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Elon Musk and the Government Efficiency Panel Panels have been appointed by both the Bush administration and the Clinton administrations. Several of their recommendations have been adopted and a minute amount of government overlap and waste was eliminated. The biggest area of waste is in the DOD and the Black Ops budget. In fact, the Black Ops budget is about 35 trillion over the last 10 years which is about the same amount as our debt. Interesting eh? And I have a retired Navy friend who is. my neighbor and he audited and handled fighter jet budgets for the Navy. One Company Bo.... was invoicing the expected 1.18 billion for the f18 Hornet fighter jet (a fantastic profit margin) but what is worse is that the DOD recorded this as about a 20 billion expenditure. Where did all the extra go? Often to generals and port and graft and who knows? Perhaps Black Ops... The US spends 10 times more on defense (not really defense, our ways all over the globe are offensive in so many ways) than the next 10 largest militaries combined. We would be more than defended if we closed 80 percent of our overseas military bases outside the US and US trust territories and cut the DOD budget by 60 percent and be just fine. The way we do this is by bringing most of our troops home and really practicing defense, including our borders. The Visigoths are already in our homeland while we blow our budget, balloon our deficit and interfere in foreign nations affairs daily, everywhere, against the urgent advice of our first president George Washington.

Vic Ramdass, Ph.D is leading a provocative panel about a topic on too few radars in the U.S. He is clearly thinking about a future where most every industry in the U.S. is called upon to help DoD respond to a global threat to the rule of law and our democratic values, most likely by Xi moving on Taiwan. Michael Gilday on the panel has discussed how demands at the “tactical edge” will be pushed through DoD to U.S. industry mobilized for war. Military leaders would then be forced to defend their need for investment not to OSD or Congress but directly to the American businesses that deliver tactical effects. Tracking what I’m talking about? As you wrap up 2024 and look ahead to 2025, are you thinking about scenarios like this? Seekr Technologies is investing for this reality, as much as no one really wants to weigh the human toll of what DoD is facing. #DoDMaintenanceSymposium2024

The U.S. Secretaries of Defense and State are co-hosting their top Australian counterparts this week for ministerial and bilateral meetings where they’re expected to discuss plans for enhanced technology cooperation and shared industrial capacity, according to two senior officials. These engagements will mark the 34th Australia-United States Ministerial Consultation, or AUSMIN, which is considered a key annual forum for deliberation between the long-standing allies. https://lnkd.in/eYtBXEWd

The U.S. Secretaries of Defense and State are co-hosting their top Australian counterparts this week for ministerial and bilateral meetings where they’re expected to discuss plans for enhanced technology cooperation and shared industrial capacity, according to two senior officials. These engagements will mark the 34th Australia-United States Ministerial Consultation, or AUSMIN, which is considered a key annual forum for deliberation between the long-standing allies. https://lnkd.in/e3eaJBxm

The U.S. Secretaries of Defense and State are co-hosting their top Australian counterparts this week for ministerial and bilateral meetings where they’re expected to discuss plans for enhanced technology cooperation and shared industrial capacity, according to two senior officials. These engagements will mark the 34th Australia-United States Ministerial Consultation, or AUSMIN, which is considered a key annual forum for deliberation between the long-standing allies. https://lnkd.in/ekq6qZFE

The U.S. Secretaries of Defense and State are co-hosting their top Australian counterparts this week for ministerial and bilateral meetings where they’re expected to discuss plans for enhanced technology cooperation and shared industrial capacity, according to two senior officials. These engagements will mark the 34th Australia-United States Ministerial Consultation, or AUSMIN, which is considered a key annual forum for deliberation between the long-standing allies. https://lnkd.in/eY53TfT2

The U.S. Secretaries of Defense and State are co-hosting their top Australian counterparts this week for ministerial and bilateral meetings where they’re expected to discuss plans for enhanced technology cooperation and shared industrial capacity, according to two senior officials. These engagements will mark the 34th Australia-United States Ministerial Consultation, or AUSMIN, which is considered a key annual forum for deliberation between the long-standing allies. https://lnkd.in/e62M2haD

War is a racket, and so is the drumbeat for great power conflict. My take on the argument for a military buildup to "deter" China or Russia, and its potential economic consequences. Check it out! https://lnkd.in/dmS6nfF6

Germany Proves It’s Serious About Defense Spending No mainstream politician seems to think cutting the military budget is the way out of a fiscal crunch. Joseph C. Sternberg April 11, 2024 5:23 pm ET A question for the ages will be whether German Chancellor Olaf Scholz truly understood what he was doing in February 2022 when, a few days after Russia invaded Ukraine, he announced that his country would transform its attitude toward defense. Yet here we are, more than two years later, with Mr. Scholz’s turning point gyrating in all sorts of interesting—and, mirabile dictu, positive—ways. The latest example comes via yet another debate on defense spending. When Mr. Scholz proclaimed the turning point (the German word is Zeitenwende), the most important concrete action he proposed was the creation of a €100 billion special procurement fund for Germany’s military. This was the mechanism by which Germany finally would satisfy the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s expectation that each member state devote at least 2% of gross domestic product to defense expenditure each year, and upgrade its military equipment to be an effective ally.

I had to get a neat drink without ice to swallow this: One more time, the genius head of the UN, António Guterres, will attend the BRICK SUMMIT in Russia, where 36 mainly communist countries will push the overhaul of the global financial system and try to impact the dominance of our U.S. dollar, which wouldn’t happen with President Trump in office. Two more weeks… Also, now, very disgustingly, we’ve got former Obama’s first African American woman to serve as U.S. attorney general, Loretta Lynch, suing our Pentagon on behalf of the Chinese company DJI (https://www.dji.com/ or https://lnkd.in/gG8u7qXQ), which had been put by the DoD 1260H list (Entities Identified as Chinese Military Companies Operating in the United States in accordance with Section 1260H: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://lnkd.in/gXZ8PUfe), which can be also found at https://lnkd.in/g9thfcAd Those Chinese drones had been banned from flying over our military bases to do any surveys because the Chinese simply CAN SEE WHAT WE SEE IN OUR MILITARY FACILITIES. Still, Loretta Lynch is making money herself, putting our country’s security at imminent risk, defending a Chinese (from a well-known enemy country) company that wants just to collect critical information from our military forces, and this administration is allowing all that crap. These liberals are OUT OF CONTROL for money and power. They don’t care at all about our country. TWO MORE WEEKS… PLEASE WIDELY DISSEMINATE THIS! OUR COUNTRY WILL APPRECIATE IT! THESE LIBERAL PEOPLE DON'T HAVE ANY REGARD NEITHER FOR US OR OUR COUNTRY.