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[aid] => mick
[title] => FRANCHISING FASCISM, OUTSOURCING DEATH
[time] => 2007-10-16 09:37:21
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[bodytext] => Government fuels Blackwater's rise October 15, 2007 There’s no other place quite like Blackwater, at least not in private hands. The complex anchors a training and security operation that is one of the government’s fastest-growing contractors, and a fixture and a flashpoint of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In a decade, Blackwater’s revenue from federal government contracts has grown exponentially, from less than $100,000 to almost $600 million last year. In August, the company won its biggest deal ever, a five-year counternarcotics training contract worth up to $15 billion shared with four other companies. Blackwater’s extraordinary rise would not have been possible without a swirl of historic forces, including sharp cuts in military and security staffing in the 1990s, the Bush administration’s drive to outsource government services to the private sector... Franchising fascism and outsourcing death Isn’t this such a pretty business to take away your breath? There’s dollars in mayhem and ruthless acts, in blackshirted commerce using twisted facts Create an army of cold-hearted, killing machines And so realise your nightmares and monetary dreams It has reached some point when you outsource slaughter Meet more of Bush’s friends, the infamous Blackwater [comments] => 0 [counter] => 220 [topic] => 57 [informant] => steeleyes [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => arabic [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => war )
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