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So apparently the Japanese Prime Minister is at 12 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:34,520 the White House and they just did one of those 13 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:37,000 things where they, you know, sit in the chairs in 14 00:00:37,039 --> 00:00:38,960 front of the fireplace, and they bring it all the 15 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,520 media and they throw a bunch of questions at people. 16 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:47,079 If you've just become politically aware during the Biden administration, 17 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:49,359 you probably have. You probably don't know what I'm talking about, 18 00:00:49,399 --> 00:00:52,520 because Biden really didn't do any of these things. But 19 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:55,159 Trump actually answers questions of the media when they come 20 00:00:55,159 --> 00:00:58,439 in to take the pictures. So yeah, so this just 21 00:00:58,479 --> 00:01:00,679 happened apparently action to the. 22 00:01:00,679 --> 00:01:04,319 Speaker 3: New Time magazine cover that has Elon Musk sitting behind 23 00:01:04,359 --> 00:01:08,480 your resolute desk. 24 00:01:09,719 --> 00:01:14,040 Speaker 1: So there's the translator for the Japanese Prime Minister. 25 00:01:15,519 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 4: Is Time magazine still in business. I didn't even know 26 00:01:18,079 --> 00:01:26,000 that Elon is doing a great job. He's finding tremendous 27 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:30,480 fraud and corruption and waste. You see it with the U. 28 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 3: S A I D. 29 00:01:31,439 --> 00:01:32,840 Speaker 4: But you're going to see it even more so with 30 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:36,400 other agencies and other parts of government. He's got a 31 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:39,840 staff that's fantastic. He's wanted to be able to do 32 00:01:39,879 --> 00:01:43,439 this for a long time, and everybody else knew it 33 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:46,239 was existent, but I think never so much. When you 34 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:51,439 look at US A I D. That's a uh, that's fraud. 35 00:01:51,519 --> 00:01:55,040 The whole thing is a fraud. Very little, very little 36 00:01:55,079 --> 00:01:56,079 being put to good use. 37 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 3: All right. 38 00:01:57,079 --> 00:02:00,120 Speaker 2: So that was Donald Trump standing by Elon Musk and 39 00:02:00,159 --> 00:02:04,480 not taking the bait, which is what reporters and the Democrats, 40 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:09,800 but I repeat myself, we're hoping would create friction between 41 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:13,400 Trump and Musk, this idea that they're both big egos 42 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:16,840 and they'll eventually have a falling out by Trump has 43 00:02:16,879 --> 00:02:20,479 had with all of those people from his previous administration. 44 00:02:21,039 --> 00:02:24,599 And so if they can just drive this wedge between 45 00:02:24,599 --> 00:02:27,639 them that oh, Elon's are actually the president, and then 46 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:30,639 that would you know, rattle Trump and he would fire Musk. 47 00:02:32,039 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 1: And it's not working. 48 00:02:34,039 --> 00:02:37,319 Speaker 2: And I suspect it's not working because the people that 49 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:43,680 gathered around Trump for Trump Version two point zero, like 50 00:02:43,719 --> 00:02:47,319 they're all on board with the same mission, and they 51 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:51,599 they are on board because of him, so like they 52 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:54,360 are empowered to do these things because it aligns with 53 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:59,360 what he wants. This from John or sorry from Stephen 54 00:02:59,439 --> 00:03:04,800 Richards over at justthnews dot com, which is the outlet 55 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:08,879 that was created by John Solomon who was an award 56 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:13,199 winning top notch journalist until he started noticing the corruption 57 00:03:13,719 --> 00:03:18,319 surrounding the resistance and the way the government was being weaponized, 58 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:19,680 and then all of a sudden he was like, oh, 59 00:03:19,719 --> 00:03:23,159 he's just a right winger, so he went off and 60 00:03:23,199 --> 00:03:27,159 started his own publication called just thenews dot com. Stephen 61 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:32,639 Richards has the story that before Trump began the purge 62 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:38,120 at USAID, there was a memo that warned that agency 63 00:03:39,039 --> 00:03:43,280 that it had created quote vulnerabilities in the way that 64 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:47,800 it was doling out the foreign aid. Just days before 65 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:51,520 Elon Musk began a purge at USAID, the Agency for 66 00:03:51,599 --> 00:03:56,120 International Development, the foreign agency was warned in a stinging 67 00:03:56,159 --> 00:04:00,879 memo from its own internal watchdog and it had created 68 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:05,199 serious vulnerabilities by doling out billions of dollars tax dollars 69 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:10,479 to overseas countries and groups without fully vetting for terrorists 70 00:04:10,639 --> 00:04:16,199 and fraudsters or demanding transparency from recipients of America's largesse. 