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Title: The 'Hidden' Pentagon Budget Deal & the Traitors in Congress
Published: 2018-04-27
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGrkKPe_oec
Title: The 'Hidden' Pentagon Budget Deal & the Traitors in Congress
Published: 2018-04-27
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGrkKPe_oec
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Welcome everyone. I'm Spiro joined with Sebel Edmonds, the founder and editor of News Bud. Hello everyone. Now, News Bud, we're approaching our second year anniversary here very soon. We're growing every day. We'd like to thank everyone for their support out there. But for our members that have been with us since the beginning and since before News Bud was News Bud, those members have a very good2/119
understanding of what we're about here at News Bud. But since we are growing at such a rapid rate, we're getting a lot of new members in. A lot of new people exposed to our content. And there's been several different questions about where we stand on certain issues geopolitically and on the war front and many other questions. And we want to clear up some of these questions3/119
that we've been receiving here today with our founder, Sebel Edmonds. Yes, Spiro. I think that's a great idea. One of the things we said we wanted to do and it's been so hectic. It's been a roller coaster of two years since the inception of News Bud was that we want to make it kind of interactive. And one way to make some of our presentations more interactive4/119
is to receive questions from our viewers and go through some of those questions, find the common theme and then start addressing it. So there is no ambiguity of well, I'm not sure if you know, News Bud is pro this or anti-Trump or pro Obama or anti Obama. It's good to kind of hash it out, put it out there, talk the talk, straight talk, you know, not5/119
beating around the bushes. We talked about Syria and the fog of war. And I still get these questions. So what are you saying, Sebel? Are you pro-assard or anti-assard? It's, first of all, I find the question so inappropriate and ludicrous because I am not a Syrian. Okay, I don't live in Syria, I don't pay my taxes in Syria, I don't vote in Syria. It is for6/119
the Syrians in Syria to decide whether they like a certain candidate better or their current incumbent president better. It is not for us the Westerners sitting in somewhere in the UK or the US or Canada to say, now Assad is our president or is the person that I'm going to, it's ludicrous. And that applies everywhere. I'm not talking only about Syria. I'm talking about Turkey. I7/119
have gotten that and I have gotten it from both sides. I have gotten from Turkish reporters, Turkish commentators reaching out saying, well, are you pro-President Erdogan? And I tried to politely answer that and say, look, I have been in the United States living here paying taxes for 30 years. In fact, I'm going to celebrate my 30th year on July 18. It's going to be 30 years8/119
since I moved to this country. I never voted. I have never voted in Turkey because I just turned 18 when I came to the United States. I have never paid taxes in Turkey. This is where I live and there are so many issues here that I tackle. I, some of them, I have blown the whistle on. It was my whistle blowing journey had to do with9/119
what was taking place here in the United States, even though it involved certain Turkish elements from Turkey here in the United States. So it is a question that needs to be answered and hopefully we don't have to do it repeatedly. What I am in macro terms, if you put it at macro level, I am anti-intervention. And I don't even like the words like pro or anti-death10/119
much because it has that negative connotation. You know, you say, I'm anti-diss. I'm anti-dad. It's, I don't want to be anti. I am non-interventionist. I subscribe to non-interventionism. Meaning, I am against wars, the US wars, no matter where it is taking place, whether it's in Libya, whether it's in Syria, whether it's in, I don't care where it is, whether it's Afghanistan, whether it's North Korea, unless11/119
it becomes a very clear defensive war because there's a big difference between defense and offense. Okay. When we go and attack a country, okay, and wage war against the country, a country that hasn't attacked us or is about to attack us, well, that is what, that is, you're looking at a war of aggressions. And we have been engaged in all these wars of aggressions for the12/119
past half a century. Vietnam never, ever attacked the United States, okay. So, I subscribe to non-interventionism. And it's not only about wars either, okay. When I say I'm a non-interventionist, I also talk about other types of mentally, okay. It may not be wars, but it may be coups creating coup d'état in all over the world, in this country or that country. We had that failed attempted13/119
coup in Turkey against paramilitary operations by the United States, assassinating leaders in other countries. I'm going to bring up another thing and I know this is going to upset some people. And as soon as they start getting upset, they kind of turn off and they say, fine, this person is not a humanitarian person. Here it goes. Are you ready? Are you ready for the attacks? Okay.14/119
Because I have never shied away from being attacked because if you're doing something and if it's meaningful, somebody, some group, somewhere is going to attack you. Otherwise, you're running for an office as a politician because you're saying nothing, okay. As part of this non-interventionism notion that I have been a subscriber to forever, basically, as long as I can remember is what we call US foreign aid.15/119
