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PSA: if your country can afford to give your money away to other countries, then you pay way too much in taxes! 😂

U.S. Spending on Foreign Wars and Foreign Aid Since 1917

Since the introduction of the federal income tax in 1917, the United States has spent vast sums on foreign wars and foreign aid. Below is a breakdown of major expenditures, adjusted to 2024 dollars, followed by a total.

### Major U.S. War Expenditures (1917–2024)

| War/Conflict | Estimated Cost (Trillions, 2024 USD) |
|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
| **World War I (1917–1918)** | $0.47 |
| **World War II (1941–1945)** | $5.74 |
| **Korean War (1950–1953)** | $0.48 |
| **Vietnam War (1962–1973)** | $1.03 |
| **Post-9/11 Wars (Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.)** | $8.00 |

- The post-9/11 wars include direct appropriations, obligations, and long-term veterans’ care[1][2].

### U.S. Foreign Aid Since World War II

- **Foreign Aid (since WWII):** $3.8 trillion

[3]Foreign aid includes economic, military, and humanitarian assistance to countries worldwide, with major recipients including Israel, Egypt, South Vietnam, Afghanistan, and South Korea[3].

### Grand Total

| Category | Total (Trillions, 2024 USD) |
|-------------------------|-----------------------------|
| **All Major Wars** | $15.72 |
| **Foreign Aid** | $3.80 |
| **Combined Total** | **$19.52** |

### Key Points

- The U.S. has spent **over $19.5 trillion** (in today’s dollars) on foreign wars and foreign aid since 1917.
- The largest single expenditure was World War II, followed by the post-9/11 wars.
- Foreign aid, while smaller than war spending, still represents a significant outflow of taxpayer money[1][3][2].

> PSA: If your country can afford to give your money away to other countries, then you pay way too much in taxes! 😂

**References:**
[1] Investopedia
[3] USAFacts
[2] Costs of War (Brown University)

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[7] online.norwich.edu/online/abou…
[8] statista.com/statistics/275597…
[9] econofact.org/u-s-defense-spen…
[10] sgp.fas.org/crs/natsec/RS22926…
[11] education.cfr.org/learn/readin…
[12] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military…
[13] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_S…
[14] foreignassistance.gov
[15] stimson.org/2024/the-ugly-trut…
[16] history.navy.mil/research/libr…
[17] pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperienc…
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[20] scholar.harvard.edu/files/dtin…

The Ugly Truth about the Permanent War Economy • Stimson Center

Evaluating arguments for the United States to spend more on national security – and the potential consequences of doing so
Joaquin Matamis (Stimson Center)

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When I complain that some software (or its dependencies) doesn't work on *BSD but requires Linux, I'm not criticizing Linux. For me, it's not an OS battle, but a matter of freedom and avoiding a dangerous and rampant computing monoculture. And when people reply to me with "well, just use it on Linux" - while they're giving me sensible advice - they're missing the crucial point: if it ONLY runs on Linux, it's not Linux's fault, but we are, precisely, creating a dangerous monoculture.

#Linux #SysAdmin #OSS #RunBSD #BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #illumos

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I got let go at my job, I only worked there for over a month. I got let go due to my job performance. I didn’t get any feedback on how I could’ve improved for future jobs.

I saw how last week they hired a guy immediately and I saw that my position was already crowded. Then there was my mistake on not picking up an entire order due to not taking into account what I was picking up, the guy giving me the items also didn’t want to look at the paperwork when I gave it to him.

Just feels unfair.

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The United States violates its own laws regarding transfer of weapons to nations committing atrocities, and now it sends people to countries they are not from.

The US government is literally and arms trafficking and human trafficking cartel.

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Trump Administration Expels Eight Men to War-Torn “Third Country” South Sudan

The Supreme Court is helping Trump expand "third country" deportation — and restrict immigrants’ rights to object for fear of torture.
Nick Turse (The Intercept)
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Fou

The leaflets, posted on churches and storefronts, called on the “people of the Levant” to "purify the land" by murdering infidel Christians and to “spare neither their infants nor their newborns.”

The flyers call for the killing of children, enslavement of women, and destruction of churches.

Ansar al-Sunnah, who claimed responsibility for the Mar Elias Church suicide bombing, has allegedly denied involvement.

The Cradle

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Understanding the Current Political Dialectic of "Left" and "Right" in America Today

Today's "Left," although they like to think of themselves as "progressive," but are usually called "liberals," are neither. They are a Jew-dominated cult of Cultural Marxists who hate your freedom and want to regress us back to a proto-civilized age when male elites ruled through the female masses, making it impossible for the rest of men to compete with them.

