Kim Jong-un Wins MIC Prize for Regional Arms Sales Forecast

Zombies Vote for Abe’s War Party

Background:

The Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) aims to remilitarize Japan with the help of their hand puppets in North Korea and Japan.

North Korea’s puppet regime, installed by the Military-Industrial Complex and lead by the rogue dictator Kim Jong-un, is playing to Japan’s fear of atom bombs, helping the deplorable PM Abe and his war party to remilitarize the land of nuclear disasters.

The Beneficiaries

Global arms trade of major weapons, which has seen a steady increase since 2002, topped $31 billion [with hundreds of billions more in related sales] in 2016, according to the “conservative” figures released by SPIRI.

The top 10 exporters where responsible for more than 90 percent of the sales:

United States (32.0%), Russia (20.6%), Germany (9.0%), France (7.1%), China (6.8%), UK(4.5%), Israel (4.2%), Italy (2.6%), S.Korea (1.6%) and Ukraine (1.6%).

[Prepared by affiliated political scientists.]

• Report available from FIRE-EARTH PULSARS.

Related Links:

• Why Japan is a Far Greater Global Threat than N. Korea Posted on June 10, 2017
• FIRE-EARTH Report: Korean Peninsula Posted on March 3, 2017
• FIRE-EARTH Report: Who Really Pulls the Strings on N. Korea?  Posted on December 21, 2016
• Japan 2nd Greatest ‘Military Threat’ to S. Korea: Poll  Posted on June 3, 2015
• “Dynamic Duo” already Robbing America Blind?  Posted on April 29, 2017
• Would the MIC Kill the Geese that Lay the Golden Eggs? Posted on August 23, 2017

Additional Links:

• North Korea Announces ‘Successful’ H-Bomb Test Posted on January 6, 2016
• North Korea Nuclear Test Causes 4.7 Mw Quake Posted on May 25, 2009
• N. Korea Threatens South with ‘Final Destruction’ Posted on February 19, 2013
• FIRE-EARTH Nuclear Alert: Threat to Traduce NPT Posted on December 23, 2016
• Cost of the War Racket since WWII Posted on March 21, 2016
• World’s Most Unethical Country Also “Greatest Threat to Global Peace” Posted on January 2, 2014

U.S. Complicit in War Crimes in Yemen: Human Rights Watch

U.S. should cease selling bombs to Saudi Arabia or risk complicity in civilian deaths: HRW

United States should stop selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, or they could be held accountable for war crimes committed in Yemen, Human Rights Watch said.

In a letter to New York Times, Human Rights Watch’s legal and policy director said:

American support for the Saudi-led coalition, including by providing targeting assistance and air refueling of coalition warplanes, makes the United States a party to the conflict in Yemen under international law. This obligates Washington to investigate coalition airstrikes that may be war crimes for which American forces may be liable.

He added:

Given the coalition’s repeated unlawful attacks in Yemen over the last year, which Human Rights Watch and others have documented, the United States should cease selling bombs to Saudi Arabia or risk complicity in civilian deaths.

The US government is spending $255 billion annually to defend Saudi Arabia and other tyrannical monarchies in the Persian Gulf region, says a Saudi scholar in Washington.

“The United States has been spending $255 billion a year since the 1970s, an average of $255 billion a year to protect the [Persian] Gulf monarchies, especially Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain,” said Ali al-Ahmed, a critic of the Saudi monarchy.

“This amount of money makes up 40 percent of the annual American defense budget and it’s greater than the combined budgets of the states of California and Florida,” said al-Ahmed, the founder and director of the Institute for [Persian] Gulf Affairs, an independent think tank in Washington, DC.

“I think it’s really a way for America and the American people to stand against their government policy of supporting the tyrannical and absolute monarchies in the [Persian] Gulf countries,” he added

Under the Obama administration, the United States has entered a record $50 billion in new arms sales agreements with the Saudis.

US weapons sold to Saudi Arabia in 2015

• $7.8 billion   between May and September
• $11.25 billion  in October
• $1.29 billion in November  [Source: HRW]

Yemen Causalities

About 8,200 civilians, including 1,500 children, have been killed or injured [2,800 killed and  5,400 wounded] since violence escalated in March 2015 according to the UN, with many of the deaths caused by explosive weapons including missiles, large aerial bombs, artillery shells, rockets, mortars, and improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

“we are a killer nation, at home and abroad”

