Thank you for watching Spare Parts Army! Remember to Check out the only investment platform dedicated to art investing: masterworks.com/s/taskandpurpose

@Emily-ou6lq

Жыл бұрын

Can't even spell Northrop correctly! 😆

@falconplays4170

Жыл бұрын

*northrop

@kalidilerious

Жыл бұрын

please please no more adds for masterworks. I know you guys a get brinks truck load for the add but just take the money up to this point and don't do another add for them.

@Futureshucks

Жыл бұрын

0:38 - Assume you meant 1929, not 1939, as stated. If he had founded the company in 1939 it would have been unaffected by the crash. Sorry to be that pedant.

@rocko7711

Жыл бұрын

Please make more videos on the military-industrial-congressional complex

It's funny how donating enormous sums to political campaigns used to be considered extreme corruption and now it's just an everyday thing.

@robtheaccountant

Жыл бұрын

Citizens United, love it, pieces of papers have rights, who knew?

@hashbrownz1999

Жыл бұрын

If you look back further, you'll see it once again used to be the norm. The Roman Republic on which we are based considered bribery normal. Neigh, necessary and standard practice. You were weird for not bribing, even weirder for not taking bribes. They were expected.

@megalonoobiacinc4863

Жыл бұрын

@@hashbrownz1999 slavery was normal too, we sure have weird standards today huh?

@hashbrownz1999

Жыл бұрын

@@megalonoobiacinc4863 normal for the super rich yes. Not much different from corporations taking in several billions in profit and feeding their thousands of employees the absolute bare minimum to keep them. We are not morally superior, we're just (mostly) christian. Different, not better.

@shamanahaboolist

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that's how you know the West has become super corrupt.

I love how we call bribery, "lobbying" now.

@sarath431

Жыл бұрын

Potato, potaato.

@madrabbit9007

Жыл бұрын

When the foxes run the hen house you'll have chicken for dinner every night.

@sarath431

Жыл бұрын

@@garetheckley7018 - nobody listens to good advice from the get go. It is only after facing the ugliness, they starts to understand and starts behaving properly

@octagonPerfectionist

Жыл бұрын

it gets a lot worse than that when you consider stock investments on top of it

@sarath431

Жыл бұрын

@Joseph Seed - better, voting rationally instead of voting because they belong to a certain party or race or skin tone. This may we can ensure a bright future. As for the armed rebellion, it may work. But most of the time, they work in the beginning, but later end up in chaos

Loving the new critical deep dives into the military industrial complex

@Taskandpurpose

Жыл бұрын

Thanks ! Glad some people like it

@jeffjag2691

Жыл бұрын

Just don’t get JFKd

@MarkBarrack

Жыл бұрын

@@Taskandpurpose really enjoy your work too. Curious how i can get started in the lucrative field of slush money. Bankman might be the guy to ask.

@ConnorNolan

Жыл бұрын

@@Taskandpurpose as a civilian it's one of the only reasons I trust this channel. It comes across as light propaganda that is based in reality instead of complete propaganda. Also cappy is great at being a youtube presenter

@yowanowich

Жыл бұрын

@@Taskandpurpose Keep up the good work soldier! :)

I contracted at Northrop Grumman working as an Aviation Electrician on newly obtained Boeing 707s, converting them to J-STARS. The work stools were all held together with dozens of strap ties. When I asked if they could be taken to the welding shop, I was told "we on a budget!" We didn't get to enjoy any of their corruption. Then they trashed all of the $25 per hour contractors so they could hire $22.50 per hour contractors. All this after a big shot from New York told us J-Stars is a money maker.

@BasicBobby

Жыл бұрын

Engineer here-yeah, same experience.

@Tunechi65

Жыл бұрын

@@BasicBobby I work with Northrup on Icbms. As an engineer with mostly defense experience, crazy how much money is wasted

@thomasreynolds1530

Жыл бұрын

Another engineer here. They started paying their business employees more than engineers, more benefits, awards, etc. Its not an engineering firm by any means, and is riding the coattails of its former self.

@stellaq3306

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comments. Interesting & not surprised.

