Understanding the US - Again

[bala]

The Senate voted Thursday to confirm US President Donald J. Trump's nominee Russ Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget.

The OMB withheld more than $200 million in security assistance to Ukraine when Vought previously served as director. As director of OMB, Vought will have the chance to take on "two key economic issues:" addressing "excessive spending" and cutting "burdensome government regulations". Vought, in his opening statement to the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee last month, said that "we have to use taxpayer dollars wisely" because "inflation driven by irresponsible federal spending taxes Americans twice."

[chetak]

Marco Rubio clearing the doubts of some experts who would still like to glorify USAID and conveniently act like the end of it is the end of all aid from the US (It’s not).

USAID has been acting like an independent global entity that’s answerable to one, not even the US Prez. Deep State Core.


WATCH VIDEO


This video is about 5:17 minutes long

[chetak]

[bala]

Russian president Vladimir Putin tells in this interview: "EU leaders will wag their tails for US President, Donald J. Trump".

youtube.com/watch?v=H6hVW9Oi3Gc

// Oooh that includes Macron, Starmer, Von der Lying, Olaf and more..

[Hriday]

Chetak and others had commented about Trump's policy of frequent U-turns. Instead of stopping war, he offered weapons to Ukraine to get the rare earth minerals from Ukraine. Earlier he said that he loves Russian people and regret that the mindless war caused mass deaths and will stop war. If he can turn so quickly on such a major issue then other countries needs to be really worried. And if the huge wasteful spendings are curtailed as suggested by DOGE, then USA could be even more powerful and may even turn aggressive against other nations including India.

More on his U-turn on Ukraine war.

Now is it possible that his proposal to Ukraine is not serious and only to bolster his image of a strategic thinker and to avoid the future accusations that he wasted the opportunity for USA to get many billion dollars worth minerals in Ukraine?

The below post is reposted by @ramana_brf in Twitter. Open the link to see the map of mineral rich regions with the estimated worth. Can anyone confirm it?

https://x.com/NewRulesGeo/status/188676 ... sCZ5g&s=19

There’s only one problem for Trump’s Ukraine rare earth metal ambitions.

Take a look at this map.

The most valuable earth metals are located in territory now controlled by Russia.

They don’t belong to Zelensky, he’s writing checks he can’t cash.

I did post a related link earlier. Link below.
viewtopic.php?p=2628730#p2628730

Ukraine is ‘gold mine’ with $12 trillion of minerals ‘we can’t afford to lose’.

~ US Senator Lindsey Graham.

When Donald Trump was president, he sent Ukraine military aid in the FORM OF LOANS.

“What did Trump do to get the weapons flowing? He created a loan system”.

“If we help Ukraine now, they can become the best business partner we ever dreamed of”, Graham continued. “That $10 to $12 trillion of critical mineral assets could be used by Ukraine and the West, not given to Putin and China”.

The West “can’t afford to lose” the war in Ukraine.

“This is a very big deal, how Ukraine ends. Let’s help them win a war we can’t afford to lose. Let’s find a solution to this war. But they’re sitting on a gold mine. To give Putin $10 or $12 trillion of critical minerals that he will share with China is ridiculous”.

47 seconds video of Lindsey Graham is in the Twitter link.

[chetak]

Russian president Vladimir Putin tells in this interview: "EU leaders will wag their tails for US President, Donald J. Trump".

youtube.com/watch?v=H6hVW9Oi3Gc

// Oooh that includes Macron, Starmer, Von der Lying, Olaf and more..

bala saar,


If russia hadn't taken on the major might of the german forces and borne the brunt of their assault during WWII and also kept them engaged for the longest duration of time, while suffering mind bogglingly horrendous losses, and ultimately beating them back, the allied victory would have been a pipedream and the allied forces may not have come out of the fray in the way that they did.

even the D day invasion would not have got off the ground if the russians had not pinned down the bulk of the german forces far away from normandy.

