Cops Lie - Judge concerned LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Louisville judge who signed a search warrant for Breonna Taylor’s home that ultimately led to her death said Thursday she is concerned that the detective may have lied to obtain the warrant. But Jefferson Circuit Judge...
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Israel Demands F-35s As Part Of $8 Billion Military Aid Package
by Jason Ditz | Sep 17, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
With the United States set to use the peace treaty as a chance to sell F-35 warplanes to the United Arab Emirates, Israel has been pushing for a bunch of free U.S. equipment based on pledges for a region-wide qualitative edge. On Wednesday, Israel offered its first...
Breaking: Anonymous Liars Claim Iran Something Reports Discredited Hack
by Scott Horton | Sep 13, 2020 | Blog
Here's some horseshit for yall tonight: Officials: Iran weighs plot to kill U.S. ambassador to South Africa Yeah, sure. By Natasha Bertrand who built her entire career on the completely discredited Steele Dossier. Update: I told you this story was bullshit.
Trump accuses Pentagon leaders of wanting to ‘fight wars’ to make defense companies rich
by Scott Horton | Sep 7, 2020 | Blog
Jeff Schogol in Task and Purpose: President Donald Trump blasted the Pentagon’s leadership on Monday for allegedly caring about defense industry more than U.S. service members. “I'm not saying the military's in love with me – the soldiers are,” the president said at a...
WSJ: U.S. Debt Is Set to Exceed Size of the Economy Next Year, a First Since World War II
by Scott Horton | Sep 2, 2020 | Blog
Oh well don't worry about it okay. I'm sure it'll be fine. The government is in charge and they know what to do and stuff.
Shot By Cops, Thwarted By Judges And Geography
by Steven Woskow | Aug 25, 2020 | Blog
How qualified immunity works: U.S. courts show wide regional disparities in granting qualified immunity, the controversial legal doctrine now under fire for protecting officers accused of excessive force. The shooter was Fort Worth, Texas, police officer Hugo Barron....
Immigration Nation
by Steven Woskow | Aug 5, 2020 | Blog
The new Netflix series that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) tried to legally block. Although Clusiau and Schwartz make liberal use of text slates for statistics, Immigration Nation is mostly devoid of other context and narration. Instead, interview...
Stephen M Walt: Countries Should Mind Their Own Business
by Steven Woskow | Jul 20, 2020 | Blog
"As A.J.P. Taylor once archly observed, leaders in the 19th century “fought ‘necessary’ wars and killed thousands; the idealists of the 20th century fought ‘just’ wars and killed millions.” Stephen M. Walt (professor of international relations at Harvard University)...
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RIP USMC: The Corps is Toast
Force Design 2030 murdered the USMC. The Marines are struggling to keep more than one Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) forward deployed at a time. Sometimes, two are forward deployed but only for limited periods. Each MEU has about two weeks of sustainment. Unless...
Meta, Sued for Censorship, Announces End to Faux ‘Fact Checking’
Meta’s announcement came a day after a petition to the Supreme Court was filed against Facebook for censoring truth on behalf of the government.
The Political Moment w/Typo
Typo is back to discuss the current political environment, libertarianism, perfect v good, and Trump’s appointments.
Pentagon Pork Parade: Fat Amy Continues to Prove Pigs Can Fly
Pig can fly on occasion as the F35 Porkulus Project continues to bleed oceans of money. Welcome to Clown World: the F-35 requires nearly 9 million lines of computer code. Meanwhile, Apollo 11's Lunar Lander needed only 145,000 lines of code. There are three variants...
Marine Failure Follies Cascading
I just spent my last podcast episode making the case to dismantle and eliminate the US Marine Corps and they are doing a splendid job of sealing the deal through their latest acquisition fiascos and the Osprey aircraft follies continuing to fall down on the job....
New Ships for an Impossible Mission: The Marines Stumble Again
Yesterday I discussed the reasons why we need to dismantle and close down the United States Marine Corps. One of those reasons is the Light Amphibious Warship (now called the Landing Ship, Medium, LSM), a small landing ship which would ferry small Marine units...
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