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Sweden’s defense minister has resigned after facing criticism over plans to build a weapons plant in Saudi Arabia.

Sten Tolgfors “resigned at his own request”, a spokesperson said.

Swedish public radio revealed the confidential plans for the country’s Defense Research Agency to help Riyadh build weapons, including missiles and torpedoes, in early March.

Sweden does not ban weapons exports to Saudi Arabia, but the secretive nature of the plans caused controversy.

Earlier this month Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt confirmed that an initial deal had been signed with the Saudis in 2005.

Mr Tolgfors defended the decision, saying the plans were in line with military cooperation deal between the two countries.

But he has come under increasing pressure to resign as some of the press and the left-wing opposition accused the government of a cover up.

The opposition Green Party is now calling for an investigation into the deal, saying Sweden should not support a “dictatorship” in Saudi Arabia.

Source: The BBC

My comment:

Do not blame this on the wiki-leaks. It was Sweden who decided to launch a manhunt for the man who exposed the double standards and cheating in the present Global elite.

Let us rather take a look at Sweden:

Sweden has always been natural just enough for the prefect political rhetoric.

Just two weeks ago three NATO military aircraft’s were permitted to do secret tactical maneuvers over Swedish territory, and given permission to land in Northern Sweden.

Unfortunately for the military exercise, one of the aircraft exploded when it flew into Kebenekaise, the highest mountain top in Sweden.
We all regrets the loss of the Norwegian crew of five.

To help NATO is perhaps not the worst breech of neutrality thinkable. But to supply the Islamic terror state like Saudi Arabia would not be an act worthy of a neutral nation. At least not viewed from Teheran and Israel.

During the Second World War, natural Sweden supplied the Nazi regime with unlimited ship loads of coal for the steel expansion Hitler launched to build the Wehrmacht. Sweden got away with it then, but will face problems to explain this one.

The World is really set up side down by the Global elite.

They really act like they live in the same village, where their filthy family deals are more important than moral, ethics and honesty.

The gap between the reality and political statements have probably not been wider since Nevill Chaimberline came home from Munich in 1938 with Hitlers signature.

Now Sweden has put their trust in the signature of the Saudis, a “peaceful democracy” in the Middle East. All the missiles in the region that points towards Israel is, of course, also for “peaceful” purposes”.

Written by Ivar

The United States on Jan. 25 said it was ending export restrictions for India’s defense and space industries, eyeing trade with a nation shunned for more than a decade over its nuclear weapons program.

F-15 — America is just the leader of a group of industrial countries that are selling massive quantities of deadly weapons to every country on earth.

“These actions will open important new opportunities for our companies and governments on cooperating in the defense and space areas,” said Robert Blake, the assistant secretary of state for South Asia.

Obama announced on a visit to India in November that he was easing the restrictions, but he did not provide details at the time.

The US hopes that the agreement will allow its companies to cash in as India ramps up nuclear power to provide for a fast-growing economy, as it is also bidding to sell India weapons as it modernizes its military, particularly its aging air force.

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, who called the easing of restrictions “a significant milestone in reinforcing the U.S.-India strategic partnership,” plans to head to India in early February to promote high-tech trade.

He will be accompanied by 24 companies include The Boeing Co., Lockheed Martin Corp. and Westinghouse Electric Co., according to the Commerce Department.

Source; Defense News

My comments;

This story is one of many about the massive increase in the global trade in weapons, which is one of the few areas of economic activity that is truly flourishing, even as most of the rest of the world economy continues to be extremely weak. If I wanted to, I could post 50 links to similar stories that I’ve seen on various news sites over the past few months, from news sites all over the world.

The fact that so many governments still make it a priority to spend money on weapons when their people are starving is disheartening, but only slightly less disheartening is the fact that there are so many countries eager to sell to them.

I’ve known a few weapons manufacturers in my time. Their mentality is very close to that of a drug dealer. They have a product that they can sell and make a lot of money, they want to sell as much as possible and they really don’t care who gets hurt or how much damage it causes.

India has hundreds of millions of people living on less than $2 a day. It shouldn’t be spending money on missiles, but it has to because China, Pakistan and Iran are doing the same thing, even though they also have many things that it would be better for them to spend money on.

The US, meanwhile, has many people out of work, and the manufacture of weapons is one of the few businesses that continues to employ a lot of people.

Yeshua (Jesus) speaking of the End Times, said in Mark 13:20:

Unless the Lord had shortened those days, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect, whom He chose, He shortened the days.

We must pray urgently that God will spare us and those we love from the worst of what’s coming soon. The massive increase in weapons trafficking, legal and illegal, is just one symptom of the coming catastrophe.

Written by Aaron

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