Zero Hedge

There are those that say all government aid is a scam in one way or another, and so far the revelations surrounding USAID are proving those people right daily.  Democrats and the establishment media, in a bid to muddy the waters and save face, continue to claim that there was never any fraud at USAID and that the Trump Administration is simply labeling projects they “disagree with” as suspect. 

Of course, spending American tax dollars on projects the public never asked for and were never told about is the epitome of fraud, and waste is never a good thing.  Beyond that, the question of billions in missing funds certainly falls into the category of criminality. 

Trump has taken a lot of heat from the media with the shut down of USAID and much of the criticism suggests that without US funds people in third world countries will fall back into desperation.  The Washington Post recently claimed that Trump’s cuts to USAID are a “gift to Haitian gangs” terrorizing the locals; a typical leftist appeal to emotion that assumes most of the funds were getting to the Haitians in the first place. 

Yet another example of this problem has been revealed in a New York Post expose on the audit of USAID which shows a disturbing shortfall in funds surrounding ongoing relief projects in Haiti.  The Post notes:

“Since the 2010 earthquake in Haiti killed as many as 300,000 people, the US government has disbursed around $4.4 billion in foreign assistance to the small island nation.

At least $1.5 billion was disbursed for immediate humanitarian aid, while another $3 billion went to recovery, reconstruction and development.

Of the at least $2.13 billion in contracts and grants for Haiti-related work, less than $50 million, or 2% went to Haitian organizations or firms. By comparison, $1.3 billion, or 56%, has gone to firms located in or near the US capitol. Little wonder USAID is so threatened by the sudden scrutiny.

It remains unclear how exactly the billions have been spent and whether US tax dollars have had a sustainable impact. USAID and its vendors have generally failed to make such data public…”

The exposure of USAID by DOGE actually confirms long running suspicions of mishandled aid.  Some Haitian reporters warned about this disappearing money years ago under the Obama Administration.  USAID funds to Haiti were dispersed in part through the Clinton Foundation. 

The lack of funding transparency was also noted by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in 2023.  Though, not surprisingly, the impotent agency did nothing about it.  The GOA stated in their analysis of USAID activities in Haiti: 

“The USAID mission in Haiti does not fully track data on its local partnerships, or its activities to strengthen local organizational capacity, which limits institutional knowledge about these efforts and understanding of results and lessons learned to inform future activities.”

“The Administrator of USAID should ensure that USAID/Haiti develops a process to track and assess consistent and complete results information for infrastructure activities, such as the final outputs, outcomes, costs, time frames, and lessons learned.”

“The Administrator of USAID should ensure that USAID/Haiti establishes a process to completely and consistently track and analyze data on awards made to local organizations, such as the amount and percent of total funding awarded and the percent of total awards provided to these organizations.”

Of the five “recommendations for executive action” put forward by the GAO for USAID, two are marked as “completed”.  Transparency was never achieved and no one was held accountable.  The question is, if only 2% of the $4.4 billion allotted for Haitian relief was actually used in Haiti, where did the rest of the money go?

As the New York Post points out, 56% went to firms located in or near the US capitol, and apparently the money stayed there.  A comprehensive forensic accounting of these funds (along with all other missing funds) needs to be undertaken and tracked to the recipients.  Not just because it is is politically advantageous for the Trump Administration, but because justice needs to be served for once in the case of government fraud.  Americans are tired of seeing bureaucratic conmen get away with it. 

The public is welcome to debate whether or not any American taxes should be spent in Haiti (proximity to the US does not mean they are entitled), but if the money was already sent and it never arrived, then whoever took it stole from both sides of the equation – Americans and Haitians. 

Via https://www.zerohedge.com/political/more-usaid-fraud-billions-us-tax-dollars-are-missing-haiti-relief-projects

Richard Stambaugh, Wikimedia Commons

The Winepress

“Not just for food, but for high-value products as well, like pharmaceuticals.”

Scientists are actively creating new foods that are similar to the current Covid vaccines in use, as a way to replace traditional inoculation. Both Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines use messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that rewrites a person’s genetic code to fight disease. Moderna refers to this technology as an “app,” “software,” “operating system,” and more.

