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While we give flowers and flower pictures to the world, there are Gun and Bomb makers who do not give a Rat's ass about world peace or surviving in harmony with nature.
I am going to list on this blog as many Weapon makers as I can find. Your help is welcome! Why should cold blooded people make billions of Dollars creating wars and spilling blood while gentle and good people struggle for basic survival?
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.The 9 Most Powerful Weapons Manufacturers In The World
Weapons manufacturing is a $400 billion dollar industry.
6 of the 9 most powerful weapons companies are located in the U.S.
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” – Bhagavad Gita
The arms industry is one of the most profitable and powerful industries in the world.
According to data published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the private weapons industry is worth $400 billion world wide. This doesn’t even include China’s state-owned weapons manufacturing plants.
This industry is unlike any others, because what they manufacture can claim thousands of lives.
In a recent speech by the Pope at the Vatican, the Holy See denounced the leaders of the industry of being greedy tyrants, profiting from other people’s deaths:
“This is why some people don’t want peace: they make more money from war, although wars make money but lose lives, health, education. The devil enters through our wallets.”
We compiled data from the world’s most profitable weapon manufacturing companies (2013) and listed them out in reverse order:
9. Finmeccanica
Italy Annual weapons sales: $10.56 billion
Finmeccanica is an Italian “aerospace, defense and transportation company.” It’s one of the few non-U.S. companies that made the top list. According to a series of emails leaked by WikiLeaks, Finmeccanica supplied mobile communications equipments to the Syrian government during the 2011 uprising. It’s annual weapons sale topped $10.56 billion.
8. United Technologies Corporation
USA Annual weapons sales: $11.9 billion
The United Technologies Corporation (commonly referred to as UTC) is located in Hartford, Connecticut and specializes in missile systems and military helicopters. It’s most well-known product is the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. It’s annual sales in 2013 topped $11.9 billion. According to a study by University of Massachusetts Amherst, UTC is the 38th largest corporate polluter in the U.S.
UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter, produced by UTC.
7. Airbus Group
European UnionAnnual weapons sales: $15.74 billion
The Airbus Group is a pan-European group that was formerly known as the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) and was reorganized in 2013. It is the world’s largest supplier of helicopters, but also manufactures transport and mission aircraft. The company has been under controversy because it manufacturers cluster bombs and related components.
Airbus Military’s A400M airlifter demonstrates its release of decoy flares. Source: Airbus
6. General Dynamics
U.S.AAnnual weapons sales: $18.66 billion
General dynamics produces the Western world’s most-popular jet fighter: the F-16 Fighting Falcon. It is located in Fairfax County, Virginia and employs 92,200 people. In 2008, General Dynamics was ordered to pay a $4 million fine for fraudulently billing the U.S. Government for defective parts used in US military aircraft and submarines.
F-16 Fighting Falcons produced by General Dynamics
5. Northrop Grumman
U.S.A.Annual weapons sales: $20.2 billion
Northrop Grumman is an American defense technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California and employs 68,000 people worldwide. It produces surveillance and electronic warfare equipments. It also manufactures the dreaded B-2 Spirit strategic bomber. In 1999, the company was ordered to pay $325 million for knowingly selling the Navy defective aircrafts.
B-2 Spirit strategic bomber by Northrop Grumman. Source: Military Today
4. Raytheon
U.S.A. Annual weapons sales: $21.95 billion
Raytheon is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is the world’s largest producer of guided missiles, including the popular Patriots Missiles. It was founded in 1922 by Vannevar Bush, who played a crucial role in convincing the U.S. government in developing the atomic weapons. In October 2014, Raytheon won a $1 billion contract to produce long-ranged radar for the U.S. Air Force.
Patriots Missile System by Raytheon.
3. BAE Systems
U.K.Annual weapons sales: $26.82 billion
BAE Systems is the only British company that topped the list. It’s headquartered in London and was created in 1999 as a mega-merger of two defense companies: Marconi Electronic Systems (MES) and British Aerospace (BAe). It manufactures the M777 howitzer, an ultra-lightweight field artillery.
M777 ultra-light howitzer by BAE Systems.
2. Boeing
U.S.A.Annual weapons sales: $30.70 billion
In addition to producing commercial airliners, Boeing gets 45% of its income from producing military jets and weapons. It produces various lines of unmanned striker drones and attack aircrafts. In 2013, its weapons sales topped $30.7 billion.
Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopter.
1. Lockheed Martin
U.S.A.Annual weapons sales: $35.49 billion
The world’s most powerful weapons manufacturer goes to Lockheed Martin. It receives 74% of its revenue from producing military equipment. It created the famed F-22 Raptor fighter jet, one of the world’s most advanced stealth fighter jets available. In 1998, Lockheed Martin attempted an $8.3 billion takeover of Northrup Grumman (#5 on this list), but had to abandon the plan due to government concern over monopoly power. In 2013, the company made a whopping $35.49 billion from weapons sales.
High altitude missile interceptors by Lockheed Martin.
I once visited Hawaii and the Island and it's gentle people continue to be a wonderful memory! Thank you president Obama for creating a protected Ocean sanctuary surrounding that beautiful place!
Nainoa Thompson<info@mail.whitehouse.gov>
Sep 2 (2 days ago)
to human4us
Born and raised in Hawai'i, I’ve spent the better part of my life dedicated to the ocean that surrounds me. This is why President Obama's recent expansion of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Sanctuary off the coast of northern Hawaii, means so much to me.
