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"We are what we pretend to be,
so me must be
careful about what we pretend to be."
Kurt Vonnegut
"Why is it we have finite
resources for health care but unlimited money for war?
Trillions for war and Wall
Street, billions for insurance companies.
When we were promised
change, we weren't thinking that we give a dollar and get back two cents." -
Dennis Kucinich 11/09
2004 According to the US
Defense Energy Support Center Fact Book US military fuel consumption increased
to 144 million barrels.
About 40 million barrels more than the prior
"peacetime" military usage.
144 million barrels makes 395 000 barrels
per day, almost as much as daily energy consumption of Greece.
2006 CIA World Factbook, only 35 countries (out of 210 in the
world) consume more oil per day.
2009 US military
officially uses ~ 320,000 barrels of oil a day. this excludes
contrators.
2011
Pentagon, after a public relations
campaign to "go green," spends $17.3 billion on oil, a 26% increase over 2010.
Is it realistic to expect nations
and tribes to war with one another ?
Is it natural for humans to make
war?
New study of tribal societies reveals conflict is an alien
concept .
Organised violence between
rival political groups is not an inevitable outcome of the human
condition.
Those engaged in
selling weapons treat human
nature as immutable, unchangeable and
barbaric which is the case only when under
imminent threat of
physical annihilation or imminent
threat of the annihilation of traditional modes of living.
This
ponerological form of
reality requires an expression of the will born out of
resentment,
fear,
terror and
a need to control or to
isolate the
'other'.
Infiltrating the
military-industrial-entertainment nexus by creating an ever-expanding
database of hyperreal, real-time 3-D
simulations.
The promotional video of Viewpoint DataLabs
opens with the memorable scene of the alien fighters swarming the F-18's in
Independence Day.
It buzz-cuts into a pair of attacking
mosquitoes in a Cutter Insect Repellent advertisement, then to
spaceships attacking in Star Trek Voyager.
Followed by mega-explosions,
a simulation of a missile launch from helicopters, dropping of a fuel-air
dispersal bomb from Outbreak, and a trio of Eurofighter 2000s doing
maneuvers that are aerodynamically impossible.
"In the realm of
diplomatic and strategic theory, this version of reality creates a
fluctuation of appearances, at one moment fleeing into the ideal of a
"democratic peace" underwritten by an
expanding neoliberal global order, and at the next,
retreating into a "fortress America"
protected by a ballistic missile defense.
Ethical inquiry into
the relationship of this form
of reality to organized violence begins with an inquiry into rationality of
the necessity of, or need for, government sanctioned violence." - James Der
Derian, Virtous War
"What experience and history teach is this - that
nations and governments have never learned any thing from history or acted upon
any lessons they might have drawn from it." - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Hegel
militarily controlling American society
1968 DoD Civil Disturbance Plan 55-2, or
"Operation Garden Plot," is developed in response to the major protests and
disturbances of the 1960s.
November 18, 1988
Executive Order 12656
defines national security emergency
as "any occurrence, including
natural disaster,
military attack, technological emergency, or other emergency, that seriously
degrades or seriously threatens the
national security
of the US."
Since this date the US military has been training troops
and police in "civil disturbance planning".
1990
Estimated value of the weapons, equipment and
factories devoted to the
DoD is 83% of the value of all
plants and equipment in US manufacturing.
2008
"The 3rd Infantry Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last
60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle, helping restore essential
services and escorting supply convoys. Now they're training for the same
mission at home. Beginning Oct. 1
for 12 months, the 1st Brigade Combat Team will be under the day-to-day control
of US Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call
federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters,
including terrorist attacks. After 1st Brigade Combat Team finishes its
dwell-time mission, expectations are
that another, as yet unnamed, active-duty brigade will take over and that
the mission will be a permanent
one.They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and
crowd control." - Army Times,
September 30, 2008 On December 17, 2008,
"A new report by the US Army
War College talks about the possibility of Pentagon resources and troops being
used should the economic crisis lead to civil unrest, such as protests against
businesses and government or runs on beleaguered banks. The study says economic
collapse, terrorism and loss of legal order are among possible domestic shocks
that might require military action within the US" - Phoenix Business
Journal
"Widespread civil violence
inside the US would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in
extremis to defend basic
domestic order and national security." - Army War College report
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