One billion go hungry every day while the US spends over a trillion annually on the military.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=34660&Cr=&Cr1=

11 May 2010 – The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) launched a major online drive today to spur action to eliminate hunger and highlight the fact that one in six people worldwide go hungry everyday.

Through the “1billionhungry project” people can voice their outrage about world hunger by adding their names to an online petition. The campaign uses a yellow whistle as an icon encouraging people to blow the whistle against this global scourge.

“We should be extremely angry for the outrageous fact that that our fellow human beings continue to suffer from hunger,” said FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf.

“If you feel the same way, I want you to voice that anger. All of you, rich and poor, young and old, in developing and developed countries, express your anger about world hunger by adding your names to the global 1billion hungry petition at http://www.1billionhungry.org,” Mr. Diouf said. The petition urges governments to make the elimination of hunger their top priority

The online petition features a one minute video made by British actor Jeremy Irons in which he plays a character inspired by Peter Finch in the film “Network” where he says he is “mad as hell.”

As the world grapples with earthquakes, storms, financial disasters, we still think we are connected with all the people in the world, Jeremy Irons said in the video, “But that’s not true. People around the world suffer hunger. Chronic hunger. One billion people. One billion of us. Now that’s bad. Worse than bad – that’s crazy.”

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http://www.warresisters.org/pages/piechart.htm


Total Outlays (Federal Funds): $2,650 billion
MILITARY: 54% and $1,449 billion
NON-MILITARY: 46% and $1,210 billion



Current Military
$965 billion:
• Military Personnel $129 billion
• Operation & Maint. $241 billion
• Procurement $143 billion
• Research & Dev. $79 billion
• Construction $15 billion
• Family Housing $3 billion
• DoD misc. $4 billion
• Retired Pay $70 billion
• DoE nuclear weapons $17 billion
• NASA (50%) $9 billion
• International Security $9 billion
• Homeland Secur. (military) $35 billion
• State Dept. (partial) $6 billion
• other military (non-DoD) $5 billion
• “Global War on Terror” $200 billion

Past Military,
$484 billion:
• Veterans’ Benefits $94 billion
• Interest on national debt (80%) created by military spending, $390 billion

oh look, DWTS is on!

http://www.1billionhungry.org,/ You need to remove the stuff after the "org" part.

Thanks for the link though. I just copied and pasted it and removed it myself, but for others coming along.... :)

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