Tuesday, April 30, 2019


THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX 
AND 
THE PERMANENT ARMS ECONOMY TODAY



U.S. tops world in defense spending; Russia falls out of top 5













April 29 (UPI) -- The United States spent more than any other country on defense in 2018, but Russia fell out of the top five for the first time in nearly 15 years, a report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said Monday.

The report detailed regional and selected national military expenditure data for 2018 and trends over the past 10 years. The SIPRI database outlines military spending by countries from 1949 to 2018.


According to the report, the United States spent $649 billion on defense for 2018, far and away more than any other country, followed by China with $250 billion and Saudi Arabia with $67.6 billion. India spent $66 billion and France nearly $64 billion. Russia was sixth, with $61.4 billion.


"Starting in 2016, Russia's military budget has trended downwards," the report said. "However, due to a one-off government debt repayment of almost $11.8 billion to Russian arms producers in 2016, spending rose 7.2 percent. Without this payment, Russia military spending would have fallen by 11 percent."


The report noted Russia spending is still 27 percent higher than it was in 2009. Russia had been in the top five since 2006.

U.S. spending increased by 4.6 percent and continues to spend more on defense than the next eight countries combined, the study said.


Concern over Russia's military, though, continues to drive spending in Europe. Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia and Lithuania all showed an increase in military spending.

"The increases in Central and Eastern Europe are largely due to growing perceptions of a threat from Russia," Pieter Wezeman, a senior researcher at SIRPI, said. "This is despite the fact that Russian military spending has fallen for the past two years."

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The warfare state and economic decline: 
toward a comparative political economy of militarism
 in Canada and the U.S.
Paul Kellogg



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Monday, April 29, 2019

1919 
WAS THE YEAR OF GENERAL STRIKES
 ACROSS THE WORLD
IN NORTH AMERICA THEY BEGAN WITH 
SEATTLE







Seattle General Strike - University of Washington
depts.washington.edu/labhist/strike/
The Seattle General Strike of February 1919 was the first twentieth century solidarity strike in the United States to be proclaimed a “general strike.” It led off a ...
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Seattle General Strike: Industrial Workers of The World
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The Seattle General Strike is an event very important in the history of the Pacific Northwest. On February 6, 1919 Seattle workers became the first workers in ...


Setting the record straight on the 1919 Seattle General Strike | The ...
https://www.seattletimes.com/.../setting-the-record-straight-on-the-1919-seattle-general-st...
Feb 6, 2019 - In 1919, Seattle's General Strike shut down the city for 6 days — but in the 100 years since, its stories have grown a little murky.


Why the Seattle General Strike of 1919 should inspire a new .
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Feb 6, 2019 - It was the Seattle General Strike of 1919, which began on Feb. 6 and lasted just five days. By many measures, the strike was a failure. It didn't ...


Seattle General Strike: Labor's Most Spectacular Revolt | Labor Notes
https://labornotes.org/2019/02/seattle-general-strike-labors-most-spectacular-revolt
Feb 6, 2019 - On February 6, 1919, Seattle's workers struck—all of them. In doing so they took control of the city. The strike was in support of 35000 shipyard ...


Seattle's 1919 General Strike Ignited a Labor Movement - CityLab
https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/02/seattle-general-strike-1919-labor.../582424/
Feb 8, 2019 - The Seattle General Strike paralyzed the city for six days. After 101 of 110 local unions affiliated with the Central Labor Council voted for the ...


What the Seattle General Strike can teach workers today | Opinion
https://crosscut.com/2019/01/what-seattle-general-strike-can-teach-workers-today
Jan 30, 2019 - As the 100th anniversary of the Seattle General Strike draws near at a time when present-day activists, advocates, everyday workers and civic ...


Seattle: The 1919 General Strike | International Socialist Review
https://isreview.org/issue/84/seattle-1919-general-strike
The United States has one of the richest histories of class struggle in the world. One of the best examples is the Seattle General Strike of 1919. Unfortunately for ...


Seattle General Strike, 1919 - HistoryLink.org
https://www.historylink.org/File/861
Feb 4, 1999 - The Seattle General Strike began at 10 a.m. on February 6, 1919, and paralyzed the city for five days. Never before had the nation seen a labor ...


How the Seattle General Strike of 1919 shut down the city
https://mynorthwest.com/1252370/seattle-general-strike-1919/
Jan 23, 2019 - More than 65000 workers walked off the job for the Seattle General Strike of 1919. But many history students don't hear anything about it.


[PDF]The Seattle General Strike of 1919 - America in Class
americainclass.org/sources/becomingmodern/prosperity/text6/seattlestrike.pdf
For six days in February 1919, the first “general strike” in American history paralyzed the port city of Seattle, Washington. Two weeks earlier, the shipyard ...