These european @holes owe the russians big time and yet they have always looked down on them. They don't even consider the russians as white

[Cyrano]

Trump is looking for an exit ramp from Ukraine with a face saver for US and himself. The problem is that Putin is having all the aces and is in no hurry to make a deal since he is gaining every day on the battlefield. Trump is slowly realising how bad a position EU warmongers have put the US in. Hence all these feelers about Lithium etc.

Putin now doesn't want Zelinsky in the negotiations, his mandate is over and no elections have happened in Ukraine. Conducting elections means another 6 months to advance Russian troops against crumbling AFU.

Americans are used play bowling, Russians are playing chess. This will take another year to get resolved IMO.

[chetak]

Trump is looking for an exit ramp from Ukraine with a face saver for US and himself. The problem is that Putin is having all the aces and is in no hurry to make a deal since he is gaining every day on the battlefield. Trump is slowly realising how bad a position EU warmongers have put the US in. Hence all these feelers about Lithium etc.

Putin now doesn't want Zelinsky in the negotiations, his mandate is over and no elections have happened in Ukraine. Conducting elections means another 6 months to advance Russian troops against crumbling AFU.

Americans are used play bowling, Russians are playing chess. This will take another year to get resolved IMO.

Cyrano ji,


they could start by unfreezing and returning russia's 300 billion USD which they have stolen from him.

that swine zelinsky has his beady eyes on it

[chetak]

Kash Patel and his mystery woman @AlexisWilkins

[Cyrano]

Chetak Saar,
At this point I'd think Russia has written off those 300B in their minds. They will of course take it back if offered but it won't be their bargaining chip. If Trump is to be believed the oblasts under Russian control have trillions of rare earth minerals, frozen Russian assets are chump change in comparison!

[chetak]

vi@WA

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 found that we are giving money to Syria
- He found that the USAID has 10,000 people employees, and every year they give away $40 billion
- He found that the USAID gave money to support electric vehicles in Vietnam. Our money, taxpayer money
- He found that the USAID gave money to a transgender clinic in India. “I didn't know that. I bet you the American people didn't know that”
- He found that USAID gave $1.5 million to a Serbian LGBTQ group, they got $1.5 million to QUOTE, “advanced diversity, equity, inclusion in Serbia's workplaces and business communities”
- They found that USAID spent $164 million to support radical organizations around the world
- They gave $122 million of that to groups aligned with foreign terrorist organizations
- According to this report in Mr. Musk, the USAID has given millions of dollars to quote organizations in Gaza controlled by Hamas
- He found that we gave $2 million, USAID did, for sex changes in Guatemala
- He found that we gave $20 million to produce a new Sesame Street show in Iraq
- He found that we gave $4.5 million of taxpayer money to combat misinformation in Kazakhstan
- He found that we gave $10 million, USAID did, of meals to an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group called the Nusra Front
- Mr. Musk found that we gave $7.9 million of taxpayer money to a project that would teach Sri Lankan journalists to avoid binary gendered language. (The USAID took 8 million bucks and gave it to a bunch of journalists in Sri Lanka to teach them how to avoid binary gendered language)
- USAID gave $1.5 million to promote LGBT advocacy in Jamaica
- They gave $1.5 million to rebuild the Cuban media ecosystem
- They gave $1.5 million for quote, art for inclusion of people with disabilities in Belarus
- Another $3.9 million for LGBT causes in Macedonia
- $8.3 million for equity and inclusion education in Nepal

“I could go all night and many of my colleagues are upset. They're really mad at Mr. Musk. Hell, I think we ought to give him a medal”

[chetak]

Chetak Saar,
At this point I'd think Russia has written off those 300B in their minds. They will of course take it back if offered but it won't be their bargaining chip. If Trump is to be believed the oblasts under Russian control have trillions of rare earth minerals, frozen Russian assets are chump change in comparison!

Cyrano saar,


One would have to agree with you there

[drnayar]

Chetak Saar,
At this point I'd think Russia has written off those 300B in their minds. They will of course take it back if offered but it won't be their bargaining chip. If Trump is to be believed the oblasts under Russian control have trillions of rare earth minerals, frozen Russian assets are chump change in comparison!

