12.05.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, WhiteManistan at 10:31 am by George Smith
The new Confederacy, much like the old.
Frank at Pine View Farm points to an honest but devastating analysis of the problem of WhiteManistan.
Excerpted from Racial Divide: The Tragedy of America’s first black President, from Der Spiegel:
The American problem has many different facets, but it is accurate to say that it is mostly white men who shoot young African-Americans in the service of the state.
The [Republican Party’s] most radical supporters viewed Obama’s speeches and proposed legislation as nothing more than a black man’s attempt to exact revenge against the country’s white majority. Even if they don’t always say so, Obama’s opponents have always felt that his actions represent a threat to white people, whether he launched a federal investment programs aimed at economic stimulus or proposed making the healthcare system a little fairer.
You’ll notice the map from Der Spiegel showing a majority of African Americans still living in the old Confederacy.
And that is where they have now been virtually completely eliminated from power. They have elected representation but that representation is minority, for practical purposes, banned from legislating or having any say in government in 2014. That’s an apartheid state within the state.
That poison, the toxin of old Dixie is spread throughout the country. No state, not even California, is totally free of it.
What Der Spiegel does not mention is that the party of Abe Lincoln is the party that has inflamed the white tribe against the first African-American president, the agency that has concentrated and focused the belief that it is American white people who have been victimized by the president, that it is they who have been subjected to a systemic racism.
This goes back to the end of the Civil War. The armies of the south were defeated, its territory overrun, its agriculture and trade in ruins. And it engendered a burning resentment, a sense of victimization that could not be erased.
This is well described in this bit from the documentary Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story.
Lincoln was assassinated and Reconstruction slowly failed.
Today, the Republican Party is, whether broadly recognized or not, the party of John Wilkes Booth.
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12.04.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Rock 'n' Roll at 2:08 pm by George Smith
To support Loud Folk Live.
In a country as fucked up and dismaying as the United States in 2014, it is genuinely a record to notice, an antidote to the Culture of Lickspittle.
Now, an anti-thesis, a standard and soul-destroying thing packaged as fun, something to encourage people to do for the good of their employer:
Last week [Rock & Roll Fantasy Camp’s] award-winning TEAM ROCK STARS Team Building/Entertainment Program hosted a great group from ESPN/Disney at the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip.
The group arrived at 4 p.m. and following an all-star band performance of Queen’s “We will Rock You,” they were surprised to learn that they were going to be broken up into groups to rewrite the lyrics of the infamous song with their own lyrics about their company sales meeting. ESPN’s meeting planner’s commented, “In the past 9 years, this team building program was the most innovative, creative and entertaining. Rock Camp blew us away!??? And her division president was all smiles and agreed with her comments. — “The best team building program out there.” — PEOPLE Magazine
“Your dream lives.”
That’s $250 dollars/person for any corporation that wants to see some of its employees rewrite the lyrics to “We Will Rock You” as praise for the business. And then to compel them to sing it on the Sunset Strip at the House of Blues.
Such an exercise is designed to be dignity-destroying.
But this is not and is orders magnitude better! Loud Folk Live tunes — The National Anthem, Rich Man’s Burden, Puta and Jesus of America — at the links.
Five bucks for a digital copy sent to your e-mail — cheap, LOL satirical, catchy, toe-tapping, as well as lots of other wholesome things.
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Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 10:29 am by George Smith
Seriously.
There’s a really long list of people who need a shit ton of reparations, don’t you think?
Predictably, WhiteManistan’s klassic rock kleagle, horrid’s horrid, explains it’s “a scam:”
Only to these off the cliff denial cultists does “Hands up, don’t shoot??? make any sense, even though no one can site [sic — jesus, there’s no limit to the talent] an instance where a black man had his hands up and got shot by a white cop.
In the world of the racist race-baiting industry, no one will ever let facts get in the way of their scam …
And though each and every black life indeed matters to everyone I know, clearly they don’t merit a protest, an inquisition, a grand jury probe or the time of day …
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12.03.14
Posted in Crazy Weapons, WhiteManistan at 4:36 pm by George Smith
Hat tip to Steve Aftergood for pointing out the latest and most pathetic accomplishment of the Cult of Electromagnetic Pulse Crazy, aka the House Congressional EMP Caucus. (Which was a name the mainstream media could use to get around having to explain that they were, well, electromagnetic pulse crazies.)
