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Why America Is Out of Ammunition (www.thebignewsletter.com)
submitted 1 year ago by tintory@lemm.ee to c/politics@beehaw.org
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[-] dark_stang@beehaw.org 31 points 1 year ago

The dude that runs that site and writes most (all?) of the articles writes some wild conspiracy stuff. Is there a credible source for this? Like from a person who hasn't said stuff like "If Ossof and Warnock win Joe Biden will have the votes he needs to impose Communism.".

[-] HumbleFlamingo@beehaw.org 19 points 1 year ago

“If Ossof and Warnock win Joe Biden will have the votes he needs to impose Communism.”

Pretty sure that happens next week, that's what I read it on facebook.

[-] SenorBolsa@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

You know it's legit because it has your favorite minion next to it.

[-] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

God, I wish.

[-] FuzzyLeonardo@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

America being out of ammunition is like saying the nighttime is running out of darkness.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles:

Click here to see the summaryHe’s drafted important legislation, and has recently been focusing on the airline industry, labor issues, and a lot of the major antitrust litigation I've written about here, including the trials of the Meta-Within merger, the Microsoft-Activision acquisition and the Google monopolization case.

One of the more important side stories to the recent wars in Ukraine and Israel, and competition with China over Taiwan, is that the U.S. defense industrial base, composed of 200k plus corporations, is being forced to actually build weapons again.

In Lake City, Missouri, the largest small arms ammunition plant in the world has decided all ammo production is going to the military, meaning that there is going to be a domestic shortage for hunters, sportsmen, and maybe even police.

To put it in boring GAO-speak, Pentagon “officials could not say with certainty how many defense-related M&A now occur annually because they no longer track or maintain data on all M&A in the defense industrial base.” So the DOD is almost totally blind to the corporate owners of contractors and subcontractors, which might be one reason that, say, Chinese alloys are being discovered in sensitive weapons systems like the state of the art F-35.

They do no analysis of industry sectors, as their “M&A office is not collecting robust data or conducting recurring trend analyses that could help them identify M&A in risky areas of consolidation among defense suppliers.”

The FTC and DOJ now have significant amounts of national security-related information on mergers due to a Congressional change in pre-merger notification laws in 2022, so the DOD could easily do a better job of tracking what’s happening in the defense base.


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