Currently, mRNA tech used in the Covid vaccines must be stored at cold temperatures to work, or they lose their stability.

However, researchers at the University of California-Riverside are testing ways for this mRNA tech to be functional under normal temperatures. In this case, if they are successful, they would then design plant-based mRNA food for public consumption.

For further development and functionality, the researchers received a $500,000 grant courtesy of the National Science Foundation.

The team seeks to accomplish three goals: first, attempt to successfully carry and transport DNA containing the same mRNA vaccine tech into plant cells, where they can replicate.

From there, the team wants to see if these newly cultured plants can replicate enough to generate sufficient mRNA to replace the traditional injection via syringe. Finally, the group of researchers will establish what the proper dosage will be for the masses to consume to effectively replace vaccinations.

Juan Pablo Giraldo, an associate professor in UCR’s Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, said in a university release:

“Ideally, a single plant would produce enough mRNA to vaccinate a single person.

“We are testing this approach with spinach and lettuce and have long-term goals of people growing it in their own gardens. Farmers could also eventually grow entire fields of it.”

In order for this to work properly, the plant’s chloroplasts are key, says Giraldo and a team of scientists from UC-San Diego and Carnegie Mellon University. Chloroplasts are tiny organs inside plant cells that aid in the conversion of sunlight into usable energy.

“They’re tiny, solar-powered factories that produce sugar and other molecules which allow the plant to grow. They’re also an untapped source for making desirable molecules,” Giraldo added.

Previous studies have been reported to have shown gene expression, which is not a natural part of the plant. This was discovered when Giraldo and his team successfully injected genetic material into the chloroplasts.

Professor Nicole Steinmetz of UC-San Diego worked with Giraldo and the team to utilize nanotechnology to help deliver even more genetic material – identical to how the Covid vaccines work, not just the Moderna or Pfizer ones either.

“Our idea is to repurpose naturally occurring nanoparticles, namely plant viruses, for gene delivery to plants. Some engineering goes into this to make the nanoparticles go to the chloroplasts and also to render them non-infectious toward the plants,” Steinmetz explained.

Giraldo added:

“One of the reasons I started working in nanotechnology was so I could apply it to plants and create new technology solutions. Not just for food, but for high-value products as well, like pharmaceuticals.”

[…]

Via https://thewinepress.substack.com/p/scientists-are-developing-mrna-foods

Jonothan Turley

As the courts hash out the legalities of the orders supporting the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the public appears to support the effort despite the almost universal condemnations in the media. Despite the prediction from James Carville that the Trump Administration will collapse within 30 days, a recent Harvard CAPS/Harris poll shows that most citizens support the cutting of government spending and size. While the courts must rule on the legal basis for these executive orders, the polling shows continued support for both Trump and his agenda after the election.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.) also has declared that “remorse” was growing among voters who were souring against the Trump Administration.

Yet, the Harvard poll shows Trump with a 50% approval rating, (43% expressing disapproval). That is consistent with the RealClearPolitics polling average, giving Trump a 49.3% approval rating.

What was interesting amid the ongoing judicial and legislative fight is that 83% of voters preferred cutting government spending to raising taxes.

Some 77% also supported a broad review of government spending. A massive 70% believe government spending is rife with waste and fraud and 69% support cutting spending by $1 trillion.

Sixty percent of voters said that DOGE is carrying out the need of the government to make significant cuts.

Once again, our courts are designed to resist popular demands when they contravene legal or constitutional authorities. However, courts are also sensitive to what is called the “countermajoritarian difficulty.” As Alexander Bickel discussed in his 1962 book, The Least Dangerous Branch, the courts straddle this line between protecting constitutional values and not becoming a type of super-legislature. The political question doctrine and other judicial rules are designed to remove federal judges from making policy or political judgments.

Voters are allowed to bring about significant, even radical, changes in government policies and programs. They are allowed to elect “change agents” to use existing powers to achieve those goals.

[…]

Via https://jonathanturley.org/2025/02/25/harvard-polling-majority-supports-doge-measures-to-reduce-the-size-of-government/

Bullying

RT (2024)

Film Review

Russian with English subtites

Accord to the filmmakers, school bullying has significantly increased in Russia (it hasn’t increased in New Zealand – historically has been an integral part of Kiwi culture, not only in the schools but in the workplace).

The film indicates that 55% of Russian students surveyed reported issues with bullying. Thirty-nine percent of this bullying occurs on social.

The film focuses on a Russian teenager who stabbed a classmate with a knife after a long history of bullying by his classmates, a girl who was bullied for being overweight (which she ended by joining classmates in bullying another fat student) and a third girl who was bullied on social media. Her bullies eventually tried to blackmail her over an obscene photo they posted, leading her to try to sell a kidney online to pay them off.

There is an in-depth interview with the boy’s mother, who has fought for two years to get the school and the bullies’ parents to acknowledge the role of bullying in the knife attack. The filmmakers also play a recorded call with the school principal, who flatly denies any bullying occurred. Her son Vlad remains in a psychiatric hospital two year after the attack.

The filmmakers also show excerpts of a recent Russian play about bullying and a school anti-bullying workshop. The students responding most strongly to the play and the workshop were “onlookers” too scared to report bullying incidents to authorities.  authorities.

By Dean Henderson (2011)

Two centuries and a few decades later this same cabal of trillionaire money changers – mysteriously immune from their own calls for “broad sacrifice” – utilizes the debt lever to ring concessions from the people of Ireland, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy and now the United States.

In their never-ending quest to subjugate the planet, the bankers’ IMF enforcer – chronic harasser of Third World governments – has turned its sites on the developed world. To further advance their dizzying concentration of economic power, the whining banksters take a giant wrecking ball to the global middle class as they prepare to eat their young.

No one can argue that the US deficit is not a problem. Much of it accrues paying interest on the $14 trillion debt. Stooped-over Congressional cartel shills with names like Cantor and Boehner argue for slashing entire government departments to satiate the bloodthirsty bond-holders. Liberals argue for higher taxes on the rich and massive Pentagon cuts.

I agree with these latter proposals. The super-rich paid 90% under Eisenhower and 72% under Nixon. Both were Republicans. They now pay 33%. Most corporations and many elites utilize offshore tax havens and pay nothing.

The argument for progressive taxation is that those who benefit more from government should pay more. Cartel apologists propagate the fiction that the poor soak up middle-class tax dollars, sowing division between the poor and middle class. Meanwhile, the Eight Families financial octopus feeds mightily at the public trough be it the SEC (rich investors), the FCC (Gulfstream jet fliers), the USDA (the richest farmers get the biggest checks), Medicaid (insurance fraud, Big Pharma gouging) or the Pentagon (Lockheed Martin, Halliburton, Blackwater).

Still, $14 trillion is an insurmountable debt. Increasing taxes on the super-rich combined with a global American military withdrawal from its current role as Hessianized mercenary force for the City of London banksters, while welcome, will not be enough to deal with this monster debt, what Jefferson termed, this “deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery”.

The belt-way dialogue on the deficit remains locked in a tiny intellectual box created by the corporate media and their Federal Reserve cartel owners. But there is another way.

It is a myth that most of that $14 trillion debt is owed to the Chinese or other “governments”. The vast majority – around $10 trillion – is owed to the Eight Families Federal Reserve crowd.

In a June 9, 2011 article for Marketwatch, Unicredit’s Chief US Economist Harm Bandholz stated that the Federal Reserve is the largest holder of US debt with around 14% of the total. This does not include debt held by Rothschild-controlled central banks of other nations – including China, Japan and the GCC oil fiefdoms.

Through the recent QE2 program, the Fed purchased another $600 billion in Treasury bonds. They claimed it was a last ditch attempt to save the global economy from deflation. Instead, the banksters who got the interest free taxpayer-backed money pushed us further towards deflation by refusing to lend their welfare bonanza to potential homeowners or small business.

Conversely and inherent in the printing of zero-interest money, they created inflation – speculating in oil, food and gold futures and rolling this increased US debt on the roulette tables at their various wholly-owned global stock exchanges. Is it any wonder the financial parasite class is now clamoring for QE3?

