Remember: Musk refused to allow Ukrainians to use Starlink for a counterattack against invading Russian troops in 2022

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-to-know-about-elon-musks-reported-phone-calls-with-putin-and-why-it-matters

#Musk #MuskNazi #TechnoFacism #trump #trumpregime #putin #russia #starlink #ukraine #usaid

There once was a man named Trump's aid cuts,
Leading to propaganda ruts,
Press freedom groups warn,
The truth could be torn,
But the media stands firm, no ifs or buts

#GuardianLimerick #USAid #Media #Ukraine #Afghanistan #Belarus #Colombia #Iran #Myanmar #Americas #Europe

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/11/trump-usaid-cuts-freeze-press-freedom-ukraine-afghanistan-media-rsf

There was concern about freedom's plight,
As Trump's aid cuts were put into light,
Press groups warned of the surge,
Propaganda would emerge,
Their voices rang out for what's right.

#GuardianLimerick #USAid #Media #Ukraine #Afghanistan #Belarus #Colombia #Iran #Myanmar #Americas #Europe

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/11/trump-usaid-cuts-freeze-press-freedom-ukraine-afghanistan-media-rsf

Trump’s aid cuts will lead to a surge of propaganda, say press freedom groups https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/11/trump-usaid-cuts-freeze-press-freedom-ukraine-afghanistan-media-rsf #MiddleEastandnorthAfrica #Newspapers&magazines #SouthandcentralAsia #Globaldevelopment #Journalistsafety #Pressfreedom #DonaldTrump #Afghanistan #Worldnews #Colombia #Americas #Ukraine #Belarus #Myanmar #USnews #Europe #USAid #Media #Iran

We also talked to Jeremy Konyndyk, who served as the director of #USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance under Obama and who immediately mentioned Sudan as well:
“If there is anywhere on Earth where you would want to keep the humanitarian presence, it's there. It's all being pulled down and pulled back. So this is just pure destruction.”

#Trump's #USAID cut: "...shattered the paradoxical fraud of the “#independentmedia”... Just like everything else in today’s #Orwell-ian ‘upside-down’ construct—where the term “democracy” is... tossed about to describe repression... "peace” used to describe funneling more weapons to... Nazi/apartheid regimes—similarly “independent media” had described what was... almost entirely government funded operation."

USAID's Demise Sparks Dizzying Acceleration Toward New Era
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/usaids-demise-sparks-dizzying-acceleration

As Sankara warned, #USAID gives with one hand what America stole with the other, and tightens the leash to keep taking. True aid needs no empire. The #US wraps its charity with chains.

The USAID’s IG has just released a report on Trump Admin’s assault on the agency.

"All #USAID programs were suspended🚨, incl. those with funds already obligated & disbursed. The Sec’s Jan 24 order contained an initial waiver for “emergency food asst.” 4 days later, the Sec issued a waiver for disbursements under existing “lifesaving humanitarian assistance” programs: “life-saving RX, MED services, food,
shelter, & subsistence asst...."

#USAID #HumanitarianCrisis #USPol
https://oig.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/USAID%20OIG%20-%20Oversight%20of%20USAID-Funded%20Humanitarian%20Assistance%20Programming%20021025.pdf

#USAID crisis worsens:

Trump’s sudden cutoff of funding & staff at USAID: loss of “almost all ability to track🚨$8.2B in unspent humanitarian aid."

The admin’s rapid dismantling of #USAID has left oversight of the humanitarian aid “largely nonoperational.”

Reduced ability to ensure: no aid falls into the hands of violent extremist groups or goes astray in conflict zones. Ct decision doesn’t remove concerns - being able to “work with PTRs to protect/distribute-."

#USPol https://www.therepublic.com/2025/02/10/usaid-watchdog-warns-of-lack-of-oversight-of-8-2-billion-in-unspent-aid-after-trump-moves/

"It's Time To Act!"

Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders....
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #usaid #Politics #uspolitics #uspol

Unipolar Multipolar 💥 Terra = Territorium
In dieser Folge stehen Trumps geopolitische Pläne im Mittelpunkt. Besonders umstritten ist sein Vorhaben, den Gazastreifen unter US-Kontrolle zu bringen und ihn wirtschaftlich zu entwickeln: "Die USA werden den Gazastreifen übernehmen. Wir werden ihn besitzen", so Trump. Nach massiver Kritik versuchten US-Vertreter die Aussagen zu entschärfen, doch Trump hält an der Idee fest, Gaza nach dem Krieg langfristig unter amerikanische Verwaltung zu stellen. Parallel dazu plant Israels Verteidigungsminister Katz, die Palästinenser zur Auswanderung zu bewegen und fordert europäische Staaten wie Spanien, Irland und Norwegen auf, sie aufzunehmen: "Es würde ihre ‘Heuchelei’ enthüllen, wenn sie sich weigerten."

