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Four Star Admiral Slams Body Parts in the Cash Register

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ADM Robert Burke arrested for corruption.

This is on the heels of the Fat Leonard scandal.

This is the tip of the iceberg in corruption.

And remember this four star admiral retired with an estimated annual pension of approx 200k.

200,000 dollars a year.

“Instead, the three met in 2021 to set up a situation in which Burke would use his influence as a Navy admiral to get the company a contract with the Navy, the release alleges.

“They allegedly further agreed that Burke would use his official position to influence other Navy officers to award another contract to Company A to train a large portion of the Navy with a value Kim allegedly estimated to be ‘triple digit millions,’” reads the release.

The DoJ alleges that in 2021, while serving as the Navy’s top officer in Europe, Burke ordered his staff to award a contract to Messenger’s and Kim’s company to train naval personnel in Italy and Spain. The contract was worth $355,000, according to the release.

As part of the agreement, Burke also would stay in the Navy for six months in order to convince other naval officers to award Next Jump contracts, according to the indictment. For example, Burke introduced Kim and Messenger to Fleet Forces U.S. Fleet Forces Commander Adm. Daryl Caudle via a March 14, 2022 email, reads the indictment. On March 28, 2022, Burke forwarded a proposal from Next Jump to Caudle to provide their services for a foreign military.”

https://news.usni.org/2024/05/31/former-vice-chief-of-naval-operations-robert-burke-arrested-by-feds-on-bribery-charges

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Wayback Snapshot: Japanese Invasion on American Soil

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Yes, American soil has been invaded and occupied in the twentieth century.
“In June 1942, the United States launched its first offensive in the Pacific, the Aleutian Campaign. From June 1942 to May 1943 Japan held the Island of Attu. The Battle of Attu took place May 11−30, 1943. With Canadian support, U.S. forces defeated Japanese forces in what was the second deadliest battle in the Pacific Theater. More than 3,000 Japanese and Americans died fighting on Attu. Attu: the Forgotten Battle, a new book by John Haile Cloe, explores that battle and its impact on the island. Aleutian Islands from The U.S. Army Center of Military History provides an overview of the Aleutian Islands Campaign.”
https://www.nps.gov/aleu/planyourvisit/upload/Attu-Forgotten-Battle-Optimized-508.pdf
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The US is the World Leader with No Pier

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Yet another existential chaos avalanche in American foreign policy.
The pier took two months and $350m to build, lasted 12 days, and delivered less than 60 trucks’ worth of food (most of which was stolen after it reached Gaza) before it broke and had to be towed away for repairs. Think through the process: ships provide a mass delivery mechanism for cargo and the draft of a ship prevents it from getting close to shore hence the need for pier structures for off-loading and the US spends a third of of billion dollars for a temporary structure to facilitate the off-loading. Weather conditions and sea states are not a mystery and for those keen enough to observe, the facilitators of this disaster had access to all the historical data to know what to do and whether to proceed ahead with the project.
And, remember, this is the same US foreign policy that provides military aid, even now, that necessitated the need for the temporary pier in the first place.
This debacle is a demonstration project of the American experience in the Middle East.
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Radicalism for the Young – Anti-War Blog

Radicalism is for the youth, but drips away over time. Generation X watched their hippy parents become corporate and government stooges, gorged on real estate and careerism. The Pump up the Volume teenagers became parents, lost the radicalism to care about the world, feeling it wane away as the mortgage swelled. Many of the youth today are finding an outrage over a genocide that their parents may not care about. On social media exists keyholes into other parts of the world that legacy media omits. The tragedies of war that everyone knows exist, just the radicals care about has spurred an energy among the young. They care and share about it, upset, outraged, but is that it?

For now the war masters have lost the minds of the youth. The generation that would make up the fodder are mostly wary and sceptical of power. They are yet to become employed in the government and corporate sectors, prohibited from ‘owning’ their own homes so many of them can only watch on and witness what their rulers and elders do and in some way support. Headless children, mass starvation, colonialism, viscous imperialism. The young, are kinda pissed off about it. But what about being pissed off? Is that all?