What follows is a ten-step proposal which President Obama and the Congress could enact to lift the $14 trillion debt from the backs of future generations of Americans. These should be done concurrently as part of a single sweeping financial reform bill. Modeled after last week’s release of strategic petroleum reserves by twenty-seven nations, this measure should be enacted in tandem with as many willing nations as possible. The same Rothschild-led cabal controls the central banks of most every nation and there is power in numbers. If these measures are enacted separately or by only one nation, the Eight Families cartel will use their financial clout to target and destroy the US:

1) Introduce a Treasury Department-administered infrastructure investment fund, which workers should be strongly encouraged to opt into using accrued funds from their private 401K plans. This is important because the banker’s stock market casino will crash due to the next nine steps and workers must be shielded from this event. This fund can be used to rebuild America’s infrastructure, with American workers acting as lenders and receiving a fair rate of interest in return.

2) The US needs to withdraw from the Bank of International Settlements, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the IMF and all Eight Families-controlled multilateral lending facilities. We would save billions funding these banker welfare schemes while freeing ourselves from rules which prevent our financial emancipation.

3) De-link the dollar from all currency baskets and IMF special drawing rights. Ban trade in dollars on all global exchanges. This will create a demand for dollars and strengthen our badly devalued currency. Impose currency controls by fixing the dollar at 1:1 euro, Chinese yuan, Canadian dollar and Swiss franc; 100:1 Japanese yen. During the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad fixed the nation’s currency – the ringit. It was the only currency in the region that did not crash when Rothschild front-man George Soros took aim at the region.

4) Nationalize the Federal Reserve. According to a London barrister I have been in contact with, under the Federal Reserve Act there is a provision that allows for the US government to buy back the Fed’s charter for $4 billion. We should pay this fee, revoke the Fed charter and launch a new US dollar issued by the Treasury Department. With the dollar fixed, the vampires cannot crash it.

5) Cancel the $10 trillion debt to the Illuminati bankers. Debt obligations to foreign governments and small bond-holders should be honored at par.

6) Arrest the perpetrators. Prosecute to the fullest extent of the law all fraudulent transactions involving the Fed cartel. Send the FBI to the New York Fed. Seize all documents. Confiscate the world’s largest gold reserves which are stored there. These were stolen from various governments including from our own Ft. Knox reserves.

7) Forget just repealing the Bush tax cuts on the rich. The top tax rate on people who make more than $1 million/ year should be raised to 75%. People making more than $500,000/year should pay 50%. All tax brackets below $75,000/year should see tax cuts. If you get more from government you need to pay for it, instead of soaking the middle-class and blaming it on the poor.

8) Slash Pentagon spending. Shut down all US military bases on foreign soil, including those in Europe, Japan and South Korea. Withdraw ALL troops from Iraq and Afghanistan immediately. Use the savings to pay off government and small bond-holders.

9) Outlaw offshore banking by US citizens and corporations. Bring your money home and pay taxes on it or surrender your US passport/corporate charter. The dramatic increase in tax revenue would be enough to pay off the remaining debt to sovereign governments and small bond-holders, while keeping our obligations to the Social Security trust fund.

10) Introduce single-payer health care and price controls on prescription drugs. The current corporate for-profit health care bonanza depends upon sickness and ill health for its hefty profits. In 2006 Canada government spent $3,678 per person for free single-payer coverage for all its citizens. The US government spent $6,714 per person covering the insurance, pharmaceutical, hospital and AMA cartels. The savings attained from eliminating insurance/pharmaceutical/hospital chain/doctor-perpetrated Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security fraud will save the US Treasury billions. It is the only solution to skyrocketing and unsustainable health care costs.

Using this methodology the US could wipe out both its deficit and its debt within a year. These measures should be planned in secret and introduced swiftly and in rapid succession. Social security and Medicare will be saved. The middle class will see their tax rates go down, while their retirement fund finances the rebuilding of a 21st Century America. Manufacturing jobs will come home, since the Chinese yuan will have seen a dramatic appreciation. Our national security will be enhanced by withdrawing from the role of global policeman.

If we keep thinking inside the banker-manufactured beltway box, our children have no future. They will live in a Third World country which produces nothing, lorded over by debt-collector parasites known as the “financial services industry”.

