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[b]Revealed: The U.S. military's 36 code-named operations in Africa[/b]

Between 2013 and 2017, U.S. special operations forces saw combat in at least 13 African countries, according to retired Army Brig. Gen. Don Bolduc, who served at U.S. Africa Command from 2013 to 2015 and then headed Special Operations Command Africa until 2017. Those countries, according to Bolduc, are Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Somalia, South Sudan and Tunisia. He added that U.S. troops have been killed or wounded in action in at least six of them: Kenya, Libya, Niger, Somalia, South Sudan and Tunisia.

Using documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act, interviews, published reports and a Defense Department list of named U.S. military operations that leaked online, Yahoo News put together the following list of 36 operations and activities that are (or were until recently) ongoing in Africa.

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https://news.yahoo.com/revealed-the-us-militarys-36-codenamed-operations-in-africa-090000841.html

Leaked operations names: https://fas.org/irp/agency/dod/milops-2018.pdf

The public's gaze stops at Libya when it come to Africa. The US are involved as much there as anywhere else in the world.

China and the United States are moving in polar opposite directions: Beijing is rapidly becoming the center of overseas investments in high tech industries, including robotics, nuclear energy and advanced machinery with collaboration from centers of technological excellence, like Germany.

In contrast, Washington is pursuing a predatory military pivot to the least productive regions with collaboration from its most barbaric allies, like Saudi Arabia.

China is advancing to global economic superiority by borrowing and innovating the most advance methods of production, while the US degrades and debases its past immense productive achievements to promote wars of destruction.

China’s growing prominence is the result of a cumulative process that advanced in a systematic way, combining step-by-step growth of productivity and innovation with sudden jumps up the ladder of cutting edge technology.
Led by the US, their reliance on military conquests (militaristic empire-building) absorb public resources, while China has directed its domestic resources toward innovative and advanced technology.
China’s political economic model has outperformed the imperialist West and leftist Latin America. While the US has spent billions in the Middle East for wars on behalf of Israel, China has invested similar amounts in Germany for advanced technology, robotics and digital innovations.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/chinas-pivot-to-world-markets-washingtons-pivot-to-world-wars/5541802

[size=150]America Has Been At War 93% of the Time – 222 Out of 239 Years – Since 1776[/size]
[b]The U.S. Has Only Been At Peace For 21 Years Total Since Its Birth[/b]
https://washingtonsblog.com/2015/02/america-war-93-time-222-239-years-since-1776.html

[quote="Rolluplostinspace"][quote="Guest"]With Russia’s tsunami inducing nuke 2000 mile range torpedo, its work on 4th generation nukes, undefeatable missile technology, the armarta and cyber warfare - the list goes on - I you include China then Trump is being advised that he has no option.
You are A Russian Pawn.[/quote]
When the Russians and everyone else read the openly published project for the new American Century written by people who attained high office and started to implement their plan do you think they shouldn't rush to build the best weapons possible?
You're turning it around completely.
Americas aggression has to countered by those being targeted and if you don't understand that then you have something seriously wrong with you.
It has nothing to do with fear nothing to do with distrust nothing to do with defending America and everything to do with the published and unfolding plans of The New American Century.
Total American dominance of the word.[/quote]

You make an interesting point here Rolluop old bean, but I can't say it worries me at all - unless the stupid bastards ignite the blue touch paper for WW3

[b]'I Felt Americans Needed to Know': Insurance Industry Whistleblower Gives Glimpse of Effort to Crush Medicare for All[/b]

[i]"The business model of for-profit health insurance depends on denying care to people who need it. These corporations can't be reasoned with, only defeated."[/i]

In an effort to inform the public about the corporate forces working to crush Medicare for All, an employee at the insurance giant UnitedHealthcare leaked a video of his boss bragging about the company's campaign to preserve America's for-profit healthcare system.

"I felt Americans needed to know exactly who it is that's fighting against the idea that healthcare is a right, not a privilege," the anonymous whistleblower told the Washington Post's Jeff Stein.

