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*Worth to mention, 100+ billion dollars worth of equipment - it is all not solid cash, roughly 1/3 has been allocated as "cash". It's mainly stuff allready manufactured and from storage. Also worth to mention, so far, only 30% has actually reached Ukraine.

I hope this is allowed to be posted, to explain how it works:

A large share of the money in the aid bills is spent in the United States, paying for American factories and workers to produce the various weapons that are either shipped to Ukraine or that replenish the U.S. weapons stocks the Pentagon has drawn on during the war. One analysis, by the American Enterprise Institute, found that Ukraine aid is funding defense manufacturing in more than seventy U.S. cities. The U.S. is not handing money over fist to Ukraine, mainly it is old stuff from storage, that then is replaced by new stuff. The valuation of said materials is also valued by various institutes, so, there is no real way of knowing the exact worth of the equipment. One example are Humvees, sold through government auctions can range from $4,000 to $20,000 or more, on the donation cost pages, they are listed as being worth $35,000.

Helping out in one situation doesn't prevent from helping out in another.

yeah, a lot of people don't realize many of the equipment sent to ukraine are stuff that has been sitting in storage for years. It costs a lot of money to store and maintain military equipment and munitions, so they are saving money in the long run by sending them to ukraine.

It's basically like those food programs where near expired food items are given away or sold at major discount prices, because it's better than throwing them away.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Also worth to mention, so far, only 30% has actually reached Ukraine.

Actually it is less due to corruption. All these aid programs are basically the endless military-industry complex money laundering scheme - most of the funding never reaches the destination really.

 

[Liljagare]

Actually it is less due to corruption. All these aid programs are basically the endless military-industry complex money laundering scheme - most of the funding never reaches the destination really.

Please cite a source atleast?

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Please cite a source atleast?

One of the legendary examples though is this https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/sep/07/iraq.ewenmacaskill. And that's UN. You have the exactly same thing with WHO, WTO, USAID etc. Not to mention a classic Pentagon example. Like why do you think it took so much time to deliver F35 or why were some features were cut despite the ballooning prices?

When corruption has ever revealed itself? I work at the corporate with government orders and have seen these things - it is hardly different from how anything else is working. Why do you think every general (or a senator or a bureaucrat) is so rich? They are hardly living on their salary. For example in the organizations it often happens that you win a bid for some equipment for a price (let's say the budget is 20$. then you hire a contractor to make it for 10$. But you do not return money - you usually can't (as next time you will get less + it raises unnecessary questions) thus you get 5$ and give 1$ to other 5 people to keep them silent). It often happens in a real estate too (thus you have crappy building standards).

It is always the same - and that's why generals (or commanders) rarely want to end the conflict, whether it is Iraq, Ukraine, Syria etc. It allows them to continuously receive funding. Same with aid to foreign countries - have you ever wondered why all those "aid" countries remain poor? That's the answer.

 

[ManaByte]

Little Gavin just got spanked.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Little Gavin just got spanked.

I am actually curious how does it look like. So where does the water flow now?

 

[ManaByte]

I am actually curious how does it look like. So where does the water flow now?

CA has aqueducts running North to South and rivers. For years water has been re-routed from the San Juaquin Delta into the ocean after a small fish called the Delta Smelt was found.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

CA has aqueducts running North to South and rivers. For years water has been re-routed from the San Juaquin Delta into the ocean after a small fish called the Delta Smelt was found.

See kids, this is why you need critical thinking and less social media. Because the first thing I did was Google "The Water Agency", followed by checking LinkedIn - there is exactly 1 company of this name, with a single LinkedIn post made 3 days ago...

 

[ManaByte]

See kids, this is why you need critical thinking and less social media. Because the first thing I did was Google "The Water Agency", followed by checking LinkedIn - there is exactly 1 company of this name, with a single LinkedIn post made 3 days ago...

I lived in CA for 45 years. This is the truth. Stop listening to propaganda trying to protect Newsom.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

I lived in CA for 45 years. This is the truth. Stop listening to propaganda trying to protect Newsom.

I don't live in California but even I can make a better slide in 10 minutes.

 

[ManaByte]

I don't live in California but even I can make a better slide in 10 minutes.

That illustrates where the water from up North has been going since they discovered the Delta Smelt and why the Central CA farmlands and SoCal are now a dust bowl as a result.

 

[DeepEnigma]

What if I told you the smelt wasn't the real reason, but rather, the scapegoat for the corruption.

 

[ManaByte]

What if I told you the smelt wasn't the real reason, but rather, the scapegoat for the corruption.

Of course. The governor doesn't even run CA. The state is run by the SEIU and CA Teacher's Union. The governor is just their willing puppet with pockets full of laundered money. It's been that way for decades.

 

[kruis]

Of course. The governor doesn't even run CA. The state is run by the SEIU and CA Teacher's Union. The governor is just their willing puppet with pockets full of laundered money. It's been that way for decades.

Mismanagement and corruption.

 

[kruis]

Hmmm…

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

 

[violence]

 

[AJUMP23]

Spared from next level stupidity.

 

[The Fartist]

Spared from next level stupidity.

 

[jason10mm]

Spared from next level stupidity.

Hang on, we just spent YEARS being told that we need to wear masks to protect ourselves and others, but she is walking around a place where you can FEEL the TOXICITY and yet....no mask?

I get what she is trying to impart. And I understand why Obama virtually ALWAYS used teleprompters when he could, so he sounded as smooth and articulate as possible.

 

[buttnuggett]

Spared from next level stupidity.

The smartest thing that came out of that dumb bitch's mouth was Willie Brown's dick.

