It's happening, Folks!

As we get ready to kick off Defender 23, equipment has already started arriving in Spain. The

@16thSustBde

Team, along with the

@21stTSC

, were on the job ensuring everything was dialed in just right.

Stay tuned for much more soon…

#StrongerTogether

https://twitter.com/USArmyEURAF/status/1646151234712137733

The only thing that did not make the news was an announcement by a little-known government body called the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board — FASAB — that essentially legalized secret national security spending. The new guidance, “SFFAS 56 – CLASSIFIED ACTIVITIES” permits government agencies to “modify” public financial statements and move expenditures from one line item to another. It also expressly allows federal agencies to refrain from telling taxpayers if and when public financial statements have been altered.

“From this point forward,” he says, “the federal government will keep two sets of books, one modified book for the public and one true book that is hidden.”

Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists’ Project on Government Secrecy was one of the few people across the country to pay attention to the FASAB news release. He was alarmed.

“It diminishes the credibility of all public budget documents,” he says.

I spent weeks trying to find a more harmless explanation for SFFAS 56, or at least one that did not amount to a rule that allows federal officials to fake public financial reports.

I couldn’t find one. This new accounting guideline really does mean what it appears to mean, and the details are more bizarre than the broad strokes.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/secret-government-spending-779959/

Any chance Madonna and Elon know one another?

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https://www.brighteon.com/a74888e1-fdd6-4a58-a9d0-0fc9f557fc08