http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRUpJr9pw9w
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread610010/pg1
The True Story of WMD video
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Victor_Bout
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Victor Anatoliyevich Bout.
Arms dealer, fugitive from justice, Halliburton subcontractor.
Born in Tashkent, Bout has been variously reported as having served in the USSR Air Force or the KGB. With the breakup of the USSR, he bought several surplus military transports and set up as a freelance gun-runner. Bout has been the principal supplier of arms to conflict areas under UN arms embargo, supplying governments, or rebel movements in places such as Sierra Leone, Liberia(Charles Taylor), Angola(UNITA), Congo, al Qaeda, Afghanistan(Taliban), and Somalia.
Since 2002, he has been under indictment in Belgium for money laundering, though he has been on the run since. He seems to be able to evade capture with ease because of his connections with persons in various governments.
In spite of his fugitive status, known Bout fronts, such as Air Bas, received contracts for Kellogg Brown and Root supply flights for Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Air Bas was licensed to land at, and buy US military fuel at, US bases, a privilege which was freely exercised. (And possibly for purposes other than OIF contracts.) These privileges have since been rescinded, but he may still be contracting under yet others of his shell companies.
http://www.bobsblitz.com/2011/09/could-nets-owner-mikhail-prokhorov-wind.html
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The last political leader to defy Vladimir V. Putin was Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky...who is currently being rehabbed through “isolation from society.” And while popular opinion doesn't trend to Prokhorov suffering the same therapy...no one on record is 100% sure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_Nets
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On September 23, 2009, Russian businessman Mikhail Prokhorov agreed to a $200 million deal to become a principal owner of the Nets and a key investor in the team's proposed home in Brooklyn.
In October 2009, the Nets played two preseason games at the Prudential Center.[35] The two preseason games were successful, and a deal that would have the Nets play at the Prudential Center for the 2010–11 and 2011-12 NBA seasons became more likely. After nearly falling apart when the New Jersey Sports and Exhibition Authority refused to release the Nets from their lease at Izod,[36] negotiations resumed, and on February 18, 2010, the Nets finalized a deal that would move them to the Prudential Center in Newark, until Barclays Center opens.
After the dismissal of major pending lawsuits, groundbreaking for Barclays Center was on March 11, 2010.[37]
There is also speculation that the team will change its nickname once they move to Brooklyn.[38] However, the team has registered brooklynnets.com, and on the Barclays Center website the team is repeatedly referred to as the "Brooklyn Nets".[39]
http://www.bluebloggin.com/2008/03/08/victor-bout-the-bad-man-who-knows-too-much/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
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erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources.
http://www.globalissues.org/article/74/the-arms-trade-is-big-business
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This web page has the following sub-sections:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Arms_trade
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Canadian Arms Sales are governed by the country's Export and Imports Permits Act. Sales with the United States are also specifically regulated by the 1959 Defence Production Sharing Arrangement.
As of 2000, the largest Canadian-owned arms-exporters were Canadian Aviation Electronics, the 61st-largest defence corporation in the world, and DY4, the 94th-largest. Foreign-owned companies based in Canada, such as General Motors and Bell Helicopter also contribute significantly.
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[edit] 1986
In 1986, Project Ploughshares organised a protest against the conference HiTech '86 which is hosted by the Canadian government, advertising potential foreign markets to military-based contractors.[1][edit] 1991
In 1991, the Canadian government amended the Exports and Imports Permit Act, to allow more freedom in selling LAVs and automatic weapons. Because it had recently been banned from Ottawa city property, the Arms Exhibition ARMX'91 moved to a new home at the Carp Airport outside the city limits.[edit] 1992
In 1992, the Official Opposition Liberal Party introduced a Parliamentary proposal entitled Defence Conversion - A Liberal Priority, which outlined three possibilities for a post-Cold War Canadian arms trade, including "increas[ing] exports to developing countries where arms spending has been less affected by the Cold War's end - thereby adding to the misery of these countries., and instead advocating the third option, to "encourage Canadian defence companies to adjust and move away from a dependence on military production and export.".[edit] 1994
In 1994, Canadian arms sales skyrocketed 48% to a total of $497.4 million, causing a brief controversy.[2] This sharp escalation contributed to Canada's position as the 7th largest supplier of military arms to Third World countries. Large sales included GM-built Light Armoured Vehicles to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Air Defense Anti-Tank Systems and a Tactical Air Navigation System to Thailand.[3]1994 also saw Canada begin selling military arms to Algeria, Colombia, Indonesia and South Africa.