I have voyaged thousands of miles of open ocean by canoe, guided by the sun, stars and swells, practicing the art and science of Polynesian wayfinding and navigation. This tradition and legacy of wayfinding goes back centuries in my culture. We have worked hard to bring it back from the point of extinction, and perpetuate it as a means for understanding our environment, our history, our culture, our future and our world.
On long voyages, surrounded by the vast blue ocean, we come face to face with the Hawaiian concept of “mālama ” -- or “caretaking.” My ancestors learned long ago that if they took care of their canoe and each other, they would arrive safely at their destination. On islands, as on the canoe, we care for each other and our resources, and work together to protect that which is sacred and fragile -- our Island Earth.
As I sail around the world, I’ve gotten a glimpse of what can happen to special places if they are not protected. Initiatives like the expansion of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument help us perpetuate and build upon more than a hundred years of protection efforts by thousands of people in our community and around the globe. Thanks to their work to advocate for protection of this area’s cultural and ecological resources and thanks to President Obama, Papahānaumokuākea will become the largest marine protected area on earth. This is a step in the right direction at this crucial time for Island Earth.
Ours is a blue planet, and the health of our Island Earth and her people is dependent on the health of the ocean. If climate change and protection of biodiversity and wildlife are part of the biggest challenge of the 21st century, then ocean protection is the strongest solution.
The expansion of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Sanctuary will help keep our waters safe -- improving ocean resilience, helping the region's distinct physical and biological resources adapt, and creating a natural laboratory that will allow scientists to monitor and explore the impacts of climate change on these fragile ecosystems.
Join me in celebrating the work of those who stand for and work to mālama our precious honua, those who are caring for our Island Earth. And I'll hope you'll take the time to watch the President's remarks on conservation from the Midway Atoll.
Aloha Pumehana,
Nainoa Thompson
Intelligent women are not accepted in the religious male dominated country of Iran. Homa Hoodfar is a Canadian citizen and scholar held without reason in an Iranian prison.
Alex Neve, Amnesty International Canadamembers@amnesty.cavia server8839.e-activist.com
URGENT Professor Homa Hoodfar's health at serious risk in Iran
Dear Joseph,
Thank you again for speaking out for Concordia University Professor Homa Hoodar, who has been detained in Iran's notorious Evin Prison since June.
In the last few days very concerning news has emerged that Professor Hoodfar's health may be in decline.
Hoodfar suffers from a serious neurological condition and we believe she has not been receiving appropriate treatment in prison. She was reportedly taken to hospital because of her weakened condition and then returned to her cell. Her well-being is clearly at grave risk as long as she remains in prison.
Amnesty International considers Dr. Hoodfar to be a prisoner of conscience, detained with no legal basis, and calls on Iranian authorities to release her immediately and unconditionally.
We urgently need your help again. We must send a clear, urgent call to the Iranian authorities to release Dr. Hoodfar immediately. Your action may help save her life.
Here are two ways you can help:
1. SHARE this urgent action with family and friends
You can find more social media ideas and a #FreeHoma image for your profile picture on the Hoodfar family's website here.
Not on social media? No problem. Here's basic text you can use for an email to your friends and family:
Professor Homa Hoodfar, a respected Canadian-Iranian scholar and researcher from Concordia University, has being held in Tehran’s Evin Prison since June 6th extremely limited access to her family and lawyer, and likely in solitary confinement.
Research is not a crime. No one should be targeted for the peaceful exercise of their rights to freedom of expression and association. Amnesty International considers Dr. Hoodfar to be a prisoner of conscience.
Please join me in calling on Iranian authorities to release Professor Hoodfar immediately! TAKE ACTION HERE: http://amn.st/6189Btgxl
2. SEND your own tweet, email or letter to Iranian authorities
Thank you so much again for speaking out for Professor Hoodfar and for getting this urgent message out. We deeply appreciate your time and efforts to make sure she's home and safe with her family as soon as possible.
With deepest thanks,
Alex Neve Secretary General Amnesty International Canada
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The earlier bill required California to cut greenhouse-gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.
The state is reportedly on track to meet that goal, having already cut emissions 9.4 percent from the peak reached in 2004, according to The Mercury News.
Now officials must find ways to cut them another 40 percent in just 15 years.
In 2014, the most recent year with available data, California emitted roughly 441 million metric tons (486 million tons) of greenhouse gases, according to data from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
The current goal for 2020 is 431 million metric tons (475 million tons), but emissions would have to be reduced to 260 million metric tons (286 million tons) to meet the requirements of SB 32.
That will necessitate even more ambitious climate policies, analysts say.
California now requires the six high-volume carmakers to sell zero-emission vehicles, and that program will expand to cover more auto companies and start to escalate the required numbers in 2018.
It has also mandated that utilities must produce 50 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2030.
To meet the new mandate, California may have to take measures like pushing the renewable-energy requirement beyond 50 percent, significantly increase sales of electric vehicles, and bring electrification into other types of vehicles (such as delivery trucks), analysts say.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, Massachusetts is moving toward stronger limits on greenhouse-gas emissions from electric generating plants.
On Monday, Gov. Charlie Barker's administration announced its support for stricter limits under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a program to reduce power-plant emissions run by nine Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states.
Massachusetts now supports doubling the rate at which emissions decrease as part of the RGGI, from 2.5 percent to 5.0 percent per year, between 2020 and 2030.
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European UnionAnnual weapons sales: $15.74 billion
U.K.Annual weapons sales: $26.82 billion
European UnionAnnual weapons sales: $15.74 billion
U.S.AAnnual weapons sales: $18.66 billion
U.K.Annual weapons sales: $26.82 billion
