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Selling War: The World's Biggest Exporters Of Weapons
One glance at the following chart prepared by the Economist, showcasing the world's largest importers of weapons, and more importantly, exporters, and one could almost imagine why both the US and Russia have an interest in a "contained" (or not so much) regional war...
Some more insight:
Five countries—America, Russia, Germany, China and France—accounted for three-quarters of international arms exports over the past five years. China tripled its share in that time, overtaking France. It is on track to surpass Germany to become the third-largest arms dealer. Business is brisk. Overall, sales between 2009 and 2013 were 14% higher than the previous five-year period, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which tracks the arms trade. China sells to 35 mainly low- and middle-income countries, but is also a big importer (two-thirds of its weapons come from Russia). America exports to over 90 nations, with aircraft making up most of its sales. Russia exports more ships than any other country. Its weapons exports have significantly increased, thanks in part to being India's biggest supplier, accounting for three-quarters of its arms purchases. As for Ukraine, it exports more weapons than Italy or Israel. But with regional tensions flaring, it may choose to keep some of those arms for itself.
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Interesting...Russia's top customers and the US top customers.
"I can't help suspecting that the only true manifestations of our innermost being are war and insanity, those two absolute nightmares."
Louis-Ferdinand Celine.
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than war.
Homer
Government, here to waste as much productive labor as possible.
And still remain in control.
Its easy to sell weapons when you hand some of your biggest customers Billions a year.
What happens to USA export calculations & GDP if you deduct weapons, food and scrap metal?
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
Saul Alinsky
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ukraine 3rd place as an exporter to China, hmmm
As if the reason for India's great strides (!!!!) were not too few, here is another.
Big big bloat in the armed forces. And they want more and more, always a shortage of officers....
Rigged game...
Fvckd India...
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/mera-bharat-mahaan-ahhhaaaaha...
Given our government's primary agenda is our dependency, it is only neccessary to destroy all excess productivity that would enable our independence and self sufficiency. Poverty of the mind is all the chains they need to hold us.
"Given our government's primary agenda is our dependency, it is only neccessary to destroy all excess productivity that would enable our independence and self sufficiency. Poverty of the mind is all the chains they need to hold us."
The sharing of technological breakthroughs in the methods of murdering massive amounts of people is dependent upon the trade (and percieved value) of what most do not understand fully: FIAT currencies.
FURTHER: The dependency upon 'governments' to provide 'basic neccesities' that are sold in their minds as a 'safety net' (in case your job is outsourced to a poorer nation; for example) is based upon the false premis that the 'government' (wherever you are) has a 'credit score' and can 'BORROW' these same FIAT currencies in order to supposedly 'create' wealth (like welfare, government jobs, or so-called 'private sector jobs' like repairing broken glass after a riot, earthquake, or other disaster).
GEE.
I wonder WHO managed to print (digitize) all this 'money, anyway? 'MONEY' to murder, 'MONEY' to defend the homeland', 'MONEY' to appease the masses? 'MONEY' to buy the votes that keep the politicians who pass the 'laws' that protect those who print the 'MONEY' in the first place?
It's like a parasite that has consumed it's host, and starts to eat members of it's own body due to an avourous hunger, sometimes. Bear-Stearns, perhaps?
Like the dream of the ages, the Philosopher's Stone...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjxHgBRWMhY
THERE WAS a time when this video garnered 37 MILLION views, you know. That was way back in 2008.
China sells to 35 mainly low- and middle-income countries, but is also a big importer (two-thirds of its weapons come from Russia).
There is only one thing you cannot do with a bayonet, and that is sit on it. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The bigger your investment in an army, the more you pay to feed them, the more you watch them consume the budget -- you simply have to get a return on your investment. Lo the poor Vietnamese, Filipinos and Japanese.
Bangladesh General: "I say, these AKs of your do not have removable magazines."
Chinese Arms Rep: "They come fully loaded. Barrel is plastic. After 1 use, you throw away. Let me show you new AK transport vehicle to resupply troops."
Actually, it would seem that their are two "types" or "species" of humans: Empaths, normal people, and sociopaths that have no empathy and desire only self-aggrandizement, adulation, power and money.
Said sociopaths only desire to seize power from the empaths and use it to heighten their wealth, self-aggrandizement, adulation, and of course, seize more power to the detriment of their empath victims. What better way to accomplish all four than war--War where they gain and the empahts pay.
My point being, people, empaths, don't go to war, sociopaths SEND them to war for the sociopaths' gain--War is not a problem of mankind but a problem imposed upon mankind by the sociopaths within.
"My guillotine likes to eat three course meals: pol, crat and some bankster for desert."
perhaps there are sub-types, or "degrees of"?
doesn't really seem so cut and dried,
when one factors in the voluntary military war-riors in some nationstates.
hatred is cultivated in infinite small versions of "us vs. them" - between nations, between religions, between family members, all humans really.
hatred, and anger - both lack empathy.
How large would the "voluntary military" be in an unfettered and thriving economy?!
