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re: Trump shutting down USAID
Posted on 1/31/25 at 9:55 pm to NashvilleTider
Posted on 1/31/25 at 9:55 pm to NashvilleTider
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Posted on 1/31/25 at 9:59 pm to texag7
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A shell organization of the CIA. They parade as doing humanitarian work but in reality shadow fund shitty countries to overthrown their governments.
This is exactly right.
Posted on 1/31/25 at 10:00 pm to NashvilleTider
USAID should have always been part of the State Department.
Posted on 1/31/25 at 10:01 pm to NashvilleTider
USAID == CIA frickery department
TD: Trump kneecaps CIA
60 top USAID officials fired
Color revolutions fukked
TD: Trump kneecaps CIA
60 top USAID officials fired
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President Trump has removed the entire leadership structure of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), previously run by Samantha Power.
USAID is the cover agency for the interventionist efforts of the CIA. USAID is the agency silo that coordinates the meddling in foreign elections, organizes the revolutions and political opposition of those deemed out of alignment with global democratic norms, funds the NGOs who do the ground operations, and generally seeks to replace foreign leaders.
Color revolutions fukked
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Posted on 1/31/25 at 10:01 pm to NashvilleTider
Mr. President! I can’t take all this winning!!!
Posted on 1/31/25 at 10:03 pm to Kjnstkmn
United States Agency for International Development
Like all things shady, the name misrepresented their actions.
Like all things shady, the name misrepresented their actions.
Posted on 1/31/25 at 10:17 pm to ItzMe1972
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What is USAID?
What *was* USAID?
Posted on 1/31/25 at 10:18 pm to ItzMe1972
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What is USAID?
Think of it this way…
1. You pay your taxes
2. The government takes the money you paid in taxes, throws it to the hogs and yells “SUEY”
3. That money somehow ends up in the pockets on the politicians who originally took said tax dollars.
That’s USAID.
Posted on 1/31/25 at 10:18 pm to TigerIron
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Waste no time.
This post was edited on 1/31/25 at 10:19 pm
Posted on 1/31/25 at 10:21 pm to NashvilleTider
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Warp speed
Imo it’s the only way he can hope to knock the enemies within off balance and give his admin a chance may even save his life.
Posted on 1/31/25 at 10:23 pm to BuckyCheese
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Logos already coming down.
Waste no time.
Not sure how long it will last or how far it will go but it's amazing to see him actually hacking at the roots of the deep state.
Posted on 1/31/25 at 10:51 pm to TigerIron
He’s doing it the right way. Hit them so quick and hard that they don’t know which way it’s coming from and don’t have time to respond. He’s doing all of this so quickly, they don’t have time to legally challenge it. Smart.
Posted on 1/31/25 at 11:11 pm to ItzMe1972
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What is USAID?
Wiki
Even if that’s a heavily sanitized version of what it is, there’s enough there to jail people.
But for fun…. Here’s the controversy section.
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Non-career contracts
USAID frequently contracts with private firms or individuals for specialist services lasting from a few weeks to several years. It has long been asked whether USAID should more often assign such tasks to career U.S. government employees instead. United States government staff directly performed technical assistance in the earliest days of the program in the 1940s. It soon became necessary for the federal government technical experts to plan and manage larger assistance programs than they could perform by themselves. The global expansion of technical assistance in the early 1950s reinforced the need to draw on outside experts, which was also accelerated by Congress's requirement of major reductions of U.S. government staffing in 1953. By 1955, observers commented on a perceived shift toward re use of shorter-term contracts (rather than using employees with career-length contracts).
Financial conflicts of interest
USAID states that "U.S. foreign assistance has always had the twofold purpose of furthering America's foreign policy interests in expanding democracy and free markets while improving the lives of the citizens of the developing world." Non-government organization watch groups have noted that as much as 40% of aid to Afghanistan has found its way back to donor countries through awarding contracts at inflated costs.
Although USAID officially selects contractors on a competitive and objective basis, watch dog groups, politicians, foreign governments and corporations have occasionally accused the agency of allowing its bidding process to be unduly influenced by the political and financial interests of its current presidential administration. Under the Bush administration, for instance, it emerged that all five implementing partners selected to bid on a $600 million Iraq reconstruction contract enjoyed close ties to the administration.
Political operations abroad
Critical graffiti on a USAID Advertisement saying "We dont need your aid", West Bank, Jan 2007
William Blum has said that in the 1960s and early 1970s USAID has maintained "a close working relationship with the CIA, and Agency officers often operated abroad under USAID cover."