The spirit of 1968 beats inside of the hearts of those too young to know or have been taught the real history of the World. Their elders found jobs in the pages of 1984, secure in that niche of comfort and luxury that only debt can bring. There may be no Woodstock, Democratic national convention protests, invasion of Prague or Tet offensive to invoke the youths zeitgeist but there is that same spirit. It simmers beneath the surface lost inside the screens pressed into faces, instincts for justice seek it out, but how?

Maybe it’s more in common with 1989, the destruction of the Iron Curtain, the feared Berlin Wall beaten down by the people. The paid professional mercenaries of government told to stand down, their limp rifles and cold machine guns no longer trained on their fellow citizens. Instead hammers, and fists beat down the walls from both sides. Suddenly the wall seemed pathetic, arbitrary, the state itself powerless. Soon too the great Soviet Union fell, the great bear once feared snuffed out beneath its own fur. It’s claws suddenly soft, weakened by the very economic ideology that experts boasted about.

Now, as inflation soars, debt all too common and decades of wars all fought in the name of abstracts whether against terrorism, drugs or for vengeance itself. The outcome is misery, rivers of blood gush into the oceans of destruction. And afterwards, what for? Why? Was it ever worth it? Those who benefit always wanting more and the apathetic, the parents and elders they shrug their shoulders with indifference. They have jobs, careers, so the wars don’t matter to them. That’s for the wacky radicals to care about. More important things fill their day to day.

But, for a moment many of the young are upset. Tired of it. Angry? Or disgusted? Either way the state that needs them to fill their universities, serve them and to become obedient tax-debt cattle don’t have control of their minds. In time that may change, attention spans being so poor and all. But right now, they are upset by what they see and in this moment of precious truth the Wizard’s cloak has fallen and we can see his withered wand. There is no magic, no super power just human fragility that is so perverted by its own arrogance, war, war and war is the only impulse. And when they wage war, its always the innocent who suffer. They fill uniforms, waste them, then grow more bodies to fit into the uniform. The babies over there, they will always be bludgeoned to death.

What will happen with this spirit? We shall see but to be radical is precious. The tragedy is that there will always be injustice to rebel against and that most feel it immature to remain radical. They lose interest either through apathy or as mentioned above more important things.

Rejoice the young. Morality does not come from law. Justice never from the state. Peace comes from the people, the people make peace. Not governments, they only tire from their own futile destruction, they yield only once they have expended their ability to wage war. Peace is made when the state has spent too much of your blood, your capital. And as we see, again, the United Nations and every sacred institution that rationalises law and government are incapable of stopping the genocide. Not even Covid took this many children’s lives in such a short amount of time. Remember how government saw it fit to swell and grow and the guise of such benevolence. Now, it swells to wage war, prepare for future ones and to support allies in genocide. They will run out of babies long before the ammunition runs out. Is it really radical to find that disgusting? Apparently so. Never grow up to the point where you accept such a thing. Stay radical, don’t become pathetic, too many babies have been murdered already.

May, 2024

Economics in One Other Lesson

“The number one principle of economics…: the secret of mass consumption is mass production…. What about distribution? Here’s what we know from all of human history, all of economic history. Any large increase in production is widely shared. There’s no such thing as a large increase in production that only benefits a small fraction of the population. The Industrial Revolution did not just benefit factory owners. The internet did not just benefit computer programmers. Vaccines do not just benefit pharmaceutical companies…. You really should not just focus on distribution; [you should] focus on production.” —Bryan Caplan

I will presumptuously comment that Caplan uses the word distribution in the statistical sense and not in any overall active sense. In a market economy, no one distributes income. The income configuration in a market economy is a snapshot result of countless voluntary exchanges, agreements, and contracts. Because this is so, we should not say that governments try to redistribute income. Rather, we should say they try to distribute it. That is, they try to move from a society of persuasion and consent — freedom — to a society of command and force — serfdom.

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