Is this the brain behind the multi-nationals?

THINK TANK TO EXPAND CORPORATE POWER AND PROFIT FOR THE MULTI-NATIONALS.

http://www.hereinreality.com/news/rand.html It would be better to read the original article. It does not fit my blog too well. (Ric)However access seems to be blocked.So Google in the name and you will probably get it. Only two hours after putting on this article my website has been gutted of photos and some info about Rand. Obviously they have something to hide.

Inside a Think Tank - RAND Corporation - Public policy being ...

Who is paying them to do all this thinking? You and I are. The government pays RAND with our tax dollars to think about our nation's problems. ... www.hereinreality.com/news/rand.html - 28k - Cached - Similar pages

A review of Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise

of the American Empire by Alex Abella (Harcourt, 400 pp., $27)

Introducing RAND, corporate welfare at its most influential

What is RAND? RAND is one of many nonprofit (non-taxpaying) institutions known as a "Think Tank". What's a think tank? It's like a big corporation where people actually get paid to think.

Who is paying them to do all this thinking? You and I are. The government pays RAND with our tax dollars to think about our nation's problems. Then, when RAND is done thinking, they give a report to the government that tells the what they should do about the problem.

What kinds of problems are we paying RAND to think about? Since 1948, we've been paying RAND to think about child welfare, the justice system, education, our nation's drug policy, national security, social welfare, just about everything, actually.
But those problems seem to have gotten much worse since 1948, when we started paying RAND to think about them. How much does the government pay RAND to think? In the year 2000, we paid RAND over $140 million dollars. [1]

Who is involved with RAND? The RAND Board of Trustees includes representatives from the media, Wall Street, big corporate law firms, leaders from the medical, defense, real estate, and auto industries, along with the officers of a few other think tanks, and a university professor or two. [2]

How does RAND affect the War on Terror? Who are we paying to think about the situation in the Middle East? At the time of the September 11 attacks, it was former Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci. He was on the RAND Board of Trustees and was also the co-chair of the RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy Advisory Board. But wasn't he also the chairman of The Carlyle Group, a defense contractor with ties to the Saudi Royal Family and the Bin Ladens? That's right. At the time of the 9/11 attacks he was the head of a $13 billion dollar private firm that invests people's pension funds in companies that make money when our nation is at war. The Carlyle Group stands to make many billions of dollars from the War on Terror.[3]

So, someone we're paying to tell us what to do in the Middle East is a person who stands to get rich from increased military spending? That's right. But Frank Carlucci isn't the only one making decisions about the war who will be making a fortune from Carlyle Group money. NOTE THIS BELOW..... President Bush also stands to make a fortune. His father is a Senior Advisor in The Carlyle Group, and he gets paid in Carlyle shares that just keep going up in value. George Bush, Sr. and the Bin Laden family. The Bin Ladens and the Bushes have been doing business together for a very long time. He recently visited Saudi Arabia twice and met with the Saudi royals[4]

Do you smell a rat?:

http://www.newsfollowup.com/bushfortune.htm

The RAND Corporation of Santa Monica, California, was set up immediately after

World War II by the U.S. Army Air Corps (soon to become the U.S. Air Force).

The Air Force generals who had the idea were trying to perpetuate the wartime

relationship that had developed between the scientific and intellectual communities and the American military, as exemplified by the Manhattan Project to develop and build the atomic bomb.

Soon enough, however, RAND became a key institutional building block of the Cold War American empire. As the premier think tank for the U.S.'s role as hegemon of the Western world, RAND was instrumental in giving that empire the militaristic cast it retains to this day and in hugely enlarging official demands for atomic bombs, nuclear submarines, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and long-range bombers. Without RAND, our military-industrial complex, as well as our democracy, would look quite different.

Alex Abella, the author of Soldiers of Reason, is a Cuban-American living in Los Angeles who has written several well-received action and adventure novels set in Cuba and a less successful nonfiction account of attempted Nazi sabotage within the United States during World War II. The publisher of his latest book claims that it is "the first history of the shadowy think tank that reshaped the modern world." Such a history is long overdue. Unfortunately, this book does not exhaust the demand. We still need a less hagiographic, more critical, more penetrating analysis of RAND's peculiar contributions to the modern world.

Abella has nonetheless made a valiant, often revealing and original effort to uncover RAND's internal struggles -- not least of which involved the decision of analyst Daniel Ellsberg, in 1971, to leak the Department of Defense's top secret history of the Vietnam War, known as The Pentagon Papers to Congress and the press. But Abella's book is profoundly schizophrenic. On the one hand, the author is breathlessly captivated by RAND's fast-talking economists, mathematicians, and thinkers-about-the-unthinkable; on the other hand, he agrees with Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis's assessment in his book, The Cold War: A New History, that, in promoting the interests of the Air Force, RAND concocted an "unnecessary Cold War" that gave the dying Soviet empire an extra 30 years of life.

We need a study that really lives up to Abella's subtitle and takes a more jaundiced view of RAND's geniuses, Nobel prize winners, egghead gourmands and wine connoisseurs, Laurel Canyon swimming pool parties, and self-professed saviors of the Western world. It is likely that, after the American empire has gone the way of all previous empires, the RAND Corporation will be more accurately seen as a handmaiden of the government that was always super-cautious about speaking truth to power. Meanwhile, Soldiers of Reason is a serviceable, if often overwrought, guide to how strategy has been formulated in the post-World War II American empire.Obama Body Count

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