Two Trillion Dollars... Pretty soon, we're talking real money. So we put this in perspective: Two trillion U.S. dollars in $100 notes would be 1,356 miles high. If they were one dollar bills, it would be 135,600 miles high (the moon is 238,900 miles from Earth)....
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New Hampshire GOP Adds ‘Defend the Guard’ to Party Platform
by Michael Granger | Apr 17, 2024 | Blog
With a resounding "Aye," Defend the Guard was made an official part of the New Hampshire Republican Party platform. On Saturday, April 13, the New Hampshire GOP held a meeting to vote on platform amendments. Among the list of proposals was the following text: "Demand...
Failure Follies: The US Navy Continues the Race to the Bottom
by Bill Buppert | Apr 16, 2024 | Blog
The collapse of western martial civilization is sticking to its schedule. The Wasp class LHD, USS Boxer, has suffered yet another engineering casualty. On this, the Navy delivers with a spectacularly consistent track record of failure with the Little Crappy Ships, the...
The F35: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
by Bill Buppert | Apr 15, 2024 | Blog
“Soon after publication ‘Superiority’ was inserted into the Engineering curriculum of MIT, to warn the graduates that the Better is often the enemy of the Good, and the Best can be the enemy of both, as it is always too late.” - Arthur C. Clarke Superiority by Arthur...
A Home into a House
by Kym Robinson | Apr 9, 2024 | Blog
It’s a modest house, a unit trapped inside of a suburb within a suburb. Mostly elderly live here. A woman in her late seventies greets me, “I’m Rosanne, the neighbour.” She takes me through the house and shows me what needs to be carried out. Heavy furniture and the...
News Roundup 3/29/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 29, 2024 | News Roundup
Russia Russia Says Moscow Terrorist Attack Has Connection to ‘Ukrainian Nationalists’ AWC NYT: US Didn’t Give Russia All the Information It Had About Moscow Terrorist Plot AWC China Philippine President Vows ‘Response’ to China’s Actions in South China Sea AWC Israel...
‘Absolutely Shocking’ – UN Official Describes Children’s Ward at North Gaza Hospital
by Scott Horton | Mar 28, 2024 | Blog
From the Palestine Chronicle: A UN official has described the situation in the children’s ward at the Kamal Adwan hospital in north Gaza where at least 15 children have died as a result of starvation, as “absolutely shocking.” “I went there because that was the...
Israel – Backed by the U.S.A. – Is the Most Criminal Regime On the Planet
by Scott Horton | Mar 21, 2024 | Blog
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Celebrate Juneteenth the Right Way
Today is Juneteenth. I celebrate the lethal electrocution of two communist spies on this day in 1953; Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, an American couple, were executed for their espionage service to Stalin and the USSR They became good communists on that...
The “Least Performing” Circus Continues at the US Navy (and Elsewhere)
***Have been out of pocket for conference attendance*** The US Navy and the Pentagon continue the grand sclerotic and arthritic three ring circus of staggering inabilities to deliver any exquisite platforms on time, on budget and within scope. The sterling track...
Be Careful What You Ask for
You wanted America First. You got it. Did you think it wouldn't be conceived in national collectivist terms? The clue's in the name. It's America First, not Americans First.
Phony Noninterventionists
Call me naive, but I increasingly suspect that much of today's "left" is not antiwar on principle. Rather, it's anti-American war because, in its view, America (not just the government) is rotten to the core: bourgeois, racist, patriarchal, heteronormative, blah,...
America First is Always the Sober Alternative to War on the World
My shortest post ever. Ironic that Israel has more US senators than America.
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I discuss the news around deportations, the military parade, No Kings, and Iran v Israel. ALP
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