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Lessons From September 11th, 2001

Lessons From September 11th, 2001

Lessons From 9/11:

  1. Do not let tragedies put you in a state of mind which allows you to be manipulated into becoming the very thing you claim to oppose. Warfare is based on lies. Politicians engage in ‘threat inflation’ (and explicit lies), a necessary tactic to get people to put their lives on the line unnecessarily.

2. Doing nothing is better than doing something bad and counterproductive.

3. Civilians frequently have to bear the cost of decisions made by politicians (blowback), when a few politicians and contractors and soldiers benefit at the expense of their domestic population.

4. People who pay no price for being wrong or acting immorally (politicians) are more likely to act recklessly since they are coercively funded with taxation and face legal immunity with regard to killing civilians.

5. God says ‘Thou Shalt Not Murder’, he does not make exceptions for people born in distant geographical areas.

6. The inequality between the state and the citizenry is the most dangerous inequality in society.

7. It shouldn’t take an act of terrorism for Americans to unify. Americans should be proud of the achievements of workers and entrepreneurs in the voluntary sector who raised the worlds living standards to heights never imagined by Kings or Queens of the past.

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Hunter Called the Ball

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Thompson said this on 12 September 2001.

In the 21st century, the US conducted military campaigns in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, NW Pakistan, Somalia, Uganda, Niger and the Horn of Africa.

America is no safer and no more prosperous.

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Anti-War Blog – A Razz Through X

Anti-War Blog – A Razz Through X

I log onto X (formerly Twitter) for the first time in awhile. The news feed is aghast with Trump vs Harris post debate ‘analysis’ and ‘9/11’ ‘evidence’ and memes. The Truther stuff, central bankers planned the sinking of the Titanic sort of thing. The usual George Bush or Mossad and perhaps alien reptiles detonated the towers and Pentagon. It was an insurance scam while Bush kept reading with the little kids. Among them are strewn accounts of comedy memes and rage bait to invoke racial or partisan hate. Then I see an account I actually follow, Dave DeCamp re-posting an Antiwar.com article about 64 people murdered. He is buried beneath a man wearing a Mike Myers mask scaring drivers, another account I don’t follow. It’s all just a meme to wade through the memes.

One can scroll on past Dave’s post if not in the mood. Should “self care” come first, whatever that means so look at more memes, maybe swallow some narcissism porn posted to remind one that You are special or the most important creation. “You got this!” or perhaps you desire motivation, to be motivated to sit through more memes maybe? I see a lion and Tom Hardy, words trickle beneath their image, words they never spoke or wrote. Things about “loyalty”, “grind” and “hard work” then “rizz”. I come across another account I follow, reminding me of those who live in a world where they can’t express such rizz only heartbreak.

I find a Wikileaks post, beneath it a meme account that I don’t follow shows a clip of young US Airmen standing at attention. Rigid in crisp blue uniforms, apparently they can’t break attention until they are tapped on the shoulder. In each clip their young child reaches for a Daddy, while a crying mother holds it. The child taps his shoulder, the airman breaks, embrace and tears or maybe tears and embrace. The religion of state so formal, that it comes first, before a child and wife. Beneath the meme of crying airmen, an image from Gaza of babies whose parents now weep. They are limp bodies, no hand taps their shoulder to break them from their pose. Those US airman are loving and caring, but if asked would they have loaded the bombs or crewed the planes that generations ago laid waste to SE Asia, killing more children and families in a war that’s past tense for their nation.

Another anti-war post by Dave, I know he is a loving father, I see those proud images shared on social media. The importance of being a father, a loving man to a family. Most claim that comes first, but then they go abroad to fight for strangers because of nation, tribe, empire, tradition, honour or pay. Whatever the cause and reason, imperialism or glory or maybe just adventure. They go. The enemies always there, so long as they keep going to make and find them. Even those enemies who never threw a stone, who never fired a shot or even saw a map. Enemies all the same because they are there, and the fathers had to go, leaving families far behind. Meme accounts love to show that too, when the uniforms come home to lovers, children, even the family pet. Tears. They have returned, but returned from doing what and who exactly for? Sssh! don’t ruin the feelings porn.

