Feeding my dog from the table.
Not the EPA, not the Dept. of Education, but NASA, the place they’ve been cutting the funding for 40 years. It really is the Nerd Reich.
The Amazing Bulk.
Pulling the classics, nice. 👍
There’s a reason Casey never liked Chuck, now you know.
That archive is dead. Here’s another.
From Wkipedia:
USAID has faced criticism including its use of non-career contracts, instead of government employees, financial conflicts of interest, allegations of covert political operations, undue influence on UN Security Council votes through aid, requirements for NGO partners to oppose prostitution, and claims of involvement in forced sterilizations in the 1990s.
It’s on Wikipedia in the Political Operations Abroad section.
Everything that pierces my cognitive dissonant bubble is bullshit.
I don’t disagree, but that doesn’t absolve USAID for it’s problems.
All news is biased. Multiple seemingly contradictory things can be true. Trump can be targeting USAID to cut government spending while enriching himself and oligarchs. USAID did provide humanitarian relief to people around the world who will be affected by its absence. And USAID has been a front for subversive foreign policy since it’s inception:
From 2010 to 2012, the agency operated ZunZuneo, a social media site similar to Twitter in an attempt to instigate uprisings against the Cuban government. Its involvement was concealed in order to ensure mission success.
SpinScore gave this Guardian article an F. It gave Truthout a D minus. Don’t depend on AI to due your critical thinking for you.
$60 billion is quite a lot for a country with no nationalized healthcare.
For decades, the suffering of poor countries has been a boon for U.S. corporations.
This is true.
I’m gonna post about it even harder now.
I don’t feel like this should be needed in this case but just in case anyone thinks this is an unbiased comment…
Bias Summary: Everything in this article has been published in non-biased Western sources. Just because you don’t like the information doesn’t mean it’s not true. Maybe let readers research the information instead of deciding for them.
That’s happened to me a couple times since 3 weeks ago. It is … unsettling.
It’s not right that he’s so sexy