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EXCLUSIVE: USAID Quietly Sent Thousands Of Viruses To Chinese Military-Linked Biolab 

Posted by M. C. on July 22, 2025

Who did you think they were “Aiding”…You?

https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/08/exclusive-usaid-sent-viruses-ccp-linked-biolab/

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) shipped thousands of viral samples to a lab in Wuhan over the course of a 10-year program even though it had no formal agreement with the lab in place, according to previously unreported documents.

The documents show that USAID funded the exportation of 11,000 samples from Yunnan Province, where some of the closest relatives of the COVID-19 virus circulate, to Wuhan, the epicenter of the pandemic, with no apparent plan for ensuring the samples were not misdirected to bioweapons and remained accessible to the U.S. government.

A $210 million USAID public health program called PREDICT, steered by the University of California-Davis, collected viral samples in countries throughout the globe but lacked long-term storage when funding dried up, according to rudimentary plans in 2019.

USAID’s sample dispensation plan for China is sparse: “No need [sic] information from Yunnan. They were never an official lab partner for PREDICT. All samples they helped collected [sic] are sent to, tested, and stored in Wuhan.”

The “lab” refers to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). WIV was a close partner of USAID contractor EcoHealth Alliance and a slated partner for a PREDICT-like program supported by the State Department. The lab has poor biosafety practices and ties to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). (RELATED: US Group Connected To Wuhan Lab Is Stonewalling Congressional Investigation Of Pandemic Origins, Committee Ranking Member Says)

One of the closest known relatives of the COVID virus is among the viruses sampled with USAID funding.

“Investigations involving USAID’s former funding of global health awards remain active and ongoing,” a senior State Department official said in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The American people can rest assured knowing that under the Trump Administration we will not be funding these controversial programs.”

The internal documents were obtained through a FOIA lawsuit brought by U.S. Right to Know, a nonprofit newsroom and public health research group.

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Trump Must Cut Millions of Tax-Funded “Private” Jobs

Posted by M. C. on February 22, 2025

In terms of overall outlays, the amount spent on government grants and contracts is larger than the 800 billion dollars spent on Medicare. Specifically, according to the GAO, the Federal government in 2023 spent 759 billion dollars on contracts in 2023. In addition to these contracts, we find that non-profits receive approximately 300 billion in governments grants. Much of that comes directly from federal grants, but much comes indirectly through the more than 750 billion dollars in federal grants-in-aid that goes first to state and local governments. Much of that is then passed on to NGOs. 

This hasn’t stopped the Washington Post from portraying these de facto government workers as bona fide private sector workers. The Post insists on referring to government-funded “green energy” companies as “small businesses” as if they were entrepreneurial firms. 

https://mises.org/mises-wire/trump-must-cut-millions-tax-funded-private-jobs?utm_source=MI+Subscriptions&utm_campaign=aa1ee2dfef-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_03_01_07_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-fb69bb184c-592102341

Mises Wire • Ryan McMaken

Three weeks ago, the Trump administration sent out an order to the executive branch calling for federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance” that could conflict with President Donald Trump’s agenda. 

The order primarily targeted federal dollars doled out to so-called non-governmental organizations, often called “NGOs.” 

The effect on many NGOs was immediate. Many started complaining that they would not be able to meet payroll or survive without a constant inflow of government largesse. Thus, in recent weeks, one hears repeatedly of layoffs of taxpayer-funded employees as thousands of ostensibly non-governmental organizations find themselves cut off from their main source of income: the taxpayer gravy train.

In this, these NGOs are no different from any other recipient of government money which claims to be private, but is decidedly not private in the economic sense. These organizations, whether “charitable” non-profits or for-profit weapons makers, only exist as they do because they feed off the taxpayer-funded government trough. 

Fortunately, this is becoming better known. The controversy over the layoffs at these NGOs—and the related media coverage—has helped to highlight just how immense is this taxpayer funded network of private-in-name-only organizations that do the federal government’s bidding. 

