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No to tech-powered militarization. And no to the normalization of AI-powered violence!” yelled Katie Na, an organizer with Planet Over Profit Bay Area. “With their AI-driven war platforms, their surveillance tools, their automatic weapons systems, they’re really building up their infrastructure for this private, VC-backed, VC-owned military future.”[aside postID=news_12050772 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240923-AI-IN-POLICING-MD-13_qed-1020x680.jpg']Brandon Lee, chair of the \u003ca href=\"https://ichrp.net\">International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines\u003c/a>, said his concerns extend beyond the weaponization of technology for the U.S. military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are training militaries around the world, particularly in the Philippines, where the military is using that technology to repress its people,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes himself — Lee, \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice4brandonlee.org/about\">born and raised in San Francisco\u003c/a>, moved to the Philippines to work as a human rights activist and was shot multiple times by government forces in 2019, leaving him paralyzed and using a wheelchair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday’s protest was part of the broader \u003ca href=\"https://www.stopbillionaires.org\">Stop Billionaires Summer\u003c/a> campaign, a Bay Area-based effort to confront billionaire-driven militarism, climate destruction and authoritarianism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We disagree with these characterizations of our company. Scale is proud of our work supporting U.S. national security, and we’re equally proud of the opportunities our platforms create for contributors around the world,” wrote Joe Osborne, a spokesman for Scale AI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>In most cases, when an employer pays a signing bonus to attract new workers, that payment is understood to be essentially unrecoverable. But the Pentagon has a different understanding — and it's ordering the California National Guard to claw back thousands of dollars paid to soldiers who re-enlisted to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in many cases, an employer would also have a tough time arguing that decade-old lapses in its own oversight should trigger wage garnishments and tax liens against its workers. But again, this is the U.S. military, and its officials say the law requires them to reclaim the overpayments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the gist of a report by \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-national-guard-bonus-20161020-snap-story.html\">the Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>, which says nearly 10,000 soldiers are now scrambling to pay back signing bonuses that helped the Pentagon cope with the task of using an all-volunteer service to fight two prolonged international conflicts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to doling out cash for re-enlistment, the Pentagon offered student loan repayments. The incentives were seen as crucial to the military's effort to keep its ranks flush, but auditors say the rules should have limited the largest payments to certain skill areas — and that in the rush to staff the war effort, the bonuses were given out too liberally, the L.A. Times reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We have to change the law to make this right.'\u003ccite>Congressman John Garamendi\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Responding to the newspaper's story Sunday, the California National Guard points out that the repayments are part of a federal program run by the National Guard Bureau and the Department of the Army.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CAGUARD/posts/10154523711193796\">The state military service says\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The California National Guard does not have the authority to unilaterally waive these debts. However, the California National Guard welcomes any law passed by Congress to waive these debts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Until that time, our priority is to advocate for our Soldiers through this difficult process.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In its statement, the service adds that its adjutant general, Maj. 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And then to go back years later and to say 'well there were some mistakes made by the recruiting officers and therefore we want all the money back' is absolutely unacceptable. And we have to change the law to make this right,\" Garamendi says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Garamendi's legislative fix is approved, any service member who accepted a recruiting bonus between 2005 and 2009 would not be required to return any money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A scandal over the California National Guard's use of bonus money was first unearthed in 2010, when \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/investigations/article2573111.html\">the Sacramento Bee reported\u003c/a> that its incentive program had misspent as much as $100 million. The program's onetime leader, former Master Sgt. Toni Jaffe, was later \u003ca href=\"https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/losangeles/press-releases/2012/former-california-national-guard-master-sergeant-sentenced-to-30-months-in-federal-prison-in-15-million-false-claims-case\">sentenced to 30 months in prison\u003c/a>, after pleading guilty to making $15 million in false claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it was first discovered, that scandal was deemed \"war profiteering\" and was said to have benefited guard members who hadn't logged any combat duty; high-ranking officers were mentioned. But in the years since, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/investigations/article2580422.html\">lower-ranking service members have complained\u003c/a> about garnished checks and a prolonged review process, saying they've done nothing wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the work of 42 auditors who reviewed the California cases now complete, the repayments are back in the spotlight — and service members and veterans, as well as members of the public, have been venting their anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CAGUARD/?hc_ref=SEARCH\">California guard's Facebook page\u003c/a>, several people hijacked a post about training to comment on the bonus repayments, with one man writing, \"The officials who screwed over our service members need to do the right thing and pay back the money. DISGUSTING.