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War profiteers are guilty of crimes against humanity and the government is full of their co-conspirator pansy lap dogs. Directly below is a short video and an article explaining the kind of profits government sanctioned criminals are making in the 1st quarter of 2012, over 10 years since the false flag inside job 9/11 operation Vigilant Warrior attacks:
This week, the three military contractors that do the most business with the Pentagon announced their quarterly profits for 2012. Their profits continue to grow while they push Washington, D.C. to protect their budgets at the expense of the rest of us.
This week’s announcement raises a fundamental question: Should people and companies be allowed to make huge profits from war? Even raising this question in today’s environment may seem trite, but we used to have different answers than those that prevail in modern-day Washington, D.C.
“Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes of the Nation while patriotic blood is crimsoning the plains of the South and their countrymen mouldering the dust.” –President Abraham Lincoln.
This last quote is particularly relevant to this week’s profit announcements. Lincoln referred to war profiteers making money by cheating the Union Army. Outrage at war profiteering during this period led to the passage of “Lincoln’s Law,” officially known as the False Claims Act. The False Claims Act is the very same law that two of the companies listed above, Lockheed Martin and Boeing, violated through price-fixing and double-billing the taxpayer, leading to their having to pay roughly $20 million in the first quarter of 2012 to settle suits brought by the U.S. government.
During Roosevelt’s time, the idea of a single contractor company making almost a billion dollars worth of profit in three months would have received short shrift. As Roosevelt’s quote above shows, the idea of people profiting from war’s “disaster” disgusted him, and during his presidency the Truman Committee relentlessly investigated and exposed war profiteers. The closest analogy in our time would be the Committee on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, which found that up to $60 billion (as of September 2011) was lost to waste and fraud in military contracting in those conflicts.
And yet, despite this historical lack of patience for war profiteering, and despite the current record showing gross misconduct and waste, the U.S. government keeps shoveling taxpayer money at these huge corporations. Could it be that the $5 million in campaign donations and $32 million in lobbying dollars so far this election cycle from the military contractors keep Congress intentionally ignorant of the problem?
President George Washington knew a few things about war profiteers, and he didn’t mince words:
“There is such a thirst for gain [among military suppliers]…that it is enough to make one curse their own Species, for possessing so little virtue and patriotism.”
As long as we continue to allow the profit motive to play a role in America’s war, virtue and patriotism–to say nothing of peace–will continue to be in short supply.
Occupy Haywardin SOLIDARITY with Occupy Wall St. and Freedom Plaza:
I know this is a rather late notice but a Peace North member, called for a gathering on the corner of Highways 63 and 27 South this Saturday October 15th at 12 noon. I think their idea to stand on and occupy our corner, from at least 12:00 to 1:00, this Saturday is a good idea, we should express SOLIDARITY with those who are occupying Wall Street http://occupywallst.org/ and the Freedom Plaza "Human Needs not Corporate Greed", occupation in Washington DC http://october2011.org/
Thank you all for standing in solidarity with the cause of peace and justice.
Occupy Wall Street
Thank you, people of occupywallstreet.org; for peacefully bringing the war to where the headquarters of war profiteering are. The elite that bought our government do not want to pay taxes, but they are happy to take our tax dollars through no bid government contracts. We need an agenda and real demands. 1.) Sever the agreement the government made with the international banksters called the Federal Reserve; print United States dollars based on the collective wealth and assets of the nation. 2.) Investigate 9/11/01 and bring the war profiteers, so obviously guilty of crimes against nation and humanity to justice. 3.) Force all officials who so obviously violate the constitution on a routine daily business as usual basis out of office including, Obama and a majority of the administration, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, war profiteer Daine Feinstein, the majority of the house and Senate, most of the Supreme Court. They so obvoisly bow to the bull of the Wall Street Mammon god and are treasonous to nation and humanity. 4.) After the treasonous criminals are out we must organize a constitutional convention so war profiteering and manipulation of our monetary system to enslave us rather than money being a legitimate means of exchange of goods and services can never occur again. 5.) 2012 vote in people that believe in Direct Participatory Democracy so the people can vote directly on law and appropriations, see http://whatisdemocracy.org and http://wis7thdpd.org No matter what their religious views are, we need leaders that believe that treating others as you wish to be treated, the least among us are our masters and love your enemies is a way of life. 6.) National Universal Health Care like all civilized nations have only better. 7.) Devolop a responsible educated policy to curb unsustainable unhealthy population growth including the right of each individual woman to birth control methods. 8.) Several CEOs of several colleges and universities apporved by the US Department of Education rake in $40 million a year; set a salary limit of, let say 25 times minimum wage, for higher education executives, in fact all executives of firms that do 20% or more of their annual business being paid monies that originated as government funds should be limited by law backed with criminal sanctions in cluding prison time for offenders.
