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There has been considerable controversy surrounding the Trump administration decision to cutback on government agencies that are ostensibly committed to charitable, educational and other nation building activities both overseas and in the United States. This spending, amounting to scores of billions of dollars, has helped produce budget deficits that ballooned in the twenty-first century, largely due to the surge in overseas activity that occurred after the trauma of 9/11 when Jewish Supremacists decided the United States should serve as Israel’s policeman in the Middle East to enable the Jewish state’s expansion under the cover of making it “safe.” As the US is now verging on bankruptcy due to its unsustainable debts, the second incarnation of the Trump Administration has focused on cutting budgets in areas that it considers to be enemy occupied, often meaning “woke” or institutionally allied to the Democrats. Social programs as well as the bloated defense department spending were considered to be suitable targets so starting during the first week in February, the White House brought down the hammer when it went after a number of government agencies, inter alia calling for huge cuts in Pentagon spending and the complete elimination of the Education Department.

The White House also shut down the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), firing nearly all of its 10,000 employees, reportedly leaving only little more than 600 employees in place to assist in the shutting down or downsizing of facilities in the US and in foreign countries. Also, about 800 awards and contracts that are administered through USAID were reportedly being canceled. There have reportedly been some judicial delays in the firings due to the complexity of removing thousands of employees and families from overseas offices and housing, though the pause is likely to be only temporary.

Tax dollars are traditionally used corruptly to fund projects and policies dear to the hearts of politicians, which is why Ron Paul and others have called for sweeping audits, including of the Federal Reserve system and the Pentagon in particular. This hidden spending is particularly difficult to identify if the program is somehow linked to foreign policy and/or national security, which have traditionally been protected from scrutiny by denying nearly all public access to sensitive information based on the “need to know” principle to safeguard sources and vulnerable activities.

USAID was founded in 1961 during the John F. Kennedy administration to unite several foreign assistance organizations and programs under one agency. At first it was seriously intended to be a mechanism for the US to aid in health, disaster relief, socioeconomic development, environmental protection, democratic governance and education. Its focus, however, eventually became to guide development in parts of the world that suffered from what were considered to be dysfunctional governments and institutions in terms of American interests. USAID has always been funded by the federal government and its upper management has worked closely with the Department of State, to which it is technically accountable, and the intelligence agencies in particular. Its budget in 2023 was $43 billion. Trump’s reduction in force (RIF) of USAID has been accompanied by a shake-up in its management, its remaining responsibilities now being in the hands of the Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has considerable experience in special agency management after having served on the Board of the National Endowment for Democracy’s (NED) Republican subsidiary component, the International Republican Institute (IRI). NED, which operates extensively overseas, has also been stripped of funding by Trump.

The dismantling of USAID does not necessarily mean the organization will completely go away, it will just be much reduced and under new management. It will likely have a new mission, though no one is at this point sure what that will mean. And USAID and NED are not alone as the presidential memo has called for a halt to the funding of all the government components that are dependent on taxpayer generated funds to provide what is perhaps euphemistically referred to as “foreign aid.” USAID and NED do have humanitarian projects, i.e. feeding the hungry, but they are primarily politically driven. The NED component IRI puts it this way on its website “Our mission at IRI—advancing democracy worldwide—is a battle with many fronts. I am proud to say that IRI is supportive of every endeavor that will bring freedom to more people. We have made progress in our mission by giving hope to those who wish to protest on a city street, run for office, or cast a ballot.”

So the aid organizations overtly have a political role, but how does it translate in practice and does it extend to playing favorites with the US media and political parties? Trump has put it another way, declaring that USAID leaders were “radical left lunatics.” This is what he claims on his website Truth Social:

“LOOKS LIKE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS HAVE BEEN STOLEN AT USAID, AND OTHER AGENCIES, MUCH OF IT GOING TO THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA AS A ‘PAYOFF’ FOR CREATING GOOD STORIES ABOUT THE DEMOCRATS. THE LEFT WING ‘RAG,’ KNOWN AS ‘POLITICO,’ SEEMS TO HAVE RECEIVED $8,000,000. Did the New York Times receive money??? Who else did??? THIS COULD BE THE BIGGEST SCANDAL OF THEM ALL, PERHAPS THE BIGGEST IN HISTORY! THE DEMOCRATS CAN’T HIDE FROM THIS ONE. TOO BIG, TOO DIRTY!”

There are, in fact, credible reports that the 2019 impeachment of Trump was driven by the actions and disinformation coming from CIA, FBI and USAID operatives, so it is plausible to assume that Trump is now settling scores. Beyond that, USAID and NED are both notorious for their roles in the business of covertly supporting opposition political parties worldwide and assisting in regime change. Billionaire philanthropist George Soros, through his network of organizations, received $260 milllion from USAID for funneling funds to non-governmental-organizations (NGOs) connected with Soros’ Open Society Foundations, which are known for advocating for radical policies and regime changes globally. Soros is also a Democratic Party favorite and major fund raiser, having recently received at a White House ceremony the honor of the Presidential Medal of Freedom presented in absentia to his son Alex from outgoing President Joe Biden.

As a result, both USAID and NED have been banned from foreign countries, including Russia, due to their meddling in local politics. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who was often a target of USAID activity, immediately thanked Trump for his decision to cancel USAID. Both USAID and NED were deeply involved in Eastern Europe. Former Acting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland has revealed that the aid agencies were deeply engaged in the multiple source $5 billion dollar multiyear US “investment” in Ukraine that culminated in regime change in 2013 and led to the current war with Russia. In government circles it has frequently been asserted that USAID and NED and other such organizations now do what the CIA used to do routinely in terms of regime change between its founding and the 1990s.

One might suggest that recent US governments, operating through their various subsidiaries like USAID and NED have been funding just about everything to control a world community in line with American interests. Mainstream media worldwide that is directly or indirectly funded reportedly includes journalists, news outlets, and activist NGOs and sites – and that’s just through USAID. That would appear to include Reuters, Associated Press, BBC, The Guardian, NBC, CNN, NPR, NYT, Politico, PBS, The Financial Times, The Atlantic, The Daily Telegraph, as well as much more media in the developing world. The anti-China hysteria media “ecosystem” currently depends on US government funding, and is already complaining about the impending shutdown of USAID support. To cite only one example of how it is packaged, Reuters news service has received millions in funding from the US government specifically for “active social engineering.”

Labor unions are also funded by USAID which is also behind the recent political unrest in Slovakia. It has also paid for multiple coup attempts in Venezuela, funded high profile trips to Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky to improve his image and popularity, and funded al-Qaeda linked groups in Syria to successfully overthrow the government in Damascus. Going back to Trump’s first term of office, it is interesting to observe that most of the “aid” to opposition parties to overthrow Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela was delivered during 2019, so Trump, guided by hardliners John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, was not at that time shy about regime change. In fact, Voice Of America (VOA), which often served as a CIA mouthpiece, even reported that Trump had tripled aid to opposition figure Juan Guaido to $56 million. Those asking themselves why Trump has now decided to “oppose” the very semi-covert agency that he’s also been using for regime change have a point, but it might be appropriate to see the shakeup as a warning against government information, law enforcement and intelligence agencies again becoming tools of the Democratic Party politicians.

Defenders of USAID are arguing that the agency is being maligned, that in addition to its political profile it is heavily engaged in promoting health and wellness worldwide. The head of USAID under Joe Biden was the highly controversial and very much “woke” Samantha Power, who claims somewhat disingenuously that the agency budget of $38 billion in 2023 included something like $20 billion in spending that should appropriately be described as humanitarian. Those who are the recipients of the programs, mostly in the third world, will consequently suffer from the defunding of aid. If that is actually so, it perhaps would make sense to roll such programs into a mechanism that would not be tied to regime change and corruption of local governments and media.

There is some question even in Congress concerning whether there will be a new centralized aid agency and what it will be called or do now that it has been reduced in size and will likely have a tiny budget relative to what it once enjoyed. It is early days and the answer to that question will likely emerge before too long, but it should be observed that at no point has Rubio or anyone else in the Trump administration actually condemned aggressive US engagement abroad or claimed they will bring it to an end. The State Department has even officially said the only goal is to ensure the good things that USAID did will continue by “advancing American interests abroad.” Given some of the recent aggressive positions taken by the Trump Administration over Gaza, Panama, Canada, Mexico, Iran and Greenland as well as the tendency on the part of its top officials to increase pressure on perceived adversaries, it may be that the US isn’t changing course at all. It quite plausibly might be doubling down, and organizations like USAID and NED, even if their names, roles and leadership change, will likely be integral to that process.

Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is councilforthenationalinterest.org, address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is [email protected].

 
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  1. Notsofast says:

    u.s.aid is one of the neoliberal tentacles, of the zog neolib/neocon vampire squid that is wrapped around the world, as it sucks the life out of the planet. it seems everything this country does around the world, in the name of charity, is actually designed to harm and plunder the local populace. our diplomacy is nothing but cover for the cia drug cartel and other zog tentacles of the aforementioned leviathan.

    it’s what we do, we lie, cheat, steal, murder, rape, torture and are so proud, that we brag about it. my god, from the way we act, you’d think we were some kind of chosen people.

    • Agree: Jim H, Gallatin
    • Replies: @GMC
    , @One Nobody
    , @Jim H
    , @ld
    , @Malla
    , @Alden
  2. Ummmpph! says: • Website

    People are going to get their feelings hurt if they believe Trump is advancing the interests of the miserable American public.

    Gutting waste and fraud in government is one thing, but ridding the government of Zionists and their traitorous bootlickers is another effort we’ll never see unless some patriot in our military throws a coup d’etat on the fake Hebrew Khazar jews who control our government and our lives.

    They need to rounded-up with the top Zionists given rope hangings and deporting the rest of them and confiscating their ill gained wealth. All the money Musk says is missing in his government audits probably was stolen and sent to Israel.

    Always remember: Fake Hebrew Khazar jews rule over you/us. They create the problems/Biden in our lives and then they provide the solution/Trump to the problem.

    Trump is their protector and guardian who will provide evil Israel with everything they want and need. For Trump it is . . . MIGA – Make Israel Great Always! Israel comes first over everybody else.

    The Zionists always have someone at the ready to be our president and their puppet.