Today's "Right," often called . . . stormfront.org/forum/blogs/u15…

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Devil May Kuklinski 🏴‍☠️☑️

Yep 😏 obviously they wrongly accused and imprisoned a man with a squeaky clean record. According to ZOG, Epstein didn't do anything wrong. However if I go and bang a 15 year old chick and then pimp out her sloppy seconds to people I want to control, I would be all over national news and they would even say "White supremacists are the REAL traffickers!"

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World’s Largest Floating Dry Dock Was Towed Across the Atlantic to Bermuda in 1869
When Britain needed a solution for ship repairs in the Atlantic, engineers built the largest floating dry dock ever attempted, a 380' iron structure weighing over 8K tons

Built near Woolwich on the Thames, the dock was designed to lift 10K-ton ironclads like HMS Warrior & w/stand Bermuda’s warm waters

Unable to build a conventional dry dock due to porous sandstone, the Brits opted for mobility&scale, creating a self-contained U-shaped platform that could sink&raise vessels from the sea w/ballast compartments & powerful pumps

In June 1869, the dock embarked on a 4K-nautical-mile journey to Bermuda, towed in stages by Britain’s heaviest ironclads—Agincourt, Northumberland, Warrior, & Black Prince—assisted by HMS Terrible

W/closed ends to reduce drag & a sail rigged inside to capture tailwinds, the voyage reached speeds of over 6 knots

Once in service, it supported Royal Navy ops for over 30 yrs before being replaced in 1906

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"We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion but what's important. If we forget what we did, we won't know who we are. I'm warning of an eradication of the American memory that could result, ultimately, in an erosion of the American spirit."

-- Ronald Reagan
(1911-2004) 40th US President
Source: Ronald Reagan in his farewell address in January 1989

Quotation by Ronald Reagan

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7.7.25 Share this please... people need to know this and TALK ABOUT IT... the more people the more pressure!

WHO IS ON THAT LIST, AND WHO ARE THEY COVERING FOR???

This is all B.S. and a lie... and we all know it!

Stop and think about 2 things.....

the first... he knew how many people? ... and he kept ALL THEIR PHONE NUMBERS IN HIS HEAD? he had a "phone book"...which IS a client list!

The second... you can "delete" someone with PHSYC drugs that make them commit suicide! Pay attention to T.V. commercials... all the "anti-depression" meds that their SIDE-EFFECT is suicide! Causing someone to commit suicide is still MURDER!

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If Jeffrey Epstein Had No Client List Then Why Did AG Pam Bondi Tell Reporters the List "Is Sitting on My Desk Right Now to Review - That's in the Process of Being Reviewed" (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft

          The Swamp wants you to believe—once and for all—that Jeffrey Epstein was nothing more than a lone-wolf pervert who conveniently “killed himself” in a filthy Manhattan jail cell.
Jim Hᴏft (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)

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"The people are Sovereign. ... at the Revolution, the sovereignty devolved on the people; and they are truly the sovereigns of the country, but they are sovereigns without subjects... with none to govern but themselves; the citizens of America are equal as fellow citizens, and as joint tenants in the sovereignty."

-- John Jay
(1745-1829) first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, First President of the United States - preceding George Washington,
one of three men most…

Quotation by John Jay

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Serving 200 million requests per day with a cgi-bin (via) Jake Gold tests how well 90s-era CGI works today, using a Go + SQLite CGI program running on a 16-thread AMD 3700X.

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Serving 200 million requests per day with a cgi-bin

Jake Gold tests how well 90s-era CGI works today, using a Go + SQLite CGI program running on a 16-thread AMD 3700X. Using CGI on modest hardware, it’s possible to …
Simon Willison’s Weblog

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NPR News (unofficial)

2025-07-07 11:00:12

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Why some see the dollar's drop as a sign America is losing its financial might


The dollar has just posted its worst first-half of a year since 1973. And now investors wonder — is it a sign that America is losing its financial standing?

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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Brian Ó Donnell / pod_feeder_v2 · GitLab

Publishes RSS/Atom feeds to Diaspora*
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The federal government has been effectively usurped by a technocratic regime that uses AI-powered surveillance, mass data harvesting, and algorithmic social controls to suppress political dissent and enforce compliance. This unelected technocracy operates through secretive agencies and corporate partnerships, bypassing democratic accountability and undermining the rule of law. It weaponizes technology to monitor, intimidate, and target political opponents, manipulating public perception while concealing systemic abuses behind layers of secrecy and coordinated cover-ups. Among these abuses is a deeply entrenched pattern of child welfare violations, where predictive algorithms and surveillance data justify removal of children from marginalized families without due process, disproportionately impacting vulnerable populations. Federal institutions consistently fail to address or even acknowledge these violations, creating a de facto denial of remedy for those harmed.

