USAID is going away, and along with it cocaine-fighting efforts and Amazon rainforest protection

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1. >William Blum has said that in the 1960s and early 1970s, USAID has maintained “a close working relationship with the CIA, and Agency officers often operated abroad under USAID cover.” The 1960s-era Office of Public Safety, a now-disbanded division of USAID, has been mentioned as an example of this, having served as a front for training foreign police in counterinsurgency methods (including torture techniques).

   >In 2008, Benjamin Dangl wrote in The Progressive that the Bush administration was using USAID to fund efforts in Bolivia to “undermine the Morales government and coopt the country’s dynamic social movements – just as it has tried to do recently in Venezuela and traditionally throughout Latin America”.

   >From 2010 to 2012, the agency operated ZunZuneo, a social media site similar to Twitter in an attempt to instigate uprisings against the Cuban government. Its involvement was concealed in order to ensure mission success. The plan was to draw in users with non-controversial content until a critical mass is reached, after which more political messaging would be introduced. At its peak, more than 40,000 unsuspecting Cubans interacted on the platform.

   >When the Yemeni Ambassador to the United Nations in 1990, Abdullah Saleh al-Ashtal, voted against a resolution for a U.S.-led coalition to use force against Iraq, U.S. ambassador to the UN Thomas Pickering walked to the seat of the Yemeni Ambassador and retorted: “That was the most expensive No vote you ever cast”. Immediately, USAID ceased operations and funding in Yemen.

   Ok bye.

2. No no no silly you don’t understand, USAID is all a psyop to weaken a tiny country called Russìa who has an ancestral right to oppress it’s neighbours and actually you aren’t allowed to have a problem with it. Just like how every single one of those protesters across Eastern Europe are actually just 1million CIA operatives.

   I know it because some accounts that post Russìa Today articles around the clock 24/7 on a Ukraine Russìa report sub said so.

   (/s)

3. Oh no! If USAID is shut down then the U.S. might not have a presence in these countries and China might come in and…. *checks notes* … conduct a transgender opera in Colombia?

4. Senator Chris Murphy from Democratic party has said that

   >USAID chases China all around the world.

   and

   >It supports “freedom fighters” everywhere in this world

5. Think of all the children who wanted to grow up and join the cocaine-fighting efforts on behalf of cocaine only to be told USAID is going away.          

6. USAID is critical to soft diplomatic efforts around the world. Among other things, this move will allow other governments (ie Russia and China) to step in and fill needs we will no longer be filling and that will curry them favor with those nations. Not to mention the people who will suffer because of our cutting off aid they rely upon.

7. The question is : what are we getting for the money?
   And how do we know that money is being used as labeled in the ledgers and not for “Black Ops” or as payoffs to criminals so they behave?
   We just don’t know and once it ALL has been assessed, they can add back in, through a new agency, funds for the important stuff and funds that actually give results, like Head Start.
   I really do not think the US could have much of an impact on the condition of the rain forest other than NOT buying products from the rain forest.
   The locals there have full control and the place is so vast there really is no agency to regulate it affectingly short of paying off the criminals OR military action…..and we are NOT doing military action out there.

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