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last week we were talking about terror alerts and when we hear
al Qaeda is a interested in making some kind of a strategic strike this week or
whenever we hear these types of messages
and I wondered whether those types of messages
are used strategically by by governments by authorities for various reasons it
could be as we saw a long time ago
the threat of terrorism used to invade Iraq which had nothing to do with 9/11
or it could be to justify surveillance methods that
individuals are increasingly feeling negative towards
whatever the case may be the question is are those types of peers used to feed
the terrorism industrial complex and just yesterday
AlterNet put together a fascinating article five companies that make money
by keeping people afraid of terror attacks and it goes through them and
I'll quickly go through them
there's of course the Church of group michael chertoff they
after the underwear bomber they were able to score really big contract for
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a radiation scanners that are that were used in many airports for a while now
some are actually being removed
Booz Allen Hamilton you should be familiar with this one by now of course
Edward snowden should remind us abuse at ORD Hamilton is a contractor that
provides
any number services to the NSA the more afraid people are the more willing they
are to be surveilled
and therefore companies like Booz Allen Hamilton make more money
science applications international corporation sometimes referred to as an
essay West
because so many former NSA employees actually go to work for this company
they make a ton of cash of government contracts and they
their experts in combating the terrorist
threat what that means I don't know lotta money being made there
the center for counterintelligence Security Studies
now this is interesting because there's of course the kind of
contractors that do stuff but there's also companies that do analysis and
think tanks in these types of companies
and a profit a lot from training law enforcement from doing all sorts of
sidebar stuff
that is fueled by the Global War on Terrorism as it's being fought in the US
and the number five security solutions international this is a
private firm which talks about how they do anti-muslim training
for law enforcement they make a lot of money
of love the fear of Muslims in needing to defend ourselves
from muslims this is real Louis and
if Americans were less afraid of terrorism
there would be a lot less willingness to accept
the types up stuff that goes on as a result of these contractors
and hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars are billions of dollars with
literally bilby law so I think
we can say with certitude to quote Anthony ***
that fear of terrorism fuels
a lot of money changing hands in a lot of money being made and I'm sure that's
exactly
what is being said at at board meetings
what CEOs are telling I their underlings
at companies like this and you know there's a lot of money being made here
but this is chump change
compared to the stuff that's happening with that with Lockheed
and and weapons manufacturers or for the military of course I mean that industry
that the thing is that industry
it most people know that that industry is completely bought and sold in caters
to
terrorism in Warren makes money off debt this is kind of one that's a little more
shadowy since a lot of these companies people haven't heard I've
be aware that this is going on think about it when you think about the
terrorism industrial complex