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NED being looked at to today.

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a private, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world. Each year, NED makes more than 2,000 grants to support the projects of non-governmental groups abroad who are working for democratic goals in more than 100 countries.

Elon Musk and President Donald Trump are working to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development , as Musk stated, "He agreed we should shut it down."
Musk leads the Department of Government Efficiency and discussed the agency's closure during a social media talk on X.
USAID staff reported being locked out of their computer systems and instructed to stay out of the agency's headquarters on February 3.
The Trump administration placed two top security officials at USAID on leave after they refused to grant Musk's team access to classified information.

There was a dramatic bureaucratic showdown at USAID heaquarters (now closed) yesterday. One’s heart grieves for the two top USAID security officials who were forced to come in to work on Sunday. Worse, even after that sacrifice, the Administration fired them (placed on administrative leave). It seems they came in just to block DOGE staff from accessing the USAID computers.

Apparently, the DOGE people even threatened to call the cops on the USAIDers.

Ironically, the USAID people claimed the agency’s data was classified. Remember, the media wants everyone to think USAID just gives school lunches to starving Rwandan kindergartners. The truth is USAID is the deep state’s right tentacle, and diligent independent researchers were chopping that slimy limb off all weekend by outing the agency over and over again.

With enthusiastic support from one Elon Musk, who happily re-tweeted each new disclosure.

Most amusingly, RINO neocon and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, popped up yesterday to defend the Deep State and, as shown in the screen grab above, Bill —not at all reading the room— expressed his deep personal preference for the Swamp.

But, as a diligent independent researcher immediately noted, the Swamp pays Bill for his support, quite handsomely too, through a now-unsurprising series of deceptively named nonprofits.

In other words, the awful situation we find ourselves in is that USAID doesn’t just destabilize foreign governments. It’s also been buying off destabilizing influencers here at home, too. That includes journalists, like the aforementioned Bill Kristol, politicians like Representative AOC (D-NY), chaos agents like Alexander Vindman, mass murdering bioengineers like Ecohealth Alliance and the Wuhan Lab, Ukraine (of course), the Clinton Foundation, and most especially Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC):




That list only scratched the surface. Independent online sleuths quickly found these connections just using open-source information, linking the octopus-like agency to various public figures and organizations. We haven’t even seen yet what more DOGE will come up with.

The Trump people know all about USAID. Here’s a pre-election clip of RFK explaining to Tucker Carlson how USAID funded Ukraine’s 2014 overthrow:




Curiously, and highly suggestively, right around the same time Lindsay Graham’s links to USAID started appearing online, the Senator reversed course and unenthusiastically said on Fox he would, after all, vote for Tulsi, RFK, and Kash Patel, all three, for sure...

USAID’s collapse and Lindsay’s helpful vote were completely unconnected. Right?

USAID’s controlled demolition is rippling across the planet. One example included a ‘shocking’ and ‘unexpected’ development in the Proxy War. You will never guess what the green sweatshirt man said this time. Honor compels me to screen grab the original headline and the picture together. Eurasia Daily’s combination was simply too good, I’d like to shake the headline editor’s hand:




“When they say that Ukraine received 200 billion during the war to support the army and so on, this is not true,” Zelensky told a reporter from Strana. “I do not know where all this money is,” he pleaded earnestly. Don’t blame me.

You cannot make this stuff up. Was the timing of Zelensky’s sudden and unprovoked confession of a missing $100 billion a coincidence, or was it related to the rapid weekend collapse of USAID’s fortress of dirty tricks?

I note without comment that the money to Ukraine flowed, or would have flowed, through USAID.

Could this be it? Could this scorched-earth, headquarters-shuttering USAID purge be the long-awaited housecleaning moment, forecast from the movie "Sum of All Fears", via a scene set to Trump’s favorite aria, Nessun Dorma? Last night, before boarding Air Force One, President Trump actually answered questions and told barking reporters that USAID was run by “a bunch of radical lunatics.” He promised, “we're getting them out, and then we'll make a decision.”

*) Like old HMMV which I can buy at a government auction for $2-8K accounted at replacement cost of $280K for a completely new modern troop carrier or fucking ATACAMS missiles slated for decommissioning and disposal, etc.

The Pentagon never, not even once came even close to passing an audit.

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*) Like old HMMV which I can buy at a government auction for $2-8K accounted at replacement cost of $280K for a completely new modern troop carrier or fucking ATACAMS missiles slated for decommissioning and disposal, etc.

Great.

So when we Audit, we should find a replacement new vehicle at full sticker price for every old one sent to Ukraine.

Or, we will locate the difference in $$$.

Yesterday, eclipsed by other news, the USAID takedown receded from corporate media front-page headlines. But the burgeoning story continued to develop. The AP ran an article late yesterday headlined, “Trump and Musk move to dismantle USAID, igniting battle with Democratic lawmakers.”

