tio bitar for swedish weapons industry v. wikileaks
from ultra racist proweapons prowallenberg local.se
http://www.thelocal.se/25326/20100303/
Swedish weapons exports on the rise
Published: 3 Mar 10 15:28 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Sweden sold weapons to the value of 13.5 billion kronor ($1.9 billion) in 2009, up 7 percent on the previous year, according to new figures released by the Swedish Agency for Non-Proliferation and Export Controls (Inspektionen för strategiska produkter - ISP).
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"As in other years, larger deals play their part and have a bearing on the statistics, such as sales of the Combat Vehicle 90 to the Netherlands and the JAS 39 Gripen [fighter jet] to South Africa," he said.
The export figures encompass products made by companies based in Sweden, regardless of the origins of the owners.
More than half (53 percent) of exports went to other EU countries, along with Norway and Switzerland.
27 percent was accounted for by countries defined by ISP as "established partners", including the US, Australia, South Africa, Canada, South Korea and Singapore.
The final 20 percent went to twenty different countries, dominated by Pakistan (1.4 billlion kronor) and India (901 million kronor), but also including Malaysia (129 million kronor), Thailand (81 million kronor) and the United Arab Emirates (900,000 kronor).
Green Party spokesman Lars Ångström said he was appalled to see Saudia Arabia on the list of countries buying defence equipment from Sweden.
"Saudi Arabia seriously and systematically violates human rights as defined by the UN, and it is unacceptable that exports have gone there," he said in a statement.
Ångström was also distressed to see Bahrain, Oman and Malaysia among the recipient nations.
The Netherlands was the biggest buyer of Swedish defence equipment in 2009, paying a total of 2.5 billion kronor. Completing the list of the top five purchasers were South Africa (1.7 billion), Pakistan (1.4 billion), and the United Kingdom, which spent a fraction more than India's 901 million kronor.
ISP's role in the process involves approving licences for the export of military equipment. Permission is conditional on a number of factors, with certain barriers put in place if a country finds itself at war. As in the case with the United States however, the agency can continue to authorise sales to warfaring countries if there are overriding defence and security policy reasons deemed to tip the balance in favour of continued trade.
reading the new york times
in portlandia
listening to dungen
for hours and hours
and now ictus--imperium, thank you
read
saab automotive plant closures near gothenberg
the swedish state pays salaries to the tenderly unionized lucky swedes
and volvo
struggles
new york times
press agent for the war
provides more tender human interest cover to americanize and detroitify the unique propblems of the swedish weapons industry and their auto-facade
http://open.salon.com/blog/anonymous_operation_want/2011/01/13/swedens_big_trade_deal_for_assange_who_profits_most
as they link back to sugarland texas halliburton
no talk of swedish weapons Saab Bofors or Volvo and the stockholm cables wants and dont wants
as compiled
by anonymous think tank
"Esse non Videri," or "To be, and be not seen" is the motto of Sweden's politically powerful Wallenberg family.
Once certain Topics of Concern were identified then OPERATION WANT began to FOLLOW THE MONEY. - First we looked for the U.S. scientist that was given a Fellowship at Chalmer's University to assist in the creation of "BIOFUELS." Then we looked at how this scientist and his Fellowship were funded. This led to the Wallenberg Foundation. Along with INVESTOR AB subsidery businesses involved in biofuels and Volvo and Saab creation of "flex fuel engines" to use the bio-fuel or bio-gas. The auto divisions were then sold. - Next we researched the Gripen and AESA topic of the cables. Gripen is another Saab creation and still held by INVESTOR AB. - Reseaching INVESTOR AB we saw that the chair is Jacob Wallenberg, with Marcus and Peter running the family banking business of SEB etc. So, we then researched whether there were any connections with the Bush gang and the wars. - We found Donald Rumsfeld had sat on the board of ABB and helped to pull off their North Korea deal in building two nuclear power plants. - We searched the DOJ website and found the criminal prosecution and penalties against ABB and two other their subsideraries out of Sugar Land, TX. The home of Halliburton. The crimes involved bribery, Food for Oil fraud in Iraq and vehicles among other things. - Next we searched the ABB website for press releases and news. We found that ABB had done an advanced purchase of Baldor and was under review by the DOJ for possible violations of the Anti-Trust regulation. We noted that DOJ had given ABB two extensions and it was to expire on January 11, 2011. The same day that Assange was to appear in the UK courts to plead their case over Sweden's European Arrest Warrant. Now extended to February 7, 2011. - We watched the ABB news releases for January 11th to see if DOJ gave them another extension to February. BINGO. Yes they did! - We searched INVESTOR AB press releases/news to see if they were waiting on any other approvals from DOJ. BINGO again! Investors AB was waiting on DOJ approval of their advanced buy into part ownership of NASDAQ OMX.