Cyrano saar,


One would have to agree with you there

I agree too, The Russians are playing a long game, every move has a plan and they seem to have a plan for Trump. He might think its all and good to push a bit but it would be interesting to see how far he goes. , the Russians might just give that opportunity.

Showing weakness is never a good idea , i do wonder at India's overtures towards reducing taxes etc.

[Ashokk]

‘Treated like criminals’: Shackling of Indians aboard 40-hour migrant flight sparks new outrage against Trump

US officials kept around 100 deported Indian migrants in shackles for their 40-hour flight home, including during bathroom breaks, in the latest incident to spark anger overseas at President Donald Trump’s migration crackdown.

“Our hands were cuffed and ankles tied with chains before we took the flight,” said 23-year-old Akashdeep Singh, who arrived in Punjab on Wednesday with 103 other deportees.

“We requested the military officials to take it off to eat or go to the bathroom but they treated us horribly and without any regard whatsoever,” Singh added.

“The way they looked at us, I’ll never forget it… We went to the bathroom with the shackles on. Right before landing, they removed (the shackles) for the women. We saw it. For us, they were removed after we landed by the local police officials.”

[vimal]

‘Treated like criminals’: Shackling of Indians aboard 40-hour migrant flight sparks new outrage against Trump

US officials kept around 100 deported Indian migrants in shackles for their 40-hour flight home, including during bathroom breaks, in the latest incident to spark anger overseas at President Donald Trump’s migration crackdown.

“Our hands were cuffed and ankles tied with chains before we took the flight,” said 23-year-old Akashdeep Singh, who arrived in Punjab on Wednesday with 103 other deportees.

“We requested the military officials to take it off to eat or go to the bathroom but they treated us horribly and without any regard whatsoever,” Singh added.

“The way they looked at us, I’ll never forget it… We went to the bathroom with the shackles on. Right before landing, they removed (the shackles) for the women. We saw it. For us, they were removed after we landed by the local police officials.”

Feel bad for Khalistanis lions like Akashdeep Singh who were deported. Their dream of Khalistan in Amreeka is dashed

[vijayk]

https://x.com/total_woke_/status/1887696970049069223

Three layers of deep state influence, with increasing level of difficulty exposing

1 Direct : Direct funding by US or friendly govt's. For example $USAID. After lots of laundering it reaches the real beneficiaries.

2 Through American billionaires & NGOs : Many billionaires like Soros become and remain rich because they work as arms of deep state. NGOs like Ford foundation, Rockefeller Brothers foundation etc, that either always worked for CIA or were taken over after founders passed away maintain plausible independence. Rockerfellers btw fund Magsaysay award. Check their beneficiaries from #Kejriwal, Patkar, TM Krishna, Ravish, Funsuk Wangdu etc and u get the picture.

3 Foreign NGOs under influence : Their funding by 1 and 2 is easy to trace. But their ace card is businesses who need American market, and one lawsuit in USA can be devastating. Ever wondered why Infosys, Wipro, Tatas fund IPSMF that funds The Wire, Caravan etc?

Will MAD finish these scums or just twiddle their thumbs?

[chetak]

vi@WA


Shocked that American tax dollars funded Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation (FIF) via USAID.

FIF was the group behind the 26/11 Mumbai attacks that killed 166, including 6 Americans. Despite the U.S. banning it in 2010, funds kept flowing.

Why did USAID continue to bankroll a designated terror organization by the US and India?!

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USAID paid 27 million dollars to Tides

Tides is biggest donor of PETA

PETA is at war against Hindu festivals

[vijayk]

https://x.com/Starboy2079/status/1887769580136751391

Global Hunger Index is prepared by Ireland based NGO - Concern Worldwide and Germany based Welthungerhilfe

Both are heavily funded by USAID

Fraud org USAID publishes a fraud report and Congress like an obident servant starts disrupting our parliament

[vijayk]

https://justthenews.com/accountability/ ... orists-and

Before it was shuttered, USAID routed funds to Soros-aligned causes, terrorists and drag queens
The development agency for years also funneled money to several nonprofit groups that also received substantial backing from components of George Soros’ empire.

