THE TOP THREE INDUSTRIES IN THE WORLD
ACCORDING TO TIME
MAGAZINE,
APRIL 14, l997, (get this one at your local library in the 'stacks.' )
1. Weapons/Arms
2. Illegal Drugs
3. Oil
And what does any of this have to do with making the world a safe/better
place? NOTHING. Oil pollutes our air worse than drugs, the ozone in our air murders
your mind and then that petroleum infested AIR can kill you just as dead as
bullets, arms, weapons. All three are the worst things we can do to a planet
and its people!
Make the connection between the number one industry in the world and the
fact that 4 out of 5 dollars in U.S. foreign aid is not spent abroad. It's
spent right here in the good 'ol USA (Harper's Index). ON WEAPONS THAT THE
FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS MUST BUY. Is it any wonder that African troops go around
murdering and raping their own people?
We are all obviously in the wrong profession. You work in any of those
three industries, you're in the top biz in the world. Actually my brother has
worked for arms companies, he's an engineer. But he and his wife have never had
the money to buy a house. SO go figure.
Working for Satan doesn't give you a Cadillac!
Our government, according to a writer you should read, Noam Chomsky
(ABEBOOKS has him used for a dollar each,) and other top writers, (GOOGLE UP
THE WORDS Dark Alliance), --OUR GOVERNMENT....is
deep in all three of these. THE GOVERNMENT, PROFITING FROM THESE THREE THINGS!
Chomsky claims that the CIA outspends its annual budget 10x, and it
raises that extra little spending money by importing drugs. That certainly
explains the Bush (former head of the CIA) ‹‹ Noriega connection. Boeing is buying
McDonnell Douglas' talk about power consolidation. In a recent post I mentioned
the liquidity of our politicians as commodities on the global market, well,
from the April 14, 1997 edition of Time: Big Givers Political contributions by
the top 10 arms-exporting companies to the 1996 campaign, in millions of
dollars:
Lockheed Martin................$2.35
MILLION
General Motors/Hughes..........$1.05
Northrop Grumman...............$0.86
General Electric...............$0.82
Boeing.........................$0.80
United Technologies............$0.74
General Dynamics...............$0.62
Raytheon.......................$0.53
McDonnell Douglas..............
$0.51 Rockwell.......................$0.41
SO CANDIDATES are elected by the war guys. SO they have to be pro-war,
no?
A few members of the above list of rich war toy manufacturers, have
successfully lobbied the Pentagon (a tough sell), their pet legislators (an expensive
buy) and the White House (jobs, jobs, jobs) into lifting that old ban of Jimmy
Carter's ....(granted it was an "informal" ban) on U.S. manufacturers
selling sophisticated offensive weapons to Latin America. But it was ignored.
SO OUR GOV SELLS DEATH to other
countries. AND it teaches their military how to use the things. The
military of GUATEMALA Officers and above, were brought to SCHOOL OF THE
AMERICAS and trained. These soldiers were instructed to go home and murder
entire villages, every man, woman and child....thousands of people. Because
they were suspected of feeding corn to guerilleros in the hills. GOOGLE
"QUICHE" and read up on it. This set of facts is a gross
simplification of an enlightening article in the aforementioned issue of Time.
The article is called, "How Washington Works... Arms Deals: The inside
story of how the Pentagon and big defense contractors got the President to open
the way for weapons sales to Latin America"
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THE SPIDER OF FASCISM is leading OUR
BOYS AND GIRLS by the HAND to their doom.
THAT spider actually exists in IRAQ so we don’t want any children of ours to
have to go there. Bush Sr. did a great job bombing all the Weapons of Mass Destruction
out of Iraq in both wars. (There were none, actually.) He still thinks there
are and he’s our real president now, in his second term, I commend him for
zeal if not good ingel, but the law is, no third and fourth terms! Seems Bush,
the USA and GOP is planning to reinstate the draft and really finish Iraq off,
then get the nukes out of IRAN, and then loop back and take out the other
nutcake in North Korea and I say, who died and made him God?
If you have children or
grandchildren and you don't want
them to be hamburger for the military and spider fodder for the infamous IRAQUI
camel spider, (above) please post this to all the people you know as this is
going to be passed if there isn't a huge outcry from the people. If we are to
stop this madness we are going to have to stop sending our children to their
deaths to fight wars that do nothing but further enslave us with each new war.
If you want to see your children come home in a box do nothing the choice is
yours.
*THE
DRAFT IS COMING BACK! * And now they want the daughters If
there are children in your family, READ this. There is pending legislation in
the House and Senate (twin bills: S 89 and HR 163) which will time the
program's initiation so the draft can begin at early as Spring 2005 -- just after
the 2004 presidential election. The administration is quietly trying to get
these bills passed now, while the public's attention is on the elections, so
our action on this is needed immediately. Details and
links follow. Even those voters who currently support us. Actions abroad may
still object to this move, knowing their own children or grandchildren will not
have a say about whether to fight. Not that it should make a difference, but
this plan, among other things, eliminates higher education as a shelter and
includes women in the draft -- Also, crossing into Canada has already been made
very difficult.