Yesterday it was responsible for passing a bill entitled “The Critical Infrastructure and Protection Act,” which — if you took the title seriously — sounded like big stuff.
However, the title was just to mislead. The “act” was simply a request that the Department of Homeland Security begin more research studies on the threat of electromagnetic pulse attack and potential steps for thwarting it.
Deep in the fine print — the bill would have no regulatory power and called for no no new authorizations.
Translated: A feeble attempt to carve out some high-button welfare funding for the same small coterie of right-wing kooks who’ve flogged the menace of electromagnetic pulse for the last fifteen years. And who still appear as representatives of the disbanded “EMP Commission” and assorted related functions, like the lobbying group EMPAct America, in columns and news pieces at fringe right-wing publications.
The best name for the bill, and an honest one, would have been the EMP Crazy Protection Act.
If you want actual names in the cult, simply read through the archives. It’s literally the chronicle of a ton of dog excrement stuffed in a hundred pound bag.
This legislation, like everything else sponsored by EMP Caucus leader Trent Franks of Arizona, will be dead in the Senate. Not going to get to the President.
Indeed, as far as the Cult of EMP Crazy is concerned it has been all down hill stumbling since its leading light, pol emeritus Roscoe Bartlett, was sent into retirement in 2014. (Although he never actually got anything done, either.)
Summarized from that article, the decade-spanning nature of the whole unpleasant movement:
[The] paranoid and steeped-in-authoritarianism mythology of electromagnetic pulse doom was turned into a highly-professionalized and tenacious industry, built on the exploitation of a thick seam of WhiteManistan kook-ism and its love of end-times stories in which the virtuous are saved and the sinners destroyed. It’s a profitable business.
That niche business is “prepper” survivalism.
It’s the selling of property off the grid where one’s family can ride out the collapse of American civilization, the peddling of the equivalent of heroic romance novels on said calamity, and the taking of the show on the road and getting the ticket punched at Tea Party gatherings in red states where the cult can indulge the fantasy of electromagnetic pulse doom as a states’ rights issue.
Running parallel with “The National Infrastructure Protection Act” was sister House legislation making Social Security safe from Nazis.
All four of them.
No, I am not making it up.
Wrote someone at the New York Times:
This is what our elected leaders are doing? At a time when Congress is ignoring immigration reform, stumbling and bumbling over a whole pack of wars, threatening to shut down the government once again, failing to provide adequate living wages to working Americans and adequate unemployment benefits to non-working Americans, letting the bridges and highways fall apart, and so many other things?
Yes.
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Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, WhiteManistan at 3:35 pm by George Smith
Every week, the country flirts more and more with massive breakdown in the trust of police forces, justice and fairness. Real bedrock stuff.
Good people everywhere are appalled. Yet nothing is allowed to change. Systemic paralysis reigns. The body is poisoned, its ideologies and beliefs corrupt, but the rotting status quo is maintained.
The President knows it and said so. Count on WhiteManistan, once again, to do virtually everything wrong in the next few days.
From Reuters, on the lack of indictment of a black man choked to death in New York, for the crime of being black and selling cheap cigarettes on the sidewalk:
A New York City grand jury has decided not to charge a police officer who killed an unarmed black man with a chokehold while trying to arrest him for illegally selling cigarettes, the local district attorney said on Wednesday …
Staten Island resident Eric Garner, a 43-year-old father of six, died on July 17 after police officers tackled him and put him in a chokehold. The city’s medical examiner ruled the death a homicide.
New York City police prepared on Wednesday for protests that could potentially paralyze major roads and tunnels in the city.
Daniel Skelton, a black 40-year-old banker, told the news service: “A black man’s life just don’t matter in this country.”
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Posted in Bioterrorism, Ricin Kooks at 9:14 am by George Smith
What the calling of a grand jury on 24th November in Oshkosh in the case of college student Kyle Allen Smith is hard to determine.
Initially I thought it indicated a slight difference in the trajectory of ricin cases in the US.
Apparently not.
It took a few hours, maybe minutes, maybe a day (the news coverage was very poor and confused) for the judge in the case to declare Smith would stand trial.
