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“We see how in certain countries they ruthlessly and cold-bloodedly destroy memorials to Soviet soldiers, demolish monuments to great commanders, create a real cult of the Nazis and their proxies, erase and demonize the memory of true heroes. Such profanation of the feat and sacrifices of the victorious generation is also a crime, an outright revanchism on the part of those who were cynically and blatantly preparing a new march on Russia and who brought together neo-Nazi scum from around the world for this.”
“We believe that any ideology of superiority is abhorrent, criminal and deadly by its nature. However, the Western globalist elites keep speaking about their exceptionalism, pit nations against each other and split societies, provoke bloody conflicts and coups, sow hatred, Russophobia, aggressive nationalism, destroy family and traditional values which make us human.
They do all that so as to keep dictating and imposing their will, their rights and rules on peoples, which in reality is a system of plundering, violence and suppression. They seem to have forgotten what the Nazis’ insane claims of global dominance led to. They forgot who destroyed that monstrous, total evil, who stood up for their native land and did not spare their lives to liberate the peoples of Europe.”
The full U.S. military budget is much more than the $514 billion spent by the rest of the world’s 144 nations combined. That’s a difference of $363 billion, which would be enough to fund solar power for nearly every household in the U.S. for 10 years.
May 09, 2023
World military spending has reached a new record high of $2.24 trillion in 2022, according to new data published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). That’s up 3.7% since the previous year, including the steepest increase among European nations since the end of the Cold War over 30 years ago.
The United States remains the world’s largest military spender by far, with its $877 billion representing 39% of global military spending. That’s three times as much as the second largest spender, China, which spent $292 billion in 2022. And it’s about ten times as much as the next largest spender, Russia, which spent about $86 billion in the same year.
U.S. spending is more than the next ten countries combined, more than last year when it was larger than the next nine. Many of these next ten countries are geopolitically aligned with the U.S. — including Ukraine, which had the highest single-year increase in military spending SIPRI has ever recorded, rising 640% to $44 billion since Russia invaded.
U.S. military aid to Ukraine amounted to $19.9 billion in 2022, but this was only 2.3% of total U.S. military spending. Military spending by NATO members, including the U.S., totalled $1.232 trillion in 2022, up 0.9% since 2021. Many analysts have predicted a long-term war of attrition, with no victory in sight for either side – it remains unclear how continuously increasing militarization can end this war.
Meanwhile, basic needs continue to go unmet for hundreds of millions of people around the world. The climate crisis continues to wreak havoc, and the U.S. has barely begun to address its historical responsibility in contributing to global fossil fuel emissions. The nations of the world are dangerously unprepared to secure our collective planetary future.
The full U.S. military budget is much more than the $514 billion spent by the rest of the world’s 144 nations combined. That’s a difference of $363 billion, which would be enough to fund solar power for nearly every household in the U.S. for 10 years.
$363 billion would be enough to fund 43 million public housing units – more than the 38 million people displaced as refugees in the post-9/11 wars waged by the U.S. over the past two decades.
Just 10% of the U.S. military budget would go a long way toward meeting any number of societal needs.
It’s worth noting that it’s not inevitable for countries to keep perpetually increasing their military budgets – a number of large nations, like Nigeria and Turkey, have significantly decreased military spending in the past year.
Over-investment in the military is a major cause of the crises we face today. But it’s possible to reinvest in real solutions and begin to repair the harm caused by many decades of war.
Michael Snyder
May 8, 2023
Has our rapidly changing culture caused you to significantly alter the way that you live your life? If so, you are definitely not alone. Thanks to rapidly rising crime rates, unchecked illegal immigration, record high mass shootings, rampant homelessness and the worst drug crisis in U.S. history, millions of Americans are now scared to live their lives the way that they once did. Social decay is spreading like a very aggressive form of cancer all over the country, and to a lot of us it seems like a very substantial portion of the population has completely lost their minds. The thin veneer of civilization that we all depend upon on a daily basis is disappearing very quickly, and the outlook for the future of our society is extremely bleak.
Let me give you a perfect example of what I am talking about.
According to ABC News, mail carriers are now being robbed so frequently that they are formally demanding the U.S. Postal Service to do something about it…
Postal carriers have more worries than snow, rain or the gloom of night keeping them from their appointed rounds. They’re increasingly being robbed, often at gunpoint, from Maine to California.
