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James Scaminaci III

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18 Nov 21

Pentagon inspector general raises questions about former D.C. Guard commander’s Jan. 6 account washingtonpost.com/national-secur… There is another criticism of former CG Walker that has not been made, though it is glaringly obvious. The DCNG has about 1,100 troops. In Walker's own 03 March

2/ testimony had 320 Guards personnel, to include a 40-person QRF ready. In Q&A, he confirmed the 340 number. In another Q&A, he said the QRF was ready to go at 1500h. In another Q&A, he stated half of his 300, that is 150, had been helping the MPD control traffic and the other

3/ 150 were on stand-by to relieve the guards with the MPD. So, if he had 190--the 150 plus the 40-QRF, why did only 155 show up at the Capitol? Why didn't the 150 on standby show up? Why weren't more called in? CG Walker made a great show of how stressed he was by the events.

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James Scaminaci III

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11 Nov 21

For those concerned about Fox News in particular and right-wing media in general, I saved this quote from Noel Malcolm's book, Bosnia: A Short History (p. 252). "But having watched Radio Television Belgrade in the period 1991-2, I can understand why simple Bosnian Serbs came to

2/ believe that they were under threat, from Ustasha hordes, fundamentalist jihads or whatever. As the independent Belgrade journalist Milos Vasic put it to an American audience, it was as if all television in the USA had been taken over by the Ku Klux Klan. 'You must imagine a

3/ United States with every little TV station everywhere taking exactly the same editorial line--a line dictated by David Duke. You too would have a war in five years.'" The US as a whole is not saturated with that problem, but Fox has managed to move the GOP base towards David

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James Scaminaci III

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8 Nov 21

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The Inevitable Rivalry foreignaffairs.com/articles/china… via @ForeignAffairs Both articles in Foreign Affairs, by Giddis and this by Mearsheimer, leave unmentioned the role of business elites during a potential conflict or run-up to a conflict. M alludes to it. American capitalists are

2/ heavily invested in China. The PRC accounts for 28% of global manufacturing. Russia is not even in the top 10. During Cold War I, the US rigidly controlled technology transfers to the USSR. Except in nuclear weapons & space, the USSR was not an economic competitor. The PRC has

3/ built-in advantage in having a potentially strong pro-PRC bloc in the US business community. And, in all fairness, if we think we have supply chain problems now with a pandemic, how much worse would it be if the PRC used its industrial leverage in a time of crisis? Both FA

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James Scaminaci III

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18 Sep 21

The Scientist and the A.I.-Assisted, Remote-Control Killing Machine nytimes.com/2021/09/18/wor… After the gee-whiz, isn't this an act of war? How can you argue that Iran's response is not a legitimate act of self-defense? I'm not pro-Iranian. But there are rules of land warfare.

2/ There is international law. Suppose some country decided to assassinate our scientists because they were working on a project that jeopardized a key weapon system of theirs. Would their attack be legitimate? Would we just go, "shit happens, too bad"? Or does the US & Israel

3/ believe one set of rules do not apply to them and the rules only apply to others? If Iran killed one of our most senior generals as retaliation, would we not object? And so what are legitimate weapons now? Well, AI-directed robots. Roadside IEDs. Suicide bombers.

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James Scaminaci III

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3 Sep 21

Americans support Afghanistan pullout — but not the way it was done, a Post-ABC poll finds washingtonpost.com/politics/post-… The national security elites, formerly deployed vets, and elite media imagined a perfect withdrawal executed in a tactical vacuum. Hearing all that noise, the public

2/ does not like the final process. And yet, there were Afghan leaders who did not suspect their govt & army would collapse. What did happen is that all the errors the national security elites ignored & lied about, came to the fore during the collapse. So, how do you withdraw

3/ gracefully while controlling at best the airport? Is there a perfect plan for that? What about the previous 4 years when Congress did not speed up the SIV program? What about a State Dept that today still lacks confirmed officials for significant policy areas? Congress should

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James Scaminaci III

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22 Aug 21

As Biden Faces a Political Crisis, His Party Looks On in Alarm nytimes.com/2021/08/22/us/… The NY Times pissing its pants. The pandemic is raging because Ds & Rs, Ws & Bs, of various persuasions are not getting vaxxed. The pandemic is raging because of the unvaxxed. That's a message

2/ even Gov Ivey of Alabama is putting out. Get vaxxed. Second, the NY Times acts as if the Democrats have nothing to run on. In FL CD1 Matt Gaetz's first bill was to zero-out the EPA. Pensacola has 6 Superfund sites downtown. We have terrible water. We have ground contamination

3/ from abandoned chemical plants. Perdido Bay is poisoned from International Paper discharges. Biden passed bills to give every family money for children. To build infrastructure. To get broadband to rural areas. Matt Gaetz voted against every Biden bill to improve the lives of

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