Ambassador
Pitches UK
Missiles for
US Drones,
French Veolia
to Syria
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 17 --
While the UK
at the UN in
New York talks
peace, the UK
Ambassador to
the US
Peter
Westmacott
published a
promotional
article on
February 14
entitled, "Why
the U.S.
Should Use
British
Missiles on
Reaper
Drones." Click
here to
view.
The
article gushes
that "the U.S.
military has
just finished
testing
a
British-designed
missile, the
Dual-Mode
Brimstone. The
tests
successfully
proved that
the Brimstone
is compatible
with one of
America’s main
unmanned
aerial
vehicles, the
Reaper."
It
was re-tweeted
by @MBDAIncUSA,
whose Twitter
profile is
"MBDA
Inc: Global
leader in
missiles and
missile
systems.
Arlington VA,
Westlake
Village, CA
&
Hunstville, AL
Global ·
brimstonemissile.com."
This is the
British firm,
emphasizing
its
plants in
Virginia,
California and
Alabama.
Couldn't
the
UK government
find someone
else to so
openly pitch
drone
missiles?
Meanwhile on
February 16 in
Paris, French
prime minister
Ayrault met
with
representatives
of Siemens,
Volvo, General
Electric
and Nestlé --
but not Veolia,
the French
firm which
(also fronting
as US based,
through a
subsidiary)
recently got
the
Organization
for
the Prevention
of Chemical
Weapons
contract in
Syria.
UNmentioned
was
the Veolia
also does
business in
settlements in
the Occupied
Palestinian
Territories, click
here for
that Inner
City Press
story. Much
much France is
being paid by
in UN -- that
is, global
taxpayers'
-- money under
a confidential
"Letter of
Assist" for
airfield
services in
its former
colony Mali
has not yet
been
disclosed, by
the UN or
France.
Today,
French
president
Francois
Hollande and
his Council on
Attractiveness
also featuring
Laurent Fabuis
hosts yet more
companies.
With French
diplomat Herve
Ladsous
installed as
the fourth
Frenchman in a
row
atop UN
Peacekeeping,
it's a drone,
drone world.
Watch this
site.
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