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Holocaust – On Behalf of Those Who Died Alone
The tubes connected to my arm are melting. I am surrounded by flames moving closer and closer like an angry mob waving torches above their heads. Except there are no people around. I have been yelling for help at the top of my lungs, but no one can hear me. Or if they do, perhaps they are afraid, like the man who never learned to swim and knows that if he jumps in to save someone drowning, there will be two victims rather than one. And it’s true: I’m not at all sure that anyone can stop this raging conflagration in time to save my life.
I thought I was safe in this place. Who would attack a defenseless man, a patient sick enough to be lying in a hospital bed? And yet it has become clear that my death is imminent, for the flames are marching inexorably toward me, like zombie soldiers or robots programmed to kill. Will anyone know what happened to me? The injuries I sustained when my home was bombed were life threatening, and that is the only reason why I am here. I was the only survivor of the missile strike: my wife, my two daughters, my baby son were all killed. And now, it seems, they’ve come to finish the job: the erasure of my family and its history. The end of a lineage.
Does anyone care? With so much rhetoric spewed out by politicians about human rights, how can the whole world stand by, condoning through silence and inaction the plight of me and the others, all confined to hospital beds? I see across what was a corridor, before the wall separating us crumbled to the ground, that the men in the next room who were screaming have stopped making any noise. All that is left is the sound of the flames flickering and flaring as they lap up the sizzling flesh of the now silent bodies.
I will be next. I cannot walk, much less run, and no one will answer my pleas for help, for the crackling flames have grown louder, and my voice is now weak. I have raised my arm up to wave to anyone outside who might be looking for signs of life. But it appears that we have been abandoned, preemptively written off in the annals of history as just so much more nameless “collateral damage.” Yes, our killers have crafted a lovely tale according to which they are good, and the enemy embedded amongst us is evil. But what could be more evil than what is being done to me right now?
It’s growing hotter and hotter. I am struggling to breathe, coughing out smoke while trying my best to inhale enough oxygen to keep me alive. The tubes dangling above my body remind me of the wires attached to hooded prisoners at Abu Ghraib. But I am not wearing a hood, and our killers are much cleverer than the ones in Iraq. Here in Gaza they are destroying all evidence at the scene of the crime. Any photographer who stood near enough to capture a picture of what we are enduring could not withstand the heat and would wither away along with the film in his camera. They don’t even need to shoot him in the head.
In a few minutes, there will be nothing left but carbonized bones and blackened rubble smoldering under a thick blanket of smoke. This method is far more efficient than that of the Nazis. They disposed of people first by poisoning them, and then hid the evidence by cremating the corpses, which required able-bodied persons willing (no doubt coerced) to shovel lifeless human beings into huge stoves filled with hot coals. The victims were reduced to ashes so that there would be no trace of what had taken place at the so-called work camps.
Here in Israel, they’ve hit upon a streamlined, one-step final solution. No one will know, so how could they care that I was a person with a family and dreams and aspirations whose life was stolen from him. No one will ever be held accountable for my death, for the government officials of this land claim to be defending the state of Israel by eradicating Hamas from the face of the earth, even though that has turned out to include subjecting the patients in this hospital to a holocaust no less vicious than the one endured by their relatives eighty years ago. Rather than standing trial at the Hague, our killers will be adorned with medals. Their speeches will be met with resounding applause before the congress and parliament of other governments, the leaders of which will pledge undying support to a “just” cause. The men who sat around a table and plotted our demise will not be denounced as despicable murderers, as were the officers in attendance at the Wahnsee conference. Instead, they will be praised as noble heroes.
I am aware that you may take offense at my comparisons to the Nazis and the moral equivalence I draw between my aggressors and those who provoke them to kill. And I admit that there are more charitable interpretations from which to choose. I’ll offer you two: Collective punishment or callous disregard for human life? That will, alas, be the final question I pose to you, the imaginary reader of my imaginary text, as God alone is my witness. Inch’allah!
Hey Moe! Hey Larry! Look, It’s the Army Watercraft Circus!
Not only can they not float a portable pier [Gaza] (at a cool burn rate of 335 million debt-bucks) but they can’t maintain an aging fleet of maritime connectors. The Army continues to trip over itself in most missions.
Maybe they could reach zero by 2028 in the current trend-line.
No one will be fired nor held accountable.
