Soto Cano Base: SOUTHCOM Awards $38M Contract to Honduran Firm for “IT-Communications”

[Downwinder]

http://hondurasoye.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/soto-cano-base-southcom-awards-38m-contract-to-honduran-firm-for-it-communications/

[EFerrari]

1. Harris is doing well this year.

Harris Corporation Awarded $196.5 Million Department of State Consular Affairs IT Services Contract
Harris to Provide Installation, Training, Operational Support and Configuration Support

* Press Release
* Source: Harris Corporation
* On 8:00 am EDT, Thursday October 29, 2009

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Harris-Corporation-Awarded-prnews-1355816958.html?x=0&.v=1

[EFerrari]

2. Army Orders Next Generation Of Satellite Communication Terminals

Army Orders Next Generation Of Satellite Communication Terminals
April 24, 2009 by Matthew Potter · Comment

The U.S. Army awarded Harris Corporation a contract to develop, produce, and install the next generation of satellite communication terminals. The Orlando Sentinel reports that this is a $600 million ten year contract. Harris makes radios and other communication systems primarily for the defense market. The contract also has five option years after the base award. The terminals will support the Army’s forces and missile defense efforts.

http://www.defenseprocurementnews.com/topics/companies/harris-corporation/

[Downwinder]

3. If you call south of Honduras, smile, you're on candid camera. n/t

[EFerrari]

4. And guess who is going to revolutionize patient records up here?

Harris Corporation Awarded Follow-on Contract Option to Expand CONNECT Solution for Nationwide Health Information Network
Posted on: Monday, 6 April 2009, 08:00 CDT

Next Phase Focuses On Integration Of Health Information Exchange Components

CHICAGO, April 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- (HIMSS'09, Booth #3974) -- Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has been awarded the first-year option to its Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) CONNECT contract by the Federal Health Architect of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator. CONNECT is an open-source implementation of the NHIN specifications that enables federal agencies and healthcare providers to quickly and securely exchange patient information, improving the quality of care while reducing costs. The announcement was made during the HIMSS'09 Healthcare IT Conference and Exhibition being held April 4-8 at McCormick Place in Chicago.

http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1666333/harris_corporation_awarded_followon_contract_option_to_expand_connect_solution/index.html?source=r_health

[Peace Patriot]

5. Sometimes I despair. Not often. Just sometimes.

$38 million? That's less than John McCain paid for the coup ($43 million to the coupsters, from the "International Republican Institute," via the USAID).

ALL US taxpayer money.

:mad: :puke: :wtf: :argh:

[subsuelo]

6. SouthCom organized the overthrow of Honduras President Zelaya

http://www.voltairenet.org/article161647.html

I don't know if this had been talked about here, but - there it is. Use Google Translate for the french article.

[Judi Lynn]

7. Thanks fo the idea. I intend to look at this later this evening. n/t

[Downwinder]

8. It has been touch on but not developed.

It has been evidenced as complicity not necessarily as intent. Also the fact a returning Zelaya could not land at the US base.

[Judi Lynn]

9. From the article, something hard to overlook: the base commander did the Aristide "kidnapping."

In his article of June, 29, 2009, Thierry Meyssan submitted that the overthrow of President Zelaya in Honduras <1> had been orchestrated by SouthCom. Moreover, the French edition of his article (through the caption of a photograph which was unfortunately not reproduced in a certain number of foreign sites) underscored the fact that the commander of the US military base at Soto Cano is none other than Colonel Richard A. Juergens, who had already supervised the "kidnapping" of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide according to a similar scenario.

Col. Juergens knows how to treat the "little people" well, when it comes to photo ops.



JTF Bravo, Southern Command give holiday cheer to local village

AJUTERIQUE, Honduras - Lt. Gen. Glenn Spears (center), U.S. Southern Command deputy commander, and Col. Richard Juergens (left), Joint Task Force-Bravo commander, give a local a gift basket from servicemembers at Soto Cano Air Base here Dec. 9. More than 100 families received a free basket containing food items and essential supplies as a way for JTF-Bravo to show their support for their community. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joel Mease)

[subsuelo]

10. You can't help but wonder - what if we flip the script here?

Just suppose Uribe is forcibly removed from Colombia by his military. Suppose Chavez's Venezuela had contracts and all this support to the same military installation from which Uribe was flown out of Colombia.

Not just Fox, but *all* the news networks would be all over it. Wall-to-wall coverage about evil, anti-democracy Chavez. Pat Robertson would likely be back in full swing. I can hear him now "I told you we should have taken him out"...

But when the U.S. does it, you have to dig and dig to uncover the truth. It's unbelievable. Chomsky is totally right - any fascist dictator would be impressed with the propaganda in the United States.

[Braulio]

11. Especially when it comes to Israel

Most Americans are fed a canard about Israel, the poor Zionists are "just defending themselves", LOL