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By Jo Nova
Another day, another racket
As Elon excavates the Motherlode of global funding, the pieces start to fit together.
Kanekoa the Great wonders why USAID gave $68 million dollars to the World Economic Forum — a group of networking billionaires who meet in January each year to ski in Davos. They turn up in private jets to discuss how they can stop the average man flying. You ‘vill own nothing!
Jo Nova wonders why no media outlet on Earth seemingly figured this out for themselves. Perhaps it was the millions in funding the government paid some media outlets, presumably, to say nothing at all the right moments?
USAID: taking money from poor Americans to give to rich Marxists to plot in Davos, Switzerland—about how to take more money from poor Americans
Trust people
Be skeptical of government https://t.co/o4fYdQxn7k
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) February 6, 2025
It’s almost like we already had One World Government all along, we just didn’t know it.
As Mike Benz said we’ve lived our whole life in “the Truman show”. We think we have free press. We think US foreign aid buys tents for refugees and food for starving children. Then we find out the “aid money” was paid to media hacks, academics and billionaires.
And we see pictures like these:
USAID also help fund the Soros prosecutors. (So sweet of them to help fund a billionaires dream, not to mention helping homeless guys with rocket-launchers.)
If Trump and Musk manage to turn off the funding spigot from the US, it will be felt around the world. A huge burden will be lifted.
NGO’s spared no excess,
In funding left woke and left press,
And any DEI project,
Tax dollars no object,
All paid from USAID largesse.
–Ruairi
ht David and Fuel Filter.
Great find Jo.
Why aren’t the Lamestream Media reporting this?
And what other Leftist lovefests were or are hard-working taxpayers paying for?
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Simply because they hate donald trump. Only report bad news about him.
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In a word David, collusion. MSM is under riding instructions not to magnify anything positive that emanates from DJT actions. I’m reminded that MSM/ABC failed to report the protest in London last weekend for Tommy Robinson who is current being held in a UK Supermax Prison telling the truth about Asian migrants coercing young girls into sexual activity against their will.
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I strongly recommend everyone watches the documentary Tommy Robinson was jailed for.
No one has ever refuted a single fact he stated.
https://x.com/PeterSweden7/status/1874898579208413557
Elon Musk is making sure it stays up and is not censored.
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I have bought (4) of Tommy Robinson’s books. Great story about the last two.
I wanted autographed copies that Tommy’s website was offering and I thought, wow that will be easy as my American daughter lives in London and is a Managing Director of a very well known International Bank and works in London’s financial district – “The City.”
She could buy “Enemy of The State” and “Silenced” in the UK and then send them to me here in America for my birthday present last in January of 2024.
She was absolutely horrified.
“What if “they” find out I bought them for you.”
So, I ordered them, got them dedicated and autographed before he went to prison again.
Tommy is the equivalent of the 1940’s Spitfire and Hurricane pilots who saved England. England needs saving again.
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Meddling kids map out and expose Deep State secrets 🙂
Friday, 07 February 2025
Thanks to reader Andrew who writes:
[SNIP]
Edward Coristine’s code had already mapped three subsystems. Luke Farritor’s algorithms were tracing payment flows across agencies. Ethan Shaotran’s analysis revealed patterns that career officials didn’t even know existed. By dawn, they would understand more about Treasury’s operations than people who had worked there for decades.
This wasn’t a hack. This wasn’t a breach. This was authorized disruption.
That’s just the beginning as they moved faster than the entrenched Deep State bureaucrats even realised what was happening.
Read in full at https://eko.substack.com/p/override
Absolutely bollocking brilliant.
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Ozzie,
Those “kids” are using the best equipment and AI’s . One of the prime uses for AI’s is to do coding as they can access all the available open access code and I would not be surprised if they are using deep seek as well . I wouldn’t take bets that they were hackers before this enterprise . This could end up being a digital war fought between groups of hackers with AI’s . Electronic warfare….
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If the “meddling kids” can follow complicated payments made by USAID, could their methods not be used to trace the movement of cash stolen by scammers so that the ultimate destination can be found and frozen?
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No longer these ones…. It seems Doge has terminated 104 DEI related contracts.
This is the “Updated data on DEI related contract cancellations with full detail”:
https://x.com/DOGE/status/1885420298138247458/photo/1
It is a billion + in savings so far…..
Note that USAID has had a $228,730,692 cut in “DEI” funding.
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Maybe USAID gave the money to enable entrepreneurs from developing companies to attend so that they could pitch for funding. That would be a sensible idea, one of the biggest hindrances for developing nations is the lack of access to capital.
