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China is ramping up its science and technology outreach to the Global South while its collaboration with the US on the same front is receding, analysts said on Tuesday at an event hosted by the Institute for China-America Studies, a Washington think tank.

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#science #technology #geopolitics


China boosts science, tech outreach to Global South as its US collaboration dips: analysts

Washington is said to be missing out on ‘big’ opportunities while Beijing reaches agreements with ‘dozens and dozens of countries’.
Bochen Han (South China Morning Post)

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China leads in embodied AI and robotics, developing diverse applications from industrial automation to humanoids. This boom is fueled by strong government support and significant investment, giving China 70% of the global market and boosting job growth. The sector is poised for a flood of new, competitively priced products, fundamentally reshaping industries and daily life.

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#china #technology #robotics #ai


China's Next AI Breakthrough - Physical AI

China's advancements in artificial intelligence are poised to unleash a wave of innovation more than 100 DeepSeek-like breakthroughs within the next 18 month...
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How will the third world war happen? With the flavor of the First World War or with a pinch of the Second World War, or will it be completely modern and at the cutting edge of technology?


When the Ukrainian war turned into a standoff, it was said that the First World War was back with endless artillery bombardments: theins.ru/en/politics/267849

Putin compared Russia’s war in Ukraine with World War II and lambasted Germany for helping to arm Kyiv: aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/2/pu…

Drone warfare is a new technology on the battlefield and using AI to determine target coordinates is too: neuters.de/world/europe/ukrain…

#war #warfare #worldwar #history #ukraine #germany #russia #drone #ai #technology #news #science #artillery #military #politics #conflict #future #humanity #violence #bomb #kyiv #battlefield #question


Putin evokes Stalingrad battle as he vows victory in Ukraine war

Putin compared Russia’s war in Ukraine with World War II and lambasted Germany for helping to arm Kyiv.
Al Jazeera
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David

Rulers were deposed (Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia, Muammar Gaddafi of Libya, and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt all in 2011, and Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen in 2012) and major uprisings and social violence occurred, including riots, civil wars, or insurgencies.


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Protests and revolutions in the Arab world in the 2010s

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)

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Iran Air Flight 655—a civilian Airbus A300—was shot down by the U.S. Navy cruiser USS Vincennes over the Persian Gulf. All 290 innocent people on board, including 66 children, were killed.

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#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten #SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli #canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon #freePalestine #GazaGenocide #IsraelTerroristState #StopGenocide

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Judges threaten America - Mike

@CDuBois

In theory, the Senate parliamentarian determines whether some policy is appropriate in a budget reconciliation bill. The reason being, that reconciliation only requires 50 + 1 votes as opposed to the 60 votes required in the Senate for cloture. So anything in the bill that is deemed outside budget related is typically off limits.

But here we have our double standard again, given reconciliation was used to pass the entire Obamacare bill, that most certainly went way beyond budget.

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Your /e/OS smartphone wants to come along on holiday!

📸 But where to share your photos safely?

Murena Workspace includes the Gallery feature—a private space to store and organize your pictures in albums.

🔐 You decide who to share them with or whether you want to protect them with a password.

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Have you tried it yet?

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Murena Workspace Gallery that shows how you can share a photo protected by a password
Photo of a beach on an /e/OS device ready to be added to favs, shared, edited or moved to the bin

Murena's Workspace

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We’re not yet sure exactly what quantum computing can do yet, and that’s exactly why we need to think about post-quantum cryptography now, @durumcrustulum tells EFF’s Cindy Cohn and @jgkelley on the new episode of “How to Fix the Internet." eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/podc…

Podcast Episode: Cryptography Makes a Post-Quantum Leap

The cryptography that protects our privacy and security online relies on the fact that even the strongest computers will take essentially forever to do certain tasks, like factoring prime numbers and finding discrete logarithms which are important fo…
Electronic Frontier Foundation

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"A federal judge approved a class-action lawsuit from 500 J6ers seeking $350 million in damages from Nancy Pelosi.

"The lawsuit claims, "Pelosi orchestrated the entire event to frame Trump and his supporters labeling them violent insurrectionists."
She had help from the FBI too!"

If this is true, and it actually goes to trial, the "discovery" involved will destroy her.
And I'm here for it!!

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#NED
National Endowment for Democracy
NOT Dismantled..

In case you thought #USΑ was going to abandon Regime Change Operations as the only other way, -besides bombing- they conduct foreign policy.