@stephaniebailey920

27 күн бұрын

​@@thomasreynolds1530I am a federal WHISTLEBLOWER in Louisiana and RAY LAMONICA LSU law PROFESSOR/government officials use a lot of these contractors for personal use. I took in DOCUMENTS where these government officials trains recruit CRIMINALS CITIZENS covert military operations black ops assassinations/executions electronic weapons chemical warfare/,radiation poison illegal surveillance gaslight TORTURE terrorize home invasion harass psychological warfare breaking and entering impersonators false accusations/DOCUMENTS,etc.

big props to the honest employee in Northrop who refused to fake the data. He's a real hero, he should've been promoted, or rewarded. It's a frigging technical issue Northrop, instead of firing him, just fix it.

The bribery is scandalous, but I'm also curious how many bodies they've buried over the years. Literally. Whistleblowers, witnesses who saw too much, defectors to BAE and other competitors, etc.

@robtheaccountant

Жыл бұрын

Sure, well generally in case you don't live in the USA, most or nearly all of OUR citizens are accounted, not sure how many go missing and don't come back with the validity of the parents at home waiting for their return. Good and bad everywhere, we're not the bad guys!!!

@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing

Жыл бұрын

@@robtheaccountant It was an open secret that the Big 4 auto makers had people murdered from the 70-80's to protect their interests over millions of dollars. And they just made freakin' cars, man. Now imagine how much further people who make ballistic missiles and stealth jets for billions of dollars and have direct dealings with mercenaries & senators would go.

@username_pending1328

Жыл бұрын

@@robtheaccountant people still go missing without a trace a lot.

@jessemills3845

Жыл бұрын

May have to go to HILLERY'S HIT SQUAD about that!

@JoshuaC923

Жыл бұрын

@@username_pending1328 yep

Two uploads within 24 hours? what a treat! keep up the great work!

Well, some of this is concerning because it’s the laws which are clearly an issue! “Corruption is illegal? Well let’s make it perfectly ok!” This sort of continuously revolving door between government departments and the industries they regulate should be eliminated.

@Morristown337

Жыл бұрын

Any private company that wants to bid on contracts for the department of defense should have on site government oversight like the CCP does with ALL business. I don't want this all over the free market but just for companies who only have 1 major customer - The department of Defense or the US government.

@martenkahr3365

Жыл бұрын

Easier to say than actually do in a way that doesn't cause equally unintended consequences. First, the people working on the government side. The place government experts, whether in procurement or regulation, are most qualified to move on to if they quit working for the government is the corresponding industry. Even if no corruption is involved, that's the field where the majority of their professional skills and knowledge are in, and that's where their existing skills and knowledge is the most valuable. Do we expect people who quit/get fired from working in the government just change their career field when that happens and start from scratch in a completely new field? Do we expect them to stay unemployed for years until their insider knowledge is certain to be obsolete? What's certainly unthinkable is banning them from leaving the job while they have insider knowledge: that's so open to abuse by their superiors it's not even funny. An employee that legally isn't allowed to quit won't have to be paid what they're worth, skirting pretty damn close to slave labor. And then there's the people going from the industry into the government. Who else is the government supposed to hire as experts? Exclusively fresh college graduates with no real-world experience (and therefore no potentially corruptive industry connections)? Again, the most qualified people to handle many of the scientific and engineering aspects of creating realistic procurement criteria and effective regulations can't really come from anywhere but the same industry companies that will bid for the contracts or need to be regulated. There's not a lot to be done about the revolving door that doesn't simply cause all the qualified experts to drain out of the government side of the process in the long run and leave the procurement/regulation in the hands of completely unqualified paper-pushers. Paper pushers who will then endlessly need to consult industry experts outside of official channels to actually get anything done, so even the corruption risk won't be gone. All that's realistic in a democratic society is making the corruption itself illegal, make sure it actually gets investigated and proven in court, and punish it harshly enough that it's not profitable for companies (or individuals) to partake in. Sentences for white collar crime should definitely be way, way harsher than they are today.

@tonamg53

Жыл бұрын

Its not the law… its the people who made the law that the are real issue

@doctorscoot

Жыл бұрын

@@martenkahr3365 I work in an industry with similar issues and it’s easy - you put a time limit between government service and being employed by those you regulated in government service. I mean this can be pretty narrowly targeted and particularly applies to management and senior officials more so than ‘technical experts’ working in more evaluative roles. You’re talking senior officers and civilian equivalents.

@doctorscoot

Жыл бұрын

Also you could just ban political donations by private companies and their PACS but no one in the US Congress will reform the laws in the wake of citizens United case and that’s the only way it can.

