that many bucks, of course.
All that money must be what allowed our (Der) Homeland Security to stage all those phony ops - against Scott Ritter, against all those so-called "terrorists" (of Libery City, Miami, and elsewhere).
This post is meant as supportive of DocRuby's primo post. Best way to critique the CIA - read, compare and contrast the book written by yet another submediocrity hired by the CIA (Class II), against the episode from This American Life (2.23.2001) concerning Zora, a CIA applicant who was super-qualifed, but was, of course, turned down for the job.
A thought - if "they" could happen to do this around 24 hours just prior to the 2008 Presidential Election, and likewise do the exact same thing to S.A.I.C., Hicks & Associates, ManTech International along with a few others, perhaps it may be possible to sustain an honest election after all......Otherwise, we know who will be manipulating the process....Unless, those responsible also penetrated the systems the group within the Pentagon will be using to manipulate the national elections, in which case, the Chicoms - assuming it actually is them - will be the controllers.....
Mueller has done an even more execrable job than Louie "the Sicilian" Freeh - and who would have thought that humanly possible? Mueller should definitely end up in jail, with something in the vicinity of about 1,000 other FBI f***wits, as one never knows when they show up who they are working for: is it the faction which reports to China's Department of Public Security? Is it the faction which reports to the Russian mob? Is it the faction which reports to one of the drug cartels? Is it the faction which reports to the Mafia? Or is it the faction which reports to the neocon crime organization presently running this banana republic formerly known as America?
[And no, this combat veteran doesn't support the troops - as far too many of them are in violation of the UCMJ and strongly believes something on the order of 500 general-rank officers should be immediately executed for both giving, and acting upon, unlawful orders.]
"Catching" bad guys is what they think they're doing...
Curious, but such a suggestion appears to run counter to all those very phony ops the Feebs of the FBI have been staging, such as that horrendous op against Scott Ritter, which was quickly thrown out of court with the judge declaring the FBI to be a useless bunch of A-holes. And all those other useless "terrorist" ops perpetrated by the feebs of the FBI.
Whatever became of that anthrax assassin? Oh, of course the feebs of the FBI were much too busy spying on ordinary American citizens to actually ever catch him - and of course, they did sit on those tips for around eight months prior to being forced into action, with the emphasis on FORCED!
And then there was that tragic Los Alamos op where the feebs of the FBI turned out to be run by some attractive Chinese agent from China's Department of Public Security. Hmmmmmmm......
What was that about "catching bad guys".......
But most importantly of all (see recent quote below, please), where is the logic when Mueller-head states that the FBI previously broke the law, so that new laws should stop them??? Say again, clown boy!
"The credibility factor shows there needs to be outside oversight," said former FBI agent Michael German, now a national security adviser for the American Civil Liberties Union. He also cast doubt on the FBI's reforms.
"There were guidelines before, and there were laws before, and the FBI violated those laws," German said. "And the idea that new guidelines would make a difference, I think cuts against rationality." This quote is found at this site.
Right, poster chill, with the US intelligence organizations having been majority privatized, and the US election system having been completely privatized, and the two now owned by the same corporate entities answerable to the Pentagon, of course everything is BS....
Exactly what segment of your cortex DOES function, BTW???
Not to mention the rather redundant fact that every IXP (that's IXP, not ISP, kiddies) in North America is also completely bugged by the feds at both the hardware and software levels. That pretty much covers everything, along with TIA, NAO, CIFA, and...oh yeah...the S.A.I.C. control (under authority of some group or other in the Pentagon) of Hart InterCivic, Premier Election Systems, ES&S and Sequoia Voting Systems - which means the next presidential election....
You can call me crazy, but first do the forensic economics hacking to check me out.....
No, the primary reason for GATT and WTO wasn't to sell stuff abroad, it was to further the agenda for global monopoly. Nor does the US want out of WTO, GATT, NAFTA, etc. As you should have figured out by the LameStream Media's response to Sen. Obama's remarks on NAFTA, anyone who desires leaving such agreements will find themselves the object of repeated and intense character assassination - if not outright assassination.
