Some very rich people have their hooks in our executive branch, profits, widespread corruption and oversight & accountability is a joke. The Army for some reason, CID appears to be very independent, chooses to punish their own for basically doing the same thing the contractors & doing & getting away with. They could cut the shit out if they really wanted to. It took nearly nearly a decade in Iraq to address something that was so widespread & our Arabian peninsula allies economies are built off the backs off of cheap imported migrant labor & the taking off passports was among the most common claims which is likely SOP for the Saudi contractors -- that it would be unlikely to keep it from the President but Obama does address it.
I don't get why it is so full of shit though, saying the US has long had a "zero tolerance" regarding this is such a joke all designed to look good but it would come across as more honest if they addressed the letting shit go on or the CEO of Halliburon wanted to operate wars with this idea.
Executive Order - Strengthening Protections Against Trafficking In Persons In Federal Contracts
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The United States has long had a zero-tolerance policy regarding Government employees and contractor personnel engaging in any form of this criminal behavior. As the largest single purchaser of goods and services in the world, the United States Government bears a responsibility to ensure that taxpayer dollars do not contribute to trafficking in persons. By providing our Government workforce with additional tools and training to apply and enforce existing policy, and by providing additional clarity to Government contractors and subcontractors on the steps necessary to fully comply with that policy, this order will help to protect vulnerable individuals as contractors and subcontractors perform vital services and manufacture the goods procured by the United States.
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regarding this part below, all this did was put TCNs into a situation to admit the paid fees to bait & switch recruiters, terminated on the spot for saying "yes" -- many say "no" because they need the year's salary (estimated to make a little less than 2 dollars an hour) to make back what they paid to the bait & switch recruiters. If the contractor is contacted directly for work, they tell to them to talk to an agent or a recruiter located in their area.
(i) using misleading or fraudulent recruitment practices during the recruitment of employees, such as failing to disclose basic information or making material misrepresentations regarding the key terms and conditions of employment, including wages and fringe benefits, the location of work, living conditions and housing (if employer provided or arranged), any significant costs to be charged to the employee, and, if applicable, the hazardous nature of the work;
(ii) charging employees recruitment fees;
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/09/25/executive-order-strengthening-protections-against-trafficking-persons-fe
I'm not aware of anything officially addressed regarding the abuse & trafficking, finding a suspect to indefinitely detain ranks as a more pressing concern.
Back to the very rich, when it comes to Columbia, Afghanistan, what Reagan-CIA was involved in is if someone is wealthy but is interested in increasing their profits like any venture capitalist, with the profits to be made in drug trafficking. Wachovia $378 billion in Mexico cartels money alone, hell they make a killing just selling the precursor, that the wealthy elite with the conscience of an oil & gas multinational CEO wouldn't want our wars for privatization to also drug traffic on the side. The certainly police it, but mainly just the bottom of the pyramid while the international drug trafficker in Gary Webb's reporting just "disappeared" no one knows where he is. I imagine is living very rich & comfortable somewhere that nobody knows.
I'd have to dig for facts but I believe an international dealer caught so many times at international borders or checkpoints to travel internationally but was let go because he agreed to help them out and was let go to do more international deals and IIRC, was behind some bombings in Bombay or a hotel in India, I believe. We certainly do have a tier based justice system but it is so much part of the status quo that a lot of things, especially the LSD experiments of the CIA are widely known that I don't have much hope left for the world.
I remember reading about the "Peak of Liberalism" and the Hippie era among other things, one the things I read was Eisenhower caught in a bold-faced lie had an effect among other things to lead to a widespread disillusioned with government. I was born in 80's, only remember the 90s so I came after this trusting & admiring the President regardless of party difference so it seems the 50s-70s revelations put a shock into the system, they certainly made sure we got used to it.
My grandpa, sit by the Rush listener -- no doubt Republican who would often come out of the bedroom to repeat a point Rush made. However, he seemed to have nothing but good things to say regarding FDR. He was actually the very first person to even mention an alternative JFK theory. He was showing me the trajectory of the "magic bullet" from his book said it was impossible, said there was someone on the grassy knoll. I don't know if he ever said who but he was into some different things than a typical Republican. I didn't really get to know him knoll to pick his brain but I remember well he was well researched war historian. He had all these different atlas of changing borders & countries during wars, throughout history. I think he maybe liked war strategy a little too much, he often mentioned Hitler likely would have won WWII if he waited until after winter to invade Russia. All I remember is bits & pieces.
McCain spoke at my high school auditorium literally weeks after 9/11 only to address Seniors for some reason, I was 9th grade at-the-time. I asked my grandma her opinion thinking she would like him given that they're both Republicans told she didn't because he "turned Arizona into a right-to-work state" I had no idea what she meant, I was actually baffled since what they called seemed like a good thing, like guaranteed employment is how it came across. My mom said they were teamsters. Lived in Arizona well into the 80s so somehow his name became associated with union busting in state government. Certainly came from a different era.
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