With billionaires, I always look to see what is the real benefit to them of their supposed public interest activities, e.g., Gates pushing healthcare while making millions. Musk may have already gotten his real benefit by being given access to the Treasury's payment system where he can see what his competitors get in contracts.
A serious effort at spending cuts would have explained, for example, how USAID is more than bags of food for hungry children, but is essentially funding a network of NGOs that engage in CIA regime change and influence worldwide.
What they're doing now is just throwing red meat to their base. Going after DOD would mean having to cut into programs that threaten Musk and the other billionaires. And it likely would mean the Republicans would be accused of 'being soft on defense' - by the Democrats.
I rather doubt that Elon Musk would take on the MIC. He's probably way too close to it already. And how else would he "coup whomever we want" to secure his Lithium, etc.?
I can tell you the exact date The Pentagon budget will get put on a serious diet, and it's also the title of an old popular song: "The 12th of Never"!! Thus far, only "savings" are coming from sacking anyone involved in DEI programs. (Inspectors General in the service branches may be in jeopardy, too.) Oh, and we'll see big savings for the taxpayer by outlawing any celebration within military of "little" things like National Holidays--MLK Day, Juneteenth--and anything suggesting gender nonconformity is okay. I'm sure the military's been spending untold billions on those trifles, right??
For starters they should make the audit of the Pentagon the TOP priority. How can you talk about cuts without even having an audit? Where did all that money go? The stock market?
Hoping Musk will do the right thing is a hope too far. Did you hear Musk's unhinged reason for getting rid of the CIA-run regime change operations at USAID? You guessed it, they are, according to Musk, "far-left Marxist organizations". This is what you can always expect from Trump and Musk, that even when they do the right thing, it is for all the wrong reasons, in fact, fabricated and ludicrous reasons. I predict lots of threats and flailing around, and a lot of bad reactions from allies and perceived enemies alike. I also predict that Trump and Musk will cut small expenditures to claim victory over the budget debt, only to increase military spending once again. Let's wait and see.
Thank you, George (https://georgehazim.substack.com/p/trump-orchestrates-gaza-genocide) for writing this. Reading it calmed me down at home alone, the strong anger I felt which is very rare for me, watching this abomination unfolding before our eyes in The White House, devoid of any knowledge of COMMON HUMANITY, starting the Trial of Humankind in this Year of the COMMON ERA of Christ 2025. That's what TIME it is!
The last Major Jewish Prophet Isaiah wrote about that anger in the 1st Chapter of his Book in the Book of Books: Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD has spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people do not consider.
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they are gone away backward. Isaiah 1
That Ancient Prophecy is for this Generation of Israelis.
As I watched the despicable TV spectacle, knowing the Trump Evangelical Christians Idolize Israel, thinking it can do no wrong, but if it does, don't criticize it. That Sect of Christianity dismisses and ignores this insight in the Time of the Revelation of Jesus Christ they say they represent.
I saw Trump & Netanyahu representing and speaking for this Synagogue Tonight;
[9] I know your works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but you are rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the Synagogue of Satan. Revelation 2
[9] Behold, I will make them of the Synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you. Revelation 3
I still haven't seen the significance of verse 9 in Chapter 2 of the Revelation other than reinforcement of the same Vision of Christ in verse 2-9 in 3-9?
I believe most Individuals in the World can see the US-Israeli Genocide in Gaza unfolding in REAL TIME. Delusional Leaders like Trump and Netanyahu showed themselves to be TONIGHT, are leading THIS MONEY LOVING and SERVING Material World along the Path to Destruction.
Whether we like it or not, 'WE, THE PEOPLE' ultimately, have to FACE IT and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, big or small, in our own environments!
This World has arrived at a place like Jonah in the whale Bible fame, having no place left to run and hide from doing what must be done, starting with cleaning and changing ourselves for the Better 1st, to change the People around us we see every Day, both Familiar and a Stranger. What's another $BILLION DOLLAR DEAL for the likes of Trump? It's not as if the US and the American People are COMPLICIT, FACILITATING all the DEATH and DESTRUCTION of the Israeli Genocide in Gaza Trump was so hypocritical in decrying all that Destruction! On Trump's bright side, all he saw was MEGA Business Deals turning the 26 mile Gaza Strip into high priced beach front Condominiums. He was sad over Ukrainian children killed in Ukraine, but not a thought for the 15,000 Children and Infants Israel bombarded in Israeli "SELF-DEFENSE" from Terrorists, Israel raining TERROR on the People of Gaza with US F-35s, US BOMBS and bombers, US Apache Attack helicopters, tanks, and artillery against mostly Women and Children. The consequence of the US-Israeli bombing was to swell the ranks of Hamas, because EVERYONE in Gaza, lost grand parents, parents, parents, Children and Infants, making the US MIC a killing.
Unfortunately, the US Western MSM has so many SINS of HISTORICAL OMISSION, they do not SPEAK Truth to Power or the People. They are the PROPAGANDISTS FOR THE POWER, acting like a 5th Horseman of the Apocalypse. Watching the highly paid Personalities on CNN, MSNBC, FOX and others reporting it on the way, have no personal emotions involved in the delusional blind Faith they and their loved ones will be spared the consequences.