71 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:20,560 The memo, which was published by the Inspector General of 72 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:25,800 the US Agency for International Development in late January, details 73 00:04:25,879 --> 00:04:30,680 some long standing concerns about house safeguards against misuse of 74 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:35,120 funds and the proper authorities to hold and the proper 75 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:40,279 authorities to hold violators accountable are missing from the Office 76 00:04:40,319 --> 00:04:44,560 of Inspector General's toolbox. So what does that mean. It 77 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:46,920 means they can't track the money and they don't know 78 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:50,959 where it's going, and they're not vetting these sub awardees 79 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:53,839 is what they call them. So when they award a grant, 80 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:57,040 they award some NGO something, and then the NGO passes 81 00:04:57,079 --> 00:05:00,240 the money on to somebody else. They can't they can't 82 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:02,720 keep track of that, they can't stop it, and maybe 83 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:04,959 they find out later on, oh, actually it went to 84 00:05:04,959 --> 00:05:09,680 feed hamas fighters, you know, stuff like that. Fred Flights, 85 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:13,399 a former Trump National Security Council official, told Just the 86 00:05:13,439 --> 00:05:17,480 News that a key concern of the administration now is 87 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:21,839 ensuring that the money is being spent wisely and on 88 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:28,439 causes benefiting US interests. There is a look, I understand, 89 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:33,120 there is a philosophy, There is an outlook or an 90 00:05:33,199 --> 00:05:38,040 argument to be made that we shouldn't be doing any foreign. 91 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:41,600 Speaker 1: Aid at all. I have heard the argument. I understand 92 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:42,120 the points. 93 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,360 Speaker 2: But as I said the other day, the bang for 94 00:05:46,439 --> 00:05:51,399 the buck is much higher if you know, unless you're 95 00:05:51,439 --> 00:05:55,680 saying that like we're just going to be isolationists and 96 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:58,040 we are not going to take any interest in helping 97 00:05:58,079 --> 00:06:01,279 anybody else outside of our borders, and then you know 98 00:06:01,319 --> 00:06:03,920 we'll be fine if you know, we don't need any friends. 99 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:05,920 That's essentially what you're saying is I am a rock, 100 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:08,079 I am an island. I don't need any friends. 101 00:06:08,519 --> 00:06:08,720 Speaker 4: Right. 102 00:06:09,399 --> 00:06:12,959 Speaker 2: That's I think part of that argument, because if you 103 00:06:13,399 --> 00:06:18,639 just give people aid and support, right, much like the 104 00:06:18,439 --> 00:06:22,079 in marketing or PR, it's called the halo effect. You 105 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:25,199 get a halo effect when you do things that are 106 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:29,199 good for other people, and then people associate you with 107 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:34,040 being good. And so that's the idea behind helping people 108 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:37,160 is we are a good people, we are a good country, 109 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:40,800 and so we will help you when you need help, 110 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:46,920 and when you start infecting that aid and assistance with 111 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:53,000 political ideology or with covert CIA operations underneath them, Like, 112 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:57,000 when you start doing that, you are working across purposes 113 00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:00,439 to what the intention is, which is to help people. 114 00:07:01,079 --> 00:07:03,199 But if you're just using that in order to further 115 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:08,439 your own goals, and particularly goals that are not great 116 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:12,959 for the people you're helping, that's wrong and people will 117 00:07:12,959 --> 00:07:15,639 eventually sniff that out and then they're not going to 118 00:07:15,639 --> 00:07:17,759 have a positive view. You have no halo effects. So 119 00:07:17,759 --> 00:07:21,800 what's the point. Well, democrats realize the point is enriching themselves. 120 00:07:22,279 --> 00:07:26,800 They give themselves the jobs inside these NGOs and they 121 00:07:26,839 --> 00:07:31,720 survive off of those grants doing the quote work right. 122 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,360 And I mentioned this yesterday, the Mott and Bailey argument 123 00:07:37,399 --> 00:07:39,639 that we are seeing right now that oh my gosh, 124 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:43,759 you can't cut the Peruvian transcomic books because then starving 125 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:47,839 people won't get their rice, and that's how they cover 126 00:07:48,959 --> 00:07:53,120 for the corruption. But people see it. It's all out 127 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:58,720 in the open USAID this according to Fred Flights. He 128 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:03,959 says USAID is incredibly politicized for leftist political goals by 129 00:08:03,959 --> 00:08:07,439 the Democrats. It's become a politicized boondoggle, and we saw 130 00:08:07,439 --> 00:08:09,600 that over the last forty eight to seventy two hours. 