I guess I'll start this Observation based rant with an excerpt from Dwight D. Eisenhauers Farewell Address:

"Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea. we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations."

"This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence--economic, political, even spiritual---is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society."

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


That being said, I would like to illistrate how these Unwarrented Influences have flourished in the past 50 years, often times calling into question several things...

a.) exactly how IMPORTANT, is the safety of the American People?

b.) how is the Free Market affected by contending interests.

c.) How is Legislation often Transcended by combined Financial Influence.

The Military Industrial Complex is a group of financial influences, internationally recognized, through several "think-tanks", Action Committee's, Special Interest groups, the United Nations, and Private Investment that is Heavily Regulated by Governing Bodies. The Millitary Industrial Complex is the most pervasive Legislative Body in the world.

The very creation of the millitary industrial complex is hard to pin-point, But Sloan Colt, of Colt firearms fame, was a major player at the time. In its inseption, the MIC wasn't a problem, this was a way for America's number one arms manufacturer to get properly working firearms into the hands of American Soldiers, whom were fighting the Nazi Regime..

Sloan Colt was brought into congress EXPRESSLY for arms dealing in 1938, He was instrumental in Dwight's Federal Aid Highway Act, which gained Sloan incredible support within the house and the senate. Sloan didn't know anything about highways, but he knew weapons.

Regardless of how well the Military Industrial Complex served the US during World War 2, Dwight was INCREDIBLY wary of the entire system. He could feel his administration being hemmed in with private influence and power.

You see, Dwight, STRONGLY apposed the Manhattan Project, which was cooked up at a Bohemian Grove conference, even charging that Enrico, or Tesla, were "Spies" and Van Braun, leader of the project, was part of a German Intelligence organization..

Dwight also STRONGLY apposed the Nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, and Hiroshima, as well as the Carpet Bombing of Tokyo, contending that "using the power of the Allied Forces against expressly civilian targets is beneath the United States."

"The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul." - Herbert Hoover - told truman the day the deed was executed.

"It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons." says ADMIRAL WILLIAM D. LEAHY, the leader of the Naval Allied Forces, in an asses personally given from him directly to Truman in person,

He then spent a reported 10 plus minutes, removing his plethora of medals from his uniform, and layed them on Trumans desk.....

after a little more researching during this article I found out Leahy died in 1959 from an "ongoing struggle against alcoholism." and after the Bombings in Nagasaki and Hiroshima he was moved to President of Naval Historical Society...he never gave any public addresses under this title.

"In the spring of '45 it was clear that the war against Germany would soon end, and so I began to ask myself, 'What is the purpose of continuing the development of the bomb, and how would the bomb be used if the war with Japan has not ended by the time we have the first bombs?"
ASKS LEO SZILARD of the Manhattan project.

http://www.doug-long.com/quotes.htm

So, if the leader of the allied forces, the future president, Admiral of the Naval Forces, Scientific Research and Development Team, ELLIS ZACHARIAS the Deputy Director of the Office of Naval Intelligence, and BRIGADIER GENERAL CARTER CLARKE The military intelligence officer in charge of preparing intercepted Japanese cables - the MAGIC summaries - for Truman and his advisors TELL YOU NOT TO DO SOMETHING...

what do you do? do you listen to the greatest military strategists, scientists and statesmen the world has ever seen?

No...you work in tandem with Sloan Colt, on the research of a weapon that doesn't need to be used, while wasting MILLIONS in tax payer dollars on the research, while benefitting from no-bid contracts..

Colt arms was making a killing off of producing the bombs, and Truman had substantial market share in the corporation when he brought it on board, mostly for Legislative Bribry, in the form of "campaign contributions" during the Highway Acts, which were obviously Sloan Colts smokescreen to get into congress.

The Lend-Lease Act accelerated arms sells, naturally, after the act was passed Colt sold arms to Poland, France, and Germany...yes...Germany..

