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Here is the latest in the For-profit American Gulag Trend. This is a truly shameful development.

The Private Prison Racket
MATT STROUD – Politico Magazine

EXTRACT:

As inmate populations have soared over the last 30 years, private prisons have emerged as an appealing solution to cash-starved states. Privately run prisons are cheaper and can be set up much faster than those run by the government. Nearly a tenth of all U.S. prisoners are housed in private prisons, as are almost two-thirds of immigrants in detention centers-and the companies that run them have cashed in. CCA, the oldest and largest modern private prison company, took over its first facility in 1983. Now it’s a Wall Street darling with a market cap of nearly $3.8 billion. Similarly, GEO Group, the second largest private-prison operator, last week reported $1.52 billion in revenue for 2013, its most ever and more than a hundredfold increase since the company went public ten years ago.

2014/02/25

4th Media: Bank of England & Federal Reserve Knew About & Encouraged Massive Interest Rate Manipulation by Big Banks

Commerce, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Law Enforcement

Bank of England & Federal Reserve Knew About & Encouraged Massive Interest Rate Manipulation by Big Banks

We noted in 2012 that bot the Bank of England and Federal Reserve knew about the Libor interest rate rigging scandal by the big banks.

Newly-released minutes of the meeting of the Fed’s Open Market Committee confirm that the Fed knew about the Libor interest rate manipulation.

And Bloomberg reported earlier this month:

Bank of England officials told currency traders it wasn’t improper to share impending customer orders with counterparts at other firms, a practice at the heart of a widening probe into alleged market manipulation, according to a person who has seen notes turned over to regulators.

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Traders representing some of the world’s biggest banks told officials at the meeting that they shared information about aggregate orders before currency benchmarks were set, three people with knowledge of the discussion said. The officials said there wasn’t a policy on such communications and that banks should make their own rules, according to the people.

Read full article.

2014/02/242014/02/24

Jim Fetzer: Saudi Role in 9/11 Theater Goes Very Public — Details That Cannot Be Denied?

07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, Law Enforcement, Military, Officers Call

Suppressed Proof: Saudi Arabia Was Complicit in 9/11

“Since 15 of the 19 alleged suicide terrorist were from Saudi Arabia and none were from Iraq, would it not have made more sense to have invaded Saudi Arabia instead of Iraq?”

Veterans Today, 23 February 2014

It has now become clear that a major cover-up has been imposed on the Saudi connection to the Israeli/CIA “false flag” attack of 9/11, where the Saudis put up the patsies.

There were traitors inside the US Air Force at NORAD who assisted the Neo-Cons in the Department of Defense and the CIA in the execution of the atrocities of 9/11.

Its purpose was to drive the US into an otherwise entirely unprovoked and unjustified series of wars in the Middle East, which Prince Bandar may have even planned, whose principal beneficiaries would be Israel and Saudi Arabia. For the US, it has been an expensive (now over $4 trillion) proposition.

Continue reading “Jim Fetzer: Saudi Role in 9/11 Theater Goes Very Public — Details That Cannot Be Denied?”

2014/02/232014/02/23

4th Media: Years Later, Millions of Dollars Later, Obama Administration Admits They [and James Clapper Specificially] Lied to the Courts and Claimed “Terrorism” To Cover Up a Simple Mistake

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Law Enforcement

How Obama Officials Cried ‘Terrorism’ to Cover Up a Paperwork Error

David Kravets | Sunday, February 23, 2014

After seven years of litigation, two trips to a federal appeals court and $3.8 million worth of lawyer time, the public has finally learned why a wheelchair-bound Stanford University scholar was cuffed, detained and denied a flight from San Francisco to Hawaii: FBI human error.

FBI agent Kevin Kelley was investigating Muslims in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2004 when he checked the wrong box on a terrorism form, erroneously placing Rahinah Ibrahim on the no-fly list.

What happened next was the real shame. Instead of admitting to the error, high-ranking President Barack Obama administration officials spent years covering it up. Attorney General Eric Holder, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and a litany of other government officials claimed repeatedly that disclosing the reason Ibrahim was detained, or even acknowledging that she’d been placed on a watch list, would cause serious damage to the U.S. national security.

Again and again they asserted the so-called “state secrets privilege” to block the 48-year-old woman’s lawsuit, which sought only to clear her name.

Continue reading “4th Media: Years Later, Millions of Dollars Later, Obama Administration Admits They [and James Clapper Specificially] Lied to the Courts and Claimed “Terrorism” To Cover Up a Simple Mistake”

2014/02/22

Berto Jongman: 7 Incredible Ways the Pentagon Mismanages Its Massive Budget

07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Law Enforcement, Military

7 incredible ways the Pentagon mismanages its massive budget

It's worse than you ever imagined.

LIST ONLY

1) The Pentagon cooks the books

2) Those “plugs” add up to a lot of money

3) It doesn't comply with mandatory audits

4) It has too many old and incopmpatible accounts and business management systems

5) It has too many supplies and no idea how to manage them

6) It can't keep track of its contracts

7) It has wasted billions of dollars trying to fix its billion-dollar waste problems

Read full article with details for each of the seven ways.

2014/02/16

Eagle: Citizen Summary of All the Ways US Government Tracks Citizens & Activists

07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Law Enforcement, Military

300 Million Talons... — 300 Million Talons…

How Do They Track Thee? Let Me Count the Ways…

Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:00:00 PST

By Foster Gamble with Nick Alheit

As we said in the movie THRIVE, “Every phone call and email we send is collected and archived, and can be inspected at any time.”

Some viewers were skeptical… “they wouldn’t do that even if they could, which they can’t”. Fast forward to the days of Edward Snowden style wake-up calls, and it’s actually being admitted. Proven liar-to-Congress, James “No…Not wittingly” Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, has finally admitted that the NSA surveils this country’s entire domestic population.

So what’s it all about?

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2014/02/16

SchwartzReport: NSA Spies on US Law Firms Representing Foreigners

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement, Military

Further dimensions of the growing surveillance state that is placing the world under scrutiny. If you think this is just about terrorism you haven't been paying attention. This is a growing information matrix whose purpose is to allow a small virtual corporate state elite that, in turn, controls the U.S. and other governments, to control the world. It sounds like some loony conspiracy tale — but it i! s true. Its very size makes in seem implausible. Once again we owe a vote of thanks to Edward Snowden.

Spying by N.S.A. Ally Entangled U.S. Law Firm
JAMES RISEN and LAURA POITRAS – The New York Times

Category: Law Enforcement

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