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2012/03/252012/03/25

Marcus Aurelius: Breaking Faith – Keep the F-35 Flush the People

In my capacity as a private citizen, I invite your attention to attached Torchbearer Alert from the Association of the United States Army, the Army’s private, non-Governmental, professional association. It describes in clear and simple terms the “screw job” that the Administration and Department of Defense propose to deliver to those military personnel who have retired, …

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2012/03/232012/03/23

WInslow Wheeler: Congress Blows on the F-35

What I learned from the HASC hearing on the F-35 this past Tuesday is described below in a piece at Time’s Batteland blog. Predictably, aside from the new GAO testimony, the subcommittee exposed nothing, except about itself. There is a possible way out of the non-oversight mess, but I doubt there is any interest in …

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2012/01/30

Chuck Spinney: F-35 Out of Everything Except Money

F-35: Out of Altitude, Airspeed, and Ideas — But Never Money Chuck Spinney TIME, 30 January 2012 No program better illustrates the pathologies of the weapons acquisition process as it is currently practiced by the Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex (MICC) than the entirely predictable, and in this case, predicted, problems dragging the F-35 …

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2011/12/132011/12/13

Winslow Wheeler: Leon Panetta & F-35 in a Nose Dive

With his own words, Leon Panetta has shown that he is little more than a mouthpiece for keeping the defense budget at historically high levels and is incapable of coping with the coming era of modest (yes, modest) Pentagon budget reductions. Using DOD’s budget history and the ongoing decay (not a typo) of our military …

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2011/05/122011/05/12

Secrecy News: F-35 “True Costs” Disclosed

F-35 SELECTED ACQUISITION REPORT DISCLOSED The latest annual report to Congress (pdf) on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program details the soaring costs and deferred production schedule associated with the program. The report, which has not been publicly released, outlines total program costs from last year as well as per-aircraft costs and planned annual spending …

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2010/11/172010/11/17

Journal: Israel, Gaza Blocade, and F-35 Lemon

Consider please the moral implications of concatenating the following events: The Obama administration just humiliated itself by promising to turn over $3 billion in stealth fighters to Israel, supplementing the 20 F-35s it will buy with the $2.75 billion in “grants” it gets from Washington (i.e., and thereby using taxpayer money to save the troubled F-35 …

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2021/03/062021/03/07

J. C. Cole: List of Events Suggesting On-Going Sabotage of Petroleum and Other Economic Choke Points

1 gal of diesel working the field in a tractor replaces 500 man hours manual labor in the field. Agriculture is screwed without diesel. In 2015 I was told by a friend since passed: Prepare for war, my friend. The big one is coming. Evil vs. really the rest of the world…chaotic messes are coming. …

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