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"...your defence budget (how large is it again)"

It's about the size of the 10 biggest following countries COMBINED! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_e...

That is YOUR hard earned tax money at work AGAINST YOU.

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>> hey, non-US citizen here.

> That is YOUR hard earned tax money at work AGAINST YOU.

The guy you're yelling at is a non-US citizen who's point is "for the love of god, you ignorant american, how did you not see what's been happening until now?"

It's completely stupid that this is even a topic on HN, but the worst part is the amount of mindless shitposting going on. I mean, you just replied to a person who starts off with a disclaimer about being a not-american, and your response culimates in righteous but misplaced indignation.

Fooey.

Black projects are not listed in a public budget. The premise of it being tax money is also suspect. The US government does not get all of the money from taxes despite the popular notion. I agree with your gist however; A modern day human sacrifice.

Could you list some of the other sources of government funding? The only one I can think of is the alleged CIA drug trafficking scandals from decades past.

Illegal arms trafficking, which was somewhat more thoroughly proven than the CIA making a profit from its illegal drug trafficking. Its involvement, however, was pretty cut-and-dried, and goes far beyond being an "alleged scandal".

The CIA's drug trafficking activities over the decades are a matter of historical record:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Politics_of_Heroin_in_South...

This of course does not cover Afghanistan and Iran/Contra.

Here's a paper examining CIA Black Funding simply by looking at the trillion or so dollars of misallocated DoD money over fifty or so years:

http://www1.american.edu/salla/Articles/BB-CIA.htm

A trillion here and there and pretty soon you're talking real money.

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