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News Roundup 11/18/19

Posted by M. C. on November 24, 2019

Japan

  • The US asks Japan to pay $8 billion for US forces deployed in Japan. [Link]        Perhaps running their own military would be cheaper. Okinawans certainly wouldn’t mind seeing the back of US.

North Korea

  • The US and South Korea postponed upcoming wargames. [Link]

Can’t right. Makes too much sense.

https://libertarianinstitute.org/news-roundup/news-roundup-11-18-19/

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Kyle Anzalone

US News

  • A man in Georgia was executed. The state refused to test DNA his lawyers’ claim would clear him of the murder. [Link]
  • The 11th Circuit of Appeals rules that distributing food in public is protected by the First Amendment. The ruling comes over a Florida group suing after being arrested for giving food to the homeless. [Link]
  • Amazon will protest the Pentagon awarding the Penton’s cloud contract – JEDI – to Microsoft. [Link]
  • Explosives used at Fort Jackson are contaminating the groundwater. [Link]
  • Trump pardons two convicted war criminals and restores the rank of another man, who was demoted after committing war crimes but was not convicted in court. [Link]

Bolivia

  • Bolivia expels Venezuelan diplomats and Cuban doctors alleging they were fueling protests. [Link]

Ukraine

  • Russia will return three ships to Ukraine. Russia seized the ships after the Ukrainian ships entered Russian waters without permission. [Link]

North Korea

  • The US and South Korea postponed upcoming wargames. [Link]
  • Trump tweets at Kim Jong-un telling him to make a deal soon. [Link]
  • North Korea says it will not engage in talks with the US unless the US hostile policy is on the agenda. [Link]

Japan

  • The US asks Japan to pay $8 billion for US forces deployed in Japan. [Link]

Middle East

  • Protest breakout in Iran over rising fuel prices. At least one person has died during protests. [Link]
  • Turkey says Syria Kurds killed 10 people with a car bomb in a Turkish controlled in northern Syria. [Link]
  • Russia announces it has taken control of a former-US base in northern Syria. [Link]
  • A bomb exploded in Baghdad, killing two people. [Link]

 

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Amazon Offered Job to Pentagon Official Involved With $10 Billion Contract It Sought

Posted by M. C. on June 4, 2019

The Washington Lagoon is filled with ugly creatures.

Amazon Offered Job to Pentagon Official Involved With $10 Billion Contract It Sought

In a federal lawsuit, the tech giant Oracle has provided new details to support its accusation that Amazon secretly negotiated a job offer with a then-Department of Defense official who helped shape the procurement process for a massive federal contract for which Amazon was a key bidder.

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft are now the two finalists to win the highly contested $10 billion contract for what is known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI. The deal, one of the largest federal contracts in U.S. history, would pay one company to provide cloud computing services in support of Defense Department operations around the world.

But the contract has been hotly contested since the department began soliciting proposals last year. Two of Amazon’s competitors, IBM and Oracle, filed complaints with the Government Accountability Office saying that the winner-take-all process unfairly favored Amazon, which is seen as an industry leader in cloud computing. When its claim was rejected, Oracle sued the government in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

Since the court battle began in 2018, Oracle has aggressively lodged conflict-of-interest accusations involving a former DOD official named Deap Ubhi, who left the department in 2017 to take a job at Amazon. In a court motion filed on Friday, Oracle alleged that while Ubhi worked on the preliminary research for the JEDI program in the late summer and fall of 2017, he was also engaged in a secret job negotiation with Amazon for months, complete with salary discussions, offers of signing bonuses, and lucrative stock options.

The motion further alleges that Ubhi did not recuse himself from the JEDI program until weeks after verbally accepting a job offer from Amazon and that he continued to receive information about Amazon’s competitors and participate in meetings about technical requirements, despite a government regulation that forbids such conflicts of interest…

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