Trump Shutting Down USAID

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I would love to see this list and their salaries. Wonder if they can pull that data?

Public shaming especially during campaign season might be the only way to stick a fork in this BS. I am talking about both sides too. (Unlike 99.9% of Dems)
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Wildest part of this story is how folks were talking about the soft-coup against Trump on here 5 or 6 years ago.

Recall that it was such a controversial issue that that it was tagged as a threat to democracy and lost to the sands of time.

An unbelievable course of events.
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And while this should be leading the news on every channel, it's getting as much traction as a fart in the wind.

Mention this to 80% of the population, and they'll call you a conspiracy theorist. Whereas the actual evidence points towards foul play.
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Stat Monitor Repairman said:



Wildest part of this story is how folks were talking about the soft-coup against Trump on here 5 or 6 years ago.

Recall that it was such a controversial issue that that it was tagged as a threat to democracy and lost to the sands of time.

An unbelievable course of events.
CIAmarella and Vindman were not accidentally involved.
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TTUArmy said:

USAID has been a front for funding CIA Ops.

Read a Tom Clancy novel...lol.
The difference was that, at some point around 2008, the mission of USAID turned from exporting democracy at whatever cost into destroying populism and nationalism at whatever cost.

That is the biggest problem.
It takes a special kind of brainwashed useful idiot to politically defend government fraud, waste, and abuse.
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Hubert J. Farnsworth said:

Good. Screw USAID.
I feel about as bad for them as I feel for all those 1940's unemployed Nazi uniform manufacturers.
It takes a special kind of brainwashed useful idiot to politically defend government fraud, waste, and abuse.
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BusterAg said:

TTUArmy said:

USAID has been a front for funding CIA Ops.

Read a Tom Clancy novel...lol.
The difference was that, at some point around 2018, the mission of USAID turned from exporting democracy at whatever cost into destroying populism and nationalism at whatever cost.

That is the biggest problem.

Sounds like a "fundamental change", does it not?
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agent-maroon said:

BusterAg said:

TTUArmy said:

USAID has been a front for funding CIA Ops.

Read a Tom Clancy novel...lol.
The difference was that, at some point around 2018, the mission of USAID turned from exporting democracy at whatever cost into destroying populism and nationalism at whatever cost.

That is the biggest problem.

Sounds like a "fundamental change", does it not?
Um, yeah. 100%. I don't get the context, though.
It takes a special kind of brainwashed useful idiot to politically defend government fraud, waste, and abuse.
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BusterAg said:

agent-maroon said:

BusterAg said:

TTUArmy said:

USAID has been a front for funding CIA Ops.

Read a Tom Clancy novel...lol.
The difference was that, at some point around 2018, the mission of USAID turned from exporting democracy at whatever cost into destroying populism and nationalism at whatever cost.

That is the biggest problem.

Sounds like a "fundamental change", does it not?
Um, yeah. 100%. I don't get the context, though.


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Thanks.

I think I would have picked up a fundamental transformation reference. I get it now.

Obama definitely delivered as promised.
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Sorry for no reply. Dealing with a power failure.
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No problem.

And, I take no offense to people that don't reply directly on an internet forum. This is something I do in my spare time, and will spend weeks off line with zero regrets on anyone I left hanging.
It takes a special kind of brainwashed useful idiot to politically defend government fraud, waste, and abuse.
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Brussels: sure, you can join the EU as soon as Norm Eisen's crew approves of your 'judicial reforms.'

More Gates Foundation, and US Institute for Peace Clinton corruption:


Freely paying the Taliban still grinds my gears:

More at the thread.
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If I were Serbia I would so not be wanting to join the EU.
Vance in '28
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Albright is another one who should be facing charges. I don't care how old she is.

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Bill Burns worked for the State Dept for 30+ years, then ran the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and then was picked to run the CIA (supposedly by Biden).

