Plans being developed by the Pentagon's Orwellian new Office of Strategic Influence call for planting false stories in the foreign press and running other covert activities to manipulate public opinion.
J. Scott Peterson, a spokesman for the trade association, said, that when the 90-day task force recommended that all plants have batteries that would last eight hours, that sounded sensible, and he noted that its call for plant inspections to determine vulnerability to earthquakes had already been completed, he said.
Industry realizes how big of a deal it is for HHS and USDA's own Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee to call for plant-based diets.
Back then, policy called for planting two trees for every one removed.
It calls for planting more than 168,000 trees and instituting a campaign to encourage ecological awareness.
It calls for planting 336 ornamental trees at a cost of $179,750 ,installing 152 Colonial-style simulated gas street lamps ($390,500) and setting furniture on the sidewalks ($60,000).
This plan, originally proposed by Olusegun Obasanjo when president of Nigeria, calls for planting 300m trees on 3m hectares in a long band stretching across Africa.
One of the office's proposals calls for planting news items with foreign media organizations through outside concerns that might not have obvious ties to the Pentagon, officials familiar with the proposal said.
A second phase of the program, which would be launched within five years, calls for planting 8,600 trees annually, aggressively enforcing a ban on "idling vehicle engines" and raising rates at parking meters in some commercial areas where space is limited.
