Department of Defense
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Budgets/TaxesGovernment
Amazon’s Titanic Government Cronyism Is Finally Receiving Some Pushback
by Seton Motley February 21, 2019As Amazon milks the very last pennies from the multi-billion-dollar tax breaks Arlington, Virginia is giving Amazon for its half of the second headquarters – Amazon will all over again start looking for a new location to be bribed into making its new HQ.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedGovernment
Amazon’s Massive Government Contractor Cronyism Receives New Huge Scrutiny
by Seton Motley January 30, 2019We’ve long chronicled the incredibly obnoxious government cronyism incredibly huge Amazon (Market Cap: $779 billion) garners.
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The federal government spends a whopping four trillion dollars per year. And prior to the Donald Trump Administration’s most overdue and much appreciated mass regulatory reductions – the federal government regulated at a compliance cost of two trillion dollars per year.
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GovernmentInternet/Telecom
Yet Another Reason Not To Monopolize Government Data: China Hacks And Spies
by Seton Motley November 2, 2018The United States Department of Defense (DoD) has for the last several months been considering private sector bids to provide the DoDs club backup computing services.
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Budgets/Taxes
Breaking: Amazon’s Defense Dept Cronyism Comes Under Trump Administration Review
by Seton Motley July 12, 2018God bless the Internet – and its round-the-clock delivery of breaking news.
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GovernmentPoliticsRegulation
Our Nation’s Defense Is Too Important To Hire But One Cloud Storage Company
by Seton Motley June 14, 2018I would be perfectly fine with – and actually feel a whole lot better – if the DoD created three backups of everything. Maybe even four would be good.
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The current US government shutdown is a teachable moment.
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Politics
Military Shouldn’t Be Empowered to Draft People’s Daughters – or Their Sons
by Jesse Hathaway November 30, 2017A Pentagon report composed earlier in 2017 and obtained by reporters at The Washington Times in October makes a chilling recommendation.