Excellent, SOTT, excellent!! The statistics on both the sale of war weapons and all contingent supporting services and technologies provided by U.S. government and companies is simply staggering. This kind of poster should be required on every government agency wall, the subway walls...everywhere.

Yes I agree with the above poster, it should be posted everywhere, there should be a public debate, of course that will never happen.

When one looks at the wheel, it is not just the arms sales per se, to my mind it demonstrates the level of destruction wrought on humanity, the loss of lives, the loss of human habitat and culture.The attempt to destroy humanity as we know it, step by step in areas considered of vital strategic importance.

For who? The ones that create the weapons, to create a profit margin. For resource grab.

I could never imagined in my lifetime, that human lives, the cultures and habitat could be destroyed with such horror and violence.

Thanks to modern media, we have the proof of visual and verbal accounts from the people affected.

These makers are the real meaning behind the so often used words "Weapons of Mass Destruction"

And people wonder why there is perpetual war!

'Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.'

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Imagine the real giant steps mankind could make in the absence of war. Coming soon.

The emancipation of women, the achievement of full equality between the sexes, is one of the most important, though less acknowledged prerequisites of peace. The denial of such equality perpetrates an injustice against one half of the world's population and promotes in men harmful attitudes and habits that are carried from the family to the workplace, to political life, and ultimately to international relations. There are no grounds, moral, practical, or biological, upon which such denial can be justified. Only as women are welcomed into full partnership in all fields of human endeavour will the moral and psychological climate be created in which international peace can emerge.

(The Universal House of Justice, 1985 Oct, The Promise of World Peace, p. 3)

As long as women are prevented from attaining their highest possibilities, so long will men be unable to achieve the greatness which might be theirs. (Abdu'l-Baha, Paris Talks, p. 133)

The world of humanity has two wings -- one is women and the other men. Not until both wings are equally developed can the bird fly. Should one wing remain weak, flight is impossible. Not until the world of women becomes equal to the world of men in the acquisition of virtues and perfections, can success and prosperity be attained as they ought to be.

(Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith - Abdu'l-Baha Section, p. 288)

The world of humanity has two wings -- one is women and the other men. Not until both wings are equally developed can the bird fly. Should one wing remain weak, flight is impossible. Not until the world of women becomes equal to the world of men in the acquisition of virtues and perfections, can success and prosperity be attained as they ought to be.

(Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith - Abdu'l-Baha Section, p. 288)

What are we doing to work towards peace?

I was just visiting the Firearms Blogs and there's an uproar over Dick's sporting goods and Walmart deciding to create their own laws and bypass Congress by refusing to sell guns to legal buyers. Never mind because ya know the people they are choosing to not sell to are under 21 years of age, like that's the issue, when undoubtedly the real issue the creation of laws outside of government authority by self proclaimed rulers. Meanwhile look at what the rulers are engaged in doing by examining the wheel of their fortunes.