Showing posts with label USA breakdown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USA breakdown. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Citadel of Carelessness and Dysfunction: Successive US Congresses, Administrations’ Self-absorption and Discord

An America Locked in Vise of Human Betrayal and institutional Breakdown



US Government Shutdowns 1976 Stretching into 2025





Twentieth Century


94th Congress (2nd session)

1976 (President Gerald Ford): September 30 - October 11

 

95th Congress (1st session)

1977 (President Jimmy Carter): September 30 - October 13

1977 (President Jimmy Carter): October 31 - November 9

1977 (President Jimmy Carter): November 30 - December 9

1978 (President Jimmy Carter): September 30 - October 18

 

96th Congress (1st session)

1979 (President Jimmy Carter): September 30 - October 12

 

97th Congress (1st session)

1981 (President Ronald Reagan): November 20 - November 23

97th Congress (2nd session)

1982 (President Ronald Reagan): September 30 - October 2

1982 (President Ronald Reagan): December 17 - December 21

 

98th Congress (1st session)

1983 (President Ronald Reagan): November 10 - November 14

98th Congress (2nd session)

1984 (President Ronald Reagan): September 30 - October 3

1984 (President Ronald Reagan): October 3 - October 5

 

99th Congress (1st session)

1986 (President Ronald Reagan): October 16 - October 18

 

100th Congress (1st session)

1987 (President Ronald Reagan): December 18 - December 20

 

101st Congress (2nd session)

1990 (President George H.W. Bush): October 5 - 9

  

104th Congress

1995 (President Bill Clinton): November 14 - 19

104th Congress (1st and 2nd sessions)

1995-1996 (President Bill Clinton): December 16, 1995 - January 6, 1996


Twenty-First Century 

113th Congress (1st session)

2013 (President Barack Obama): October 1 - October 17

 

115th Congress (2nd session)

2018 (President Donald Trump): January 20 - January 23

2018 (President Donald Trump): February 9 (1 day)

 

115th Congress (2nd session) 116th Congress (1st session)

2018-2019 (President Donald Trump): December 22, 2018 - January 25, 2019

 

119th Congress (2nd session)

2025(President Donald Trump): October 1, 2025 - continuing at this writing November 4, 2025





Sources
Thought Co, Tom Murse, latest update July 13, 2024, “All 21 Government Shutdowns in U.S. History Duration and Year of Government Shutdowns,” https://www.thoughtco.com/government-shutdown-history-3368274
About ThoughtCo https://www.thoughtco.com/about-us-4779650

Wikipedia 2025 United States federal government shutdown (last edited November 4, 2025, 19:46 (UTC-Universal Time Coordinated aka Coordinated Universal Time) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_federal_government_shutdown




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overnment officials in the United States seem incapable of civil, intelligent, mature interaction and negotiation either US domestic affairs or in international affairs. 

This critical failure in character is harmful to the United States of America (its intuitions and people) and to world’s peoples, cultures, and nations.




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https://www.facebook.com/carolynladelle.bennett
https://insightbeyondtodaysnews.blogspot.com/
Latest book: Are There No Champions? Yes and No
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Thursday, January 30, 2025

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

Today’s Disaster Headlines did not begin Today


“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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Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Make America a Colony Again!

Demonstration of Neocolonialists’ Club Exclusive

No ordinary Mortals Allowed Entry or Benefit



Playmates of the FORTY-SEVENTH


“PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS THE FIRST 100 HOURS: HISTORIC ACTION TO KICK OFF AMERICA’S GOLDEN AGE” - January 24, 2025, “President Donald Trump’s second term is off to an historic start” https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/the-first-100-hours-historic-action-to-kick-off-americas-golden-age/

QUOTE: 
“President Trump is securing historic investments just days after being sworn in.”

“President Trump secured $500 billion in private sector investment for the largest AI infrastructure project in history, with Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman all stating that it would not have been possible if not for President Trump’s election victory and leadership.”

Saudi Arabia ‘wants to invest $600 billion in the United States over the next four years.’”
“Stellantis announced it will restart an assembly plant in Illinois and build the new Dodge Durango in Detroit” … company Chairman John Elkann … met … with President Donald Trump before his (January 20) inauguration…”.


Playmates’ Profile 


Saudi Arabia

Multi-BILLIONAIRE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Absolute Monarch (personal Net worth of King $18 billion; Net worth of KSA Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud $25 billion, Net worth of House of Saud / KSA royal family, including the King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud $1.4 trillion). NOTE: KSA nationals reportedly implicated in “1998 U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa,” “2000 USS Cole bombing near the port of Aden, Yemen,” 2001 buildings destruction and deaths in US states of New York and Virginia (Northern Virginia)


South Africa

Multi-BILLIONAIRE (Net worth $422.7 billion) SpaceX founder, CEO, and chief engineer, Tesla, Inc. CEO and product architect, X (formerly Twitter) owner / CTO / executive chairman, Neuralink, OpenAI, Zip2, and X.com (part of PayPal) co-founder Elon Reeve MUSK (South African) NOTE: Mr. Musk reportedly has been named tp[ administrator of President Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (formerly known as the United States Digital Service), a temporary organization under the United States DOGE Service; not a federal executive department (as federal executive department nominees under the US Constitution are subject to the advise and consent process of the US Congress). Further NOTE: Mr. Musk reportedly “contributed personally” more than “$130 million to the former ‘Apprentice’ host’s (2024 US presidential) campaign” and an additional amount exceeding $200 million from “Musk’s America PAC” (political action committee).


