Page 5 - the Noise March 2017 Edition

accounting americans
On Sunday January 29, the Trump Administration could have — or could have not, depending on what national newspapers you read — authorized a manned aerial attack on a village in central Yemen, about the size of Jerome, perched precariously on the foothills of a great mountain range that has also seen its fair share of ruination from resource-extraction enterprises.
While Yemen achieved front page headline status for less than a week in the days leading up to SuperBowl LI, reports of russian hacking quickly resurfaced on the national news and piqued the national conversation. the details of the Navy Seal Team 6 operation were quickly swept away from popular media, but not before it was called “unsuccessful” by military pundits, including arizona senator John McCain. the end result was one downed $72 million Osprey helicopter, one dead service man (William “Ryan” Owens) and 15-40 Yemeni civilians (again, depending on sources).
{AS OF 02/20/2017, WE HAVE SENT rEquESTS FOr COMMENT TO EACH OF THE ENTITIES MENTIONED HErEIN: THE uNITED STATES DEPArTMENT OF DEFENSE, THE OBAMA ADMINISTrATION (VIA ITS NEW FOuNDATION), THE TruMP ADMINISTrATION, AND THE CENTrAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY — ALL VIA VErIFIED WEB POrTALS. WE SuPPLIED 3 DIGITAL COPIES OF THIS TEXT IN 3 DIFFErENT FOrMATS, AND ArE ASKING FOr STATEMENTS TO CONFIrM Or DENY SPECIFIC ACTIONS AND DEBIT AMOuNTS AuTHOrIZED BY THE uS GOVErNMENT TO FuND THE OPErATION IN YEMEN.}
Dozens more were injured, and the attack also reduced to rubble a centuries-old school, a place of worship dating to the early 1700s (if not earlier), and a neighbor- hood of homes dating to 1647 (when on april 3rd of that year, the Agitators of the New Model Army protested the House of Commons for a “delay of pay” in england), all of which were hand-built and will take intensive man-hours and materials acquisition to repair. {CONFIrM/DENY BY DOD/TA}
accomplishments of the mission remain extremely minor in status, as the seizure of a laptop and thumb drive, with a retail value of no more than $1300, revealed a “ter- rorist video” with “classified content” which had already been in the files of World Intel- ligence since 2012 and posed no new active threat to citizens of the United States of America. {CONFIrM/DENY BY DOD/TA}
We would like to estimate the ultimate cost to the US Treasury in these pages, as every american ought have working knowledge of how his or her earned income (and subsequent wage earning payroll taxes sent to the Internal Revenue Service every two weeks) are utilized in the business of the United States Government. We believe citizens deserve a vote as to where every one of our dollars are allocated.
this recent black eye reverberates the Central Intelligence Agency’s track record already punched with reports of false intelligence since 2001 — when it famously contrived evidence of “weapons of mass destruction” and precipitated the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at the behest of the Bush Administration and to the frustrations of the United Nations and international community — costing the treasury more than $4.8 trillion over 15 years. {rEquEST FOr COMMENT FrOM BuSH ADMINISTrATION}
and in 2013, it was revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden (now a refugee in russia) that the agency under the Obama Administration organized plots against innocent americans, breaking sworn oaths to the United States Constitution (specifically the 4th Amendment, which resolutely prohibits search and seizure without due process). {rEquEST FOr COMMENT FrOM OBAMA ADMINISTrATION}
it is widely thought Director of national intelligence, James Clapper committed perjury in a Congressional Committee when he testified the opposite, and has yet to be brought to trial for what many consider an act of treason. {rEquEST FOr COMMENT FrOM CENTrAL INTELLIGENCE}
Our deliberation is this — For the same cost to the US Treasury as:
— 4,000 teachers’ salaries (or any average layman’s annual salary at $30,000);
— Or new water infrastructure for an American town (with a population of about 100,000 citizens);
— Or the installation of 102 megawatts of rooftop solar electricity;
