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Pentagon Boosts Drone Flights 50% As Bernanke Warns Cutting Defense Spending Could Hurt Economy
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
In the event you were becoming concerned that the U.S. government might be backing away from its longstanding policy of endless violence, militarism and bloodshed, fear not. If we know one thing for sure, it’s that defense contractors and the military-intelligence-industrial complex must earn. And continue to earn it will.
So despite the Air Force having a hard time finding pilots for its drones, the Pentagon still plans to ramp up drone flights by 50% over the next four years.
We learn from the Wall Street Journal that:
The Pentagon plans to sharply expand the number of U.S. drone flights over the next four years, giving military commanders access to more intelligence and greater firepower to keep up with a sprouting number of global hot spots, a senior defense official said.
The plan to increase by 50% the number of daily drone flights would broaden surveillance and intelligence collection in such locales as Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, the South China Sea and North Africa, said the official, who provided exclusive details of the plan to The Wall Street Journal. It would be the first significant increase in the U.S. drone program since 2011, reflecting pressure on military efforts to address a cascading series of global crises.
While expanding surveillance, the Pentagon plan also grows the capacity for lethal airstrikes, the most controversial part of the U.S. drone program and its rapid growth under President Barack Obama . Strikes by unmanned aircraft have killed 3,000 people or more, based on estimates by nonpartisan groups.
Of course, the most offensive part about all of this, is that the “cascading series of global crises” mentioned by the WSJ, are the direct result of incredibly inept and destructive U.S. foreign policy in the first place. Recall the post from earlier today titled, Additional Details Emerge on How U.S. Government Policy Created, Armed, Supported and Funded ISIS. Here’s an excerpt:
Flynn said that it was among a range of intelligence being circulated throughout the US intelligence community that had led him to attempt to dissuade the White House from supporting these groups, albeit without success.
Despite this, Flynn’s account shows that the US commitment to supporting the Syrian insurgency against Bashir al-Assad led the US to deliberately support the very al-Qaeda affiliated forces it had previously fought in Iraq.
The US anti-Assad strategy in Syria, in other words, bolstered the very al-Qaeda factions the US had fought in Iraq, by using the Gulf states and Turkey to finance the same groups in Syria. As a direct consequence, the secular and moderate elements of the Free Syrian Army were increasingly supplanted by virulent Islamist extremists backed by US allies.
It should be noted that precisely at this time, the West, the Gulf states and Turkey, according to the DIA’s internal intelligence reports, were supporting AQI and other Islamist factions in Syria to “isolate” the Assad regime. By Flynn’s account, despite his warnings to the White House that an ISIS attack on Iraq was imminent, and could lead to the destabilization of the region, senior Obama officials deliberately continued the covert support to these factions.
“It was well known at the time that ISIS were beginning serious plans to attack Iraq. Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey played a key role in supporting ISIS at this time, but the UAE played a bigger role in financial support than the others, which is not widely recognized.”
To add insult to injury, oligarch hero Ben Bernanke, the most destructive man of my generation, had the following to say about defense spending, courtesy of Market Watch:
WASHINGTON — Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned Monday that reduced defense spending could have adverse long-term economic impacts, including undermining technological innovations that ultimately produce jobs in the private sector.
Speaking at a Brookings Institution event, Bernanke said, “By far the most important (impact), certainly in the United States, has been the linkage between defense military appropriations and broader technological trends.
“That is one of the major sources of U.S. growth over time. We remain a technological leader. That’s one of our national strengths.”
Bernanke, Federal Reserve chairman from 2006 to 2014, is a full-time scholar and frequent blogger for the Brookings Institution and an adviser to hedge funds Pimco and Citadel. His memoir “The Courage to Act” comes out in mid-October.
Yes, yes of course. It takes incredible courage to print trillions and hand it to over to billionaires.
What are you suckers gonna do about it?
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The Imperial Empire has a large supporting cast it must feed. Always remember the King serves only as long as his court is sated.
Some timeless war-toons...scroll a little, starts mid-way....
https://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/war-inc/
Economist AND War Hawk..
Sounds like a nice combination.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Looks like DoD Budget was $681 Billion in 2011.
That might be the highest Budget so far, so that is probably what they want to spend in 2016... no counting VA, Black Budgets, Pensions.
Have I ever mention that Ben Bernanke is a Keynesian asshat? No? I'm sure I must have...
What a shameful state of a nation, to have the economic well being of people tight strong to the military complex revenues?!
The last thing a Roman wants to see is a legion showing up in Rome. Maybe they could build a wall to keep the barbarians out? See Great Wall of China and Hadrian's Wall.
