Sunday, November 17, 2024

PETER ST ONGE: We had almost no regulations in the 1950s. It must have been a hellscape

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JON STEWART to DEFENSE SECRETARY, KATHLEEN HICKS: Can't figure out how $850 billion to a Department means that the rank-and-file still have to be on food stamps. To me, that's f*cking corruption

NEW: Department of Defense official laughs in Jon Stewart’s face when questioned about the waste, fraud, and abuse there. Stewart is a liberal but is stunned at Democrat Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks’ smug answer when he questions her about the rampant waste, fraud, and abuse at the Department of Defense. The DOD has failed seven consecutive audits. (@elonmusk) and (@VivekGRamaswamy) have this at the top of their list to investigate and fix and their work cut out for them.

Do you think Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy can fix the waste fraud and abuse at the Department of Defense? 
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CATHERINE AUSTIN FITTS: "I wanna make it clear: Elon Musk is a defense contractor. Elon Musk is a defense contractor who's building the most significant surveillance satellite system ever created, for the military. Funded by our taxpayers."

"I wanna make it clear: Elon Musk is a defense contractor. Elon Musk is a defense contractor who's building the most significant surveillance satellite system ever created, for the military. Funded by our taxpayers." In this clip from a recent interview with Shannon Joy (@ShannonJoyRadio), investment banker, former HUD official, and founder of the Solari Report (@solari_the) Catherine Austin Fitts describes how Elon Musk is "a defense contractor who's building the most significant surveillance satellite system ever created, for the military." In the context of DOGE (@DOGE), the newly formed Department of Government Efficient—which isn't actually a federal department at all—Fitts notes that there is a danger with privatizing functions normally handled by civil servants due to issues like lack of transparency.

"I wanna make it clear: Elon Musk is a defense contractor," Fitts says. "Elon Musk is a defense contractor who's building the most significant surveillance satellite system ever created, for the military. Funded with our taxpayers. So he is a contractor." The former HUD official notes that during her time working for the George Bush administration, she "spent months warring with defense contractors to get the basic data [she] needed to move the [the single-family mortgage insurance fund] operation into compliance with the law." Fitts adds that she was ultimately fired "because they wanted to keep the data secret." Fitts goes on to say: "Essentially, the way you have been able to run the government such that you need $23 trillion of bailouts and $21 trillion of undocumentable adjustments, the way you've been able to do that is because you've been able to keep operations secret behind private corporations, private banks, and private defense contractors...and the more you outsource and allow them to run things secretly on a non-transparent, non-disclosed basis protected from FOIA, the worse it gets." Fitts goes on to ask a rhetorical question that highlights the pitfalls of privatizing government functions: "If you fire the government employees who do the bidding of Congress and the executive branch and you bring in private big tech contractors who finish consolidating the [financial] coup d'etat [consisting of tens of trillions of dollars stolen by the DOD, et al.] and are loyal to the central banks, what do you think is going to happen?"

