Steve Johnson calls CSI - Combined Systems Incorporated
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWQOnBmD0II

Alrighty then, I had to rewind and go to the 28 sec. place and sure enuff, there in plain view CSI.  ...cal
http://angryarab.net/2011/01/12/tear-gas-canisters-in-tunisia/

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Tear gas canisters in Tunisia

A reader sent me this: "I just wanted to let you know that I cannot make out much from this video () that you linked to on this page () because they moved the objects too much and too quickly.  However, the one thing I can see clearly is the logo CTS at about 28 seconds. CTS, stands for Combined Tactical Systems, and is part of Combined Systems Inc based in Jamestown, PA.

You can also see the CTS logo on the left hand part of their webpage here:

 and more clearly here:  and by looking at CSI/CTS products here: 

Adalah-NY and other groups have been demanding that CSI stop providing tear gas used to kill and maim unarmed protesters in the West Bank: 

Pennsylvania groups are organzing a protest at CSI's Jamestown, PA headquarters on January 17th, MLK Day.

Please don't use my name and thanks,"

http://www.carlyle.com/portfolio/item7431.html
Excerpt:
Combined Systems, Inc.
Plainview , NY U.S.
Carlyle Mezzanine Partners
Acquired: April 2005
Status: Current
Combined Systems, Inc. manufactures branded less-lethal munitions, anti-riot products and other related products that serve the military and law enforcement markets in the United States and abroad.

http://www.warisbusiness.com/news/egypt-protest-pictures-tear-gas-abrams-tanks/
Excerpt:
Today, CSI, a privately held company, is controlled by Point Lookout Capital Partners, whose managing directors, Michael A. Monteleone and James J. Cesare, sit on CSI’s board. Point Lookout’s 2005 purchase of CSI was backed by the politically connected private equity giant The Carlyle Group, which took a minority stake in the munitions company.

http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/ei-tell-combined-systems-inc-to-stop-selling-tear-gas-to-israel/
Excerpt:
Act now by emailing executives at CSI, and at the companies that invest in CSI, the
Carlyle Group and Point Lookout Capital, and tell them to stop providing their tear gas to the Israeli military, before more protesters are killed and maimed.

No More Tears CSI complice in Israels Violent Repression video
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/no-more-tears-csi-complice-in-israels-violent-repression/

http://www.change.org/petitions/no_more_tears_tell_the_profiteers_at_csi_to_stop_selling_tear_gas_to_israel
Excerpt:

No More Tears: Tell the Profiteers at CSI to Stop Selling Tear Gas to Israel

Overview Letter

Targeting: Don Smith, CEO Combined Systems Inc., # Michael Monteleone, Point Lookout Capital, and # Leo Helmers and James C. Shevlet, Jr., The Carlyle Group

Started by: CODEPINK

On Thursday women’s and civic groups from across Israel and Palestine flooded the streets to mourn Jawaher Abu Rahma, an activist who was participating in a weekly demonstration against Israel’s land confiscations and separation wall when she was hit with tear gas fumes, collapsed, and died on New Years’ Eve.

http://campaigns.adalahny.org/csi-sd-2-landing
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Send E-mails to CSI and the State Dept.
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Thank you for taking the time to send e-mails to the tear gas manufacturer CSI and the US State Dept.
Click on the links below to go to the letters. After you send a letter, you will return to this page so you can send the second letter.
Send a letter to the US State Dept.
Send a letter to CSI
After you have sent both letters CLICK HERE to return to our homepage and again, thank you!

Home

Send E-mails to CSI and the State Dept.

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Thank you for taking the time to send e-mails to the tear gas manufacturer CSI and the US State Dept.
Click on the links below to go to the letters. After you send a letter, you will return to this page so you can send the second letter.