The wealth-destroying Eight Families banker elite are the perpetrators of the US debt crime. Should a woman who is raped serve the sentence of her rapist? That’s absurd. Then why should Americans or any other nation pay a fraudulent debt foisted upon them by con-men? It is time for Obama and the Congress to get a backbone and force the criminal Federal Reserve cartel to make the “broad sacrifices”.

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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/federal-reserve-cartel-solution/5818590

By fatheracab

https://twitter.com/i/status/1893526443008590192

“I’m a chicken farmer and they are bullsh*tting you about the reasons why your eggs are so expensive.” “They say the same sh*t every year. I know it ’cause I’m a chicken farmer. I see the same alerts — When you look at these large facilities, a lot of these birds aren’t dying of bird flu. They are dying of neglect.” “They don’t give the vegan vitamins, oregano, all the supplements they are supposed to be getting — In these mega facilities and these birds are dying of disease and neglect and every time and every time a bird dies, they say bird flu. I’m telling you, they’re bullsh*tting you.” This would be why in the Mexico video I shared Mexico was not being impacted by the bird flu… it’s just another lie

• We all know the Biden administration did this for one reason initially. They wanted to push bird flu vacs and draconian lockdowns again. Their timing was a little off so they switched to using it to hurt the economy for Trump. Change my mind.
• So now bird flu is the new fear campaign—just like COVID, just like every other crisis they manufacture to squeeze more money out of us. A chicken farmer is saying they’re lying about why eggs are expensive. Birds aren’t dying from some mass outbreak—they’re dying from neglect in mega facilities, but every death gets slapped with a “bird flu” label to justify skyrocketing prices. How much of what we’re told is another manufactured crisis to control supply, hike prices, and keep us dependent?
• 100% believe this. All other countries doing just fine when it comes to eggs. Speaking of the fear campaign, I talked with my connection in China and she says there is no “pandemic” over there and its just the normal flu and or colds. Get over it in a couple days. All nonsense.
• I live in Mexico. Plenty of eggs available. Never have I heard on the news here or anywhere else that they had to cull a flock. I guess the sick birds just keep flying south. A video of one of my chickens for your enjoyment – Josefina Michele
• Breaking News: Big Pharma’s newest hit single “Bird Flu Blues” featuring special guest star “Neglected Chicken”. Same script, different species – first they came for the humans with PCR tests, now they’re coming for our nuggets. – Politickle

Via https://choiceclips.whatfinger.com/2025/02/23/another-scam-exposed-american-chicken-farmer-says-birds-are-not-dying-from-bird-flu-like-were-being-told-just-like-with-covid-theyre-counting-all-deaths-as-bird/

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Massacres of innocent civilians are now a daily staple of life in Haiti, civil society is non-existent, and major powers exploit the chaos to road-test techniques of repression and pacification subsequently deployed elsewhere. Yet, there is a fundamental component of this nationwide misery that has hitherto remained unexamined. In September 2004, USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives, which avowedly “advances US foreign policy interests…by seizing emerging windows of opportunity ” – in other words, oversees regime change – deployed Kosovo Liberation Army veterans to Port-au-Prince:

The KLA was a sadistic, civilian-targeting, organ-harvesting CIA and MI6-backed narcoterrorist militia that for years waged a savage insurgency in Yugoslavia. Their aim was to forge an ethnically-pure Kosovo, in service of recreating Nazi-era Greater Albania. Once Yugoslav forces departed the province following a three-month-long NATO bombing campaign against Belgrade in June 1999, the KLA began carrying out a total genocide of local non-Albanian inhabitants, killing countless Bosniaks, Roma, Serbs, and other minorities, while sending survivors scurrying.

Albanians were not infrequently in the KLA’s crosshairs too, whether they were criminal rivals, supported multiethnic Yugoslavia, or simply rejected the lethal faction’s excessive barbarity. The KLA was largely insulated from legal repercussions for its monstrous crusade, by direct US decree. However, the 2005 indictment of Kosovo’s then-Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj and his deputy Idriz Balaj, both former high-ranking KLA operatives, details a typical fate that befell those who crossed the Al Qaeda adjunct. After capturing three members of a Romani family, and severing one of their noses:

Haradinaj was accused of a welter of similarly hideous crimes, including multiple rapes, and personally planning and overseeing the KLA’s frenzied, ultraviolent post-bombing genocide in Kosovo. Come November 1999, KLA “murder and kidnap” in the NATO-occupied Yugoslav province reduced Pristina’s Serb population from 40,000 to just 400. Yet, Haradinaj spent just two months in prison. Coincidentally, he was widely reported to have served as the KLA’s “key US military and intelligence asset” during NATO’s bombing.

