The Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) is an unofficial phrase used to describe the relationship between government entities (namely defense) and defense-minded manufacturers/organizations.)
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It is seen as a vested interest which influences public policy, as both sides benefit - one side from obtaining war weapons, and the other from being paid to supply them.
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Since 9/11, between one-third and half of the nearly $14 trillion the Pentagon has spent went to for-profit defense contractors
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(best bit) - with dozens of members of Congress and their spouses owning millions of dollars’ worth of stock in those companies.
(Surprised this hasn't been woke-washed off the internet.. Almost everything else has.)
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PREDICTION (a poorly-informed musing, really.. I don't know :D): Dollar system will finally collapse and CBDC will be passed into law in December of this year.
100 years ago:
on December 23, 1913 (2023), the Senate passed
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and President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act.
The need for a central bank became painfully evident during the financial panic of 1907 (2007), when the stock market collapsed, banks failed, and credit evaporated.
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Because the federal government lacked the tools to respond, it had to depend on PRIVATE BANKERS, such as J. P. Morgan, to provide an infusion of capital to sustain the banking system.
96 AD
And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the kings from the east could march their armies toward the west without hindrance.