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US President Trump Streamlined the National Endowment for Democracy*, not Dismantle it

While many believe that under the Trump administration the controversial National Endowment for Democracy (NED*) was defunded, dismantled, or otherwise
Брайан Берлетик (New Eastern Outlook)

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want to listen to the voice of someone born in 1846?

youtu.be/IBMcYCb9NDA?si=6BAWBD…

#history


Man Born in 1846 Talks About the 1860s and Fighting in the Civil War - Enhanced Audio

Julius Franklin Howell (January 17, 1846 - June 19, 1948) joined the Confederate Army when he was 16. After surviving a few battles, he eventually found hims...
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« la loi de Douglas. Elle est une réplique de la loi de Parkinson, mais façon « espace de travail ». Elle dit que plus on dispose d’espace pour travailler, plus on étale ses dossiers. Ils s’empilent autour de vous et peuvent donner l’impression que l’on n’avance pas. Votre charge mentale est continuellement nourrie, plutôt qu’allégée. »

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UN report lists companies complicit in Israel’s ‘genocide’: Who are they? | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera (2025-07-01)

aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un…
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Attached graphic is merely representative.

👋 Is there a complete yet simple list of companies named in this report somewhere, anywhere?

#EconomyOfGenocide #FrancescaAlbanese
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

“Which copanies are supporting Israel?” 22 companies with their logo marks as a colorful graphic

UN report lists companies complicit in Israel’s ‘genocide’: Who are they?

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has named several US giants among the companies aiding Israel.
Federica Marsi (Al Jazeera)

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« la loi de Murphy. Initialement, telle que nous la connaissons, elle nous dit : « Si quelque chose peut mal tourner, alors cette chose finira infailliblement par mal tourner. » C’est sa variante dans le domaine du travail, de l’organisation et de la gestion du temps qui énonce qu’une action prend toujours plus de temps que prévu. »

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« Mes amis Si on ne vous impose aucune deadline, faites-le vous-même. Donnez-vous un objectif de temps : pour lundi, pour la semaine prochaine… Le cerveau adore les échéances. Sous la contrainte, il travaille bien. Il ne s’agit pas de se mettre la pression, mais de « délimiter ses tâches dans le temps. Cela nous encourage à nous y mettre. »

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Analysis: "Profiting From Genocide"

"The latest UN report names hundreds of corporations, banks, technology firms, universities, pension funds & charities that profit from the Israeli occupation & genocide."

The report includes "a database of over 1,000 corporate entities that collaborate with Israel".

“Israel’s “forever-occuption” as “the ideal testing ground for arms manufacturers and Big Tech".

chrishedges.substack.com/p/pro…

#UN #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol #BDS #GazaGenocide @palestine .


Profiting From Genocide

The latest United Nations report names hundreds of corporations, banks, technology firms, universities, pension funds and charities that profit from the Israeli occupation and genocide.
Chris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report)

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The White Resistance Movement is in the early meta-political stage of it's development, wherein it is extremely important for us to spread the word about how our political system really works. With almost 100 books on its digital shelves, the Colchester Collection's "Politics & Society" catalog is designed to help you learn the truth of our political situation so that you can help spread that word.

colchestercollection.com/subje…

The Colchester Collection is the Web's largest curated archive of pro-White books, with almost 1,800 of them in one of our 22 different catalogs.

Politics & Society

List of all books on politics and society, by title, in the Colchester Collection
www.colchestercollection.com

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The Immoral Economics of War in the 21st Century

War Estimated Total Cost Estimated Deaths Approximate Cost per Death
World War I $208 billion 15–22 million $9,450 – $13,850
World War II $4.1 trillion 70–85 million $48,235 – $58,571
Korean War $341 billion ~2.5 million ~$136,400
Vietnam War $1 trillion ~3 million ~$333,333
Iran-Iraq War $500 billion (est.) ~1 million ~$500,000
Iraq War $2 trillion 500,000–1 million $2 million – $4 million
War in Afghanistan $2.3 trillion ~240,000 ~$9.6 million
Global War on Terror $8 trillion+ ~900,000 ~$8.9 million
In a world where global hunger persists, where families struggle to afford housing, healthcare, or education, the staggering cost of modern warfare reveals a haunting truth: we are spending millions—sometimes billions—per death to kill one another, when that same money could sustain countless lives. It no longer makes moral, ethical, or economic sense to wage war. The cost of killing one human being in war today could feed, house, and educate entire families for generations.

A brief look at the historical ledger of war costs drives the point home. During **World War I**, the inflation-adjusted cost per death hovered around **\$10,000–\$14,000**. By **World War II**, this jumped to **\$50,000 per death**. In the **Vietnam War**, that number skyrocketed to over **\$330,000**, and in the **Iraq War**, it ballooned to a staggering **\$2–4 million per death**. These figures are not just economic abstractions—they reflect a moral chasm. Imagine what \$2 million could do in a struggling community: provide clean water, fund clinics, pay teachers, build homes. Instead, it is used to destroy lives and infrastructures, to traumatize survivors, and to deepen divisions that can last generations.

