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Icanthinkformyself

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11. These companies were established because

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Feb 18, 2026, 08:44 AM

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moving government functions, such as 'intelligence gathering' (spying), investigations of phenomena such as UAPs and UFOs, cryptozoology and the like to the 'private sector' is to keep the information gathered secret. If the government does it FOIA applies. If a private contractor does it proprietary information is protected from scrutiny. These companies also become funnels for distributing our treasury to the robber barons. The ones from the 1880's would be so jealous of todays morbidly rich billionaire class of thieves.

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