The following report is by the Trends Journal:
Last week, the cover of The Trends Journal highlighted the midterm elections and read, “AMERIKA VOTE FOR THE LOSER YOU HATE THE LEAST…THE WAR MACHINE ALWAYS WINS.”
And Bill La Plante, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, proved our point when he said he expected Congress—no matter what party was in control—would approve new weapons purchasing power at levels not seen since the Cold War.
He addressed George Mason University last week and said Congress is supportive of the idea.
They are going to give us multiyear authority, and they’re going to give us funding to really put into the industrial base. And I’m talking billions of dollars into the industrial base—to fund these production lines. That, I predict, is going to happen, and it’s happening now.
And then people will have to say: ‘I guess they were serious about it.’ But we have not done that since the Cold War.
AntiWar.org reported that LaPlante has been pushing for the approval that would allow the Pentagon to lock in certain purchases from Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Technologies, BAE Systems, and Kongsberg Defense and Aerospace for the next two years.
It is worth noting that Lloyd Austin, the defense secretary, was a former board member for Raytheon before taking the role in President Biden’s Cabinet.
The vote is expected this week. Democrats maintained control of the Senate, and, as of Monday, the House of Representatives is a toss-up. Defense News noted that the approval would be a significant victory for defense industry groups that have been urging Congress to authorize the economic price adjustments to meet inflationary pressures and supply chain issues.
TRENDPOST: Congress has to pass the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that is required by 31 December. We reported in July that the House voted in favor of an $850.3 billion national security budget that members say will help the U.S. respond to continued threats and surging inflation. The House passed the bill in a 329-101 vote. The “no” votes included 62 Republicans and 39 Democrats.
The wartime purchasing power authority would be tacked on to the NDAA.
LaPlante said he believes that smaller arms vendors and other suppliers are feeling the pinch from inflation. He said it is his hope to make sure “we’re providing within the regs, within the law, the most flexibility to contractors.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., did not seem to buy the claim, according to Defense News. She said in a letter to LaPlante that these “well-intentioned” policies that would support “vulnerable suppliers” will instead go to underwriting defense contractors’ executives’ “lavish compensation packages,” and paying for stock buybacks—all on the taxpayers’ dime.
I particularly urge DoD to be circumspect about the industry’s claims about the impact of inflation given their second quarter profits, which show operating incomes that increased over the last quarter and average 11.7 percent, suggesting there was little or no adverse impact due to inflation.
She wrote.
The Trends Journal has long noted that the one issue that can bring together the most hardened liberal Democrats, and the most conservative Republicans is the vote for war. What other issue would you find Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Mitch McConnell agree on?
All Eyes On Big, Bad Beijing
The Biden administration has been fixated on China since he took office.
A congressional aide told Defense News that the spending authority would put the U.S. in a better position to counter China. The aide said the U.S. is no longer able to “pussyfoot” around with “minimum-sustaining-rate buys of these munitions.”
It’s hard to think of something as high on everybody’s list as buying a ton of munitions for the next few years, for our operational plans against China and continuing to supply Ukraine.
The aide said
The Pentagon announced in its new National Defense Strategy that China remains the U.S.’s most “serious challenge” to security and noted that Beijing is increasing its “aggressive endeavor to refashion the Indo-Pacific region and the international system to suit its interests and authoritarian preferences.”
Kristalina Georgieva, the head of the International Monetary Fund, warned that the rivalry between the U.S. and China could have a negative impact on the rest of the world, which “is poorer and less secure as a result.”
I lived through the first Cold War on the other side of the Iron Curtain. And, yeah, it is quite cold out there. And to go in a second cold war for another generation is … very irresponsible.
Georgieva said.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Gerald Celente, founder of the Trends Journal, has a saying: “The business of China is business: the business of America is war.” America makes its money on war, and it is why America never stops funding and starting new ones, never with anything kind of exit strategy: as long as the blood spills and they profit, they could care less.
Republicans, Democrats; it doesn’t matter: year-in and year-out they are funding every war and atrocity you can think of. Those who do not tow the line are quickly ostracized and expelled out.
[1] And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel. [2] Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beer-sheba. [3] And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment. 1 Samuel 8:1-3
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
The WinePress needs your support! If God has laid it on your heart to want to contribute, please prayerfully consider donating to this ministry. If you cannot gift a monetary donation, then please donate your fervent prayers to keep this ministry going! Thank you and may God bless you.
Bull on China being about business, somehow ‘better’ and ‘guiltless’, without sin. The Dragon People elite have long been merchandisers with their explorations & pirates, true…but they are pagan occultists at the core. Psych war sorcery is their specialty, which they, with the Jesuits, unite to bloody warfare & ‘crusade’, inquisition & pogroms, ‘Cultural Revolutions’ and perfect in devilish ways with all the rest of the elite Craftsmen highest up and deepest in worldwide: headed by the false christ placeholder pope in Rome & his hierarchy, & behind them Ephesians 6 warfare.