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This is your big chance.
Put all of your superannuation into entrepreneurs in developing nations.
You know, money, mouth, location.
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Simon, even if that were true, wouldn’t the US taxpayers be better off funding entrepreneurs from Chad to come to the US to meet US billionaires, US Ministers, or US businesses, and doing it all transparently? Instead they were funding Klaus who said free speech was a bigger threat to democracy than climate change. What part of the First Amendment don’t you understand? Why should US taxpayers be funding a multi-national power center that works in direct opposition to the US constitution?
USAID funded programs repeatedly fomented division via race, religion and gender so as to generate uprisings and protests to aid in the overthrow of governments the US State Dept or CIA or Pentagon did not approve of. Thus it’s fair to say if USAID funded any poor entrepreneurs it’s only so they knew which foreign start-ups were a threat to their hegemony and thus which to crush, steal or takeover.
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Simon, how was your private jet flight into Davos?
And please tell us about the in-flight menu.
Was it insects?
Or was it prepared by a Le Cordon Bleu chef? Japanese Kobe steak and Beluga caviar, topped off with a sip or two of Bollinger La Grande Année 2008 perhaps?
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Did your aircraft use a battery or sustainable fuel?
Or did they fuel you and use hydrocarbons like all the others that went by private aircraft.?
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One of the biggest hinderances for Developing Nations is CORRUPTION,
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And even though the Left constantly tell us “all cultures are equal” that is obviously not the case.
Modern society requires laws and a willingness to obey them, no culture of corruption, hard work, recognition of natural rights, intelligence, timeliness, organisational skills, respect for others, social mobility (no caste or clan systems), freedom of thought and action (as long as it doesn’t violate the rights of another), etc..
Not all cultures and peoples have these. Certain successful colonisers like the British gifted these to local peoples they colonised but when they left, those societies often reverted to their pre-colonial conditions.
Sir Winston Churchill wrote in The River Wars:
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One of the biggest hinderances to poor and working Americans is lack of access to capitol … especially when they’re being robbed of their tax money by corruption.
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You serious about that Simon? Show us how it should be done, BUT with your own money. I think Boambee John has a very good point.
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Mr. Simon: Well, that’s what USAID was funded to do, but you folks have so few examples of this actually happening. At the same time, those you oppose are having a field day with money spent to attack USA. Why do you try to defend this american boondoggle?
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It seems paddle boarding under waterfalls isn’t good for your brain…
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‘That would be a sensible idea …’
Its morally indefensible.
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Goolag AI told me Australia doesn’t provide any funding to the WEF so that suggested to me that the opposite was true, and I was right. It has in fact provided funding on a WEF project. (Goolag promotes the Official Narrative of the Left.)
Tragically, Australia has no one to “drain the Swamp” like TRUMP and Musk.
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Have you heard of Lieutenant Colonel Riccardo Bosi and the ‘Australia One’ movement?
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The World Economic Forum does much more than organise Davos. There could be many reasons. https://www.weforum.org/
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If you support a group that wants to dominate you and everyone else that is what you will get from WEF – an unelected and unaccountable body of Marxist/Malthusian control freaks. Funny that you seem so starry eyed and faithful towards these manipulators and thieves. Of course there could be many reasons but all of them are nefarious.
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Just like the EU which is run by an unel ected Commission. The. Ofer in EU Parliament is toothless.
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Whoops and typing from my mobile device is always tricky.
I meant to type “The voters who elect an EU Parliament are really making a pointless point. It is toothless and has NO POWER. The unelected EU Commission has ALL THE POWER.
Now, that is how GANGSTERS operates.
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>The World Economic Forum does much more than organise Davos
True
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Did they help organize a Pandemic?
A few George Floyd protests for people that couldn’t find Minneapolis on a map?
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Try finding New Zealand on a map and – oh wait – Herr Cinders banned anti-whackzine protests back in 2020/21 because, y’know, family gatherings, yet allowed HORDES of angry tattooed yoof to stomp through city streets chanting BLM or sumpfink.
Classic theatre from the WEF disciples’ handbook. NZ got played.
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Ya think? Dominion over all the globe does involve much. But Simon why did I have to pay for it? I’ll be looking for all the receipts and asking for a refund.
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Artificial intelligence is now one of the most powerful weapons of the Left and used to run and guide woke search engines like Goolag and generally distribute Leftist propaganda and give dishonest, pro-Leftist search results.