North Pacific

Multi-Billionaire owner (98 percent) of Hawaii’s sixth-largest island, the world’s second wealthiest individual (estimated Net worth of “$237 billion”) capitalist / investor, Oracle co-founder / executive chairman / CTO Lawrence Joseph Ellison


East Asia

Multi-BILLIONAIRE (Net worth 2025 $32.9 Billion (Forbes)) Japanese) technology capitalist / investor; Chairman / CEO SoftBank, Chairman Arm Holdings, Chairman Stargate LLC, Masayoshi SON


Africa and Non-Human (Artificial) Intelligence

Multi-BILLIONAIRE (Net worth 2025 $11 Billion) OpenAI CEO, Oklo Inc, Helion Energy Chairman capitalist / investor Samuel Harris ALTMAN


Kingdom of the Netherlands (Western Europe and Caribbean)

Multi-BILLIONAIRE Italian Agnelli Family heir (Net worth $2.5 billion), multinational automotive manufacturing company Stellantis N.V. Stellantis (formed from 2021 merger, total assets, 2023 estimates, $210.7 billion, headquartered in The Netherlands, chairman John ELKANN (vice chairman Robert Peugeot); Owners of Stellantis: Exor (13.99 percent) - Holding Company of Italian Agnelli Family; Peugeot Invest (6.98 percent) - Holding Company of Peugeot family; Bpifrance (6 percent) - French public sector investment bank, joint venture of two state owned enterprises: the Caisse des dépôts et consignations and EPIC BPI-Groupe (formerly EPIC OSEO).


CLUB Exclusive
Main Man’s Outside USA Empire


The Center for Responsible Politics’ OpenSecrets, in 2019, listed more than 26 countries (excluding the United States of America) in which businessman / entertainer Donald John Trump had business interests stretching South America to Eurasia.

Argentina

Azerbaijan

Bermuda

Brazil

Canada

China

Dominican Republic

Georgia

India

Indonesia

Ireland

Israel

Mexico

Panama

Philippines

Qatar

Russia

Saudi Arabia

Scotland

South Korea

St. Martin

St. Vincent

Turkey

United Arab Emirates

Uruguay

 

 

 

 Other Countries in which Trump reportedly held trademarks and other interests

Australia

Egypt

European Union (EU)

Chile

New Zealand

 

Malaysia

Morocco

South Africa

Massoglia, Anna and Karl Evers-Hillstrom OpenSecrets June 4, 2019 “World of Influence: A guide to Trump’s foreign business interests”

As Donald John Trump begins his term as the forty-seventh president of the United States and as America is in breakdown and more than half a million of its people are languishing

  • in squalor 
  • in refugee-like camps (homeless) 
  • on the streets, 
  • under bridges, 
  • in tunnels, 
  • underground car parks and 
  • in other unsuitable spaces and places 
As the lead man in Club Exclusive International, he is holding a net worth (not including countless perks) in the neighborhood of $6 billion.” (The Street quoting Forbes https://www.thestreet.com/personalities/donald-trump-net-worth).

 


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PROLIFIC SOUTHERN-BORN AMERICAN WRITER DR. CAROLYN LADELLE BENNETT focuses on People, Press, Politics USA; Domestic and Foreign Affairs (no copyright claimed in direct quotes and individual image)
Latest book: Are There No Champions? Yes and No
Links: https://www.facebook.com/carolynladelle.bennett
https://insightbeyondtodaysnews.blogspot.com/
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Saturday, January 18, 2025

Final Curtain Shows Colors: Acts and Utterances of warped brains, rabid militarists, men (women) without conscience

EXPOSED 


“In the space of several minutes” “corporate media” demonstrates its partnering “… in … crimes” of the outgoing regime.

“Official journalists of major daily newspapers and television news (outlets) have refused to characterize the Israeli operation in Gaza as genocide; and … (have) bolstered the White House narrative (and mantra) … ‘Israel has a right to defend itself’” and, in that process, extirpate a people: slaughter “tens of thousands of Palestinians,” most of them “women and children.”

US Major Media label reporters who ask questions of US government officials “‘hecklers’” and “‘activists’”; and declare that “silencing” them is “‘a testament to American democracy.’” (Cable ‘News’ Network and its Alex Marquardt) 

Perhaps “American” “democracy” is something quite different from what is generally understood as democracy or what common people mean when they use the term. Americans (and their partners) in positions of power and influence have a penchant for capriciously and arbitrarily redefining terms as it suits their fancy. War is humanitarianism and slaughter is self-defense. Criminal courts, prosecutorial systems, courts of justice exist for trying “other” people. 


