Kid Berwyn
Kid Berwyn's JournalPentagon is the World's Biggest Consumer of Petroleum
Pentagon Fuel Use, Climate Change, and the Costs of War
The U.S. Department of Defense is the largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels in the world and a key contributor to climate change.
Between 2001 and 2017, the years for which data is available since the beginning of the war on
terrorism with the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, the U.S. military emitted 1.2 billion metric tons of
greenhouse gases. More than 400 million metric tons of greenhouse gases are directly due to war-related fuel consumption. The largest portion of Pentagon fuel consumption is for military jets.
These estimates are based on data from the Department of Energy because the Pentagon withholds fuel consumption data from Congress. The U.S. military has begun to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, but there is room for much steeper cuts.
Source: https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/pentagon-fuel-use-climate-change-and-costs-war
Old news made new again by World War 3 and Big Oil’s errand boy, the traitor Donald j trump.
The New York Times Finally Has "Fresh Doubts" About Trump's Diplomacy
A wise man makes clear — for the record — what one of the nation’s most important news organization has missed.
The New York Times Finally Has “Fresh Doubts” About Trump’s Diplomacy
MELVIN GOODMAN
CounterPunch, March 31, 2026
Fifteen months into the worst presidency in American history, the New York Times has finally acknowledged that Donald Trump’s war with Iran has “tested the limits of his unorthodox diplomatic style,” and raised “fresh doubt about his freestyle tactics.” While the Times prides itself on reporting “All the News That is Fit to Print,” it has spent more than a year downplaying the unfit personnel appointed to national security positions, the policies that have seriously damaged relations with key allies, and the destruction of any responsible national security process.
Even before Trump’s inauguration in January 2025, it was obvious that men and women were being appointed to key national security positions they were not fit to occupy. While former senator Marco Rubio might have appeared qualified, he has used his positions as secretary of state and national security adviser to strengthen Trump’s campaign to deport activist foreign students studying at American universities. Since his appointment, the Department of State has played no role in key diplomatic matters.
Nearly all of our key international issues have been managed, indeed mismanaged, by two billionaire real estate operatives, Steve Wytkoff and Jared Kushner, who have earned the United States no credibility or respect in the global community. Vice President J.D. Vance has defended the work of Wytkoff and Kushner, explaining that it “turns out a lot of diplomacy boils down to a simple skill: don’t be an idiot.” Rubio contends that he is unbothered by the heavy diplomatic responsibilities of Wytkoff and Kushner because “they check in with him regularly.” Rubio doesn’t mention that the two tycoons are negotiating business deals as they travel!
When national security adviser Michael Waltz added a journalist to a private and sensitive internet chat that discussed U.S. military strikes against the Houthi rebels in Yemen, he was soon replaced by Rubio. Rubio proved he could run the National Security Council (in addition to the Department of State) into the ground in no time. Half the staff members of the NSC were quickly dispatched because a right-wing conspiracist, Laura Loomer, warned Trump that they were not loyal to the president. The State Department and the National Security Council, our most important national security entities, have played no role in deciding or even implementing policy regarding the war with Iran, the war between Russia and Ukraine, and the war between Israel and Palestine.
Meanwhile, several dozen U.S. embassies remain with no ambassador at the helm, including five nations that are involved in the war with Iran. Key ambassadorial positions have been vacant since January 2025 in Europe (including Germany), South America (including Brazil), the Pacific (including South Korea), the Middle East (Egypt and Iraq), Southwest Asia (Pakistan), and even Russia. A convicted felon, Charles Kushner, is the ambassador to France; a Christian evangelist (Mike Huckabee) is ambassador to Israel; and two right-wing propagandists have ambassadorial posts in Belgium and Poland.
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/31/the-new-york-times-finally-has-fresh-doubts-about-trumps-diplomacy/
War or Incursion DOES NOT MATTER: Trump is a SEXUAL PREDATOR
Donald John Trump of Queens NY admitted to being a sexual predator on the Howard Stern program in 2006.
Reminds me of how he mouthed, "fuck you," to the Detroit autoworker with integrity who called him a "pedophile protector."
Jeffrey Epstein met his match and wrote:
“I told everyone from day one. evil beyond belief, mad, ” Epstein wrote of Trump in March 2018. “he feels alone. and is nuts !!!”
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/14/politics/epstein-emails-trump-kfile
Conman
No one notices the guy’s apprentice(s) picking the pockets of everyone in the mesmerized crowd.
Adding another special layer of chaos to the madness.
JD Vance must really be awful, otherwise everybody in the Cabinet wouldn't by their inaction acknowledge that it doesn't matter whether he's lying or hallucinating.
MAGAgeddon
Thanks to Donald J Trump, the world is racing to complete catastrophe. It seems the only ones in positions of power to do anything about it are the same NAZI White Supremacy un American Zealots and sadistic shits who encourage his insane march to World War Three. Along, of course, with Dear Traitor’s bosses, the Epstein Class.
How Epstein groomed America's corrupt elite
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, venture capitalist Joi Ito, and others dined with Epstein in 2015, as pictured in this photo from the Epstein files. / Department of Justice
I know how Epstein groomed America’s corrupt elite
Story by Erkki Forster
The Daily Beast, March 17, 2026
Excerpt...
“Everyone is talking about what’s in [the Epstein files]. Here’s what’s not in there. We have all these emails. We have all these people emailing about everything. There’s no breakup emails,” Giridharadas, author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, said.
Giridharadas continued, “There’s no one saying, ‘F---, I didn’t know, but I read the story now. You are despicable. Never call me again.’ Not one email that I’ve seen.”
Giridharadas, who has written extensively on the “Epstein class” on his Substack The.Ink, told host Joanna Coles that Epstein’s crimes were “enabled by the silence and complicity and overlooking and looking away of a much larger number of people. And I don’t think you get the former without the latter.”
The best-selling author argued that Epstein exploited a “lack of courage” that he said defines “the age of hyper-connected networks,” where connections in elite circles is the ultimate currency.
“Your wealth is your connections and the density and breadth of your connections to all these other people,” he explained.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/i-know-how-epstein-groomed-america-s-corrupt-elite/ar-AA1YN956
"Connections" -- plus Epstein's "Leverage" to move them into action or non-action.
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