The “voluntary military” is nothing more than another form of self serving welfare and is Unconstitutional to boot (Artice 1, Section 8).
"My guillotine volunteered."
I understand what you're pointing to - but continuing with the "empath" label,
at what point does an empath uni-form up to go kill others based on the "economy"?
and does that uni-form earn them the sociopath label, as well as the "job 'n' benefits"?
just trying to point out, it's not so very easy to apply black 'n' white labels to human history, which has so many shades of grey. . .
but I will add - cultures seem to be "selecting" for sociopathy, which IMO is de-volving away from empathy, *nods*
Good question and the answer was sneakily signed into "law" by Obama on December 31, 2011. That is NDAA.
See, not more than 4% of any population is sociopathic. Therefore in order to subdue or oppress a people, the sociopaths will have to depend on empaths for most of the work--guard, etc. The only way to do that is to have a legal framework in place that justifies their orders.
They will say, "Go and round them up, and here is the legal basis for such an order." And an empath, also motivated by other things like fear, etc., will go and follow his orders and hide his conscience behind the legal basis claimed by his masters.
That is why NDAA was so alarming for me. They had put other legal structures in place before, but this was the most blatant and clear of what lies ahead, They know that they will soon have to more openly oppress us, the American people, and want a legal framework in place to ease their effort.
Remember the legal gymnastics they went thorough in creating a legal "justification" for torture during Bush Jr.'s tenure? That wasn't to protect themselves so much as to provide the legal cover for the consciences of any empath participants--guards, etc.
As for NDAA again, ask yourself, "If they were already doing whatever they wanted anyways, why a legal code authorizing it?!"
And remember, Nazi Germany maintained a large and thriving legal system right up to the end. Like frosting on a turd.
"That's not American women and children private, that there be 'terrorists'." Get 'em behind the barbed wire or shoot 'em."
well, I think we may each be defining "empath/empathy" differently - I don't believe that amrkns (or other loyalists to their national military stories) are majority empaths, even prior to "NDAA/2011". . .
irrespective of all that is taking place, humans appear to have very little respect/concern/empathy with their environs overall, and I have my doubts that this situation will reverse itself were another "leader" to take over from the current figurehead.
thanks for the exchange though!
Humans have an instinct for following authority. The sociopaths take advantage of this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
People don't kill people, weapons do? I am most worried about who has them.
Weapons don't kill people, people kill people, and if one looks at history, especially the 20th. Century, one will see that that person more often or not has a uniform on.
"Guns don't kill people, mostly people in uniform do."
Guns don't kill people, husbands that come home early do.
Guns don't kill people. I kill people. http://www.founditemclothing.com/halloween/guns-dont-kill-happy-gilmore-...
It's somewhat odd that the US is a major exporter AND importer. Suggests it is both simultaneously fobbing off outdated, or run-of-the-mill military tech. abroad and importing high technology/niche military applications from Europe.
Either that or it is possibly trying to shore up Europe's economy a little. Who knows?
Some of that import/export activity you notice is the result of co-development, co-manufacturing, and offset agreements. Advanced weapon systems are so expensive that sharing of costs is the only way to make the deal come together.
Exactly. Like the Arrow missile defense system - US dollars, Israeli R&D. Iron Dome too.
edit: Stuxnet also?
Would like to see a graphic on the US Gov departments stockpiling weapons and ammo!
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3CkLtW07rFE/UGs9d5RewnI/AAAAAAAAACM/DcMwjrkoFQ...
I guess that that squirrel got his nut and then some.
It would be helpful if they showed the amounts in dollars and not just as a percentage.
Otherwise, how can we tell what the hit to the GDP and the deficit is if this activity were curtailed?
Edit: put another way, what percentage of US GDP does this export activity comprise?
I think it's clear. As a percentage of GDP Russia is the largest exporter of weapons by far.
Am a proud customer.
I got into some Shkval torpedoes during the 4th of July sale, makes my bass boat more intimidating.
I got a great deal on Russian RPGs at the last gun show.
The shoulder-fired SAMs were a bit too pricey. I hope the cost comes down.
My friggin' neighbor bought a T-72. He drives the damn thing all around the neighborhood showing off.
Saving up for this:
http://www.tampers.eu/Mi-24R-Demilitarized-for-Sale.html
"AK47. The very best there is. When you absolutely, positively have to kill every last motherf*cker in the room, accept no substitutes."
Day old stale "rest easy" no news is good news...
And a nice little video to go with that news... Congratulations to John Kerry and President Remus.
If they want to start a genunine "flashpoint" to WWIII this one would certainly achieve those type of goals!
To Russia!...
When the American Neocons get it started lob your largest number of warheads at D.C. with Langley and the Pentagon as the target(s)... I want to see the Washington Metro area separated from the rest of the continental United States... Oh roughly 100 nautical miles will do!
http://rt.com/news/159640-ukraine-gunmen-nuclear-plant/
What a horrible graphic. Couldn't have used something a little more intuitive?
