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DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arizona</a>'s Universities are Instruments of WarThe United States provides more than 70% of the funds and weapons used for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WarCrimes</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#genocide</a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palestine</a>. Arizona universities are a backbone of the war industry.by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 31, 2024 TUCSON, Arizona -- "When Arizona's largest universities slammed down on Palestine supporters, it was obvious they were hiding something. What they were hiding was the fact that they are thriving on war dollars. "The most obvious is Raytheon Missiles located at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UniversityOfArizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UniversityOfArizona</a>'s Tech Park in Tucson. The less obvious are the millions in grants and contracts that both the University of Arizona and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArizonaStateUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArizonaStateUniversity</a> receive for technology, including cyber technology, artificial intelligence and robotics. "While slamming down on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palestinian</a> support -- and shooting them with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RubberBullets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RubberBullets</a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tucson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tucson</a> and denying some graduation at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ASU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ASU</a> in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PhoenixValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PhoenixValley</a> -- both universities were heading up a national coalition of U.S. universities to support Israel, after the genocide was underway. "Arizona State University in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tempe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tempe</a>, in the Phoenix Valley, has gone to the extreme to silence voices in support of Palestine. Besides forbidding pro-Palestine rallies, its harsh crackdown on encampments has resulted in 62 Palestine supporters now facing charges."Read more: <a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/arizonas-universities-are-instruments.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/arizonas-universities-are-instruments.html</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CeasefireNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CeasefireNow</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreePalestine</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WarProfiteers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WarProfiteers</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WarIsBigBusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WarIsBigBusiness</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Raytheon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Raytheon</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RaytheonKills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RaytheonKills</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RTX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RTX</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BloodMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BloodMoney</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Divest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Divest</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WeaponsManufacturers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeaponsManufacturers</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BibiIsAWarCriminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BibiIsAWarCriminal</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IsraelWarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IsraelWarCrimes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ReaderSupportedNews</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SilencingDissent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Genocide</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Banks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Banks</a> and financial institutions profiting from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/weapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#weapons</a>By Clare Carlile Friday 7th of April 2023High street banks are funding some of the world’s most notorious <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArmsCompanies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArmsCompanies</a>. We look at which banks are involved and what consumers can do. We also look at the wider financial industry and its links with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearWeapons</a> in particular. How are banks financing the arms industry?"Banks are behind almost every industry in the world, through their loans, insurance and other kinds of financing, including the arms industry. "By funding arms companies, banks allow them to grow and innovate – developing new forms of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lethal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lethal</a> weapons. "In fact, banks are behind companies involved in the very worst forms of arms, such as nuclear weapons and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClusterMunitions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClusterMunitions</a>, despite the latter being banned by 120 countries. "Unsurprisingly, arms companies are not generally picky about who they sell weapons to. This means that if a bank is funding an arms company, it may well be one that is selling to oppressive regimes. Which banks are involved in financing arms companies?"Unfortunately, many banks still finance arms companies."While some have said they will not fund the most destructive weapons, lots fall far short of refusing funding to arms companies altogether. And it is not just banks that are involved in the global arms trade. Lots of other financial institutions, such as investors, are also involved."Over three quarters of the brands included in our ethical current accounts guide lost half a mark under Arms & Military supply for their investments. This included all the five major high street banks: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Barclays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Barclays</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HSBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HSBC</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lloyds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lloyds</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NatWest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NatWest</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Santander" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Santander</a>."Banks such as Barclays, Lloyds, NatWest, Santander and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Citigroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Citigroup</a>, and other financial institutions such as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Aviva" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Aviva</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OldMutual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldMutual</a> have been named in relation to funding cluster munitions, nuclear weapons on the sale of arms to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Yemen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Yemen</a>. What weapons are banks funding? Banks funding cluster munitions“Cluster munitions are indiscriminate weapons that pose a serious threat to civilian populations during and long after an attack. They spread dozens, or even hundreds, of bomblets called submunitions over an area the size of a football stadium or even more. On impact cluster munitions kill or maim anyone that is in that area. Also, many submunitions fail to explode on impact: they remain on the ground like landmines that kill and injure civilians long after the conflict has ended.'"120 countries have signed a Convention that that bans the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClusterBombs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClusterBombs</a>."Yet, in 2018, the Cluster Munition Coalition found that financial institutions had invested almost $9 billion in companies producing cluster munitions. Citigroup and Old Mutual were both found to invest in companies involved. "Amongst the banks named in the report, Triodos, Co-operative Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland were all praised for having divestment policies in place. "However, Aviva, Axa, Deutsche Bank, Edentree Investment Management, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered were all found to have incomplete policies in place."<a href="https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/money-finance/banks-weapons" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/money-finance/banks-weapons</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WarIsBigBusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WarIsBigBusiness</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoWar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WeaponsManufacturers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeaponsManufacturers</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNuclearWeapons</a>

DoomsdaysCWBecause war is big business!From 2022: Russia-Ukraine war creates halo effect for defense stocks<a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/04/04/russia-ukraine-boosts-raytheon-lockheed-stock" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.axios.com/2022/04/04/russia-ukraine-boosts-raytheon-lockheed-stock</a>From 2022: Revealed: Ukraine war makes Lords members richer through arms investments<a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/ukraine-war-uk-lords-richer-arms-investments-russia-bae-systems/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/ukraine-war-uk-lords-richer-arms-investments-russia-bae-systems/</a>2023: U.S. weapons makers tell investors to expect big profits from Israel’s war <a href="https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/u-s-weapons-makers-tell-investors-to-expect-big-profits-from-israel-war/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/u-s-weapons-makers-tell-investors-to-expect-big-profits-from-israel-war/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HouseOfLords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HouseOfLords</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USCongress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USCongress</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Halliburton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Halliburton</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Raytheon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Raytheon</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RTX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RTX</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WarIsBigBusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WarIsBigBusiness</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoWar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Israel</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorldWarBibi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WorldWarBibi</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russia</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://mastodon.social/@sibrosan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@sibrosan</a> So, this should answer your question. From 2022..."Aerospace and defense firm <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Raytheon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Raytheon</a> Technologies Corp (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RTX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RTX</a>.N), lowered its full-year revenue forecast on Tuesday, blaming the loss of sales to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russia</a> due to Western sanctions imposed over the war in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a>. "Shares in the U.S. company fell 1.7% in pre-market trading to $98.00. As a large number of U.S. companies have severed ties with Russia following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine and the introduction of Western sanctions, the aviation industry is among the sectors severely impacted."<a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/raytheon-cuts-revenue-forecast-impact-russia-business-suspension-2022-04-26/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/raytheon-cuts-revenue-forecast-impact-russia-business-suspension-2022-04-26/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WarIsBigBusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WarIsBigBusiness</a>

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