Blood Money: These Companies and People Make Billions of Dollars from War
Mar 25, 2015 13:47:01 #
Blood Money: These Companies and People Make Billions of Dollars from War
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. George Orwell
The late United States Marine Corps Major GeneralSmedley D. Butler is perhaps most famous for his post-retirement speech titled War is a Racket. In the early 1930s, Butler presented the speech on a nationwide tour. It was so popular that he wrote a longer version as a small book that was published in 1935.
Butler points to a variety of examples, mostly from World War I, where industrialists whose operations were subsidized by public funding were able to generate substantial profits essentially from mass human suffering.
The work is divided into five chapters:
1. War is a racket
2. Who makes the profits?
3. Who pays the bills?
4. How to smash this racket!
5. To hell with war!
It contains this summary:
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people.
Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
What Butler was candidly describing was later referred to as the military-industrial complexby Dwight D. Eisenhower, who warned Americans of its existence in his farewell address in 1961:
Butler went on to say
In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.
How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?
Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.
And what is this bill?
This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations.
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Now that I see the international war clouds gathering, as they are today, I must face it and speak out.
Butler also exposed the Business Plot, an alleged plan to overthrow the U.S. government. In 1933, Butler told a congressional committee that a group of wealthy industrialist businessmen (including individuals from General Motors, Prescott Bush, grandfather of George Bush Jr., J.P. Morgan, and the Rockefeller dynasty) were planning a military coup to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with Butler selected to lead a march of veterans to become dictator, similar to other Fascist regimes at that time. The individuals involved all denied the existence of a plot, and the media ridiculed the allegations, calling them a gigantic hoax.
A final report by a special House of Representatives Committee confirmed some of Butlers testimony.
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Despite warnings of its existence and imminent expansion, the military-industrial complex (or military-industrial-congressional complex) remains in operation today. It is an iron trianglethat comprises the policy and monetary relationships which exist between legislators, national armed forces, and the arms industry that supports them. These relationships include political contributions, political approval for military spending, lobbying to support bureaucracies, and oversight of the industry.
It is a major reason we are stuck in a perpetual war
http://www.globalresearch.ca/blood-money-these-companies-and-people-make-billions-of-dollars-from-war/5438657
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. George Orwell
The late United States Marine Corps Major GeneralSmedley D. Butler is perhaps most famous for his post-retirement speech titled War is a Racket. In the early 1930s, Butler presented the speech on a nationwide tour. It was so popular that he wrote a longer version as a small book that was published in 1935.
Butler points to a variety of examples, mostly from World War I, where industrialists whose operations were subsidized by public funding were able to generate substantial profits essentially from mass human suffering.
The work is divided into five chapters:
1. War is a racket
2. Who makes the profits?
3. Who pays the bills?
4. How to smash this racket!
5. To hell with war!
It contains this summary:
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people.
Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
What Butler was candidly describing was later referred to as the military-industrial complexby Dwight D. Eisenhower, who warned Americans of its existence in his farewell address in 1961:
Butler went on to say
In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.
How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?
Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.
And what is this bill?
This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations.
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Now that I see the international war clouds gathering, as they are today, I must face it and speak out.
Butler also exposed the Business Plot, an alleged plan to overthrow the U.S. government. In 1933, Butler told a congressional committee that a group of wealthy industrialist businessmen (including individuals from General Motors, Prescott Bush, grandfather of George Bush Jr., J.P. Morgan, and the Rockefeller dynasty) were planning a military coup to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with Butler selected to lead a march of veterans to become dictator, similar to other Fascist regimes at that time. The individuals involved all denied the existence of a plot, and the media ridiculed the allegations, calling them a gigantic hoax.
A final report by a special House of Representatives Committee confirmed some of Butlers testimony.
****
Despite warnings of its existence and imminent expansion, the military-industrial complex (or military-industrial-congressional complex) remains in operation today. It is an iron trianglethat comprises the policy and monetary relationships which exist between legislators, national armed forces, and the arms industry that supports them. These relationships include political contributions, political approval for military spending, lobbying to support bureaucracies, and oversight of the industry.
It is a major reason we are stuck in a perpetual war
http://www.globalresearch.ca/blood-money-these-companies-and-people-make-billions-of-dollars-from-war/5438657
Mar 25, 2015 15:56:44 #
[quote=eagleye13]Blood Money: These Companies and People Make Billions of Dollars from War
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. George Orwell
The late United States Marine Corps Major GeneralSmedley D. Butler is perhaps most famous for his post-retirement speech titled War is a Racket. In the early 1930s, Butler presented the speech on a nationwide tour. It was so popular that he wrote a longer version as a small book that was published in 1935.
Butler points to a variety of examples, mostly from World War I, where industrialists whose operations were subsidized by public funding were able to generate substantial profits essentially from mass human suffering.
The work is divided into five chapters:
1. War is a racket
2. Who makes the profits?
3. Who pays the bills?
4. How to smash this racket!
5. To hell with war!
It contains this summary:
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people.
Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
What Butler was candidly describing was later referred to as the military-industrial complexby Dwight D. Eisenhower, who warned Americans of its existence in his farewell address in 1961:
Butler went on to say
In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.
How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?
Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.
And what is this bill?
This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations.
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Now that I see the international war clouds gathering, as they are today, I must face it and speak out.
Butler also exposed the Business Plot, an alleged plan to overthrow the U.S. government. In 1933, Butler told a congressional committee that a group of wealthy industrialist businessmen (including individuals from General Motors, Prescott Bush, grandfather of George Bush Jr., J.P. Morgan, and the Rockefeller dynasty) were planning a military coup to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with Butler selected to lead a march of veterans to become dictator, similar to other Fascist regimes at that time. The individuals involved all denied the existence of a plot, and the media ridiculed the allegations, calling them a gigantic hoax.
A final report by a special House of Representatives Committee confirmed some of Butlers testimony.
****
Despite warnings of its existence and imminent expansion, the military-industrial complex (or military-industrial-congressional complex) remains in operation today. It is an iron trianglethat comprises the policy and monetary relationships which exist between legislators, national armed forces, and the arms industry that supports them. These relationships include political contributions, political approval for military spending, lobbying to support bureaucracies, and oversight of the industry.
It is a major reason we are stuck in a perpetual war
http://www.globalresearch.ca/blood-money-these-companies-and-people-make-billions-of-dollars-from-war/5438657[/quote]
Bullshit Alert!!!!
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. George Orwell
The late United States Marine Corps Major GeneralSmedley D. Butler is perhaps most famous for his post-retirement speech titled War is a Racket. In the early 1930s, Butler presented the speech on a nationwide tour. It was so popular that he wrote a longer version as a small book that was published in 1935.
Butler points to a variety of examples, mostly from World War I, where industrialists whose operations were subsidized by public funding were able to generate substantial profits essentially from mass human suffering.
The work is divided into five chapters:
1. War is a racket
2. Who makes the profits?
3. Who pays the bills?
4. How to smash this racket!
5. To hell with war!
It contains this summary:
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people.
Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
What Butler was candidly describing was later referred to as the military-industrial complexby Dwight D. Eisenhower, who warned Americans of its existence in his farewell address in 1961:
Butler went on to say
In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.
How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?
Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.
And what is this bill?
This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations.
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Now that I see the international war clouds gathering, as they are today, I must face it and speak out.
Butler also exposed the Business Plot, an alleged plan to overthrow the U.S. government. In 1933, Butler told a congressional committee that a group of wealthy industrialist businessmen (including individuals from General Motors, Prescott Bush, grandfather of George Bush Jr., J.P. Morgan, and the Rockefeller dynasty) were planning a military coup to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with Butler selected to lead a march of veterans to become dictator, similar to other Fascist regimes at that time. The individuals involved all denied the existence of a plot, and the media ridiculed the allegations, calling them a gigantic hoax.
A final report by a special House of Representatives Committee confirmed some of Butlers testimony.
****
Despite warnings of its existence and imminent expansion, the military-industrial complex (or military-industrial-congressional complex) remains in operation today. It is an iron trianglethat comprises the policy and monetary relationships which exist between legislators, national armed forces, and the arms industry that supports them. These relationships include political contributions, political approval for military spending, lobbying to support bureaucracies, and oversight of the industry.
It is a major reason we are stuck in a perpetual war
http://www.globalresearch.ca/blood-money-these-companies-and-people-make-billions-of-dollars-from-war/5438657[/quote]
Bullshit Alert!!!!
Mar 25, 2015 16:13:25 #
JMHO wrote:
Bullshit Alert!!!!
Jmho - Airhead alert!!!!!
He won't take the sand out of his ears.
After all; he is a David Horowitz Fascist.
Fund the Commies/Bolshys; and then go get them Commies/Bolshys.
Go get ISIS while funding and arming ISIS.
An armchair War Hawk.
JHMO must be a Bolshevik dupe.
Christopher Bollyn 2015 Solving 911 Ends the War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=SP_Ezjm7xDg
JFK to 911 Everything Is A Rich Man's Trick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Qt6a-vaNM&feature=player_detailpage
Mar 25, 2015 16:26:28 #
eagleye13 wrote:
Jmho - Airhead alert!!!!! br He won't take the san... (show quote)
Head Up Your Ass Alert!!!
Mar 25, 2015 16:52:06 #
Since you support political zionism;
I have a question for you jmho:
What kind of Jew are you?
Torah, Talmudic or both?
Any Semitic blood in your veins?
Are you from the tribe of Judah, or of Esau's lineage? Do you know?
Do you belong to any church or synagogue ; or are you an agnostic or an atheist?
I have a question for you jmho:
What kind of Jew are you?
Torah, Talmudic or both?
Any Semitic blood in your veins?
Are you from the tribe of Judah, or of Esau's lineage? Do you know?
Do you belong to any church or synagogue ; or are you an agnostic or an atheist?
JMHO wrote:
Head Up Your Ass Alert!!!
Mar 25, 2015 17:19:56 #
eagleye13 wrote:
Since you support political zionism;
I have a question for you jmho:
What kind of Jew are you?
