Full title: China Calls for Global AI Governance While Integrating AI into Nuclear Weapons Systems

From the Gateway Pundit, so take it for what it is worth.

Quote:On July 26, 2025, China announced its Action Plan for Global Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance. This initiative builds on Xi Jinping’s October 2023 Global AI Governance Initiative and presents itself as a responsible and benevolent effort to avoid global chaos. However, it reflects China’s broader ambition to shape global AI governance amidst rising technological competition.

I haven't had a pet that I have chosen to own for at least ten plus years. The last cat I had, which I brought home, was a male cat that I had neutered. It wasn't a few years later when he got a urinary tract infection that would have killed him after intense suffering. Apparently, that happens to cats that are neutered. The operation to save him cost over $300; it was only a year later when he was in the same shape, and not having the cash, I had to take him out back. That was devastating for me, esp. since my mother had just passed recently. Afterward, I vowed never to have another pet that wasn't small enough to flush down the toilet when it died.

Well, one lone kitten showed up in a rainstorm, so I took him in. However, I was reluctant to have him neutered because of the last cat. He grew up and would do as male cats do when they have the goods intact. He'd go off and fight other cats to breed. Many times he'd be gone for days, and one day he had a little kitten with him when he came home. We tried to coax it into the house, but it got spooked when the screen door hit it on its rear and we could never get too close again.

Well, we fed the cats outside and sure enough, once that new female grew up, it was having litters out under logs and in the briar bushes. That began a problem I'm still trying to deal with today. Those two cats are long gone, but the feral cat colony is large and growing. As much as I feed and water them, help them with worm meds, flea and tick treatments, and try to gain their trust, there are only a few that would be worthy as house pets.

Now, I have some money to deal with this by using a method of cat control where you catch, neuter/spay, and then release. Basically, the only alternative is to euthanize the whole lot. Other than taking them out back to the pet cemetery, this is the least cruel thing to do for them. I have seen some horrific things these cats go through, many never make it to adulthood, some eventually disappear do to various reasons like predators, and wounds from the cats that are fighting all the time. 

There is one cat that was the runt of the litter and it became attached to me. I took good care of him and he bulked out to become battle cat to the extreme. He has gotten so badly injured during his mating and territory fights, that if I hadn't patched him up and gave him antibiotics, he would had died a horrible death on a few occasions. So, we tried a vet service that offer cheap rates for feral cats as long as you brought them in inside a live trap (the only one within a hour's drive). We were going to trap two cats and had an appointment to have them fixed. We had already taken four cats in to this place that became house cats and got a reduced rate for fixing pets. But when we couldn't get the feral cats to go into the trap, one cat bit my girlfriend. It was the day of the appointment and she left a message about the situation, sobbing as she did so. They never answered or return our calls. At least we still have the live trap, I guess that is mine now.

Given the situation, I called every vet within a 20 mile radius and made an appointment for battle cat to get neutered at the closest vet that had the cheapest rates, just to see if I wanted to do more cats there. They gave him his initial checkup with blood work and a rabies shot, but because they only did surgeries on Thursdays, I had to wait another 3 weeks to get him snipped. Today was the day, and he couldn't be fed after midnight (9 hours basically). I had not fed him for 27 hours, because he is an outdoor cat, and that was how it happened to work out.

I let them know how he had been doing, and I told them he was under the weather for around a week after his visit, but was back to normal now. The lady at the desk and I determined it was the flea, tick, and ear mite meds I put between his shoulder blades, apparently, that caused his illness, they never told me that I needed to place the medicine up higher, where his neck and head meet, until now. OK, moving along, I told them his food was withheld for more than 24 hours, but since he was outdoors until 5 am this morning, the lady at the desk thought he may have eaten a mouse or something. She talked to the vet and came back and said that we will have to reschedule for another week (a month since his first visit), and keep him indoors when we withhold his food, and then he could get fixed.