Weitere Themen sind Trumps Sanktionen gegen den Internationalen Strafgerichtshof, die Auflösung von USAID und ein möglicher Friedensplan für den Ukraine-Krieg.

#germany #podcast #unipolar #multipolar #karinkneissl #flaviovonwitzleben #usa #donaldtrump #gaza #sanctions #istgh #usaid #ukraine #russia #kongo #geopolitics

🎧 https://www.0815-info.news/Web_Links-Unipolar-Multipolar-Terra-Territorium-visit-11606.html

"USAID’s programs were funded by Congress, and there were rules to follow before halting the payments, they said. Instead of reassuring them, the agency’s then-chief of staff, Matt Hopson, told staff that the White House did not plan on restarting most of the aid projects, according to two officials familiar with his comments.

Then Hopson added a stark coda: Trump could not have a higher tolerance for legal risk, the officials recalled. They understood the message to mean that the administration was willing to bend or even break laws to get what it wanted, and then take the fight to court. (Hopson, who resigned shortly after, did not respond to numerous phone calls and written messages requesting comment, and he turned away a reporter who came to his door.)

No president in history has unilaterally shuttered an agency formally enshrined in law — let alone deputized his wealthiest donor, Elon Musk, to carry out that task in his name with little oversight or accountability."

https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-trump-musk-destruction-may-have-broken-law

#USA #Trump #USAID #DOGE #Musk #USConstitution

USAID is a dangerous move that will impact impoverished populations worldwide - opinion

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-841358

At a time when we anticipate the launch of a normalization process, dismantling USAID threatens to derail it before it even begins.

#Jerusalem #Gaza #USAID #Trump #Musk #DOGE #press

In an interview that aired during the Super Bowl pregame coverage, Trump misled about the U.S. trade deficit with Canada and alluded to a list of “ridiculous” spending by USAID. We fact-checked the president’s comments.

https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/feb/09/Trump-super-bowl-interview-fox-fact-check-baier/

#Trump #Baier #superbowl #usaid #foxnews #GOP #press

#NOAA, #USAID, #CDC und die National Institutes of Health (NIH), standen im #Project2025 auf der Streich-/Gängelungsliste. Trump setzt die Pläne aus diesem Papier, von dem er sich im Wahlkampf unglaubwürdig zu distanzieren versuchte, eins zu eins um. https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/angriffe-auf-wissenschaft-wo-donald-trump-und-elon-musk-europa-nuetzen-koennten-a-737d2505-dfc7-436f-a983-de064cafcfdb
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Guess who is a murderer?

"Donald Trump's White House is more than 13,000 kilometres from the Thai-Myanmar border migrant camp Umpiem Mai, but it's where his decision to freeze most US foreign aid funding has had some of the most devastating effects.

The camp just inside the Thai border is home to more than 10,000 displaced people from the conflict-torn country of Myanmar.

Under the US Agency for International Development (USAID), American taxpayer money was, up until last week, being used to pay doctors and nurses to provide everything from basic health care to chronic disease treatment.

"Staff from the International Rescue Committee came and gave an order to shut down the hospital immediately," Sulaiman Mawlawi, a resident of the camp, told the ABC.

"The medical workers left without even taking the equipment and the patients had to return to their homes, including some who had to be carried out."

He said multiple patients who had been relying on oxygen support died.

His account has been backed up by a health worker."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-08/donald-trump-usaid-freeze-hit-thai-myanmar-migrant-camps/104908708

#USA #Trump #Musk #USAID #Myanmar #Migrants #HumanitarianAid

The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, one of the world's most important resources when it comes to digging up information about #kleptocrats all over the world, lost 29% of its budget due to #ElonMusk's attacks on #USAID .