grab some DOJ investigations DOJ ABB INVESTIGATIONS
when the new york times so innocently consults svenska enkilda banken expert opinion about their own 83% weapons SAAB it is we who know this little
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 11 January, 2011
WHY IS SWEDEN REALLY AFTER JULIAN ASSANGE? WHAT SWEDISH – U.S. TIES ARE REALLY AT WORK?
Follow the money to a connection worth billions of dollars, or Swedish Kronors. First have a look at the Swedish Government representatives and the Moderate Party’s history. Historically, the Moderate Party, whose original motto was “Military Defense Comes First,” has been pro-war. Carl Bildt was leader of the Party from 1986 to 1999. Since then, he has been Sweden’s Minister of Foreign Affairs—and a member of the RAND Corporation. Fredrick Reinfeldt was elected the new party leader in 2003, and even in a 2006 coalition with the Centre Party, the Liberal People's Party and the Christian Democrats, continues as Prime Minister.
Cui bono? What has been lacking in reports of Karl Rove – Prime Minister Reinfeldt connections is how either would benefit. It is highly unlikely Karl Rove—no friend of the Clintons nor the Democratic Party—would spare Hillary Clinton embarrassment over WikiLeaks exposure of U.S. Embassy cables. Is he then still covering and enabling his own party’s involvement in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars? Is Karl Rove trying to take down Julian Assange and WikiLeaks out of pure loyalty to the war machine?
Not by coincidence, everything that Bildt and Reinfeldt have done in office has benefited Sweden’s Wallenberg family. Renowned bankers, industrialists, politicians, diplomats and philanthropists, Sweden’s Wallenbergs maintain a very low-key public profile; the family motto is "Esse non Videri" ("To be, not to be seen"). Still, a Swedish hedge fund manager was quoted as saying, “They are a bit like royalty.” The Wallenberg business empire is a large group of companies in which its investment company, INVESTOR AB, or foundation asset management company, FAM, holds a controlling interest. By the late 1990s the Wallenbergs controlled some 40% of the value of companies listed on the Swedish stock exchange.
In the twenty-first century, the fifth generation of Wallenbergs took over family operations: Marcus, Jacob, and Peter. A product of Philadelphia's Wharton School, Jacob Wallenberg is Chairman of the Board of Investor, and Vice-Chairman of SEB (Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, founded by a Wallenberg ancestor). He also serves on the boards of Atlas Copco AB (Vice Chairman), SAS AB (Vice Chairman) and ABB. The largest single stake in ABB is held by Investor AB. Headquartered in Zurich, ABB is one of the largest conglomerates in the world, a global leader in power and automation technologies, and the world's largest builder of electricity grids.
What is not widely understood, outside of Sweden, is that INVESTORS AB industrial sector is creating some of the world’s most deadly war machines, e.g., Saab’s Gripen NG fighter jet with AESA radar. The Gripen was the subject of leaked U.S. Embassy-Stockholm cables, which revealed that the U.S., while pretending to help Saab get AESA radar capabilities to sell Gripen fighter jets to Norway, was actually helping Boeing get the contracts. While costing the Wallenbergs'/Investor's Saab a great deal of money, the U.S. did eventually facilitate General Electric and Honeywell entering into a partnership to equip the Gripen with AESA radar.