I'm super impressed with Task & Purpose reporting. Its so uncommon to find people who show both rational sides of these issues. Well done

@Taskandpurpose

Жыл бұрын

thanks I really appreciate the kind words, I think there are a number of people who mistakenly believe the defense industry is all evil and on the other hand there are people who think it can do no wrong. Unfortunately the truth is somewhere in the middle but its hard to communicate that

@dwpetrak

Жыл бұрын

The title seems a LOT more harsh than the content

The name for American Corruption is : “Lobbyist”. 🤗

@zachhoward9099

Жыл бұрын

Lobbyists are the scourge of American society

Do Saab and Gripen next time. If you search for a scandal, boy will you find, but search for a specific one, and it will take a while to search through them.

@hyokkim7726

Жыл бұрын

ROK knows Saab can be 'flexible'.

@ChandranPrema123

Жыл бұрын

Famous one Bofors Indian scandal

@znail4675

Жыл бұрын

@@ChandranPrema123 India is a country where bribery is common making it hard to do business there without it.

@nvelsen1975

Жыл бұрын

There's been some very suspicious news coverage of the Gripen vs F35 II debate around here in the Netherlands, with hysterical 'journalists' calling out JSF budget overruns and explicitly naming the Gripen as a more affordable and reliable alternative, while conveniently failing to mention that the Gripen has been known to overrun its budget to 400% (meaning 4x as expensive as budgeted). Fortunately the government wasn't swayed and we fly the JSF now, just a few years before the war in Ukraine demonstrates that stealth is a hard requirement to operate an airforce at all, unless you happen to have a million HARM missiles laying around to eradicate anything bigger than a tennisball that sends out a radarwave.

@znail4675

Жыл бұрын

@@nvelsen1975 I think you are mixing Gripen and F-35 up, it's the later that have massive cost overruns.

I think there might be a mistake at 0:50.. the Northrop corporation was created in 1939, but by then the Great Depression was mostly over. It started in 1929.. After some digging I found out that Northrop started 2 companies prior. One, Avion, in 1929 that he had to sell in 1930. There's the Great Depression bit. In 1932 he formed Northrop Corporation with the help of Douglas, but in 1939 it became a subsidiary if Douglas. Northrop wanted a corporation of his own, so the same year he formed the current Northrop Corporation. I can see how the details got muddled. Also, Northrop-Grumman was mentioned in a context way before they merged in 1994, but the merger in 1994.

You keep elevating your channel from just military infotainment to like, propper journalism.

You guys have definitely have become one of the top tier military channels on KZread

Do a follow up explaining how Boeing had bought off appropriations committee members to push the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet through as an upgrade of the F/A-18 C/D Hornet, when in fact it was an entirely new aircraft with new airframe and wing design that should've had to undergo trials. As a bonus, you could mention how Boeing took that lesson in corruption to the civilian aviation field and had the MAX classified as an upgrade when so much of the plane should've had to undergo deeper scrutiny, from the avionics to the fact that the new engines are too big for the old design and don't fit.

@Pwj579

Жыл бұрын

Yes, and it was all Dick Cheney needed to kill Grumman in one action….pushing forward the Super Hornet to replace the F-14D Super Tomcat and the A-6F Intruder

@Texas240

Жыл бұрын

@@Pwj579 - interestingly, I'm listening to Perun channel discussing 6th Gen fighters and it sounds like the US basically wants a Super Tomcat as our 6th Gen fighter, regardless of who builds it or what it's called. Fast, long range, twin engine, 2 seater able to engage distant targets (with accompanying drones). That ought to sound familiar to anyone who knows about the F-14!

@jarjarbnks340

Жыл бұрын

@@Pwj579 if it wasn't for dick Cheney killing Grumman, the navy would probably be flying the st21 tomcat instead of the super hornet.

@hckyplyr9285

Жыл бұрын

@@Pwj579 I've never gotten a clear read on why Cheney seemed to have it in so bad for Grumman. Grumman had as good or better track record as any military contractor and was always seen as a clean and competent company. I can only see it as a political vendetta of some kind. Had some NY congressman or senator pissed him off? He (Cheney) had to know McAir, as it was then ( not Boeing until well after the "Super"Hornet was chosen), had completely fudged range and payload data, was as dirty as they came, and was tied up in the A-12 cancelation fiasco. So why did they come out as the golden boy for NAVAIR? It made no technical sense, and Naval Aviation has been a mess ever since.

