Private Military Contractors - Data Dump

[Ed Jewett]

From http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/corp...index.html which has many, many embedded links....:

The Dirty Dozen
Corporate Partners in Mass Destruction
The Dirty Dozen
The Dirty Dozen Annex
About the Project
The Nuclear Industry
The Aerospace Industry
Space Weapon Technology
Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space
News and Special Features
Also See
The Dirty Dozen
Printable PDF fact sheets are available for seven of the Dirty Dozen corporations.
(See the corporations in bold below.)

Alliant Techsystems
Bechtel Corporation
Boeing
BAE Systems
British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL)
General Dynamics
IBM
Lockheed Martin
Mitsubishi
Northrop Grumman
Raytheon
Siemens
University of California

The Dirty Dozen Annex
AeroAstro
Aerojet
Aerospace Corporation
Analytical Graphics, Inc.
Andrews Space
Ball Aerospace
Booz Allen Hamilton
Carlyle Group
Computer Sciences Corporation
Davidson Technologies
Honeywell
L-3 Communications
Microcosm, Inc.
MicroSat Systems, Inc.
Miltec Corporation
Octant Technologies
Orbital Sciences Corporation
Rafael Aramament Development Authority Ltd.
Schafer Corporation
Science Applications International Cooperation (SAIC)
SI International
Space Development Corporation (SpaceDev)
Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited
Why the Dirty Dozen?

Reaching Critical Will teamed up with the Arms Trade Resource Center of the World Policy Institute to generate fact sheets, posters, and postcards that expose the complicity of corporations contributing to the nuclear fuel cycle and nuclear weapon proliferation, and the associated social, cultural, and environmental harm. We researched and produced profiles of thirteen (a baker's dozen) corporations that are deeply involved in researching, developing, and manufacturing nuclear weapons and nuclear power. Our goal is to uncover and stigmatize the profit these corporations make while sustaining nuclear weapons and nuclear power at a time in history when human dialogue and ingenuity could make both obsolete. We want to provide basic information about these corporations that can serve as a foundation and impetus for informed action that challenges these corporations to revoke their membership in the nuclear club.

In 2007, Reaching Critical Will, the Arms Trade Resource Center, and the Stop the Merchants of Death Network of the War Resisters League collaborated to update these fact sheets. Reaching Critical Will, in coordination with the Secure World Foundation, also produced additional reports on corporate involvement in the aerospace industry. This research covers the original Dirty Dozen corporations, and twenty-three other companies (the Dirty Dozen Annex) involved in developing missile defense and space weapon technology.

News and Special Features

Andrew Lichterman, "Next generation strategic weapons and the possibility of arms races to come," DisarmamentActivist.org, 7 April 2007.

Darwin BondGraham, "Is UC a University, or Just Another Military-Industrial Corporation?," Think Outside the Bomb, 2 April 2007.

Ray Acheson, "Attack on the ASAT Attack," DisarmamentActivist.org, 6 March 2007.

Hampton Stephens, "Pentagon's Plans for 'Space Control'," Defensetech.org, 26 January 2007.

Tom Engelhardt and Frida Berrigan, "How the Pentagon Stole the Future," LewRockwell.com, 11 January 2007.

Space Security 2006, Spacesecurity.org, July 2006.

Jeremy Singer, "Space-Based Missile Interceptors Could Yield Big Opportunity," Space News, 6 April 2006.

Matthew Hoey, "Military space systems: the road ahead," The Space Review, 27 February 2006.

Leonard David, "E-Weapons: Directed Energy Warfare In The 21st Century," Space.com, 11 January 2006.

Andrew M. Lichterman, "The Military Space Plane, Conventional ICBM's, and the Common Aero Vehicle: Overlooked Threats of Weapons Delivered Through or From Space," Information Bulletin, Western States Legal Foundation, Fall 2002.

Theresa Hitchens, "Weapons in Space: Silver Bullet or Russian Roulette?," Center for Defense Information, 18 April 2002.

Frida Berrigan, "How are Weapons Manufacturers Faring in the War?," World Policy Insitute, 17 December 2001.

Frida Berrigan, "US Weapons Systems in Afghanistan," World Policy Instiute, 7 December 2001.

Carol Brouillet, "Deadly Connections: Corporate Globalization, Space and War," Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space Conference, 13 May 2002.

Also See

Dirty Dozen poster

Mil-Corp Connexion - highlights WILPF's perceptions of the very dangerous connection between the Pentagon and those corporations profiting from weapons production.

Stop the Merchants of Death - uncovers the many ways war-profiteering corporations are literally calling the shots when it comes to deciding what weapons systems to buy, what countries to invade, and what foreign resources to seize. (SMOD is project of the War Resisters League.)

CorpWatch - provides news, investigations, and analysis critical of corporate power.

OpenSecrets.org - presents the actual political positions of the parties and candidates in US politics, and discloses how much campaign money they have raised - especially from corporate donations.

Center for Public Integrity - produces investigative journalism on issues of public concern, including defense contracts and corporate campaign contributions.

Center for Corporate Policy - works to curb corporate abuses and make corporations publicly accountable.

Conscience Canada - explains how to avoid having your federal income tax pay for the military.



