Tom Perez was elected to chair the Democratic Party. Perez served in the Obama Administration. [Link] A Philippines Senator who opposes the president's war on drugs has been arrested and accused of violating the drug laws. The Senator's arrest seems to be an...
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News Roundup 2/24/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 24, 2017 | Blog
Private prison companies donated over $100 million to Trump for his election and inauguration. These companies will now profit from Trump's immigration policy. [Link] Jeff Sessions removes an Obama directive that ordered the Department of Justice to move away from...
News Roundup 2/23/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 23, 2017 | Blog
The ATF ran an illegal cigarette smuggling operation to raise millions of dollars in funding for undercover operations. The ATF is now being sued by a group of tobacco growers. [Link] New Hampshire passes a Constitutional Carry law. This will allow citizens to...
News Roundup 2/22/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 22, 2017 | Blog
The Department of Homeland Security issued orders to immigration enforcement agents to work to deport illegal immigrants. The spokesperson for DHS said that those with criminal records will be prioritized. Those who were granted protected under Obama's DACA program...
News Roundup 2/21/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 21, 2017 | Blog
Trump picks H.R. McMaster to replace Flynn as National Security Advisor. [Link] Immigration enforcement agents are posing as local police officers to get information about people they suspect to be illegal immigrants. [Link] 74 bodies have washed ashore in Libya. It...
News Roundup 2/20/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 20, 2017 | Blog
Scott Pruitt has been confirmed to head the EPA. Pruitt is currently suing the EPA as Oklahoma's Attorney General. [Link] An Arizona sheriff overturns a rule put in place by his predecessor, Joe Arpaio, that allows immigrants to be detained for over the maximum...
2/8/17 Joe Lauria on the battle for Mosul against the Islamic State in Iraq
by Scott Horton | Feb 8, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Joe Lauria, an independent international affairs journalist, discusses the Iraqi army's long struggle to finally retake eastern Mosul from the Islamic State; the very difficult upcoming battle for the remainder of the city; the fate of Mosul's internally displaced...
News Roundup 2/6/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 6, 2017 | Blog
The Trump Administration is walking back its plans to reopen CIA black sites. [Link] The US military underreports the number of airstrikes it conducts by the thousands. [Link] The US has agreed to a $8.5 billion deal with Lockheed Martian to buy 90 F-35As. The cost is...
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Bang for your Buck: Fraud, Waste and Abuse as a Lifestyle Choice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqJ0kg9xvLs I don't agree with everything he says and he gets technical details wrong like "...these destroyer class ships, probably doing the same thing the submarine does." No, but that's OK. One thing that is always missed here is...
The Winner Is…
Donald Trump did it, he is the most famous person in the world. His ambitions have been realised. He won and to him that is all that matters. He also just happens to be the next US president, again. Harris was never going to win, she was terrible. She had been the VP...
Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé Predicts the Death of Zionism
in a recent episode of The Big Picture Podcast hosted by Mohamed Hassan, Israeli historian Ilan Pappé explains why he believes that Israel's genocide in Gaza is the beginning of the end of the Jewish supremacist state enforcing an apartheid regime in Palestine from...
Pentagon Waste: The Legend Continues Part Infinity
Of course they did. Boeing is the gift that keeps on giving A Pentagon audit revealed that Boeing overcharged the Air Force by nearly $1 million for spare parts on C-17 cargo planes, with some items marked up by as much as 8,000%. The audit reviewed prices paid for 46...
Two Tales, Two Navies
I find some of my correspondents gently berate me for being overwhelmingly negative so I am going to offer insights on occasion into tales of the human spirit that will cause you pause. So dear reader, first, the negativity the modern navy deserves. The floating...
Heavy Weather and Jets: Two Tales of the Crash
You recall that a rather spendy jet flew on its own for approx 11 minutes in 2023. The pilot of an F-35 fighter jet that briefly went missing in September 2023 before crashing made an "inappropriate" decision in ejecting from the aircraft, a Marine Corps investigation...
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