From the wire:
a Green Bay federal judge ruled there was enough evidence against 21-year-old Kyle Smith [to try him on a ricin complaint].
Prosecutors say Smith, a senior majoring in biology at UWO, admitted he knew what he was making and shouldn’t have been making it. According to Smith defense attorney William Kerner, Smith never intended to use ricin on humans. Kerner adds that the ricin powder found in Smith’s home was castor bean meal, which is used across the country and falls under different laws and regulations.
The judge ruled Smith would remain in jail. No lab equipment was found in his home, it was said.
In the past there was a decent-sized industry producing castor meal and castor oil, the first for fertilizer and occasionally as ineffective pesticide, the latter for lubrication, in this country.
Accordingly, there was federal regulation 173.955 governing the transport of castor powder.
It is here and shows no particular requirements that would lead one to think it was regarded as a serious hazard.
A recent regulation sheet shows castor to be at the same level of control it was when I first wrote of the matter back in 2008.
And emergency telephone number must be provided on the bill of lading and now, as then, the material was in the same category as this list of transportable commodities:
Battery powered equipment.
Battery powered vehicle.
Carbon dioxide, solid.
Castor bean.
Castor flake.
Castor meal.
Castor pomace.
Consumer commodity.
Dry ice.
Engines, internal combustion.
Fish meal, stabilized.
Fish scrap, stabilized.
Krill Meal, PG III.
Refrigerating machine.
Vehicle, flammable gas powered.
Vehicle, flammable liquid powered.
Wheelchair, electric.
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12.02.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, The Corporate Bund at 3:13 pm by George Smith
As usual, it’s the perfect season for shining American character, its reverse-Robin Hood-ism, you know, the theology that teaches it is virtuous to grind tax the poor while rewarding the wealthiest.
Here:
Since Romney’s defeat, some Republicans have gently urged their party to ease up … their campaign to force low-income workers to pay more taxes. But adding the cultural-legal panic to the preexisting class-war panic was apparently enough to turn the GOP’s grudging acceptance of the low-income tax breaks into full-scale opposition …
So first Republicans made the tax breaks for business permanent, while allowing the tax breaks for low-income workers to expire at the end of 2017. Since they would no longer be tied to tax breaks for the more affluent constituencies that have influence with Republicans, this would mean they would almost certainly expire. Families earning $10,000 to around $25,000 a year would lose nearly $2,500 a year — a punishing blow to the working class.
The Democratic Party, lousy with high-button body lice OK with giving more to America’s superior class expressed admiration for the idea, Harry Reid and Charles Schumer of New York being its biggest endorsers. The President threatened a veto and, the New York magazine writes, the Democrats “beat a hasty retreat.” For now.
But you know it is always the perfect season the pure milk of American kindness.
And it is best heard in the magnificent sermon delivered at the beginning of Jesus of America from Loud Folk Live.
It is here and you should tick up the numbers and take time to irritatingly jam it down the throat share it with everyone you feel to be a deserving friend!
It’s also the shopping season! Why, just yesterday was Cyber Monday in which everyone was urged most urgently to buy on-line in a deluge of e-mail and web advertising blandishments.
So you can have the e-version of Loud Folk Live for a measly 5 bucks and have your own personal version of the sermon here.
[He] is not the one who fed the poor loaves and fishes. This is not the Jesus who liked lepers. He found the liberty, the land of liberty and freedom; we told him what to do.
Jesus of America says don’t feed the poor; if you do, they’ll come right to your door. They’re gonna wind up like stray cats, around your door on the floor, begging for loads of kibble and rich food. Everyone knows they’re just selfish animals.
That’s what Jesus said.
Remember, wealthiness — next to Godliness, that’s what Jesus teaches. Jesus of America says “Guns, not butter!” The rest is all for naught.
Jesus of America says never feed the poor, they’re just too lazy, they’ll never work at all. Jesus of America says tax the weak and sick! They’re always going to be that way, never worth a lick.
— from the Book of WhiteManistan, 1: 1-5
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12.01.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Cyberterrorism, The Corporate Bund at 4:03 pm by George Smith
In this week’s chapter of computer security news from corporate America of no value to 99 percent of the people who live here:
Security researchers say they have uncovered a cyber espionage ring focused on stealing corporate secrets for the purpose of gaming the stock market, in an operation that has compromised sensitive data about dozens of publicly held companies.