Social media regulars are well aware the Democrats howled in protest yesterday over the closing of an “independent” agency that nobody outside government circles ever paid any attention to before now. USAID is an insider joke, a wink-wink, nudge-nudge, know-what-I-mean kind of thing. It’s a perq for progressives who tow the globalist line.

To the literati, if you could say “my non-profit just got authorized with USAID,” it meant welcome to the club and enjoy your ride on the gravy train. But it’s over. Regardless of what happens next, that particular perquisite for government insiders has been shattered forever.

You might even say the entire world is breathing a tremulous sigh of relief.

The USAID drama reached a shrill, feverish pitch yesterday. A coterie of Congressional Democrats led by party low-lights Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Ilhan Abdullahi Omar (D-Minn.), along with a few dozen hastily assembled “protestors,” showed up at USAID’s shuttered HQ, and filmed themselves indignantly demanding access.

What they planned to do if they actually got in is anybody’s guess. Probably insurrection.

Two bored security guards refused entry, so the furious progressives delivered speeches to each other on the sidewalk using USAID HQ as a prop. Trump is blowing his nose on the Constitution! It’s a coup! Nobody elected Elon! Et cetera and so forth.

More significantly, President Trump appointed Secretary of State Marco Rubio as the new Acting Director of USAID. Secretary Rubio then assigned an unnamed manager, who Democrats darkly suspect to be a known USAID hawk. “USAID has a history of acting like it’s a global charity,” Rubio explained in an interview. “It ignores the national interest of the United States, but these aren’t donor dollars; they’re taxpayer dollars.”

The Democrats’ Dirty Tricks brigade showed up in force, too. It’s not clear yet where it started, possibly Wired magazine. But the hellish fever swamps of progressive mania discovered DOGE’s core team of ex-Musk employees. There are six, and they are all extraordinary young men between the ages of 19 and 25.

One, for example, once won an award for using AI to decipher a 2,000 papyrus scroll that experts couldn’t make any sense of. The names and addresses of the young men were instantly leaked to media and the Internet, and of course the death threats began immediately on BlueSky, which is the vaunted new home of the intellectual, peace-loving, and tolerant left.

Fortunately, interim District of Columbia U.S. Attorney Ed Martin quickly clamped down on the doxxing and threats. Rolling Stone ran a snide, resentful story last night headlined, “Musk, Trump Prosecutor Targeting People Who Divulge Identities of DOGE Staff.” The sub-headline groused, “The self-described free speech champion is not pleased that the public has learned the identities of his young henchmen.”

As a lawyer, it seems likely to me that the six young men will soon have highly lucrative defamation cases against far-left news outlets with deep pockets. A key category of commercial defamation, considered so injurious it requires no proof of damages (which are presumed), is when the defamatory statement tends to injure the person in his chosen trade or profession.

Rolling Stone called them “babies” and strongly implied they were totally unqualified. Even worse for the media assassins, the DOGE men are not public figures, despite Rolling Stone’s efforts to make them famous. As private citizens, their defamation cases will be much easier to prove.

And lest we forget —but how could we?— in 2021, Democrats re-defined “insurrection” to mean non-violently interfering with government operations. So, I hope Rolling Stone’s insurrectionists are not trying to interfere with DOGE’s operations. We know what to do with insurrectionists.

Who knows. If anything, USAID’s long-overdue public exposure picked up steam yesterday. In one stellar example, Elon pointed out that USAID funded the Wuhan coronavirus experiments. In doing so, Elon accidentally (and correctly) called covid a bioweapon, which confirms that the space billionaire is really getting it.



We might finally be getting somewhere. One of the most mysterious and least understood facets of the pandemic was how, within a few short weeks, every single country in the world but one fell into line with US pandemic policy. They all adopted the same draconian solutions, the lockdowns and the mandates, without any democratic debate or even a single vote in any congress, parliament, or legislature anywhere.

I will not be surprised if we soon discover that USAID was the tool that was used to co-opt the world’s democracies during covid.

Somehow, despite moving at turbo speed, Trump has kept Congressional Republicans on board. The fact that the only folks complaining about the demolition of USAID are Democrats is very telling. If anything, the USAID battle seems to have loaded more lead into Republicans’ pencils. For example, yesterday Senator John Kennedy told reporters that anybody upset about USAID should “call somebody who cares” — and they should get ready for what’s coming next.

The Democrats may have just begun to fight their battles to save USAID, but Trump has already won the war. USAID has always been hard to kill. Republicans have been sounding the alarm about USAID for years. For example, back in 2017, Florida Representative Francis Rooney complained to reporters that USAID funds the World Economic Forum, even though “everybody arrives in a Gulfstream G5.”