131 00:08:10,079 --> 00:08:13,399 We know that USAID officials were trying to subvert Trump's 132 00:08:13,439 --> 00:08:16,560 effort more on that I won't get to or his 133 00:08:16,759 --> 00:08:19,480 order to freeze foreign aid for ninety days. That's what 134 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:21,680 Marco Rubio talked about. When they tried to do it 135 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:25,000 from the top down, and you had these USAID staffers 136 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:28,199 and they just kept pushing money out. They were ignoring it, 137 00:08:28,319 --> 00:08:29,920 and they're like whoa, whoa, ooh. We said stop and 138 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:33,480 they're like, no, we're not stopping flight, says so we 139 00:08:33,519 --> 00:08:35,440 can see what our tax dollars are being paid for. 140 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:38,600 We wanted to freeze and is it in the interest 141 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:41,559 of the United States? So I would submit that the 142 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:44,679 halo effect is in fact in the interest of the 143 00:08:44,759 --> 00:08:45,879 United States. 144 00:08:46,399 --> 00:08:48,159 Speaker 1: Is it America first? Or is it not? 145 00:08:49,279 --> 00:08:53,879 Speaker 2: Inspector the Inspector General Paul Martin is his name, identified 146 00:08:53,919 --> 00:08:58,799 three main areas of vulnerability resistance from UN agencies and 147 00:08:58,879 --> 00:09:02,679 foreign based energy. To share the information with the OIG. 148 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:07,679 The Office of Inspector General limitations on the vetting of 149 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:13,039 these aid organizations for ties to designated terrorist organizations and 150 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:17,720 known corrupt actors. And the third area was limitations in 151 00:09:17,759 --> 00:09:23,120 obtaining data about USAID funded subawardes. So, in other words, 152 00:09:23,159 --> 00:09:26,639 the end user of the largess who gets it after 153 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:30,000 you've passed it through an NGO or two or twenty. 154 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:34,600 Where does the money or the aid eventually land? And 155 00:09:34,639 --> 00:09:37,480 when you can't see that, then you don't know if 156 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:41,000 you're actually doing good work. You could be actually doing 157 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:44,039 very bad work. All right, I hope you had a 158 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:46,720 happy holiday season. But tell me if something like this 159 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:50,080 happened at your house. Your family and friends are gathered around, 160 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:54,240 Maybe y'all are in the living room, You're laughing, swapping stories, reminiscing, 161 00:09:54,279 --> 00:09:58,279 and then somebody says, hey, Dad, remember those old VHS tapes? 162 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:00,919 Did you ever get them transferred? And then the room 163 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:04,759 gets all quiet. All eyes are on Dad, who says, oh, 164 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:06,879 you know, well, I've been meaning to but I just 165 00:10:06,919 --> 00:10:09,879 having gotten around to it. Look, don't let those priceless 166 00:10:09,919 --> 00:10:12,840 memories sit in a box for another year, all right. 167 00:10:12,919 --> 00:10:15,799 Create a video has been helping families in the Charlotte 168 00:10:15,799 --> 00:10:19,639 area preserve their history since nineteen ninety seven. 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Irs, you know 180 00:10:57,519 --> 00:11:00,559 I started thinking about all this unless you you saved 181 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:05,440 money going everywhere in the world, and you know there's 182 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:09,080 got to be intermediaries. Pete, I'm talking to Americans now, 183 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:14,639 and large American companies involved with disseminating a lot of 184 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:18,919 this money. And I got to think when the irs 185 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:23,840 out there these this money flowing around, you know, just 186 00:11:23,919 --> 00:11:27,639 how involved and excited do they get trying to follow 187 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:33,080 up on it? Reporting not And so you know, it 188 00:11:33,159 --> 00:11:35,919 raises a big flag right there. And then I got 189 00:11:35,919 --> 00:11:38,840 to think about this Office of Management buzz budget and 190 00:11:38,879 --> 00:11:43,440 I think you just mentioned the Spectra General's Office. You 191 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:47,039 know those organizations order to be staffed and appointed by 192 00:11:47,039 --> 00:11:51,480 the American people through a commissions whatever. I don't mind 193 00:11:51,519 --> 00:11:54,799 it being partisan as long as it's always like this, 194 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:59,799 a six member board, three rs and three d's. But 195 00:12:00,159 --> 00:12:04,240 we need to get the oversight of this monster behooma. 196 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:06,399 There's never been anything like it in the history of 197 00:12:06,399 --> 00:12:10,159 mankind from a scope in size. There needs to be 198 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:17,679 independent outside oversight of this money and these entities up 199 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:20,240 there in DC as to what they're doing. 