    • Replies: @Pythas
    , @anon
  3. Anonymous[179] • Disclaimer says:

    Funny we haven’t heard about DOGE rooting around here.

    https://irmep.com/2022/03/is-otfi-the-israel-lobbys-treasury-departmenteconomic-warfare-unit/

    This is where the Izzie 5th column stages its foreign interference in breach of Charter Article 41. The staffers routinely submerge into TS/SCI billets. CIA will never cut their Izzies loose, they’re the best henchmen DO ever had because there’s nothing they won’t do.

    https://alethonews.com/2024/04/09/israels-culture-of-rape-and-child-abuse/

    It would take generations to reconstruct that talent pool of genocidal psychopaths.

    • Replies: @muh muh
  4. Solutions says:

    Great, probably 80-90% of USAID and similar corrupted programs must go ASAP.

    However, it’s not what you do, but the way that you do it.

    Trump and Musk’s bull in a china shop made for prime time kabuki theatrics. Smash everything, the fakes along with the originals, throw the baby out with the bathwater, an oligarchical 3 ring circus, are we entertained yet.

    Great, floating the idea of refunding 20% of DOGE savings to the tax payer.

    If they garner similar savings from all the other larger government agencies, then we should be in for a 6 figure payday, we will believe it when we receive it.

    Only then will we know if the swamp was drained or rearranged.

    • Replies: @Pythas
  5. HT says:

    All this seems to indicate what I say on a regular basis, namely that America is the most corrupt country in the world considering both the volume and the nature of the corruption. Of course, USAID is probably just the tip of the iceberg. Imagine what the corruption looks like within the big ticket departments and agencies including defense.

    • Disagree: TKK
    • Replies: @Old Prude
    , @TKK
  6. muh muh says:
    @Anonymous

    Funny we haven’t heard about DOGE rooting around here.

    https://irmep.com/2022/03/is-otfi-the-israel-lobbys-treasury-departmenteconomic-warfare-unit/

    Nice link. Thanks.

    Curious that the common denominator of the political parties currently vying for our sympathy always seems to be their noteworthy role in further depriving us of liberty.

    Cohencidence?

  7. The Deep Dark Secrets of USAID with Mike Benz


    Video Link

  8. There is still this……

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Special_Operations_Command

    JSOC has an operational relationship with the CIA’s Special Activities Center (SAC). SAC’s Special Operations Group (SOG) often recruits from JSOC SMU personnel.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Activities_Center

    The Political Action Group is responsible for covert activities related to political influence, psychological operations, economic warfare, and cyberwarfare.

    And these…..

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Bank

    And the Rothschilds and International Bank and Corporation Structures can still “privately fund” whatever they want….. See The Committee of 300, Bilderberg, World Economic Forum, The Group of 30, Tavistock/RIIA/Council on Foreign Relations and other evil Think Tanks.

    The Bank of International Settlements, FOREX system, SWIFT system and “Cede and Company” are interesting points of control.

    Did I forget anything? Does anyone else want to add to the list?

    • Replies: @ImaBotKnot
  9. geokat62 says:

    … largely due to the surge in overseas activity that occurred after the trauma of 9/11 when the United States decided that it had to serve as policeman for the rest of the world to make itself safe.

    If I might suggest the following minor editorial revision…

    … largely due to the surge in overseas activity that occurred after the trauma of 9/11 when Jewish Supremacists decided the United States should serve as Israel’s policeman in the Middle East to make the Jewish state safe.

    • Agree: JWalters
    • Replies: @ariadna
  10. @ImaBotKnot

    ”FBI’ International Operations

    https://www.fbi.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/international-operations

    So we see the “FBI” works Internationally and Nationally
    So we see the CIA works Nationally and Internationally

    There are also multiple US Trade and Commerce operations worldwide.

    Also not to forget the CIA has various dummy companies/corporations set up, so do the Israelis, (who do the Israeli Intel really work for?) But who does the CIA really work for? ( Could IT be SATAN?) ( Saturday Night Live reference )

    And I forgot UN Agencies like the World Health Organization

    Also the evil set up of NATO

    The whole AI, Transhumanist agenda is evil.

    • Agree: Robert Bruce
  11. You gotta love USAID boss Samantha Power. She promoted R2P, “Responsiblity to Protect,” the idea being that the USA has the resposibility to intervene around the world to protect civilians. R2P became Uncle Sam’s excuse for regime change in Libya.

    Is post Gadaffi Libya is a more secure place for its population than before? I haven’t heard Ms Power try to make that case.

    More importantly, Power was USAID head during israel’s war crimes and mass murder in Gaza. But the funny thing is I never heard anything about R2P from her while the israelis were killing tens of thousands of women and small children there.

  12. Having worked for USAID, I am of two minds about its approach. My role was to help Jordan and Kosovo establish regulatory systems for water and wastewater, as well as to evaluate an investment scheme for the King of Jordan. What I witnessed in these roles mirrored a larger, troubling pattern: regulatory frameworks that exist in name only, staffed by individuals with impressive résumés but no actual expertise in managing utilities.

    California has two systems for regulating utilities. Investor-owned utilities (IOUs) operate under a quasi-legal framework overseen by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). In contrast, municipal utilities are effectively self-regulating—which, in reality, often means no real oversight at all. The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) exemplifies this dysfunction, having evolved into an unchecked bureaucracy that serves its own interests rather than those of ratepayers.

    In 1996, California voters passed Proposition 218, amending the state constitution (Sections XIII C and D) to impose strict rules on municipal utilities. It mandated that only reasonable and necessary costs could be passed through in property-related rates (for water, wastewater, and power). However, enforcement of these rules requires legal action, while violations by IOUs under CPUC jurisdiction can be challenged administratively—creating a significant imbalance.

    Recognizing this problem, the Mayor’s Infrastructure Task Force placed Proposition P on the San Francisco ballot in 2002, aiming to establish an independent oversight body akin to the CPUC. In theory, this agency would have had the authority to monitor and rectify SFPUC’s violations of Proposition 218. I served on this committee for two four-year terms, only to conclude that it had been hijacked by political operatives and bureaucratic enablers.

    Despite the strong independent oversight provisions in Proposition P, these insiders undermined its intent. Instead of allowing independent regulatory assessments through contracts with UC Berkeley and UCLA, they signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the San Francisco City Controller—a mayoral appointee, just like the five commissioners who run the SFPUC. In effect, the watchdog became another arm of the very institution it was meant to oversee.

    This kind of regulatory failure was all too familiar from my work with USAID. There, individuals with no practical experience in utility regulation were tasked with building governance structures for critical resources. Their understanding was often superficial at best. One key figure in USAID’s regulatory efforts, “Woody,” could speak at length about the New York aqueduct but had no real grasp of broader regulatory principles. This lack of expertise made a mockery of the entire process.

    One telling moment came while I was working in Jordan. With my so-called expert colleagues absent, a high-ranking Jordanian official (a relative of the King) stopped by and asked what I was working on. I admitted I wasn’t entirely sure—so instead, I explained how California’s regulatory systems functioned, highlighting Proposition 218 and the revenue requirement approach, an idea my colleagues had yet to even consider. The official was decisive: “Your way or the highway.” That moment shifted the project, forcing us to develop a serious regulatory framework and, incidentally, requiring me to educate my résumé-rich but expertise-poor colleagues on how real utility governance should work.

    The SFPUC, much like USAID, represents a fundamental failure of governance and accountability. It is a sprawling, mismanaged entity serving nearly three million customers, granted extraordinary privileges under the 1913 Raker Act to dam the Tuolumne River and create a regional water and power system. Its unchecked control over these resources has turned it into a bureaucratic fiefdom, prioritizing internal politics over sound management.

    This is not a new problem. In 1940, a Supreme Court case raised the possibility that the SFPUC’s extraordinary privileges under the Raker Act could be revoked. That question remains just as relevant today. With the failures of the SFPUC mounting and its structure enabling inefficiency rather than public benefit, is it time to revisit the idea of stripping it of its special status?

  13. onebornfree says: • Website

    “…. at no point has Rubio or anyone else in the Trump administration actually condemned aggressive US engagement abroad or claimed they will bring it to an end”

    Of course not!😂 

    Reality Fact:

    As with literally 1000s of other federal agencies, (whether  created by executive order or not),Trump et al is entirely  ignorant of the complete unconstitutionality of USAID and _ALL_ so-called called federally funded “foreign aid” of any type ( money, loans,food, clothes, literature, arms, personnel, advisors etc etc), including, of course, _ALL_ “foreign aid” to Israel.😁

    USAID, no different from literally 1000s of equally unconstitutional federal agencies, needs to  be completely shut down, overnight (not “minimized”, or “reformed”. or whatever), along with , for example:

    IRS,Welfare, Dept. of Education, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid,the FBI,CIA, FDA, FAA, SEC, FCC, DEA, ATF, the Pentagon, Justice Dept., Homeland Security, NASA etc etc .

    And While He’s At It, Kill the Fed Too!

    And the unconstitutional Federal Reserve needs the exact same treatment too.

    Somebody please tell Trump:

    “We’ve got to start us a new revolution,
    And get back to the old constitution,
    Got to stand up and fight,
    For the whole Bill of Rights,
    It’s time to start over again.

    Song: “New Revolution”:

    Video Link
    Regards, onebornfree

    Onebornfree.blogspot.com

    • Replies: @Sarah
  14. Notsofast says:
    @JoaoAlfaiate

    agree and well stated, isn’t it funny how when the russians legitimately exercise their “responsibility to protect” russian speaking ukrainians, they are accused invading ukraine, rather than preventing genocide.

    it’s hard to believe this hideous crone is only in her early 50’s, she appears to be much older, i guess being the devil’s consort, takes it’s toll.

    • Agree: JWalters
    • LOL: Old Prude
    • Replies: @JoaoAlfaiate
  15. Pythas says:
    @Ummmpph!

    Well will destroy these Khazari Turkic mongol kikes and their rule over us (and remember they are a Turkic shit people). This will be done if most genuine Americans wake the “F” up and get their heads out of their asses. Don’t expect the people on the upper echelons of society to help. They have been fattened through the city of London banking system and wall st. to lift a finger and their living off the fat of the land so their fat and happy so to speak. Remember it was John Locke and Thomas Paine who stirred the imagination of the original American colonists to spread the ideas of Liberty and self-government and for them to throw off the red-coat yoke. It was a bottom up movement with the help of some Aristocrats like Thomas Jefferson of excellent Randolph stock, Madison, and some others who help propel the American Revolution which by the way was a conservative affair.

