The Trump administration will only keep 294 out of 10,000 employees of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) as part of an overhaul of the agency, Reuters reported on Thursday.
Sources familiar with the situation told Reuters that some employees have already begun receiving termination notices. Out of the 10,000 employees, about 60% are based out of the United States.
The pause on foreign aid and overhaul of USAID has highlighted the agency’s role in destabilizing activities across the world, which includes advancing regime change efforts by funding opposition groups and media outlets in other countries.
USAID is being brought under the State Department and will be overseen by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said the US will continue providing foreign aid but only programs it can “defend.”
“The United States is not walking away from foreign aid. It’s not. We’re going to continue to provide foreign aid and to be involved in programs, but it has to be programs that we can defend. It has to be programs that we can explain,” Rubio told US diplomats on Wednesday.
Rubio said the administration is working on identifying programs that would be exempted from the 90-day pause on foreign aid. The only initial exemptions were military aid to Israel and Egypt. US weapons shipments to Ukraine have been resumed after a brief pause, according to another Reuters report.
It's all over. Trump now has 30 years of evidence of bribes, secret payments to terrorist groups, secret payments to sanctuary states, double and triple payments to Democratic states that went unreported. I didn't understand why Biden recognized Cuba as his last act, costing his party 30 electoral votes. Now I do. The Democratic Party leadership is going to flee to Cuba. I hope The Young Turks are ready to take over the party. Or we are going to have a one party state. Read this: https://eko.substack.com/p/override
That is cheap propaganda.
Hey what about the actual subject? We know, propagandists always distract with cheap attacks. It is all you have.
To be a liar is very self-humiliating to you.
Give us a laugh, cite a single piece of evidence in your cartoon style fable about Trump.
There is nothing wrong with propaganda. Unless it stops working. Propaganda is just a form of persuasion. For 9 years I warned it does not mean just lying and if that’s all you have the people will turn on you. That was all Democrats had. I have actually been lecturing about the fall of the Democratic Party for over a decade. But I also have said that when it does collapse on a national level because it refuses to allow young people to rise in the party and is all about grift from the defense industry when it does fall this is the moment to build a new mass movement. So I knew this day was coming and saw an opportunity as well. Here is one of my talks: May 30, 2016
Without Marx, Jesus, Anonymous or Folk Music:
A Basic Model for Creating a Mass Movement in the US
Meeting # 3,376 – Mike Flores
“While Anonymous represents a new kind of protest movement, the fact is most people neither want to break laws or are not computer savvy enough to hack their own phone. Michael Flores has come up a basic model to create a mass movement that believe it or not includes free speech on college campuses, allowing former Intel agents to speak at rallies and replacing rock bands and folk singers with DJ’s. He also agrees with Ralph Nader that such a movement should include libertarians. Mike came to Chicago to become part of the board of SDS ( Students For A Democratic Society) and write for NEW LEFT NOTES. He actually did organize a rally of 1000 people against the bombing by Nixon in Cambodia without flyers or social networking in 24 hours. How could a uniquely American movement work, what is the effect of social networking, how can we trust Intel? What are the goals?” https://youtu.be/yN9uYGj8eqA?si=5VHa38lHjsg7zlGj
Why do you single out Cuba (who most people sympathize with, even in the USA)? It's clear that Harris lost because of Biden's genocide in Palestine primarily and, secondarily, because of the totalitarian policies of the DPUSA since the days of covid.
Segregationist and 3 strikes and out Joe Biden once withdrew from running for President because he plagiarized speeches. He was not a first stringer as Jim Carville says here: https://youtu.be/pBwONnRStbc?si=QTvq_AsZqBjxH4o9 No one in America except at Antiwar was disturbed by Biden’s wars. There were some students who cheered footage of the musical festival attack and small demonstrations that chanted Hamas chants, but the antiwar movement disbanded to support Obama’s surges long ago and has not reformed. Support Palestine? Who cares if you still have debt from the unnecessary lockdown? All politics is ultimately, local.
