“An ongoing pandemic, an intensifying mega-drought, white supremacy activities, and racial and economic injustice among them — should have underscored that the greatest threats to American lives are anything but military in nature.”laprogressive.com/national-s…

Washington's National Security Spending Follies

Mandy Smithberger and William Hartung: The Biden administration has decided to double down on military spending as the primary pillar of what still passes for American security policy.

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How Biden's $763B defense budget funds nuclear-industrial complex: Northrop Grumman for new nuclear bomber & intercontinental ballistic missile; General Dynamics for new ballistic-missile submarine; Lockheed Martin for sea-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs).Feel more secure now?

Jun 30, 2021 · 3:58 PM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
Wake up, it has been this way since WWII.
Replying to @marwilliamson
US Politics has made the American people afraid of the wrong things for decades. The biggest threat we face is #ClimateChange. Yet Biden's response to @sunrisemvmt kids protesting on his lawn was to have them arrested.
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Replying to @marwilliamson @johncusack
I'm pretty sure all that adds more CO2 into the atmosphere. If Hawking is right, we are doomed.
Replying to @marwilliamson
No ... Not at all!
Replying to @marwilliamson
"May some of the joy that you bring people with your feats on the field reflect back on you! Have a blessings!"🙏Follow back 😀
Replying to @marwilliamson
Everything is in place , all that's needed now is something to spark the powder keg and someone crazy enough to push the button .
Replying to @marwilliamson @johncusack
All that new war power should do well in combating climate change. Maybe we can just launch a nuclear weapon at the sun and tell it to back off. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️
Replying to @marwilliamson @johncusack
As Eisenhower observed, the US defense budget is an annual scandal, confirmation of a nation with warped priorities, the product of scaremongering and mindless inertia, a sign of a deeply corrupt system and the active of theft of resources from the American people.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
I fear budget funds #darkweb surveillance, including #gangstalking (relay-mob-stalking & covert harassment of #Blacklist). Pls help if possible. Fightgangstalking,com; "1996" G Naylor (@NPR @nprfreshair interview,same); #Mobbing, Duffy/Sperry PhD (Oxford); #Shunning, JHarper PhD
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Humanity is DOOMED, Civilization has come to its end. Sacrificed to the Gods of GREED.
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