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My
friend Judy, just sent me a few
statistics from the book
NO-NONSENSE GUIDE TO THE ARMS TRADE.
This is new brainwork for me, never bothered to concern myself with how much capital there is to be gained, trading and selling weaponry.
No wonder the human greedy animal desire wars waged...
with its hi-tech slaughter...
THERE LOTS OF 
IN THEM THAR HOSTILE ENCOUNTERS!
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I'VE GOT A DREAM
If I ruled the world, I would take all the
weaponry and melt it down into golf clubs,
then
sell these clubs to the many countries, organizations, terrorist
groups, imperialists, warmongers and the rest of the murder-mongers
of this world who wish to wreck havoc upon us for monetary gain, and tell them PLAY GOLF
INSTEAD...
Winners
take all.
What a lovely picture I would paint... Instead
of watching TV and seeing a big billowing mushroom cloud rise up
from infrastructures, we
would see lovely grass fields with military uniformed individuals
or
Asian men, garbed in long flowing robes,
chasing
around little white balls, trying to get a HOLE IN ONE...
I know, blissful thinking and I also sadly understand, IT WOULD
NEVER WORK!
After a day
or two of this pleasant little game with big stakes... the
players would stop aiming at the little
balls and
start bopping each other over the head with their irons... AND IT
WOULD BE CALLED THE GOLF WARS... The
human condition is piteous.
HOLY MUSHROOM CLOUD, NO WONDER THE NEOCONS
ARE INFATUATED WITH WAR!
thinkingblue aka Carolyn
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PS: Take a look at this sport of killing people and see what a big business it is... With sales for the apparatus (tools) of this disgusting trade, skyrocketing... There are major bucks to be made by those who speculate in this MARKET OF MASS DESTRUCTION (but I wonder, how in the world do they live with themselves?)...
Judy wrote: excerpts from the book
No-Nonsense guide to The Arms Trade
by Gideon Burrows
New Internationalist / Verso, 2002, paper
p14
Who sells the weaponry?
Unsurprisingly, the West dominates the world arms market in terms of
sales. Over the last six or so years, the US has towered over the
other countries in weapons sales, clocking up $49,271 million worth
of sales (at 1990 prices) between 1996 and 2000. Its nearest
competitor, Russia, made $15,690 million worth in the same period,
but a large majority of these were of second hand weapons.
According to SIPRI, just under half of all transfers (movements) of
major conventional weapons between 1996 and 2000 came from the US,
Russia and France each accounted for 10 per cent, and Britain and
Germany each accounted for between five and 10 per cent. The seven
following biggest sellers - the Netherlands, Ukraine, Italy, China,
Belarus, Spain and Israel - accounted for around 15 per cent of the
world total transfers between them.
So it is clear that the global arms market is controlled by just a
few players. The six biggest arms selling countries - four of whom,
ironically, are permanent members of the UN Security Council -
accounted for almost 85 per cent of all arms transfers | over the
last six years.
p16
The top 7 largest arms companies, in terms of military
sales. The figures in italics represent the percentage of arms
in total sales for each company. Figures for arms sales are in US $
billions at constant (1998) prices and exchange rates.
1994 1999
Lockheed Martin (US) $15.9 63% $17.6 70%
BAE Systems (UK) $ 9.1 62% $15.7 77%
Boeing (US) $4.5 18% $15.3 27%
Raytheon (US) $3.9 35% $11.3 58%
Northrop Grumman (US) $6.2 85% $7.0 79%
General Dynamics (US) $3.2 94% $5.5 62%
Thomson-CSF (France) $4.2 65% $4.1 56%
p17
Selection of top arms-purchasing countries between 1996 and 2000.
Taiwan - Saudi Arabia - Turkey - South Korea - China - India - Egypt - Israel - Pakistan - Kuwait Malaysia - Brazil - UK
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Why does an atom bomb form a mushroom cloud?
01-Jan-1999
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Dear Cecil:
Why do nuclear explosions form a mushroom-shaped cloud? If you would
tell me why frantic and furious fusion and fission have a fondness
for the fungus form, I would certainly appreciate it. --Paul Smith,
Tampa, Florida
Cecil replies:
Shame on you, Paul. You know I cringe at F-words. You don't need an
atom bomb to make a mushroom cloud, just convection. Mushroom clouds
typically occur when an explosion produces a massive fireball. Since
the fireball is very hot and thus less dense than the surrounding
air, it rises rapidly, forming the cap of the mushroom cloud. In its
wake the fireball leaves a column of heated air. This acts as a
chimney, drawing in smoke and hot gases from ground fires. These
form the stalk of the mushroom. Since the center is the hottest part
of the mushroom cloud, it rises faster than the outer edges, giving
the impression that the cap is curling down around the stalk. Thus
the familiar fungal form.
Hydrogen bomb explosions are so huge the cloud may reach the
tropopause, the boundary in the atmosphere where a fairly sharp rise
in temperature starts. The cloud generally can't break through this
and the top flattens out, producing an especially pronounced
mushroom shape. (The tropopause also forms a ceiling for
thunderheads, producing their anvil shape.)
Mushroom clouds aren't necessarily big. One of the Teeming Millions
tells me he once set off a carbide noisemaker-type cannon with the
igniter mechanism removed. Out of the hole where the igniter was
supposed to go there issued a 10-inch mushroom cloud with a stem of
fire and a cap of black smoke. And, we must suppose, a fabulously
fierce FOOMP.
--CECIL ADAMS
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BUSH:
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“Cut his mic!”
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until it is impossible to figure out
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CHENEY:
“There is no doubt.”
RUMSFELD:
“We know where they are.”
BUSH:
“Building and hiding weapons.”
Kyrie
CHENEY:
“There is no doubt.”
RUMSFELD:
“We know where they are.”
Kyrie eleison
BUSH:
"The Privacy of Ordinary Americans,
is fiercely protected
in all our activities."
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The acclamation Kyrie eleison (Lord have mercy!)
antedates Christian worship and is the one part of
western liturgy that remained in Greek throughout the
Middle Ages. It was used in various forms of pagan
worship including the imperial cult in which the emperor
was called kyrios (lord).
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