The DNC shocked the world when it decided to run him again and everyone saw they had been lied to for 4 years. Then they began to realize they had been lied to for 8 years. If you lie to someone for 8 years every day they will stop trusting you. As for all ages prostitution legal Cuba when Harris was put in place Jill Biden, our real President, was furious. Harris had joined with the Clinton wing to put her in the running, it was all very Shakespearian, and by having him recognize Cuba the Democrats have lost 30 electoral votes. It was her final FU.
Not a war, a GENOCIDE!!!
You don’t understand the “left” (progressive, liberal) mentality: it’s largely about HUMAN RIGHTS. The citizens who once voted Biden, in spite of his bad shape and right-wing historial, just to fence Trump off, could not anymore after the GAZA GENOCIDE. They stayed home (because voting Trump was not an option for them either).
You haven't checked the stats. Trump received more votes from Moslems than Democrats did. I suspect it's because they are more anti-abortion than Catholics are. They are also appalled by child sex change operations. There is a serious problem here. From Ireland to the Saudi's to the Iranians- everyone who supports Palestine refuses to allow Palestinians to go to their country. In Iran, they shoot them at the border. May I ask, why do you suppose that is? I have lived with Palestinians, Iranians and Syrians. They support Palestinians, but don't want them. Hmmmmmm
Palestinians must stay in Palestine: that’s their country!!!
You seem to be spousing GENOCIDE and that’s not acceptable at all. Blocked!
If Muslims are appalled by child sex operations, why would more of them vote for the only candidate who publicly endorsed such operations — Donald Trump — than for the Democrat?
The Federal Bureau of Prisons, an agency under the U.S. Department of Justice, offered gender-affirming care to transgender prisoners during the Trump administration. That’s because federal prisons are required by law to provide adequate medical care to all inmates, including those transitioning to another gender.
What does the Federal Bureau of Prisons have to do with child sex change operations?
This was actually where it started. This happened under Trump.
He never publicly endorsed it, Harris only mentioned it once. But by then she had already lost. It’s hard to run on her record, which was supposedly arresting pot smokers. I write supposedly because The Daily Caller checked, and she doesn’t appear to have spent one day in court as a prosecutor or anything else.
Rather than anointing Kamala, the DNC should have had an open convention.
If they had open conventions, now or in 2020, when they used the pandemic as pathetic excuse not to have one (after stealing Iowa from Sanders by mass ballot rigging), Biden would have never been elected and the DNC mafia would have been very disappointed for some reason that has not been thoroughly discussed but that I believe that relates to Blinken and his select club of “Straussians” (followers of Leo Strauss).
That’s not why you have a pseudo-leftist party to controll the popular demand for socialism. If the people could actually choose, politics would be extremely different, especially in the so-called “left”.
That depends on what the DNC’s goals are. An open convention might have upset the applecart. Not likely, but there was at least a possibility. Instead, they got the best of both worlds — two life-long establishment Democrats running against each other, one on the Democratic ticket and one on the Republican ticket.
We know a young lady who has been to Cuba as part of a Christian mission.
She found it to be beautiful, the people quite kind.
Harris lost because she was/is an airhead who is controlled by her husband, an ardent Zionist.
At a town hall, she was asked what she would do different from Biden. She stuttered and stammered, finally saying "I can't really think of anything at the moment."
The political guru, Carvill, said that was the moment she lost many constituents.
Harris lost because hr ability to answer questions was non existent. There is no evidence that she was controlled b yher husband-today's women do as they please
Could you please have your drug dealer contact me? I’ve been looking for a reliable LSD supplier.
I live in a state with recreational pot and hemp being legal. There are a few odd things about this. For some reason I still hide my pot. Second, since stoners aren’t the main consumer no one shares a joint anymore. Third all the billboards went from don’t do drugs to pot is fun. Now that they are taxed. I recommend Curaleaf but they don’t call themselves dealer they are a dispensary. By the way. Can you explain why the DNC is so quiet the past few weeks? Any idea? Isn’t Harris supposed to be like Hillary was after her loss – attack. Attack? Or maybe she was the wrong person to run? As for LSD though I did get a hit from Owsley at a park in Atlanta where the Dead and Allman Brothers were jamming together (and my best trip was with Duane Allman) I just don’t have a day to nothing and 2 days to recover anymore.
I feel your pain.
