<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Har! Armageddon outta here...<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 23, 2013, at 2:16 PM, E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森 <<a href="mailto:ewj@pigsqq.org">ewj@pigsqq.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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Armageddon is a transliterary error and connotation -<br>
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There is no H sound in koine' greek,<br>
so Har Megiddo (the valley of Megiddo) <br>
the site of a great battle,<br>
becomes Armageddon, and something else in the minds of the people.<br>
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On 10/24/13 1:43, Karen Aram wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">Signed and posted on FB, but sometimes I feel like I'm
six dealing with classmates. Arming the World for Peace?<br>
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<hr id="stopSpelling">From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:r-szoke@illinois.edu">r-szoke@illinois.edu</a><br>
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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:55:14 +0000<br>
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Arming the World for Peace?<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 23, 2013 10:16 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Szoke, Ronald Duane<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Arming the World for Peace?<br>
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on the sale of weapons abroad.</b><br>
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Already, the United States dominates world weapons sales, accounting
for <b>78%</b> of such sales in 2011.[1] Russia is in second place
with 5.6%.<br>
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Already, U.S. weapons sales are dominated by arms transactions in <b>the
Middle East</b>, funneling weapons to such violators of human rights as
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Israel.<br>
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Many weapons sales involve gifts of dollars from the U.S. government to
a foreign government that turns around and buys from U.S. weapons
makers. (A different mode is in effect with the U.S. simply giving
weapons to the rebels in Syria.)<br>
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Governments fall, and alliances change, but the weapons remain.
U.S.-supplied weapons wind up on
<b>both sides of conflicts</b>, often used against
civilians. At times, the tear gas canisters shot at peaceful protesters
are marked "Made in the U.S.A."
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The Obama administration has now moved many weapons sales from the
State Department to the Commerce Department, a shift that is expected
to seriously reduce oversight.[2] In a new report, William Hartung
writes that "human rights groups and the Government Accountability
Office have raised serious concerns over the potential for the Obama
administration's reforms to undercut current laws designed to keep U.S.
defense articles out of<b> the hands of terrorists, human rights
abusers, or countries or groups seeking to develop nuclear weapons</b>."[3]<br>
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ProPublica reports that "critics, including some who've worked on
enforcing arms export laws, say the changes could undermine efforts to
prevent arms
<b>smuggling to Iran</b> and others."[4]<br>
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What is the up-side to risking such horrors and fueling so much
violence? Nothing but profits for a few unscrupulous profiteers!<br>
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1. <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2BCKibZfdKMHyi5AMDF/jTHDEd1/rUoRN" target="_blank">
<i>Congressional Research Service: </i>Conventional
Arms Transfers, 2004-2011</a><br>
2. <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=KXy1rOAmsJX8HoYLa43jlXDEd1/rUoRN" target="_blank">
<i>Stars and Stripes: </i>In Big Win for War
Industry, Obama Rolls Back Limits</a><br>
3. <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=8fKqaCVu6voWv8W35HEAj3DEd1/rUoRN" target="_blank">
<i>William Hartung:</i> Economic Illogic of the
Obama Administration's Reforms</a><br>
4. Stars and Stripes, op. cit.<br>
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Background:<br>
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Military Technology</a><br>
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