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Arms trade pact

I came across this article in Reuters about the arms trade pact being pushed by US.

What do you think of the last couple of paragraphs? It goes on about US requiring the veto power over the negotiations and any rules that go into the pact:

Washington, they said, had argued that it needed to be able to block an outcome that would permit international standards that are lower than the extremely strict U.S. criteria for international weapons sales.

More permissive standards would put U.S. arms makers at a competitive disadvantage because U.S. firms could be barred from selling to certain foreign governments under U.S. law while their competitors abroad could trade with those same governments under a weak U.N. treaty.

A wonderful example of perverse logic, isn’t it? Well, folks, they do not have any rules now, right? So they are at a competitive disadvantage, right? And you think any kind of rules would be better than none for controlling the arms trade? Eh, not really. Only the rules that will put US at an advantage against the others are good.

Yes, politics is great. You can turn the words any which way and nobody will notice where the truth lies.

US has been making the rules for the world with their “no trade barriers” demagoguery for years. Now they turn from civil goods to the arms trade. Apparently, the weapons industry is big enough that it is ready to go for the empire building too. Or maybe they just woke up with a start and go like “eh? did we miss something?” Yes, guys, go ahead, the world is your fucking playground, sure.

Why am I not surprised that every country in the world is dreaming to have the nuclear weapons arsenal? A wonderful deterrent, and the only known one that works against US empire building ambitions…… -->

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Jacqui Smith is no more!

And a good riddance, finally! It is not going to help the British people much because she is simply voicing the government’s intention, so the new whoever coming instead will be no better. But, anyway, it is a pleasure to see her go. Here is a bunch of articles on the matter:

  • Good riddance to a bad home secretary
  • Home Secretary Smith to step down
  • Jacqui Smith goes – hit by porn claims,…

And some of her wonderful initiatives:

  • ISPs frosty on Jacqui’s comms surveillance plan
  • Jacqui Smith Vows to Collect DNA from Every …
  • State recruit an army of snoopers …
  • Britain menaces free speech
  • Jacqui Smith creates ’emergency bill’ …
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North Korea’s nuclear test

Well, it appears that the nation that knows something about the power of nuclear weapons in politics – North Korea – has done another nuclear explosion test. According to BBC, the test has been confirmed by US, South Korea and Russia.

Well, these folks really know what they are doing and no nonsense. I mean, you can think whatever you damn please about their country, government and political direction, but you have to give them this: they have correct ideas about sovereignty and protecting the state borders. They are correctly asserting that the only thing that can help them now that USSR is gone down the drain is the nuclear power. And I bet they do not care much for any idiotic shit like “keeping balance” or “worldwide peace”. Their finger in your face message is simple: touch us and we show you Hell on Earth. And it looks like the “world powers” believe them too well.

You see, the Nihon folks could not say anything more than “Tokyo would respond “in a responsible fashion” “. Damn they will. Tokyo jumps to the command of the US, as always. The only responsible thing Tokyo can do now is shut up and work fast on their own fleet of nuclear weapons before those US bases are wiped out in some freak accident involving nuclear (or even regular) fire power… But I digress, that’s a subject for a separate article.

What does EU say? Believe it or not, “the development was “very worrying”.” No kidding, eh? Why is it worrying for the EU? I understand if EU feels threatened by it, hell, yeah, it would be worrying but would North Korea actually threaten EU right now? Not likely. What’s actually worrying EU then? I think it is the example. The example of a country that can stay isolated and not only survive but improve their own weapons so that the enemies must stay at bay. What if other countries followed the example? What would be the so-called “peace keeping army” worth if all those “pacified” countries suddenly had nuclear fire power and were not afraid to use it?

And this is just the beginning indeed. North Korea now feels sufficiently brave to denounce any agreements that were jammed its throat before: “But the North now believes it is no longer bound by its previous bilateral agreements with the US and agreements under the six-party… -->

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