There are few better causes you could donate to where your money would go anywhere near as far as it would with OCCRP (journalists in Moldova are kinda cheap in the scheme of things).

https://membership.occrp.org/stand-with-occrp/

#OCCRP #ICIJ #broligarchy #broligarchs #corruption #moneylaundering #kleptocracy #uspol #eupol #putin #russia #uspolitics

#Zeteo:
"
This Week in Democracy – Week 3: Shadow President Elon Musk in Full Control

Zeteo's new project to document the ongoing, week-by-week growth of authoritarianism in the Trump second term.
"
https://zeteo.com/p/this-week-in-democracy-week-3-musk-trump-usaid-fbi-doe

8.2.2025

#ACLU #authoritarianism #CIA #ConstitutionalEmergency #DEI #Democracy #DOGE #DOJ #EPA #FBI #FCC #Menschenfeindlichkeit #Musk #NARA #NCMEC #NOAA #Staatskrise #TheKennedyCenter #UNRWA #USA #USAID

Saturday, February 8

Russia’s war against Ukraine

A man prepares to board up windows of a residential building damaged by shelling in Kostyantynivka, Donetsk Oblast, on Feb. 7, 2025. (Roman Pilipey / AFP via Getty Images)

'Let's do a deal' — Zelensky tells Reuters he's open to Trump's mineral partnership. President Volodymyr Zelensky stressed in an interview with Reuters on Feb. 7 that Ukraine was not offering to "give away" its resources but seeking a mutually beneficial partnership.

Zelensky, Trump may meet in Washington next week. "I will probably be meeting with President (Volodymyr) Zelensky next week, and I will probably be talking to President (Vladimir) Putin. I'd like to see the war end," U.S. President Donald Trump said.

37 Ukrainian MPs visit US to strengthen bilateral relations. "Ukraine is facing a critical task — to restart our relations with our strategic partner, the United States. And we are doing this systematically at all levels, including restoring relations with the U.S. Congress," Parliament Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk said.

Ukraine to host Trump's envoy Kellogg in February, top official says. Presidential Office head Andriy Yermak said that Kyiv wants Washington to be fully informed about Ukraine's mobilization efforts and the supply of weapons and equipment.

North Korean soldiers 'brought in again' to fight in Kursk Oblast. "A significant number of occupiers have been eliminated, we are re talking hundreds of Russian and North Korean servicemen," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Ukraine expecting important decisions at Ramstein meeting. Ukraine is actively preparing and expects important decisions to be made at the upcoming Ramstein meeting, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi said during a press conference on Feb. 7.

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Trump's ICC sanctions won't hinder Russian war crimes investigation**, Kyiv says.** "I think that the U.S. decisions are not related to the Ukrainian context, and we hope that they will not affect the court's ability to achieve justice and justice for the victims of Russian aggression," said Heorhii Tykhyi, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson.

Kyiv denies reports of alleged failed Russian Oreshnik missile launch at Ukraine. Ukraine's Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security on Feb. 7 refuted media reports of Russia's alleged failed launch of its new intermediate-range ballistic missile, the Oreshnik, at Ukraine.

Bucha massacre suspect becomes top official in Russian region. As a platoon commander at the 76th Airborne Assault Division, Mussagaleyev allegedly participated in Russia's brutal occupation of Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, in February and March 2022, according to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). Hundreds of civilians were massacred by Russian troops in Bucha at the time.

2 Ukrainian military officers appointed as deputy defense ministers. "These decisions are part of a comprehensive approach to strengthening our Armed Forces, modernizing management, and advancing military technology," Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said.

Russia designates Register of Damage against Ukraine as undesirable organization. Russia’s Justice Ministry declared the Register of Damage Caused by Russian Aggression against Ukraine an "undesirable organization" on Feb. 7.

Russia to expand seizure of foreign assets**, Reuters reports.** A draft law approved this week by the Russian government's legislative commission lays out the procedure for seizing foreign property in retaliation for freezing Russian assets abroad.

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US sanctions strain Russia’s oil exports as shipping costs surge, Bloomberg reports. The number of sanctioned vessels has now reached 265, with U.S. blacklisting proving to be the most disruptive. Of the 435 ships that transported Russian crude in 2024, 112—or 26%—are now under Washington’s sanctions.

Trump ready to step up Russia sanctions to end war in Ukraine, special envoy says. Current U.S. sanctions on Russia, particularly those targeting its energy sector, amount to a "3 on a 10-point scale" regarding economic pressure, Keith Kellogg, special envoy for Ukraine and Russia said.

Czechia extends protection for Ukrainians, tightens rules for Russian applicants. Under the new provisions, temporary protection for Ukrainian refugees, set to expire in March, will be extended for another year in line with an EU-wide decision.

