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• in Politics
  Running Out of Arms
  Wouldn't it be wonderful if both sides ran out of ammunition?
  by nalood / on Apr 1, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “arms trade”

 

• What Benghazi-fever is really all about

  
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  Shorter Question Everything Terrified of Hillary Clinton. Trying to pin something on a president – no, make that a Black president – who has managed to avoid scandals is a big part of it. But mostly, at this stage of the game, Republicans are terrified of Hillary Clinton and hoping they can start attacking her ...
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• Arms Trade Treaty: Why India abstained

  
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  Arms Trade Treaty, originally conceived to control illicit arms trade, has been hijacked and converted into an instrument of coercion favouring a few arms exporting countries in the West. The world’s largest arms exporter controlling almost 30 percent of the arms trade voted for adopting the treaty with the ...
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• Arms Trade Treaty: Global Victory for Women and Girls

  
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  On April 2, the United Nations passed an innovative Arms Trade Treaty aimed at regulating the massive global trade in conventional weapons, for the first time linking arms sales to the human rights records of the buyers. For the first time arms manufacturers and dealers will have to consider the end use of their ...
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• Terrorism: Being armed isn’t going to help you much

  
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  Shorter Question Everything • Cops–not NRA’s armed citizenry–stopped terrorists in Boston . “If every man, woman and child at the finish line of the Marathon had a gun, it would have done them absolutely no good when the bombs went off: the three dead would still have been killed, all of the injured and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Syrian rebels used sarin gas?

  
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  Shorter Question Everything Those same rebels that McCain and the rest of the rabid right wing wants to arm? Those guys? That didn’t turn out so well the last time the right wing did it. Again, Assad is no saint, but the guys on the other side aren’t either. It might be good to remember that before arming them, ...
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• Arming children

  
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  Shorter Question Everything In history, when there’s no one left to fight, arming children is the absolute last step. Aside from the sheer irresponsibility of the thing, that’s what crossed my mind when reading this. Child soldiers are not something to aspire to. • Irresponsible : NRA ‘Home Defense’ ...
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• Israeli air strikes v Syria

  
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  Shorter Question Everything • Israeli officials acknowledged Friday evening that they had launched airstrikes that hit inside Syria , say U.S. officials. It is not clear whether any Israeli warplanes violated Syrian airspace in carrying out the strike. • Col. Lawrence Wilkerson , the former chief of staff ...
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• Stepping back on Syrian chemical weapons claims?

  
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  Shorter Question Everything Just degraded? Or wasn’t much to go on in the first place and it’s easier to just climb down and try again when you think you can get it through? I don’t think for one second that Syria’s Assad is a saint, but this isn’t the first time the UK has cooked up information in the ...
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• Cycle of life…

  
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    When we bring a child into this world it is truly a joyful event… During their first years we hear those beautiful little sounds, get to see them crawl, walk, run and begin to talk… As they grow they adopt their own unique personalities and becoming little persons who have no trouble showing attitudes when ...
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• Making the Arms Trade Treaty Work in Practice is the Real Challenge for Africa

  
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  An outcome that does not make everyone happy is the hallmark of a successful negotiation process, to paraphrase Australian Ambassador Peter Woolcott, president of the United Nations’ Final Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). He and his team certainly achieved that goal. Most states and non-governmental ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hacked AP tweet no joke

  
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  Shorter Question Everything • AP hacked – ‘Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured’. Causes stock market to take a steep dive. [pic source: Americablog ] • Errant tweet exposes vulnerability of US markets • Syrian Electronic Army : Hackers hijacked the ...
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• NRA Wilfully Lied

  
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  Shorter Question Everything • Statement by the President on Senate voting down background checks . The gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill. I’ve heard some say that blocking this step would be a victory. And my question is, a victory for who? A victory for what? All that happened today was ...
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• A Senate in the Gun Lobby’s Grip

  
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  The New York Times/GABRIELLE GIFFORDS/17 Apr 2013 WASHINGTON SENATORS say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders inSandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets. The fear that those children who ...
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• Statement by the President on Senate voting down background checks

  
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  The gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill. The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release April 17, 2013 Statement by the President Rose Garden 5:35 P.M. EDT MR. BARDEN: Hello. My name is Mark Barden. Just four months ago, my wife Jackie and I lost our son, ...
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• Arms: That’s Where the Money Goes

  
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  F-35B dropping a bomb during testing in 2012. Photo credit: U.S. Air Force. According to a report just released by the highly-respected Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), world military expenditures in 2012 totaled $1.75 trillion.  The report revealed that, as in recent decades, the ...
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• Moving forwards on a global arms treaty

  
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  One of the under-reported news stories of the year so far is the UN’s vote for a global arms treaty last month. It’s hugely necessary, it has been blocked endlessly by shameless self-interest, and it’s a global first. Finally, weapons will be subject to the kind of international agreement that governs the ...
  5 weeks ago

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