Actions, actions, actions: Please send this on to all the parents and teachers you know, and all the aunts and uncles, grandparents, godparents.... And let your children know -- it's their future, and theycan be a powerful voice for change! Please also write to your representatives to ask them why they aren't telling their constituents about these bills -- and write to newspapers and other media outlets to ask them why they're not covering this important story. The draft $28 million has been added to the 2004 selective service system (sss) budget to prepare for a military draft that could start as early as June 15, 2005. Selective Service must report to Bush on March 31, 2005 that the system, which has lain dormant for decades, is ready for activation.
Please see website:
www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html
The pentagon has quietly begun
a public campaign to fill all 10,350 draft board positions and 11,070 appeals
board slots nationwide.. Though this is an unpopular election year topic,
military experts and influential members of congress are suggesting that if
Rumsfeld's prediction of a "long, hard slog" in Iraq and Afghanistan
[and a permanent state of war on "terrorism"] proves accurate, the
U.S. may have no choice but to draft. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5146.htm
and go to
http://www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html
Congress brought twin bills, S.
89 and HR 163 forward this year, http://www.hslda.org/legislation/national/2003/s89/default.asp
entitled the Universal National Service Act of 2003, "to provide for the
common defense by requiring that all young persons [age 18--26] in the United
States, including women, perform a period of military service or a period of
civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and
homeland security, and for other purposes." These active bills currently
sit in the committee on armed services. Dodging the draft will be more
difficult than those from the Vietnam era. College and Canada will not be
options. In December 2001, Canada and the U.S. signed a "smart border
declaration," which could be used to keep would-be draft dodgers in.
Signed by Canada's minister of foreign affairs, John Manley, and U.S.
Homeland Security director, Tom Ridge, the declaration involves a 30-point plan
which implements, among other things, a "pre-clearance
agreement" of people entering and departing each country. Reforms aimed at
making the draft more equitable along gender and class lines also
eliminates higher education as a shelter. Underclassmen would only be able to
postpone service until the end of their current semester.
Seniors would have until the end of the academic year.
WHAT TO DO: - Tell all your
friends - Call the Mercury News (Newsdesk)
408-920-5000 -E-mail the SF Chronicle at: Tbyrne@sfchronicle.com
<mailto:Tbyrne@sfchronicle.com - Contact your Senators and tell them to
oppose these bills.
For the full list of representatives (53) and websites, go to:
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newseek.cgi?site=ctc&state=ca
We just can't sit and pretend
that by ignoring it, it will go away.
We must voice our concerns and create the world we want to live in for
our children and their children's children.
MOVE ON DOT ORG says:
The effort to stabilize Iraq is out of control. It's time to face the facts
squarely, and recognize that America, acting alone, is no longer capable of
reaching the hearts and minds of Iraqis.
We've got to transfer management authority over Iraq to the United Nations, to enable a real transition to peaceful Iraqi self-rule. Join us in calling for this change, at:
http://www.moveon.org/unauthority/
60 Americans and reportedly
hundreds of Iraqis have been killed in just
the past week; 677 Americans have died in Iraq since the war began. A
religious leader hostile to the United States now controls two cities,
and has sparked uprisings in two others. Dozens of foreigners have been
taken hostage.
The growing opposition to
American rule among the Iraqi population
"probably runs in the tens of thousands", consisting of people who
"have
jobs in vegetable shops, offices, garages, and schools."1 These are the
very people who should comprise the civil society we're hoping to build
as the basis for peaceful Iraqi self-rule. Instead, they're arming
themselves and awaiting the call to attack Americans.
Our troops in Iraq are stretched
thin -- many reservists have been
serving there for more than a year, with no end in sight. U.S.
commanders are asking for more troops, and Senate leaders like John
McCain share the concern that our current troop levels are inadequate.
There's talk of a draft, perhaps to be announced just after our November
elections.
But instead of simply redoubling
our commitment to the present course,
we should support our soldiers by taking the bull's-eye off their backs.
At its core, the challenge our
troops face in Iraq is about legitimacy:
Iraqis see us increasingly as an occupying power, not a liberating one.
To send a credible message of stewardship and transition to self-rule,
we need a truly international coalition, including key Arab nations like
Egypt and Saudi Arabia. As Thomas Friedman put it, "If it is America
alone against the Iraqi street, we lose. If it is the world against the
Iraqi street, we have a chance."2
Of course, transferring control
to the U.N. would also enable many other
nations to share the logistical and financial burdens of helping Iraq
transition to peaceful self-rule.
This isn't a partisan issue.
"In both parties, members are concerned,"
according to Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) "There's not abject panic, but
there's deep concern, and there should be."3
The time to make this change is
now, before the situation escalates
further out of control. Join us in this call, at:
http://www.moveon.org/unauthority/
The MoveOn.org Team
Tuesday, April 13th, 2004
Footnotes:
See this sobering New York Times
article for details:
"Anti-U.S. Outrage Unites a Growing Iraqi Resistance"
That’s what has happened, RESISTANCE. See, those who fervently believe in an afterlife are quite willing to go to war to defend their homes/ children families in this life. THEY WILL NEVER STOP. THEY are not afraid of dying to the last man!
2. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/11/opinion/11FRIE.html
3. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A355-2004Apr9.html