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February 11th, 2025 | Tags: Unthreaded | Category: Uncategorized |  Print This Post | | Comments (69)It’s an avalanche. Twenty stories today could have been a Front Page HeadlineThe newest addition to the grift, graft and fraud list are terrorist organisations. — USAID sent $310 million US dollars to Hamas to build a cement factory in Gaza which would have helped make the tunnels of terror. Senator John Kennedy said Mr Musk discovered the American taxpayer was also giving money to Yemen, Afghanistan, Syria, and even $10 million to an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group called the Nusra Front. So far, Musk and co, with his team of hot young tech-coders, have found that USAID spent $164 million to support radical organizations around the world. In other inexplicable calls, the US government gave nearly $8 million to help teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid binary gendered language. A lot of Americans worked hard all year to pay their tax bill to cover that. Why? But where are all the pleas from foreign leaders to save USAID?Question of the week on the suspension of USAID comes from Mike Benz:
What’s the grift to charity ratio?Forty or fifty billion dollars is a lot of money to spend to NOT create a photogenic fan club and an instant response team to protest the sudden end of the funding. Even if 10% of USAID was spent on things like feeling starving babies in Malawi, that’s still $4 or $5 billion worth of skinny-baby photo-ops and impassioned pleas from desperate leaders. The BBC has found an AIDS patient in Ukraine and 1,077 students in Egypt. But where are the national leaders and surely, hundreds of thousands, or millions of beneficiaries? Were the recipients of USAID all dodgy dealers or terrorists who don’t want to embarrass their donors? Are they Prime Ministers and Presidents who don’t want to admit they needed USAID help to “win” their jobs? Are the governments of recipient-countries silent because the money was being used to control them or foment dissent against them, and they are happy it’s over? Any way we look at this is not good. Then we find out USAID spent $268 million on the worlds independent media which presumably makes them dependent mediaWithout USAID money, journalism as we know it, might not exist. The global US media octopus has 6,000 arms. US Taxpayers were spending money 6,200 journalists and 707 news outlets, and nearly 280 organizations to “strengthen” independent media, whatever that means. And this information was out there, but no one went looking. And that is an annual budget. Wow. USA: Trump’s foreign aid freeze throws journalism around the world into chaosUSAID programs support independent media in more than 30 countries, but it is difficult to assess the full extent of the harm done to the global media. Many organizations are hesitant to draw attention for fear of risking long-term funding or coming under political attacks. According to a USAID fact sheet which has since been taken offline, in 2023, the agency funded training and support for 6,200 journalists, assisted 707 non-state news outlets, and supported 279 media-sector civil society organizations dedicated to strengthening independent media. The 2025 foreign aid budget included $268,376,000 allocated by Congress to support “independent media and the free flow of information.” In Ukraine, where 9 out of 10* outlets rely on subsidies and USAID is the primary donor… Blaim Game captures this moment:
But US funding of terrorists and extremists will be hard for the Blob to explain:
In other big news… Donald Trump is bringing back plastic straws~! We’re in a culture war, and Trump is winning.
And of course, in Australia, under the cover of these fireworks, our Uniparty politicians have brought in radical HateSpeech laws after 30 microseconds of discussion and no consultation. That’s a 7 year jail sentence for reckless speech. By golly, that was oddly efficient. Almost like a well funded global shadow government blob called in its last favors to shut down any hints of the Trump-Musk-MAGA contagion arising here in an election year? More on Australian hatespeech laws soon. The Senators who voted NO were Rennick, Babet, Antic, and Payman, Tyrell and Pocock. Right about now, we need Donald Trump to say nations that don’t allow free speech can’t be trusted with our nuclear subs or something like that…
February 8th, 2025 | Tags: Benz (Mike), Corruption (Media), Free Speech, USAID | Category: Big-Government, Free Speech | Print This Post | |
By Jo Nova Another day, another racketAs Elon excavates the Motherlode of global funding, the pieces start to fit together. Kanekoa the Great wonders why USAID gave $68 million dollars to the World Economic Forum — a group of networking billionaires who meet in January each year to ski in Davos. They turn up in private jets to discuss how they can stop the average man flying. You ‘vill own nothing! Jo Nova wonders why no media outlet on Earth seemingly figured this out for themselves. Perhaps it was the millions in funding the government paid some media outlets, presumably, to say nothing at all the right moments?