Even more troubling is that these costs are not borne equally. In 2024, each U.S. worker effectively contributed about **\$664** of their labor-derived taxes to fund wars in places like Ukraine, Israel, or Iraq—wars that many of them never voted on, never supported, and from which they derive no benefit. This forced contribution violates the principle of democratic accountability. Why should a worker in Detroit or a teacher in rural Montana finance a missile strike in Gaza or the occupation of foreign soil? Shouldn’t those who advocate for war bear its financial burden personally?

The human cost is not just lives lost. War displaces families, destroys livelihoods, and creates generational trauma. Civilian casualties often outnumber military ones. In conflicts like the **Iran-Iraq War** or the **Iraq War**, a large portion of the dead were not soldiers, but mothers, children, and the elderly. The euphemistic term "collateral damage" hides the reality of human suffering behind sterile accounting.

Beyond death tolls and taxpayer burdens lies an even deeper problem: war as policy is morally obsolete. In an era of nuclear weapons, drones, and artificial intelligence, war is less about soldiers on battlefields and more about devastating civilian populations from afar—remotely, impersonally, and with increasing detachment from ethical considerations.

Furthermore, war is inefficient. Economists and ethicists alike point out that for every dollar spent on war, a fraction of that amount spent on diplomacy, development, or humanitarian aid yields far greater and more lasting peace. For example, redirecting just a portion of the **\$107 billion** recently allocated to military efforts could completely fund programs to end homelessness in the United States or eradicate malaria globally.

War is not inevitable. It is a choice—one that politicians make with money taken from ordinary people. That choice is often sold to the public under the guise of national security, but more often it serves corporate interests, geopolitical dominance, or political posturing.

If war advocates truly believe in its necessity, let them finance it themselves. Let them forego their tax breaks, their corporate subsidies, their political donations, and instead fund their wars through voluntary contributions. Let them look into the eyes of those who must die for their policies and justify the cost—not just in dollars, but in blood and dignity.

**Conclusion**

To continue killing at the cost of millions per death, while families go hungry and the planet burns, is to commit an unforgivable betrayal of our shared humanity. The economic cost of war alone proves its insanity; the moral cost confirms its evil. In a time when we can no longer afford ignorance, we must demand better accounting—not just in budgets, but in conscience. It is time to stop funding death and start investing in life.

The cost figures are mostly U.S. expenditures where available, and casualties include both military and civilian deaths where possible.

| War | Total Cost (USD, Inflation Adjusted) | Estimated Deaths (Military + Civilian) | Approximate Cost per Death (USD) | Notes |
|-------------------|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|---------------------------------|-------|
| **World War I** | ~$208 billion (in 2020 dollars) | 15–22 million | $9,450 – $13,850 | Total deaths ~40 million including wounded; U.S. cost ~$22 billion (nominal) |
| **World War II** | ~$4.1 trillion (in 2020 dollars) | 70–85 million | $48,235 – $58,571 | Massive global conflict with highest casualties and costs |
| **Korean War** | ~$341 billion (in 2020 dollars) | ~2.5 million | ~$136,400 | U.S. cost about $30 billion nominal |
| **Vietnam War** | ~$1 trillion (in 2020 dollars) | ~3 million | ~$333,333 | Includes military and civilian deaths in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia |
| **Iran-Iraq War** | ~$500 billion (estimated) | ~1 million | ~$500,000 | Exact cost estimates vary; long war with heavy casualties |
| **Iraq War** | ~$2 trillion (including long-term costs) | ~500,000 – 1 million | $2 million – $4 million | Includes direct and indirect costs, casualties vary by source |

### Explanation and Sources:

- **World War I:**
- Deaths: 15–22 million (military + civilian), with about 40 million total casualties including wounded[1][2][3].
- Cost: U.S. spent about $22 billion nominal, inflation adjusted to about $208 billion[6].
- Cost per death: ~$10,000–$14,000 range.

- **World War II:**
- Deaths: 70–85 million total (military + civilian).
- Cost: U.S. alone spent about $4.1 trillion inflation-adjusted[7].
- Cost per death: ~$50,000.

- **Korean War:**
- Deaths: ~2.5 million (military + civilian).
- Cost: U.S. spent about $30 billion nominal, ~$341 billion inflation adjusted.
- Cost per death: ~$136,000.

- **Vietnam War:**
- Deaths: ~3 million (including civilians in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia).
- Cost: U.S. spent about $168 billion nominal, ~$1 trillion inflation adjusted.
- Cost per death: ~$333,000.