AI is a particularly powerful weapon of the Left because, also due to Leftist policies, they have weaponised the “education” system, and dumbed it down and turned it into an indoctrination system. Children can’t think for themselves and can’t read, write or do arithmetic but they will be able to name all 72 supposed genders…
It’s not surprising, therefore that the US Government, in the following case the Department of State, partnered with some of the world’s richest, wokest organisations for implementation of AI.
The State Department also partnered with USAID.
From the above link:
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We always knew that would happen. GIGO.
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Ahh, but which GIGO? “Garbage In, Garbage Out”, or “Garbage In, Gospel Out”? The latter clearly applies to most CAGW climate models, but elsewhere it’s not always clear.
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One insider in USAID said that their job was to get rid of the money, or they would lose it, like so much public sector spending. DAVOS was just another way to get the job done.
The absurdity of subsiding a billionaires ski club is comparable to Arab oil sheiks subsidizing the businesses meetings of the UN known as COP, Conference of the (interested) Parties. 120,000 business people flying into meetings to counter man made Global Warming and reducing dependency on gas and oil? Equally absurd. Who are these people? It’s a directions meeting for the booming oil, gas and coal businesses. Hundreds of private jets, like DAVOS.
Journalists were begging for meals at Baku. And the taxpayers of the world subsidized the elites and businessmen. How many Australians were at DAVOS or BAKU? At our expense? And why?
Robbing taxpayers is great sport. As in Australia. Where is Turnbull’s $444 million he gave his wife? Where is Albanese’s $1000million for shares in a purely speculative venture in ‘Quantum Computing’? And Turnbull’s $2.5Billion for Snowy II in two years is now $12.5Billion heading to $20Billion for something which makes no sense at all. Andrew’s Big Build? Andrew’s Very Fast Rail. Or Gavin Newsom’s equivalent?
And all the illegal hidden certificates and credits for CO2, crippling every industry? Where is all the money going? We need DOGE to come here and clean out the cockie’s cage of Canberra.
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And if they shut down the CSIRO, what would we lose? The ABC/SBS? The BOM?
$2.5Billion cash for nothing we cannot choose to get elsewhere. Private indulgence for public servants. Our money.
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And the big one, $42Billion every year for aboriginal welfare, except no aborigine in the outback, Alice Springs, NT seems to be better off than a century ago. It’s a total disaster. But the money vanishes anyway. And The Voice was going to make it better? Of course not.
At least the former Chief Commissioner of ATSIC, Michael Clarke is now in jail for theft. His $250,000 a year salary some 25 years ago was clearly not enough. Vast sums for nothing.
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Senator Jacinta Price has repeatedly tried to get audited accounts of where that $42 billion goes and is refused at every attempt she makes. No one can or will tell her where that $42 billion of taxpayer money actually goes. It’s a huge scandal but no one cares.
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At least she’ll make sure taxpayer funding of “Welcome to Country” ceremonies is dropped, although that is a “mere” $200k per year.
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And as 42 billion dollars is obviously nowhere near enough money to assuage our ‘guilt’, Dear Leader now proposes to flush another 840 million through the pipes of grift. The gap has certainly closed for some, somewhere.
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Plus the NIIA gets over 4 billion a year. Where is this money going? This link shows that their latest news relating to grants was posted at the start of July last year. They couldn’t provide updates on one project or initiative in 6 months?!
https://www.niaa.gov.au/our-work/grants-and-funding
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Doesn’t the Feral Guv’ment have an Auditor General? If so, He/She is MIA on the battle field.
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It would probably be considered “racist” to ask how the $42 billion is spent so the question is never asked by the Auditor General.
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Dutton must be questioned as to whether or not he’ll order an audit of the $40 billion per year handed over to the Aboriginal Industry.
His answer is crucial in winning many hundreds of thousands of votes!!
Mine included.
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Hmnnn…
When Pauline Hanson first raised that issue it was $2 Billion.
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I suggest that if the Coalition gains office it will suspend that allocation until a satisfactory answer is forthcoming. Surely the oversight committee or auditors must have some information. Scandalous.
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> former Chief Commissioner of ATSIC, Michael Clarke is now in jail for theft
Plus former ATSIC Chairman Geoff Clark jailed for 6 years for perjury fraud deception theft at Framlingham
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“And The Voice was going to make it better? Of course not.”
Just like how the national ‘Sorry Day’ was supposed to make everything OK, but things got worse.
Just like the one thing that would fix the problem was an official, ‘Apology for the Stolen Generations’ – except it didn’t.
