U.S. Arms Sales Make Up Most of Global Market By THOM SHANKER - New York Times

What else is there to say? Who is the arms dealer of the world. Selling murder to anyone that has the cash? This to me equates to the blood of most of the world falling upon the heads of America and her people.

We were warned that to allow the military complex and large corporations to plough over the rule of the people we would come to ruin. America is wheeling and dealing in arms, drugs, and slave trafficking.

We have (IMHO) evil men running the show and the majority of people by their silence and compliance are allowing and condoning this.

You now cannot say you have no knowledge so you are exempt from being part of it, and that will anger many because most people don't want to really know the truth. Once you know what is going on you either keep complying (which is silent acceptance and thus become a part of the bloodshed) or you denounce and fight the evilness.

To remain silent in the face of evil is to condone it pure and simple. With knowledge comes responsibility and most people don't want that, it's inconvenient and disrupts their conscious.

Source: www.nytimes.com...

U.S. Arms Sales Make Up Most of Global Market By THOM SHANKER - New York Times

August 26, 2012

WASHINGTON — Weapons sales by the United States tripled in 2011 to a record high, driven by major arms sales to Persian Gulf allies concerned about Iran’s regional ambitions, according to a new study for Congress.

Overseas weapons sales by the United States totaled $66.3 billion last year, or more than three-quarters of the global arms market, valued at $85.3 billion in 2011. Russia was a distant second, with $4.8 billion in deals.

The American weapons sales total was an “extraordinary increase” over the $21.4 billion in deals for 2010, the study found, and was the largest single-year sales total in the history of United States arms exports. The previous high was in fiscal year 2009, when American weapons sales overseas totaled nearly $31 billion.

A worldwide economic decline had suppressed arms sales over recent years. But increasing tensions with Iran drove a set of Persian Gulf nations — Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman — to purchase American weapons at record levels.

These Gulf states do not share a border with Iran, and their arms purchases focused on expensive warplanes and complex missile defense systems.

The report was prepared by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, a division of the Library of Congress. The annual study, written by Richard F. Grimmett and Paul K. Kerr and delivered to Congress on Friday, is considered the most detailed collection of unclassified arms sales data available to the public.

The agreements with Saudi Arabia included the purchase of 84 advanced F-15 fighters, a variety of ammunition, missiles and logistics support, and upgrades of 70 of the F-15 fighters in the current fleet.

Sales to Saudi Arabia last year also included dozens of Apache and Black Hawk helicopters, all contributing to a total Saudi weapons deal from the United States of $33.4 billion, according to the study.

The United Arab Emirates purchased a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, an advanced antimissile shield that includes radars and is valued at $3.49 billion, as well as 16 Chinook helicopters for $939 million.

Oman bought 18 F-16 fighters for $1.4 billion.

In keeping with recent trends, most of the weapons purchases, worth about $71.5 billion, were made by developing nations, with about $56.3 billion of that from the United States.

Other significant weapons deals by the United States last year included a $4.1 billion agreement with India for 10 C-17 transport planes and with Taiwan for Patriot antimissile batteries valued at $2 billion — an arms deal that outraged officials in Beijing.

To compare weapons sales over various years, the study used figures in 2011 dollars, with amounts for previous years adjusted for inflation to provide a consistent measurement.

A policy goal of the United States has been to work with Arab allies in the Persian Gulf to knit together a regional missile defense system to protect cities, oil refineries, pipelines and military bases from an Iranian attack.

The effort has included deploying radars to increase the range of early warning coverage across the Persian Gulf, as well as introducing command, control and communications systems that could exchange that information with new batteries of missile interceptors sold to the individual nations.

The missile shield in the Persian Gulf is being built on a country-by-country basis — with these costly arms sales negotiated bilaterally between the United States and individual nations.

The real problem is that the majority of Americans don't care unless it affects them directly. As long as it doesn't interfere with my ability to buy booze, play with my ipad, or talk on my cell phone i don't care is that attitude American's have.

I'm not surprised at all and i knew it. War is our number one export. That movie with Nicholas Cage, Lord of War. That's how it's done. The people responsible don't face any legal charges because those high and low within the government need those certain individuals to see their weapons for them. And those profits are strictly off the books.

The way I figure it from a globalist elitist perspective is that war is always a win.

The more war there is the more profit is made in destroying and rebuilding. The world becomes like any other disposable trinket from China. Nations are now iPhones. Throw it out and get the latest one.

As a plus it also reduced the number of useless feeders.

So one government makes a deal to sell a bunch of weapons to another and regardless of the outcome the Rothschilds and the Rockefeller's of the world will come out on top.

If those heavilly armed nations destroy themselves we can sell them on rebuilding. If their enemies get nervous we can sell them weapons. If they turn the guns on us we can rally the plebes into dying for our profit.

These groups work well outside states and nations.

War is win-win for them which is why every POTUS is a war-monger and pointless death will always go on.