Buried inside Section 5114(b)(4) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 was a repeal of 1994 law that required the U.S. State Department to publish an annual list of arms sales to foreign countries. The “World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers” report (WMEAT) put sunlight every year on what weapons the U.S. was selling to foreign countries.
Conveniently timed with the $60+ billion aid package to Ukraine, the U.S. State Dept, now says the WMEAT report will not be published any longer. If a person was to believe the Ukraine arms deals were essentially money laundering operations, well, this announcement by the State Dept. might be interpreted as a way to hide it. [LINK]
State Dept – WMEAT 2021, which the Department of State published in December 2021, is the final edition of World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers (WMEAT). Section 5114(b)(4) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 repealed the 1994 statutory provision that required the Department of State to publish an edition of WMEAT every year. Consistent with this repeal, the Department of State will cease to produce and publish WMEAT.
Copies of all editions of WMEAT dating from 1974 to 2021 remain publicly accessible as Adobe PDF or Excel spreadsheet documents (LINK)
Likely will make it more difficult to track the resale from the original country receiving the arms.
Whaddaya wanna bet some of these weapons will be headed to the Mexican Cartels?
And coming right back across the border into the USA .
Troubling times.
Black youth need weapons to protect the Cartel dope that Gangsta Rap Music “Culture” tells them to sell white folks as their only way out of the Ghetto.
I’ll take that bet. Fast and Furios was just a ‘monitoring’ operation, like quality testing every 50th widget to come off the assembly line.
For every military weopon FF funneled to the cartels, there were 50.
FF only handled IIRC, around 2000 weopons.
Obviously cartels better armed than the Mexican military, did not do so from FF.
Point is, the cartels are well armed, and they are serving their purpose if driving illegal immigration from the South.
The still “unnamed operation” in Syria, and “Operation zero footprint” (shhhh) in Lybia IMHO didn’t ‘accidentally’ supply ISIS; that was the INTENT, and Mcstain and Graham were fully involved.
And yes, we see the same confluence; Hills State Dept, Graham and McStain, in Ukraine, back in 2014.
I cannot think of one pro America move these “Esteemed Colleagues and Very Good Friends” have made in the last 30 years.
What if they are arming the Blue Helmet Crew??
There are celebrities connected at the hip to both Obama and HRC who have businesses in Mexico. Whose to say they aren’t using the cartel strong arm to control those businesses and labor? I am under the firm belief that the cartel probably controls a cut of everything in Mexico, so I’m sure the Fast Furious connection would connect to these same folks via their Mexico businesses (that also have odd partners associated with HRC, etc.)… if you followed the money trails.
This is just disgusting. Utterly disgusting. Is this because Libya blew up in some people’s faces?
It’s because they can. An army rolling over our Constitution aquiring more territory every day.
Nope… because Hillary’s Libyan invasion allowed stinger missiles to shoot down US helicopters in Afghanistan.
https://nypost.com/2014/06/08/how-the-taliban-got-their-hands-on-modern-us-missiles/
The most transparent president in history 🤮What a snake!
Transparently EVIL.
Especially since they are taking away Special Forces weapons to give to Ukraine, such as taking EVERY Carl Gustav recoilless rifle. And it has made the conservative news so that people know what they are doing.
NY Zombie Nazi Hochul is sending all their National Guard MRE’s, field rations, such that they can no longer conduct exercises.
Artillery munitions are being stripped from forces in South Korea.
I agree that this very possibly is as much to help disguise where it comes from as well as well it goes.
I heard talk about that also….
oh, right, TRANSPARENCY.
Quite a rogues’ gallery of Republicans pictured.
Isn’t there a huge Chinese market for illegal RINO horns?
Yeah, but they’re cheap.
Would you use Tide or Gain with that money laundering?
Purell. The cleanest clean you can get!
make sure you put Lysol Sanitizer in the rinse before you repeat….
Zest. It leaves little to no soap residue behind.
BleachBuck.
Better than a cloth!
Nobody read it so they can all claim not to have known what was in it. Same with the legalization of gubmint disseminated propaganda via the “Smith-Mundt Modenization Act” inside the 2012 NDAA among so many other things.