[Amber G.]

Meanwhile from the news items ...

Marko Elez, a 25-year-old staffer on Elon Musk's DOGE team, has resigned after racist and discriminatory social media posts linked to him surfaced. The posts, which advocated for Indian hate and eugenic immigration policies, were revealed by The Wall Street Journal. Elez's resignation was confirmed by the White House, and lawmakers and federal employee unions have raised concerns about the vetting process for DOGE staffers and their access to sensitive government data.

[KL Dubey]

Meanwhile from the news items ...

Marko Elez, a 25-year-old staffer on Elon Musk's DOGE team, has resigned after racist and discriminatory social media posts linked to him surfaced. The posts, which advocated for Indian hate and eugenic immigration policies, were revealed by The Wall Street Journal. Elez's resignation was confirmed by the White House, and lawmakers and federal employee unions have raised concerns about the vetting process for DOGE staffers and their access to sensitive government data.

https://fortune.com/2025/02/07/25-year- ... -eugenics/

According to the outlet’s review of archived social media posts, Elez posted on X in July: “Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.” The account also reportedly shared a post calling to normalize “Indian hate,” suggested Gaza and Israel be “wiped off the face of the Earth,” and said: “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.”

This fellow was one of 2 DOGE "employees" authorized for access to Treasury systems including personal records of pretty much all people in USA. Musk floated a poll on X to ask if he should be hired back. And 80% including JD Vance agreed he should..."he's just a kid that made stupid posts"...very high bar indeed for top-flight government systems access.

[Amber G.]

^^^ Yes. I saw that "poll" by Elon..
Per WSJ: "The posts shared reportedly included statements such as "Normalize Indian hate," targeting Indian tech workers in Silicon Valley, and advocating for an eugenic immigration policy. Another post read, "You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,"...
White House confirms Marko Elez’s resignation

[KL Dubey]

^^According to Vance, there is no need for this fellow to apologize, "he's a kid". According to what I read in the media, these hate speech posts were not made at a time when his balls were still dropping. He made them last July when he was presumably a fully grown adult of 24-25 years. So what is the new threshold now for hate speech? Things seem to be unraveling, with all kinds of tawdry drama and chaos in full display daily.

[RCase]

Netanyahu gifts Trump a golden pager!
Bibi has a sense of humor!
https://www.republicworld.com/world-new ... on-meeting

[vera_k]

Canada’s Trudeau Says Trump Might Be Serious About 51st State

President Donald Trump might be serious about annexing Canada because he’s keen to control the country’s natural resources, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told business leaders Friday.

His comments were made during a closed-door session at an economic summit his office organized in Toronto, featuring business and labor leaders.

Previously, Canadian officials said Trump was joking when musing about Canada as a 51st state.

[Tanaji]

Trump admin is a thrill a minute ride:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-orde ... frikaners/

Essentially give preference to white people.

[chanakyaa]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-orde ... frikaners/

President Trump on Friday directed government officials to prioritize the resettlement of South Africans of European descent through the U.S. refugee program, which he suspended during his first day in office.
....

Nothing new or different about this, right? I remember reading an article few years ago about Australia, NZ, Canada throwing red carpet to white South African farmers who wanted to leave SA and resettle somewhere else. If we summarize all geopolitical events of the past 10 years, which led to massive displacement of people, it is strongly correlated to western governments wanting to fix falling total fertility rate (TFR). In his first, Trump fancied about getting more immigrants from the Nordic countries and less from mu$$lim countries. One of many objectives of the Ukraine war was (and still is) to displace enough able bodied young adult Ukrainians (men, women, children) so that it could be absorbed in Russia, Europe, US and Canada. In fact, when comedian Zelensky was asked to lower the fighting age to 18, I wondered if it was really to increase the strength of armed forces, or to give one more reason for the 15-17 year olds to leave the country.

