Politics – the entertainment division of the military indust

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Politics – the entertainment division of the military industrial complex

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by Ole Hendrickson - November 14, 2024 - Rabble.ca

If politics is entertainment, we should take notice of who’s paying for the show.

EXCERPT: "According to a May 2024 report from “Don’t Bank on the Bomb,” Untenable Investments, Canadian banks are heavily invested in U.S. defense companies that operate nuclear weapons facilities: “Outside of the US, the top investor is Canada’s Sun Life Financial, with $8.7 billion invested in nuclear weapon producers.”

Even the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) Investment Board, responsible for more than 22 million CPP contributors and beneficiaries, is listed in the report, with its $682 million investment in the Netherlands-based Airbus Group, the prime contractor for the ballistic missiles used in the French nuclear arsenal.

In 2015, the Harper government handed over control of nuclear facilities owned by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) to a company called “Canadian Nuclear Laboratories” (CNL). Under a 10-year, $10-billion contract, a multinational consortium dominated by two top U.S nuclear weapons producers, Fluor and Jacobs, is in charge. . . . "

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