Sounds like if it declare a war against, such corporate war machine would be able to take over, if not the entire US, some of its, and other's, states!! Entering in an strange era indeed..
> On 01 Sep 2015, at 17:48, [email protected] wrote: > > http://www.opednews.com/articles/4/Change-Everything-or-Face-by-Naomi-Klein-Blackwater_Capitalism_Corporate_Disasters-150830-472.html > > > 'Most dramatic has been Blackwater's investment in its paramilitary > infrastructure. Founded in 1996, the company has used the steady stream of > contracts during the Bush years to build up a private army of 20,000 > mercenary soldiers on call and a massive military base in North Carolina > worth between $40 and $50 million. According to one account, Blackwater's > capacity now includes the following: "A burgeoning logistics operation that > can deliver 100- or 200-ton self-contained humanitarian relief response > packages faster than the Red Cross. A Florida aviation division with 26 > different platforms, from helicopter gunships to a massive Boeing 767. The > company even has a Zeppelin. The country's largest tactical driving track ... > A 20-acre manmade lake with shipping containers that have been mocked up with > ship rails and portholes, floating on pontoons, used to teach how to board a > hostile ship. A K-9 training facility that currently has 80 dog teams > deployed around the world ... A 1,200-y ar > d-long firing range for sniper training." > > The emergence of this parallel privatized infrastructure reaches far beyond > policing. When the contractor infrastructure built up during the Bush years > is looked at as a whole, what is seen is a fully articulated > state-within-a-state that is as muscular and capable as the actual state is > frail and feeble. This corporate shadow state has been built almost > exclusively with public resources (90 percent of Blackwater's revenues come > from state contracts), including the training of its staff (overwhelmingly > former civil servants, politicians and soldiers). Yet the vast infrastructure > is all privately owned and controlled. The citizens who have funded it have > absolutely no claim to this parallel economy or its resources. > > The actual state, meanwhile, has lost the ability to perform its core > functions without the help of contractors. Its own equipment is out of date, > and the best experts have fled to the private sector. When Katrina hit, FEMA > had to hire a contractor to award contracts to contractors. Similarly, when > it came time to update the Army Manual on the rules for dealing with > contractors, the army contracted out the job to one of its major contractors, > MPRI -- it no longer had the know-how in-house. The CIA is losing so many > staffers to the parallel privatized spy sector that it has had to bar > contractors from recruiting in the agency dining room. "One recently retired > case officer said he had been approached twice while in line for coffee," > reported The Los Angeles Times. And when the Department of Homeland Security > decided it needed to build "virtual fences" on the U.S. borders with Mexico > and Canada, Michael P. Jackson, deputy secretary of the department, told > contractors, "This is an unu su > al invitation ... We're asking you to come back and tell us how to do our > business." The department's inspector general explained that Homeland > Security "does not have the capacity needed to effectively plan, oversee and > execute the [Secure Border Initiative] program." > > Excerpted from: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkedLabour mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour _______________________________________________ P2P Foundation - Mailing list Blog - http://www.blog.p2pfoundation.net Wiki - http://www.p2pfoundation.net Show some love and help us maintain and update our knowledge commons by making a donation. Thank you for your support. https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/donation https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation
