The best way to keep prisoners from escaping is to never let the prisoners know they are in prison.
I don’t know who said it – I look around and see people living it daily.
Part of that prison realized when people are full of complaints and negativity about life because that’s exactly what will manifest.
Likewise, if a person is full of positive energy, in the flow and happy – that is their manifestation.
Mainstream/social media and fearmongers everywhere spreading the story of the day with an uninformed comment here and there is a means to keep the cageless prison full through fear and misinformation – by design.
It’s often hard for me not to go dark rogue when writing about some of this mess that keeps unraveling daily.
Like last week’s USAID discoveries.
And, as a political writer it can be a challenge to find anything positive while watching the rats scurrying – it’s very distracting.
I don’t watch or read most mainstream media propaganda since for years I knew it was not true. I rely on my real friends from both sides of the aisle to tell me what is promoted as “truth” and then I attempt to find a bipartisan outlook.
I have lost friends and jobs because I’m not conservative enough, liberal enough or just not as passionate as I should be from a political, religious, or breathing the air standpoint.
However, truth is truth, and often it is non-negotiable no matter how bipartisan I want it to be.
I will say this week I’m surprised at the outrage the blue people have for Pres. Trump and Elon Musk, the lead at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
I mean, who can argue with slashing federal spending.
It didn’t take long for Musk to cut billions of dollars in unnecessary spending at USAID, but even as the stench of waste that has hijacked billions of US taxpayer’s dollars has been identified there are still people angry with his findings.
Call me crazy, but saving billions of taxpayer’s dollars is pretty bipartisan to me.
Musk was also told there is “over $100-billion per year of entitlement payments to individuals with no social security numbers or temporary ID numbers.”
He said he was told around half of that amount was fraudulent at $50 billion a year.
Then there are the rumors Trump is freezing Medicare and social security.
I say rumors because White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was clear, “Social security benefits, Medicare benefits, assistance going directly to individuals will not be impacted by the freeze placed on federal financial assistance programs.”
One of my true blue friends said media can spin anything.
I laughed and said, well yes, duh, because they have been to the tune of millions of dollars for years since DOGE discovered USAID was paying news outlets like AP, Reuters, and Politico for “subscriptions.”
I owe BlackRock/Vanguard/State Street an apology.
While I have been hating on Larry Fink (who owns just about everything but god) for his media involvement, I was apparently slamming the wrong entity.
It turns out the egregious propaganda machine was not Fink, but our own government by way of USAID funding to spread the propaganda.
As a sidenote, I’ve spent much time in Africa over the years from a travel standpoint, not political. The rabbit holes go deep there.
The stories I’ve been told probably do not scratch the surface. People in Africa do not seem to care for the NGOs (non-governmental organization), or USAID (if I remember correctly).
This I saw once when I was in Kampala, Uganda, a main stop for aid workers coming into Africa.
I could feel a certain arrogance from the aid workers and NGOs.
One person told me they drive around in Land Rovers and think they run the show – and then leave a mess behind.
Another time in Kenya, I heard an NGO built a pond for water, but didn’t care the pond would attract malaria mosquitos that would cause illness/death.
Later it did. By that time, the NGO was long gone.
So, again, regarding the billions of dollars USAID has wasted, tell me again why people hate Trump and why they are furious that Musk (on behest of Trump) has dismantled this money pit.
There are also line items apparently showing taxpayers paid for Chelsea Clinton’s wedding and mansion by way of a fund that was meant to be sent to Haiti by the Clinton Foundation, funded by USAID.
Also noted she received annually recurring funding from USAID, allocated by Obama providing afternoon meals to children in Africa, India, and Bangladesh.
When someone did the math, the number of meals served (11,886) made the cost $1,410... per meal.
Mainstream media fact checkers are denying the wedding claims, but let’s revert to who’s been paying for mainstream media by way of the obvious paper trail.
So yes, there are people hating Musk because he isn’t an elected official yet has access to everyone’s personal information.
Not the biggest fan in the past myself, but the guy is discovering billions of bipartisan dollars that were wasted.
And for example, who knows how many hands the $1 million went through before it arrived at the final recipient with about $100 left.
It does give me a red flag when non-elected officials have my personal information.
That’s also why I don’t shop at Amazon or Temu or save passwords on my mobile so Apple/Android can get hacked by non-elected officials who will then have my information.
And for the record, the 80,000 non-elected IRS officials hired to harass the average American had access to that personal information.
Stephen Miller, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy reminded that officials at USAID, FBI, the CIA, even the National Security advisor are unelected and have your information too.
What about Fauci – definitely not an elected official, but allowed to commandeer a world shut down.
And why did USAID give George Soros $260-million?
Joni Ernst (R-IA) told reporters USAID did everything possible to withhold records until a formal congressional investigation began to force its hand.
That still resulted in only a small amount of data released that included “very little data driven results,” but lists of money spent like in Morocco for pottery classes and tourism in Lebanon during a state department advisory.
Other waste from the USAID coffers included money to Wuhan Lab of Virology, and money used by NGOs to aid illegal crossings into the US, and millions spent on plane and bus tickets and coaching illegals how to stay in the country.
Another short list of USAID expenditures – $16.8-million to support equitable outcomes in inclusion in Vietnam, $7.9-million to teach Sri Lankan journalists to avoid binary gender language, $6.3-million to study men having sex with men in South Africa, millions on LGBTQ promotions in Uganda, the western Balkans and Guatemala, $20 million on a Sesame Street show in Iraq, $4.5 million to combat misinformation in Kazakhstan, and $15 million for contraceptives and condoms in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. And let’s not forget the $600 million on sushi or (standardized usage statistics harvesting initiative), and the IRS spent $230,000 a month on Starbuck’s Cinnamon Roast K-cups.
Wikileaks also found over 6,200 journalists across 707 media outlets, 279 media NGOs and nine out of 10 media outlets in Ukraine were USAID funded.
Research the $48 million payments to a vendor in Nigeria DAI Global LLC since 2020 – the company is registered in Maryland.
And check out Chemonics International. They have received billions of taxpayer’s dollars in just one year according to a report (chemonics.com).
That brings me to my final finding of a reported paper trail indicating money funneled by USAID and the CIA to help orchestrate Trump’s impeachment.
A CIA analyst wrote the memo that led to the impeachment. Information was based on intel from USAID, and reportedly millions of dollars went to a group called the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.
Change is hard. Louisiana Senator John Kennedy said, “Common sense is illegal in Washington” and added, “there is a Washington way of doing things, and when somebody challenges the status quo many get excited and not in a good way.”
The light is revealing the shadows, and in those shadows we are now seeing the scurrying of those who realize the gig has permanently come to an end.
Rita Cook is a freelance writer for The Ellis County Press. She can be reached at rcook13@earthlink.net.
- Log in or Subscribe to post comments.