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War is incredibly stupid. It costs humanity over $16.5 trillion/year in lost productivity, healthcare costs, property damage, environmental destruction, and other related expenses.
Yet, we spend $2.72 trillion per year on this idiocy.
All the while, death and disease are slowly destroying the lives of you and everyone you love. Yet we spend 40X less ($67.5 billion) on discovering cures for all diseases combined.
Therefore, the BEST IDEA IN THE WORLD is for humanity to stop wasting its scarce resources on ever-increasing its capacity for self-destruction and instead use those resources to help the billions of people suffering from disease.
However, as this makes far too much sense for governments to ever implement, the SECOND BEST IDEA IN THE WORLD is for humanity to redirect just 1% of the $2.7 trillion currently allocated to death and destruction to curing diseases.
The Plan: bribe the shit out of literally everyone (legally) to get every nation in the world to ratify a "1% Treaty" that redirects 1% of military spending to a global Decentralized Institutes of Health (DIH) that subsidizes patient participation in "pragmatic clinical trials" 80X more efficient than standard trials.
How it works: Make curing disease more profitable than war.
For every $1 the military-industrial complex spends on lobbying politicians, it receives over $1,813 in government contracts. So why couldn't a Peace-Industrial Complex do the same thing?
Getting the 1% Treaty passed will require:
This effort will likely cost between $1 billion and $2.5 billion.
A: Create the most profitable investment vehicle in the world.
We create a Victory Fund to finance the War on Disease by selling VICTORY bonds just like the US did to finance WW2—except our bonds are designed to deliver world-class returns while funding the cure for disease.
The military industrial complex is composed of humans that are not evil, they just like money. So we offer VICTORY bonds to anyone with the ability to influence the ratification of the 1% treaty by any particular nation.
The result: Everyone gets richer by funding cures instead of destruction.
Governments spend $2.72 trillion on military and $67.5 billion on finding cures for diseases. That's a 40X disparity.
The Pentagon alone can't account for $2.5 trillion in assets—250 times larger than what we're asking them to redirect. They lose more money by accident than we need to cure cancer.
We haven't eradicated a single disease in over 50 years. Meanwhile, we have enough nuclear bombs to kill all of humanity twice.
In our evolutionary past, when resources were scarce, violence was necessary for survival. But today we live in a world with enough food for everyone. In fact, nearly all starvation today is actually the RESULT of violent conflict.
For centuries, we've known war brings suffering. Yet we fund it anyway. Why?
Military contractors earn billions. Politicians receive generous donations. The cycle continues. Moral arguments have never been enough to overcome financial incentives.
So humanity has 2 paths:
Pick one.
See 1% Treaty for quantified savings and ROI. For a detailed breakdown of direct and indirect costs of war, see Quantified Costs of War.
We will not change minds with morals. We will make curing people more profitable than killing them. We call this Peace Profiteering.
The core of the plan is a transparent, legally-compliant system of incentives that offers superior financial returns to every stakeholder—from citizens and politicians to military contractors and their investors. We will bribe our way to a better world with an offer that is too good to refuse because the math is overwhelmingly superior to the status quo.
The Goal: Make curing people more profitable than killing them.
Step 1: Give everyone on Earth a stake in the outcome. Reward every person who votes on the global referendum with VOTE points—your verifiable claim to a share of the $16.5 trillion annual peace dividend you help create (see Legal Compliance Framework).
Step 2: When we hit 3.5% of humanity, we have proof the world wants this.
Step 3: After the treaty is ratified, VOTE points become convertible to VICTORY bonds—your earned ownership and governance stake in the $27B+ annual health treasury you helped create by redirecting global military spending (see VICTORY Bonds — Incentive Mechanics).
Step 4: Build a legal political engine: independent‑expenditure committees that pledge massive support for candidates who vote with their district's referendum result—and fund challengers against those who defy it.
Step 5: The treasury funds EVERYONE in health - universities, pharma, nonprofits, government agencies - through democratically controlled funding pools.
