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<div>The USA is the largest arms dealer on the planet. Selling the technology of war is big business, and the USA is King. Is it a surprise that profit is being made off selling war related technology, even if it does jeopardise US security, or the security of our military in the battlefield? Is the war in Iraq really about freedom and democracy, or is it about business, as in access to the fossil fuel resources of the Middle East, and limiting the potential control of Iran, over these resources? As keely said, "business is the elixir of the right."
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<div>The night vision goggle scandal is a footnote in the over all scheme of control over resources and profiting off the business of war, a theme that has been made clear by our culture's focus on superiority in waging warfare since WWII, a cornerstone of our current global dominance.
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<div>Expecting the business of war and the sale of war related technology to always coincide with national security is to claim that the free market should be regulated by a socialist agenda dominated by the Pentagon. After the free market advocates have convinced the world that their ideology is the best approach for the progress of humanity, why should anyone be surprised when the unregulated free market approach is applied to military related technology?
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<div>O course, the meta-ideology of the cultural hegemonic agenda that justifies our sense of empowerment that we should control resources globally, and the political/economic future of the world, goes unexamined. We have yet as a culture to fully face the moral and spiritual implications of the displacement of the native populations of North American, as we invaded and took control. Why now should we honestly face the real agenda behind our goal to control the Middle East?
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<div>We are endowed, spiritually, economically, politically, to control the world according to our superior way of life.</div>
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<div>Don't you agree? If not, you do not exhibit suitable patriotism!</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/27/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Art Deco</b> <<a href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div>Why are not the acts described below treason? Why have not the responsible parties been tried for treason? Instead the company has been reward with a new contract with $50 of the $100 million applied in payment of that contract.
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<div>Perhaps all you V 2020 clear-headed Bush Administration Apologist can explain?</div>
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<h3>Defense contractor admits sending classified materials overseas, will pay $100 million penalty</h3>
<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The leading manufacturer of night vision gear for the Defense Department has admitted sending classified materials overseas and will pay a $100 million penalty, according to federal prosecutors, who say the actions of ITT Corp. have jeopardized the security of
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<p>ITT, based in Roanoke, Va., exported classified or sensitive technical data to China, Singapore and Britain without having obtained authorization from the United States, prosecutors said.</p>
<p>The conviction is the first involving a major defense contractor violating the Arms Export Control Act, prosecutors said.</p>
<p>Saying that <strong><font color="#0000ff">American soldiers are "the principal victims of ITT's crimes</font></strong>," U.S. Attorney John Brownlee said he has structured the $100 million penalty so that half of the money is spent by ITT to develop a next-generation night vision system and "ensure that our soldiers have the best night vision equipment in the world." --From CNN Producer Mike M. Ahlers (Posted 12:36
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