@hckyplyr9285

Жыл бұрын

It wasn't Boeing when all this happened. McDonnell Douglas didn't purchase Boeing, with Boeing's money, until 1997. Boeing has never recovered. The decision in favor of F-18E/F was made while it was still McDonnell Douglas.

As a German, it is bizarre that not everyone clearly mark their sponsorships.

@blah5387

Жыл бұрын

Yeah the SPD should really wear Russia on their jerseys

@Flamme-Sanabi

Жыл бұрын

@@blah5387 elaborate?

@markstyles1246

Жыл бұрын

Every politician should wear basically a NASCAR jumpsuit...

Always appreciate someone (who I'm assuming leans conservative) willing to point out govt oversight isn't always a bad thing.

@TheDeltaboss

Жыл бұрын

Some conservative/libertarians are interested in oversight especially with how taxpayer money is spent. I.e. Rand Paul calling out frivolous spending

The “revolving door” issue is hard to tackle. I mean, the easy thing is make it illegal for government to hire industry leaders and vice-versa. But who knows those systems better than the people who led the programs that created them or the people who spent years in uniform operating and maintaining them?

@swaslaukinonome

Жыл бұрын

The military should simply stop ransacking its own engineering teams and build their own infrastructure and civilian staffs. There is this totally unfounded assumption that private military companies are de facto more efficient and effective than their civilian military counterparts, but how much money has Northrup, Lockheed, etc. ever saved the United States? Where does all that extra money for bribes and insane executive pay packages come from? The very same people who argued in their previous jobs in military and government that privatization of defense contracting was the only way, while gutting the military's in-house engineering and production capacities.

@crusaderman4043

Жыл бұрын

@@swaslaukinonome Anything done large scale will be inefficient, but it's the general rule of thumb that the Private Sector is more efficient, while the Public Sector is one that can more readily identify and maintain accountability for fuckups. Northrup and Lockheed are likely fairly efficient, seeing how they managed to keep themselves in the black year after year. And the competitive nature of government contracts generally keep their pricings honest, and pushes them to innovate further than they would otherwise. The issues come when they (frequently) try to cheat the system in hopes to increase profit margins. But the military developing their own internal teams do not guarantee efficiency nor superior weapon systems, and such an overhaul would probably be more expensive, and be a much more significant time investment (a few decades as opposed to 5 to 15 years) than hiring private contractors. If we could guarantee a superior result, then I'd be all for it. But the government, by nature, will almost always be more inefficient than a private company.

@cspdx11

Жыл бұрын

We should hire ex bank robbers then to run the police department by your logic

@chrisc1140

Жыл бұрын

@@cspdx11 There's at least a stereotype (I don't know if it's real) of hiring gray-hat hackers or former black-hat even to do cybersecurity. Since like that bank robber knowing the weaknesses of a bank, they know the weaknesses of your security systems.

@philipthecow

Ай бұрын

@@swaslaukinonome I'd argue instead of the government having lots of civilian engineering teams the government should break up the primes into lots of defense companies and foster a competitive industry instead of one where all the primes cooperate on projects such as the F-35.

Both this piece and the piece you guys did on Lockheed were very good. No one remembers what President Eisenhower warned against close to 70 years ago.

@Stephen-bq4nq

Жыл бұрын

The reality is you can't have a military without a Military industrial complex. You will fall behind in technology and your military will be cannon fodder when it comes up against a near peer opponent

Hey Cappy & Co, thanks for your videos. Been a fun year, have a merry Christmas and i wish you all the best in the next year.

"It's not our fault, we didn't know!" If you didn't know it's because you didn't ask! If they had done proper due diligence, they would have known this stuff was going on! In my experience, pre-purchase auditors start at the top and go down, when they should start at the bottom and go up: the people on the bottom always know more than they're supposed to and have absolutely zero loyalty to their corrupt bosses.

@HighSpeedNoDrag

Жыл бұрын

Auditors being G.A.O.?

"Well, the weapon didn't ever work, but we did generate good value for our stockholders..."

There is a phenomena, such as believing "all politicians are criminals" where one begins to identify a thing based on that categorization. Thus it happens that one doesn't identify someone as a "real" politician until they come off as being criminal. And people who don't come off as corrupt, don't seem like politicians at all and are ignored.

