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USAID (and more) Explained

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2025-02-11

USAID is much in the news as the Trump Administration sets about righting the federal ship of state, and America and the world finds out what has been going on, seemingly for ever.

So what is it all about?

Well, it's a bit wider than merely USAID ...

Scott Ritter paints the picture. Listen up!

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Digging the Dirt, Clearing for Action!

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2025-02-11

Behind the scenes in Washington DC, in "the belly of the beast", a quiet blitzkrieg is reportedly overwhelming the bureaucracy.

Enabled by IT and up to eight years of meticulous planning and preparation, Elon's Marauders are mapping the money and deconstructing the byzantine layers of obfuscation and delay, replacing all with fit-for-purpose control systems designed for real results in real-time.

The US equivalents of Sir Humphrey Appleby are still reacting in accord with their eternal paradigm, that change cannot, indeed must not, be rushed. Flat-footed is to overstate their response.

If this report is true, they are being swept away with no meaningful chance to resist.

Trump set the standard with his initial blizzard of executive orders, meanwhile Elon's stormtroopers are tearing into the bureaucracy that never thought it could be discovered analysed and remapped in so short a space of time.

Well, that's the story, and I don't doubt that it isn't necessarily quite so clean and clear-cut in practice, but ...   Heck, it's a good story!

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USAID - Where Did the Money Go?

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2025-02-09

Elon Musk's investigation of the USAID payees has been extraordinarily revealing, showing just where the resources have been directed - and apparently not toward the well-being of the average US citizen.

If reports are to be believed, funds have been channelled through UN agencies and NGOs (and elsewhere), making USAID more akin to a slush fund for illegal activities everywhere.

And yet ...

"Most of the money subsidizing these human-trafficking NGOs does not come from USAID, it's from the United Nations"

The UK spent £12.79 billion on the UN's Official Development Assistance scheme in 2022 (including assistance to mitigate the dreaded "Climate Change") excluding other expenditure on items not considered to qualify as ODA assistance (eg: military aid, peacekeeping expenditures, and some cultural programmes that primarily aim to enhance the donor country’s image).

"the top three recipients [of UK bilateral ODA disbursements] in 2022 were Afghanistan (£352mn), Ukraine (£342mn) and Nigeria (£110mn)" 

It's a reasonable assumption that we don't know what exactly happened to all this "aid" in any of these countries, especially in the Ukraine, where Mr Zelensky has stated that much of his US aid is unaccounted for. Whether it disappeared before or after arrival is a good question. Unless such payments are audited, it is going to be subject to "disappearance".

It's also reasonable to question how much of the UK's £12.79 billion was also subject to "disappearance"?

I suspect that the UK tax-payer might well have an interest here. Who is responsible (if anybody) for auditing value for money on behalf of the UK taxpayer?

And for reporting back to Parliament?

Well, it's a complex area ...

But are there other shadowy revenue streams that nobody quite knows where the monies end up?

"Today's Conspiracy Theory is Tomorrow's Commonplace Truth"

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2025-02-08

More from Neil Oliver and Maajid Nawaz, this time reflecting on the UK home front.

This includes some party political points that Free Citizen UK neither supports nor repudiates - this isn't about who will win the next election (or even if such will be held), it is about the overall state of our country and its institutions.

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The Trump-Netanyahu Plan for Gaza - Maajid Nawaz with Neil Oliver

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2025-02-07

Maajid Nawaz shows an impressive grasp of Middle East geopolitics, carrying on here from where Scott Ritter and company left off.

I feel that more water yet must pass beneath the bridge before we will see a believable solution to the Gaza situation. After all, Israel is not exactly victorious, nor any longer an attractive destination for immigration to rebuild its shattered economy.

The unspoken question is surely: "Whither Israel?". We need to answer this before we can be confident about the future of Gaza, and its remaining inhabitants.

(34 minutes)

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