{"id":199,"date":"2005-09-27T23:19:42","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T03:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=199"},"modified":"2005-09-27T23:21:44","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T03:21:44","slug":"facts-for-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"Facts for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\">Federation of American Scientists<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Half of the world&#8217;s governments spend more on defense than health care.\n    <\/li>\n<li>The U.S. share of total world military expenditures per year has been roughly 36 percent, though the U.S. constitutes under 5 percent of the world&#8217;s population.\n    <\/li>\n<li>The U.S. arms industry is the second most heavily subsidized industry after agriculture.\n    <\/li>\n<li>2001 world military expenditures topped $839 billion, while at the same time an estimated 1.3 billion people survive on less than the equivalent of $1 (U.S.) a day.\n    <\/li>\n<li>The International Red Cross has estimated that one out of every two casualties of war is a civilian caught in the crossfire.\n    <\/li>\n<li>According to the United Nations, there are now over 300,000 child soldiers around the world, now serving as combatants in over 30 current conflicts.\n    <\/li>\n<li>The Center for International Policy estimates that about 80% of U.S. arms exports to the developing world go to non-democratic regimes.\n    <\/li>\n<li>There are more landmines planted in Cambodia than people. Cambodia is just one of 64 countries around the world littered with some 100 million anti-personnel landmines. Intended primarily to maim, landmines can lie in wait years after a conflict ends, causing 500 deaths and injuries per week.\n    <\/li>\n<li>The U.S. government is training soldiers in upwards of 70 countries at any given time.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Federation of American Scientists: Half of the world&#8217;s governments spend more on defense than health care. The U.S. share of total world military expenditures per year has been roughly 36 percent, though the U.S. constitutes under 5 percent of the world&#8217;s population. The U.S. arms industry is the second most heavily subsidized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}