Essentially, we’re dealing with bullies and I learned as a child that you NEVER take a step backwards when faced with a bully, because he will just step forward and crowd you again. NOTHING will appease our professional victims. Every time we give in to THE ONE THING they want, they move onto the OTHER ONE THING they want.
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Interestingly, when TRUMP addressed Davos 2025 he did it via what the anti-energy lobby would call an “environmentally friendly” videolink but the Leftist anti-energy lobby members all flew into the billionaires’ ski club and COP.
The Left call TRUMP an environment destroyer because of his pro-energy policies but it is the anti-energy lobbyists of the Left who love their private jets so much.
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“to ski in Davos” Ha Ha
I now have an image of Klaus Schwab and Al Gore going on the slope with Mikaela Shiffrin. 🤣
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I like how the revelations are beginning to snowball. Imagine what this could look like 6 weeks from now!
As more people begin to grasp that we have been lied to and swindled, the appetite for even more transparency will grow. Or so I hope.
At some point a vehement denial from a politician or public official will be taken, not at face value, but as further evidence that the truth is beginning to appear.
Due process required? Absolutely, as always. But no more letting officials off the hook just because they wave their hands and say “don’t be ridiculous.”
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/need-proof-usaid-funding-being-utilized-orchestrate-coup/
“While the influence USAID funding exerts on foreign populations to induce and influence regime change may sometimes be subtle at best, other times it is much more apparent. Joe Biden’s trip to Ukraine as Vice President in March 2016 may be one of the more well-known examples.
After the 2020 Election and the exposé of the Hunter Biden Laptop From Hell, quite a bit of attention was given to an outburst that Joe Biden made during a discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations in January 2018.
During his remarks, Biden infamously bragged about pressuring Ukraine officials to fire Viktor Shokin, the special prosecutor who was investigating Burisma, where Hunter Biden was a board member making almost $1 million per year.”
“Biden recalled going to Kyiv for the “12th or 13th time” to announce a third billion-dollar loan guarantee. He said he had gotten a commitment from Petro Poroshenko, the Ukrainian President who was installed following the ousting of Viktor Yanukovich during the Maidan Revolution, and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to “take action against the state prosecutor.” But when Biden arrived, the two Ukrainians had yet to remove Shokin.
“‘I’m leaving here in, what, six hours? If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,’” Biden recalled saying. “Well, son of a bitch. He got fired!”
Whether or not there was violence is irrelevant. Biden utilized the threat of withholding $1 billion in USAID loans to remove the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, a man who was appointed by the Ukrainian President (the US-friendly Poroshenko rather than the Russian-friendly Yanukovich) and was confirmed by the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) by a vote of 318 out of 382 deputies. He also just happened to be investigating corruption in a company Hunter Biden had a financial interest in.
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Mr. Filter: Thank you for the recap. A guy named Peter Schweitzer wrote a book in 2018 about this. The laptop verified much of his research. The laptop story had to be squelched in time for the ’20 election, and US Intel folks obliged. As a result, Biden’s team got four years in power. For that, US Intel credibility is lost for the foreseeable future. Let’s go Brandon.
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Obviously a lot of USAID and other funds illegally ended up in private pockets of corrupt Third World officials, dictators and others.
The US must now ruthlessly pursue, prosecute and if found guilty, jail all guilty parties, wherever possible.
So this process is not a burden on US taxpayers, the US could pay private contractors, sort of like bounty hunters, a fee to find such people and facilitate bringing them to justice. The contractors could be paid a fee in proportion to monies recovered from the guilty.
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There was a movie once, long ago, about bounty hunters chasing down replicants… then again, were the bounty hunters themselves replicants?
BTW the film’s remake was woke rubbish.
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Blade Runner hasn’t been remade. It has a sequel set 30 years after the original film.
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Slater and Gordon have already made a bid/pitch.
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“Obviously a lot of USAID and other funds illegally ended up in private pockets of corrupt Third World officials, dictators and others.”
True, but I believe most of the corrupt money ended up in the pockets of Americans, one way or another. The African dictators got chicken feed by comparison. Likewise, most of Australia’s ‘overseas aid’ funding never leaves Melbourne or Sydney or is basically buying favours that could be repaid years down the line.
Our politicians seem remarkably successful in their post-politics life, utilising the ‘experience’ gained in many ways. One example is Julia Gillard who is currently:
Chair of the Board of the Wellcome Trust,
Chair of The Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at Kings College London (KCL) and Australian National University Canberra (ANU)
Chair of the Energy Transition Platform for HMC Capital,
Honorary Professor at Adelaide University and
Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Universal Education.