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[Ed Jewett]

Abu Ghraib Inmates Lose U.S. High Court Bid to Sue Torturers

27 Jun 2011

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to revive a lawsuit that accused two military contractors of abusing torturing inmates at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, turning away an appeal by 26 onetime prisoners. The inmates sought to sue CACI International Inc., which helped interrogate prisoners at the facility, and Titan Corp., which provided translation services. The inmates, who were civilian detainees, said they were subjected to abuses by CACI and Titan employees including beatings, sexual humiliation, exposure to extreme temperatures and rape. In court papers, the inmates said some prisoners were tortured into unconsciousness and several were murdered.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-27...ctors.html

via

http://www.legitgov.org/Abu-Ghraib-Inmat...-Torturers

[Ed Jewett]

Kabul Brothels Continue to Service NATO

http://mssparky.com/2011/06/kabul-brothe...more-23312


Pentagon Contractor Employee Investigated for Human Trafficking, Fired… But No Prosecutions or Contract Terminations

http://mssparky.com/2011/06/zero-prosecu...n-persons/

[Ed Jewett]

TCIMC Exclusive: Contracts for IntelliDrive MnDOT Military-Industrial/U of M plan to GPS-track all cars

Submitted by HongPong on Thu, 2011-05-19 09:26


Key info about Minnesota's elusive "GPS Mileage Tax" test program has finally turned up. It's actually part of a federal program called "IntelliDrive", as shown by new documents obtained on Wednesday. The Minnesota Department of Transportation has entered into a pilot program called the "Mileage Based User Fee Policy Examination" which includes a contract with the huge low-profile military-industrial intelligence contractor SAIC of McLean Virginia, a system intended to pass all GPS data from everyday travel into centralized vehicle databases. The University of Minnesota has a main leading role, along with the Battelle Institute, URS Corporation, Mixon-Hill in Kansas and the local Pierce Pini & Associates. The MnDOT data practices "handler" at headquarters in St Paul didn't like it when these documents were photographed, and they denied a request to simply copy the mileage tax project contracts onto a USB flash drive, which is the only reason we don't have the complete material at hand right now.

With these incomplete documents, it's still perfectly clear that this plan is intended to make Minnesota's roads into a mere part of a national IntelliDrive road monitoring grid - broadcasting tracking devices would be intended for all vehicles....

Much more at the link:

http://www.hongpong.com/archives/2011/05...an-gps-tra

[Ed Jewett]

U.S. Contractor in Iraq Charges Pentagon $900 for $7 Control Switch, Report Finds --Inspectors seeking to review all Anham contracts with U.S. govt in Iraq and Afghanistan, which total about $3.9 billion

30 Jul 2011

A U.S. government contractor in Iraq charged the Pentagon a whopping amount of money for inexpensive items, including $900 for a $7 control switch, according to a new report from a U.S. watchdog. U.S. Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart W. Bowen Jr. said review found that Anham, LLC, which is based in suburban Washington, allowed its subcontractors in Iraq to also charge $3,000 for a $100 circuit breaker, and $80 for a piece of plumbing equipment worth $1.41.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/07/...ort-finds/

http://www.legitgov.org/US-Contractor-Ir...port-Finds

[Ed Jewett]

Federal judge rules KBR Iraq false claim suit can proceed
03 Aug 2011

A federal judge on Wednesday rejected military contractor KBR Inc's request to dismiss a U.S. government lawsuit seeking to recover more than $100 million for alleged false claims over private security in Iraq. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled the false claims and breach-of-contract claims could proceed, but he dismissed the unjust enrichment and payment-by-mistake counts in the lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed in April 2010, claimed Houston-based KBR knowingly included impermissible costs for private armed security in billings to the U.S. Army covering the 2003-2006 time period, the Justice Department has said.

http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com...n_proceed/

via

http://www.legitgov.org/Federal-judge-ru...an-proceed

[Jan Klimkowski]

My emphasis in bold:

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled the false claims and breach-of-contract claims could proceed, but he dismissed the unjust enrichment and payment-by-mistake counts in the lawsuit.

Royce Lamberth dismissed evidence that KBR had unjustly enriched itself! :mexican:

A glance at his resume reveals the kind of cases this "judge" gets handed....

[Bernice Moore]

http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/730

special ops the new face of war.....

[Peter Lemkin]

See here for more on this. I'd only say it is not 'new'....It has been going on wholesale since WWII and retail before then.....it is just the New Empire going by stealth gobbling up all and eliminating all challengers or 'problems' - small or able to potentially challenge this Amerikan Empire.....angryfire Now, after 911, it is all happening at 'warp speeds' - as was the modus operandi of 911, IMHO.

[Ed Jewett]

Fake Facebook Identity Used By Military Contractors Plotting To Hack Progressive Organizations

August 19th, 2011

Via: ThinkProgress: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/0...r-persona/

Earlier this year, ThinkProgress obtained 75,000 private emails from the defense contractor HBGary Federal via the hacktivist group called Anonymous. The emails led to two shocking revelations. First, that an assortment of private military firms collectively called "Team Themis" had been tapped by Bank of America to conduct a cyber war against reporters sympathetically covering the Wikileaks revelations. And second, that late in 2010, the same set of firms began work separately for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a Republican-aligned corporate lobbying group, to develop a similar campaign of sabotage against progressive organizations, including the SEIU and ThinkProgress.

In presentations obtained by ThinkProgress from the e-mail dump detailing the tactics potentially used against progressives, HBGary Federal floated the idea of using "fake insider personas" to infiltrate left-leaning groups critical of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's policies. As HBGary Federal executive Aaron Barr described in several emails, his firm could work with partner companies Palantir and Berico Technologies to manipulate fake online identities, using networks like Facebook, to gain access to private information from his targets. Other presentations are more specific and describe efforts to use social media to hack computers and find vulnerabilities among even the families of people who work at organizations critical of the Chamber.

In one email from the dump, Barr discusses a fake persona he created called "Holly Weber." She would be born in Portland in 1984, attend Reynolds High School, and work for Lockheed Martin after a stint in the Air Force. Earlier this week, Twitter users actually identified the phony account. Before it was taken down, ThinkProgress snagged screen shots of the fake persona's Facebook and LinkedIn accounts. (Barr also described his strategy for pretending to be teenagers online). View a screenshot of the fake account below…

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