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This Is How Much Of Your Life The US Has Spent At War
With the US spiraling quickly towards a maritime conflict with China over the latter’s “construction projects” in the disputed South China Sea and with NATO doing its best to match Moscow’s Eastern European sabre-rattling on the way to facilitating the most serious confrontation between Russia and the West in decades, we thought it as good a time as any to bring you the following graphic which shows the percentage of your life that the US has been at war.
Simply put, if you were born in 1992 or later, America has been at war for at least two-thirds of your life and if you were born after 2001, well... you have never known life in the US without war.
More from The Washington Post:
Using somewhat subjective definitions of "at war" -- Korea counts but Kosovo doesn't in our analysis, for example -- we endeavored to figure out how much of each person's life has been spent with America at war. We used whole years for both the age and the war, so the brief Gulf War is given a full year, and World War II includes 1941. These are estimates.But the beginning of the conflict in Afghanistan in (late) 2001 means that anyone born in the past 13 years has never known an America that isn't at war. Anyone born after 1984 has likely seen America at war for at least half of his or her life. And that's a lot of Americans.
Given recent events in Iraq and Syria, this isn't likely to change anytime soon.
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Where are the Drug War, War on Poverty, and War on Edewkayshun?
War is the health of The State. There is only one war. The War on Liberty.
The MIC appreciates your business. Please come again.
I new it. It's the millenials, a bunch of violent 1 to 15 year olds causing all this mess.
What's peace?
My birth year is the lowest percentage since 1930. Why does it feel like we have always been at war with Eastasia (or Eurasia...whatever)?
Said it before, war is in America's DNA. It was set up that way. Just like Oz too.
MOAR WOAR!
They killed American empathy....empathic people cannot kill (except perhaps in self of family defence).
Mass animal slaughter kills empathy. And all those slaghterhouse boys from the mid west make great recruits.
...
https://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/the-death-of-empathy/
I'm all for "Homeland Security", obviously the MIC is a welfare state of it's own that is sucking the life blood out of this country...
They say we won the cold war, I'd say nah, they've been selling us these BS stories to justify continuing this faux pas called the Military Industrial Complex.
(Don't even get me started on NASA & the Prison Industrial Complex / Prison Guard Pension Madness)
Hey! What about Grenada?
Americans, including those who favor America's crusades,
usually love their pets, and strongly oppose cruelty to animals.
Said it before, war is in America's DNA.
War is in everybody's DNA -humans are violent primates, like chimps...so, "...relax into it, you're no better that the rest of us." -Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf
What's peace?
Woar
You called?
(golf clap)
Call the switchboard in Washington DC and ask to be connected to the Peace Department, see what happens.
"What's peace?"
In Keynesian terms, a difficult time where soldiers come home, have to find a job and the state ought to spend a bit longer in order to "prime the pump" so that the peace economy can restart
after this Keynesian rebalancing, the peace dividend awaits. all the efforts and resources spent for weapons can be put into use for civilian purposes, rising prosperity for everyone
hey, don't look at me this way, I'm just paraphrasing Lord Keynes
The USSA main war is on the 99.9% by the .01%, All wars are Bankster wars.
you're right of course BUT there's 300+ million AMERICANS who let it happen, time and time again, like a bunch of fucking zombies!!! under complete mind control by their propaganda system
Because Americans fail to vote in primary elections, and therefore MIC-approved candidates win in both Parties.
Voting will in no way set you free.
A sheep who begs for government begs for enslavement.
Thanks for nothing.
^^^THIS^^^^
:-( The Founding Fathers all voted. In fact, their battle cry was "no taxation without representation". What they fought King George for was simply the right to vote. How are things different today?
Voting entails making a claim on another person's life.
Relegate that type of thinking to the animal world where it belongs.
Voting is how you keep the OTHER fellow from making claims on YOUR life. Voting is defense. You can't win without defense.
sheeps cant act on their own, therefore you cant blame the disabled
"like a bunch of zombies under complete mind control..." yep, nailed that one... the interest rates which control how much they pay for anything, and whether they have a job or not is under the banksters control and that is complete control other than selection for breeding.
as I said earlier this week, there's a giant fart in the room and it really really stinks, it's been lingering for 400 years and as the saying goes, "if you smelt it you dealt it".......USSA.......you're stinky!!
Notice the two big spikes
1947 ~ Israel becomes nation state
2001 ~ Larry Silverstein collects on insurance policies on buildings that were scheduled for costly asbestos renovation
Those damn jooze.
It the frisbee-hat fits, wear it Hymie.