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Heheheh. This war pig Liz Chaney just got roasted.
Seems that she got caught with her hands in the USAID cookie jar.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/02/06/liz-cheney-exchange-with-elon-musk-over-usaid-n2185281
“In the whirlwind of all that, Mike Benz, the Director of the Foundation for Freedom Online and a former State Department official, connected the dots to another thing that USAID was associated with — former Wyoming GOP Rep. Liz Cheney. He described her as being “spawned” out of USAID because she had previously worked for the agency earlier in her career.
Elon Musk responded, “Interesting.”
That’s when Liz Cheney got triggered and responded to Musk. Her response was bizarre.
“Damn right, @Elon. I’m proud of what America did to win the Cold War, defeat Soviet communism, and defend democracy. Our nation stood for freedom. You may be unfamiliar with that part of our history since you weren’t yet an American citizen.
I’m not sure how this was responsive to the tweet, no one was talking about the Cold War, much less the Soviet Union. But doesn’t it figure that she’d jump into the middle of the scandal on the wrong side?”
She didn’t even tag Elon with the proper name for his account — so much for any accuracy on her part. People on X had fun mocking her over that.
A lot of folks on X also mentioned the pardon she got from Joe Biden, but she didn’t respond when they asked her about that.
She acted like Musk didn’t understand our history and the times we “stood for freedom” and attacked his citizenship with the “you may be unfamiliar” with all that since he wasn’t yet a citizen. Hey, Liz, nice job attacking immigrants who become citizens; how vile are you?
Elon responded to Benz, reducing Cheney’s response to “Damn right I was spawned out of USAID.”
“No kidding,” he concluded. That explains so much.
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You guys MUST read this re Ol’ Liz
She’s Gonna BLOW! Elon Musk TRIGGERS TF Out of Liz Cheney with Just 1 Word About Her USAID Connection – Twitchy
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/02/06/liz-cheney-is-damn-proud-her-career-spawned-from-usaid-n2407925
[Fixed it. – LVA]
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That preemptive pardon was no joke then. Her zeal in covering up The Steal has always left me wondering.
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You’d think that after all these relevations and other TRUMP polices like “only two genders” that Leftists would be ashamed and embarrassed of themselves.
But they’re not. They just scream and moan.
Although, I have noted our resident Leftists on this blog are remarkably silent of late.
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Correction: revelations not relevations.
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The WEF billionaires could soon insist that Australia close up shop and we
should take up basket weaving etc and practice our pronouns as long as Klaus and his elitist mates could fly to Davos in their private jets and proclaim that the poor must be happy.
The world would belong to their elites and the rest of us would have to be happy in our 15 minute cities. Just give it time because there are a lot of delusional donkeys who still believe in their fantasy dream world.
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Isn’t Oz due for a new wave of wealthy immigrants?
Like Bruce Springsteen and the ladies of The View.
Many of the folk that were just seen (at least one lady was totally seen) at The Grammys?
Probably not Bono as he has indicated Trump will induce a self cliff dive in an EV.
Most prog Americans consider Oz a Woke Climate Change stopping Utopia.
(Europe is looking at bit icky at the present time, and Canada gets too much snow that children can’t see.)
Enjoy.
🙂
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Once again, TRUMP supports workers, not Elite Leftist billionaires like the WEF crowd:
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I don’t know how others feel, but I feel a huge weight has been lifted. Many of us feared what was happening in many
Western governments – but few could have suspected the depth of the corruption and deception in the most powerful democracy in the world.
It’s amazing how interconnected the world is and how you can almost feel the lifting of the deep depression the West had fallen into. Talk about “ the Emperor has no clothes” …… the ascension of the Trump regime is opening eyes and hopefully will generate questioning of citizens of all democracies.
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Agreed.
But we are yet to see this happen in Australia, and even if fake conservative Dutton wins the next election, I’m not sure he’ll go as far as TRUMP.
To his credit, he has appointed Jacinta Price the Shadow government efficiency minister, not that there’s any equivalent position in the Al-bozo regime.
The Australian public “service” is very powerful, as is the far Left, so-called “moderate” faction of the Liberal Party. In addition, we have numerous traitors in Parliament, all bought and paid for by the Chicomms and WEF.
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I think voting for Dutton will be a case of opting for harm minimisation as opposed to voting for the ideal candidate. Getting Albo and Big Wind Bowen out of power is the priority. We can only hope that Dutton after getting elected may break some promises and do something truely radical like building some HELE power stations.
