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The profit taking is open now.
Dwight Eisenhower warned the country about the military-industrial complex in his 1961 farewell address. He probably never imagined the defense secretary would try to profit from it weeks before a war. The Financial Times reported that Pete Hegseth's broker tried to invest millions of dollars in the defense fund holding Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, among others. The investment didn't go through only because the fund wasn't available for purchase yet. Days later, Hegseth gave the order to attack Iran.
The Army launched a review today after Apache helicopters from the 101st Airborne performed a flyby of Kid Rock's Nashville estate. Kid Rock posted two videos of himself poolside, saluting them. In Florida, Governor DeSantis signed a bill renaming Palm Beach International Airport after Trump, with a proposed new airport code of DJT. Trump's private company had already trademarked the name weeks earlier, giving the president's family business the right to collect licensing fees on everything from shuttle buses to flight suits, for an airport the state of Florida renamed as a gift.
Cronyism and grift have always been part of politics, but never quite so openly or greedily. Call your representatives through Resistbot and 5 Calls and demand they stop the profit taking. Put their votes on the record.
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[1] https://go.govbrief.today/fbi-detroit-hezbollah
[2] https://go.govbrief.today/tanker-attacked
[3] https://go.govbrief.today/iran-war-mar30
[4] https://go.govbrief.today/epa-hazard-sites
[5] https://go.govbrief.today/bianco-probe-halted
[6] https://go.govbrief.today/kidrock-helo
[7] https://go.govbrief.today/swalwell-fbi-letter
[8] https://go.govbrief.today/minn-trans-athletes
[9] https://go.govbrief.today/hegseth-profiteering
[10] https://go.govbrief.today/trump-airport
[11] https://go.govbrief.today/trump-epstein-toilet
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jackal696
No line in the sand for Americans .... war crimes and all. wow just wow
notsurewhattocallthis
Another day, another drop lower. Thanks @GeorgeBounacos
DidCatchABreak
Thank you, George
CertifiedBonerDonor
#1 4 that's a big oof where at
PuzzledCompletely
#6 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/4511699/hegseth-suspensions-apache-helicopter-crews-kid-rock/ “Thank you @KidRock. @USArmy pilots suspension LIFTED,” Hegseth posted on X. “No punishment. No investigation. Carry on, patriots.”
MurderousCoat
#6 Rock's bizarrely strong powers over the government continue to confound and vex me.
BipedalHumanoidWithSlightlyDifferentNoseRidge
He's a trump fanboy. trump loves a sycophant.
TheFastpaws
Nom!
GeorgeBounacos
Had no idea. Amazing
decebal
Surprised there is still a EPA watchdog.
GeorgeBounacos
Well, he's very experienced at firing inspectors general. It won't be long.
PuzzledCompletely
Thank you.
GeorgeBounacos
It's a dog day afternoon!
ImmatellallyallboutFightClub
No commentary today. I need a break before I dive in. Thanks for compiling the news for us every day OP.
POV you're failing at taking a nap.
GeorgeBounacos
[smirk]; no you are failing
Rhythmaster
#3 is a war crime. Just thought its important to note because the media talking heads NEVER mention that the president is casually threatening war crimes constantly, they normalize it like it's just another option or strategy to bring Iran to the table and it has been driving me nuts.
Bundalicious
The only limits to Krasnovs power is his own morality he said so himself. No one will stop him.
LordofGoats
Fitting, though, given all the other war crimes already committed over the past year.
hotaru251
war crimes, like internationa law, matters nothing anymore as israel and usa have broken both multiple times and nothing happened from it.
Laws w/o punishment may as well not exist in first place.
TheWombatStrikesAgain
Threats of war crimes are completely normalized by now.
During his first term (IIRC after the Soleimani assassination) he threatend to destroy a list of cultural and religious monuments in Iran if they dared to strike back. You know, the kind of things terrorists do.
randomdragon
Unrelated, but after I finished reading the news brief I clicked to a random dump in the most viral sidebar, but the comments section didn't update with it. Thus when I got to the end I saw this comment and got a bit confused before realizing what happened, because #3 was no longer a news entry but instead this image:
RonnieSoak
I read that, went "hold up", and read it twice more before shouting "are you fucking kidding me!?" I swear hes playing war crime pokemon and is trying to catch them all
spittytrinkles
This right here! "normalize" He called the Free Press an Enemy so often that it became normal to dismiss them, He claimed that Immigrants were criminals despite Stats showing they are not, Normal.
LittleAzie
To be fair, most of the US 'free press' is the enemy now, feeding us sheep only the stories it want to get they want as right wing organizations because of their owners,
spittytrinkles
Because he sues anybody that speaks up against him.
You can't try to Merge if DJT is 'looking into you'
And why the Fuck are all the Media needing to be one big Ass Company?
elten
#3 Aren't attacks on civilian infrastructure like water and power considered warcrimes under international law?
msgbubba
He started a war without Congressional approval, he's done a lot of things that he needs Congressional approval for he doesn't give a fuck he'll do whatever he wants apparently and no one will stop him I don't understand it
vonHoopla
War crimes is kinda a redundant concept when you think about it. All laws are only laws because the government has a monopoly on violence. But the existence of a war entails that that monopoly has been lost. And if one side wins the war decisively enough that war crimes can feasibly be punished, that means they've reestablished monopoly of violence enough that they can just punish the losers however they like anyway. So even having those laws is kinda meaningless?
NeoMonish
The idea is supposed to be that the rest of the world will still be there afterwards, and will at least attempt to make things difficult for a country that commits war crimes. Therefore, countries should at least attempt to avoid committing too many war crimes as it will reflect their relationship and standing with the rest of the world. But yeah, it turns out that if most of the rest of the world is already licking your boots it hardly matters what you do. Bomb kids, rape kids, who cares?
vonHoopla
Yeah, that's what I mean. If you're strong enough to properly punish warcrimes, you're strong enough to not give a shit about warcrimes in return. A self defeating, purely performative idea built on dreams and plywood.
Carl99
The way this is being talked about, as a deliberate attempt to force a surrender via inflicting suffering? Yes. But AFAIK they're valid targets if the goal is destruction of industrial capabilities. Thats why the pushback against russia doing it to ukraine has been so muted.
iamthemurray
Also when it comes to the Russian Ukraine war, Russia are the bad guys and they know it, world knows it. It's just like the US attacking Iran. Nobody can pretend like they weren't the instigators without a plan, so it's very very easy for the world to turn a blind eye. For now anyway. When all is said and done people will want justice and the career politicians will jump on it for the vote
BDSMThroatHugs
The threshold is that the infrastructure has to support military exclusively or military and civilian.
It's kinda a low bar when you think about it because any area with military will be using power, food and water.
elten
So I assume one had to show the prospective target's industrial value and evaluate the civillian rammifications on target selection in a normal approach?
Carl99
Its not AFAIK ever expected for anyone to just present evidence to anybody, more a very loose i'll defined set of guidelines. I'm not even sure they have to consider civilian impacts normally.
A nation fighting a war for survival is almost allways going to ration supplies for the civilian population before it cuts off industry. You can't really cutoff industry in the real world without also cutting off a big chunk of the civil population.
Carl99
Its very much meant as a guideline against explicitly targeting such things with the sole goal of making the population suffer.
PuzzledCompletely
Well, they do also have the goal of gaining personal wealth by making the population suffer.