Anti-vehicle, blunt impact, direct energy, crowd disperse rounds and other electrical non-lethal weapons are currently being manufactured by this industry. Apart from the existing non-lethal weapons technology, a number of new capabilities are being developed, mainly by the U.S.
The global non-lethal weapons market is estimated to be $880.5 million in 2013 and is expected to register a CAGR of 5.42% to reach $1,146.2 million by 2018.
Major Players are BAE Systems, Boeing Company, Brugger & Thomet Ag, Condor Non-Lethal Technologies, Drs Technologies, Inc., Fiocchi, General Dynamics Corporation, Lamperd Less Lethal, Inc., Metal Storm Ltd and Moog.
Protests against the highly controversial GMO crop giant Monsanto and its contemporaries are heating up, and once again South American protesters are making the biggest impact.
This is a powerful message of peace for humankind and a strong reminder that war only leads to more war. Too much blood has been shed over the years, lives have been destroyed, nations ripped apart by violence.
The decision by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is based on the legal review of Pay Our Military Act, which was signed into law on September 30, 2013 – just hours before the government officially shut down.
The latest superpower dysfunctional spectacular, aka the US shutdown, has forced President Barack Obama to cancel an entire Asian trip. First the White House announced Obama was shutting down Malaysia and the Philippines – supposed stars of the „pivoting to Asia“.
The explosion of hydraulic fracturing in the last several years, according to a new report, is creating a previously ‚unimaginable‘ situation in which hundreds of billions of gallons of the nation‘s fresh water supply are being annually transformed into unusable—sometimes radioactive—cancer-causing wastewater.
Five civilians, three of whom were children, were killed in an overnight airstrike in eastern Afghanistan, local police said on Saturday. NATO has said it does not know anything about the victims.
Vor gut einem Jahr erst entdeckt, begeisterte der Komet C/2012 S1 (ISON) von Anfang an die Astronomen. Der Grund: Es ist kein periodischer Komet, der sich regelmäßig beobachten ließe. Vermutlich ist es sogar das erste Mal, dass ISON, aus der Oortschen Wolke am Rand des Sonnensystems kommend, eine Bahn durchs innere Sonnensystem zieht.
Präsident Obamas dramatische Überschätzung der Fähigkeit seiner Administration betonend, der amerikanischen Öffentlichkeit einen Krieg gegen Syrien zu verkaufen, haben israelische Regierungsverteter enthüllt, dass sie von den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika am 31. August kontaktiert und ihnen mitgeteilt wurde, dass ein Angriff unmittelbar bevorstehe und in den kommenden „24-48“ Stunden beginnen würde.
Über Obama sagt er, dieser habe „nichts zu bieten als Lügen“. Dagegen bezeichnet er die Russen als „wahre Freunde“. „Die verstehen viel besser, worum es hier wirklich geht.“ Deutschland hält er geeignet für eine Vermittlerrolle in Europa: „Ich würde mich freuen, wenn Gesandte aus Deutschland nach Damaskus kämen, um mit uns über die wahren Verhältnisse zu sprechen.“
„Nach unserer Schätzung geht es um ein Jahr oder etwas länger. Unsere Vermutungen sind konservativer als die der israelischen Aufklärung“, sagte Obama am Samstag auf einer Pressekonferenz nach Angaben der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters.
For years, political scientists have been talking about how the demographic changes in the United States are inexorably leading to a Democratic majority, with Hispanics and Asian-Americans joining African-Americans and liberal urban whites to erode the political domains of white conservatives and white racists.
(21.07.2013) Ayatollah Khamenei stressed: „The Americans are untrustworthy and illogical and they are not honest in their dealings.“
He added: „The positions that have been adopted by American officials over the past few months confirm once again that it is necessary to avoid being optimistic about them.“
Residents of a Palestinian village have planted flowers in hundreds of Israeli, spent tear gas canisters, to honor those killed during their weekly protests against the separation barrier.
The village of Bil’in, 12 kilometers west of Palestinian de-facto capital Ramallah, has recently become a symbol of peaceful resistance to the Israeli settlement program.
„We are sceptical of Americans and have no trust in them at all. The American government is untrustworthy, arrogant, illogical and a promise-breaker. It‘s a government captured by the international Zionism network.“
„Our assessment continues to be a year or more away, and in fact, actually our estimate is probably more conservative than the estimates of Israeli intelligence services,“ Obama said in reply to a question about the US intelligence assessment on Iran‘s timetable for nuclear weapons.
Ireland voted to retain its upper house of parliament on Saturday, rejecting Prime Minister Enda Kenny‘s call to scrap a chamber where the likes of William Butler Yeats once sat but the government saw as redundant.
