Lets call this article "justifiable paranoia". With that said, DDE was right when he warned the country about the problems we would encounter should the military industrial complex get out of control (which it largely has).
To regain control of the situation there are two things that can help the civilians regain the upper hand:
1. Replace the current acquisition system with one similar to that of the British.
2. Remove "cost plus", a relic of WW2 from the bidding/payment assumptions.
Of course, the second one is likely a pipe dream at best - but the first one would go a long way to restoring sanity to weapons procurement.
The next Prez has more than just a few tigers by their tails with Iraq, Afghanistan, and a well entrenched special interest group(s) with possibly the most pervasive lobby in DC (which include three of this site's op-ed writers, I believe). But short of recruiting from other planets, where does one go to find military expertise untainted by the MIC? Brilliant minds who stand up to the MIC don't appear to make it to general or admiral.
Originally posted by mattkay4: The author states "Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons or a program to develop any, or a ballistic missile that can reach the United States..."
Does he know this for an absolute fact? If so, why is the UN so concerned then?
The UN is concerned because some 'seers', who need a cover for their agenda, keep on yelling about it. So much so, that the UN keeps on second guessing its own investigation.
Originally posted by mattkay4: The author states "Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons or a program to develop any, or a ballistic missile that can reach the United States..."
Does he know this for an absolute fact? If so, why is the UN so concerned then?
The UN is concerned because some 'seers', who need a cover for their agenda, keep on yelling about it. So much so, that the UN keeps on second guessing its own investigation.
More 'get back in and find them WMDs' mentality.
So YOU are also saying with absolute authority that Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons or a program to develop any?
If a tree falls in a forest and lands on a politician, even if you can't hear the tree or the screams, I'll bet you'd at least hear the applause. Paul Tindale
Originally posted by mattkay4: The author states "Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons or a program to develop any, or a ballistic missile that can reach the United States..."
Does he know this for an absolute fact? If so, why is the UN so concerned then?
The UN is concerned because some 'seers', who need a cover for their agenda, keep on yelling about it. So much so, that the UN keeps on second guessing its own investigation.
More 'get back in and find them WMDs' mentality.
So YOU are also saying with absolute authority that Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons or a program to develop any?
Seems to me like that is awfuly like the old; So, when did you stop beating your wife?
Please be aware that our failure will not be a consequence of the military, but our weakness on the financial front. I post this as a warning I have received.
Powerful foreign entities are preparing a massive major assault on the US financial corruption, at key spots. All signs seem to point to the gold futures contracts traded with deep and longstanding corruption at the COMEX and NYMEX. Two corrupt centers of trading are better than one. The COMEX is a division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. A highly leveraged sequence is soon to be unleashed, one that should bring back thoughts of asymmetric attack. The Iraqi War has countless reports of costly $5M and $20M equipment ruined by $200 bombs, sometimes home-made and triggered by a cellphone. Something big comes to the gold market! If successful, and private information indicates extremely big players are involved, severe damage will be done to the USDollar. Their goal is to kill the COMEX gold market, the key location for gold price suppression. Major Russian, Chinese, Arab, and European bankers and billionaires are angry beyond words. The key here and now is COMEX December gold futures contracts. North American investment houses have also targeting them for key failure event. However, with the Bank For Intl Settlements in Switzerland, and numerous multi-billionaires residing in what many call Old Europe, and over a century of banking power reminiscent in Switzerland, look for the main thrust to come from Central Europe.
With newly energized Russia & China building their gold treasures, with Arabs turning from distrusted Western paper and more toward gold & silver, look for the new players to offer support to the primary thrust attacks. If successful, it will be a defining moment in US financial history. These players will demand physical delivery from COMEX, and not take NO for an answer, with promises to expose the corrupt COMEX managers. The first delivery notice for the December gold contract is given on November 28. Recall that Russians and Arabs each have suffered severe damage from the crude oil price and petro revenues. The futures contract games conducted by US price systems and Wall Street tactics used against hedge funds are largely responsible. They are angry. Furthermore, Russians and Arabs own a large amount of acquired gold, whose value is also pushed down by corrupt US paper mechanisms. Europe is sick of the new global bankers being corrupt in open ways. Russians and Arabs are sick of having US failures thrust on their home soil. Both Putin and Medvedev have made public photo opportunities to display their gold.
One veteran sage gold trader sent me a few messages lately, saying that in December the COMEX will break with fractures, but in 1Q2009 the COMEX will fail in full glory, with grand press publicity, grotesque details released, and likely criminal prosecutions. The words “brutal, without mercy” were used. Powerful global players wish to rid the financial arena of the corrupt American financial criminals, who have done more to destroy the current system than any group in modern history, with impunity and under full protection by the current USGovt leaders of both political parties. He has ties to Europe, Russia, Asia, and the Persian Gulf. He wrote, “A brutal trap has been set for the COMEX and JPM/Chase guys. Even the Federal Reserve will not be able to step in and smooth things over. You will see asymmetric warfare in the financial markets. There will be no prisoners taken. It is a battle for all or nothing. The power players [in New York and WashDC] are done, and some of them already have a notion of what is coming to them. Some have tried to change sides and were told to get back where they came from and wait to be executed. No more negotiations. It is outright war now and there will be very little left standing once this is all over. You will see a lot of guys committing suicide to escape what is expected. The markets and Mother Nature are going to rule royally and without mercy from hereon forward… There will be collapse of the United States. However, it will be quite different from what people think how it will unfold. The US will be put to sleep by the creditor nations in an elegant but brutal manner.” Wow! This source has strong credibility, having laid out a timetable of events in August that almost all come to pass, from Lehman to AIG to Fannie Mae, and great disstress to other firms like Merrill Lynch, events that came to pass at a turning point in September. The dates were laid out exactly, the players depicted by industry. In my mind, images come of a giant put to sleep via ether gas with its prized printing press still humming and burning up in smoke, with nothing but wreckage in the picture. This is the American tragedy, the ultimate outcome to inflation engineering gone totally amok.
