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Reinheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions and Greater Truths Brian O'Leary See book keywords and concepts

Why can't we reallocate our military spending to clean up the environment and have a UN police force handle the problems of a Bin Laden or Saddam Hussein? The American reputation abroad is not a good one. In November 2000 the industrialized nations met in the Hague, Netherlands to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Accords on greenhouse emission reductions. The conference ended in spectacular failure because the United States refused to fulfill its own Kyoto pledge.

Green Party candidate Ralph Nader challenged the American Bush-and-Gore mainstream positions, which ignored the most important issues of the environment, labor conditions, universal health care, military spending, growing inequalities between the wealthy and others, campaign financing reform, crime prevention, accelerating imprisonment of citizens, minority rights, and judicial and legal system abuses. Both major party candidates seemed like robotic, well-paid actors running on non-issues and vying to grab a bland political center.

20 Years of Censored News Carl Jensen See book keywords and concepts

The Myth of the Massive Soviet Build-up: In 1983, testimony before the Joint Economic Committee, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) made a significant downward revision of its estimate of Soviet military spending for the period 1976-1981 which went almost unreported in the press. The new estimate showed an increase of only two percent per year overall and no increase in the buying of weapons. Inflating Soviet Military Expenditures: The CIA was responsible for estimating Soviet military spending.

Soviet military spending. The major impact was to exaggerate Soviet military spending and to encourage the U.S. to divert more of its resources to military purposes. The end result led to foreign and domestic economic policies and decisions that cost the United States hundreds of billions of dollars in wasted resources (Challenge, May 1992). On May 20, 1992, CIA Director Robert Gates admitted the CIA intelligence data had been cooked to portray the Soviet economy as stronger than it was.

The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy E. D. Hirsch See book keywords and concepts

Reagan's two administrations were marked by opposition to government regulation of the economy, a slashing of expenditures on domestic programs, and a major increase in military spending. -J.F.K. Aaron, Henry (Hank) (AIR-uhn) A baseball player of the twentieth century; he hit a record 755 home runs in his major league career, which ran from 1954 to 1976. The previous record holder was Babe Ruth, who hit 714. Addams, Jane A social reformer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Gary Nulls Ultimate Anti Aging Program Gary Null, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

That's more than all of our food, education, and military spending combined. Next year, it will be $1.5 trillion. And within ten years it will be $2 trillion on disease. None of that goes toward prevention. Only a tiny percentage of the American population is healthy. And it is no accident that they are healthy. They work at it. You have to work on being healthy, just as you have to work on disease. Both processes are based upon the choices we make. So, when will you change? You'll change when you lose it all, when you realize one day that you've made the wrong choices.

20 Years of Censored News Carl Jensen See book keywords and concepts

During the 1980s, television panel discussions on defense policy pitted "experts" who wanted to maintain the existing high levels of military spending against other "experts" who wanted to increase the military budget even more. Seldom if ever heard were those who advocated drastic reductions in the defense budget. 1ft on vrtuc i \ I' rrwcnDrn wrwc FRAMING The most effective propaganda is that which relies on framing rather than on falsehood.

Inflating Soviet Military Expenditures: The CIA was responsible for estimating Soviet military spending. The agency's methodology was to compute what the Soviet military would cost if built and operated in the U.S. using U.S. prices and wages! For example, to compute personnel costs, the CIA assumed a Soviet conscript's salary to be $575 a month, which was what the U.S. Army paid a private. Actually, the Soviet conscript got four or five rubles, about eight dollars a month.

The major impact was to exaggerate Soviet military spending and to encourage the U.S. to divert more of its resources to military purposes. The end result led to foreign and domestic economic policies and decisions that cost the United States hundreds of billions of dollars in wasted resources (Challenge, May 1992). On May 20, 1992, CIA Director Robert Gates admitted the CIA intelligence data had been cooked to portray the Soviet economy as stronger than it was.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch See book keywords and concepts

Reagan's two terms as president were marked by opposition to government regulation of the economy, tax cuts, the reduction of many domestic programs, a major increase in military spending, and a huge jump in the national debt. Reagan's vice president, George Bush, was elected president in 1988. Bush's first term was marked by the collapse of communism in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, victory in the Persian Gulf War, and economic recession at home. In 1992 Bush was defeated for reelection by Governor William Clinton of Arkansas. -J- F. K.

Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the True Source of Healing John Robbins See book keywords and concepts

THE WAR ON CANCER-RADIATION Like the costs of military spending, the costs of fighting cancer are astonishing. Treating a typical cancer patient today runs about $100,000. A bone marrow transplant can cost $150,000. In the United States there are now more people making a living off cancer than dying from it. Of course, we all want people with cancer to be provided the best treatments available. If the enormous amount of money spent on cancer treatment was actually saving lives and sparing human suffering, then most of us would consider the costs worthwhile. But are people really being helped?

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