Send a letter to the US State Dept.
Send a letter to CSI

After you have sent both letters CLICK HERE to return to our homepage and again, thank you!

http://uprootedpalestinian.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/activism-roundup-israeli-forces-fire-at-demonstrators/

Excerpt:

Protesters held a demonstration outside the corporate headquarters of tear gas manufacturer Combined Systems, Inc. (CSI), in Jamestown, Pennsylvania, on 17 January, demanding the company stop its sales to the Israeli military. The protest, which was held on the birthday of the assassinated American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., was coordinated by solidarity activists in response to the 1 January death of 36-year-old Jawaher Abu Rahmah, a resident of the West Bank village of Bilin. Abu Rahmah participated in a weekly nonviolent protest against Israel’s wall and confiscation of village land on 31 December, and was exposed to a lethal amount of tear gas fired by Israeli troops. The gas was later confirmed as being manufactured by CSI. The Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee (PPSC) stated on its website on 10 January that the protest was organized “in solidarity with Palestinian nonviolent demonstrations and in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy” (“Regional Palestine solidarity groups to protest PA manufacturer of tear gas on MLK day,” 10 January 2011). Jonas Moffat of PPSC told The Electronic Intifada that approximately forty persons protested outside of CSI’s offices on Monday. “Many of us [activists] living in Pittsburgh have been to occupied Palestine,” Moffat said. “And when we found out what was going on at CSI, and that they were in our backyard, we felt we needed to get out there.” Moffat said that their letters, calls and requests for a face-to-face meeting on the day of the protest all went unanswered, but that the solidarity groups are determined to keep protesting outside the CSI offices. The Jamestown protest followed a similar demonstration on 11 January in New York City, where 35 activists gathered outside the midtown Manhattan offices of Point Lookout Capital Partners, a firm that facilitates investment in CSI.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyle_GroupExcerpt:Notable current and former employees and advisors

[edit] Business

• G. Allen Andreas - Chairman of the Archer Daniels Midland Company, Carlyle European Advisory Board
• Daniel Akerson -Board member at 7 companies, Managing director at Carlyle
• Joaquin Avila - former managing director at Lehman Brothers, Managing director at Carlyle
• Laurent Beaudoin - CEO of Bombardier (1979-), former member of Carlyle’s Canadian Advisory board
• Peter Cornelius - Managing Director of Nielsen Australia.
• Paul Desmarais - Chairman of the Power Corporation of Canada, former member of Carlyle’s Canadian Advisory board
• David M. Moffett - CEO of Freddie Mac, Former Senior advisor to the Carlyle
• Karl Otto Pöhl - former President of the Bundesbank, Former Senior advisor to the Carlyle Group
• Olivier Sarkozy (half-brother of Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France) - co-head and managing director of its recently launched global financial services division, since March 2008.^[36]

[edit] Political figures

[edit] North America

• James Baker III, former United States Secretary of State under George H. W. Bush, Staff member under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, Carlyle Senior Counselor, served in this capacity from 1993 to 2005.
• George H. W. Bush, former U.S. President, Senior Advisor to the Carlyle Asia Advisory Board from April 1998 to October 2003.
• George W. Bush, former U.S. President.
• Frank C. Carlucci, former United States Secretary of Defense from 1987 to 1989; Carlyle Chairman and Chairman Emeritus from 1989 to 2005.
• Arthur Levitt, Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under President Bill Clinton, Carlyle Senior Advisor from 2001 to the present
• Luis Téllez Kuenzler, Mexican economist, former Secretary of Communications and Transportation under the Felipe Calderón administration and former Secretary of Energy under the Zedillo administration.
• Frank McKenna, former Premier of New Brunswick, Canadian Ambassador to the United States between 2005 and 2006 and current Deputee Chairman of Toronto-Dominion Bank; served on Carlyle's Canadian advisory board.
• Mack McLarty, Carlyle Group Senior Advisor (from 2003), White House Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1994.
• Randal K. Quarles, former Under Secretary of the U.S. Treasury under President George W. Bush, now a Carlyle managing director

[edit] Europe

• John Major, former British Prime Minister, Chairman, Carlyle Europe from 2002 until 2005

[edit] Asia

• Anand Panyarachun, former Prime Minister of Thailand (twice), former member of the Carlyle Asia Advisory Board until the board was disbanded in 2004
• Fidel V. Ramos, former president of the Philippines, Carlyle Asia Advisor Board Member until the board was disbanded in 2004
• Peter Chung, former associate at Carlyle Group Korea, who resigned in 2001 after 2 weeks on the job after his infamous email scandal
• Thaksin Shinawatra, former Prime Minister of Thailand (twice), former member of the Carlyle Asia Advisory Board until 2001 when he resigned upon being elected Prime Minister.^[37]

[edit] Media

• Norman Pearlstine - editor-in-chief of Time magazine from (1995–2005), senior advisor telecommunications and media group 2006-

http://mondoweiss.net/2011/01/party-building-on-fire-shots-fired-at-demonstrators-army-pouring-into-streets.html

