クリスティ・ブリンクリーのインスタグラム(christiebrinkley) - 8月10日 22時29分

"The National Priorities Project, which keeps running expenditure tabs on the costs of war, estimates that the US has now spent nearly $1.7 trillion on wars since 2001. A spokeswoman for the National Priorities Project told BuzzFlash that approximately $823 billion has been spent on the Department of Homeland Security since its creation after 9/11. She also mentioned a Washington Post article from 2013 that estimated the CIA budget at $14.7 billion. Pentagon spending alone - which comprises more than half of the US budget each year - rings in at $554 billion for 2015. To be fair, a lot of this funding overlaps, but the behemoth financial interests of the "war industry" are readily apparent from these figures. Furthermore, these estimates do not include agencies such as the State Department and many unknown "black budget" programs and smaller war and surveillance allocations."- @truth-out The US ranked an abysmally low 82 on the recent Global Peace Index. Unless America invests in the structures to promote peace, it will continue to find itself at war. The peace dividend is worth it: The world could have saved $8 trillion if it had been at peace last year. -Christian science monitor "As much as we herald the Prince of Peace - at certain times of year - there are relatively few US decision makers, industry leaders, or bureaucrats who would actually welcome peace. After all, their government jobs or privatized contracts are at stake.

There's just too much money, too much profit, too many campaign contributions and too many jobs that rely on war and the vilifying of endless - and quickly replaceable - "enemies." Jesus, no doubt, would be turned away from visiting the State Department on a mission of peace, because nothing threatens the bloated and profitable military-industrial-surveillance complex like the prospect of an end to violent conflict. In fact, peace is the biggest enemy of prosperity and power for those who make their livelihoods - and in many cases, fortunes - off of war." ✌?❤️

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