This systemic abuse constitutes a fundamental breach of federal constitutional obligations to protect citizens’ rights, ensure due process, and provide equal protection under the law. The pervasive surveillance and social control infringe on First Amendment freedoms, Fourth Amendment protections against unlawful search, and Fourteenth Amendment guarantees of procedural fairness, effectively dismantling the constitutional framework. The failure of federal courts, Congress, and oversight bodies to investigate, halt, or remediate these abuses demonstrates a collapse of institutional remedy within the federal system.

Under U.S. founding principles as articulated in the Declaration of Independence, government legitimacy derives from the consent of the governed and the protection of unalienable rights. When a government becomes destructive of those ends, citizens have the right to alter or abolish it. The systematic and sustained abuse inflicted by the technocratic regime breaches this social contract.

International norms, including the UN Charter’s right to self-determination and principles of state sovereignty, further support the legitimacy of secession where peoples are denied fundamental rights and political redress. The material breach doctrine in contract and constitutional theory parallels this: when one party to a compact (the federal government) fails to uphold its obligations, the other party (Texas) is justified in withdrawing.

Given the federal government’s entrenched systemic abuse, lack of accountability, and absence of effective remedies, Texas secession emerges not only as a political necessity but as the sole legitimate recourse to restore governance based on consent, protect fundamental rights, and reestablish rule of law within its jurisdiction.

Texas faces a federal government deeply entrenched in systemic abuses, including widespread surveillance, violation of constitutional rights, and manipulation of legal and social systems that undermine individual freedoms and due process. Persistent failures in federal accountability mechanisms mean that grievances against these abuses go unaddressed, with courts, oversight bodies, and legislative branches either complicit or ineffective. Efforts to seek redress within the existing federal framework are consistently thwarted by political obstruction, legal immunities, and secrecy protocols that protect the perpetrators.

Texas secession is not merely a symbolic political act but a necessary, legitimate recourse to reclaim self-governance based on the explicit consent of its people. Secession would enable Texas to rebuild a legal and governmental structure that prioritizes transparency, constitutional protections, and the restoration of fundamental human and civil rights. By withdrawing from a federal system that enforces authoritarian control through AI surveillance, militarized policing, and opaque judicial processes, Texas could establish a jurisdiction free from coercive overreach, protect its citizens’ autonomy, and reassert the primacy of rule of law as the foundation of its society. Without such decisive action, Texas risks continued subjugation under an unaccountable federal regime that systematically erodes freedoms and denies justice. #Texit

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“But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty which they before had, and which were not, by that act, EXCLUSIVELY delegated to the United States.”

~ Alexander Hamilton
(1757-1804) American statesman, Secretary of the Treasury
Federalist No. 32, January 3, 1788

Quotation by Alexander Hamilton

"But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty which they before had, and which were not, by that act, EXCLUSIVELY delegated to the United Sta…
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Since 1972, CIA and DoD research indicates that premonition, or precognition, appears to be weak in some, strong in others, and extraordinary in a rare few. In official Defense Department literature sensemaking is defined as “a motivated continuous effort to understand connections (which can be among people, places, and events) in order to anticipate their trajectories and act effectively.” time.com/4721715/phenomena-ann…

Who are Superforecasters?
Developed through the Good Judgment Project (GJP), led by Philip Tetlock, Barbara Mellers, and Don Moore, they emerged from an IARPA forecasting tournament (2011–2015), outpacing seasoned intelligence analysts—even those with access to classified data—by about 30–72%

On hundreds of real-world predictions (geopolitics, economics, epidemiology), professional Superforecasters average around 79% accuracy, placing the correct outcome as most probable seven out of ten times

They predict critical inflection points—like the Fed rate changes or pandemic developments—months to over a year in advance, often earlier than traditional markets or experts

Superforecasters apply structured thinking and probabilistic clarity, using base rates to temper overconfidence. They engage in team discussions to refine individual judgments through diverse perspectives. Constant calibration and scoring provide feedback loops that sharpen accuracy over time. Their open-minded “fox” mindset emphasizes adaptability and learning over rigid ideology.

For broad, global, real-world event prediction, Superforecasters from the Good Judgment Project consistently outperform both traditional experts and AI models. Their success is rooted in rigorous methodology—not intuition or insider knowledge.

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The Superforecasters’ Track Record - Good Judgment

Superforecasters represented the cream of the crop of the Good Judgment Project forecasters. And they’ve proven themselves time and time again since turning professional in 2015.
Good Judgment Inc
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Caleb James DeLisle

That wasn't oil vapors, that was water...

I'd like to be able to burn off used motor oil in a diesel generator and make use of its energy content. I don't want to send it through the injection pump because then I have to clean it, so my answer is to cover the exhaust pipe with a shroud and then drip oil onto it and suck the oil vapors into the air intake of the engine to be burned with the diesel...

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