Cybersecurity firm FireEye Inc, which disclosed the operation on Monday, said that since the middle of last year, the group has attacked email accounts at more than 100 firms, most of them pharmaceutical and healthcare companies.
Victims also include firms in other sectors, as well as corporate advisors including investment bankers, attorneys and investor relations firms, according to FireEye.
The cybersecurity firm declined to identify the victims.
How can you tell if you’re a computer security servant for the corporate dictatorship and its precious loot?
1. Part of your business plan is to find hackers targeting Wall Street, the “stock market,” company e-mail folders of bloated, parasitic American financial and business titans (and their flunkies), etc.
2. Your business is leasing computer security services to Wall Street, big companies on the “stock market,” and trying to secure the e-mail folders of bloated, parasitic American financial and business titans (and their flunkies).
3. Your business is news writing about the great problem of potential wealth stealing by hackers targeting Wall Street, big American corporations, and the invasion of e-mail folders belonging to bloated, parasitic American financial and business titans (and their flunkies).
You good computer security servant, you! A grateful nation thanks you.
From the Keepin’ It Real in the Corporate Dictatorship desk:
Amid empty talk in Washington about corporate tax reform, the study said the seven companies, which in 2013 reported more than $74 billion in combined U.S. pre-tax profits, came out ahead on their taxes, gaining $1.9 billion more than they owed.
At the same time, the CEOs at each of the seven companies last year was paid an average of $17.3 million, said the study, compiled by two Washington think tanks.
The seven companies cited were Boeing Co (BA.N), Ford Motor Co (F.N), Chevron Corp (CVX.N), Citigroup Inc (C.N), Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N), JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) and General Motors Co (GM.N) …
Earlier this month, on the protecting-the-shit-of-the-plutocrats-or-the-country-will-fall beat:
The huge cyberattack on JPMorgan Chase that touched more than 83 million households and businesses was one of the most serious computer intrusions into an American corporation. But it could have been much worse.
Questions over who the hackers are and the approach of their attack concern government and industry officials. Also troubling is that about nine other financial institutions — a number that has not been previously reported — were also infiltrated by the same group of overseas hackers, according to people briefed on the matter…
“It was a huge surprise that they were able to compromise a huge bank like JPMorgan,??? said Al Pascual, a security analyst with Javelin Strategy and Research. “It scared the pants off many people.???
Several financial regulators have warned that a coordinated attack on the banking system could set off another financial crisis.
I’ll bet. I want to see another financial crisis. Don’t disappoint us now.
Priceless quote:
The push by government officials is a stark acknowledgment of the vulnerability of financial institutions — even after they have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to protect themselves — to an attack if one of their vendors is not fully prepared. The problem is causing some security consultants to privately consider whether the sprawling financial firms with operations across the globe may be “too big to secure.???
Hundreds of millions of dollars to protect themselves! Why, that’s only an order or more of magnitude less than the money Uncle Sam paid them back on its tax returns in 2013.
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11.29.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, The Corporate Bund at 12:54 pm by George Smith
Milk toast of privilege Arthur Brooks occasionally shows up here, mentioned for bizarre columns at the New York Times, pieces peddling his belief that true happiness comes from embracing your entrepreneurial self and, further, combining it with a faith-like fervor and devotion.
Shorter version: A religious joy is derived through being a salesman in America.
Some excerpts from the past, this in March:
The American Enterprise Institute’s Arthur Brooks comes in for special mention because I used a quote from him yesterday.
The essence, envy of the wealthy is bad for America:
“[We] must recognize that fomenting bitterness over income differences may be powerful politics, but it injures our nation. We need aspirational leaders willing to do the hard work of uniting Americans around an optimistic vision in which anyone can earn his or her success. This will never happen when we vilify the rich or give up on the poor.
“Only a shared, joyful mission of freedom, opportunity and enterprise for all will cure us of envy …”
Like Paul Ryan, Arthur Brooks is just another wealthy libertarian dickhead.
He is most famous for writing a series of books promoting the insipid idea that only through entrepreneurship can all Americans know true happiness and freedom.