It’s almost like we already had One World Government all along, we just didn’t know it. As Mike Benz said we’ve lived our whole life in “the Truman show”. We think we have free press. We think US foreign aid buys tents for refugees and food for starving children. Then we find out the “aid money” was paid to media hacks, academics and billionaires. And we see pictures like these:
USAID also help fund the Soros prosecutors. (So sweet of them to help fund a billionaires dream, not to mention helping homeless guys with rocket-launchers.) If Trump and Musk manage to turn off the funding spigot from the US, it will be felt around the world. A huge burden will be lifted. NGO’s spared no excess, –Ruairi ht David and Fuel Filter.
February 7th, 2025 | Tags: Benz (Mike), Corruption, Trump (Donald), USAID, WEF (World Economic Forum) | Category: Big-Government, Corruption, Lies-by-Omission, USA | Print This Post | |
It turns out the Non-Government Organizations were really The GovernmentThe word for that is GONGO — a government organised non-government organization — at once, an impossible thing and also a tautology. Hands up who is still reeling with the news that USAID had 50 thousand million dollars of political and media influence? The annual budget of $50 billion dollars in the hands of unaccountable activist NGOs buys a lot of “journalists”, editors and teenage protestors. Suddenly a lot of odd repeated patterns around the world make more sense. Why were all governments suddenly worried about disinformation, or the rights of transexuals? Today we found out that news outlets like Politico, and the New York Times were being given millions of dollars from the US government. This is the biggest scandal in news media history: No employee at Politico got paid yesterday. First time ever the company missed a pay period. This is a crisis. Now we learn Politico — a “news company” — which spent the last 10 years trying to destroy the MAGA Movement was being massively funded by USAID. It seems some $27 million dollars went to Politico during the Biden years — and that’s just the subscriptions (not the USAID). Truly, Politico charges as much as $10,000 for a single “Politico Pro” subscription — and so the taxpayers fork out big bucks to pay for politicians “work expenses”, and the money ends up covering the salaries of journalists who are working hard to deceive the hapless taxpayers. As ZeroHedge reminds us, Politico went in hard in the 2020 election to cover for the Hunter Biden laptop from hell. They also point out that the Blob has many other ways to keep newspapers toeing the line… It’s not just the subscriptions: there are huge “ad contracts”, dinner parties DC throws itself under the guise of “media conferences”, sponsorships, etc all paid for by taxpayers. Once done with Politico look at its spawn Axios, founded by Politico veterans
The Soviet quote fits disturbingly well. February 6th, 2025 | Tags: Benz (Mike), Corruption, Corruption (Media), GONGO, US Politics, USAID | Category: Big-Government, Corruption, Lies-by-Omission, USA | Print This Post | |  … By Jo Nova On closing it down Musk said: “USAID is a criminal organisation. Time for it to die.””On Friday last week, Elon Musk and DOGE wanted access to agency systems of the giant USAID. When senior officials refused, by Saturday they were put on leave. “Spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper,” Musk boasted on X.“It became apparent that it’s not an apple with a worm it in,” Musk said in a live session on X Spaces early Monday. “What we have is just a ball of worms. You’ve got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It’s beyond repair.” — AP News Elon Musk and DOGE closed the doors, and sent the head honcho’s packing. One officeworker said staff rushed to take down things like Pride Flags and incriminating books (whatever that means), and now they have lost access to their computers, and the site is down. As Donald Trump and Elon Musk cut back rogue government agencies, USAID looks more and more like a giant money laundering racket. It has (or had) 10,000 employees and a budget of $50 billion dollars. It’s presented as a humanitarian aid group, but the AID in US-AID means the US Agency for International Development which turns out to mean anything and everything. The humanitarian projects include giving $53 million dollars to the starving EcoHealth Alliance which used that to pay for bioweapon research in Wuhan, China, helping to create Covid-19. USAID also funded the production of heroin in Afghanistan. The WhiteHouse revealed that USAID also funded DEI projects in Serbia, and DEI musicals in Ireland. They spent US Taxpayer money on transgender operas in Colombia and a trans comic book in Peru. As Mike Benz describes it, USAID was the Ultimate Nerve Center Of A Rogue Foreign Policy Establishment