    • Replies: @The Real World
  16. Pythas says:
    @antiquisling

    Let these countries help themselves. The humanitarianist is the most wretched vile being in the known Universe.

    • Replies: @Sarah
  17. What is Rubber Boy up to?

  18. In lieu of foreign aid offer them free abortions and sterilizations and extend this offer to Jews and Blacks living in America.

  19. Great analysis, Phil.

    And the answer is:

    “USAID was a profoundly corrupt, rogue Deep State operation. During the Obama regime reign, USAID was used as an uncontrolled covert action arm of the Brennan/Hillary/Powers/McCain vile lash-up of PC-Progs and neocons intent on destroying American interests around the world and at home. It operated OUTSIDE the Intelligence Community (IC), NOT as a member of the IC. The danger and dysfunction, and corruption inherent in USAID was NOT because it was a “front for the CIA.” The danger inherent in USAID was because it was NOT part of the IC.”

    On another note: Mike Benz is someone to be concerned about, and keep an eye on. He’s a poser/faker. He’s running around spouting off that USAID was a cover for the CIA. Which it wasn’t (at least not since the 70s).

    Benz spent 8 months as an IT guy at State, and then was whisked to the top of podcast superstardom. How? By whom?

    Seems like another Zionist plant in Normal American media.

    Details:
    https://kentclizbe.substack.com/p/mike-benz-is-a-poser?utm_source=publication-search

    • Replies: @Alden
  20. JWalters says:

    I’ve been caught in several mass layoffs. Most of the individuals laid off were not at fault. Larger forces were at play and we were caught up in them.

    These things happen; people survive them. I think it would be a big mistake to slow down the cleanup of criminal operations due to misguided compassion. The criminal oligarchy has planted its agents deep in these subversive organizations, government and non-government. Clean them out thoroughly, and then reconstitute the worthwhile parts, bringing people back as needed.

    The oligarchy routinely sells the public on supporting its crimes using tearjerking stories.

    • Agree: Old Prude
    • Thanks: Sarah
  21. JWalters says:
    @antiquisling

    Thanks.

    It appears that in some cases a lack of qualifications is the qualification.

  22. JWalters says:
    @JoaoAlfaiate

    Samantha is married to Cass Sunstein, who at one time suggested it may be necessary to criminalize misinformation about Israel. Hence her silence about the slaughter of Palestinians.

    • Replies: @JoaoAlfaiate
  23. @Carlton Meyer

    Mike Benz has no insight to share.
    He’s a faker.
    A poser.
    He spent 8 months in State as an IT guy.
    Now he’s an expert on USAID as a CIA front?
    Or anything to do with intelligence?
    Who’s his sponsor?
    How’d he vault to nationwide podcast prominence?

    Benz is a poser. He surely has all the hallmarks of an agent provocateur. Very much in the mold of Ray Epps–pushing for others to get out and do something.

    He first hit the limelight in 2017 as an anonymous “content creator” on YouTube, using the name “Frame Game.” His schtick was “alt-right” criticism of Jews, and as a supporter of “white identitarian” issues. He hinted at his true identity, but never revealed who he was. Frame Game often shared his background as a Jewish attorney living in New York City and told interviewers he had studied psychology at an Ivy League college.

    In a blog post from 2017, Frame Game described himself as “a Jew who is deeply sympathetic to the AltRight’s accurate depiction of the double-edged nature of Jewish influence on Europe and America.” A former self-described libertarian, Frame Game credited alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos as “putting the puzzle together” and opening his eyes.

    After Benz was unmasked as Frame Game, “He said the account was a covert effort intended to somehow combat the anti-semitism it espoused.

    Here’s Benz admitting he ran a 2 year provocation op as Frame Game:

    “Let me start with the bottom line and then I’ll tell you the backstory. The account in question was a project by Jews to get people who hated Jews to Stop hating Jews. It was a deradicalization project, and it produced deradicalization material. It made contact with groups in the early primordial soup Of the MAGA movement in 2016 and sought to move people from a place Of hate and division closer to a place Of love and unity.”

  24. I followed ythe al Quada food theft issue via the links. Excuse me, that was not uncovered by DOGE, but the prosecutors who launched a case. The article was published in 2024.

    I would treace all of these supposed fraud discoveries, but time and time again, the front story is not supported once you get to the deatails.

    Even the contraceptive story is false once you actually follow the articles linked.
    My comments are not in support of USAID, but more and more I find DOGES claims of discovery dubious. And while there would be some savings if the agency closes — which I seriously doubt given that it has simply been transferred to the Sate Dept, which is where it should be and I always thought was.

    Because as noted in this article I should be able to locate these stats and the lines of supposed receipts/vouchers assigned to te same. It’s not there. That I can see or have found. Admittedly have my deficits, but it should be as easy as this article is to read.

    ——————–

    Interesting that Dr. Giraldi did not make and CIA connections.

    • Troll: ariadna
    • Replies: @obwandiyag
  25. Z-man says:

    The Pentagon should be cut ✂️ by 20% almost immediately.* 4 Star generals and admirals should be cut by half, as per Douglas MacGregor.

    *The sprawling and arrogant power of the military was to blame for the recent air disaster over the Potomac.

    • Agree: Old Prude, Chaskinss
  26. GMC says:
    @Notsofast

    Hey Nsf – I have a story – I was having breakfast in the Hotel, I was at in Phnom Penh last month and at my long table there were 3 people having a breakfast meeting that I easily overheard. There was no doubt that these guys worked for some type of American company in Cambodia but I didn’t get the whole story until an hour later. I was on the rooftop sun lounge area , reading the Khmer Rouge historia – FYI -I left the border in 1971- Macv, , and so the woman that seemed to be the boss of the meeting sat next to me , and we struck up a conversation – Americano to Americana.

    She was very pleasant, from Indiana and said that their company ran a non- profat here in Cambodia and it helped abused women, womens rights etc. and had centers here and there. So naturally, I asked – ” Is your NGO a good NGO or a Bad NGO” and she replied – pretty sure its a good one, since we help women all over and she has meetings twice a year here. According to many websites , Cambodia has the second largest number of NGOs in the world. Although, I’ve only been in Cambodia a month, I will assume her NGO was one of the better ones, because I am now reading the historia from 1975 to 2010 and this place needs all the help it can get , but it’s mostly because of the way things were run here and the vast amounts of international money that has “poured” into Cambodia after the Killing Fields, and the massive problems.

    Moral of the Story – some NGOs are good and most aren’t . But they are worthless unless the receiving country manages them for the benefit of their people, their economy, agriculture { farms}, education, nationalized natural resources etc. and the monies don’t go into the pockets of the politicians, which seems to be rampant in the world today – especially the amount of corruption that the Donor Country { USA } has. Thanks.

    • Thanks: Notsofast
  27. Chaskinss says:

    Billions for foreign vassals, yet little to nothing for the average USian.

    • Thanks: Alden
    • Replies: @Old Prude
  28. maskazer says:

    One of the biggest questions right now is: What path will Russia take after—let’s face it, it’s looking more and more likely—it wins the war in Ukraine? Will Moscow stick with the BRICS+ route, which is a slower but more independent way to challenge the West’s dominance and build a new world order? Or will it take a shortcut by cozying up to the Rothschilds, teaming up with the US deep state and Israel’s plans for the Middle East?

    If Russia goes the Rothschild route, it would mean playing ball with the dollar empire. That could involve isolating Iran and helping the US curb China’s and even India’s rise. To pull that off, the US would need total control over the global energy system, especially in the Middle East. Not exactly a small task.

    On the other hand, if Russia sticks with BRICS+, it could mean big changes for the US too. The Trump team (or whoever’s in charge) might eventually have to take on the Federal Reserve, which many see as the heart of corruption in the US. To really shake things up, the Fed would need to become a fully public institution, with the state controlling the money supply instead of private interests tied to the Rothschilds.

    It’s a wild time, and Russia’s choice could shape the future in huge ways. My bet? Given the current situation, Russia’s more likely to stick with BRICS+. But who knows? Let’s see how it plays out.

    • Replies: @RestiveUs
    , @Seraphim
  29. ghali says:

    It is very rare to find a U.S.-led Western organization (NGO), or a charity that does what it publicly preaches, i.e., promoting and defending democracy, freedom, and human rights, etc. It is like looking for a needle in a haystack. They are overwhelmingly controlled by Jews, who have invested greatly in demonizing Muslims and Islam because it suits their satanic agenda. Have you ever listened to Samantha Power (former USAID head) defending the Satanic Jews and their barbaric crimes at the UN? My dog would be ashamed of her barking.The U.S. is finished as a nation. It is turned into a criminal enterprise run by Jew-obedient conmen.

    • Replies: @Chaskinss
    , @John Trout
  30. Anynomous [AKA "Fight the american."] says:

    Terror tactics of american and british are really very simple in the end. Theres several ways how american are influencing covertly through USAID, but they are often buying off various groups and people, while eliminating others (often murdering or terrorizing, as well as destroying them politically, socially and economically), first they starve and isolate the population and then through USAID, they buy off the population or groups to work as national traitors for american and british. Then they place completely corrupt puppets to run their vassal government and terrorize the local population, which is what american and british always do, creating a terrorist police state working for them.

    • Agree: maskazer
  31. It does not matter what it is, it needs to end. This robbery of the US tax payer must stop.

  32. anon[365] • Disclaimer says:
    @Ummmpph!

    Its not draining the swamp that counts, its returning to Americans the role in their government they had before the constitution 1788 collapsed the Articles of confederation government 1776-1788. It was not the constitutional government that defeated the British and separated America from British Rule, it was the Articles of Confederation Government. Both the constitutional government and the articles of confederation governments were known as the untied states of America., so few people even knew the transition from states rights to federalism took place.
    Constitutional federalism was designed to support global corruption and to take from the governed the right of self determination. So how can that be fixed? By amendment of course. What should the amendment do? a simple clause like “Government shall not deny American Citizens ungated investigative access to documentation generated by or related to the affairs of all branches and divisions of government, its agencies or extensions (public or private) or its grantees.

    Its about informing Americans what their government is up to.. Its about giving Americans sufficient data about goings on by its government to develop in ordinary Americans sufficient cause to process the data and to investigate the sources of it for themselves. DATA has a funny way of waiting for investigation to reveal its true meaning.

