tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-497287769913979917.post4115582027758675100..comments2024-03-25T08:15:02.798+01:00Comments on TARCOTECA contrainfo: Bases, Bases, En todas partes ... Excepto en el Informe del PentágonoPablo Herakliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10166716472135015623noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-497287769913979917.post-32173765588676459582019-02-14T00:31:16.321+01:002019-02-14T00:31:16.321+01:00Después de la advertencia de Eisenhower vino la de...Después de la advertencia de Eisenhower vino la de JFK y su asesinato por el mismo aparato, así que si, el complejo militar-industrial acavó absorbiendo al departamento de defensa y aliandose con Israel, hasta el punto presente.<br />Sobre los "burros de pueblo", que se yo, no sirven ni pa cavar zanjas. No se puede discutir con ellos, solo destruirlos. <br />Lo de los puestos de trabajo es la cantinela de siempre, hasta el ejercito lo dice. La gente ve que se mueve pasta pero que curioso, ninguno pesca. Claro, a vosotros os la van a dar. España es una muy colonia, solo hay que ver la declaración de PPedro Sanchez sobre Venezuela.<br />Salud!Pablo Herakliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10166716472135015623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-497287769913979917.post-88876381875750307802019-02-13T00:06:16.525+01:002019-02-13T00:06:16.525+01:00"In his farewell address to the nation, Presi..."In his farewell address to the nation, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns the American people to keep a careful eye on what he calls the “military-industrial complex” that has developed in the post-World War II years.<br /><br />A fiscal conservative, Eisenhower had been concerned about the growing size and cost of the American defense establishment since he became president in 1953. In his last presidential address to the American people, he expressed those concerns in terms that frankly shocked some of his listeners.<br /><br />Eisenhower began by describing the changing nature of the American defense establishment since World War II. No longer could the U.S. afford the “emergency improvisation” that characterized its preparations for war against Germany and Japan. Instead, the United States was “compelled to create a permanent armaments industry” and a huge military force. He admitted that the Cold War made clear the “imperative need for this development,” but he was gravely concerned about “the acquisition of unwarranted influence…by the military-industrial complex.” In particular, he asked the American people to guard against the “danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”<br /><br />Eisenhower’s blunt language stunned some of his supporters. They believed that the man who led the country to victory in Europe in World War II and guided the nation through some of the darkest moments of the Cold War was too negative toward the military-industrial complex that was the backbone of America’s defense. For most listeners, however, it seemed clear that Eisenhower was merely stating the obvious. World War II and the ensuing Cold War resulted in the development of a large and powerful defense establishment. Necessary though that development might be, Eisenhower warned, this new military-industrial complex could weaken or destroy the very institutions and principles it was designed to protect." Dwight D. Eisenhower<br /><br />Cuán colosal no sería ya (años 60) el monstruo que se estaba engendrando, como para que el mismísimo Eisenhover advirtiera del peligro que supondría alimentar dicho monstruo.<br /><br />Aunque todos los imperios han tenido "bases" y ejércitos encargados de custodiar sus rutas comerciales (de rapiña), las bases yanquis están, además, estrechamente vinculadas al mega hormonado complejo industrial militar. Los carísimos componentes, repuestos y mantenimiento de todo ese armamento desplegado y vendido por todo el mundo, más el numeroso personal, militar y civil, necesario para mantenerlo bien "engrasado, conforman una de las mayores corporaciones, por no decir la mayor, del mundo. Corporación que, a su vez, ha propiciado un clientelismo autóctono allá donde ha plantado una base. Aunque no el único, Rota es un buen ejemplo de ello. "Que sería de los miles de puestos de trabajo que la base genera si la desmantelaran", he oído decir a más de un lugareño. El caso de Navantia, estrechamente ligada a componentes de fabricación 'made in USA', es otro ejemplo de ese clientelismo colonial.<br /><br />Contaminación, dilapidación de recursos y amenazante presencia, las bases norteamericanas son, ya de por sí y sin pegar ni un disparo, una amenaza para la humanidad.<br /><br />Salud!Loamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17339350574917360205noreply@blogger.com