 

[AJUMP23]

I just made this thread a Candidate of In before Lock. 10 points to me.

 

[ResilientBanana]

Hang on, we just spent YEARS being told that we need to wear masks to protect ourselves and others, but she is walking around a place where you can FEEL the TOXICITY and yet....no mask?

I get what she is trying to impart. And I understand why Obama virtually ALWAYS used teleprompters when he could, so he sounded as smooth and articulate as possible.

Yet trump was the president during COVID.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Hang on, we just spent YEARS being told that we need to wear masks to protect ourselves and others, but she is walking around a place where you can FEEL the TOXICITY and yet....no mask?

I get what she is trying to impart. And I understand why Obama virtually ALWAYS used teleprompters when he could, so he sounded as smooth and articulate as possible.

During COVID, Toronto was pretty much under lock and key and mask mandates.

But then I guess there was too much money being lost and the Jays played back in the dome (they played offsite) and the city set a custom indoor people allowance of like 15,000 people. So a restaurant or office had a gimped limit of like 10 people spread out 6 ft apart. But in the dome 15,000 people were shoulder to shoulder.

I know cuz I went to a game. The team closed off the nose bleed seats and made everyone pay for the better closer seats like sardines. I'm rubbing COVID shoulders with a random guy next to me and according to the city that was a-ok!

Figure that one out.

And at the time masks were still in effect so you were supposed to wear masks at the game. Nobody did. And nobody cared. Even a lot of the workers didn't wear masks.

 

[Kacho]

BREAKING: An arson suspect has been arrested in connection with starting the devastating Palisades Fire in January that killed 12 people, per federal law enforcement source. DOJ presser scheduled for 9am PT in LA to make announcement, billed as "significant development" in case.

 

[Kacho]

Today we are announcing the arrest of 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht on a criminal complaint charging him with maliciously starting what became the Palisades Fire in January.The complaint alleges that Rinderknecht's started a fire in Pacific Palisades on New Year's Day -- a blaze that eventually turned into one of the most destructive fires in Los Angeles history, causing death and widespread destruction.Among the evidence that was collected from his digital devices was an image he generated on ChatGPT depicting a burning city.While we cannot undo the damage and destruction that was done, we hope his arrest and the charges against him bring some measure of justice to the victims of this horrific tragedy.Rinderknecht's initial appearance is scheduled for today at 1:30 p.m. EDT in U.S. District Court in Orlando. Rinderknecht is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

 

[Avid Reading Horse]

Weird, that guy doesn't look like an arsonist at all.

 

[jason10mm]

Damn, the lustful simp ladies have a lot to chose from between this guy, luigi, and (if they are willing to wear a bear suit) the Kirk shooter.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

The morning of Jan. 1

According to Essayli, investigations into Rinderknecht revealed that he was working as an Uber driver in the neighborhood where the Lachman Fire started. Rinderknecht appeared "agitated" and "angry" during his shift, two passengers told investigators.

After dropping off his final passenger, he walked up a nearby trail and tried to call a friend, who didn't answer their phone.

While on the trail, he took videos on his phone and listened to a French rap song. Essayli claimed that in the days leading up to Jan. 1, Rinderknecht listened to the song and watched its music video "repeatedly," and that the video shows objects being lit on fire.

After starting the blaze, Rinderknecht contacted first responders multiple times, Essayli said. He initially fled the scene in his car but turned back toward the inferno after observing fire engines passing by.


He walked up the same trail to watch the fire from up close while crews battled the flames. Essayli said Rinderknecht continued to take videos of the events on his phone.

Palisades Fire arrest made; suspect allegedly set earlier blaze that later ignited Jan. 7 LA inferno, officials say

29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht "maliciously" started the Lachman Fire on Jan. 1, which later became the devastating Palisades Fire, prosecutors said.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[diffusionx]

it's literally the meme

 

[Kacho]

I feel like life in prison is too good for this guy. 12 deaths, billions worth of damage, malicious intent.

I wonder if prosecutors will peruse the death penalty...

 

[diffusionx]

I feel like life in prison is too good for this guy. 12 deaths, billions worth of damage, malicious intent.

I wonder if prosecutors will peruse the death penalty...

it's California, he will get a key to the city from Gavin Newsom

 

[DeepEnigma]

Weird, that guy doesn't look like climate change at all.

FTFY

 

[rm082e]

I'm glad they caught him, and sure - throw the book at him. But if it wasn't him, it just would have been someone else. Homeless people start fires all the time. It could have even started by accident.

The bigger issue here is the city should have managed the risk. They didn't do their diligence in clearing out the brush, and they weren't prepared to deal with the threat of fire. I put +90% of the blame for this event on the City and State level leaders.

 

[Kacho]

it's California, he will get a key to the city from Gavin Newsom

He's being charged federally, thankfully, so I'm expecting actual justice.

 

[Three]

"After starting the blaze, Rinderknecht contacted first responders multiple times"

I'm confused whether this is just a pyromaniac that did something regretable in the woods or if he is a full blown nutter trying to set the city ablaze. Why would you start a deliberate fire then contact first responders multiple times? For the gram?

 

[diffusionx]

I'm glad they caught him, and sure - throw the book at him. But if it wasn't him, it just would have been someone else. Homeless people start fires all the time. It could have even started by accident.

The bigger issue here is the city should have managed the risk. They didn't do their diligence in clearing out the brush, and they weren't prepared to deal with the threat of fire. I put +90% of the blame for this event on the City and State level leaders.

Part of managing the risk is also, as you point out, managing these homeless junkies that roam around and do all sorts of crazy shit including starting fires.

When I first heard about this, that was the first thing I thought of - it was a bum.