Government Shutdown Not Slowing Down Warmongers

The government shutdown isn’t slowing down the warmongers.  For example:

• The CIA is ramping up covert training program for Syrian rebels

• President Obama has waived a ban on aiding regimes that use child soldiers

• The Department of Defense awarded 94 new contracts worth a combined total of more than $5 billion dollars the day right before the government shutdown

• DoD will continue to award contracts during the shutdown … but will stop publicly announcing them

• The giant $2 billion dollar NSA spying center in Utah is still opening (the NSA is part of the Department of Defense, which carries out assassination and cyber-warfare campaigns, as well as destroying the privacy of American citizens)

As Ron Paul notes, military spending will increase 18% even after the sequestration “cuts”:

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