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How General Dynamics Just Got A $600 Million Check From Uncle Sam, Courtesy Of ISIS
Sometimes, in the fog of whatever is the Mideast war du jour started initially under a "humanitarian intervention" pretext then quickly morphing into yet another counter-Syria campaign to appease various Saudi and Qatari emirs and princes, it is easy to lose sight over just what the purpose of said war is. Luckily, we have the US military industrial complex to remind us, and specifically weapons and ammunition specialists like General Dynamics. So here, for those confused, is a summary of the the first half of the great circle, which uses war, mass killings and civilian casualties, as a cover to deploy what else: US taxpayer money into the pocket of US corporations. Lots of it.
As Reuters reports, the U.S. government on Monday said it had approved the sale to Iraq of $600 million in tank ammunition manufactured by General Dynamics Corp saying it would help the Iraqi government establish an integrated ground defense capability.
In short: the Obama administration is about to give its latest puppet government in Iraq some $600 million in US taxpayer funds so said government can further arm itself in its war with a terrorist group that until recently was also being funded, trained and equipped by the US government. The beneficiary: a US company which some say is at the forefront of the US military industrial complex.
With that out of the way, here's more.
The Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency, or DSCA, notified lawmakers that the State Department had approved the sale of 10,000 M831 120m, high-explosive anti-tank munitions, 10,000 M865 120mm kinetic energy warheads and 26,000 other munitions, as well as logistics services.
DSCA said the prime contractor would be General Dynamics, maker of the M1A1 Abrams tank and the requested munitions.
The U.S. military has been conducting air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, and is seeking to strengthen the Iraqi government so it can resist the extremists more effectively.
Reuters also adds that Congress now has 30 days to block the sale, "although such action is rare since arms deals are usually vetted carefully before a congressional notification."
Actually, the reason there is rarely if every blocking of such indirect subsidies to the US Military Industrial Complex is simple, and is the other half of the circle.
It is laid out in the charts and tables below, courtesy of OpenSecrets:
Here is the company's 2014 total lobbying summary:
A breakdown of the recipient party of the donation:
And the full history of General Dynamics handouts to Congress:
Bottom line: it is clear General Dynamics' recent "donations" to Congress have declined, so it is about time Congress does something serious to appease its generous MIC donors. After all, the holidays are coming fast and without those lobby dollars, how are corrupt US Congressmen supposed to celebrate Christmakkah like corrupt millionaires while their constituency wallows in ever greater poverty?
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Yeah, we're gonna have to cancel that check cause the shit got stolen again... After we dropped it in the wrong place....
I thought ISIS had stolen all the tanks.
They need ammo for them
Sounds fishy. Is Caniggula aware of this?
Con.......
General Dynamics IS ISIS...
A few repo kill switches on those rattle traps could have saved a world of trouble.
.. the U.S. government on Monday said it had approved the sale to Iraq of $600 million....
That's the line that fools Joe Sixpack every time. They assume "sale to *" means "*" is paying.
Stupid taxpayers.
"$600 million in tank ammunition manufactured by General Dynamics Corp"
as paw-paw says, 600 million goes a long way toward paying pension and sicksurance for gendyn retirees
"and that's why a whipper-snapper like you should study math, so you can get a job with a company with a future .. like that one"
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/10/21/353515467/israeli-homes-de...
Soon the Iraqis will get their ammo on their shopping sprees to China for bathroom fixtures.
Man check out the size of that shower head. I guess we know where the Palestinian's stolen water is going lol
You mean there are arabs that don't know how to steal a car?
Knock me down with a feather.
He just heard about it on the news like the rest of us.
Ya know what? Jabbing Obama for his many MANY MANY MANY failures and shortcomings is getting to be like shooting fish in a barrel. It's easier than making a fool out of Fonestar.
Obama's the Energizer Bunny of fuck ups. Just keeps going and going and going.
