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The U.S. spends more for war annually than all state governments combined spend for the health, education, welfare, and safety of 308 million Americans.
Joseph Henchman, director of state projects for the Tax Foundation of Washington, D.C., says the states collected a total of $781 billion in taxes in 2008.
For a rough comparison, according to Wikipedia data, the total budget for what the Pentagon calls “defense” in fiscal year 2010 will be at least $880 billion and could possibly top $1 trillion. That’s more than all the state governments collect.
Henchman says all American local governments combined (cities, counties, etc.) collect about $500 billion in taxes. Add that to total state tax take and you get over $1.3 trillion. This means Uncle Sam’s Pentagon is sopping up nearly as much money as all state, county, city, and other governmental units spend to run the country.
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Categories: Economics · Politics · Rise of Fascism
Timewarner, December 22, 2009
truTV scored its best year ever in 2009, driven by a slate of new series that included Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura, Full Throttle Saloon, All Worked Up and It Only Hurts When I Laugh and returning series like Operation Repo, Black Gold and Rehab: Party at the Hard Rock Hotel. truTV’s performance in 2009 tops all previous years, including when the network was known as Court TV.
“truTV’s unique brand of ‘actuality’ programming has become a tremendous hit with viewers, especially our targeted young adult and young male demos,” said Marc Juris, executive vice president and general manager, truTV/In Session. “We are thrilled that truTV’s branding has continued to resonate so well in just its second year. We look forward to continuing our record-breaking success in 2010 with several returning shows, along with new series like NFL Full Contact.”
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Categories: Activism · Documentaries · Politics
Tennessean.com Truth is not determined by majority vote. Any talk of a “consensus” in science is best not taken as the final word. As Somerset Maugham once put it, “If 40 million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.”
Climatology is a science, not to be confused with environmentalism. The heart of environmentalism is not to be found in the natural sciences. It is ideology and nothing more. That is why it ends in “-ism.”
Environmentalism is itself not a monolith, but its dominant strand is distinctly statist in character. As such, its main nemesis is the science of economics, not climatology or any of the other natural sciences.
A sound understanding of economics is all that is needed to discredit the emerging interventionist social agenda of the environmental movement. The methods that they recommend cannot deliver the results that they promise.
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Categories: Global Warming Hoax
WattsUpWithThat I don’t know if this is a record or not for Christmas coverage, but it is certainly reminiscent of the winter of 1977-78 where we had similar bouts of cold and snow. About 99% of Canada has snow cover also, with some parts of the Pacific Coast excepted, and it appears that all of Canada’s Lakes are frozen as indicated by the “yellow ice” in the photo. Here is the latest from NOAA:
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Categories: Global Warming Hoax
Consortiumnews.com, 22nd Dec, 09.
After the CIA-led fiasco at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961, President John Kennedy was quoted as saying he wanted to “splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.” I can understand his anger, but a thousand is probably too many.
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Categories: Politics · Uncategorized
Tagged: CIA, Ray McGovern
A LEADING researcher into attitudes on climate change has claimed Government scare tactics are only increasing public scepticism about global warming.
Dr Lorraine Whitmarsh, who has carried out extensive research into public mistrust on the issue, says scaremongering to convey environmental messages is not effective.
Instead she argues low carbon lifestyles – that can save people money and have long term health benefits as well as helping slow climate change – should be heavily incentivised.
She told Express.co.uk: “The Government have tried to communicate climate change but they haven’t done it well.
“Using scare tactics such as in the latest campaign with a drowning dog helps to raise the issue but it also suggests we are all doomed and there is nothing else we can do.”
She added: “The Government isn’t a very trusted or credible source of information for the public. Politicians need to do more to provide rewards and incentives for people who lead low carbon lives.
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Categories: Global Warming Hoax
