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Thanks ISIS: We "Can't Keep Up With Surging Weapons Demand", Pentagon Says
Any time there is a war and countless people in one, two or more nations die for some ideological, religious, ethnic, cultural or nationalistic "reason", two entities benefit: those who supply the weapons and those who supply the loans to buy the weapons.
And when it comes to supplying weapons to the world, in both absolute dollar and relative (as a % of GDP) terms, nobody even comes close to that paragon of democratic values, the United States of America.
To be sure, back in May we wrote "How You "Boost" GDP: US Sells Over $4 Billion In Weapons To Israel, Iran And Saudi Arabia" when, as the title suggested, we explained how the Great US "democracy" was spreading not only the greatest virtues of democracy to the middle-east, but every possible caliber of weapons to go with it. For a hefty price of course.
But not even we had any idea just how massive the "bumper" 2015 would be for the US military-industrial complex.
As it turns out, with many suggesting the world, already gripped in a global terrorism frenzy courtesy of the CIA-created "Islamic State", is on the verge of World War III (and with a NATO power bringing down a Russian fighter jet for the first time in over 60 years one can see where they get that idea) the result has been an unprecedented surge in demand for modern weapons of all shapes and sizes... made in the US.
Demand so high, in fact, that the US simply can't keep up.
According to Reuters, the U.S. government is working hard to ensure quicker processing of U.S. foreign arms sales, which surged 36 percent to $46.6 billion in fiscal 2015 and look set to remain strong in coming years, a top Pentagon official said.
Well of course demand will remain strong: after all that's what the CIA is for - to destabilize the world, to install puppet governments and to assure that the shareholders of Lockheed, Raytheon, Boeing and General Dynamics have year after record year.
Here is why the US loves a "contained" world war:
"Projections are still strong," Vice Admiral Joe Rixey, who heads the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), told Reuters in an interview late on Monday.
He said the agency was trying to sort out the impact of a much stronger-than-expected fourth quarter as it finalized its forecast for arms sales in fiscal 2016, which began Oct. 1.
The fight against Islamic State militants and other armed conflicts around the globe were fueling demand for U.S. missile defense equipment, helicopters and munitions, Rixey said, a shift from 10 years ago when the focus was on fighter jets.
Odd: it is almost as if the US would have had the greatest benefit in creating the Islamic State. Oh wait.
And before someone gets offended by the "World War" moniker, it's not ours, it's the Pentagons:
"It's worldwide. The demand signal is coming in Europe, in the Pacific and in Centcom," he said, referring to the U.S. Central Command region, which includes the Middle East and Afghanistan.
It has gotten so bad, the US is too backlogged, and isunable to deliver on time the weapons the world needs to fight the conflicts that the US stirs:
U.S. companies and some foreign countries have expressed growing frustration in recent months about delays in arms sales approvals. They argue that the U.S. government has not expanded its capacity to process arms deals despite a big spike in such transactions.
Jeff Kohler, Boeing Co's (BA.N) vice president for international business development, said earlier this month he and his Gulf customers were "a little frustrated" with delays in getting U.S. approvals for fighter jet sales.
A $3 billion deal for 28 Boeing F/A-18E/F fighter jets for Kuwait, and a separate Qatari deal for F-15 fighters, have been delayed for some time.
What can possibly derail this war machine which literally converts deaths to profits? The answer, it appears, is budgetary cutbacks:
Rixey said DSCA was keeping up with surging arms sales requests largely through process improvements and better training, but he warned that potential cuts in Pentagon headquarters funding could pose a problem.
Clearly we can't have less people getting killed around the globe just because Congress didn't apportion enough blood money to the Pentagon.
Meanwhile, the world is literally arming itself at a rate suggesting world war is around the corner: "DSCA is handling a total of 13,500 cases with a total value of $461 billion. Last year's total was the biggest yet, outside of a spike caused by Saudi fighter jet sales in 2012."
Rixey said his agency was coordinating more closely with the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Commerce Department and other Pentagon agencies and leaders to advocate for U.S. arms sales as a key instrument of U.S. foreign policy.