I agree - the conspiracy does not exist as everything is pretty much in the open and above ground. But when so colossal much of what is published in all magazines, newspaper and various radio, TV and cable-TV outlets refers back to all these "think tanks" (i.e., stink tanks) which are financed by some very radical right-wing, neo-nutjobs, there is an underlying agenda which is not always so obviously publicised.
If strawberry-picker wages rise then the price of strawberries will rise too.
First, you obviously know nothing of economics, neither classical nor "real world." The cost of labor in agricultural products is infinitesimal, at less than 3%, if that much. Next, there is no operational "free-market capitalism" - that is rank idiocy to suggest such a thing actually exists.
I don't think recent illegal immigration is messing with wage levels here,...
Again, it doesn't matter what you think, what matters are the facts, and the facts have shown that illegal immigration has had significant impacts on the lowering of wages, has have bogus "worker visa" programs such as H-1B, H-2B, H-2C, L-1, O-1, P-1, P-2, P-3, etc.
Costs have indeed been cut when mechanization has taken place, so again you are sadly wrong. In fact, you have been wrong on every "point" you have feebly attempted to make - do you work at McKinsey, per chance???
This is also of course why the US is increasingly on the wrong side of the WTO.
"The wrong side" is being affiliated with such a trash and bous gang as the WTO. The only right side is to be outside of that group.
Excellent post, Good Citizen siddesu. One wonders whether this dufus feeb, Dempsey (although I realize he's not on the up-and-up), has ever heard of Intelink? Thought not. And for a most excellent site appropriate to your post:
But this does allow for me to make the following, judiciously pertinent comment:
The 2008 American presidential election WILL be decided by the four major voting machine companies which are supposed to record and tabulate over 100 million votes:
Hart InterCivic, Premier Election Systems (Diebold), ES&S and Sequoia Voting Systems. Now whom do you suppose owns these four companies? Don't know? Don't even know the origins and connections between the four? Don't know all the myriad connections among these four, and SAIC, and Accenture and the Pentagon? Well, guess who will decide that 2008 presidential election?
Well, according to the exit polls (which have been increasingly dramatically in variance with every election) the Dems did win in both 2000 and 2004, yet we somehow still have a Repub prez. Although, if Hillary wins, I'm not sure there would be any qualitative difference - given her overall voting record - between the neocons and her presidency.
But, as of right now I strongly suspect the Republicans will win - because unlike Italy (where Berlisconi brought in Accenture and their rigged voting machines - only to lose by 25,000 votes when the exit polls clearly demonstrated he lost by well over 1 million votes), the USA has a functioning Total Information Awareness Network (along with that HAVA legislation which reinforced the control by the DRE-producing voting machine companies) to perform command and control of their elections......
Also, I would suggest you Google the following: SAIC, Accenture, Hart Intercivic, Diebold, ES&S, Forensics Explorer, Topsail, TIA, NarusInsight, Narus and TIA, Diversified Dynamics, iPaper, etc.
Normally, one would find this to be a funny thread but for one thing, the one thing, in fact fewer than five out of every one million Americans are aware of:
that of the five voting machine and election systems companies which will decide the 2008 presidential election - one of them is a Pentagon-shell company, and three of the remaining four are Pentagon-financed. Why this should be a surprise to anyone - after over 823 "election irregularities" over the past four to six years - all following the exact pattern and all called "election-rigging."
Evdidently, many Americans are oblivious to reality, thinking that although such has been the case over the preceding eight years, this time it will be different!
What was that trite definition of insanity: doing the same exact thing over and over again, but expecting a different result.......
And that last voting machine company, Hart Intercivic...owned partially by SAIC (meaning partially by the Pentagon, partially by Amerada Hess - through Triton Energy through Triton Venture Partners [Amerada Hess is the oil company which, in partnership with Bush's pals, the Saudi royals, put through the pipeline across the 'stans which connects to the pipeline in Afghanistan - and the oil company that Keane - that guy on the 9/11 Commission is a director of), and partially by James Baker and the Bushies.....
