By John Vibes
At a Credit Suisse conference in West Palm Beach this week, representatives from major defense contractors spoke to their investors about how well business was going in these times of global war. Representatives from top firms like Raytheon, Oshkosh, and Lockheed Martin were in attendance, in somewhat of a celebration of the escalating conflict in the Middle East and Africa.
Lockheed Martin Executive Vice President Bruce Tanner gave a speech openly praising the “indirect” benefits that defense contractors would see as a result of the war in Syria. A portion of his speech was captured on audio by someone inside and shared widely on the Internet hours after the conference.
In the audio that was captured, Tanner discussed the many recent troubles in the Middle East, with an escalation of conflict in Syria and Turkey. He pointed out how these conflicts would lead to increased sales for their company.
Tanner said that the increased conflict would cause “an intangible lift because of the dynamics of that environment and our products in theater.”
According to the Intercept, during another speech at the conference, Wilson Jones, the president of the defense manufacturer Oshkosh, said that “with the ISIS threat growing, there are more countries interested in buying Oshkosh-made M-ATV armored vehicles.”
Raytheon Chief Executive Tom Kennedy also joined in the informal celebration, saying that his company was seeing “a significant uptick for defense solutions across the board in multiple countries in the Middle East.”
“It’s all the turmoil they have going on, whether the turmoil’s occurring in Yemen, whether it’s with the Houthis, whether it’s occurring in Syria or Iraq, with ISIS,” Kennedy added.
In addition to the growing wars, the contractors also celebrated the fact that the defense sector was recently granted a $607 billion budget by the government.
“Our programs are well supported [in the budget]. We think we did fare very well,” Tanner concluded.
A recent report by journalist Glenn Greenwald pointed out stock prices for weapons manufacturers sharply increased just after the terrorist attacks in Paris last month. Greenwald was following the tip of Brooklyn journalist Aaron Cantú, who posted screenshots for the recent stock performances of major weapons contractors on his Twitter page.
Defense industry stocks this morning following Friday night’s attacks in Paris: pic.twitter.com/8a35RcpPJ6
— Aaron Cantú (@aaronmiguel_) November 16, 2015
You can listen to the leaked audio from the conference below:
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That’s why we need a parallel economic system that works for us:
– claim FREE WATER, FREE FOOD, FREE SPACE, FREE LAND… to all 7 billion people
– use & CREATE free services
– SHARE & GIFT
Thus, profit can be killed and no man will ever buy a man for a month salary!
A GiftEconomy or MothersEconomy can heal the world
Well, Kumbaya… Do you honestly think all 7 billion humanoids will join that program? Humans are animals with a better vocabulary.
You are a man after my own heart. I loved reading your post, well done. The “Privileged” money monkeys will decry your mind, YET they are SATANIC. I LOVE YOU. ALF.
War is profits for banks, energy, and weapons makers. What’s wrong with making money?
Try asking that same question after a drone decimates your family.
Beg pardon? A drone is going to decimate my family because I asked a satirical question?
Yes, because satire and sarcasm are no longer tolerated in the USSA. You should apologize and give them a ribbon for participating to keep yourself off of the no-fly list.
You will never know until it’s too late. YOUR choice. I bet you have ‘shares’ on weapons manufacturers.
ALL the blood money in the world will not save one iota of your soul. But, YOU don’t have one to save with your mind.
Sarcasm intended!
Well I guess nothing is wrong with it if you think KILLING IS OKAY!!!
Sarcasm alert!
I’ll bet every one of the bastards goes to church, too.
I don’t, I hate churches and the insanity they preach for MONEY. Tithing to God is tithing the 10% of your mind to God. IT is the ONLY thing YOU could ever give to GOD. These money driven churches are bent, they are taxed and controlled by satan. And what’s with the bastards bit? YOU know all of them or is this just your sick little mind doing its evil best to destroy? I know your father! He is a liar and YOU are his son.
The church I live in has NO walls and was never made by hands! It’s your mind that has been polluted with greed and ambition. YOU can change your mind by volition, or it will change YOU into a vile and repugnant demon. No wonder your pissed off! Go have a good look in the mirror. See the horror of horrors as you realise, YOU are the problem.
billions for the death machine – all part of the plan to keep the horde thinned – so long as it isn’t the gold collar scum that profit – cui bono? the fascists that are entrenched and use ‘government’ military as their own mercenary force.
keep sending your hard earned labor which serves only to feed the beast.
government is the worst investment I have ever been swindled out of.
generals every where could easily put an end to this.
”Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong. ”
“The carnal man thinks only of profit to the self; but the enlightened man thinks of his Soul and of service to humanity.”
“Only through service can we become the Master. In order to become the Master, we must serve; for, through serving, do we know and understand what is required of the Master. When man has reached the highest state of Illumination; when he has become the Christ, who is the Son of God— then, there is but one thing that he can do; that is, to serve those who are not so blessed as is he.
Service thus becomes the keystone to the Arch. It is the stone that holds the structure together; and there is nothing greater or more desirable than to be of service to humanity.”