Posted on 05/15/2020 8:11:11 PM PDT by rlmorel
We live in a banana republic exporting food, no meaningful tariffs to protect our industry and import poorly made "durable" goods FROM COMMUNISTS!.
Embrace the suck.
Well, I am not quite there yet, but I don’t have any illusions about Obunghole and Hitlery ever facing any punishment.
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Thank you and God bless; THREEpers {3%'ers} likewise. Perilous times.
I am way behind {due to an eye surgery} on this, but I am beginning to think Gen. Flynn set up a covert operation aimed at just this time. 🤔
It is fairly obvious that the DoD's Office of Net Assessment was a money cache for covert {political?} shenanigans.
Later, gator.
From what I have heard, that is what I have come to believe too. I think it is why Lovinger was screwed...he might not have been privy to the stuff coming through, I wonder if he thought these were supposed to be legitimate "studies" they were handing out these monies for, and then when he looked at the studies and the people who kept walking through the revolving door (Like Stefan Halper).
Here is a link to an excellent article in The Washington Times: Loose contracting practices at Pentagon office waste millions; whistleblower punished
Here is an excerpt:
A chief critic came from the inside. Mr. Lovinger complained in emails to Director James H. Baker that the office had become a lure for high-priced academic-style papers instead of classified “net assessments.” Interview transcripts show that ONA officials have acknowledged under questioning that the office has not produced a net assessment, its core mission, for 12 years. “On the issue of quality, more than once I have heard our contractor studies labeled ‘derivative,’ ‘college-level,’ and based heavily on secondary sources,” Mr. Lovinger wrote in a September 2016 email. “One of our contractor studies was literally cut and pasted from a World Bank report.” No documentation
The Washington Times last year examined Mr. Halper’s $244,000 Russia-China report, which focused on suspected collaboration between the two U.S. adversaries. On Page 7, Mr. Halper states: “Consultants and Advisors. The following consultants and advisors contributed to the analysis within this study.”
On two pages is a list of 43 such contributors, in some cases a who’s who of Washington’s national security brainpower. The Times checked with 15 of the 43. “No memory of project or person. Quick search of calendar and email shows nothing,” Michael V. Hayden, retired Air Force general and former CIA director, told The Times. Jonathan Haslam, a Princeton professor and noted scholar on Soviet history, said: “I was never asked to participate in this study and I would not have agreed to do so anyway. I find it troubling that I am listed in a study that I never participated in.” On this particular report, the inspector general said, Mr. Halper promised to visit the National War College, the British Ministry of Defense, Harvard University and other august settings. He also would meet with “strategic analysts, economists and experts” and develop an advisory group. The inspector general concluded: “None of the 851 footnotes in the deliverables attributed source material to an interview conducted by Professor Halper. ONA personnel could not provide us any evidence that Professor Halper visited any of these locations, established an advisory group, or met with any of the specific people listed in the statement of work.”
Great thread. Thanks for the post!
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I haven't had time to run thru the entire thread, but, I hope someone brought up "THE HAMMER" -- a supercomputer set up by Brennan & Clapper at Ft. Washington, MD -- in parallel with the NSA, but not warrant-governed by any court -- and used to spy on millions of domestic phones -- including trump & Flynn.
See “THE HAMMER” — Ultra-secret Supercomputer System Used by CIA/NSA to ‘Wiretap’ Trump...
TXnMA
“ 85% of government employees are Democrat”
But in management, planning and decision-making positions that is more like 95%. To advance in the public sector you must be a reliable member of the club. If you are not seen that way, you will be held down and eventually drummed out. Government employment is NOT a meritocracy in any way, shape or form it is a club of the like-minded. An interest group at best...at worst it is reminiscent of the Stassi or SS in its mind-set.
Government employees are groomed and advanced from the very start to be loyal to ends of government interest. You literally have to be the equivalent of a very talented under-cover spy to survive for a long period with a different viewpoint.
Heya TXnMA, hope you are doing okay...good to hear from you!
I am going to be publishing a timeline of the Flynn matter in the next weeks or so, but not sure how to do it on FR.
I have been putting events in a spreadsheet and sorting by date, with events, links to sources and explanations/speculations on my part or other people. I will ping everyone on the thread.
Hope "all Y'all" are doing fine & escaping "cabin fever"!
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Sounds like a worthy project!
You should be able to translate your spreadsheet (in comma-delimited "CSV" form) into a HTML <TABLE>, and, thus preserve your formatting and sorting.
I haven't tried it yet, but several sources recommend the online "Tableizer!" webpage/app. (You just PASTE your "CSV" spreadsheet cells into their form box -- and, supposedly, the website will produce your HTML "<TABLE> </TABLE>" code for you to COPY and use on FR...
(I don't use online stuff much, because I have my own offline HTML editor app that handles things like that for me...)
Good luck! And, if you need help, Don't hesitate to ask for me to fumble around with something for a bit... < LOL!!!>
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Also, I have a fairly good "Bookmarks" file on "HAMR" -- the rogue. non-judicial "HAMMER" supercomputer Comey, Clapper, & Brennan & 0b0z0 used for illegal spying on Trump, Flynn, Supreme court (including Roberts) et al, -- starting within a year of 0b0z0's election...
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FRegards,
TXnMA
Heh, good to hear all is well.
I have used a good amount of HTML over the years, but never done much for tables...guess this is a good time to start learning that!
Sigh...I tend to use too much HTML, much like when desktop publishing first became available, and you had access to a hundred different fonts, I constantly had to fight the urge to use all of them...
Of course Obama and his one world Marxist pals were in on this.
Yes...with each passing day it is clearer. Some good info on FR...
Hey Suzie...is this the "by the book" sort of thing you were talking about in that e-mail to yourself?
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