[chetak]

looks like these DEI kooks shoved their woke policies down everyone's throats. They made good money in the process

DEI was the digital version of halal, imposed on a mostly unwilling populace, and they tamely accepted damage that the DEI did, while it lasted

now, the victims just can't wait to get rid of this crap

[Jay]

looks like these DEI kooks shoved their woke policies down everyone's throats. They made good money in the process

DEI was the digital version of halal, imposed on a mostly unwilling populace, and they tamely accepted damage that the DEI did, while it lasted

now, the victims just can't wait to get rid of this crap

Implementing DEI and fighting DEI both are a dual with a double edged sword and I can see this is not helping indians in the least bit. One of my mentors is a C-Suite executive at a big NY real estate firm, and while DEI was in full force around 2022, his own HR leader was picking fights with him because an overwhelming majority of his team is of Indian origin and they wanted more Black and other minority folks. It drastically changed in the Summer of 2024, and now the pressure is to get more white faces(american heartland) in these roles. His entire company went big on Trump and donated huge sums, but unlike other times, this time they are also buying into the culture as well. Interesting times, indeed.

[Mort Walker]

Indian & Indian origin get screwed over whenever these extremes happen. Merit rarely prevails & often it's more about who you know as opposed to what you know.

This time around it's DEI for the woke right.

[vimal]

Entire US immigration program is based on DEI. They literally have a program called diversity visa which grants 50k diversity green cards each year. Family based immigration is also pretty much DEI.

[KL Dubey]

looks like these DEI kooks shoved their woke policies down everyone's throats. They made good money in the process

DEI was the digital version of halal, imposed on a mostly unwilling populace, and they tamely accepted damage that the DEI did, while it lasted

now, the victims just can't wait to get rid of this crap

Implementing DEI and fighting DEI both are a dual with a double edged sword and I can see this is not helping indians in the least bit. One of my mentors is a C-Suite executive at a big NY real estate firm, and while DEI was in full force around 2022, his own HR leader was picking fights with him because an overwhelming majority of his team is of Indian origin and they wanted more Black and other minority folks. It drastically changed in the Summer of 2024, and now the pressure is to get more white faces(american heartland) in these roles. His entire company went big on Trump and donated huge sums, but unlike other times, this time they are also buying into the culture as well. Interesting times, indeed.

A lot of people from India that have never been embedded deeply in US society don't understand DEI. Of course, they meekly accept SC/ST/OBC reservation in which there is not even a pretense of "meritocracy" - standards are *officially* lower for reserved categories. Yet spout off on American DEI.

DEIA initiatives can be used well, or misused. I don't agree at all with the extremist/excess interpretations and actions of DEIA, but I do think Bhaidanwa understood the ominous reality of rapid demographic shift in USA. I've posted many times that the US will be non-white majority by 2040s.

More importantly, the <10, < 20, and < 30 years population are already majority non-white. And there are huge disparities between white and non-white in educational quality, access, and opportunities (all the way from K12 through to college and graduate school) in these age groups. Think for 5 minutes how that deeply complicates "meritocratic" assessment beyond a point. Yes, "merit" is important, but it also has the intrinsic flaw of propagating inequities over generations. Just celebrating/congratulating ourselves when a few people rise from "rags to riches" exacerbates it further. In fact, such "rags to riches" rise should become routine. DEI is a bridge to that, and was never intended to create artificial success stories.

Instead of writing a long post on DEI when detailed explanations are already available from internet sources, here's the key problem in USA.
Three choices:

1. Institute official race/history-based reservation policies like in Bharat
2. Institute affirmative action based solely on economic need with equal and reasonable merit standards
3. Institute affirmative action policy based on an overall profile of a person (ancestral background/conditions from last 2 generations, economic status, prior educational profile - which includes geographic profile, etc)

The problem is that USA is unwilling to do any of these. There is always a hiccup somewhere (constitution, privacy/anti-profiling laws, special interests, etc). DEI was the latest attempt, trying to use a "whole of society" approach to get more people involved. However, the misuse/excesses have scuttled this attempt too. There are no long-term directions/policies worked out with a bipartisan teamwork. So now we are back to managing a society with extremely diverse needs with an outdated and irrelevant "Abrahamic cretinism" basis.

