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  Brazil's Congress

  Greenpeace ran an alert that Brazil's Congress is considering a bill to actually reduce protections for the Amazon: http://usactions.greenpeace.org/action/start/224/?session ...

  Hopefully Minc's plan will prevail.On Brazil sets plan to cut deforestation by 70 percent over 10 years posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago 4 Responses

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  Right on!

  Reducing military spending frees up more capital for public investment in much-needed green infrastructure projects AND reduces the power of the military-industrial-contractor complex that has driven us into so many unnecessary and unjust wars.  It also could help ease the effect that the bailout and stimuluses (stimuli?) will have in terms of national debt.  And as others have said here, military spending creates fewer jobs than other avenues for public investment, especially public transit (http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/3/11/155421/333).

  Barney Frank's been talking about cutting military spending in a fashion very similar to the National Priorities Project: http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID= ...
  It remains to be seen how much traction these ideas will gain in Congress.  I don't think Obama has said much about reducing military spending or cracking down on corrupt contractors, but at least he will get us out of Iraq, which should free up a lot of taxpayer dollars (unless they're simply diverted to a "surge" in Afghanistan).On Cut defense spending in favor of clean-energy investing posted 1 year ago 5 Responses