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  • Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

    10/08/2025 4:27:28 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 123 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | October 7, 2025 | BY KRISTEN GELINEAU (D-AP)
    MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) — Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family’s food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food. On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher’s little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: “No one has died” because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: “No children are dying on my watch.” That, Taher...
  • X: Allegations that Obama was Using USAID as a Money Laundering Operation Emerge

    10/06/2025 4:59:22 PM PDT · by TigerClaws · 20 replies
    The SCIF @TheIntelSCIF OBAMA was running a MONEY LAUNDERING operation through the CAYMAN ISLANDS using USAID as a front, DISGUISED as "FOREIGN AID." You just can't make this stuff up. It ALWAYS seems to be the same culprits, the same groups, and the same people. Every, single, time. During the Obama USAID era, we were running rogue operations in Cuba. USAID pumped $1.2 BILLION into activist groups, teaching them how to use Facebook, Twitter, hashtags, and coordinate street protests. All of it was structured to fool the American people, Congress, and even the White House. Obama even secretly funded a...
  • ‘We’re just beaten’: For beleaguered federal workers, shutdown is last straw

    10/04/2025 10:19:05 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 89 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | October 4, 2025 6:00 a.m. EDT | annah Natanson , Olivia George and Meryl Kornfield
    President Donald Trump’s second term had already brought misery to the nation’s 2.1 million civilian federal workers: unprecedented mass layoffs, strict return-to-office requirements and more red tape regulating everything from travel to printer paper. Now, with the government shut down, 750,000 federal staffers have been furloughed and many others are working without pay, even as Trump and his top lieutenants vow to put more federal jobs on the chopping block. “When did we become the enemy?” said one National Institutes of Health employee who, like other workers interviewed for this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of...
  • Harvard’s “They/Them” Professor Teams With House Dems To Spend Your Taxes On Research Promoting Trans Youth Violence

    09/29/2025 8:48:21 AM PDT · by DFG · 16 replies
    Natalie G Winters Substack ^ | 09/29/2025 | Natalie Winters
    The assassination of Charlie Kirk by a radical transgender activist has once again spotlighted the growing militancy inside the LGBTQ+ protest movement. What the mainstream media won’t tell you is that this rising wave of aggressive activism isn’t happening in a vacuum. It’s being carefully studied, organized, and in some cases directly subsidized by U.S. taxpayer dollars. At the center of this network sits Erica Chenoweth, a Harvard professor who identifies as nonbinary and uses “they/them” pronouns. Chenoweth has built a career researching how youth and LGBTQ+ activists can be mobilized in protest movements, focusing less on morality or safety...
  • The United States Has Spent $110 Billion on AIDS Prevention. Less Than Half of the Money Went to Medical Supplies and Health Workers, a State Department Audit Found.

    09/28/2025 7:36:30 AM PDT · by Twotone · 33 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | September 25, 2025 | Adam Kredo
    Just 40 percent of the $110 billion the United States has invested into global HIV/AIDS prevention since 2003 actually went toward on-the-ground deliveries of life-saving medical supplies, with at least two recipients using more than $30 billion in taxpayer money to pay "exorbitant" executive salaries and push "leftwing ideology," a State Department audit found. When the Trump administration unveiled its "America First Global Health Strategy" earlier this month, it contended the nation’s "foreign assistance programs are deeply broken" and often plagued by fraud, mismanagement, and waste. An internal State Department review of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)...
  • Trump’s Targeting of Soros Foundations Elicits Fear and Defiance on Left

    09/27/2025 4:27:25 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 27 replies
    The New York Times ^ | September 27, 2025 | Kenneth P. VogelNicholas Kulish, Kate Kelly, Theodore Schleifer and David A. Fahrenthold
    During a panel discussion featuring world leaders and philanthropists in Manhattan on Thursday afternoon, Alex Soros said the $23 billion philanthropic organization he leads would not cave to pressure from President Trump. Mr. Soros, the son of the billionaire investor and Democratic megadonor George Soros, defiantly told attendees that it had done nothing wrong and would back away from its human rights work “over my dead body,” according to two people who attended the panel who spoke on the condition of anonymity because it was an invitation-only event. The remarks came in response to a question about a report in...
  • At UN, President Trump Champions Sovereignty, Rejects Globalism