Okay. A lot of people, when you say, oh, here we gave a billion dollar to this country. We gave 500 million dollars to that country. For some reason, whether it's because of the mainstream media, maybe it's because of all the Hollywood movies, people start envisioning these starving people, maybe somewhere in Africa, right? And us, the United States, pouring this one billion dollar there and we are16/119
filling their tummies. You know, we are giving them breads, we are serving them cornflags, you know, the GMO cornflags. We are giving them boxes of the long-shelved milk. They think it is for humanitarian purposes. And this is a misconception that has been created in their minds, okay. Because US foreign aids, majority, most of it, the big portion of it has nothing to do with helping some17/119
starving population in some city or town or country. It has nothing to do with making some other country better, building great infrastructure. Our foreign aids translates into bribery. That's, I think, is the best way to put it out there, okay. I want to talk about that. Let's talk about it. Do you want to talk about that? This thing called US foreign aid? Well, yeah, I mean,18/119
we're, it's essentially taxpayer dollars that the government is taking our money, everyone's money here in the US, everyone who pays taxes. And every year, billions of dollars are going to all these other countries, going to Israel, going to Pakistan, all over the place. And- Absolutely right. Let's look at it, okay. In 2016, we spent, we as the United States, we have spent over $30 billion in19/119
one year, in one year, okay. And we gave Iraq $5 billion dollars in one year, $5 billion. We gave Afghanistan $5 billion dollars in one year. We gave Israel $3 billion dollars in 2016. We gave Egypt $1.2 billion dollars. We gave Jordan another $1.2 billion. We gave Kenya $1.1 billion. We gave Pakistan in 2016 close to $800 million. Now, when you add all those up, you're20/119
looking at $30 billion, okay. Now, again, I have to put this down. Here's a description by the State Department. This is for foreign assistance is aid given by the US to other countries to support global peace, global security, and development efforts. $30 billion we have given to these countries, okay. Let's take a look at Iraq. $5 billion dollars was poured into Iraq. And I can tell21/119
you this, nobody can account for where that money really went. In Afghanistan, we spent $5 billion dollars in one year. We gave them $5 billion dollars. Do you think that money is going to building infrastructure, schools, feeding people? No. Who are the recipients? Who are the ones in charge of this money? In a lot of these countries, many of them, you're looking at corrupt despotic regimes,22/119
okay. You know, whether they are Kazakhstan, Turkmanistan, Uzbekistan, and Central Asia Caucasus, whether in the Middle East, you have governments and government heads who have private airplanes with 24-carat commode. So where they piss is made out of gold. Do you know how much of this money goes into the pockets of those despots, those dictators, those corrupt regimes in those countries? I mean, Egypt, we gave Egypt23/119
$1.2 billion. Well, Egypt is another dictatorship. Do you know how many journalists every day gets to be arrested and put in jail and tortured? How many people get to be tortured and killed in Egypt? We are giving these billions of dollars to the heads of these countries and tell them, here it is. We don't go directly give it where it is needed. That's one side of24/119
it. Now the other side of it, that is the most mind-boggling aspect of this is this. We have at least $30 billion to send out to these countries, give it to their corrupt regimes and their kings and their queens, etc. While what is happening in our own country, in the United States? I was just looking at the statistics, the latest one, because I have been following25/119
these stats for the past 15, 16 years. Currently, in the United States, we have 1.6 million, more than 1.5 million homeless people. They have no roof over their heads. They live on the streets. Some of them, small percentage, have access to shelters. Guess what else? We have at least 40,000 homeless veterans in our country. Can you? 40,000 homeless veterans. These are the people. Okay, these veterans26/119
are the ones that our country used, our government used, to send to those countries that we are giving $1 billion, okay, to $5 billion, $4 billion to bomb, kill people, in the name of national security, which had nothing to do with our own national security. They come back home, broken, whether it is physically, whether it is mentally, whether it is emotionally, whether it is a combination27/119
of all three. And this is how we treat them. This is how we treat our veterans, in our country. We have 40,000 veterans homeless living on the street. And our government takes our tax money. Every year gives $30 plus billion to these corrupt countries, to their corrupt regimes and governments, to their corrupt kings and queens. Now, how does that make sense to you? How does that28/119
make sense to anyone in this country? How does it make sense to anyone in that whole house we call the U.S. Congress? If we have $30 billion to throw at other countries and we say to help them with developments and give them food and shelter, when we have 40,000 plus veterans in our own country, who are homeless. And we have 1.6 million people in this country,29/119