The full plan is detailed below. But if you're already convinced, here's how you can get involved now:
VICTORY Bonds: Bootstrap funding now, repaid by treaty inflows.
Our financing is governed by two core, transparent principles that ensure a fair balance between rewarding investors and fulfilling our mission:
The model is designed to front-load investor returns, paying out the target amount (~$7.23B per year in the full success scenario) as quickly as treaty inflows allow. The 40% CAGR represents the total 10-year return, while the large year-one payout reflects our strategy of rapidly de-risking the investment for our partners.
Decentralized Institutes of Health (DIH): A treasury that funds research 80X cheaper. The DIH doesn't fund the old, broken system—it funds a decentralized FDA (dFDA) protocol with proven results:
Specialized programs fund existing institutions:
Everyone gets more money, powered by a system that actually works. No one gets displaced.
Total Implementation Cost: $1.2-2.5B over 36 months
What This Buys: For a detailed breakdown of our multi-phase fundraising strategy and a line-item budget, see our full Fundraising & Budget Plan.
Annual Returns Once Operational: $27B+ per year from 1% military budget redirections
ROI Timeline: 18-36 months after first treaty ratification
Break-even Analysis: Even in a conservative partial success scenario where only the US, EU, & UK participate (generating $13B annually), the system generates a cash payout of $6.5B (2.6X the initial $2.5B investment) in the first year of operation alone.
The Math: We're asking for $2.5B to redirect $27B annually. That's a 10:1 return ratio - better than most venture capital investments, except this one saves millions of lives.
This simple model ensures that even in conservative scenarios, the DIH remains massively well-funded while providing returns that beat the best hedge funds. For a complete breakdown, see our Dynamic Cash Flow Model.
We don't compete with the military-industrial complex. We co-opt them.
Our entire thesis is engineered to offer military contractors and politicians a better deal, turning today's War Contractors into tomorrow's Peace Contractors.
Current Military Contractor Economics:
Phase 1: Seed Investors ($250-400M Initial Investment)
Phase 2: VICTORY Bond Buyers ($100-200M Referendum Funding)
Phase 3: Citizens (Global Population)
Phase 4: Politicians ($800M-1.5B Independent Expenditures)
Our Superior Offer to Military Contractors:
Our Superior Offer to Politicians:
The Compounding Effect: Each phase funds the next. Seed investors control governance of $27B treasury. Bond buyers fund the referendum. Citizens create electoral pressure. Politicians pass treaties. Everyone gets paid more than they could anywhere else.
The Math: We offer everyone more personal wealth than the current system, PLUS better campaign support, PLUS the moral high ground of saving lives, PLUS reduced existential risk. When the math favors peace, rational actors choose peace.
Bottom Line: By making peace and health more profitable than war and disease, we give every rational actor a clear financial incentive to support the treaty. We bribe our way to a better world.
"A $2.5B investment to capture $27B annually? Come on."
Fair skepticism. Here's why the math actually works:
1. We're Redirecting Waste, Not Raising New Money
2. The 80X Efficiency Gain Is Already Proven
3. Mass Political Mobilization Works
4. Financial Enforcement Is Stronger Than Legal Enforcement
5. We Co-opt Rather Than Compete
The Bottom Line: We're not creating money out of thin air. We're redirecting money that's already being wasted into a system that produces 80X better results with mathematical precision.
Modern weapons make everyone less safe:
Real security threats are health-based:
1% reallocation = stronger nations:
Even if the Decentralized Institutes of Health were a completely inefficient failure and dumped every single dollar into the ocean, the world would still be better off.
Why?
Because we would still have 1% fewer nuclear weapons. We would still have a 1% slower AI arms race. We would still have a 1% reduction in the global capacity for organized violence.
The worst possible outcome of this plan—total waste—is still a net gain for global security. The best possible outcome is that we also cure cancer.
The financial power of this model comes from capturing the first, tangible portion of the $16.5 trillion annual "Cost of Violence"—the single largest pool of misallocated capital on the planet.