    ACCESS TO DATA IS THE KEY to reducing waste, corruption and complacency but also it is key to strengthening both real liberties and actual democracy. Sufficient ungated access to data has a way of producing experts in various subject matters or topics the data speaks to.

    In time knowledgeable and data armed subject matter experts emerge capable to do battle with lobby, media and congressional powers put in place by those with a stake in the corruption or misdirection the data reveals.
    Extracting knowledge from data takes access, time and tools to process it.

    The real crime that allows corruption lies deeply hidden in the gloss over design of the US CONSTITUTION. The constitution contains no mechanism for average Americans to use to independently challenge a discovered or suspected corruption except in courts the constitution designed to be sure the government always gets the outcome it wants when challenged by a taxpayer. Some kind of independent court is needed where taxpayers can challenge those who manage the government. I think that is what DOGE is supposed to do but its efficacy is likely to last only so long as Elon Musk stays interested in investigating government.

    • Thanks: anarchyst
  33. Old Prude says:
    @HT

    Yes. Figure there is 32 Trillion dollars of debt with nothing to show for it. Count that as $32 Trillion of corruption. Nobody else even comes close.

  34. @JoaoAlfaiate

    The risible, glaring piece of hypocrisy demonstrates that the ICC, like the United Nations and other international bodies that presume to police the world, operate with a pseudo-moral authority that allows the states to pretend to adhere to the norms of “civilized” people everywhere while letting the strongest ones get along with pursuing their self-interest at the expense of the weaker ones.

    https://stephenpaulfoster.substack.com/p/putin-netanyahu-and-thoughts-on-nuremberg

  35. Old Prude says:
    @Chaskinss

    It turns out the billions were only ostensibly for foreigners; most of the cash went to the racketeers running the NGOs. Running a non-profit for $450,000 can be pretty profitable.

    • Agree: Chaskinss
  36. ariadna says:
    @geokat62

    “If I might suggest the following minor editorial revision…

    … largely due to the surge in overseas activity that occurred after the trauma of 9/11 when Jewish Supremacists decided the United States should serve as Israel’s policeman in the Middle East to make the Jewish state safe.”

    If I might suggest this further minor editorial revision…

    … largely due to the surge in overseas activity that occurred after the trauma of 9/11 when Jewish Supremacists decided the United States should serve as Israel’s policeman in the Middle East to enable the Jewish state’s expansion under the cover of making it “safe.”

    • Replies: @geokat62
  37. ariadna says:

    Thank g-d that cutting foreign aid won’t affect the money we need to send to Israel, our closest ally and the only democracy in the ME, to help it defend itself from its barbaric enemies, all those obese Palestinians in Gaza and the terrorists who bake babies in microwave ovens, rape women and abduct peaceful settlers who have been living in their Jewish lands for that past 3,000 years!

    Thank g-d for giving our Congress the wisdom to approve sending Israel all the money the US can borrow from generous Jewish-owned banks, and for the smarts to send it to Israel not in ridiculous installments, as stupidly stipulated initially, but in one lump sum at the beginning of the year so that Israel can deposit it and collect interest on it, as Ms Weir admiringly noted long ago.

    Thank g-d for Pres Trump who sends Israel weapons (not counted in the total of aid because money and weapons are like apples and oranges) without the delay of getting approval from the Congress, not that Congress would withhold it but it is faster without the silliness of voting and having to allow the likes of Masey or Ron Paul to mouth off irrelevant objections to empty Congress chambers.

    Thanks g-d for the technological advances in agriculture that made pitchforks obsolete, which might otherwise be put to bad use by lunatics.

    • Thanks: JPS
    • LOL: Bro43rd, Cloudwalker
  38. @GMC

    Sounds bad NGO to me. Americans going and lecturing Southeast Asians about women’s rights, abuse, etc. Putting down women is just not a part of Southeast Asian culture as these societies tend to be matriarchal. Maybe there is some more abuse among the Muslim Malays. These NGOs find some cases then make a big deal of it and paint a false picture about these countries.

    • Thanks: Sarah
    • Replies: @The Real World
    , @GMC
  39. geokat62 says:
    @ariadna

    Since I can’t use my reaction buttons, I just wanted to say I completely agree with your suggested revision of my suggested revision.

    • Thanks: ariadna
    • Replies: @Philip Giraldi
  40. Bama says:

    Foreign aid, an American phenomenon like no other. Over done, corrupted and anti-taxpayer.

  41. @Notsofast

    I asked once a man of faith, why does God allow tyrants so much leeway?
    He said: Because when God gets a hold of of a tyrant, God never lets go.

    This is true of every tyrant. Just the other day, I was reading about Nicolae Ceausescu and how he was executed just outside a toilet. Sadam was found borrowed in the dirt. Gadafi was sodomized with a blade. Pol Pot was cremated on a pyre of tyres and trash.

    All these tyrants are responsible for hundred of thousand of lives and the children … never forget the children for they are the beloved of God.

    Will America’s Chosen People begin to fear God for “preemptively” killing so many children around the world, before God gets a hold of them by the scruff of their necks?

    • Replies: @Wielgus
  42. ” At first it was seriously intended to be a mechanism for the US to aid in health, disaster relief, socioeconomic development, environmental protection, democratic governance and education”

    Send them books if they wish to improve in farming, water conservation, building, governing etc etc. I’m sure there are at least a few smart people in those countries capable of implementing policies. We are told of course that all people are created equal. They probably just need to find out how things work.

    Give a man food and he will eat for one day. Give a man instructions and he will feed himself forever.

    Then again those people just want the money.

    • Agree: kiwk
  43. @antiquisling

    They can’t find a few smart people in these countries? Send them how to do books. Itz 2025 and people don’t know how to dig a well! WTF!

  44. @GMC

    “But they are worthless unless the receiving country manages them for the benefit of their people, their economy, agriculture { farms}, education, nationalized natural resources etc. and the monies don’t go into the pockets of the politicians, which seems to be rampant in the world today”

    There are many people in America that need help.

    • Replies: @GMC
  45. 1) feminism 2) “equality” 3) NATURAL ORDER

  46. DanFromCT says:
    @GMC

    In his exposé of USAID, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins, as I recall, tells the joke about one corrupt president showing another the fantastic palace he built by skimming half the money from a hydroelectric project. Some time later the first is visiting the second’s even grander palace and asks how he paid for it, so the second takes the first out into the jungle to see the new dam. But, says the first, there’s nothing here, to which the second just smiles. The idea is making loans for expensive projects and equipment that intentionally can never be repaid, putting the third-world nation into perpetual debt, ultimately, to Wall Street bankers. Other leftist, white-shoe criminals like Samantha Power working at the World Bank are probably just as corrupt.

    The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, last I checked, Guyana, had been led by an Indian, Cheddi Jagan, and his evil communist wife from Chicago, Janet Rosenberg Jagan. The country used to have decent bauxite mines, but once they were nationalized they were run without a regard to maintenance and rusted over. The people were literally enslaved under black leader Forbes Burnham who’d take these white-shoe aid workers from the UN and others like Samantha Power out horseback riding along the pristine beaches while the Guyanese people were being worked to death.

    The author V. S. Naipaul points out the scam of treating these third-world thugocracies in Africa and S. America as if they were European countries, and he could have added that the even bigger scam has been Ivy League front groups like USAID pretending these are real countries for the purpose of laundering money back to the US, not only to build hydroelectric dams in the jungles, but to buy elections and pay for the destruction of America.

    • Replies: @Haxo Angmark
    , @GMC
  47. @geokat62

    The revision has been made! Thanks Geo for suggesting it!

    • Replies: @geokat62
  48. Haxo Angmark [AKA "chuck lowe"] says:

    “…funded high profile trips to Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky to improve his image and popularity,”

    As if that Kike Ben Stiller wasn’t rich enough, they had to give him 2 million to go suck on Zelinsky’s hang down on camera.

    Samantha Powers is just Jake Sullivan in drag. Vampires minted by ancient Jews in some blood drenched antediluvian epoch when people drank baby blood all three meals for sustenance and read the first Jewish owned newspapers for the days “talking points”, they are the inspirations to this day for Jew rock stars who bite the heads off of live small animals and worship Satan.

    AIPAC writ large, is USAID. The Brobdingnagian swindle of American tax payer cash into the coffers of Jews in and out of Government that in turn, fund “forever wars”, buy off our politicians (With OUR FUCK’N MONEY! – Goddamn the Jews are genius’.), create world wide CHAOS that in turn fertilizes the zeitgeist for the implementation of the new religion of “Holocaustianity” and funds the elevation of ever more acolytes into the halls of a now world wide synagogue is literally unfathomable. We are talking about numbers here that are galactic and normally used in college classes when referring to light year type numbers.

    RIGHT UNDER YOUR FUCK’N NOSE YOU DUMB GOYS.

  49. Restructuring and downsizing USAID, like so many other Deep state bureaucracies is not the answer.

    Leaving them in place means the next administration will just build them back up and continue to use them to manipulate humanity.

    • Replies: @HT
  50. @antiquisling

    Lots of words that don’t address the core question: Why am I personally and financially responsible for utilities in Jordan? There is no possibility of you answering that question, and that is why you didn’t answer it, and why you won’t answer it.

    • Agree: Sarah
  51. Malla says:

    It seems the Biden gang spent 21 million dollars via USAID during the Indian elections, to get rid of right winged Modi. And a 29 million for Bangladesh via USAID

    Video LinkTrump claims $21 million USAID fund to India was to get ‘someone else elected’

    Video LinkTrump Questions $21 Million USAID Funds For India | Where Was The Money Funneled? | NewsX

    US President Biden wanted Indian PM Modi gone and the USA thus interfered in the Indian elections!!!

    As far as Bangladesh, the ousted Sheikh Hasina, ousted via a “people’s revolution”*, was once begging the Indian Ambassador to Bangladesh to save her, during her last days, as she feared that the USA was secretly funding Islamic fundamentalist parties against her. And then she was deposed.
    *90% of so called people’s revolution in history are scams, have secret backers and financers behind the scenes.

    • Thanks: Agent76
  52. Ahhhhh that great demonic evil of foreign aid , not even 1% of the US budget.

