"Nothing You Know Is Real", A Warning From A Stranger: Understanding why strangers need to be bombed for their government's financial behavior. | A Discourse with Idiots and other Miner Miracles.
intro. Back In Black
Number one with a bullet, I'm a power pack
Yes, I'm in a bang
With a gang
They've got to catch me if they want me to hang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4EFddbHkRo
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” – William Casey, CIA Director 1981
https://www.activistpost.com/2015/01/cia-flashback-well-know-our.html
State of WAR* - The Military Industrial Complex (MIC)
In 1961 outgoing President Dwight Eisenhower recognized that something significant had changed in American life,
and in his farewell address to the nation he coined the phrase "military-industrial complex."
Eisenhower used that address to issue a warning to Americans about the dangers of a permanent state of wartime readiness – one,
it must be said, that he himself had helped to create – not simply on the economy or on our foreign policy but on the American spirit as well.
(The DOD, 'driven more by political, economic, and power considerations than by those of national security')
played in promoting and funding "big science" as well as the deep connections between the Pentagon and think-tanks,
universities and other non-government centers of research. Call it the "military-intellectual complex."
the MIC now drives much of our foreign policy, the Federal government subsidizes the defense industry directly through generous contracts
(and lax oversight, something else Koistinen notes) and indirectly through our foreign aid.
Congress changes hands, administrations come and go, wars begin and end but the MIC stays the same, only more so.
Taken together, Koistinen's work reminds us uncomfortably that as much as we have professed to be a nation of peace-lovers,
underneath that rhetoric has been a political economy geared toward war.
http://origins.osu.edu/review/anatomy-military-industrial-complex *
Early origins of the military-industrial complex*
In the late nineteenth century, what many scholars call the Second Industrial Revolution was transforming societies and economies around the world.
governments relied on anti-espionage legislation - the 1889 Official Secrets Act in Britain and the 1911 National Defence Secrets Act in the United States
- to classify scientific and technological information as secret for reasons of national security.
Thus, the origins of the military-industrial complex and the national-security state lie not in the mid-twentieth century but in the decades before World War I.
Most historians agree with Eisenhower that the military-industrial complex began in the mid-twentieth century. And they are correct
- if we define the military-industrial complex in terms of its scale and permanence. But if we instead consider certain of its essential dynamics,
its origins are to be found in the decades before World War I.
...the origins of the military-industrial complex and the national-security state lie not in the mid-twentieth century but in the decades before World War I.
Eisenhower, for all his alarm, may have been too sanguine. A complex brought into being by a particular war like World War II or the Cold War might be expected
to end when the war ended. But a complex rooted in world-historical forces like globalisation, geopolitics and industrialisation, transcending any single war,
would not end when a war ended. It would endure, and nations at peace would become ever more difficult to distinguish from nations at war.
https://www.gatescambridge.org/multimedia/blog/early-origins-military-industrial-complex *
The History of the Culture of War*
Over the past century, state militarism has been greatly expanded and strengthened by its alliance with a major branch of industry,
the military-industrial complex. As military expenditures have increased, the military-industrial complex has become engaged with the state as a powerful lobby
for the maintenance and strengthening of military force and the culture of war that goes with it.
There is a particular irony about the history of the term, "military-industrial complex". It was made famous by the farewell speech of American President
Dwight Eisenhower in 1961. The speech was written by Eisenhower's speechwriter Malcolm Moos... According to one account,
Eisenhower looked at the draft of his farewell speech and told Moos that he disagreed with it, demanding that he write another kind of speech.
(he didn't, so Ike, 'like' it or not, was stuck.)
http://culture-of-peace.info/books/history/complex.html *
Do Banksters and the Military Industrial Complex Rule the World?*
“We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question
Spreaker:
https://www.spreaker.com/user/worldtruthorg/the-dork-table-2018-09-18