Indeed, in America today there are now more federal contract and grant-funded workers than there are employees on the official federal payroll. If the Trump administration wants to be serious about truly reducing the rolls of the millions of federal employees, he’s going to also have to target the even larger number of “private” employees whose salaries are nonetheless paid by the taxpayers.   

How Much Taxpayer Money Goes to “Private” Government Contractors and Grantees? 

There are approximately three million non-military federal employees, counting the postal service. (There are over a million active-duty federal employees in the military.) On the other hand, there are more than five million contract workers, and another 1.8 to two million grant workers. (That was back in 2020.) A separate, more recent report shows that more than 7.5 million workers were federally funded by contracts and grants in 2023. In other words, these contract and grant workers far outnumber the “regular” federal workers. As shown by the Project on Government Oversight in 2017, “contractors have long been the single largest segment of Uncle Sam’s ‘blended workforce,’ accounting for between 30 and 42 percent of that workforce since the 1980s.”

(In millions of employees.) Source.

In terms of overall outlays, the amount spent on government grants and contracts is larger than the 800 billion dollars spent on Medicare.

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More Sinister USAID-Funded Propaganda Programs REVEALED

Posted by M. C. on February 12, 2025

The Clinton Foundation wants to support independent journalism!!!!

Glenn Greenwald

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Nearly all mainstream media – WORLDWIDE – has been funded by the US government under USAID

Posted by M. C. on February 12, 2025

The Ron Paul Liberty Report

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Trump’s Plan To Bring the Hammer Down on the Deep State’s Foreign Aid

Posted by M. C. on February 11, 2025

“The tone, of course, was that you pencil pushers at OMB don’t dare interfere with the august business of running the world from Foggy Bottom and the Pentagon on account of budgetary considerations. In fact, when we had our showdown over the matter with the Secretary of State in front of President Reagan the former had a truly goofy way of teeing up the matter.

“Mr. President, your bean-counting budget director wants to embarrass you before the entire world by having you rear-back and shove your head straight into a pencil sharpener!”

“Honest injun. That’s what the man said, apparently on the belief that spending in service of the Empire was not a matter for green eye-shades to trifle with, as the lead paragraphs of the Washington Post story make clear

By David Stockman

David Stockman’s Contra Corner

Trump’s Plan To Bring the Hammer Down on the Deep State’s Foreign Aid

Hot damn!

Not only has Elon Musk brought the hammer down on the entirety of the Deep State’s foreign aid boondoggles, but his sleuths have apparently also uncovered one of the Swamp’s most pernicious artifices. To wit, numerous Federal agencies, including USAID, purchase a shit-ton of expensive subscriptions from beltway megaphones like Politico, which by pure happenstance, of course, favor their agency subscribers with a steady patter of “news” that tracks right down the UniParty fairway.

And we aren’t talking chump change. These “subscriptions” for the “pro” version of various Politico newsletters, for instance, come at $3,000 to $24,000 a pop. Since two of the latter were purchased by the climate crisis bureau over at USAID you have to wonder what that had to do with feeding the world’s starving masses or why USAID bureaucrats needed high-priced climate policy gossip when their inboxes were already flooded with free climate change propaganda from dozens of other Federal agencies, Federally-funded think tanks, NGOs and anti-fossil fuel activists.

As it happened, the tab across all Federal agencies just for the various Politico publications accumulated to $8.2 million over the past nine years according to USASpending.gov. Since most of that cash flow was due to purchase of the high-price “pro” versions, we can only imagine the “deep” insights that must be contained in the “Politico Pro Analysis” at $5,000 per year. Well, at least compared to the regular political gossip/news contained in the standard “Politico” subscription at $200 per year that a smattering of political junkies out in Flyover America apparently purchase.

Yes, we have a thing against Politico mainly because it almost always comes down on the side of more government, more climate crisis claptrap, more Nanny State meddling and more war. But we also recall that it was founded by two former Washington Post reporters—a  fact that triggered a trip down memory lane with respect to the one and same foreign aid spending machine that Elon has now sent crashing.