I got upset and said that they don't understand, that this cat is out of control, and if I can't get him fixed soon, I'll have to take him out. "Take him out? What do mean?" Well, I told her and she didn't like being spoken to that way, apparently, so I told her I'm 61 years old and I feel I can say whatever I want to. Guess what? Now I need a new vet, but considering it was a vet office in a shed on a family farm where I had to park next to the chicken coop, maybe this was for the best. Now, I have an appointment on Monday with the new vet, who, although a little farther away, is cheaper overall. The farm vet better send his files over by tomorrow, or I'm going down to their office and share some language with them that they will not like in the least.

This new vet does procedures every day in an office in town, they are cheaper, and they got him in right away due to a cancellation, something I'm sure the farm vet wouldn't do as they only do procedures once a week. I'll get the best of the lot fixed, at least the ones I can catch and deal with, otherwise, I have to man up and solve this problem like the real farmers do, out back. I want to have them around, but not the constant litters, cat fights, and kitty cologne spray. The horrible things I've seen with these feral cats would give that lady at the desk nightmares for months, if not years, if she saw the things I have. I'm sure it'll be good for my fictional stories, but that might be the best I can say about that.

Thanks for reading all this; it helps me because I wanted to punch that bitch. Then afterward, I had a doctor's appointment, and my BP was sky high as I was so pissed off. Anyway, if you have suggestions, lay them on me; otherwise, I'm just letting off some steam before my cat overlords return and demand more tribute.

https://slaynews.com/news/nurse-blows-wh...-vaccines/

Quote:Covid ‘Vaccines’
Frank Bergman
August 5, 2025 - 12:54 pm

A California nurse has come forward with explosive whistleblower claims to expose an alarming cover-up of surging fetal deaths caused by Covid mRNA “vaccination” among pregnant women.
The allegations were revealed in court filings for a shocking new lawsuit filed by registered nurse Michelle Spencer.
The lawsuit, filed in California, reveals bombshell claims of institutional misconduct at Community Health System (dba Community Medical Centers, or CMC).
Spencer, a labor and delivery nurse, accuses CMC of concealing a dramatic increase in fetal deaths following the hospital’s Covid “vaccine” policies, implemented in 2021.
The lawsuit alleges fraudulent concealment of adverse outcomes, retaliation against whistleblowers, and prioritization of institutional profits over patient safety.
The lawsuit, Spencer v. Community Health System (Case No. 25CECG03557), claims that the health system concealed an alarming rise in fetal deaths after Covid mRNA injections were mandated for pregnant women.
Spencer, who worked at CMC’s Community Regional Medical Center (CRMC), alleges that the hospital failed to investigate Covid shot-related causes for the devastating increase in stillbirths, a move that, according to the lawsuit, violated ethical and legal standards.

According to Spencer, fetal deaths surged by up to 5,000% among pregnant women who received mRNA injections.
Spencer’s complaint alleges that fetal deaths at CRMC surged dramatically starting in the spring of 2021.
She reveals that fetal deaths went from a baseline of 1–2 per month to an average of 4 per week, coinciding with the rollout of the Covid “vaccines.”
Spencer claims that internal hospital data and staff discussions pointed to the fact that nearly all of these deaths occurred in “vaccinated” mothers.
The lawsuit includes evidence from OB/GYN Dr. James A. Thorp.
Dr. Thorpe prepared a stillbirth rate chart to highlight the surge.
The chart shows that the stillbirth rate in one California hospital jumped from the national average of approximately 5.7 per 1,000 births before 2021 to a staggering 29.3 per 1,000 births after July 2021.
The doctor notes that stillbirths skyrocketed following the introduction of the Covid injections.

Today's daily chat...

Quote:It's "green supremacy" we should fear



UPDATE 04AUG25: good jeans AND guns? OK, I’m sold.

Indonesia, like many post-colonial nation-states, is a hodge-podge of cobbled-together peoples and cultures whose borders were arbitrarily drawn for the convenience of foreign powers.