He said requests from countries that were "well-behaved" and protected U.S. technology were generally processed quickly, but the U.S. government would take its time vetting sales to countries with weaker records on human rights and technology.
It would take its time, but in the end it will always say yes. Because the punchline is that "Rixey said some munitions had also been sold from U.S. military reserves to ensure that they were available to allies quicker."
Because when profits are at stake, who cares about the safety of one's own people? After all, one must keep the global war profit machine running at full speed at every given moment.
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I'll take a .44 Magnum, I heard it blows heads clean off.
A .50 Cal mounted on Erdogan's ass pointed at the IMF, ECB, G. Sachs, Chase and the Fed.
Great article, Tyler. I can feel the outrage. Rightly so. It's good that you don't shy away anymore from stating that ISIS is a US creation.
It's the greatest threat global security has ever faced.
All the weapons in the world won't matter once ISIS army kick into gear!
http://goo.gl/lBRD5v
I seem to remember, recently, when American citizens could not buy ammo, due to the burden placed on the market by U.S. Gov contracts!
Fortunately, I saw that shit coming years ahead of time, and avoided the problem.
Edit; An EMP won't hurt my cartridges.
This is the same nation full of evangelical christians isn't it? The one ultimate religion. The religion that renders Islam a barbaric anachronism. Or am I missing something.
All barbs and insults aside, whatever it is these evangelical christians are supposed to be doing sure as shit isn't working.
An ISIS terrorist saws the head of an ionfidel off and it's barbarism.
Create and sell weapons of destruction responsible for killing millions and at best this is democracy and capitalism and at worst the shadow of christianity cast across the earth. How can it be otherwise as the majority of yanks are christians.
What we talkin' bout here in terms of US economic benefit to these wars? 1% kick to US GDP if it stays local? 2% if it goes nuclear? 3% if the war goes worldwide?
Somehow, I've never confused this Govt with Christianity, in any way.
The cocksuckers up in Yankton (DC) worship 2 things, Money and Power. None of their policy/decisions are based on Christianity whatsoever.
Their policy can be traced to the Petrodollar, the World Reserve Currency status, trampling of rights in hopes of gaining total control over all aspects of peoples' lives and finances.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Too many excuses. Neither then should the muslim fanatics tarnish Islam because they are not really representing the faith.
If an entire nation professes to be christian and at the same time is evil beyond reproach, then I am afraid you are stuck. If the majority of christians are good yet the evil is perpetrated by only a few bad eggs, then it should be easy for the good christians to band together and through collective action stop this shit dead in it's tracks.
The church could easily say to it's congregation, let's picket the white house or even better, let's remove our money from the banks. From the discussions I had on this forum a great deal of christians support the US military.
Go figure, you couldn't make this shit up if you tried.
No, not excuses, just observations. Islam is a Theology, a form of Govt.(Theocracy) based on (and in cases enforcing) a form of religion. Can you point me toward an organization of American Christians that have waged war on a nation, region, or religion in it's entirety? If so, do 13% of moderate Christians support or sympathize with said organization? I can't think of one.
As to any nation claiming to be Christian, or any other religion for that matter, I'd have to call bullshit. Hell, it's hard to get 6 people to agree on what to eat for dinner.
As to people banning together, and taking out the bad eggs, I do think that could be done, but it's a 2-way street. All of those fine young Muslim refugees that are fleeing
their countries in numbers large enough to kick ISIS' ass, could do so, just as 100-1000 good Americans could take their counties back if so inclined. That just seems to be a
bloody bridge that people are not yet ready to cross.
The issue at heart in both cases, is that people don't want to face their own mortality to do so. The way I see it though, is that I don't self-identify, as represented by my Govt. (and I don't think many Americans do).
Somehow, I've never been religion with sense, in any way.
Or my RL-550b...
Get the impression that the writer of the article seems surprised.
I guess he never heard of red scare, cold-war, war on drugs, star-wars.........., and I could go on.
Here’s a good exposition of why the arms race:
In 1944 an article by Ed Sard (alias Frank Demby) predicted a post-war arms race. He argued at the time that the USA would retain the character of a war economy; even in peacetime, US military expenditure would remain large, reducing the percentage of UNEMPLOYED compared to the 1930s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_war_economy
So, as long people keep having children in a finite planet with dwindle resources, war is a given. Very natural outcome.