In other words, those who run their own small businesses are the most happy of Americans. Of course, Arthur Brooks has never been an American entrepreneur, making his living only writing that it is the best thing in life, over and over, for a right-wing business institute.
But never you mind that. As a logical Brooks extension, people who are Christian, centrist-to-right and supporters of totally free markets, are the most happy of all.
In October, Brooks sought to coin a new name to describe burgeoning tech companies like AirBnb, a firm that leverages the lousy economy and its desperation by making it easier for people to sub-let their living quarters to the more well-off, through smartphones.
Brooks thought these firms, the engineers of the new sharing economy were getting a bad rap. This because many thoughtful people now consider sharing economy a two-word synonym for scamming.
AirBnb was part of the “helping industry,” said Brooks:
As in, “Everyone wants to help. Wouldn’t you want to be part of such an industry, helping people with more money than you by cheaply renting your home to them at their convenience????
Quotes:
WHAT is a “helping industry????
To hear him tell it, [AirBnB co-founder Nathan Blecharczyk] started the business because it was fascinating and fun. And most of all, he says, because it could help ordinary people who needed an affordable place to stay or had some excess capacity in their homes. That’s right — Nate sees Airbnb as a “helping industry.???
Some will howl at this …
Ordinary people, especially vulnerable people without power and privilege, find Airbnb empowering and useful. It lifts Americans up …
Any of us can work in a helping industry. That includes teachers, nurses, stay-at-home parents … The blessing of our free enterprise system is that any of us can sanctify our work. We just need to ask if what we are doing truly lifts others up.
As an example of how the helping industry lifts people up, allowing them to sanctify their work, Brooks dug up a woman, down on her economic luck, who now uses AirBnB to lease out her home to strangers a few days a month while she sleeps on the couch for free, courtesy of her parents or a friend.
Just so you know, the word sanctify means to “set apart as or declare holy.” This shows the intense weirdness of the mental space in which Arthur Books resides.
It’s all through his work: a mish-mash of stupid armchair philosophies insisting Christian faith, fulfillment and happiness come naturally from existence as a capitalist small businessman.
In this week’s column, the semi-celebrity pundit devotes his time to describing how being gifted with two briefcases by Mormons in Provo buoyed him. And how that can be a lesson for all to find their way to a state of good will and tranquility.
It’s genuinely fucked. Brooks apparently doesn’t see that he’s being given briefcases, swag, what it’s called in the entertainment industry, because he’s someone who gives speeches and is rewarded just for being that special someone, like a columnist at the NY Times:
SEVERAL years ago, I visited Provo, Utah — in the heart of what its residents call “Happy Valley??? — to deliver a lecture at Brigham Young University. My gracious hosts sent me home with a prodigious amount of branded souvenirs: T-shirts, mugs — you name it. The Mormons are serious about product placement.
One particularly nice gift was a briefcase, with the university’s name emblazoned across the front …
[It] soon had a major effect on my behavior. I found that I was acting more cheerfully and courteously than I ordinarily would — helping people more with luggage, giving up my place in line, that sort of thing. I was unconsciously trying to live up to the high standards of Mormon kindness …
Almost like magic, the briefcase made me a happier, more helpful person.
This was something called moral elevation continued Brooks. And we could all have it, by getting nice things, perhaps, or by watching episodes of Oprah.
And such moral elevation is needed now, more than ever, in our time of paralysis, political and economic dysfunction. We can choose to reject negativity.
So Arthur Brook went back to talk to the Mormons in Utah, and told them his theory of moral elevation.
But later in the week, Arthur was feeling down again, discouraged by the “negative tenor” of the upcoming election.
Then something miraculous happened:
It was at that moment that the mail arrived with a package from Utah: a new briefcase from my friends.
To paraphrase and steal from Shakespeare: Were you like this you’d throw yourself away.
It’s also Small Business Saturday, another thing designed as a suck-up to the American myth that small businesses and entrepreneurs mean everything to our country.
Which is why everything in the dollar stores, Wal-Mart and the super-market chains are made by small businesses, right?
Fuck Small Business Saturday.
