Afghanistan: Where Does All The Money Go?

Whoopee we get to stay in Afghanistan? Such a deal! Or is it ? Yesterday the American ambassador signed a formal agreement with Afghan leaders to allow U.S. troops to stay in that war torn country for at least another 3 years.We have been in that country since 2001.We invaded Afghanistan because Osama bin Laden and some of his al qaeda associates were found to be hiding out there. We invaded the whole country. It's like there is a group of a couple dozen bad guys in Oakland but a foreign power invades America to teach them a lesson.Stupid? Let's use "Pentagon" instead of "stupid". It means the same thing. Think about this . The Pentagon has budgeted $85 Billion for one year in Afghanistan.We will have approximately 10,000 of our own troops stationed there. A soldiers salary runs between $18,000-$34,000 per year.There are other expenses. The Pentagon has to feed, clothe,arm, medicate, transport etc. It adds up.But if you divide 10,000 into the $85 Billion you come up with an average of $8.5 Million per American service personnel.Where does all that extra money go? It goes for nothing. We lost in Afghanistan yet we throw more money at that losing cause.But someone is smiling big time.My guess that in a pretty short time Pentagon supplied equipment will end up in the hands of the "enemy" who will either use it or resell it.The Pentagon is stupid and we are stupid for thinking they know more than we do.

Sequestration, Pentagon & Al Qaeda

Looks like congress will finish what al Qaeda started. In 2001 a hyjacked United Airlines crashed before it could ram the Pentagon. It would have been doubtful that the Boeing 767 could have demolished the entire Pentagon Building and its hundred of thousands of employees. So the upcoming sequester impact on the Pentagon cutback will approximate the 2001 attempted demoliotion had it been successful. I.E. approximately 20% of "defense" personnell will be effectively killed off humanely by furlough. Who will miss these warmongers? None work for the minimum wage. In fact all work at multiples of wages that exist in the private sector. Also their health and retirement benefits are found no where in the universe for their disconnect from value given compared to value received. Osama Bin Laden was ahead of his time and his methods by our standards were over-the-top but the credibility of his analysis has found currency with our politicians.

Osama bin Laden Computer Hard Drives, Pokerstars & Possible CIA Cover Up

Almost three months ago on February 10, 2011, Barry's New Conversations did a cheeky philosophical speculation about bin Laden and/or his aids playing Texas hold'em on Pokerstars.net online poker site. Well it turned out to be accurate. On April 15, 2011 Pokerstars was shut down by the Feds. The persistent rumors have the trusted courier, Abu Ahmed al-Kuwati, to bin Laden as a frequent online poker player on Pokerstars web site. The feds got info from Pokerstar executive Australian Daniel Tzvetkoff about the whereabouts of bin Laden's poker playing courier that led to the safe house in Abbottabad. The rest is history.

Besides the death of OBL , the C.I.A netted his computer and stacks of hard drives. The C.I.A. should go public with all the information on the drives before the concerned people in the al Qaeda web can adjust and go undergound in another venue. But I don't think that will happen because I suspect that many names on bin Laden's hard drives would be embarrassing to the C.I.A. and others who one would not associate with OBL's circle intimately or obliquely.

Whether it be poker or terrorism, the C.I.A. can play both.

Real News, Fake News & Non News

News, news, news around the clock, around the world and then around and around again and again. Volumes of news and noise of news but is it really newsworthy? How much "news" is really fake or non news only different in the names that are used? That's tiresome time badly spent. Working in ones garden would be infinitely better.

President Obama is headed to Ground Zero in New York this Thursday. He will say something to the effect that OBL is dead, we all got revenge and the world is a safer place. That's not news in the sense that Obama is informing uniquely. He could have stayed in D.C. and kept his mouth shut and saved New Yorkers and tax payers traffic jams and money respectively. Now real news would have Obama issue a short statement through his press secretary that he did some math about the cost of killing bin Laden. And he has concluded that all things considered we didn't get our moneys worth. A cheaper way of fighting terrorists would be to have better foreign policies. I.E. remember that people in foreign countries have to live there long after presidential election cycles have been concluded. And if Pakistanis want the Taliban for friends, who can argue taste? Therefore as commander in chief of the armed forces he has issued an order for all U.S. troops around the world to stand down . The troops will come home and work on long neglected and badly needed infrastructure projects. Now that would be real news.