Alert: End US tear gas & military aid to Egypt, Tunisia & Israel Saturday, 05 February 2011 20:46 ACTION ALERT: SEND E-MAILS NOW TO THE U.S. STATE DEPT & THE TEAR GAS MANUFACTURER CSI Egyptians, Americans and people worldwide have been outraged in the last days by the photos, twitter messages and news articles showing that the tear gas canisters fired by Egyptian police at peaceful, pro-democracy protesters in Egypt are “Made in USA.” While we are seeing these pictures now from Egypt, we have seen similar ones in recent months from Tunisia and Palestine. All three places have had in common repressive governments, armed by US companies with tear gas and other weapons. All three have used extreme violence against unarmed protesters who were demanding basic human rights, maiming and even killing protesters with impunity. In all three places, Combined Systems Inc., a US company based in Jamestown, Pennsylvania, is providing the tear gas - often under its brand-name CTS, an acronym for Combined Tactical Systems - that these governments are employing to crush protest, deny human rights and cling to power. Israel, Egypt and Tunisia’s CSI tear gas may have been supplied under the US’s massive military aid to these governments, despite those governments’ clear records of severe human rights abuses. Israel receives $3 billion in US military aid annually, including $1.85 million of "tear gasses and riot control agent” from 2007-2008. Egypt receives $1.3 billion in military aid annually, and Tunisia has received an average of around $15 million annually. At a minimum the US State Department has reviewed and approved the sale of US-made tear gas to those governments. WRITE NOW to the US State Department and tell them to stop using US tax dollars to provide tear gas and other weapons, and to stop approving military sales to repressive governments like Egypt, Israel and Tunisia that use US equipment and weapons to deny basic human rights. WRITE NOW to executives from CSI and from their major investors Point Lookout Capital Partners and the Carlyle Group, demanding that CSI stop providing tear gas that is used by repressive governments like Egypt, Tunisia and Israel to deny the right to protest. http://mondoweiss.net/2011/01/party-building-on-fire-shots-fired-at-demonstrators-army-pouring-into-streets.html

Clinton statement celebrates ‘civil society’ in Middle East

by Philip Weiss on January 28, 2011 · 45 comments

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Combined Tactical Systems headquarters in Jamestown, PA flies the American and Israeli flags. The tear gas they produce was used in Tunisia, Egypt and the occupied territories.

I think we should welcome Hillary Clinton's statement on Egypt. She spoke of the tremendous grievances of the demonstrators and said Egypt must become a democracy. Most of all, she spoke of the great ideas coming out of civil society. Twice she referred to civil society in the Middle East. This means the democratic movement in Palestine too.

Here it is, what we've all been learning, eh?  Both ends against the middle.  ...cal
http://my.firedoglake.com/edwardteller/tag/combined-systems/
Excerpt:

Mondoweiss Challenges firedoglake – “Sign the Petition – Cut off Netanyahu” – Updated

11:32 am in Uncategorized by EdwardTeller

I. On Friday, firedoglake founder Jane Hamsher asked us to sign a petition, requesting that “Congress …  immediately vote to cut off any American aid to the Egyptian government.”  I signed it.  Then I republished Jane’s post at my blog, where more people read about this important issue, and signed the petition.
Jane’s post at firedoglake sported an image of a tear gas canister that had been fired at protesters in Egypt late last week.  The canister (as are the rubber bullets and many other anti-riot implements used in Egypt) was made in the USA.   Combined Technical Systems in Jamestown, PA makes the tear gas projectiles.  In my republication of Jane’s post, I added an image of the place in Pennsylvania where Combined Systems makes and packages some of this stuff.  There, outside the company’s HQ, are a pair of flag poles.  Atop one sits the American flag.  Atop the other one, just as tall, perhaps higher, sits an Israeli flag.
The same company that makes these canisters being used as I write against the Egyptian people, makes many, many more, that are used every week against courageous Palestinian and Israeli people, who fight against policies of the apartheid regime in Tel Aviv.  American college student Emily Henochowicz lost an eye to an American-made product on May 31st, as she demonstrated at Kalandi crossing near Ramallah, against the murders of eight young Turks and another American college student, Furkan Doğan, by Israeli “commandos” brandishing more American made products in their arsenal.  American Tristan Anderson was severely injured by a Combined Technical Systems product  near Ni’in in the West Bank, on March 13, 2009.