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PSI TECH, Inc. — technical remote viewing (TRV) for military and intelligence applications; psychotronics,
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Merck — Big Pharma chemical warfare
Monsanto — chemical warfare

FORWARD OPERATING BASES (FOBS)

The RMA is tailored to turning the entire Earth into a battlespace. Global basing is all about the
U.S. imperial stance and the militarism—not democracy— that accompanies it.
The Pentagon owns over 29 million acres for 6,000 bases at home and in its territories, and
another 3,731 sites with 1,477 Forward Operating Bases (FOBs) abroad, including 20 percent of
the Japanese island of Okinawa and 25 percent of Guam—and that’s not counting the bases and
facilities, freight rail fleet, tactical trucks, Humvees, and law enforcement battalions in Iraq,
Afghanistan, Jordan, Israel, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Qatar, Ascension Auxiliary
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Airfield off St. Helena ($337 million), Camp Ederle in Italy ($544 million), Incirlik Air Base in
Turkey ($1.2 billion), Thule Air Base in Greenland ($2.8 billion), U.S. Naval Air Station at
Keflavik, Iceland ($3.4 billion), and 20+ other nations, including the “Royal Air Force” military
and ELINT (electronic intelligence) espionage installations in the UK to the tune of $5 billion. In
total, the DoD owns over $1 trillion in assets and $1.6 trillion in liabilities (not counting the
“misplaced” $2.3 trillion during Bush II).
In 2002, thanks to the Unified Command Plan, the primarily domestic U.S. Northern
Command (NORTHCOM) was established. Homeland defense command now includes the U.S.,
Canada, Mexico, parts of the Caribbean, and the contiguous waters of the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans up to five hundred miles off the North American coastline (including Cuba). Both
Homeland Security and the North American Aerospace Defense Command are subject to
NORTHCOM.
All of these installations mean profits for the military-industrial-intelligence complex. For
example, Kellogg, Brown & Root have provided weapons and administration for Camp
Bondsteel in Kosovo since 1999. Literally thousands of corporations depend upon hefty military
contracts to support the American lifestyle of soldiers far from home: Sony, Danskin, Hanes Her
Way, New Balance, Sara Lee Corporation, Home Depot, Procter & Gamble, Roomba Vacuum
(iRobot), GlaxoSmithKline, Maytag, Sears, Samsung, NBC (General Electric), Thomasville
Furniture, Lowe’s, Ballpark Franks (Sara Lee), Eggo Waffles (Kelloggs), Jell-O (Kraft), Coffee
Mate (Nestle), etc.

Serco Group - British outsource that runs trains, hospitals, schools, missile defense systems, and border screening
with a support staff of 40,000 in thirty-eight nations. Its rival is G4S (Wackenhut).
Kaiser Permanente - integrated managed care consortium

Tom Corcoran of Serco provides a good example of a man who has spent his entire work life
spinning in the military-corporate revolving door. He joined Serco—known as “the biggest
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company you’ve never heard of” —in December 2007 as a Non-Executive Director after forty
years of global business experience, particularly in senior positions in the U.S. aerospace,
defense, and electronics contracting industries, including Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
of Allegheny Teledyne and President and Chief Operating Officer of Lockheed Martin’s
Electronic and Space Sectors. He served twenty-six years in General Electric senior management