Evidence of USA Breakdown Blazes, Media and Government Personalities Trade BARBS and Cast BLAME

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“Deadly training crashes stateside with the UH-60 Black Hawk have happened several times in recent years, including two incidents in 2023 alone that led to 11 deaths,” Thomas Novelly writes at Military dot com.

The latest Wednesday night January 29, 2025, a “UH-60 helicopter” (manufactured by Lockheed Martin) was en route from Wichita, Kansas, to National Airport in Washington, DC, when it collided with an American Airlines subsidiary Flight 5342 American Eagle (manufactured by Boeing and Airbus). Novelly, Thomas (Military News Military.com) January 30, 2025 “3 Army Soldiers Feared Dead in Tragic Collision with Passenger Plane Near DC Airport” https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/01/30/3-army-soldiers-feared-dead-tragic-collision-passenger-plane-near-dc-airport.html

Deregulation, Follow the Money

(or the Bribes)

Pandering Supplants Governing
Chaos overrules Regulation for the Public Good

Lockheed Martin Connections

Top Affiliates: COMSAT Corp · Lockheed Martin Missiles & Fire Control Coherent Technologies

Related Organizations: Loral Corp Martin Marietta Corp COMSAT Corp

 

Lockheed Martin 2024 cycle with US Government Officials

 

CONTRIBUTIONS $5,246,096

LOBBYING 2023 $14,066,565 2024 $9,508,940

REVOLVING DOOR 2023: 48 out of 65 Lockheed Martin lobbyists in 2023 have previously held government jobs.

REVOLVING DOOR 2024: 39 out of 52 Lockheed Martin lobbyists in 2024 have previously held government jobs.

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/lockheed-martin/summary?id=D000000104

Boeing Connections

Boeing Co

Top Affiliates: Insitu Inc Boeing Global Services Liquid Robotics Inc

Related Organizations: McDonnell Douglas Argon ST Coherent Systems International

BOEING 2024 cycle with US Government Officials 

CONTRIBUTIONS $5,444,846

LOBBYING 2023 $14,490,000 2024 $9,420,000

2023 REVOLVING DOOR: 80 out of 111 Boeing Co lobbyists in 2023 have previously held government jobs.

2024 REVOLVING DOOR: 80 out of 114 Boeing Co lobbyists in 2024 have previously held government jobs.

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/boeing-co/summary?id=d000000100

Airbus Group Connections

Top Affiliates: Airbus DS Communications Airbus Helicopters EADS North America

Related Organizations: Airbus Americas

Airbus Group 2024 cycle with US Government Officials 

CONTRIBUTIONS $310,102

LOBBYING 2023 $3,070,000 2024 $2,730,000

2023 REVOLVING DOOR: 27 out of 32 Airbus Group lobbyists in 2023 have previously held government jobs.

2024 REVOLVING DOOR: 27 out of 34 Airbus Group lobbyists in 2024 have previously held government jobs.

Military Aircraft Accidents and Incidents reported in recent years

December 4, 2015, Texas and Tennessee/Kentucky border The US Army’s Helicopter Fleet is grounded after crashes that resulted in two deaths.

“Gen. Abe Abrams ordered the grounding of the Army’s U.S. rotary fleet after two fatal crashes at Fort Hood and Fort Campbell.”

December 29, 2022 (Texas) US Military grounds Lockheed Martin manufactured “F-35 Lightning II” following Texas crash.

“Texas Base-Failed Landing”: “Some models of the F-35 Lightning II (were) being investigated and grounded by the military services following a crash in Texas” https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/12/29/military-grounds-some-f-35s-following-crash-texas-month.html

March 30, 2023 (Kentucky) nine soldiers in the cash of two “UH-60 Blackhawk Helicopters.”

The incident, occurring at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, was reported as “one of the Army’s Deadliest Training Accidents” The Lockheed Martin manufactured UH-60 Blackhawk Helicopters were “assigned to the Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Armored Division.” https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/03/30/9-soldiers-killed-pair-of-helicopters-crash-one-of-armys-deadliest-training-accidents.html

April 28, 2023, Two Deadly Helicopter Crashes result in “all aircraft” grounding

“Gen. James McConville ordered a safety stand-down, directing all aviation units to go over the maintenance of their aircrafts, pilot training and safety precautions.” https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/04/28/army-grounds-all-aircraft-following-two-deadly-helicopter-crashes.html

February 27, 2024 (Mississippi) twice in one month Army National Guard piloted planes crash (one incident with survivors the other with fatalities) resulting in a temporary grounding of all U.S. Army (Boeing AH-64 Apache) planes.”