To wit, shortly after the inauguration in 1981 we were finishing the first Reagan budget and had taken a pretty good 33% whack out of foreign aid in a proposal sent over to the State Department on January 27th. Yet the ink was hardly dry on OMB’s detailed and well justified plan to save what was big money back then—about $2.6 billion per year–when our confidential budget “pass-back” to the State Department found its way into a screaming front-page Washington Post headline the very next day!

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Trump/Musk Attack CIA Fronts USAID & NED: With Mike Benz

Posted by M. C. on February 6, 2025

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Samantha Power, High Priestess of Insidious Authoritarianism

Posted by M. C. on May 4, 2023

The carrot of U.S. bribery that Power offers is not subtle. “In recognition of the challenges that all traditional media outlets face, even in the United States, we [the Biden administration] have also organized a new effort to help media organizations that are struggling financially develop business plans, lower costs, find audiences, and tap into new sources of revenue so that they do not go bankrupt when independent journalism is needed most.” One of those “new sources of revenue” would be direct or indirect subsidies from USAID. Only the most naïve would assume that media outlets opposing U.S. foreign policies would receive such largesse.

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/samantha-power-high-priestess-of-insidious-authoritarianism/

by Ted Galen Carpenter

samantha power

Most people who remember Samantha Power know her either as a pro-war propagandist masquerading as a journalist in Bosnia or as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s loyal servant in helping to orchestrate the Obama administration’s disastrous military interventions in Libya and Syria. However, she now has an important policy perch in Joe Biden’s administration from which to promote and implement a new round of destructive policies. As the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, she has a multi-billion-dollar slush fund with which to bribe foreign governments and subsidize foreign political surrogates.

Under her leadership, USAID’s stated goal is to place greater emphasis on specific measures to counter the various methods that authoritarian regimes use to undermine free societies. As usual, the actual substance of the policy is to prevent any efforts by foreign critics to undermine U.S. global military and economic primacy. Power underlies the “new” strategy in her article in the March-April 2023 issue of Foreign Affairs, titled “How Democracy Can Win: The Right Way to Counter Autocracy.”

Much of the article simply regurgitates bromides that establishment internationalists have pushed for decades.

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Here’s Why NATO Isn’t the Strong Alliance You Thought It Was…

Posted by M. C. on March 25, 2023

Well, we’ll likely see a flood of “aid” to NGOs in Hungary. USAID, for example, which is a well known face to the CIA will seek to bring everything from “media freedom” to “democracy initiatives” and whatever other doublespeak is required. Within 6-8 months I suspect we will see riots in Budapest. Don’t be misled, I’m telling you this now, ahead of time. They will be instigated by the aforementioned group or groups with the ultimate goal of unseating Orban, a democratically elected and wildly popular leader or the ruling party.

Here’s Why NATO Isn’t the Strong Alliance You Thought It Was…

by Chris MacIntosh

Hungary is working actively to ensure their energy is independent of EU/NATO.

According to a reuters article,

Hungary will veto any European Union sanctions against Russia affecting nuclear energy, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told state radio on Friday.

Ukraine has called on the 27-nation EU to include Russian state nuclear energy company Rosatom in sanctions but Hungary, which has a Russian-built nuclear plant it plans to expand with Rosatom, has blocked that.

So what to expect?

Well, we’ll likely see a flood of “aid” to NGOs in Hungary. USAID, for example, which is a well known face to the CIA will seek to bring everything from “media freedom” to “democracy initiatives” and whatever other doublespeak is required. Within 6-8 months I suspect we will see riots in Budapest. Don’t be misled, I’m telling you this now, ahead of time. They will be instigated by the aforementioned group or groups with the ultimate goal of unseating Orban, a democratically elected and wildly popular leader or the ruling party.

The difference this time is that it appears many are onto this tried and tested and repeated strategy. It is why Orban has been taking preventative measures ahead of time. Will it be successful or will there be a “color revolution” in Hungary? I dunno, but I do know there is a war on and it’ll not be televised — at least not what is really going on. Interesting times, my friends.