@shamanahaboolist

Жыл бұрын

They're not ignored. Do you really think a mega clique of corrupt politicians wouldn't cheat?

@roundhousekick29

Жыл бұрын

Interesting observation. Almost impossible to have a clean politician, eh?

@samuelkent218

Жыл бұрын

Good point. Yet the seeds of the decline and fall of western civilation grow on, no matter how you label the perps.

@budbuddybuddest

Жыл бұрын

It shakes everyone's faith in our government when anyone says "all politicians are crooked". Many are good. Investigate crooked politicians, at least make them resign. Kick lobbyists out and for sure dont let industry write first drafts of legislation.

@TheDocLamkin

Жыл бұрын

Guess a Northrup competitor of some variety paid for this hit piece.

Good Vid Cappy. Was not sure about it before clicking on it but it did only reinforce my feelings. Thank you for your service. Always love your stuff.

One theory people don't always realize is that the just because the public discovers corruption in a company doesn't usually mean the company will go under. People often point to enron but enron's main problem, according to the new austrian school of economics, is that it has overreached and spent too much on too many assetts

@valcan321

Жыл бұрын

isn't that the one where they just print infinite money?

NOW THIS IS THE KINDA VIDEOS PEOPLE TRULY NEED TO KNOW ABOUT…

Felt like your channel has taught me more than any other media this past year. Keep up the good work cappy and bring on 1million subs in 2023

Watergate is amateur hour for political scandals. Wouldn't even stay in the news cycle these days.

As a amateur astronomer I thank you for differentiating between the telescope and the bad manufacturing processes that went into its development. Also as you pointed out when you're developing something new things go wrong. And it did with the James Webb raising its price but there were missteps by the manufacturer also.

2 videos back to back? This is great

Some of your best work, thank you.

T'was good to know you Chris. RIP.

@crankyjohn7214

Жыл бұрын

Hey, It's not like he called out someone named Hillary😜😜

@erkanyldz7233

Жыл бұрын

@@crankyjohn7214 🤫

I worked for Northrop Grumman after they bought Litton. Corruption, nepotism, incompetence....yep! We need to license management and supervision and screen out individuals with Psychopathy or Sociopathic-Psychopathic Personality Disorders. Only medical doctors of Psychiatry should be trusted to do the screening because most Psychologists consider those personality disorders to be normal and have them themselves.

@justdustino1371

Жыл бұрын

@@garetheckley7018 It won't happen anytime soon, but don't give up on the better world. The Sociopathic-Psychopathic personalities also took over in the legal profession, education, government and other fields, not just business and management.....👍🎄⛄

@justdustino1371

Жыл бұрын

@@garetheckley7018 Also 9 genes have been discovered that are associated with Psychopathy and the associated personality disorders and neurology has discovered a difference in brain structure. A difference between the frontal lobe and left side lobe.🤔

@hithere7382

Жыл бұрын

@@justdustino1371 How uppity would people get if someone like Shoe Bomber in ADX Florence or one of the mass shooters in the FPS were subjected to the CRISPR process to screw with some of those 9 genes and see what happens?

@justdustino1371

Жыл бұрын

@@hithere7382 You have just illustrated the problem. Perception! Most Psychopaths are sitting in corporate boardrooms, in the Pentagon, and high political offices, not prison, they don't kill by their own hands. They have others do it for them. Psychopaths like money and power, they surround themselves with Pathological Narcissists to serve as upper management below them and Sociopaths to serve as Supervisors and Enforcers. The mass shooters and bombers usually have other deep rooted issues.

@justdustino1371

Жыл бұрын

@@hithere7382 Also, the Junk Science of Psychology isn't on the side of good and right, they are totally amoralistic and on the side of power and money- the Psychopaths! That is why are perception is skewed.

You do crazy good work! Keep it up!

Chris - these reports are really great. Thank you.

Do Lockheed and Boeing next. I am anxious to see what these two are doing.

@maryzmijski6087

Жыл бұрын

He already did Lockheed

@aaronleverton4221

Жыл бұрын

Lockheed has been done.

