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A Friedman and a half and 42 - Open Thread | 64 comments (64 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Do they know ?: freedom is expensive (4.00 / 5)

Boeing published a very interesting brochure about their current projects(pdf), especially the building of the B-787'Dreamliner'. Worth a look for figures , graphs and spectacular pictures.

But the very first graph they show is this :

Everybody still is swallowing the new figures of Bush his budget.
Boeing illustrates very clearly the militarisation of the economy.

The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)

by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Fri Feb 9th, 2007 at 01:34:51 PM EST

Re: Do they know ?: freedom is expensive (none / 1)

Didn't Boeing buy a bunch of military contractors in that period?

by MarekNYC on Fri Feb 9th, 2007 at 03:45:47 PM EST
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