He's the new Bill Clinton decoy. While you're watching him golf Biden is the silent Al. Congress & Senate are making plans to bug out soon as the bones are clean.
No doubt he is the Emir of Fuckups but I'm having a problem correlating this partial sentence:
"In short: the Obama administration is about to give its latest puppet government in Iraq some $600 million in US taxpayer funds so said government can further arm itself..."
Are the Tylers saying Eboma is GIVING the Iraqi government 600 million so it can buy munitions from General Dynamics?
It sure reads like that.
Ex-Im Bank deal? Heh heh. We'll ALLOW you to buy $600MM of our war toys. Of course, we'll provide the financing as well.
They shoulda thought of that in the first place or they went through some ammo real quick.
I hope we paid with Paypal so we can get that there "Seller's Protection."
Was it to a "Verified Address" in Syria?
Oh, so they are the purchasing department for ISIS......fancy that then.....
Oh, yes, please do let me point out that yet again I am being sarcastic, as I feel it is quite necessary for
those that say taked, takeded or even tooked....
it is a Double Mint Gum runaround.
Give the ammo to the Iraqi Army.
They go into " battle ".
They pull an Italian drop and run retreat.
ISIS / ISIL / WHATEVER THE FUCKING NAME FLAVOR OF THE WEEK THE GOOBERMINT IS CALLING THEM - swoops a new supply of terror ammo.
They need moar ammo.
Rinse, lather, repeat.
This can go on until everyone is dead, we own the oil, and the one percent owns our monkey asses serf like - their fondest dreams come true.
New General Dynamics jingle -
" Double your funding, double your fun, selling ' em ammo, just before they run. "
Helluva stash of tank ammo.
Grimaldus wants.
Grimaldus
"I thought ISIS had stolen all the tanks."
Ammo first, then tanks next. The worst part is, when this special ops job is over, those ISIS mercenaries will next move to New Jersey with CIA supplied green cards and government pensions.
Cool. The CIA makes private military manufacturers good money arming isis via western governments and gulf state patrons, then the army makes the same compnaies money by arming those who fight them.
Nice.
That is sick. very, very, sick.
Some real twisted shit.
Wouldnt this mean an Americaan corporation supports terror and in efdect the Gubmint? Wouldnt this make the US eligable for global sanctions against it?
Sweet crap! That's like 90,000 rounds of APFSDS (Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot)! And it's not like you practice with the war rounds either. Even if you divide that over a BUNCH of practice rounds and shit like cannister and HE, thats close to 10X what was used in Desert Storm.
my neighbor's half-sister makes $71 hourly on the laptop . She has been fired from work for 9 months but last month her paycheck was $17975 just working on the laptop for a few hours. look at this site... www.job-reports.com
Seriously, we didn't spend enough already?
yes, that's it. giver the iraqi's more gear to leave behind for ISIS to take after they piss themselves with fear and run away.
Jobs! Nothing can stop the New Rome! Break a window!
Smedly Butler in "War is a Racket", wrote about all the graft going on back then, so you can imagine now.
The MIC wet dream both sides equipped with American hardware and cashed up.
ho chi isis strikes again. it worked so well
the first time.
Crown family of Chicago = General Dynamics
The Crown family: investing in weapons, war ...and Obama
Looks like that investment in 'Muzzie' Oblahma is paying off.
quote from link:
Disenchanted's post is a good supplement to this article. Thank you. +1
The Crowns* are from Ashkenazi.
The funniest joke about CIA-Obama is that he's anti-Israel. CIA-Obama is Israel's 'boy' byway of the CIA.
An American, not US subject.
"If Israel farted, the DC US would be there to inhale it."
