By Jo Nova
It turns out the Non-Government Organizations were really The Government
The word for that is GONGO — a government organised non-government organisation.
Hands up who is still reeling with the news that USAID had 50 thousand million dollars of political and media influence? The annual budget of $50 billion dollars in the hands of unaccountable activist NGOs buys a lot of “journalists”, editors and teenage protestors. Suddenly a lot of global patterns make more sense.
Today we found out that news outlets like Politico, and the New York Times were being given millions of dollars from the US government.
This is the biggest scandal in news media history: No employee at Politico got paid yesterday. First time ever the company missed a pay period. This is a crisis. Now we learn Politico — a “news company” — which spent the last 10 years trying to destroy the MAGA Movement was being massively funded by USAID.
It seems some $27 million dollars went to Politico during the Biden years — and that’s just the subscriptions (not the USAID). Truly, Politico charges as much as $10,000 for a single “Politico Pro” subscription — and so the taxpayers fork out big bucks to pay for politicians “work expenses”, and the money ends up covering the salaries of journalists who are working hard to deceive the hapless taxpayers.
As ZeroHedge reminds us, Politico went in hard in the 2020 election to cover for the Hunter Biden laptop from hell.
They also point out that the Blob has many other ways to keep newspapers toeing the line…
It’s not just the subscriptions: there are huge “ad contracts”, dinner parties DC throws itself under the guise of “media conferences”, sponsorships, etc all paid for by taxpayers. Once done with Politico look at its spawn Axios, founded by Politico veterans
Hypernormalisation. pic.twitter.com/Dh5Vg4wtnd
— rick.h (@rickyhewitt_dev) February 5, 2025
The Soviet quote fits disturbingly well.
It will be interesting to see the keyboard warriors retort once they are ronin.
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Too funny.
Maybe they can wander the streets of DC and NYC dueling … challenging each other by who can name the most genders.
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For a long time I’ve read NGO as near government organisation.
More recently, whenever I see independent, I read unaccountable.
It helps… a little.
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Tens of thousands of public service criminals are running for the exits. Not from a purge. Just an audit.
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The American public will be angry at the robbery. This is a country where in North Carolina the Federal Government had spent all the FEMA disaster money on illegal migrants and could not and would not help. Now even more tens of billions on bribery, buying elections and favorable news coverage, while pretending to help people overseas.
What is amazing in government corruption like this is not just that public servants and journalists can be bought. But how cheaply.
Is the New York Times going to investigate itself for corruption?
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USAID was created in 1961. 60 x $50Bn = $3Trillion. That’s 20x the entire Australian Federal Budget. And clearly unaudited. How much did USAID help anyone? The enemies of democracy have been funded internally and externally by Washington. That’s not a swamp. It’s a cess pit.
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“All the news paid to print.” A slightly more accurate motto for the New York Times.
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I can hear the cries ” But I was only following orders”. Kicking doors in and pointing loaded weapons at women and children of unsuspecting J6ers at 5am.
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Unbelievably, even Australia, a rich First World country (or it used to be), received USAID money.
It’s difficult to understand why. Australia doesn’t (yet) seek financial aid.
Was this money actually a disguised bribe to some politician or senior public serpent? And what specific influence waa being purchased?
https://2017-2020.usaid.gov/humanitarian-assistance/australia
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That’s $100,000 for Australian National bushfire relief? Which home received this cash from a budget of $50,000,000,000? I hope they received a nice card from a grateful nation.
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Teals? A Liberal PM who didn’t need the aid?
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Back in the 1990s , I was working here oin Oz with a US expat. As part of his package he got a 10% “hardship” allowance (which we got at varying %s for working in 3rd world or difficult locations)
He thought it was comical, but accepted graciously.
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I think showing the 8mm film of Mr Holt ‘s demise by G-Men was sufficient to get Oz PM cooperation without too much moola involved David.
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The corruption and fra-d from the left wing liars and con merchants just rolls on and on and all funded by the poor taxpayers and yet enough of our clueless voters still support these treasonous parties of the left.
When will they wake up and take a stand?
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How many of those depend on a City, County, State, Federal, Educational institution, or a grant or subsidy, pay check, either directly or indirectly?
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The Left are in Meltdown over the closure of USAID.
But just like the Left, it did nothing useful. It just destroyed by virtue of spreading the Leftist civilisation-destroying agenda.
E.g.
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Nothing useful to whom?
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Its nice that they documented it so well. Inside the bubble they thought this was all normal. They wont make that mistake again.
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Just amazing. As these things get published, I would deny ever having worked there rather than cry in public over having been locked out of the building/my account etc. But then again places like that draws a certain type to fit into the “culture”…
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Notice the heavy emphasis on LGBT+++, “green” and DEI issues, not feeding starving people whom are of no concern whatsoever to the Left (if they were they’d actually be helping them).
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I doubt that’s really where it went (DEI and LGBT groups) … there’s layer upon layer of laundering going on there. A lot of pockets got lined, no doubt some self interest benefits there too.
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A lot of it is ostensibly going to Ukraine, as USAID’s budget has more than doubled since Russia’s invasion in 2022. However, Zelensky claims that only about a quarter of the money that has been allocated to Ukraine has actually made it to him. The rest disappears somewhere in transit between ‘murica and Ukraine as the (not so) little piggies in Washington DC, Kyiv, and points in-between feed at the trough.
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Australia also pays Leftist legacy media outlets.
The swamp runs deep and crosses international borders.
