“Why,” asks Bill Lind, “do defense companies buy full-page ads in major newspapers? Not because anyone buys a fighter plane based on a newspaper ad, but because the six-figure price for a full page buys the newspaper.”

“Navy Research Paper: ‘Disrupt Economies’ with Man-Made ‘Floods,’ ‘Droughts’” (Thanks to C.M. Ross)

The US spends more on its military than Russia, China, Japan, Britain, Saudi Arabia, France, Germany, Brazil, India, Italy, South Korea, Iran, Israel, Taiwan, Canada, Spain, Australia, the Netherlands, Turkey, and Singapore put together.

Bushigula has demanded $440 billion from his compliant congress for the military. But isn’t it slightly ironic that this pays for no fighting? To wage his aggressive wars on Afghanistan and Iraq, the emperor wants another $150 billion for part of the year. If we include future “emergency” spending, the spying, the atom-bomb making at the Energy Department, the military part of NASA, educational subsidies for the warfare state, the VA, the interest of that portion of the national debt run up for war et al., the total is more than $800 billion. Add another aggressive war, and we will … Continue reading ‘Defense’