During an employee town hall in February, Stein reported on Friday, UnitedHealthcare CEO Steve Nelson boasted about how much his company is doing to undermine Medicare for All, which is rapidly gaining support in Congress.

"One of the things you said: 'We're really quiet' or 'It seems like we're quiet.' Um, we've done a lot more than you would think," Nelson said. "We are advocating heavily and very involved in the conversation. Part of it is trying to be thoughtful about how we enter in the conversation, because there's a risk of seeming like it's self-serving."

[tweet]https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1116768183199965189[/tweet]

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51428.htm

This is not about Bernie or his chances of getting elected as President, it's about the usual corruption and lies to the public from the corporates and their pet governments. Bernie just highlights the extent of the greed and demonstrates the driving force behind the US healthcare model.

A model that is waiting to unleashed here but like the US, [i]trying to be thoughtful about how we enter in the conversation, because there's a risk of seeming like it's self-serving."[/i] has to be considered given the popularity of the NHS amongst the public.

[quote="Fletch"]Log in CJ :roll:[/quote] Why are you always wrong about everything?

Log in CJ :roll:

[quote="Fletch"][b]Pentagon Audit: Evidence Proving $21 Trillion Unaccounted For – Opening Statement[/b]

According to United States government documents, since 1998, the Office of the Inspector General has reported $21 Trillion in unaccounted for money.

As unbelievable and absurd as that sounds, the actual total of unaccounted for money at the Pentagon is most likely significantly more than $21 trillion.

Researchers are unable to get data for every year of military spending, many Pentagon agencies do not have any publicly available records, hundreds of thousands of transactions have been erased, and an estimated millions of transactions do not have any traceable record.

As you will see in detail throughout this series of reports, not only have trillions of taxpayer dollars been knowingly dumped into a shockingly unaccountable black hole, Congress is not even sure how much money has been appropriated and given out in the first place.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/pentagon-audit-evidence-proving-21-trillion-unaccounted-for-opening-statement/5669206

But public funded healthcare for all is too expensive...[/quote]
Dark projects you birdbrain, they can’t tell us what they’re working on as it is classed ultra secret.

[b]Pentagon Audit: Evidence Proving $21 Trillion Unaccounted For – Opening Statement[/b]

According to United States government documents, since 1998, the Office of the Inspector General has reported $21 Trillion in unaccounted for money.

As unbelievable and absurd as that sounds, the actual total of unaccounted for money at the Pentagon is most likely significantly more than $21 trillion.

Researchers are unable to get data for every year of military spending, many Pentagon agencies do not have any publicly available records, hundreds of thousands of transactions have been erased, and an estimated millions of transactions do not have any traceable record.

As you will see in detail throughout this series of reports, not only have trillions of taxpayer dollars been knowingly dumped into a shockingly unaccountable black hole, Congress is not even sure how much money has been appropriated and given out in the first place.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/pentagon-audit-evidence-proving-21-trillion-unaccounted-for-opening-statement/5669206

But public funded healthcare for all is too expensive...

[b]Media Blackout as Israel’s Largest Banks Pay Over $1 Billion in Fines for US Tax Evasion Schemes[/b]

[i]Similar revelations about other banks and offshore tax-evasion schemes — such as those contained in the Panama Papers — led to global protests and even the resignations of some world leaders,
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Israel’s three largest banks — Hapoalim Bank, Leumi Bank and Mizrahi Tefahot Bank — have all been ordered to pay record fines, which collectively are set to total over $1 billion, to the U.S. government after the banks were found to have actively colluded with thousands of wealthy Americans in massive tax-evasion schemes.

The scandal, though it has been reported on in Israeli media, has garnered little attention in the United States. The media black-out has been so surprising it was even directly mentioned by the Times of Israel, given that similar revelations about other banks and offshore tax-evasion schemes — such as those contained within the Panama Papers — led to global protests and even the resignations of some world leaders.

The settlements are the end result of a series of Department of Justice (DOJ) probes that were related to the DOJ’s 2007 investigation targeting UBS AG, Switzerland’s largest bank. The focus of the probe turned to Israel a few years later in 2011, when it was determined that the Swiss subsidiaries of several of Israel’s largest banks had actively aided Americans seeking to launder their money.