–
You can bet they’ll worship the Dragon (the Serpent wisdom) when he’s visible & manifest before them with the Beast and false prophet. They already do. With the rest of the Craft occultist elites.
–
Lao Tzu was their national philosopher leading them into bondage, teaching them to embrace their darkness & iniquity as ‘strength’ & ‘gnosis, with Romans 1 idolatrous humanism worshipping the non-transcendent ‘god’ and creature more than the Creator who is blessed forever, transcendent & eternal, holy, holy holy….outside the universe & without darkness & evil or any shadow of turning in himself. The supposed Tao, unity of light & darkness, of the creation & they ‘one’ with it: yin and yang. Sacred prostitution out from Babylon big in the East, too.
–
Sun Tzu ca 500 BC was the devilish military strategist & occultist who ‘evolved’ the Tao ideas further, writing the ‘Art of War’ incorporating psych warfare & merciless war…from whom today’s globalists glean their ‘wisdom’ for merciless warfare via the Jesuits. The Venetians capitalized on Silk Road merchandizing and shipping from the East, and the Jesuit Matteo Ricci won the elites of the Ming Dynasty to dealing with Rome through the Jesuits beginning in 1552. That’s ‘dealing’…not Gospel preaching, influencing, converting according to the scriptures,…. & the Ming elites considered paganized Romanism with its men in dresses, nuns, goddess, dying god, idols, incense, bells, humanism & ‘science’ to be compatible with their Tao Buddhism, though inferior & ‘barbaric’ in their eyes.
–
Lingering knowledge of the Gospel & written word of God, the scriptures, always hindered the absolute & total pagan capitulation of the West…and in Sun Tzu & Dragon people, MYSTERY, terms: that is lack of ‘wisdom’, weakness & inferiority.
–
Historically, they invented fiat paper currency, & gunpowder, & lay claim to a form of printing before Gutenberg (though it did them little good with their hierglyphic non-alphabetic language with its thousands upon thousands of characters), knowledge & commerce ….& drugs….flowing between East & West by the monopolized Silk Road.
–
They’d turned inward & bigoted in protectionism & pride prior to the Jesuit inroad, when forced to by Rome’s empire & force, & the resulting Dark Age, believing themselves to hold the keys of knowledge, the bridge to heaven (note the seven-layered pyramidal structure of their pagodas).
–
Now they partner with the cause of their former isolationism & elitism in ‘common cause’ against the common man, God’s little ones, while pretending to be ‘for him’ (a la popery & the other ‘godmen’), their greater ‘wisdom/gnosis’, superior ‘spirituality’ craft, & go on the antichrist crony corporatist offensive against the little people on a bigger scale.
–
Witchcraft has always been huge in the East & China, which the shamanistic & spiritist native Americans coming via the Bering Strait perpetuated with cross-pollination from Phoenecian -Canaanite influences from the Solomonic era coming from the West before the knowledge was lost, the Dark Ages coming in & weather changing. That is, until the Portuguese & Spanish, in the name of Rome…then others, the Dutch & English Daughters of Reformed & Protesting Catholicism getting in on the act, Age of Exploration. Slavery was reinstituted in the West by special papal bull (it never died in the East, African South or the Americas…though the forms of it varied) to pay for explorations not turning up gold or other ‘merchandise’. Rome dealing with the Turks & Moslems for black African slaves who proved capable of living in slavery while other native peoples languished & pined away in that bondage. The black masonic conservative, Thomas Sowell, amongst others, was honest enough to record that history. John Asquith of purecambridgetext and Black Creek Baptist has also extensively documented this historically.
–
Anyways, the Piri Reis map dated 1513 and showing the icefree shoreline of Antarctica and shoreline of the Americas testify to the truth, as well as the scriptures’ brief ‘isles of the Gentiles’ & accounts of Solomon & Hiram’s exploits & partnerings. Far beyond what the beginning exploration with Columbus in 1492 had documented by that time, and Antarctica’s shoreline already having disappeared beneath the ice, & mostly unknown save perhaps to the Maori & some of the Pacific peoples.
–
We read about the kings of the east in the time of Jacob’s trouble, the book of Revelation, chapter 16, as the Lord gathers the nations against Israel and to judgment. The end of the times of the Gentiles.
–
Meanwhile, we fight with the sword of the spirit & as 2 Corinthians 10, 1 Thessalonians 5 KJB….the sword cutting more than merely two-ways, and to the dividing of bone & marrow, soul& spirit: taking a sword of steel for protection & defense only where applicable & appropriate, legitimately used. Ultimately the Lord is our refuge & defense.
–
A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still…..a religious hypocrite at best, a bitter opponent at worst & to be feared. And, dead men cannot come to their senses to repent & convert. Still brands to be plucked from the flames….with caution to ourselves.
–
Ps 12:3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
–
Ps 31:22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
–
Ps 34:16 The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
–
Ps 37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
–
Ps 37:22 For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.
–
Ps 37:28 For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
–
Ps 37:34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
–
Ps 37:38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.
–
Ps 54:5 He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth.
–
Ps 75:10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
–
Ps 76:12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.