They’ve sunk the nation below a 3rd world banana republic.
If things get much worse we will all wish that we had some bananas. Food shortages will become rampant after the midterms. it is NOT going to be a Merry Christmas.
Every news organization worth its salt should make it a duty every year to file FOIA request for that complete weapons transfer list. Even if the American people aren’t paying attention, it should be transparent as to where these arms are going. It can’t just be that only the executive gets to see that. No, no, no. Can’t let it happen.
Anyone familiar with an “End user certificate”,..HAH!
Originally, it was SUPPOSED to be a way the “international community” could restrict the flow of weoponry, to see it “didn’t get into the wrong hands”.
As the name implies, some recognised entity, a Government or arms manufacturer, has to attest who/what the “END USER” or ultimate recipient is, for any international arms shipment, and of coarse such “end user” isn’t under U.N. embargo, a Terrorist org. etc.
And here they are, further obscuring transparency on WHAT weopons the Congress is authorising, and where they are going.
I do think many here, make the mistake of thinking its all about GREED, and MONEY.
Its NOT, Money is just an easily transferred, and therefore usable form of CONTROL.
THESE people crave CONTROL, which is not the same as POWER.
POWER is equal measures of authority AND responsibility.
CONTROL is Authority WITHOUT responsibility, VERY addicting.
Experts will tell you rape is NOT actually about sex; its about CONTROL.
Similarly, “the worst abuse leaves no scars” and “while you WILL find sex or physical abuse along with psychological abuse, you will never find STRICKTLY physical or sexual abuse, WITHOUT psychological abuse, and you WILL encounter many cases of psychological abuse, without any physical or sexual abuse.
Its about POWER, the $ is a secondary although essential aspect.
We’ve never had less executive function in the executive office.
My God! We are going the way of the Roman Empire, aren’t we? At risk of sounding defeatist, how could you ever reign in a government so vile and corrupt? Any/every mechanism to keep govt in check, and any form of remedy for governmental abuses are controlled by those who need to be stopped…
I could just cry. It gets worse and worse and we’re not even halfway through this disastrous Biden presidency.
Stop letting Dems have majorities, people. I know someone will point out that Republicans voted for this particular sh*t too, but if the GOP has control of the House and Senate we’ll have less sh*t to deal with.
Republicans did vote for this and Darn well knew what was in it. The GOPe of McConnell wants MAGA gone more than Democrats.
I saw a car with a Moms For Liberty sticker and DeSantis 24 sticker on it in Eldersburg,MD. The fix is coming for MAGA from the right. I dare say the awful DeSantis ad is an attempt to make him toxic to MAGA and it has worked.
I saw the ad and I’d compare it to someone doing a high dive some do it perfect and it looks great, some do a cannonball it makes a big splash but the DeSantis ad reminds me of a belly flop, quite painful and the optics are bad.
Who ever convinced him to do that ad was probably trying to make him look bad and it did.
Sorry, out with every RINO that voted for the $40+ Ukraine Aid Bill. The Dems could lose the majority in Congress, and nothing would change as long as the RINO’s remain in office to pass their legislation.
I repeatedly tell people to get rid of RINOs during the primaries, but because the Dems are so much worse than any Republicans it’s crucial to vote all-Republican in November to get rid of as many Dems as possible and attain/maintain GOP majorities in the House and Senate.
This is absolutely necessary to drain the swamp. If people vote contrary to this we’ll never see an improvement.
I can see your point. Here in WV, fortunately RINO McKinley was voted out of office in the primary. However, when Senator Capito runs for re-election I don’t think I could hold my nose and vote for her in the general election. I’d sit that one out. Hopefully, a better Republican candidate challenges her in the primary.
The RINO’s are not called Decepticons for no reason. We need to continually expose their deceptions.
fka, serena
Please read my responce to your post in a previous thread, where you talked about your history as a “walk-away” from the Dem party (my words, not yours).
I now understand the fundamental difference between you and I, and regret some of my earlier comments to you.