Mike Benz, former State Department Cyber expert, has studied USAID closely and says: “USAID grantee NGOs literally take their USAID money then turn around and lobby all key members of Congress to give more and more US taxpayer money to USAID each year in the budget. USAID buys an army of lobbyists with your tax dollars to give it more of your money.“ He also wonders why USAID gave $27 million to the US fiscal sponsor of the group controlling Soros-funded prosecutors and telling them which American citizens and politicians to prosecute? Indeed, somehow USAID is also one of the “BBC Media Actions” top ten donors? Go figure? It’s just the US of A helping out third world countries like the UK, right? As Mike Benz said: the “BBC was in direct cahoots with USAID leadership on Internet censorship efforts to crush BBC’s online populist news competitors since 2017. I went over 9 hours of receipts on this in a 3-part private livestream lecture for my X subscribers”. The BBC part of The Blob takes Blob money to lobby to cripple the media outside The Blob’s control. The words “Self Serving” come to mind. Ron Paul agrees — USAID is a key component of US Regime change, meddling in foreign affairs. The news from Ukraine is essentially being controlled by USAID. Ukrainian media is Blob media. How sweet — USAID provides bioweapons to poor nations that can’t afford their own
Mike Benz — “The Blob uses AID workers to get s*** done”Benz considers USAID as the core tool the Deep State use to make things happen. He argues that the State Department can’t get directly involved in other nations politics — not in underhanded ways, and nor can the CIA openly do that, but correctly funded aid-workers can. He doesn’t think the funding of DEI and Pride marches is necessarily just crazy lefty religious zeal, it’s a strategy he calls “tactical wokeness in service of statecraft.”. The idea, he argues, is that to topple governments — like say, Bangladesh or Cuba — a bit of tactical wokeness would inflame and divide populations who then rise up and protest and unsettle the elected governments that the CIA don’t like. The DEI Wokeness programs are designed to incite street riots and sometimes “color revolutions”. He gives one example where, the International Republican Institute (IRI)* funded dance festivals and woke identity events in Bangladesh, and minority rappers that culminated in throngs of street protests that forced the democratically elected leader to leave the country in a helicopter, as a Clinton Global Initiative fellow was installed as the new President, and they cancelled the elections. The push to censor:The US State department created the CIA to do the dirty jobs that it wanted to do. Then in the 1970s the CIA got caught, so they captured the USAID program, and according to Mike Benz, used the “aid” program to get inside the doors and mess with politics at arms length, in a dirty way. Now that they are being caught again, it’s no accident they’ve become the leading sponsor of censorship programs all over the world so that their dirty work isn’t discussed and unraveled in public. More on that soon… The Background on the Deep State: Dont miss the first post on how the US intelligence agencies started rigging elections in 1948, and Mike Benz’s “History of the Intelligence State” see it here. It is essential background to understanding how the Blob grew out of good intentions after WWII and metastasized into a global monster. It is how The Spy agency became the Lie Agency. __________ * is the Republican arm of the NED (National Endowment for Democracy.).
February 5th, 2025 | Tags: Benz (Mike), Big-Government, CIA, Corruption, NGO, Trump (Donald), US Politics, USAID | Category: Big-Government | Print This Post | |
Finally, the rebellion begins in the business sectorAfter years of silence, the first large industry body has broken the Climate Stupid Spell and said the obvious. There is a “national energy emergency” pushing up the price of food, and the cause of high energy prices is Labor’s 82% renewables target. The Independent Food Distributors Australia (IDFA) which supplies food to 60,000 shops and markets in Australia has broken with other large industry bodies and said the government should drop the “ideological” renewables target and upgrade our coal power plants and install new gas plants. For years, only schoolgirls were allowed to dictate national energy policy, now adults in business can too! The food industry lives and breathes on fossil fuels for their fridges, freezers and trucks, and electricity costs have gone up 50% since Labor came into office. So two weeks after King Trump takes office, and with only weeks or months until our own election, finally they brave up enough to say the Renewables Emperor has no clothes. Give Richard Forbes (the CEO) a medal — he is blistering and blunt. He didn’t just ask the Labor Party to slow the rush, but to “drop it” because of the “damage being done”. He said the Labor Party must take responsibility for the cost of living crisis. Calling climate change targets ideological is a blasphemy like burning the climate bible. There’s no pandering in that word. Forbes could have said the Labor Party target is too ambitious, or unrealistic. But instead he used the word ideological — thus declaring the net zero push it’s irrational, and driven by religious zeal. The managing director of Godden Food Group went even further, calling on the Opposition leader in Australia to “join Donald Trump in leaving the Paris Agreement”. Some of his four year electricity contracts have been renewed in NSW at 238% higher cost. This is dynamite in an election year: Food firms revolt over Labor’s energy plan
