Lead researcher Dr Vyacheslav Ryabov, said: […]
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Sunday, September 11th, 2016
Tim Shorrock, - The Nation
Stephan: Do you think it is a good idea to privatize the American national intelligence network? You would think that a privately owned intelligence network overseeing the world, and the U.S. itself, at the most intimate and secret levels, would be a matter worthy of discussion in a Presidential election. Sadly, no. And there has been notably little in the corporate media. What I know I have gotten from specialty technical sources. This is the first comprehensive article I have seen on what is happening. Does it look to you like what one expects to see in an oligarchy? Me too.
The recent integration of two military contractors into a $10 billion behemoth is the latest in a wave of mergers and acquisitions that have transformed America’s privatized, high-tech intelligence system into what looks like an old-fashioned monopoly. (emphasis added)
In August, Leidos Holdings, a major contractor for the Pentagon and the National Security Agency, completed a long-planned merger with the Information Systems & Global Solutions division of Lockheed Martin, the global military giant. The 8,000 operatives employed by the new company do everything from analyzing signals for the NSA to tracking down suspected enemy fighters for US Special Forces in the Middle East and Africa.
The sheer size of the new entity makes Leidos one of the most powerful companies in the intelligence-contracting industry, which is worth about $50 billion today. According to a comprehensive study I’ve just completed on public and private employment in intelligence, Leidos is now the largest of five corporations that together employ nearly 80 percent of the private-sector employees contracted to work for US spy and surveillance agencies.
This is incredibly risky for a country so dependent on intelligence to fight global wars and prevent domestic attacks.
Yes, that’s 80 percent. For the first time since spy […]
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Sunday, September 11th, 2016
, - Complete Health & Happiness
Stephan: There is an emerging line of research suggesting that the linkage of the Zika virus and microcephaly may be wrong, and the real source of the problem may be pesticides like Pyriproxyfen. Only more research will definitively answer the question. But one thing is clear, whatever the role of the mosquitoes the situation arises because of disordered social policies that place profit above wellbeing, thus creating conditions for mosquito swarms in the first place. This report presents a view of these developments.
A new scientific study carried out by the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) is casting doubt on the assumed connection between the Zika virus and microcephaly. The study was prompted by the fact that no similar epidemics of microcephaly are being found in other countries hit hard by the Zika virus.
“Recently, the New England Journal of Medicine published the preliminary results of a large study of pregnant Colombian women infected with Zika. Of the nearly 12,000 pregnant women with clinical symptoms of Zika infections until March 28, no cases of microcephaly were reported as of May 2. At the same time, four cases of Zika and microcephaly were reported for women who were symptomless for Zika infections and therefore not included in the study itself.”
The four cases are consistent with the expected normal background rate of microcephaly–2 in 10,000. Also, there have been almost 50 microcephaly cases in Colombia up to April 28 with no connection to the Zika virus.
The mathematical analysis demonstrates that there are at least 60,000 Zika-infected pregnancies in Colombia, yet the near absence of microcephaly calls […]
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Sunday, September 11th, 2016
Tom Kutsch , - The Guardian (U.K.)
Stephan: Did you know that a slave revolt was going on it the United States? Of course not, corporate media doesn't cover such stories, but SR does. This is the latest in the New American Slavery Trend in the largest gulag in the world.
And don't you enjoy seeing headlines in the international press about the American "Slave Labor" revolt? Just gives you a warm patriotic glow all over doesn't it?
NEW YORK — A nationwide prison strike over conditions and wages behind bars, which organizers tipped to be the biggest of its kind in US history, was under way in at least several correctional facilities across the country on Friday, according to prison rights advocates.
Inmates from several states, who had bound together with the help of activists and organizing groups, aimed the national strikes – which had been in the making for several months – against what they said amounted to slave labor conditions amid mass incarceration in the country.
The coordinated events, which organizers targeted in as many as 24 states, occurred on the 45th anniversary of the riots at Attica prison in New York – the largest prison uprising in American history – over grievances today’s protesters say are similar, including poor sanitary conditions and prison jobs that amount to forced labor.
In April, one of the main national groups organizing the campaign, the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC), under the banner of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union, announced its call to action.
“This is a […]
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