What is worse is having roman legions sitting idle at home. Far better to send them off on conquests before they get any ideas or see how deplorable the aristocracy as become.
Miffed
They must have finished The Death Star...I can see it moving at night.
Oh where are you Obi Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker...
S/
I find most defense spending to be offensive.
Hence the USSA's motto: "To defend the $ we must offend the World"
Wanna free up money for defense? Then quit building the frigging F-35's and the other overpriced BS the Pentagon wants. While we're at it, we might want to quit sending soldiers into meat grinders with suicidal rules of engagement.....
Nothing to see here folks, just move along now.
Dept of Ag:
2014 Fed Outlays SNAP, Child Nutrition, & WIC = $102.34 Billion
2013 Fed Outlays SNAP, Child Nutrition, & WIC = $108.84 Billion
2012 Fed Outlays SNAP, Child Nutrition, & WIC = $105.94 Billion
2011 Fed Outlays SNAP, Child Nutrition, & WIC = $102.17 Billion
2010 Fed Outlays SNAP, Child Nutrition, & WIC = $ 93.83 Billion
IRS:
IRS, Payment where earned income credit exceeds liability for tax Outlays 2014 = $60.09 Billion
IRS, Payment where earned income credit exceeds liability for tax Outlays 2013 = $57.5 Billion (?What?)
IRS, Payment where earned income credit exceeds liability for tax Outlays 2000 = $26 Billion
IRS, Payment where earned income credit exceeds liability for tax Outlays 1998 = $23.2 Billion
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IRS, Payment Where Child Tax Credit Exceeds Liability for Tax Outlays 2014 = $21,49 Billion
IRS, Payment Where Child Tax Credit Exceeds Liability for Tax Outlays 2013 = $21.6 Billion (?What?)
IRS, Payment Where Child Tax Credit Exceeds Liability for Tax Outlays 2000 = $806 Million (Million)
IRS, Payment Where Child Tax Credit Exceeds Liability for Tax Outlays 1998 = Zero.....
funny how all of these is peanuts compared to godrod spending
Marvin the Martian
That would be a Black Program. I never even see the specific DoD spending other than major categories like construction, operations, R&D, Personnel, Maintenance.
As far as I know Military Satellite Programs are always Black Programs that no one talks about.
The big programs:
- Medicare & Medicaid
- Social Security
- State Spending on Education is like $1 Trillion also
doublepost
<<noob
Progressive criminality at it's finest.
Hey ya know something I've noticed is progressives been in charge for a long time now and have run a very successful propaganda campaign. Thus when complaints are made about criminals in government they are labeled "xxx-cons" by the mush for brains drones who suck down the propaganda kool aid without thinking.
And while "xxx-cons" does describe certain groups who have actually embraced some criminal progressive policy, it is PROGRESSIVES who are in charge! For quite a LOOOOOOOOOOOONG time now. And who OWN ALL of the criminality.
Don't be afraid to say it. Progressives are the real, truly vicious bloodthirsty warmongers. Constitutional Conservatives? Real ones? NOT.
Don't forget, the progressive stupid, it burns.
Grimaldus
Do you seriously believe that anything that happens in Washington of any significance is not completely by bipartisan consensus? There are only so many billionaires out there to set both sides up for life after they leave office. So both sides do the bidding for the same people. It's the biggest, longest-running grift/charade there is outside of organized religion.
Looks like one party to me. The Get-ahead and Greed party.
Everyone does what they want:
- There are few conservative principals in Auditing, Accounting, US Banking, European Banking, or in Finance
- Wealthy do what they want and have influence on US Congress, Main Street lose influence on Congress as soon as their guy gets elected (There is a study that shows the Elite have more influence)
- TPTB are Progressive, probably since they don't conform or know their relatives don't conform to US Religious Norms
- Progressive means social issues and Values from Modern TV
- Conservative Values could be Business, but probably religious if we are in the USA, military values very similar to religious values, discipline seems more of a conservative value and is found in most world religions
"James Paul Warburg (August 18, 1896 – June 3, 1969) was a German-born American banker. He was well known for being the financial adviser to Franklin D. Roosevelt. His father was banker Paul Warburg, member of the Warburg family and "father" of the Federal Reserve system. After World War II, Warburg helped organized the Society for the Prevention of World War III in support of the Morgenthau Plan."
They want Titles, Positions, greater power through Regional Unions and world government. They control wars & Banking.
- The age of monarchs is not over, the Bankers have taken this over and governments gladly give them titles and authority
- They want dumb Labor, low Labor Rates, so they impair us with Entertainment, Propaganda, and poor education... they need a slave class or debt class, and they need insulation from Religious Conservatives
Yep war all the time for profit. Drones away and far as pilots are concerned there are plenty of unemployeed gamers around.
why don't they just turn all spending into government spending? that way, no contraction would ever be suffered.