Reducing your mission capable rate from near 75% to 35% is quite a feat; the pursuit of bureaucratic excellence continues.
Maybe they can revise the governance framework before 2050…
The report highlights a stark decline in the operational readiness of the Army’s 70-vessel watercraft fleet. From a fully mission capable rate of 75% in 2020, the fleet’s readiness has plummeted to below 40% in 2024, the GAO report has revealed. This dramatic downturn severely hampers the Army’s ability to meet its mission requirements, conduct essential training, and maintain operational readiness.
The GAO report:
Army Watercraft: Actions Needed to Optimize Small but Critical Fleet
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The US Doesn’t Have a Monopoly on Contemporary Military Incompetence
The six-thousand-ton INS Arihant sank in 2017 and remained out of service at the docks while the water was pumped out, and the pipes replaced. The entire process took ten months. Imagine not only not having the sea sense to seal your boat before diving but having no systems in place to either warn you or lock out the attempt.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-sink-3-billion-dollar-nuclear-submarine-leave-hatch-open-208170
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Israeli War Crimes Documented by the Israeli Defense Forces
Earlier this month, Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit published a documentary documenting Israel’s systematic use of indiscriminate attacks during its ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip. A remarkable feature of the investigation is that, to document Israel’s war crimes, it largely relies on evidence published on social media by Israeli soldiers or the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) itself.
War crimes documented in the video include wanton destruction, abuse of Palestinian detainees including torture, and the use of Palestinian civilians as human shields by Israeli forces. Watch it here:
Also this month, the organization Airwars in collaboration with Sky News published an investigation similarly relying on video evidence published to X by Israeli forces themselves to document 17 indiscriminate Israeli strikes in which collectively more than 400 Palestinian civilians were killed.
An interactive map of the murderous attacks is published at Airwars. Watch their 20-minute video of the investigation’s findings here:
Yesterday, Drop Site, a Substack publication spearheaded by journalists Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Grim published an investigation into the conduct of the IDF’s 749 Combat Engineering Battalion, whose self-described job has been “to flatten Gaza”. Once again, the documentation of brazen war crimes relies heavily on photos and videos posted to social media by Israel’s own armed forces.
Anyone still claiming that Israel is “targeting Hamas” and that Palestinian civilians have only been dying because Hamas uses them as “human shields” cannot possibly still believe that. Maybe at one point early into Israel’s assault on Gaza, some apologists for the Jewish supremacist state actually managed to convinced themselves of their own propaganda. But with Israel’s genocide ongoing now for over a year and being livestreamed on social media, including gleefully by Israel’s own military forces, it is inconceivable that any of the genocide apologists actually believe that Israel has been acting in accordance with international humanitarian law.
All one needs to do to see the truth that Israel has been perpetrating the crime of genocide — with the full backing of the US government — is to open one’s eyes.
Cross-posted from JeremyRHammond.com.
Government Subsidy of K-PhD: The Suicide Pact of Western Civilization
The German Empire arranged passage for Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in 1917, joined by 29 other Russian exiles, a Pole and a Swiss, to Russia to try to seize power from the government. They traveled on an armored train through Germany then took a ship to Sweden where they then crossed the border into Finland and on to Petrograd. The Germans wanted to inject the communist virus into the body politic of Russia and knock them out of the war.
It worked and the USSR was born.
That yellow school bus transporting children to government schools has had the same effect.
Those government schools are Marxist madrassas with a heavy pedophilia chaser in the curriculum now. There is no greater threat to Western civilization than government subsidized education. The victims here are the children.
Stop all government subsidy to K-PhD and communism as an idea in the West is dead in a generation.
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Money to Burn: Pentagon Blues
I often quip to the TSA slack-jawed shamblers at the airport when I fly that I am happy the TSA exists because think of how much more homelessness there would in the USA if the unemployable weren’t in shitty government jobs hassling peaceful travelers.
The DoD has never passed an audit and in concert with programs at DoE, the budget item is approx one trillion dollars.
The chaos avalanche continues.
And with all this money spent, the US armed forces are not a long sustainment peer competitor in a hot war.
The Pentagon’s accounting records are so convoluted that billions of dollars cannot be accounted for, charges a new government report.