To an outsider, Indonesia looks like a fairly homogenous monoculture, where a bunch of identical short people with black eyes and hair all speak the same language and live in peace and harmony. Au contraire.

Indonesia is a mish-mash of over 300 cultures, each with distinct languages, religions, traditions, costumes, food, and music. Even within groups like Jawa, there are the halus (smooth) and kasar (rough), and subgroups within those, such as my adopted Tegal.

Overlaid on the aboriginal cultures are Indian, Chinese, Arab, Portuguese, British and Dutch imprints left by past colonization and subjugation. The national language, known as Bahasa Indonesia, is chock full of words borrowed from other languages, much like English.

And through all of this, like the brilliant Tom Lehrer song says, everyone hates each other, with ancient prejudices infusing all layers of society.

So when I hear people lambasting “white culture,” I have to laugh at the sheer ignorance, and in the case of white folks who do this, the pathological self-hatred on display.

Anyone who’s ever been to Europe or lives there knows that there is no such thing as “white culture” or even ‘white people”. Germans are as different from Italians from Spaniards from Swedes. They look different, speak differently, have unique traditions and histories, and they all hate each other. That hardly sounds like a homogenous monoculture.

There’s not even a single group with “white” skin. Gingers and albinos might come close, but the rest of the continent runs the gamut of ruddy red, golden tan, coffee brown, and green olivine. Just within the island of England, there are dozens of incomprehensible dialects and subcultures that all look down on each other. Across the US, each state has its own unique culture and dialect, with dozens of subcultures across the innards.

There is no discernable “white culture”. Nazis were a political party 100 years ago, and “white supremacy” could only exist if albinos attempted to conquer the planet.

There are several reasons why European cultures have dominated global civilization for several centuries. The first is ancient Greek philosophy and art. The second is the Roman church’s maniacal push to catalogue the planet as its singular possession. The third was European appropriation of Arabic numbers and maths, but to be fair this was the fault of Hugalu Khan and the Mongols (great band name).

Since Greeks are olivine skinned, we can say that the domination of Western civilization started with “green supremacy,” something Kermit the Frog should be proud of. The Roman church is based on a religious movement that started in the Middle East. Both Italians and Levantine people are olive skinned, thus enforcing “green supremacy”. Europe’s appropriation of Arabic mathematics was predicated on invasion by golden brown people into Bagdad, which was full of olivine people. No white faces to be found here, either.

What we are left with are calendars, English, and McDonald’s. Are Europeans evil for inventing a calendar that is one of the most accurate on the planet? Is it Europe’s fault that English is the simplest of European languages, and that all the important discoveries and industrial updates have been published in English for the past two centuries? Is it Europe’s fault that Americans invented mass production and the Repeatable Experience?

Folks need to disabuse themselves of the idea that there are monolithic cultures built around skin tone. Go to Africa for any amount of time and you will find no “black culture”. Hang out in Asia for a while and you will never find a “yellow culture”. This oversimplification of skin tone is an insult to the thousands of unique cultures that have all had their contributions to global civilization.

So, about this Sweeney chick.

Sweeney is a Gaelic name, Mac Suibhne, which means “pleasant” or “easy going”. The Sweeney chick looks both pleasant and easy-going. The name also implies Irish ancestry, and the Irish have never invaded anyone. In fact, Ireland’s contributions to the world — great literature, outstanding whisky, and a fun holiday — have been adopted globally, not forced. Thus, I hardly think the Sweeney chick is a supremacist of any kind.

So, what all this boils down to is yes, the Sweeney chick has nice genes and fills out her jeans quite well. Anyone having fits over the Sweeney chick’s ad campaign is clearly a nut job and needs to tweak their meds. She’s obviously an attractive young woman making a decent living off of her natural assets, and this should make the Feminazis happy in any case.

As for the rest of us, we should be relieved that we don’t have to look at fat people in bikinis any more, and given the overabundance of black and brown people over the past few years, it’s nice to see a peach-colored face in the public square.

