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Where your $16,000 federal tax goes — ranked by amount (largest to smallest):

1. Social Security — $4,960 → Retirees, disabled, survivors. Locked-in entitlement.

2. Military + Veterans — $3,200 → Troops, bases, weapons, wars, VA, defense contractors. → Includes $30 directly to Israel (foreign military aid).

3. Medicare — $1,740 → Health care for seniors (65+). Mandatory.

4. National Debt Interest — $1,280 → Pays interest only. Doesn't reduce debt.

5. Medicaid — $1,120 → Health care for low-income Americans. States manage, feds fund.

6. Infrastructure & Transportation — $800 → Highways, airports, rail, transit.

7. Welfare/Safety Net — $800 → Food stamps, child tax credit, housing aid, unemployment.

8. Education — $640 → Public schools, Pell Grants, special ed.

9. Science, NASA, Environment, NIH, EPA — $640 → Medical research, climate, space, etc.

10. Foreign Aid (non-Israel) — $290 → Economic/humanitarian aid to 100+ countries.

11. Direct U.S. Aid to Israel (military) — $30 → Of your $16,000, this is your annual cut sent to Israel’s defense.

12. Everything Else (FBI, DOJ, IRS, Congress, federal courts) — $800

Summary:

Nearly 1/3 funds entitlements (Social Security + Medicare).

20%+ fuels war machine.

$30 flat — every taxpayer pays it straight to Israel, like a subscription fee.

You fund it all. No opt-out.

Living Gyroscope in Flies BY FRANK SHERWIN, D.SC. (HON.) | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2025

The lowly fruit fly (Drosophila) is the research biologist’s friend in fields such as biomedical science, genetics, and developmental biology. The insect takes up little space, is easily fed, has just four pairs of chromosomes, and reproduces rapidly.

Recently, zoologists have been investigating “how a structure essential for [fruit] fly flight, the haltere [balancer], is formed. This small organ, located behind the main wings, functions as a biological gyroscope that helps the insect stay stable in the air.”1 The halteres are amazing mechanosensory organs that aid the fruit fly’s flight.

The halteres are designed to work like vibrating structural gyroscopes or strain gauges, helping in navigational capability and controlling the fly’s equilibrium in flight. Such vibrations exert a force on the insect’s body and is detected by the fly. Specifically, the haltere gives “three-axis angular velocity information, namely roll, pitch and yaw axes, for flight control.”2

Halteres look like tiny rotating drumsticks or dumbbells, but how do they maintain such a shape? According to a study published in Current Biology, the haltere dorso-ventral “projections absorb deforming tensile loads to preserve globular shape.”3 For decades it was erroneously thought that these tiny structures were hollow, but the Current Biology study has shown that “its two surfaces are internally connected by a sophisticated cellular system that stabilizes its rounded shape.”1

An article from University of Elche further stated, “The study also reveals that the haltere is under constant tension: one force pulls at its base, while another anchors it to the insect’s outer cuticle. It is precisely this internal tensor system that balances both forces to maintain the haltere’s geometry.”1

Researcher José Carlos Pastor Pareja stated, “This structure is a stabilization system reminiscent of architectural supports: without these internal connections, the haltere elongates and loses its shape, like a tent without guy ropes.”1 Of course, in engineering, “architectural supports” are structures carefully designed by architects and are not a product of chance.

Speaking of engineering, three evolutionists describe the biomechanical basis of wing and haltere coordination in flies, stating that the wing movements must be both fast and exact.

This system requires a clutch mechanism in the wing hinge to independently engage each wing with the vibrating thorax. Once the wings are engaged, the gearbox modulates the amplitude of each wing. Thus, the force transmission mechanism from thorax to wings in flies bears remarkable similarity to automobile transmission systems.4

When one thinks of a clutch mechanism, gearbox, and automobile transmission system, one naturally thinks of finely-tuned, purposeful engineering by highly intelligent individuals where nothing is left to chance. Is it any wonder the late Francis Crick said, “Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.”5

In the mid-80s, this author had a formal debate with an evolutionary biologist who taught at a university in Denver. His primary argument was that the halteres of the fruit fly could be mutated to produce a second pair of wings: voilà, a beneficial mutation of the ultrabithorax (Ubx), which is a large and complex homeobox gene found in insects such as the fruit fly. He triumphantly showed a picture of the four-winged fruit fly.

But what he didn’t tell the audience was the fruit fly was at an extreme disadvantage. The extra set of wings had no flight muscles! Its flight was handicapped, making flying slow and erratic (having lost its three-axis angular velocity input). The only place such a mutated four-winged fly could possibly survive is in the protective confines of a laboratory. If released into the environment, the slow and clumsy fly would rapidly become a meal for a predator. Such a mutation caused a scientist to state,

The mutants that produce four-winged fruit flies survive today only in a carefully controlled environment and only when skilled researchers meticulously guide their subjects through one non-functional stage after another. This carefully controlled experiment does not tell us much about what undirected mutations can produce in the wild.6

Regardless, evolutionists must posit these well-designed structures were not created but evolved from ancestral hindwings or forewings (some erroneously call the halteres “modified hindwings”), but there is no evidence this occurred. It is only theoretical.7 Halteres are 100% halteres the first time they’re found. Evolutionists must rely on the tired theory of convergent evolution8 to describe the origin of halteres in the insect orders Diptera and the Strepsiptera. So far, halteres are not found anywhere else in nature.

