Originally published at http://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/04/if-you-are-wondering-who-benefits-weapons-makers-see-stocks-surge-trump-moves-closer
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And you wonder why we have war !
It’s this primitive war conciousness that must be transcended.
Send into War the sons and daughters of all the folks that make money from this. The politicians ,the arms companies shareholders. Send them all to face the demons they create. See what their response would be ?
You cannot do peace ,peace can only be achieved through BEING .
It’s about time the human race started Being …
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Another 5 children killed by missiles this day.
It never ends because you choose for it not to.
A Culture that fails to understand that it has anything to do with what is occurring cannot do anything about what is occurring.
You think War solves the problems .It never can .
Only by changing beliefs can you change the on the ground reality as Beliefs create Behaviours.
Primitive cultures try and use the same energy that created the problem in the first place but expect different results .This is insanity of it.
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With renewed war preparations,his new Space Force, and $0.75 Trillion for the Department of War, Military contractors are reaching orgasmic levels of joy. Military contractors employ large numbers of engineers. Probably part of why I’m seeing more engineers supporting Trump.
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“The business of America is business.”
America’s biggest business is war.
And business is good (and about to get better)
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Capitalists make war on people and ecosystems for the same reason: wealth accumulation.
Today are actions across the nation and the UK and we all need to join and aim to place a monkey wrench in their thoughtless destruction of our common support system which is not money.
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This could be the first real cyber war with direct attacks on power plants, nuclear and fossil, as well as these contractors, banks etc etc. The so called economy will suffer big time regardless of these short sighted expectations.
I’m not sure if ideologies create war but I know it is always based on lies and fears with some megalomaniac calling the shots.
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As I wrote to my friend Kevin Zeese at his “Popular Resistance” site:
Kevin, WhyTF, doesn’t any national resist, demonstration, march, and protest data base exist???
Here’s a basic listing of today’s Sat 1/4 event in Portland
Through 2018, the data base by the organization “resist and protest” provided a ver VERY useful database of resistance events, ‘issues’, state locations (by cities in every state) was what I used to use for resistance actions!
WHF happened and can you and your wonderful “Popular Resistance” either provide yourself or get some techie group to provide a timely, accurate, and critically necessary DATABASE of resistance so that the ‘Woke’ young and older (like me) can easily find out where & when we can participate in the kind of big effin demonstration, march, and protest events are happen-in’?
Is the effin Emperor Trump administration and/or FBI/CIA/UHNWI and this god-damned Disguised Global Crony Capitalist Empire blocking any cooperating, consolidated, unified, and effective “Popular Resistance” toward a Second American people’s peaceful & complete “Political/economic & socialist Revolution Agains Empire” being boxed-in, disrupted, distracted, disempowered, and most dangerously ‘Divided and Conquered’ by the effin EMPIRE and effin Faux EMPEROR TRUMP???
Please tell the over-whelming base of we the 99% of Americans why and how ‘we the American people’ are being silenced and suppressed from getting any coordinated traction of getting our “REVOLUTION AGAINST EMPIRE” ignited!!
Thanking you and Margaret in advance for getting some traction and coordination for “POPULAR RESISTANCE” against this effin EMPIRE goin’
BTW, here is Kevin’s basic listing of anti-war & and more seriously Anti-EMPIRE/ anti-EMPEROR TRUMP protests (including Portland Maine):
Alan
It is a fact of life that every tax-paying American is complicit. Whether willfully complicit (boo-yah!) or passively complicit (opposed in principle, but paying taxes, voting R or D). Granted, for the latter, the system compels complicity by requiring employers to automatically deduct war funding from our paychecks, and by legitimating only oligarchs and nomenclatura as candidates. But it’s still passive complicity. And, before I go any further, mea culpa–I’ve paid all my taxes.
There is organized war tax resistance:
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America desperately needs a “excess war profits tax” just like I believe we had during WW2.
“War is a Racket” General Smedley Butler
Disband the National Security State.
That will be a beginning.
We know that will not happen.
Iran could be crushed by US military; the question is how much damage Iran can do before expiring.
This is all madness
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“Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?
Naturally the common people don’t want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peace makers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” - Goering
An article from MAY 2019
https://www.wspus.org/2019/05/iran-again-in-the-crosshairs/
Above all, American strategists seek to deprive Iran of its status as a regional power in West Asia. That means halting Iran’s development of ballistic (i.e., long-range) missiles, even armed with conventional warheads. It also means ending Iran’s support for political and military forces in other countries of the region – the Syrian government, Hamas in Palestine, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, etc. Here the US is fully in synch with its allies in the Middle East – Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf States.
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… as gas prices increase for the rest of us.
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You vote for NAZI, and NAZI rule is the result. This decision was made in America, not by Trump but by every voting American who voted for democrat or republican since about 1975, and every American eligible to vote who didn’t vote against them. Quite frankly the American imperialist state has been an issue from the beginning, well before 1975, and even before The military industrial complex. Not fighting, (Physically if necessary), against imperialism, and continuing that fight until an unconditional victory against imperialism was achieved; not fighting was a tacit endorsement right along. Well as the Christo Fascists may have heard, you reap what you sow. Right now they think they are very clever. They’ve got another think coming.
The Trump admin has been handing out H1 visas to foreign engineers like lollipops … recently visited in a death merchant facility as consultant, thought I was in an India Embassy.
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I’m pretty sure no one was wondering who benefits.
In fact, nothing could be more obvious.
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As Country Joe McDonald noted more than a half century ago: “war is good business, invest your sons”.
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We will end our human civilization soon through Greed and even more violence . We will simply disappear ourselves …like Rome or Lemuria .
It happened before and if we don’t break the cycle of why ? It will happen again.
Life is ruled by Three Basic Principles:
Functionality
Adaptability
Sustainability
Life functions itself and when it gets to the point of dysfunctionality ,it adapts,and having adapted ,it sustains itself.It will alter the form in which it is expressed ,in order to ensure that it is sustained.
This means that our planet could become a living hell .
We are a part of this living system ,we are adapting the Life system of which we are a part in such away that the System itself is threatened at the level of functionality ,the system itself will counteradapt in order to sustain itself ,and humans might not like the way in which it does this.
I think we are seeing the start of the counter adaption of the System .
Humans are a part of this system. We are not outside the System there will be consequences in a cause and effect way. The system is bigger than we are and the big self will adapt the little self (us ) before it will allow us to adapt IT beyond its functional limits .
Thanks for the reminder. Most people don’t realize that most wars only end for economic reasons. WWI ended only when the whole of Europe, and particularly Germany, saw their economies collapse after nearly four years of war. WWII saw the near collapse of the entire world economy, eventually leading the post war world which saw only one nation, the USA, survive intact, thus creating the American economic juggernaut that would help establish America as world hegemon for the last 70 years.
Amerikan, Fascist metamorphosis of the Third Reich into the Fourth Reich!
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There seems to be conscientious on the economics of war. I wonder if, and how many may have gotten the heads up so they could jump the market.
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