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Stuart G

(38,365 posts)
Sun Nov 15, 2015, 07:03 AM Nov 2015

A quote from President Dwight D. Eisenhower: April 16, 1953

Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe during World War II


"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.".....

DWIGHT D EISENHOWER, speech April 16, 1953:

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DhhD

(4,695 posts)
14. This from your link: Covert United States Foreign Regime
Sun Nov 15, 2015, 10:35 AM
Nov 2015

Covert United States foreign regime
change actions
1949 Syrian coup d'état
1953 Iranian coup d'état
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
1961 Cuba, Bay of Pigs Invasion
1964 Brazilian coup d'état
1973 Chilean coup d'état
1976 Argentine coup d'état
1979–89 Afghanistan, Operation Cyclone
1980 Turkish coup d'état
1981–87 Nicaragua, Contras



Privatization of a foreign country brought to us on behalf of the Merchant Bank of United States of America.
Merchant Bank - see Revelations, Chapter 18.

New Merchant Activities:
Privatization of PEMA, through the US State Department 2011-12.

DhhD

(4,695 posts)
15. New Privatization - Old Merchant Schemes of Profiteers in Mexico.
Sun Nov 15, 2015, 10:53 AM
Nov 2015
http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/08/07/hillary-clinton-state-department-emails-mexico-energy-reform-revolving-door


http://fpif.org/mexicos-oil-privatization-risky-business/
snip
The privatization and break-up of Pemex has long been a chief aspiration of neoliberal planners in North America. Promoters of the “free-market” model and supporters of NAFTA—including the World Bank, the State Department-funded Wilson Center, and the Mexican business association Coparmex—have predictably celebrated the reforms.
more at link


http://www.iatp.org/files/NAFTA_and_the_FTAA_Impact_on_Mexicos_Agricultu.pdf
snip
The Women's Coalition: Impact on the workers
NAFTA and the FTAA: Impact on Mexico’s Agriculture Sector

NAFTA was created with the explicit goal of reducing poverty in Mexico by
creating a large, middle income population in the country. However, that goal has not been accomplished - many of Mexico’s poor have become poorer. Now NAFTA is the blueprint for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), a trade agreement that will
cover the entire western hemisphere.
more at link
 

B Calm

(28,762 posts)
3. Most veterans get it. My WW2 father knew first hand the horror of war. Though
Sun Nov 15, 2015, 07:19 AM
Nov 2015

he wasn't a true blue pacifist, today he would be labeled as one.

Delmette

(522 posts)
5. And there is this one...
Sun Nov 15, 2015, 07:52 AM
Nov 2015

"It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the air force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber." Source unknown.

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
6. If we can't afford to educate our children, to heal our sick or care for our elderly ...
Sun Nov 15, 2015, 07:56 AM
Nov 2015

... just what is it the defense budget is defending?

 

Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)
10. What a "dreamer'. I guess he didn't hear about "what a dangerous world we live in."
Sun Nov 15, 2015, 09:59 AM
Nov 2015

And .... didn't he have some carefully-crafted warnings.... at the end of his second term.... about the acute danger to the republic posed by " the military-industrial complex."?

Poor IKE. Starry-eyed dreamer. Not an actual commie.... some red-baiter of the period said ( was it Robert Welch of John Birch Society?)... but " a little pink around the edges."

Stuart G

(38,365 posts)
16. I agree with you "damn socialist"..but then, he wasn't, but now well, he is
Sun Nov 15, 2015, 01:41 PM
Nov 2015

Further, his ideas now, would be totally rejected by "todays Republican Party.".........Why?..

because Ike fought against the Fascist Assholes, and that is what "today's Republican Party" is.

He also warned about the "Military Industrial Complex" and he was correct about that too..

a link to that speech:

http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/indust.html

Stuart G

(38,365 posts)
17. Here is the exact quote and explanation of the dangers of "military and industrial complex"
Sun Nov 15, 2015, 01:47 PM
Nov 2015

farewell address of President Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 17, 1961

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.


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Today's Republican party would use every tool in the book to get rid of anyone talking like this. And it wouldn't matter if he were a general in some war that killed 50,000,000. And their attack would be relentless and vicious. Combine this statement with the one in the OP and the so called republican leaders would attack this speaker as a "Communist Sympathizer" who's only aim is to "Weaken American and have it taken over by the Communist Devils"

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