Agreed. I use graphics and models in my work. The best graphics can be understood almost instantly, in at least 3-5 seconds. This one is set up terribly. I'd wager an inferiority complex sits behind it. "It must difficult to understand to show how brilliant I am." Simplicity is the best practice. I'd bet an economist from the London School consulted on this. I'll take Hazlett and never look back. Simple brilliance written with clarity.
Why is UAE shitting its pants all of a sudden and going on a military surge.........compared to the other worlds countries it is miniscule....
"Why is UAE shitting its pants"
Iran, mostly, although Syria, Pakistan etc are all pretty close.
House of Saud days are numbered.
Uncle Remus House of Saud days are numbered.
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On a long enough time line, aren't all are days numbered?
UAE sees regimes going down all around it and realizes that it better be a good boy and recycle those petrodollars.
Red lines, hash tag diplomacy, US abandoning Iraq Afghanistan and Syria to the mullahcracy of Teheran, Arab Spring. Stuff like that.
If you knew the Petro$ was soon to be toast and wanted to get into "hard assests" and quickly get rid of as many of your TP-dollars as you could, weapons would be one avenue.
I wonder what the UAE does with 4% of all the arms manufactured each year. I'm sure they store and use them responsibly, and do not re-export those weapons to other countries or to groups of people.
Same thing Belgium does with its treasuries. Stockpile. Bean bullets and treasuries, bitchez.
Of course!
I bet they signed some serious documents to promise not to re-export them!
War is Peace
War-Profiteering is Patriotism
Wehr macht hart.
Geh Wehrmacht. Geh Wehr Macht. Gewehr Macht.
And Peace is War.
I would like to see an analysis of the United States of the per capital wealth by county versus average gun onwership and most common firearm type. Oh and an estimate of the amount of ammunition per household, if possible.
Get to work. There is this wonderful thing called the Internet that puts all of that information at your fingertips.
For now.
Haven't you heard/read about the FCC ruling, as posted on ZH yesterday?
"War would not be necessary if the world would just shut up and submit to my authority." ... - Uncle Sam
Government, being a criminal syndicate backed by violence, is ALWAYS at war--At war against other governments and against their own subjects, victims.
War is how they affirm themselves, and gain more wealth and power--"War is a racket."
The irony is that the people fund the war against themselves.
and yet "government" is merely made of peoples - hierarchies arranged with apparent power over, yes, but still, just peoples.
so "peoples" fund the wars - but other "peoples" make the weapons, manufacture all the ingredients for wars, from weaponry to uniforms, still more "peoples" wear the trappings and kill on behalf of, etc. etc.
War is People is Government is History. . .
I don't think that's a true statement. Even if everyone complied the military ind complex would start wars.
Uncle Sam only says war will not be necessary. We all know Uncle Sam finds war desirable, no matter what.
Wars and Governments are all backed by BANKERS.
The Essence of the Banking Industry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B_SxGmSJP0
[1] WARS = DEBT.
[2] DEBT = CONTROL
[3] CONTROL DEBT = CONTROL EVERYTHING
[4] WARS + DEBT = SLAVERY
Now connect the dots boys & girls...
Modern Banking (fiat + FRB) = Modern Slavery (invisible chains). "One Coin to Rule Them All" is therefore the ultimate goal of Banksters and its (hidden) Principals.
Questions?
Kirk out.
Kirk2NCC1701 Wars and Governments are all backed by BANKERS.
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I don't support these wars, but let's be logical and not emotional. Where do you go for financing? Of course you go to banks as they have control on the money. Shall I bitch that doctors control my health because I have to go to them for health issues?
lets not be emotional (sarc),
- COMMUNIST MANIFESTO - CENTRAL BANK IS KEY TO GOVERNMENT DOMINENCE fed, ecb, imf, et al
this happened in 1913
//any questions sesinp?
Here's a new video angle on Building 7, uploaded today May 18, 2014.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDWGlsjVRl8
So obviously a planned demolition you would have to be an
exceptional American sheep not to spot it.
Interesting, but I still believe the official story that a fire in the office supply closet weakened the structure. Them Post-it notes burn hot.
Of course it was a controlled demolition. I clearly recall the MSM Evening News saying that it had to be demolished because its structure was too compromised and had to be taken down to avoid unnecessary risk. At least that was the MSM spin presented.
Whether it was taken down for other reasons also (destroy evidence) is another matter.
No further questions. As for the Twin Towers.
To move forward, these facts need to be faced. What about the UN? Al telast they should revise their resolutions on 9/11.
Humans have their own solution to overpopulation.
Psychopaths have their own solution to overpopulation.
I wonder what kind of kickbacks the purchasers are getting.
Used to be suitcases of US dollars. Saw it with my own eyes.
Probably yuan nowadays.
Best article I've seen on the true state of the New World Order.
It doesn't exist accept in the minds of sociopathic globalists.
we all get it. the elites want a war...otherwise one of their main industries will see a downturn.
