President Dwight D. Eisenhower coined this term in his farewell address to refer to "a conjunction of an immense military establishment and large arms industry".
Here's how it works: our taxes support a massive military budget which is doled out to large defense contractors. These corporations use this money to buy politicians and impel the United States to enter unending wars in order to assure that their contracts never end and grow increasingly bloated.
Here's how it works: our taxes support a massive military budget which is doled out to large defense contractors. These corporations use this money to buy politicians and impel the United States to enter unending wars in order to assure that their contracts never end and grow increasingly bloated.
Dick Cheney was Defense Secretary, CEO of Halliburton, and then Vice President of the United States, and is a key member of the military industrial complex. It kinda explains why Halliburton is profiteering off all these wars.
by khashishi April 11, 2010
Get the military industrial complex mug.1 - "Record company people are shady", in the immortal words of A Tribe Called Quest's Q-Tip.
2 - By extension, a rule reminding not to trust anybody whose actions in a particular situation are driven by the urge to make money.
2 - By extension, a rule reminding not to trust anybody whose actions in a particular situation are driven by the urge to make money.
1 - "Industry rule #4080, record company people are shadyyyy!" - Q-Tip, "Check the Rhime"
2 - "Don't trust that guy, remember Industry Rule #4080."
2 - "Don't trust that guy, remember Industry Rule #4080."
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Something that forcibly imposes itself on you at a time when you don't want it.
Example: Facebook Messenger's extremely annoying popup notification that superimposes itself over everything else you are doing on your smart phone and has to be uninstalled in order to stop it.
Example: Facebook Messenger's extremely annoying popup notification that superimposes itself over everything else you are doing on your smart phone and has to be uninstalled in order to stop it.
I installed Facebook Messenger on my smart phone because I was forced into it with Zuckerberg's monopoly on social media and all, but I decided I would rather swallow glass than have to endure the annoying app -- and uninstalled it within 12 hours because it was so damn intrusive.
by CrazyIvoryPounder August 13, 2014
Get the intrusive mug.(N.B: the word conscruption is actually an amalgamation of the words construction and corruption): the infamously and notoriously corrupt construction industry in the Canada's Belle Province, the province of Quebec.
the conscruption industry isn't, IMHO, a problem onto itself. IMHO it's actually our corrupt provincial politicians who let the spiel of the conscruption industry keep unfolding; therefore our some of our politicians in Quebec should also be investigated by The Charbonneau Commission.
by Sexydimma June 27, 2013
Get the conscruption industry mug.To take a very long 'pull' usally from a 'joint' or other smoking materials used by very nice people. When exhaled the copious amount of smoke should take on the form of that you may see rising from an industrial factory.
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Get the The music industry mug.An immediate unreasoned understanding that a mother has toward something regarding the well being of her child.
Jane didn't want her son Billy to go to the party. Her "mother's intuition" sensed something bad was going to happen.
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