Mental Battles - The War Isn't Over Yet

... technology and mass production, the gap between the rich and the poor has grown ever more wide. In the 1920's there is one rich person for every 3 poor people but now the ratio has alarmingly increased: 1 rich person for every 72 poor.[1] Yet global spending would make war and war-related expenses as the number one item in global spending. Consider the following statistics: • The world spends one trillion dollars ... in Third World countries are those who are hungry. United Nations data shows that the world can feed each and every human being with 3,600 calories per day and yet many a...

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... high technology and mass production, the gap between the rich and the poor has grown ever more wide. In the 1920's there is one rich person for every 3 poor people but now the ratio has alarmingly increased: 1 rich person for every 72 poor.[1] Yet global spending would make war and war-related expenses as the number one item in global spending. Consider the following statistics: - The world spends one trillion dollars ... in Third World countries are those who are hungry. United Nations data shows that the world can feed each and every human being with 3,600 calories per day and yet man...

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... , $100 million in the second year, and $1 billion in the third year (Zernike). Since its beginning, the Tea Party has been unable to replicate the original fire that ignited the group to take a stand as a whole. In turn, they are unable to duplicate the conformity it showed during the midterm elections during legislative battles and the 2012 presidential campaign (Zernike). The fractious and undefined trend has taken over the Tea Party in ... more areas also, forcing the group to become even more divided over every issue. In Tennessee, the indecisive group forced legislators to scale bac...

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... to force President Obama to revoke any U.S. aid, the Republicans suggest cutting off money for the war when the House reviews the annual Pentagon spending bill later this week. Many of the Republican Party presidential candidates demand that the U.S. quit fighting in Libya and question the depth of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. However, the opposing side of the Republican Party criticizes the growing isolationist agenda within the party, resulting in a widening division among ... against Moammar Kadafi's four-decade rule. Even after 11,500 NATO sorties, Kadafi's government has yet to...

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... in Iraq on December 15th - nine years after US forces stepped foot on the foreign ground. US troops initially staged a war to rid Iraq of the weapons of mass destruction that they were thought to possess, but after almost a decade in the hostile country, no such weapons were found. Instead, the nine-year invasion revamped American politics and provided Muslims with a solid foundation for their ... hatred towards Americans. With American troops absent from the country, Iraq has a long and arduous ... more prosperous nation," said Panetta (Shanker). "After a lot of blood spilled by Iraqi...

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... and causes thousands of deaths (BBC News). The report criticizes those who believe the war on drugs has been effective thus far. "Political leaders and public figures should have the courage to articulate publicly what many of them acknowledge privately: that the evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that repressive strategies will not solve the drug problem, and that the war on drugs has not, and cannot, be ... won," the report said (BBC News). The report also noted, "There are signs of inertia in the drug policy debate in some parts of the world as policymakers understand that current ...

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... Rathbun and Mike Rinder, went on record for the first time since leaving the group. From the inside circle, Rathbun and Rinder both saw the abuse being dealt by the church. Their first report listed several issues involving Scientology's highest leaders, particularly David Miscavige, who succeeded L. Ron Hubbard as Scientology's leader. The issues included physical abuse of staff, mental abuse and cruelty, high pressure marketing tactics, character ... assignation, and threats. Miscavige was reported to have taken ruthless control of the organization after Hubbard's death and assumed ch...

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... . This type of data can help in reducing risk of recidivism due to the desire of incarcerated parents to reunite with their children and other information provided in the BJS can point to issues that may further facilitate this possibility or deter it. For example, homelessness, unemployment, mental health issues, and substance abuse can all compound reunification and further bring out ... re-offense. The data suggests that drug offenders and persons committing property crimes were more likely ... to be parents than violent offenders, which can be viewed as a positive in that the lack o...

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... were killed. After the battle, the wounded and dying were everywhere, crowded into any building that would hold them. The fallen were buried in makeshift graves, with no headstones to even identify them. It would take over a year to finally enterr all the bodies that fell there that day. Gettysburg stands as the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Only 272 words long, the Gettysburg Address was ... carefully crafted by Lincoln. The first draft was written in Washington, ... and revised in Gettysburg the night before the dedication, at the home of David Wills. The speaker who preceded him...

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Victory gardens were popularized back during World War I and World War II. They were meant to help citizens provide for themselves in an attempt to help the war effort. In fact, almost one third of the vegetables consumed in the United States in 1943 came from these Victory Gardens. This time the effort is aimed at helping the environment. What Is A Victory Garden? A victory garden is just a garden, but ... , at the same time, it is so much more. It is an effort ... to have citizens help to supply their own needs as far as vegetables are concerned. Its original intention was one of being a ci...

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