Moar like war on TVeeeèe
Son, you ain't seen war!
Around here, we call 'em cheesepopes.
His name was Francis Sawyer!
We're number one! We're number one! Are we awesome or what?
This is weird. I literally just made this exact observation to my wife yesterday about our kids. When we were born Viet Nam was winding down. My kids all fall in the <=14 category.
Not trying to be mean, but cold blooded direct: Your kids are rapidly approaching "gun-toting" and cannon fodder age; As are mine.
They will have to fight two wars to gain access to my kids--the first being with me, and I'm not pretend or live in a cave overseas.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
All kids are in jeopardy of being used as cannon fodder by the MIC. Unfortunately, many kids especially those without family support, will go along with it.
They fight for the banksters and the oilers under the guise of keeping the USSA safe. I once told one of our illustrius career military officers this and he responded with, "you like your cheap oil - right?" I had to go away from him because my fist started on auto-pilot to his mouth.
with technology happening your kids may just be operating a consol under ground somewhere killing by remote other peoplke's kids....but that's okay as long as it isn't yours getting snuffed by the MIC...AND WE WONDER WHAT THE FUCKS WRONG WITH THE PLACE!
Support our Dupes!
"Simply put, if you were born before in 1992 or later, "
Please edit this, please.
"Spoiler alert: if you are 14 or younger, you have never known an America that isn't without war"
Double spoiler alert...who writes this shit?
Maybe a 15-year-old? :-)
Actually the answer for most Americans is zero, because they don't actually serve and liver under no threat of doing so because of the lack of a draft.
they don't actually serve...
Ah, serve... by that you mean "kill brown people at the behest of old sociopaths," yes?
No. By serve, he/she means consent to slavery.
I dunno wheather to laugh or to cry. Amerikans, gotto love 'em! And this is news?
The Cold War didn't happen?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War
Or a few dozen "small wars."
Oh, sorry... kinetic military actions.
The US has been in constant war for a very long time. That it wasn't recognized at the time is irrelevant.
Yes. The US has been at war ever since Jamestown. Since Day One.
First they came for the First Peoples, then....
Aw shit, is there really anything left once you come for The First Peoples?
After my second deployment I figured I had spent about 8-9% of my life deployed overseas. Currently just over 50% lifetime with the US at war somewhre against somebody.
I was just barely old enough to remember bombing runs and the invasion during the first gulf war being shown on the Propaganda Box with lots of American flags at the time, lots of 'ooo rah rah'-ing, and talk of USA being "#1".
Glad you woke up
I'll never forget how, within days of 911, every store in the US was selling American flags and all manner of patriotic buttons and bumper stickers and stuff. I always wondered how they were able to gear up production so fast.
Anyone else notice a fuckton of Memorial Day plastic flower wreaths for sale this year?
Answer: China.
Yes, but haven't the wars been worth it.
The ROI has been fantastic for somebody.
Islam= state of perpetual war.
http://www.politicalislam.com/a-taste-of-islam/
All major religions are actually political parties.
What about The State? It is a religion, made up of parties. What are parties anyway?
Political parties are groups which work to win elections, and therefore to gain political power. Once they get political power, they can tax others and apportion the monies to themselves.
I think that patriotism can be a religion. I recall that the Founding Fathers wanted a Republic of 13 independent States, and were very afraid of a Central Government.
"America has been at war for at least two-thirds of your life and if you were born after 2001, well..."
"America" is not at war. The DC US, as Zion's war dog, and bitch, is.
America is the country of the people and the land they inhabit. The US is the criminal nation that is criminally occupying, usurping, and oppressing the American country and people.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
The Constitution united the states formally, and created a shared government between them. The DC US is now criminally operating outside the restraints of the Constitution, and in so doing has become but an occupier, usurper, and oppressor of the American country and people that existed before the Constitution and the US Government.
kchrisc, please have a peek at this and let me know if you can find any contradictions. Leave comment or email. Specifically it pertains to your motto with respect to the nature of demand as voluntary or involuntary, the nature of rights, the nature of compulsion and corruption, and the general purpose of a governing body at all. I enjoy your posts, so i ask it of you also because you may find it interesting. If TLDR, then start at paragraph 9. Thanks in advance, OC.
http://ocsure.blogspot.com/2015/05/what-is-fractional-reserve.html
My understanding is that "fractional reserve" simply means that actual deposits form only a fraction of a bank's "capital". Usually this is a very small fraction. If a bank has 10% fractional reserve, and 1 billion dollars of deposits, then that bank has actually lent out AT LEAST 9 billion dollars it never actually had. That bank created those 9 billion dollars out of thin air. That is the "miracle" of banking: the government-protected ability of a private party to create "thin air money". Today, there is so much "thin air money" that it is the cause of most inflation. So much "thin air money" is competing for goods and services with the always-limited hard-earned-and-saved money of workers/savers/depositors, that the purchasing power of their savings is destroyed. THAT is inflation. Inflation ruins workers/savers/depositors. And the longer the Fed exists, the quicker workers/savers/depositors will be ruined, because the primary function of the Fed is to assure that "fractional banking" survives and prospers.