    0.8%

  53. DanFromCT says:
    @loner feral cat

    Thanks for the video revealing what’s no doubt only the tip of the iceberg of Jews getting taxpayer money by the boatload to undermine America. WTF is going on when every Congress since who knows when has stood down while channeling money to Jews? As a matter of provable fact at this point, you could say both parties’ elaborate efforts at concealing this transfer of taxpayer money to Jews for the purpose of destroying America is proof of the members’ collective and individual guilt. Let them now pretend they didn’t know. Even worse, the members of Congress know full well that Mossad listens in on every phone conversation they make, not to mention each member’s AIPAC handler.

    • Replies: @Exile in Paradise
  54. Malla says:

    This just in, US deep Swamp was funding Islamist terrorist groups via USAID.

    Video Link
    ‘USAID funded Al-Qaeda, Taliban, ISIS…’: US Congressman Scott Perry drops bombshell at House hearing

    A U.S Congressman, Scott Perry, has accused the U.S.Agency for International Development (USAID) of funding terrorist organisations, including Boko Haram, ISIS, and Al-Qaeda.

    USAID was funding Islamic fundamentalist group Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria and this happened especially during Obama’s time. The great African American President was f**king up Africa!!!

    Video Link
    I Believe the U.S. Congressman Who Said the USAID-Sponsored Boko Haram -Kaka/Okereke—Arise News—Nigeria

    • Thanks: Agent76
  55. Chaskinss says:
    @ghali

    the us empire was always a shit hole. a vile business enterprise masquerading as a country.

  56. @ghali

    .The U.S. is finished as a nation. It is turned into a criminal enterprise run by Jew-obedient conmen.

    Biden was their servant; Trump is their servant too and he plans to make big money developing real estate in occupied Palestine.

  57. Haxo Angmark [AKA "chuck lowe"] says:
    @DanFromCT

    Excellent comment.

    The fuck’n Jews are even worse than what you can imagine.

    I thought this Maori “Haka” dance was a traditional home grown institution that grew out of centuries of culture.

    Turns out, that (I speak Maori.) they are just reciting the many different flavors of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream (Here, they are saying “Buy Marshmallow Sky On Sale Today!) and this was always a Ben & Jerry Jew Maori commercial. The ice cream is of course, filled with mRNA poison that make the natives infertile so that JUST LIKE EASTER ISLAND, they were wiped out and now, Jews own the tourist industry and suck cash out of people all over the world where hot looking native girls used to run around without their tops on. So sad.

    Ok, that is a lie, but no doubt, Jew investors are looking to buy land cheap (Like GAZA) on Easter Island as I type.

  58. Jim H says:
    @Notsofast

    ‘my god, from the way we act, you’d think we were some kind of chosen people.’ — Notsofast

    “I believe in American exceptionalism with every fiber of my being.” — Barky O’Bummer, at the U.S. Military Academy in 2014

    The only thing a head-up-ass yankee occupier understands is a punch in the mouth that leaves him crawling on the pavement, looking for his broken teeth.

    ‘Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III over the weekend authorized the deployment of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, missile battery and its associated United States military crew to Israel, the Pentagon announced today.’ — defense.gov, Oct 15, 2024

    U.S. occupiers the hell out of Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, U.K., Africa, Arabian peninsula and … little Shitrahell.

    • Replies: @Notsofast
    , @24th Alabama
  59. Malla says:
    @Notsofast

    that we brag about it. my god, from the way we act, you’d think we were some kind of chosen people

    The Satanic Globalist Communist US ZOG has a history of murdering and destroying true American Nationalist, American Patriot or White nationalist organisations including threatening children. US ZOG exploits average Americans, ESPECIALLY White Americans as much as it the rest of the World. Satanic Globalist US ZOG considers Nationalist White Americans its number one enemy, more than CCP or Islamic Republic of Iran. Satanic US ZOG does not represent the true American nation.

  60. HT says:
    @De Oppresso Liber

    Restructuring and downsizing USAID, like so many other Deep state bureaucracies is not the answer.

    Leaving them in place means the next administration will just build them back up and continue to use them to manipulate humanity.

    Yup. The reality is there are no political solutions for all this. We have an enemy within that controls our institutions and winning an election and temporarily slowing that enemy down is not the answer. If you have a cancer you don’t repair it. You must remove it or vanquish it with chemicals. What Trump is doing is going to just be temporary and the globalists/communists, our cancer, will be back when he is gone unless they are permanently removed. The people celebrating now do not understand that.

  61. @antiquisling

    This link covers a bit of the circular handshaking and backscratching that went on between San Francisco bureaucrats and The Power Company.

    IIRC the copper wire to finish the run to San Francisco languished for decades in a warehouse and then disappeared.

    https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=The_Hetch_Hetchy_Story,_Part_II:_PG%26E_and_the_Raker_Act

    • Replies: @Alden
  62. anonymous[408] • Disclaimer says:

    Is It Foreign Aid or Covert Action?

    Everyone knows that all the regime change and terrorist activities are funded by the US. The pedophile Trump is not going to eliminate all the funding going into terrorism, assassination and regime change, but is going to use the funding as BLACKMAIL those who refuse to agree with his genocidal and robbing of other count people’s resources and lands. When this Assassin and genocidal mafia member openly is forcing Canada or Greenland to hand in their lands, then, why should he spend money to steal their lands? He is a thief anyway. He is trying to steal Gaza as well, to cover part of the Billions of dollars of printed green paper that delivered to genocidal Jews. But the world population give their middle fingers to this ASSASSIN and traitor.
    Jewish mafia Trump is bringing bill after bill to attack the freedom of speech, since he is going to prosecute and cut funding if anyone dares to criticize the genocidal Jews, where he is FUNDING.
    Other countries like Canada already is doing that with NO shame to protect the genocidal Jewish mafia tribe that pedophile Trump is part of it. Only gullible population can vote for such a assassin, they deserve the outcome.
    The genocidal Netanyahu is implementing Jewish signature, FALSE FLAG TERROR, to kill more Palestinians and steal their land with the help of a ASSASSIN, trump. Israel has no right to exist

    Max Blumenthal X the following:

    Two Jewish Israelis planted bombs reading “Revenge From Tulkarm” on empty buses, triggering a major army escalation in the occupied West Bank. The incident is now under a gag.

    This renews my questions about the strange 7/27/24 Majdal Shams bombing used as justification to bombard Lebanon, and highlights the Israeli state’s cynicism, mendacity, and political corrosion.

    Both Netanyahu and trump should be arrested to prevent more blood shed. Both are war criminals.

    • Replies: @John Trout
  63. anon[298] • Disclaimer says:

    “aggressive positions taken by the Trump Administration over Gaza, Panama, Canada, Mexico, Iran and Greenland as well as the tendency on the part of its top officials to increase pressure on perceived adversaries, it may be that the US isn’t changing course at all. It quite plausibly might be doubling down, and organizations like USAID and NED, even if their names, roles and leadership change, will likely be integral to that process.”

    This is not a bad thing at all. It is not a bad sign to the good future of the humanity. It is a good weather vane looking in the direction of the redemption,reconstruction,and regeneration of the rest of the humanity outside th west
    Trump is the evil the crumbs-seeking entitled,racist,lazy, MAGA crowd and the Evangelicals have chosen him to return to themselves the lost decades of 60s to 2008 – control of the Arab, the brown and the yellow . For blacks and native Indians ,the decades go back by centuries . Not coming back.

    Trump is destroying the crumb-seeking ,entitled,moron white while enriching his cronies .Free education, health care for Vet, for intellectually ,behaviorally,cogntively challenged childten,youth ,and adults , post -retirement care of the baby boomers , pensions paid by the emplyoees -all are on the chopping black .
    Those low IQ crowd of MAGA base thought that everything would be hunky dory if ,and only ,if they hear someone shouting against illegal aliens on the border.

    Their outlet Fox and Maxnews find the threat to America overwhelming because China wants to take Taiwan. But those bastards getting the news from them and those bastards hosting those expert on Fox never bat an eye when they hear US wants to own Gaza sans its people,or wants to seize Greenland or Panama canal. These are same bastards who think Trump is anti war and anti hegemony.

  64. Bogcic says:

    Unfortunately, many people are missing the power structure that currently exists. Zio banksters who control the current monetary system rely on the US to allow their criminal activity to continue. They answer to Satan (dealing with interest and monetarily enslaving the world).

    Their existence comes to end with the collapse of the US dollar as the world reserve currency which allows unlimited printing. Putin has check mated the empire military and politically. Will he continue with the BRICS to bring about the final nail in the coffin?

    To think that a president changes long term policy is naive. Trump was the next person in line to bring about a surrender in Ukraine. Anyone thinking otherwise is a little naive. Biden was clearly suffering from dementia and his handlers (money printers) called the shots. To think Trump who can barely articulate an intelligent sentence or thinks Spain was in brics is being fooled. He is being used by the printers as the tough guy with brains ushering in peace. Reality is they are conceding defeat in Eastern Europe, ramping in the ME the greater Isreal project and going full on economically and containment of China. By “cleaning up” in the US and negotiating/surrendering in Ukraine, it can be sold to the US public as an America first President. Also Elon is another actor in the game. Come on getting a chain saw from milei?! A zio stoge. Elon the bring ur child to work day, wearing a baseball cap in the White House. Simply ridiculous

    The game plan is a complete surrender on most fronts, do not touch zio interests (actually ramp them up) and try and bring down China. One of the few countries the zio’s cannot control which would eventually spell the end of their project – world domination. What Russia and Iran decide will be interesting to follow

  65. AnoN[408] • Disclaimer says:

    Both Canada and US under trump are going after those who are against GENOCIDE and ASSASSINATION, both countries should be pushed back and their ‘leaders’ should be arrested.
    In Canada, the genocidal Canadian regime arrested Yves Engler that was targeted by the genocidal Jews including pushed by the genocidal Jews like Dahlia Kurtz.
    Yves Engler wrote the following on his X:

    [MORE]

