stanhootzz's Blog

I am happy to report that business as usual under the Bush administration is alive and well.

What ever hppened to accountability in procurment procedures in the Department of defense?????

Witness ths story on an American contractor.

"40 Years old: Some of the ammunition is obsolete, Nato says."

This story reported By: C.J. Chivers

The New York Times

"Since 2006, when the insurgency in Afghanistan sharply intensified, the Afghan government has been dependent on american logistics and military support in the war against al-Quida and he Taliban.

But to arm the Afghan forces that it hopes will lead this fight, the U.S. military has relied since early last year on a fledgling company led by a 22 year-old man

With the award last January of a federal contract worth nearly $300 million, the company, AEY Inc., which operates out of an unmarked office in Miami Beach, Fla., became the MAIN SUPPLIER of munitions to the Afghan Army and police forces. Since the company has supplied ammunition that is more than 40 years old and is in decomposing packaging, according to an examination of the munitions by The New York Times and interviews with U.S. and Afghan officials. Much of the ammo comes from the aging stockpiles of the old Communist bloc, including stockpiles that the state department and NATO have determined to be unreliable and obsolete, and have spent MILLIONS of dollars to have destroyed.

In buying arms, the contractor has worked thru middlemen and a shell company on a U.S. list of entities suspected of illegal arms trafficking.

Moreover, TENS OF MILLIONS OF the rifle and machine-gun cartridges were manufactured in CHINA, making their procuement a possible violation of U.S. law. The company's president, Ephraim Diveroli, was also secretly recorded in a conversation that suggested corruption in his company's purchase of more than 100 million aging rounds in Albania, according tothe audio files of the conversation.

This week AFTER REPEATED INQUIRIES ABOUT AEY's PERFORMANCE, the Army suspended the company from future federal contracting."

Does this sound anything like what this Bush administration has been about all along; rife with corruption and mismanagement, that would make President Grant Blush in his grave with envy (the Grant administration as recorded in history "was" the most corrupt administration to come along until this present administration of George Bush Jn.).

I wonder just how much this 22 yer kid made off with in tax-payers dollars???? Will he be prosecuted???? Probably not.

I liken this administration to the saying "When ya lay down with dogs, yer liable ta git up with fleas!"

I thank all you folks out there who voted these fellas into office. Maybe we can just do away with term limits and voting and have the

BURNING BUSH IN OFFICE FER LIFE!!!!

Yeah Buddy!

The end of the world and the time of Jesus returning is at hand!!!! Repent you sinners!

I say unto you go forth and slay the sinner that repents not!

Use all the resources of this world without thought for a tomorrow, for you will be in paradise with me and will have no use fer this mundane world that God Created for you and I.

I wonder, at times, because I believe that the physical universe does not lie, iffin this is the phylosophy of many who in the Christian world believe to be true. "That piss on it, Jesus is coming, why not use the resources of this world up with no thought or regard for tomorrow". Because we will be in Paradise together soon. Whilst those that disagree, well, they will burn fer all eternity in hell for standing against the rightious capitilist.

JESUS WILL BE HERE SOON FOLKS, the FIRE SALE IS ON!!!!!

Ya know after 5 years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, we have lost 127 men and women kia or accidents (i always wonder how you qualify this, as the person dying in an "Accident" ,would not be there in the first place had there been no war?)

The state of Alaska has had 127 killed, wounded ?. There is only 750,000 people in Alaska, so these losses are very much felt statewide, and not just a metro area.

I am against then war from its inception to present.

I am so saddened fer the president and his administration (impident rage and resentment was an apt description at one time) for how  and where they have brought us as a nation to this state of being.

I am even more saddened by the fact, that we will be fortunate to withdraw from Iraq in maybe 4 to 6 years.

To withdraw  earlier, we will further the destabilzation of a region ready to explode in all out war.

The casualties would then start to approximate those suffered by certain countries in WW2.

This region is going to suffer severe water shortages within the next 3 to 5 years. Bringing war and more strife to an already unstable region.

