1/ At the onset of WW2 the United States did not even have a standing military...and along with others we still won the war. It was only at the end of WW2 that the “defense industry” was created....

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2/ ...leading President Eisenhower (who was also the Supreme Allied commander in WW2) to warn us about the “military industrial complex.”npr.org/2011/01/17/132942244…

Ike's Warning Of Military Expansion, 50 Years Later

On Jan. 17, 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower gave the nation a dire warning about what he described as a threat to democratic government. He called it the military-industrial complex, a formidable...

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3/ The myth has been created that a huge defense industry is necessary for our security. Yet it is nothing but that: a myth. The gargantuan size of our military expenditure does not represent increased safety for us or for others; in many ways it represents more danger.
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“....This has nothing to do with peace on earth.” Marianne Williamson #USDeptOfPeace
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Er, I think it was created *during* WW2. The US organised the largest armaments programme in history.
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it is no wonder the US has been in a constant state of war.... and or coups/ proxy war since the end of WWII.
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Rubbish...active duty manpower 334K. A Navy with parity with the Royal Navy.
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We vacillate on founders intent around 2nd Amendment but one thing is astoundingly clear with glance at history: their biggest fear was a standing army. Every single speaker in Continental Congress before the Bill of Rights ratification spoke on this fear huffpost.com/entry/what-the-…
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Does the “Defense” budget also fund the “National Guard” that is occupying major cities and using chemical weapons against peaceful demonstrators? We need International intervention, our political system has been hijacked by the MIC and is terrorizing the World (including the US)
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America's economy is completely dependent on the Military Industrial Complex, if you were somehow to stop funding it, the economy would collapse like it was 1929. This is not to say we need to keep funding it, but that we need a new economy. thevenusproject.com/resource…

A Global Holistic Solution: Resource Based Economy

In a Resource Based Economy all goods and services are available to all people without the need for money, credits, barter or any other means.

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