‘Kosovo Model’

The KLA was tutored in its boundless savagery by British and American military and intelligence, and contractors including notorious MPRI. The Kosovo Protection Corps was its UN mandated successor, charged with acting as first responders in certain contexts, but formally prohibited from performing law and order functions, due to its parent organisation’s obscene history of gruesome sectarian violence. It was supposed to be disarmed, but this never materialised. The Corps was the absolute last entity one would consult to restore stability in tumultuous post-coup Haiti.

Yet, Washington had long-planned to “transform the [KLA] from a rag-tag band of guerrilla fighters into a political force.” Strikingly, none other than future Haiti ambassador James Foley was at the forefront of these efforts. As a senior State Department official during NATO’s criminal bombing of Yugoslavia, he went further than any other US apparatchik in not only openly celebrating Washington’s intimate bond with the mass-murdering militia, but uniquely acknowledged the KLA was being primed to become a governance actor in post-war Kosovo:

Foley uttered those comments in February 1999, before NATO’s villainous assault on Yugoslavia began. Evidently, even at that early stage, he and other US officials were looking ahead to Kosovo metamorphosed into a US colony, with its KLA assets running the show, brutally purging anyone and anything standing in Waashington’s way. Which is precisely what came to pass. Foley’s appointment as US ambassador to Port-au-Prince in May 2003 may also indicate eerie foresight among certain actors about what would soon transpire in Haiti.

Aristide’s removal would never be taken lightly by his local supporters, not least due his ouster inevitably unleashing dangerous criminal, militant, fascist elements, who would target them. This included adherents of US puppet François Duvalier, who ruled Haiti 1957 – 1971 as a brutal police state, via a devilish apparatus of spying and terror units. This Mephistophelian nexus was smashed to smithereens by Aristide, with nigh-universal public support. Resultantly, many Haitians favoured self-defence, were armed, and prepared for trouble, should it arise.

Therefore, we can surmise that a brutal crackdown on Aristide supporters was considered certain, and being planned, by the US almost a year before the February 2004 coup. Foley’s beloved KLA were ideal candidates not only for strategising such bloodshed, but also helping transform Washington-backed rebel paramilitary factions in Haiti into formal police and military units, to execute campaigns of violence and repression against specific target groups, under a legitimising imprimatur. This was the “Kosovo model” USAID sought to apply to Port-au-Prince, post-Aristide.

‘Violent Nation’

So it was in January 2004, during a Western-boycotted bicentennial celebration of Haiti’s independence from France centuries prior, attended by Aristide and guests including South African President Thabo Mbeki, local putschists intervened to wreck the gathering, engaging in brutal violence. This was the spark that ignited the CIA’s coup in Port-au-Prince, a month later. It was, per a leaked US diplomatic cable, orchestrated by the Agency in conjunction with “questionable individuals”, such as local paramilitary-tied oligarch Hugues Paris.

Aristide was promptly kidnapped by US forces, then flown to South Africa. His modest yet contextually revolutionary social reforms immediately repealed, Haiti abruptly descended into a failed state. Savage paramilitary forces worked overtime to suppress public opposition, particularly among the felled President’s support base. Meanwhile, thousands of UN and US “peacekeepers” ostensibly deployed to maintain order and prevent massacres of civilians were directly implicated in those very slaughters. Precisely the same horrendous story played out in Kosovo, courtesy of the KLA, post-June 1999.

Britain’s esteemed Lancet Medical Journal found approximately 8,000 people were murdered in Port-au-Prince, within two years of the February 2004 coup. In the span of just one month, 1,000 bodies were dumped in a mass grave. Simultaneously, Haiti’s state structures were purged of any and all officials still loyal to Aristide, and his progressive programs. Mass government department layoffs and brutal crackdowns on unions were routine. Dissident journalists faced arrest or even murder. Pro-Aristide media outlets were shuttered, typically at literal gunpoint.

