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US Taxpayer-Funded Foreign Aid Received by 150/192 Countries in the World!

That's us dishing-out an allowance to

over 78% of the nations in existence...

Thanks US taxpayers- but most of them still hate you anyway.

And if you feel like a chump- you should: we'll be paying for this dubious investement (+interest) ad infinitum: America doesn't have any money to be giving-away in the first place, all discretionary federal spending is in-effect borrowed these days...

Maybe for a start we could cut-off, say, Moscow or Beijing...
or so you'd think!

The interactive foreign aid map linked below tells all... click on a country and all the relevant numbers come up. You can view each aid program individually, and there's also useful "freedom", "corruption" and "development" filters...

Interactive Foreign Aid Map -here-

It's hard to see where this ceaseless no-end-game-in-sight 'global stimulus' has done much to stoke our diplomatic/strategic fortunes... the United States seems less admired and respected than it has been in decades.

But alas, when any approach isn't cutting it, this bewildered administration tends to serve-us-up more of the same failed policy, doubling down on previous errors... and Barack Obama has long called for doubling of direct US foreign aid to over $50B... great.

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Icelandic Volcano Appears on Verge of a Far More Powerful Eruption than Last Year

Bárdarbunga dwarves the Eyjafjallajökull volcano,

which shut-down most of Europe's airspace in May 2010

Local experts have observed all the signs that another -much larger- Icelandic volcano is ready to blow, an event that could dwarf last year's series of eruptions that shut down air travel throughout Europe and changed weather patterns for months...

Geologists detected the high risk of a new eruption after evaluating an increased swarm of earthquakes around the island's second largest volcano.

Pall Einarsson, a professor of geophysics at the University of Iceland, says the area around Bárdarbunga is showing signs of increased activity, which provides "good reason to worry".

He told the country's national TV station that a low number of seismometer measuring devices in the area is making it more difficult to determine the scale and likely outcome of the current shifts. But he said there was "every reason to worry" as the sustained earthquake tremors to the north east of the remote volcano range are the strongest recorded in recent times and there was "no doubt" the lava was rising.

The geologist complained that the lack of coverage from measuring devices means he cannot accurately detect the depth and exact location of the increased number of localised earth movements.

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The last recorded eruption of Bárdarbunga was in 1910, although volcanologists believe its last major eruption occurred in 1477 when it produced a large ash and pumice fallout. It also produced the largest known lava flow during the past 10,000 years on earth.

It is the second largest volcano on Iceland and is directly above the mantle plume of molten rock.

By comparison, Bárdarbunga dwarves the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, which shutdown most of Europe's airspace last year after its ash cloud drifted across the continent's skies...

The Telegraph (UK)

Iceland Volcano Update:

Latest update re. volcanic and seismic activity available
from the Icelandic Met Office -here-

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