{"id":6863,"date":"2015-03-26T18:42:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T23:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6863"},"modified":"2015-03-26T18:42:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T23:42:41","slug":"why-banksters-hate-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6863","title":{"rendered":"Why Banksters Hate Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/03\/banks-wars.html\" target=\"_blank\">Why Banksters Hate Peace<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>All Wars Are Bankers\u2019 Wars<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bankers hate peace \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Lee Fang\u00a0<a title=\"reports\" href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2015\/03\/20\/asked-iran-deal-potentially-slowing-military-sales-lockheed-martin-ceo-says-volatility-brings-growth\/\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>The possibility of an Iran nuclear deal depressing weapons sales was raised by Myles Walton, an analyst from Germany\u2019s Deutsche Bank<\/strong>,\u00a0during\u00a0a Lockheed earnings call this past January 27. Walton asked Marillyn Hewson, the chief executive of Lockheed Martin, if an Iran agreement\u00a0could \u201cimpede what you see as progress in foreign military sales.\u201d Financial industry analysts such as Walton use earnings calls\u00a0as an opportunity to ask publicly-traded corporations like Lockheed about issues that might harm profitability.<\/p>\n<p>Hewson replied that\u00a0\u201cthat really isn\u2019t coming up,\u201d but stressed that \u201cvolatility all around the region\u201d should continue to bring in new business. According to Hewson, \u201cA lot of volatility, a lot of instability, a lot of things that are happening\u201d in both the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region\u00a0means\u00a0both are \u201cgrowth areas\u201d for Lockheed Martin.<\/p>\n<p>The Deutsche Bank-Lockheed exchange \u201cunderscores a longstanding truism of the weapons trade: war \u2014 or the threat of war \u2014 is good for the arms business,\u201d says William Hartung, director of the Arms &amp; Security Project at the Center for International Policy. Hartung observed that\u00a0Hewson\u00a0described the normalization of relations with Iran not as a positive development for the future, but as an \u201cimpediment.\u201d \u201cAnd Hewson\u2019s response,\u201d Hartung adds, \u201cwhich in essence is \u2018don\u2019t worry, there\u2019s plenty of instability to go around,\u2019 shows the perverse incentive structure that is at the heart of the international arms market.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The President of Stanford University (David Starr Jordan)\u00a0<a title=\"reported\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Unseen-Empire-Study-Plight-Nations\/dp\/1103931628\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that banksters are the true power behind the throne, and that \u2013 for many centuries \u2013 they\u2019ve made their fortunes by financing war.<\/p>\n<p>Former managing director of Goldman Sachs \u2013 and head of the international analytics group at Bear Stearns in London (Nomi Prins) \u2013\u00a0<a title=\"notes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/04\/15\/we_are_in_great_danger_ex_banker_details_how_mega_banks_destroyed_america\/\" target=\"_blank\">notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Banksters Hate Peace All Wars Are Bankers\u2019 Wars Bankers hate peace \u2026 Lee Fang\u00a0reports: The possibility of an Iran nuclear deal depressing weapons sales was raised by Myles Walton, an analyst from Germany\u2019s Deutsche Bank,\u00a0during\u00a0a Lockheed earnings call this past January 27. Walton asked Marillyn Hewson, the chief executive of Lockheed Martin, if an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[3172,63,195,1839,4457,4456,862,4455],"class_list":["post-6863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-bankers","tag-banks","tag-debt","tag-deutsche-bank","tag-lockheed-martin","tag-myles-walton","tag-war","tag-war-funding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6864,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863\/revisions\/6864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}