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2019/09/012019/09/01

Chuck Spinney with Pierre Sprey & Winslow T. Wheeler: Bankrupt and Irrelevant – the Presidential Debates and Four Recent Studies on Pentagon Spending

Bankrupt and Irrelevant: the Presidential Debates and Four Recent Studies on Pentagon Spending by Pierre Sprey, Chuck Spinney and Winslow T. Wheeler In the almost 12 hours of Democratic Party presidential primary debates on June 26-27 and July 30-31, the words “Pentagon budget” or “defense spending” were not uttered, except for a fleeting, unanswered comment …

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2019/04/212019/04/21

ELECTION 2020 – WEEK to 21 APR 2019

Sunday, 21 April 2019 — Praise be to God! Big Picture. 5G grows — Romney hits Trump, may challenge — on balance, President may be erratic but it is high-energy erratic and the Democrats continue to look like piss-ants. WILD CARD: Manchurian Candidate Pete Buttigieg. However, Trump will LOSE any argument that attacks Omar, ignores …

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2019/04/022019/03/31

Yoda: 95,613 Whistleblower Complaints, Trillions Lost, Nothing Done by the US Department of Defense

According to a new report from the Government Accountability Office, in fiscal years 2013 – 2018, the Department of Defense Inspector General (DOD IG) received 95,613 whistleblower complaints. As trillions of tax dollars in military spending have gone unaccounted for, the DOD IG has been receiving an average of 15,936 complaints per year.

2018/12/122018/12/12

SPECIAL: Deep State Meng Wanzhou CFO of Huawei UPDATE 5: Xi – Trump Sending Joint Message to Elites?

20181210 updated 20181212 The effort to arrest Meng Wanzhou started last summer apparently, and the warrant was issued on 22 August. Nobody bothered to tell Trump (intentionally perhaps) and he was unaware of it at the time of the G2-Summit in Argentina. The potential fallout can make sure that China becomes a real enemy (watch …

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2018/11/162018/11/16

SPECIAL: Why Oracle Is Doomed….

I really like Larry Ellison for varied reasons including his off-shore sailing and his cash flow, but he now epitomizes the previously successful enterprise that is doomed (along with Google, Microsoft, and IBM, among many others). Below the fold are three items; first a brief commentary from Stephen E. Arnold, one of the “three amigos” …

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2018/09/022018/08/31

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Losing to Amazon on Cross-Correlation

Google: Online to Brick and Mortar Cross Correlation Our research suggests that Amazon may have a slight edge in the cross correlation of user data. Google, whether pulling a me too or simply going its own way, has decided to link online and brick and mortar data. The effort was revealed in “Google and MasterCard …

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2018/02/112018/02/10

Berto Jongman: US Should Spend on Peacekeeping Not Warmaking

U.S. Spending on U.N. Peacekeeping More Cost-Effective Than Trump’s Blueprint It would be eight times more cost-effective for the United States to support a U.N. peacekeeping mission than it would be to send in its Armed Forces, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) wrote in a recent report. This report follows an expected 2019 federal budget …

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