I wasn’t into the Dead until they were no longer the Dead. My wife saw them a couple of weeks before Jerry died; we got together several years after that. When she was declared cancer-free in 2015, the present I bought her was live pay per view of the final “Fare Thee Well” concert.
I did always like the Allman Brothers, but never saw them live. However, a couple of years ago, we went and saw the Allman Betts band — Greg’s son, Dickie’s son, and Berry’s son, et al.
As for the DNC being quiet, while I don’t follow its day to day very closely, I know that they did just choose a new DNC chair. Harris seems to be more easily embarrassed into shutting the fuck up for a little while than Clinton was.
During a fascist take over. Really? They choose silence. Hmmmm. Why do we use Stalin's definition of fascist today?
Stalin made unbelievable inroads into America's psyche. They have not gone anywhere. https://mashupmaster.substack.com/p/why-do-we-use-stalins-definition
I don’t think we will be the same nation after 2 things: the Superbowl today (go Chiefs) and the attempted assassinations reports. Musk is going to deliver to the Superbowl just minutes before airtime 4 “ads” about what he found in the Treasury Department. The live audience will see the ads and I bet the place gets silent. This is not the same Trump and this time there are no Bushies around him. I believe Dems were preparing to counter his choices for cabinets, etc, and were blindsided when late at night Musk and his people came in and discovered over 30 years of theft, who did it, how it was done, which agencies don’t actually exist but are funded. Musk has everything. I talked to my computer guy and he told me it would actually just take a couple of hours to map it all out. The assassination report will reveal that Secret Service was pulled on the day Trump was shot and replaced by the most useless and redundant law enforcement agency in history, Homeland Security. Why? Jill had them pulled. They ended up protecting her at a speech she gave that day.
But will Secret Service turn over all the docs?
Did they have prior knowledge? Here is what I wrote on : The Night I Tripped With Duane Allman- And Learned About The Blues
He wasn’t tripping, I was, but after a wild night of free love I found myself on the back of his motorcycle. https://theacidtest1967.substack.com/p/the-night-i-tripped-with-duane-allman
I didn’t see those ads you mention — did I miss them, or did they just not air?
There were some good ads from the Ontario regime gently pointing out how fuck-silly Trump’s trade policy is.
I feel your pain.
I wasn’t into the Dead until they were no longer the Dead. My wife saw them a couple of weeks before Jerry died; we got together several years after that. When she was declared cancer-free in 2015, the present I bought her was live pay per view of the final “Fare Thee Well” concert.
I did always like the Allman Brothers, but never saw them live. However, a couple of years ago, we went and saw the Allman Betts band — Greg’s son, Dickie’s son, and Berry’s son, et al.
As for the DNC being quiet, while I don’t follow its day to day very closely, I know that they did just choose a new DNC chair. Harris seems to be more easily embarrassed into shutting the fuck up for a little while than Clinton was.
I feel your pain.
I wasn’t into the Dead until they were no longer the Dead. My wife saw them a couple of weeks before Jerry died; we got together several years after that. When she was declared cancer-free in 2015, the present I bought her was live pay per view of the final “Fare Thee Well” concert.
I did always like the Allman Brothers, but never saw them live. However, a couple of years ago, we went and saw the Allman Betts band — Greg’s son, Dickie’s son, and Berry’s son, et al.
As for the DNC being quiet, while I don’t follow its day to day very closely, I know that they did just choose a new DNC chair. Harris seems to be more easily embarrassed into shutting the fuck up for a little while than Clinton was.
Only straight up regime changer spies will remain at USAID?
And you know, teacher’s pet projects:
Najat Abdi @theafroaussie
Tel Aviv University is affiliated with the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute. This institute holds and experiments on Palestinian
corpses in its morgue, and has also been accused of organ theft from the bodies of deceased Palestinians.
Suppressed News. ® @SuppressedNws • 14h
:
USAID is spent on Tel Aviv University, the university received $581 million in taxpayer dollars.
https://x.com/theafroaussie/status/1887653061860204549?mx=2
So they're like modern no-drink vampires… ! They steal the blood from bodies first and then they open them to steal the their parts…!
Even Ivanka "sparkly pony" Trump-Kushner used a little USAID money for a gig, $11,000.
Only comic book style posts will come from you?