All swamp creations right next to each other. With the USIP and NED:


Much more at the thread, and substack piece:
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Author: Mark Leonard
Published: April 2022, Journal of Democracy, Vol. 33, No. 2
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Key Evidence of Soros's Influence (Indirect):
The article aligns with Soros's European Council on Foreign Relations agenda, framing populist parties as Kremlin proxies while elevating liberal, NATO-aligned elites as democracy's saviors.
Notable Quotes:
  • "Mainstream leaders strengthened...populist parties lost legitimacy."
    NATO-aligned centrists win, nationalist dissenters are delegitimized.
  • "Youngs's book...an important counterpoint..."
    Soft ideological reinforcement of the Soros-aligned worldview.


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I can't wait until Soros dies
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Which one? George's son Alex will be taking over and is reputed to be worse than his old man. We're not getting rid of the Soros cancer anytime soon
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agent-maroon said:

Which one? George's son Alex will be taking over and is reputed to be worse than his old man. We're not getting rid of the Soros cancer anytime soon
Alex may be more extreme, but I doubt he has the experience, trust, intelligence and connections to pull off what his dad has done. At a minimum there will be a feeling out period to see if elected officials can trust him. I see him taking dads money and living his lifestyle within 6 months.

And everyone says the next in line is worse with only few real examples being true. It would be extremely hard to match George's diabolical evil much less be worse. By now, Alex would have made some moves by now that would have shown it but that hasn't been reported. The only example I can think of that the next in line being actually worse is Uday and Qusay Hussein. They showed there evil far before Saddam died.

Really, I am just praying he isn't worse.
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If nothing else, any future associations by Americans (and especially those involving OUR tax dollars) with Dr Evil Jr, once Sr assumes room temperature should and will be heavily scrutinized. Of course these SOBs are likely plotting how to pull the curtain back closed as we speak.

I hope the hell there is a movement to fire any Republican congresspeople who don't act to dismantle this monster. We the people need to pay attention.

Thinking out loud, Trump should lay out the facts at the next State of the Union address as that will be covered by all networks(since his every other day pressers will be avoided). In a perfect world, he could announce how he and Congress are specifically working together to legislate these corrupt actions out of our system.

Make/force the working folks (the middle) realize how the Dems are stealing them blind. Boom.
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Enemies of the people/republic.


Exactly:
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Dirty money people gonna fight dirty.
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Entirely unsurprising corruption/embezzlement/graft.

And the guy has never been arrested/charged, fwiw.
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USAID was the single largest funder of terrorism for the past 30 years in the world.
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https://www.newsweek.com/bill-gates-says-elon-musk-killing-worlds-poorest-children-2069595
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Bill Gates has accused fellow billionaire Elon Musk of "killing the world's poorest children" over the cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development, as the philanthropist brings forward a deadline to spend all his wealth on tackling global issues such as health and education.

"The picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one," the Microsoft founder told the Financial Times.

Newsweek has contacted Musk for comment via an email to Tesla's press office.

Why it Matters
Musk, the CEO of the electric automaker Tesla, spearheaded the efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency to slash federal spending, including the shuttering of USAID.
Well, if the swamp weren't liars and thieves, then aid wouldn't have been cut. Place the blame on DC, not DOGE.
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ProgN said:

https://www.newsweek.com/bill-gates-says-elon-musk-killing-worlds-poorest-children-2069595
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Bill Gates has accused fellow billionaire Elon Musk of "killing the world's poorest children" over the cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development, as the philanthropist brings forward a deadline to spend all his wealth on tackling global issues such as health and education.

"The picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one," the Microsoft founder told the Financial Times.

Newsweek has contacted Musk for comment via an email to Tesla's press office.

Why it Matters
Musk, the CEO of the electric automaker Tesla, spearheaded the efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency to slash federal spending, including the shuttering of USAID.
Well, if the swamp weren't liars and thieves, then aid wouldn't have been cut. Place the blame on DC, not DOGE.
Gates is trying to maintain the carefully CIA-crafted farce that the AID in USAID had anything to do with feeding starving children.
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Thank the good Lord Bill Gates doesn't have as much money as Elon, to spend on 'helping the world's children.'