Long War.
Short Humanity.
Eisenhower warns us of the military industrial complex.
The secrets are finally coming out: the wars are only the symptom of a chess game so sinister it can only be called the last struggle of the banks versus the people. This America is not your father’s America: America is a war machine.
"Global systemic crisis-escalation in the US reaction for survival: trigger a cold war to make it easier to annex Europe" | - Public announcement GEAB N°83 (March 16, 2014)
Layout of the full article:
1. BUILD A TRAP TO DIVERT EUROPE AWAY FROM ITS OWN DESTINY
2. MASS ATTACKS ON EUROPE
3. CAUSE A NEW IRON CURTAIN TO FALL ON EUROPE
4. FORCE EUROPE TO CHOOSE SIDES
5. FIND THE INTRINSIC RESOURCES IN EUROPE TO FREE ITSELF FROM THE TRAP - Eight strategic recommendations
BUILD A TRAP TO DIVERT EUROPE AWAY FROM ITS OWN DESTINY (excerpt)
When, in November 2013, Russia asked the EU for tripartite negotiations on the Ukraine’s free trade agreements with its two neighbours in order to find areas of common ground for all parties directly concerned (1), what was at stake was stability, integrity and independence for the Ukraine and that it should remain as the natural link between Europe and Russia.
But neither Baroness Ashton, nor Mr. O’Sullivan (2), in charge of the European External Action Service, nor Mr. Fule who, at the head of the Directorate General for Enlargement, spends his time trying to integrate everything that moves in Eastern Europe (3), didn’t want that. On the contrary, they have forced the Ukraine to “choose sides” (4), thus creating the conditions subsequent to the inevitable events which we know: the Ukraine has in fact chosen… and the country, logically, has entered a dramatic and bloody process of decision which is only just begun. Baroness Ashton and Mr. O’Sullivan have literally set a trap for the Ukraine… and Europe.
Five months later and the damage is huge: over 100 dead (5), the Ukraine is left with an unelected government brought to power by extreme right-wing factions (6), relations between the EU and Russia are broken, the Ukraine and Russia are on the verge of a war that isn’t far from being a war between Europe and Russia (7), the Russian military have retaken control of their Crimean assets, the US fleet is cruising in the Black Sea waters (8), the US army has set itself up in Europe again (in Poland, Lithuania and Romania (9)), the media, excited by blood, are a pure propaganda machine determined to push politicians and citizens into war, the EU-Ukraine free trade Treaty is about to be signed, against Russian interests, by Washington and a non-elected Ukrainian government (10) (if the same method is used for the TTIP, Washington and Baroness Ashton will have signed it in April at the latest), the West is preparing to deny the legitimacy of the Crimean referendum which will aggravate the crisis and continue to ask questions on the West’s democratic struggle… (11)
From a European point of view, what a significant political and diplomatic failure! Working to rebuild the Iron Curtain in 2014 and isolate Europe from all the current dynamics in these famous emerging countries to which Russia binds us, just as the Ukraine binds us to Russia (12). …
http://www.leap2020.eu/GEAB-N-83-is-available-Global-systemic-crisis-escalation-in-the-US-reaction-for-survival-trigger-a-cold-war-to-make-it_a15801.html
"the media, excited by blood, are a pure propaganda machine determined to push politicians and citizens into war"
Warmurder sells newspapers, but who is pushing who?
Exactly. The bankers own the message and the messenger. And the media carries it faithfully, loyally, and consistently. It’s the age-old maxim: You can't control if you don't control the messenger.
This statement by Congressman Oscar Callaway’s was included in the Congressional Record (vol. 54, February 9, 1917, p. 2947):
"...the J.P. Morgan [banking] interests.... and their subsidiary organizations got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press of the US.... They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. ...an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information...."
Which substantiates the recent charge made by whistleblower Karen Hudes, a former insider at the World Bank, that the global financial system is dominated by a small group of corrupt, power-hungry figures centered around the privately owned U.S. Federal Reserve: "The network has seized control of the media to cover up its crimes."
http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/economics/item/15473-world-bank-insider-blows-whistle-on-corruption-federal-reserve
And it was on August 1, 2013 that Anthony Gucciaridi’s article, Graphic: How Just 6 Corps Own 90% of The Media, appeared on Lew Rockwell.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/08/anthony-gucciardi/the-corporate-state-and-its-media/
Paul Craig Roberts wrote this May: Of the powerful factors that “have contributed to the demise of democracy and accountable government in the US., is the concentration of the US media in a few hands. During the last years of the Clinton regime, a formerly diverse media with significant independence was concentrated in five mega-corporations.”
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/06/gangster-state-america/
"From a European point of view, what a significant political and diplomatic failure"
Which European point of view? The rulers or the ruled? How much have the Greeks suffered to the benefit of the EU leaders? The Italians? The Spanish? Now the Ukrainians suffer for the benefit of elite rulers. The whole German nation suffered to benefit Hitler. The people at the top live like kings, regardless of which country. In a world facing another Great Depression, they will kill millions to protect their power.