the super power USA, who are homeless. How does that make sense? Is that the kind of an upside down world? Well, it's completely, in my view, completely upside down. And like you said, I mean, these people, these veterans, a lot of whom go see combat and they come back, like you said, they're all messed up. They feed a lot of them pharmaceutical drugs while they're there,30/119
and then while they're here as well. And then they deem them mentally incapacitated and take away a lot of their rights. And then, like you said, they wind up on the streets. It's a terrible thing. And in addition to all that, the homeless and the hungry here in this country, our infrastructure is degrading. There was just that bridge that collapsed like a week or two ago31/119
in Miami. I mean, take a look at Japan and their transportation system. Take a look at Singapore. Even when I go to some of the Middle Eastern countries, like even in Turkey, the metro system, the trans system, the public transportation is way above more advanced than what we have here as a superpower, as the richest country in the world. We are the richest country in the32/119
world, okay? Our GDP alone dwarves two-thirds of the world in terms of its size. How about healthcare, okay? Take a look at this that here. Currently, we have more than 44 million people in this country, in the USA, okay? Who have no health insurance and another 38 million people who have inadequate health insurance, they don't have access to healthcare, they don't have money, they can't pay33/119
for it. They get to become homeless. They end up having a surgery, then they come to collect their bills and they have to foreclose their homes and they have to go and live on the street. That makes up when you look at 44 million and another 38 million. That's one third of our population here in the United States of America. Now, as a country that can't34/119
provide the most basic needs healthcare to its population, how dare we as a government? Our government, with the whole house people there who say they are representatives, hand out 30 billion dollars that nobody ever has anything on it is on account of for. When it goes there, it goes there. You wash your hands off and you say, how much that 30 billion can do for the35/119
homeless veteran and homeless people that we have in this country? How much can it do in one year, okay? In one year? How many people will have access to healthcare and be able to go and receive healthcare? That 30 billion dollars in one year. Nobody wants to talk about this. So when I'm saying that we are non-interventionists, like I am non-interventionist, this is what I'm talking36/119
about. We are not engaged in any defensive wars, neither in Afghanistan nor it was in Iraq nor it is in Syria nor it was in Libya. None of these were defensive wars. These were wars of aggression. We went in there, okay? Look at the stuff we are giving to Saudi Arabia on Yemen. Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the world, okay? They can never37/119
be even close at this laughable of threat to the United States of America. I mean, the mode of transportation in Yemen is camels. They are riding dunkeys, okay? And we are saying, we are every day bombing this country. They don't have like these things and these amazing airplanes. They don't have nuclear facilities. I mean, they don't have NSA. They don't have intelligence agencies in Yemen. I38/119
mean, they tied the messages on the clause of the pigeons and they say, go ahead. Here it is. We are not communicating. This is the mode of communications. Let's talk about Afghanistan. Let's talk about Afghanistan. We bombed the hell out of Afghanistan, right? We are still bombing the hell out of Afghanistan. And it was to do what? Well, it's to spread democracy and make America great39/119
again. Maga. Well, no, actually, it was right after 9-11. We said we had two purposes there. We were going to eliminate Al Qaeda and we were going to eliminate Taliban, okay? Well, Al Qaeda, supposedly, this is according to our own US mainstream media, UK mainstream media. They are still driving. They're doing very good in Afghanistan. In fact, they have added ISIS now. There was no ISIS.40/119
We created, of course, ISIS. But now they have not only Al Qaeda. They have ISIS as well. As far as Taliban goes, we are about to recognize Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan. Pakistan already does. And we are already dealing with them. And even if you go, look at the mainstream media search for recognizing Taliban as the official rulers of Afghanistan. So we had this41/119
15, 14 years of war to eliminate Taliban only at the end after we had so many veterans injured, after so many hundreds of thousands of people dying there, after all the buildings, the schools and the housing, everything that we bombed. Now, we say, okay, you can be the ruler of Afghanistan. We didn't eliminate you. And not only you have now Al Qaeda, you have also ISIS.42/119
But here it is $5 billion. We give $5 billion. And then you will see Washington Post or New York Times, they rebuilt four schools in this particular Taliban Afghanistan, in Afghanistan province, right? Two weeks later, there's another report, oopsie, oopsie daisy, Taliban bombed the heck out of the school because they don't want kids to go to school. They have mudrasas. They go there, they move back43/119
and forth and they recite, the religious script there. They don't want schools there. But then we send another $100 million. Some people in Taliban, the current government there, they pocket 80% of it, then they build two mud houses. They call them school. And then the next day, Taliban goes there and it destroys it. And guess what? All this stuff are happening in Afghanistan. We are giving44/119