I see this Material World has arrived at this Point of Time in the Revelation of Jesus Christ. The words in brackets just remove the thee and thou Old English into Modern Terms for Modern Times;
And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. (false beliefs about God in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Atheism)
For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth ($Billionaires, Presidents, Prime Ministers, CEOs and other Idols of the People) and of the whole world, (the rest of us) to gather them to the Battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Behold, I come as a thief. (when you least expect it) Blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. Revelation 16:13-16
Of all the words in the Bible, Armageddon appears only that 1 Time. It was derived from Har Megiddo located in Roman Occupied Palestine. Israel disappeared some 720 Years earlier.
TODAY, Har Megiddo is located in Israeli Occupied Palestine, and the way Trump and Netanyahu talked about Palestine and Iran TONIGHT, that Battle of God Almighty could happen at any Time? The Writing's on the Wall concerning Iran.
Iran was called Persia in the 2600 year old Biblical 'Writing on the Wall' record when Iran-Persia replaced Babylon-Iraq as the Dominant Power in the Middle East then gaining much greater influence in Iraq after the illegal US Invasion in 2003, violating the exact same International Law the US/NATO demonizes Russia for violating.
What we are witnessing here is another example of vulture capitalism writ large - the process where a vulture business-re-organizer comes into a struggling business, confiscates the valuable assets and tosses what's left in the trash. That's exactly what Musk's crew are doing. And note that they can also put their hard-drives into IRS and just rewrite their own tax obligation, as well as tapping into the country's revenue stream while slashing all govt spending. America is essentially bankrupt, and they know it, and are going to try every possible way to spread more of their debt around the world. If allowed, yes, that could work, at the expense of all other nation's sovereignty. But also very important, while this spreads US debt (and control) around the world, it virtually removes the possibility of other nations ever paying off their own debt. Americans, themselves, are pretty well screwed, and can't do much to stop this coup, but all other nations need to grow a spine and stop taking US$ for their exports and gradually eliminate US$ from their central bank reserves. See my article at https://kathleenmccroskey.substack.com/p/read-trumps-playbook-right-here
With billionaires, I always look to see what is the real benefit to them of their supposed public interest activities, e.g., Gates pushing healthcare while making millions. Musk may have already gotten his real benefit by being given access to the Treasury's payment system where he can see what his competitors get in contracts.
A serious effort at spending cuts would have explained, for example, how USAID is more than bags of food for hungry children, but is essentially funding a network of NGOs that engage in CIA regime change and influence worldwide.
What they're doing now is just throwing red meat to their base. Going after DOD would mean having to cut into programs that threaten Musk and the other billionaires. And it likely would mean the Republicans would be accused of 'being soft on defense' - by the Democrats.
I rather doubt that Elon Musk would take on the MIC. He's probably way too close to it already. And how else would he "coup whomever we want" to secure his Lithium, etc.?
I can tell you the exact date The Pentagon budget will get put on a serious diet, and it's also the title of an old popular song: "The 12th of Never"!! Thus far, only "savings" are coming from sacking anyone involved in DEI programs. (Inspectors General in the service branches may be in jeopardy, too.) Oh, and we'll see big savings for the taxpayer by outlawing any celebration within military of "little" things like National Holidays--MLK Day, Juneteenth--and anything suggesting gender nonconformity is okay. I'm sure the military's been spending untold billions on those trifles, right??
For starters they should make the audit of the Pentagon the TOP priority. How can you talk about cuts without even having an audit? Where did all that money go? The stock market?
Hoping Musk will do the right thing is a hope too far. Did you hear Musk's unhinged reason for getting rid of the CIA-run regime change operations at USAID? You guessed it, they are, according to Musk, "far-left Marxist organizations". This is what you can always expect from Trump and Musk, that even when they do the right thing, it is for all the wrong reasons, in fact, fabricated and ludicrous reasons. I predict lots of threats and flailing around, and a lot of bad reactions from allies and perceived enemies alike. I also predict that Trump and Musk will cut small expenditures to claim victory over the budget debt, only to increase military spending once again. Let's wait and see.
"Why, despite decades of disastrous wars, do Pentagon budgets continue to grow, year after year, like ever-expanding nuclear mushroom clouds?"
You have to ask?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfH_ku1ExVQ
Thank you, George (https://georgehazim.substack.com/p/trump-orchestrates-gaza-genocide) for writing this. Reading it calmed me down at home alone, the strong anger I felt which is very rare for me, watching this abomination unfolding before our eyes in The White House, devoid of any knowledge of COMMON HUMANITY, starting the Trial of Humankind in this Year of the COMMON ERA of Christ 2025. That's what TIME it is!
The last Major Jewish Prophet Isaiah wrote about that anger in the 1st Chapter of his Book in the Book of Books: Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD has spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people do not consider.
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they are gone away backward. Isaiah 1
That Ancient Prophecy is for this Generation of Israelis.