In WW1, there was a Christmas truce between the soldiers oon both sides. The generals feared the soldiers would not go back to murdering each other, to protect the elite rulers who had sent them there to suffer and die.
Of who's benefit is it for 150,000 Syrians to be dead and 2 million to be refugees?
The powerful site I referred to above also offers this European point of view from LEAP (Laboratoire Europeen d’Anticipation Politique) that might answer your query.
Quote:
"Today, the Europeans’ lack of satisfaction is not the result of any particular policy of the EU or any particularly wrong direction it may have taken that could possibly be straightened out by setting a new course. Europe suffers nowadays from a general rejection because of what it (the EU) represents: institutions which are far from the Europeans, politicians and technocrats cut off from reality, a neo-liberal system blocking any attempt of more national social policies, a general standardization policy which cuts the European root of the linguistic, cultural and social diversity, etc…
"In order to fight against...the EU, it is not enough to change something in the system, we must change the system itself."--Toward the “Estates General” of the Euroland, by Harald Grei, May 7, 2014
http://www.leap2020.net/2014/05/vers-les-etats-generaux-deuroland/?lang=en
OZZIDOWNUNDER, who alerted ZHers to LEAP today, selected this “snip” from http://www.leap2020.net/?lang=en
“We want to make the point about the serious US’ weakening and show to what extent, beyond the appearance of power projected in fits and starts by millions of Fed-printed Dollars, the US is now only a story, a Hollywood film, window-dressing for a sordid socio-economic reality… despite their TTIP negotiations which seem to be on the verge of success, despite their huge influence on Europe, despite the restlessness in the Ukraine and, finally, despite the myth of the 'US recovery.'"
Concludes Ozzi: “That paints a rather true picture -does it Not?"
Down with USSA
Down with USSR
Down with PRC
The Swiss are a model of responsive local government and weak federal authority.
For how much longer?
The Swiss? The Swiss are a bunch of egoistic-greedy bastards that provide hideouts for criminals of all kinds (war, drug, financial).
Not an "Al Qaeda" in the bunch.
Living in a seaside jungle looks better every day....you know, being all "poor" and "uneducated". Be bored with only fishing, gardening, cooking, harvesting, tilling, milking and stealing eggs.
Gosh, I will vote. It will work this time!
only the best will do to fight men with sticks
Well yeah, but you really don't want to have the second-best weapons, when the time comes.
And there has been a lot of technological change, constantly, over the last fifty years. And if anything it's only accelerating and getting more expensive.
Also, some of these are proxy sales, especially when someone like Saudi Arabia buys advanced weapons, there's no Saudi who actually can operate them so they are sort of forward-positioned auxiliaries for US forces and a payment in kind for US protection - as if Obama would ever deliver on such.
It's nice there are so many pacifists hanging out at ZH, but realistically this is an ongoing and serious business in every sense of the words.
IOW, there’s going to be war so we might as well have the best weapons?
This is no longer a cold war arms race. The superpowers already have the technology to destroy each other. And opposition to this state of affairs is not pacifism.
The US has moved from a defense of its principles to occupying sovereign countries around the world in preparation for world government.
Occupation differs from colonial times in that all that’s necessary is the establishment of puppet governments that will allow US bases in their country and will consistently support the US propaganda line in international organizations (UN, NATO, EU, World Bank, IMF, G-20).
And all the while the US is spending $820-$900 billion plus a year on “defense.”
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/us_defense_spending_30.html
all that has changed is ease of access to global "nations" - the corporate-rape of land-mass resources goes back centuries, no?
Dutch East India Company
cheezy wiki link, agreed, but it's just shorthand.
when exactly did the "US" move from a "defense of its principles"?
what exactly are "nationstates" and who exactly do they serve,
in the end?
all that's happening is the curtain is being pulled back, for some, as per Zappa. . .
The country that we have today has little resemblance to the nation our Founders gave us. It is foolish to believe that the world was always the way it is today, because there was a mark made in civilization by the young American country.
It was a mark against tyranny, against control of the people by a few. That was the reason for America; the reason the Europeans came here; the reason they fought the Europeans for their independence.
And it will be the reason we fight the tyrants again.
For those who believe nothing can be done and we should lie down and die, my advice is: They should lie down and die.
I only question the veracity of the "founders" story, handed down and revised for gains, over time. . .
these nation-all narratives are getting a bit "leaky" like an ancient pirate ship.
and, apart from defending ones local community against marauding militarist types - whose version of "nation all" are the "peoples" truly fighting for? I've yet to hear anyone truly set the terms out clearly.
whose version of "nation all" are the "peoples" truly fighting for…
When Patrick Henry spoke there were witnesses; when Washington crossed the Delaware with ”Americans only” there were witnesses; and when Madison and Jefferson put together the principles of the founding they were written down.
Those are the versions of the American nation-all; those are the versions we fight for.
