However, the latest pressure group to be formed in the run up to next year's U.S. presidential elections is an insult to basic intelligence. It calls itself Americans for Peace, Prosperity and Security but literally hides its sinister motives in broad daylight. The name sounds so innocent, so appealing and credible. After all, don't we all want peace, prosperity, and security!?
Except this group wants everything but that. For them a $600 billion military budget is not nearly enough. As is often the case, you just need to look at the names of board members to see right through the organization's name.
According to the Intercept:
Former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers has formed a new pressure group, now active in Iowa and New Hampshire, to serve as the "premiere national security and foreign policy organization during the 2016 debate" and to "help elect a president who supports American engagement and a strong foreign policy."
Roger's group, Americans for Peace, Prosperity, and Security, is hosting candidate events and intends to host a candidate forum later this year. The organization does not disclose its donors. But a look at the business executives helping APPS steer presidential candidates towards more hawkish positions reveals that many are defense contractors who stand to gain financially from continued militarism:
- Advisory Board Member John Coburn is chairman and CEO of VT Systems, a company that delivers communications technology for the Defense Department.
- Advisory Board Member Stephen Hadley is a principal at the consulting firm RiceHadleyGates and serves as a board member to defense contractor Raytheon, a position that pays him $228,007 in annual compensation.
- New Hampshire Board Member Rich Ashooh lists his employment as Director, Strategy at BAE Systems.
- New Hampshire Board Member James Bell is the chief executive of EPE Corporation, a manufacturing company that says it is a "premier supplier to the defense community."
- Advisory Board Member John Engler is the president of the Business Roundtable, a lobbying group for major corporations, including defense contractors such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, United Technologies and Northrop Grumman.
- New Hampshire Board Member Ken Solinksy is founder of Insight Technologies, a night vision and electro-optical systems firm acquired by L-3 Communications.
- New Hampshire Chairman and Advisory Board Member Walt Havenstein is the former chief executive of BAE Systems and SAIC, two of the largest defense contractors in America. Havenstein, who left SAIC in 2012, was paid partially in company stock options.
Dear fellow beSOTTed readers,
It is no accident that the largest sewage treatment plant in the world is located outside Washington, DC, and is charmingly named the "Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility." [Link]
Now isn't that a wonderful factoid to tell all your friends? Thank you, thank you, one and all, you're welcome.
No doubt the same Republicans who came up with the name "Blue Plains" for a shithouse sludge dump came up with the name "Americans for Peace, Prosperity and Security" for the latest incarnation of Murder Incorporated.
And these people are the same ones who write your media stories for you.
Keep believing what they tell you, and your eyes will soon be opened to a nuclear fireball, which will be the last thing you see before your eyeballs melt and your face falls off. But console yourself, in your remaining minutes or hours or days of excruciatingly painful life, that you can no longer read their newspapers or watch their television.
No, don't thank me for pointing out your future to you. There's a reason God does not let us see the moment of our deaths, otherwise the churches would be so full we would have to spend our money building more of them, instead of more bombs. And just think how bad that would be for the economy.