Related Links

• Genocide in Yemen Posted on February 15, 2016
• Saudis Paying Blackwater Mercenaries to Kill Yemenis Posted on January 19, 2016
• ‘War in Yemen poses ever-growing threat to children’ Posted on January 12, 2016
• Saudi-led Forces Indiscriminately Airdrop Cluster Bombs on Yemen’s Capital, Sanaa Posted on January 7, 2016
• Mr President, doesn’t thinking about the dead kids in Yemen get you mad? Posted on January 6, 2016
• 3 Children Killed in Yemen Each Day: Save the Children Posted on December 2, 2015
• Yemen Faces Collapse! Posted on November 23, 2015
• 537,000 Yemeni Kids Risk “Severe Malnutrition” – UNICEF Posted on October 18, 2015
• 135 Civilians Killed in Saudi Airstrike on Yemen Wedding Posted on September 29, 2015
• Scale of Human Catastrophe in Yemen ‘Almost Incomprehensible’ Posted on September 20, 2015
• Saudi-led Coalition Using Same Cluster Munition in Yemen as ISIS Fired in Syria Posted on May 31, 2015
• Civilian Mass Murders with Impunity Continue in Yemen, Syria, Iraq… Posted on May 3, 2015
• Saudi Air War Massacre Kills Hundreds in Yemen Posted on April 3, 2015
• “Britain’s humanitarian and foreign policy are pursuing different ends” Posted on December 14, 2015
• Saudi state terrorism leaves 21.2 million Yemenis—82% of population—in need of humanitarian assistance

Doesn’t thinking about the dead kids in Yemen get you mad?

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Crocodile tears: Commander in hypocrisy!

Commander in Arms Sales to War Criminals and Child Killers

Mr Obama targets gun sales to criminals in the U.S., but not to the psychopaths and child-killers in Saudi Arabia?

“… there’s been a humanitarian catastrophe of the highest order [in Yemen.] They’ve been bombing markets, hospitals, refugee camps—more than 2,000 civilian casualties, most of them from the Saudi bombing. Basically, the Saudis, many believe, are engaging in war crimes in Yemen. And the U.S. logistical and arms support is facilitating that,” said William Hartung, author of Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex.

Under the Obama administration, the United States has entered a record $50 billion in new arms sales agreements with the Saudis.

“…throughout the Obama administration, we’ve seen $50 billion in new arms sales agreements with the Saudis, which is a record for any kind of period like that. And so, they’re all in behind the Saudi military. They’re providing logistical support, bombs, refueling for the war in Yemen, U.S. companies training the Saudi National Guard, which is their internal security force. We’ve trained 10,000 Saudi military personnel in the last 10 years—five years, rather. So, you know, my belief is if the Obama administration wants to show displeasure with this execution, try to bring an end to the war in Yemen and so forth, there’s got to be a distancing from Saudi Arabia, beginning with cutting off some of these arms supplies,” said Hartung.

The US government is spending $255 billion annually to defend Saudi Arabia and other tyrannical monarchies in the Persian Gulf region, says a Saudi scholar in Washington.

“The United States has been spending $255 billion a year since the 1970s, an average of $255 billion a year to protect the [Persian] Gulf monarchies, especially Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain,” said Ali al-Ahmed, a critic of the Saudi monarchy.

“This amount of money makes up 40 percent of the annual American defense budget and it’s greater than the combined budgets of the states of California and Florida,” said al-Ahmed, the founder and director of the Institute for [Persian] Gulf Affairs, an independent think tank in Washington, DC.

“I think it’s really a way for America and the American people to stand against their government policy of supporting the tyrannical and absolute monarchies in the [Persian] Gulf countries,” he added.

Under the Obama administration, the United States has entered a record $50 billion in new arms sales agreements with the Saudis.

Ceasefire in Yemen Faces Collapse as U.S. Continues Weapons Sales to Saudi Arabia, Fueling Civil War

Saudi Arabia arms sales: could British bombs end up killing civilians in Yemen?

“we are a killer nation, at home and abroad”

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The following essay is written by Dan Simpson, a former U.S. ambassador, is a Post-Gazette associate editor (dsimpson@post-gazette. com, 412-263-1976.)

Dan Simpson: Peace on Earth? Not until the U.S. stops selling arms and making war

By Dan Simpson / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Reviewing the bidding on the United States at the end of 2015, I conclude that we are a killer nation, at home and abroad.

The segment of our society that benefits most from this role, again, at home and abroad, is the arms industry. At home, it sells the guns that are used, virtually without control, to slaughter innocent groups of people, including in churches and schools. Our corrupt and conscienceless federal and state legislators lack the courage and brains to stop it. […]

Overseas, we are considered killers. Other countries can only pray to their chosen god or gods that the United States does not decide to work its will on them, whether it be to impose a form of government we think they should adopt or to cite some supposed wrong they have committed as an excuse to pour bombs down upon them or send drones to kill their leaders.

Like it or not, that is our reputation. Most foreigners I meet think we are crazy. Virtually all think we are a danger to world society. […]

We are in Afghanistan, where we started in 2001 right after 9/​11. We are in Iraq, where President George W. Bush took us on false premises in 2003 to get himself re-elected as a wartime president. […]

We have lost 2,332 troops in Afghanistan over the past 14 years — another six last week — and 4,425 in Iraq. […]

Why are we doing this? I thought the argument Ronald Reagan made in 1986, that if we didn’t fight the Communists in Nicaragua we would have to fight them in Harlingen, Texas, was as dead as the charlatans who governed us at that time.

In support of our ally and major arms purchaser, Saudi Arabia, we have helped to destroy Yemen. The Saudis have bombed it into the Stone Age, and I have yet to hear anyone in the White House or the Pentagon say there are no U.S. pilots in Saudi cockpits. Yemen already was the poorest country in the Middle East. Read more…