JUST ONE DAY AFTER POSTING TWO ARTICLES (see below) NAMING LOCKHEED MARTIN AS A COMPANY WHO IS BUILDING NASTY LITTLE CONTRAPTIONS TO MAKE YOUR LIFE MISERABLE, THEY VISITED THIS WESITE. JUST COINCIDENCE? YEA RIGHT
THE IP ADDRESS THEY USED TO ENTER THIS WEBSITE IS AS FOLLOWS:
IP Information for 192.31.106.35
| IP Location: |  United States Denver Lockheed Martin Corporate |
Address: 1401 Del Norte
City: Denver
StateProv: CO
PostalCode: 80221
Country: US
RegDate: 2010-06-29
Updated: 2011-09-24
Comment: Unauthorized use of this system may be subject to disciplinary action, and if such use is violative of state and federal laws it may be subject to legal action as well. Reminder: Information transmitted to a foreign person on this network may be subject to US Export Control laws.
Lockheed receives one of every fourteen tax dollars doled out by the Pentagon. This amounts to a "Lockheed Martin tax" of $260 per household.
THE NATION MAGAZINE
Is Lockheed Martin Shadowing You?
Have you noticed that Lockheed Martin, the giant weapons corporation, is shadowing you? No? Then you haven't been paying much attention. Let me put it this way: If you have a life, Lockheed Martin is likely a part of it.True, Lockheed Martin doesn't actually run the US government, but sometimes it seems as if it might as well. After all, it received $36 billion in government contracts in 2008 alone, more than any company in history. It now does work for more than two dozen government agencies from the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy to the Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency. It's involved in surveillance and information processing for the CIA, the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Pentagon, the Census Bureau and the Postal Service. Oh, and Lockheed Martin has even helped train those friendly Transportation Security Administration agents who pat you down at the airport. Naturally, the company produces cluster bombs, designs nuclear weapons and makes the F-35 Lightning (an overpriced, behind-schedule, under performing combat aircraft that is slated to be bought by customers in more than a dozen countries)—and when it comes to weaponry, that's just the start of a long list. In recent times, though, it's moved beyond anything usually associated with a weapons corporation and has been virtually running its own foreign policy, doing everything from hiring interrogators for US overseas prisons (including at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba and Abu Ghraib in Iraq) to managing a private intelligence network in Pakistan and helping write the Afghan constitution. If it seems a little creepy to you that the same company making ballistic missiles is also processing your taxes, accessing your fingerprints, scanning your packages, ensuring that it's easier than ever to collect your DNA and counting you for the census, rest assured: Lockheed Martin's interest in getting inside your private life via intelligence collection and surveillance has remained remarkably undiminished. Lockheed Martin is in charge of the FBI's Integrated Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), a database of 55 million sets of fingerprints. The company also produces biometric identification devices that know who you are by scanning your iris, recognizing your face or coming up with novel ways of collecting your fingerprints or DNA. As the company likes to say, it's in the business of making everyone's life an "open book". Lockheed is the prime contractor not only for the Pentagon but also for the Department of Energy. It ranks number two for the Department of State, number three for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and number four for the Departments of Justice and Housing and Urban Development.
Lockheed has major influence over the Department of Agriculture, the Bureau of Land Management, the Census Bureau, the Coast Guard, the Department of Defense (including the Army, the Navy, the Marines, the Air Force and the Missile Defense Agency), the Department of Education, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Federal Technology Department, the Food and Drug Administration, the General Services Administration, the Geological Survey, the Department of Homeland Security, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Internal Revenue Service, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Institutes of Health, the Social Security Administration, the US Customs Service, the US Postal Service, the Department of Transportation, the Transportation Security Agency and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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