You globalists leftists love corrupt agencies.
Your fascists posts are not very impressive.
They got rid of the small and middle men… Only big men were kept who are (were) the middle men to cia (previously)…!
Samantha Power losing her job brings joy just like dispossessing a Demon from your Human body. You know that joy is for a very short while before the horror comes back.
Does the Department of Labor fund local state unemployment agencies? Has the Department been sliced yet?
That’s a big loss of jobs.
This make the CIA job a lot harder…! CIA is under staffed…!
It will be more secretive under the auspices of the state department.
The Trump regime is working to create an atmosphere where he hears only what he wants to hear.
I don't buy the idea that other men convince him of anything. His mind locks on something. His minions better follow up with words/advice that affirms his ideas. Or else.
I disagree. Trump is conduit of deep state. Or perhaps more accurately of shadow government.
Nobody will miss their "job" except themselves and their families, I believe. It's one of those Graeber's book cases of "bullshit jobs". AFAIK they went around interviewing taxi drivers about local politics, WTF?!
Loss of employment does affect the economy. It’s not great when large numbers disappear without recourse. And the average salary was around $90k.
That said, so much of the funding was for CIA type infiltration, propaganda, crony enrichment, and when altruistic, often filtered through middlemen, some skimming less than others.
Let’s just hope we don’t leave truly desperate communities in a lurch who have become dependent without an alternative.
Last time I checked (which was in the last 48 hours), the US unemployment rate was 4.1%, significantly below the 5% that economists consider “full employment.”
If the mass deportations work out, there are going to be a LOT more job openings.
And if the tariffs and trade restrictions work out, there’s going to be a LOT more economic desperation.
I’d rather see someone in the productive sector, even if that means working at a poultry plant, picking tomatoes, etc., than in the political sector. The former makes everyone wealthier, the latter makes the productive class poorer.
If they are paid living wages. Not slave labor as was induced by using desperate vulnerable illegals.
If the latter, the only ones who benefit are the top percentages again. That is not a value to society.
They should be paid whatever they and the party employing them agree on.
That's all anyone's entitled to.
But some are entitled to monopolies and lobbyists that control legislation.
Your free market only works if some people weren’t already on third base. Not when the power is already greatly titled.
I know but BS jobs are improductive: mere clientelism. Roman oligarchs did that already with the impoverished and jobless masses, including their own former slaves: the clients were expected to head every morning to the master’s mansion and greet him, he may give them some gifts in return… and occassionally had them do some nasty job like mobbing a rival senator or whatever (or just some other chore but mostly they just depended on his generosity). With the loss of the need to do actual work (not at all as much as before) clientelism is again on the rise (it never fully disappeared) and it’s often managed by these BS jobs that Graeber so brilliantly found about, for which the public administration is a particularly fertile ground.
A century ago, Marx’ son-in-law, trusted delegate to France and Spain, proud Afrodescendant and the first socialist MP ever, Paul Lafargue, was asking in his famous book “The Right to be Lazy” for the 5-hr journey (the 8-hr journey had yet to be achieved but he was clearly gifted with ambitious foresight). Something like that has to be done: there’s just not enough productive jobs for all anymore.
Well I liked Graeber. He was invested in occupy Wall Street.
The push toward everything AI is not an advantage to the society.
In spite of likely being on the spectrum and a victim of CIA mind control experiments, which turned him murderous, there was truth in Ted Kaczynski‘s manifesto about detrimentally becoming ruled by technology.
It's not just AI: it's technology and has been technology since long ago. Marx already exposed the problem with his example of the pin industry, in which a mechanical improvement in productivity made most workers poorer by unemployment. That's what moved the Luddites too but it's unstoppable unless by means of human extinction: we are the technological species and Capitalism has massively expanded that capacity to the point that we're even damaging the only planet we have (call it Anthropocene, call it ecocatastrophe, call it imminent risk of self-extinction as many do). In fact I find AI quite disappointing: some years ago I feared it (Terminator scenario) but now that it seems to have reached its full potential and is mostly just using lots of energy to produce often inaccurate or quite dubious essays, standardized pseudo-art, etc. I, paraphrasing Kubrick, "learned to stop worrying and loved the AI". Dr. Strangemusk, could be the alt title of that movie, at least it is in my mind since he raised his hand nazi-style and then went in denial.