In fact, no major part of the Department of Defense (DOD) has ever passed an audit, according to recent congressional testimony by the non-partisan U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress. The Pentagon admitted that flawed business systems and practices are common within the agency and said it would take decades to get all of the agency books in order. Accounting problems led the GAO in 1995 to put DOD financial management on GAO’s list of agencies that are at high-risk of waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement.
Some of the GAO’s findings are astonishing:
About 58 percent of the material the Pentagon possesses ($36.9 billion worth) are items it does not need.
Over the past three years, the Navy lost track of $3 billion in equipment and other items.
At one distribution center for the Navy, there was a backlog of over 122,000 items that had not been properly processed, leading the Navy to purchase items it didn’t need.
The $600 billion Pentagon inventory of weapons systems and other items failed to include nearly $6 billion in Army communications defense equipment, $7.6 billion in Navy aircraft engines and about $7 billion in Air Force electronic pods that attach to warplanes.
Is national bankruptcy the sole solution to stop the malpractice and fiscal bleeding.
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Little Crappy Ships Continue to Waste Money, Again
The next to last floating dumpster of the Little Crappy Ship (LCS), USS Beloit, was launched, yet another future fish apartment complex; the USS Cleveland, the final ship of the Freedom class, is under construction and will be delivered in 2025 (don’t hold your breath). The only thing an LCS can do is go fast (when it’s engines and reduction gear are working) and none of the mission modules have become deployable which was the entire reason the class was built. Each LCS now has a standard ASuW capability although it’s woefully short of what the original module called for so, yeah, there’s a standard Anti-surface warfare (ASuW) fit but it’s nothing to write home about. The Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) module has been cancelled and abandoned. The Navy was unable to make the ASW module work and dropped the capability from the LCS. There is no ASW module or capability anymore.
The first Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) commissioned was the USS Freedom (LCS-1), on November 8, 2008 and the Navy has failed to deliver working modules since promised when the designs were approved by the gullible knuckleheads in Congress.
The service had already spent “at least $3.3 billion” to operate and support 17 LCS since 2008, and in 2011 the Navy estimated a cost of $38 billion to operate and support 35 ships for their planned service lives of 25 years. By the end of 2018, the service’s estimate had nearly doubled to more than $60 billion.
https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2024/3/26/littoral-combat-ship-still-fighting-to-prove-its-worth
The US Navy embarked the first Mine Countermeasures Mission Package (MCM MP) aboard USS Canberra (LCS 30), April 18,2024. I have no confidence it will work correctly and smart mines are the poor man’s weapon against first world surface fleets. Yet another reason the flag officers in the US Navy are so bad at their jobs.
But the USS Freedom lasted just thirteen years. The USS Independence lasted just eleven. The USS Detroit served for just seven years before being decommissioned last September. The USS Sioux City five years. The USS Sioux City cost taxpayers $362 million. Five years for $362 million is a bad investment.
The program has just been a mess, especially concerning the propulsion system. “High speed required a complex propulsion system that, two decades on, breaks so often…the type struggles to complete a deployment,” Forbes reported.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/littoral-combat-ship-navys-giant-warship-mistake-213130
The US Navy missed the bubble at the turn of the century by not designing the littoral combat ship as a new diesel submarine class making the US Navy competitive on the world stage.
It’s too late and no possibility of that coming to pass. The US Navy is struggling to maintain the submarine fleet they have now.
“LCS 29 is equipped with the Freedom-class combining gear correction, which will enable unrestricted operations. This correction addresses a class-wide issue that was identified as the Fleet deployed Freedom-variant LCS in greater numbers,” the Navy stated in a press release.
“The LCS class consists of fast, optimally manned, mission-tailored small surface combatants capable of operating in both near-shore and open-ocean environments to address twenty-first-century coastal threats,” the Navy stated.
But one of the benefits of the LCS warships is that they are easy to make and require a small crew, between seventy-five and 115)
“Beloit completed her Acceptance Trials in August 2024, marking the final milestone before delivery to the Navy. During these trials, the Navy conducted comprehensive testing of LCS 29’s systems across multiple functional areas essential to performance at sea, including combat systems, main propulsion, auxiliaries, and electrical systems,” the Navy added.
The USS Cleveland, the next and final ship of the Freedom class, is under construction and will be delivered in 2025.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/us-navys-littoral-combat-ship-just-wont-go-away-213126
Those acceptance trials should be revealing if they make the results public.
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