As you stated (paraphrasing again) you come to MAGA as a “walk away” from the Dem party, having realised they had been “conning you” for years, and you had “red pilled” on SOME aspects of the Dem party.
And, you are understandable bitter at those Dems, as one might be with a former lover, after a bad breakup.
WE, who say “NO! Do NOT vote “straight R, only vote for MAGA!” are, at least speaking for myself coming from a lifetime of being abused by the REPUBLICAN wing of the Uniparty.
We see, as a result of that experience, how the Republican leadership are the exact same animal, as the Dem leadership that abused you for so many years; they just each play their role to decieve us.
And, getting us to “Vote for the R, cause the D is worse”, something relatively new to you, is something WE have been doing our WHOLE LIVES.
THIS abuse, of the Republican base by the leadership, from my personal experience has been occurring since at least the ’60’s.
As you are relatively new to the Republican party, a study of its HISTORY might enlighten you?
Suggest you look in the archives here at CTH and read Sundances detailed review of Benghazi.
He makes a conpelling case that Republican leadership was EQUALLY culpable for the operations that put manpads in Afganistan used to kill the Seal team 6, that ‘got bin laden’.
The REPUBLICAN party as constituted, was NOT a “Big Club”; it was evangelical Christians, Quakers and others that formed a grass roots movement to end slavery.
The Whigs were big money interests that were NOT tied to slavery for their profits.
They competed for wealth and influence with big $ interests that WERE tied to slavery.
If you buy slave produced cotton for your clothing manufacturing company, as an example, your costs are lower, so you “profit” from slavery without owning any slaves.
The Whigs realised they could take away this inherent competitive advantage of the Dems, by putting their influence, $ and political organisation behind these new “Republicans”
The Whigs did not disappear ‘poof’; they just stepped back into the smoke filled back rooms, and let the Republicans be the face of the party.
And so, the Whigs became the Republican party “elders” and “power brokers” controlling things ‘behind the scenes’ and there has been this dynamic tension, ever since.
Research “Rockerfeller Republicans”, “Country club Republicans”; they are what we now call “Rinos” or GOPe, even some if the same names.
anyway, I formally apologise for some of my snarky, hurtful comments.
As you were stridently repeating the very lies our abuser has used to keep us in the abusive relatiinship, I and others responded.
“Hold your nose and vote for the R, Cause the D is worse!” is, for us just like
“I SWEAR honey I won’t ever beat you again, if you’ll take me back! I LOVE you,…and you know its your fault.”
Well said, Dutchman.
You got my history all wrong, dude. You’re incredibly presumptive and antagonistic.
What’s your plan? What should voters do to improve things? You’re always bitching at me about my plan, what’s yours?
All due respect, I believe that is a false paradigm.
A purity standard will fail every time. Applying generalized labels (i.e., they aren’t MAGA) is not only lazy, but guaranteed to fail. Blind allegiance to a purity standard is as dangerous as it is toward any ideology. It is virtually guaranteed there is not holistic agreement inside MAGA on every moral/social or economic issue.
Bothersome as it might be, folks individually will have to knuckle down, do their homework, and determine who the real threats are based on hard facts as well as personal/MAGA values and principles. They will require some experience inside the various power and/or control nodes to understand where the proverbial “puppet strings” that cannot be seen actually become visible. It will require some judgment on discriminating when one is being played.
It will require integrity and fairness before going into search and destroy mode. Otherwise, it loses its moral compass (MAGA has its own group psychology currents that, don’t kid yourself, can be and are played like a violin at times) and it risks morphing into what it most detests.
To rebut the expected (not you, but others): I am not a troll (were I so I would done my hit and run and vacated the premises years ago). But there are folks out there like me who are weary of all this ****. We are at the shorter end of the candle; have been there done that; feel that at the end of the day it’s really up to younger generations to decide whether they want to live as free individuals or state slaves; who still have tentacles into previous “information conduits”; who have seen many times how these pendulums swing.
We’re WAY beyond voting, at this point. Need things I can’t suggest here. And there’s not much time left.
Please. People aren’t even voting strategically yet. We are NOT way beyond voting.
