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Vice Guide to the 'Business of War'

submitted by vaporlock

1 decade 3 years 11 months 4 weeks ago

"In this episode, we sneak into a killing technologies convention,"

"We all know that the international arms trade exists. We know that people manufacture, buy, and sell military-grade weapons with the blessing of our respective governments. But until you've seen the eerily cordial nature of an arms fair up close, you'll never understand just how far removed from the reality of war the industry is. In this segment Vice magazine's founder Shane Smith heads to SOFEX (Special Operations Forces Expo) in Jordan"

note: Only the first 5-10 min is the "War" part.

MTV's 'Vice Guide' Site
http://www.mtv.com/shows/vice_guide_to_everything/series.jhtml

found on
BoingBoing.net

9 Comments

Good quote from someone on mtv's page "What good is Wikileaks when the arms trade hides in plain sight!?"

*blocked in Canada, but you can watch the episode through the mtv.ca site...
http://www.mtv.ca/tvshows/vice-guide-to-everything/

This video has been flagged as having an embed that is Region Blocked to not function in certain geographical locations - declared blocked by geo321.

*sarcasm-switch-on* Well that was informative, I've learned that weapons get traded, that Chinese aren't open towards free press, that some people want to shoot other people so the latter people wear nice-looking armor, that African people scam people on the Internet, and that there are two crazy individuals in Black Metal.

*sarcasm-switch-off* Well that was superficial, I've not learned why the USA is dominated by the military industrial complex, why weapons are sold to anyone who can pay for them, why the very high gun-ownership around the world is a danger to even Steven Seagal, whom we all love, why it is allowed for a tailor to shoot someone, even in armor, why Ghana is so poor its children poison themselves on the "first world's" garbage, why the "first world" just dumps it there and finally why a report about Black Metal focusses on two extreme and/or crazy individuals only.

I love Vice. I've been watching them for years! All of their serious reporting is very well done.

Do yourself a favor and make it through the second video (the one about bulletproof fashion) and watch the report on recycled computers in ghana, it's pretty crazy what they're doing with cybercrime.

I wonder why nobody has blown that place to pieces yet. Or IDEX for that matter.

*promote
watch the entire episode.its pretty interesting.

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Friday, December 31st, 2010 6:24pm PST - promote requested by enoch.

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