Paramilitary faction National Revolutionary Front for the Liberation and Reconstruction of Haiti was at the forefront of the coup in Port-au-Prince. Immediately, Western news outlets began talking up the savage faction as Haiti’s next government. In April 2004, longtime anti-Aristide mainstay and FLRN chief Guy Philippe told the Miami Herald his first act in office, if elected, “would be to reinstitute” Haiti’s army, to “give the violent nation a sense of security.” It would also hopefully encourage foreign oligarchs to make a mint in Port-au-Prince:

The same report noted that ultra-violent elements central to Aristide’s ouster “will turn their weapons over to police next month.” Presumably, in precisely the manner the KLA didn’t. Those belligerent rebel factions were subsequently transformed into an almost identically named political party, National Reconstruction Front. The outlet’s deference to Philippe couldn’t have been clearer. Miami Herald referred to the mass murderer as “wildly popular”, while praising his “boyish charisma”, despite acknowledging his personal connections to “drug trafficking.”

As it was though, in Haiti’s February 2006 presidential election, Philippe won just 1.97% of the vote. A similar result was achieved by FRN in concurrent Senate elections, leaving them with no elected representatives. Fast forward to today, and he and his party have been rather forgotten. In the intervening time, the chaos unleashed by the CIA and sustained by the KLA 20 years ago in Haiti has only intensified. And now Washington has an ideal pretext – and self-authored legal justification – for all-out invasion.

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Via https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/usaid-exported-cia-balkan-terror

Walt Zotlow

Some of my progressive comrades are bombarding social media in opposition to Trump’s peace plan to end the Russo Ukraine war. For the first 2 years, 11 months of America’s proxy war against Russia using Ukrainian cannon fodder, they were largely silent. They were loath to criticize President Biden and Vice President Harris, particularly during a presidential campaign. Their focus was laser like on domestic issues to prevent a return of the despised Trump to the presidency.

Trump not only won, he immediately pivoted to peace in Ukraine. He totally overturned the Biden war playbook. He announced Ukraine (really the US) had lost, must never join NATO, and not get back the Russian leaning Eastern Ukraine Russia annexed.

More. Trump announced a complete reset of the US Russia relationship to include diplomatic engagement and friendly relations with Russia that Biden had jettisoned during his entire term.

More again. Ending the war and reestablishing diplomatic relations will reduce the risk of nuclear war present for every one of the 1,095 days of this senseless war. It makes possible renewing the three nuclear treaties the US abandoned this century, two of them by Trump.

But instead of supporting this astonishing breakthrough, progressives have gone ballistic. They charge dictator wannabe Trump is selling out Ukrainian sovereignty, like Chamberlain did to Czechoslovakia at Munich in 1938. They claim this will allow Russia to recreate the Soviet Union, then march into Western Europe. Preposterous.

In doing so they ignore this war was provoked by Biden to weaken Russia. It would never have resulted in war had Biden honored Russia’s security concerns regarding no Ukraine NATO on Russia’s border.

Worse yet, progressives are blind to the fact that the war was lost on Day One when Biden announced the US would not participate with US military. Why? He wisely advised that would result in WWIII.

The result? Ukraine is on the brink of defeat, having upwards of a million dead or wounded. Over ten million have fled Ukraine for safer climes. Potential draftees are deserting en mass. The economy is on life support. President Zelensky cancelled elections, banned free press, outlawed the Russian Orthodox Church on his march to becoming dictator for the war’s duration. Once it’s over…so is Zelensky.

None of this made a dent in progressives till Trump demanded this madness end and followed thru arranging lightning fast negotiations with Russian leaders to end it. Then progressives surfaced to demonize Trump and his peace initiative. They have joined the most virulent pro war advocates in the Republican Party, the military, the media determined to sabotage the most hopeful development to end further destruction of Ukraine and depletion of US treasure.

Every progressive opposing Trump’s peace initiative enables another 500,000 dead Ukrainians, another $175 billion in squandered US treasure, and no end to Biden’s catastrophic and failed proxy war to weaken Russia.

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Via https://nuclear-news.net/2025/02/24/1-b-hating-trump-no-reason-to-oppose-trump-ukraine-peace-initiative/