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And after the guard responded to the Times story Monday, a commenter criticized its stance, writing, \"Meanwhile vets are suffering while one bureaucracy waits to 'welcome' another bureaucracy to take responsibility and force it to do the right thing. Pathetic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Revelations about fraud and mismanagement in the Pentagon's retention program emerged after the program's budget swelled between 2000 and 2008 — when the Defense Department went from spending $891 million for selective re-enlistment bonuses to spending $1.4 billion on them, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2010/RAND_MG950.pdf\">a 2010 research paper by the RAND defense institute\u003c/a>. By the end of that period, the military was also spending $625 million yearly to pay enlistment bonuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not unusual for signing bonuses to have strings attached. But in the civilian world, conditions for repayment are often limited to cases where an employee spends less than a year in their new job. In the case of the California National Guard, soldiers who say they held up their end of the contract — serving the required three- or six-year re-enlistment period — are being told to repay a key incentive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them is Robert Richmond, who has \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/supreme-court-stop-army-from-taking-back-signing-bonuses-10-years-later-after-vets-completed-contracts\">begun an online petition\u003c/a> that calls for the Army to \"stop stealing back signing bonuses 10 years later.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond says he signed the contract in good faith, and in his petition, he describes a scenario that's reminiscent of the recent Wells Fargo cross-selling scandal, saying that a lower-ranking figure has been punished for committing fraud that was motivated at least in part by a need to meet targets set by her superiors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond also appears in the L.A. 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Although at the time, they informed me I was eligible for a bonus, now they are saying I was not.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Like other veterans who are refusing to pay up, Richmond is now incurring interest on the repayment amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its General Rules about the recovery of pay and bonuses, \u003ca href=\"http://militarypay.defense.gov/Pay/Recoupment/Rules.aspx\">the Department of Defense states\u003c/a>, \"As a general rule, repayment will not be sought if the member's inability to fulfill the eligibility requirements is due to circumstances determined reasonably beyond the member's control.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after dozens of auditors reviewed its system that had paid soldiers bonuses without determining their eligibility, the California National Guard's veterans started getting repayment notices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People like me just got screwed,\" a 42-year-old veteran tells the Times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That veteran, former Army Capt. 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Although Department of Defense policy permits SRB payments of up to $45,000.00, soldiers may be paid bonuses up to six times their monthly basic pay at discharge, times the number of years of additional obligated service, or $20,000.00, whichever is less.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>While some veterans are working to repay the money, others are filing appeals, engaging in what's likely to be a prolonged fight against the service to which they once belonged. California National Guard officials tell the Times that they've been helping veterans through the appeals process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We'd be more than happy to absolve these people of their debts,\" Maj. Gen. Matthew Beevers, deputy commander of the California National Guard, tells the Times. \"We just can't do it. 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DISGUSTING.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And after the guard responded to the Times story Monday, a commenter criticized its stance, writing, \"Meanwhile vets are suffering while one bureaucracy waits to 'welcome' another bureaucracy to take responsibility and force it to do the right thing. Pathetic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Revelations about fraud and mismanagement in the Pentagon's retention program emerged after the program's budget swelled between 2000 and 2008 — when the Defense Department went from spending $891 million for selective re-enlistment bonuses to spending $1.4 billion on them, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2010/RAND_MG950.pdf\">a 2010 research paper by the RAND defense institute\u003c/a>. By the end of that period, the military was also spending $625 million yearly to pay enlistment bonuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not unusual for signing bonuses to have strings attached. But in the civilian world, conditions for repayment are often limited to cases where an employee spends less than a year in their new job. In the case of the California National Guard, soldiers who say they held up their end of the contract — serving the required three- or six-year re-enlistment period — are being told to repay a key incentive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them is Robert Richmond, who has \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/supreme-court-stop-army-from-taking-back-signing-bonuses-10-years-later-after-vets-completed-contracts\">begun an online petition\u003c/a> that calls for the Army to \"stop stealing back signing bonuses 10 years later.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond says he signed the contract in good faith, and in his petition, he describes a scenario that's reminiscent of the recent Wells Fargo cross-selling scandal, saying that a lower-ranking figure has been punished for committing fraud that was motivated at least in part by a need to meet targets set by her superiors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond also appears in the L.A. 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