I only wish some other woman had managed to take half of his money again a la Melinda, to further limit his harm, but I guess he had too much action with Epstein on the side to get remarried.

Once again, note the dearth of 3rd world/southern hemisphere leaders lamenting the loss of USAID funding to sustain their children. Because that would just be a lie.
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Bill knows it would be a bad look to marry a young teenager girl, which apparently he became interested in at some point.

If he is sincere about saving these starving children he can go right ahead and spend HIS money doing it. We're broke. With an efficient process the money could go a long ways and perhaps Elon could help him streamline the spending efforts to feed more. Of course we all know it has nothing to do with hunger.

I reckon his cricket paste wouldn't sound terrible if you're hungry enough. How far would that go?
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Probably all correct. More receipts on the scumbag that is Stacey Abrams and the people around her.



They were trying to grab around 10 billion dollars from Biden's "Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund" from the (Orwellian named) Inflation Reduction Act which the CEO helped to write.
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1st, her popup nonprofit Rewiring America was part of the Power Forward Communities popup NGO shell that got $2B of your money to give away free "green" appliances. But as Abrams admits, they only replaced appliances for just 89 homes in the tiny town of De Soto, Ga. Supporters say "they meant well," but why didn't these homes just get rebates instead? Where did the money go?

Studying the tax returns for these popup nonprofit shells, millions of $$ were spent on officials' compensation and unstipulated "expenses", and a lot of time was spent on lofty rhetoric like green "rewiring 130M homes." And that $2B was 20 million times it's just $100 in revenues when Power Forward came together in 2023.

Abrams joined Rewiring America in 2023. That same year, Rewiring America partnered with four other NGOs to form the Power Forward Communities popup
nonprofit shell, which aimed to take in a huge $9.5 billion from Biden's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF).

About six months later, Power Forward got $2B, amid growing reports - & Special Counsel Robert Hur's finding - that Joe Biden was in cognitive decline. It officially launched in August 2024. EPA chief Lee Zeldin is trying to claw back $20B overall that 8 nonprofits got.

And Ways & Means Chair Jason Smith is now urging the IRS to revoke the tax-free status for Abrams' New Georgia Project popup nonprofit she founded in 2013. Georgia recently fined it $300K for breaking state ethics laws spending tax-free nonprofit money on Abrams' gubernatorial campaign.
This was a scheme so pure the Democrats in many quarters thought she should have been Kamala's VP candidate.

Living large. Any day now, Bondi and Patel. If my pea brain using an ipad can piece this crap together from my recliner on a Saturday morning in around 10 minutes, I'd like to think the vast resources of the FBI and DoJ could find some criminality to indict within a half year.
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Let's talk about Ari Matusiak, currently "Rewiring America" CEO. I wonder if there's any obvious indicia of bribery and graft/embezzlement in his background? Oh:
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Ari Matusiak is co-founder, president and CEO of Rewiring America. He is founder and co-chair of Power Forward Communities, a national coalition awarded $2 billion from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to decarbonize and reinvest in American households. He was a founding partner of PVG, a consulting firm committed to driving climate solutions. Matusiak was previously the co-founder and chair of Young Invincibles, a nonprofit that gave voice to young adults in the health reform debate and helped drive passage of the Affordable Care Act, and was chief strategy officer of Renovate America, a residential energy efficiency and renewable energy financing platform. From 2011 through 2014, he was special assistant to the president and director of private sector engagement in the Obama White House. Earlier in his career, Matusiak was vice president of strategy and community impact at the Rhode Island Foundation and co-founder and director of HousingWorks RI, a coalition that catalyzed over $1 billion in affordable housing development and thousands of good paying jobs in the Ocean State. He graduated cum laude and as a Public Interest Law Scholar from Georgetown University Law Center, and is a magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University.
Checks the right boxes; Obama advisor, Georgetown Law/Brown grad, Obamacare passage driver, but maybe let's look at PVG, where he got his start. Currently headed by Tony Curnes:
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He serves on the board of Allied Climate Partners and the NYCHA Sustainability Council, and has previously served on the boards of Trove and Syncsort (now Precisely). His work alongside the team at PVG has enabled clients to access billions of dollars in capital for climate solutions.

