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USAID funded the "Tide Center" which funded BLM. The goal was to undermine Trump's candidacy in 2020.

Saint Floyd was deliberately made a martyr by USAID as a way to oppose Trump.

USAID was manipulating US citizens after it became expert at manipulating politics abroad.

The U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (Public Law 80-402), popularly called the Smith–Mundt Act, was first introduced by Congressman Karl E. Mundt (R-SD) in January 1945 in the 79th Congress. It was subsequently passed by the 80th Congress and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman on January 27, 1948.

The Act was developed to regulate broadcasting of programs for foreign audiences produced under the guidance by the State Department, and it prohibited domestic dissemination of materials produced by such programs as one of its provisions.[1] The original version of the Act was amended by the Smith–Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 which allowed for materials produced by the State Department and the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to be made available within the United States.

- The CIA has to get the president's permission for its operations

Example: they promoted opium growing in Afghanistan to further the goals of the CIA

That's just crazy. We have US troops protecting Afghan opium fields?

The New York Times ran a maniacal story yesterday under the cleverly-worded headline, “At the U.S. Institute of Peace, It’s War When Musk’s Team Arrives.” The sub-headline explained, “A bubbling dispute broke into a dramatic standoff that ended with police involvement and the Department of Government Efficiency taking up residence at the independent agency.”

Last night, USIP’s ‘president’ George ‘the’ Moose, pictured above, was escorted out of the building by sheriff’s deputies, ending a weeklong standoff where he’d refused to voluntarily decamp from his bureaucratic throne. Lawyers for the agency that you never heard of — the latest Cold War relic — argued that DOGE had no authority, since it was quasi-independent from the Executive Branch, partly private, and partly owned by the Legislative Branch, which cannot own or operate any agencies.

USIP was initially formed by the Reagan Administration in 1984, at the height of Cold War tensions. It’s ostensibly a ‘think tank,’ with a stated mission of “promoting peace and conflict resolution,’ but its critics claim the secretive agency is just another ‘soft power’ tool the State Department uses to conduct dirty tricks and destabilize democratic governments around the globe. You decide.

Last week, after President Trump issued his executive order canceling a dozen agencies, including itself, USIP immediately abandoned peaceful conflict resolution and went to war with the Trump Administration. Although the rogue agency is 100% funded by the federal government, and although the President appoints its board members, and although its offices sit in a federal building on federal land right on the National Mall, USIP’s lawyers claim it exists separately as an NGO nonprofit corporation.

After his inglorious exit, Mister Moose complained to reporters that “what has happened here today is an illegal takeover by elements of the executive branch of a private nonprofit corporation.” Uh-huh. Yesterday, President Trump fired Moose and most of the rest of the USIP board, but the large mammal tenaciously clung on, like a tree activist camping out in the canopy, refusing to leave his office and having pizzas delivered to keep his energy up.

Frankly, it was probably more of a media stunt than any actual rebellion. It looks designed to give eager corporate media reporters yet another chance to take dramatic pictures and accuse dastardly Elon Musk of personally cutting critical federal programs. But they really don’t get it. Nobody but insiders has ever heard of USIP. We certainly haven’t heard about it creating any peace anywhere.

Nobody cares except the New York Times.

In legal news, the Washington Post ran a more encouraging story yesterday headlined, “Judge denies request by U.S. Institute of Peace to stop DOGE takeover.” The case related to the Moose story that I reported earlier this week, the one where the 78-year-old president of the so-called Institute of Peace barricaded himself in his office and gorged on Domino’s stuffed-crust pizza deliveries until the police escorted him out.




After being unceremoniously ejected from his Cold War-era offices, Moose and his dark legions of progressive lawfare lawyers sued, of course, seeking a TRO reinstating Moose and ejecting DOGE instead.

USIP’s lawyer complained to the judge that DOGE is “moving with lightning speed.” He added dejectedly that, if DOGE staffers continue at this rate, they will soon “reduce this organization to rubble.” Well, hopefully.

Judge Beryl Howell (Obama appointee) was, as they say, not amused by DOGE’s heavy-handed tactics, especially in recruiting the FBI and the DC police department to help the cost-cutting team scrape off USIP’s bureaucratic crustaceans. “I’m very offended by how DOGE has operated at the institute,” Judge Howell sniped from the bench.

But in the end, the seasoned jurist properly found there was no sufficient reason to grant the TRO. “My concern about how this has gone down cannot sway me in my consideration of factors of the TRO.” Specifically, she said that the plaintiffs — ousted USIP board members who sued in their official capacities — “did not show they would be irreparably harmed if they were not reinstated and DOGE staffers were allowed to remain in the institute’s offices.”

She piled on, saying there was also “confusion in the complaint on a number of levels.” It’s a bad sign for your entire case when the judge calls your complaint “confused.” It’s even worse when she refers to layers of confusion.

It was great to see an Obama judge even-handedly applying the law, but one hidden nugget quickly became the most interesting part of the story. We learned more about the unprecedented warp speed at which the Trump team is running. the Journal reported, “A cybersecurity expert” —meaning, a hacker— “had driven from Georgia to DC in the middle of the night at DOGE’s request to help DOGE staffers access the institute’s computer systems.”

DOGE called in a hacker in the middle of the night! That, friends, is not the speed of government. It’s not really even the speed of business. This is something completely different.

This is the speed of war.

You can’t fight entrenched administrative power with press conferences and think tank reports. You can only fight it by showing up in the middle of the night, locking the doors, and hacking the systems. What we are seeing is political shock and awe.

It was great to see an Obama judge even-handedly applying the law, but one hidden nugget quickly became the most interesting part of the story. We learned more about the unprecedented warp speed at which the Trump team is running. the Journal reported, “A cybersecurity expert” —meaning, a hacker— “had driven from Georgia to DC in the middle of the night at DOGE’s request to help DOGE staffers access the institute’s computer systems.”

DOGE called in a hacker in the middle of the night! That, friends, is not the speed of government. It’s not really even the speed of business. This is something completely different.

This is the speed of war.

You can’t fight entrenched administrative power with press conferences and think tank reports. You can only fight it by showing up in the middle of the night, locking the doors, and hacking the systems. What we are seeing is political shock and awe.

They mentioned to the Smith-Mundt Act's change under Obama in 2012 which now allows propaganda to be used against US citizens:

Patrick says

They mentioned to the Smith-Mundt Act's change under Obama in 2012 which now allows propaganda to be used against US citizens:

The zombie DC Corporation

Yeah, and they swept unspent millions into a private bank account not reported to Congress, which they used to fund Events. Maybe Pizza Parties, Ceffer