{"id":68654,"date":"2024-06-16T19:22:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T00:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68654"},"modified":"2024-06-16T19:22:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T00:22:52","slug":"impending-system-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68654","title":{"rendered":"Impending System Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Impending System Failure<\/a><\/h3>\n

Readying the war machine for what\u2019s to come<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Soldiers from the 3rd Brigade of the 101st Airborne, Kuwaiti desert, March 20, 2003. (AP Photo\/Jean-Marc Bouju\/National Journal)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

H.R. 8070, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2025 features the usual increase in \u201cdefense\u201d spending to a record $883.7 billion. It takes money to be by far the biggest arms supplier to the world\u00a0at 41.7 percent<\/a>\u00a0and provide the munitions necessary to murder Palestinian women and children. We also, most sadly, have to think about the future, as droughts, floods and temperature extremes destroy economies and create resource wars. This is not to say that I approve.<\/p>\n

$883.7 billion works out to about $2600, for each one of us Americans spreading corporatocracy far and wide, shell by shell, proxy war by proxy war.<\/p>\n

I just\u00a0read a post<\/a>\u00a0by Dennis Kucinich, remember him, the man who ran for president and had the \u201cradical\u201d idea of creating a Department of Peace? He lost, of course. In his article, he mentioned there\u2019s an amendment to the latest Pentagon budget to reinstate the draft. I double-checked.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, section 531 addresses automatic registration in the Selective Service System,\u00a0stating<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cExcept as otherwise provided in this title, every male citizen of the United States, and every other male person residing in the United States, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six, shall be automatically registered under this Act by the Director of the Selective Service System.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Huh. I guess we still need living, breathing bodies to operate remote AI enhanced weapons hovering about. I responded to Dennis, knowing one of our fine public servants would be eager to get back to me.<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Impending System Failure Readying the war machine for what\u2019s to come Soldiers from the 3rd Brigade of the 101st Airborne, Kuwaiti desert, March 20, 2003. (AP Photo\/Jean-Marc Bouju\/National Journal) H.R. 8070, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2025 features the usual increase in \u201cdefense\u201d spending to a record $883.7 billion. It takes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[34444,525,16555,13841,862],"class_list":["post-68654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-geoffrey-deihl","tag-military","tag-national-defense-authorization-act","tag-ndaa","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68655,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68654\/revisions\/68655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}