It’s all about reaction, engagement. Emotions are apparent enough that we can feel a stir for those in uniform who are re-united with their families, crying babies in Dad’s loving arms. Weeping wife holding her man. Or maybe it was Mum who went abroad, leaving everything that matters far behind. The call to serve more important than husband and child, government’s able bodied heroes. Those memes always thrive, shared and tissues close at hand, “onions” many a comment claims, admission of teary eyes. But beneath the babies in war zones far less care. That’s not a meme. Grey, limp and lifeless children murdered by Mummies and Daddies who chose service to their government first. It’s how genocides are waged. They bought it on themselves… claims the jingoistic braves.

Killing and separating families is not new. It can be done for a litany of reasons. During Covid we saw the religion of borders segregate bloodlines. I recall seeing on the Queensland and New South Wales border. People coming to gaze from a slight distance at one another, the government deciding where they can and can not go. A magical invisible line enforced by those paid to do so. Despite such heartbreak and arbitrary laws invented on the fly the government and virus won, winning in the sense that one lingers on and the other grew and remains the per-eminent religion of the land. Violent, imperial and a monopoly of intolerance to alternatives. Those moments were memes as well, though some viewing it as a sacrifice a call to “returning to normal” while others saw it as a vile misstep of power. The power remains. Memories of such moments vaccinated away.

Maybe that is how we communicate now, in memes. Far less read. It’s too hard to digest words and formulate thoughts. Attention spans dwindle so we need the image with a caption or bite sized moving shorts. Music helping us to understand what we are meant to feel. Simple narratives, often deception being used, information is entertainment so it matters little if it’s true or not, engagement and a virus of shares. The same memes recycled but few seem to care.

An event occurs, explosion killing many, school shooter murders children or an assassins bullet ends a life is all conjured into a speculative swarm. Memers will declare it all to be fake, invented, a deception, distraction, crisis actors and part of the agenda. A devious calculation made by the most competent, coordinated by godly beings on Earth. All powerful, all knowing and ever so clever that they can orchestrate it with such perfection. Symbols and signs and patterns emerge. That cloud looks like an elephant. A tanker hits a bridge, a man shoots up movie goers in a cinema or a balloon strays high above mainland USA. All has a reason that leads into one culminating moment, the Smoking Man said so, a Reddit post explained as such. John Titor warned us all years ago, maybe it was “Uncle Ted” or even David Icke and Irving they said words that are poignant, the patterns align anything outside is controlled opposition or part of the system. Nuance is lies. The codes all in the Bible and along with Nostradamus too.

The distrust of the regime or status quo ever apparent that even the repulsive becomes appealing. Hitler and Nazi’s, the justly pariah are dragged out again, again, again… Because the establishment seeks to ban them, makes them taboo, they shine ever so brighter like glitter on coal. ‘The books they banned were all anti-woke’, ‘the ovens could never cook that many pizzas’ and ‘all communists are Jews’, so goes the memes and tomes. The Tankies just as bad, Nazi’s being evil must mean that commies are good. Stalin opposed Hitler, ergo he is a hero. Binaries, everything is boiled into such. An ocean of information, digital and otherwise and yet the thinking goes that we only have two choices. At least each week on the news feed I see footage of a man that finds his lost homeless dog, after three years apart. Hitler loved dogs too. See patterns. Three. 1933. Something likely to do with how Taylor Swift held the microphone.

I go back to the feed and see Ace try to reason with the unreasonable and local Australian pundits argue what age a child should be jailed. “Ban them from social media!”, “too young to understand”, “jail them for crimes, they are old enough to know better.” The mathematics of consent requiring party political affiliation to comprehend. Further down an old man is out walking his turtle in Japan, maybe they know the answer. Apparently Neo from The Matrix has a passport that expires on 11 September, 2001. What did the Wachowski’s know? Apparently the film was produced by Jews, there are no coincidences. Everything by design. If the memers are right, then why would you not want them to rule, clearly they are omnipotent gods of men. Masters of all, suited to rule.