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I think it encouraging and entertaining.
When Victoria goes whole hog on updating the lignite fired power station in the Latrobe Valley, I will feel relieved. Until then, I don’t see much chance of Australia moving forward.
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It’s a real concern that as TRUMP shuts down Big Green and other Leftist billionaire scams, the billionaires will be looking for fresh pastures for subsidy-harvesting with Leftist Governments who are fanatically committed to the anthropogenic global warming fr@ud, who have no spending limits and no science or reason-based public policies. Like Australia.
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Hopefully, Trump has begun a new era, a ‘free market’ in politics. While you’re right to point out that the corruptocrats will move on to new pastures, and the green movement will continue to be one of the three most profitable (the others being Big Pharma and war), all we need is a few Trumpian-style nations to exist as examples of how ‘free conservatism’ performs economically versus the corrupt, leftist elite (‘globalist’) governments.
People WILL notice. And it’s not just the economics people will see but crime, the standard of public services and quality of life. Excising the poison of leftist division (race, religion, gender, etc) will also improve citizens’ quality of life. Why, we might even see comedians again!
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This is hard core Reformation 2.0 territory.
When folk are faced with the fact that the authority structures they had been taught to trust, and had offered up the lives and limbs of themselves or their children to serve …
has been very nearly completely fraudulent.
It is a magnificent task for Trump to expose it.
It will be a greater and more essential task for Trump to establish a new structure of trust.
Fortunately, those he defeated, that now swear to resist him, look more and more foolish and hysterical by the minute.
The US has a chance to recover.
Western Europe and the UK are gone.
Best of luck Oz.
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Agreed.
The US is returning to its powerful foundational principles of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” along with limited government and individual responsibility and with the recognition of “natural rights”.
Europe and UK have gone. They weren’t invaded, they invited fanatical followers of the seventh century warlord, mostly military age males.
Charles Martel, Charlemagne, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar and Vlad the Impaler who drove them away last time, would be appalled.
Australia has no real foundational principles, it was a free range prison colony, and is still run like one. It’s questionable if Australia can be saved.
The moral philosopher of the British Empire was Jeremy Bentham who did not believe in natural rights as derived from God or nature (depending upon your belief). He thought rights only came from man, i.e. government.
The founding fathers of the US on the other hand were influenced by philosophers like John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau and Baron de Montesquieu who did recognise God-given natural rights and this is reflected in the US Declaration of Independence and US Constitution.
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My mind wanders to the waterworld film where the bad guys ruled from a tanker. Much activity by slave types. Lots of ruling by those with power.
All the while the tanker was holed below the water line and only stayed above water because it had long ago run aground and attached to a coral reef.
The moral of the story? Watch this space!
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Forrest, actually, I think the tanker, Exxon Valdez in Waterworld was mobile. It just couldn’t move under its own power and was powered by large numbers of “Smokers” (pirates).
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Yes, there is even a screen shot of the vessel sinking revealing the name Exxon Valdez.
Damn. That means my memory is imperfect. In my defence it was a tediously long film.
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And as a follow up the actual Exxon Valdez changed names several times and was eventually scrapped.
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I find it amusing that vilifying Russia over the Ukraine mission has strengthened the Russian economy. Sanctions meant Russian money could only invest locally which BOOSTED the economy. And the Russian Government has been REDUCING the deficit at the same time. I am not an economist but economics has been distorted believing “Globalism” and “DIE” as being positives for the economy. Russia has demonstrated the contrary.
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All very interesting and encouraging.
One thing is the comparatively small amounts of money. I know the old saying about a million here and a million there and pretty soon it adds up to real money. But it takes an awful lot of millions to waste money on the scale governments waste money.
I hope that accountability is coming to a very large number of bureaucrats who have become used to having no accountability. For now I’m happy if the fiscal fire hose of waste is turned off.
And then my compassionate side asks what is to become of the millions of presently useless at best and more often actively obstructive and destructive bureaucrats.
My mind wanders to the hospital emergency departments I have seen where the majority of staff spend vast amounts of time on their computers. What if they all stopped doing what they are doing, went home and never came back? And then had to rely on unemployment benefits to feed themselves. And then my blood approaches boiling as I think of the centrelink droids who will “process” the paperwork.
So I say send home the entire government bureaucracy and only call them back when somebody notices they are missing.
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Perhaps they could “learn to code”, or take up basket weaving …
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There are plenty of things useless Leftists (a tautology I know) can do.
