Joe Rogan Considering Both Sides of USAID

In a world filled with simplistic partisanship-driven binary thinking, USAID is either ONLY a good-hearted charitable organization OR an evil empire. Joe Rogan illustrates the proper balanced approach. Admit that USAID did many good things but also state that it also did many despicable things. For instance, it was a money-laundering pro-censorship organization that overturned democracies. I am convinced that USAID was DESIGNED to be a trojan horse (complete with a misleading name), publicly displaying do-gooderism while hiding hundreds of billions of dollars of evil-doing.

Bono:

Just recent report. It's not proven, but the surveillance enough suggests 300,000 people have already died from just this cut off, this hard cut of USAID so there's food rotting in boats, in warehouses. There is this, this, this will will fuck you off. This will not you will not be happy. No American will. But there is, I think it's 50,000 tons of food that are stored in Djibouti, South Africa, Dubai, and wait for it, Houston, Texas, and that is rotting rather than going to Gaza, rather than going to Sudan, because the people who know the codes or for The warehouse are fired. They're gone. And so this, I don't know. I just it's, I'm, what do you think? What? What? What is? What is that? That's, that's not America, is it?

Joe Rogan:

Well, they're throwing the baby out with the bathwater, right, right? This is the problem. The problem is, for sure, there have been a lot of organizations that do tremendous good all throughout the world. Also, for sure, it was a money laundering operation. For sure there was no oversight. For sure, billions of dollars are missing. In fact, trillions that are unaccounted for, that were sent off into various they don't even know where, because there's no receipts, the way Elon Musk described that, he said, if any of this was done by a public company, the company would be delisted and the executives would be in prison. But in the United States, this is standard. When Biden left office, when it was clear that Trump won in the 73 days, they spent $93 billion from the Department of Energy on just radical loans, just throwing money into places, and there's no no oversight, no receipts. Like the whole thing is, it's there's a lot of fraud, a lot of money laundering.

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Jeffrey Sachs: The U.S. is Israel’s Warmongering Puppet

Jeffrey Sachs describes how the war plan told to General Wesley Clark was put into play:

Netanyahu has a different idea. His idea is: We captured the Palestinian lands in 1967 and we're never going to give them back, so we're just going to rule over the Palestinians. He says we're going to keep the land. There will be resistance, Hamas, Hezbollah, other militant resistance. What will we do about it? You can't really fight the terrorists, he says. You have to fight the states that back the terrorists. And Iran is the central one. But interestingly, for Netanyahu, he lays out one by one, yes, of course, Iran is the central one in his mind. But so too is Iraq under Saddam. He supported Hamas. So too is Bashar Al Assad in Syria, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Libya. And you know what the plan was? Seven wars in five years in the US, using Israel? No, no, this is Israel using the US as if our military is is in their hands, which in effect it is. You take Wolfowicz and you take Feith, and you take these Neocons and you take Netanyahu. They game planned the whole thing out. Well, I regard Netanyahu as having been our greatest, disastrous president of the 21st century, because he ran American foreign policy for 20 years, and he cost us trillions of dollars. And where is the Middle East today? War in Syria, war in Lebanon. War in Palestine. Unrest in Iraq. War in Yemen. Chaos in Sudan. Chaos in Somalia. Chaos in Libya. Great job, BiBi, you did a terrific job!

Here's General Wesley Clark describing this same plan:

The full conversation with Wesley Clark.

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Suggested Rules for Running a Democracy

DataRepublican (small r) is making quite a splash on X these days, especially her work drawing connections and running data to assist Doge identity waste and fraud. I like her suggestions here:

It’s really that simple:

🔹Don’t censor opposing viewpoints

🔹Condemn political violence in all its forms

🔹Don’t call for mass sweeping arrests

🔹Don’t scheme to remove political leaders or parties

🔹Don’t overwrite the will of the people with backdoor policies like mass migration

🔹Realize regime change has cost countless lives and dollars

🔹Cutting off NGOs does not make one an enemy of democracy

🔹The people are the judge of norms and institutions. Not the other way around.

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