[Mort Walker]

KL Dubey is the Dhruv Rathee of analysis on BRF.

[AkshaySG]

^^^ Yes. I saw that "poll" by Elon..
Per WSJ: "The posts shared reportedly included statements such as "Normalize Indian hate," targeting Indian tech workers in Silicon Valley, and advocating for an eugenic immigration policy. Another post read, "You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,"...
White House confirms Marko Elez’s resignation

Dems lost the plot by pandering too much to the far left and letting them have free reign.... The same can happen with Repubs if they allow the far right to run free

[chetak]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuOj9ohMCqc


Chairman Mast: USAID is rotten to the core.

Exposing the shenanigans of the USAID and the US state dept





The video is about 4:32 minutes long

Democrats and unaccountable bureaucrats don’t want Americans to know how their hard-earned tax dollars are being wasted abroad. Chairman Mast is here to set the record straight.

Several egregious examples include:

$15 million for condoms to the Taliban through USAID.

$446,700 to promote the expansion of atheism in Nepal through the State Department.

$1 million to boost French-speaking LGBTQ groups in West and Central Africa through the State Department.

$14 million in cash vouchers for migrants at the southern border through the State Department.

$20,600 for a drag show in Ecuador through the State Department.

$47,020 for a transgender opera in Colombia through the State Department.

$32,000 for an LGBTQ-centered comic book in Peru through the State Department.

$55,750 for a climate change presentation warning about the impact of climate change in Argentina to be led by female and LGBT journalists through the StateDepartment.

$3,315,446 for “being LGBTQ in the Caribbean” through USAID.

$7,071.58 for a BIPOC speaker series in Canada through the State Department.

$80,000 for an LGBTQ community center in Bratislava, Slovakia through the State Department.

$3.2 million to help Tunisian migrants readjust to life in Tunisia after deportation through the State Department.

$16,500 to foster a “united and equal queer-feminist discourse in Albanian society” through the State Department.

$10,000 to pressure Lithuanian corporations to promote “DEI values” through the State Department.

$8,000 to promote DEI among LGBTQ groups in Cyprus through the State Department.

$1.5 million to promote job opportunities for LGBTQ individuals in Serbia through USAID.

$70,884 to create a U.S.-Irish musical to promote DEI in Ireland through the State Department.

$39,652 to host seminars at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on gender identity and racial equality through the State Department.

$2.5 million to build electric vehicle charging stations in Vietnam’s largest cities through USAID.

$425,622 to help Indonesian coffee companies become more climate and gender friendly through USAID.

[uddu]

https://x.com/MeghUpdates/status/1888029733562056795
Megh Updates ™
@MeghUpdates
USAID paid $750K to Sonam Kapoor's Husband's company to alleviate loneliness among migrant garment workers (likely Bangladeshi) in India.

Now you know the reason for all that woke, hinduphopic and anti-india venom!

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1887864991560192107
Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes

This research from
@IanCarrollShow
on USAID funding is INSANE:
Video link:https://x.com/i/status/1887864991560192107
Ian says roughly 93% of USAID funding is estimated to be fraud

- Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton and their friends appear to be the top money laundering recipients
- The majority of sub awards being given out by USAID are all just transporting pharmaceutical products all around the world to all sorts of developing nations
- It's mostly AIDS drugs (More AIDS drugs than you could ever imagine an entire planet needing)
- The main company transporting all these pharmaceuticals all around the world, “ONLY 7% OF THE HEALTH COMMODITY SHIPMENTS DELIVERED THROUGH THIS PROGRAM ARRIVED AT THEIR DESTINATION” on time and in full
- This means that 93% of the shipments they sent in that quarter either arrived incomplete or did not arrive within the 21 day window allotted and agreed to by the buyer

- There was a contract to build a power plant in Afghanistan that was paid for through USAID, it was never finished. “it's producing 2% of the power it was intended to generate”
- This happened when Hillary Clinton led the State Department

“The company's CEO was indicted for siphoning money from USAID reconstruction contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, because that's what USAID is for, it’s for Hillary Clinton's friends to siphon money out into their own pockets.”

You’re never going to believe this,

- The firm that built that power plant that never got finished and doesn’t work, they're represented by John Podesta and his lobbying group (This man was heavily involved in the PizzaGate Scandals)
- It goes on to talk about how Podesta was tasked to come up with these sustainable development goals for this Council of International Development Companies
- One of those companies was that's the largest recipient of USAID money there is
- That same company thrived during Clinton's tenure, nabbing more contracts during the Haiti reconstruction effort than any other company

After the disasters in Haiti they moved to Afghanistan

- This same company continued to win lucrative USAID contracts in 2011 in Afghanistan
- The project was intended to create 300,000 jobs by 2013. After two years, it had only created 2,458 jobs
- In May 2009, it won a $90 million contract to grow exports and employment in the Pakistan economy

Get this, “The USAID Inspector General found no measurable increase in sales or employment after the first two years of the project.” But they’re still allowed to be the largest recipient of USAID money??

Also

- They were bribing the Taliban with our tax dollars not to attack their projects, “They were giving money to the Taliban basically as a protection racket”

“This is the Deep State. It's been being built over the last 20 years, ever since Bill Clinton's time and even before, out of these proxy companies, these non-government organizations, these charitable organizations, all these shadow kind of organizations that you don't know about, that we don't elect, that are some of them private, some of them public, all of them in the shadows. Just wheelin' and dealin' billions and billions and billions of dollars of taxpayer money that just goes into the black box of aid and then never heard from again.”

Ohh, and Pfizer is the 2nd largest recipient of USAID…..

[Hriday]

A lot of people from India that have never been embedded deeply in US society don't understand DEI. Of course, they meekly accept SC/ST/OBC reservation in which there is not even a pretense of "meritocracy" - standards are *officially* lower for reserved categories. Yet spout off on American DEI.

DEIA initiatives can be used well, or misused. I don't agree at all with the extremist/excess interpretations and actions of DEIA, but I do think Bhaidanwa understood the ominous reality of rapid demographic shift in USA.
....
DEI was the latest attempt, trying to use a "whole of society" approach to get more people involved. However, the misuse/excesses have scuttled this attempt too. There are no long-term directions/policies worked out with a bipartisan teamwork.

K L Dubey is clever. Look how he tried to paint Biden as an innocent who tried to uplift the downtrodden. Democrats purposefully import millions of people, many of them unskilled and with criminal backgrounds and then lecture others about the obligation to help them. Despite the news of huge wasteful spending by USAID discovered now, Dubey still wants others to believe that Biden was only trying to help humanity.

When I speculated that the mass push by Democrats on the LGBTQ agenda, separating children from parents, Democrats voting against deportation of sex offenders, etc, are possibly funded by Islamic nations, both Dubey and Jay laughed at it and said it is absurd. For those who don't know, Qatar invested billions in the USA, and it is a standard practice of Islamic nations to financially support Pakistan, Palestine, etc. Why so eager to defend the Democrats?

K L Dubey, Jay, and Amber_G, all of them wholeheartedly support Democrats and post a lot in this thread. A request to admins and others, a periodic reminder to readers about the biases of these three persons will help readers of this forum to see the full context. To be fair, all three people post very useful information here, and that should not be used as a cover to push a false narrative.

[KLNMurthy]

@Hriday

This is BRF. The expectation is that people are fully capable of reading and judging the material on its merits, recognizing that everyone is biased one way or the other, but still managing to read past the biases.

There is no role for admins or some big brother to jump up and down tagging members as being biased.

[Hriday]

^^
I don't think so. No need to jump up and down at every instance.
Rakesh just recently banned Pratyush for 1 month for continuously pushing a false narration.

[Lisa]

@Hriday

This is BRF. The expectation is that people are fully capable of reading and judging the material on its merits, recognizing that everyone is biased one way or the other, but still managing to read past the biases.

There is no role for admins or some big brother to jump up and down tagging members as being biased.

100%!

Echo chambers are damaging to thinking.