Once upon a time, when Americans were not propagandized by a State-controlled education system whose goal was to change the meaning of America’s existence, Americans were fighting for what the early patriots sought. It was this:
“They knew what they wanted. They wanted the opportunities they had found in a new land permanently guaranteed to themselves and their descendants. They wanted the right to regulate their own affairs so they might assure the greatest good to the greatest number. They wanted a voice in their own government.”
– A FOREWARD to “The Signers of the Declaration of Independence” published by The Prudential Insurance Co. of America several years ago when freedom was still fashionable.
Germans are increasingly worried that sanctions on Russia will lose business contracts for Germans to local Russian companies, Chinese and other markets. Ex-chancellors Gerhard Schroeder and Helmut Schmidt are especially worried about the effect of continued sanctions on Russia.
FROM RT today: “Schmidt slammed the EU bureaucrats on Friday, accusing them of 'megalomania' and attempts at 'annexing Ukraine.' He told the Bild Daily that 'the officials and bureaucrats in Brussels ... are confronting Ukraine with the apparent necessity of having to choose between West and East.’"
http://rt.com/news/159716-germany-sanctions-russia-criticism
cry "havoc!!!" and let loose the dogs of war or fill the walls with our (insert nation here) dead.
game of thrones needs to be updated.. winter is coming.
can you just see all those cars in the parking lots being comandeered and converted to run with machine guns? might be a way to take over any country.
:)
Cleanup of war weapons....just a small amount of the total inventory is enough to contaminate the entire world, all life forms
I did some calculation to "bring it home" —just the amount of "low level" waste they want to still put into WIPP, is enough to, if spread evenly among all humans, animals, fish, plankton, plants of all sorts, to bring the entire world up to 70 Bq/lb.
And animals at 30 Bq/lb start having severe health problems
Note that even thought the Remote Handled Waste is only 4% of the waste by volume, it is 3/7th of the total radioactivity.
Per the former WIPP lab manager, James Conca, they have stuff in WIPP way hotter than anything at Hanford, 7 Curies per liter. That is enough to bring 1,000,000,000 Costco size chickens up to 200 Bq/lb.
Again, severe damage is done to animals at 30 Bq/lb. You can't sell any animals over 100 Bq/lb as food even though they are being "diluted" by other food.
I finally created this post into an article at Nuke Pro so those who wish can link to it.
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-radiation-still-to-go-i...
Then when our cubs grow we'll show you what war is good for
Ukraine exported all of its weapons because their government officials pocketed the cash from selling off arms.
Been going on since the fall of the Soviet Union:
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/sierraleone/context.html
The US is going to declare the Ukraine a "Failed State" by the end of the year and move troops in.
I agree about the USA eventually having boots on the ground in Ukraine ... But I suspect that the Right Sector and Svoboda ultra-Nationist dudes (aka Neo Nazis) ain't going to take too kindly to our diverse non-white and LGBT military, especially when their hot Ukrainian blonde babes start lusting after our "exotic" African-American soldiers. Chaos will then be piled on chaos.
I was Surprised that Japan and Sweden are not on the list...
Wonder how good these numbers are.
I'm doing my share of buying--when I can.
Stores around here limit a guy to 1(ONE) 50/100 round box of .22 ammo per purchase/day--and that's when they have any in stock. One local store gets their ammo shipment on Tuesday afternoon. People know this now and, if any .22 came in, it's usually gone within the hour.
So my question is, "Why can't we get moar ammo here in the USA if we are such big producers/exporters?"
Oh....I forgot about Homeland Security, EPA, and now the Ag Dept.
Sorry
/sarc
You need to contact "Boris" at Blackmarketammo dot com.
He will meet you at the docks tonight.
I don't think I was really brainwashed as a kid. I was born in 1963. I lived through some tricky times. Many financial train wrecks too--not to mention political ones.
What happened to my country? When did the criminals take full control?
I used to care a lot more about my country thaI do today. The flag meant something. Community meant something. Education meant something.
Now i wonder what means anything. Survival is my primary focus these days--and I don't mean poverty. I mean survival.
yes, "what means anything" -
you would do well to answer those questions for yourself.
keep asking them over and over, and don't rest until you truly find answers that go beyond your personal disappointments.
People have different views about when the criminals took over. The "modern date" for me was August 15, 1971 when Nixon closed the gold window. I'm not a chart guy, but lots of bad shit(financial/monetary) began after that. Some would say 1913 and the establishment of the Federal Reserve Bank. I won't dispute that date either.
The gold closing happened when I was an adult, albeit young and naive, but I remember it. I believe that was when the banksters and politicians began a slow, but largely sucessful, brainwashing campaign on the sheep. Look at the Gov't spending "curve" beginning in the early 80's. The pols caught on quick that in a debt based, fiat money system, they could spend at will.
There is now a nearly total "disconnect" between real wealth and real money. The sheep believe that "fiat" is real wealth--and the banksters love it.
When, and if, that disconnect is ever "cured"...life is going to get very ugly.