“The stand-down” was “to ‘review safety policies and procedures” and it came “less than a year” after another US military grounding of “its aircraft following a March mid-air collision of two Black Hawk helicopters that killed nine soldiers based out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky.”

January 29, 2025 (Washington, DC) “UH-60 helicopter from Bravo Company, 12th Aviation Battalion, out of Fort Belvoir, Virginia (collides) with American Eagle Flight 5342, which was en route from Wichita, Kansas, to Ronald Reagan Washington.” Onboard the aircrafts were “60 passengers and four crew members.” https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/01/30/3-army-soldiers-feared-dead-tragic-collision-passenger-plane-near-dc-airport.html

Further reporting shows “PSA Airlines,” an American regional airline headquartered at Dayton International Airport in Dayton, Ohio; the airline a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Airlines Group, paid by …American Airlines to staff, operate and maintain aircraft used on American Eagle flights that are scheduled, marketed and sold by American Airlines.”

2001-2025 Ten Commercial Aviation Incidents Occurring within the United States

265 deaths November 12, 2001 New York City, New York (Belle Harbor, Queens) AIRCRAFT Airbus A300B4-60	1 death 12 injured December 8, 2005 Chicago, Illinois AIRCRAFT Boeing 737-700
20 deaths December 19, 2005 Government Cut channel off Miami Beach, Florida; AIRCRAFT Grumman G-73 Mallard	49 deaths August 27, 2006 Lexington, Kentucky; AIRCRAFT Bombardier CRJ 100ER
50 deaths February 12, 2009 Clarence Center, New York; AIRCRAFT Bombardier Dash 8 Q400	3 deaths 187 injured July 6, 2013 San Francisco, California; AIRCRAFT Boeing 777-200E
1 death 8 injured April 17, 2018 nr Bernville, Pennsylvania; AIRCRAFT Boeing 737-700	9 deaths January 26, 2020 Calabasas Los Angeles County, California; AIRCRAFT Sikorsky S-76B
10 deaths September 4, 2022 Mutiny Bay near Whidbey Island, Washington State; AIRCRAFT de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter	67 deaths January 29, 2025 over the Potomac River; AIRCRAFT Bombardier CRJ700 and Blackhawk VH-60M

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_accidents_and_incidents_involving_commercial_aircraft_in_the_United_States

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Headlines hype Balloon Affair as hundreds of thousands are discarded in Squalor, Homelessness

Americans against Americans

In the Homeland

By the Homeland

Neglect, Waste, Fraud, Abuse

February 10

“US shoots down ‘high-altitude object’: Debris falls into territorial waters off of Alaska (source: White House) https://www.rt.com/news/571308-us-flying-object-alaska/

February 12

“United States shoots down another ‘unidentified object’ … ‘out of an abundance of caution’: action authorized by President of the United States Joseph Biden and Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau https://www.rt.com/news/571343-canada-us-unidentified-object/

February 13

Balloon Downing Number Four in Eight Days—“US F-16 fighter jet shoots down “an airborne object” over Lake Huron in Michigan (Sunday February 12) (source: North American Aerospace Defense Command/NORAD). https://www.rt.com/news/571384-us-shoot-down-object/

Washington and others in various media persist in making public accusations against the People’s Republic of China and its leaders.

February 15

“Pentagon Practiced Shooting Down Spy Balloons two Years Ago in Alaska War-game,” David Hambling, Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2023/02/15/pentagon-practiced-shooting-down-spy-balloons-in-alaska-wargame-two-years-ago/?sh=396c86815e7e

February 16

United States President Joseph takes to the dais to comment on presumably his commanded shoot down of “UFOs,” and affirms “that the objects were not … (emphasis added) China’s or any other country’s “surveillance vehicles.”

“US intelligence agencies believe the objects were most likely balloons linked to private companies, recreation or research institutions” (source US President Biden). https://www.rt.com/news/571608-biden-ufo-shootdowns/

US Balloon Shooter: Background

Multi-billion $ Waste

US F-22 Raptor Jet’s shooting down balloon at cost of $206 million to $216 million per jet

F-22 AIM 9X Sidewinder missile Shoot-down of a “‘harmless’ high-altitude floating object” over Montana wasted some “$400,000”

The F-22 Raptor is manufactured by heavy lobbyists and super contributors to US political campaigns—Lockheed Martin, Boeing. Their products are used primarily by the United States Air Force.