The upshot of all this is…give it a rest. Stop with the racial and cultural hatred and self-loathing. Remember it was the Greeks and Persians who gave us geometry and algebra, and thus bear all the blame for “green supremacy”.

And now, on to something more interesting.

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Today’s cinematic offering is The Mongol (2007), a Mongolian-Russian co-production about the early life of Genghis Khan. It’s well written and shot, and fairly historically accurate, though it was part of a series that never materialized. Maybe you’ll want to double feature it with one of the worst film ever made — The Conqueror (1956), with John Wayne playing Genghis Khan. Hollywood at its finest.

Come closer and listen this fellow , i think he`s name is Paul Niculi . 

Quote:Something is happening across the Western world. You can feel it on the streets in the courts, at work, on television, in theaters, and online.  It’s not just political. It’s not just cultural. It’s psychological. A silent shift is underway, and it has a name, the inversion matrix.


There are 5 sections:

1. The reversal begins. In this new system the native becomes the intruder, the majority becomes the villain and the truth becomes hate speech. The very people whose ancestors build these nations, who raised the families, tilled the land and paid taxes, now find themselves apologizing for simply existing. How did this happen?


2. Psychological engineering and guilt programming. It began with psychological engineering. First, inject guilt programming – a constant stream of reminders about colonialism, slavery, privilege and oppression. Then flood the language with weaponized labels:

“Racist,” “transphobe,” “Islamophobic,” “far right.”

Each designed to shut down conversation, to train you to self censor and to submit. This isn’t about justice. It is about control through confusion.


3. The two-tier system of “compassion”. Look around and you will see it. As a matter of fact, I think you know it already.

Certain groups can gather publicly in the name of religion or pride – others are fined, silenced, or arrested for praying silently. Crimes by one group are explained away as trauma, misunderstanding, or cultural norms.

The same crime committed by someone else results in instant outrage, national headlines, and cancellation. We have moved from equal rights to engineered imbalance, from justice for all to justice selectively applied.


4. Institutional capture. Every major institution in the western world has been taken over by the same ideological virus. Schools no longer teach pride in culture, but shame history.

Police now investigate feelings, not felonies.

The media filters truth through an ideological lens where facts are problematic and narratives are sacred.

Even churches and temples now bow down to slogans instead of scripture. This is called “institutional capture” and it is not accidental.


5. Divide, demoralize and replace – but why?

Because a divided guilt rhythm and morally paralyzed society is easier to govern, it is easier to shatter its traditions, drown it in imported ideologies and define its language, and turn its people against themselves.

These are the true cracks to the Matrix. What is the end goal?

Not justice, not harmony, but a population too confused to resist and too fragmented to unite.



But let’s be clear, this isn’t a war between races or religions or genders. It’s a war between truth and programming. Between those who remember who they are and those who’ve been re-thought to forget.

You don’t need to hate anyone, but you do need to see, because the longer we stay silent, the more the inversion Matrix tightens.

Until what was once solid:  identity, family, faith, and law,  becomes liquid, then meaningless, then gone.


This isn’t about hate. This is about survival, and if you are understanding this, it means the program didn’t fully work on you. Not yet.

This is starting to look really bad , i wonder what will be the " solution" to this ?


Overlooked Treasury Report Supports Musk’s Warning About Federal Deficits Sinking the U.S.