--------------Partial transcription of clip---------------- "I wanna make it clear: Elon Musk is a defense contractor. Elon Musk is a defense contractor who's building the most significant surveillance satellite system ever created for the military. Funded with our taxpayers. So he is a contractor." "When I became Assistant Secretary of Housing, under the law, I was required to run the single-family mortgage insurance fund on a self-supporting basis. To figure out whether or not I was in compliance, I had to spend three months lobbying the White House to get the accounts moved over to report to me so I could even understand how much we were making or losing and whether or not I was in compliance. To get in compliance, it turned out we were losing $11 million dollars a day, which was technically, you know, not in compliance with the law. To figure out how to get in compliance, I needed data, except that data was controlled by a private defense contractor who refused to give it to me. "And I spent months warring with defense contractors to get the basic data I needed to move the operation into compliance with the law. And finally, I basically got fired because they wanted to keep the data secret. But essentially, the way you have been able to run, you know, the government such that you need $23 trillion of bailouts and $21 trillion of undocumentable adjustments, the way you've been able to do that is because you've been able to keep operations secret behind private corporations, private banks, and private defense contractors, okay? And the more you outsource and allow them to run things secretly on a non-transparent, non-disclosed basis protected from FOIA, the worse it gets. "So we have two people running government. We have private banks, corporations, and defense contractors. And we have government employees, civil service. Now the civil service, by and large, you know, and there's corruption and everything. So I don't wanna say they're perfect. But by and large, they do what they are given written orders to do. So Congress passes a law, and the executive branch implements that law, the presidential appointees, and they go tell the government employees do 1, 2, 3. And the government employees do 1, 2, 3. Okay. If they give it to a private contractor, maybe they do 1, 2, 3. Maybe they do something else, but they get a big markup on it. So, you know, there's a whole money game going on there. "If you want, if you want the government employees to do something different, you change the written orders. Right? You don't fire them for doing what they got written orders to do. You just change the written orders. It's pretty simple. Now let's say we don't like civil service. We're gonna fire all the civil service, and instead, we're gonna bring in big tech companies to run everything. Right? In 2012, when the new government came into Greece, they discovered they couldn't control their tax receipts because their tax receipts were collected by corporate contractors who were loyal to the central bank. Okay? So if you fire the government employees who do the bidding of Congress and the executive branch and you bring in private big tech contractors who finish consolidating the coup d'etat and are loyal to the central banks, what do you think is going to happen?"

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CATE SHANAHAN: An oil's toxicity comes chiefly from polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) oxidation. PUFA oxidation creates toxins, that's basic organic chemistry

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@jeremykauffman
because it's reflective of some common misperceptions that I want to debunk. (And because
@drdrew
asked me to chime in.) Here are the 2 common misperceptions. 1) Seed oil toxicity derives from omega-6. Omega-6 is a nutrient, so this is mostly incorrect. 2) Dietary omega-6 drives inflammation. That’s possibly true under extreme circumstances but it’s not the reason seed oils promote inflammation. Here’s the deal. An oil's toxicity comes chiefly from polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) oxidation. PUFA oxidation creates toxins, that's basic organic chemistry. And in the body PUFA oxidation also promotes inflammation, that's basic biochemistry. When you expeller press olives you make virgin olive oil. That’s edible. When you expeller press canola seeds, you make a mess. The crude canola oil is NOT edible. It has to be extensively refined and the refining process removes many stabilizing nutrients/antioxidants/vitamins. It also oxidizes and isomerize alpha-linolenic fatty acids (an omega-3) and generates toxicity. That particular fatty acid oxidizes into toxins faster than linoleic (an omega-6). These toxins are present in parts per million amounts, so they pass quality controls, but they multiply over time becuase the oil lacks the stabilizing factors nature puts into the seeds to prevent PUFA oxidation. The toxins multiply because they can attack the PUFA and create more toxins. Let’s also consider some history: We're only eating the Hateful 8 seed oils because the AHA scared us into it with the claim that they can prevent heart attacks. That claim has never been supported and even the AHA is somewhat backing off from it by saying things like olive oil is better but these are not all that bad. The AHA misled us. Now we’re eating hundreds of calories per day and everyone is unhealthy. That’s not a coincidence. We can’t trust the AHA’s advice about fats! And I wouldn’t trust anyone who has not called out the AHA for misleading us.
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DR. JANE RUBY: Your new DOGE Chief was making the mRNA biological weapon "vaccine" ALL ALONG

"Tesla teams up with CureVac to make RNA 'microfactories' for COVID-19 shot . . ."  O, so a bioweapons manufacturer.  

German vaccine maker CureVac has lost some shine in the race for a COVID-19 shot after other mRNA-based hopefuls have captured regulators' attention. Even so, CureVac has reportedly snared a big partner to help build its game-changing RNA "printers" that could turn global interest back in its favor.

Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, tweeted Thursday that the electric carmaker had signed on with CureVac to make portable molecular RNA printers--what Musk appeared to refer to as "RNA microfactories"--to help produce doses of the German vaccine maker's COVID-19 shot candidate.  

Musk said his company was working on the printers as a "side project" and could take on additional partners in the future. 

Eva Fox has it.  

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