Folha de S.Paulo, Brazil's largest newspaper, accused USAID of trying to influence political reform in Brazil in a way that would have purposely benefited right-wing parties. USAID spent $95,000 US in 2005 on a seminar in the Brazilian Congress to promote a reform aimed at pushing for legislation punishing party infidelity. According to USAID papers acquired by Folha under the Freedom of Information Act, the seminar was planned to coincide with the eve of talks in that country's Congress on a broad political reform. The papers read that although the "pattern of weak party discipline is found across the political spectrum, it is somewhat less true of parties on the liberal left, such as the [ruling] Worker's Party." The papers also expressed a concern about the "'indigenization' of the conference so that it is not viewed as providing a U.S. perspective." The event's main sponsor was the International Republican Institute.[188]
In 2008, Benjamin Dangl wrote in The Progressive that the Bush administration was using USAID to fund efforts in Bolivia to "undermine the Morales government and coopt the country’s dynamic social movements – just as it has tried to do recently in Venezuela and traditionally throughout Latin America".
From 2010 to 2012, the agency operated ZunZuneo,a social media site similar to Twitter in an attempt to instigate uprisings against the Cuban government. Its involvement was concealed in order to ensure mission success. The plan was to draw in users with non-controversial content until a critical mass is reached, after which more political messaging would be introduced. At its peak, more than 40,000 unsuspecting Cubans interacted on the site
Influence on the United Nations
Several studies[which?] suggest that foreign aid is used as a political weapon for the U.S. to elicit desired actions from other nations. A state's membership of the U.N. Security Council can give a considerable raise of U.S. assistance.
In 1990 when the Yemeni Ambassador to the United Nations, Abdullah Saleh al-Ashtal, voted against a resolution for a U.S.-led coalition to use force against Iraq, U.S. ambassador to the UN Thomas Pickering walked to the seat of the Yemeni Ambassador and retorted: "That was the most expensive No vote you ever cast". Immediately, USAID ceased operations and funding in Yemen.
In 2003, Congress passed a law providing U.S. government funds to private groups to help fight AIDS and other diseases all over the world through USAID grants. One of the conditions imposed by the law on grant recipients was a requirement to have "a policy explicitly opposing prostitution and sex trafficking" In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc. that the requirement violated the First Amendment's prohibition against compelled speech.
Involvement in Peru's forced sterilizations
Forced sterilization in Peru § Foreign Involvement
During the 1990s, USAID was implicated in the forced sterilization of approximately 300,000 indigenous women in Peru as part of the country's Plan Verde. Population control guidelines promoted by international bodies, including USAID, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Nippon Foundation, supported the Fujimori government's sterilization efforts. Investigations by Peru's congressional subcommittee found a causal correlation between increased USAID funding and the number of sterilizations performed.These sterilizations were part of a global strategy by the United States government to reduce birth rates in developing countries for political and economic stability.
Documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act revealed that USAID effectively took control of Peru's national health system from 1993 to 1998, during the period of forced sterilizations. It was concluded that it would be virtually inconceivable for these sterilization abuses to have occurred systematically without the knowledge of USAID administrators in Peru and Washington.
Under pressure from investigations by the Population Research Institute, USAID ceased funding for sterilizations in Peru in 1998. The forced sterilizations continued until President Fujimori fled to Japan in 2000.The policy resulted in a generational shift, creating a smaller younger generation unable to provide economic stimulation to rural areas, thus increasing poverty in those regions.
Office of Inspector General investigation into alleged terror-linked funding
According to a February 2024 report, the USAID's Office of Inspector General launched an investigation in 2023 into the agency for awarding $110,000 in 2021 to Helping Hand for Relief and Development (HHRD), a charity in Michigan that Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee have accused in recent years of sharing ties to terrorism organizations in South Asia.[202][203][204] In August 2023, USAID's Vetting Support Unit cleared HHRD to receive the grant. In 2024, researchers at George Mason University reported that allegations against HHRD were part of a campaign targeting large American Muslim charities based on the manipulation of poorly-sourced information
Your tax dollars at work!!! This doesn’t even touch Ukraine and Syria
Posted on 1/31/25 at 11:12 pm to NashvilleTider
Posted on 1/31/25 at 11:16 pm to 3nOut
John Paul Vann, after he was retired from the Army, found his way to Viet Nam as an AID employee.
Posted on 1/31/25 at 11:17 pm to NashvilleTider
... you don't know how close the United States came to be ruled by the "dem 5 bitc#es" ...
Pelosi
Clinton
Nuland
Rice
Sherman
In 2016 it was 3 weeks
then Pelosi tried, and tried, and tried, and tried again ...
So close
but no cigar
Posted on 1/31/25 at 11:34 pm to 3nOut
Will he go after the NED too?
Posted on 1/31/25 at 11:36 pm to NashvilleTider
The winning just keeps coming.
Posted on 1/31/25 at 11:56 pm to FireawayLSU
Posted on 2/1/25 at 12:38 am to NashvilleTider
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Trump shutting down USAID
good
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