Employers supplying food to major supermarkets and thousands of cafes, restaurants and pubs have launched a revolt against Anthony Albanese’s energy policies, urging Labor to dump its 82 per cent renewables target and focus on ramping up more gas and coal production to bring electricity prices down in the short term. Business owners in the sector have told The Australian they want the government to drop its “ideological” approach to energy and instead support upgrades of existing coal-fired power stations while bringing on new gas peaking plants. Employers also want the government to fast track the approvals of new coal mines and gas fields to lower the price of baseload power, disagreeing with Energy Minister Chris Bowen’s claim that new renewables projects are the answer to lower prices. IFDA chief executive Richard Forbes said there was a “national energy emergency”, arguing the government’s policies were driving up the price of food for consumers. “Food businesses are sick and tired of hearing the government saying they are doing something about the cost of living, when their costs, particularly energy costs, are soaring. “The government must take responsibility for a portion of the cost-of-living crisis, which is the cost of doing business, which is energy. In reply, the Minister Chris “Blackout” Bowen sticks with the ideological fairy tale, blaming failing coal plants for high prices:Rejecting the push from food distributors, a spokesman for Mr Bowen said experts had found that “unreliable coal generators are driving price spikes”. “Extending them further would be a recipe for disaster,” the spokesman said. He speaks as though aiming for “no coal plants”will fix a problem caused by a lack of coal plants. The argument is so self-evidently stupid, as long as it is played out in public to its obvious end, the Labor Party will be fried on screen. This is the dead-end electricity hole the innumerate dullard left have galloped into. They think that magically generating a $650 electricity rebate is the same thing as generating electricity. One method makes us stronger and richer while the other just steals tax or purchasing power from average Australians to hide the real cost. The Labor tools of oligarchs, renewable investors and foreign powers couldn’t see past the namecalling and word-games, and fell for every kindergarten trick in the Book of Woke. If the conservatives (which fell for most of the same tricks) can get their acts together and copy Trump, there could be a bloodbath.
 Post-modern temples to the Sun God By Jo Nova It was supposed to last 50 years...The PR writers want us to believe the legendary Ivanpah has been beaten out by better cheap solar, and that this is somehow a “success”. But the truth is, it’s been killed by the same subsidies and crooked market that birthed it. The Big Government Blob distorted the free market, and created a boom in solar power. But the business case was not that good, there was no miracle in the storage of electricity, nobody wanted fried birds, and the subsidies kept forcing more solar power generation in at the same useless time of day. Since there were too many generators at lunchtime and not enough customers, the last surviving part of the free market has solved the imbalance. Just another artificial boom and bustIn 2014, the project cost $2.2 billion dollars. Ivanpah has 173.000 heliostats, and theoretically could make 390 megawatts in a perfect moment. But no one in their right mind would have spent so much to get so little, so the government spent $1.6 billion taxpayer dollars as a “loan guarantee”. I wonder how that is working out for the taxpayers, especially now that the capital depreciation has shifted from 50 years to 11. 11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave DesertLOS ANGELES (AP) — What was once the world’s largest solar power plant of its type appears headed for closure just 11 years after opening, under pressure from cheaper green energy sources. Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands of birds and tortoises. The Ivanpah solar power plant formally opened in 2014 on roughly 5 square miles of federal land near the California-Nevada border. Though it was hailed at the time as a breakthrough moment for clean energy, its power has been struggling to compete with cheaper solar technologies. So it was struggling to compete with cheaper solar technologies, and yet, in a market where customers keep paying more and more all the time, it still couldn’t make money? Even the Sierra Club didn’t like it: “The Ivanpah plant was a financial boondoggle and environmental disaster,” Julia Dowell of the Sierra Club said in an email. “Along with killing thousands of birds and tortoises, the project’s construction destroyed irreplaceable pristine desert habitat along with numerous rare plant species,” Dowell said. “While the Sierra Club strongly supports innovative clean energy solutions and recognizes the urgent need to transition away from fossil fuels, Ivanpah demonstrated that not all renewable technologies are created equal.” Apparently the plant would sometimes blind drivers too. It certainly blinded investors. The company did not reply to AP questions about what would happen to the giant industrial wreckage. h/t To Willie Soon! Ivanpah Photo by Cliff Ho. – U.S. Department of Energy from United States
February 1st, 2025 | Tags: Solar Energy (PV) | Category: Global Warming, Solar Power, USA | Print This Post | |
