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Retired Navy Four Star Convicted
Former VCNO Admiral Robert Burke Robert Burke, a retired Navy Four Star Admiral and former Vice Chief of Naval Operations, and two business executives – Yongchul “Charlie” Kim, 50, and Meghan Messenger, 47, both of New York– were arrested last May on charges related to their alleged roles in a bribery scheme involving U.S. government […]
The Good Idea Fairy strikes again
Yep, those wacky, lovable guys in power now have resurrected an item popular in the mid-teens… privatizing the PX and Commissary system. The Pentagon’s newest push to trim its workforce and spending could mean that on-base grocery stores and shops designed to save service members and their families money could ultimately be sold off to […]
Quick email snafu follow-up
The Atlantic released the full texts of the e-mails Jeffrey Goldberg received erroneously. No one is denying their accuracy that I can see (other than the usual Trumpist ad hominem attacks, like always.) To those who claim there were no operational or classified details included, here is a sample: The text beneath this began, […]
Marine vet accused of faking deployment for free flights
A Marine veteran that currently works as a Federal Air Marshal stands accused of several crimes in relation to defrauding an American airline out of hundreds of free flights. I have a lot of questions as to how this happened. Chief among them is how did the TSA/Federal Air Marshals Service not know that this […]
Channel collision with US Jet fuel tanker
Don’t know if you have been following the story – the Stena Immaculate, a tanker part of the US fleet of ten ships which carry jet fuel for the military, was hit by a Portugese-flagged container ship east of England Monday. Fire broke out, both crews abandoned ship, the Solong container ship is expected to […]
AWOL Austin: National Security Risk
SECDEF Lloyd Austin Watchdog: Pentagon chief’s secret hospital stay ‘unnecessarily’ risky By Noah Robertson A Pentagon watchdog found that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin needlessly risked U.S. national security by not immediately informing Congress and the White House of his hospitalization last January. “Although we found no adverse consequences to DoD operations arising from how the […]
FEMA Ignores Florida Trump Supporters
Report: FEMA Official Instructed Hurricane Relief Workers to Skip Trump Supporters Homes Elizabeth Weibel An official from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) instructed hurricane relief workers to skip over the homes of supporters of President-elect Donald Trump, according to a recent report. Marn’i Washington, a FEMA supervisor, reportedly informed hurricane relief workers “verbally and […]
Thursday Terrorism
A trial is starting in France for 8 people, implicated in the beheading death of a French school teacher over Mohammed cartoons. The trial of eight people in Paris on terrorism charges started on Monday over the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty, who was killed by an Islamic extremist after showing caricatures of Islam’s prophet […]
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