My humble suggestion would be exactly what they FBI did in the aftermath of those attacks of 9/11/01. They sent the damaged disk drives recovered from the two fallen towers to the German data recovery firm, Convar (given the possible classified nature, why wouldn't they have used government labs at NIST, NSA, DIA (yes, they have 'em), etc., or at least the state-of-the-art data recovery companies in North America? Oh yeah....Kroll purchased Convar the same time said data recovery was occurring. Oh yeah....whatever did the FBI do with the data, which a Convar spokesperson said had been successfully recovered? Oh well.......and so it goes.....
Sorry for this very late response post, Good Citizen maillemaker, but you make such cogent and excellent points that I feel I must add something, however insignificant it may appear to be at this moment.
While, as usual, very few Americans have been paying attention three major processes have occurred, speedily so over the past 7 years - although the process was begun almost 30 years ago. The American election process has been privatized, with four major election systems' companies which will account for at least 100 million votes comes this 2008 presidential election (Premier Election Systems - formerly Diebold, Hart Intercivic, Sequoia Voting Systems and ES&S). Also, the American intelligence community has been privatized. The third key is that these two have now been merged together.
Who counts the votes? Does anyone in this country actually know? Other than less than 5 out of every million Americans?
The answer, in reality, is that some group or other at the Pentagon counts the votes - using their proxy operator, S.A.I.C., along to a minor degree, Accenture, to front for them through those four companies. The primary reason for that Total Information Awareness program - which still exists but under other names and TLAs - is the control of the American election/voting processes. End of story. Lock and load, good buddy......
In reality (that is to those of us who exist on the reality layer), this has been going on ever since they "privatized" COMSAT back in the '90s. If one looks at who purchased those private satnets one will arrive at some very guilty and interesting parties.
Word up, Good Citizen poetmatt, but there's no existing need anymore for Bushi Wooshie to do this. The four major election systems companies which will account for at least 100 million votes comes this 2008 presidential election are all controlled by some group or section within the Pentagon, utilizing the government contractor, S.A.I.C. as the controlling element in the operation. Those four: Premier Elections Systems (once called Diebold), Hart Civic (with strong ties to both SAIC and Northrop Grumman - last time I checked a considerable block of their ownership could be traced back to James Baker III, consigliore for the Bush familia), ES&S and Sequoia Voting Systems.
And keep your eye on VoteHere (Dategrity) an unofficial Pentagon-financed "voting system" company with quite a questionable past, present and future. Nope, good buddy, it be all over in Amerika! Sieg Heil, bushie wushie....
And why did the SEC stop publishing the Directory of Interlocking Corporate Directorships back during those Reagan years????
...if you had considered the idea that Americans are being shut out simply because they don't work as hard as some of these Chinese students?
Ah, yes..it's always the lazy American catch-all response. Then why the f**k are they always coming here for their industrial/tech espionage - why the f**k can't they just engineer all this stuff themselves if they are sooooo f**king hard-working? You've made a nonsensical, illogical statement....with no possible follow-through because you are another mindless zombie neoliberal or neocon plugged into the mindless matrix.
They Chinese, East Euros and certain other groups which come from dictatorial/fascist-type governments all to readily embrace such a type of government when they come to the US - or another other (in our case former) democracy. Hardworking my ass....I've never seen so many cheating copycats as those Chinese.....
Gee whiz! And who performs those background investigations for the government now that the vast majority of the US intel community has been privatized? It's not SAIC - they are far too busy running the Total Information Awareness Network (through their subsidiary, Hicks & Associates) to manipulate and control the entire (US presidential) election process.
Hmmmm....must be Kroll, Blackwater Worldwide, ManTech International, CACI, OmniPlex World Services Corp, Systems Applications and Technologies, Inc.....oh, why go on.......
Back in 2004, a friend of mine (prior military = extra points, combat medals = extra points) received the fastest rejection he'd ever experienced (under 3 hours by e-mail) after applying for a TSA screener position in Tacoma, WA. Four of the people they hired turned out to have criminal records - and are back in jail after they were caught pilfering luggage.
BTW, for everyone's information, the private contractor which performs the background checks for the TSA, and several other federal agencies, is Blackwater Worldwide (formerly Blackwater USA).
Accenture?? Isn't that the elections-rigging specialist that screwed up on the porno premier of Italy, Berlisconi, in his reelection campaign??