By Jo Nova Such is the network of the Blob, even here in the last outpost of Western Civilization, in the city furthest on Earth from Washington DC, The ABC Blob TV news made sure we knew that Robert F Kennedy Jnr was a “headache” for Donald Trump, and a guy who believed wild conspiracy theories and hung out with quacks. Yesterday they prepared us for his confirmation hearings by interviewing his cousin. She called him a predator. What they would not show Australians is a few minutes of Kennedy speaking for himself, discussing medical studies in intricate detail. Apparently Australians don’t need to know that not even one US childhood vaccine was pretested in a long term placebo controlled trial. They just need the family gossip about the man who might be a health minister soon in a foreign country. This was our national prime time news. Our ABC Blob TV, paid by us, replayed the Congressional critics, hid Kennedy’s replies, and also hid that Big Pharma money was greasing the palms of most of the critics. RFK Jnr is roughly the Antichrist to Big Pharma, so looking for Big Pharma influence among his critics is the obvious thing to do. But our award winning celebrity journalists missed it. Citizen journalists on X, like A Midwestern Doctor, figured it out instead:
The figures they quote come from Open Secrets, so the paid journalists just had to google. If they had, they’d know that the corruption goes right to the top. You’ll never guess which politicians Big Harma like the mostMoney from Pharmaceuticals / Health Products to US Senators, 1990-2024
The Big Government Blob is so nebulous but extensive, the ABC / BBC /NPR and CBC journalists wouldn’t even feel like they were a part of it. But every one of them is paid by the Big Government Blob, trained in Blob Universities that feed off Big Government funds. They were probably taught to read in Blob schools, with a Blob curriculum. They have Blob Friends, they marry Blob people, and they learn to scorn the riff raff outside The Blob. They know smug insults about the Rednecks will impress their friends. They know that being anti-vax is social death. Pfizer and the CIA didn’t have to phone up the ABC to ask them to paint RFK Jr as a freak, or to cover for the racketeering politicians. ABC journalists do it voluntarily. All parts of the Blob are cheerleaders for all the other parts. Their salaries depend upon it. So does their social status. REFERENCES ABC WA News Jan 30th 2025: 17 minutes
January 31st, 2025 | Tags: Big-Pharma, R.F.Kennedy Jnr, The Blob | Category: Australia, Big-Government, Corruption, FakeNews, Lies-by-Omission, Media-matters, USA | Print This Post | |  Net Zero Dreams in ruins. By Jo Nova We’ve reached the flipping point downunderThe money is leaving the room. Australian pension funds manage assets of around $4.1 trillion, and until last week, many of them had Net Zero Targets. Certainly, there were none that tried to appeal to climate skeptics even though 70% of Australians didn’t want to even spend $1 a week on “Net Zero” plans. This week, many of them are backing away slowly, speaking about a corporate and political backlash, like it’s a force of nature. They won’t say the subsidies have dried up, they made the wrong bet, wasted billions of your dollars and hope they don’t get sued for a lack of fiduciary duty. They won’t say that pension funds are supposed to make money for their clients, not change rainfall patterns. Last year, they were saying “Climate change poses a grave risk to the health, wellbeing and finances of all Australians, including retirees”. Three years ago the The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) was campaigning for national net-zero policies saying “, the superannuation industry stands to lose billions of dollars in investment returns on behalf of their members,”. Pension funds were even supposed to hassle green businesses to “support them” on their journey of mitigation — like climate cops paid to hassle companies to follow laws laid out by global bankers, instead of elected governments. Look how soft the headline is: Super funds preparing to walk back their commitment to climate targetsBy Cliona O’Dowd, The Australian Australia’s most powerful super funds appear to be laying the groundwork to potentially walk back their climate targets amid a growing political and corporate backlash against ESG. As funds come to terms with the shift in sentiment and a four-year term of the Trump presidency, the industry is now voicing its concerns on meeting climate pledges made at a time when pushback against an environmental, social and governance focus was on the fringes. Speaking to The Australian on Tuesday, Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia chief executive Mary Delahunty said funds’ climate goals could be hampered by the anti-ESG movement, with engagement potentially less effective as corporates backtrack on the green agenda. Get out of HESTA: HESTA CEO Debby Blakey appeared to be the outlier, saying the healthcare industry super fund was committed to its climate targets. These include a 50 per cent reduction in portfolio emissions by 2030 and for the fund’s portfolio to be net zero by 2050. US elections make more difference to Australian policy than Australian elections do. January 30th, 2025 | Tags: Net Zero, Superannuation | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | |
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