Maybe this NEW Congress can discuss the JOKE that is the LOCKHEED MARTIN F-35.
US Grounds Entire F-35 Fleet Pending Engine Inspections
Andrea Shalal, Reuters
Shalal reports: "The U.S. military said it had grounded the entire fleet of 97 Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jets until completion of additional inspections of the warplane's single engine built by Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp."
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How much more should be spent on a FAILURE?
The F-35 JOKE! At your expense!
Thank you Lockheed Martin and the Military-Industrial Complex!
The F-35 just got crippled by a computer glitch
that won't be fixed for at least 4 more years. Meanwhile, the program's $1.5
trillion projected cost is enough to end world hunger for 50 years ($30 billion/year x 50 =
$1.5 trillion).
Click SHARE if you think feeding the hungry is more
important than broken fighter jets.
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Carl Gibson | Bernie Sanders Doubles Down on F-35 Support Days After Runway Explosion
Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News
Gibson writes: "The Lockheed Martin F-35 is the epitome of Pentagon waste. The program has already cost taxpayers roughly half a trillion dollars."
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Senator Bernie Sanders. (photo: Rich Pedroncelli/AP)
Bernie Sanders Demands Meeting With DOD Over Wasteful Spending
05 March 15
enate Budget Committee ranking member Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday requested a meeting with new Defense Secretary Ashton Carter to discuss wasteful spending at the Pentagon.
Sanders, a longtime critic of defense spending levels, said the Defense Department must “corral wasteful spending” before Congress expands its funding to pre-sequester levels.
“I support a strong defense for our country and a robust National Guard and Reserve that can meet our domestic and foreign challenges. But I have been very concerned with the level of waste, fraud and inefficient spending that has plagued the Pentagon for decades,” Sanders wrote in a letter to Carter.
“I would like to request a meeting in the near future with you or someone on your team to have a conversation about chronic waste in the Pentagon and what new steps you are taking or are prepared to take to reduce wasteful spending at the Pentagon and to protect taxpayer dollars,” added Sanders, who is considering a presidential run in 2016.
The letter was released ahead of a Senate Budget panel hearing on duplication and waste across the federal government.
Sanders said the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has identified 100 needed reforms at the Defense Department, but only a third have been implemented. He also said it’s “absurd” that the Pentagon cannot track its own spending, which the GAO has repeatedly warned about in conducting its audits.
In President Obama’s budget request for fiscal 2016, which begins in October, he asked Congress to raise sequestration budget caps by a total of $74 billion on both the non-defense and defense sides. Part of that plan asks for $38 billion more for the Pentagon.
Many Democrats and Republicans agree sequestration needs to be eased at least at the Pentagon. Mostly Democrats argue it also needs to be lifted for non-defense domestic programs.
Robert Reich |
Will the Democratic Nominee for 2016 Take On the Moneyed
Interests?
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Reich writes: "The big unknown is whether the Democratic nominee will also take on the moneyed interests - the large Wall Street banks, big corporations, and richest Americans - which have been responsible for the largest upward redistribution of income and wealth in modern American history."
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Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Reich writes: "The big unknown is whether the Democratic nominee will also take on the moneyed interests - the large Wall Street banks, big corporations, and richest Americans - which have been responsible for the largest upward redistribution of income and wealth in modern American history."
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Darren Wilson
Will Not Face Federal Charges in Michael Brown Shooting
Jon Swaine and Oliver Laughland, Guardian UK
Excerpt: Darren Wilson, the white police officer whose fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri, led to months of unrest and revived a debate on race and law enforcement in the US, will not face federal criminal charges."
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Jon Swaine and Oliver Laughland, Guardian UK
Excerpt: Darren Wilson, the white police officer whose fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri, led to months of unrest and revived a debate on race and law enforcement in the US, will not face federal criminal charges."
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US Ambassador
to South Korea Mark Lippert Attacked With Razor
Justin McCurry, Guardian UK
McCurry writes: "The US ambassador to South Korea, Mark Lippert, has been slashed by a political extremist armed with a razor at a function in Seoul where he was to give a lecture."
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Justin McCurry, Guardian UK
McCurry writes: "The US ambassador to South Korea, Mark Lippert, has been slashed by a political extremist armed with a razor at a function in Seoul where he was to give a lecture."
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Bernie Sanders
Demands Meeting With DOD Over Wasteful Spending
Rebecca Shabad, The Hill
Shabad writes: "Senate Budget Committee ranking member Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday requested a meeting with new Defense Secretary Ashton Carter to discuss wasteful spending at the Pentagon."
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Rebecca Shabad, The Hill
Shabad writes: "Senate Budget Committee ranking member Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday requested a meeting with new Defense Secretary Ashton Carter to discuss wasteful spending at the Pentagon."
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New Report
Shows FBI Procedures Have a Chilling Effect on Whistleblowers
Joe Davidson, The Washington Post
Davidson writes: "Jane Turner loved being a FBI agent. It had been her dream job since she was 13, and she had been a good agent during her 25 years with the bureau. But once she became a whistleblower, the FBI turned on her the way the mob turns on a snitch, by her telling. She wasn't killed, but her career was."
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Joe Davidson, The Washington Post
Davidson writes: "Jane Turner loved being a FBI agent. It had been her dream job since she was 13, and she had been a good agent during her 25 years with the bureau. But once she became a whistleblower, the FBI turned on her the way the mob turns on a snitch, by her telling. She wasn't killed, but her career was."
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Afghanistan
Officials Sanctioned Murder, Torture and Rape
Emma Graham-Harrison, Guardian UK
Graham-Harrison writes: "Top Afghan officials have presided over murders, abduction, and other abuses with the tacit backing of their government and its western allies, Human Rights Watch says in a new report."
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Emma Graham-Harrison, Guardian UK
Graham-Harrison writes: "Top Afghan officials have presided over murders, abduction, and other abuses with the tacit backing of their government and its western allies, Human Rights Watch says in a new report."
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Tale of Two
Droughts: What California, Syria Can Teach About Adaptation Gap
Pete Spotts, The Christian Science Monitor
Spotts writes: "At first glance, California and Syria appear to have little in common other than Mediterranean climates. But two new studies - focusing on severe droughts in these places half a planet apart - highlight a yawning gap in the abilities of developed and many developing countries to adapt to the effects of climate change."
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Pete Spotts, The Christian Science Monitor
Spotts writes: "At first glance, California and Syria appear to have little in common other than Mediterranean climates. But two new studies - focusing on severe droughts in these places half a planet apart - highlight a yawning gap in the abilities of developed and many developing countries to adapt to the effects of climate change."
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