Fuck 'em all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx7D8p-AoEs
Once the cartel had the government’s permission to print money at will, identify its value, and give it to whomever they chose, it was just a matter of time until they purchased the entire government.
“Taking into account companies and other organizations that are directly or indirectly controlled by the government,” said Hunter Lewis, “it becomes clear that most of the economy is in the ‘public’ sphere. Many of the new mega rich of the 1990s and 2000s got their wealth through their government connections. Or by understanding how government worked.”
The seeds that were sown in 1913 came to a head in the ‘70s when the French De Gaulle government requested to convert its US dollars into gold on deposit with the Federal Reserve at $35 per ounce, prompting Nixon to eliminate gold dollar convertibility. The move showed that trust between Western developed countries was diminishing; and Nixon’s decision was to be temporary. Only it wasn’t.
Last year, Germany requested the return of her gold held by the U.S. and Zero Hedge reported this past January that “Germany Has Recovered A Paltry 5 Tons Of Gold From The NY Fed After One Year,” or just 5%. WashingtonsBlog added: “As such, it might not becentirely surprising that the Fed needs 7 years to give Germany back its 300 tons of gold … even though the Fed claims to hold 6,720 tons at the New York Federal Reserve Bank alone.”
Which leads one to ask: “Are American gold reserves no more? Wikipedia explains:“Starting in the 1959-1969 administration of President Charles de Gaulle and continuing until 1970, France reduced its dollar reserves, exchanging them for gold at the official exchange rate, reducing US economic influence. This, along with the fiscal strain of federal expenditures for the Vietnam War and persistent balance of payments deficits, led US President Richard Nixon to end international convertibility of the dollar to gold on August 15, 1971 (the "Nixon Shock").
“This was meant to be a temporary measure with the gold price of the dollar and the official rate of exchanges remaining constant. Revaluing currencies was the main purpose of this plan.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard
http://www.ingoldwetrust.ch/abc-bank-run-on-the-fed-highlights-the-importance-of-gold-reserves
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-19/germany-has-recovered-paltry-5-tons-gold-ny-fed-after-one-year
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/01/the-real-reasons-that-germany-is-demanding-that-the-u-s-return-its-gold.html
According to Wiki Silver Standards: “The silver standard is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of silver… Silver certificates continued to be issued until late 1963, when the $1 Federal Reserve Note was released into circulation. For several years, existing silver certificates could be redeemed for silver, but this practice was halted on June 24, 1968.
“Finally, President Richard Nixon announced[7] that the United States would no longer redeem currency for gold or any other precious metal, forming the final step in abandoning the gold and silver standards.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_standard
It is said by Dr. Arian H. Krieg, who believes in a free-market money system of gold and silver and has stated that the only way to save the world economy from total collapse is to go back to money that is backed by hard assets, that “Nixon sold the country’s national silver reserves in the early 1970s, there is no record of whom it was sold to, or what was received for it, or where the funds went, or where they were deposited.”
http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/08.11/befuddled.html
Knew the answer to that before I even clicked on the link. US and Russia by a country mile ... together accounting for more than 50% of the total global weapons exports.
They left out the Largest US customer: The Department of Homer Simpson.
When Victor Bout and Leonid Minin were in business were both the source and recipients of their trade added to the count of official weapons import and export business ?
dThere is a very grey area in weapons, large and small, import and export which never gets covered by any "official" statistics. How many weapons officially going to one country get passed on unofficially to another, "black market" ?
Do weapons officially going to the UAE really stay there ? or do they get stored at the airport at Sharjah, or even have time to get unloaded, before required delivery to some unofficial destination elsewhere in the world ? ( as was rumoured/reported to be the route not too many years ago)
That too was the way via Yugoslavia in the days of the Cold War, before it was split up, that so calld First World countries could indirectly give arms aid to smaller countries without getting any public attention or legal responsibility, over-riding or circumventing their own arms embargos. Has it really changed ?
There is no business like war business
Vietnamese General: "Mr Premier, the Chinese are threatening!"
Premier: "Are our arms up to snuff?"
General: "Bad news, sir, the weapons we bought from them only shoot paintballs!"
"Of all the weapons in the vast soviet arsenal, nothing was more profitable than Avtomat Kalashnikova model of 1947. More commonly known as the AK-47, or Kalashnikov. It's the world's most popular assault rifle. A weapon all fighters love. An elegantly simple 9 pound amalgamation of forged steel and plywood. It doesn't break, jam, or overheat. It'll shoot whether it's covered in mud or filled with sand. It's so easy, even a child can use it; and they do. The Soviets put the gun on a coin. Mozambique put it on their flag. Since the end of the Cold War, the Kalashnikov has become the Russian people's greatest export. After that comes vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists. One thing is for sure, no one was lining up to buy their cars."
Yuri Orlov, Lord of War
Selling mass murder.
Good analysis. Putin doesn't want a war (now), instead he wants to modernize Russia.
