US Military spending [in billions] vs the World spending - pie chart:
http://www.globalissues.org/i/military/country-distribution-2008.png

Allocation of US taxes [in billions] for US Military - pie chart:
http://www.globalissues.org/i/military/us-taxes-2007.png

Your honor, mr "manning" (as his masquarade nym here)
has violated the law and must be held accountable
by being taken into custody.

For what, you say?

Simple.

Illegal/unauthorized wiretapping/surveillance.

Up to 5 years for each count.

Make it so ...

$$$ US Military Industrial Complex on Steroids $$$

In the course of any year, there must be relatively few countries on
this planet on which U.S. soldiers do not set foot, whether with guns
blazing, humanitarian aid in hand, or just for a friendly visit. In
startling numbers of countries, our soldiers not only arrive, but stay
interminably, if not indefinitely.

Sometimes they live on military bases built to the tune of billions of
dollars that amount to sizeable American towns (with accompanying
amenities), sometimes on stripped down forward operating bases that may
not even have showers. When those troops don't stay, often American
equipment does -- carefully stored for further use at tiny "cooperative
security locations," known informally as "lily pads" (from which U.S.
troops, like so many frogs, could assumedly leap quickly into a region
in crisis).

"The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking
of morality by religion."

— Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist
(1917-2008)

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On 23 dec, 00:49, Darrick yahoo.com> wrote:

Are you sure about this Darrick ?
Isaiah lived 200 years before Cyrus.
could you give me the verses in Isaiah, where the word Christ is used ?

A final burst of spending retailers hoped for last weekend never came.
Shopper traffic fell 27%% compared with the same time last year...

..."This will go down as the one of the worst holiday sales seasons on
record," said Mary Delk, a director in the retail practice at consulting
firm Deloitte LLP. "Retailers went from 'Ho-ho' to 'Uh-oh' to 'Oh-no.'"

The holiday retail-sales decline was much worse than the already-dire
picture painted by industry forecasts, which had predicted sales ranging
from a 1%% drop to a more optimistic increase of 2.2%%.

Luxury goods, once considered immune from economic turmoil, were hardest
hit, with sales falling 21.2%%, compared with a jump of 7.5%% a year ago,
when the economy had just begun to sputter. Including jewelry sales, the
luxury sector plunged by a whopping 34.5%%.

SEE CHART OF SALES DROP:
http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/P1-AO101A_RETAI_NS_20081225220014.gif