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Raytheon, the world’s second-largest defense company that recently sent Stinger missiles to Ukraine, announced that it will move its headquarters to the Washington, D.C. area to increase its “agility in supporting U.S. government and commercial aerospace customers.”
The Hill reported that Raytheon will join its other weapons-of-death manufacturers to get closer to their whore politicians who keep lining their pockets. Lockheed Martin is in Bethesda, Md.; Raytheon and Boeing are headed to Arlington; Northrop Grumman is located in Falls Church, Va.; and General Dynamics in Reston, Va., the report said.
The New York Times reported that Raytheon plans to use a facility in the Rosslyn neighborhood of the city by the end of the year.
Like many other companies, the weapons giant announced that it will reduce its in-person office footprint by one-fifth after more than half of its 174,000 employees worked from home at the height of the COVID-19 outbreak.
A spokesman told the paper that the hybrid work model and work-from-home effort have proven effective.
The company said it will keep its current headquarters in Waltham, Mass. (See “THE MASTERS OF WAR, AT WAR WITH RUSSIA” and “BOMBS AWAY” BIDEN VISITS AMERICA’S #1 WAR MACHINE, PLEDGING MORE WEAPONS OF DEATH.”)
Raytheon assured the press that it “has not accepted or sought any financial incentives from any state or municipality to support the establishment of the global headquarters office in Virginia.”
Reuters reported that the company employs 130 corporate staff in Arlington and does not expect that number to increase significantly. Boeing announced in May that it will also move its headquarters from Chicago to Arlington.
Boeing said it plans to develop a research and technology hub that it says will be focused on developing innovations in cybersecurity, autonomous operations, quantum sciences, and software and systems engineering.
Raytheon employs 174,000 employees and its annual revenue is $64.4 billion. Defense One reported that defense executives have long cited “access” to decision-makers as a reason to be in the Washington region, which simply means they will be closer to the politicians that they already control.
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Business Insider, citing federal financial records, reported in April that at least 19 lawmakers in D.C., or their spouses, hold stock in Raytheon Technologies and Lockheed Martin.
The report pointed out that these weapons manufacturers have been tapped by the U.S. to send arms to Ukraine.
The report identified Rep. John Rutherford who bought between $1,001 and $15,000 in Raytheon stock on 24 February, the day Russia invaded.
Rutherford tweeted the following on the same day of the purchase:
“Putin invaded a sovereign nation for no legitimate reason, & he must be held accountable. The U.S. and our allies must impose the maximum possible sanctions & leave nothing off the table.”
Raytheon has been flush with contracts since the start of the war. The U.S, awarded a Lockheed Martin-Raytheon joint venture $309 million in contracts for the Javelin program and the U.S. Army said in May that it awarded a contract worth $625 million to Raytheon for Stinger missiles to replenish stocks sent to Ukraine.
Gregory Hayes, the CEO of Raytheon, gave an interview in March in the Harvard Business Review, and it seems like he thinks he’s doing the work of God.
“When bad things do happen, like Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, it’s great to see that we have weapons and systems that can help in the fight for democracy,” he said. “And I think that’s what keeps our people coming to work every day, this singular mission around defending democracy and connecting the world.”
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On 17 January 1961, three days before leaving office, Dwight D. Eisenhower, two-term president, Five Star general, and Supreme Commander of the Allied forces during World War II warned the American people in his farewell address that the military-industrial complex was robbing the nation of the genius of the scientists, sweat of the labors, and future of the children.
Yet, his words and warnings, which have come to pass and continue, were ignored and have long been forgotten.
Among the results is an America in sharp decline. As Gerald Celente has forecast, the 20th century was the American century but the 21st will be the Chinese century.
Why? Because the business of America has been at war while the business of China has been business.
It should be noted that the U.S. has not won a war since World War II, and if they got in a war with Russia or China, they would be defeated.
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