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Vote Machine was developed in 2000 to bring attention to the fact that elections were increasingly being held within the electronic circuits of voting machines inaccessible to the general public. The game allows players to explore the issues surrounding electronic vote accumulation and polling. When played online, links to vote machine articles can be accessed.
The only conference dedicated to the exciting new movement using Digital Games for Social Change explored real-world impact, the latest games and funding strategies. Hosted in New York City by Parsons The New School for Design, the 3rd annual Games for Change conference will took place on June 27th and 28th, 2006. Expert practitioners -- academics, activists, non-profits -- werel called in to examine the impact of current games, evaluations planned and the preliminary work to build the field. At the games Expo, designers will showcased their latest state-of-the-art games.
The Toolkit is a set of resources that supports face-to-face training for residents and community leaders. The computer-based component (the "Organizing Game") is used to introduce concepts, prompt discussion, and allow residents to practice skills in a safe, non-threatening environment. The initial focus of the Toolkit is teaching Doorknocking, an organizing technique that's particularly effective in moving issues within a local community.
The first computer game designed to help children of separated or divorced parents cope with their new reality. The tremendous need for such a tool led to years of research and development. The result of this creative teamwork is this unique computer game. It addresses a situation no other game has ever dealt with before, full of fun, entertainment and challenges. The game takes the child on an adventure, while dealing with a number of important issues around divorce and separation, e.g., anger, guilt, split loyalties, the fantasy to reunite the divorced parents and more. "Earthquake in Zipland" not only offers the possibility of dealing with the issues of separation and divorce in an indirect way, but also opens the way to direct dialogue; thus becoming a valuable tool for both therapists and parents.
The Serious Games Initiative is focused on uses for games in exploring management and leadership challenges facing the public sector. Part of its overall charter is to help forge productive links between the electronic game industry and projects involving the use of games in education, training, health, and public policy.
Disaffected is a videogame parody of the Kinko's copy store. The game puts the player in the role employees who are forced to service customers under the particular incompetencies common to a Kinko's store. It gives the player a chance to step into the demotivated position of real FedEx Kinkos employees. Feel the indifference of these purple-shirted malcontents first-hand, and consider the possible reasons behind their malaise -- is it mere incompetence? Managerial affliction? Unseen, but serious labor issues? Disaffected is the first in a series of anti-advergames - games that enact dissatisfaction and criticism against corporations.
Playing 4 Keeps is an innovative youth media project, in which a team of Global Kids Leaders at South Shore High School are gaining leadership and game design skills that they will use to develop and produce a socially conscious online game each year. Once produced, the game will have the potential to educate thousands of young people about a critical global issue. The program is a collaboration with the award-winning online game design company gameLab (gmlb.com), and the GK Leaders at South Shore will work closely with gameLab's experts to produce their game.
An online video game that puts you in the shoes of one of the 2.5 million refugees who are fighting for survival every day in Darfur. Players learn more about the challenges these refugees face and to how to take action to help stop the crisis. In partnership with the Reebok Human Rights Foundation and the International Crisis Group, MTV-U launched the Darfur Digital Activist Contest, an unprecedented competition bringing together student technology and activism to help stop the genocide in Darfur. The winner of the contest and creator of Darfur is Dying, Susana Ruiz, first heard about the contest at the Games for Change conference in 2005.
PeaceMaker is a video game simulation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: a tool aiming to promote a peaceful resolution among Israeli and Palestinian youths, as well as young adults worldwide. Created by two Israeli graduate students with the help of several Palestinian youth groups, Peacemaker is making history as the first game about the Middle East conflict. This one-person game allows the player to take the role of either the Israeli Prime Minister or the Palestinian President, then react to in-game events from diplomatic negotiations to military attacks, and interact with eight other political leaders and social groups in order to establish a stable resolution to the conflict before his or her term in office ends.
A Force More Powerful - the Game of Nonviolent Strategy is the first and only interactive teaching tool in the field of nonviolent conflict. Developed by The International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), media firm York Zimmerman Inc. and game designers at BreakAway Ltd., with ongoing input from the Serbian resistance leaders who helped overthrow Milosevic, the game is built on nonviolent strategies and tactics used successfully in various conflicts around the world. Featuring ten scenarios inspired by history, the game simulates nonviolent struggles to win freedom and secure human rights against dictators, occupiers, colonizers, and corrupt regimes, as well as campaigns for political and human rights for minorities and women. The game models real-world experience, allowing players to devise strategies, apply tactics and see the results. By the Int'l Center on Non-violent Conflict
