#impoverishment

[protoslacker]

“Every President in modern history has avoided Congressional oversight while conducting bombing campaigns and military expeditions abroad,” his platform explains. “Congress is supposed to act as a check and balance on presidential war-making authority, but it has failed to live up to its responsibility year after year. We must immediately reduce the US military footprint abroad and invest in addressing the root causes of systemic violence across the world.”

Chris Rabb quoted in an article by John Nichols in The Nation. Chris Rabb Will Be a Transformative Member of the House

A candidate from Philadelphia, running in America’s 250th year, has a plan to restore checks and balances on kingly presidents and renew the constitutional authority of Congress.

[lumi1055]

Their stares are tame, almost fearful, and completely indifferent to the outside world. Some give the impresion that they go on living simply because it is a habit that they cannot shake.

Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries

[drgluckenstein]

[hermitthrush]

Within the next few days he realized how alone he was. He did not blame anyone. He had merely got what he had asked for. His friends had become strangely dim and colorless. Not one of them had preserved his own outlook, his own world. they had been much more vivid in his memory. He must have overestimated them in the past. Under the old order, which enabled those whose lives were secure to play the fool and eccentrics at the expense of the others while the majority led a wretched existence, it had been only too easy to mistake the foolishness and idleness of a privileged minority for genuine character and originality. But the moment the lower classes had risen, and the privileges of those on top had been abolished, how quickly had those people faded, how unregretfully had they renounced independent ideas - apparently no one had ever had such ideas!

Boris Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago (1957) | Hayward and Harari translation, Chapter 6.4. Yuri returns to the deprivation brought by war, the early stage of the revolution; the world of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky has ended.  

[mikeo56]

The Pentagon’s Bottomless Money Pit

The Pentagon Budget is a Total rip off of the American people ending up in the hands of grifter contractors: no protection, just American's impoverishment

The Pentagon has terrible IT systems. Leaving a "quantity" field blank in a purchase order form caused the computer to place an order for 990,000 units, for a total of $3.5 trillion. The order never went' through, but the system also had no way to unwind the transaction, so it was just left on the books, and mysteriously deducted later, creating an accounting overhang a third the size of the US GDP.

When the military manages to actually order things, it doesn't keep track of things. Key military materiel like nuclear weapons has historically not even been assigned serial numbers or tracking tags (the Air Force once accidentally shipped nuclear nose-cones to Taiwan, where they were expecting a shipment of helicopter batteries) (oops).

To make things worse, the system is genuinely full of waste and pork, which any kind of real audit would uncover. The military contractors who benefit from these scams have gotten so rich from them that they can afford to buy key Congressmen on the relevant committees, and so every legislative attempt to force the military to genuinely account for itself has died.

[revpauljbern]

Our Sunday message for 04/07/24 from the Social Gospel Worship and Learning Center with Minister Paul J. Bern: "Come and watch me put organized religion on the hot seat" https://medium.com/@greatestservant62/want-to-see-how-i-put-the-church-on-the-witness-stand-aa7ebfc2eb28

[divinemercymeditation]

Summorum Pontificum a restoration after a gross impoverishment

Summorum Pontificum a restoration after a gross impoverishment

Though it has just been rejected by his successor, Benedict XVI’s motu propio Summorum Pontificum made many people happy when he issued it in 2007. Liturgical scholar Alcuin Reid celebrated the statement as a needed application of the real intentions of the Second Vatican Council. He had reason to say this. A monk of the Monastere Saint-Benoit in Frejus-Toulon, France, his book The Organic…

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