In 2000, ABB signed a contract for the delivery of equipment and services for two North Korean nuclear power plants, to be supplied under an agreement with the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO). Donald Rumsfeld, a board member of ABB at the time, helped in the delivery of the nuclear power plants to North Korea (see http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/10/rumsfeld-abb/ )
In 2001, ABB pled guilty to bid rigging on U.S. government-financed building projects in Egypt, paying over $60 million in fines and civil damages. In 2008, along with Siemens, Alston, and other engineering companies, it was fined a total of €751m ($994m) for price-fixing, in one of the largest penalties for cartel behavior on record. In 2010, ABB agreed to pay $58.3 million to resolve U.S. claims that its units made corrupt payments to win business in Mexico and Iraq.
In mid-December of 2010, Investor initiated the purchase of an extremely large portion of the U.S. NASDAQ OMX (stock exchange). (see http://www.investorab.com/en/Investors_media/Pressreleases.htm ) Investor’s purchase of millions of NASDAQ shares would give the Wallenbergs/Investor a seat on the board IF U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder approves it.
At the end of 2010, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice made a second request for additional documents related to the pending $4.2 billion ABB purchase of Baldor Electric. The ABB subsidiary Brock Acquisition Corp. had made the initial offer under a November 29, 2010, merger agreement.
This tender offer is scheduled to expire at 12:00 midnight, New York City time, on the night of Monday, January 10, 2011, unless extended pursuant to the terms of the merger agreement or the applicable rules and regulations of the SEC. Any extension of the offer will be announced no later than 9:00 am, New York time, on the first business day following the scheduled expiration time.”
On January 11, 2011 the publisher and editor of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, is scheduled to appear again in the London, U.K. court regarding the warrant filed by the Swedish government over allegations of sexual misconduct. Will the U.K. Court order extradition of Julian Assange to Sweden?
Did Jacob Wallenberg seek advice from Karl Rove on how to "deal" with Attorney General Eric Holder? Perhaps Rove helped with a strategy—given that U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and Holder did want to stop any further evidence of war crimes being revealed to the public.
Is Jacob Wallenberg the Man in the Shadow, "Esse non Videri," pulling the political strings in Sweden to get Julian Assange extradited? Attorney General Eric Holder worked for Lehman Brothers and understands the importance, financially and psychologically, of return on an investment. Hillary and Holder get Julian Assange. Jacob Wallenberg/Investor AB get a NASDAQ purchase approved and a seat on the board of NASDAQ, along with the merger of ABB and Baldor.
*NOTE – INFORMATION IS FREE. THIS INFORMATION CAME FROM ANONYMOUS – OPERATION WANT. WE ARE ANONYMOUS. WE ARE EVERYONE. WE ARE EVERYWHERE. WE ARE LEGION. WE DO NOT FORGET. WE DO NOT FORGIVE. EXPECT US.
kiss carl bildt
for the NEW YORK TIMES
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/opinion/02iht-edbildt.html
the sweetness of his political fronting for disarmament as he makes the way for usa india
who is forgetting that much of wikileaks is about the uranium market
2909 cables
http://www.cablegatesearch.net/search.php?q=uranium&qo=0&qc=0&qto=2010-02-28
the luxury of ULTRA blackmail
http://www.cablegatesearch.net/search.php?q=sweden&qo=0&qc=0&qto=2010-02-28
wars of ruling families and who has what information
sweden and human trafficking
http://www.cablegatesearch.net/search.php?q=sweden+human+trafficking&qo=0&qc=0&qto=2010-02-28
who stands to gain from keeping this private
personally or financially
tonight i met with an american who spent years in china, demoted for whistleblowing, afraid to go near the media tent of OCCUPY
and then to blog, make films, record
we spoke of the concentration camps for organ harvesting in CHINA and the USA wepaons and geographical bi-costal advantage and the conversion of USA into a third world country
as the BMW lawyer with the gag order on the blogging
envious of my internet speech
for those who cant fight for wikileaks
fight for internet
and know there are frontiers
and honey condoleezza made 500K for my school PSU the night gaddafi was killed
http://www.nti.org/e_research/e3_white_knight_state_sweden.html