The US affair with this militarist machine extends to the 1990s and during the US wars of aggression in Afghanistan and Iraq the Rumsfeld Department of Defense supported procurement of 183 operational aircraft projected in 2006 to cost $62 billion. A US Congressional spending bill in 2008 upped the total aircraft production orders to 187.

With delays and cost overruns (aka waste, fraud and abuse) the total F-22 program cost by 2011 was “estimated” at $67.3 billion ($360 million estimated for each operational aircraft delivered). Added to this estimate was Research, Development, Test and Evaluation cost at $32.4 billion; procurement and military construction at $34.9 billion; incremental cost at $138 million. (Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-22_Raptor) (“What is the US F-22 Raptor Jet?” February 7, 2023 https://sputniknews.com/20230207/price-of-shooting-down-chinese-balloon-what-is-the-us-f-22-raptor-jet-1107040441.html)

The recent shoot-down exercises (four reported) cost the people of the United States (conservatively estimated) “more than $2.1 million.”

Forbes writer David Hambling concludes

While US officials deny that the USAF flies spy balloons over China … there seems to be an admission of a US “espionage balloon program” in the form of a “tactical use” “military” program.

It seems clear that contrary to current hysterical reports the US shoot downs of aerial objects have been longer term and more calculated. It is “a good bet that ‘counter-stratospheric capability’— once a very niche interest—is now enjoying a lot more attention than previously.”  https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2023/02/15/pentagon-practiced-shooting-down-spy-balloons-in-alaska-wargame-two-years-ago/?sh=396c86815e7e

 

America’s People Discarded

Homelessness in the United States of America exceeds half a million. As with unemployment and under employment figures, because of the nature and insufficient investigation and reporting and care— the homelessness figures are mere estimates. With the economic condition, the waste, fraud and neglect, the figures are inevitably rising.

Many homeless people in the United States suffered untreated “post-traumatic stress disorder, mental illness, domestic abuse, drug addiction, disability, and HIV/AIDS.”

Estimates reported:

• 580,466 in 2020: 65 percent sheltered; 35 percent unsheltered
• 326,126 people Languishing in transitional housing and homeless shelters

U.S. States with most Homelessness (estimated 2021 totals recorded)

California 161,548	New York 91,271	Florida 27,487	Texas 27,229
Washington 22,923	Massachusetts 17,975	Oregon 14,655	Pennsylvania 13,375
Arizona 10,979	Ohio 10,655

U.S. Cities with most Homeless people (estimated 2020 totals recorded)

New York City 77,943	Los Angeles City and County 63,706	Seattle/King County 11,751	San Jose/Santa Clara City and County 9, 605
Oakland, Berkeley/Alameda County 8,137	San Francisco 8,124	San Diego City and County 7,638	Phoenix, Mesa/Maricopa County 7,419
Santa Ana, Anaheim/Orange County 6,978	District of Columbia 6,380

 2011-2021 USA 

Estimated totals of homeless individuals

2011: 623,788

2012: 621,553

2013: 590,364

2014: 576,450

2015: 564,708

 

2016: 549,928

2017: 553,742

2018: 552,830

2019: 567,715

2020: 580,466

2021: 326,126

The count or check on homelessness was significantly affected by the heightened period of the 2019 pandemic; and the pattern continued in the years closely following.

The EarthWeb article on Homelessness in the United States concludes that the rise in homelessness has been increasing continuously since 2016.

Most of the homeless are unaccompanied people: estimated at 66.7 percent.
Homeless families are estimated at 33.3 percent.

https://earthweb.com/how-many-homeless-in-america/#:~:text=How%20Many%20Homeless%20in%20America%20in%202023%20How,are%20living%20in%20transitional%20housing%20and%20homeless%20shelters. The source “EarthWeb” defines itself as “a resource discovery platform” whose mission involves tracking social and technological trends and offering “in-depth content” for making “informed decisions.” https://earthweb.com/about/

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Why Not Shoot the Coronavirus

USA’s Reckless Arms Selling Sets Model for Domestic Mass Shootings

“Violence is mainly, but not only, men’s money maker and problem solver”

USA Masters their Key Salesman U.S. President Forty-Five

Lockheed Martin

Boeing

Northrop Grumman

Raytheon

General Dynamics

“…accounted for $148 billion and 35 percent of total ‘Top 100’ arms sales in 2018,” according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s  latest (December 2019) report.

