#1
Bit late to the looting of the West, morons! Play the race card at the UN and New York Times, there might be some spillage from the Covid grifting laying around.
#1
...This is turning into a no-win - and now I have to wonder if the inability of the counteroffensive to make the gains we thought they would make is because money, ammo, and gear got siphoned off. Don't forget for a moment that the terminal RVN and Afghan governments went to face the final battles for their nations only to find that their battalions were manned by thousands of 'ghost soldiers' - men who didn't exist except on paper, and their commanders collected their pay.
The Vietnamese did it, the Afghans did it, and it's starting to become clear that the Ukranians simply can't get it under control to even the vague appearance of propriety that we need to keep selling this. The only thing that is going to even remotely get this sorted out is some guys up against the portable brick wall and a bunch of Swiss and Cayman Island bank accounts being confiscated.
#4
Don't worry, the NYT has a magic spell to fix it the way they want. The magic words are Halliburton and Blackwater.
(Wait, whatda mean they don't work here?)
Posted by: ed in texas ||
09/05/2023 13:00 Comments ||
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#5
The area Ukraining troops were trying to traverse was mined up the whazoo. The US demonstrated the ability to take the offensive against that type of barrier in Desert Storm, but Ukraine didn’t have the training, equipment or leadership to pull off that type of operation. Surely money was syphoned off, but it probably would not have made a decisive difference. They had a bad Milley endorsed plan executed poorly. The corruption was just stealing hubcaps off a demolition derby car.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
09/05/2023 13:28 Comments ||
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#6
The New York Times: "Yesterday's news...eventually."
Posted by: Tom ||
09/05/2023 15:24 Comments ||
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Based on the information we have so far, my guess would be ten percent.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
09/05/2023 17:26 Comments ||
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#9
Doesn't matter where the money went. It's gone, we'll never get it back and we'll never get a full accounting. We all knew there would be corruption because Joe Biden is involved. The whole stupid bloody mess is corrupt otherwise it would have never happened. The hell of it is that the money for it was taken out of our pockets...well, that's apart from all the people who have died.
My guess would also be that the Big Guys' cut was factored into the cost of the aid before it was even sent. Russians were unprepared at the outset of this thing but at some point they finally realized they would have to actually fight. Biden was not prepared for that and so the counter offensive has failed. Biden and his generals have done nothing but miscalculate ever since he took office.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
09/05/2023 17:50 Comments ||
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#10
Biden and his generals have done nothing but miscalculate ever since he took office.
Perhaps excessively true, however, Putin thought this would be a two week walkover Special Military Operation™. His Military Genius is completely proven
Posted by: Frank G ||
09/05/2023 18:49 Comments ||
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#11
^ Everyone is comfortable with the "slowly at first" part. It's tat "then all at once" phase that catches em by surprise.
Fall of Rome
Fall of the Iron Curtain
Fall of Saigon
Fall of Kabul
You think the neocons are nuts now? How do you think they will be should the Fall of Kyiv come to pass?
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
09/05/2023 19:03 Comments ||
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#12
Corrupt and Communist defeats Corrupt and "Neo-Nazi"?
They'll deal with it
Posted by: Frank G ||
09/05/2023 19:08 Comments ||
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#4
Wait for it.
The LSD Coup to grant citizenship to 11+ million illegals, just in time for the 2024 elections.
BTW: It's pretty much a safe bet, given the LSD's openly announced the plan back in Jan. 2021. With the NYT, WaPo, AP and LAT and etc... all supporting it.
#5
The ones that voted dem, well, they're getting what they voted for. Good and hard...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
09/05/2023 6:12 Comments ||
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#6
These numbers come from the household survey for which the individual sample is 60,000. Because of this a lot of the numbers jump around. If you look at the chart in the DailyMail's report, you can see that, for example, in June 2023 Native Born employment went up by more than 1M and Foreign Born down by more than 500k.
Having said this, it is true that foreign born employment has increased over the past year Aug to Aug by about 2M and native born by about 1M.
Posted by: lord garth ||
09/05/2023 8:51 Comments ||
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#7
Replacement workers replacing MAGA people.
AND...I think that word doesn't mean what I think it means. These are beans in a jar. Take some out, put others in.
The corner GS may have let the old white tire mechanic go and hired two Indian cashiers for the increased beer sales. Take your flat tire somewhere else.
[WashingtonExaminer] Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday inquiring what the Department of Justice is doing to investigate the billions of dollars in COVID-19 relief funds stolen by foreign nationals.
"The Department stated that it had taken criminal and civil enforcement actions in matters alleging over $8 billion in pandemic relief fraud, but it is unclear if this is limited to domestic fraud," wrote Wenstrup, chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. "It is highly concerning that possibly billions of taxpayer dollars intended to help Americans suffering the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic were stolen by organized criminal rings in foreign countries."
A February 2023 report from the Government Accountability Office estimates that the federal government spent a total of $4.6 trillion on aid programs in response to the economic fallout from the pandemic. The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, however, calculated that $5.2 trillion was distributed by both the Trump and Biden administrations for COVID-19 relief.
Of these funds, an estimated $280 billion was stolen from the intended recipients, at least half of which went to criminal actors in Russia, China, and Nigeria, according to Wenstrup.
Wenstrup asked Garland for all documents and communications within the DOJ relating to efforts to identify fraud in COVID-19 relief programs by international actors, including the total number of open and closed investigations as well as the total dollar amount for each case.
Wenstrup also requested information on tactics used by overseas actors to "perpetuate these crimes and imperil American citizens' personal protected information."
A spokesperson for the DOJ told the Washington Examiner that earlier this week the department announced the successful result of an investigation into COVID-19 fraud, culminating in 718 enforcement actions related to over $836 million in alleged fraud.
“The Justice Department has now seized over $1.4 billion in COVID-19 relief funds that criminals had stolen and charged over 3,000 defendants with crimes in federal districts across the country,” Garland said on Monday.
The DOJ press release, however, does not distinguish between domestic and foreign sources of fraud.
The subcommittee is also requesting a DOJ briefing by Sept. 12.
#3
This theft was mitigated by the Biden caused record inflation levels. The degrading of our national and personal wealth also sapped the buying power of the thieves. Job well done Joe.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
09/05/2023 5:13 Comments ||
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#4
It's heartwarming to know that the Federal Treasury and the bureaucracies of the US Gummint were able to prevent this gummint-funded, artificial catastrophe from disrupting the lives of so many hard-working criminals.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
09/05/2023 6:15 Comments ||
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