The Ultimate Swindle

[JackLuis]

All Wars Are Bankers' Wars

One opinion, in a swarm of ideas. Or a foundational Truth? A bit alarmist but for good reason.

 

[Iceprincess12]

All Wars Are Bankers' Wars

One opinion, in a swarm of ideas. Or a foundational Truth? A bit alarmist but for good reason.

My ultimate swindle is when I bite into a chocolate chip cookie...only to find that it's raisin. Definitely feel duped!

 

[Rachel_X]

My ultimate swindle is when I bite into a chocolate chip cookie...only to find that it's raisin. Definitely feel duped!

At least you got something.
I had one the other day that was just cookie.
Never felt so wronged in my whole life.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

All Wars Are Bankers' Wars

One opinion, in a swarm of ideas. Or a foundational Truth? A bit alarmist but for good reason.

There is some tin foil hat mixed with reality in there. The tin lessens the reality.

I'd like to see a more serious and reasoned approach to the same premise because in the end, all war has economics at its core and to be more precise competing fundamental class processes at its origin.

 

[1sickbastard]

All Wars Are Bankers' Wars

One opinion, in a swarm of ideas. Or a foundational Truth? A bit alarmist but for good reason.

From the late Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler's book, "War is a Racket";

"WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."

This was published way back in 1935, but expanded from a speech he gave in 1933...

 

[JackLuis]

Terrorism Is Profitable for US Weapons Manufacturers

Not that this is "News".

If you're a defense contractor, terrorism means business, and business is good.

According to recent reports, the corporate defense behemoth Lockheed Martin's revenue rose 15.7% and shares rose 1.5% following the news that President Obama was committing an additional 250 troops in Syria.

Lockheed Martin was the biggest federal contract in 2014, pulling in more than $32 billion in federal contracts, including $25 billion in Pentagon contracts. Its federal haul makes it practically an honorary state.

In fact, the Project states that the contracts received by Lockheed Martin in 2014 exceed federal grants allotted to each individual state, with the exceptions of the high-population states of California, New York and Texas.

In a blog entry on the National Priorities Project site, research director Lindsay Koshgarian states, "Lockheed and its defense industry companions have made enough profits from taxpayer dollars. It’s past time to show them that terrorism doesn’t pay."

The Project email brought to mind a March Los Angeles Times article, which revealed, "CIA-armed militias are shooting at Pentagon-armed ones in Syria." Yes, the two major halves of the US war machine were backing anti-Assad factions who were fighting each other with United States-supplied arms: