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A visual perspective on money spent in the wars of terror

Ever visualized $87 billion, the amount President Bush announced on national television that he was going to ask Congress to grant him to continue the wars of terror on Iraq and Afghanistan? Bush asked for this money on September 7th, 2003, for the fiscal year, beginning October 1, 2004. Since before then, to the end of September, 2007, the United States has dedicated $459 billion dollars to the cause.

Since it's impossible for anyone to visualize such huge amounts of money, let's have a look...



One dollar ... it’s roughly 6 inches long, and 2½ inches wide. It’s roughly as thick as a regular piece of paper.



Six dollars ... set side by side, roughly 12 inches long, and 7½ inches wide. Very roughly, a little longer, but narrower than a sheet of paper.



Three Thousand dollars ... roughly the thickness of a ream of paper, 2 inches thick or 500 sheets. If you made a single stack, it would be a foot high.



Seventy-Two Thousand dollars ... is about the size of a whole box of copier paper.



Three-Hundred-and-Sixty Thousand dollars ... A stack 5 feet tall, shorter than the average American man. If you made a single stack, it would be 120 feet high.



Nine Million dollars ... The pile is 5 feet tall, 10 feet long, and 6¼ feet wide. A single stack of dollar bills in this amount would be 3,000 feet high.

This horde is comparable in size to a single compact car. You could buy 489 of them for this amount, though, with enough cash left over to fill up the gas tanks of 162 of them.



Nine-Hundred Million dollars ... The mound of cash is now 20 feet tall, 50 feet long, and 31¼ feet wide. A single stack of dollar bills would be close to 300,000 feet, or 56.8 miles high.

It's about half as long as a conventional tennis court.



Fifteen billion dollars ... This pile of money is 60 feet high, 150 feet long, and 62½ feet deep.



Eighty-Seven Billion dollars ... This is what President Bush asked for on September 7th, 2003. It is 100 feet tall, 250 feet long, and 125 feet wide. A stack of singles would be 28,998,000 feet, or over 5,492 miles, or a round-trip between Washington DC and Los Angeles, California. (2,650 miles, one-way).

A Boeing 737-200 jet is 100 feet long. You could fit 2 of those jets nose to nose along the length of this pile and have room to spare.

If we spread the $87 billion over an American football field, we wouldn't be able to see much of the game. The players would be buried in 55 feet of money.

$87 billion is more than all of the states’ current budget deficits, combined. $87 billion is more than twice the amount we’re spending on Homeland Security.



One-Hundred-Sixty-Six Billion dollars ... this represents the total amount of money President Bush spent in Iraq & Afghanistan by the beginning of fiscal year 2004 : the $87 billion he asked for, plus the $79 billion he’d already spent.

This pile is 500 feet long at its longest point, which is quite a bit longer than an American football field. If you stacked the bills in a single column, it would be 55,333,200 feet tall, or almost 10,500 miles, or 1.68 times the distance between Washington DC and Baghdad, Iraq.

$166 billion is $568 for every man, woman and child in the United States. It’s $3,269 for every person in Iraq and Afghanistan.



Two-Hundred-Seventy-Two Billion dollars ... This pile is 250 feet long and 125 feet wide. It’s 320 feet high at the tallest point, which is as tall as St. Steven’s Tower, the clock tower that houses Big Ben at Parliament, in London, England.



Three-hundred-fifteen billion dollars ... This is the amount of money the US has allocated for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to be spent by September 30, 2006.

This pile is 125 feet wide, 200 feet deep, and 450 feet tall. 450 feet is the height of a 38-story building. It’s the hieght of the Millenium Wheel in London. It is also the height of the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas and the Louisiana State Capitol Building.

If you were to stack the money in a single stack, your stack would be 19,887 miles tall, enough to wrap the Moon at its equator almost 3 times.

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Sources for the figures above can be found here.

While the major media networks have spammed us this week with news of OJ Simpson's robbery and MoveOn.org's controversial NYTimes ad, many other things have been happening in the world, such as:

1) Longer Leaves For Troops Blocked
2) 7 Soldiers Killed in Iraq
3) Three-Fourths of Iraqis Say Surge Is Not Working
4) $9 Billion Missing from US-Iraq Transaction
5) Brain Damage Plagues Thousands of Soldiers
6) Poll: Civilian Toll in Iraq May Top 1M
7) Bush's Plans For Iraq Will Cost Trillions
8) Bush To Veto Kids' Health Care
9) More Than 20 Top US Generals Criticize War Effort
10) Telecoms Launch Secret Lobbying Campaign For Immunity on Illegal Spying

I wonder what's going on in Paris Hilton's life...don't you? ;)

Dedicated to Those Who Want War With Iran

i cant even stand to watch this 60 min vid. so God awful disgusting this is and anyone with a piece of brain would be outraged at our medias thorough lack of diplomacy (what happened to 60 minutes?) and oh-so-apparent whiny whine whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine guy.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6211076041028877272&q=Ahmadinejad+60+minutes&total=14&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0






I have heard some people say the US is the strongest power in the world. I have heard people say we can take them out. Well for those who love war and support Bush, YOU BETTER start thinking long and hard about what you are saying. Fox News needs to step the F.... BAck from something they have no Idea about!!! IRAN IS NOT IRAQ.

