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<\/a><\/p>\nTo date, I have failed as the Leviathan that is motivated by American Exceptionalism continues\u00a0its rampage across the planet with hundreds of foreign bases and the deployment of Special Forces,\u00a0regular troops and private military contractors in dozens of nations.<\/p>\n
Here is why everyone should join me and start reordering their priorities to take on the\u00a0core political issue that underlies all the others. From the environment to health care; from\u00a0education to women’s rights; to a whole host of worthy causes, excessive spending in the\u00a0name of national security hinders progress in those areas as well as preventing peace.<\/p>\n
The biggest item in the budget: military spending. The biggest polluter: the military. The\u00a0biggest waster of funds: the military. The force under-mining our civil liberties: the military\u00a0using the National Security Agency to spy on us.<\/p>\n
Why the world hates America: use of the military to invade foreign many countries and utilizing the\u00a0Central Intelligence Agency to plot regime change in numerous others.<\/p>\n
Why is there not enough funding for health, education, welfare, jobs, repairing infrastructure\u00a0and for TAKING CARE of our VETERANS? Because the military budget and priorities drain\u00a0vital resources from other programs with cost over-runs and unneeded hardware.<\/p>\n
How many citizens know that Nobel Peace Prize Winner Obama recently authorized\u00a0nearly a trillion dollars to modernize our nuclear arsenal? If you are comfortable with that, can\u00a0you really complain about the lack of funding for roads or cancer research?<\/p>\n
How many realize the projected costs of the Iraq and Afghan wars exceed three\u00a0trillion dollars…even before the new ones against Syria, Libya and maybe Iran? Very few\u00a0because we are “Amusing Ourselves To Death” (Neil Postman) with MTV, sports or other reality diverting entertainments if not out-right profiting personally via our job or stock portfolio.<\/p>\n
We never had the peace dividend that we were promised after the collapse of the Soviet Union. \u00a0Instead new enemies were created and\/or provoked: Muslims; Russia; China; Iran; and whoever\u00a0else is convenient to insure the “Clash of Civilizations” and more wars.<\/p>\n
If Pax Americana is finally established and the banksters achieve total global hegemony plus full\u00a0spectrum dominance, they will have a new enemy as back-up waiting in the wings (sky?) to keep\u00a0them funded in perpetuity. \u00a0Perhaps that will be a contrived threat from those nasty Aliens and ETs!<\/p>\n
It’s a game dear readers—styled the Great Game<\/em> by the insiders who play it—to manipulate and\u00a0control the public. They want to keep us on-board, routing for the home team in the name of patriotism\u00a0against those nasty Ruskies or Japs or Chinks or Jerries or Muslim fundamentalists or Greys (the bad ETs)\u00a0or whomever they need to keep us afraid of, compliant and ready to fight in support of their imperial goals.<\/p>\nThe brilliance of their plan is augmented by their ability to rely on the media to\u00a0distract us from the real agenda and seduce support by embedding a false picture\u00a0of what is done by our government in our name, by our children and with our taxes.<\/p>\n
So I invite everyone to reorder their priorities and start focusing on the real villain.\u00a0If you want more funding for Alzheimer’s disease, make sure we stop these illegal\u00a0wars that Congress refuses to declare and demand more for research.<\/p>\n
If you want the trees on the Olympic Peninsula to be protected from the Navy\u00a0training drills disrupting your life-styles and destroying the beautiful forest, then join me and\u00a0promote peace and harmony instead of war and weaponry!<\/p>\n
If you want higher wages, an end to student loans and better health care, then
\nremind Bernie Sanders next time he’s in town that the best way to achieve his
\nsocialist dream is to end our intervention addiction in order to free up those precious
\ntax dollars for domestic programs.<\/p>\n
Most Libertarians like Ron Paul get it: the CIA theft of the political agenda and
\nthe triumph of the national security state that flowed out of the Cold War means
\nless personal liberty and the destruction of economic freedom by undermining the
\nfree market with proto-fascist trade agreements like the TPP and GATT.<\/p>\n
The same goes for Pope Francis: global warming may or may not be real. But
\nour planet is truly in danger of destruction unless peace can prevail. If the Vatican
\nfails to engage more fully with its moral authority to urge a cessation of fighting,
\nthen its well-meaning quest for sustainability and a new world political order\u00a0are
\ndoomed to failure.<\/span><\/p>\nWhat we have today is exactly what Eisenhower warned us against over 50 years
\nago, and which futurist visionaries like Huxley and Orwell predicted: a Huxwellian,
\nHunger Games world of debt slaves and mindless consumers who live in fear of the
\nState and support perpetual war instead of perpetual peace through their silence.<\/p>\n
We must find a way to help each other grasp this fundamental truth: unless and
\nuntil we stop killing each other with drones, lasers, nukes, jet airplanes and all the
\nother brilliantly designed weapons of war, the long litany of high-minded projects that
\nmotivate decent people to which they give their energy will fall far short of success.<\/p>\n
Please reorder your priorities and demand an end to ceaseless wars and the
\ndomination of our lives by the Military Industrial Complex<\/em>! Speak truth to power,
\ntake back your freedom and promote liberty for the sake of your children.<\/p>\nThe Government-Corporate Complex Takes Complete Control Of The USA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Santa Rosa, CA November 8, 2015 Please Reorder Your Priorities and Take on the Military-Industrial Complex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}