Everything You Need to Know About the General Strike that Shut ...
inthesetimes.com/working/.../1919_seattle_general_strike_anniversary_labor_unions
Feb 6, 2019 - On February 6, 1919, the city of Seattle ground to a halt as 60,000 workers walked off the job in a general strike that would last 6 days. Workers ...


Seattle, “the Soviet of Washington” - Jacobin
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/10/seattle-general-strike-iww-labor-revolution
Oct 3, 2018 - Decades before Amazon dominated the city, Seattle was the fiery site of labor unrest, radical action — and the US's only true general strike.


The Seattle General Strike: Robert L Friedheim: Amazon.com: Books
https://www.amazon.com/Seattle-General-Strike-Robert-Friedheim/.../B0007DFAXM
The Seattle General Strike [Robert L Friedheim] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.


100 years after Seattle 1919: Is the general strike making a comeback ...
https://www.peoplesworld.org/.../100-years-after-seattle-1919-is-the-general-strike-ma...
Feb 7, 2019 - A new film, commemorating centennial of the Great Seattle General Strike of 1919, plus a panel of experts in worker history and rights, tackled ...




1919: The Seattle general strike - Libcom.org
https://libcom.org/history/1919-the-seattle-general-strike
Sep 10, 2006 - A general strike of 100,000 workers, which saw the city shut down and all essential services provided under workers' control. The First World ...


The Seattle General Strike of 1919 | Department of History
https://history.uoregon.edu/__trashed-2/
Feb 6, 2019 - This week marked the 100-year anniversary of the Seattle General Strike, a five-day period that saw nearly half of the city's workforce walking ...


What was socialism like during the Seattle General Strike? - Big Think
https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/what-is-socialism-seattle-strike
Feb 25, 2019 - In February 1919, most of the various trade unions of Seattle voted to begin a general strike. Ostensibly in support of striking longshoremen, the ...


Seattle General Strike - Verso
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2913-seattle-general-strike
Seattle_general_strike. Seattle General Strike. The Forgotten History of Labor's Most Spectacular Revolt. by Cal Winslow. Paperback; Ebook; Hardback.


OPINION: 1919 Seattle General Strike Exemplified Solidarity | South ...
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Feb 7, 2019 - by Teresa Mosqueda and April Sims This week marks the 100-year anniversary of the Seattle General Strike, a five-day solidarity work ...


The Seattle Worker February 2019: Seattle General Strike Centennial ...
https://itsgoingdown.org › History
Feb 19, 2019 - The Seattle local of the IWW presents a new issue of their publication, celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the Seattle general strike.


What was socialism like during the Seattle General Strike? - Big Think
https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/what-is-socialism-seattle-strike
Feb 25, 2019 - In February 1919, most of the various trade unions of Seattle voted to begin a general strike. Ostensibly in support of striking longshoremen, the ...


Seattle General Strike - Verso
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2913-seattle-general-strike
Seattle_general_strike. Seattle General Strike. The Forgotten History of Labor's Most Spectacular Revolt. by Cal Winslow. Paperback; Ebook; Hardback.


OPINION: 1919 Seattle General Strike Exemplified Solidarity | South ...
https://southseattleemerald.com/.../opinion-1919-seattle-general-strike-exemplified-sol...
Feb 7, 2019 - by Teresa Mosqueda and April Sims This week marks the 100-year anniversary of the Seattle General Strike, a five-day solidarity work ...


When Workers Ran the City: The 1919 Seattle General Strike https://www.academia.edu/38300593/When_Workers_Ran_the_City_The_1919_Seattle_General_Strike?source=swp_


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Apr 12, 2019 - History Day at Special Collections: Topic: Seattle General Strike. Special Collections is a great resource for all your Pacific Northwest primary ...


Seattle workers general strike for fair wages, 1919 | Global Nonviolent ...
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The Seattle General Strike was the first general strike in the U.S. and marked the beginning of a post-WWI era of labor conflict. Conditions for a general strike in ...



Seattle General Strike, 1919: "Nothing moved but the tide" - Freedom ...
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For six euphoric days a century ago, Seattle's workers took over and ran the city. Industry barons trembled. “All of Seattle was silenced as organized labor went ...


The Seattle General Strike and the "Great Red Scare" | AHA
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The first of these is on the Seattle General Strike of 1919. We begin with an archive of editorial cartoons at CUNY and two representative statements from public ...


When workers' power ran Seattle | SocialistWorker.org
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Feb 6, 2019 - ONE HUNDRED years ago, workers in Seattle not only shut their city down with a general strike, but they ran it for five days, from February 6-11 ...


Book Review: Labor History: The Seattle General Strike - Vernon H ...
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Book Review: Labor History: The Seattle General Strike. Show all authors. Vernon H. Jensen · Vernon H. Jensen. Professor New York State School of Industrial ...


Seattle General Strike | The American Historical Review | Oxford ...
https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/71/1/334/69611
by HG Gutman - ‎1965
Herbert G. Gutman; The Seattle General Strike, The American Historical Review, Volume 71, Issue 1, 1 October 1965, Pages 334, ...