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In 1995, Canada became the 7th-largest supplier of arms to third-world countries, and the 10th largest arms dealer overall.[4][edit] 2000
In 2000, Canada's sales totalled $434 million, across 50 nations. Large sales included eight Howitzers to Brazil, and four more LAVs to Saudi Arabia, while smaller sales included $4.9 million worth of rockets to Malaysia, $270,976 in simulator parts to Morocco, $50,000 worth of aircraft parts to Indonesia, $27,000 in small arms to Argentina, $21,400 worth of missile parts to Egypt.[5]The year also marked the conclusion of the Canadian sale of 40 Huey military helicopters to the United States, who then refitted 33 of the craft with further military upgrades and sold them to Colombia, thus allowing Canada to bypass its restriction against selling arms to Colombia.[6]
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From 1991 through 2001, the [[Department of National Defense (Philippines)]Filipino Department of National Defense]] imported an annual average of $1.6 million worth of its equipment from Canada, including aircraft parts and service pistols.[6] This was roughly 0.2% of the $995 million Filipino defense budget of 1998. [7][edit] 2004
Major sales in 2004 included the sale of $346 million worth of Bell Helicopters to Pakistan and $22 million worth of Pratt & Whitney Canada aircraft engines to Indonesia.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_%26_Whitney_Canada
Pratt & Whitney Canada (PWC or P&WC) is a Canadian aircraft engine manufacturer. PWC's headquarters are in Longueuil, Quebec, just outside Montreal. It is a division of the larger US-based Pratt & Whitney (P&W), itself a business unit of United Technologies.[1] United Technologies has given PWC a world mandate for smaller aircraft engines while P&W's US operations develop and manufacture larger engines.
United Technologies Corporation (UTC) (NYSE: UTX) is an American multinational conglomerate headquartered in the United Technologies Building in Hartford, Connecticut.[1]
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Canada jumped [8] from fifteenth to twelfth largest exporter of *military* hardware in the world. The country exports to several governments engaged in human rights violations, like the Philippines, Israel, Saudi Arabia, China, Libya and Tunisia.http://www.usip.org/publications/law-war-training-publications-military-and-civilian-leaders
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http://www.amazon.com/War-Without-Mercy-Power-Pacific/dp/0394751728
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Most of us read in school about how the peoples of War-era Japan or the former Soviet Union were manipulated by the press and other media. This book is about the subtle and not-so-subtle media manipulation in the US and Japan during the War in the Pacific.
In many ways, the media messages in the respective countries mirrored each other. For example, both Japan and the US looked upon each other as simian others. That is to say, the Japanese portrayed Americans as large apes and we portrayed them as monkeys. Another aspect of the war-time propaganda that the book explores is how each side used the protection of their country's women from the rapacious enemy as cause to fight.
Many other examples of how we and our enemy de-humanized the other to make killing easier are presented throughout the text. The book includes many images of political cartoons and magazine covers that are shocking in their brutal stereotyping of the enemy. It is somewhat ironic that two countries which claimed to be so different from each other could make that claim in such similar ways.
If you are interested in the Pacific War or about how propaganda was used in either the US or Japan, I would highly recommend this book
http://www.amazon.com/Morality-American-Foreign-Policy-McElroy/dp/0691000786
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McElroy's "Morality and American Foreign Policy" offers the reader a pathbreaking analysis of a subject that was put aside by the mainstream International Relations' theorists (the so called realists) since this subject was considered as an utopism (hence an unscientific sunject). Using the latters commitment to empirical observations McElroy shows quite convincingly that U.S. Foreign Policy was sometimes driven by moral arguments (namely in the cases of famine relief in Russia in 1921, the ban of chimical and biological warfare by the U.S. and the retrocession of the Panama canal). But McElroy's book also shows the limits of the moral argument in Foreign Policy. In the case of the bombing of the German city of Dresden, McElroy demonstrates that despite the generally acknowledged norm of noncombatant immunity, the American planners decided to pursue mass-bombing above Germany (and Japan, see Dower's "War without Mercy"). In the words of McElroy, "The case of Dresden testifies to the fact that the mere existence of a strong international moral norm does not guarantee norm compliance, and that there are specific conditions that contribute to or militate against compliance in the international system" (p. 167). McElroy finishes his book by drawing on this last remark and offers the reader with several conclusions on the role of morality in World politics.
