#arms dealers

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September 11, 2024 - Anti-war activists disrupted an international arms fair in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Twenty cops were reported injured in the clashes. [video]

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A journalist was barred from entering CANSEC, one of the world’s largest arms and weapons ‘defense trade show.’ The organizer stated they did not want to see headlines like, “War mongers gather in Ottawa” and get questions like, “how do you feel about killing children?”

This year, CANSEC only granted access to select, friendly media. Organizers wanted to avoid reports that are critical of war and those profiting from weapons sales that kill millions around the world every year. 

This despite the event’s sole purpose of showcasing and blatantly doing business in service of war and global conflict.

Every year since 1998,  hundreds of arms dealers, weapon manufacturers, foreign government representatives, Canadian ministers, surveillance manufacturers, and military officers have come to Ottawa to attend CANSEC. 

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[porterdavis]

I'm re-upping this #longread story from Rolling Stone in 2011 about how two American kids became the world's biggest (illegal) arms dealers. With a new war (Ukraine) and a recalcitrant West only grudgingly shipping armaments there, I'm sure there are present-day 'middlemen' busy filling orders for the Pentagon and Kyiv sub rosa.

Since Ukrainian forces are reduced to using Soviet-era weapons, there are doubtless people scouring warehouses in places like Uzbekistan, Albania, and Romania looking for ammunition.

Business opportunity!

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Made like cuz Viktor Bout is nicknamed the Merchant of Death. Which is also the nickname of Voldo's master.

[seyisandra009]

The Arms Dealer's War: A Pacifist Perspective

As I scrutinise the global landscape, my heart grows heavy. The conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East are just the tip of a blood-soaked iceberg. Amidst the chaos and destruction, one group thrives in the shadows – the arms dealers.

As I scrutinise the global landscape, my heart grows heavy. The conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East are just the tip of a blood-soaked iceberg. Russian forces continue their relentless assault on Ukrainian soil, while the cycle of violence between Israel, Iran and its proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah, seems never-ending. Amidst the chaos and destruction, one group thrives in the shadows – the…

[madlovenovelist]

Book Review – ‘The Lost Soul of the City’ (#1 S2 Nameless) by Dean Koontz

Re-booting a series for a second season. Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Horror No. of pages: 109 A gun. A mission. No memories. Nameless is back to hunt down an architect of chaos in #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz’s return to a landscape of hard-won justice. In a forgotten Cold War bunker, a cold-blooded arms dealer counts his cash and watches from a distance as cities collapse…

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Arms manufacturers in Wallonia are committing "serious violations" by exporting to countries with a known track record for using arms against civilians. In the seventh edition of the Observatory of Walloon Arms report, Amnesty International, the League of Human Rights, Vredesactie and the Coordination Nationale d'Action pour la Paix et la Démocratie have collectively condemned "serious violations" perpetrated by arms manufacturers in Wallonia. Companies such as FN Herstal have knowingly exported arms to countries where human rights are violated and international laws breached, they say. The report calls on the Walloon government to end these harmful practices. "Over the past 12 months, on almost every continent, Walloon arms have found their way into hands that should never have got hold of them, due to the irresponsibility of the regional authorities."

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Are there ethical arms dealer?

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Do the math. Is 10,000 per 1 million really that rare?

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‘War is back. People want to stock up’: inside Europe’s biggest arms fair

“A body convulses on a table, with broken bones poking from a stump of torn flesh below the knee, one arm gruesomely peppered with gunshot wounds, as men in military uniforms look on approvingly. ‘He bleeds, he moves, he breathes, he has a pulse,’ says the smiling sales rep. ‘His eyes even react to light. We have a canine version too, which barks and whines – and it comes with interchangeable injured limbs.’

“I am perusing the medical zone of Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI), Europe’s biggest arms fair, which takes place every two years in the Excel convention centre in east London. It is a sprawling supermarket of modern warfare, where the world’s armies come to buy the latest AI-guided missiles and tanks, inspect giant warships moored in the Royal Docks, and queue to take a turn sitting in the cockpits of fighter jets ...

“‘This year feels much busier than usual,’ one bomb salesman tells me, standing by a gleaming rack of cone-shaped warheads, polished like trophies in a glass cabinet. ‘It seems war is back in a big way. People are looking to stock up.’ Whereas attendees of this great murderous bazaar may once have felt sheepish, they now proudly march through the entrance gates with their heads held high ...

“At the Israel pavilion, one company is promoting its ‘high-penetration wireless communication for indoor robotics and drones’, showing videos of drones swooping through bombed-out buildings, looking for prey like a swarm of deadly mosquitoes. Brazil features a stall offering ‘ammunition, bombs, rockets and fuses’, with a bowl of complimentary sweets, while a rifle company in the US section tries to lure punters with a free calendar of busty models draped across its anti-aircraft guns. (‘It’s been approved by all our female staff,’ the man at the desk assures me.) ...

“‘They all have onboard AI cameras,’ says Maj Matthew McGarvey-Miles, lead of the army warfighting experiment, a flagship programme where the latest technology is developed. ‘They can identify targets and track them automatically’ ... The nature of these unmanned weapons – and the kind of remote fighters the army is looking for – is having a knock-on effect on how the physical controls are designed ...

“‘The big thing now is thumb-stick controllers. So many people in the military now come from the Xbox generation, so they’re used to thumb-sticks. Gone are the days when you’d have big pneumatic or hydraulic controls.’ He hands me a controller that looks just like a gaming joypad – a deceptively playful device for something that could unleash hellfire on a pixellated target, hundreds of miles away. Nimble thumbs, it seems, will define the future of warfare. Tomorrow’s battles will be waged from the safety of a gaming chair (also on display), with the assistance of algorithms.”

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Arms dealing

A higher up from I Conigli Neri inspects a shipment of smuggled energy weapons just delivered into the port. Due to both the importance of the product and the overseer herself a White Rabbit has been sent to escort her and ensure the deal goes smoothly.

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Enchanting as always: Carmilla~!

Human disguised Carmilla Carmine with her hair up and down in the style of my #HHStargazersAU! She doesn't play a major role or anything, nor will I focus much on the other Overlords. I'll mostly keep it between Chaggie & Radioapple, but @softholly made me curious about what Camilla would look like if I were to draw her in my story. I got the curly haired idea from one of her daughters. As for WHY she would be disguised as a human if we were to see her in my AU... Surely you didn't think Vaggie & Alastor are the ONLY angelic/demonic entities roaming the Earth now, did you? =) Question is, why are any of these powerful beings on the mortal realm to begin with? Guess we'll later find out~! XD -Bubbly💙