At the time, MSM derided my statements as “misinformation” and “conspiracy theories.” As it turns out the MSM were the ones promoting misinformation. And despite the precise accuracy of this and all my other predictions, I am still a “conspiracy theorist.”
Just over 6 months ago, the Pentagon announced its largest budget in American history: $842 billion, *half* of which will go to for-profit defense contractors. The military-industrial complex’s recent roots trace to a 1993 secret Pentagon dinner hosted by Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Defense Les Aspin who summoned CEOs of America's largest defense contractors to the so-called “Last Supper” to lobby the nation's top defense contractors into consolidations by merging with one another.
It worked: the number of prime contractors in the United States has dropped by 90%, from 50+ in the 90s to just 5 today, creating a concentrated cartel of defense contractors who profit handsomely from war.
Take a shoulder-fired Stinger missile that is used today in the Ukraine war: In 1991, it cost $25,000. Today, it costs more than $400,000 to replace each missile sent to Ukraine. Even adjusting for inflation & product improvements, that's a >7x cost increase.
In 2015, a Pentagon review found Lockheed Martin and its subcontractor, Boeing, were grossly overcharging the Pentagon & US allies by hundreds of millions of dollars for the Patriot's PAC-3 missiles: total profits approached 40%.
Is it a coincidence the Department of Defense is the only US federal agency to *never* have completed or passed an audit? This isn’t a conspiracy theory, it’s just mundane reality.
Black students improved at three times the district average @PPSConnect compared to previous year, but we still have to keep a focus on narrowing opportunity gaps across all student groups.
We have more work to do to ensure every student achieves success.
.@PPSConnect has again posted a positive improvement in its overall graduation rate. This is testament to the hard work by our students, educators, support staff, leaders & families.
Imagine if we spent 1% of state & federal highway widening funds on the #BikeBus. That would be climate, transportation & education policy with real results.
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I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue & stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are…
An airline employee conducted an unauthorized takeoff without passengers at Sea-Tac; aircraft has crashed in south Puget Sound. Normal operations at Sea-Tac Airport have resumed.