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Fourth Time The Pentagon Is Faking The Books For Ukraine
For a fourth time the Pentagon is 'finding money' outside of the budget that can be spend on Ukraine.
I had previously noticed three occasions in which the Pentagon, on order of the Biden administration, used some or 'accounting error' gimmicks to 'find' more money for Ukraine.
Pentagon Again Applies Budget Lies To Deliver More Weapons To Ukraine - Jul 26 2024, MoA
The piece referred to three relevant news reports:
Exclusive: Pentagon accounting error overvalued Ukraine weapons aid by $3 billion – May 19 2023, Reuters
Pentagon accounting error provides extra $6.2 billion for Ukraine military aid – June 20 2023, AP
Pentagon finds another $2 billion of accounting errors for Ukraine aid – July 14 2024, Reuters
From the last link:
The Pentagon has found $2 billion worth of additional errors in its calculations for ammunition, missiles and other equipment sent to Ukraine, increasing the improperly valued material to a total of $8.2 billion, a U.S. government report revealed on Thursday.
Here is now another, the fourth, incident of creative budget accounting in favor of money for war in Ukraine:
All reports previously indicated that there was $4.3 billion left in the Presidential Drawdown Authority account, which reimburses the U.S. armed forces for munitions and equipment sent to Ukraine.
Turns out, the number is actually $7.1 billion, thanks to some revised accounting the Pentagon has done, DOD officials tell your anchor. That extra $2.8 billion isn’t just found money. The way things work is that the Pentagon calculates how much buying replacement goods for what it sends Ukraine will cost. The number crunchers at the Pentagon ran through the lists and discovered that replacement for some items cost less than anticipated.
The plan is for the administration to spend down that whole $7.1 billion by Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20 …
Luckily, not all of the money will reach Ukraine:
[Spending the money] is a pretty tall order given the cadence of aid packages being announced roughly every two weeks work between $200 million and $500 million. Those numbers are going to have to go way up, but even then deliveries of that equipment would continue well into the Trump administration, which could turn off the spigot at any time.
I bet that the lower 'replacements costs' the Pentagon has found to spend more on Ukraine, will themselves turn out to be 'accounting errors'. The replacements will – unfortunately they will say – later require much higher outlays than anticipated today.
Creative accounting like this, i.e. faking the books, is a no-no for commercial entity as it might well end with time spent in jail.
I'll repeat myself:
Any commercial company doing what the Pentagon is doing here would be asking for serious trouble.
One wonder if and when Congress will wake up to this.
How many bars like this have there been since the beginning of humanity? Why is everything still the same?
That is the true and only question
https://textosandroides.blogspot.com/2015/02/venas-en-negro.html
I don’t feel like writing, I don’t feel like reading, I am frightened somewhere deep inside, by the way some people wait, consume, internalize and reproduce the craziest and most nefarious fables that we read today in news format.
Of course we are not automatons that can be fed with ink, like a happy robot from a science fiction movie. Aren’t we? Am I?
These questions lost importance in the face of the urgency to absorb reality in some way, the reality that we don’t see, that we don’t live, entrenched under an air-cooled unit.
We want to know what is happening, what is there out there, between the door of our house and the other door where our absorbing routine begins, and we want to know it clearly so we don’t have to think, there is no time for that anymore, we want solutions, not new problems, we want time, and we don’t have it.
In reality, we don’t care either, we love our safe and predictable routine, we long for its eternal continuity, and we only focus on what makes us feel safe, the same as yesterday.
So we bark along with any version that promises to overthrow the changes, that promotes routine at a national level, even at the cost of submission, of surrender, no matter the human cost, in any way, we aim to continue climbing the social pyramid, far from the blacks, thieves, transvestites, drug addicts and poor people who live jumping on one leg above the frying pan.
We feel cheated by any sign of social progress, of equity, of redistribution. This is not a serious country! Where it has been seen that money returns to the people!
And our feverish heart bursts with the gasoline of false information from news agencies, correspondents, radios, digital pages and newspapers… It is anecdotal that the photos are as macabre as they are false.
And as if that were not enough, we multiply that poison and make it our cause, and not only our cause, we are open to anyone who wants to collaborate, just as we participate in some way in the internal battle of any country, even if we do not know the language or where it is.
The reasons are clear, the enemy is global, it is attacking everywhere and threatens to take the world from us! We celebrate the humiliation and death: of a common criminal, of a Ukrainian, of an Iraqi or Libyan, of a Venezuelan or Afghan, and so many others…
It is the same, they are putting spokes in the wheels of the world. Why don’t they just give up? It is a question about the incomprehensible, as if an absolute and centralized world, controlled and planned, gentle, friendly, were not desirable.
Of course not for everyone, that is the a priori of history, the impoverished masses must remain so as a contrast, because they are used to it and because we do not care, as long as we continue to look from above.
That we ally ourselves with fascists and Nazis? That soon our liberators prove to be outlaws and murderers, cynical, hypocritical?
But who does not make mistakes sometimes? The world is at war, if the state had not been taken from us we would not have to be doing this!
And so we debate with our unknown friends on social networks, where society disappears to make way for the martyrdom of reason and coherence. We are soldiers of a permanent and invisible war, of a powerfully omnipresent empire, always victorious: we must fight
What good are scruples? The important thing is to win, so the blows go the other way.
Posted by: Santi | Nov 15 2024 23:47 utc | 138
On the US Empire, as predicted in the 1940s:
And Mallow laughed joyously, “You’ve missed, Sutt, missed as badly as the Commdor himself. You’ve missed everything, and understood nothing. Look, man, the Empire can replace nothing. The Empire has always been a realm of colossal resources. They’ve calculated everything in planets, in stellar systems, in whole sectors of the Galaxy. Their generators are gigantic because they thought in gigantic fashion.
“But we, -we, our little Foundation, our single world almost without metallic resources, -have had to work with brute economy. Our generators have had to be the size of our thumb, because it was all the metal we could afford. We had to develop new techniques and new methods, -techniques and methods the Empire can’t follow because they have degenerated past the stage where they can make any really vital scientific advance.
“With all their nuclear shields, large enough to protect a ship, a city, an entire world; they could never build one to protect a single man. To supply light and heat to a city, they have motors six stories high, -I saw them – where ours could fit into this room. And when I told one of their nuclear specialists that a lead container the size of a walnut contained a nuclear generator, he almost choked with indignation on the spot.
“Why, they don’t even understand their own colossi any longer. The machines work from generation to generation automatically, and the caretakers are a hereditary caste who would be helpless if a single D-tube in all that vast structure burnt out.
“The whole war is a battle between those two systems, between the Empire and the Foundation; between the big and the little. To seize control of a world, they bribe with immense ships that can make war, but lack all economic significance. We, on the other hand, bribe with little things, useless in war, but vital to prosperity and profits.
“A king, or a Commdor, will take the ships and even make war. Arbitrary rulers throughout history have bartered their subjects’ welfare for what they consider honor, and glory, and conquest. But it’s still the little things in life that count – and Asper Argo won’t stand up against the economic depression that will sweep all Korell in two or three years.”
Sutt was at the window, his back to Mallow and Jael. It was early evening now, and the few stars that struggled feebly here at the very rim of the Galaxy sparked against the background of the misty, wispy Lens that included the remnants of that Empire, still vast, that fought against them.
Posted by: Foundation | Nov 16 2024 1:48 utc | 145
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