Exponential Growth leads to exponential collapse.
Looking forward to the upcoming Nuclear Winter.
No worries...Nobody survives so that there is no one left to worry.
It's going to be fascinatinbg to bear witness to this. What a spin out if we actually do experience the thermonuclear holocaust Carl sagan was so worried about.
I do agree with you. I think it's inevitable.
It shouldn't surprise us though because we are all so fucking stupid.
Love to know how civilisation has played out across the universe and whether self destruction is one of the ulitmate ironies of advanced life in the universe.
Maybe god is a Homer Simpson type characeter and everytime that mushroom cloud appears in the first of the barrage of nuclear exchanges he screams "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . . . "DOH" . . . . . . .
Take a look at the Drake Equation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation.
The trick with asteroid strikes is being dead when they happen, BTW.
Asteroid strikes?
There is one parameter that Drake left out of that equation and that is the inverse percentage of a civilizations' stupidity.
We will do ourselves in before an asteriod hits us.
We'll make great pets...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE3OuHukrmQ
Happy Thanksgiving, guys.
I'm familiar with this equation thanks to Carl Sagan who, nearly two decades ago, discussed this on the famous series Cosmos. I think though that it's too absurdly conjectural to have much meaning but still very interesting to consider. Imagine if there were 100,000 advanced civilisations in the universe. Would be as equally fascinating if there are no others.
Regarding an asteroid. I'd stand there is awe if one was approaching and marvel at the spectacle. The death would be near instantaneous and merciful. No one can escape life alive. Deferring your mortality today means you have to face your mortality tomorrow. It'll be no easier tomorrow.
I has at a guess we'll be faced with this situation before our natural lives are over. Chances are still slim, yes, but not as slim as 100 years ago. Not through some bullshit biblical prophesy crap maintained through the ages by stunted intellects, but just through our ape like violent propensities and attainment of nuclear weapons. That coupled with the cancer of religious thinking and corraling events to give biblical prophesy the best chance of emerging.
One of lifes greatest most spectacular ironies is the religious obsession with armegeddon. You'd think that either evil people or mentally ill people would be obsessed with armegeddon. Sure we all discuss it as a possible outcome in the nuclear age bnecause it is a real possibility but a christian actually covets this because it will confirm their crazy beliefs.
Fucking nutty batshit crazy species we human beings.
I am a Christian and I do not need Armageddon to confirm my insanity.
I do post on ZH after all. That is confirmation enough.
That is probably the case.BOTA.
DOH!!!
So I suggest this is "Temporarily Bullish" for weapons manufacturers and countries GDP of all those involved.
I do mean Temporarily. No sarc
Vlad will fire a ICBM with his bare hands.
Vlad will use Chuck Norris's body to bat incoming ICBM's from the sky.
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/11/us-gives-their-prox...
Them peace loving Americans!
How's about time we bring all our troopies home, huh?
That's why we need to disarm the public ... ISIS and their buds need the guns!
I'm curious as to where these profiteers are planning on spending their blood money after the Apocalypse?
ah, the fuckers turn on each other, stay tuned and alive!
After? Probably buying small innocent children for the Reptilian Celebrations where the kids are gang raped, blood drank and then cooked alive for dinner.
im no alpha, but i know when to get outa dodge and find my own azz...
Sorry, old boy but I think I would rather go on a hunger strike than help the reptiles.
But its not like they never tell us.
http://youtu.be/VUb450Alpps
Robotic prosthetics manufacturing?
I posted on a earlier thread that organized crime(.gov) will increase gun thefts because they need the inventory. My thoughts go back 2 , 3 yrs ago of a us arms purchase of 139 k ak 47 that were heading for storage at bluegrass army depot . Guess that's gone
It's not just weapons-manufacturers who make fortunes when empires are on the rampage. They (the bad guys) regard it as a massive slum-clearance project, with opportunities to make a killing all along the way.
http://barlowscayman.blogspot.com/2015/11/slum-clearance-on-massive-scale.html
India and Pakistan 2 of the top 3 importers, hmm...