200 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:22,399 Speaker 2: So I think that's well, Jim, I think that's what 201 00:12:22,399 --> 00:12:25,360 we are seeing right now. The oversight is supposed to 202 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:30,600 be done by Congress, and Congress has refused, along with 203 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:33,919 very virtually all other aspects of their responsibilities, they have 204 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,559 refused to do their jobs. And so that's what I 205 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:41,159 think Elon Musk is doing with his doge dudes. They're 206 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:43,840 coming in there and they're stripping all this stuff away. 207 00:12:43,879 --> 00:12:48,399 I heard there was a report I heard that basically 208 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:51,200 this kind of an operation would not even have been 209 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:57,120 possible like two years ago. The technology with AI is 210 00:12:57,200 --> 00:12:59,720 now at such a point where they can run this 211 00:12:59,799 --> 00:13:07,480 kind kind of massive data collection and tracking operation because 212 00:13:07,519 --> 00:13:10,240 of the current technology, and so like this is like 213 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,519 this I think this is a like a fork in 214 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:18,399 the road, like for like a historical at a societal level, 215 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:22,399 I think that whatever we can do to put tech 216 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:26,600 in the middle here to be tracking this stuff and 217 00:13:26,639 --> 00:13:28,559 posting this stuff. And by the way, this is what 218 00:13:28,919 --> 00:13:32,480 this is what this was a bipartisan thing like fifteen 219 00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:35,080 years ago. The whole point was to make all of 220 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:39,399 these expenditures public so everybody could see it and that 221 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:42,120 would help act as a watchdog. 222 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:48,039 Speaker 3: Well to to other quick points, these big co American corps, 223 00:13:48,279 --> 00:13:51,480 you know, they get so called quote unquote independent audits 224 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:54,679 heavy here from the so called biggest accounting firms in 225 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:58,840 the world. And there are accounting principles right now in 226 00:13:58,919 --> 00:14:08,679 existence about interoperability, status of arms, late transactions, all kinds 227 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:14,039 of so called footnotes to financial statements where you list 228 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:17,480 those things. I have to think, Pete, that these big 229 00:14:17,519 --> 00:14:20,440 accounting firms have just been weink weak and turning their 230 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:24,759 heads when they see these billions of dollars head and 231 00:14:24,799 --> 00:14:27,879 overseas courtesy of the books of some of the biggest 232 00:14:27,919 --> 00:14:30,960 corps in America. I just have to think that's happening. 233 00:14:31,279 --> 00:14:33,559 And I'll make one more I'll make one more point. 234 00:14:33,639 --> 00:14:37,639 P that we've got to get the offices a lot 235 00:14:37,679 --> 00:14:41,840 of these agencies out of d C. I mean out 236 00:14:41,879 --> 00:14:43,840 of DC. We need to get them in somewhere in 237 00:14:43,919 --> 00:14:47,039 the middle of Kansas somewhere or why. I mean, they 238 00:14:47,039 --> 00:14:49,120 don't need to be in DC anymore. 239 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 2: Right, I agree with that. Yeah, I agree with that too, Jim. 240 00:14:51,639 --> 00:14:54,879 I appreciate the call on the auditing firms. I have 241 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:58,399 no confidence in audits and auditing firms. 242 00:14:58,519 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 1: Zero confidence. 243 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:06,600 Speaker 2: And I was I remember covering these stories like when 244 00:15:07,159 --> 00:15:08,840 you know, the city of Charlotte when I was a 245 00:15:08,879 --> 00:15:10,960 beat reporter, and I would you know, they'd come in 246 00:15:11,159 --> 00:15:13,399 like we have a clean audit everybody we had the 247 00:15:13,399 --> 00:15:15,360 auditing firm, and the auditing firm would be up there 248 00:15:15,399 --> 00:15:17,279 and they would be talking about, you guys have great 249 00:15:17,279 --> 00:15:20,480 books all this stuff. And I always thought, oh, okay, 250 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:24,200 well that's good. Right, here's some experts outside eyes looking 251 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:27,399 at the books. Everything's hunky dory. And then I went 252 00:15:27,399 --> 00:15:30,519 to Asheville, where I remember years ago somebody told me 253 00:15:30,519 --> 00:15:32,879 they bury their politician's feet first because she got to 254 00:15:32,879 --> 00:15:33,960 screw them into the ground. 255 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:34,759 Speaker 1: They're so crooked. 256 00:15:36,559 --> 00:15:40,799 Speaker 2: And the county manager, Wanda Green at the time, was 257 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:43,840 embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions of 258 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:47,240 dollars out of the county coffers in Bunkham County and 259 00:15:47,639 --> 00:15:55,639 had conspirators inside county government. And she was convicted. By 260 00:15:55,639 --> 00:15:57,279 the way, she went to federal prison, but it was 261 00:15:57,360 --> 00:15:59,960 during COVID, so they basically let her right back out. 262 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:04,600 They passed their audits every single year, and that's why 263 00:16:04,639 --> 00:16:07,399 I don't have confidence in these audits at all. Unless 264 00:16:07,399 --> 00:16:11,759 it's like a forensic audit, I don't have confidence all right. 265 00:16:11,799 --> 00:16:13,639 If you're listening to this show, you know I try 266 00:16:13,639 --> 00:16:15,399 to keep up with all sorts of current events, and 267 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:17,519 I know you do too, And you've probably heard me 268 00:16:17,559 --> 00:16:21,759 say get your news from multiple sources. Why well, because 269 00:16:21,799 --> 00:16:24,480 it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've 270 00:16:24,519 --> 00:16:27,840 been so impressed with ground News. 