[WCUSP] Fwd: E-News: 43 Percent of Tax Dollars Go to War, Torture by U.S., and More

Tue Feb 12 15:24:23 CST 2008

The top article reminds me of the research in WILPF's women's budget by 
Jane Midgley of years past.  FCNL is a good resource, in case you do 
not know it.

Tura

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> From: "Kathy Guthrie, FCNL" <kathyguthrie at fcnl.org>
> Date: February 12, 2008 3:00:40 PM CST
> To: "Tura Campanella Cook" <turacc at earthlink.net>
> Subject: E-News: 43 Percent of Tax Dollars Go to War, Torture by U.S., 
> and More
> Reply-To: kathyguthrie at fcnl.org
>
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> Friends Committee on National Legislation
> A Quaker Lobby in the Public Interest
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> E-News: 43 Percent of Tax Dollars Go to War, Torture by U.S., and More
>
> February 12, 2008
>
> Military Spending:  43 Percent of Your Tax Dollars Go to War
> Quote of the Week:  Yes, We Tortured, Says the U.S. Government
> In the News:  Zanesville, Ohio -- Peace is an option
> From the Quakers' Colonel:  George Bush's Gettysburg Address
>  Creating a Path to Peace in Kenya
> Cluster Bomb Ban:  Watch Dan Rather Reports Tonight
> From the Hill:  Senators Pledge Passage of Indian Health Care
> War is Not the Answer Photo of the Week:  Sacramento, CA
>
> Read this newsletter on our web site: 
> http://action.fcnl.org/r/5937/75699/
>
> Military Spending: 43 Percent of Your Tax Dollars Go to War
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> Many of us are starting to prepare our 2007 taxes, but how many of us 
> know what our tax dollars are actually paying for? FCNL calculates 
> that 43 cents of every dollar you'll pay in taxes go to pay for 
> current and past military activities.
>
>
> ?
>
> Quote of the Week: Yes, We Tortured, Says the U.S. Government
>
>  "We do not torture," asserted President Bush on November 7, 2005. 
> Last week CIA Director Michael Hayden acknowledged that administration 
> has used a water torture first developed during the Spanish 
> Inquisition: "Waterboarding has been used on only three detainees. We 
> used it against these three high-value detainees because of the 
> circumstances of the time."  Help stop torture by asking all 
> candidates for public office what they will do to prevent it.
>
> ?
>
> In the News: Zanesville, Ohio -- Peace is an option
>
> Beth Blagg's letter to the editor asks why the candidates running for 
> election this year aren't talking more about funding diplomatic 
> initiatives to prevent war. The campaign season provides an 
> opportunity to ask questions, to listen, and to engage the public in a 
> dialogue about policy issues. Write your own letter and make peace an 
> election year issue.
>
> ?
>
> From the Quakers' Colonel: George Bush's Gettysburg Address
>
> " Two score and 17 months ago, I brought forth in the Persian Gulf a 
> new conflict misconceived in secret and dedicated to the proposition 
> that all oil belongs to Halliburton." Thus begins retired Col. Dan 
> Smith's rewrite of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address a la the current 
> administration. See the rest of the speech.
>
> ?
>
> Creating a Path to Peace in Kenya
>
> "It is imperative that we unravel the underlying causes of the 
> violence and not paper over them as Kenyan leaders have in the past," 
> wrote Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai in an article published by the 
> Washington Post. As President Bush prepares to travel to Africa, stay 
> up to date on Quakers in Kenya.
>
> ?
>
> Cluster Bomb Ban: Watch Dan Rather Reports Tonight
>
>  Long after a ceasefire in the 2006 Israeli-Lebanese conflict, 
> thousands of unexploded cluster munitions still cover the battlefields 
> and are wounding ordinary people. Human Rights Watch went with Dan 
> Rather to Lebanon and Israel to investigate the damage cluster bombs 
> are causing. Watch the segment on Dan Rather Reports tonight at 8:00 
> pm Eastern on HDNET .
>
> ?
>
> From the Hill: Senators Pledge Passage of Indian Health Care
>
>  Last Thursday, the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (NV) joined a 
> bipartisan group of senators in urging passage of legislation to 
> reauthorize the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (S. 1200). Find out 
> who spoke out in favor of passage.
>
> ?
>
> War is Not the Answer Photo of the Week: Sacramento, CA
>
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>
> Sacramento, CA Friends Meeting, 2/10/08
> Photo by Billie Hamilton
>
> Order your own War is Not Answer sign and put yourself on the map.
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