Nitro at least posted well written commentary (albeit opinionated to the far left) on things. This non-stop barrage of YouTube links got stale after about 2 days. Now its just annoying. Haven't clicked on one.
Overseas Contingency Operations: The Pentagon Slush Fund What are Overseas Contingency Operations? The Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) fund - sometimes referred to as war funds - is a separate pot of funding operated by the Department of Defense and the State Department, in addition to their "base" budgets (i.e., their regular peacetime budgets). Originally used to finance the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the OCO continues to be a source of funding for the Pentagon, with a fraction of the funds going to the State Department. Since the OCO fund has very little oversight and is not subject to the sequestration cuts that slashed every other part of the budget in 2013, many experts consider it a“slush fund”for the Pentagon. For example, Todd Harrison, senior fellow for defense studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, found that the Pentagon was stashing an estimated extra $20 billion worth of non-war funding in the “operation and maintenance” accounts of its proposed 2014 war budget. Even Secretary of Defense Ash Carter has recently called the OCO "a road to nowhere."... https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/overseas-contingency-operations/
Major defense stocks reach all-time highs as investors see weapons spending boost Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Boeing among big defense contractors hitting new highs. Proposed national defense funding by Congress would be 5 percent above the Trump administration's fiscal 2018 plan. Earnings season for big defense names starts next week with Lockheed, and some analysts see the industry as primed for accelerating revenue growth on easier comps. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/12/loc...ime-highs-as-investors-see-weapons-boost.html