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11.26.14
Posted in Bombing Paupers, Culture of Lickspittle at 12:47 pm by George Smith
From a couple weeks ago:
“Air power needs to be applied like a thunderstorm, and so far we’ve only witnessed a drizzle,??? said David A. Deptula, a retired three-star Air Force general who planned the American air campaigns in 2001 in Afghanistan and in the 1991 Persian Gulf war.
The campaign has averaged fewer than five airstrikes a day in both Iraq and in Syria. In contrast, the NATO air war against Libya in 2011 carried out about 50 strikes a day in its first two months. The air campaigns in Afghanistan in 2001 averaged 85 daily airstrikes, and the Iraq war in 2003 about 800 strikes a day…
ISIS/ISIL/whatever-paupers-we’re-trying-to-bomb-today aren’t particularly vulnerable to American air power, reads the NY Times today.
A guerilla army without much in the way of an infrastructure in an already impoverished and war-torn region is something that doesn’t offer a target rich environment.
Hmmm, it’s our country’s fifty-year-old program. It’s tough to bomb others into submission when they have very little to lose, don’t hang around waiting for you to do it, and won’t quit even when things are blowing up.
From the Times, excerpts:
SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. — The United States is shifting more attack and surveillance aircraft from Afghanistan to the air war against the Islamic State, deepening American involvement in the conflict and raising new challenges.
“When we target a nation-state, we’ve typically been looking at their capability for decades, and have extensive target sets,??? said Maj. Sonny Alberdeston, the targeting chief here. “But these guys are moving around. They can be in one place, and then a week later, they’re gone.???
Just as the Pentagon flies its wartime fleet of Predator and Reaper drones from bases in Nevada and elsewhere across the United States, this rear headquarters of the Central Command’s air forces carries out the bulk of the work to analyze and select planned, or deliberate, targets that allied warplanes strike in Syria and Iraq.
[Critics] complain that the air campaign is flagging against an adaptive enemy. “We need to have more targeting capability than they have right now,??? said Senator James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, the senior Republican on the Armed Services Committee, who recently returned from Jordan, where several countries are using a base to fly combat missions against the Islamic State.
Targeting was also a major topic last week, when more than 200 military officials from 33 countries completed an unusual battle-planning conference at the Central Command’s headquarters in Tampa, Fla. The goal was “to synchronize and refine coalition campaign plans designed to degrade and defeat ISIL,??? the command said in a statement.
That would be the> James Inhofe, one of the most stupid men in Congress, global warming denier and genuine full-time American villain.
Readers will notice that the war-planning and targeting is essentially done at the country club, Shaw AFB and at conventions held at Central Command HQ in Tampa, Florida.
The Times goes onto state the military is considering hiring “private contractors” to fly more spy drone and spy plane missions over Iraq and Syria.
It is also said the military continues to be obsessed with the decades old belief that by hitting the enemy’s petroleum resources, they have a winning strategy.
It did not work against North Vietnam. And ISIS/ISIL/whatever has even less, the military stymied by the small nature of its gasoline distilleries and the desire not to hit truck drivers, taken from the civilian populace, people just trying to make a living.
It’s hard to read without smirking. Oh rats! Bombing isn’t working like it should because we can’t hit enough of them! They won’t stay in one place.
America’s military leaders are appropriately described as apparatchiks of war tech, pushing the buttons and levers of military action from afar, men who never lose and are never replaced. Indeed, they cannot lose because they have nothing to lose in waging a remote war against an enemy with neither the resources or power to retaliate in any meaningful way against the force being called down on them.
From Pulitzer winner Malcolm Brown’s Muddy Boots and Red Socks: A Reporter’s Life:
“From the time of World War II, Americans have been brought up to believe that bombers can crack the toughest nut and bring any nation to its knees. Disney wartime cartoons portrayed air-power as well nigh invincible. But I don’t believe airplanes have ever been quite the wonder weapons we are often told, and although laser guidance and other innovations have improved bombing accuracy, an army of guerrillas is hard to hurt. When bombs were dropped on targets as dispersed as those in Vietnam, a prepared enemy could usually cope. I myself survived attacks by MiGs in Pakistan a couple of times by sheltering in shallow ditches…
One of the most impressive things I saw when I first visited Hanoi in 1973 … was the speed and apparent ease with which the North Vietnamese repaired bomb damage.
All the technology and money in the world can’t change it.
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