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Marine units not deployable
The Marine Corps Times reports that about half of stateside Marine Corps units “were at an acceptable level of readiness last September” as a result of sequestration budget cuts. The data comes from the Marine Corps’ Defense Readiness Reporting System, said Marine Corps spokesman Capt. Eric Flanagan. The system, established as a concept across the […]
Plus ça change . . . .
. . . plus c’est la même chose. It sure does rhyme: US reaction to Moscow aggression echoes Carter’s in 1980 Title kinda says it all. On a related subject: the following two articles might be of help in understanding the background of the current Crimean situation. The Transfer of the Crimea to the Ukraine […]
Nigerian phony soldier scammer indicted
Mary sends us a link to the Associated Press about Adagun Moshood Olalekan who was indicted on four counts of wire fraud in Saint Louis this week related to a scam to defraud women posing as a widower sole-parent soldier; Investigators say he set up fake online profiles from September through last month, including one […]
International Impotence
As the much of world eagerly awaits the results of the face-off between a pinkly-pectoraled Putin and our metrosexual commander in chief in this mother of all Mexican standoffs, there is much to ponder. While Putin’s ongoing media campaign to present him to the world as a real man, physically strong and constantly engaged in […]
Hate to Say “Told You So” . . . .
. . . but yeah, according to Reuters it’s certainly beginning to look like I did. It was actually pretty easy to predict. SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) – Crimea’s parliament voted to join Russia on Thursday and its Moscow-backed government set a referendum within 10 days on the decision in a dramatic escalation of the crisis […]
China to increase military spending
Reuters reports that President Xi Jinping of China announced that the People’s Republic will be spending more on their military in coming years, the biggest jump in three years; The government said it would increase the defense budget by 12.2 percent this year to 808.23 billion yuan ($131.57 billion), as China seeks to develop more […]
Breaking news; Hugo Chavez is still dead
Amid riots in Venezuela, which have claimed 18 lives, the government of Nicolas Maduro, led a massive rally to remember the one-year anniversary of the death of Hugo Chavez, according to BBC. To celebrate the death of the communist tyrant Chavez, Maduro announced that he would cut diplomatic ties with Panama, that he claims is […]
PANG colonel facing fraud charges
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that Pennsylvania National Guard Colonel Gerard Mangi has been charged with 110 counts of fraud related to creating a job for a friend who had financial problems, in exchange for padding Mangi’s own pay check; Mangis and Robert St. Clair, 50, a civilian contractor at the Air National Guard’s headquarters in […]
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