Think Uncle Sam Owes $37 Trillion? It's Far Worse Than That

Quote:Overview

Elon Musk recently stated that “rich people” should “be caring more” about federal deficits because “if the ship of America sinks,” “we all sink with it.” This may seem like hyperbole, but a widely overlooked report from the U.S. Treasury shows it is a likely scenario unless major changes are made.
The Treasury report, quietly released in January, shows that if the federal government reported its finances in the same manner that large corporations are required by law to report theirs, the primary measure of federal red ink wouldn’t be $36 trillion in national debt but $143 trillion in debts, liabilities, and unfunded obligations.
This staggering figure equals 85% of all the wealth Americans have accumulated since the nation’s founding. It also equates to an average burden of $1.1 million on every household in the nation.
Unlike other measures of federal finances that cover an arbitrary period, extend into the infinite future, or ignore government assets, the figure of $143 trillion applies strictly to Americans who are alive right now and accounts for the value of the government’s commercial assets. Thus, it quantifies the full federal financial burden on today’s Americans.
Complete v. Incomplete Accounting
Federal law requires the U.S. Treasury to publish an annual report that details the government’s “overall financial position.” In addition to the national debt, the “Financial Report of the United States Government” also includes the government’s explicit and implicit financial commitments, such as:

    federal employee pensions and other retirement benefits like healthcare.
    environmental liabilities like contaminated nuclear sites.
    unfunded obligations for social insurance programs like Medicare and Social Security.

Such “fiscal exposures,” as explained by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, “represent significant commitments that ultimately have to be addressed.” Hence, GAO stresses that ignoring them can “make it difficult for policymakers and the public to adequately understand the government’s overall performance and true financial condition.”
Although the Treasury published the report almost two months ago on January 16, Google indicates that no prominent politician or major media outlet has explicitly mentioned it. Meanwhile, the same people have frequently cited the national debt and federal deficit, which are incomplete measures of the federal government’s red ink.
The national debt and federal deficit are mainly based on cash accounting, which is the simplistic process of counting money as it flows in or out. Thus, liabilities like pension benefits for federal workers aren’t measured until they are actually paid, which is often decades after they are promised.
In contrast, the Treasury report mainly uses accrual accounting, which measures financial commitments as they are made. This is how the federal government requires large corporations to report their finances. In the words of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, which is tasked by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to create private-sector accounting rules, accrual accounting is the “most relevant and reliable” way to measure the financial health of pension plans.
The same applies to other retirement benefits like healthcare. The accounting rule that governs such benefits explains that “a failure to accrue” implies “that no obligation exists prior to the payment of benefits.” Since an obligation does exist, failing to account for it “impairs the usefulness and integrity” of financial statements.
The Grand Total
A methodical tally of accrual accounting data in the Treasury report shows that the federal government has amassed $143 trillion in debts, liabilities, and unfunded obligations beyond the value of its commercial assets. This reflects the government’s finances at the close of its 2024 fiscal year on September 30, 2024.
The primary components of this burden, which are unpacked below, include:

    $28.3 trillion in publicly held national debt.
    $17.2 trillion in liabilities that are not accounted for in the publicly held debt.
    $105.8 trillion in unfunded social insurance obligations.

These figures tally to $151.3 trillion in debts, liabilities, and unfunded obligations. Offsetting this is $7.9 trillion in commercial assets owned by the federal government, leaving a grand total shortfall of $143 trillion.
Numbers in the trillions are hard to conceive, so it’s revealing to place them in context. The figure of $143 trillion amounts to 85% of the net wealth Americans have accumulated since the nation’s founding, estimated by the Federal Reserve to be $169 trillion. This includes all of their assets in savings, real estate, corporate stocks, private businesses, and even consumer durable goods like automobiles and furniture.
The government’s $143 trillion shortfall also amounts to:

    $421,108 for every person living in the U.S.
    $1,085,022 for every household in the U.S.
    4.9 times annual U.S. economic output (GDP).
    28 times annual federal revenues.

Publicly Held Debt
The simplest major item quantified by the Treasury report is the publicly held debt, which is $28.3 trillion. This is the money the federal government owes to non-federal entities like individuals, corporations, state governments, and foreign governments.
Publicly held debt is a partial measure of the national debt that excludes $7.1 trillion the federal government owes to federal programs like Social Security and Medicare. The Treasury report also details these intergovernmental debts and consolidates them with the items below.
Liabilities
Pension and other retirement benefits are a large part of compensation packages for government employees. With these generous benefits included, civilian non-postal federal employees receive an average of 17% more total compensation than private-sector workers with comparable education and work experience. Postal workers receive even greater premiums ranging from 25% to 43%.
In 2023, federal, state, and local governments spent $2.4 trillion on employee compensation, costing each household in the nation an average of $18,328.
The Treasury report shows that the federal government currently owes $15.0 trillion in pensions and other benefits to federal employees and veterans that are not accounted for in the publicly held national debt. To pay the present value of these benefits will require an average of $113,451 from every household in the United States.
The Treasury reports other liabilities of the federal government, such as:

    $134 billion in accounts payable.
    $666 billion in environmental and disposal liabilities.
    $106 billion in insurance and guarantee program liabilities.

