Who needs Covid relief? We have bombs!
George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead
Raid on a zombie infested town for supplies.
“I thought this was going to be a battle. Its a fucking massacre.”
The use of fireworks to mesmerize the zombies, the overwhelming firepower used to wipe most of them out and raiding the town to secure its resources for the rich and powerful of Fiddler’s Green is often cited as a commentary on the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. “Shock and Awe”, superior firepower to the point of overkill against an outgunned enemy, all for the purpose of stealing what they have to benefit the rich. Along with the the vast inequality in the fortress city, Romero also satirizes the imperialism of late phase capitalism.
Reagan meets actual Afghan mujahedin leaders. White House 1985. The man next Reagan is Rabbani
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Raytheon stock surged Friday morning, after 59 of the company’s Tomahawk missiles were used to strike Syria in Donald Trump’s first major military operation as President.
The Tomahawk missile used in the strike is made by Raytheon (RTN, +0.49%), whose stock opened 2.5% higher Friday, adding more than $1 billion to the defense contractor’s market capitalization.
The shares of other missile and weapons manufacturers, including Boeing (BA, -2.45%), Lockheed Martin (LMT, -0.08%), Northrop Grumman (NOC, -0.40%) and General Dynamics (GD, +0.08%), each rose as much as 1%, collectively gaining nearly $5 billion in market value as soon as they began trading, even as the broader market fell.
Two time Medal of Honor recipient Major General Smedley Butler wrote: “I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.” source
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Oliver Stone on Syria, Jeremy Corbyn, Russia, Snowden, One-sided news, American foreign policy and imperialism. and the CIA involvement in Hollywood.
