Anonymous ID: 192dfa Sept. 3, 2025, 3:49 p.m. No.23544882   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4884 >>4905 >>4970 >>5238 >>5329 >>5438 >>5502

Pentagon's Bloated, Opaque And Undisciplined Budget Undermines US National Security

 

Open the Books released a report last week detailing 20 areas of fiscal concern at the Department of Defense. One of the best opportunities for immediate reform is ending the Pentagon’s longstanding “use-it-or-lose-it” spending sprees that happen every September. CEO John Hart wrote the following letter to Secretary Pete Hegseth urging him to end the practice this September, as the Pentagon once again asks Congress for a record FY 2026 budget:

 

Here are some purchases we found in the DOD checkbook last September:

 

$6.1 million of lobster tail

$16.6 million of ribeye steak

$211.7 million of furniture

$36,000 for footrests

$16.3 million on cartons, crates, and toolboxes

 

https://www.openthebooks.com/assets/1/6/DOD_Letter_UseItOrLoseIt.pdf

Anonymous ID: 192dfa Sept. 3, 2025, 3:52 p.m. No.23544887   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4896 >>4902 >>4970 >>5238 >>5329 >>5438 >>5502

Putin’s Q&A session following China visit

 

The Russian president has said he has nothing against providing Ukraine with security guarantees, as long as they are not at Moscow’s expense

 

Vid in link

 

https://www.rt.com/russia/624077-putin-presser-china-ukraine-conflict/

Anonymous ID: 192dfa Sept. 3, 2025, 4:27 p.m. No.23545009   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Hamas ready to release all hostages in comprehensive deal

 

This agreement must also include the cessation of war in Gaza and the withdrawal of Israeli troops, the Gaza-based Palestinian group Hamas noted

 

The Gaza-based Palestinian group Hamas has announced that it is ready to release all hostages held in the Gaza Strip within the framework of a comprehensive deal with Israel, which must include a complete ceasefire in the enclave.

 

A relevant statement was published on the movement’s Telegram channel.

 

"Hamas confirms that it is ready to implement a comprehensive deal which would include the release of all hostages in exchange to the agreed number of Palestinian prisoners. This agreement must also include the cessation of war in Gaza and the withdrawal of Israeli troops," the statement reads. The movement also insists on opening all border checkpoints and beginning work on rebuilding the enclave.

 

In March, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) resumed combat in the enclave, ending the ceasefire regime established in January 2025. During several rounds of talks mediated by Qatar, Egypt, and the US, the parties to the conflict were unable to determine the terms of a new agreement.

 

On August 8, Israel’s war cabinet approved a plan to take control of the entire Gaza City via an operation it dubbed Gideon’s Chariots II. On August 20, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz endorsed the plan to capture Gaza City, and on August 21, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also signed off on the proposed strategy.

 

On August 29, IDF Spokesman Avichay Adraee announced that preparations had begun for an offensive on the administrative center of the Palestinian enclave.

 

According to the Israeli side, Hamas is still holding 48 hostages in the Gaza Strip, 20 of them alive.

 

https://tass.com/world/2011939

Anonymous ID: 192dfa Sept. 3, 2025, 4:32 p.m. No.23545027   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5061 >>5154 >>5238 >>5329 >>5438 >>5445 >>5502

Anna Paulina Luna: Jeffrey Epstein May Have Been An ‘Intelligence Asset Working for Our Adversaries’

 

Some info ref the Epstein victims testimony today:

 

• There are over 33,000 documents. Names will be in those files. Per the victims, we need to follow the money trail. This was a well orchestrated operation with many tentacles to include shell corporations, etc.

• Chairman Comer via House Oversight is sending a SARS request to the US Treasury.

• There is a lot to uncover ref the Deutsche Bank and how money was funneled and moved.

• Epstein’s network was described as an international trafficking network to all members of congress who were present (both Democrat and Republican) and also involved trafficking women from Slavic nations as well. Immigration fraud, etc. Many of those women have stayed silent due to fear of retribution.

• Foreign governments (as in more than one) were named to be working with Epstein.

• Victim information, rightfully so, was redacted from release, but the committee as a whole is working to ensure that they will be given access to their information that was previously denied to them by other admins. Ty to the Trump admin for handing all of this over.

• One victim had her newborn daughter threatened for coming forward.

• Epstein was still victimizing underaged girls while on work-release while wearing an ankle monitor, only to spend the evening in prison.

• The attorneys of some of these implicated individuals have apparently already tried to contact some of the victims attorney’s.

• Rep Comer is running point on this and I am fully backing these efforts.

 

https://x.com/RepLuna/status/1963063742842687719