The flight and balancing systems of the little fruit fly show God’s clearly seen creation (Romans 1:20).

References

How Flies Grow Their Gyroscopes: Study Reveals How Flight Stabilizers Take Shape. University of Elche. Posted on phys.org June 12, 2025. Kim, C. et al. 2022. Development and Evaluation of Haltere-Mimicking Gyroscope for Three-Axis Angular Velocity Sensing Using a Haltere-Mimicking Structure Pair. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 18 (1) . Song, Y. et al. 2025. Mechanical Coupling between Dorsal and Ventral Surfaces Shapes the Drosophila Haltere. Current Biology. 35 (13): 3090–3105. Deora, T. et al. 2015. Biomechanical Basis of Wing and Haltere Coordination in Flies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (5): 1481–1486. Crick, F. 1990. What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery. London, UK: Penguin Books, 138. Meyer, S. C. et al. 2007. Explore Evolution: The Arguments for and Against Neo-Darwinism. London, UK: Hill House Publishers, 105. Hersh, B. et al. 2007. The UBX-Regulated Network in the Haltere Imaginal Disc of D. melanogaster. Developmental Biology. 302 (2): 717–727. Guliuzza, R. 2017. Major Evolutionary Blunders: Convergent Evolution Is a Seductive Intellectual Swindle. Acts & Facts. 46 (3): 17–19.

• Dr. Sherwin is a science news writer at the Institute for Creation Research. He earned an M.A. in invertebrate zoology from the University of Northern Colorado and received an honorary doctorate of science from Pensacola Christian College.

Spot price of silver is 42.90.

A new high since 2011.

43.06 now.

So one of the rumors circulating, at least where I live, is that the FBI is responsible for this CK thing and did so as a way to shut up conservatives but had the plan massively backfire due to the media getting way too greedy. In a way it makes a ton of sense as they've had plenty of ties to rogue trannies doing this shit before. I guess they underestimated how stupid people like kimmel would be on the matter.

"Like a hurricane that I can't escape, tearing through the atmosphere, your love is fierce" https://youtu.be/II1JKBuz-AY?si=NUQO9KiaabdFD_3Z

Does anyone here use Grok to analyze data, parse information, etc.? It seems to do a great job, but then I'll find it making a completely incorrect statement on something as easy to find as who played a part in a movie! Because of the blatant mistakes I have found it make, I then question the results from much more complicated inquiries.

Bannon just ran a montage of the leftist "news" media crying about how free speech is being threatened. I almost had to turn the channel. Of course, no mention of their censorship of people simply trying to discuss covid, january 6, trans people, etc., etc. They still don't understand the difference between discussing topics and celebrating the assassination of someone you don't agree with!

Shower thought. WHAT IF, Project blue beam is here to usher in Israel's false god? They do not believe Jesus was the son of God and still believe that their savior is on the way to save them. The whole world is slowly turning away from them (and it appears to be the plan for this to happen) and they are showing no remorse for anything they are doing. What if they live stream their savior coming to them and announcing themselves to the world.

Where does this stand with the shooter of CK? Had a 24 shift and first thing I see looks fake. It says this from multiple pages but all look like another narrative of confusion. Below is what they all say

SH0CKED WITH THE FIRST STATEMENT: "If I tell the whole truth, they will come after my family and everyone close to me even though they don't know anything about this" Tyler Robinson's testimony shOcked the police when they realized that this case was no longer simply a personal outburst...

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Shoe on Head has finally been blackpilled on the Left, due to the Charlie Kirk assassination. Now she just has to realize that the whole capitalist/socialist economic paradigm is just a distraction and that the central banking system is the real problem.

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"It takes what it takes."

#Truth.Integrity.Freedom

Love wonders this place.

with the admission that the Covid (fake) vaccines didn’t stop transmission of Coronavirus, I hope there will be a class action lawsuit against hospitals, nursing homes and care facilities that prevented people (who wisely did not get the shots) from visiting their family members who were in these facilities..

GAW post on the CDC ex-official in case anyone missed it https://greatawakening.win/p/1AR0UqAqqP/must-see--rand-paul-just-forced-/c/

1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

2 I will say of the Lord, "He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust."

3 Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler And from the perilous pestilence.

4 He shall cover you with His feathers, And under His wings you shall take refuge; His truth shall be your shield and buckler.

5 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, Nor of the arrow that flies by day,

6 Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.

7 A thousand may fall at your side, And ten thousand at your right hand; But it shall not come near you.

8 Only with your eyes shall you look, And see the reward of the wicked.

9 Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge, Even the Most High, your dwelling place,

10 No evil shall befall you, Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling;

11 For He shall give His angels charge over you, To keep you in all your ways.

12 In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone.

13 You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra, The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.

14 "Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name.

15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him.

16 With long life I will satisfy him, And show him My salvation." Psalm 91