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We have given Israel 174 billion dollars since 1948 (not adjusted for inflation I’m not good at that).
Of that 124 BILLION was given as a credit to be used in America on American weapons.
That money didn’t leave the country. It became contracts, payroll, and R&D at Lockheed, Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics, and hundreds of smaller suppliers. In effect, a large share of “aid to Israel” is a federal procurement program to fund American weapons production.
Defense spending sustains somewhere between 15,000-30,000 American jobs a year depending on which model you use.
And when the Pentagon then buys the same F-35s, interceptors, or munitions, the per-unit cost is lower because Israel’s orders helped spread the fixed costs and sustain the supply chain. So the aid functions as a subsidy to the US defense industrial base that lowers the price America pays for its own weapons.
So the real aide number is actually closer to like 47 billion dollars on actual money that leaves this county since 1948.
The total number of foreign aide, not adjusted for inflation since 1948 (a strong researched conservative estimate) is 1.6 trillion dollars.
So 3%.
That is why I don’t take the anti-Israel critics seriously when they start talking about our aid to Israel.
They don’t honestly analyze the situation and the reason they don’t honestly analyze the situation because they need it to be the only problem that matters and so it’s much cashier to throw out a number then explain it.
But that’s why I don’t take any of these liars seriously.
Here’s my conversation with Christopher Nolan about The Odyssey. He also talks about the custom lens he modified for The Dark Knight that became a high-demand tool for filmmakers like J.J. Abrams and Zack Snyder.
Finally, he reflects on his collaboration with David Keighley, who was the person that taught Nolan about @IMAX cameras and made him sit down with Kodak. David is the reason filmmakers can still shoot on film.
What's not to like about Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade?
A lot, actually!
Our guest Robert Meyer Burnett (@RMBee ) makes a strong argument, here:
https://t.co/gHFUPCXPMl
Behold, Roman.
For the first time since arriving in Florida, NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on full display after being unboxed and raised to its vertical position inside the high bay. And what a sight she is! 🤩
Some of you have asked me to comment about this piece of physical media news that broke yesterday. Well... the truth is, it’s a symptom of a much bigger problem, and I definitely have thoughts. So buckle up, ‘cause here they come... 1/2
https://t.co/SxI2ojQPQZ
"We live in a society — as the great physicist and communicator Carl Sagan always emphasized — a society that is entirely based on science, it is based on technology and engineering. All the great, important decisions that our democracy will be forced to take in the next decades, and all the way into the 21st century, are based on science — they’re based on scientific method, they’re based on an understanding what reason and reaching conclusions based on evidence is.
And if the presentation of science is a Frankenstein presentation of science — a misrepresentation of what we do, a complete misselling of the wonder of exploration — then we have a problem in our democracies. And it’s the same problem that we have if we don’t have an educated population."
— Prof. Brian Cox
Four movies that need #4K#UltraHD release: CHILDREN OF MEN (2006), THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (2011), THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007), and ROAD TO PERDITION (2002). Let’s go @UniversalPics and @ParamountMovies! (Note: THERE WILL BE BLOOD is PROBABLY coming next year for its 20th anniversary.) @thedigitalbits