Bring Our Troops Home and Secure Our Borders keep them from coming in.
How can they protect us if they are over there??




Iran is a major power in the Middle East
Saturday, 18 August 2007


Top Iranian military official sheds light on Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) defensive and offensive capabilities.

"Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps is a major power in the Middle East," Major Gen. Yahya Rahim-Safavi, the Commander of the IRGC told the state Jame-Jam TV network.

Safavi said that Iran has access to the state-of the art military technology and is able to defend against the enemies and safeguard our interests through applying the trained forces to use sophisticated defensive and attack warfare, Fars News Agency quoted the TV network as saying.

"Of course we have changed our military doctrine and strategies after the US-led Iraq and Afghanistan invasion and have equipped our forces with modern surface to surface and land to sea missiles to fend off the extra-territorial powers", the High ranking official said.

Iran's Revolutionary Elite Guard Corps is equipped with 2,000km range guided surface to surface Ballistic missiles, said the official who also flexed muscle to show Iran's military power by saying that Iran also enjoys surface to air Tor-M1 anti-missile system.

Safavi said that the Iranian surface to sea missiles can fire any target in the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea and no boat or warship frequenting the region can escape from the Iranian missiles.

Iran has trained some 12,000,000 volunteer (Basij) forces, organized under 2500 battalion named "Ashura".

Safavi also praised IRGC's Ground Force capabilities, saying that the Iranian anti-tank missiles can penetrate into the Israeli Merkava and US-made Abraham tanks.

"We trust on our strong military power but we are after the establishment of peace and stability in the Middle East, and Iran has a defensive strategy", said the official.

The US has launched a fresh round of war-on nerves by threatening to put Iran's IRGC forces on black list as a terrorist group, a move that has won no public support both at home and outside the United States.

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From: Alex Jones
Date: Aug 14, 2007 2:55 PM




Credibility Of Wikipedia Takes a Dive After Wired Exposé

The credibility of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has taken another dive after a newly developed software program exposed how the CIA, corporations like Diebold and others routinely edit entries to bury criticism and manipulate the truth.

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Ten advances towards the end of freedom & privacy in the U.S

The top ten advances towards tyranny in the United States during the tenure of the Bush administration, from the Patriot Act to the latest expansion of the illegal eavesdropping surveillance program.

1) The USA Patriot Act

The party line often heard from Neo-Cons in their attempts to defend the Patriot Act either circulate around the contention that the use of the Patriot Act has never been abused or that it isn't being used against American citizens. Here is an archive of articles that disproves both of these fallacies.

The Patriot Act was the boiler plate from which all subsequent attacks on the Constitution were formed.

2) Total Information Awareness

"Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend — all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as "a virtual, centralized grand database," infamously wrote New York Times writer William Safire , announcing the birth of Total Information Awareness, a kind of Echelon on steroids introduced a year after 9/11.

TIA was not canned, it was simply removed from the newspaper, renamed and continues to operate under a guise of different programs.

3) USA Patriot Act II

The second Patriot Act was a mirror image of powers that Julius Caesar and Adolf Hitler gave themselves. Whereas the First Patriot Act only gutted the First, Third, Fourth and Fifth Amendments, and seriously damaged the Seventh and the Tenth, the Second Patriot Act reorganized the entire Federal government as well as many areas of state government under the dictatorial control of the Justice Department, the Office of Homeland Security and the FEMA NORTHCOM military command.

The Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003, also known as the Second Patriot Act is by its very structure the definition of dictatorship.

4) Military Commissions Act

Slamming the final nail in the coffin of everything America used to stand for, the boot-licking U.S. Senate gave President Bush the legal authority to abduct and sexually mutilate American citizens and American children in the name of the war on terror in passing the Military Commissions Act and officially ending Habeas Corpus.

There is nothing in the "detainee" legislation that protects American citizens from being kidnapped by their own government and tortured.

The New York Times stated that the legislation introduced, "A dangerously broad definition of “illegal enemy combatant” in the bill could subject legal residents of the United States, as well as foreign citizens living in their own countries, to summary arrest and indefinite detention with no hope of appeal. The president could give the power to apply this label to anyone he wanted."