Please do not tempt them. They already want to.
"The Pentagon plans to sharply expand the number of U.S. drone flights over the next four years, giving military commanders access to more intelligence and greater firepower to keep up with a sprouting number of global hot spots, a senior defense official said."
If they're global hot spots why is it that they are focusing on the U.S?
It's that 'predictive programming' thing, which they are good at since they always know where the next hotspots are going to be - since they create them, and all. I'd say it's looking bullish for hotspots in the ol' USA soon, and DoHS will be the ones at the drone controls.
Apparently, when you or I buy something we value, it adds nothing to the economy, but if the government takes that money from us, so we have to forgo buying things of value, and spends it on the military which produces nothing of value, it adds to the economy.
Not to mention the thing of no value the military buys gets blown up. Why don't we build a Giant Navy every year and just sink it to grow the economy?
You've been reading Krugman again. Didn't your mother tell you that reading Krugman gives you hairy palms?
You got it. And the few remaining productive actors in the economy have to ask permission from the hordes of unproductive (and pay them fees) before they're allowed to get to work.
it's the vig
Ah, the vig, indeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipfeVOW00r4
ISIS needs to start shooting down drones. After all It's good for the economy.
It is always something with these Zio-Cons or Bankers or Blood Suckers.
$T Debt Added
J. Carter, ,$0.37 T (4 yrs)
R. Reagan, $1.69 T
G. H Bush, $1.4 T (4 yrs)
W. Clinton, $1.627 T
G. W. Bush, $4.357 T
B. Obama, $6.365 T (4 yrs)
B. Obama, $8 T (6 yrs est.)
Individual Income Taxes Receipts 2014 = $1.395 Trillion
They want to keep the spending at least as high as the highest year on record, so they can increase that even more.
Total-Federal Government Actual Budget 2012 = $3.54 Trillion (B. Obama)
Edit: Oops 2011 was higher.
Total-Federal Government Actual Budget 2011 = $3.6 Trillion (B. Obama)
Yeah looks like we are pretty screwed.
Yeah and then they use the Bacon Davis Act to build Highways... and contract to AT&T and the most expensive Defense Contractors to do STEM Work... while we have millions of STEM workers who would work for only $20 per hour on temporary employment basis.
Where will they get the funding when we all go on the dole...?
JUST PRINT MOAR!
Wow. Bernake is a military Keynesian? Damn military industrial complex shill. When will this all end?
You'd think someone so 'ed-u-macated' wouldn't so explicitly commit the "broken window fallacy."
You got to admit broken windows are good for the window company.
"Bernanke Warns Cutting Defense Spending Could Hurt Economy"
Bernanke Warns Cutting Defense Spending Could Hurt Economy OUR OWNERS
There, Fixed it for you.
When talking about the "free shit army" you've got to be specific because moar than one. F-35 is up to what ~ 400B?
Chunga, the Gadsen flag strikes more fear into the establishment than the Confederate flag.
But the Confederate flag pisses of the degenerate leftists more.
Only because the TV tells them not to like it. "It does what it's told or it gets the hose again." It is sick how the poor folks on the "left" are seriously like robots. Don't get me wrong the Right has theirs too but not to the extent of the left they are really mindless and unable to think more than one step ahead.
Got one on my bumper, thinking of running the old jolly roger back up.
We live in a dangerous world .... and Obama is dangerous to us .... so, don´t portray the traitor .... as a hawkish warrior ?
Bernanke's memoir should be entitled, "My Courage Is An Act."
A thing that bothers me about drones is that one does not have to be a human to fly a drone.
At least when a piloted aircraft is shot down there is a good chance to see who or what was flying it.
RIGHT! The trillions we spent on defense couldn't protect us against 20 men who were essentially pilots trained by Windows Flight Simulator and armed with box cutters. I'd say the defense budget should be eliminated and if someone would want [like they really would] to take over the USA, let them, they probably could do a better job than our currrent bunch of bozos..... For instance, Jeb Bush thinks the Iraq war was a "good deal"- YEAH! The final price tag will be in excess of $6 trillion dollars and we didn't come away with so much as a dog turd, that Jeb, he's a real piece of work...
You think his FAMILY didn't come away with anything?
If nothing else, they are owed huge favors now by House of Saud, and Israel, and are in good position to threaten Syria, Iran and Caucusus Russia.
the mic branched out to insure their spice would flow: dept homeland security
Not from Djibouti they won't.
