24 Dec 2024 8:45 am
According to the report, the Department of Defense (DOD) spent $10,851,439 on what it describes as an “Orwellian Cat Experiment.” The experiment was completed under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) at the University of Pittsburgh.The experiment involved slicing the back of male cats, exposing their spinal cords. Researchers then used electrodes which “fired off electric shocks while the incision was still open to make cats have an erection.”It gets worse, as researchers continued to torture cats, shocking them up to ten minutes at a time and severing their spinal cords:righteous » 24 Dec 2024, 9:28 am » wrote: ↑ from the billions spent giving COVID relief funds to ineligible people to a $118,000 study on whether Marvel movie villain Thanos would really be able to snap his fingers while wearing the Infinity Gauntlet.
The Vera Institute of Justice got $168 million to help illegal immigrants avoid deportation, and this group has received more than $1.1 billion since 2008, the report found
Department of Defense spent nearly $200,000 on espresso machines from Starbucks.
It spent $689,000 to study romance between parrots
$187,000 to verify that the loving relationship between kids and their pets is beneficial.
$2.3 million to inject beagle puppies with cocaine, and it spent $1.1 million to watch mice get drunk.
More than $31.5 million worth of COVID funds went to buy luxury cars, and another $1.6 million was used to upgrade turf fields in Wisconsin
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In another shocking DARPA-funded experiment, researchers “attached electrodes to cats’ spinal cords and inserted condom- balloons into their colons and marbles into their rectums.”“The objective? To force these poor animals to defecate the marbles via electric shock,” the report found. One cat was shocked for 11 minutes:But the horror doesn’t end there. These cats were then subjected to even more electric shocks, sometimes for up to 10 minutes at a time, before having their spinal cords severed to paralyze their lower bodies. And just for good measure, the shocks continued for another 10 minutes. All this, in the name of “science.”
Your hard-earned money, nearly $11 million of it, was spent on experiments that would be more at home in a dystopian novel than the real world. It’s a grim reminder that, when left unchecked, government spending can drift into
realms that defy common sense.