“The journalists’ “sugar daddies,” as you call them, will have to get in line if they want to exploit Snowden’s revelations against us.”
By Frank Snepp
Your post admirably demonstrates why “boiling” figures in the title of your blog. Your outrage burns like a cascading incendiary right through the entire piece.
DOD spent $15,530,647,963+ on 186 individual contracts in January 2014
The Pentagon issues a jumbled list of contracts every business day around 5:00PM local time. Our project distills an entire month of these contracts into an accessible form.
The Department of Defense (DOD) spent at least $15,530,647,963 on 186 individual contracts during January 2014.
SALIENT CONTRACTS
How Safe is Our Information with Billionaire Corporatists & Dollar-Hungry Opportunist Individuals?
Please raise your hand if you are one of many concerned citizens when it comes to our government collecting and keeping your data without a warrant or any justification. Do you see my hand? I know I am a shorty, but it is up there; my hand. I assure you. In fact it has been there for a long time.
The Most Innovative Plot Ever to Put us Back on the Map as the Super-est
The Hidden Code in the Snowden-Greenwald Mockery
The Department of Defense (DOD) spent $331,456,507,052 on roughly 3,288 publicly-disclosed contracts during 2013
Look for trends in this data. Discover where U.S. tax dollars are spent. For example, notice the large portion of money that corporations receive from maintenance contracts. Observe how many contracts are not bid on competitively, especially those pertaining to the Joint Strike Fighter and cyberspace. Scour the construction contracts in order to see where the Pentagon is building its infrastructure. The data is yours.
Dissecting Contradictions & Sensationalism in the NSA-Snowden Scandal
In August 2013 Glenn Greenwald’s husband, David Miranda, was detained and questioned by authorities at London’s Heathrow airport. Miranda was coming from Berlin, where he had met with Laura Poitras and was given thousands of top-secret Snowden-NSA documents. He had arrived at London’s Heathrow airport while carrying in his laptop a large cache of the highly-publicized NSA documents. He was stopped and interrogated by British authorities for nearly nine hours.
DOD spent at least $25,976,742,948 on roughly 300 individual contracts during December 2013
The Pentagon issues a jumbled list of contracts every business day around 5:00PM local time. Our project distills an entire month of these contracts into an accessible form. Italics indicate notes from the editor.
The Department of Defense (DOD) spent at least $25,976,742,948 on roughly 300 individual contracts during December 2013.
SALIENT CONTRACTS
Patterns play a major role in identifying entities. We get to know people, organizations and governments based on their record and their pattern of behavior and actions. This is a fact. What happens when an entity identified by a consistent set of patterns suddenly deviates and engages in actions and behavior that completely differ from all its previous ones? We question the sudden deviation. We question the reasons behind the differentiation. Because we must. Because we have to-especially when the entity in question is our government and the current ruler of our lives.
The U.S. Government, An Implicated Billionaire, Fortune-Seeking Journalists & A Public in the Dark
Update 2:
Glenn Greenwald Goes on Record: “I Don’t Doubt PayPal Cooperates with NSA!”
Update 1:
Verbatim Copy of Mr. Binney’s Statement