them $4 billion, $5 billion, $6 billion every year. Not counting the cost of wars. We are still bombing the heck out of them. Here in our country, infrastructure lagging behind most of the developed countries in the world. Health care behind almost all developed countries in the world, homelessness, including our veterans. So when I say non-interventionist, I mean it in every way. It's not only wars, but45/119
it's also this this ways that we are engaged in, in order to bribe the Pendejo dictator, the Spadek corrupt governments of these countries, Egypt, Pakistan. I mean these are the hubs of corruption. These are the hubs of torture. Talk about Assad's torture. And they are saying, okay, Assad was torturing his people. Sure, he did some torturing. Everybody does it. I'm not saying it's good, but they46/119
do it in their own countries. But you want to compare that to Egypt, what they're doing in Egypt. Do you really want to compare that to Pakistan and we give them billions of dollars every single year? Now where is Congress in all this? Well, they're fundraising right now for the, for their midterm elections that are coming up. You know, they're on holiday and when they're not47/119
on holiday, they're fundraising. That's what it seems to be. And they represent whose interests, really? Whose interests do they represent every single one of them? I would say the lobbyists' interests, it's who they represent. It's certainly not the American people. And the lobbyists represent whose interests? Well, the mega corporations, the multinational corporations, foreign even for a lot of foreign interests, which is military industrial complex. Yeah,48/119
absolutely. Big pharma. Exactly. And oil companies. Do you see the Americans' interests anywhere, anywhere at site in any of the hearings, anything that they do in Congress? Other than the lip service portion. No, the whole thing is really, really a joke. It's really sick. And both sides are responsible in my view. It's not a partisan issue. It's not like, oh, the Democrats are good and the49/119
Republicans are bad or vice-versa. It's both sides of the aisle. They're both engaged in this. And meanwhile, the people have the illusion of choice thinking, yeah, go, Trump, go, Clinton. And meanwhile, you know, our country continues to go down the toilet. Well, speaking of military industrial complex and these pocketed hoarseness in Congress, are you ready for this headline that came out yesterday? That's right. For mainstream50/119
media. So this is not conspiracy theory coming from some bloggers of fear, which site published it? I think it was the hill. There were several sites, but here there's news. If you go and search it on Google, you're going to see all the mainstream media published it. House lawmakers close Pentagon budget hearing to the public. So it's your taxpayer. Okay, you the taxpayer is your money.51/119
Okay, it's your country. Okay, they are supposed to be representing you, but they closed these hearings of how much of your hard earned money they are giving to these people and how much of it goes to these corrupt governments and the wars of aggressions. They close that they say, you the people can't know what we are talking about here. What we are saying here. I mean,52/119
it started with, in my case, there were closed courts. The court hearings, they would close it to public. They would say, national securities, pop intelligence stuff, public, the journalists, they can't participate. Now this was 2003, 2004. Now it has gotten to a point. Look how they have gotten so bold, Spiro. The lawmakers, they say, we're going to close the hearing to the public. This is the53/119
budget hearing and it's not for some CIA black budget that they go inside some skip, which actually the Congress has no oversight over. This is the regular Pentagon budget hearing. Well, you know, I mean, the great reports published at newsbud.com by our military analyst, veteran Christian Sorenson shed some light obviously into the out of control Department of Defense and Pentagon spending. But you're absolutely right. There54/119
is no transparency. There was a few months ago, it was big news for about a week that the Pentagon was going to get audited. Well, you know, has that even happened yet? I haven't seen it. If it does, it's going to be a whitewash as it is. There's zero accountability in any branch of the government at this point. And you know, I love people like I55/119
have to say it now. I know some people are going to get really pissed off with me. I don't care. I say what I think, what I believe. If I'm, if I want to sugar code and say nothing here and be very popular by all-size-demo-prat love me, this loves me, libertarian loves me. Again, this guy has been doing it all the time, spirit of ramphol. Anytime56/119
he comes out and he says he's going to veto, he's going to fight this candidate, he's going to fight this budget, he's going to have a filibuster until audit happens. Big talk. And then last minute, boops, he walks back, backpedals is the talk, all that talk. He actually goes votes for things. And initially, I was one of those people who say, yeah, you know, he's standing57/119
up to this people. The first time I said, well, maybe he saw that he didn't gather enough support. The second time I made another excuse for the guy. The fourth time, I was like, what the heck is going on here? Now, every time I see they're saying, oh yeah, well, ramphol or so and so, who talks big is saying this, I go like, it's just wait