It’s an avalanche. Twenty stories today could have been a Front Page Headline
The newest addition to the grift, graft and fraud list are terrorist organisations. — USAID sent $310 million US dollars to Hamas to build a cement factory in Gaza which would have helped make the tunnels of terror. Senator John Kennedy said Mr Musk discovered the American taxpayer was also giving money to Yemen, Afghanistan, Syria, and even $10 million to an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group called the Nusra Front. So far, Musk and co, with his team of hot young tech-coders, have found that USAID spent $164 million to support radical organizations around the world.
In other inexplicable calls, the US government gave nearly $8 million to help teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid binary gendered language. A lot of Americans worked hard all year to pay their tax bill to cover that. Why?
But where are all the pleas from foreign leaders to save USAID?
Question of the week on the suspension of USAID comes from Mike Benz:
What’s the grift to charity ratio?
Forty or fifty billion dollars is a lot of money to spend to NOT create a photogenic fan club and an instant response team to protest the sudden end of the funding. Even if 10% of USAID was spent on things like feeling starving babies in Malawi, that’s still $4 or $5 billion worth of skinny-baby photo-ops and impassioned pleas from desperate leaders. The BBC has found an AIDS patient in Ukraine and 1,077 students in Egypt. But where are the national leaders and surely, hundreds of thousands, or millions of beneficiaries?
Were the recipients of USAID all dodgy dealers or terrorists who don’t want to embarrass their donors? Are they Prime Ministers and Presidents who don’t want to admit they needed USAID help to “win” their jobs? Are the governments of recipient-countries silent because the money was being used to control them or foment dissent against them, and they are happy it’s over? Any way we look at this is not good.
Then we find out USAID spent $268 million on the worlds independent media which presumably makes them dependent media
Without USAID money, journalism as we know it, might not exist. The global US media octopus has 6,000 arms. US Taxpayers were spending money 6,200 journalists and 707 news outlets, and nearly 280 organizations to “strengthen” independent media, whatever that means. And this information was out there, but no one went looking. And that is an annual budget. Wow.
USA: Trump’s foreign aid freeze throws journalism around the world into chaos
USAID programs support independent media in more than 30 countries, but it is difficult to assess the full extent of the harm done to the global media. Many organizations are hesitant to draw attention for fear of risking long-term funding or coming under political attacks. According to a USAID fact sheet which has since been taken offline, in 2023, the agency funded training and support for 6,200 journalists, assisted 707 non-state news outlets, and supported 279 media-sector civil society organizations dedicated to strengthening independent media. The 2025 foreign aid budget included $268,376,000 allocated by Congress to support “independent media and the free flow of information.”
In Ukraine, where 9 out of 10* outlets rely on subsidies and USAID is the primary donor…
Blaim Game captures this moment:
But US funding of terrorists and extremists will be hard for the Blob to explain:
Ready to have your mind blown?
Senator John Kennedy on Elon Musk and DOGE exposing USAID, “I’ll tell you what Mr. Musk discovered. I find it fascinating. He discovered:
– The American taxpayers are giving money to Afghanistan
– He found that we are giving money to Yemen
– He… pic.twitter.com/605uTwKbTV— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) February 7, 2025
This meme goes deep pic.twitter.com/pTTvW7fbpU
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 7, 2025
In other big news… Donald Trump is bringing back plastic straws~! We’re in a culture war, and Trump is winning.
And of course, in Australia, under the cover of these fireworks, our Uniparty politicians have brought in radical HateSpeech laws after 30 microseconds of discussion and no consultation. That’s a 7 year jail sentence for reckless speech. By golly, that was oddly efficient. Almost like a well funded global shadow government blob called in its last favors to shut down any hints of the Trump-Musk-MAGA contagion arising here in an election year?
More on Australian hatespeech laws soon. The Senators who voted NO were Rennick, Babet, Antic, and Payman, Tyrell and Pocock.
Right about now, we need Donald Trump to say nations that don’t allow free speech can’t be trusted with our nuclear subs or something like that…