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Posted on Mar 7, 2012
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On the heels of a report on the world’s 100 leading arms manufacturers comes a detailed look at the Top 10, which made a combined $230 billion off war and other conflict in 2010.

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Global sales of arms and military services by the 100 largest defense contractors increased in 2010 to $411.1 billion, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The increase reflects a decade-long trend of growing military spending. Since 2002, total arms sales among the 100 largest arms manufacturers have increased 60%.

The institute recently published its annual report on the leading arms producing companies in the world — SIPRI Top 100. The report identifies the largest companies in the sector and provides each company’s arms sales as a percentage of its total sales

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By litlpeep, March 8, 2012 at 9:28 pm Link to this comment

The template for who we are is subject to our redesign every day, every hour.  “We only need to surrender our smallness.” Michael Murphy was prophetic with this utterance.

However, this hardly persuades anyone who doesn’t want to pursue conscious evolution.  No matter.  Those of us who do pursue conscious evolution design our collective future while we are designing and redesigning our personal and small group present.

Meanwhile, a more traditional evolution, or unconscious drift, rules everyone else.  As do the bloody rocks and rockets.

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By vector56, March 8, 2012 at 8:21 am Link to this comment

Face it guys, ever since that first “ape-like” creature cracked that other protohuman primate in the head with a rock and took his shit, the template as to who we are was set in that very blood soaked stone!

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By PatrickHenry, March 7, 2012 at 6:43 pm Link to this comment

My steadfast belief is that those who profit on medicine, war and law are the nemesis of all.

Greed preying on misfortune is the dark side of mankind and needs to be snuffed out.

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By Jeff N., March 7, 2012 at 3:23 pm Link to this comment

Lockheed with about 80% of its profits coming from arms sales, and also the biggest government contractor at about 36 billion dollars per year.  It’s great to know that every week some of my taxes are being shuffled away to these fascists.

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By gerard, March 7, 2012 at 12:23 pm Link to this comment

Ethically anti-human and utterly repulsive!

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