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On NBC, former U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) official Michael Schiffer wailed that the beheading of his former organization would cause national security to “erode.” His quote came as USAID’s budget has been cracked open and Americans are leafing, transfixed, through its colossal library of crazy-ass contracts. From $39 million for “Gender Equality in Water, Power, and Transportation” to “Recognizing the Third Gender in Bangladesh” to “Ukrainian Resilience Through Fashion” to a “TransFormation Salon” to a pre-Taliban plan to help “Afghan Women Enter the Financial Sector,” it’s a bottomless pit of “I don’t want to pay for that.”
A trip through USASpending.gov led me to an “art therapy” contract whose deliverables include things that look like (but can’t be, of course) suggestive pics of queer teenagers...
If we close the door on such work, the former USAID official Schiffer said, “America’s Enemies Will Rejoice.” Joe Scarborough called USAID “the ultimate soft power.” Look, I like a good trans mani-pedi third-floor Mumbai walkup as much as the next person, but I’m not sure it’s a national security line item...
MSNBC was one of many outlets to describe USAID as a “humanitarian” organization today — the Morning Joe graphic is a frowning waif-child — even though the world knows it to be a transparent CIA proxy used as cover for intel shenanigans. How can they think this is the smart play?
Courts will be busy for years weighing which of his acts are legal, with virtually all under challenge. In the interim, carnage continues, with opposition in total message paralysis. Whether it’s planned or just Trump’s luck is unclear, but harrumphing bureaucrats are now daily rushing to defend the indefensible, from Jaffer’s slanderous networks to Schiffer’s waste and budget scammery. Monday scenes of legislators like Ilhan Omar and Jamie Raskin chaining themselves to the Matterhorn of suck that is USAID were just the beginning of what looks like a rash of optics suicides. We’ve never seen anything like it...
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Dunham began working for a binational organization financed by USAID called Lembaga Indonesia-Amerika in January 1968. She taught government employees English for two years before pivoting to train teachers at the Institute for Management Education and Development. ...
Dunham continued her anthropological and activist work for years. She taught locals how to weave and began working for the Ford Foundation in 1976, which saw her develop a microcredit model that helped impoverished village artisans like blacksmiths to get loans to launch their businesses.
Her work was funded by USAID and World Bank, and Dunham refined traditional Indonesian craft industries into sustainable, modern alternatives. She paid special attention to female artisans and families, aiming to make their daily struggles reap long-term rewards.
Her work was funded by USAID and World Bank, and Dunham refined traditional Indonesian craft industries into sustainable, modern alternatives.
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How many nickels and dimes from USAID end up at Clinton Foundation as well as at its crony Democrat supporters NGOs ?
How much ends up in AntiFa operatives, organizers and financiers hands ?
When does AntiFa restart its rioting ?
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Chemonics, a major USAID contractor, was linked to a subcontractor's overbilling scandal. Hundreds of millions lost.
International Inc. is a private international development firm based in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1975 by Thurston F. (Tony) Teele as a subsidiary of Erly Industries. The employee-owned company offers a variety of services globally and with more than $1.5 billion in USAID contracts in 2019 is the largest for-profit recipient of U.S. government foreign aid.
WOW.
Now we know why they targeted USAID first. It's not that big % of the budget but is a major focal point of graft for the Deep State.
Lest anyone feel tempted to sympathize with this particular group of unmanageable federal employees, consider the facts. Based just on the part we do know, it is fair to assume USAID funds Mexican drug cartels, paid for the stolen 2020 U.S. election, funded the overthrow of Ukraine’s democratically elected government in 2014 (which in turn provoked the Proxy War), engineered the barbarian invasion of most Western countries including our own, and caused, negligently or intentionally, the covid pandemic and its resulting millions of deaths.
USAID probably also ensured the homogenous and catastrophic worldwide response to the virus that it helped create and unleash. ...
We never thought it could happen here. But like a deadly, mutant fungus, the poison grew quietly, unrecognized, right below the public’s noses in the State Department’s sub-basement. USAID’s “independent” bureaucrats shoving billions to criminals all over the world were, indeed, banal, bureaucratic, but no less blameless Adolph Eichmanns.
And within a handful of days, Trump just burned it all to the ground. ...
Along those lines, consider how encouraging is this next clip. Some Africans are speaking out, and saying they don’t want the USAID. They support President Trump.
The Biden administration had requested $64.4 billion in discretionary budget authority for 2025 for State, USAID, and other international programs.
But on Monday, the Trump admin ordered the closure of USAID’s Washington D.C. headquarters and is now threatening to shut down the agency permanently.
Contrary to mainstream depictions of the agency as a provider of philanthropic assistance for soup kitchens and health clinics, USAID is a tool of Deep State foreign policy used to exert influence in other countries under the guise of humanitarian aid.
USAID is frequently involved in laundering taxpayer money through projects that support globalist strategic interests, which might not always align with the stated goals of development or poverty alleviation.
The agency covertly supports regime change operations by funding opposition groups, NGOs, and initiatives that align with globalist political and economic objectives, thereby meddling in the internal affairs of sovereign nations.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt recently condemned the “insane priorities” that USAID has funded around the world.
“I don’t know about you, but as an American taxpayer, I don’t want my dollars going towards this crap,” Leavitt said.
The United States, through USAID, has been a major contributor to Bill Gates’ international vaccine initiative, GAVI Alliance, since its inception in 2000.
In 2020, USAID announced a commitment of $1.16 billion to Gavi for fiscal years 2020 to 2023.
More recently, the U.S. pledged at least $1.58 billion to Gavi over the next five years for its upcoming replenishment period.
These contributions, combined with previous funding, likely exceed $2 billion.
Gates’ GAVI was one of the top recipients of USAID grants in 2024, according to the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons.
In 2017, the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation claimed that George Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF) had been the primary implementer of USAID’s foreign aid since at least 2009, Sputnik reports.
However, the collaboration between Soros and USAID dates back much further. ...
By the late 1990s and early 2000s, Soros’ network of NGOs played a central role in the wave of color revolutions that swept through Eastern Europe.
One of the most notable instances occurred in 2003–2004 when Soros’ International Renaissance Foundation partnered with USAID to support Ukraine's Orange Revolution, Sputnik points out.
In the years leading up to the uprising, the U.S. funneled substantial funds into the region, spending $54.7 million in 2003 and another $34.11 million in 2004 on so-called “democracy programs” in Ukraine, with USAID acting as a key conduit. ...
A report from the time confirmed the U.S. “has spent millions on the WEF over the years.”
“Forcing American Taxpayers to fund annual ski trips for insular, global elitists is absurd – not to mention reprehensible,” said U.S. Representative Scott Perry (R-PA), who led the bill. “The World Economic Forum doesn’t deserve one cent of American funding, and it’s past time we defund Davos.”
“The wealthy WEF globalists should not receive Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars,” said Wisconsin Rep. Tom Tiffany, an original cosponsor of the legislation. “The Defund Davos Act would ensure that U.S. tax dollars are not funding the World Economic Forum and their reset on our way of life. I thank Congressman Perry for leading this important effort.”
USAID’s shutdown isn’t just a bureaucratic reshuffle—it’s a direct hit to the globalist stronghold that’s funneled billions into Gates’ vaccine empire, Soros-backed regime change, and WEF’s dystopian vision.
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https://www.usaid.gov/ is no longer working. Just tested it.
NOTHING EVER HAPPENS!