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.
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.
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www.hereinreality.com/news/rand.html - 28k - Cached - Similar pagesA 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
Civilians killed in Iraq
since Obama was elected:
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Civilians killed in Iraq
since the war started in 2003:
Coalition forces killed in Iraq
since Obama was elected:
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Coalition forces killed in Iraq
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I recall my mother showing me how to put two pennies in the public phone to call home in an emergency. The number was LB2383.
My grandfather had an Edison phonograph which was a cylinder type and one of the songs was "Don't go down the mine, daddy!" I recall seeing an airplane in the sky and watching it for minutes until it disappeared in the clouds, then I went back to grooming my pony.
Now I have a cellphone with a camera in it that I haven't learned to use and I can't even remember how to find my voice mail.
I have a car that has so much electronic gagetery that I got locked in and couldn't get out because a sensor was playing up. I afterwards looked under the hood for the carburetter and there wasn't one.
My DVD controls me. The zapper buttons seem to control my brain. And there is some device that monitors my whereabouts, when I go for a quiet walk and cameras everywhere telling computers of everybody's whereabouts, especially mine.
I sneaked into the bushes on one of my walks to relieve myself and a ranger on a three-wheeled drive vehicle zoomed up, as I was zipping up.
"What are you doing there?"
"I am examining these flowers more closely officer."
"Well you are supposed to stay on the path."
I wasn't arrested that time.
A few weeks ago I walked out of the supermarket with a pound of bacon in my hand.
Outside in the mall I realized I had not paid for it and retraced my steps and went to the back of the line.
As I paid for it, A big security guard, who had materialized from nowhere, said in a menacing tone "You must have seen me coming for you. There'll be a next time . Then I will arrest you and put you in the cells." Such is my career in crime.
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I think Obama’s body count is ahead of where Bush’s was just 5 months into the term. I think the logically deduced reason why the US continues to slaughter people in Afghanistan, is because the general public hasn’t become submissive enough to US rule. The fact the the US government is killing dozens of people at a time on a weekly basis for political reasons should be of grave concern to every American.
Since 21 Jan 2009, every drop of American blood spilled is on Obama’s hands.
Yet you don’t hear anything about it in the MSM. Code Pink? Silent.
To the left, Wars are only bad when a Republican, or anyone other than a liberal is in charge.
General Conway is sending a brigade of Marines to Afghanistan now. He can also raise the total strength of the Corps to 202,000 from its normal 180,000. He said he can “reach out and touch” that number whenever the SecDef tells him to.
As the bodies pile up, it will be done.