A teenager in military-style clothing opened fire with a rifle at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, in a shooting that officials called a “hate crime and racially motivated violent extremism”, killing 10 people and wounding three others before surrendering to police on Saturday afternoon, authorities said.
Police officials said the 18-year-old, who is white, was wearing body armour and military-style clothing when he pulled up and started shooting at a Tops Friendly Market at about 2.30pm. The attack was streamed via a camera fixed to the man’s helmet.
Later, he appeared before a judge in a paper medical gown and was arraigned on murder charges.
Note EU Digest:Yesterday, also, a man opened fire during a lunch reception at a southern California church, killing one person and wounding five senior citizens before a pastor hit the gunman on the head with a chair and parishioners tied him up with electrical cords. All this, as politicians in America continue to do verty little about passing the proper legislation to stop this violence and murder of innocent human beings by even selling weapons to insanene people.
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Showing posts with label Weapon Sales. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Weapon Sales. Show all posts
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10/19/19
Saudi Arabia-weapons sales: EU hypocrisy when it comes to weapons sales
European countries halted arm exports to Turkey but why haven't they done the same for Saudi Arabia?
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12/14/14
Arms Sales: US and its NATO allies are home to two thirds of the world's weapons-producing companies.
The US and its NATO allies are still home to two thirds of the world's
weapons-producing companies. Together they account for 84.2 percent of
global sales, the SIPRI report said.
Dramatic shifts are rare when it comes to weapons and the nations that export them. The majority of firearms are still produced in the US, Russia or Western Europe.
Increasingly, however, fresh faces are cropping up on the arms transfers report produced annually by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Firms in Turkey, India, Brazil, Singapore and South Korea today rank among the 100 largest weapons-producing nations in the world - even if that means just two companies in India's case or a 50th place spot for city-state Singapore.
"Firstly, it has to do with a political will to create indigenous defense production capabilities," said the director of the study, Aude Fleurant. "Brazil, Turkey, South Korea, for example, have all set up specific policies to ensure the development of arms production capabilities in their countries."
Read more: US arms sales down, Russia′s up: SIPRI report on international arms transfers | World | DW.DE | 15.12.2014
Dramatic shifts are rare when it comes to weapons and the nations that export them. The majority of firearms are still produced in the US, Russia or Western Europe.
Increasingly, however, fresh faces are cropping up on the arms transfers report produced annually by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Firms in Turkey, India, Brazil, Singapore and South Korea today rank among the 100 largest weapons-producing nations in the world - even if that means just two companies in India's case or a 50th place spot for city-state Singapore.
"Firstly, it has to do with a political will to create indigenous defense production capabilities," said the director of the study, Aude Fleurant. "Brazil, Turkey, South Korea, for example, have all set up specific policies to ensure the development of arms production capabilities in their countries."
Read more: US arms sales down, Russia′s up: SIPRI report on international arms transfers | World | DW.DE | 15.12.2014
4/4/13
Russia: $3.5Bln Weapons Deal with China Demonstrates New Dynamic
China is seeking renewed deliveries of advanced weapons from Russia with a $3.5 billion deal for fighters and submarines in the pipeline despite lingering resentment in Moscow over Chinese copying of its military technology.
Russia has not yet confirmed a deal reported last week in China's state media that Moscow had agreed to supply 24 Sukhoi Su-35 fighters and four Amur-class conventional submarines to the People's Liberation Army, or PLA, which would make it the first major arms deal between the two nations in almost 10 years.
The need to order some of Russia's most advanced military hardware indicates that shortcomings remain with some of China's home-grown defense technologies, military analysts said.
"Currently, the two sides are working on the relevant contracts, and the results are likely to be produced by the end of the year," said Vasily Kashin, an expert on Russia's arms trade with China at Moscow's Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies.
Read more: $3.5Bln Weapons Deal with China Demonstrates New Dynamic | Business | The Moscow Times
Russia has not yet confirmed a deal reported last week in China's state media that Moscow had agreed to supply 24 Sukhoi Su-35 fighters and four Amur-class conventional submarines to the People's Liberation Army, or PLA, which would make it the first major arms deal between the two nations in almost 10 years.