Yeah, if I recall, he hired them and he only "lost" by 25,000 votes while the exit polls clearly showed he really lost by well over 1 million. Guess Accenture screwed up on the details......
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The problem of government corruption is just too complex to confront head-on, and it's okay to admit that.
In 1978 two pivotal bills were passed by a heavily "purchased" US Congress. First, the bill allowing corporations, via lobbyists and other methods, to buy off Congress, whereas previously they hadn't been allowed to contribute to political campaigns due to legislation created and successfully lobbied for by President Teddy Roosevelt.
The second bill, thanks to a bought-off Black Congressional Caucus, gave tax breaks to corporations for laying off American workers and offshoring their jobs - they created and passed this in the name of "diversity" - evidently they considered "diversity" only to apply to foreign Asian workers and not Black American (and other American) workers.
These bills, especially when examined together, have brought us (along with soooo many other corrupt practices - please see sites below) to where the USA is today.
Of course, others have influence as well over US elections. Please read this excellent article blog as well as this outstanding blog.
Great post!!!!
Geez! Are you truly that oblivious to what's been taking place? Well, ignorance is curable, stupidly ain't, so just on the remote chance you are simply ignorant:
I refer you to everything S.A.I.C. (the primo government intelligence contractor) has been involved in with regard to the privatization of the American voting process, from doing the original code for some of those voting machine companies to being called in to audit those very same coded machines when "irregularities" have occurred. I refer you to the fact that FOUR voting machine companies will be "recording and counting" over 100 million votes (the bulk of the voting) for the 2008 presidential election. Those four companies: ES&S, Hart InterCivic, Premier Election Systems (formerly known as Diebold) and Sequoia Voting Systems have some pretty deep interconnections with one another, S.A.I.C., and Accenture, which has rigged votes in America, Italy and Mexico. I refer you to the fact that Accenture will be the entity responsible for all overseas voting which will be recorded over the Internet for the 2008 presidential election. I refer you to the company, VoteHere (or Dategrity - that name keeps changing) which is connected to both Accenture, S.A.I.C., etc., and has been lobbying to place their encrypted security code into every voting machine in existence in America, and has successfully, to date, place their code in ES&S and Sequoia machines. (Just research, Accenture and elections/voting, SAIC and elections/voting, those four companies previously mentioned, and all those election "irregularities" - over 900 plus, now - along with the Ahmanson family and voting/elections, the McCarthy Group and voting/elections, Accenture and Berlisconi/Italy/elections, etc., etc., etc.)
And yes, those machines are indeed designed and made to allow for ease in rigging....
All that money must be what allowed our (Der) Homeland Security to stage all those phony ops - against Scott Ritter, against all those so-called "terrorists" (of Libery City, Miami, and elsewhere).
This post is meant as supportive of DocRuby's primo post. Best way to critique the CIA - read, compare and contrast the book written by yet another submediocrity hired by the CIA (Class II), against the episode from This American Life (2.23.2001) concerning Zora, a CIA applicant who was super-qualifed, but was, of course, turned down for the job.
A thought - if "they" could happen to do this around 24 hours just prior to the 2008 Presidential Election, and likewise do the exact same thing to S.A.I.C., Hicks & Associates, ManTech International along with a few others, perhaps it may be possible to sustain an honest election after all......Otherwise, we know who will be manipulating the process....Unless, those responsible also penetrated the systems the group within the Pentagon will be using to manipulate the national elections, in which case, the Chicoms - assuming it actually is them - will be the controllers.....
[And no, this combat veteran doesn't support the troops - as far too many of them are in violation of the UCMJ and strongly believes something on the order of 500 general-rank officers should be immediately executed for both giving, and acting upon, unlawful orders.]
Curious, but such a suggestion appears to run counter to all those very phony ops the Feebs of the FBI have been staging, such as that horrendous op against Scott Ritter, which was quickly thrown out of court with the judge declaring the FBI to be a useless bunch of A-holes. And all those other useless "terrorist" ops perpetrated by the feebs of the FBI.