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Subscribe through that link and you'll get 282 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:06,480 fifteen percent off any subscription. I use the Vantage plan 283 00:17:06,599 --> 00:17:09,960 to get unlimited access to every feature. Your subscription then 284 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,880 not only helps my podcast, but it also supports Ground 285 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:16,799 News as they make the media landscape more transparent. The 286 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:20,680 takeaway here is that the Office of Inspector General inside 287 00:17:20,799 --> 00:17:26,400 the agency, inside USAID told them, you guys do not 288 00:17:26,599 --> 00:17:29,720 have safeguards for your funding, so we can track where 289 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:30,680 all of this is going. 290 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:35,079 Speaker 1: There's a guy named Mike Bens. You probably have seen him. 291 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:37,880 Speaker 2: He has now become a very hot commodity on the 292 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:40,960 interview circuit because he is a former State Department official 293 00:17:41,319 --> 00:17:44,599 and now the founder of the Foundation for Freedom Online. 294 00:17:45,039 --> 00:17:50,000 And he has been ringing the alarm on USAID for 295 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:56,119 years and now he's an overnight sensation. That's usually how 296 00:17:56,119 --> 00:18:01,039 that goes. He has chronicled how USAID spent fun encouraging 297 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:04,559 censorship around the globe. He said the agency's record of 298 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:09,559 funding controversial or freedom damaging projects had eroded its trust 299 00:18:09,599 --> 00:18:13,440 across the globe. He says, USAID has systematically corrupted the 300 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:18,359 American and world trust in the institutions that keep society going. 301 00:18:18,599 --> 00:18:22,000 See this is not a right wing position. This is 302 00:18:22,039 --> 00:18:24,559 a position that if anything would be held by the 303 00:18:24,559 --> 00:18:27,279 people at USAID, the people that are funding it, the 304 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:29,920 very people that are out there now marching on every 305 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:33,759 single federal building they can spot, you would think they 306 00:18:33,759 --> 00:18:37,000 would be the most outraged at the waste of the 307 00:18:37,039 --> 00:18:41,759 money that's not going to the purpose that it's originally 308 00:18:41,799 --> 00:18:47,480 intended and instead is undermining America, unless, of course, that's 309 00:18:47,519 --> 00:18:53,920 the point. The Inspector General's report that was released in 310 00:18:54,079 --> 00:18:59,519 January said a quarter of USAID's programming, around eight billion dollars, 311 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:04,240 goose through what are called public international organizations, which include 312 00:19:04,839 --> 00:19:09,799 un agencies and development banks, and because these programs often 313 00:19:09,839 --> 00:19:16,240 occur in emergency environments, the OIG relies on those organizations 314 00:19:16,279 --> 00:19:21,599 to self report any potential fraudulent activities. But despite the 315 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:26,839 fact that they have contractual obligations to report potential fraud 316 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:33,039 or mismanagement, those un agencies delay notifications. If they give 317 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:38,759 any notification at all. For example, the World Food Program 318 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:45,920 reported five hundred nineteen instances of potential misconduct to USAID, 319 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:50,200 but the Inspector General was only told about twenty nine 320 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:54,640 of them. But there's a contractual obligation to promptly notify 321 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:59,240 the OIG, but they did not. Additionally, the Inspector General 322 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:02,000 said that the AGENC did not have the mechanisms needed 323 00:20:02,039 --> 00:20:06,240 to ensure that any individuals accused of corruption or misconduct 324 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:10,880 would not be recirculated to other UN agencies that are 325 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:14,640 being funded by USAID. Which makes sense, right, Like somebody 326 00:20:14,759 --> 00:20:18,279 is a corrupt actor, you find out they're corrupt, so 327 00:20:18,319 --> 00:20:21,200 you cut off their funding directly. But oh no, they 328 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:24,400 just bounce over to another NGO and get a grant 329 00:20:24,559 --> 00:20:29,279 through that NGO and they just keep recirculating through that network. 330 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:36,559 Among those who have benefited from USAID funding, Hayatahir al 331 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:41,240 Sham or HTS does that acronym ring a bell? Does 332 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:43,319 the name ring a bell? They're the ones that are 333 00:20:43,319 --> 00:20:46,200 now in charge in Syria. I'm sure it's just a 334 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:52,880 coincidence their former Al Qaeda. In twenty twenty three, there 335 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:57,200 was a scheme to divert USAID sponsored food aid in Ethiopia. 