Yale Law Professor Bruce Ackerman states in the L.A. Times , "The compromise legislation....authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights."

Similarly, law Professor Marty Lederman explain s: "this [subsection (ii) of the definition of 'unlawful enemy combatant'] means that if the Pentagon says you're an unlawful enemy combatant -- using whatever criteria they wish -- then as far as Congress, and U.S. law, is concerned, you are one, whether or not you have had any connection to 'hostilities' at all."

5) John Warner Defense Authorization Act

The Bush Junta quietly "tooled up" to utilize the U.S. military in engaging American dissidents after the next big crisis, with a frightening and overlooked piece of legislation that was passed alongside the Military Commissions Act, the John Warner Defense Authorization Act , which greased the skids for armed confrontation and abolishes posse comitatus.

6) Illegal Domestic Wiretapping Program

"Months after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying, according to government officials," reported the New York Times on December 16, 2005

The secret warrantless spying program was a complete violation of both the 4th Amendment and FISA.

7) Expansion of Illegal Domestic Wiretapping Program

Not content with now being lawfully allowed to force ISP's and cell phone companies to turn over data about customers without a warrant, the Bush administration is pushing for even more authority to spy on American citizens, and has already been handed a 6 month window within which to impose any surveillance policy it likes, and for that program to remain legal in perpetuity.

The administration has a 6 month window in which to impose any surveillance program it chooses and that program will go unchallenged and remain legally binding in perpetuity - it cannot be revoked. Under the definitions of the legislation, Bush has been granted absolute dictator status for a minimum of 6 months.

If he so chooses, and so long as it's implemented within the next half year, Bush could build a database of every website visited by every American - and the policy would be immune from Congressional challenge even after the "surveillance gap" legislation reaches its sunset

8) Martial Law Presidential Decision Directive 51

New legislation signed on May 9, 2007, declares that in the event of a "catastrophic event", the President can take total control over the government and the country, bypassing all other levels of government at the state, federal, local, territorial and tribal levels, and thus ensuring total unprecedented dictatorial power .

The National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive , which also places the Secretary of Homeland Security in charge of domestic "security", was signed earlier this month without the approval or oversight of Congress and seemingly supercedes the National Emergency Act which allows the president to declare a national emergency but also requires that Congress have the authority to "modify, rescind, or render dormant" such emergency authority if it believes the president has acted inappropriately.

9) Destruction of the Dollar

Former World Bank Vice President, Chief Economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz has predicted a global economic crash within 24 months - unless the current downturn is successfully managed. Asked if the situation was being properly handled Stiglitz emphatically responded "no,".

Stiglitz caused controversy in October 2001 when he exposed rampant corruption within the IMF and blew the whistle on their nefarious methods of inducing countries to fall under their debt before stripping them of sovereignty and hollowing out their economies. Stiglitz agreed that the process of hijacking and looting key infrastructure on the part of the IMF and World Bank, as an offshoot of predatory globalization, had now moved from the third world to Europe, the United States and Canada.

10) Amnesty & The North American Union

The open plan to merge the US with Mexico and Canada and create a Pan American Union has long been a Globalist brainchild but its very real and prescient implementation on behalf of the Council on Foreign Relations has finally been reported on by mainstream news outlets.

The framework on which the American Union is being pegged is the NAFTA Super Highway, a four football-fields-wide leviathan that stretches from southern Mexico through the US up to Montreal Canada .Coupled with Bush's blanket amnesty program , the Pan American Union is the final jigsaw piece for the total dismantling of America as we know it.

For an explanation of the timeline to tyranny in a wider context, click here to listen to Alex Jones' rant on the subject.

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Couple Terrorized, Assaulted and Arrested For Flying an Upside Down U.S. Flag

A North Carolina couple who were terrorized by a police officer who had recently returned from Iraq are now fighting back, after sheriff's deputy Brian Scarborough broke into their house, assaulted them and then arrested the Kuhns for the crime of flying an upside down U.S. flag.

Mark and Deborah Kuhn of Asheville, North Carolina made headlines last week when they were arrested for flying an upside down U.S. flag, a commonly recognized sign of distress, in their backyard, after police claimed they were violating a statute for "desecration of the flag".

As is supported by the United States Flag Code as well as a similar incident in 2001, flying the flag upside down is not a mark of disrespect, and in fact is considered by many to be the highest form of patriotism.

However, since 9/11 there have been several cases where individuals have been harassed, intimidated and even arrested for inverting the flag, by those who confuse a love of government with a love of country.


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