Now realize what Orban is up against here. Hungary is economically tied to the EU and highly dependent on trade with it. Any split will be painful, no matter what. As such, the natural and obvious thing to do is to shore up alternative alliances in order to mitigate the inevitable pain if — or indeed when — the Hungarians decide that, as painful as it is, an exit needs to take place.

This is why we’re seeing him taking the steps he’s been taking (military and building stronger relations with both Serbia and Turkey).

Implications?

From our perspective, we’re watching the currency of this klustafuk known as the European Union.

The euro has rallied off recent lows in October of last year, but don’t be fooled, this is a currency that has every reason to fail. We expect it to continue to weaken against both Western alternatives and certainly against energy and precious metals.

What else? Well, I did note that the Hungarians have been forming some friendships with the Turks.

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Covid-19 was present in America BEFORE being officially confirmed in China, study by US health protection agency says

Posted by M. C. on December 2, 2020

The CDC and USAID spent Millions and more on the Wuhan Lab and had a presence there.

Wuhan has been known to be a virus petri dish for years.

Why was an epidemic centered on Wuhan a big surprise? Was it a surprise, a giant screwup coverup, intentional, or …?

CDC, USAID. These are the people working to keep US safe.

What happened to the female Chinese scientist who send deadly (supposedly SARS) virus samples to China from Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Laboratory? Why was the lab working on deadly viruses? Bioweapons? Is there a relationship to COVID?

https://www.rt.com/usa/508447-coronavirus-us-before-china/

Coronavirus had been infecting people in the US even before China reported its first cases on December 31, 2019, research by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Red Cross has revealed.

American medics officially registered their first Covid-19 patient on January 19, 2020, but the findings in a paper published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases suggest the virus may have been circulating in the US prior to that.

The researchers studied almost 7,400 blood donations made in nine US states between December 13, 2019 and January 17, 2020. Evidence of Covid-19 bodies antibodies, the presence of which suggest a person had contact with the virus, were present in 106 of those samples, according to the study.

This means coronavirus could have been in the US a month before it saw its first confirmed case, and weeks before the Chinese authorities announced the infection in the city of Wuhan.

The analysis of hospital data from across the US in late 2019 also showed a spike in flu patients, many of whom had “heavy coughing” and other severe respiratory symptoms.

European researchers have also speculated that coronavirus had been present in their countries before China officially announced the outbreak of the new strain. A French survey has discovered there were Covid-19 antibodies in blood samples taken in early December 2019. A similar study carried out by their Italian peers revealed that samples in Italy were already showing antibodies in September.

Spanish virologists, meanwhile, found traces of coronavirus in sewage water samples collected in March 2019 – a full nine month before the events in Wuhan.

The precise origins of coronavirus are currently unknown, but the US has been making active attempts to blame it on China since the start of the pandemic. President Donald Trump has often referred to the disease – which has so far infected more than 13.8 million people, and killed more than 271,000 in America – as the “Chinese virus,” provoking vehement protest from Beijing.

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Foreign Aid Folly – LewRockwell

Posted by M. C. on September 9, 2020

Throughout these essays, there are five things relating to foreign aid that resonate:

  1. Foreign aid is simply money confiscated from American taxpayers and sent to countries that many Americans couldn’t locate on a map and may have never even heard of.
  2. Foreign aid is both foreign welfare and foreign bribery.
  3. No American should be forced to “contribute” to the aid of the people or the government of any other country.
  4. All charity should be private and voluntary. Charity that is not voluntary is theft.
  5. All foreign aid should be ended, and no exceptions should be made for natural disasters, humanitarian concerns, national interest, or political objectives.

To those Americans who think that aid should be given to foreign countries, I say put your money where your mouth is.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/09/laurence-m-vance/foreign-aid-folly/

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The Trump administration is threatening to withhold nearly $130 million in U.S. foreign aid to Ethiopia.

Good. But this is simply another case of the right policy for the wrong reason.

The reason is not important. I will make it as simple as I can.