U

.S. companies’ “total arms sales in the ranking amounted to $246 billion, equivalent to 59 percent of all ‘Top 100’ arms sales; compared with 2017, the figures reflect a “7.2 percent increase.”

SIPRI’s Top 100 findings (2018) showed “arms sales of the world’s 100 largest arms-producing and military services companies” totaling “$420 billion; compared with 2017, the 2018 totals reflect a “4.6 percent increase.”

Top arms companies 2009-2014

Lockheed Martin held fast to topmost position in Top 100 arms sellers

Sales: $37.5 billion

Boeing second place

Sales: $28.3 billion

Projection by Aude Fleurant, SIPRI’s Director of Arms and Military Expenditure Program: with Lockheed Martin’s “acquisition of helicopter manufacturer Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation,” this company is expected to further widen the gap in 2015 between itself and other companies ranked in the Top 10

Recklessly Arming

F

ueling Flames in World’s most war torn, conflict rife region

U. S. arms sales and boasts of arms sales (2019)

• $25.5 billion in (arms) deals agreed with nine countries around the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) so far this year— a 118 percent year-on-year rise over 2018
• U.S. arms sales globally “increased by 42 percent: total of $69.7 billion— the highest level since 2010.
• U.S. sales to the Middle East “are outpacing the overall trend… and accounted for more than a third of the worldwide total”
• The United States arms companies’ biggest MENA region customer Kingdom of Morocco (Sunni Islam, Monarchy): deal to sell $3.8 billion worth of (Lockheed) F-16 aircraft and associated equipment to Rabat (Moroccan capital); later firmed up plans to upgrade its F‑16 fighter jets ($985 million); and filed new orders estimated at $4.25 billion for AH-64E Apache attack helicopters;
• Total 2019 deals agreements “worth some $10.3 billion, almost all going on the Royal Moroccan Air Force”

USA weapons sales deals to Gulf States (2019): $14.2 billion

• UAE ($2.7 billion in Patriot missiles)
• Bahrain ($2.5 billion Patriot missile system),
• Qatar ($3 billion in 24 Apache attack helicopters),
• Saudi Arabia (22 percent of all U.S. military industry exports)

U

. S. and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Sunni Islam Sunni (Wahhabism), Absolute Monarchy, capital Riyadh— arms

2017

• U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia’s Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on May 20, 2017, signed a series of letters of intent for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to purchase arms from the United States totaling US$110 billion; immediately; and $350 billion over 10 years. The intended purchases include tanks, combat ships, missile defense systems, as well as radar, communications and cybersecurity technology.

2018

• U.S. President Donald Trump “has vetoed three joint resolutions prohibiting arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.” The president rejected attempts “by congressional lawmakers to halt the controversial weapons transfers.”

2019

• On the same day as an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition hit a busy market in Yemen that killed several civilians including children, the U.S. Senate sustained the president’s vetoes, and gave its stamp of approval to U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia.

2020

• In late February the U.S. President was speaking in India, the poorest country on earth:

“Earlier today we expanded our defense cooperation with agreements for India to purchase more than $3 billion of advanced American military equipment, including Apache & MH-60 Romeo Helicopters — finest in the world.”

U.S. Investor Money-making and Mass Shooting

Copying above Pattern of Recklessness 

Though the United States population consists of only 5 percent of the world’s population, the U.S. estimated percentage of mass shootings is more than six times that amount: 31 percent.

W

ork Site

• Two+ Centuries’ Making, Merging, Sales, Name changes, Takeovers, Restructuring: Miller Brewing was founded in 1855 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by German immigrant Frederick Miller; Molson Brewery is Canadian enterprise  founded in 1786 by British immigrant John Molson; Coors Brewing Company was founded in 1873 by German immigrant Adolph Coors.

• 2002: South African Breweries buys the United States “Miller Brewing Company” to create “SABMiller” (South African Brewery-Miller).

• 2005: after gyrating through several name changes, the (U.S.) Coors Brewing Company merges with (the Canadian) Molson Brewery and becomes “Molson Coors Brewing Company.”

• 2008: (the South African) SABMiller and Molson Coors create MillerCoors as a joint venture for their U.S. operations.

