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Biden’s Domestic Spending Plan Is Welcome, But More Military Spending Isn’t

truthout 13 Apr 2021

It’s divided roughly evenly between military and nonmilitary spending ... Less positive is that the defense request (for the Defense Department and miscellaneous other military- and security-related expenditures) comes in at $753 billion, a slight increase over Trump-era spending ... So, too, the , the most expensive weapons procurement contract in U.S.

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The little Israeli car that couldn’t: The story of the Susita

The Jerusalem Post 13 Apr 2021

One, started by Efraim Ilin, essentially expanded a contract for assembling three-wheeled vehicles used for making deliveries ... Sapir insisted that if Israel could build planes and other military hardware, it could build cars. Shubinsky received contracts from the army and ...

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Niceville contracting company gets $22 million for more Eglin AFB construction work

NWF Daily News 12 Apr 2021

Military contracts awarded in February and March total more than $1 billion ... With regard to its military contract work, Troy Speegle Jr., president and third-generation owner, said the company is "fortunate to have a really good base of subcontractors and vendors." ... FWB company gets military contract that could reach $86 million.

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Second fixed based operator proposal creates dilemma for Pease

Portsmouth Herald 12 Apr 2021

military contract for fuel ... But the size of the fuel farm they have shown on plans would not make sense without the military contract. More telling, in a November letter, they specifically sought a clause allowing them to back out if they didn’t get permission for the tank farms prior to bidding on the military fuel contract.

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Change and revolutions - Part - II

The News International 12 Apr 2021

Edmund Burke in his treatise ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’ (1790) beautifully describes the idea that society is founded upon a contract of partnership ‘between those who are living, those who are dead and those who are to be born’. In countries such as Pakistan, this contract of partnership appears to be only between the elites.

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US, Philippine forces stage scaled down drills amid pandemic

San Francisco Chronicle 12 Apr 2021

Edgard Arevalo said the number of American military personnel joining the 11 days of exercises was trimmed from 3,650 to 225, while only 736 Filipino counterparts would participate out of 4,000 as originally planned ... deputy since he was in isolation after contracting COVID-19.

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Check out Joe Biden’s supersonic Air Force One: the new jet will fly at twice ...

South China Morning Post 12 Apr 2021

The US Air Force’s Presidential and Executive Airlift Directorate awarded a contract to the ...

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Businessman Kelvin King announces plans to seek Senate seat

Johnson City Press 12 Apr 2021

MARIETTA -- Construction firm owner Kelvin King has announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate in Georgia ... "We've seen what's at stake in our country ... King graduated from the Academy and served five years in the Air Force as a Contracting Officer. He made the rank of captain before deciding to leave the military and transition to corporate America ... ....

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Ten years of lobbying: The Qatari lobby's operations before and after the blockade

Middle East Monitor 11 Apr 2021

By hosting Al Udeid Air Base, the largest US military base in the Middle East, Doha was able to win the most important ally on the world map ... Through the Portland firm, the Qatari Embassy also contracted the Gallagher Group, which lobbied for the signing of the F-15 fighter jets deal and that of the Boeing C-17 military transport aircraft.

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Pentagon and Tax Cheats Already Cost Taxpayers Far More Than Biden’s Job Plan

truthout 11 Apr 2021

The last time the military budget was less than that amount was 1951 ... The Pentagon’s expenditures on military contracts alone have surpassed the amount of Biden’s infrastructure package every year for decades. The Pentagon’s expenditures on military contracts alone have surpassed the amount of Biden’s infrastructure package every year for decades.

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Customs and Border Protection Plans Vast Expansion of Tech-Based Surveillance

truthout 11 Apr 2021

Delivery orders, statements of work, and contracts obtained by Shadowproof help to illustrate the scope and potential outcomes of Anduril’s work with U.S ... military than they do their projects at the border ... Palantir is a tech company founded by Peter Thiel that specializes in netting contracts from the military, DHS, and other government agencies.

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Wounded Palestinian detainee contracts coronavirus in Israeli jail

MENA FN 11 Apr 2021

(MENAFN - Palestine News Network) 389 Views Bethlehem /PNN/ The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) confirmed on Friday that another detainee had contracted the coronavirus at the Ofer military ... .

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Analysts expecting another attack ‘in the next few months’ in northern Mozambique

Mail Guardian South Africa 10 Apr 2021

Another South African company, Paramount Group, has now been contracted by the Mozambican military to take over from DAG ... “South Africa and the rest of SADC can assist with the rapid training of further Mozambican units while the private military companies already contracted, can use the trained teams in Cabo Delgado.

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Military must be prepared against threat of terrorism in the north - CDS

Ghana Web 10 Apr 2021

On the issue of the establishment of a Military Barracks in the Upper West Region, the CDS noted that government was in the process of signing a contract for the establishment of 15 Forward Operating Bases in the whole of the Northern frontiers and that some would be established in the Region.

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