Ethiopia wants to build a dam on the Nile River. Egypt and Sudan oppose the dam “until the countries reached a legally binding deal that would address how to manage water flows during droughts or dryer rainy seasons, and established a mechanism to resolve disputes regarding the dam.” The United States is trying to mediate the dispute.

According to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), in fiscal year 2019, the United States provided $829 million in foreign assistance to Ethiopia. That amount is “only” supposed to be $144 million for fiscal year 2020. Motion Picture Money P… Buy New $14.99 (as of 02:21 EDT – Details)

The United States is threatening to withhold funding for security assistance, counterterrorism and military education and training, anti-human trafficking programs, and broader development assistance funding, but not funding for emergency humanitarian relief, food assistance, or health programs aimed at addressing COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS.

How many Americans know that the U.S. government gives millions of American taxpayer dollars to Ethiopia every year? Even back in 2001, American taxpayers handed over $151 to Ethiopia.

How many Americans would willingly give some of their money to the government of Ethiopia, NGOs that operate in Ethiopia, or directly to the Ethiopian people?

Americans are a generous people. Perhaps some of them would. Maybe they have family in Ethiopia, maybe they trace their ancestry back to Ethiopia, maybe they have a bleeding heart, maybe they want to do it for the children in Ethiopia, maybe they want to make the world a better place, or maybe they feel guilty about living a comfortable life in America?

But if the government of Ethiopia or the government of the United States sent a letter to every American household appealing for funds for Ethiopia, how many Americans would get out their wallet, checkbook, or credit card?

I think you know the answer.

And, of course, it’s not just Ethiopia.

According to ForeignAssistance.gov:

Today, the U.S. manages foreign assistance programs in more than 100 countries around the world through the efforts of over 20 different U.S. government agencies. These investments further America’s foreign policy interests on issues ranging from expanding free markets, combating extremism, ensuring stable democracies, and addressing the root causes of poverty, while simultaneously fostering global good will.

One hundred countries? If you think that sounds expensive, then you are right. The amount of foreign assistance requested for fiscal year 2021 (Oct. 1, 2020-Sept. 30, 2021) is $31.2 billion. This includes 3.3 billion for Israel, 124.5 million for Iraq, $371.8 million for Afghanistan, 1.381 billion for Egypt, 102.3 million for South Sudan, 90.7 million for India, and $316.9 million for Ukraine.

Again, how many Americans know this and how many Americans would willingly give some of their money to government of, or the people in, these countries?

The answer to both questions is undoubtedly the same: not too many.

Yes, foreign aid should be withheld from Ethiopia this year, next year, and every year after that. But it should also be withheld from every other country as well.

Fortunately, I have a new publication that tells the unvarnished truth about foreign aid.

Foreign Aid Folly is a collection of eleven essays written over the past ten years for six different publications. The contents include:

“The Foreign Aid Debacle”
“Not Tax-Funded Aid to Myanmar”
“Should the U.S. Military Go to Haiti?”
“Egypt and U.S. Foreign Policy”
“Condolences Yes, Assistance No”
“Republicans and Foreign Aid” “Exporting Welfare”
“Conservatives and Foreign Aid”
“Time to End All Foreign Aid”
“Conservatives and the Looting of America”
“The Question that Is Never Asked About U.S. Military Aid to Ukraine”

Throughout these essays, there are five things relating to foreign aid that resonate:

  1. Foreign aid is simply money confiscated from American taxpayers and sent to countries that many Americans couldn’t locate on a map and may have never even heard of.
  2. Foreign aid is both foreign welfare and foreign bribery.
  3. No American should be forced to “contribute” to the aid of the people or the government of any other country.
  4. All charity should be private and voluntary. Charity that is not voluntary is theft.
  5. All foreign aid should be ended, and no exceptions should be made for natural disasters, humanitarian concerns, national interest, or political objectives.

To those Americans who think that aid should be given to foreign countries, I say put your money where your mouth is.

The Best of Laurence M. Vance

Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The War on Drugs Is a War on Freedom; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest books are Free Trade or Protectionism? and The Free Society.

 

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