USAID Shenanigans

[Stargrunt6]

Post your favorite  revelations regarding USAID.

Here's mine:

 

 

[rmgill]

I think the term "Trans Industrial Complex" is appropriate. 

[Ivanhoe]

My favorite revelation, so far, is the funneling of federal taxpayer dollars to elect Soros prosecutors;

 

 

The Deep State essentially embezzled tax dollars, got Soros prosecutors elected, which has resulted in unnecessary deaths.

 

[DKTanker]

Rubio just fired all but 294 USAID employees.  Put another way, Rubio terminated the employment of 10,000 world wide USAID employees.

[Stargrunt6]

Friggin Politico y'all.  They broke now. For the first time in their history, they missed a pay period:

https://xcancel.com/bennyjohnson/status/1887147292412490111#m

 

[Stargrunt6]

51 minutes ago, DKTanker said:

Rubio just fired all but 294 USAID employees.  Put another way, Rubio terminated the employment of 10,000 world wide USAID employees.

I never knew how influential they were.  When other countries say we are trying to change their country, they weren't kidding.

If they do anything at all:

https://x.com/discotacos_/status/1887317073690272162

 

[Stargrunt6]

Influencing elections, worldwide:

 

 

[Mr King]

12 minutes ago, Stargrunt6 said:

Influencing elections, worldwide:

 

 

USAID was funding internet "fact checking", how curious.

[Mr King]

Quote

The House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump on December 18, 2019, after a White House whistleblower went public with evidence that Trump abused his powers by withholding military aid to Ukraine in order to dig up dirt on his rival, Joe Biden. In the complaint, the whistleblower claimed to have heard from White House staff that Trump had, on a phone call, directed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to work with his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, to investigate Joe Biden and Hunter Biden. The whistleblower who triggered the impeachment was a CIA analyst who was first brought into the White House by the Obama administration. Reporting by Drop Site News last year revealed that the CIA analyst relied on reporting by a supposedly independent investigative news organization called the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), which appears to have effectively operated as an arm of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which President Trump has just shut down. The CIA whistleblower complaint cited a long report by OCCRP four times. The OCCRP report alleged that two Soviet-born Florida businessmen were “key hidden actors behind a plan” by Trump to investigate the Bidens. According to the story, those two businessmen connected Giuliani to two former Ukrainian prosecutors. The OCCRP story was crucial to the House Democrats’ impeachment claim, which is that Trump dispatched Giuliani as part of a coordinated effort to pressure a foreign country to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, which is why the whistleblower cited it four times. In a 2024 documentary that German television broadcaster NDR made about OCCRP’s dependence on the US government, a USAID official confirmed that USAID approves OCCRP’s “annual work plan” and approves new hires of “key personnel.” NDR initiated and carried out the investigation with French investigative news organization Mediapart, Italian new group Il Fatto Quotidiano, Reporters United in Greece, and Drop Site News in the United States. However, according to a Mediapart story published the same day as the Drop Site News article, NDR censored the broadcast “after US journalist Drew Sullivan, the co-founder and head of the OCCRP, placed pressure on the NDR management and made false accusations against the broadcaster’s journalists involved in the project.” On December 16, Drop Site’s Ryan Grim posted a link on X to the 26-minute-long documentary. “NDR, Germany’s public broadcaster, is facing a censorship scandal and has defended itself by saying it never killed a news report about OCCRP and its State Department funding — b/c no report was ever produced to kill,” said Grim. “That was absurd — and dozens, maybe hundreds, of journalists knew it to be false, and now of course, someone has leaked it.” The journalistic collaboration revealed that OCCRP’s original funding came from the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the State Department, and quotes a USAID official who says, “Drew’s just nervous about being linked with law enforcement,” referring to Sullivan. “If people who are going to give you information think you’re just a cop, maybe it’s a problem.” OCCRP does not operate like a normal investigative journalism organization in that its goals appear to include interfering in foreign political matters, including elections, aimed at regime change. Sullivan told NDR that his organization had “probably been responsible for five or six countries changing over from one government to another government… and getting prime ministers indicted or thrown out.” As such, it appears that CIA, USAID, and OCCRP were all involved in the impeachment of President Trump in ways similar to the regime change operations that all three organizations engage in abroad. The difference is that it is highly illegal and even treasonous for CIA, USAID, and its contractors and intermediaries, known as “cut-outs,” to interfere in US politics this way. OCCRP threatened to file a lawsuit against Public in response to questions we sent. “The premise of your article is factually false and defamatory,” wrote Miranda Patrucic, the Editor in Chief of OCCRP, over email. “The claim by Dropsite News and partner media that USAID has control over editorial appointments has been disproven and we suggest you read our response to that.” But neither OCCRP nor anyone else disproved Drop Site’s allegations and Drop Site stands by them. And the evidence does not support OCCRP’s claim of journalistic independence....

