Bid ? Bid ? What’s a Bid ?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080306/ap_on_re_us/hepatitis_exposure

http://tpzoo.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/usda-its-none-of-the-publics-business-who-ate-recalled-meat/#comment-47963

Can’t wait to see the next disaster this admin is going to inflict upon us.

- A. Oblivious Righty

This is a video of a Halliburton water inspector (for about a week), basically losing it.

AGAIN?

I thought Cheney schooled them that this hurts his stock portfolio.

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Currently deployed active-duty sailor right here and yep – that’s a fact. The way things are going, it seems like the only sailors left on naval bases are the personnel actually assigned to the ships. Everything, from food service to the regional maintenance centers, is going to the civilian sector (who, incidentally, get paid exponentially more than we do each year for the same work…as we get by on raises of $23 a month.).

In the past, such ineptitude, malfesance and fraud would have raised the hackles of every newspaper editior across the continent. There would have been investigative reports, news articles concerning every contract problem and editorials demanding a reform to the system.

We do not see the call for action today. The newspapers no longer have readership and are under corporate control as is radio, television and cable. GE certainly does not want MSNBC arguing for too much insight into government contracting. The corpocracy wants the public to believe that government and regulations are wrong. The corpocracy, aided by the conservative and right wing religious movement, want people to believe that business is good and moral while people are weak, lazy and immoral. The corpocracy builds the image of the American Dream while assuring themselves that the system will redistribute wealth and opportunity to the elite few.

The individual no longer matters. The Democrats will not be much better than the Republicans. Modern politics requires corporate pimps to allow an individual to be elected. Free speech has been granted to corporate citizens without limit. The individual (unless exceptionally wealthy) can no longer be heard.

Violent revolution will be the only answer. However, with a large number of people already brainwashed into believing that those who question authority because they have suffered at the hands of the corpocracy are nothing more than un-American losers, action will not come until too late. Widespread surveillance and wire tapping programs, draconian laws on terrorism that will also cover domestic unrest, control of internal movement initiated with a million people on the do not fly list and other tactics will quell resistance. Prostest will not be heard. Free speech zones will shunt it from public view. The corporate controlled press will not cover it. It will die shunted aside and forgotten.

Welcome to the new United States of America. It will copy every third world nation with a small economic elite living in luxury while the poorest die in the streets and the rest live in near poverty. Strong police and military organizations will keep the people in line.

It’s best that way, because military personnel take care of their own. KBR isn’t there to provide a service, they’re there to make maximum profit, and in doing so, they’re providing our troops with a Third World existence.

All contractors need to ejected from Iraq and fined the exact amount they’ve been paid to date.

It deserves to be brought to public attention again and again but did I miss something that brought this story forward today?

Cheney-supported mercenary, war profiteering company — their CEOs should be tried and imprisoned — along with their main supporter and his puppet in the White House.

Yes, it doesn’t seem like a ” scoop”, does it?

Well, it’s a start, you right-wing tools.

http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm

What’s the saying? “Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it”.

In this case one could equallly say “Those who study history may choose to repeat it”.

And long has it been so– the cooks and mechanics and launderers are part of the team and DIRECTLY accountable to the rest of the servicepeople. The “contract” is understood by all, not obfuscated by lawyers and middlemen.

If there WERE a sensible rationale for outsourcing, why wouldn’t the DoD at least go directly to competing civilian commercial sources for these services? We all know why.

Then again, this is exactly the kind of thing that you get when you allow people to get away with crony politics and no-bid contracts…

Is this what we have to look forward to corporations doling out water as water as well.

This is too much and we can all thank Bush and Cheney. Two chicken hawks who never served a day. What do they care if the troops are poisoned. Their priorities are for the profit of the war machine; not the safety of the troops.

Go Obama; it’s well past time to leave Iraq.