You know, with Benjamin Netanyahu, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.

You talking about the Pentagon Audits? First one was in 2018 I believe of course it failed.

My favourite in the buildup to its audit was this

"The Army found 39 Black Hawk helicopters that had not been properly recorded in its property system.

"The Air Force identified 478 buildings and structures at 12 installations that were not in its real property system,"

First audit in 2017/18. Believe they expect to fully pass a clean audit in 2028.

For fun look into Air America CIAs covert air force, had Air America Inc and all these smaller companies beneath it. How they made numerous air line companies to support their covert actions. Also these same companies took on normal government transportation contracts. Was an extra source of income that was separate from their own CIA budget.

Just don’t call it the Flair Flop

https://youtu.be/XNfDSnX2mDw

All time great film :)

If you like this, good documentary to watch on Netflix about baseball in the 70s. Kurt Russell is in it as his dad Bing Russell brought Portland Mavericks.

https://youtu.be/Pte1PwUsgpc

For another war journalist documentary is Only The Dead. Not really a fact finding documentary but more a look at how it shaped the Journalist reporting it.

https://youtu.be/XUCrqiXnDt4

Does get a bit dark and raw than other types of documentaries.

All that training helped him to build up his quick cat like reflexes.

man throws shoes at President Bush.

Then the less hyped sequel.

Iraqi who there shoe at Bush, has shoe thrown at him during press conference.

After they made a remote controlled cyborg moth. I think DARPA should go the giant flying creatures route.

Or they get inspired by Gary Oldman and his killing spree in Leon.

Stansfield : I like these calm little moments before the storm. It reminds me of Beethoven. Can you hear it? It's like when you put your head to the grass and you can hear the growin' and you can hear the insects

You don't like Beethoven. You don't know what you're missing. Overtures like that get my... juices flowing. So powerful. But after his openings, to be honest, he does tend to get a little f***ing boring. That's why I stopped!

Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett. First couple of books is a case of the author finding the right style. However after those the books flow better. Sci/Fantasy humour setting. Around 20 books in the series.

“The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues”

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”

Air America. Is about CIAs covert airforce they created. Mainly creating various companies to support their covert actions.

“Air America – a secret airline run by the CIA – flew missions no one else would touch, from General Claire Cennault’s legendary Flying Tigers in WW II to two brutal decades cruising over the bomb-savaged jungles of Southeast Asia. Their pilots dared all and did all – a high-rolling, fast-playing bunch of has-beens and hellraisers whose motto was ‘Anything, Anywhere, Anytime’. Whether it was delivering food and weapons or spooks and opium, Air America was the one airline where you didn’t need reservations – just a hell of a lot of courage and a willingness to fly to the bitter end.”

Deadly Illusions. In-depth and a heavy read. About KGB spymaster who recruited the Cambridge Spy Ring( large spy scandal in British government from 1930s -50s). Then played a game of wits against Stalin and US/UK governments when he defected to The West.

Just started on Blackmail of a Nation part 1. All about US intelligence agencies and their partnership with Organised Crime and how their relationship evolved over the decades. Look up Operation Underworld.

Onion news covered similar type of story :) Hostages trapped inside Walmart, insisting they never shop at Walmart

Not fully knowledgeable in this subject. Know DARPA related project created a wrap bubble by accident.

https://scifi.radio/2021/12/07/darpa-researchers-create-first-genuine-warp-bubble-by-accident/

So a Fox impersonating Suspicious Fry Meme

DARPA Always come up with crazy projects. My favourite from 2012

Nerve probe controls cyborg moth in flight

It’s the start of program. Pilot is meant to have minimal control. Couple of pilots with with 5 drones as wingman. Now put around 20-30 manned planes with 100 automatous drones doing various mission objectives. That’s the future USAF is planning for the next couple of decades.

Found this in Defense news article

Hawk Carlisle, a retired general who formerly led Air Combat Command, said the ability to extend an aircraft’s reach with AI-infused wingmen is the next step for air combat. “This is a natural evolution, especially when you look at the capability today with respect to AI, with respect to systems, with respect to the computing power and capability you can put in a particular size”

New upgrade to B2 is meant to be shown in December. Interesting to see if they announce any future interaction with loyal wingman.

Also this is an interesting article

https://www.defensenews.com/industry/techwatch/2021/11/08/darpa-has-caught-a-gremlin-drone-in-midair-can-it-grab-four-in-a-half-hour/

Keep an eye out for term called collaborative combat aircraft. New term for USAF autonomous drone wingman.

Believe first step is the loyal wingman program.

https://breakingdefense.com/2022/09/air-force-faces-key-questions-for-next-gen-fighters-drone-wingmen/

Autonomous style drone wingman

Plus they have really gone in on the name of the new project called Skyborg :) Valkyrie success may push Skyborg drone concept to other programs, Kratos says

Pretty much the loyal wingman program. F35,22 and next gen fighters act as the mobile control centres. Have squadron of fully/semi autonomous drones as wingman. Let’s say 2 human manned planes and 4 or 5 wingman. Have one pilot giving out instructions to drones and then AI takes over as it attacks it target.

Then you can leave that wingman on continuously loitering programs over regions. Have their own Kill list of priority targets. Real time intel gets uploaded, triggers the strike program in the drone.

UK is looking to adapt catapult system to its carriers to adapt to its future loyal wingman program.

So yeah that film Stealth isn’t too crazy sounding given enough time.

Nothing much. He expanded on what previous whistlesblowers talked about in early 2000s.

It’s more about the NSA. Can look into Projects Minaret and Shamrock. 1945-73 was a time of surveillance of US citizens.

A Review of Intelligence Oversight Failure: NSA Programs that Affected Americans

Plus this documentary about William Binney and his crew at NSA. They were the people who helped to create some of the systems Snowden talked about.

Good American. On you tube but May need a VPN

https://youtu.be/666wsDcoNrU

Otherwise look up projects Trailblazer, Thinthread and Solar winds.

Also look up Senator Church committee from 1975.

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/looking-back-at-the-church-committee

Then CIA/media relationship. This is the start of the rabbit hole journey:)

So you’ll find Things he explained have been going on before he was even born. All that’s changed is the technology.

World Cups and bribes, I’m shocked I tell you.

Can be said for every World Cup tournament. Have to please FIFA and sweeten the deal during selection.

FIFA, the football’s world governing body, has acknowledged that its own officials accepted up to $10 million in return for votes that awarded South Africa the 2010 World Cup tournament, Agence France-Presse reports.

I still love the Budweiser story from Brazilian World Cup.

Corruption at FIFA

Example from article

For example, the TV rights for showing the 2010 and 2014 World Cup tournaments were bought for $600,000 to a TV company owned by a FIFA member Jack Warner. His company then sold them on to a different company for $18 million, earning a profit of £17.4 million.

Of course have to show clip from Thick of it. NSFW language as expected :)

https://youtu.be/6NwvjPlcC3w

How can you forget his role for Gone in 60 seconds :)

To help sway population opinion. Look at 2nd Iraq war, polling after the invasion still had swathes of the population believing Saddam was linked to 9/11. Government plus the media did that to help back the war.

Remember the incubator story from the first Gulf war. A key inflection point to move the American public and Congress toward supporting war in Iraq was the gruesome 1990 testimony of a Kuwaiti girl named Nayirah, who described how Iraqi troops killed 312 babies.