Always a good day when task and purpose drops a new one

Thank you for sharing this information

Merry Christmas mr cappie and everyone else 🎄

These accusations against Northrop Grumman were also big reason why the awesome YF-23 prototype fighter was not selected over the Lockheed YF-22. Northrop was already in the doghouse with the Pentagon including cost overruns with the B2 bomber, and their fighter didnt perform any air combat capabilities in front of Pentagon and USAF head honchos during the flyoff like the YF-22 did, which really doomed their aircraft. NG is now a major contributor to the upcoming NGAD fighter, I hope they dont get into any scandals with key components.

Another great vid, Cappy, keep ‘em coming. Also, as an early fan of MST3K, love the shirts man!

You are doing all of us a great service, and keep doing these types of material!

Merry Christmas, All the best, Anthony - from the UK...

Corporations are so big that they can no longer actually produce new ideas and are prone to crushing possible competitors especially those that offer newer, better ideas. This could be banking, computer science and even not for profits.

@doujinflip

Жыл бұрын

That's the fundamental problem with pure unregulated capitalism: the established end up simply seeking rents when they're not buying or litigating away the competition.

@morganpointer2457

Жыл бұрын

I don't really think you can support the claim that big corporations can no longer produce new Ideas?

I really respect your insight and perspective, cap. I'm a lot more left than you, so I come to different conclusions and am affected by different biases than you, but you provide a lot of really useful information each and every week

@ryanjones4917

Жыл бұрын

This is how adults interact, very refreshing.

@LocalCryptidGhostdoll

Жыл бұрын

@@ryanjones4917 cap is very "it is what it is" on a number of topics that I think we should expect a higher standard and hold people to that standard. There are some conclusions he comes to I think he is wrong about But I never doubt the veracity of his research, the value of his military experience to decipher that research, and that he does consistently attempts to consider his biases So that earns a lot of respect

@LocalCryptidGhostdoll

Жыл бұрын

@@ryanjones4917 plus u know, he seems pretty chill

@fupopanda

Жыл бұрын

@@LocalCryptidGhostdoll But it is what it is though.

@Pistolita221

Жыл бұрын

shout out to the socialists in the thread!

Merry X-mas Cappy and take care!!

Yo, congrats on getting sponsored. Smooth transition by the way, too smooth, a clear demarcation when changing to a sponsored segment is greatly appreciated.

A weapons manufacturer has some corruption? Noooo! Tell me it ain’t so!

@robtheaccountant

Жыл бұрын

@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing

Жыл бұрын

I have no objections to Military brass heading off to be contractors and CEOs in the MIC, not our right, but once they've sold out, I object to them ever coming back to a Federal posting or holding office afterwards, lobbying and schmoozing up to their still-serving general officer homeboys, or allowing industry headhunters to bribe, court and recruit uniform wearers before they sign that DD214 and clear post.

As I understand it is a lot like prostitution - some countries incriminate it , others regulate it. …. Asides from that revelation , I really appreciate the nonchalant way you present such grim topic. Thumbs up man!

@yordanandonov8421

Жыл бұрын

Well what you say is quite true, but that was not my point.Corruption like prostitution is inevitable, so if rape is inevitable better get some Vaseline ( lubricant ]

Thanks for all your marevellous job! You're one of the best commentator on youtube. Go on like this!

thank you for beeing critical

It'll be interesting to see which of the military industrial corp has the least scandals

It’s so sad that it seems like to do anything substantial and achieve “success” in life you have to go balls deep into some really shady shit! It’s just unfortunate! Hope you and yours have a very Merry Christmas!

@MichaelDavis-mk4me

Жыл бұрын

Well, it's the defense industry. Their job it's to create tools to put people into body bags, let's not be surprised they are involved in some international geopolitics drama. If you go into other fields of work, there are legal shenanigans, but not so much shady stuff.

@TheMitchyb61

Жыл бұрын

@@MichaelDavis-mk4me who’s surprised? I said it’s sad! And it’s no where near just defense contractors who do shady shit! It is done in every profession you can think of! From professional politics to non profit charities…literally everywhere, and if you don’t think that’s true that’s pretty naive.

@MichaelDavis-mk4me

Жыл бұрын

@@TheMitchyb61 Non profit charities just pocket 90% of the money, it's just your standard fraud. Same with most other major fields, they avoid their taxes through legal means, they lobby (which is legal), they maximize their profits through creative user agreements. Nowhere near as shady as selling US military technology to your foes and start wars because you have to sell your stuff. Weapons have a bigger impact simply due to the sheer power they grant, they topple governments and rewrite history.