    09/23/2025 8:45:07 PM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 8 replies
    Whitehouse.gov ^ | September 23, 2025 | The Whitehouse
    Today, in remarks to the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, President Donald J. Trump delivered a powerful rebuke to the destructive globalism that has fueled endless conflict and chaos around the world. During the address, President Trump was unapologetic in proclaiming American strength as he unveiled a bold vision for sovereign nations to unite against the true threats of terrorism, unchecked migration, biological warfare, and loss of cultural identity.Here are highlights from President Trump’s speech:“America is blessed with the strongest economy, the strongest borders, the strongest military, the strongest friendships, and the strongest spirit of any nation...
  • WATCH: Marco Rubio Destroys George Stephanopoulos Over ‘U.S. Causing Deaths’ Narrative

    09/23/2025 8:30:18 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 20 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 09/23/2025 | Sarah Anderson
    Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in New York for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) this week, but on Tuesday morning, he took some time out to make the morning show rounds on several networks. He didn't shy away from promoting the Donald Trump administration's "America First" policies.AdvertisementOn ABC, George Stephanopoulos seemed obsessed with cuts to foreign aid, claiming they've led to deaths around the world. Rubio wasn't willing to play along with that tired narrative that I thought the left finally gave up on months ago. As the secretary has pointed out numerous times, USAID was a "dysfunctional...
  • Germany faces ruin after 'living beyond its means for years', its chancellor admits

    09/22/2025 6:44:32 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 74 replies
    The Daily Mail ^ | 18 Sep 2025 | SABRINA PENTY
    Chancellor Friedrich Merz has admitted that Germany has been 'living beyond its means for years' with experts now warning that the country could face ruin without economic reforms. The conservative German leader has caused uproar after declaring that the country could no longer afford the cost of its pensions system, which has soared to more than 31 per cent of GDP - one of the highest levels in Europe. Merz also warned of a 'profound epochal break' and the need for 'painful' austerity measures to guarantee that young Germans would have any future prospects. Economic adviser Marcel Fratzscher, who also...
  • Congress Must Root Out Leftist Funding That Created Climate Ripe For Kirk Assassination

    09/14/2025 10:53:59 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 50 replies
    The Federalist ^ | September 12, 2025 | Beth Brelje
    Charlie Kirk’s assassination was a terrorist attack meant to discourage the conservative movement. Even before authorities had suspected sniper Tyler Robinson in custody, we knew it was likely the work of a radicalized mind brainwashed by far-left extremist rhetoric so vile that he thought it was okay to kill someone. Where does this radicalization come from? Follow the money.Conservative Mike Cernovich was correct in his Wednesday X post calling for a congressional investigation into the funding of far-left extremism. Our political climate is not an accident. Provocative leftist ideologies pushed with guerrilla marketing are used to manipulate weak minds. Influence...
  • 'My wife died giving birth after Trump cut funding to our clinic'

    09/15/2025 4:43:14 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 111 replies
    BBC News ^ | September 15, 2025 | by Yogita Limaye
    When Shahnaz went into labour, her husband Abdul called a taxi to take them to the only medical facility accessible to them. "She was in a lot pain," he says. A 20-minute drive away, the clinic was in Shesh Pol village in Afghanistan's north-eastern Badakhshan province. It was where their two older children were born. Abdul sat next to Shahnaz comforting her as they drove over gravel tracks to reach help. "But when we reached the clinic, we saw that it was closed. I didn't know it had shut down," he said, his face crumpling with agony. The clinic in...
  • Trump asks Supreme Court for emergency order to keep billions of dollars in foreign aid frozen

    09/08/2025 8:39:24 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 6 replies
    Associated Press ^ | 10:57 AM EDT, September 8, 2025 | Mark Sherman
    The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court for an emergency order to keep billions of dollars in foreign aid frozen. The crux of the legal fight is over nearly $5 billion in congressionally approved aid that President Donald Trump last month said he would not spend, invoking disputed authority that was last used by a president roughly 50 years ago. Last week, U.S. District Judge Amir Ali ruled that the Republican administration’s decision to withhold the funding was likely illegal. …
  • Trump funding cuts force PBS to eliminate 100 jobs

    09/05/2025 4:51:49 PM PDT · by Libloather · 28 replies
    Fox Business ^ | 9/05/25 | Brian Flood
    PBS informed 34 staffers Thursday they were being laid off as part of a broader downsizing effort that's resulted in 100 jobs being cut in recent months. The cuts were triggered in part by the Trump administration’s rescission package, which slashed over $1 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting. "Due to the loss of federal funding, PBS eliminated close to 100 positions over the last several months, including 34 valued PBS staff members notified yesterday their employment is ending. In this unprecedented moment, we remain focused on what matters most: ensuring our member stations can deliver quality content and...
  • Biden Judge Amir Ali Blocks Trump From Cutting Billions in USAID and Foreign Aid