Michael Shellenberger's investigative journalism on the work between CIA / USAID and foreign entities to impeach Trump in 2019
https://x.com/shellenberger/status/1887282681609588759

[Sinistar]

some years ago i read an article about a UN program going into some area in sub-saharan africa and trying to develop schools and combat illiteracy and all this sort of thing

in theory that sounds all well and good

at the same time they were not merely teaching arithmetic and reading and writing

the materials they were learning how to read was the progressive ideas of feminism and things like this you see in the west

and they were teaching the girls about the disparity of gender oppression and that the girls were inherently disadvantaged by patriarchy and all the familiar ideas

some village used as test run later turned out splintered and broke up when these UN workers checked back up on the village some time later

because some of the girls refused to return to their families or their men and refused to participate in the oppression, they refused to do the 'women's work' and the wells were untended and so on

 

and so as a result of this do-gooder attitude often pervading in the west they create these problems

 

a lot of these kinds of  government aid programs do not simply come without some motive like that attached to change these socities

 

and so you might find videos of some of these african politicians pushing back

recently i saw a couple

one against christiane amanpour from CNN and in another vs. a german diplomat

each having a discussion with these africans, and their african counterparts are lighting them up

 

christiane is talking down to this african politician like he and his countrymen are vile morons because they do not have the same human rights with respect to homosexuals

and his reply was to point out to her that no one from his country travels to hers and tells her how to behave and run things and how to correct her problems

 

then in the case of the video with the german diplomat who was a bit blown away that his african counterpart admitted that his country preferred to do business with china than germany or perhaps the west in general because the chinese are more interested in doing business than trying to woke-ify their countries the way the west does- business with the west or aid from the west always comes with these conditions and strings attached or with this motive to make them satellites of the west to exploit - or at least that was their perception of what all of that is doing

 

in general i see the point- i personally would not want someone else coming to my country telling me what we should be doing any more than i think i should presume to do that to someone else

 

you see the rise of BRICS as a competitor to the west because of what many non-aligned states perceive in the incredible western corruption and hypocrisy preaching every manner of humanisms while the west overthrows governments, nullifies elections, start civil wars or insinuates itself in civil wars and fund rebels and terrorists that the west happens to cherry pick or try to alter their societies with ideas cooked up by someone who fancy themselves experts because maybe a seminar or a graduate studies course they earned a certificate or something in

 

elements on the left used to push back on this sort of imperialism- but lately not so much

almost universally they seem onboard with it

because it is trump stirring the pot

and individuals like soros or the clintons or the obamas are doing it too

you see the narratives in the main stream virtually incapable of actually doing any investigative journalism into it

instead predictably towing the line for the mainstream democrat establishment

and there are only soundbites about trump's illegal or immoral power play

 

Edited February 7 by Sinistar

[NickM]

