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If I don't pay my taxes properly, I can go to jail. The pentagon however... by magnora7 in Antiwar

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/us/politics/fact-check-pentagon-medicare-alexandria-ocasio-cortez.html

In other words, $21 trillion is the total value of adjustments made to the Pentagon’s financial records over those years that could not be traced.

That is not the same thing as $21 trillion in spending.

China coal use exploding, U.S. leads world in CO2 reductions, alarmist media conceal all this & much more by useless_aether in ClimateSkeptics

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https://qz.com/1247527/for-every-1-the-us-put-into-renewable-energy-last-year-china-put-in-3/

The Global Warming Apocalypse Has Been Postponed by useless_aether in ClimateSkeptics

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I like how XKCD summarises it