I have already suggested they go to Third World countries and personally pick up rubbish and teach the locals not to litter.
Plus there’s plenty of charity work to do. Cooking, cleaning and shopping tasks for elderly people is another thing they can do.
They could do roadside litter clean up and graffiti removal.
They could do invasive weed removal in National Parks and State forests.
There are many useful and menial tasks they can do, all at minimal or no wage until it is deemed they have worked off their debt to society.
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I like your thinking but it sounds a little bit Pol Pot Year Zero to me. And remember that a special place in hell must be reserved for the corrupt academics.
So I wondered what they could be offered which would have the effect of inducing genuine personal revelations to individually turn their lives around and repay their debts to society.
Nope. I’ve got nothing.
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USAID functions as a mega crime octopus with its tentacles into everything. Dark lord George Soros has big links to USAID, and WEF is one of the arms of that universal crime octopus.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/usaid_helped_fund_the_soros_prosecutors.html
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I wonder if their ABC & SBS journos got any USAID funds?
. https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/02/06/wikileaks-usaid-has-been-funding-over-6000-journalists-worldwide-across-nearly-1000-platforms/
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We have Whitney Webb throwing cold water over a lot that is being reported. She is very sour on Elon’s many conflicts of interest, like wanting to turn X into a major financial instrument, and his father having been head of a consortium to combine the USA, Canada, and Greenland into one digitally run blob, back in the 80’s! Digital currencies of any type will be problems, not just the govt ones.
Rebranding –
“When the powers that be realized that many Americans would resist a “great reset”, they obviously noticed that the majority were expecting it from the public sector, so now it’s implementation is going to come from the private, likely via the public-private partnership. People misunderstand the WEF and what it does IMO (in my opinion), but it’s most obvious and overt goal as a group, is to facilitating digital transformation, and the 4IR (ie the “great reset”) via the public-private partnership model.”
A site that Whitney is not the only contributor to
https://www.youtube.com/@OnlyTheSAVVY/videos
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10 minute vid from, NewsMax re USAID.. The host uncovered some things that I was no aware of..
WTWT
https://youtu.be/ayEKO-3ia90?si=paGLkjv18xn4pwu4
Somebody pls turn this into a hotlink. I’ve tried, but to no avail. Thanx!
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I think we should understand why their so called CC mitigation is such a mindboggling WASTE of TRILLIONs of $ of our money and for ZERO measurable change to our climate.
Here’s Steven Nowakowski at 1.50 minutes of the video that I posted yesterday…..
1:50
“of energy it would cost $1.2 trillion by 2032 and 5 to 7 trillion by 2060 to reach”
1:57
“these targets and everyone’s bills will keep going up and up and up and the increases will be steeper and steeper and steeper” END OF STEVE’s quote.
Bloomberg’s total is about 275 TRILLION $ for the global cost to changeover to toxic W & S and no guarantee that every last TRILLION $ wouldn’t be WASTED straight down the drain.
Nothing comes close to their PONZI CC fra-d and con trick and I only wish more voters would start to WAKE UP.
Never forget that China, Russia, Iran , Nth Korea etc couldn’t care less. I wonder why?
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Again here’s that video link and see Steven’s quote at about 1 minute 50 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmxOWqMsDxM&t=124s
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The controlled media … anyone who imagines they print “news” and not just brainwashing is deluded.
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Maybe we should talk about the many positive things that USAID has done. OpenStreetMap was one initiative that has been highly successful and useful.
https://www.hotosm.org/updates/hot-statement-on-the-us-federal-government-disruption-of-foreign-assistance/
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LOL. Please let HOT SCAM know ASAP.
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Quick everyone – Google “positive things that USAID has done”, and help Simon out.
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“What have the Romans ever done for us?”
Python Prophecies: Gospel of Brian-Verse 12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ
The Greeks shall inherit the Earth.
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Homk – typo there… It was “the geeks shall inherit the earth”.
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Wrong Simon.
OpenStreetMap is an entirely volunteer effort and derives its income from private donations plus it uses volunteer work to create the maps (anyone can be a volunteer).
https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Finances
You are referring to OpenStreetMap versions created specifically for natural disaster hot spots by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.
They had some funding from USAID, but I’m not sure how much. And it was probably misdirected anyway. The organisation will survive without it.
There is no reason at all why the funding and volunteer model that applies to the rest of the OSM project can’t apply to that aspect of OSM as well.
