Not only are poor civilians expendable, a new World Bank study finds they are docile, willing to accept regressive, unfair schemes when the alternatives are sufficiently distasteful. To that extent, the efforts of Pompeo and Esper to provide economic support to US military contractors, incorporates this assumption. Neither really cares about dead poor people, and certainly not poor Yemenis, who have already seen 5 years of war that the Saudis have spent over $250 billion on, the largest cholera outbreak in the modern era and now the minor nuisance of covid, a sort of cherry on top of this shit show.
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I thought they were talking about arms sales to local police departments.
Shhh. there are no actual countries involved, just as there are no actual civilians. The countries are “Middle East nations“ and the civilians could be anyone. Except the yemenis that KSA have been Dropping our bombs on all these years.
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Herman Goering is also a good comparison for the increasingly portly and desperate William Barr. Son of the corrupt school headmaster who hired Jeffrey Epstein to teach teenage girls Calculus when Epstein did not have a college degree.
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I was going to post something short and snarky, then the anger at what this corrupt, venal, amoral, and truly ugly Administration has done, to the rest of the world and to us.
I may have to slap the next person I hear say that America is the greatest nation on earth or talk about American Exceptionalism. As a nation, over the last nearly 250 years, we’ve done a huge amount of good in the world along with a huge amount of bad. But the good, and the good intentions, outweighed the bad to the point we had earned a fair amount of moral authority and respect.
No more. It’s wasted, gone, destroyed. Thrown away.
We may be able to earn it back over time, but probably not in my lifetime. Biden and Harris in, and the Trump Cabal and McConnell out, will be a start.
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Is it too late to send Susan PompousAss a bill for services? Or is the billing department waiting for a 4 year total?
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So…civilians DIED but IT’S NOT OUR FAULT? Pompeo isn’t WRONG. Collateral damage…oops sorry. Wow.
Speaking of corrupt waste by entitled rich people pretending to be government servants, MSNBC reminded me yesterday that we are still — for some inexplicable reason — paying for Betsy DeVos to have a 24/7 security detail. Twenty-four million so far. For the f’ing Secretary of Education.
Shouldn’t she be paying for her own security? She might even get a discount from her brother to have some of his mercenaries do the job.
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Hopefully all bill will be prepared to go out 01/21/21.
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https://www.ft.com/content/741e72ed-e1db-4609-b389-969318f170e8?shareType=nongift
Home to almost half of the world’s new cases of coronavirus, Latin America is a long way from winning the war against Covid-19. But there is already one victor in the region: China. Beijing has moved swiftly in Latin America to donate medical equipment and supplies, offer technical help and express solidarity.
Its ambassadors have flooded social media with messaging about Chinese co-operation and solidarity, eclipsing the US, the region’s traditional power. Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister, capped Beijing’s efforts with a virtual video conference for his Latin American and Caribbean counterparts last week, offering $1bn in loans to help buy a Chinese-made vaccine once it becomes available and calling for closer relations with the region, a key supplier of food and metals, post-pandemic.
“It’s quite remarkable what is happening, the scale of the activity,” said Margaret Myers, director of the Asia-Latin America Program at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington. “We have seen more than 250 instances of commitments to shipments of equipment, donations and sales ranged across the whole Latin America and Caribbean region.”
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Oh, come on now! Everybody knows you don’t have to worry about civilians if they’re brown! Just saying “some” pretty much covers it. Get with the program, people!
So, how long before this IG is “relieved of duty”?
The countries are Saudi Arabia and the UAE, pals of Toadglans who are conducting the wholesale slaughter of Yemeni civilians.
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NPR this morning: Pompeo says the report totally exonerates him and shows State “did everything by the book”. Democrats disagree. Zero about what the report actually says. SMFH.
To jumpstart that process, we can’t do what happened in the past - let it go. These criminals must be prosecuted and punished to the full extent possible to gain back the trust of our allies and citizens of this country who have been wronged by this administration. That is to say - all of us. Even the ones who still support the odious Trump/Repug agenda.
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