• 2016 (October): after MillerCoors is acquired by Anheuser-Busch InBev, (South African) SABMiller sells its stake in MillerCoors (est. price $12 billion) “making Molson Coors the 100 percent owner of MillerCoors.”

• 2020 (January 1): as part of a “corporate restructuring” that also combines U.S. and Canadian business units, MillerCoors again undergoes a name change this time to “Molson Coors Beverage Company”—  Chicago, Illinois headquarters; total equity $7.0 billion (2015); revenue $4.8 billion (2016); number of employees 17,200 (2017); subsidiaries: Molson Brewery, Coors Brewing Company, Miller Brewing Company; products : beers, lagers, malt beverages, energy drinks, spirits and wines; beer store percentage: 49 percent

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ews from the Brewery February 2020

Milwaukee Sentinel February 27, 2020 reporting from Beer Town Wisconsin on the latest American domestic (mass) shooting (suicide): In the early afternoon or late morning of Wednesday, February 26, 2020, a 20-year veteran worker at a Molson Coors brewery complex who had been in “a long-running dispute,” opened fire on coworkers. Six people died.

Sources

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

SIPRI, Signalistgatan 9, SE-169 72 Solna, Sweden

SIPRI for the media “Global arms industry rankings: Sales up 4.6 per cent worldwide and US companies dominate the Top 5” December 9, 2019 https://www.sipri.org/media/press-release/2019/global-arms-industry-rankings-sales-46-cent-worldwide-and-us-companies-dominate-top-5

“US companies dominate the Top 100, with large mergers becoming a visible trend: The SIPRI Top 100 Arms-producing and Military Services Companies, 2018”

https://www.sipri.org/publications/2019/sipri-fact-sheets/sipri-top-100-arms-producing-and-military-services-companies-2018

Arms sales of the world’s 100 largest arms-producing and military services companies (the SIPRI Top 100) were $420 billion in 2018. This was an increase of 4.6 per cent compared with total Top 100 arms sales for 2017.

SIPRI “Global arms industry: West still dominant despite decline; sales surge in rest of the world” December 14, 2015

https://www.sipri.org/media/press-release/2015/global-arms-industry-west-still-dominant-despite-decline-sales-surge-rest-world-says-sipri

Arms, Military Expenditure https://www.sipri.org/research/armament-and-disarmament/arms-and-military-expenditure/military-expenditure

SIPRI “Saudi Arabia, armaments and conflict in the Middle East” Pieter D. Wezeman https://www.sipri.org/commentary/topical-backgrounder/2018/saudi-arabia-armaments-and-conflict-middle-east

SIPRI “The United States leads upward trend in arms exports, Asian and Gulf States arms imports up” March 16, 2015 https://www.sipri.org/media/press-release/2015/united-states-leads-upward-trend-arms-exports-asian-and-gulf-states-arms-imports-says-sipri

Wikipedia

Mass shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shooting

Molson Coors Beverage Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molson_Coors_Beverage_Company

MillerCoors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MillerCoors

Reuters “Trump signs $110 billion Saudi arms deal” posted May 20, 2017

https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/id128967927

Wikipedia “2017 United States–Saudi Arabia arms deal” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_States%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabia_arms_deal

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Sunni Islam Sunni (Wahhabism), Absolute MOnarchy, capital Riyadh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia

The Hill “Trump defends $110B US arms sale to Saudi Arabia” by Alexander Bolton October 13, 2018 https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/411271-trump-defends-110-billion-us-arms-sale-to-saudi-arabia

Defense News “US Senate allows arms sales to Saudi Arabia, sustaining Trump vetoes” Joe Gould July 29, 2019 https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2019/07/29/us-senate-allows-arms-sales-to-saudi-arabia-sustaining-trump-vetoes/

Forbes “U.S. Arms Sales to the Middle East Have Soared In Value This Year” Dominic Dudley December 16, 2019 https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominicdudley/2019/12/16/arms-sales-middle-east-soar/#2f10767ffea8

Press TV news reporting February 25, 2020: “US, India agree on military deal worth $3 billion: Trump”   https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/02/25/619477/US-President-Trump-India-PM-Modi-defense-deal

Milwaukee Miller Brewery Shooting: What We Know” Joe Taschler and Lainey Seyler Milwaukee Journal Sentinel February 27, 2020

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2020/02/27/milwaukee-miller-brewery-shooting-what-we-know-and-dont-know/4891005002/

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