Altogether, the Treasury records $17.2 trillion in liabilities that are not accounted for in the publicly held debt.
Social Security & Medicare
A similar but far more expensive situation exists with social insurance programs like Social Security and Medicare. This is because—contrary to popular belief—these programs don’t save workers’ taxes for their retirements. Instead, they immediately spend the vast majority of those taxes to pay benefits to current recipients. Thus, they are called “pay-as-you-go” programs.
In stark contrast, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis explains, “Federal law requires that private pension plans operate as funded plans, not as pay-as-you-go plans.” The reasons for this, as explained by the American Academy of Actuaries, are to increase “benefit security” and ensure “intergenerational equity.”
Social Security and Medicare, on the other hand, have levied multiplicatively higher tax burdens on succeeding generations of Americans, thus creating severe generational inequity. And unless retirement ages are raised or benefits are reduced in some other way, taxes will need to be increased again to keep the programs solvent.
Musk recently referred to this situation when he called Social Security the “biggest Ponzi scheme of all time” and said, “When you look at the future obligations of Social Security, the actual national debt is like double what people think it is because of the future obligations.”
Federal actuaries measure the unfunded obligations of Social Security and Medicare in several different ways, but only one of them approximates accrual accounting. This is called the “closed-group” unfunded obligation, which is the money needed to cover the shortfalls for all current taxpayers and beneficiaries in these programs.
In the words of Harvard Law School professor and federal budget specialist Howell E. Jackson, the closed-group measure “reflects the financial burden or liability being passed on to future generations.” These burdens are $49.8 trillion for Social Security and $53.9 trillion for Medicare. Placing these figures in context:

    Social Security’s unfunded obligations amount to an additional $272,237 from every person who currently pays Social Security payroll taxes.
    Medicare’s unfunded obligations amount to an additional $201,932 from every U.S. resident aged 16 or older.

Those shortfalls are what remain after the federal government has paid back with interest all of the money it has borrowed from Social Security and Medicare.
Social Security and Medicare differ from true pensions because taxpayers don’t have a contractual right to receive these benefits. Nevertheless, paying these benefits is an implied commitment of the federal government, and federal law requires that these programs be included in the Treasury report.
The Treasury report estimates that the combined closed group unfunded obligations of Social Security, Medicare, and some smaller social insurance programs are $105.8 trillion. This figure doesn’t include intergovernmental debt, which is consolidated with other data in the report.
Federal Assets
The Treasury also records the federal government’s commercial assets, such as:

    $1.2 trillion in cash and other monetary assets.
    $1.3 trillion in property, plants, and equipment.
    $1.8 trillion in receivable loans, mainly comprised of student loans.

In total, the government estimated that it owned $5.7 trillion in commercial assets at the close of its 2024 fiscal year. This figure is likely lower than reality because the Treasury report measures the value of the federal government’s:

    gold and silver according to laws that require it to assess gold at $42.22/ounce and silver at $1.29/ounce, which are small fractions of the market prices.
    property, plant, and equipment at the cost of purchasing these items and then depreciates them, which fails to account for inflation and the appreciation of assets like land.