    Tomorrow the Montreal police will arrest me for posting to social media against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Today I received a phone call from a Montreal police officer by the last name of Crivello. She asked me to come to a downtown police station where I will be charged for harassment and indecent communication. Crivello said a complaint was submitted against me months ago by a legal firm on behalf of racist media personality Dahlia Kurtz. Crivello said I had described Kurtz as a “genocide” supporter and “fascist” on Twitter. Guilty as charged.
    On dozens of occasions I’ve responded to Kurtz’ racist, violent anti-Palestinian posts on X. Six weeks ago I wrote an article noting:
    Amidst this ever-worsening holocaust in Gaza, the media and politicians want us to believe Canadian Jews are the real victims. In an egregious example, the Winnipeg Sun just published “Dahlia Kurtz mobilizing pushback on Canada’s Jew-hate problem.” Palestinian suffering is omitted from the long profile of an unhinged Jewish supremacist. The article describes Kurtz combating “‘Free Palestine’ hatefests” and selecting Justin Trudeau “winner of my 2024 Jew-Hater of the Year Award.”
    Over the past 15 months Kurtz has become a leader in Canada’s fascist movement, posting incessantly about purported Jewish victimhood and the anti-genocide “mob” who should be “deported”. A compulsive liar, Kurtz openly calls for state violence against those challenging Canadian complicity in genocide. On Friday she posted a video that appeared to show dark skinned teenagers fighting in Edmonton mockingly describing the incident as “a celebration of diversity”. A week earlier she posted a photo of neo-Nazis rallying with the statement “‘MASS DEPORTATIONS NOW’ banner at mall in London, Ontario. Who’s with them?” A major paper profiling this fascist, Jewish supremacist, fifteen months into the holocaust in Gaza speaks volumes of the media climate.
    On July 5, 2024, Kurtz quote tweeted me with the statement: Hello,
    @EnglerYves

    I’m advising you in this one message only that you are harassing me. You’re threatening and you’re making me afraid for my safety. You must stop this harassment — and communication with me. Stop now.”
    I’ve never met Kurtz. Nor have I messaged or emailed her. Nor have I threatened her. I don’t even follow her on X (Twitter’s algorithm puts her posts in my feed). [this is alarming, are you going to be silent?]
    Apparently, the legal firm assisting Kurtz is that of Neil Oberman, who is running for the Conservative party in the upcoming federal election. Oberman has launched a slew of lawsuits in recent months against different institutions and individuals opposing genocide. On two occasions I’ve videoed myself questioning Oberman about his ‘lawfare’ at the service of Israel’s genocide.
    As part of releasing me from detention, Crivello is seeking to have me accept conditions that stop me from any interaction with Kurtz. As the father of a two-year-old and seven-year-old and author of 13 books, it’s beyond absurd to suggest I’m a threat to Kurtz. But I am willing to sign this condition to avoid jail. On the other hand, the officer told my lawyer she wants to impose a condition for my release saying that I’m not allowed to discuss the case. That is a flagrant violation of my freedom of expression, but is presumably designed to protect the police officer, Kurtz and her legal team from embarrassment. I will refuse to sign this condition and may be detained until a judge decides if this is an acceptable condition.
    Across the country advocates of genocide and apartheid have been using the legal system to protect Israel from criticism. They launch frivolous cases to suck up activists’ time and resources. Too often the police and courts participate in this abuse of their authority.
    Police should not be putting their services at the disposition of those promoting Israel’s crimes against Palestinians. The charges against me for posting against Israel’s crimes should be withdrawn.

    This is Dahlia Kurtz from the genocidal Jewish mafia tribe:

    • Replies: @John Trout
    , @Saba
  66. Notsofast says:
    @Jim H

    those thaad systems aren’t going to work any better that the patriots against iranian hypersonic missiles. once they have been humiliated, the illusion of american exceptionalism will be forever dispelled, along with israeli supremacism.

    https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-843227

  67. TKK says:
    @HT

    Do you know who holds corruption at bay?

    Lawyers.

    We do. Unless you are in a totally Democratic run city, like D.C. or others, you can sometimes find some justice in a Court of Appeals.

    But lawyers, little Ham and Eggers, tho ones who work for their breakfast (not big boys who roll with lobbyists…or want to) but the person who hangs out a shingle and takes basically any interesting case that walks in the door. A brave Generalist, if you will. We are a dying breed We see something that tees us off and we tee up. Don’t care who your Daddy is. Don’t care who your lawyer is.

    We are almost gone.. No lawyers now that are affordable are worth a hill of beans. Literally. They are afraid of hurting someone’s feelings. Afraid of being rude. Afraid of spending any time with a document that their templates or AI can’t spit out.

    But America still has a working justice system. It’s almost dead…but there is some life. In other countries – there is no redress. None. Look into the Ethiopian/Eretria conflict where women were raped, had letters stuffed up their vagina with notes from their rapist, then strangled to death, after they plucked anything of value out of the woman’s home, then torched it- and made her sons watch all of it. Then they were stabbed to death.

    This did not happen to one woman, ten, hundred. It happened to hundred of thousands. The perpetrators still run the Government. Are still in charge. Dystopian hellscape.

    Total corruption is where you may as well blow your own head off than disrespect the Local Party Boss. The outcome would be better. That’s not America….yet.

    Not yet.

  68. HT says:
    @TKK

    Some would say we have way too many lawyers and the more work they create for themselves the worse and more corrupt we are. I think that point has a lot of validity especially with regard to the art of suing people. Right now the strategy of organized jewry for stopping or slowing Trump is an army of lawyers filing lawsuits against every thing he attempts to do. This was organized before he even won the election. Sure, it takes other lawyers to combat the Democrat lawyers but the real problem is how Jews dominate the legal system and have used it as their weapon to destroy the country and culture. When they removed Christianity from our culture, which subsequently destroyed our national morality, they did so with lawsuits and lawyers. Now lawsuits are their weapon when they can’t do it politically. Lawsuits give them access to change anything and there is no downside or punishment for doing so.

  69. According to factcheck.org

    Rather than being “completely” or “massively funded” by USAID, Politico received two payments specifically through that government agency in 2023 and 2024 totaling $44,000, according to USA Spending, a U.S. government website that tracks federal spending.

    Politico did receive more than $8 million in fiscal year 2024 from other federal departments and agencies, USA Spending records show. Whether that amounts to wasteful spending is a matter of opinion, and we take no position on that. The money, however, was to pay for Politico subscriptions and access to Politico Pro, which provides “non-partisan news, real-time intelligence, in-depth analysis, government directories, stakeholder management solutions, policy monitoring tools” and other customized services, according to its website.

    In total, the USA Spending database reported 646 transactions between the federal government and Politico since fiscal year 2015. The transactions are classified as contracts, not as grants, loans or direct payments, which are types of government spending categories on the site.

    Politico CEO Goli Sheikholeslami and Editor-in-Chief John F. Harris responded to the claims on social media with a statement on Feb. 6, saying, “POLITICO is a privately owned company. We have never received any government funding — no subsidies, no grants, no handouts. Not one dime, ever, in 18 years. … It is supported by advertising and sponsorships.”

    “POLITICO Pro is different,” the statement continued. “It is a professional subscription service used by companies, organizations, and, yes, some government agencies. They subscribe because it makes them better at their jobs — helping them track policy, legislation and regulations in real-time with news, intelligence and a suite of data products.”

    https://www.factcheck.org/2025/02/trump-online-posts-misrepresent-government-subscriptions-to-news-services/

  70. @anonymous

    This is an outstanding analysis and comment, thank you.

  71. @DanFromCT

    WTF is going on when every Congress since who knows when has stood down while channeling money to Jews? As a matter of provable fact at this point, you could say both parties’ elaborate efforts at concealing this transfer of taxpayer money to Jews for the purpose of destroying America is proof of the members’ collective and individual guilt

    This Exactly.

    • LOL: DanFromCT
  72. Agent76 says:

    Slush funds by bureaucrats in government from top to bottom.

    Feb 19, 2025 Mr. Wonderful — ‘DOGE isn’t making enough cuts. Keep slashing, show no mercy.’

    Feb 8, 2025 What DOGE and U.S. Treasury have discovered so far.
    

  73. @AnoN

    What a picture, she’s ghastly

  74. Now the intriguing question is the genuiness of Trump’s pivot to peace with Russia. The document below describes the priority of the US military on preventing the emergence of China as a rival, but it also regards Russia as a major threat alongside China. How to explain, then, Trump’s maverick move in appeasing Russia?

    . . . Another signal, though, is the role played by Tucker Carlson in promoting Russia as a friendly country to the US. Why is that important? Because Tucker Carlson is the main spokesperson precisely for the Heritage Foundation. So while the document below, issued by the Heritage Foundation, doesn’t indicate any friendly gesture towards Russia, its star spokesperson promotes on the world stage exactly that position, which indicates that Trump’s peace offer over Ukraine is a very valid action supported by the main sponsor of Trump’s presidency.

    https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2025/02/22/project-2025-friend-or-foe

  75. @TKK

    Thanks for this post. Your post here clears up just exactly how far up your own ass your head is. I wondered how you could always be so wrong headed. Now I don’t. Thank you .

  76. To get to the root of the ZUS corruption and waste and overthrowing governments, the money supply must be cut off and this means abolishing the FED, the zionist privately owned central bank which the zionists use to create money out of thin air to finance their destruction of America and other governments around the world. The FED central bank is 1 of the 10 planks of the communist manifesto and so is the zionist owned IRS which is also 1 of the 10 planks of the communist manifesto and so in 1913 the zionist communists took control of America and it has been down hill ever since.

    The FED and the IRS aside from being a zionist communist creation to create zionist wars and debt and deaths and destruction are also UNCONSTITUTIONAL, this is the elephant in the room and is the root cause of the trillions in debt all owed to the zionist banking kabal. America has been under communist control since 1913 and very few Americans know it and the zionist enemy is not at the gates , the zionists are inside the gates and have infested every facet of American life, to our destruction.

  77. h**ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4xA00bGOCc
    h**ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Strossen

    What is Ms. Strossen trying to tell us? Obviously that the pressure in a cauldron, if it does not have a relief valve, increases so much that the cauldron will eventually burst. The pressure is created by the permanent supply of energy and the resulting increase in molecular activity.

    The cauldron can only be the intended “melting pot” (Israel Zangwill), the added energy that creates the chaos, frustration and aggression, apparently the unchecked, completely out of control third world immigration. The relief valve is therefore “free speech”.

    This means that these people know full well that the boiler threatens to blow up in their faces if they lock it. Controlled (“kosher”) opposition called “civic nationalism” serves as an outlet here, holding mock battles that get lost in mere declarations of intent. Like “Holocaust denial”, the subject of race remains taboo for the white Goyim/Amalek.

    The irresolvable contradiction between the criminalization of “Holocaust denial” and racially based self-interest on the one hand and the proclamation of alleged “free speech” on the other creates considerable mistrust among the oppressed.