Torah, Talmudic or both?
Any Semitic blood in your veins?
Are you from the tribe of Judah, or of Esau's lineage? Do you know?
Do you belong to any church or synagogue ; or are you an agnostic or an atheist?
I have a question for you jmho:
What kind of Jew are you?
Torah, Talmudic or both?
Any Semitic blood in your veins?
Are you from the tribe of Judah, or of Esau's lineage? Do you know?
Do you belong to any church or synagogue ; or are you an agnostic or an atheist?
Question for you eagleye13:
What kind of moron are you?
Looney toon moron?
Paranoid moron?
Nuttier than a fruitcake moron?
Conspiracy nut moron?
Do you belong to Conspiracy nut Anonymous, and have to attend regular meetings?
Mar 25, 2015 17:37:22 #
I didn't expect you to come out of the closet.
but I had to try.
Ay least you told us who payed you for your "services".
but I had to try.
Ay least you told us who payed you for your "services".
eagleye13 wrote:
Since you support political zionism;
I have a question for you jmho:
What kind of Jew are you?
Torah, Talmudic or both?
Any Semitic blood in your veins?
Are you from the tribe of Judah, or of Esau's lineage? Do you know?
Do you belong to any church or synagogue ; or are you an agnostic or an atheist?
I have a question for you jmho:
What kind of Jew are you?
Torah, Talmudic or both?
Any Semitic blood in your veins?
Are you from the tribe of Judah, or of Esau's lineage? Do you know?
Do you belong to any church or synagogue ; or are you an agnostic or an atheist?
Mar 25, 2015 17:38:13 #
I didn't expect you to come out of the closet.
but I had to try.
Ay least you told us who payed you for your "services".
A commie turned fascist.
but I had to try.
Ay least you told us who payed you for your "services".
A commie turned fascist.
JMHO wrote:
Question for you eagleye13:
What kind of moron are you?
Looney toon moron?
Paranoid moron?
Nuttier than a fruitcake moron?
Conspiracy nut moron?
Do you belong to Conspiracy nut Anonymous, and have to attend regular meetings?
What kind of moron are you?
Looney toon moron?
Paranoid moron?
Nuttier than a fruitcake moron?
Conspiracy nut moron?
Do you belong to Conspiracy nut Anonymous, and have to attend regular meetings?
Mar 25, 2015 17:40:35 #
You need more training. :-)
eagleye13 wrote:
I didn't expect you to come out of the closet.
but I had to try.
Ay least you told us who payed you for your "services".
A commie turned fascist.
but I had to try.
Ay least you told us who payed you for your "services".
A commie turned fascist.
Mar 25, 2015 17:41:10 #
A "moron" that can defend his position, without name calling.
JMHO wrote:
Question for you eagleye13:
What kind of moron are you?
Looney toon moron?
Paranoid moron?
Nuttier than a fruitcake moron?
Conspiracy nut moron?
Do you belong to Conspiracy nut Anonymous, and have to attend regular meetings?
What kind of moron are you?
Looney toon moron?
Paranoid moron?
Nuttier than a fruitcake moron?
Conspiracy nut moron?
Do you belong to Conspiracy nut Anonymous, and have to attend regular meetings?
Mar 25, 2015 17:50:47 #
eagleye13 wrote:
I didn't expect you to come out of the closet.
but I had to try.
Ay least you told us who payed you for your "services".
A commie turned fascist.
but I had to try.
Ay least you told us who payed you for your "services".
A commie turned fascist.
Moron Alert!!!!
Mar 25, 2015 20:59:36 #
Mar 25, 2015 21:13:11 #
nwtk2007
Loc: Texas
eagleye13 wrote:
Jmho - Airhead alert!!!!! br He won't take the san... (show quote)
JMHO is a typical wannabe. In fact, he might be one who benefits from war, but I thonk hes just a wannabe. He wants a more masculine president. What does that tell ya? LOL!!!!!
His best responses are being presented here for your amusement and entertainment.
Im sure he likes pucs of thick armed, burrly looking guys in tight, short sleeves sporting some kind of weapon. Hes a flexed biceps lover Im sure.
Youll love his response to this. Enjoy.
Mar 25, 2015 21:18:46 #
Yep! I am sure it will be enlightening.:-)
:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
nwtk2007 wrote:
JMHO is a typical wannabe. In fact, he might be one who benefits from war, but I thonk hes just a wannabe. He wants a more masculine president. What does that tell ya? LOL!!!!!
His best responses are being presented here for your amusement and entertainment.
Im sure he likes pucs of thick armed, burrly looking guys in tight, short sleeves sporting some kind of weapon. Hes a flexed biceps lover Im sure.
Youll love his response to this. Enjoy.
His best responses are being presented here for your amusement and entertainment.
Im sure he likes pucs of thick armed, burrly looking guys in tight, short sleeves sporting some kind of weapon. Hes a flexed biceps lover Im sure.
Youll love his response to this. Enjoy.
:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
Mar 26, 2015 06:09:36 #
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