Not Welcome Anymore? Chinese Military Giving US Troops the Boot in Djibouti
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150817/1025850350.html#ixzz3jBRctLo9im proud to be one of the last generations that remember a time without perpetual war.
oh wait its not war its, "covert operations, nation building, national security"
Tyler's please enough with this guy. He's yesterdays news. If a tree falls in the forest and nobody's there........
This is a problem both US and Russia face, unfortunately. The MIC are the dominance of the total industrial production for both countries, and are some of the biggest contributors to the economy and work force. So if you cut funding in it, you are subsiquently enough cutting wages, workforce, etc which then ties into increasing poverty so you have to spend more on social benefits, and less money being spent on various goods thus less money for other businesses and taxable income.
It really has become a monster. And only way out of this is to get the MIC's more involved in building civillian products and just overall reduce it and hope that the lost wages/workers/taxable income will re-adjust and find new jobs and new opportunities.
HAHAHA. Only if the public does not benefit from the cuts, in the form of LESS TAX PAID.
MiketheTerrible - This is not a problem for the oligarchs that control the global MIC. This is the desired outcome. The only way to change this is to reboot the system: Lock up, hang, guillotine, burn, waterboard, etc. the traitors and eliminate 99% of the global MIC.
Iceland did this with their banking sector. Debts were repudiated, banks dissolved, and bankers went to jail. Yes, many people lost their jobs. They went back to fishing. A few years later Iceland was the fastest growing economy on the planet with very little debt.
As Iceland's President Olarfur Ragnor Grimmson stated:
“Why are the banks considered to be the holy churches of the modern economy? Why are private banks not like airlines and telecommunication companies and allowed to go bankrupt if they have been run in an irresponsible way? The theory that you have to bail out banks is a theory that you allow bankers enjoy for their own profit, their success, and then let ordinary people bear their failure through taxes and austerity. ?People in enlightened democracies are not going to accept that in the long run.”
Meanwhile, Putin rides submersible to bottom of Black Sea
http://www.rt.com/news/312752-putin-takes-underwater-ride/
Drones= flown by cowards.
Disgusting people.
Well there goes your argument that Americans would never fire on their own people.
soooo, bernanke is now running DoD or he is obama's chief economic advisor (or both)?
i become more disgusted with these keynsian whackos by the day.
i never truely understood what it meant to be a libertarian up until about 5 years ago - i went thru a divorce. was married for 3 years, no kids, all the assets were mine. i got stuck with $50,000 in legal fees, had to give her 1/2 the assets, she shared in none of the liabilities (which she racked-up & was just able to walk away from). also, she got a restraining order. never understood how that worked - appearantly a woman can just walk into a police department & cry foul. none of my neighbors were interviewed. nobody called at my office. no data mined. no facts about me researched. next thing i know, i had 2 cops in my house telling me i had 15 minutes to get out which after if she wanted to, she could have had a garage sale with all my shit and nothing i could do about it. after that, i needed something to occupy my mind in a + way. so i began reseaching & eventually became a libertarian.
its reading articles like these that remind me how small we really are because they simply don't give a shit about us. soooo, we have to borrow more $$$ we don't have to spend more on national OFFENSE (defense is different that what we are doing) and kill more people to piss off their kids & grandkids. now its an "economic, patriotic duty" according to bernanke? fucking pathetic.
Yeah, that is really a harsh divorce and salt in the wound it was only 3 years. It sounds like the worst kind of contract anyone can imagine.
They also don't care what they do to your reputation and don't give you rights to overturn records or background info on yourself. You don't have to be convicted. I don't know much about it, but it is like we are managed as profit centers by bankers. Sounds like in the Military they treat you in a similar fashion, no rights, give up your guns and gun rights, you are placed on hold for debts.
Also a link here that after 911, the war on US Citizens started. I don't even think some people can get passports if they wanted to leave the USA. Kind of a prison planet.
But if you are wealthy and powerful, you can do what you want with private security, private ports, private planes, private islands, off shore banking.
teethvillage - it was brutal. ill never get married again as a result. divorce law in this country is insane. ironic part = all those people who told me "get married, it projects stability" i laugh at now because they are where i was 6 years ago (twisted & wound-up like a top) and im back to my normal self. can't put a price-tag on that which is the silver lining.
Yes I've heard never marry a woman in a third world country and bring her back to the USA... kind of for the same reason... she will change, people will teach her things, and then she gets the US Divorce Laws.
But I might be more inclined to live overseas with a wife than marry in the USA with a woman who has no assets, no career or money.
Wow, that sounds almost exactly how my divorce went down 8 years ago...never again.