Just now, Sinistar said:

some years ago i read an article about a UN program going into some area in sub-saharan africa and trying to develop schools and combat illiteracy and all this sort of thing

in theory that sounds all well and good

at the same time they were not merely teaching arithmetic and reading and writing

the materials they were learning how to read was the progressive ideas of feminism and things like this you see in the west

and they were teaching the girls about the disparity of gender oppression and that the girls were inherently disadvantaged by patriarchy and all the familiar ideas

some village used as test run later turned out splintered and broke up when these UN workers checked back up on the village some time later

because some of the girls refused to return to their families or their men and refused to participate in the oppression, they refused to do the 'women's work' and the wells were untended and so on

 

and so as a result of this do-gooder attitude often pervading in the west they create these problems

 

Reminds me of an encounter I had while visiting the home of one of my overseas commie relatives: There was a 'local language' copy of Cosmopolitan and both my relative and her husband declared their intense dislike for the mag: as far as they were concerned, it existed only to create discord between husbands and wives and within the household==Given they were both communist party members, they already considered each other as co equals in status.

[Sinistar]

we do it to ourselves- which is a good indicator that we might view less sophisticated cultures as needing it even more

 

if you read men's interests magazines even years ago- sport's illustrated, men's health for example- they have been feminized and they are telling men how to be feminists or allies, they contain articles written by feminists instructing men how to think, or vote or behave to be with it

 

it would never go the other way- imagine if men were tapped to write articles in cosmo or appeared on the view and mansplained to the womyn how to be better wives and girlfriends and partners

 

the way the west views the genders is on full display

 

[seahawk]

It is all a play of the left. Destroy the foundations of a conservative and healthy society.

[Stargrunt6]

https://www.frontpagemag.com/usaid-sent-over-18-billion-to-islamic-terror-states/

 

[Ivanhoe]

A trivial amount, but a contract to build an Anthony Fauci exhibit at NIH headquarters has been canceled.

 

[rmgill]

I’d be fine with it, if it was him in a gibbet out front. 

[NickM]

1 hour ago, rmgill said:

I’d be fine with it, if it was him in a gibbet out front. 

GIBBETS AND CROWS!!

[NickM]

22 hours ago, Sinistar said:

we do it to ourselves- which is a good indicator that we might view less sophisticated cultures as needing it even more

 

if you read men's interests magazines even years ago- sport's illustrated, men's health for example- they have been feminized and they are telling men how to be feminists or allies, they contain articles written by feminists instructing men how to think, or vote or behave to be with it

 

it would never go the other way- imagine if men were tapped to write articles in cosmo or appeared on the view and mansplained to the womyn how to be better wives and girlfriends and partners

 

the way the west views the genders is on full display

 

Yeah...Men's Health! They had an article about whether the 'luster' was off of living in California. They ignored crime, anarchy, entrenched bureaucracy and the billions spent on the bullsh#t train to nowhere but they beat on about a few million spent in trying to get Newsom recalled

[Sinistar]

following the science for gavin newsom evidently got in the way of dining at his favorite exclusive bistro while everyone was supposed to be locked down

mask up

stay in

listen to the experts

make sacrifices

follow the science

it was serious

 

not that guy

plus in general the open crime waves they were either tolerating or permitting which by definition is not following the science

 

 

 

Edited February 8 by Sinistar

[PaulFormerlyinSaudi]

Congress established the agency. Congress ordered the money be spent. The President decided he did not want to. 

[DKTanker]

18 minutes ago, PaulFormerlyinSaudi said:

Congress established the agency. Congress ordered the money be spent. The President decided he did not want to. 

You're talking about USAID?  Then that is incorrect.  USAID is an agency created in 1961 by an executive order signed by President Kennedy.  What is created by executive order can be undone by executive order.  Just ask Joe Biden, or at least the shadowy figures that pulled his strings.

[Murph]

The Democrats have not been this hysterical since they were forced to give up their slaves.   It appears that Act Blue and many other Democrap rice bowls are now sucking wind for money.

[Ivanhoe]

[Ivanhoe]

[Ivanhoe]

Since we have the Deep State, NGOs, and the MSM acting in concert funded by taxpayers, I think its time we started talking about the Democratic-Fascist Complex.