Whatever became of that anthrax assassin? Oh, of course the feebs of the FBI were much too busy spying on ordinary American citizens to actually ever catch him - and of course, they did sit on those tips for around eight months prior to being forced into action, with the emphasis on FORCED!
And then there was that tragic Los Alamos op where the feebs of the FBI turned out to be run by some attractive Chinese agent from China's Department of Public Security. Hmmmmmmm......
What was that about "catching bad guys".......
But most importantly of all (see recent quote below, please), where is the logic when Mueller-head states that the FBI previously broke the law, so that new laws should stop them??? Say again, clown boy!
"The credibility factor shows there needs to be outside oversight," said former FBI agent Michael German, now a national security adviser for the American Civil Liberties Union. He also cast doubt on the FBI's reforms.
"There were guidelines before, and there were laws before, and the FBI violated those laws," German said. "And the idea that new guidelines would make a difference, I think cuts against rationality." This quote is found at this site.
Right, poster chill, with the US intelligence organizations having been majority privatized, and the US election system having been completely privatized, and the two now owned by the same corporate entities answerable to the Pentagon, of course everything is BS....
Exactly what segment of your cortex DOES function, BTW???
You can call me crazy, but first do the forensic economics hacking to check me out.....
As for the other items, READ A BOOK!
I agree - the conspiracy does not exist as everything is pretty much in the open and above ground. But when so colossal much of what is published in all magazines, newspaper and various radio, TV and cable-TV outlets refers back to all these "think tanks" (i.e., stink tanks) which are financed by some very radical right-wing, neo-nutjobs, there is an underlying agenda which is not always so obviously publicised.
First, you obviously know nothing of economics, neither classical nor "real world." The cost of labor in agricultural products is infinitesimal, at less than 3%, if that much. Next, there is no operational "free-market capitalism" - that is rank idiocy to suggest such a thing actually exists.
I don't think recent illegal immigration is messing with wage levels here,...
Again, it doesn't matter what you think, what matters are the facts, and the facts have shown that illegal immigration has had significant impacts on the lowering of wages, has have bogus "worker visa" programs such as H-1B, H-2B, H-2C, L-1, O-1, P-1, P-2, P-3, etc.
Costs have indeed been cut when mechanization has taken place, so again you are sadly wrong. In fact, you have been wrong on every "point" you have feebly attempted to make - do you work at McKinsey, per chance???
This is also of course why the US is increasingly on the wrong side of the WTO.
"The wrong side" is being affiliated with such a trash and bous gang as the WTO. The only right side is to be outside of that group.
Put that in your virtual pipe and smoke it....
Art of Mental Warfare.
The 2008 American presidential election WILL be decided by the four major voting machine companies which are supposed to record and tabulate over 100 million votes:
Hart InterCivic, Premier Election Systems (Diebold), ES&S and Sequoia Voting Systems. Now whom do you suppose owns these four companies? Don't know? Don't even know the origins and connections between the four? Don't know all the myriad connections among these four, and SAIC, and Accenture and the Pentagon? Well, guess who will decide that 2008 presidential election?
Hint: It won't be the voters.....
But, as of right now I strongly suspect the Republicans will win - because unlike Italy (where Berlisconi brought in Accenture and their rigged voting machines - only to lose by 25,000 votes when the exit polls clearly demonstrated he lost by well over 1 million votes), the USA has a functioning Total Information Awareness Network (along with that HAVA legislation which reinforced the control by the DRE-producing voting machine companies) to perform command and control of their elections......
Also, I would suggest you Google the following: SAIC, Accenture, Hart Intercivic, Diebold, ES&S, Forensics Explorer, Topsail, TIA, NarusInsight, Narus and TIA, Diversified Dynamics, iPaper, etc.
that of the five voting machine and election systems companies which will decide the 2008 presidential election - one of them is a Pentagon-shell company, and three of the remaining four are Pentagon-financed. Why this should be a surprise to anyone - after over 823 "election irregularities" over the past four to six years - all following the exact pattern and all called "election-rigging."
Evdidently, many Americans are oblivious to reality, thinking that although such has been the case over the preceding eight years, this time it will be different!
What was that trite definition of insanity: doing the same exact thing over and over again, but expecting a different result.......
