No Slowdown for Weapons Industry


	No Slowdown for Weapons Industry

brightlight4

9-11-2009 6:22 PM

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9-12-2009 1:06 AM

darkeforce

Message to Barack Obama; want to fund Health Care Reform without raising taxes or increasing the deficit? Slash military spending, recall soldiers, close bases in dozens of different countries. You'll save a couple trillion easily.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f0b4905b-63ca-4f5d-b541-3d1676eff206/28506A74-1E70-4BB2-8678-1C0F064FFDAC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/11-10" href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/11-10" style="font-size: 11px;">www.commondreams.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/11-10"><H1 class="title">No Slowdown for Weapons Industry</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/11-10"><P>UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations is surprised at the continued rise in global military spending - particularly at a time when the international community is grappling with a spreading financial crisis which threatens to undermine the poverty reduction goals of the world body.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/11-10"><P><DIV class="caption"><IMG width="275" height="182" align="bottom" alt="[Policemen display weapons collected from Niger delta militants as part of a government amnesty program, in Yenagoa, Nigeria Saturday, Aug. 22, 2009.  (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)]" class="imagefield imagefield-field_image" title="worldoverarmed_peaceunder.jpg" src="http://www.commondreams.org/files/article_images/worldoverarmed_peaceunder.jpg" />Policemen display weapons collected from Niger delta militants as part of a government amnesty program, in Yenagoa, Nigeria Saturday, Aug. 22, 2009.  (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)</DIV>"The world is over-armed and peace is under-funded," says Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who points out that global military spending is estimated at over one trillion dollars - "and rising every day".</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/11-10"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.commondreams.org/img/F39EA8DA-F5B6-40C0-B7E8-784DF1C5DB56" alt="[Policemen display weapons collected from Niger delta militants as part of a government amnesty program, in Yenagoa, Nigeria Saturday, Aug. 22, 2009.  (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)]" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/11-10"><P>In 2008, it reached 1.46 trillion dollars, representing 2.4 percent of world gross domestic product (GDP). 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