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/turger41.htm

^The Avalon Project^ was a way for arms to be funneled into Germany through turkey, and it was openly sponsored by Yale.

It seems, that perhaps the Military Industrial Complex was waging a Pre-emptive, Nuclear World War, with afore-knowledge, and the possible armanence of the enemy, you see, at the point of the creation of the Avalon Project, Hitler had already Violate the Treaty of Versailles and annexed Poland.

The only people that supported the Manhattan Project, were Sloan Colt, and President Truman, two people who had substantial money invested in the project.

How can a Financial Entity bring the president and the leader of the allied forces to its knees? Who had the authority to commit US troops to an engagement of such proportion?

"thanks to decoded Japanese diplomatic messages, American leaders knew that Japan was about to surrender when they unleashed needless nuclear devastation." Claims the Weekly Standard.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Conten...5/894mnyyl.asp

So why then? in the name of profit, a new political party had emerged on the Hill, something that didn't bend to the will of the people, the Order of Death, the Party of Cash, had emerged. and Dwight knew it.

"The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded." Dwight Eisenhauer

Arbusto, Hutchinson, Toshiba: Americans need, elitists greed.

following the money of the powerful is very very easy, they just can't hide the fact their gambling with the soveriengty of the nation and the wealth of its people. The Kennedy's, The Rotheschilds, theres just so many that have played a roll. So I'm going to stick with the most prevelant power-families today.

Step One: Building a Better Tomorrow, The Day After...

Let's cronicle the rise and fall of Arbusto Energies, Arbusto Energy was a petroleum and energy company formed in Midland, Texas, in 1977, by George Walker Bush and a group of investors which included Dorothy Bush, Lewis Lehrman, William Henry Draper III, Bill Gammell, and James R. Bath.

Its important to note, that , purchased the Houston Gulf Airport on behalf of Salem bin Laden in 1976, a Saudi sheik (and Osama bin Laden's older half-brother.)

Gammell's father invested US oil company Bush-Overbey, owned by future US President George H. W. Bush. The two families became friends, with George W. Bush spending the summer at the Gammell's farm in Scotland and Bill was a frequent visitor to the Bush family compound at Kennebunkport. Bill Gammell was one of the investors in George W.'s Arbusto Oil, and George W. attended Bill Gammell's wedding in Glasgow in 1983. The two have remained close friends. When George W. Bush assumed the Presidency, both he and Blair reportedly called their mutual friend Gammell to ask his opinion of the other.

It pays to have friends in High-Places, Places so high that not even the law, nor international legislation, can find you.

Salem Bin Laden died in 1988, in a plane crash, His personal holdings were then transfered to Khalid bin Mahfouz, Bin Mahfouz was a non-executive director of Bank of Credit and Commerce International, a huge financial conglomerate later convicted of money laundering, bribery, support of terrorism, arms trafficking, and many other crimes.

Bin Mahfouz still represents the Laden Investment Group, BCCI, and the house of Saud in the United States.

In 1982, Arbusto became known as Bush Exploration, a year after George H. W. Bush became Vice President. A friend of the Bush family, Philip Uzielli, invested $1 million in 1982 in exchange for a 10% stake in the company, at a time when the whole company was valued at less than $400,000. As it neared financial collapse again in September 1984, Bush Exploration merged with Spectrum 7 Energy Corp., a company owned by William DeWitt and Mercer Reynolds. Bush became Chairman and CEO of Spectrum 7.

In 1985 Spectrum 7 reported a net loss of $1.5 million and was bought in 1986 for $2.2 million by Harken Energy, with Bush joining the Harken board of directors and finance audit committee.

Bush Jr. was investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commision for Insider tradeing, after all, He and his associates were quickly consolidateing the American Electrical infrastructure, which was failing and continually upping the cost of coverage. Strangly enough, Enron was unable to avoid what the Bushes, Ladens, and Sauds had been doing for 20 years.

it should be noted, that the owner of Harken Energies was smoking gun Khalid bin Mahfouz, The BCCI al-queda supporter, had just bought the bushes out of bankruptcy.