We capture the first $27B to unlock the full $165B for everyone. For a detailed breakdown, see The Peace Dividend: Value Capture & Distribution Model.
1. "This sounds like a cynical, illegal bribe. You'll have no soul."
2. "A global referendum is not a real protest. It's a flawed analogy."
3. "A government's promise to pay is unenforceable. This is a fantasy."
4. "This is too operationally complex to build."
5. "This is politically impossible - you can't just redirect military budgets by referendum"
6. "You're assuming governments will honor treaty commitments when they don't honor existing ones"
7. "The 3.5% rule applies to civil resistance movements, not global online referendums"
8. "Independent expenditures don't work against entrenched incumbents with deep pockets"
9. "You're competing with military contractors who have decades of relationships and influence"
10. "How do you prevent waste and ensure the money actually helps patients?"
11. "How does this help patients vs. just funding more bureaucracy?"
12. "What's the proof this works better than current NIH funding?"
13. "What about the millions of jobs in the defense industry? This is a threat to their livelihoods."
14. "This plan feels anti-military and disrespectful to the soldiers who protect us."
15. "Aren't blockchains environmentally disastrous? How can you save humanity while boiling the oceans?"
16. "The crypto world is full of scams. Why should we trust a plan built on such a risky foundation?"
17. "What stops a few billionaires from buying up all the bonds and seizing the treasury?"
18. "Why not just rely on philanthropy?"
19. "Why redirect military spending? Why not just increase the health budget?"
20. "Why cut military if others won't?" (Free Rider Problem)
Why This Objection is Overstated: The US already can't account for $2.5 trillion in assets—more than 250 times the $10 billion annual US contribution to this plan. Redirecting 1% is trivial compared to existing waste. Other nations' military spending is relatively small (US represents ~40% of global total). Even if holdouts don't comply, they won't catch up to US capabilities. Everyone has a price: We use massive legal incentives targeting personal financial gain to make compliance more profitable than defection.
Our Approach: Personal Financial Alignment Over Institutional Punishment: Leaders are humans driven by personal financial self-interest, not abstract geopolitical strategy. We apply the same strategy we use with military contractors: Personal Investment Opportunity (Leaders and their families can invest in VICTORY Bonds designed to offer mathematically superior returns to alternative investments), Direct Financial Stakes (We offer leaders opportunities to profit directly from the $27B annual treasury through legally compliant investment vehicles), Family Security (Leaders' families get diseases too—they can profit from a system that perpetuates risk, or profit even more from one that funds cures), and Political Insurance (Massive independent expenditures ensure that supporting the treaty becomes the financially safer political choice).
Consequentialist Reality: The alternative to this coordinated reallocation is continued escalation of nuclear arsenals (enough to produce ~150 Tg of stratospheric soot in a U.S.–Russia exchange—modeled to cause global famine and >5 billion deaths) and an AI arms race leading to potential Skynet scenarios. Partial compliance still reduces global destructive capacity while funding cures—better than the status quo of waste and existential risk. Bottom Line: Free-riding isn't viable when compliance pays better, and the stakes are human survival. For detailed mechanisms, see Free Rider Solution.
21. "This violates election and securities law" (Legal Compliance)
The Challenge: Foreign nationals funding US elections is illegal; VICTORY bonds risk securities violations.
Our Solution: Strict legal segregation with expert oversight: Complete entity separation (Zero coordination between US and international operations), Securities compliance (Utility token structure with proper exemptions - Reg S, Reg A+), Multi-jurisdiction strategy (Separate legal entities and counsel in each country), and Technical firewalls (No shared systems, staff, or communication between entities).
Bottom Line: Conservative structures with top lawyers solve this.
22. "280M people can't be verified reliably" (Verification at Scale)
The Challenge: Stop fake votes across 280 million people.