336 00:20:58,119 --> 00:21:01,160 The Inspector General also found USA does not maintain a 337 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:07,640 comprehensive internal database of all of the sub awardees, meaning 338 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:10,160 the US can't identify them, or vet them, or track 339 00:21:10,559 --> 00:21:14,799 the organizations that ultimately get the US funding after it 340 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:20,200 goes through the international organizations. They say this delays OIG 341 00:21:20,319 --> 00:21:23,799 investigative activity and our ability to check with trusted foreign 342 00:21:23,839 --> 00:21:27,200 law enforcement partners to see if fraud allegations are finding 343 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:31,759 against a local entity involve USAID funds. Now, in recent days, 344 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:38,759 the Trump administration US has identified USAID programs ranging from 345 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:44,079 contraceptives for Afghanistan to LGBTAD diversity programs for European countries 346 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:47,680 like why are we doing that in European countries? Just 347 00:21:47,839 --> 00:21:52,640 thenews dot com has previously reported how USAID was intimately 348 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:57,319 involved with the censorship industry that emerged during the COVID 349 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:01,200 nineteen pandemic. I believe us AID money went to a 350 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:06,720 group called the was a Hamilton sixty eight? Remember them 351 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:12,799 so before it was shuttered? Oh wait yeah, yeah, before 352 00:22:12,799 --> 00:22:16,200 it was shuttered. This is also just the news USAID 353 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:21,680 routed funds to Souros aligned causes, terrorists and drag queens. 354 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:27,000 The agency came under scrutiny over failures to ensure transparency 355 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:31,599 and its funding across the globe, and was not responding 356 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:36,839 to explicit policy directives from the State Department and the 357 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,400 wider executive branch to align its programs with Trump policies 358 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:44,119 and the US national interest. Right, And so what we are. 359 00:22:44,039 --> 00:22:48,519 Speaker 1: Seeing now like shrieking vampires recoiling in the sunlight. Well, 360 00:22:48,559 --> 00:22:52,000 actually it's exactly like that, right. They've been sucking. 361 00:22:52,720 --> 00:23:00,440 Speaker 2: Dry the lifeblood of our economy, which is money people. 362 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,319 You could say, yes, the people, but like they're they're 363 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:07,119 sucking it dry, and they are now exposed and they're 364 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:11,359 running around shrieking because it's existential to them. They they're 365 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:16,079 losing their access to the gravy train. And so just 366 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:18,799 thenews dot com tracks all of these funds that have 367 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:22,279 been run through the Soros Open Society Foundation or is 368 00:23:22,319 --> 00:23:27,839 funding programs and NGOs that the Soros Open Society Foundations 369 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:34,119 also fund. It's a very lengthy list. Albanian judicial reform 370 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:39,319 proposal that was run in twenty seventeen. Rex Tillerson identified this. 371 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:44,359 At the time, there was an operation in neighboring Macedonia. 372 00:23:45,039 --> 00:23:49,319 Soros backed program there. Soros backed organizations that received funding 373 00:23:50,599 --> 00:23:54,880 and USAID funding include the Anti Corruption Action Center in Ukraine, 374 00:23:57,319 --> 00:24:01,359 part of the overthrow of Victor Yanuk who was a 375 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:02,599 little too Russia friendly. 376 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:04,279 Speaker 1: That's what I said the other day. 377 00:24:04,519 --> 00:24:09,920 Speaker 2: USAID has been operating in conjunction with, if not under 378 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:17,039 control by like CIA Color Revolution operations, helping to destabilize 379 00:24:17,079 --> 00:24:21,000 other countries. And I don't think that's what USAID was 380 00:24:21,039 --> 00:24:23,640 supposed to be about. And if you listen to the 381 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,599 defenders that are shrieking in the sunlight, they're all talking 382 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:30,920 about food to Africa. But that's not what you were doing. 383 00:24:31,559 --> 00:24:34,559 You were doing other things with it, and that's the problem. 384 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,480 Well that's one of the problems. So again that's at 385 00:24:37,599 --> 00:24:40,880 just thenews dot com. If you want more information on that. 386 00:24:41,559 --> 00:24:44,240 Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to 387 00:24:44,319 --> 00:24:47,799 a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. 388 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:50,079 Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of 389 00:24:50,079 --> 00:24:54,480 Asheville is your connection. 