In 2008, James Crown and his wife Paula were Obama’s fundraising chairs in Illinois and his fourth largest “bundlers” nationwide,
No good deed goes unrewarded
Only $128,000. You can buy a politician for life for chump change.
the U.S. government on Monday said it had approved the sale to Iraq of $600 million in tank ammunition manufactured by General Dynamics Corp saying it would help the Iraqi government establish an integrated ground defense capability.
the U.S. government on Monday said it had approved the sale to Iraq of $600 million in tank ammunition manufactured by General Dynamics Corp saying it would help the Iraqi government establish an integrated ground defense capability. Which will include "black flags" and mercenaries from Erik Prince's Academi to drive them!
Fixed it!
War pays peace doesnt!
war pays but the dividends are all fiat.
I'd take a few million fiat today to convert into gold, steal, lead, and land tomorrow; a few more guillotines as well.
And unlike some I know of, I won't be "returning." fleeing.
An American, not US subject.
"When I look in the mirror, I see an American. Some see a United Statesian. While others see an Israeli."
Butcher or cattle. Choose
ISIS will probably wait until the ammo is delivered before it grabs the tranks.
They (ISIS) have 30 Abrams tanks already. Captured from the Iraqi army in summer. Thank god those tanks have that shitty gas turbine onbord, not really what you want to have in a sandy enviroment in the desert. Imagine they (ISIS) capture a few Leopard 2 tanks from the Turkish army ...
If ISIS has 30 tanks, why does the Iraqi Army need an additional 20,000 anti-tank rounds? Who taught those fuckers how to aim, former NY City Police Officers?
Honestly, the Iraqi Army is the best equipt, best trained, least effective fighting force in history. I'd take whatever shit they have left that we gave them earlier back, give them some Toyota pickup trucks, head scarves, and sharp knives, and tell them they'd better fight ISIS off or they'll lose their heads. Because we are out of here.
It doesn't matter what we give them, they don't maintain or take care of anything. Neither do the Kuwaitis or the Bahrainis, seen it first hand. Any piece of equipment will be rendered useless by them. Trust me, these people could break an iron anvil with a rubber mallet.
An American, not US subject.
http://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/GERTZ-U.S.-made-Humvees...
And this time the Iraqi army won't turn tail and run in the face of pickup trucks with 50 cals on them
Wogs always run....It is written in the sand by a slowly moving finger..
They just place an order with communist china and double there money. I wonder why the military doesn't make there own bombs at cost (not like they'd be competing with anyone except the terrorists)? Must want them to work? Yeah, to bad the gov doesn't run those shops under the wheels of outsourcing. We might be able to buy bombs for pennys on the dollar. Outsource the gov itself and we'd be even better off! Outsouce illegal imagration to china and welfare, foodstamps and ss.
ISIS must need more tank ammo in order to finish off Khobani.
I'm happy with the decision - we are $600 million closer to the collapse!
Treason!
"Treason!"
In this situation, maybe. The Constitution, Article 3, Section 3, refers to the DC US making war against the American people, and states, as being treason.
However, the next time you see someone pulled over by a local gun and badge thug, that is, by definition, treason.
Put another way: Their war crimes overseas are training and practice for their treason at home.
An American, not US subject.
The treasonous "War on Drugs" began on July 17, 1971 in a speech by pol Richard Nixon. He said: "
He went on to say, with updates by me:
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=3048
The flip side of SOLYNDRA.
Just try not to drop it behind ISIS lines this time guys?
HAHAHA
it has already been done.i have an article explaining america has dropped weapons to isis
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/21/isis-video-america-s-ai...
Some fat bonuses coming at GD this Christmas.
Getting an Iraqi soldier to man a tank is like trying to pass a camel through the eye of a needle. Or the first time a RPG takes out a tank, it's "outta da pool" for the tank corps...
I wanted to retire at 65 but now I can't. I drive a 94 mercury Topaz...I pray it never breaks down.. I went off steak, which I purchased only when they have a red sticker . Now eating hot dogs, pork n beans . Chef Boyardee in can is a real treat now. Can;t cook a hard meal cause of the electric. Was trying to save for my grand daughters college coming up. She kept her end of the deal..got good grades now I might not be able to help..I convinced her to stay local college..at least first 2 years..and nix any loan. These fukkers sign over 600 million dollars to go blow up someone elses kid that might have had dreams too..like it.s nothing..to blow up the last batch of tanks we sold them..wtf all those phd economosists and nobody knows how to cut back?
how many kids can you put in school for 600 million dollars..how many small business can you kick start..