Our Solution: Multi-layered verification with AI monitoring: Government ID integration (Connect with national e-ID systems - Estonia, India, EU), Biometric verification (Liveness detection and proof-of-uniqueness partnerships), AI fraud detection (Real-time anomaly detection and behavioral analysis), and Cryptographic verification (End-to-end verifiable voting with zero-knowledge proofs).
Bottom Line: We use proven technologies that already verify millions of users globally.
23. "Isn't this just illegal bribery of leaders?"
Direct Answer: No—we're transparent about using overwhelming legal incentives to align leaders' interests with global health, because the alternative is continued arms races leading to potential human extinction via nuclear winter (a U.S.–Russia exchange is modeled to loft ~150 Tg soot and cause global famine with >5 billion deaths) or AI catastrophe. If "straight-up" rewards are needed for specific leaders, we structure them as performance-based diplomatic grants or economic development packages tied to verifiable treaty compliance—fully compliant with anti-corruption laws like the FCPA.
Why This Works Legally and Ethically: Legal Framework (All incentives flow through independent entities with no quid-pro-quo; modeled on existing diplomatic aid packages like US provides $3.8B annual aid to Israel tied to security cooperation), Consequentialist Justification (When misallocated military spending already wastes trillions - Pentagon lost $2.5T - redirecting 1% via incentives saves lives and reduces existential risks, far more ethical than the status quo of funding destruction), and Transparency First (All rewards publicly disclosed with blockchain auditing to prevent corruption).
Bottom Line: This isn't hidden bribery; it's rational incentive design to make peace profitable. For nations where standard politics fail, these targeted packages ensure compliance without illegality. We're willing to pay whatever legal price is needed to secure participation, because human survival depends on it.
24. "What if this fails? Where's my return?" (Financial Risk)
Response: We've structured financing based on clear principles, not opaque financial engineering. Our model's high returns are not derived from speculation; they are the direct mathematical result of capturing a tiny fraction of the $16.5 trillion currently lost to global violence. The model targets a ~40% CAGR (~28x return) for early investors, benchmarked against elite funds, while guaranteeing at least 50% of income for the mission. Even in a partial success scenario (e.g., US/EU/UK adoption), the model provides a year-one cash payout of 2.6X the initial investment. The risk is further mitigated by using Assurance Contracts (funds returned if goals aren't met) and first-loss philanthropic capital.
Mitigation: Clear milestone gates for funding release; diversified repayment from multiple government commitments.
25. "Can your team actually build this?" (Execution Risk)
Response: Our execution model is designed to maximize strategic focus and leverage elite global talent. We are not building a large, traditional organization. Instead, we are assembling a small, world-class "activation team" of strategic leaders (see our Hiring Plan) whose sole function is to direct capital and manage a network of top-tier execution partners. This allows us to remain lean and focused, outsourcing tactical work like software development and media production to the best specialized firms in the world. We've allocated $250-400M for Phase 1 development with these proven partners. This model—a lean strategic core coordinating elite external teams—is the most capital-efficient and effective way to solve a problem of this scale.
Mitigation: Advisory board of constitutional scholars, DAO experts, and former officials; phased rollout with pilot countries.
26. "What if major powers sabotage it?" (Geopolitical Risk)
Response: Start with democratic alliances (US/EU covering 55% of spending), using economic incentives to pull in others—holdouts like Russia (<10% share) can't derail the math. Sabotage attempts (e.g., disinformation) are countered by blockchain verification. Alternative: Unchecked geopolitics risks nuclear winter (US–Russia exchange scenarios modeled at ~150 Tg soot leading to >5B famine deaths)—this reduces that by 1% globally even with partial adoption.
Mitigation: Multi-layered security (AI fraud detection, diplomatic backchannels); focus on mutual benefits over confrontation.
27. "Isn't this manipulative or risky?" (Ethical Concerns)
Response: Manipulation? The current system manipulates via $127M military lobbying for $2T contracts, yielding death over cures. Ours transparently incentivizes health, with safeguards like timelocked votes and public audits. Ethical math: Potential to save millions (e.g., via 80X more efficient trials) outweighs risks, preventing extinction scenarios from misallocated resources.
