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Fraud on Fraud: Compounding The LCS Follies

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It only took the DoJ eight years to levy a fine for ripping off tax dollars. Imagine if journalists on the Pentagon beat actually went after the fraud and inefficiencies of the military industrial complex with investigative lenses and FOIA festivals that could shed light on these wacky spending sprees.

This fraud occurred on the extraordinary mutli-billion dollar Little Crappy Ship program which has seen “ships” with a 25 year service life retired as early as seven years because they don’t work. These are fish reef structures that haven’t been sunk yet.

Very expensive future fish housing complexes.

Now go after Disney next.

Austal USA, an Alabama-based shipbuilder that makes vessels for the U.S. Navy, has admitted wrongdoing and agreed to pay a $24 million fine to settle an accounting fraud investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday.

From 2013 through July 2016, Austal USA conspired to mislead shareholders and investors about the company’s financial condition, the department said. The company pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud and one count of obstruction of a federal audit.

The Justice Department said the appropriate criminal penalty would be $73 million, but that was reduced because of Austal USA’s inability to pay. In addition to the $24 million criminal fine, the company is also on the hook for $24 million in restitution for shareholder losses.

https://www.defensenews.com/global/the-americas/2024/08/28/us-navy-shipbuilder-austal-usa-to-pay-24m-to-settle-fraud-probe/

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Indefensible: Homeland Defense is Not Available at This Time

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I have a challenge for my readers and listeners.

The US DoD has spent trillions of dollars and still can’t defend the homeland against the ICBM/IRBM threat. “U.S. defense officials have stated that both existing terrestrial- and space-based sensor architectures are insufficient to detect and track hypersonic weapons…”

Reentry warheads from ICBMs are by definition hypersonic weapons that re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere at very high velocities, on the order of 6–8 kilometers per second (22,000–29,000 km/h; 13,000–18,000 mph) at ICBM ranges.

The Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD), as of 2018, the system is composed of two interceptor staging bases in the states of Alaska and California, with 40 staged in the former, 4 staged in the latter, for a total of 44 interceptors, as well as the component early warning and targeting sensors based on land, sea, and in orbit. The cost is approximately 53 billion dollars so far (effective 2020).

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GMD has a failing test record: a success rate of just 55 percent in highly scripted tests, including three misses in the last six tries. The potential ICBM MIRV rain on North America is significant and the normal engagement strategy is a minimum of two missiles sent aloft to intercept a single target.

If someone shot ONE nuclear missile at the US then yes, definitely. If you shot one defense missile against an incoming ICBM your chances of shooting it down are 53%. Use four defense missiles and it’s 97%.

The Russians are the only ones updating their arsenal. The RS-28 Sarmat made its first test flight on 20 April 2022. On 16 August 2022, a state contract was signed for the manufacture and supply of the Sarmat strategic missile system. The missile officially entered operational service in September 2023, as the world’s longest range and most powerful extant ICBM system.

The US Sentinel system is still at least a decade away from replacing the arthritic and aging Minuteman ICBM inventory.

Yet the US keeps threatening Russia in a fashion that invites nuclear exchange. Why? Where are the cool heads in the mandarin class of the US government?

https://news.usni.org/2024/06/25/report-to-congress-on-hypersonic-missile-defense-4

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Submarine News: Hold My Beer!

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Who knows how expensive this will be and challenging for new rules and culture shifts. They new Virginia’s have “gender neutral” bathrooms. Basically, everyone gets a private stall to themself.

Gaucher added, per the outlet, that all future nuclear-powered attack submarines and all new Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines are to be designed “gender-neutral from the keel up.”

For the New Jersey, that meant adjusting many details, from the height of overhead valves to the privacy of washrooms and berths, the outlet reported.

Since admitting women onto submarines, the US Navy has faced the challenge of retrofitting and reorganizing vessels for co-ed use.

Last year, the Navy announced plans to expand the number of submarines taking on co-ed crews from 30 to 40, the Navy Times reported.

Lieutenant Commanders Andrea Howard and Emma McCarthy, who joined the influx of women to the fleet, wrote last year about the adjustments needed — both physical and social — in integrating them on ships designed for all-male crews.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/09/10/us-navy-about-launch-submarine-built-mixed-gender-crew-first-of-its-kind.html?ESRC=eb_240911.nl

If a shipmate does their job and is reliable, I don’t care how they stow their mating tackle.

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In the article below, the Navy is spending 2.4 billion dollars for a five year consulting job by the politically correct firm of Deloitte.

That’s 500 million a year for consulting.

500 million dollars.

PowerPoint slides and Word documents and nicely worded justification at the end of each year on all the contributions to improve, then at the end of five years, none of the advice is followed and shipbuilding is still in an existential crisis on the sole exquisite platform advantage, nuclear submarines, the US military has in the 21st century.

Roughly half the cost of a new submarine and there aren’t enough submarines.

Oh, and to make you feel even better:

Deloitte in 2024 ranked #1 in global diversity, has consistently placed well in Human Rights Campaign corporate equity index, and often receives recognition for its efforts in DEI. It has paid for this too, investing $75 million in 2021 to establish its Making Accounting Diverse and Equitable and committing over $1.5 billion to creating an equitable society. Its own corporate DEI report belies an emphasis on racial quotas and identity, an approach that has cratered military recruiting.

Deloitte is number one in the galactic wrecking ball of IED that has spawned a competency crisis and a chaos avalanche cascading through first world civilizations.

Imagine the efficiencies that will be achieved by the helms-humans in those C-suites!

That’s 2.4 billion debt-bucks to build PPT decks and let’s suppose they finish around 2028/29 and we are five years farther into the chaos avalanche of the competency crisis and shipbuilding infrastructure is even worse than now.

They will either adopt the recommendations or do what they always do, refuse to make hard choices and continue to fight the PTO in WWII. Fire every flag officer on deck in the US Navy tomorrow and don’t forget to cashier all the SES dross that got us into this mess in the first place. As a USN alumnus, I am sad to say by 2030, the US surface navy will be in tatters.

Consider the $2.4 billion deal administration inked in July with Deloitte Consulting to boost submarine construction, by an administration that had claimed there isn’t enough money in the budget to fund two needed nuclear attack submarines.

Deloitte will get $2.4 billion over five years to: “… provide labor, materials, and equipment needed to develop and expand the size and capability of the maritime submarine workforce and industrial base and speed the development of improved manufacturing technologies to supply chain.”

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the cost of building a new nuclear attack submarine today is $4.3 billion. At a day and age where the Navy’s requirement for submarines is 66 but only has 50.  So why not just spend that money to buy a submarine?

The Department of Defense’s $2.4 Billion ‘Submarine’ Mistake

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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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