tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post1830099928645286051..comments2024-03-24T11:01:27.668-04:00Comments on Resource Insights: Oil spills, crime waves and the increasing militarization of American lifeKurt Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330759091950742285noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-77358957614696441772010-05-08T15:28:07.185-04:002010-05-08T15:28:07.185-04:00You have to decide... do you want results or not?
...You have to decide... do you want results or not?<br /><br />The U.S. Department of Defense (although certainly not perfect) does have good project managers and, as you noted, a lot of unique capabilities.<br /><br />Of course, all that talent and infrastructure does not come cheap. <br /><br />Sending these types of challenges to DoD is like going to the emergency room for a cold. The problem will get solved, but it will cost a lot more than it would through other normal methods.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-8783545711066118652010-05-08T02:07:41.233-04:002010-05-08T02:07:41.233-04:00More importantly, Dunlap did not predict the hollo...More importantly, Dunlap did not predict the hollowing out of military-intelligence complex functions. The CIA at this point is more contractors than civil servants.<br /><br />There are more contractors than military personnel in Iraq & Afghanistan. In the recent suicide bombing by a supposed informant in Afghanistan, 2 of the 7 intel officers present were Blackwater.<br /><br />But the craziest military/civilian entanglement I've heard of is in China and Iran: the military owns businesses. In China a lot of the front-line military budget comes from divisions running businesses to be self-supporting. In Iran, the Revolutionary Guard has absorbed a lot of the industrial capital base that was "theocratized" (nationalized and given to the mullahs) in the Islamic Revolution.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-62677198091936665972010-05-06T09:02:29.750-04:002010-05-06T09:02:29.750-04:00It is even more serious than that in some location...It is even more serious than that in some locations.<br /><br />Many are not aware of posse comitatus and all it means.<br /><br /><a href="http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2010/05/will-military-become-police-2.html" rel="nofollow">Soldiers are doing police work</a> such as giving speeding tickets in some states.Dreddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15673418865926403671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-75339451162874860082010-05-05T22:59:24.907-04:002010-05-05T22:59:24.907-04:00United States foreign assistance to the developing...United States foreign assistance to the developing world (less than 1% of the Federal budget) is necessarily strategic and development oriented. It used to be "civilian". But an increasing share of foreign aid is being directed to "conflict states" , where we are fighting wars or the literally never-ending war on drugs and so much less foreign aid is available for actually helping people and supporting civil society and private sector development. Welcome to the National Security State, which began right after WWII and has steadily expanded civilian and overseas. Tea Party simplicities aren't going to reverse this. It requires a much more profound change in the culture. Which doesn't seem to be happening.Jimbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13891331049535299222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-1117378808889197512010-05-05T07:48:03.396-04:002010-05-05T07:48:03.396-04:00Loss what can we do?
By Dwight Baker
May 5, 2010...Loss what can we do? <br />By Dwight Baker <br />May 5, 2010<br />Dbaker007@stx.rr.com <br /><br />Eagles Eye View Aiming at Issues for We the People Advocates<br /><br /> Out and about through Middle America are the many that have serious doubts about where We the People all are headed. Our Great Nation is being miss-managed, and those doing so don’t care to hide the facts. Lies permeate our soul as a Nation and We as People. Many of We the People rich heritage that made this Nation the Greatness that we inherited is being sold down the drain. And few understand that in the long run ‘if not stopped’ will lead our posterity and us alike into the bondage of slavery. <br /><br /> Stating the things that I do are hard for some to conceptualize but ‘not me’ if you doubt my words then go and prove me wrong? My strongest talents have proven to be thinking then creating outside the box of traditional understanding and logic. <br /><br /> We do not as a People need to totally understand all the wise ones that have gone on before, but it is Ok to do so. For those many long gone have not lived in the exact circumstances as we face each day. And for me that is where the rub comes in. <br /><br /> Far too much is being promoted by the progressive media hounds that in my estimation tells the same old stories over and over again but with each having a different spin --- yet solutions are seldom presented and ‘if so’ few and far in-between. <br /><br /> Yep—the folks heading up our Federal Government are filled with fraud and some treason and seem to be proud of it. Not only them but going down to state, county and city levels we find the same sort of scum that has come to the top of the heap spending our money un-wisely. <br /><br /> Now what is the fix? The same thing that has been done before by civilized folks under the hard hand of tyranny ‘Resist’! And what forever could be wrong with that? Not a thing, for when people lose their voice and vote to change a democratic republic then slavery has already been accepted as their continued lifestyle. <br /><br /> Yet We the People in America are faced with an over-ridding ‘Fear Tactic’ and that is seen in all our money we have allowed to be spent making private industry into armed forces. Why did that come about? That was and is an insidious plan to take us out ‘kill us’ those ‘who resist’ in small groups and keep down our voices and votes from having an international public hearing. And those that made the plans to do so while in public office violated the Laws in our Constitution. But what is new about that? <br /><br /> Our Bill of Rights and Constriction is winked at by the power bosses as just useless outdated words, that simply have no effect on them or their vile and evil agendas they seek to do, while in or out of public office. The GOOD OLE BOY CLUB ‘Bilderberg’ is as alive today as it was when first created by John D. Rockefeller years ago. <br /><br /> That group of unsavory characters is Elite Dietist. They are rich beyond measure and have a thirst for power. They worship themselves as God, thus they have no respect for common men women and children. They are the ones running our governments big and small. <br /><br /> NOW, what can We the People do? <br /><br />Raise our voices, votes and flags of dissent in each community where we reside. Do not be afraid to speak out ---for the right to dissent is as natural as the sun coming up and going down. Once doing-- others with the same heart and mind for doing what is right will come along and before any of us know a foundation of friendships will come about. Meeting of the minds will become an affair desired for and run too each time a local meeting is scheduled. Those who run to others and form high-minded groups of thought about ruling themselves will never become slaves to any system of overboard and out of control governance.Dwight Bakernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-61800158608786699912010-05-03T03:23:49.860-04:002010-05-03T03:23:49.860-04:00Militarization may be a phase en route to relocali...Militarization may be a phase en route to relocalization. The entitlements secured for state & local employees by their unions can no longer be supported in a contracting economy; the way out is to fulfil the letter of such obligations - by gutting the dollar. Meanwhile Armed Forces personnel have no such unions and are unable to secure comparable entitlements.<br /><br /><br />And the military is apolitical - BushBaby's Defence Secretary carried over into Barack Hussein's cabinet; the Gestapo - Homeland Security - has quickly became an established feature of the landscape.Robin Dattahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15358491380192365005noreply@blogger.com