As the USAID house of cards continues to collapse, Mike Benz responds to Alexander Vindman’s whining:
On a light note, here are more (real) examples of USAID malfeasance:
More recent revelations:
- $1.5 million for DEI in Serbia
- $70,000 for a DEI musical in Ireland
- $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia
- $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru
This: “$15 million to George Soros’s open foundation Over Obama’s last four in office alone.”
“Advertiser outreach” to censor news outlets.
Funding to thousands of journalists to shape the news.
Many people are assembling lists of USAID fraud. I can’t vouch for all of this, but this is one of the many recent lists assembled by users on X:
More on USAID Censorship from Foundation for Freedom Online:
The US Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Center on Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG) created an internal “Disinformation Primer” that revealed the agency’s explicit praise for private sector censorship strategies and proposed additional censorship practices and techniques.
USAID’s censorship proposals were aimed at influencing private sector technology companies, media organizations, education ministries, national governments and funding bodies.
USAID endorsed “Advertiser Outreach” for the purpose of getting corporate advertisers to financially throttle disfavored media sources and social media accounts.
USAID recommended Google’s Redirect Method and “prebunking” (i.e., psychological inoculation) as potential solutions to stop the erosion of traditional media influence over citizen hearts and minds.
USAID proposed targeting gamers and gaming sites, pushing the need to censor their formation of “interpretations of the world that differ from ‘mainstream’ sources” and interrupting the process by which “individuals contribute their own ‘research’” to collectively form their own “populist expertise.”
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What is OCCRP? Robert Malone offers this:
OCCRP has gone beyond persecuting entities and governments it deems hostile; it now appears to have moved into the realm of influencing the elections of allies to the United States.
In India, President Modi’s political party recently alleged that the U.S. State Department was behind the targeted press attacks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling party. They accused OCCRP of attempting to “destabilize India” by using the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) to create reports aimed at disrupting Parliament. Of course, OCCRP “denied” the allegations.
However, OCCRP’s history of working to destabilize governments hostile to the USA is well-documented, so it is no stretch to assume that this may have been the case here. If so, it represents a very dark turn for OCCRP. It is one thing and commonly understood that OCCRP works for regime change of entities deemed hostile by the US State Department, but to influence the regime of our allies is another thing altogether. It may be of little surprise to many that the change in the use of OCCRP to now attack political parties once deemed friendly to the USA including the nations of our political allies occurred under the Biden administration.
Oh, and remember all of those local prosecutors who refused to prosecute violent criminals in many American cities? That’s a USAID project too:
X is lit up with new revelations about USAID. Why not established news operations in the US and abroad?
More on USAID censorship here. Walter Kirn gets the last word on this post:
