{"id":469730,"date":"2017-04-12T06:22:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T06:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=469730"},"modified":"2017-04-12T06:22:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T06:22:50","slug":"heavily-armed-swamp-critters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=469730","title":{"rendered":"Heavily Armed Swamp Critters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Bill Bonner<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

The Donald couldn’t have been any clearer in 2013\u2026 but that was then, and this is now.<\/p>\n

But then, last week the last great hope for the Trump administration blew up in Syria. Now the neo-cons are delighted. And the cronies. And the zombies, too.<\/p>\n

Here’s the outlook: no real change to O’care. No cutbacks in entitlements. No attempt to balance the budget. No belt-tightening at the pudgy Pentagon (instead, it will get more money).<\/p>\n

And now this: The wars in the Middle East will not only go on\u2026 they will accelerate. For now, the U.S. is not only fighting terrorists. It is also fighting the people who are fighting the terrorists.<\/p>\n

It’s a perfect Deep State war: It is guaranteed neither to win nor to lose, but simply to go on indefinitely. This gives the insiders more and more of the nation’s wealth to piddle away in absurd wars in preposterous places.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Congress adjourned. When it returns in two weeks, it will confront another crisis of its own making. Bloomberg<\/em> reports:<\/p>\n

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Government funding expires on April 28, which will give Congress five days to unveil, debate, and pass an enormous spending bill\u2026 or trigger a government shutdown.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a mess,\u201d said Paul Brace, a congressional expert at Rice University in Houston, offering his own pessimistic view of the unified Republican control of the House and Senate so far under President Donald Trump. \u201cIt was so much easier when all you had to do was oppose Obama.\u201d[\u2026]<\/em><\/p>\n

House Republicans \u201chave differences of opinion. And they aren’t just political differences. They are policy differences,\u201d said Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Worst Mistake<\/p>\n

GUALFIN, ARGENTINA \u2013 By our calculation, it took just 76 days for President Trump to get on board with the Clinton-Bush-Obama agenda. Now there can be no doubt where he’s headed. He’s gone Full Empire. Not that it was unexpected. But the speed with which the president abandoned his supporters and went over to the Deep State is breathtaking.<\/p>\n

Once there was only a Trump fragrance called Empire\u2026 now he has gone full empire himself<\/p>\n

Among the noise and hubbub of the election campaign, there was one message coming from the Trump team that was music to our ears. Middle East wars? He was against them, he said.<\/p>\n

He claimed to have opposed the 2003 attack on Iraq. He said it was one of the \u201cworst mistakes\u201d the country ever made. As for further involvement, why waste American lives and American wealth on wars you can’t win?<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica First,\u201d he said. This was a refreshing position. It put the Republican neo-cons and Establishment Republicans against him; many went over to Hillary rather than risk giving up their think tank grants and consulting fees.<\/p>\n

Tweets by Bill Kristol, one of the best known pro-war neo-con think tank appendages and political pundits in the US. It is quite amazing that this man is actually considered a \u201cconservative\u201d. He is probably not in the least concerned that his views are widely rejected by American citizens, safe in the knowledge that they can be \u201cbrought around\u201d every time with a sufficient dose of war propaganda (generally, this has always been true). However, mainstream media are fading away, reaching fewer and fewer people every year. Controlling the narrative is no longer as easy as it once was.<\/p>\n

A 2013 poll showed 52% of Americans thought the U.S. should \u201cmind its own business internationally.\u201d But the elite gained power and money from foreign wars; they weren’t going to give them up. Non-entitlement spending in the swamp goes largely to cronies in the military-security industry.<\/p>\n

Perfect Deep State War <\/p>\n

But Donald Trump promised a \u201cnew foreign policy.\u201d No more trying to be the world’s policeman. No more fighting other people’s battles\u2026 and making things worse. No more wasting American money and American lives on foolish, unwinnable wars.<\/p>\n

Ending America’s pointless and unsettling romp in the desert would be a good first move. The bill for these misadventures is now said to be $7 trillion. As to Syria, Trump was typically direct. Don’t attack the country, he warned Barack Obama in a 2013 tweet, or \u201cMANY VERY BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

The Donald couldn’t have been any clearer in 2013\u2026 but that was then, and this is now.<\/p>\n

But then, last week the last great hope for the Trump administration blew up in Syria. Now the neo-cons are delighted. And the cronies. And the zombies, too.<\/p>\n

Here’s the outlook: no real change to O’care. No cutbacks in entitlements. No attempt to balance the budget. No belt-tightening at the pudgy Pentagon (instead, it will get more money).<\/p>\n

And \u2026read more<\/a> <\/p>\n

Source:: Acting Man<\/a><\/p>\n

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