Robberies of postal carriers have exploded, surging 78% to nearly 500 in 2022, according to data provided by U.S. Postal Inspection Service to The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act.
Letter carriers are demanding action from the U.S. Postal Service.
Once upon a time, being a mail carrier was a pretty good job.
But now there are many communities where you would literally be putting your life at risk just to deliver the mail.
In Portland, the social decay in the streets has become so pervasive that many people are literally afraid to walk outside of their own homes…
Shocking new images show Portland’s mounting homeless crisis as encampments take over streets and sidewalks – and fed-up residents want the city to take action.
Local authorities in Oregon are also considering calling in the National Guard to help with Portland’s homeless issue – while residents reveal they now no longer walk in certain areas because of the drug and encampment problem.
Isn’t that sad?
But instead of doing something about it, some Democrats in Oregon actually want to “decriminalize” all of the illegal homeless encampments…
This follows news that Democrat lawmakers in Oregon want to decriminalize homeless camps with a law that would allow the people who live in them to sue for $1,000 if they’re harassed or told to leave.
The hugely-controversial bill claims ‘decriminalization of rest’ would allow city leaders to ‘redirect’ cash from law enforcement into measures that ‘address the root causes of homelessness and poverty’.
If that measure becomes law, imagine what life in Portland will be like from now on.
A very large group of drug addicts could establish a tent city in the street right in front of your home, and you would be powerless to do anything about it.
In New York City, many residents refuse to ride the subway any longer because violent crime has become so widespread…
In February, the New York Police Department (NYPD) reported 169 cases of major crime on the nation’s largest subway system.
169 cases of “major crime” on the subway in just one month?
So how many cases of “minor crime” were there?
I wish that they would give us that figure.
In some of our largest cities, conditions have now gotten so bad that it is actually motivating many businesses to leave for greener pastures. For instance, last year billionaire Ken Griffin literally moved his entire hedge fund from one city to another…
Last September, billionaire Ken Griffin announced he was pulling up stakes and moving Citadel—his gigantic hedge fund—from Chicago to Miami.
The Windy City was out of control, he told Bloomberg, something that dawned on him after a colleague made a coffee run and was robbed by a thief who put “a gun to his head.”
I certainly can’t blame him.
At this point, I don’t know why anyone would still want to be in Chicago.
Large numbers of businesses are also leaving San Francisco. In fact, this week we learned that T-Mobile has actually decided to permanently shut down their flagship store in San Francisco…
T-Mobile has become the latest major retailer to close a flagship store in San Francisco as the city faces a business exodus due to ‘rampant criminal activity’.
The decision by the telecoms giant to shutter its premises in Union Square follows similar announcements last week by Saks Off 5th and Nordstrom.
T-Mobile said the closure of its two-level, 17,000-sq-ft building in the heart of San Francisco’s was part of its ‘nationwide retail strategy to better take care of customers’.
T-Mobile is supposed to be an extremely “progressive” company.
But even they can’t put up with the extreme social decay in San Francisco.
Needless to say, I could share countless other examples with you. This mass exodus from blue states and blue cities has been going on for quite some time, and the states and cities that are being “left behind” are losing staggering amounts of tax revenue…
Data show that several populous blue states—California, New York, and Illinois among them—have been losing population and companies for years. In 2021 Forbes wrote about “leftugees” fleeing blue states for red ones. A few years before that, a headline in The Hill touched on “the great exodus out of America’s blue cities.”
New IRS data, however, show the speed with which blue states are losing taxpayers—and their adjusted gross income (AGI)—is increasing. A recent Wall Street Journal analysis found that more than 100,000 people left Illinois in 2021, taking with them some $11 billion in AGI, nearly double its 2019 total. For New York it was $24.5 billion, an increase of more than 150 percent from 2019. California, meanwhile, saw its AGI loss ($29 billion) more than triple since 2019.
Of course, some Americans are leaving normal society behind entirely.
Earlier today, I came across a story about a family in Georgia that now lives in a 6,000-square-foot underground bunker…
Internet consultant Ruben Romero moved with his wife Joan and their four children Eden, Enoch, Zion and Celestial into a 6,000-square-foot nuclear-resistant former communications bunker in June 2020.
