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Pentagon Follies: Accounting for DEI Expenditures

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Inclusion, Equity and Diversity (IED) is communism in blackface. This viral contagion has raced to the top of government bureaucracies and, of course, facilitates a race to the bottom in quality and competence.

The wizards at the Pentagon who have yet to account for and balance their books with trillions of taxpayer dollars can’t answer a simple Congressional inquiry on how much they have wasted on woke propaganda. Yet someone had to account for distribution of the dollars in the first place, I suspect even they are embarrassed by the amount of money that has been spent on this hot garbage.

“The Biden DOD spends over a hundred million dollars a year on DEI, but apparently they don’t have enough DEI staff to provide the House Armed Services Committee with a simple report about how they’re using all their money. It’s ridiculous,” Banks told the DCNF.

The military calculated the total cost in dollars and number of hours spent on the extremism stand down on Feb. 5, 2021 required after the Jan. 6 capitol riots and on training — $1 million and 5.8 million man-hours. Noting that, Congress asked the military to supply the total cost of training in DEI, the amount spent on salaries for civilian personnel working on DEI positions, and “how the objectives of the DEI and extremism training conducted in the last 5 fiscal years were satisfied by the training.

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US Abrams Tanks Withdrawn from Fighting in Ukraine

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Five four million dollar tanks up in smoke.

They’ll make every excuse they wish but the days of manned tanks are over.

Ukraine has lost five Abrams tanks in recent months, The New York Times reported this month, citing an unnamed senior US official. At least three more have been moderately damaged, Markus Reisner, an Austrian military trainer, told the outlet.

Ukraine pulled its Abrams tanks from the front due to Russian drone tactics, US officials say…

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The Aircraft Carrier is the Crossbow and Chariot of the Modern Age

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The US Navy, of course, is desperately trying to get authorization to build more Ford-class carriers. Ironic that they name the carrier after a violence broker famous for being rather clumsy and unable to navigate around.

The first of class doesn’t work properly: it cannot reliably launch and retrieve aircraft nor does it have a weapons elevator system that works all the time.

Stop the madness.

Although the Navy wants to achieve and maintain in coming years a fleet of 381 manned battle force ships, including 12 aircraft carriers, force-structure studies done by the Navy that eventually led to the 381-ship goal showed future Navy force structures that included 8 to 12 carriers, to be supplemented (in the case of the lower end of that range) by up to 6 light aircraft carriers (CVLs). The Navy does not currently operate CVLs. The Navy in recent years has experimented with the concept of using an LHA-type amphibious assault ship with an embarked group of F-35B Joint Strike Fighters as a CVL.28.

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/weapons/RS20643.pdf

The most criminal event occurred in 2019 when it was obvious there were serious problems with the Ford design that may be un-fixable. Admirals pressed Congress to fund two more Fords earlier than planned, as though they wanted to get them under construction before Congress and media learned about problems.

https://www.g2mil.com/EMALS.htm

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If Israel’s Apologists Insist ‘From the River to the Sea’ Is Genocidal…

If Israel’s Apologists Insist ‘From the River to the Sea’ Is Genocidal…

The ‘Anti-Semitism’ Canard

Back in early November, with Israel’s genocide in Gaza having been underway for several weeks, Rashida Tlaib, a Democratic member of the US House of Representatives from Michigan, called for an end to Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people and shared a video on Twitter objecting to President Joe Biden claiming to speak for all Americans in saying, “We stand with Israel.”

The video showed images of Gaza being bombarded; bloody injured and dead Palestinians; and protestors in the US calling for a ceasefire, an end to Israel’s 56-year occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, an end to Israel’s 17-year illegal blockade of Gaza. “Free! Free Palestine!” protestors chanted at one rally. At other events, protestors were heard chanting “from the river to the sea”.

That chant derives from the phrase “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, which since the First Intifada that erupted in December 1987 has been a popular rallying call among Palestinians demanding an end to Israel’s occupation and apartheid regime, which encompasses all of the land of the former territory of Palestine, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

Tlaib appeared in the video condemning the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s military assault on Gaza. Near the end of the video, after a clip of administration spokesperson John Kirby expressing the White House’s view that the death of innocent civilians was a tragic but acceptable outcome, Tlaib was shown looking at the camera to say, “We will remember.” Following that, the video displayed the text “JOE BIDEN SUPPORTED THE GENOCIDE OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE”.

In a separate Twitter post, Tlaib explained, “From the river to the sea is an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction, or hate.”

The Israeli embassy in the US posted a reply that said, “No verbal acrobatics can hide the true meaning behind this slogan – namely – the obliteration of the State of @Israel. Hamas’ charter clearly states ‘Hamas rejects any alternative to the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the River to the Sea.’”

Clearly, the government of Israel objects to the idea of the Palestinian people being liberated from its criminal oppression.

Just as evidently, so do most members of the US Congress. After Tlaib posted the video, the House of Representatives passed a resolution censuring her for embracing “a genocidal call to violence to destroy the state of Israel and its people”.

Last week, the House went even further in its opposition to freedom and equality for the Palestinians by passing a resolution condemning the slogan as “an antisemitic call to arms with the goal of the eradication of the State of Israel”, a phrase that “seeks to deny Jewish people the right to self-determination and calls for the removal of the Jewish people from their ancestral homeland”.

The resolution cited the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which maintains that those who use the “antisemitic” slogan “seek Israel’s destruction through violent means”, and the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which likewise describes it as an “antisemitic” slogan used as a “rallying cry for terrorist groups and their sympathizers”.

A week ago, ZeroHedge and Breaking Points co-hosted a debate on whether Israel’s military assault on Gaza is justified, with Dave Smith and Cenk Uygur arguing the negative and Dennis Prager and Batya Ungar-Sargon arguing the affirmative. The question was put to both sides during the debate of whether the phrase “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is anti-Semitic.

Ungar-Sargon, a deputy opinion editor for Newsweek, replied that she has friends who support Palestinians’ rights who tell her that when they use the phrase, they just mean that they want there to be freedom for all.

“But it is a line from Hamas’s charter,” she continued, “and so I think the burden of proof is on the people chanting it that they don’t mean it in an eliminationist way that would wreak havoc and violence on Jews because, like I said, it’s part of the charter.”

She further stated that she wouldn’t comment on whether it’s anti-Semitic, despite having just essentially argued that we must automatically assume the anyone who uses the phrase is advocating violence against Jews.

In fact, there is no iteration of the phrase “from the river to the sea” in Hamas’s 1988 Charter. But we’ll come back to that.

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