Two Trillion Dollars... Pretty soon, we're talking real money. So we put this in perspective: Two trillion U.S. dollars in $100 notes would be 1,356 miles high. If they were one dollar bills, it would be 135,600 miles high (the moon is 238,900 miles from Earth). During testimony with Rep Matt Gaetz, the U.S. Air Force Secretary testified that only 29 percent of F35 aircraft are fully operational. "While the Pentagon now expects the plane to fly until 2088, GAO found the services are planning to slash flight hours, which can help hold down the program's topline." The cloudy sustainment...
Failure Follies: The US Navy Continues the Race to the Bottom
The collapse of western martial civilization is sticking to its schedule. The Wasp class LHD, USS Boxer, has suffered yet another engineering casualty. On this, the Navy delivers with a spectacularly consistent track record of failure with the Little Crappy Ships, the Zumwalt class and the 20 billion dollar USS Ford that cannot reliably launch and retrieve aircraft (you had one job!). Keep in mind the USN already lost the USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) to a catastrophic fire in July 2020. Will anyone in uniform ever be held accountable? Don't hold your breath. Expect the chaos avalanche of...
The F35: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
“Soon after publication ‘Superiority’ was inserted into the Engineering curriculum of MIT, to warn the graduates that the Better is often the enemy of the Good, and the Best can be the enemy of both, as it is always too late.” - Arthur C. Clarke Superiority by Arthur C. Clarke should be required reading for the modern technocrats. It's tax day so what better way to celebrate than to see how those tax dollars are spent. The F35 has been a very expensive disaster for the American Department of Defense. Betting the farm on emerging unproven technology instead of iterative engineering is a...
Ep 040 “The Middle East: Shuffling to the Apocalypse (Part Two)””
Publishers Note: This episode will be an addendum to my initial coverage in October 2023 of the Gaza-Israel conflict in Episode 027 and riffing off the domestic implications in Episode 037 of a similar attack on CONUS. You can find those episodes here in the podcast files at LI. If you wish to listen to those before you do this one, you may but I have crafted this so that isn’t necessary. We are closing to midnight now than October 2023. I finished reading “Sand and Steel: The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France” by Peter Caddick-Adams, and I am now reading his follow-on book, “Snow...
Good Resource on Antifa
All of us want fairness and whatever your position on the J6 protests, the Federal government response to that incident and the contrast in handling the very violent Antifa perpetrators and incidents makes one take pause on the behavior of the US DoJ and its tentacled state entities in all of this. For the latest news on communist mischief in the USA, check out AntifaWatch. Or follow @AntifaWatch2 on Twitter.
Friends Don’t Let Friends Ally with the USA
Osama bin Laden like Saddam Hussein and Manuel Noriega and a legion of other malefactors discovered that alliance with the US and its coalition partners can be a mercurial and potentially lethal relationship.
The IDF Follies Continue
The "vaunted" Israeli Defense Forces have an entirely undeserved reputation subject to gushing hagiographic treatment in the corporate/access media and even their intelligence services have reputations untethered to reality. The historians will have a cottage industry in the future examining the intelligence failures of Israel in 2023 but this is simply a part of the ongoing chaos avalanche of military disasters that has haunted and dogged the Israeli armed forces since 1982 in Lebanon and continued to get worse over time. One day far in the future when we are all dust, some minor historian...
Great Resource on the History of Communism
Vladimir Putin's paternal grandfather, Spiridon Ivanovich Putin, was the personal live-at-home cook for Lenin and Stalin. Daily Wire's "Empire of Terror", the case against communism is Bill Whittle's stellar effort. Social proof is a thing. Great interview with Whittle.
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Israel Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War
From the Foreword by Lawrence B. Wilkerson: “[T]he debate over whether oil was a principal reason for the 2003 invasion has waxed and waned, with one camp arguing that it absolutely was, while the other argues the precise opposite.” “Mr. Vogler, himself a former...
Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism
Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...
Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania
FOREWORD BY JAY BHATTACHARYA, MD, PHD Diary of a Psychosis is different from all other books on Covid: it traces the development of the government response as it happened, bit by bit, and subjects it to relentless scrutiny: did any of it do any good? It thereby...