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Ukraine secures preliminary deals to replace USAID funding for critical projects, official says. Urgent funding has already been identified for recovery efforts, energy resilience, and cyber defense projects, Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister Olha Stefanishyna said.

Putin acknowledges inflation as key challenge for Russia. Speaking at a televised meeting with Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on Feb. 7, Putin noted that consumer prices in Russia rose by 9.5% in 2024 and have climbed further to 9.9% year-on-year this month.

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However the dismemberment of USAID plays out (maybe some aspect will be absorbed into the State Dept?) & whatever one thinks of the conduct of the agency, the withdrawal from its activities will likely leave a vacuum that China will see to fill with its own development agency (colloquially ChinaAID).

He may not care, but if you wanted an example of how to dissipate 'soft power' quickly, this looks like a textbook case.

#USAID #InternationalRelations #SoftPower

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/07/donald-trump-usaid-shutdown-impact-china-relationship-funding

Elon Musk's illegal access to Americans' private information WILL NEVER get to RW media. For example:

#Musk's unvetted, racist Goons shutting down #USAID is described like this in Glenn Beck's Email newsletter The Blaze:

"USAID scandal gets worse: Tax money to WEF, Clintons, and global DEI"

(I kept the ads for pee pills in because that is the audience, old people on Medicare & Medicaid.)

Fuck that regime change money funnel.

Example "Venezuelan opposition figure Carlos Vecchio received $116 million from #USAID during Juan Guaido's interim government. The funds were intended for humanitarian aid in Venezuela but lacked transparency and were misappropriated.

The NGOs managing the funds were linked to other Venezuelan politicians and their relatives living abroad."

https://cubasi.cu/en/news/venezuelan-opposition-diverted-116-million-delivered-usaid

Richter stoppt Zwangsfreistellung von Mitarbeitern bei USAID

Die Freistellung hunderter Mitarbeiter der US-Entwicklungshilfebehörde ist durch eine einstweilige Verfügung vorrübergehend gestoppt. Gewerkschaften hatten geklagt. Am Sitz in Washington weist bereits kaum noch etwas auf die Behörde hin.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/usaid-freistellung-trump-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#USA #USAID #Trump #Entwicklungshilfe

Liz Goodwin & Hannah Knowles: Lawmakers flooded with thousands of calls per hour as constituents demand answers about Elon Musk: “We can hardly answer the phones fast enough,” one senator said.

"Constituents have flooded the phone lines at the U.S. Capitol this week, many of them asking questions about billionaire Elon Musk “feeding USAID into the wood chipper” and his access to government systems."

#elonmusk #DOGE #USAID #privacy #ussenate
https://archive.ph/KEZpP

Blasts from the #BidenCrimeFamily past😎. #Burisma #Bribery #Blackmail with #USAID as bait and #Biden's idiot bastard son as beneficiary. MSM factchecks false and says he got rid of a corrupt prosecutor 🤣 No. Really!

Biden leveraged a $1 billion USAID loan to get #Ukraine to fire the prosecutor investigating his son's company.

Quote: "I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,’”

More @ https://t.me/rocknrollgeopolitics/14307

#TheGremlinZoo #USPol #USAID

From CNN.com: Judge blocks Trump admin’s plan of putting USAID workers on leave

https://www.cnn.com/webview/politics/live-news/trump-panama-japan-news-02-07-25?cid=ios_app#cm6v9ot4v001b3b6n3eeq4wrj

According to Stephen Sestanovich (a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations), Ukraine was the biggest aid recipient from #USAID. Knowing this, it’s clear to me that Musk’s demolishing of USAID is a favor to Putin.

A multitude of nations under the gun (pic2) of #Imperialism are more secure, for the moment.

"The #USAID headquarters in Washington, DC is being shut down, with even the agency's letters being removed from the building's facade.

It appears the space will be repurposed for use by US Customs and Border Protection." Naturally. https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/138255?single

Was der Wegfall der US-Auslandshilfen für Afrika bedeutet

Der Wegfall der US-Hilfen bedroht viele humanitäre Projekte und Einrichtungen in Afrika. Die Gesundheitsbehörde CDC Africa warnt vor Rückschlägen im Kampf gegen Krankheiten - und vor Millionen Todesfällen. Von K. Bensch.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/afrika/usaid-wegfall-zahlungen-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#USAID #Afrika

Regardless of Trump , the entire #UnitedStates "World Police" and "#Imperialism" narrative falls flat when the #rage over stopping foreign Aid money programs kicks in.
#USAID vs US Military.

Expect ingratitude.