The need to order some of Russia's most advanced military hardware indicates that shortcomings remain with some of China's home-grown defense technologies, military analysts said.
"Currently, the two sides are working on the relevant contracts, and the results are likely to be produced by the end of the year," said Vasily Kashin, an expert on Russia's arms trade with China at Moscow's Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies.
Read more: $3.5Bln Weapons Deal with China Demonstrates New Dynamic | Business | The Moscow Times
12/24/12
Russia - India: Kremlin, India Strike $2.9 billion Weapons Deal
India today agreed to buy $2.9 billion worth of Russian weapons, as President Vladimir Putin visited the longtime ally.
Under the larger deal, India will purchase kits to assemble 42 Sukhoi-30 fighter jets for $1.6 billion. The other contract is for 71 Mi-17 helicopters worth $1.3 billion. "We agreed to strengthen the partnership of Russia and India in the area of military equipment cooperation further and advance new projects, including by creating joint ventures and transferring technology," Putin said after his talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The fighter jet deal brought the total number of Sukhoi-30 warplanes sold to India to 230, with a total value of $8.5 billion, Interfax reported. India's HAL Corp. plans to build 140 of these jets by the end of 2015.
"Russia is a key partner in our efforts to modernize our armed forces," Singh said in a statement.
As far as helicopters go, India has already been taking delivery of Mi-17s under a previous contract. Signed in 2008, it stipulates that Russia will supply 80 helicopters worth $1.3 billion.
India has been Russia's largest customer for military hardware, despite missed deadlines that sent New Delhi shopping for Western weapons more often.
Read more: Kremlin, India Strike Weapons Deals | News | The Moscow Times
Under the larger deal, India will purchase kits to assemble 42 Sukhoi-30 fighter jets for $1.6 billion. The other contract is for 71 Mi-17 helicopters worth $1.3 billion. "We agreed to strengthen the partnership of Russia and India in the area of military equipment cooperation further and advance new projects, including by creating joint ventures and transferring technology," Putin said after his talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The fighter jet deal brought the total number of Sukhoi-30 warplanes sold to India to 230, with a total value of $8.5 billion, Interfax reported. India's HAL Corp. plans to build 140 of these jets by the end of 2015.
"Russia is a key partner in our efforts to modernize our armed forces," Singh said in a statement.
As far as helicopters go, India has already been taking delivery of Mi-17s under a previous contract. Signed in 2008, it stipulates that Russia will supply 80 helicopters worth $1.3 billion.
India has been Russia's largest customer for military hardware, despite missed deadlines that sent New Delhi shopping for Western weapons more often.
Read more: Kremlin, India Strike Weapons Deals | News | The Moscow Times
10/2/09
CBS: Can Saudi Weapons Deal Prod Russia To Turn Back on Iran? - by Daniel Carty
For the complete report from CBS News click on this link
Can Saudi Weapons Deal Prod Russia To Turn Back on Iran? - by Daniel Carty
Saudi Arabia is looking to purchase billions of dollars in weapons from Russia in an effort to get the Kremlin to scrap plans to sell surface-to-missile Iran.But official Russian sources have not confirmed the Kremlin's willingness to agree to such a deal, reports CBS News' Alexei Kuxnetsov. In fact, even analysts with knowledge of the Kremlin’s policies sounded rather skeptical.According to the Financial Times, Saudi Arabia's offer to buy the latest version of the system, the S-400 – akin to the U.S. Patriot missile defense system – for $2 billion is the latest attempt to get Moscow to back out of its deal with Tehran.Alexander Khramchikhin, a senior analyst with the Institute for Political and Military Analysis in Moscow, told Kuznetsov that while a deal between Russia and Saudi Arabia could be theoretically possible, a "number of stumbling blocks" make its probability near zero.
Khramchikhin also said Saudi Arabia represents a "dubious partner with quite a shady reputation" to the Kremlin. "The country has been a source of financing of international terrorism for decades and officially professes Wahhabism as its main religion. Given the years-long campaign against Islamic separatists in Russia’s north Caucasus, the Kremlin should by definition be allergic to dealing with any country where Wahhabism is the state religion," he said.
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