We have people in this forum who are so emotional that they refuse to vote for a RINO in a general election … thus helping to give the seat to a Dem and beef up Dem majorities. That’s what happened in 2018 and 2020.
Until people vote strategically, until we can knock some sense into the stupid people who vote like cranky toddlers, we will not see improvement.
Do you think Trump would like GOP majorities or Dem majorities?
So we buy them but aren’t allowed to know what happens after that. Is that cool or what?
Yeah, but they don’t let the average citizen have a gun and have it registered and if you don’t comply they will hound you to death. Another gov, okay cool.
Atomic bombs to Iran?
10% for the ‘Big Guy’ ?
The opening scene of Red Dawn if made today, will be IRS paratroopers falling out of the sky. Wolverines!
…pay no attention to the man behind the curtain…
R–I–G–H–T…
That’s exactly where we need to look – pull down the whole ratty curtain!
Guess the Iran deal is back in play since the jackasses no longer have to report their dirty deeds
True this just one more item removed from Public View by the US Government. Unless you are doing reports and news on AVERAGES of Arms and a few other Socio-Economic Topics vs various geographic divisions of the globe…this report does not provide any details (i.e. Types of Weapons, Weapons categories, Cost of Weapons, Detailed Destinations…etc. etc.). In fact rather disappointing.
Also, note the report will not be “published” but the data is still there to be had via the State Department.
For anyone interested as to what is actually in the report here is a link to the Report that includes;2019, 2020 and 2021 Reports.
https://www.state.gov/world-military-expenditures-and-arms-transfers-2021-edition/
Guess what people. It’s not just arms. We The People don’t get an accounting of of anything.
A few months back, the various Cabinet Agencies announced during press conferences that they would NOT be reporting anything…i.e. Employment Numbers, Inflation, Deficits, CBO assessments, et al would no longer be periodically reported but only as each agency felt was needed.
Remember, we don’t even get to know WHO our real President is, so why did you think they would ever reveal anything else?
And it’s ALL OUR MONEY!!
We are not permitted to know who we have transferred weapons to? In what ‘democracy’ is that allowed?
Well you know one person in particular that was hounding Trump and associates while working for J6 nazi Committee got his payday, being Dan Goldman who made millions on war machine and energy investments/equities as Biden laundered billions to companies he invested in. Then he used the money to fund his campaign in the NY area (that also overlaps an area of Trump related businesses) and sent the reports to MSM to acknowledge and brag about his millions of personal cash spent, LMAO.
Behold our secretive government. How long until they decide to tell us NOTHING?
Right about Nov 1st just before they cancel elections.
What an arrogant and disgusting display.
The usual GOPe helped pass the Defence authorization act and should pay with their political lives.
The reason they can do the crap to the J6 guys is the “indefinite detention” provisions in the NDAA.
The brazen lawlessness of the Biden WH and Admin is just staggering. America is a banana republic, no better than Iran, or Venezuela.
The US government is the largest human trafficking, money laundering, arms dealing and bioweapon funding organization in world history. A criminal enterprise by any objective measure.
And, we’re paying for it against our will.
Thus, all the recent trips to Taiwan, to arrange payoffs for shipping US weapons, courtesy of the American tax payer.
I read today they are taking recoilless rifles from special forces. I fear they are emptying our inventories so we cannot defend ourselves from China. Next, they will start sinking ships.
The Navy has been doing a pretty good job of incapacitating their ships themselves as I recall.
Yep, and with respect to the US Navy…Even during the slight real increase in defense spending under President Trump…a large portion of US Navy major combatants were missing and/or deferring Yard Periods and Overhauls. Accidents and malfunctions are not all human error. Then there are the actual “low” Operational Readiness ratings.
What do you think the US Congress discussed and agreed upon when they publicly visited the most corrupt country in our universe?
Surely you do not believe the MSM lies Zelensky good and honest…
However, independent journalists will continue to research and report, just as they are doing.
They will fail at this also.
The Kickback Protection Act.
This will also help Obama give ICBMs to his Ayatollah.
Probably will give them the specs on the W-88 warhead to complete the job of what the Chinese already got “somehow”.