Bush was never Interveiwed by the SEC, and had appointed the SEC Commision just 2 years before the investigation.

Still begs to question, why were the bin ladens, the house of saud in essence, so attracted to these small-time, 400 thousand dollar Texas Based Energy Companies, when they were sitting on some of the most lucrative refineing capeabilities in the world?

I didn't say the Military Industrial Complex made sense, I just said it made DOLLARS....

Slick Willy Rides Again: I'll sell US ports from the grave!!

Charles Cox, was appointed by George Bush Jr. as Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 2005, He had served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1989 untill august of 2005.

In 1994 he was appointed by President Clinton to the Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform.

Charles Cox, then made it legal, for President Clinton to Sell Decomisioned naval ports to, mainly, China.

and so it went down, bill Clinton hosted his "Coffee Talks" in which Toshiba president Kiyofumi Kakudo and Hutchinson President Li Ka-Shing got together, and discussed selling shares of Harken, in exchange for shares of Cosco, Toshiba, and a substantial donation to the "Clinton Library"

So what Just happened here? Cox, Bin Mahfouz, James R. Bath, and The Kennedy's know, there all making a killing, and they all are still very powerful in American Politics.

What happened to the energy? China and Japan (cosco and toshiba) are now a nuclear energy supplier, and have aided Iran in the creation of Nuclear arms.

Likewise, Halliburton met with Cyrus Nasseri, chairmen of Iran Oil Kish Corporation, and also conveneintly the Head of the Iranian Enrichment programme.

Iran has issued charges against Nasseri, claiming he sold "iranian Nuclear Technology to the United States." However, Nasseri did indeed use Oil Kish investments to purchase Halliburton produced Nuclear Centrifuges.



What does it mean, when the Energy Market, is no longer used as leverage system against foreign governments, but a marketing ploy, used to profiteer, and leave the share-holders holding the bag?

Today the five largest arms dealers in the world are the only permenent members of the UN security council, We see Infrastructure being sold at an accelerated rate to foreign interests, and the only applicable industries in the US left are Service.

People are quick to denounce the UN, private interests, and Think Tanks, but their presence and influence are continually felt.

The future shape of governance will not be dictated by the meter and tone of the people, The ebb and flow of ideology versus democracy,but by the interests of Domestic and Foreign Financial interests.

In the future wars will be diplomatically implemented, not out of necessity, but by the proxy of portfolio's.

Surely you can see the corealation between administrations, who there Military Industrial Complex Members are, and what they see as justifiable goals.

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Bump...again

huh?
I stopped reading after that

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Your Correction is indeed right...but on the other hand...


Oppenheimer Funds, was behind the project, the men your talking about, were the mouth-peices to the DOD....

Von Braun developed the B-2 buzz bomb for the germans, he was made a technical advisor to Nasa in 1950..

Von Braun's designs were paramount in the creation of the Manhattan Project..

"Wernher von Braun (1912-1977) | Born in Wirsitz in eastern Germany (now Poland) and worked at Peenemünde developing the V2 rockets that struck at Britain in 1944-45. One of the first true “rocket scientists,” he and about 120 other German scientists were brought to the U.S. to work on rocket systems. The U.S. space program was greatly speeded up by their work, culminating in the Saturn V rocket that sent Americans to the moon on the Apollo mission in 1969, when von Braun was the head of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama."

http://www.german-way.com/famous.html source

He and Nikola Tesla made a very famous bet, on whether or not the reaction could be stopped...

Theres a difference between engineering a project, and being its official mouth-peice...

Von Braun was a rocket scientist. The Manhattan project developed the atomic bomb. Tesla was 84 years old when the Manhattan project was started. I've never heard of his involvement in the MP.

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