Rooney wasn’t even close to being the only one to raise the alarm about the rogue agency. But the “independent humanitarian agency” was too just wonky and too complicated for the public to ever fully grasp the danger. So, like flying cockroaches after a nuclear war, USAID survived in dark corners of obscurity and under rotting logs of confusion.

But now —thanks largely to Democrats’ hysterical response— the klieg lights of sharp public scrutiny have been aimed squarely into the windows of the deep state’s global laundromat. Everyone can see it now. There is no conceivable way USAID can skitter back into the shadows. It is done. The era of USAID as the globalists’ tool of destabilization is over. The brand has been nuked. They’ll have to build a new cockroach farm.

The genius of Trump’s strategy was not so much in pulling out USAID’s money plug, as effective as that was, but in creating the massive controversy over the little-known agency. Think of it—how else could they have gotten the public and all the lawmakers to give USAID the necessary attention? Genius.

As for Musk’s six intrepid young DOGE geniuses who are helping save America, the Democrats’ deplorable efforts to assassinate them may just backfire, and their careers might be rocket-fueled instead. We shall see.

Finally, give a moment’s thought about how USAID’s liquidation has freed the entire world, especially those poor souls in destabilized countries in Africa and Eastern Europe who were valiantly battling hordes of progressive NGOs funded by U.S. tax dollars. At minimum, they are now enjoying a welcome reprieve. But maybe this means they’ll get their countries back.

USAID EXPOSED: The Single Largest Criminal Fraud Operation in Human History

The public’s outrage over USAID corruption is now at scale and mainstream. USAID has been fully exposed as a left-wing money laundering criminal organization. Here’s what our researchers were able to find when looking into their expenditures and why President Trump and Elon Musk must shut it down:

- Haiti: Post-2010 earthquake, $1.14 billion was spent on a port and power plant project promoted by President Bill Clinton. The project never built anything.
- Cuba: A 2006 audit showed $74 million in “democracy promotion” funds vanished without oversight.
- Afghanistan: Millions squandered on health scams; hospitals never built.
- Nigeria: Chemonics, a major USAID contractor, was linked to a subcontractor's overbilling scandal. Hundreds of millions lost.
- COVID 19 Funding: USAID sent over $40MILLION in taxpayer money to a scientist located in Wuhan to do gain of function mutations. This directly led to the creation and release of COVID-19
- $2.5 MILLION to DEI in Serbia
- $70,000 onan Irish DEI musical
- $47,000 on transgender operas in Colombia
- $32,000 on a trans comic book in Peru
- Iraq: $20M for an Iraqi version of Sesame Street to promote LGBTQ Agenda
- Egypt & Tunisia: $56M for “tourism”
- Jordan: $40M for “schools”
- Vietnam: $11M to fight “trash burning”
- Central America: $27M for deportee gift bags.
- Trump Lawfare: $27M to fund left wing prosecutions of populist political opponents around the globe, including Donald Trump. Patently illegal.

And countless billions more.

Here’s the thing: The majority of this money never went to the “projects” they claim to be promoting. It’s just pure money laundering from your tax dollars into deep state left wing activists. USAID is likely the largest fraud operation in human history.

Trump and Elon are ending it. Watch who cries the hardest about it — they’re the true criminals.

the simple fact is this: half the permanent state is a massive grifter-plex of special interests running amok and waging war on we the people for their own benefit. it’s 1000’s of unelected anointed running groups like this:




they got $769 million back in 2022. their sole aim is to encourage illegal immigration and to make expelling such illegal aliens more difficult. it’s taxpayer money spent to create outcomes that most taxpayers would happily pay to avoid. it’s a jobs program for cronies and extra-governmental activism to subvert the basic sovereignty of the state and its ability to serve the demos.

there are innumerable groups like this. back in SF we called it “the homeless industrial complex.” they got huge budgets based on how many homeless people they “served.” but if they ever actually got them off the streets, they got less money. it was literally capitated. so they fed them, gave them money for drugs, and made it impossible to arrest them no matter what they did. they donated to politicians who favored that. the incentive were entirely perverse. ...

USAID and who knows who else were all out meddling for decades in foreign elections. they have probably been meddling in ours.

suddenly, these agencies are losing their minds about “declassification efforts.”

it certainly does make on wonder: why were they classifying anything at all? wasn’t this supposed to be aid?




... they are in absolute trauma that DOGE has access to the treasury payment systems.

i told you they’d find just the right place to put the lever and pry.

that’s it. OMB and payments. it’s the whole game, the commanding heights. ...

there is no way, even with AI to ferret out all these groups, their cutouts, their subterfuge and skullduggery. it’s too deep, too vast, too well hidden and camouflaged.

you cannot find them.

so you make them find you.

you shut the money off and see who squawks. ...

it also turns out that all you had to do was shut off the flow of free food and many of the cockroaches would walk right out into the middle of the kitchen floor and announce themselves.