Thanks for this

Merry Christmas Cappy!

@Taskandpurpose

Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas : D and a happy new year

>every northrup military corruption case ngl, I expected this to be a two-hour long documentary to fit it all lol

These whistleblowers deserve a medal, they are the real American heroes.

Like your videos, keep them coming and Merry Christmas!...

@Taskandpurpose

Жыл бұрын

merry christmas thanks for watching good sir!

I think this is one of many reasons the U.S. government put a cap on B21 pricing. It’s something like they won’t pay more than $600 million per bomber. They ran wild with the B2 and it’s obvious that the government knows it would probably happen again therefore caping it. Which I thought that was smart.

the MIC being corrupted? no way

Great content always

Nice report CC!

01:45 and now all of these "slush-funds" are legal under citizens united.

11:05 That's impressive if you can charge a company for outages. Here in the Philippines, these outages are a fact of life and there's nothing we can do about it but endure.

@sangbeom6245

Жыл бұрын

The problem with the Philippines about this is you all do...nothing nor complain nor vote them out nor run for office not boycott. That's why nothing changes.

@memecliparchives2254

Жыл бұрын

@Sang Beom Well, the political institutions of the country don't really allow for the people voting them out, just wait for investigations and impeachment.

@andrewsuryali8540

Жыл бұрын

@@sangbeom6245 That isn't the main issue. The Philippines National Power Corporation is a government-owned monopoly, so you can't really sue them. At the same time, no Filipino administration dares to privatize the power sector because they know the NPC is selling electricity at the lowest possible price for ordinary Filipinos. Estimates have put somewhere between 15 to 37% of current customers who would be priced out if privatization started to be implemented today. That's more than enough to ignite a revolt in a country where people sanctify their right to revolt due to a history of very successful revolts in the past two centuries.

@sangbeom6245

Жыл бұрын

@@memecliparchives2254 investigation of themselves doesn't work rarely does impeachment and is slow and very politically driven

@sangbeom6245

Жыл бұрын

@Andrew Suryali excuses... plenty of natural resources for energy self sufficiency. But they won't cut fair deals to bring in foreign investors and expect foreign entities to flip 70-90% of the bill and get nothing back in return while the family clans own 100%.

I can't think of another channel that covers military and intelligence matters in such a nuanced and well researched manner.

Great to see a channel that mixes equipment reviews with politics and history like this!

These fine art ads are going to end up like the next established titles

I bought 20,000 shares for $3 a share in 2009 when I got back from my Iraq deployment. Those shares are worth $535 a share now. So I cashed in a couple hundred shares and living well. Thank you Northrop !

@kazansky22

Жыл бұрын

You made 60k on deployment?! Jesus are you are colonel or something?

@infantryblack

Жыл бұрын

@@kazansky22 Easily and I got a tax free re enlistment bonus since I did it in a combat zone. You get a lot of incentive pay while deploying.

@henryrollins9177

Жыл бұрын

"thanks you US taxpayers" you should say...

@infantryblack

Жыл бұрын

@@henryrollins9177 I got paid doing a job you would not do more than likely. Not being a idiot spending my money on junk made me a very wealthy person. So because I make great decisions I should feel guilt for it in some way in your eyes. Losers think the way you do.

@grimreaper492

Жыл бұрын

@@henryrollins9177 US military is not funded by tax payers 🤡🤡🤡

NEVER STOP CAPPY

Quite a lot of interesting intel man, gj 👍

northrup has nothing on lockmart

I grew up next to Northrop Grumman's headquarters and they sponsored my middle and high school in stem activities. There was a whole day in middle school where Northrop Grumman people came and gave away a bunch of free stuff and had fun contests. They really out here throwing kids pizza parties with corrupt, blood money 😭

@imnotracistbut-9559

Жыл бұрын

Back before fracking was taboo, a guy I met had founded a company called new dominion and basically built a city and funded everything that normally requires taxes to operate and had parades and amusement parks and stuff for families all paid by ND.. and then we decided fracking sounded yucky and wealthy people are all evil so the town is no more and the community is dead Dude was just unbelievably cool and had tons of money but he treated everyone around him so well. He’d pay an entire restaurants tab and order everyone bottles of wine and champagne, every dessert on the menu and then take all the attractive servers to Bermuda in one night. He even offered me an interview when he found out I was panicking about not having found a job my last year at OU and I studied journalism. Tf I know about oil and natural gas lol That was wild to see in person. Idk why I thought this comment was relevant for some reason lol

@johnmonrow9981

9 ай бұрын

@@imnotracistbut-9559 Why would you say all wealthy people are evil? Sounds kind of communist tbh. Also, since when is fracking taboo?