    09/05/2025 7:23:08 AM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 58 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | September 5, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    US District Judge Amir Ali, a Biden appointee, blocked President Trump from cutting billions of dollars in USAID and foreign aid that Congress authorized. Trump will immediately appeal Judge Ali’s ruling. “President Trump has the executive authority to ensure that all foreign aid is accountable to taxpayers and aligns with the America First priorities people voted for,” White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said in a statement to Reuters. Reuters reported:
  • Rubio Hands USAID Over for Final Termination

    08/30/2025 2:03:27 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 22 replies
    Infowars.com ^ | August 30th, 2025 8:23 AM | RT
    Foreign aid agency’s closure has saved US taxpayers “tens of billions of dollars,” Secretary of State says US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Friday he was handing USAID over to the Office of Management and Budget to “oversee the closeout”Shortly after returning to office in January, US President Donald Trump launched the process of dismantling the agency, which has long served as Washington’s primary funding channel for political projects abroad. He accused the organization – often criticized by conservatives as promoting liberal causes – of being run by “radical lunatics” and enabling corruption “at levels rarely seen...
  • Foreign Aid Official Suspected Of Bribery Is Back At Work After Court Ruling

    08/30/2025 10:14:45 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 23 replies
    DailyWire.com ^ | Aug 30, 2025 | Luke Rosiak
    Staff at the African Development Foundation, a USAID-affiliated federal agency, have returned to work after a D.C. judge overturned the Trump administration’s abolition of the agency — even as a new inspector general’s report blasted the agency for misleading Congress.A USAID inspector general’s report released Thursday lists Mathieu Zahui as one of the agency’s current top employees, even though the IG told a D.C. judge last year that it had seized Zahui’s phone and found evidence that he took secret payments from a company to which he steered suspicious contracts.Early in the Trump administration, Zahui told the White House that...
  • The Widespread Demise of the Democrats Continues As the Party Is Rocked by Bill Gates Pulling His Funding

    08/29/2025 9:18:27 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 40 replies
    Red State ^ | 08/29/2025 | Brad Slager
    It has been fully recognized since the November election that the Democratic Party has been hobbled more than a three-legged gelding, but things refuse to improve for that lot. Throughout this year, the party has seen its prospects withering across the board, whether it is in internal operations, public approval, voting efforts, fundraising, or media outreach. And much like the condition of the national media industry, there is no desire exhibited by them to change what is not working. And this week it became even worse. It was announced that the Bill Gates Foundation was suspending its monetary involvement with...
  • Trump scraps $5B in foreign aid in rare ‘pocket rescission’

    08/28/2025 9:23:25 PM PDT · by bitt · 25 replies
    https://nypost.com ^ | Aug. 28, 2025 | Steven Nelson
    WASHINGTON — President Trump is moving to cancel nearly $5 billion in congressionally approved foreign aid and peacekeeping spending in a rare “pocket rescission,” The Post has learned — making use of a legally debated maneuver that hasn’t been done in 48 years. Trump on Thursday night notified Congress of his request to cancel the funds, which had been tied up in a court case until earlier in the day. A pocket rescission is a request that’s presented to Congress so late in the fiscal year — which ends Sept. 30 — that it’s made regardless of whether Congress acts....
  • Dossier 2.0: ‘Whistleblower’ Complaint Relies on Soros-Funded ‘Investigative Reporting’ Group that

    09/27/2019 10:57:54 AM PDT · by bitt · 19 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 9/26/2019 | aaron klein
    Sections of a so-called whistleblower’s complaint alleging President Donald Trump was “using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country” in the 2020 presidential race relies upon a self-described investigative journalism organization bankrolled massively by billionaire activist George Soros. The complainer admits, “I was not a direct witness to most of the events described.” Still, the so-called whistleblower goes on to allege that Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. The transcript of the phone call authorized for release by President Trump evidences no such pressure or quid pro...
  • Dems Are In HUGE Trouble. *YT vid at link*

    08/24/2025 6:41:12 PM PDT · by know.your.why · 28 replies
    The Young Turks ^ | 08/23/2025 | The Young Turks
    The Democratic National Committee is struggling to raise money, and that's according to a new bombshell report in Politico. And it also turns out that the Democratic establishment is still paying off expenses from Kamala Harris's failed presidential run. So this story is amazing. I highly recommend you read it again. It's in Politico, but here's what they're reporting. By the end of June, the Republican National Committee had $80 million on hand, compared to just $15 million for the Democrat National. Democratic National Committee. Now, we should note that other parts of the Democratic establishment or apparatus aren't having...