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Wait a minute, USAID was involved 409 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:04,000 in Trump's impeachment. Man the layers of the Onion Never 410 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:07,839 end Matt Vespa at town hall dot com, Like honestly, 411 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:11,000 like I could make probably every single show for the 412 00:26:11,039 --> 00:26:19,319 next three months about the USAID scandal. USAID shut down 413 00:26:19,319 --> 00:26:22,359 on Friday, absorbed into the State Department. Oh and by 414 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,640 the way, Luke Rosiack, he pointed this out. Rosiack is 415 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:33,799 now with Daily Wire. Obama created the. 416 00:26:34,319 --> 00:26:42,039 Speaker 2: USDs and it was this office specifically designed to hire 417 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:47,440 Silicon Valley types and to be exempt from hiring rules 418 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:51,880 and stuff. In twenty seventeen through twenty twenty. That staff 419 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:57,640 then undermined Trump from within the White House, and then 420 00:26:57,759 --> 00:27:02,160 Biden put it under the control of political appointee Matt Cutts. 421 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:07,519 He him pronouns. And now Trump comes in and he 422 00:27:07,559 --> 00:27:11,519 has renamed it to DOGE. And so this is the 423 00:27:11,519 --> 00:27:15,400 Democrat's own creation. They did this, Okay, they did this 424 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:20,000 to themselves, which makes it all the more rich. Under 425 00:27:20,039 --> 00:27:23,839 the president's direction, Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE 426 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:27,000 unearthed a web of corruption, waste, and fraud that wasn't 427 00:27:27,039 --> 00:27:33,440 necessarily shocking but jarring. Nonetheless, not just all the crazy 428 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:35,759 grants that we have seen, but they seem to have 429 00:27:35,799 --> 00:27:39,599 subsidized and played a significant role in the twenty nineteen 430 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:45,920 impeachment of Donald Trump over the perfect phone call with Zelensky, who, 431 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:47,519 by the way, now says he may be willing to 432 00:27:47,559 --> 00:27:51,640 trade some rare earth minerals access for support in their 433 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:52,839 war effort, which. 434 00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:55,799 Speaker 1: Well, that's nice. Why didn't you offer that before? 435 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:00,359 Speaker 2: The agency appears to have been pulling the strings of 436 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:07,079 the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project or the oc CRP, 437 00:28:07,599 --> 00:28:10,440 or the AKRP as I like to call it, which 438 00:28:10,519 --> 00:28:15,000 was cited multiple times by the CIA whistleblower, which sparked 439 00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:19,880 the quid pro quo circus surrounding Trump, Ukraine and military AID. 440 00:28:20,559 --> 00:28:28,039 So the oc CRP, the AKERP. Independent journalists Michael Schellenberger 441 00:28:28,039 --> 00:28:31,960 and Alex Guttentag did a deep dive into this sordid 442 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:35,640 government web where the purpose of AKERP was in your 443 00:28:35,799 --> 00:28:40,200 usual investigative journalism. USAID seems to have had massive sway 444 00:28:40,319 --> 00:28:46,799 regarding agenda, hiring practices, and mission. The story on Schellenberger's site, 445 00:28:46,839 --> 00:28:52,599 called Public ruffled the AKERP feathers, which then threatened Schellenberger 446 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,920 and the company with a lawsuit claiming their premise was 447 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,920 false and defamatory. So now they're trying to create set 448 00:29:01,759 --> 00:29:04,759 drop site News, an outlet that was as led by 449 00:29:04,799 --> 00:29:09,200 former intercept reporters. That was Glenn Greenwald's operation did well 450 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,839 to piece together the CD relationship. They too, now have 451 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:15,279 been slapped with threats of a lawsuit. USAID was the 452 00:29:15,279 --> 00:29:17,720 perfect vehicle for the deep state and other anti Trump 453 00:29:17,759 --> 00:29:20,960 staffers at government agencies to farm it out to In 454 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,160 the complaint, the whistleblower at the time claimed to have 455 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,279 heard from White House staff that Trump had a phone 456 00:29:27,279 --> 00:29:32,359 call directed Ukrainian President Zelenski to work with his personal 457 00:29:32,359 --> 00:29:36,160 attorney Rudy Giuliani to investigate the bidens The whistleblower who 458 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:40,519 triggered the impeachment was a CIA analyst who was first 459 00:29:40,519 --> 00:29:43,440 brought into the White House by the Obama administration. Is 460 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:49,640 this that Chirelma Cherealma Cimarella guy Anyway. Reporting by drop 461 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:53,400 site News last year revealed that the CIA analyst relied 462 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:58,480 on reporting by a supposedly independent investigative news organization called 463 00:29:58,759 --> 00:30:03,319 the aker P, which appears to have effectively operated as 464 00:30:03,359 --> 00:30:09,599 an arm of USAID, which Trump has just shut down. 465 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:15,359 The CIA whistleblower complaint cited a very lengthy report by 466 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:22,039 AKERP four times. Last year, there was a documentary that 467 00:30:22,519 --> 00:30:29,200 a German television broadcaster called NDR made about akerp's dependence 468 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:33,599 on the US government, and AAID official confirmed in that 469 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:40,839 documentary that USAID approves akerp's annual work plan and approves 470 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:48,200 new hires of key personnel. But