Enough social media for today. Too much wisdom, so much insight. I will just listen to Dave’s podcast, no stream of memes or miasma of myths. Just facts, information. Focused, specific for those who care to know. Information not infotainment. Seek and ye shall find, if you want that is.

Feeble old man Biden put on a Trump hat, the crowd clapped and smiled. The leader of the free world can retire now, good job Joe. Good boy. Who wants some ice cream? Come and get it, so long as your not a child in Gaza.

Interview: The Jewish Supremacist State’s Crimes Against Humanity

Interview: The Jewish Supremacist State’s Crimes Against Humanity

I recently spoke with Louis Rizza on his show Truth Over Comfort to discuss Israel’s systematic violation of the fundamental human rights of the Palestinian people, including its crimes against humanity of ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and genocide.

This conversation follows a discussion Louis and I had in January about Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the US government’s support for it. This time, we focused more on Israeli policies as more broadly applied to the Palestinian people, including its occupation and settlement regime in the West Bank, and why the oft-repeated claim that Arab citizens of Israel have equal rights is simply not true.

Watch the full interview below (available on YouTubeRumble, and Bitchute):

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Trillions and Trillions! Money for Nothing at the Pentagon

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On this day in 2001 (the day before the 9/11 attacks), Donald Rumsfeld said this:

At the 14:15 mark, Rumsfeld says, “Our financial systems are decades old. According to some estimates, we cannot track 2.3 trillion dollars in transactions. We cannot share information from floor to floor in this building. Because it’s stored on dozens of different technological systems that are inaccessible or incompatible.”

A DoD IG audit report was released on 25 February 2000 which said the following: “For the accounting entries, $2.3 trillion was not supported by adequate audit trails or sufficient evidence to determine their validity, $2 trillion was not reviewed because of time constraints, and $2.6 trillion were supported.”

In a July 2000 statement, Robert J. Lieberman, Assistant Inspector General at the time, also mentioned the $2.3 trillion number saying that the amount was “unsupported by reliable explanatory information and audit trails or were made to invalid general ledger accounts.”

The Pentagon just failed its sixth audit where 63% of four trillion dollars remains unaccounted for.

That’s approximately 2.5 trillion dollars.

2,500,000,000,000 dollars.

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A stack of one billion dollars bills would be 67.9 miles high. A trillion dollar bills would reach 67,866 miles into space.
A trillion dollar bills, laid end to end, would stretch 96,906,656 miles—further than the distance of the earth to the sun.
A trillion dollars laid side to side, would cover more square miles than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware combined.
A trillion dollars on skids would need to be transported by 478 semi-trailers. Unloaded, it would fill a football field from sideline to sideline, and almost goal line to goal line.
If you were to spend $40/second, it would take 289 days to spend a billion dollars. And that’s at a spending rate of almost $3.456 million per day.
At the same spending rate of $40/second, it would take 792.5 years to blow through one trillion dollars.

That means that a stack of of 2.5 trillion one dollar bills reaches approximately 169,665 miles into space (the moon is 239,000 miles from Earth).

Here’s the proposed breakdown for the Pentagon fat-cats for the 2025 NDAA:

  • President’s budget: $849.8 billion for the Defense Department
  • House NDAA: $849.8 billion for the Defense Department
  • House defense appropriations: Includes $833 billion in defense spending
  • Senate Armed Services Committee: $878.4 billion for the Defense Department
  • Senate Appropriations Committee: $852.2 billion defense spending

Topline budget numbers among the appropriations and authorizing committees aren’t apples to apples, with no single bill containing the whole of national defense spending.

The NDAA — which sanctions funds but does not actually obligate them  — includes the Defense Department as well as defense spending within the Department of Energy, but does not include about $11.5 billion in national security spending outside the jurisdiction of the House and Senate armed services committees.

Meanwhile, House and Senate defense appropriations bills cover the Defense Department and some intelligence-related spending, but not defense spending at the Department of Energy.

http://breakingdefense.com/2024/09/f-35s-frigates-and-fra-woes-here-are-the-issues-facing-congress-in-upcoming-fy25-budget-process/

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Dead in the Water: The US and Royal Gator Navies in a Death Spiral

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Remember when USS Bonhomme Richard caught fire and burned for five days in San Diego?

