The Dirty Truth About The Pentagon - a 🧵of 💘.

➡️ The US spends more on military than the next 10 countries combined.
➡️The US also spends more on military than the bottom 170 countries COMBINED.
➡️The US spends over $1 Trillion a year on military, war & intelligence. ➡️If you make $60,000 a year (after taxes), to make $1 Trillion you'd have to work for over 16 MILLION years.
➡️But the US government doesn't actually know where all that money goes.
➡️The Pentagon has failed 6 straight audits and has NEVER passed one.

One thing you’ll certainly never hear from the mainstream media is that the U.S. government has an impressively prodigious history of using the American people as lab rats. This has gone on for decades. twitter.com/i/web/status/1… As Business Insider reported,“On September 20, 1950, a US Navy ship off the coast of San Francisco used a giant hose to spray microbes into the air & into the city’s fog. The military was testing how a biological weapon attack would affect the 800,000 residents of the city.”

Absolutely disgusting to see Biden's DOJ indict 4 Americans who are members of the African People's Socialist Party under the same BS Russiagate garbage that has been proven false for 6 years. Even the DOJ admits they're charging them for "weaponized free speech." Even if the allegations were TRUE (they're not), this still amounts to the US government arresting & indicting people for speaking in a manner the government didn't like. Hmmm, coulda sworn there was something about "freedom of speech" in some sort of document.

An analysis of police reports broke down how much time they spend on each different crime or situation. 99% of everything US police do could be done by other (unarmed) types of jobs.
Here's what police do with their time: 🧵1/9 Well most police time is spent standing around (or sitting around) so let's begin by replacing that. But even if we ignore that time, the vast majority of what cops do is meaningless. 2/9

While American officials keep touting the "rules-based international order," the truth is the US is absolutely a rogue nation. We are out of line with the global community in just about every way that matters. 🧵 On the UN vote declaring food a human right, the vote was 180 to 2. Only the US and Israel believe people do not have a right to avoid starving to death. We throw out 40% of all food in the US but we deny food should be a right.

One of the most censored stories of last year is that NATO has said publicly they'd like to make "the human brain" the next domain of war. 🧵 The NATO Association of Canada said during a panel discussion that the "weaponization of brain sciences" would be used to exploit "vulnerabilities of the human brain." Of course ruling our minds is nothing new to the Military Industrial Complex. 2/6

A new UN report says over 11,000 children have been directly killed or maimed by the US-backed war on Yemen. This doesn't include the many thousands killed by famine, lack of medicine, or unclean water.
How exactly do Americans tell ourselves we're the good guys?🧵1/5 The people getting richest from the overwhelming destruction of Yemen are arms dealers like Raytheon, Lockheed, General Dynamics, BAE Systems, Elbit Systems & more. 2/5

A new investigation has looked into the extent US ground water is contaminated with URANIUM. ☢️ It's worse than you think. But uranium is not the only thing lurking in your tap water. 🧵 During the cold war, the US mined uranium for nukes at a feverish pace. Little regard was given to safety. And if possible, even less was given to the groundwater near the mines.

🧐 BILLIONS of $$$ is dumped into US Africa Command — AFRICOM — while most Americans don't even know we're there. So why does the US have this incredibly secretive program & how big is it? Here are a lot of the answers.
THREAD 🧵 AFRICOM is over 15 years old & there's barely any mainstream media coverage. The Pentagon claims it exists to create stability in the region. When has US military ever created stability in a country they enter?
❌Iraq
❌Libya
❌Syria
❌Afghanistan
❌Vietnam
❌Korea
❌Etc
❌Etc

😱 The Pentagon recently failed their 5th-ever audit, meaning they've never successfully been audited. But within that failure, we learned some shocking new details — such as they can't account for over HALF of their assets.
THREAD 🧵 If you ran a market, or a shoe store, or a daycare & you couldn't account for HALF your inventory, you'd quickly be arrested. Yet the Pentagon does just that & it's met with a yawn by the ruling elite & the media. But this is worse than just negligence.