- **Iran-Iraq War:**
- Deaths: ~1 million estimated.
- Cost: Estimated at around $500 billion total (hard to get exact).
- Cost per death: ~$500,000.

- **Iraq War:**
- Deaths: Estimates vary widely, 500,000 to 1 million total.
- Cost: U.S. cost estimated at $2 trillion including long-term costs.
- Cost per death: $2 million to $4 million.

### Summary

| War | Deaths (millions) | Cost (2020 USD, trillions) | Cost per Death (USD) |
|-------------------|-------------------|----------------------------|----------------------------|
| WWI | 15–22 | 0.208 | $9,450 – $13,850 |
| WWII | 70–85 | 4.1 | $48,235 – $58,571 |
| Korean War | 2.5 | 0.341 | ~$136,400 |
| Vietnam War | 3 | 1.0 | ~$333,333 |
| Iran-Iraq War | 1 | 0.5 (estimate) | ~$500,000 |
| Iraq War | 0.5–1 | 2.0 | $2 million – $4 million |

### Notes:

- These figures are rough estimates based on available data and inflation adjustments.
- Cost per death is a blunt measure and does not account for wounded, displaced, or long-term suffering.
- Civilian casualties are included where data is available, but estimates vary widely.
- The Iran-Iraq War and Iraq War costs are less precise due to varying sources and indirect costs.

If you want, I can help you with more detailed breakdowns or specific country costs and casualties.

[1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wa…
[2] ww1hull.com/the-cost-in-lives/
[3] britannica.com/event/World-War…
[4] loc.gov/collections/world-war-…
[5] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wa…
[6] loc.gov/collections/world-war-…
[7] khanlearning.weebly.com/upload…
Russians and Palestinians, ethical concerns are heightened. In the context of 2024, where an estimated $664 per citizen went towards such actions, it is imperative to scrutinize the morality of such expenditures.
At $664 per citizen, extracted from the hard-earned incomes of taxpayers, the allocation towards conflicts that may lead to harm against certain communities raises significant ethical questions. Firstly, it challenges the principles of justice and fairness. Should individuals who have no direct involvement in or support for these conflicts be compelled to finance actions that may result in harm to innocent civilians, particularly those in targeted populations?
Moreover, there is a moral imperative to consider the consequences of war. Beyond the financial cost, war inflicts immeasurable human suffering, loss, and trauma. Allocating taxpayer funds to support military actions against specific groups perpetuates cycles of violence and undermines the principles of equality and human dignity.
Additionally, the decision-making process regarding war expenditures raises issues of democratic accountability. When governments allocate taxpayer money for military purposes, they do so on behalf of the entire population. However, if the decision to engage in war is not subjected to rigorous public scrutiny and debate, it undermines the democratic principle of government by the people, for the people.
In light of these ethical concerns, there is a compelling argument for those advocating for military action and war spending to bear the financial burden themselves. Rather than imposing the cost on all taxpayers indiscriminately, those who support and advocate for military interventions should be required to contribute directly to funding these endeavors. This approach aligns with the principles of individual responsibility and accountability. If individuals believe strongly in the necessity of military action, they should be willing to shoulder the financial cost themselves rather than imposing it on others.
In conclusion, the allocation of taxpayer money for war, particularly when it involves targeting specific groups like Russians and Palestinians, raises significant ethical questions. It challenges principles of justice, fairness, human dignity, and democratic accountability. As we move forward, it is essential for policymakers to consider alternative mechanisms for funding military actions that respect these principles and ensure greater accountability and ethical responsibility in decision-making processes.
To calculate the cost per person for the combined expenses of $93 billion plus $14 billion, given away for war, we first need to find the total amount spent on war. Adding these two figures gives us $107 billion.
Next, to determine the cost per person, we divide the total amount spent on war by the number of workers. According to the information provided, there are 161 million workers.
\[ \text{Cost per person} = \frac{\text{Total war expenditure}}{\text{Number of workers}} \]
\[ \text{Cost per person} = \frac{\$107,000,000,000}{161,000,000} \]
\[ \text{Cost per person} ≈ \$664.60 \]
So, each person would have to pay approximately $664.60 for the combined expenses of $93 billion plus $14 billion given away for war.
However, if we want to include the cost of other conflicts such as the ones mentioned (murdering Russians, Gaza, Ukraine, and general war expenses), we'd need more specific data on the costs associated with those conflicts. The figure provided only accounts for the expenses related to war generally, so it's challenging to calculate the precise cost per person without more detailed information.

World War I - Casualties, Armistice, Legacy | Britannica

World War I - Casualties, Armistice, Legacy: The casualties suffered by the military in World War I are estimated to be about 8,500,000 soldiers who died as a result of wounds and/or disease.
Encyclopedia Britannica
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