There looms the spectre of Avien Flu Pandemic, is not a propagandist made up fantasy. The top doctors in the fields disease control say "When" not "What If" or "Maybe".

So you add an already stretched thin American military into these situations fer our nation, and it spells what?????????????????????????????????

Tuesday,October 16, 2007

HOUSE PASSES RESOLUTION ON IRAQ CORRUPTION

Today the house with a vote of 395 - 21 PASSES the  " IRAQ CORRUPTION RESOLUTION", introduced friday, Oct. 12th,2007, by chairman Waxman and Tierney. In his statement on the house floor, Chair. Waxman called the State Department abuses of classification system  "outragious" and demanded answers to questions about corruption in Iraq.

H.RES.734 expresses the sense of the House that the state department has abused its classification authority by witholding from congress and the American people information about the extent of corruption in the Maliki government . The Resolution further condemns the State Department for "RETROACTIVELY classifying documents that had been widely distributed previously as UN-CLASSIFIED , and by directing its employees not to answer questions in an open forum that call for " Broad statements/assesments which judge or characterize the quality of Iraqi investigations were thwarted/stifled for political (Judge Rahdi, head of the department investigating corruption in the Iraqi Government has had 31 of his investigators ASSASINATED)(he and his family have survived 2 rocket attacks upon their home) reasons.." Cosponsors include Reps. Tierney, Maloney , Lynch, Yarmuth, Braley, Norton McCollum, Van Hollen, and Schakowsky.

Chair. Waxman today released a NEW FACT SHEET THAT RESPONDS TO INACCURATE AND MISLEADING STATEMENTS contained in the State Department's Oct. 15 response to the Committe.

A quote from the Burning Bush "02"

President Bush has said that "limiting the size and scope of government" is one of the " values I hold dear to my heart."

YET, total federal expenditures have increased from $1.8 Trillion  to $2.5 Trillion since he has been in office.

The cover up is in progress. You see, especially when the news gets out that funds given to the Iraqi Gov. are finding there way into the hands of  insurgents killing our soldiers.

http://oversight.house.gov/ 

By the year 2025 or "24",  3/4's of the worlds population is going to run out of drinking water (google up "water resources"  or "Wickapedia--- water resources"

Iffin even half of, or a quarter of this true, then we are looking at 2 to 3 Billion thirsty people looking fer water!

Now, according to resent forcasts, we in America are not looking bad in water rescources. So, i reckon there are gonna be alotta folks wanting to come over here and git a little taste (I am thinking that when yer child dies in yer arms from thirst, reason is gonna go out the window).

We are talking about huge displacements of peoples and whole cultures on the move.

So, as a preventative measure, WE BUILD A VERY LARGE WALL BETWEEN MEXICO AND U.S., not only takes care of present illegal immigration problem, also any future probs like thirsty people trying ta overrun the countryside. Selfish, perhaps, by the same token, iffin we dont take care of ourselves, who is, and how do we help others iffi we are overun??

Sensationalist, I really dont think so. In less than 10 years there will be major armed conflicts over water in the north african, middleastern and western indian regions of the world. Potable water is running out real quik in these regions of the world.

By the way, its forcast that 2/3 of China will run out of drinking water by 2025, Alaska and Canada are not far away.........................you see, short of thermonuclear warfare, there is not much that can stem the tide of mass migrations of people. India, Pakastan, Iran are the highest on the list of countries most likely to have wars over water stressed regions (India and Pakastan, already in a state of war with each other, also i might add, have nuclear weapons)

 Preparation, preparations are the way to go, not fer war but workable solutions that will help these folks out.

More desalinisation plants, more water purification plants like Violia is developing and coming online with in Paso Robles ,CA. More water purification processes that are cheap and able to be built in very short time???? We welcome any and all suggestions about this coming problem.

10 or 15 years is not very long at all. We are all of us in this together. QWhat will you do?

www.acumenfund.org  Is one of many non-profits that are working towards lessing the growth of water stressed regions. Research them ta make sure they are on the up and up.

Innovative thinkers and solutions. check out  www.ted.com