Nancy Pelosi will be stepping down after 627 years as leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives. She will be remembered by the piles of money she secured for herself & her friends. Hakeem Jeffries has been elected to lead the Democrats in the House. Will he be any different than Pelosi? Will he be able to stand up to the corporate influences that rule over our elected officials? We already know the answer — It's all in the funding.

Even the US empire's top economists are now saying this is no 'normal' recession but instead a massive economic shift. They won't admit it, but we're witnessing the great splitting of the world's economies combined with environmental destruction. A lot of things have brought on these dire times, but two important factors are that
1) capitalism pushes the sociopaths to the top & they ultimately rule the systems
2) capitalism is the belief in infinite growth on a limited planet. It can only end in collapse if not stopped.

Various groups performed nonviolent direct actions the other day to fight back against the corporate destruction of our world. There are already hundreds of millions of climate refugees, & it will only get worse. 🧵 1/11 XR Cymru splattered fake oil over the offices of public relations consultancy Hill+Knowlton Strategies. Hill+Knowlton has worked for fossil fuel companies ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron & Saudi Aramco 2/11

Imagine there's a lawyer who won a $9.5 Billion settlement against a Big Oil company & rather than pay it, the company went after the lawyer, got him disbarred & arrested. Now imagine the US gov did nothing to prevent it & instead supported it.
(His name is Steven Donziger) Steven Donziger is an environmental lawyer locked up for years in order to send a message that big oil (Chevron) owns our justice system and no one should try to hold them accountable for their crimes.

Just the other day the entire world voted against the US. It was 185 countries to 2 in favor of ending the 60-year economic war against Cuba. The US has shown itself to be a rogue state, out of line with the rest of humanity. The secret reason the US continues to despise Cuba is because of the threat of the good example. Cuba has 100% literacy, zero homelessness, near zero unemployment, & free healthcare. The US gov doesn't want Americans to realize this is possible.

Cargill owns a large portion of every step of the farm-to-table process. They also have a 'financial services' arm playing the commodities futures trading game. So they enrich themselves whether food is cheap/expensive/abundant/or scarce. 1/6🧵 Last year the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ordered Cargill to pay $750,000 in fines for failures to report & supervise. This equates to roughly what Cargill makes every 3 minutes of every day. Quite a rough punishment. 2/6

We've all heard that US police murder over 1,000 people per year. For many other countries it's only a tiny fraction of that. But a new study shows that the US number is actually TWICE as high as we've been told.
🧵1/6 Over 50% of the time US police murder someone they put down a different cause of death, and medical examiners often don't question the police report. 2/6

The Fed chairman has said they're inflicting "pain" on average American households to get inflation in check. But it's not actually about inflation. It's designed to create a recession in order to greatly decrease worker "leverage" (power). 1/5 The Federal Reserve is a privately-owned (mostly) central bank designed to protect the ruling class. It steps in to take power away from workers & return it to the rulers of corporate America. 2/5

Let's take a step back & think about this.
Let’s forget that the US & NATO helped create the war in Ukraine by breaking promises not to expand NATO.
Let's forget the US perpetrated the 2014 coup in Ukraine.
Let's forget many top US officials have admitted this is a proxy war 🧵 Let's forget that Biden/Congress have sent over $50 Billion of weapons & aid to an army that is at least partially n@zis.

Let’s forget that even US propaganda outlets CBS & CNN have admitted 70% of those weapons are sold on the black market & don't get to the frontlines. 2/6

For most Americans & much of the world, our life is — to some degree — owned, run, managed, or manipulated by a “shadow bank” that few people even know the name of. It holds between 9 & 10 Trillion dollars in assets. 🧵 1/5 They have more "wealth" than the GDP of all countries except the US & China. If you make $60,000 a year, it would take you 150 million years to save up the amount they have. (Literally.) 2/5

The US empire's ruling elite have lost control of the narrative and therefore need to push the idea that many independent journalists are "misinformation" or "fake news." They also try to censor anything outside allowable corporate talking points. The empire's oligarchy also lost narrative control in the 1960s. They regained it by recapturing the mainstream media & academic institutions. In the Trilateral Commission's report "Crisis of Democracy," they admit that average Americans were not "obeying" as they did before.