As I watched the despicable TV spectacle, knowing the Trump Evangelical Christians Idolize Israel, thinking it can do no wrong, but if it does, don't criticize it. That Sect of Christianity dismisses and ignores this insight in the Time of the Revelation of Jesus Christ they say they represent.
I saw Trump & Netanyahu representing and speaking for this Synagogue Tonight;
[9] I know your works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but you are rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the Synagogue of Satan. Revelation 2
[9] Behold, I will make them of the Synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you. Revelation 3
I still haven't seen the significance of verse 9 in Chapter 2 of the Revelation other than reinforcement of the same Vision of Christ in verse 2-9 in 3-9?
I believe most Individuals in the World can see the US-Israeli Genocide in Gaza unfolding in REAL TIME. Delusional Leaders like Trump and Netanyahu showed themselves to be TONIGHT, are leading THIS MONEY LOVING and SERVING Material World along the Path to Destruction.
Whether we like it or not, 'WE, THE PEOPLE' ultimately, have to FACE IT and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, big or small, in our own environments!
This World has arrived at a place like Jonah in the whale Bible fame, having no place left to run and hide from doing what must be done, starting with cleaning and changing ourselves for the Better 1st, to change the People around us we see every Day, both Familiar and a Stranger. What's another $BILLION DOLLAR DEAL for the likes of Trump? It's not as if the US and the American People are COMPLICIT, FACILITATING all the DEATH and DESTRUCTION of the Israeli Genocide in Gaza Trump was so hypocritical in decrying all that Destruction! On Trump's bright side, all he saw was MEGA Business Deals turning the 26 mile Gaza Strip into high priced beach front Condominiums. He was sad over Ukrainian children killed in Ukraine, but not a thought for the 15,000 Children and Infants Israel bombarded in Israeli "SELF-DEFENSE" from Terrorists, Israel raining TERROR on the People of Gaza with US F-35s, US BOMBS and bombers, US Apache Attack helicopters, tanks, and artillery against mostly Women and Children. The consequence of the US-Israeli bombing was to swell the ranks of Hamas, because EVERYONE in Gaza, lost grand parents, parents, parents, Children and Infants, making the US MIC a killing.
Unfortunately, the US Western MSM has so many SINS of HISTORICAL OMISSION, they do not SPEAK Truth to Power or the People. They are the PROPAGANDISTS FOR THE POWER, acting like a 5th Horseman of the Apocalypse. Watching the highly paid Personalities on CNN, MSNBC, FOX and others reporting it on the way, have no personal emotions involved in the delusional blind Faith they and their loved ones will be spared the consequences.
I see this Material World has arrived at this Point of Time in the Revelation of Jesus Christ. The words in brackets just remove the thee and thou Old English into Modern Terms for Modern Times;
And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. (false beliefs about God in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Atheism)
For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth ($Billionaires, Presidents, Prime Ministers, CEOs and other Idols of the People) and of the whole world, (the rest of us) to gather them to the Battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Behold, I come as a thief. (when you least expect it) Blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. Revelation 16:13-16
Of all the words in the Bible, Armageddon appears only that 1 Time. It was derived from Har Megiddo located in Roman Occupied Palestine. Israel disappeared some 720 Years earlier.
TODAY, Har Megiddo is located in Israeli Occupied Palestine, and the way Trump and Netanyahu talked about Palestine and Iran TONIGHT, that Battle of God Almighty could happen at any Time? The Writing's on the Wall concerning Iran.
Iran was called Persia in the 2600 year old Biblical 'Writing on the Wall' record when Iran-Persia replaced Babylon-Iraq as the Dominant Power in the Middle East then gaining much greater influence in Iraq after the illegal US Invasion in 2003, violating the exact same International Law the US/NATO demonizes Russia for violating.
Another good target for budget cuts is weapons for Israel and Ukraine.
What we are witnessing here is another example of vulture capitalism writ large - the process where a vulture business-re-organizer comes into a struggling business, confiscates the valuable assets and tosses what's left in the trash. That's exactly what Musk's crew are doing. And note that they can also put their hard-drives into IRS and just rewrite their own tax obligation, as well as tapping into the country's revenue stream while slashing all govt spending. America is essentially bankrupt, and they know it, and are going to try every possible way to spread more of their debt around the world. If allowed, yes, that could work, at the expense of all other nation's sovereignty. But also very important, while this spreads US debt (and control) around the world, it virtually removes the possibility of other nations ever paying off their own debt. Americans, themselves, are pretty well screwed, and can't do much to stop this coup, but all other nations need to grow a spine and stop taking US$ for their exports and gradually eliminate US$ from their central bank reserves. See my article at https://kathleenmccroskey.substack.com/p/read-trumps-playbook-right-here
Your article makes sense, but so what. There has to be a realization by enough decision makers that the iceberg looms too close. Don't see it.
The money laundering scheme will just continue until the smash up.
As the chairman, CEO and only member of the neutralistassociationofthe.us, I pray for the realization, but do not expect it.
Recognition of the Ukraine loss may happen, possibly even a China accord, but we are owned by entities in the Middle East.