    However, the “democracy” that is constantly presented as ideal suffers from many other obvious and concealable flaws. Why do people who have more money than others decide who gets into power and key positions and, for example, can “buy” an election campaign?

    Their “democracy” is not a rule of the people, but a sham democracy, as the individual consumer can only choose a product offered by the manufacturer. This is also the case with political parties. Parties that endanger the system are not allowed and are defamed as “undemocratic” by those who own the media (whoever that may be).

    But something else is also revealed here (the grudgingly accepted “lesser evil”) in the lady’s statement: How can it be that such a reasonable, cultured and civilized country like Germany would enthusiastically elect a Hitler? Surely there must be something wrong with this “people”?

    The reason for this was the same back then as it is today: the so-called “Weimar Republic” was a system in which corruption and incompetence ruled, and the population had lost respect for its self-appointed “leaders”.

    If you look today at the miserable figures who run and direct “Western democracies”, who deeply despise their own people and are only interested in their own welfare, who finance the war against Russia and Gaza with the tax money of their citizens, it is exactly the same.

  78. From what I’m told, this “Operation True Promise 3” is planned and ready to go as soon as Israel’s launch is detected by Russian ISR. The Israeli pilots might see the Iranian misiles pass them by on their way to targets in occupied Palestine. Those Israeli pilots might not have any functional runways to land to on. I wonder which neighbor will give them permission to land only to find themselves being detained.

  79. shahnameh says:

    Ask Graham Fuller, he probably distributed such SCHTUFF in Istanbul prior to 15 July 2016:)

  80. @EliteCommInc.

    Yeah, it’s like the 150 year old SS recipients. A fucking lie if you look into it. With the motive of abolishing social security.

  81. Anon[408] • Disclaimer says:
    @TKK

    Not sure your comment has much to do about law, it’s more about genetics. But I agree as we get darker and darker, and the White man’s law fades, the law of the jungle takes over.

    -Rooster

  82. Gorilla Man speaks up for late Lira.

  83. shahnameh says:

    How about the CONFLICT OF INTEREST couples, Sikorski/Appelbaum,Sustein/Power?

  84. kiwk says:
    @GMC

    Moral of the story is for the US and western countries to stop giving these people any money for anything.

    The women in these places can fight their own battles, and the countries need to get off their lazy buts and produce for themselves.

  85. Pythas says:
    @Solutions

    Very true. But political racketeer’s will try to continue racketeering. Read James Howard Kunstler’s “Funny Money” on Lewrockwell.com about these low-life criminal grifting vermin especially that fat disgustingly ugly groid stacey abrams in Georgia. Plus how all this stolen taxpayer money including my own since I’m still working and paying into the corrupt tax system wound up in citibank and other jew-wasp northeastern controlled banks in what is now jew york, not New York or even New Amsterdam. All these scumbags are criminals engaged in massive theft, fraud, money laundering, green mail, black mail and other high crimes. They all need to be hunted down and sent to prison for the rest of their rotten lives and if that means tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of them good.

    • Agree: Solutions
  86. @Commentator Mike

    Sounds bad NGO to me. Americans going and lecturing Southeast Asians….

    Both of those are unhinged conclusions to draw. Simply fabricated out of thin air.

    GMC gave zero detail about the actual work or history of that NGO. I read things like this often online and absolutely marvel at how people can trick their own minds into creating such baseless claims. It’s a huge waste of time.

    • Thanks: Sarah
    • Troll: Gvaltar
    • Replies: @GMC
  87. @Pythas

    This will be done if most genuine Americans wake the “F” up and get their heads out of their asses.

    That will not happen, either one.

    Most won’t wake-up sine they like their cages – it’s comfortable and predictable – and that’s all they want, They will resist seriously considering the epic, dark underbelly of American Govt and big corporate. It’s too much for them to psychologically bear.

    Even if many more do wake-up, they will not do much, if anything. They’re too comfortable, don’t want to exert and have ADD with phones pinging at them constantly and TV blathering on about the latest garbage.

  88. Saba says:
    @AnoN

    In Canada the people who are against genocide in Gaza are considered ‘criminals’, but those who are funding the Genocide inducing Trump and Biden and those who are implementing the genocide, Netanyahu and IDF are protected in the ‘Western Democracies’.
    Yves Engler arrest, follows led by anti-Palestinian media personality Dahlia Kurtz, who lobbied for Engler to be charged after he called out her pro-Israel rhetoric. Over 2,500 people have emailed the Montreal police, demanding they drop the charges.
    The targeting of an individual for their involvement in Palestine solidarity is not unusual in Canada, though the arrest of such a prominent activist and scholar – Engler has written 13 books on Canadian history and foreign policy and traveled the country on speaking tours – shows the state’s willingness to prosecute prominent figures in the movement against Israeli apartheid and genocide.
    That’s why Trump loves Canada so much that want to steal it for himself, thinking Canada does not need a new law to protect the mafia tribe that funded Trump’s campaign to become a president. Canadian police have specifically targeted the Palestine solidarity movement, including through a secretive team in the Toronto Police Service called Project Resolute.
    Under Project Resolute, officers have executed night-time raids of numerous activists’ homes. The ransacking of one Palestinian Canadian family’s home was so violent that a family member stated, “It took us back to our life in the West Bank, when Israeli soldiers raided our home.”
    Please spread the case all over the world to expose the genocidal tribe and its supporters Trump and zionist terrorists in the western regimes including UK, France, Germany and Russia. Trump and Putin are both faces of the same coin when the interest of the Jewish mafia tribe is concerned. Russia-UK and US erected Israel in occupied Palestine and must pay reparations.
    Israel has no right to exist.
    These FAKE Jews must be transferred from occupied Palestine to the land they came from, their supporters, Russia, UK and US, now.

  89. Sarah says:
    @Pythas

    Let these countries help themselves. The humanitarianist is the most wretched vile being in the known Universe.

    Right 👍👌No need of NGOs at all.

  90. Sarah says:
    @onebornfree

    “…. at no point has Rubio or anyone else in the Trump administration actually condemned aggressive US engagement abroad or claimed they will bring it to an end”

    This is what is to be feared.🙁

  91. anon[310] • Disclaimer says:

    I have immediate deep suspicion when I heard USAID will be rolled under the State Dept. under the “watchful eye” of Rubio, the biggest Israel neocon stooge there is. He’ll see to it that his beloved CIA continues to menace the rest of the world. The only person who could save this cutting of USAID from turning into a farce is Musk, who must stay vigilant and make sure it doesn’t survive as another form.

    But I remain skeptical of Trump’s nationalist intent. So far his aspirations on Panama, Greenland, Canada, Gaza have all signaled imperialism disguised as nationalism. Nor do I think he intends to shut down that annual $1.6B budget for CIA’s anti-China hysteria campaign, paid out to FoxNews, WSJ, various conservative media outlets & YouTube vloggers who continue to write hit pieces on China daily. The MIC has too much of a stranglehold on these media outlets and our congress critters. They’ll be out of business if there’s no war, need to kick up at least the threat of war somewhere to meet their profit targets for Wall Street.

    Trump wants to make peace with Russia to break off their ties with China then target China for war. This is just all in his masterplan for later on. If I’m wrong I’ll be happy but I don’t think I am. The only person who could stop this nonsense is Musk. Bannon is already attacking him calling him an illegal alien, he has a deep seated hatred for “Communist China” and wants full on war with them.

    • Agree: NeverTrustaWizard
  92. ariadna says:

    “it may be that the US isn’t changing course at all. It quite plausibly might be doubling down, and organizations like USAID and NED, even if their names, roles and leadership change, will likely be integral to that process.”

    I certainly hope so, Mr Giraldi.
    Of course, some may lose their jobs as it happens in the musical chairs game of changing administrations but my heart aches thinking of tens if not hundreds of thousands of people unqualified for any other job who would be left in the cold…
    Furthermore, what would the world do without the USAID’s guidance to make its way toward, you know, democracy?

  93. @JWalters

    I did not know that. Interesting and important info.

  94. Sarah says:

    Every sovereign country should expel foreign NGOs, and dissolve national NGOs financed, even partially, by a foreign country or by so-called “philanthropists”.

    Can a country have NGOs that are financed by nationals? Perhaps; but the best would be governmental organizations – GOs, in short, instead of NGOs – or state-supervised NGOs.

    • Replies: @anarchyst
  95. Chris Moore says: • Website

    There has been considerable controversy surrounding the Trump administration decision to cutback on government agencies that are ostensibly committed to charitable, educational and other nation building activities both overseas and in the United States. This spending, amounting to scores of billions of dollars, has helped produce budget deficits that ballooned in the twenty-first century, largely due to the surge in overseas activity that occurred after the trauma of 9/11 when Jewish Supremacists decided the United States should serve as Israel’s policeman in the Middle East to enable the Jewish state’s expansion under the cover of making it “safe.”

    This is as close to ex-CIA Giraldi can get to admitting that 9/11 was a “liberal” Deep State/Neocon/Zionist inside job. https://wikispooks.com/wiki/9-11/Israel_did_it

    Giraldi is institutionally inhibited from telling the truth, the full truth, and nothing but the truth. So are a lot of Judas Class bureaucrats and kosher/p.c./woke reprobates and organized criminals.

    This treason didn’t start with 9/11 or the USS Liberty or 1913 or the ((Cousinhood)) coup or even the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. But I damn well know where its going to finish.

    • Replies: @Desert Fox
  96. ariadna says:

    Jeffrey Sachs gives a tutorial to the European Parliament on … how to survive:

    • Replies: @Rich23
  97. This response may seem to come, as baseball jargon goes, from left field but it does require repeating over and over again.

    The JFK foreign policy (philosophy) was to share our overabundance(s) with the Third World. The Kennedy Brothers vision was of a demilitarized era, a move away from a WWII command economy into a continuous Marshal Plan for very poor countries. They would have the OPTION to voluntarily chose to attach themselves onto the tail of our kite, a paraphrase of a quote rendered from a 1959 speech by JFK and remained part of his administration’s legacy.

    Aside: JFK’s administration was never referred to as a regime like some of our current “elected” political officers are and in my view, disrespectfully so.

    This legacy died with the Kennedys. A policy of donated U.S. agricultural products without hope or expectation of recompense in any way, shape or form. It was a policy coupled with JFK’s determination not to permit Israel to acquire fissionable materials from DOE licensed contractor storage facilities in the US, cost him his life. Rest in peace John and Robert, I’ll never let their guilt, control freakishness or rapacity go free !