Prior to PVG, Tony was a Principal at Centerbridge Partners where he made private equity and distressed credit investments which delivered over $1B in profit to fund investors. He started his career in Blackstone's Mergers & Acquisitions group.

Tony is a graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the M&T Program at the University of Pennsylvania, summa cum laude, with degrees in engineering and economics. He enjoys using the language of finance to render difficult strategic questions clear. That, and strength training, Neoplatonist philosophy, and Liverpool football. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Apeksha.
That billions of capital sure sounds like it likely came from the US government, if sometimes through an NGO network of DFA/sub-grants. Remember when the scoundrels from private equity at Bain Capital meant Mitt Romney was evil incarnate?

How about Systemiq Capital, how much of this was graft over the past 12 months…by providing 'connections' to the government?
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London and New York, April 10, 2024

Systemiq Capital and Purpose Venture Group (PVG) have announced a new partnership to accelerate climate solutions into the marketplace. PVG joins as a venture partner and investor in Systemiq Capital, which backs climate tech entrepreneurs raising late-seed to Series A/B rounds with $140m AUM.

Current Systemiq Capital portfolio companies include: Basecamp Research, which is building a new value chain between biodiversity and biotechnology; ZeroAvia, a hydrogen aviation leader; Jupiter Intelligence, a climate risk analytics provider; Charm Industrial, carbon removal leader; and, Nature Metrics, which has established the world's largest environmental DNA database. To date, the Systemiq fund has achieved a number of notable exits to date including OpenInvest, a pioneer in values-based investing, which sold to J.P. Morgan in 2021, as well as Upside Energy, a leader in battery optimisation, which sold to Octopus Energy in 2020 and is now continuing to expand as Kraken Flex.

Systemiq Capital's successful partnership with its sister company, Systemiq, which is a climate focused "system change" advisory company, has bolstered insights and supported founders with valuable climate connections.
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Tony Curnes, Founding Partner at Purpose Venture Group, added,
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"This partnership represents a shared vision for a greener, more equitable world, leveraging our respective expertise to develop a portfolio of solutions that can scale globally, helping excellent founders and teams foster innovation and deliver impact that makes a real difference to our collective future. We are excited to work with Systemiq Capital to drive this meaningful change."

With a strong commitment to sustainable and ethical investment, this fund is set to become a cornerstone of the next generation of climate tech success stories.

Kraken Flex alone sounds like it is worth a dive as to the waste.
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Good God what a tangled web. It's no wonder so many people rah rah about climate change, it's the massively enormous golden goose

The only way to end this madness is to 100% zero out the funding. Sorry about the baby in that bath water, afuera!
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All that and not one accomplishment mentioned.

Pls bring back the hanging tree.
“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”
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Jack Squat 83 said:

Good God what a tangled web. It's no wonder so many people rah rah about climate change, it's the massively enormous golden goose

The only way to end this madness is to 100% zero out the funding. Sorry about the baby in that bath water, afuera!

And it appears almost everything the govt funds is the same way. This is why the wholesale elimination of govt spending, depts, agencies, etc is the only way.

There's so much useless crap and outright fraud going on that you can't comb through it all. We've reached a point that instead of trying to pluck out the bad stuff, we need to eliminate all of it. Then we can sift through the ashes and try to pick out the very few good things.
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Insanity.

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All kinds of statutes that could be used here. Criminal and civil, to say nothing of administrative procedures.

If the DoJ is remotely serious.

But as of right now, there's no evidence to believe that is the case.
 
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