10/04 Emergency Open Thread: ICE Contractors, PAN News, y mas?
The sun is up, I'm up and there is no OT. OTOH, I've got a ton to do today, no plan, no topic, and no real inspiration. However, some info
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Somebody has created an open source, open access list of companies that work with ICE that you can contribute to. It has an embedded link for reading and, most especially, contributing that is here: https://github.com/hankchizljaw/companies-that-work-with-ice This is, as you can see, a github link. I found the list via boingboing, and it linked to this page: https://companies-that-work-with-ice.com/ That page, as of 7:53 am Pacific Time is reproduced below, some as expected, some no surprises, and many never heard of.
Companies that work with ICE
This is an open source list that you can contribute to, here.
You can read more details about these contracts on Vox Recode.
The Companies360 It Integrated Solutions
Actionable Intelligence Technologies
Acuity, Inc.
Adobe
Advanced Technologies And Laboratories
Akira
Alvarez & Associates
Amazon
Anacapa Micro Products
Blackstone Technology
Blue Canopy Group
Blue Tech
Booz Allen Hamilton
C & C International Computers & Consultants
Caliburn International
Chef
Citizant
Clearavenue
Comprehensive Health Services
Concur
Customer Value Partners
Dell
Deloitte Consulting
Deloitte Gov
Dev Technology Group
DKW Communications
Eclinicalworks
Elastic
Enterprise
Envisage Technologies Corporation
Escgov
Excella Consulting
FCN
Four Points Technology
FS Vets
Govplace
Impres Technology Solutions
Indev
Inserso
Integrityone
Iron Bow Technologies
Jamf 1, 2
JSI Telecom
Knight Point Systems
MCP Computer Products
Microsoft (Azure)
Microsoft Corporation Sitz
Mlinqs
MongoDB
Mythics
Neostek
New Tech Solutions
Ogilvy
Optech
Oracle
Palantir
Panamerica Computers
Pen-Link
Procentrix
Project Performance Company
Pyramid Systems
Qbase-Mcneil Integrated Solutions
ServiceNow
Sevatec
Splunk
Strategic Enterprise Solutions
T-Rex Solutions
Telco Solutions
Tri-Cor Industries
Trofholz
Tsymmetry
Valytics
Venture Netcomm
Visionary Integration Professionals
Wayfair
Westwind Team
Wexler Technical Solutions
Wildflower International
Xl Associates
Xrad Tele-ServicesA project by Andy Bell.
Next up - News from PAN Pesticide Action Network, aka PANNA, website http://www.panna.org/ Today's e-mail had two articles, one of which is, I think, more susceptible to being acted upon than the other. The articles in question are both on PAN's website, which is always worth a look, as are a few more.
DOUBLE STANDARD: GERMANY EXPORTING BANNED PESTICIDES: The take away paragraph
We found that as of 2017 (the most recent data available), Germany:
Exported 59,616 tons of pesticide ingredients (excluding inert gases). This exceeds total domestic use of pesticide ingredients by 1.7%.
Exported 233 different pesticide active ingredients, of which 62 are HHPs (more than a quarter of all exports).
Exported nine pesticides which are not approved for use in the EU, including the pesticides cyanamide, acetochlor, and tepraloxydim, which are listed by the EU as carcinogenic and toxic to reproduction.
HHPS, fwiw are highly hazadous pesticides, PAN's list is here: http://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/PAN_HHP_List.pdf
Our future is agroecology Lead paragraph is:
October 1 marked the beginning of 2019's 16 Days of Action on Agroecology, a global event spearheaded by our partners at PAN Asia and the Pacific (PANAP). This year’s global campaign will focus on the role of youth in agroecology, with the theme “Youth March On for Agroecology and Food Sovereignty!”
This contains an embedded link: https://panap.net/2019/09/youth-march-on-for-agroecology-and-food-sovere...
The key fact is that agroecology is sustainable and capable of sustaining and feeding communities and more resilient to climate stress. There would appear to me to be potential here in the area o community gardens, and even backyard gardens and more.
OK, that's it for this morning, I need more java and some breakfast.
So, the thread is open, go for it.
Comments
You've heard of the chicken dance right?
Well this chicken should get just as much attention.
Booz Allen Hamilton. Now why am I not surprised that they support ICE?
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
The things one finds on the intertubes
Lol
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Good morning, Anja. It's called transparency in government,
which, of course, the government never provides nor facilitates, so the citizenry does it instead. Heh.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
G'morning, snoopy. Yeah, Booz was on my "as expected" list,
right along with Deloitte, Oracle, Microsoft, and Palantir.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Hey, Good News!
I won the contest!!!!
Lost a whopping 10% body weight and gained a pot of cash!
Will definitely be thanking the jolly joker who "predicted" that I would never make it to the end of the contest for their comment. Because while I was already motivated to win before I heard that kind of smack talk, afterwards I was so fired up, it became my sole mission to prove that butthead wrong.
So I did!
Hahahahahaha!
Think I'll treat myself to a nice massage today with some of the winnings...
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Great news and congrats!!!
Heh glad you proved that butthead wrong too. Enjoy your well earned massage.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Wonderful news, Anja, congratulations and enjoy your
mediummassage.That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Ha! TOP is already re-inventing OPOL as a Putin-hating ranter
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/2/1889624/-In-honor-of-OPOL-A-r...
Total distortion of who OPOL was, the kind of posts he wrote, the significance of his art, and what he stood for in general.
I read that when it posted
and lol very hard because as I was perusing OPOL's essay there I found nothing of the sort. And I looked carefully at his article that was posted on CP and he didn't even bring Russia up anywhere. SO it's just speculation on her part that OPOL would have jumped into the vat of koolaid that the kids are swimming in. People who don't have Hillary derangement syndrome saw right through Russia Gate the minute her campaign made it up. Wikileaks released the email on that where they decided to have the media focus on the Russian allegations so that no one would focus on the content of the emails that showed how the primary was rigged. Unfortunately it worked for the most part.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
As a counter to that without directly confronting it, the
DFH Writers Group posted a short, quiet and calm goodbye to Randy/OPOL.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Hot new item from the Center for Public Inquiry:
Embedded link to story published in partnership with US Today:
https://publicintegrity.org/federal-politics/state-politics/copy-paste-l...
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Sure hope NCTim is okay.
Rec'd!!
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
Have been wondering that also.
I checked to see when his last essay and/or comment was. The last I saw for either was September, 20. Hope he's okay.