Keep it up with the steady uploads

Good Job; Thanks.

Unfortunately it's just another case of greed from people in power. It's always been that way it appears it always will be. I don't advocate for this behavior but at this point at age 56 it's all I expect. I was an average infantryman in the '80s and I didn't trust a lot of what was going on in the world then or now. In my mind ideally we would work together fairly and truthfully but again I'm not naive enough to believe that will happen. We rely on so few for so much. Not only in the defense of our country but so many things. I hate to see examples when we are lied to about the performance of systems that are in our defense. It can be the difference between life and death and winning or losing a battle or war. We should demand integrity and transparency. When you look to your fellow infantryman at your side you feel like they have your back and you should have his. I want that for the industry that makes what we need to stave of attacks against us. ☮️

@JoshuaC923

Жыл бұрын

I agree man,i think this kind of lies and deceit exist in all governments. Just that in America there are more good men and women who work for the good of the country compared to other countries(I'm not from the US)

@andreisouzabento7506

Жыл бұрын

@@JoshuaC923 Man i don't agree with you way of thinking...

Impressive. Now do Lockheed

@robtheaccountant

Жыл бұрын

NO the predator drones are fn amazing, many people here in NY work there, you leave Lockheed alone.

Corruption? * Laughs in Boeing

Damn, Cappy coming with the hard hitting stories.

Hey bud, I'll explain this again. Art doesn't carry any intrinsic value and therefore makes an incredibly poor investment. I'm not going to go into the specifics, but what you were doing is the exact same thing as selling crypto. This will more likely than not results in any of your viewership use this product losing their money. That is not what you want, that is not what you are about, and I would appreciate it if you could actually learn a little bit about investments before you go pitching investment platforms

Awesome, thanks

Thank you for all your KZread work . However I like the ones with lots of bangs in them best .

Great clip! Balances out the Russian corruption videos. The side which is more honest seems to win in terms of logistics and overall product superiority. It seems the corruption stateside is to stay ahead in business while the corruption in Russia is solely for personal gain. One sort of corruption is superior/more preferable to the other. Great work! Keep it up!

No way a weapons manufacturer can be corrupt. Next thing your telling me the US Armed forces came to Iraq for oil🤣

@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing

Жыл бұрын

Naw, KBR's stock value and Bush Junior's re-election.

@antoniolsls7774

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@pickleman40

Жыл бұрын

We went to Iraq to overthrow the remaining organized enemies of Israel, same thing with Libya, Syria, Egypt etc

@leifwulffstephan3725

Жыл бұрын

@@pickleman40 It WAS for the oil, buddy, wake the hell up. The US is not innocent and just, simply because our presidents say so.

@Si1entHitman

Жыл бұрын

@@pickleman40 This

nice expose'. thks !

Thanks for existing, and the videos are good, too.

You guys rock with the objective view and the telling it like it is and stuff.

Pretty slick the way you slid in the art investment promotion.

MST 3k! Thank you, Chris.

Like how you snuck in that ad! Very slick 😂

WOW! I never would have imagined any of this!!!🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

The reason for the revolving door is because if you are an expert (GOV or Private) in XXZ weapon system/platform, you are not going to get a job at Costcos or the Post Office after they leave a job working on XYZ. So we just have to keep an extra eye on them, especially at the upper levels were less moral folks in Gov or Private sector may have the opportunity to care more about self-benefit than their jop/program. - It is a really cool telescope!

Great channel. Awesome shirt

lol ur ad is so smooth

Tis the season of giving, and T&P sure is delivering!

“Northrop Corp was founded in 1939, he had a hard time keeping his company afloat during the Great Depression”. The Great Depression ended in 1939!

Nice article. Very fair

Wouldn’t be surprised the same with Sig Sauer having some corruption too.

Citizens United case has created some worse outcomes. Thanks for shining a light on the bad as well as the good.

Northrop: We need to become too big to fail.