Top 10 Donor Countries To U.S. Elections. You Will Never Ever Guess Who Is #1.

by BeezelyBillyBub Country Total Spending South Korea $82,831,439 Japan $65,167,414 Israel $63,546,052 Ireland $44,638,217 United Arab Emirates $35,724,593 Marshall Islands $34,780,441 Saudi Arabia $31,894,537 China $29,881,502 Canada $28,151,823 Bahamas $28,011,828 https://www.opensecrets.org/fara   Don’t forget bundlers… https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/14/former-obama-bundler-reaches-out-to-donors-to-back-orourke-in-2020.html https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/bundlers.php https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-2012-02-02-mc-who-is-bundling-money-for-obama-in-pa-20120202-story.html https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/us/politics/obama-bundlers-have-ties-to-lobbying.html https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/buzzfeedpolitics/bundling-for-obama-the-swiss-bank-experts …

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Trump: ‘We are substantially subsidizing the Militaries of many VERY rich countries all over the world, while at the same time these countries take total advantage of the U.S’

President Trump on Monday criticized outgoing Defense Secretary James Mattis, claiming he doesn’t see countries that “take total advantage of the U.S.” as “a problem.” But “I DO, and it is being fixed,” Trump wrote in a tweet. Trump wrote in a series of tweets …

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The countries that imprison the most journalists

From ZeroHedge: The Committee to Protect Journalists, an advocacy group, has released its annual census showing the number of journalists imprisoned across the world. As Statista’s Niall McCarthy notes, more than 250 journalists are behind bars for the third consecutive year and the CPJ said …

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Visualizing How Much Countries Spend on R&D

via visualcapitalist: Innovation can be a major competitive advantage for any developed economy. However, achieving a sustainable rate of innovation isn’t necessarily a straightforward exercise. The reality is that innovation is a complex and difficult outcome to measure, and there are …

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