The insidious trio relies on each other for legal, financial and military support to carry out extermination, expansion and exploitation of other countries - thus, becoming a formidable force for global destruction.
Let's look at some of the facts on the funding and related expenses of the military and the emerging, menacing presence of the Pentagon in the government:
U.S. defense budget climbed from $298.9 billion in 1991 to $447.4 billion in 2006, not including $100 billion spent in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. For 2011, the U.S. defense budget nearly doubling to $708 billion.
spending $700 billion directly on military per year - almost half the military spending of the entire world.
responsible for 865 bases in more than 40 countries and overseas U.S. territories, according to 2008 Pentagon inventory.
over 446,000 active troops deployed in 46 countries and territories; 1,470,000 troops deployed in 150 countries and over 1,460,000 reserve forces.
increasing influence of the Pentagon over intelligence community, national security and foreign policies of the U.S.
70% of the intelligence budget going to private contracts; nearly 25% of the federal budget going to contracts in the private sector under the direction of the Department of Homeland Security and Office of National Intelligence.
increasing incompetence and unreliability of the President's private army, CIA, as it turns over many of its functions to the private sector.
Make no mistake, military-industrial complex has no interest or place for Peace. The driving factor for military-industrial complex to thrive is the continuation of wars and creating more wars.It's not surprising that the U.S. military has extended its war plans into outer space with the creation of nuclear powered space laser weapons, known as "the National Missile Defense System" which is nothing more than a PR ploy for setting a stage for future space warfare.
WHAT COULD AMERICANS DO?
Without a doubt, the government is no longer working for Americans but for big businesses. Without a doubt, the overstretched military wild spending and fighting ongoing wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and "war on terror", has bankrupted America. Without a doubt, the "change" President Obama had promised is nothing more than empty rhetoric, but the continuation of King Bush's "despot reign."
The 1776 Declaration of Independence declared that it is OUR RIGHT AND DUTY to carry out a revolution -
"But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
Often we don't realize the power we have within for change. We wait for others to guide us or wait for events to hit home before taking any action. Standing alone won't bring any results, but standing together will bring about a sweeping change and a transformation that is sorely needed at this time in history.
The most effective way is to have a revolution within the system.
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