Disclaimer: I don't know about you but Kubrick's movies like Dr. Strangelove or Farewell to Arms were a big deal in making me anti-war and anti-militarist when I was a teenager. They were already old movies but they were extremely good.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/18dabe0994f0854b9edd3ecbc4da2f80d34eb369d1e129148ed7ac4477deac3d.jpg
It still has massive potential to be terribly dangerous, especially since it fucks up.
Dan Cohen & @dancohen3000
One of USAID’s most demonic projects is to use Ukraine as a laboratory for the DIIA digital ID program, which is being implemented around the globe. Watch my mini-documentary from 2023 on the USAID/Zelensky digital dictatorship. (Video)
https://x.com/dancohen3000/status/1886125531898187976
Sure: there are many dangerous applications of informatics, every single modern missile has a chip inside and that means it can target you much better than old school V2 models. And AI surely expands those applications a lot. But what I mean is that even the best AI is reasonably quite dumb for human standards, at least for smart human standards, and we still run on beans with “CPUs” (brains) that spend the power of a weak light bulb and not thousands, maybe millions times that figure.
Just a couple of days ago someone argued to me that China was becoming an olive oil superpower because he or she “asked Google” and Google said so. I told that person that Wikipedia, which is human-made (surely fallible but not AI-powered for sure, I was also relying on my own previous knowledge anyhow), says nothing of the like… and that “I don’t trust Google” (which is true because since long ago it doesn’t produce relevant results for most queries). Google is a good example, not only in terms of AI but in terms of illustrating how the greedy nature of Capitalism degrades even its own achievements: Google succeeded when its motto was “don’t be evil”, it still relies on that legacy (which made them into an effective monopoly) but is clearly sinking itself into irrelevance because it’s not offering anymore what it used to, because now it tries to use that monopolistic power not anymore to offer good results to people’s queries but to try to manipulate people into going to bad (but surely profittable or politically manipulated) results.
Absolutely! Nothing wrong with technology, we would not be here typing otherwise, but once again people with dark agendas are using it the wrong way and the warnings about taking our humanity away are very real.
For instance they say that more or less free energy is available already now but has not been allowed to surface because of humanity's greed factor still in operation.
Technological abuse against the human factor in humanity brought Atlantis down. Most religions and indigenous people have some kind of flood story. We are getting close again to destroy ourselves but this time it will come via fire. We bettr wake up.
"For instance they say that more or less free energy is available already" The "they" have never studied thermodynamics.
AI scares the crap out of me.
Yanis Varoukanis has written an interesting book on the matter.
"Technofeudalism, What Killed Capitalism"
This is a good point. Most human beings worked hard to compete and get such jobs. Believing they will make difference. I know reforms are badly needed — but so many famikues will be badly hurt. Perhaps the end of kids college education, loss of homes, looking for jobs accross the country. There will be manyvtragedies. This is what happens when badly needed reforms were put off for decades. People hurt. They should have stopped hiring decades ago and all retired jobs eliminated, keep consolidating workplace.
However, contractors are still not affected. They do all prograns, Government employees are supposed to manage them. But for as long as NED and Soros have plenty of Government money, mission goes on.
Don't kid yourself.
Taxi drivers and shoe shine boys know things on the street that "journalists" don't get.
Maybe but maybe they are also very biased and not a reliable source. I don’t know enough and doubt that anyone does, as all this pertains to the dark sphere of secret services and the deep state, and definitely one of the US strongest points has been its spying capabilities, able and willing to raise client fascist or otherwise tyrannical regimes, often on the pretense of “democracy” or “religious exceptionalism”, all around the world, while toppling antagonists or neutral-nationalist regimes. Is that because USAID’s generous spending or something else? No idea, what I do know is that the analyses from Latin America are: “thank you Mr. Musk”.
USAID has funded the mobs in Kiev and other places that have overthrown legal governments, including the Ukrainian democracy in 2014.
And NAFO afterward.
The most prescious moment in Maidan revolution was the break into Rada parliament. People with guns handing lists of laws to be passed under the gun. Most laws were one sentence laws. All deputies regardless of party voted the laws in, and people with guns and their poltical groups cheered.