I wish we had people in a position of power like TRUMP/Musk who cared about Government waste and corruption.
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It’s no wonder, as we realise that all the news is pre programmed and micro managed by elitist persons, our own democratic beliefs must come under scrutiny. Murdoch News and ABC tells Australian and NZders what to think. Our political system is a 50/50 coin toss with a double snake-headed coin.
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I like how TRUMP and Musk don’t mess around.
In Australia, if it were proposed to close a corrupt and wasteful Government agency, which is just about all of them, there would be inquiries, public debates, Royal Commisions etc., all of which themselves would involve hugely overpaid “consultants” and lawyers and the process would go on for years and the conclusion would be that nothing changes.
At the stroke of a pen, TRUMP closes the agency by the end of the business day.
Next!
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Yes, but technically he cannot. It was setup by an Act of Congress and still exists. However in exposing what the agency has been doing with the money is a huge scandal which Congress cannot ignore.
The whole rationale of these government agencies over time needs to be reviewed. Whatever the intent in 1961 in the Missile Crisis and the recovery of Europe and the Marshall plan, withdrawal from Japan and the Cold War has to be revisited. What is the purpose of USAID?
In Australia the rationale behind the ABC, the SBS, the BOM, the CSIRO and endless self serving junkets needs to be examined in terms of the future and an honest assessement of the need for them today. The 1970s SBS to bring language media to Italians and Greeks is absurd in the internet age. And how much has the CSIRO actually achieved? How much of the BOM is now on full automatic? And why should a government fund a completely autonomous and unaccountable ABC news bureau at over $1Billion a year?
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If you mean USAID, it was established by an Executive Order from President Kennedy.
It can be un-established the same way.
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I know that’s what the internet says but the Act existed.
“In 1961, President Kennedy signed the Foreign Assistance Act into law and created USAID by executive order”.
This creation of the USAID department consolidated many previous post war initiatives and has just continued, clearly rudderless.
My understanding of US Presidential executive orders as head of the executive branch but ultimately they have to be ratified by congress or within the powers already granted by Acts of Congress. The President can act quickly but the Congress has to ultimately approve or disapprove or preapprove. Ultimately he is not the US Federal government which writes laws although militarily he is Commander in chief. The Constitution does give the President specific powers like the ability to grant Pardons without writing laws.
For example only Congress can declare war but the war in Iraq was executed without declaring a state of War. That is within the President’s executive authority.
In the UK, all Acts of Parliament have to be signed into law by the Queen.
All the balance between the President and the executive, the Congress, the Senate and the military are laid out in the Constitution and Amendments. The idea is that no one group can act unilaterally, preventing coups, dictatorship, autocracy. And the states in the Federation are quite separate with their own houses and governor. Trump’s powers are circumscribed.
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“This is the biggest scandal in news media history: No employee at Politico got paid yesterday.”
Damn.
Just when I think I’m getting too conspiracy minded.
I knew USAID has had an ordure of funk since Nam.
But wow.
Going hard at USAID.
Master stroke going straight to the at hive nest of the Blob collective.
I did not imagine this.
Even if I had, I would’ve been certain it couldn’t be done.
Trump may have crossed the Delaware (Christmas comes late) and routed them from their corrupt as all Hell, sleepy happy safe space.
Damn.
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You would think this would be the number 1 news item on the news media. But no. Havn’t seen anything yet. Thanks to Jo and the participants on this site that we are privy to this information. Like others, I will pass this on to others so that a clear understanding of what the Trump administration is already achieving is available.
It is astonishing that the US public service has been so easily directed to virtually institute globally a political agenda of such significance. The revelation is vital in understanding the historical significance of this Trump administration.
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Was about to say the same. The fact it’s not been reported by the legacy media is a real red flag. But the Trump Gaza plan has now taken centre stage and perhaps this was intended. It allows the new US administration to get on with their work behind the scenes without disruption.
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It may not be playing on Australian Lame News Media much but it is being reported on alternative Media platforms. Breitbart, Gateway Pundit and places like Louder with Crowder on rumble, which leans towards comedic as well as serious information style format
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Even conservatives and fellow rational thinkers had been blinded to some extent by the waste, destruction and Civilisation-destroying Leftist programs of The Swamp. It was just seen as a “normal” part of Government, or at least it was thought that nothing much could be done about it.
It took a completely fresh approach by TRUMP and Musk to fully expose and do something about this.
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Their CC hoax is by far the biggest con and fra-d in Human history and yet so many people still believe this lunacy.
Malcolm Roberts has produced the best video on the renewables Ponzi scheme and all sides of politics have their say because they know toxic W & S is a trillion $ disaster and will destroy the environment forever and will quickly make Australia a very weak country unable to defend itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmxOWqMsDxM
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BTW in the video Steven Nowakowski comes up with some very frightening statistics. Just watch the last 30 minutes if you can.
He has calculated that the full roll out of Labor’s toxic W & S disasters would require an area that’s 7 times the area of Tasmania.
Tassie area is about 68,000 sq klms and 7 times = 476,000 sq klms to complete their toxic full rollout. He also states that it would cost 1.2 TRILLION $ by 2032 and many more trillions by 2050.
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India outlawed NGOs like Greenpeace as enemy of the state.
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GONGO = old term
GONENOW = new term.
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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.
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Nice one Ruairi 🙂
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I particularly enjoyed hearing Senator Schumer say that first it was USAID, then it was treasury. Who knows what will be next. This is just the beginning.
And a very large number of people responded by saying that they hoped so.
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