Topic: U.S. Presses for U.N. Resolution to Fight ISIS’ Financing (Read 977 times)

In countries such as Russia, most of the weapons manufacturing companies are owned by the government. That is not the case in the United States and the other Western nations. Also, in the United States, it is quite easy for these big corporations to bribe the politicians, who then lobby on their behalf. John McCain is not the only one. Most of the American politicians are receiving money from the corporations.

Well, as far as I know police do not base their investigations of criminals on the assumption that those being investigated are very heavily burdened by honesty, morals and integrity. Or are especially mentally stable for that matter. I think it would be useful for people who want to understand those leaders of the endless war on terror and their actions - to view them in this light.

So... in short, the US looking for kicking nearly all of it's allies in the ass together with itself. Sounds good for me .

I don´t know if they pocket that money directly, but then again they may for all I know.

But these endless war scams are certainly great for weapons manufacturers, that fund these bozos and the marketing of them to the public. It takes money I guess to make turds appear appetizing.

This is an extremely dangerous situation to the world peace. I am not worried about the American taxpayers losing their hard earned money. But I am genuinely concerned that some of the American politicians might invade third world nations without any provocation, in order to pocket a part of the money from the American defense budget. The rampant corruption just gives them an additional incentive to start new wars.

The DOD has amassed a backlog of more than $500 billion in unaudited contracts with outside vendors. How much of that money paid for actual goods and services delivered isn’t known.

Over the past 10 years the DOD has signed contracts for provisions of more than $3 trillion in goods and services. How much of that money is wasted in overpayments to contractors, or was never spent and never remitted to the Treasury is a mystery.

The Pentagon uses a standard operating procedure to enter false numbers, or “plugs,” to cover lost or missing information in their accounting in order to submit a balanced budget to the Treasury. In 2012, the Pentagon reported $9.22 billion in these reconciling amounts. That was up from $7.41 billion the year before.

The accounting dysfunction leads the DOD to buy too much stuff. One example: the “vehicular control arm” to supply Humvees. In 2008, the DOD had 15,000 parts -- a 14-year supply (anything more than three years is considered excess supply). Yet from 2010 to 2012, it bought 7,437 more of these parts and at higher prices than they paid for the ones they already had.

The Defense Department’s 2012 budget was $565.8 billion. Paltrow points out that’s more than the annual defense budgets of the next 10 biggest military spenders combined. He tells us the Pentagon “almost certainly is” the biggest source of waste in the government based on his reporting.

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And there´s much much more....it´s one gigantic racket. War is a racket.

https://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/want-cut-government-waste-8-5-trillion-pentagon-142321339.html

It disappeared into some pockets. As in business as usual. The Pentagon has never been able (and definitely not willing) to account for itself. It´s unaccountable. Without any accountability. Just like the system that runs it.

Remember Baghdad Bob? Here´s his American counterpart Chuck, doing the spin in 2013

$500 million to train just four or five individuals? That is quite frankly unbelievable. It represents almost one-fourth of the annual military budget of a small country such as Belarus. And we should remember here that the strength of the Belorussian Armed Forces is somewhere around 62,000. Pathetic wastage of taxpayer's money.

But of course the whole thing is mostly a scam. It´s a gravy-train on taxpayer money. That has been going on forever.

They said they spent a whopping 500 million dollars to train some moderate jihadists in Syria and that resulted in a handful that maybe went to the front. You can look it up. The people in charge don´t even care that their huge war scams are exposed by now. They do it happily themselves. They know that it goes in one ear of the public and straight out the other so what does it matter.

The fruitcakes in charge wave the magic wand sorry the American flag and say hallelujah, it works the same way as when Tommy Lee Jones uses that memory erasing thing in MIB, and continue their scams.

Well, if you drop a bomb it doesn´t necessarily mean that it will hit anything worth bombing. It may not even be aimed at anything worth bombing. And since those who are supposedly expecting to be bombed any moment are likely to somehow try to avoid being sent to oblivion, again just bombing and bombing doesn´t in itself have to mean that much.

I am very suspicious about that figure. I am quite sure that the Americans used less than 10% of that number in Syria and Iraq. Someone needs to do an audit of the American defense spending in Syria and Iraq. The figures just don't match. Had they dropped these 20K bombs for real, then the ISIS would have long been history.

The 1st thing in order to Fight the Terrorists in Syria ,Iraq and Lebanon,is to force Turkish Govt. to remove the Had of the Snake Mr. Erdogan,who is the main supporters of these Terrorists,ISIS and Al Nusra in Syria and Iraq,which the Brave Russians proved It to the World,by His and His Son,s involvement of Buying Stolen Syrian and Iraqi Oil in order to support these Criminals with Weapons

So U.S. wants to fight its own and its allies financing of ISIS. And they want the U.N. to rubberstamp it. That´ll work. They always have solid fighting plans and hardly ever screw up as their record fighting this and that, here and there very clearly shows.

Hopefully it won´t be as lenghty as the war on the ground. So far Uncle Sam has spent 20,000 bombs on probing the defences of ISIS and is about out of ammo unfortunately for the moment. 

At least initially, a few of the powerful royal family members in Saudi Arabia and Qatar were supporting the ISIS. But now, this inflow seems to have slowed down. The main focus of the Arab Sheikhs have shifted to the Al Nusra front, the Ahrar ash Sham and the other "moderate" terrorists. Now ISIS is generating income on its own, by selling oil, extortion, dacoity.etc.

Maybe this could help with the initial investigation

The ISIS TWITTER Census

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2015/03/isis-twitter-census-berger-morgan/isis_twitter_census_berger_morgan.pdf

Sounds like we need some "no drive" zones.

The UN is quite incompetent.

It generally does not work. ISIS is being financed by major donors in the middle east. There are so many deceitful people who smile at the west and make statements they they are against ISIS .....BUT ..... the truth is they are themselves financing and helping ISIS in many ways! The US is also playing a game and could do much more to destroy roads, oil wells smugglers to defeat them.

That is what the Russians are doing right now. The Americans have refused to bomb the oil tankers, claiming that it will cause civilian casualties. No need for a wall. The oil tankers need well-maintained roads to move their cargo. They can't travel through dirt roads in difficult terrain. There are only 2 or 3 roads from Raqqa to Turkey, so closing them won't be an issue. 

A similar measure was passed in February, directed at the Islamic State, but Russia, which holds veto power as a permanent member of the Council, has complained that it is routinely flouted.

What is the point of these resolutions, if they cannot be enforced properly?

Unless they build a big wall on the Turkish border with soldiers killing anyone trespassing, this is BS. Someone to hire Donald Trump or Israel to build that wall. I've seen pictures of trucks being bombed, maybe they could bomb all the roads so that no vehicle could drive through.