That bank created those 9 billion dollars out of thin air at the request of the borrower.
That borrower might be a family member or friend or partner of the banker (or even a corporation controlled by the banker), who has noticed that a certain business has done well and has figured that it can continue to do well, and who therefore asks the banker for a loan of "thin air money" to purchase the business with. I think this happens every day, and with businesses of every size, from mom-and-pop restaurants to Time Warner and "Barbarians at the Gate". In this fashion, the bankers and their extended families and friends and partners and corporations gradually come to control all of the profitable businesses, and since those corporations generate the campaign fund donations, all of the political power. This is what Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson warned about, and fought against.
"That bank created those 9 billion dollars out of thin air at the request of the borrower."
No "customer" requests of a monopoly. They are forced to take it that way.
"If a bank has 10% fractional reserve, and 1 billion dollars of deposits, then that bank has actually lent out AT LEAST 9 billion dollars it never actually had."
Almost.
Generally the rotten fruit of the banksters' grift comes into existence in two ways:
1) The DC US borrows, issues a bond, and the FedRes "buys" it by issuing a check on a zero balance account. They then credit the DC US treasury's account with the "printed" imaginary funds. The banksters then charge the treasury interest on a loan of counterfeit fiat that is really theft from all holders of that fiat. The results of the FedRes' theft shows up as price increases later at the stores, etc. If it stopped there, it would be bad enough, but it gets worse, much worse.
2) The banks steal 9 tenths of their depositors' deposits. They then loan out that 9 tenths to some unsuspecting citizen who does not realize that he is fencing stolen wealth; Fencing stolen wealth and paying interest for the "privilege" to boot. The borrower's check goes into another bank which repeats the above operation, and so on and so on. Ultimately the entire system of grift does indeed create an additional 9 times the fiat of the original deposit. All of that then shows up as higher prices for the people, while the banksters collect interest on what they stole from their depositors, and the counterfeit they "printed."
However, you are correct, if you assume that all the banks are part of the FedRes' system of grift and therefore are one and the same bank. That "bank," the FedRes system, does create, counterfeit, 9 times the original deposit.
Let's go back to that grift song and dance by the FedRes "buying" a bond from the treasury. The treasury's check gets deposited in a bank somewhere and the process of #2 is set in motion as well. So the infinite leverage by the FedRes is then leveraged up again.
The bottom line is this: The banksters are thieves--Nothing but fancy suited thieves, con men and grifters who buy the violence of government as protectors of their schemes and scams. They have stolen, and continue to steal from you. You do not owe them. Rather it is they that owe you, because their so-called loans, fiat-loans, BEGIN as theft from you the depositor, you the producer, and you the consumer.
I have placed the banksters in collections, and my guillotine and I are going to collect: "Gold, silver, or heads gladly accepted."
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
Yes. Yes. Thank you. I think the process of "money creation out of thin air" is for some reason naturally confusing, a sort of "smoke and mirrors" that gives many people a headache just to try to contemplate. I think it would be very good if a thousand different people tried to explain it in a thousand different ways, in the hope that at least one way will make sense to, and sink in for, any given reader. I think of it as a math problem. I can remember, back in school, doing math, reading about a math principle, and then doing math problems in the math book. I would often do all the "extra" problems, in my attempt to internalize and reinforce and get compfortable in my head about the math principle. Seeing the principle adapt to many different situations was what it took for me to "really get it". And, again, THIS IS MATH. And my way of trying to figure this particular math out and then to try to explain it is probably neither completely correct, nor helpful to all who might happen to read my attempted explanation.
The easiest way to think of it is as Aristotle explained it. Money was introduced as the means to equate disproportionate value. Value of what? The value of the products that two traders are exchanging. Where did the products come from? Their work produced them.
Therefore, money comes from productive work. If the medium as money is introduced without coming from productive work then it is counterfeit. Counterfeit being the imitation of productive work.
Yes. And don't forget a very, very, very large part of the context which has gone unmentioned and usually does.