Or when the USS Boxer tried to deploy but broke its rudder.

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The USS Iwo Jima is now crippled.

The Gator Navy is the amphibious warfare department of the USN and USMC. The USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) (landing helicopter dock) is a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship; fully loaded, the LHD has about 3,000+ people total, less all those extra passengers it’s about 1,200 ship’s company. They will most likely discover these are rudder problems which will take months to resolve.

Don’t be awed by the infographic above, the US Navy has not conducted a contested amphibious landing arguably since WWII, one can make the argument that the Inchon landings (Operation Chromite) in September 1950 were such but it was lightly contested at best. Like the rest of the navy surface ship inventory, the chaos avalanche of maintenance backlogs and the increasing frequency of “engineering casualties” that force a ship back to port is becoming more common. The US Navy currently has 31 amphibious warships but those may be reduced in the future despite the USMC putting the minimum number needed at 31 is the baseline.

A funny thing happened to USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7)…

Lt. Cmdr. David Carter, a spokesman for Naval Surface Force Atlantic, confirmed that the USS Iwo Jima suffered “a non-propulsion-related materiel casualty in the engineering department” that forced the ship to return to Naval Station Norfolk on Thursday. That description could cover everything from a problem with the ship’s hydraulics to power generators to potable water equipment.

Rudder issues were the same problem that forced the USS Boxer to return from its deployment in April just 10 days after setting sail.

In March, a very similar series of events played out with the USS Wasp, the same class of ship as the Iwo Jima and in the same waters off of Virginia.

The same ship watcher spotted the Wasp having issues and abruptly returning to port. The watcher’s account reported that the ship suffered damage to its propeller shaft.

When asked about that March incident, Carter said that the ship “discovered an engineering irregularity” that forced it to return to port without confirming or denying a shaft issue.

“30+-year-old warships will experience materiel challenges,” Carter argued at the time, before noting that the commander of the Navy’s surface fleet in the Atlantic “focuses on … how we respond to those challenges.”

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/09/06/another-navy-amphibious-assault-ship-breaks-down-off-virginia-coast.html

None of this will improve readiness and is yet another indicator of a maintenance crisis in the Navy that will continue.

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The Royal Navy continues to degrade and decay at a rapid pace in the Gator Navy follies in the West.

The HMS Bulwark, one of the Royal Navy’s two amphibious assault ships, has spent a significant amount of time out of active service, accumulating over 2,730 days in port (nearly eight years), which of course means the embarking of the Royal Marines would be a difficult enterprise outside of home waters.

Fast forward to 2020, HMS Bulwark entered dry dock for phase two of her optimised support period. At that time, the MoD anticipated that Bulwark would return to active duty by mid-2023 following the completion of a final phase three recertification. However, recent developments suggest this timeline has shifted.

As of March 2024, then-Minister of State at the Ministry of Defence James Cartlidge, under the previous Conservative government, indicated that HMS Bulwark would only return to active service “if required.”

This announcement has led many to question whether the ship will ever resume full operational duties. A source within the Royal Navy suggested that despite earlier commitments, it has been clear for some time that the vessel’s return to regular service was unlikely. The notion of readiness “if required” subtly confirms this.

Most likely, the ships will go dark and the Royal Navy will cease to have this capability. My suspicion is that Bulwark and Albion will never again set sail under the White Ensign. Figures published earlier this week show that the Royal Navy currently fields just 5,500 Royal Marines Commandos, with barely enough to field a brigade (they have a working internal training establishment) and for which the amphibious ships are designed.

The RN is a shambles:

Two active carriers
Two active T45s (destroyers)
Five active T23s (frigates)
Zero active SSN
Several of the inactive ships have been inactive for over two years and three Astutes inactive for 1.5 to 2 years.

If the current Starmer junta has its way, the forces across the board will experience even greater cuts than anticipated two years ago.

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/british-assault-ship-has-spent-over-seven-years-in-port/

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