Press Sec. Leavitt highlights the insane DEI/Trans agenda that the USAID funds overseas under the guise of “foreign aid”.

Not only is the USAID a slush fund for the Deep State to enrich themselves, it’s also a weapon to push their global agenda, and infect nations with their radical Left-wing policies.

They were using our tax dollars to incorporate DEI around the world, and brainwash the youth of other nations to believe in the 2SLGBTQIA+ insanity.

Essentially, the USAID is the money source that funds virtually all Deep State projects around globe. The USAID is source of their influence and power, hence why Trump is purging it.

Trump is cutting off the head of the snake.

USAID Employees Attempt to Stop Audit in Physical Confrontation

Elon Musk announced this morning that President Trump agreed to permanently close USAID, after USAID employees unsuccessfully attempted to physically stop DOGE engineers from entering D.C. offices at the Ronald Reagan building on Saturday evening. DOGE’s audit confirmed that this US federal agency funded bioweapons research, global pandemic surveillance, and psychological operations (psyops).

“..these EUA injections, not only are all of the campaigns and propaganda a bunch of lies to terrorize people into getting injected…this thing is not a vaccine, there is no benefit to your health when you get injected. The only thing it can do is poison, harm, and kill.” -Karen Kingston, Stew Peters Show, July 28, 2021

What Elon and DOGE are doing threatens the very heart of the modern Democratic Party Crime Syndicate. It’s obvious from their frantic screeching.




Yeah—I don’t think it was any secret that Elon Musk was going to have a large role in the Trump administration. He was constantly on stage with Trump at rallies. None of this is a surprise. Pocohontas is grasping because she knows the jig is up.

... Bill Kristol is far from the only one, too. He’s the tip of the iceberg. All of this is just the tip of the iceberg.




Kristol poses as a public intellectual, I think he used to be the publisher of a conservative magazine—basically fashions himself as some well-mannered smart guy (a William F. Buckley ripoff) who you should allow to dictate America’s foreign policy (spoiler alert: his solution to every problem is war and more money for Israel).

His salary is paid by the government, specifically the CIA front agency USAID.

Everything he pushes, then, is pro-Empire, pro-Uniparty, pro-Deep State (well that part obviously). It’s his job to promote the empire and excoriate its critics.

Now he’s cooked. You love to see it.

And again, he’s far from the only one.

We are in the process of finding out just how much of our “public intellectual” class and People On TV are on the take for the CIA via USAID.

It’s all fake. We’ve suspected it for a long time, but now we know. The whole entire legacy media apparatus—it’s all state-run. It’s state media. They’re all frauds.

At least in China you know the Communist Party controls everything. In America, they have done their best to hide it from you and give you the illusion that the legacy media and the class of “public intellectuals” are populated by independent thinkers.

Bottom line, I’m starting to ramble here, but DOGE is might be the single greatest undertaking regarding the government in, I don’t know, ever? Since the interstates?

Now what we really need is to make DOGE a permanent and official fixture of the government so it can do this every year. You have to stay on top of it at all times because the bureaucracy will mushroom and balloon out of control if it’s not constantly kept in check. It’s like lawncare.

It is in the nature of all government agency to not only fight for their own continued survival, but to constantly strive to expand their budgets and influence.

The people who work in these agencies will even create and exacerbate the very problems they were tasked with solving in order to justify higher salaries, hiring additional staff, and expanded powers. ...

More scattered thoughts on various topics:

If you are out waving Mexican flags protesting the ICE raids and deportation of illegal immigrants, you should be automatically deported yourself. If you love Mexico so much, then by all means big dog, head on back.

The protests were all coordinated. They were in Dallas, Atlanta, Los Angeles—it’s all coordinated by leftwing organizers. Anytime you see mass protests, it’s all orchestrated and coordinated. Stuff like that doesn’t just come together spontaneously.

Remittances to foreign countries should be taxed at upwards of 90%. If you are only here in America to extract wealth and send it back to your home country, you should not be here at all. If we slap massive taxes on remittances, we’ll quickly learn who is only here to be an economic parasite, and who isn’t. ...

They’ve been lying to us. Because they don’t care about the average American worker. They don’t care that NAFTA has cost the US over 850,000 jobs. They knew back in the 90s that when NAFTA removed the tariffs between the US and Mexico and Canada, that manufacturers, especially car manufacturers, would bolt to Mexico and kill American jobs.

They just don’t care. Because their loyalty is not to the American people, but to multinational megacorporations and corrupt politicians. ...

Corporations only outsource and offshore jobs when it makes financial sense to do so. They don’t care about the average American one way or the other, they just care about bottom line.

The only way we can make American manufacturing cheaper than foreign manufacturing is with tariffs.