I quietly start my own KFA [Korean Friendship Association] Denmark. ibid.
We have companies in China, Southeast Asia, Malaysia and other countries for making all kinds of transactions. ibid. Alejandro Cao de Benos, International KFA president
Was the KFA really being used as a front for dealing with weapons and drugs from North Korea with Alejandro as the spy in the web? ibid.
‘At this point you’re in a secret underground lair in North Korea facilitating the signature of a weapons’ contract?’ ibid. Annie Machin, debriefing
So we agreed on building a factory outside North Korea that would make weapons and methamphetamine. And as is custom for them, the suggestion it will definitely be underground. ibid.
When you’re talking about the business, never use again those words [Arms & Methamphetamine], OK? Storyville: The Mole II, BBC 2020, Alejandro to Ulrich
If this goes down, there are many millions going down. ibid.
So although the true purpose of the project was not revealed to the Africans, buying the island in Uganda and using it for a secret weapons and drugs factory seemed to be right up the alley of the North Koreans. ibid.
North Koreans needing to move armaments to Syria is actually a very interesting piece of information … friends for many years … During the civil war in Syria, The New York Times published a story about how North Korea was helping the Syrian regime with its chemical weapons programme. ibid.
Probably the most impressive private intelligence operation I’ve ever heard of. ibid.
Cleric [reading Book of Armaments]: And Saint Attila raised the hand-grenade up on high saying, ‘Oh Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayest blow up thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy’ ... And the Lord spake, saying, ‘First, thou shalt take out the holy pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shalt be three.’ Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 starring Graham Chapman & John Cleese & Terry Gilliam & Eric Idle & Terry Jones & Michael Palin & Neil Innes & Connie Booth & Carol Cleveland et al, directors Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones
Those entrusted with arms ... should be persons of some substance and stake in the country. William Windham, speech House of Commons 22nd July 1807
Military budget is simply an enormous pork barrel of special privilege, the privileges taking the form of windfall profits, of no-risk profits and, most importantly, of enormous outlays of capital supplied by the Pentagon to arms contractors. William Karp
The way the pikes had clobbered the mounted knights [of the Dukes of Burgundy] changed the battle plans of every military commander in Europe. For the next forty years the pike was it. And the armies got bigger because they were cheaper. And then on April 28th 1503 ... a new weapon had arrived. James Burke, Connections s1e8: Eat, Drink & Be Merry, BBC 1978
The world impoverishes itself by spending a trillion dollars a year on preparations for war, and by employing perhaps half the scientists and high technologists on the planet in military endeavours. How would we explain all this to a dispassionate extra-terrestrial observer? What account would we give of our stewardship of the planet Earth? Professor Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan, Cosmos: Who Speaks for Earth? 1979
Who is the biggest violator of the non-proliferation treaty? The United States of America. We signed a pledge that we would begin to disarm and we’re not doing it; we’re expanding our nukes. Who the hell are we going to nuke? Mike Gravel, 2009 Democratic Party nominee
On a single day last month Carlyle earned $237 million selling shares in United Defense Industries. Los Angeles Times article 10th January 2002
Throughout the 1980s billions of pounds of arms were being exported from this country to both Iran and Iraq by British companies with full knowledge of the British government in defiance of the government’s guidelines and in defiance of course of the UN. That is a far more significant issue. And if Scott was serious about it, he ought to interview the key businessmen who knew about the deals. (Arms & Michael Meacher MP
I never remember discussions about human rights ... The intelligence information that should have been stopping the arms trade was possibly helping it. Robin Robison, Cabinet Office 1985-1990
The military arms business as opposed to the sporting is based on human folly. Which means simply two things: number one, its depths have yet to be plumbed; and number two, it will go on for ever. Sam Cummings, arms dealer
When Mrs Thatcher became prime minister there was a definite rallying to sort of say, Yes, you should be proud of what you’re doing; you’re exporting for the United Kingdom; you’re doing a good job, and her very public appearances, for instance at Farnborough she went to, she made it quite obvious from the moment she became prime minister that she personally thought that defence exporting was good for the United Kingdom. Lt Col Robert Jarman, former government arms salesman
In the United States President Roosevelt induced Congress to repeal an arms embargo: but the supply of arms was limited to cash and carry. Arms had to be paid for in hard cash, and could not be exported in American ships. World War II: The Complete History: The End of Illusion, Discovery 2000
63,754. Throughout history gunners have found it difficult to aim in the dark. Today tracer bullets are used to mark out the line of fire in the night sky. But could a similar tactics first have been used over five hundred years ago? Ancient Discoveries s6e2: Guns ’N Ammo, History 2009
63,755. On 4th July the great Turkish cannon opened fire on the city walls ... How did the Turks hit their targets in the dark? ibid.
Man’s savagery is often matched by his ingenuity. The unusual weapons that originated in the Far East reveal a human capacity for violence that took first took root amongst ancient warriors. Ancient Discoveries s6e9: Twisted Weapons of the East
The mega-battle for the oceans involves epic clashes, daring harbour raids and covert underwater adventures that have churned the seas throughout the ages. Researchers are now discovering the naval technologies and tactics that underpinned three thousand years of man and machine waging war to dominate the oceans. Ancient Discoveries s6e11: Mega Ocean Conquest
The Korean War, which caused 3 million deaths and the Vietnam War, which killed 2 million people, were the most deadly conflicts. All 138 wars were fought in the Third World, and many were fuelled by weapons provided by the two major powers or their allies ...
The surfeit of weapons, especially small arms, left over from this era is a key enabling factor in many conflicts now scarring the world ... Yet the arms trade continues ... The five permanent members of the Security Council provide 86% of the arms exported to developing countries. In 1992, the United States alone accounted for 46%. United Nations, ‘Our Global Neighbourhood: The Report of the Commission on Global Governance 1995’
The SMASH EDO Campaign has no formal structure and as such has no leaders or organisers. (Arms & Protest) PSTV.tv – On the Verge
Earl Dodge Osborne became EDO Aircraft ... By 1947 EDO Aircraft had become the EDO Corporation and for the next five decades continued to produce military equipment and weapon systems. In 2003, with the war on terror thriving, the Corporation bought out the defence manufacturers Emblem and took over production at their factory in Brighton, England. ibid.
We had this factory in our backyard that was producing the munitions and various weapons that were being used in Iraq. ibid.
After months of continuous pressure the factory and Sussex Police strike back. ibid.
Right from the beginning we were extensively filmed. ibid.
What was originally a law that was designed to protect people from stalkers became basically a charter for corporations to get a form of PF by marshal law outside their premises. ibid.
Whilst the court papers are served, Sussex Police begin to enforce the injunction. ibid.
Then it was just open season for them; any excuse to arrest anyone. ibid.
We won: the injunction case was overturned. ibid.
With the collapse of the injunction a huge victory party was held at the factory. The court case was a major financial and PR disaster for EDO ... The company had spent over a million pounds trying to create an exclusion zone around their factory. During the court case EDO were cross-examined about their complicity in war crimes and by the end of the proceedings only two defendants were left to challenge the misuse of the harassment law. As evidence of collusion between the company and police emerged the courts were forced to scrap the injunction. ibid.
The police have refused to investigate themselves as to whether they colluded with the company. ibid.
April 2007: A delegation from Palestine joins one of the weekly noise demos. They see where some of the weapons used to maintain the occupation are manufactured. ibid.
The infamous karaoke demo ends with five arrests and the karaoke machine seized. ibid.
It’s now got to the point when some mornings Paul Hills has to ‘smash EDO’ just to get into work. ibid.