Trump couldn’t sneeze without an oversight committee and an impeachment threat. WTH??? Where are the feckless Rino Republicans?!
Pocketing their share.
The “10% Big Guy” syndrome is highly contagious.
Since the dawn of time.
What really makes me sick….this govt is stripping Regular Combat units of arms, equipment and MREs to ship to Ukraine. Or so they say. I really believe Brandon really wants to lose the next war. Maybe we can stop the Chinese at the Mississippi River
Who will give the order to resist?
Not likely any public official.
Wolverines though… that’s another thing.
Can this information still be obtained under FOIA?
Make Guillotines Great Again
Our tax dollar pays for all of it but we don’t get to know where it goes, basically this is telling the US taxpayer , F you !..they will do whatever they want
It’s much worse – they are just printing $$$. You will learn to live with double-digit inflation or leave the country.
I’m leaving.
where t0 go that is what I have been thinking
No problem arming the citizenry with military weapons, protecting their borders and funding their incomes.
Here in America a bump stock or ghost gun will land you in prison.
Borders are nonexistent and we are the definition of a debtor country experiencing high inflation and energy costs.
All intentional, imo.
Do they understand our tax money is paying for these weapons?
Blue Wildflower: Of course! Congresscritters don’t want taxpayers to know how the money is being spent and where the money is going.
The illegitimate administration’s weapons list should simply state the truth. We gave away our entire inventory.
Are there any Republicans speaking out about this?
What?
They are in on it, too.
Have you been paying attention?
(I apologize if I missed the sarcasm)
Thank you, BoBo. You gave me the response I expected. I have paid attention for many, many years and was actually being facetious!
My RINO Brian Mast won’t touch it, and he’s a vet. Of course, he thinks he’s set for life, and supports Ukraine. Still.
Just a whore… Somebody told him that if he talks about Lake Okeechobee, vets, and kittens, he’ll never have to actually stand for anything, and can have his lying position forever.
This is the kind of crap we should be bent about.
ALL legal resident, tax paying Americans should be be mad about this
deliberate blacking out of money/arms transfers.
This is something the blue haired pottery major, and myself can agree on.
Out of the $60 Billion aid package they don’t want anyone to know that they are actually only shipping 2 dozen M1 Garands from the CMP. The rest is administrative overhead.
Why not just sign an ‘Executive Order’ stating such???? None of this makes any sense….Ignore laws on this but not that….Executive Orders on this but not that…..We are 100% lawless…..
As long as we allow them to do lawless things, they naturally will continue to do them. Case in point: Biden declaring that he is using Executive order to reduce student debt but he clearly doesn’t have the power to do it. But WHO a will stop him? No one. So he does something else. Where are the checks and balances? Why doesn’t anyone stop this? 100 % lawless and government by fiat.
DAA is where they hide all the grift and the things they don’t want you to know. Smith-Mundt Act gutting took place in the 2012 DAA. That allowed the Feds spending the 100s of millions to buy off the media on safe and effective. Smith-Mundt stood as a sentry for 75 years, forbidding the govt to spend money on propaganda inside the US. The DAA is likely the most corrupt bill passed by Congress every year.
We haven’t had a legally passed budget since George Bush. They aren’t even pretending anymore.
And don’t be surprised if this DOES NOT change when any Republican gains exec office, or a congressional majority.
This is the kind of stuff that the uniparty eats for breakfast.
Im including PDJT in this, too.
You think he will “undo” something like this?
It would be a top priority?
This is small potatoes to the Patriot Act which has to go if MAGA can ever be a thing.
Agree.
Way too much power in federal hands.
This is just the results of PA and NDAA.
… so Americans are not going to know who their country are giving/selling weapons to?!
Just trust us?! Ahhhh… I don’t think so!
Yep
None of your business.
Now, Go eat your bugs
Never disappointed,never a dull moment!
Operation Fast & Ludicrous!
FJB!!
The vegetable in the White House is into organized crime his whole family is crime. The whole US government is involved in crime.
Yep they have to export the cash overseas, in order to hide it coming back into their pockets.
What are Republicans doing about it?
Shhhh! you’ll make them lose count!
Tucker opened his show with this story.