And that last voting machine company, Hart Intercivic...owned partially by SAIC (meaning partially by the Pentagon, partially by Amerada Hess - through Triton Energy through Triton Venture Partners [Amerada Hess is the oil company which, in partnership with Bush's pals, the Saudi royals, put through the pipeline across the 'stans which connects to the pipeline in Afghanistan - and the oil company that Keane - that guy on the 9/11 Commission is a director of), and partially by James Baker and the Bushies.....
The number of corporations dominating the US mainstream media:
1983 = 50
1993 = 14
2008 = 5
My humble suggestion would be exactly what they FBI did in the aftermath of those attacks of 9/11/01. They sent the damaged disk drives recovered from the two fallen towers to the German data recovery firm, Convar (given the possible classified nature, why wouldn't they have used government labs at NIST, NSA, DIA (yes, they have 'em), etc., or at least the state-of-the-art data recovery companies in North America? Oh yeah....Kroll purchased Convar the same time said data recovery was occurring. Oh yeah....whatever did the FBI do with the data, which a Convar spokesperson said had been successfully recovered? Oh well.......and so it goes.....
While, as usual, very few Americans have been paying attention three major processes have occurred, speedily so over the past 7 years - although the process was begun almost 30 years ago. The American election process has been privatized, with four major election systems' companies which will account for at least 100 million votes comes this 2008 presidential election (Premier Election Systems - formerly Diebold, Hart Intercivic, Sequoia Voting Systems and ES&S). Also, the American intelligence community has been privatized. The third key is that these two have now been merged together.
Who counts the votes? Does anyone in this country actually know? Other than less than 5 out of every million Americans?
The answer, in reality, is that some group or other at the Pentagon counts the votes - using their proxy operator, S.A.I.C., along to a minor degree, Accenture, to front for them through those four companies. The primary reason for that Total Information Awareness program - which still exists but under other names and TLAs - is the control of the American election/voting processes. End of story. Lock and load, good buddy......
In reality (that is to those of us who exist on the reality layer), this has been going on ever since they "privatized" COMSAT back in the '90s. If one looks at who purchased those private satnets one will arrive at some very guilty and interesting parties.
Word up, Good Citizen poetmatt, but there's no existing need anymore for Bushi Wooshie to do this. The four major election systems companies which will account for at least 100 million votes comes this 2008 presidential election are all controlled by some group or section within the Pentagon, utilizing the government contractor, S.A.I.C. as the controlling element in the operation. Those four: Premier Elections Systems (once called Diebold), Hart Civic (with strong ties to both SAIC and Northrop Grumman - last time I checked a considerable block of their ownership could be traced back to James Baker III, consigliore for the Bush familia), ES&S and Sequoia Voting Systems.
And keep your eye on VoteHere (Dategrity) an unofficial Pentagon-financed "voting system" company with quite a questionable past, present and future. Nope, good buddy, it be all over in Amerika! Sieg Heil, bushie wushie....
And why did the SEC stop publishing the Directory of Interlocking Corporate Directorships back during those Reagan years????
Ah, yes..it's always the lazy American catch-all response. Then why the f**k are they always coming here for their industrial/tech espionage - why the f**k can't they just engineer all this stuff themselves if they are sooooo f**king hard-working? You've made a nonsensical, illogical statement....with no possible follow-through because you are another mindless zombie neoliberal or neocon plugged into the mindless matrix.
They Chinese, East Euros and certain other groups which come from dictatorial/fascist-type governments all to readily embrace such a type of government when they come to the US - or another other (in our case former) democracy. Hardworking my ass....I've never seen so many cheating copycats as those Chinese.....
Hmmmm....must be Kroll, Blackwater Worldwide, ManTech International, CACI, OmniPlex World Services Corp, Systems Applications and Technologies, Inc.....oh, why go on.......
BTW, for everyone's information, the private contractor which performs the background checks for the TSA, and several other federal agencies, is Blackwater Worldwide (formerly Blackwater USA).
Why is this so predictable.....
Yeah, if I recall, he hired them and he only "lost" by 25,000 votes while the exit polls clearly showed he really lost by well over 1 million. Guess Accenture screwed up on the details......