the documentary was censored 471 00:30:49,119 --> 00:30:54,400 before broadcast after US journalist Drew Sullivan, the co founder 472 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:58,480 and the head of AKERP, put pressure on the broadcaster 473 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:03,599 NDR management, and made false accusations against the broadcasters' journalists 474 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:07,599 involved in the project. On December sixteenth, just a couple 475 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:11,720 months ago, Drop Sites Ryan Grimm posted a link on 476 00:31:11,799 --> 00:31:18,240 Twitter to the twenty six minute long documentary quote NDR, 477 00:31:18,359 --> 00:31:22,559 Germany's public broadcaster is facing a censorship scandal and has 478 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,920 defended itself by saying it never killed a news report 479 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:29,480 about AKERP and its State Department funding because no report 480 00:31:29,599 --> 00:31:33,640 was ever produced to kill and that's absurd. Here it is, 481 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:41,119 this is the documentary. Dozens, maybe hundreds of journalists knew 482 00:31:41,119 --> 00:31:44,200 that was false, and now, of course somebody has leaked 483 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:48,240 the documentary. AKERB does not operate like a normal investigative 484 00:31:48,279 --> 00:31:52,200 journalism organization in that its goals appear to include interfering 485 00:31:52,359 --> 00:31:57,160 in foreign political matters, including elections. Aimed at regime change. Sullivan, 486 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:04,160 the guy who heads up AKERB. Yeah, Sullivan told the 487 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:07,519 NDR in that documentary that his organization had probably been 488 00:32:07,559 --> 00:32:11,640 responsible for five or six countries changing over from one 489 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:15,240 government to another government and getting prime ministers indicted or 490 00:32:15,279 --> 00:32:21,599 thrown out. As such, it appears that CIA, Usaid, and 491 00:32:21,799 --> 00:32:25,279 Aker were all involved in the impeachment of President Trump 492 00:32:25,519 --> 00:32:29,400 in ways similar to the regime change operations that all 493 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:33,039 three organizations engage in abroad. See this is why I 494 00:32:33,119 --> 00:32:38,400 keep saying that they are part of and help color 495 00:32:38,519 --> 00:32:42,920 revolutions as they're called. You work from the inside through 496 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:44,599 the institutions that exist. 497 00:32:45,079 --> 00:32:45,240 Speaker 3: Right. 498 00:32:45,759 --> 00:32:49,400 Speaker 2: You get together coalitions and you overthrow the government, and 499 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:51,960 you make it appear as if this is some thing 500 00:32:52,039 --> 00:32:57,359 that the people are clamoring for. You bring down governments 501 00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:01,359 in a hopefully mostly peaceful way. The difference is that 502 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:05,480 it is highly illegal to do that to your own government. 503 00:33:05,839 --> 00:33:10,400 It's even treasonous. Now, how many of these people knew it, 504 00:33:10,559 --> 00:33:12,160 How many of these people were involved in that? 505 00:33:12,799 --> 00:33:13,000 Speaker 3: Right? 506 00:33:13,079 --> 00:33:16,200 Speaker 2: I read that transcript of the Zelensky phone call with Trump, 507 00:33:16,279 --> 00:33:20,079 and I didn't find anything in there to be impeachment worthy. 508 00:33:21,559 --> 00:33:26,000 And by the way, Trump was apparently correct in asking 509 00:33:26,119 --> 00:33:28,599 Zelensky to say, Hey, like, what exactly is going on 510 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:28,960 with all this? 511 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:29,599 Speaker 1: Can you can you. 512 00:33:29,599 --> 00:33:31,920 Speaker 2: Guys get to the bottom of what the Biden relationship 513 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,960 is with Beisma and all that stuff going on. USAID 514 00:33:36,079 --> 00:33:40,440 kept the Democrat media complex subsidized in the tens of millions, 515 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:44,039 via Politico Associated Press, New York Times and Reuter's being 516 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,200 some of the outlets who got that government sugar daddy cash. 517 00:33:47,319 --> 00:33:48,599 Speaker 1: It was only for subscriptions. 518 00:33:49,359 --> 00:33:52,119 Speaker 2: These outlets are exactly the ones that you would need, though, 519 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:56,839 to push a narrative, and that's what they did. He 520 00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,920 concludes a lass where at the nexus point where a CI, 521 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,920 a whistle blower who set the beat of the impeachment drums, 522 00:34:03,119 --> 00:34:06,359 cited a report from Aker, which has deep ties to USAID, 523 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:10,519 which allegedly controls most editorial and managerial aspects of that organization, 524 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:14,079 which produced content that was weaponized against our duly elected 525 00:34:14,079 --> 00:34:17,360 president in twenty nineteen. All right, that'll do it for 526 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,039 this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could 527 00:34:20,079 --> 00:34:22,360 not do the show without your support and the support 528 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:25,239 of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if 529 00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:27,280 you'd like, please support them too, and tell them you 530 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,400 heard it here. 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