To: WildHighlander57
1,724 posted on
04/15/2023 5:53:25 PM PDT by
CheshireTheCat
("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
1,725 posted on
04/15/2023 6:13:39 PM PDT by
xone
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To: CheshireTheCat
Great stuff excellent catch cheshire,had to do this clip:
From this link by CHeshireTheCat:
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/trading-with-the-enemy
The Ukraine government, headed by Volodymyr Zelensky, has been using American taxpayers’ funds to pay dearly for the vitally needed diesel fuel that is keeping the Ukrainian army on the move in its war with Russia.
It is unknown how much the Zelensky government is paying per gallon for the fuel, but the Pentagon was paying as much as $400 per gallon to transport gasoline from a port in Pakistan, via truck or parachute, into Afghanistan during the decades-long American war there.
What also is unknown is that Zelensky has been buying the fuel from Russia, the country with which it, and Washington, are at war, and the Ukrainian president and many in his entourage have been skimming untold millions from the American dollars earmarked for diesel fuel payments. One estimate by analysts from the Central Intelligence Agency put the embezzled funds at $400 million last year, at least; another expert compared the level of corruption in Kiev as approaching that of the Afghan war, “although there will be no professional audit reports emerging from the Ukraine.”
“Zelensky’s been buying discount diesel from the Russians,” one knowledgeable American intelligence official told me. “And who’s paying for the gas and oil? We are. Putin and his oligarchs are making millions” on it. Many government ministries in Kiev have been literally “competing,” I was told, to set up front companies for export contracts for weapons and ammunition with private arms dealers around the world, all of which provide kickbacks.
Many of those companies are in Poland and Czechia, but others are thought to exist in the Persian Gulf and Israel. “I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that there are others in places like the Cayman Islands and Panama, and there are lots of Americans involved,” an American expert on international trade told me.
1,726 posted on
04/15/2023 6:33:27 PM PDT by
rodguy911
(HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE!! ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY: UNTIL ITS NOT)
To: CheshireTheCat; bitt; grey_whiskers; HarleyLady27; sweetiepiezer; LucyT; norsky; ransomnote; ...
1,784 posted on
04/15/2023 11:12:22 PM PDT by
WildHighlander57
((the more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
To: CheshireTheCat; All
https://pingthread.com/thread/1646216112634470401
Another goodie from Cheshire:
If you think the boomer die-off isn't a big deal, just wait until you see how badly the supply chain will fall apart in absence of a stable transportation system.
Air travel and cargo alone is riding on the backs of industry-veteran boomers who are retiring in droves.
ATC personnel, pilots, mechanics, dispatchers... All facing major staffing shortages that they won't be able to fill with conventional hiring standards.
So those standards will be lowered. It's already happening, and we can see it in the increased delays and near-miss incidents.
Even passenger jets move lots of mail and cargo. Air traffic is one of the most important moving parts of the national and international supply chain. Just that alone will have severe consequences for all other sectors.
And this is before even getting to trains and trucks. Just this one sector of the economy can dynamite everything else if it becomes dysfunctional enough. Does your industry need supplies? Do they arrive via plane, train, or truck? 💀
Tell me you know nothing about transportation regulations without telling me.
The ability to fully automate large jets has existed for decades. Why do you think it hasn't been implemented yet?
It's a little late for this, but boomers should have encouraged their kids to learn skills that apply to these fields instead of telling them to get useless degrees in marketing, business, education, and art history. Maybe big propaganda push on zoomers? ...................
Is this the futre of air travel due to the lowering of standards?
1,795 posted on
04/16/2023 3:14:13 AM PDT by
rodguy911
(HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE!! ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY: UNTIL ITS NOT)
To: CheshireTheCat
1,837 posted on
04/16/2023 10:17:30 AM PDT by
bitt
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