    And what, pray tell can the various branches of our Intel agencies, (sixteen at last count) show as proof of either a diplomatic or economic triumph? what have the five Rockefeller brothers, their spawn and associated MICC cabal accomplished for America? It is plain to see, hard to hide, rusting bridges, potholed autobahns, with an emphasis on the private entity who controls, what was once a free public road. Take note here, not when maintenance or repairs will be forthcoming- but rather news articles about toll booth installation. This is a somewhat novel approach to a grand shake down scheme. A public extortion racket, a new modus operandi that now assumes a variety of forms.. We see the faces of these profiteering moguls in the eyes of the wandering mentally ill, gaunt, vitamin deficient citizenry, living out of cars with multi-generational occupants, epidemic drug addictions… To quote another, altogether different personage than JFK- UK’s Margaret Thatcher, she publicly announced that there’s no such thing as society! A gal free of shame, free of prosecution, blithefully indifferent to human suffering. Meanwhile the Thatchers of this world, gorge themselves on ex-official notoriety and expensive world travels. So many like Thatcher, in the west and east. One tenth of the One Percent-ers! In short, I’ll believe in President Trump when he delivers on the promise to make America Great Again..

    • LOL: Gvaltar
  98. ariadna says:

    Here is something Pres. Trump doesn’t like:

    West Bank Raids Intensify as Israel Targets Prisoners’ Homes, Displaces Thousands.

    “In Nablus, the homes of prisoners set to be released today as part of the seventh batch of the prisoner exchange deal were raided.

    Israeli occupation forces destroyed preparations made by families to welcome the released prisoners, and they threatened to arrest anyone who showed signs of celebration. This was part of a broader strategy of intimidation against families of prisoners, further escalating tensions in the region.

    Israeli troops also raided the Amari camp in Al-Bireh and the Airport Street area in the Kafr Aqab neighborhood, located north of Jerusalem. These operations reflect the continued Israeli presence and military incursions across the West Bank.In another tragic development, 13-year-old Ayman Al-Haimouni was killed by Israeli bullets during clashes in the Al-Kassara area of Hebron (Al-Khalil).

    President Trump doesn’t like dithering and despises this kind of retail killing. Even before being elected he told Netanyahu to finish them off already.

    ——————————

  99. @Chris Moore

    Agree, I watch Napolitanos judging freedom guys every week on youtube and not one has every said jackshit about the Israeli and zionist traitors in the ZUS attack on the WTC on 911, it is a bridge too far for these guys and some are even talking up zionist puppet Trump as a peace maker, it’s enough to make a person puke, a peace maker does not support Israels genocide of the Palestinian people!

    • Agree: Dutch Abraham
  100. Don’t you believe it.

  101. RestiveUs says:
    @maskazer

    I can’t see Putin risking more of the same with the West.

    • Agree: maskazer
  102. GMC says:
    @Commentator Mike

    Hard to say Mike – but I had to give her the benefit of the doubt because I just met the woman once, but I know the amount of Bar Girls in Thailand is 100Xs more than here in Cambodia so maybe her NGO was working. Thanks !

    • Replies: @Commentator Mike
  103. GMC says:
    @DanFromCT

    I’ve started to read the modern history of Cambodia and your assumptions and example of South America fit in perfectly with Phnom Penh and the elite in charge. One would think that these ” Relief Agencies” like the UN, World Bank, USAID etc. etc. etc. would do the same simple research on the receiving country, that I did in my first month here. The honest books written about these historical scams are easy to find . Thanks Dan.

  104. Shahnameh says:

    Actually I see Samantha Power as Richard Harris with tits. Ton katchekon for the less initiated:) Nudge this shit puppy.

    • Replies: @Notsofast
  105. Shahnameh says:

    Gene Simmons is of Ukrainian extraction so maybe it should be viewed as Semitic Semolina subversion.

  106. Seraphim says:
    @maskazer

    Americans can’t give up the narrative that it is no matter what, the ultimate decider of how the world should work and the ”rest” can be manipulated forever to do their bidding by promising the moon in the sky. Taking a look at the real situation of the world would create a ”cognitive dissonance” too painful to bear.

    • Agree: maskazer
  107. Elon Musk’s DOGE audit and firing of USAID personnel is not a Covert Action nor Foreign Aid, it is a cleverly disguised takeover of the budgets and fiscal management of the federal government by the central bank to install a totalitarian control grid and elimination of currency by replacing it with the equivalent of a teenager’s “allowance”.

    Read Catherine Austin Fitts here

    Why do we allow a blatant conflict of interest of allowing artificial intelligence implementer Elon Musk to fire scads of government workers so he can make zillions?

    It’s like COVID where shots were mandated for employment, or required to get medical care, to prop up Big Pharma profits.

    Machiavelli said sometimes rulers have to do bad to do good. Logically, this would apply in reverse – sometimes rulers have to create an appearance of doing good in order to do bad.

    • LOL: Gvaltar
  108. @GMC

    It’s hard to tell who is abusing whom in the Thai bar girl scene. or who the real victims are. It looks more like it’s set up to scam and rip off foreigners.

    • Replies: @GMC
  109. @Jim H

    The use of “exceptionalism” in a patriotic, boastful way reveals
    an ignorance of its possible meanings: different, odd, unusual,
    strange, rare, peculiar, weird and exclusive.

    In common usage it has evolved to mean everything from
    “superb” to “deviant.” The sarcastic use is, “Aren’t you so
    exceptional?”

    When a claim is made that a nation is exceptional, inquiring
    minds want to know, “how so?”
    Exceptionally ignorant and full of ourselves?

  110. GMC says:
    @Commentator Mike

    Wellllll, one has to be Pretty stupid to – Not figure out what the End Game of a Bar Girl in Thailand is all about. Or any other 3rd world country. At least the bar girls in Saigon, Can Tho and the other places in the Nam War were in the same boat as us GI s – We were all fucked if our # was up – which made us equals at the moment. Later tho – those girls paid a terrible price compared to the Bar Girls today. I’m in Saigon writing this.

    • Thanks: Commentator Mike
  111. Wielgus says:
    @One Nobody

    This is true of every tyrant.

    Really?

  112. Notsofast says:
    @Shahnameh

    great….thanks a lot, now i have a picture of her, hung up by meat hooks through her tits. there’s no unseeing this, you have permanently damaged me.

  113. Rich23 says:
    @ariadna

    “Most European leaders don’t want to hear from me?”
    said Jeffrey

    “I helped these countries and they gave me medals in Estonian because I designed their monetary system”
    more Jeffrey

    I did not know this about Jeffrey Sachs.
    Thanks.

    His advice: elect new leaders and act like his grandchildren. Maybe I misunderstood.

  114. True Blue says:

    “Those who are the recipients of the programs, mostly in the third world, will consequently suffer from the defunding of aid.”
    Too bad. You shouldn’t have been raising a population dependent on aid which we shouldn’t have been giving you. All it does is kicks the can down the road and makes the problem eight times worse for the next generation to deal with.
    Put an aspirin between your knees if you can’t afford to have, feed, and medicate your own damn children. Don’t go having a population explosion based on charitable aid and then come crying to us when we cut it off.

  115. GMC says:
    @The Real World

    Please read my comment back to Com. Mike, where I give the NGO the benefit of the doubt and why. Garr.

  116. anarchyst says:
    @Sarah

    Agree…
    Start with recognizing that EVERY jewish synagogue, holohoax museum and lobbying organizations are “agents of a foreign government” (((israel))), all tax exemptions to be revoked and eventually expelled from the USA.

    • Agree: nokangaroos
  117. RobinDC says:

    Biden, Blinken, Austin accused. Too bad they skipped Nuland:

  118. Alden says:
    @Notsofast

    USAID created by President Kennedy in 1961 just months after he signed Executive Order 10925 mandating affirmative action for negrões in every federal agency federal contractor and every state and local government school district college hospital highway and airport project every entity in America that received federal money.

    The Kennedy legacy discrimination against Whites and hundreds of billions in the last 64 years down the drain and re circled back to American Jewish radical organization.

  119. Alden says:
    @It's the Influence, Stupid

    USAID like affirmative action another crime by the President Kennedy the Unz authors and commenters worship and adore due to the ongoing Kennedy myth.

  120. Alden says:
    @Complex Pseudonymic Handle

    Hatch Hetchy was completely built by San Francisco taxpayers money. And then outright given to PG&E.

  121. Trump, ask for all that USAID money back from whoever it was given to in the world with loan shark interest rates added! If they can’t pay it back demand mineral deposits or whatever of value! They should have known there is no free lunch, especially when dealing with Americans.

    • Troll: Gvaltar
  122. TBeholder says:

    when Jewish Supremacists decided the United States should serve as Israel’s policeman in the Middle East to enable the Jewish state’s expansion under the cover of making it “safe.”

    They (whether in your head or in their own heads) may decide anything, why should anybody care much? Fleas may make a nuisance, they don’t get to wag the entire dog.

    USAID was founded in 1961 during the John F. Kennedy administration to unite several foreign assistance organizations and programs under one agency. At first it was seriously intended to be a mechanism for the US to aid in health, disaster relief, socioeconomic development, environmental protection, democratic governance and education. […] Tax dollars are traditionally used corruptly to fund projects and policies dear to the hearts of politicians,

    USAID is a product of New World Order — which is little more than result of World War Ⅱ plus separation Church and State in USA being pwned during the first half of 1940s. I mean, go on, read «organized U.S. Protestantism’s super-protestant new program for a just and durable peace after World War II» ©Times 1942 and tell me which of its points did not became actual USA policies. https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2008/05/ol5-shortest-way-to-world-peace/

    For instance, the foreign-aid establishment of the postwar era is the prewar mainline missionary establishment. New branding, same people, doing the same things.
    The boomer map on Gray Mirror https://graymirror.substack.com/p/the-boomer-map

    Of course, by now foreign-aid establishment ceased to be effective in its role of the nu-Puritan missionary corps. It convinces no one, it fools no one. It can bribe people, but there are other ways for this between “professionals” in CIA and “amateurs” in NGOs. It’s reduced to a patronage/kickback framework. Demolishing it does not reduce functionality of theocracy, only removes bonus pork for some of fairly high-ranked personnel. Well, they have failed, while their ambitions only grew, so…
    It does not indicate revolution or counter-revolution, it only means the season of cutting useless branches have come.

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