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The Ukraine in Turmoil by Israel Shamir
"... Putin’s respect for others’ sovereignty is exasperating. I understand this sounds like a joke, -- you hear so much about Putin as a “new Hitler”. As a matter of fact, Putin had legal training before joining the Secret Service. He is a stickler for international law. His Russia has interfered with other states much less than France or England, let alone the US. I asked his senior adviser, Mr Alexei Pushkov, why Russia did not try to influence Ukrainian minds while Kiev buzzed with American and European officials. “We think it is wrong to interfere”, he replied like a good Sunday schoolboy. It is rather likely Putin’s advisors misjudged public sentiment...
Putin still hopes to settle the problem by peaceful means, relying upon the popular support of the Ukrainian people. Actually, before the Crimean takeover, the majority of Ukrainians (and near all Novorossians) overwhelmingly supported some sort of union with Russia. Otherwise, the Kiev coup would not have been necessary. The forced Crimean takeover seriously undermined Russian appeal. The people of Ukraine did not like it. This was foreseen by the Kremlin, but they had to accept Crimea for a few reasons. Firstly, a loss of Sevastopol naval base to NATO was a too horrible of an alternative to contemplate. Secondly, the Russian people would not understand if Putin were to refuse the suit of the Crimeans.
The Washington hawks still hope to force Putin to intervene militarily, as it would give them the opportunity to isolate Russia, turn it into a monster pariah state, beef up defence spending and set Europe and Russia against each other. They do not care about Ukraine and Ukrainians, but use them as pretext to attain geopolitical goals.
The Europeans would like to fleece Ukraine; to import its men as “illegal” workers and its women as prostitutes, to strip assets, to colonise. They did it with Moldova, a little sister of Ukraine, the most miserable ex-Soviet Republic. As for Russia, the EU would not mind taking it down a notch, so they would not act so grandly. But the EU is not fervent about it. Hence, the difference in attitudes.
Putin would prefer to continue with his modernisation of Russia. The country needs it badly. The infrastructure lags twenty or thirty years behind the West. Tired by this backwardness, young Russians often prefer to move to the West, and this brain drain causes much damage to Russia while enriching the West. Even Google is a result of this brain drain, for Sergey Brin is a Russian immigrant as well. So are hundreds of thousands of Russian scientists and artists manning every Western lab, theatre and orchestra. Political liberalisation is not enough: the young people want good roads, good schools and a quality of life comparable to the West. This is what Putin intends to deliver..."
Speaking of war crimes, why is it that every Muslim nation the US has helped "liberate," including during the "Arab Spring," became significantly worse for Christians and minorities?:
http://bit.ly/1lzPkzN
No wonder so many were skeptical of Operation American Spring
Well finally some wonderful news out ofUkraine!... Hope many more reports like this will follow!!!
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_05_18/CIA-denies-its-agents-killed-in...
It's tough to know what to believe. Don't think for a second that Russia won't resort to disinformation and don't think for a second that the US wouldn't send CIA and mercs into Uraine. So, who is lying here? The US? Russia? Both?
Usually some of both.
Incredible...simply incredible! I thought the Zionists puppet-masters were soaking up all of Amerika's weapons of war and here it is that Amerika is exporting to its largest clients; China and Russian. Italy and Spain rate more than JudenLand. WTF, it must be the TD/ZH is throwing up some ZionFog.
"American foreign policy is mindlessly driven by the machinery of our Warfare State - a vast accretion of economic, diplomatic, spying and military capabilities which are ceaselessly in search of missions and justifications for their colossal call on the nation’s resources"
What's the total $$$ ?
What are the company names?
Who are the principles, major stockholders
There, now we know who to be ashamed of.
In primate groups, sociopathic overly agressive adolecents are usually beat down often by a group and eventually ostracised, disempowered and starve due to their no longer receiving the benefits of group membership, or they learn.
"Others" under imports = CIA funding terrorists lol
I just had a conversation with a guy who works on Kirtland AFB. He says he's been paying attention to the attitudes of the brass, and he said they are very divided. Some will do whatever the CIC says to do, and others have stated that they will not follow the orders if they deem unconstitutional or illegal. He said that if SHTF, he thinks that our fighters will be fighting eachother.
Hey Vaquero
I have a theory as to why the cops are so mental in your town. On google maps I see super high powerlines in front of their building. A half mile away there is a rather low microwave tower at the base of which are some mean looking transformers. North of Kirtland (which looks like a dirt lot) is a Haarp-like antenae array. Do they specialize in electronic warfare?
Actually, the hiring has a lot to do with it. I went to highschool with a couple of them. The one that I can name off of the top of my head was always real cocky, and joined APD right out of the USMC, and he is the type of guy who would let the power go to his head.
As for the antennaes, you could be thinking about ARES, which also has the trestle, which is (was?) the largest all wooden structure in the world. It is an EMP test facility.
http://www.gizmag.com/aircraft-carrier-hotel-opens/21617/
What the MIC does not want you to know.
yes, kurt, nice tree requested with all the names, please.
who?
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