I know..and I apologize..I should be tougher than this..and not cry me a river..a pity party..this ALL sucks!
I hope you are all doin better than me.and put the heat on these bastards...Cause I can't take this much more
Steak or interwebs, steak or interwebs...
Love your post. You sum it up nicely. These mother fuckers are blowing our hard earned money on bullshit, weapons of death and mass destruction. Let's call it what it is. It's fucking evil. And some day there will be hell to pay.
You are not poor. You have been robbed. And I'm not talking about "forty acres and a mule."
An American, not US subject.
"Being armed may thwart a robbery. What more so treason."
This is a very good post and I'm pretty sure many American people feel the same way yet I wonder when will the Americans actually wake up and realize that their two party system is seriously screwed up? I mean just look at those charts, you can clearly see the "sponsors" put equal amounts on BOTH parties so why are people still surprized that things are never changing? Blaming Obama for all ills is rather stupid. It's the entire system that needs an overhaul. Ending the FED (private banking cartel) and changing the election system would be a good start...
"War is a racket."
An American, not US subject.
"Peace is a guillotine."
K A C H I N G !
"[T]he U.S. government on Monday said it had approved the sale to Iraq of $600 million in tank ammunition manufactured by General Dynamics Corp saying it would help the Iraqi government establish an integrated ground defense capability."
Yeah sure. Here's what it should say:
"[T]he U.S. government on Monday said it had approved the sale to Iraq of $600 million in tank ammunition manufactured by General Dynamics Corp saying it would only help General Dynamics and its owners make even more obscene amounts of money than it has already made off U.S. "wars," since everyone knows Iraqi has abolutely no ground defense capability whatsoever, and isn't likely to get one anytime soon. And even if a miracle were to occur and Iraq were able to defend itself, ISSI will only take the tank ammo from them, and use it against them and everyone else in the neighborhood, after they're done beheading the men and fucking their women. But who the fuck cares as long as General Dynamics gets paid."
Does GD get to keep the check if
IS takes bababagdadi ?
or is that the other half of the circle of pockets
War: the originator of the broken windows fallacy.
Surely there's a cheaper way to make fertilizer?
So that's on the order of $60k/bang including postage and handling?
They'll be available on ISIS-Bay for $10k/each before they're unpacked, then marked up the next day on Mohammed's List for $20k/each.
Might as well fill them full of sand, will never be fired by anyone on our side.
That ammo didn't make itself. A lot of blue collar guys and gals got a paycheck. Iraq has oil and I did see the word sell.
Those are all training rounds.
Like giving someone a cap gun, and sending them to Detroit.
Someone better tell the DoD that there is no longer an Iraqi military. Those weapons will go straight to ISIS.
ISIS no longer has to go to the trouble of capturing these weapons since Washington now arranges delivery by direct airlift.
30 tanks?
That's just a few A-10 sorties.
"Follow the money all the way to the next war".
I didn't say that, but someone wisely did.
Did General Dynamics throw in some $700 hammers to sweeten the deal?
Fuck that! The Iraqis can't fight for shit... they run away, or shoot you in the back. If they want more value for the money, give it to the Kurds, at least those guys can fight! <rant over>
Yeah, I know.... *shakes head and mumbles obscemities to himself* fucking traitors...
DELIGHTFUL news !!!!
The entire budget for the proltariat thieving parasite entitlement programs should be rerouted through the aerospace-defense industry, creating good-paying jobs + good dividends, while all the entitlement scum should be stuffed into uniforms and shipped to combat zones.
Then unemployment AND parasite entitlement spending = zero.