Those are friends for life
lol...yes...and nukes...
India and Pakistan have doubled their purchases 2009-2013 vs. 2004-2008.
It still amuses me how both of those countries skipped right over toilet paper and learned to make the bomb, first.
Priorities Bias Priorities
It appears that this Administration is the Greatest Group of Gun Salesman in History (Foreign and Domestic). Something they can all take credit for.
happy to oblige! kelt sub 2k, thank you, blast to shot...
Well then everything is going according to plan.
If Muslims are too dangerous to be allowed in the country, should we be selling billions of dollars in weapons to them? Our biggest customer is Saudi Arabia, who supplied the majority of the 9/11 attackers.
so many double standards, lost track at 2 to the 20th power...
Evil is incapable of perceiving itself. The US could wipe out half of humanity and still wouldn't preceive itself as evil.
Dropping hundreds of tons of weapons in a middle of a desert would do that...
Two years ago I was out with my dad and a friend, who is now a retired army CW5, who hobbies in gold prospecting. I was trying to find a place that Milton, the (in 1974), 90 year old prospector and rock hound who lived in a place across the road and up the hill about a quarter mile, took me to around 1976 where he said he found a small gold vein. It was way out along the old route 66 out near Ludlow.
The area hasn't changed at all since 1976, believe me, except the gas station now has a restaurant and it's helliously bigger than what it was. We found what I believed was the road heading south, under the BNSF railroad, we followed it and it started angling back towards the 40. We got to a patch that crossed a wide, dry wash and we stopped to examine how soft the sand was. They had me walk out in front for a ways.
There was no way that truck would make it across that powder sugar sand, and then I spotted a tangle of wire and a lump. Took a couple steps towards it and recognized it was some sort of missle. Not knowing too much about modern missles and go back to the Army guy and tell him there's a fucking missle laying on the side of the wash ahead and there was no way the truck could make through.
Dad, retired SCMSgt USAF, and CW5 go tell me I'm full of shit and get out to check themselves. Get up there and sure as shit, it's a missle and as we're looking at it I reconize it as a TOW missle. Someone had obviously been out scavenging and had picked the thing up, pulled what seemed like miles of wire into a ball, and stacked it on a pile of other random shit. Probably some local kid out fucking around figuring he could sell for scrap when he got some sort of transportation.
Army guy says we need to turn it in. I ask if there's any possibility that it's armed. He said he didn't know, his specialty didn't deal with this stuff (he did super squirrly secret satellite shit). He picks the missle up and I grab the mass of wire and we put it in the back of the truck. We're just outside of the back range of Twentynine Palms Marine Base. And we decide we orta take it back to them.
Imagine, you're out in the middle of nowhere. You're driving down a desert trail that kind of rough. There's a potentially live missle a few feet behind you. We're doing maybe 35-45 and we hit a bump. We went airborn...shit floated up, my ass left the seat and maintained a firm grasp on the oh-shit bar above the door. Wham! We hit the ground hard. I turned to my army friend and said, I guess we can assume it's not live.
We're in the town of Twentynine Palms about five miles from the Marine Base, and the trucks electronics go to shit and we pull off into a WalMart parking lot and push the truck the last hundred feet to the shop. Now, we're sitting with a missle, in public, broke down, an a mechanic is working on the engine to put whatever jap-crap fuse back into place so we can continue on. Cop pulled up, walked by, talked to the mechanic about some maintenance he wanted to schedule (29 Palms is essentially a small town, still). Cop leaves. Mechanic finds the problem, puts in the fuse and we're back on the road.
Gate at 29 Palms Marine Base waives us through with a Salute after the Army ID is presented. First sign we saw pointed the way to Ordnance Disposal. We get to the location and Army Friend turns to us and says, if I come out in handcuffs don't get too excited. Just do what they say and it'll all be good.
So we sit in the truck and he and two Marines come out, no handcuffs, we get out of the truck to watch. Guy hops in the back of the truck and checks the missle. Yep, it's a TOW missle. I ask if we could make it into an ashtray. He said No, not a good idea. Might explode.