Stockholm's decision in 2008 to join, without a fight, an NSG consensus that exempted India from the group's ban on nuclear exports to countries that do not have IAEA full scope safeguards raised questions about Sweden's long commitment to nonproliferation and disarmament. While other countries, including Austria, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and Switzerland, raised concerns and offered amendments to the Indian exemption, Sweden remained largely silent. Sweden's foreign minister, Carl Bildt, even threw his support behind the U.S.-India nuclear agreement.[28]
Stockholm's capitulation at the NSG was criticized at home. In the 2006 Swedish general election, the Alliance for Sweden, consisting of four center-right parties, achieved a majority, ousting a Social Democratic Party coalition. The opposition in Swedish politics, led by the Social Democrats, as well as Swedish and foreign commentators, criticized the government for not upholding its nonproliferation position at the NSG or even debating the issue.[29] It is very difficult to say with certainty why the Swedish government did not join other states in opposing the Indian exemption, but Stockholm has identified its relationships with India and the United States as its top priorities outside of the European Union. Thus, it is probable that Sweden did not want to risk to creating tension with either country by opposing their nuclear deal or India's NSG exemption. Notably, other steadfast supporters of nonproliferation and disarmament, for example Australia, Canada and Japan, also did not speak out against the NSG exemption.[30]
In 2009, there were further indications that Sweden might be backing away from its strong commitment to nonproliferation and disarmament issues. In 2009, the Swedish government cut the funding for the WMD Commission, headed by Dr. Blix, and when Sweden assumed the EU presidency in July 2009, nonproliferation and disarmament were not priority topics. As EU president, Sweden did promote the entry into force of the CTBT, however, it failed to use its new position to push forward other nonproliferation issues that it has typically championed. For example, Sweden made no effort to use the EU presidency to push for the goal of a world without nuclear weapons as outlined earlier during U.S. President Barack Obama's speech in Prague.[31]
However, more recently Swedish Foreign Minister Bildt has re-engaged on important nonproliferation and disarmament issues. The day before addressing a Global Zero conference in Paris, Bildt co-authored an op-ed for the New York Times with the Polish Foreign Minister, Radek Sikorski, advocating deep reductions, and eventual elimination, of nonstrategic (tactical) nuclear weapons stockpiles currently located in Europe.[32] Accordingly, the authors called upon Russia to commit to a withdrawal of nuclear weapons from areas adjacent to European states and the destruction of the relevant storage facilities.[33] They supported including nonstrategic nuclear weapons in an arms control regime.
The center-left coalition in Sweden has charged that the current government does not do enough on nonproliferation and disarmament issues; they promised to return those issues to the top of the foreign policy agenda if they win the next election scheduled to take place in September of 2010.[34] Nonproliferation and disarmament issues, however, are unlikely to have a prominent role in the election. Parliamentary elections tend to center on domestic issues, and while the nuclear energy issue is discussed from time to time, foreign policy matters in general receive very little attention in the Swedish political debate.
Conclusion
After the abandonment of its nuclear weapons research program, Sweden emerged as a White Knight state that regularly contributed to the development of the nonproliferation regime by joining and promoting nonproliferation and disarmament initiatives worldwide. Numerous initiatives, resolutions, and other measures are all a direct result of Swedish efforts in cooperation with other states. Sweden itself has also produced active diplomats and has exerted strong pressure to further consolidate the nonproliferation movement.
An election is approaching and the Swedish opposition bloc continues to complain that the nonproliferation and disarmament actions by the current government are inadequate and overly passive. The ruling party, naturally, contends that nonproliferation and disarmament remain critical issues on the Swedish political agenda.[35] The opposition party has subsequently stated that it will return Sweden to the forefront on nonproliferation issues. Furthermore, the foreign minister's editorial advocating the removal of nonstrategic nuclear weapons in Europe suggests that any shift in policy in recent years has now been reversed. If anything, his op-ed and Bildt's attendance at the 2010 Global Zero summit in Paris likely signify a continued commitment to prevent the further spread of WMD.
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