$1.2 Trillion for National Security Budget..... article + mp3 of interview

[stockholmer]

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175361/tomgram%3A_chris_hellman%2C_%241.2_trillion_for_national_security/

"Welcome to the world of the real U.S. national security budget. Normally, in media accounts, you hear about the Pentagon budget and the war-fighting supplementary funds passed by Congress for our conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. That already gets you into a startling price range -- close to $700 billion for 2012 -- but that’s barely more than half of it. If Americans were ever presented with the real bill for the total U.S. national security budget, it would actually add up to more than $1.2 trillion a year.

Take that in for a moment. It’s true; you won’t find that figure in your daily newspaper or on your nightly newscast, but it’s no misprint. It may even be an underestimate. In any case, it’s the real thing when it comes to your tax dollars. The simplest way to grasp just how Americans could pay such a staggering amount annually for “security” is to go through what we know about the U.S. national security budget, step by step, and add it all up."


Mp3

http://dissentradio.com/radio/11_03_01_hellman.mp3

[WCGreen]

1. The thing is it is not national security....

It is protecting the world economy.

No one realistically wants to invade and occupy the US.

K&R

[stockholmer]

2. they're doing great job 'protecting it'-9/10/2001:Rumsfeld says $2.3 TRILLION Missing from Pentagon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU4GdHLUHwU

....protecting it for the globalist money changers, who make sure all top-level private profits in the trillions (including sovereign debt service) go to them, and all top-level private losses in the trillions are paid for by us, the citizens, through a multi-generational debt peonage system via the BIS, IMF, World Bank, US Fed Reserve, Bank of England, ECB, Bank of Japan, etc etc etc etc.