As I said, McElroy's book is pathbreaking in the world of International Relations theory. He really takes morality as a serious subject in the field. One can regret nonetheless that the author gives us lots of generalization despites the fact that it is an U.S. centered study. This study also lack a more in depth analysis of major conceptual problems such as to know what is a norm and what is morality. Finally, out of four study cases three of them are convincing in regard of the theoretical argumentation of McElroy but the fourth (the Panama case) is far from being convincing and let the reader quite unsatisfied. That's for these reasons that I give a four stars to McElroy's book despite being a great book overall.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Japanese_relations
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http://thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/australia-mainmenu-34/1159-merchant-of-death-trial-still-looms
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http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/20/power-09_Igor-Sechin_XIE4.html
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#42 Igor Sechin
11.11.09, 06:00 PM ESTRussian press calls him Darth Vader and "the scariest person on Earth." Official title is deputy prime minister; many consider him the most powerful man in Russia after Putin.
| Deputy Prime Minister Russia Age: 49 | Previous: Joaquin Guzman Next: Dmitry Medvedev |
AP Photo/ Alexander Zemlianichenko
Russian press calls him Darth Vader and "the scariest person on Earth." Official title is deputy prime minister; many consider him the most powerful man in Russia after Putin. Kremlin's oil man oversees abundant natural resources. Beyond Russia: hammering out 20-year, $25 billion oil-for-loans supply deal with China. Dropped by Venezuela, Cuba, Turkey in recent months to talk oil, prove Russia has no need for U.S.
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http://www.businesspundit.com/25-tycoons-who-run-the-world/Excerpt:
department’s coffers with a cool $20 million donation.
6. Mikhail Prokhorov
Image: Wikimedia
This self-made global metals czar caught the fat-cat bug when he teamed up with Vladimir Potanin to buy nickel mining and smelting company MMC Norilsk Nickel, now the world’s biggest nickel and palladium producer. The duo eventually built up Interros, a conglomerate that included not only Norilsk Nickel, but leading Russian bank Rosbank, Russia’s biggest media company, Prof-Media; a real estate investment and development company, and the ski resort development company that will build a resort for the 2014 Winter Olympics.
After getting caught up in a prostitution scandal, Prokhorov unloaded his 25% stake in the company to fellow oligarch Oleg Deripaska two years ago, gaining a stake in Deripaska’s Rusal, the world’s biggest aluminum company, and some cash, in exchange.
Prokhorov and Potanin split up Interros as well; Prokhorov now runs the conglomerate Onexim, which absorbed from Interros a majority stake in Polyus Gold, Russia’s biggest gold mining company, as well as the real estate developer, and Rosbank. Onexim also runs an insurance company, a media company, and three energy companies. Prokhorov also owns 80% of the New Jersey Nets, as part of a New York real estate development deal. Yet another of Prokhorov’s projects involves “designing a city car of a new type”—much better than the Lada, we hope.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Potanin
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123349854683836825.html
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http://www.civiclab.us/2011/07/privatization/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Winter_Olympics
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The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially the XXII Olympic Winter Games, or the 22nd Winter Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event scheduled to be celebrated from 7 to 23 February 2014, in Sochi, Russia with some events held in the resort town of Krasnaya Polyana. Both the Olympic and Paralympic Games are being organized by the Sochi Organizing Committee (SOOC). The 2014 Winter Olympics will become the second Olympics hosted by Russia. Previously, Russia hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. These are the first Olympics (and first Winter Olympics altogether) for the Russian Federation however, as the 1980 Summer Olympics were in the former Soviet Union.
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