A road rage attack by bikers that left a New York motorist injured was witnessed by at least one undercover police officer riding with them who did not intervene and then waited three days before reporting his presence, it was claimed on Saturday.
Jude Law and Damon Albarn have joined a demonstration in central London against Russia‘s detention of 30 Greenpeace activists following a protest at an Arctic oil rig.
Called the „Red Napoleon,“ he stood out as the leader of a ragtag army of guerrillas who wore sandals made of car tires and lugged their artillery piece by piece over mountains to encircle and crush the French army at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. The unlikely victory, which is still studied at military schools, not only led to Vietnam‘s independence but also hastened the collapse of colonialism across Indochina and beyond.
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Abu Draa, who lives in Sinai, freelances for multiple Egyptian and foreign newspapers and television channels.
It was unclear when Abu-Draa would be released. The suspension runs for three years, meaning that if he commits another offense in this period, he would be punished for both.
Whilst in exile, his wife Hong Anh was tortured and executed in a French Prison in 1939. His sister and father were also killed by French colonial forces.
Am 3. Oktober wurde in Washington ein unbewaffneter Zivilist während eines Manövers unter Leitung des U.S.-Militärs erschossen. Name des Zivilisten: Miriam Carey.
If I can‘t be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don‘t really see the point of being on this planet.
That may sound rather extremist, but growing up in a suburb in the Midwest was all I needed to understand that the world was divided into two categories: people who followed the status quo and played it safe, and people who threw convention out the window and danced to the beat of a different drum. I hurled myself into the second category, and soon discovered that being a rebel and not conforming doesn‘t make you very popular. In fact, it does the opposite. You are viewed as a suspicious character. A troublemaker. Someone dangerous.
Einen guten Wahlkampf führte Sarah Wagenknecht. Sie trat mit Wissenschaftlern und Intellektuellen in den Dialog, repräsentiert in Deutschland Linkspolitik mit Esprit. Durch Leistung empfiehlt sie sich für den Fraktionsvorsitz. Aber nein, das geht nicht, erläutert uns Stefan Liebich vom Forum demokratischer Sozialismus in der Mitteldeutschen am 30. September 2013, weil sie damals „gerade die Schule beendet(e)“, als Gregor Gysi „verhindert hat, dass unsere Partei zusammenbricht“. Offenbar tritt die Auseinandersetzung nun in eine neue Phase, Sarah Wagenknecht soll mit Argumenten aus der Tschernenko-Ära abgewendet werden.
if a free-lancer (journalist, web-developer), a self-employed (electrician, plumber) and in general anyone offering services to companies, receives 500 euro gross as payment, he will receive first of all 370 euro at hand after the increased tax withholding (now he receives 400 euro).
What is 30 euro more for the tax office, but less for the free-lancer
„The State Department‘s ability to provide military assistance to Israel and other allies in the time frame that is expected and customary could be hindered, depending on the length of the shutdown,“ State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf told a news briefing.
Senior source in National Insurance Institute of Israel says some 100,000 families are on brink of collapse despite State‘s financial assistance; ‚I stay with my children at my parents‘ house‘
Die EU kümmert sich nur um die Wirtschaft und Banken, nicht um die Menschen: Diese Kritik ist so alt wie die Union. Angesichts von 26,6 Millionen arbeitslosen EU-Bürgern hat der Vorwurf aber mehr Gewicht denn je.
(21.09.2013) In einem am 12. September veröffentlichten Bericht warnt die Hilfsorganisation Oxfam davor, dass weitere 25 Millionen in Europa zusätzlich in die Armutsfalle, in der bereits mehr als 120 Millionen Menschen stecken, geraten könnten, wenn die Spar- und Austeritätspolitik andauere.
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The consumer advocacy group OpenMedia has launched a campaign opposing the copyright and internet-related provisions in the trade deal, under the moniker “say no to internet censorship.” The group says more than 100,000 people have signed the letter to TPP leaders so far.
Just as it took a few years for the Americans to lose the hearts and minds of the South Vietnamese, it took them only a few weeks to lose the hearts and minds of the majority of Iraqis – which ultimately means losing the war, whatever the strategic final result. Topographic denials – this is the Mesopotamian desert, not the Indochinese jungle – don‘t work, nor do denials saying that the Iraqis are not as politicized as the Vietnamese were by communism. These totally miss the point: as happened in Vietnam, what is happening now in Iraq has everything to do with patriotism and nationalism.
„Because of Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh – they‘ve murdered music. I stand to say it on behalf of every musician in the world and they‘ll agree with me.
„The industry has taken over so much, the money-making side of it, the sexualising of extremely young people making records, and all the worship with money and bling and diamonds, all the Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh – it all amounts to the murder of music and that‘s what concerns me.“