I know it’s incomprehensible for Leftists, among the most selfish people I have ever met, to think in terms of charitable donations and volunteer work, but here is your chance to learn about this aspect of life.
You can donate to the HOT, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, here:
https://www.hotosm.org/donate/
OpenStreetMaps will be a better organisation without any government funding.
About Humanitarian OpenStreetMap from Wikipedia:
I use OpenStreetMap all the time for bushwalking (hiking) and Himalayan trekking. It provides crowdsourced maps which are stored on your phone and don’t require a data connection.
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Just to clarify, the regular OpenStreetMaps App used by most people, including me, is different to the Humanitarian OpenStreetMaps created for specific purposes like natural disasters but it’s all part of the same platform.
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Nice tweaking of the acronym, HOTSUM becomes HOT. Climate change enthusiasts will love that.
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You know that swamp we’ve been hearing about for nearly 10 years? USAID would appear to have been one of the plugs that prevented that swamp from being drained. Maybe the biggest plug. Let’s hope the swamp creatures don’t install a pump on the lower side and attempt to put the water back in.
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[…] USAID gave $68 million to the WEF billionaires ski club at Davos […]
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Fundamentally, the Leftist Meltdown about the closure if USAID just goes to show you how selfish they are and their unwillingness to give charitable donations or do volunteer work.
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This link was posted over at WUWT:
https://eko.substack.com/p/override
It highlights why the DOGE team is so effective.
Remember Edward Coritsine is a 19yo freshman.
The bureaucrats were preparing orientation packages for DOGE while DOGE was following the money trail.
While Americans thought they were watching the end of socialism with the demise of Russia, they were inviting it into their institutions. Trump is unravelling the entire mess.
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During his first term as President meeting UN delegates in New York Donald Trump addressed the gathering and gave several recommendations including;
* UN downsize and get back to the basics established for after WW2.
* Get rid of the attached organisations.
* Stop interferring in the affairs of member sovereign nations.
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Most Australian Council ratepayers are unaware of the expenses their local government is spending for UN Agenda 21 now Agenda 30 – Sustainability.
Every or most councils are permanent members of the sustainability industry that dictates the rules and regulations councils are pushed to adopt resulting in many costs including zoning of land and approval of development applications, and much more.
Ratepayers are horrified as rate increases mount up, one Northern Beaches Sydney Council now wants to raise rates by 40%
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Agenda 21 Keating Labor 1992
Lima Protocol agreement Whitlam Labor 1975
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I remember to Rio Earth summit and I remember the Lake Macquarie council implementing the Agenda 21 in local affairs and i remember that in response they re-zoned my families property from rural to environmental. This effectively confiscated the land. Agenda 21 changed the course of our lives, and the wealth of our family. People ask when i got “red pilled”. I will say as of then. I cant see why they call people “conspiracy theorists” when Agenda 21 has been official public UN policy since that time. I also watched the perfectly good NSW electricity grid be deliberately mismanaged from that time on, obviously on purpose as it is not possible to do so much damage by accident.
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“Consultative” and “Consensus” is also complete propaganda and gaslighting. As soon as you see those words used by people weilding power you know you are being shafted. And you know that they know that you know you are being shafted.
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How many Australians realise that non-government organisations are not government departments?
Often they identify as councils and some are really pushing limits like Pedestrian Council of Australia, one of many examples, Climate another.
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USAID’s ‘long list of crap’: Karoline Leavitt cites millions in wasteful spending
“I would just say a strong message to Democrats who are out there pretending to be outraged about the long list of crap that this administration is cutting,” Leavitt told reporters during Wednesday’s briefing, naming examples from her list of programs Trump has deemed wasteful. “Democrats are outraged that the American people … want their taxpayers going to good uses, not stuff like this.”
Here is the list of 28 Items of Crap Leavitt brought to the briefing.
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Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
The people voted for major reform.
Joined November 2024
https://x.com/DOGE
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Here’s a good one from that link.
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Unemployment in Washington DC is now on the rise. LOL.
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USAID projects pay vastly different rates to ‘National staff’ compared to ‘International staff’ for doing the same work. They argue the lower rates for National staff is because they do not want to upset local employment markets. I’d argue that coming in to employ is the upset, not the rate paid. The differing rates of pay just show them for what they are.
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In fairness, Jo, that USAID tent could have been taken from people needing it by force by the Islamic fighters occupying it in the picture. But I get the wider point.
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I wonder if any of the recovered UFOs have USAID stamps on them?
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Not to quibble, but what Klaus Schwab actually said was “You vill own nussing unt be hoppy.”
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