The unusual abode – built in the 1960s by telecommunications company AT&T out of reinforced concrete – cost the the family around $300,000 with a 13-acre plot of land included and despite years of toil, the renovation process is still underway.
I couldn’t imagine living underground with no windows.
But if nuclear missiles start falling they will be more prepared than most of the rest of us.
I just wish that we could go back to the way that things once were in this country.
Once upon a time, America was a shining example of peace and prosperity for the rest of the world.
But now our society is melting down all around us, and our problems are only going to accelerate throughout the rest of this year and beyond.
Scoring a few social media points in the immediate aftermath of a “transition” when all attention is on you and you are getting lots of “likes” simply cannot make up for the lifetime of pain and misery that ensues from ripping apart absolutely essential body parts and replacing them with fake imitations of the opposite sex. Something is very wrong with society when a child can be taken away from a family by Child Protective Services for drinking raw milk or using medical cannabis, but is allowed and even encouraged to make life-altering bodily changes that come with a high risk of death without parental consent.
by: Ethan Huff
Monday, May 08, 2023
The Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology published a study recently about a formerly healthy 18-year-old boy who underwent a ghastly and barbaric transgender “affirmation” surgery that resulted in his death.
The report explains that a team of surgeons castrated the boy before cutting a hole in his crotch to remove a portion of his colon, the material of which they then used to try to create a fake vagina so he could pretend to be a “girl.”
It cannot be emphasized enough that the boy was healthy and normal, at least physically, prior to the surgery. Thanks to LGBT brainwashing, though, the boy lost his healthy body and his life entirely on the altar of transgenderism.
Some states are attempting to ban these types of body-butchering procedures for children, only to receive pushback from the Cult of LGBT which claims that opposition to such horrors is a form of “hate.”
Over the course of the past several decades, the transgender mutilation of children has gone from being a criminal act of bodily assault and attempted murder to being a praised form of “affirmation” for those who we are told were “born into the wrong body.”
“So if you think it might be a bad idea to castrate children, you’re expressing hate,” writes Chris Bray for “Toward Kindness,” his “Tell Me How This Ends” Substack page.
“If you’re a little iffy on carving vaginas into boys, using strips of their guts that might kill them with an infection, then, well, stop being a Nazi. Someone shot the Overton Window into the Oort Cloud while we weren’t watching. Mary Shelley is Literally Adolf Hitler, viciously maligning the wise and warm-hearted Dr. Frankenstein and his glorious monst – uh, his glorious achievement. Nature is a cruel impediment, but we have brave surgeons to conquer it by cutting us into our true form. Carving up healthy young bodies is health and love.”
(Related: Learn more about how the LGBT agenda has always been about population control.)
Going trans just for social media clout and attention isn’t worth the lifetime of pain, horror and regret that follows
It is rarely spoken about, but rates of transgender regret, meaning the number of people who underwent such horrific procedures and somehow survived and now wish they had left their bodies alone, are on the rise.
Scoring a few social media points in the immediate aftermath of a “transition” when all attention is on you and you are getting lots of “likes” simply cannot make up for the lifetime of pain and misery that ensues from ripping apart absolutely essential body parts and replacing them with fake imitations of the opposite sex.
Something is very wrong with society when a child can be taken away from a family by Child Protective Services for drinking raw milk or using medical cannabis, but is allowed and even encouraged to make life-altering bodily changes that come with a high risk of death without parental consent.
Increasingly more transgenders are coming forward to admit that they wish they had never “transitioned.” If they could go back, they say, they would undo all the misery and pain and go back to normal – if only someone had warned them rather than “affirmed” them.
“We’re having a failure of societal judgment at the conclusion of a long period of societal disconnection: severed relationships, severed conceptions of shared humanity,” Bray adds. “Things that would have been greeted as grotesque and obscene a very few years ago are embraced and socially recoded as being nice. Opposition to the infliction of death and pain is being mean. Shrug and be mean.”
“Death cults end with death. Be calm, be firm, and stay clear. The dominant culture of the moment is a corpse posed to wave and smile, made-up to look like a living thing. Whatever else happens, just don’t dance with the corpse.”
More related news coverage can be found at Transhumanism.news.
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