They were told that if they do not comply — they will go after their families.
Saw videos from that event. But thry magically disapeared.
Why didn't u sabe them? It should've been leaked if this was the case
The Rada being coerced by threat is spoken of in the research paper, 'The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine: Revelations from Trials and Investigation' , Ivan Katchanovski, University of Ottawa. There are some videos from the trial in the appendix that may be relevant, though I have not taken the time to review if those videos include that testimony.
Excellent start.
Wasn't USAID supposed to feed people in Sudan's civil war, that sort of thing? That's probably what most Americans thought their money went to.
USAID exposed:
https://www.racket.news/p/nation-shrugs-as-godzilla-eats-washington
https://revolver.news/2025/02/cnn-hilariously-mocks-dems-for-defending-usaid/
USAID spent $2 million on Moroccan pottery classes and promotion. The translator they hired didn't even speak English.
Trade assistance to Ukraine paid for models and designers to take trips to New York City, London Fashion Week, Paris Fashion Week, and South by Southwest in Austin.
They spent $2 million promoting tourism to Lebanon.
They spent $20 million to create a Sesame Street in Iraq. Nine million of aid for civilians went to an al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria.
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/01/31/trump-executive-order-us-regime-change-network/
USAID financed Ukrainian media, such as Hromadske that called for the overthrow of the elected President Yanukovych.
Along with the US embassy, the EU, the Omidyar Network and George Soros they also funded Ukrinform, Internews, a "fact checker" used by U.S. social media called VoxUkraine.
"The Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications" and the "Service of the Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration," created to argue for war against Russia, were also funded by USAID.
After Trump stopped the aid Zelensky complained that "critically important programs" wholly dependent on "US supports" were now "suspended."
https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/04/sen-murphy-says-usaid-funds-freedom-fighters-and-chases-china/
Democrat Senator Chris Murphy bragged that USAID "chases China" all over the world, seeking to prevent them from gaining contracts for minerals and ports. They also finance "freedom fighters everywhere."
Nice round up Jon
This is not being reported in the US, but worldwide it is causing headlines. Quote: The revelations about the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) continue, with a new report stating that the U.S. government was funding news agencies like Politico, the Associated Press, the BBC, and others, raising more questions than answers. The scandal is rapidly moving to Europe and reaching Greece. Unquote.
Now we know why the worldwide press went along with the Fauci lockdown! Thousands of "journalists" were PAID to support it. They did not reveal the payments. Worldwide, that's illegal tax evasion. The payments were from a foreign nation. That adds espionage to the charges. All this, because Dems thought Trump could never win. This news story is going to keep building, even as our press desperately tries to hide the story.
https://www.pentapostagma.gr/en/world/usa/7290384_what-happening-greece-usaid-funded-over-6000-journalists-worldwide-nearly-1000
Trump may actually be doing something more more less good, but for the wrong reason. USAID has not been promoting a "Marxist agenda" (lol).
Instead it has been mostly promoting a US agenda of color revolutions and neo-liberal economics.
Trump needs a calculator…
Trump and company are uncovering a lot of fraud, corruption and greed in most of those agencies and are stopping it – which is good.
But Trump and Co. also want to increase pentagon spending, build up instead of tear down the nuclear arsenal adn buy up land or just grab it – all which costs money. So are we taking it out of one corrupt sector and putting it into another corrupt sector?
It's time for an Independent group or people to move into a different direction from the two party system. Even congress is no longer working for the people. They are all grandstanding grifters or fools.
Everything mentioned existed during previous administrations, even his previous administration.
He is just consolidating things that have been, while looking good.
Smoke and mirrors………..
Many things that US governments do are well intended,but someone always finds a way to subvert them. Emergency aid after natural disasters is quite reasonable. Aid to south Africa is obscene-they have plenty of gold and platinum to fund their own needs ,as is the 20 Mill sent to the Wuhan lab.
US support for SA's AIDS program is only 17%. You think that's too much?
Congress decides how much money USAID spends,not Trump.
175 Billion dollars for Ukraine military power, no money for USA soft power.
A song for USAID grifters!