Infiltrative
in Press and Government
Questionable Allegiances


Blinken Element Incorporated


During “Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s final press conference, … journalist Sam Husseini was forcibly removed by security personnel after he insisted that Blinken answer questions about US support for the Israeli genocide in Gaza.” Reporting January 17, 2025: Reed, Kevin “Reporter dragged from Blinken’s final press briefing for asking about US support for Gaza genocide” WSWS January 17, 2025, https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/17/xwtu-j17.html
The BLINKEN ELEMENT boasts genetic and ideological linkages and allegiances to Jewish European and West Asian settlers; multinational finance; and military industrial consulting. Antony Blinken, at least since 2009, has been permitted to hold top-level positions governing US foreign policy and foreign relations.

Suppression of a free press Bahraini Alex MARQUARDT viewed as “‘a testament to American democracy.’” Marquardt is a native of Kingdom of Bahrain, a small West Asian islanded country in the Persian Gulf between State of Qatar and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s northeastern coast; majority populated by “foreigners”, or “non-Bahrainis” whose majority are natives of “India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Philippines, and Egypt.” 

Marquardt's Bahrain also hosts the US Fifth Fleet (US Naval Forces Central Command).

  • One news source wrote this week, “Journalist MAX BLUMENTHAL (removed from the room) set the tone during Blinken’s farewell address to the State Department press (asking):
    • ‘Why did you allow the Holocaust of our time to happen?’ 
    • ‘How does it feel to have your legacy be (that of) genocide?’”
  • Reporter SAM HUSSEINI “was physically dragged out of the room yelling 
    • ‘Why aren’t you at The Hague?’” ZirafaMedia January 16, 2025 “Max and Sam give Blinken the farewell he deserves”



Due Diligence
Responsible and Free Press


Investigative Journalist 
MAX BLUMENTHAL


Blumenthal is an investigative journalist and author, a documentarian, filmmaker, founder and editor-in-chief of The Grayzone (established “to shine a journalistic light on America’s state of perpetual war and its dangerous domestic repercussions”).

His books include 
  • Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party (2009)
  • Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel (2013)
  • The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza (2015)
  • The Management of Savagery: How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump (2019). https://thegrayzone.com/author/max-blumenthal/


Independent Journalist
SAM HUSSEINI


Usamah “Sam” Husseini is an independent journalist and author who has written extensively about Palestine and international law writes at “husseini.substack.com” and “regularly attends US State Department briefings, asking tough questions.” He is senior analyst at the Institute for Public Accuracy, founder of ‘VotePact.org’ (which “encourages left-right cooperation to undermine the establishment duopoly”), and a visual artist. 

  • 2011 Husseini’s “questioning of al-Saud (Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, KSA prince and former government official) during the 2011 Arab uprisings led to being suspended from the National Press Club, a decision reversed by “the ethics committee of the Press Club.” 
  • 2018 Husseini “was dragged out of the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki for trying to ask about the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty which 122 countries voted in favor of but the two ‘superpowers’ have blocked.” 
  • 2022 (with virologist Jonathan Latham) Husseini “co-authored the in-depth investigation ‘Did West Africa’s Ebola Outbreak of 2014 Have a Lab Origin?’” HUSSEINI’s tough questioning of high-level officials, in addition to the Saudi prince, has included former US State Secretary Colin Powell, former US Vice President Mike Pence, former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, among others https://husseini.substack.com/about

The duty of the press is to serve the public, often a wide and varied, global, far-flung public. Not to spread fear or prejudice, shill or carry propaganda, distract or sensationalize. Journalists have a sacred duty to question and diligently ferret out the truth on behalf of the public.


International journalist 
SORAYA SALAM


At the turn of 2025 regarding a major happening within the United States, Soraya Salam cautioned the press about the consequences of accepting and transmitting a prevailing narrative versus practicing responsible journalism.
Journalists should “ask more questions,” Soraya Salam wrote. Responsible journalism does not merely “extrapolate reporting from official statements,” without delving into “the broader context of facts.” Official narratives have “consequences” for “real lives,” the lives of many people and cultures all across the global sphere.
Often that consequence is immediate and deadly.
Reporting must “centre the facts and the context necessary to paint the most accurate and responsible picture.”

We owe the public the fullest possible unveiling and reporting of “the whole truth.”
Manager of Al Jazeera English Online, Soraya Salam oversees aljazeera.com, managing teams across Doha, London, Kuala Lumpur, Washington and New York. She is an international journalist, who has also directed documentaries and produced interviews with some of the world's most prominent political players and thinkers.”





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PROLIFIC SOUTHERN-BORN AMERICAN WRITER DR. CAROLYN LADELLE BENNETT focuses on People, Press, Politics USA; Domestic and Foreign Affairs (no copyright claimed in direct quotes and individual image)
Latest book: Are There No Champions? Yes and No
Links: https://www.facebook.com/carolynladelle.bennett
https://insightbeyondtodaysnews.blogspot.com/
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Long Way from Madison—Time to Rethink, Revise

Qualifications Standards Enforcement  Prerequisites for Public Office We are a long way—carelessly and arrogantly distanced— from Madison, ...