As the probes advanced, the DOJ found that the three banks — Israel’s largest when ranked by net income and total assets — had a history of collaborating with wealthy Americans in tax evasion schemes, not just in their Swiss subsidiaries but in Israel as well. Most of those wealthy Americans were Jewish Americans or dual U.S.-Israeli citizens who hid their U.S. citizenship from the Israeli banks.

A year after the probes into Leumi, Hapoalim and Mizrahi Tefahot were made public, [size=150]the U.S. State Department notably listed Israel as a “major money laundering country… whose financial institutions engage in currency transactions involving significant amounts of proceeds from international narcotics trafficking … or other serious crime.”[/size]

https://www.mintpressnews.com/media-blackout-as-israel-largest-banks-fined-for-us-tax-evasion-schemes/256414/

Don't recall seeing page after page in the msm about this? :scratch:

[quote="Guest"]With Russia’s tsunami inducing nuke 2000 mile range torpedo, its work on 4th generation nukes, undefeatable missile technology, the armarta and cyber warfare - the list goes on - I you include China then Trump is being advised that he has no option.
You are A Russian Pawn.[/quote]
When the Russians and everyone else read the openly published project for the new American Century written by people who attained high office and started to implement their plan do you think they shouldn't rush to build the best weapons possible?
You're turning it around completely.
Americas aggression has to countered by those being targeted and if you don't understand that then you have something seriously wrong with you.
It has nothing to do with fear nothing to do with distrust nothing to do with defending America and everything to do with the published and unfolding plans of The New American Century.
Total American dominance of the word.

[b]U.S. Posts The Biggest Monthly Budget Deficit In American History[/b]

February’s federal budget deficit was the largest on record, according to figures released by the Treasury Department on Friday. President Donald Trump promised during his campaign that he would balance the budget in eight years.

The total debt surpassed $22 trillion for the first time ever in February — $2 trillion higher than when Trump took office

The massive shortfall is being attributed to a 20 percent drop in corporate revenue and increased federal spending. The Trump administration slashed corporate taxes in his new 2017 tax law from 35 percent to 21 percent. Trump’s tax-cut package cost the government $1.5 trillion.

“When you pass the most irresponsible tax cut followed by the most irresponsible spending increase, unsurprisingly it leads to the largest deficit numbers,” Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, told The Washington Post. “Predictably, that’s exactly where we landed.”

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51326.htm

Classic neoliberalism. Cut taxes for the wealthy, discover a shortfall then make the poor pay for it with reduced public services, cost increases and less assistance for the sick and disabled.

Neoliberalism: For the few not the many.

It would seem that potus is reacting to perceived threats.
It is a shame that he and all the threats cannot sit around a table and agree to plough all their intellectual and financial capacity to improve the world for everyone.
Sadly fear and mistrust mean that is why Donald has no choice, and explains why this fletch zombie is a puppet

With Russia’s tsunami inducing nuke 2000 mile range torpedo, its work on 4th generation nukes, undefeatable missile technology, the armarta and cyber warfare - the list goes on - I you include China then Trump is being advised that he has no option.
You are A Russian Pawn.

[b]Trump’s FY2020 Budget Request Bloats Militarized Spending—and Slashes Actual Human Needs[/b]

At long last, President Trump released his third presidential budget request today, after a month-long delay due to the government shutdown. And it’s a doozy.

President Trump’s priorities for FY 2020 go even further than last year’s request in bloating the already enormous military budget, requesting $750 billion for the military —an increase of 5 percent, or $34 billion, from the 2019 enacted budget.

That would put 57 percent of the $1.3 trillion discretionary budget into the Pentagon and nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, total funding for all other agencies, from the Department of Education to Veterans Affairs and NASA, is only $543 billion, down from $597 billion budgeted in 2019 – a nine percent decrease.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/trumps-fy2020-budget-request-militarized-spending-slashes-actual-human-needs/5671767

"Why can't we all just get along"...

"Bring the troops home"...,

"No more foreign wars, America first"...

Turned out he was just another puppet.