Using data on the market value of gold and silver and an extremely rough, non-generalizable estimate of the difference between the historical cost and fair market value of a government entity, Just Facts estimates that the federal government has about $2.2 trillion more in assets than the Treasury reported. Including this, the federal government has about $7.9 trillion in commercial assets.
The Treasury report doesn’t account for federal stewardship land and heritage assets, such as national parks and the original copy of the Declaration of Independence. While these items have tangible value, the report explains that they “are intended to be preserved as national treasures,” not sold to the highest bidder to cover debts.
Adding up the federal government’s debts, liabilities, and unfunded obligations and then subtracting the value of its commercial assets yields a fiscal shortfall of $143 trillion.
Root Causes
As with other policy issues, the media and politicians have repeatedly misinformed the public about the root causes of the federal government’s fiscal deterioration.
For example, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D–TX) claims there’s “not” a “lot” of “waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government.” In reality, the Government Accountability Office estimates that the federal government loses $233–$521 billion per year to “fraud alone.” This costs every household in the nation an average of $137,000–$305,000 over a lifetime, not counting waste or abuse.
Those numbers show that if the bulk of fraud were eliminated, it could put a significant dent in the problem, but it would not be nearly enough to fix it.
Another recent example of misinformation comes from PolitiFact, which claims that “tax cuts were the biggest of four types of legislation that have added to the federal debt since 2001.” PolitiFact bases this assertion on a study that puts all tax cuts into one bucket while splitting added spending into three buckets. Placing the added spending into one bucket, the study shows that it accounts for 61% of the added debt.
Furthermore, the study states that those figures fail to account for the “effects of the built-in spending growth in certain parts of the budget, while it takes for granted the built-in growth in revenue.” Because such revenue increases are baked into federal law, most “tax cuts” are actually “tax evens” that correct for bracket creep, which consumes an ever-growing share of people’s incomes over time. That’s why despite the passage of numerous “tax cuts,” the portion of the U.S. economy consumed by federal taxes has been roughly level for eight decades:

Meanwhile, federal spending has soared from 3% of the U.S. economy in 1930 to 23% in 2023. Yet, a scientific survey commissioned in 2020 by Just Facts found that 25% of voters believe tax cuts were the main driver of debt. This accords with numerous news stories that blame the debt on tax cuts.

The same survey found that another 25% of voters believe the main driver of rising national debt is military spending. This conforms to the reporting of media outlets that frequently blame the debt on military spending. In reality, military spending has plummeted from 53% of all federal expenses in 1960 to 17% in 2023:

As shown in the charts above, the primary driver of the national debt is increased spending, particularly on social programs. These programs—which provide healthcare, income security, education, nutrition, housing, and cultural services—have grown from 21% of all federal spending in 1960 to 61% in 2023. Yet, only 39% of voters correctly identify social spending as the primary cause of rising debt.
In total, social programs and interest on the national debt—which mainly stems from social programs—account for 75% of all federal spending. Also, the vast bulk of the government’s unfunded obligations are due to Social Security and Medicare.
The Congressional Budget Office projects that the main drivers of future debt will be Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, Obamacare, and interest on the national debt. Under the weight of these, the publicly held debt is due to skyrocket to unprecedented levels over coming decades.
Harmful Effects
The national debt doesn’t always manifest in the obvious fallouts of increased taxes or reduced government benefits. A broad range of academic publications document that the consequences of excessive government debt also include intensified inflation, lower wages, weak economic growth, and combinations of such results.
The linkage between those economic scourges and government debt are not always obvious to voters, and politicians who run up debt often blame “greed” for the harms that their deficit spending has caused. The media also promotes this false storyline. Hence, the harmful effects of government debt continue.
Contrary to those who allege that the U.S. government can spend and borrow with abandon because it can print money, the Government Accountability Office warns that “the costs of federal borrowing will be borne by tomorrow’s workers and taxpayers,” which “may reduce or slow the growth of the living standards of future generations.”
Such effects may have already begun. Although association does not prove causation, the national debt has risen steeply over recent decades, and with this, the U.S. has experienced episodes of rapid inflation and historically poor growth in gross domestic product, productivity, and household income.

