PENTAGON TO GET $700 BILLION AND CIA TO GET POWERS TO DRONE AFGHANISTAN AND BEYOND

Great!

Just great!!

Just what the world needs right now.

The Shadow Government/Deep State/Military-Industrial Complex must be laughing their heads off at Infowars.

The Pentagon has just been given $700 billion:

Demonstrating the bipartisan support of Democrats and Republicans for militarism and war, the US Senate voted 89 to nine on Monday to authorize $700 billion in spending for the military and intelligence agencies, an $80 billion increase from 2016 and $54 billion more than President Donald Trump requested earlier this year.

The House of Representatives has already adopted a similar version of the bill, called the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The House and Senate versions will now be reconciled and presented for Trump to sign into law.

The NDAA is a clear sign that the US is preparing to launch major wars of aggression, potentially involving nuclear weapons. The bill provides $200 million to upgrade nuclear launch facilities, $8.5 billion for missile defense systems in the US and in outer space, and $6.4 billion for Virginia class offensive nuclear submarines.

Trump hailed the bill’s $700 billion price tag in his warmongering speech to the United Nations on Tuesday, citing it as proof that “our military will soon be the strongest it has ever been.”

[source : Senate overwhelmingly approves record $700 billion military budget, WSWS, http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/09/20/pent-s20.html, 20th September 2017]

And the CIA will get powers to expand the drone program to Afghanistan and beyond:

Now, the Trump administration is contemplating additional policy changes that will further expand the CIA's authority to conduct drone strikes in a number of countries, both in and out of war zones. Such a move would reverse years of effort by President Barack Obama to reduce the CIA's role in targeted killing and shift that responsibility to the military. It could also mean more civilian casualties in CIA drone strikes.

In reporting this story, NBC News spoke to officials at intelligence agencies, the Pentagon, Congress and the White House. All requested anonymity to discuss a classified program.

...Pompeo has pushed for more freedom of action. He wants Trump to authorize the spy agency to strike targets in Afghanistan, which had long been the domain of the military, a senior U.S. official with direct knowledge told NBC News. The New York Times first reported that news last week.

[source : Trump Administration Wants to Increase CIA Drone Strikes, NBC, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/trump-admin-wants-increase-cia-drone-strikes-n802311, 18th September 2017]