The signatories of this Appeal demand that the governments of the world seriously address this neglected issue, and agree on a global plan for disarmament at the Rio Summit in June 2012.
The passerelle clause as defined in Article 48 of the Treaty on European Union applies to all European policies with the exception of defence and decisions with military implications.
Wilkerson: "Let's make it a commercial empire and let's maintain that empire in terms of commerce and not in terms of killing people, killing people for oil or killing people for human rights. I think both are just as bad as the other..."
Bob Woodward, Published: January 28, 2013 --"In the first months of the Obama presidency in 2009, Chuck Hagel, who had just finished two terms as a U.S. senator, went to the White House to visit with the friend he had made during the four years they overlapped in the Senate." "According to an account that Hagel later gave, and is reported here for the first time, he told Obama: “We are at a time where there is a new world order. We don’t control it. You must question everything, every assumption, everything they” — the military and diplomats — “tell you. Any assumption 10 years old is out of date. You need to question our role. You need to question the military. You need to question what are we using the military for."
2011: 1,7 trillion usd Figures from the 2011 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) annual report show that the world’s governments are spending more than ever on the military: $1,738 billion per year. If spent differently, this money would go a long way to resolving the real and immediate challenges facing our planet.
16 nov 2013 Ambassador Joseph R. DeTrani August 1st--4th, 2013 Rio Hotel & Casino * Las Vegas, Nevada. at ca 15 min. "... cyber is a potential wmd" "...we look to you to help produce more secure systems... and policies ... to disrupt those who seal intellectual property... need you, the good hackers of Def Con" ...".. you have the three branches of government overseeing it [the surveillance] ... it came after after 9/11... when we saw the terrorists coming..." ca 25 min. Q. from the public abt the lies abt wmd in Iraq
Nicolas Gros-Verheyde : "La situation en Centrafrique montre les limites d’une politique de défense européenne qui reste sujette aux priorités des États membres et à leurs contraintes budgétaires. Si l’Union européenne a une réponse humanitaire, politique et financière rapide et efficace, la situation est largement plus contrastée, en matière militaire. L’UE n’a jamais réussi à mettre en œuvre la force de réaction rapide de 2000 hommes qui est pourtant opérationnelle depuis 2007. Chaque État en assurant, à tour de rôle, la permanence."
Cam McGrath/IPS. CAIRO, Jan 9 2014 (IPS) - A draft constitution set to go before a public referendum next week gives the military more privileges, enshrining its place as Egypt’s most powerful institution and placing it above the state. The new text, set to replace the constitution drawn up in 2012 under Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, has stoked fears that Egypt’s military leadership is pushing to consolidate its power and protect its political and economic interests. “The powers conferred to the army (in the draft constitution) lay the foundation for a military dictatorship,” warns Tharwat Badawi, professor of constitutional law at Cairo University. “The powers conferred to the army lay the foundation for a military dictatorship." The new charter was drawn up by a 50-member committee appointed by the military-installed government that has ruled since the army ousted Morsi in July 2013.
By Matthew Schofield McClatchy Foreign StaffJanuary 15, 2014 "In the report, titled “Possible Implications of Faulty U.S. Technical Intelligence,” Richard Lloyd, a former United Nations weapons inspector, and Theodore Postol, a professor of science, technology and national security policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, argue that the question about the rocket’s range indicates a major weakness in the case for military action initially pressed by Obama administration officials"
Washington, DC January 14, 2014 by Richard Lloyd, Former UN Weapons Inspector Tesla Laboratories Inc.|Arlington, VA, and Theodore A. Postol, Professor of Science, Technology, and National Security Policy Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Zee news January 31, 2012 Tharoor, who is on a visit to Israel to attend the annual Herzliya conference which attracts leading Israeli politicians and experts from world over, "I am not hiding anything in saying that India is not a fan of NPTa deeply misguided treaty which essentially enshrined apartheid in international law, which basically said that only five countries had the right to have something that nobody else did, and for us it was fundamentally unacceptable,"
The Hindu, February 19, 2014 "Donna Busche’s complaints are part of a string of whistleblower and other claims related to the design and safety of an unfinished waste treatment plant at Hanford, created by the U.S. federal government in the 1940s as part of the top-secret project to build the atomic bomb. Today, it is the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site, where cleanup costs about $2 billion each year. " "A one-of-a-kind plant is being built to convert the waste into glasslike logs for permanent disposal underground, but it has faced numerous technical problems, delays and cost increases."
R. Skenderović. Scrinia Slavonica : Godišnjak Podružnice za povijest Slavonije, Srijema i Baranje Hrvatskog instituta za povijest, 5 (1):
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