Mitigation: Independent ethics board; all decisions on-chain for accountability.
The Challenge: A $27B treasury is a massive target for hackers, fraudsters, and corrupt actors. Traditional DAOs with simple multisig controls have proven vulnerable to both technical exploits and social engineering attacks.
Our Multi-Layered Defense:
True Decentralized Control (Proven at Scale)
AI-Powered Fraud Detection
Complete Transparency & Auditability
Recovery & Response Mechanisms
Beyond Health: A Template for Uncorruptible Governance
This isn't just about protecting health funding - it's an experiment in building the next generation of radically more efficient, transparent, and corruption-resistant public institutions. Using proven DAO models that already manage billions (MakerDAO, Uniswap, Aave), we demonstrate that $27B can be managed with:
Applications Beyond Health:
The Vision: Replace corrupt, inefficient bureaucracies with transparent, automated, outcome-driven institutions that actually serve the public interest. The DIH treasury becomes the prototype for a new era of public governance - one that eliminates human corruption points entirely while delivering measurable results.
This experiment could usher in a new era of peace, prosperity, and abundance by proving that large-scale public goods can be managed through true decentralization without any centralized control points.
Get your referendum link → Earn VOTE points for each person who votes via your link. After the treaty passes, your points become convertible to VICTORY bonds.
Request an organization link → Mobilize your organization to earn rewards for verified votes. Access pooled bonus funds for building coalitions.
Buy VICTORY bonds → Fund the treasury, get repaid with interest when treaties pass.
Calculate your institution's allocation → See how much your university/company/nonprofit would receive.
Join the coalition → Help coordinate health institutions to support the treaty.
Pharmaceutical companies: Get 2-5X more R&D funding for the same work. Plus: Executives can personally invest in VICTORY Bonds and profit while their companies benefit.
Universities: Massive increase in research grants across all health departments. Plus: Administrators and board members can personally invest and profit from the system that funds their institutions.
Patient advocacy groups: Direct funding for your cause areas. Plus: Leadership can personally invest in the treasury that funds their missions.
Government health agencies: Expanded budgets without fighting for appropriations. Plus: Officials can personally invest in the system that boosts their agency's funding.
A Dual Mandate: Align your institution's mission with personal wealth creation. Your organization gets more funding while you profit from its success—a direct incentive to do good, better.
Contact us: institutions@warondisease.org to calculate your potential funding increase and personal investment opportunities.
Key Solutions: Address the main objections that could kill this proposal:
Strategy: The War on Disease: A New Strategy for a New Era
Treasury: DIH funding model
Coalition: Institution partnership framework
Treaty: Full 1% Treaty text
See the consolidated plan: Canonical Roadmap — 1% Treaty → DIH → dFDA.
Phase 1 (Months 1-12): Build global referendum platform; secure initial $250M financing tranche; launch in 5 pilot countries.
Phase 2 (Months 12-24): Achieve 3.5% global participation; begin independent expenditures in priority elections; first binding referendum votes.
Phase 3 (Months 24-36): Secure first national treaty commitments; establish DIH treasury operations; begin institutional funding.
Phase 4 (Months 36-48): Scale to major powers (US, EU, China); achieve $27B+ annual inflows; full operational deployment.
Phase 5 (Years 4+): Begin the multi-generational endgame. After a successful proof-of-concept period, initiate referendums for incremental increases to the redirection (e.g., to 1.5%, then 2%), creating a perpetual flywheel for peace. For details, see The Endgame: A Multi-Generational Strategy to Phase Out War.
Key Gates: 100M referendum participants → first $500M independent expenditure cycle → first treaty ratification → first $1B disbursement.
Cheating/Holdouts: Start with coalitions of willing nations; create competitive pressure and trade incentives for laggards.
Capture/Corruption: Transparent, algorithmic allocation based on verifiable health outcomes; independent audits funded by bounties.