Double Feature:Osama bin Laden Death Film & Israel PM Netanyahu Address to Congress

To show the Osama bin Laden killing film or not to show the film? That is the question? Whether it is nobler to refrain or to indulge in one more act of bad taste? After ten years , app. $ 1 trillion spent, countless thousand dead, ecosystems turned into wastelands all for one guy. I wouldn't have liked to witness that real-time killing in the Situation Room. That will haunt those politicians. Because they know they have been bought by the lobbies to carry out money making wars. Better policies would be cheaper. Our government is the best that money can buy.

Speaking of better policies. How about dumping Israel? Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu is giving an address to a joint session of our congress next month. How's that for media message timing to perpetuate the perception of Israeli control of our foreign policy and by extension the killing of bin Laden? The Jews must think we're stupid. First we call Jesus, a Jew, the son of god. But -the Jews thought him a irreverant hippy. One Zionist told me that Mary was actually expecting a girl. Next we fight World War II partly on their behalf. And now we are engaged in fighting app. 1 billion Muslims so the Zionists can live on stolen land in occupied Palestine. The Jewish lobby annully raises over $2 billion. Its largely spent in the U.S. bribing our members of congress to act on Zionist schemes. Seventy other countries are also receivers of Israeli influence peddling.

How much of that $2 billion is recycled U.S. annual grant aid to to Israel?

Misanthropes News Roundup; It's Going to Get Worse

The Wall Street Journal carries an article that Africa now has a middle class of approximately 313 million. They're buying appiliaces, TVs , cars, disposable items that are packed in throw away packaging. Where's away? They are being added to the recently launced 1.2 billion Chineese middle class who are munching and defecating their way through the planets natural wealth.

Another article last week in the New York Times calculated that the total value of financial derivatives in play is app. $584 trillion! Some prospective would compare that figure with the app. $ 20 trillion value of all real estate in the U.S. In other words, not only have we bet all houses on the outcome of Wall Street bets on stocks through commodites and including payouts on life insurance settlements but we have leveraged the structures app 30 to 1. What could possibly go right with that bet? Commodity price surges have accounted for the riots around the world. Wall Street speculators have contributed to poverty and starvation. You see, when poor people buy wheat or gas, they buy it for one day and pay cash. But when Wall Street "investment" banks and speculators buy wheat or gas, they buy the product of entire fields for months and years to come. AND they buy it on as little as 5% margin.

Osama bin Laden was killed yesterday. Good riddance. But George W. Bush wont get indicted. Actually the little mean spirited moron is still alive, writing books and giving speeches. To recap, the latest news for misanthropes is pretty bleak. But this news does bring new converts to the ranks. Ah well, flu season is coming.

Cityville, Pokerstars & Osama bin Laden

I wonder if from time to time Osama bin laden or some of his followers play a few hands of Texas Hold'em on Pokerstars. com? (Do C.I.A operatives use agency slush funds to play?) Does North Korea's Kim Jong Il or any of his cadre participate in Zynga's Farmville? Would it be hopeful that they did? Or would it be more hopeful that the popularity of these two social network sites would gradully decline in popularity to be replaced with a renewed interest in real world?

P.S. The German stock exchange has made a $25 billion dollar for the New York Stock Exchange. That price is about half of the valuation that Goldman Sachs placed on Facebook! Should Facebook make a counter offer to the NYSE or should Facebook be a short sale on its stock offering debut?

Obama & The New Yorker Magazine

Satire or caricature is at its funniest when it is nearest the truth or its possibility of truth. And so the latest New Yorker magazine cover of Barack Obama dressed in traditional African-Kenyan clothing joined by Michelle clad in a circa 1960s urban guerilla outfit meet the test of funny and near and or truthful caricature/satire. It is truthful in an over-the-top depiction and scores a laugh for the non-PC hungry . The setting is in the Oval Office. The fireplace has a burning American flag that is below a hanging picture of Osama bin Laden. The Obamas are fist-butting in a sly fashion.

Some were scandalized and shocked. But anyone who can't stand the truth of caricature probably can't stand truth in many other forms either. And that includes the Obamas. All races have caricatures or stereotypical images. The only race that resents caricature to the point of private organizations that expose and badger critical observers are the Jews. And for all their protests they are still going extinct.