Carlyle buys Qinetiq

[Flabbergasted]

http://www.defensetech.org/archives/cat_money_money_money.html

"Q Branch's" Stock Market Shenanigans
This post has everything, folks:

* Killer robots!
* Cheeky Brits!
* Cute marine mammals!
* Shady government officials!
* Insider trading!
* Those Trilateral Freemasons over at the Carlyle Group!
* Plus, a gratuitous reference to James Bond!

Here's the scoop: Back in 2001, the UK Ministry of Defence decided to split its research and development division into two parts. The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, (Dstl) would remain as the British military's in-house tinkerers and geeks. The other half, dubbed Qinetiq, would become a private company, focusing on technologies that could be used both by the commercial and the government markets -- the war-makers, as well as the money-makers. It's as if James Bond's "Q Branch" decided to start selling jet packs to Silicon Valley, as well as 007.

But one doesn't simply move from the civil service to the boardroom. To help with the transition, Her Majesty's government picked a pack of corporate financiers. Not just any pack, mind you. But the boogeyman of the conspiracy-minded everywhere: the Carlyle Group. That's right, the former (?) professional lair of illuminati like James Baker and John Major and George H.W. Bush. It bought about a third of the new company.

Under Carlyle's wing, Qinetiq went on a buying spree. One acquisition in particular should be familiar to Defense Techies: Foster-Miller, maker of the Talon robot. That's the squat, treaded machine used by U.S. bomb squads throughout Iraq. The Army now is trying to strap a machine gun or a grenade launcher onto the 3-foot tall 'bot, and send it into the warzone. The armed Talon would probably be in Iraq by now -- if only it could have pass its safety tests.

[WhiteTara]

1. Let me get this straight

They want our ports to be run by Dubai -To Profit Neil Bush
They let Hong Kong check our cargo for bombs Hmm. Is this a deal for Marvin?
and now they are going to sell our "defense technologies" on the London stock market to profit Poppy Bush?????
Are these people nuts? This is just the most brazen theft imaginable. Hope your post gets some top of the list time.

[Flabbergasted]

2. It gets worse...

I've been studying this for about 10 days...

We now have VC firms established by the CIA, NASA, and the Army. They are outsourcing all kinds of government functions especially hi-tech...this british company is the same thing and indicates that this kind of out-sourcing is happening on a multi-country level. I'm not sure how far it goes but I've barely hit the tip of the iceberg.

In-Q-Tel is a great example, established by the CIA as a non-profit, they have developed all kinds of IT. Check their website and look at their investments page. Go to the various company's websites. Mind-boggling!

[WhiteTara]

3. so secret no one will look at it

I'm kicking this up because maybe it was too late at night and here in the light of day, this horrifying turn of events will get noticed. :bounce::kick:

[Flabbergasted]

6. I'm doing alot of research into gov. IT and outsourcing

I'll have more to share.

[WhiteTara]

4. kicking for the day crowd

:kick:

[acmavm]

5. Everything has it's price, and everything is now for sale. And the sales

are being rigged so that one family name comes up over and over and over again.