Legal Challenges: Multi-jurisdiction compliance from Day 1; constitutional scholars on advisory board; structured as treaty obligations, not domestic mandates.
Timeline Risk: Phased approach with clear gates; early wins in smaller countries build momentum for major powers.
Global military spending ($2.72T, 2024)
"In 2024, world military expenditure reached $2.718 trillion, marking a 9.4% increase from the previous year."
— SIPRI, 2025, Trends in World Military Expenditure 2024
Previous global military spending ($2.44T, 2023)
"World military expenditure rose by 6.8 per cent in real terms in 2023, to reach $2443 billion."
— SIPRI, 2024, press release
3.5% participation tipping point
"The research found that nonviolent campaigns were twice as likely to succeed as violent ones, and once 3.5% of the population were involved, they were always successful."
— BBC Future, 2019, 'The 3.5% rule'
3.5% rule academic source
"Chenoweth and Maria Stephan studied the success rates of civil resistance efforts from 1900 to 2006, finding that nonviolent movements attracted, on average, four times as many participants as violent movements and were more likely to succeed."
— Wikipedia, 3.5% rule
"By 2050, 10 million lives a year and a cumulative $100 trillion of economic output are at risk due to the rise of drug-resistant infections if we do not find proactive solutions now to slow down the rise of drug resistance."
— Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, 2016, Final Report
"The economic impact of violence on the global economy in 2021 was $16.5 trillion, equivalent to 10.9% of global GDP, or $2,117 per person."
— Institute for Economics & Peace, 2022, Global Peace Index
"Assuming a global population of 7.8 billion and an average lifespan of 80 years, the per capita lifetime cost of violence is approximately $169,230."
— Derived from Global Peace Index data, internal calculation, 2024.
Defense industry lobbying spending
"During the first three quarters of 2022, the defense sector spent approximately $101 million on lobbying activities."
— Watson Institute, Brown University, 2022, Defense Sector Lobbying
"Military industry lobbying totaled ~$127 million in 2024."
— OpenSecrets, 2024, Defense industry lobbying totals
Global government medical research spending ($67.5B, 2023–2024)
"Global government spending on cure-oriented medical research reached approximately $67.5 billion in 2023–2024."
— DFDA Wiki, 2025, Global Government Medical Research Spending
"COVID-19 deaths: 7,010,681 confirmed deaths" vs. annual conflict deaths typically under 100,000.
— Our World in Data, 2024, COVID-19 Deaths
"Mental health conditions affect 1 in 4 people globally at some point in their lives, representing 30% of the global burden of disease."
— World Health Organization, 2022, Mental Health Fact Sheet
Pentagon audit failures ($2.46T unaccounted)
"In the most recent audit, the Department of Defense (DoD) could not account for approximately 60% of its $4.1 trillion in assets, amounting to $2.46 trillion unaccounted for."
— The Commune, 2024, Pentagon Misplaced $2.46 Trillion
Pentagon unsupported accounting adjustments ($6.5T, single year, US Army)
"In 2015, the Department of Defense's Inspector General reported that the Army could not adequately support $6.5 trillion in year-end adjustments, indicating severe accounting discrepancies."
— Accounting Magazine, 2016, Audit: Pentagon Cannot Account for $6.5 Trillion Dollars
NIH public medical research budget ($47.08B, FY 2024)
"In FY 2024, NIH received a total of $47.08 billion — an increase of $300 million from FY 2023."
— Society of Thoracic Surgeons (summarizing FY 2024 appropriations), 2024, Closer look at federal funding for key medical programs
US military spending share
"The United States accounts for approximately 40% of global military expenditure."
— SIPRI, 2024, Military Expenditure Database
Nuclear extinction events
"Global nuclear arsenal of ~13,000 warheads could trigger 13-130 nuclear winter scenarios."
— Based on Robock & Toon, 2010, Scientific American.
US foreign aid example
"The U.S. provides approximately $3.8 billion in annual military aid to Israel as part of long-term security cooperation agreements."
