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How many billionaires are from the "war machine" sector of economy -- the weapons makers/arms dealers who make BIG Bucks selling what we pay for them to make? Must include the makers of those very large & costly drones & fighter jets...& bombs of course; need alot of those cuz' we keep using them up!

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Corporations in the war machine, are managed by CEO's,. CFO's, COO's, that are hired by the boards of directors, to ensure that the corporations make a positive rate of return for investors. The greater the rate of return (profit) the more they get paid, they are simply very well paid employees of the Board of Directors (BoD).

Boards are comprised of directors, who are themselves shareholders in other corporations (not necessarily the MIC) as well as paid to sit on other BoD.s

As I replied to Gerald, here and in yesterdays Report, the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) is beans compared to the financial instituties in particular the Association of Primary Dealers in Government Seccurities

Here is a current list, and of all Goldman Sachs is the most powerful, as it reaped the biggest benefit from the bank bailout of 2008 (Too big to fail), by buying out the competition like Leham Brothers, with government money.

Notice that most are also foreign and sovereign funds. The APDGS is who the Fed sells the National debt to, in the form of government bonds. It then resells them to the Fed and to foreign funds, sovereign funds and central bank. That is why Congress not re authorizing the national debt, will wreak world wide havoc, and even depression.

Which in turn motivates the rest of the world, to divest in American securities, and use some other currency as the international base.

It is through debt, that the American financial system controls much of the world, especially those dependent on the IMF and World Bank.

Historically the way financiers were able to reclaim their losses, has been through force, either war or in the case of personal debtors, via the courts and police, which use force to evict the debtor in default. Only a nations financial powers use armies as police.

What was the real reason for the American revolution. The debtor (the Bank of England) used the Royal army and navy, to force the colonies to repay their debt, which they falsely claimed was incurred by Britain in fighting the French and Indian war, when in actuality, it was a minor expense compared to the ongoing war with France..

The reason that Britain gave up on the War of 1812, is because it had been concurrently fighting a war with Napoleon, and that really sapped it's resources.

ASL Capital Markets Inc

Bank of Montreal, Chicago Branch

Bank of Nova Scotia, New York Agency

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

Barclays Capital Inc.

BofA Securities, Inc.

Cantor Fitzgerald & Co.

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

Daiwa Capital Markets America Inc.

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

Jefferies LLC

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

Mizuho Securities USA LLC

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

NatWest Markets Securities Inc.

Nomura Securities International, Inc.

RBC Capital Markets, LLC

Santander US Capital Markets LLC

Societe Generale, New York Branch

TD Securities (USA) LLC

UBS Securities LLC.

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

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Wow, really good explanation Mr. Farrar. Were you once a teacher?

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