The counterfeiting to purchase the Treasury's paper is collateralized by the the direct tax on the citizens. The "Treasury" has no treasure left to manage. It could collaterallize with its gold, land, or voluntary receipts for whatever service it is rendering, but it does not. It does not have to since it is backed by force and deception. Instead, the counterfeit indirectly converts We the People into We the Slaves. And the counterfeit is not only domestic. Govt auctions are funded by foreign fractional reserve counterfeiting too, and vice versa.
In this manner then direct taxation is underwritten by counterfeiting. In the modern global system of institutionalized theft and robbery the two methods are linked and now inseparable.
That the counterfeiting subsidizes the direct taxation is the primary reason to stifle the counterfeiting. The enormous government deficits and the necessity to directly tax an individuals income emanate from the same source, fractional reserve counterfeiting.
I will read it fully tomorrow, as I need to complete the Python project that I am working on. I will then email you.
I would like to ask this: Who is the target audience? If it is academics, and the knowledgeable, you are in the ballpark. However, if it is laypeople, the sleeping, the ignorant, the sheeple, then you have missed the mark by a large margin.
The real trick is boiling things down to their essence, building an unassailable brick shithouse upon that foundation, and then coaxing them inside to man the ramparts themselves--Don't get them agreeing, but thinking.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
I see. It is both, of course. By which the only way new ideas ever come to reach the latter is through the former.
"Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it."
Mark Twain
Zorg explains why https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt1W0F0yObg
LOL at peace periods!
I thought there was a chance to turn things around in the mid 90's,but when the non-stop coverage of the OJ trial began,I knew we were fucked..
There appears to be a bankster problem on your planet.
And how long has it been at war with its own people?
Women in Binders...
What can you say. We are raised to blow things up.
Larger and larger bombs. Fix things with hammers.
If it doesn't work after hitting it with a hammer, hit it harder.
The people born after 1945 had probably the best lives. I look back and am thankful. The young people coming up now are going to all be going to hell in a handbasket.
Yeah, personally I've lived at the perfect time, born in 1953. My 18th birthday was the very day for my state government, one of the first governments in the world to do so, to drop the legal age of adulthood to 18. I was 19 and about to post my already filled conscription papers out when Whitlam won an election and immediately repealed conscription. I tore up my letter. If I'm very lucky I'll be around just long enough to see all hell break out on this planet, and it seems to me already on the verge of tearing itself apart. I feel sorry for the young ones here now... they are all gonna be fucked over by geriatric psycopaths some time in the near future I'm fearing.
You can thank the Buybull thumpers and Jooze. Who believe that the USA has some divine mission to control the world.
The people bashed the anti war crowd in the 60's and 70's.
No matter what, glorifying the troops only makes it easy for the govt to use the next generation of suckers to wage another war.
“Why of course the people don’t want war … But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship … Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
– Hermann Goering, Nazi leader.
Remember how Canada and Sweden took in draft dodgers during Vietnam War?
Now they have joined the club of bullies and aggressors and there is NO WHERE for a young American to flee to.
How much of our lives has the USA been spending TRILLIONs per year on entitlement programs for proletariat & ghetto parasites ?
I don't think the Wars that people are living through today are anything like living through WWI, WWII, Civil War, etc.
Hahahaha, tell that the poor bastard on the receiving end of a drone strike.
Russia lost 20 million, USA a mere 450,000 in WW2. and yet Americans have the audacity to bash Russia.
Russia lost 20 million, USA a mere 450,000 in WW2. and yet Americans have the audacity to bash Russia.
The U.S. seems comfortable poking bears and dragons. But China has warned us officially not to meddle in their business. Former USSR leader Gorbachev says the same thing about Ukraine. So far the US appears to be ignoring their admonitions...
http://www.globaldeflationnews.com/gorbachev-warns-of-major-war-even-nuc...
US loves war. War makes war companies rich!
America Has Been At War 93% of the Time – 222 Out of 239 Years – Since 1776
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41086.htm
Wasn't it relatively peaceful between the end of the Civil War and WWI (yes there was the Span-Amer war but that was like 10 months long)? Basically 50 years without imperialistic warmongering and the country's economic engine exploded into high gear. Progressives take over by 1900 led by Spanish-American war hero and Elite Teddy Roosevelt and the rest as they say is history. The military industrial complex cant get enough of tax-payer funded war machinary and the blood of the poor and middle class.
Has anyone done a study on how many more White people would be in the United States today had 500,000+ not died in the Civil War? Just curious