— Council on Foreign Relations, 2023, US Aid to Israel
ROI analysis
"Break-even in 18-36 months with 3.4X return even in partial success."
— Internal modeling based on SIPRI data, 2024.
"MakerDAO manages over $5 billion in assets through decentralized governance."
— MakerDAO, 2024, Official Site.
"Military industry lobbying totaled ~$127 million in 2024."
— OpenSecrets, 2024, Defense Lobbying.
"Following a successful global eradication campaign, the World Health Assembly officially declared the world free of smallpox in 1980."
— WHO, Smallpox Overview
"As of early 2024, we estimate that the world's nine nuclear-armed states possess a combined total of approximately 12,100 nuclear warheads."
— Federation of American Scientists, 2024, Status of World Nuclear Forces
"We estimate that a nuclear war between the United States and Russia would produce 150 Tg of soot and lead to ~5 billion people dying at the end of year 2."
— Xia et al., Nature Food, 2022, Global food insecurity and famine from nuclear war soot injection
"The median cost of a pivotal trial was estimated to be $19 million... the median cost per patient was $41,413."
— Moore, T. J., Zhang, H., Anderson, G., & Alexander, G. C. (2020). Estimated Costs of Pivotal Trials for Novel Therapeutic Agents Approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, 2015-2017. JAMA Internal Medicine. Link
"The RECOVERY trial, for example, cost only about $500 per patient... By contrast, the median per-patient cost of a pivotal trial for a new therapeutic is around $41,000."
— Oren Cass, Manhattan Institute, 2023, Slow, Costly Clinical Trials Drag Down Biomedical Breakthroughs
"The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, also known as the Ottawa Treaty, was adopted in 1997."
— ICBL, The Treaty
"From 1941 to 1945, the United States government issued War Bonds to finance military operations. Over 85 million Americans purchased bonds totaling more than $185 billion."
— U.S. Treasury, WWII War Bonds
"The Global Fund is a worldwide partnership to defeat HIV, TB and malaria and ensure a healthier, safer, more equitable future for all. We raise and invest more than US$5 billion a year to fight the deadliest infectious diseases, challenge the injustice that fuels them and strengthen health systems in more than 100 of the world's most affected countries."
— The Global Fund, Overview
"Over the past two decades, the top five defense contractors have spent $1.1 billion on lobbying..."
— Brown University, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, 2022. Link
"The top five defense firms received $2.02 trillion in contracts from the Pentagon during the 20 years of the war in Afghanistan."
— Responsible Statecraft, 2021, Top defense firms see $2T return on $1B investment in Afghan war
"The Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) prohibits any foreign national from contributing, donating or spending funds in connection with any federal, state or local election in the United States, either directly or indirectly."
— Federal Election Commission, Foreign Nationals
"The nearly 4 million comments submitted to the Federal Communications Commission about its proposed net neutrality rules shattered the agency's previous record..."
— Pew Research Center, 2014, FCC's net neutrality comment period ends with a bang
"The top U.S. defense contractor by total value of contracts awarded by the Department of Defense in fiscal year 2023 was Lockheed Martin, with contracts valued at $68.59 billion."
— Forecast International, 2024, Top 10 US Defense Contractors Based on FY23 DoD Prime Contracts
"Fossil fuel subsidies surged to a record $7 trillion last year as governments supported consumers and businesses during the global spike in energy prices caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the economic recovery from the pandemic."
— IMF, 2023, Fossil Fuel Subsidies Surged to Record $7 Trillion
"The top five defense firms received $2.02 trillion in contracts from the Pentagon during the 20 years of the war in Afghanistan... Over the past two decades, the top five defense contractors have spent $1.1 billion on lobbying... That calculates to an ROI of $1,813 for every dollar spent."
— ExecutiveBiz, 2021, Top 5 Defense Firms See $2T Return on $1B Investment in Afghan War
Mitigation: Advisory board of constitutional scholars, DAO experts, and former officials; phased rollout with pilot countries.
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