Europa Clipper launched late last year on its 5 year mission to boldly go to Jupiter's ice Moon Europa which is believe to host an ocean bellow its icy crust , today we learn that on a flyby of Mars the Clipper's radar was tested and it "Aced" that test , the radar will be used to examine the ice and hopefully peer at the ocean bellow and the shoals of fishies swimming in it , or not.

Quote:NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft just aced a key radar test while flying past Mars, proving its ability to detect structures beneath planetary surfaces—something that couldn’t be tested on Earth. The radar, known as REASON, will eventually be used to explore Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter believed to harbor a subsurface ocean.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20...233103.htm

Full title - "China’s chikungunya outbreak spreads amid government secrecy and forced quarantines"

Quote:    A rapidly spreading outbreak of chikungunya fever has gripped southern China, with over 4,000 confirmed cases since early July. Yet the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) appears to be downplaying the crisis while enforcing costly quarantines on infected citizens.
   
    Originating in Foshan city in Guangdong Province, the mosquito-borne virus has now reached Guangzhou, Yangjiang and even the capital Beijing – raising fears of a wider epidemic. Local residents report being forced into mandatory hospital isolation at their own expense, a policy that echoes the CCP's controversial Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdowns. With China's history of suppressing health data, the true scale of the outbreak remains uncertain.

Quote:    FDA Approves Vimkunya (chikungunya vaccine, recombinant) for Prevention of Disease Caused by Chikungunya Virus COPENHAGEN, Denmark, February 14, 2025 – Bavarian Nordic A/S (OMX: BAVA) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Vimkunya (Chikungunya Vaccine, Recombinant) for injection, the first virus-like particle (VLP) single-dose chikungunya vaccine in the U.S. for persons 12 years of age and older.

Quote:    VLPs are useful as vaccines. VLPs contain repetitive, high density displays of viral surface proteins that present conformational viral epitopes that can elicit strong T cell and B cell immune responses.[sup][16][/sup] The particles' small radius of roughly 20-200 nm allows sufficient draining into lymph nodes. Since VLPs cannot replicate, they provide a safer alternative to attenuated viruses. VLPs were used to develop FDA-approved vaccines for Hepatitis B and human papillomavirus, which are commercially available.[sup][17][/sup]

Quote:    Therapeutic and imaging agents - VLPs are a candidate delivery system for genes or other therapeutics.[sup][13][/sup] These drug delivery agents have been shown to effectively target cancer cells in vitro.[sup][14][/sup] It is hypothesized that VLPs may accumulate in tumor sites due to the enhanced permeability and retention effect, which could be useful for drug delivery or tumor imaging.

Quote:    Assembly - The understanding of self-assembly of VLPs was once based on viral assembly. This is rational as long as the VLP assembly takes place inside the host cell (in vivo), though the self-assembly event was found in vitro from the very beginning of the study about viral assembly.[sup][33][/sup] Study also reveals that in vitro assembly of VLPs competes with aggregation[sup][34][/sup] and certain mechanisms exist inside the cell to prevent the formation of aggregates while assembly is ongoing.[sup][35][/sup]

Quote:Thunder cracks overhead as monsoon clouds swallow the North Vietnamese jungle, hiding entire columns of NVA troops as they drive supply trucks and artillery through the storm. The men march with confidence. No enemy could possibly spot them through the wall of wind and rain. Suddenly, a low roar cuts through the grey skies. Some swear they see a shadow flicker above. "Just more thunder!" a commander shouts, but before he is even done talking, the bomb hits. Trucks cartwheel through the air, crashing upside down in the mud. Troops can barely dive out of the way. Some men raise their rifles skyward, but can see nothing through the pouring rain. Then comes another strike. Entire gun crews are torn apart in seconds. As word reaches Hanoi, commanders demand to know how it is possible for the Americans to have found them in the middle of a monsoon. The strikes were too precise for luck. Somewhere in the mountains, the enemy must have a secret new weapon, one capable of finding the North Vietnamese even when flying blind. And whatever it is, it has to be destroyed.

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