If you totaled up all the dollars lost, how many $1000 hookers could you have had for the lost assets & legal fees? Frankly, one should never marry unless the partner has equal assets in case of a breakup. You should have had a contract designed to protect your assets in case of divorce, but hindsight is always 20/20, eh.
At least the parasite is out of your life.
good fictional flick about this - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3297330/ - entitled "Good Kill"
puts things into perspective - drone wars are the tools of the trade for future engagement - in air and on land - probably sea in the not too distant future
Can't we all just get along?
How much money has the Federal Govt spent on Spying on Americans at home???
Must be big money spent on NSA, FBI, DHS, Our big Telecom Companies?
I also heard something about how Army & Navy Intelligence might be spying on US Citizens. 14,16,17 Intelligence Agencies in the USA?
And they just wanted to spend more money, so they create DHS.
I tell you what us suckers are gonna do about it! We're gonna bitch.
The problem is human beings. Show me a time in history when humans were not killing other humans. So in the end a strong military is needed because Russia and China having both invaded their nieighbors (Tibet, Crimea) and both are dicatorships with no freedom at all, we are left with sticking with the cleanest shirt in a dirty laundry bag. The USA is still that cleanest shirt. I've been all ove the world and seen the Berlin Wall when it was up and toured Dachau concentration camp etc etc. Grow up and be glad we spend on the military.
You are a fucking idiot. I have been to 73 countries and lived in 5 of them. including 35 years living in the Useless Snakes
Cocksuckers like you are 'legends in your own minds'. Totally brainwashed.
BTW, shithead, Russia did NOT invade Crimea. Those people voted to join Russia and without coercion.
Now fuck off you goddam asshole.
War is hidden in every aspect of our economy as the niche. This is true barbarism in reality. We are not civilized and we are not even in the process of becoming human.
Wonder what the story is with this, like they funded it, negotiated it, and Obama became elected and they hid it, hid the funding, and maybe had a different idea how to extract wealth or reduce the population or something. North American Union.
"The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) was a region-level dialogue with the stated purpose of providing greater cooperation on security and economic issues.[1] The Partnership was founded in Waco, Texas, on March 23, 2005, by Prime Minister of Canada Paul Martin, President of Mexico Vicente Fox, and U.S. President George W. Bush.[1] It was the second of such regional-level agreements involving the United States following the 1997 Partnership for Prosperity and Security in the Caribbean (PPS).
Since August 2009 it is no longer an active initiative of any of the original dialogue partners."
- Explains why the borders are left open
- Lou Dobbs show clip some where
- Presidential Action of some kind
"THE MEANS OF DEFENSE AGAINST FOREIGN DANGER HISTORICALLY HAVE BECOME THE INSTRUMENTS OF TYRANNY AT HOME".
James Madison
(Caps added for emphasis)
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Yes but whose ecomomy?
For the average citizen, war means sacrifice, poverty, or death.
For polititians and statesmen, war mean power and control.
For the military/corporate world, war means vast profits.
Where do YOU fit in?
Drone flights increased, so, did you expect them to walk?
Regular loansharks have their leg breakers. The zionists, the alpha predator, loan sharks have the US MIC for that purpose. Of course Bernarke the zionist needs the cattle to keep funding the US MIC. If we let it go to seed, its much harder to threaten people around the world.
Translated....'cuts to defense spending' could harm the Oligarchs before they bug out from the ZOMBIE EMPIRE of Dirt.
The DoD always follows the money. F-35. Drones. High tech. Big bucks. Promotions for everyone. When the CEO's of the major defense industry corps serve as defense advisors, what do you expect?
Pentagon Boosts Drone Flights 50% As Bernanke Warns Cutting Defense Spending Could Hurt EconomyBastiat. Can get a PhD without it?
Tyranny's slaughter house must up the slaughter to maintain the flow of lucre.
Zion is a scheme, not an ethnicity.
Well, after their extraordinary success on 9-11, I, for one, am not surprised.
Quote: "The US anti-Assad strategy in Syria, in other words, bolstered the very al-Qaeda factions the US had fought in Iraq, by using the Gulf states and Turkey to finance the same groups in Syria. As a direct consequence, the secular and moderate elements of the Free Syrian Army were increasingly supplanted by virulent Islamist extremists backed by US allies."
Frankly, I don't have a problem with using an enemy and turning it against another enemy. What I do have a problem with though is that Bashir al-Assad, apart from standing in the way of building a natural gas pipeline from Qatar to western Europe, wasn't that much of an enemy and the fight against Bashir al-Assad has created another refugee problem for western Europe, along with the refugee problem from Libya that was also created in a fight against a dictator who was at least keeping a semblance of order and standard of living for its populace.
And the people keep voting the same criminals in!