Sunday Video: Seattle General Strike of 1919 | The Urbanist
https://www.theurbanist.org/2017/09/03/sunday-video-seattle-general-strike-1919/
Sep 3, 2017 - Seattle made history in 1919 with the first general strike in American history. The strike stemmed from the industrial boom of World War I during ...


Book Reviews : The Seattle General Strike. By ROBERT L ...
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Book Reviews : The Seattle General Strike. By ROBERT L. FRIEDHEIM. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1964.) Show all authors. John E. Crow.



SEE OTD 100 YEARS AGO THE WINNIPEG GENERAL STRIKE BEGAN https://plawiuk.blogspot.com/2019/05/this-day-in-history-100-years-ago-today.html
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Mystery of ball lightning is finally solved: 
Eerie orb-like glow is created when radiation gets trapped inside a plasma bubble
·       Ball lightning is a sphere of electrical light that can appear during thunderstorms
·       Naturally occurring fireballs have been mistaken for UFOs for many centuries
·       Now scientists have come up with a theory to explain the strange phenomenon
·       Bright orb is created when radiation from lightning is caught in a plasma bubble






LAB PRODUCED BALL LIGHTNING HAS BEEN MADE SINCE 2014 IN CHINA EARLIEST STORIES STARTED IN 2010

2018
Scientists Accidentally Simulate Ball Lightning in a Laboratory
https://www.outerplaces.com › Science › Science News
Mar 2, 2018 - Ball lightning is a rare phenomenon in storms that is tough to study.


Quantum ball lightning forged in the lab for the first time - New Atlas
https://newatlas.com/skyrmion-quantum-ball-lightning/53701/
Mar 7, 2018 - Ball lightning has been consistently reported for centuries, and yet we still know very little about it. Now, scientists have created quantum ball ...


Knotted structures called skyrmions seem to mimic ball lightning
A new type of skyrmion simulates linked magnetic fields that may hold glowing orbs together, too
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/knotted-structures-called-skyrmions-seem-mimic-ball-lightning


Quantum ball lightning forged in the lab for the first time - New Atlas
https://newatlas.com/skyrmion-quantum-ball-lightning/53701/
Mar 7, 2018 - Ball lightning has been consistently reported for centuries, and yet we still know very little about it. Now, scientists have created quantum ball ...

Natural ball lightning probed for the first time
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24886-natural-ball-lightning-probed-for-the-first-time/

2016
A New Explanation for One of the Strangest Occurrences in Nature: Ball Lightning
POSTED BY CHRIS DRUDGE ON JUL 24, 2016
Chris Drudge is a science writer from Canada.
http://nautil.us/blog/a-new-explanation-for-one-of-the-strangest-occurrences-in-nature-ball-lightning


Relativistic-microwave theory of ball lightning | Scientific Reports
https://www.nature.com › scientific reports › articles
by HC Wu - ‎2016 - ‎Cited by 23 - ‎Related articles
Jun 22, 2016 - Ball lightning, a fireball sometimes observed during lightnings, has remained unexplained. Here we present a comprehensive theory for the ...


2014
Burning soil fuels ball lightning – Physics World
https://physicsworld.com/a/burning-soil-fuels-ball-lightning/
Jan 9, 2014 - Researchers in China are the first to study ball lightning using high-resolution spectroscopy. Their results lend support to an idea first advanced ...


Ball Lightning
Chinese scientists have recorded the rare phenomenon in nature for the first time
https://medium.com/looking-up/ball-lightning-b594b6ffea37
Duncan Geere
Jan 17, 2014




2012
Mystery of ball lightning solved? › News in Science (ABC Science)
www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/10/12/3609694.htm
Oct 12, 2012 - A team of Australian scientists believe they have uncovered the cause of one of nature's most bizarre phenomenon - ball lightning.


Ball lightning exists … but what on Earth is it?
November 4, 2012 7.33pm GMT
http://theconversation.com/ball-lightning-exists-but-what-on-earth-is-it-10419?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=facebookbutton&fbclid=IwAR2NGByN0LlExwfx3fGnxg3Pi15vxib8MSr1-x_FGt08JWYCk56gb4VHdWU


In a paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres entitled 'The Birth of Ball Lightning' CSIRO and Australia National University scientists present a new mathematical theory which explains how and why it occurs.
Previous competing theories have cited microwave radiation from thunderclouds, oxidising aerosols, nuclear energy, dark matter, antimatter, and even black holes as possible causes.
https://phys.org/news/2012-10-mystery-ball-lightning.html


2010
Mysterious ball lightning: Illusion or reality? -- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100518093822.htm
May 19, 2010 - Ball lightning is a rare circular light phenomenon occurring during thunderstorms. Scientists have been puzzled by the nature of these apparent ...

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