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Climate Protest at COP 17. 12/03/2011 © Shayne Robinson / Greenpeace
By John Scales Avery*, TRANSCEND Media Service — Why is the military-industrial complex sometimes called “The Devil’s Dynamo”?
The military-industrial complex involves a circular flow of money. The money flows like the electrical current in a dynamo, driving a diabolical machine.
Photo source: ICAN
Money from immensely rich corporate oligarchs buys the votes of politicians and the propaganda of the mainstream media. Numbed by the propaganda, citizens allow the politicians to vote for obscenely bloated military budgets, which further enrich the corporate oligarchs, and the circular flow continues.
The Industrial Revolution and Colonialism The devil’s dynamo of today has lead to a modern version of colonialism and empire. It is therefore interesting to look at the first global era of colonialism: In the 18th and 19th centuries, the continually accelerating development of science and science-based industry began to affect the whole world.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, introducing a new United Nations-backed report outlining pathways major industrial economies can use to cut their carbon emissions by mid-century, on 8 July 2014 called for broad cooperation and “bold” action or the world will face dangerous and irreversible climate disruption.*
Source: UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network
“We know that we are not on track, and time is not on our side,” Ban warned during a Headquarters press conference to launch the Deep Decarbonization Pathway Project report, produced by leading research institutes in 15 countries, is the first global cooperative program to identify practical pathways to a low-carbon economy by 2050.