It was live.
LONG quiet drive back home.
Bring it on - I actually found a couple thousand rounds of 22LR over the last few weeks (to go with the 'good stuff')
You found a couple thousand rounds of 22? Amateur... ;)
You will find that the "shortage" will subside in a year. Right now, people walk into a store, and see the shelves empty of all 22s and panic, and buy everything remaining. Eventually they figure they have a big enough stash and stop buying. When this happens across the country, you will see shelves stocked again. When shelves become stocked, people are happy and don't go and buy everything they see.
They should just buy everybody gun free zone signs, it would be a lot cheaper and much more effective.
Both movies are a MUST watch for ZHers.
After seeing Fight Club, of course.
I'd add Syriana to that list
China, Japan and Germany are the only GDP giants that are not directly and overtly involved in major conflicts, insofar they don't bomb places with their own gear & troops. But China and Germany do supply plenty of Small Arms; the cheap and the good, respectively.
The MIC from the USA, UK and France never met a war they didn't like. Especially those from USSA. And they don't like it when others cut in on their action, any more than the Oil or Banking cartels like their biz models messed with.
"GOD*. It's what make America run. Got GOD?" -Kirk, (c)2015
* Guns, Oil, Debt
p.s. Note that Goldman Sachs does "GOD's work", per Lord Bankfine
Clearly not a sign this is all orchestrated by the U.S. Nah, just a happy coincidence they continue to be the country that benefits the most from all this supposed bad stuff.
The Federal Government has supplied county and municipal law enforcement with no end of military hardware. My local sheriffs' department has both a SWAT team and a Bomb Squad. They have armored Humvees, automatic weaponry, night vision gear, body armor, etc. all courtesy of a Federal "share the firepower" program. If the terrists ever attack South Central Wisconsin and try to overrun our corn fields with their Toyota pickups and sharp knives the local constabulary will respond with tanks and heavy machine guns.
I guess there's a waiting list for fighter jets, drones, and cruise missiles. There's also still no .22 ammo at the local Farm & Fleet.
The sand niggers of Saudi Arabia are creating choas to remove Assad to lay a oil pipeline. We (US) just supply the weapons.
Center for Security Policy | Russia's endgame in Syria: Follow the ...
The old trustyAK-47 assault rifle.Always in demand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDuuaOp8N-k
There's no 22 because they want you buying heavier calibars
5.56mm is .22cal with smack down of 1560ft.lb. at the mussel. .22lr has just 126ft'lb,but it is rather quite out of a longer barrel
In the process of documenting the fallout of a corrupt and defunct Congress, it would have been good and big of you to at least give that dynamic an honorable mention, let alone a nod to how government structures gone bad-because-neglected are enough to bring the whole show to its knees, given time... and neglect.
In that regard, you are not squeaky-clean, ZH.
Well, at least it's good for something
7.62x39 AR15s now cheaper (and better) than AK47s.
http://palmettostatearmory.com/psa-pa47-16-7-62x39-upper-w-bcg-and-charg...
It's a Bullet Ponzi Scheme, the more bullets you sell to kill people the more bullets you need to replace them with. And the more people die from Bullets, the stronger the US Economy gets, well in theory until you run out people to kill, then what ?
But if the USA doesn't like being killed by Muslims, then perhaps you should stop selling them Guns and Bullets
bullet to kill ratio in vietman was around half a million to one (I guess that included training)
American Constitution promotes Terrorism therefore this has to happen
Amendment II
As ratified by the States and authenticated by Thomas Jefferson, then-Secretary of State:
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
LoL.. better go preconstitution, the county seat, trust your judge, not the legislators
Trust a glorified lawyer? Are you out of your mind?
so you see , the strategy of Usa administration to finance and create and support terrorism , or the bombing where can always helps Usa Gnp and helps in the worst moments. Usa at least will collapse slighty later thanks to this .... good strategy from their point of view , but consequences ? Usa admin are kids low brain zero culture with a gun in hand , very dengerous and when Europe was starting taking distance than like a miracle : the terrorist come to unify all , funny people