$102 million of the treasury was committed by the Trump Administration, who may or may not have relied on more faulty intelligence to authorize an operation that resulted in: the deaths of 1 Navy Seal and 15-40 civilians, injuries to 3 additional seals, and the destruction of 1 Boeing aircraft. {rEquEST FOr COMMENT FrOM uS TrEASurY}
give pause for yemen
the “spoils” of this operation included no gold or silver or even oil — but “suspected information” the alleged terrorist had already divulged 5 years ago, and did not carry any outward threat activity, especially with the new trump administration at the helm (intrinsic/societal benefit = $0). {rEquEST FOr COMMENT FrOM CENTrAL INTELLIGENCE}
if we were to take in the entirety of the cost of this operation, it would look even more harrowing. the cost to Us human life, estimated in extended lifetime medical care and reintegration for each of the 75 Navy Seal Team 6 members in that operation (at a minimum of $3 million each in lifetime salaries and life/medical/ family insurance payouts) = $225 million (estimated). {CONFIrM/DENY BY DOD/TA}
a 20-year aid package is also budgeted for Yemen, using the last decade’s average
financial aid payment of $146 million per year. Yemen is a small agricultural country
with a gross domestic product totaling less than 9% of the Us military budget for one
year, not including Veterans’ Benefits and Foreign Affairs. in a country where the
average wage is less than $4,000 per year, 10,000 civilian casualties are confirmed
since the War on Terror began, and Us financial aid is likened to a “guilty pay-off” for
the civil unrest directly caused by the Us military and allies = $2.93 billion (estimated). {CONFIrM/DENY BY DOD/TA}
it is also worth to note that over $47.40 billion was budgeted in the last 15 years to the Military Industrial Complex in the initiation and deployment of the fleets of “Osprey” helicopters and “Reaper” drones utilized in the Yemen operation. {CONFIrM/DENY BY DOD}
a grand total for all quantifiable materials used on the 1/29/2017 Yemen attack (not including artillery) {CONFIrM ArTILLErY LOSS BY DOD}:
50,570,000,000 total ($50.57 billion) = or 1,685,667 teachers’ salaries, first-year nurses’ salaries, second-year trade apprentices’, researchers’, farmers’, ranchers’, and/or herdsmen’s salaries.
{rEquEST FOr COMMENT FrOM TruMP ADMINISTrATION}
The Yemen attack creates further animosity for WE ThE PEOPlE OF ThE UniTEd STaTES OF amErica, in travel and commerce; compounding the view by international observers of the US as a “bully with a big bat,” unceremoniously clubbing small countries when those
minority nations fail to yield natural resources at a desired economic level or, in the case of
portraits of Yemen, GooGle commons
the oil cartel for which Yemen is currently at odds with, at a desired volume of extraction.
cease fire to american
Every two weeks, americans “pony up” for these situations, without a voice in the process, or even implied consent. Every two weeks, money mysteriously disappears from every american worker’s paycheck, to go off and pay for shenanigans that further indebt our- selves and our children and grandchildren; a consent we did not give, and a direction of priorities we never signed up for. all we did swear, every day before the school bell rang, was allegiance to an ideal of liberty and justice for all, defined by our US constitution, which inherently forbids funding of this variety with the money of the People, held in the US Treasury, and printed with God as our undersigning trustee.
liberty is not suspecting a threat and committing murder for information a suspect may or may not portend to hold;
Justice is not terminating an individual life for a belief we have no knowledge of or have failed to study or reason with;
Without due process in every one of the US Government’s affairs domestically and abroad, the consent of the pact by and for WE ThE PEOPlE could be perceived irretrievably broken;
it is with Justice and liberty in mind WE set forth this inquiry for further public inspection.
{AS OF PrESS TIME, WE rECEIVED ONE rESPONSE FrOM THE DEPT. OF DEFENSE, (CHrISTOPHEr SHErWOOD, PrESS OFFICEr); VErIFYING THE NuMBEr OF AMErICAN PErSONNEL INJurED, DEAD, AND MILITArY EquIPMENT DESTrOYED; AND ADVISING uS TO SEEK SPECIFIC DEBIT AMOuNT CONFIrMATIONS FrOM THE TrEASurY DEPArTMENT...}
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