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Updated: 15 October 2007

A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.

A billion days ago no one walked on the earth on two feet.

A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.

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"Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich." -Sir Peter Ustinov

"Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." -Abraham Lincoln

"Among us today a concentration of private power [in corporations] without equal in history is growing." -Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." -Dwight D. Eisenhower

"By some estimates, there will be an average of two-percent annual growth in global oil demand over the years ahead, along with, conservatively, a three-percent natural decline in production from existing reserves. That means by 2010 we will need on the order of an additional 50 million barrels a day." -Dick Cheney (That would mean finding 5 more Saudi Arabias)

"If there were transparency [of oil reserves] it would be clear that we are at peak [oil] now and everything might fall apart." -Colin Campbell

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