>Covid infecting the fish in China
FIFY
The Pentagon was "unable to account for roughly $2.3 trillion."
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On September 10, 2001, then U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld disclosed that his department was unable to account for roughly $2.3 trillion worth of transactions. The next day, the U.S. sustained the terrorist attacks that changed the world, and this startling revelation was forgotten.
When an account discrepancy occurs that cannot be traced, it’s customary to make what is called an “un-documentable adjustment.” This is similar to when your checkbook balance is off by, say, ten dollars; you add or subtract that amount to make everything balance with the bank. In 1999, the amount that the Pentagon adjusted was eight times the Defense Department budget for that year; it was one-third greater than the entire federal budget.
By 2015, the amount reported missing by the Office of the Inspector General had increased to $6.5 trillion—and that was just for the army. Using public data from federal databases, Mark Skidmore, a professor of economics at Michigan State University, found that $21 trillion in unsupported adjustments had been reported by the Defense and Housing and Urban Development departments between 1998 and 2015. That’s about $65,000 for every American.
There is no sign that the government’s internal auditors have made much headway in finding the missing money. Jim Minnery of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service traveled the country in 2002 looking for documents on just $300 million worth of unrecorded spending. “We know it’s gone. But we don’t know what they spent it on,” he said. He was reassigned after suggesting that higher-ups covered up the problem by writing it off. He’s not the only who thinks so. “The books are cooked routinely year after year,” says former defense analyst Franklin C. Spinney.
According to a 2013 Reuters report, the Pentagon is the only federal agency that has not complied with a 1996 law that requires annual audits of all government departments. The Pentagon has spent tens of billions of dollars to upgrade to more efficient technology in order to become audit-ready. But many of these new systems have failed and been scrapped.
Moar…
https://www.city-journal.org/html/americas-missing-money-15725.html
Remarks by President Obama and His Majesty King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia Before Meeting
June 29, 2010
2:33 P.M. EDT
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Hello, everybody. I want to welcome His Majesty King Abdullah to the White House, and I’m very pleased to be able to return the extraordinary hospitality that he showed me and my delegation when we visited Saudi Arabia and when we visited His Majesty’s farm.
Since that historic meeting that took place 65 years ago between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and His Majesty’s father, King Abdul-Aziz, we have had a strong and strategic relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia.
I always value His Majesty’s wisdom and insights, and we have had a very productive session speaking about a whole range of issues that relate to both relations between our two countries but also issues of prosperity and security around the globe.
We talked about our joint interest and work together in combating violent extremism. And we talked about a range of strategic issues, including issues related to Afghanistan and Pakistan; Iran and its attempts to develop nuclear weapons capacity. We discussed the Middle East peace process and the importance of moving forward in a significant and bold way in securing a Palestinian homeland that can live side by side with a secure and prosperous Israeli state.
As representatives of two G20 countries, we also continued the conversation that took place this weekend about how the Saudi government and the United States government can work with our other partners around the world to keep the economic recovery going and to help bring about the strong economic growth that’s necessary to put people back to work.
And we will continue to work together to expand the people-to-people contacts, the educational programs, the commercial ties, the business people who are working together in both countries so that not only do our governments remain strong partners but our people are continually enriching both countries.
On behalf of the American people, welcome. We appreciate your friendship. And we appreciate your good counsel and look forward to continuing to work together to strengthen the strong bonds between our two countries.
KING ABDULLAH: (As translated.) Thank you very much, Mr. President. I believe you have covered everything and left nothing out in terms of our conversation.
Mr. President, I would like to share with you the views that I have been hearing about you from other from around the world. You are an honorable man and you are a good man. And I don’t say this in order to compliment you I say this because this is the truth as I hear it from people around the world.
And I would like to say to the friendly American people that the American people are friends of Saudi Arabia and its people, and they are friends of the Arab and Muslim people, and they are also friends of humanity.
Mr. President, I would like to point to the historic ties of friendship between our two nations that began with the meeting that you pointed to, the meeting between the late King Abdul-Aziz and the late Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Over the past seven decades, the relationship has grown stronger and broader and deeper, and we appreciate all that you personally have done to further broaden and deepen and strengthen this relationship. And I hope that you will be able to continue to work with us on improving this relationship for many more years.
Thank you, Mr. President, for a productive meeting. I want to also thank our friends, the American people. And I also would like to thank our friends here in the media. May God spare us from all of the bad things they can do to us. (Laughter.) And may God bless us with all the positive things they can do for us and for humanity.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, that is an excellent prayer. Thank you.
END
2:42 P.M. EDT
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-obama-and-his-majesty-king-abdullah-saudi-arabia-meeting
President 0bama & King Adbullah Meet at the White House
29 Jun 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJNRW3TKULA
Jacinda Ardern To Be OUSTED After Selling New Zealand To China
Mahyar Tousi lays it out - infiltration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X8mjvU9ERw
>Just like they try to say that the KKK was Repub. when it was actually the Dems.
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First 20 seconds. Kek
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/indiana-rep-jackie-walorski-killed-car-accident-rcna41410
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/car-carrying-rep-jackie-walorski-crossed-center-line-caused-deadly-crash-sheriff-says
Not very cooperative… (DSCA)
Donald J. Trump / @realDonaldTrump
08/18/2022 12:03:29
Truth Social: 108844719100212035
OCTOBER 2020…
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8813315/Trump-says-fully-authorized-total-declassification-documents.html
https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/108844719100212035
Donald J. Trump / @realDonaldTrump
08/18/2022 12:12:42
Truth Social: 108844755382041412
“Memorandum on Declassification of Certain Materials Related to the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation” trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/p
https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/memorandum-declassification-certain-materials-related-fbis-crossfire-hurricane-investigation/
https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/108844755382041412
UK's Labour Party Faces BANKRUPTCY As 100,000 Members Leave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i06U8eL2mA
Labour loses nearly 100,000 members and makes ÂŁ5 million loss in 2021
Party’s income from membership fees has been cut and makes up majority of deficit
Labour lost nearly 100,000 members in 2021 and ended the year with a £5m financial deficit, the party’s newly published accounts show.
A mass exodus of supporters saw the party’s membership – which stood at 523,332 at the end of 2020 – fall to 432,213 by the close of 2021.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-membership-loss-accounts-deficit-b2146691.html
The Labour Party lost nearly 100,000 of its members last year and ended a “difficult and demanding” 12 months £5 million in the red.
Accounts published by the Electoral Commission showed its membership dropped from 523,332 in 2020 to 432,213 as Sir Keir Starmer was caught in a stand-off with the left of his party.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/labour-loses-nearly-100-000-members-fqnjrm0qn