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earthside

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1. Over half a billion dollars for advertising!
Sat Apr 13, 2013, 08:46 AM
Apr 2013

I personally would like to never hear another word about how underfunded veterans programs are ... clearly the problem in the military is one of priorities.

McCann World Group Inc., New York, N.Y., was awarded a modification (No. P00010), to a previously awarded fixed-price-award-fee contract (W9124D-11-D-0036), with a maximum value of $192,114,076 for professional marketing and advertising services in support of personnel recruitment and retention programs throughout the Army. The cumulative total face value of this contract is now $565,128,853. Work performance location and type of appropriation will be determined with each order. The Army Contracting Command, Fort Knox, Ky., is the contracting activity.


I would like to thank 'unhappycamper' for posting these military contract links. If there is any doubt from anyone that the military-industrial-lobbyist-complex is a gravy train for the private corporate 'defense' industry .... well, here is the proof.

The scale of this transfer of wealth from taxpayers to corporations via the Pentagon is absolutely stunning.

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