U.S. Military Personnel Deployments
200k active troops overseas in 177 countries
See link for graphics on US military spending and personnel distribution.
Berto Jongman: US Military Global Deployment
Ineptitude, MilitaryMongoose: Trump “Team” Out of Control on Russia
Cultural Intelligence, Government, Ineptitude
Trump administration | Conflicting views on Russia
Donald Trump, US President: “The countries we are defending must pay for the cost of this defence – and, if not, the US must be prepared to let these countries defend themselves.” “If you get along and if Russia is really helping us, why would anybody have sanctions if somebody’s doing really great things?”
James Mattis, US Secretary of Defense: “Strengthening our alliances requires […] living up to our treaty obligations. When America gives its work it must mean what it says.” (confirmation hearing) “There are a decreasing number of areas where we can co-operate, and an increasing number of areas in which we will have to confront Russia. […] The most important thing is that we recognise the reality of what we deal with, with Mr Putin, and we recognise that he is trying to break the North Atlantic Alliance.”
Rex Tillerson, US Secretary of State: “Russia today poses a danger […] It has invaded Ukraine […] and supported Syrian forces that brutally violate the laws of war. Our NATO allies are right to be alarmed at a resurgent Russia.” (confirmation hearing)
Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA: “[Russia] reasserted itself aggressively, invading and occupying Ukraine, threatening Europe, and doing nothing to aid in the destruction and defeat of ISIS.” (confirmation hearing)
Stephen E. Arnold: US Intelligence Out-Sourced
Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, IO Impotency
Intelligence Industry Becoming Privatized and Concentrated
Monopolies aren’t just for telecoms and zipper manufacturers. The Nation reveals a much scarier example in its article, “5 Corporations Now Dominate Our Privatized Intelligence Industry.” Reporter Tim Shorrock outlines the latest merger that brings us to this point, one between Pentagon & NSA contractor Leidos Holdings and a division of Lockheed Martin called Information Systems and Global Solutions. Shorrock writes:
The sheer size of the new entity makes Leidos one of the most powerful companies in the intelligence-contracting industry, which is worth about $50 billion today. According to a comprehensive study I’ve just completed on public and private employment in intelligence, Leidos is now the largest of five corporations that together employ nearly 80 percent of the private-sector employees contracted to work for US spy and surveillance agencies.
SPECIAL: Wikileaks Vault 7 CIA Cyber Dabbling — and False Flag Cyber Attacks Blamed on Russia UPDATE 2
Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, IO Impotency
Leaked CIA Document: CIA Uses “False Flag” Cyberattacks to Blame Russian Hackers
WikiLeaks Press Release on CIA Vault 7 8,761 Items
Since 2001 the CIA has gained political and budgetary preeminence over the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). The CIA found itself building not just its now infamous drone fleet, but a very different type of covert, globe-spanning force — its own substantial fleet of hackers.
ZeroHedge: David Stockman: “After March 15 Everything Will Grind To A Halt”
Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude
David Stockman: “After March 15 Everything Will Grind To A Halt”
Two weeks after David Stockman warned that “the market is apparently pricing in a huge Trump stimulus. But if you just look at the real world out there, the only thing that's going to happen is a fiscal bloodbath and a White House train wreck like never before in U.S. history” and exclaimed that, when looking at markets, “what's going on today is complete insanity” he is back with another interview, this time with Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog in which he, once again warns, that a giant fiscal bloodbatch is coming soon, and urges listeners to pay especially close attention to the March 15, 2017 debt ceiling deadling, at which point everything could “grind to a halt.” Read more.
Jon Rappoport: US Doctors Kill 1 in 10 Through Error
06 Family, 07 Health, Commerce, Corruption, Ineptitude
TEN PERCENT OF ALL DEATHS IN AMERICA ARE CAUSED BY THE MEDICAL SYSTEM
How the mind treats “impossible things that couldn't be happening”
On May 3, 2016, the Washington Post ran an article detailing deaths from medical errors. This bomb dropped: doctors' errors account for “about 9.5 percent of all deaths annually in the United States.”
Let that sink in. Roughly one out of every 10 deaths in the US is caused by medical errors. (Under “errors,” you can include a wide range of toxic treatment.)
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Robert Steele: Flynn Deserved to Be Fired, But Not for Talking to Russians UPDATE: Pedophilia Aspect
Cultural Intelligence, Government, Ineptitude, Peace Intelligence, Strategy
UPDATE: It is now known that the Vice President joined in the chorus to fire Mike Flynn after he learned that Flynn kept from the Vice President the fact that a list of high-level pedophiles in the USA, obtained from Amsterdam, included a close personal friend of the Vice President's, and this was discussed with the Russians.
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It is my view that Mike Flynn deserved to be fired — he was simply not up to the job and anyone who shows up on day one with their son as their aide is so low-rent as to be laughable — but he was not fired by Trump and he was not fired for talking to the Russians.
Readers must remember that Henry Kissinger, whose Nobel Peace Prize set a new low in the history of that largely corrupt offering, sabotaged the Paris Peace Talks in order to win an election, killing another 20,000 US troops and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians, only to settle for precisely the same terms four years later.
Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) holds the record for official treason, providing the air targets to the North Vietnamese via the Swiss Embassy, one day in advance, before the pilots even got their assignments, as a “humanitarian gesture.” John McCain's being shot down is probably directly connected to this treason by LBJ, the same man who enabled and covered up the assassination of John F. Kennedy (JFK).
So let's keep all this in perspective.
