If one views progressivism as something reaching back nearly 400 years, you'd
be mistaken. Team Rep is closer to Adam Smith & Milton Friedman. Team Dem is
too busy doing socialism for their own upper class or trying to undermine the
middle class. Example, Buttigeig was allocated 7.5 bil to create thousands of
EV charging stations. Instead he took the 7.5 bil and gave it to EBT cards for
illegals in country. Only 8 EV chargers were built. This is not the future I
expected.
https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/06/04/lowry-buttigieg-defends-dearth-of-ev-charging-stations/
This is the Party way. Gemini, has links to its sources. But here is what it
had to indicate. If the money had gone to technology building, you;d be
accurate. Sadly it did not. Gemini-Google:
"Yes, there have been instances of fraud involving USAID funding to NGOs, as
reported by the USAID Office of Inspector General (.gov) (OIG) and other
sources.
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These cases involve individuals and organizations diverting funds, submitting
false claims, and engaging in other fraudulent activities. Here's a more
detailed look:Types of Fraudulent Activities:
- Diversion of Funds:NGOs have been caught diverting USAID-funded
commodities to terrorist groups or using them for other unauthorized purposes.
- False Claims:NGOs have submitted inflated invoices, fabricated documents,
and engaged in kickback schemes to fraudulently obtain funds from USAID.
- Individual Fraud:Individuals working on USAID-funded projects have been
charged with defrauding their employers or USAID directly, for example, by
claiming housing benefits they weren't entitled to.
- Business Email Compromise (BEC) Scams:USAID OIG has reported that scammers
are using BEC scams to steal USAID funds, often targeting NGOs.
Examples of Investigations and Actions:
- An investigation by USAID OIG led to a $6.9 million settlement with an
international NGO for false claims related to aid to refugees in Syria.
- A Syrian national was charged with diverting millions of dollars in USAID
funding to support a terrorist group.
- A finance officer in Papua New Guinea was charged with embezzling $117,341
from a USAID-funded program.
- A former project director of a North Carolina-based NGO was arrested and
charged with defrauding the organization of approximately $240,000.
OIG's Role:The USAID OIG plays a crucial role in investigating and addressing
fraud and waste within USAID-funded programs. They conduct audits,
investigations, and provide oversight to ensure the integrity of foreign
assistance funding. Beyond Fraud:It's important to note that there are also
instances of wasted spending and questionable use of funds by USAID, which may
not necessarily constitute fraud but still represent a misuse of taxpayer
money. "
On Thursday, May 8, 2025 at 07:29:06 AM EDT, John Clark
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, May 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM '[email protected]' via Everything List
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Team progressive hasn't ameliorated the world's problems.
Bullshit. Thanks to the spread of the enlightenment movement, which started in
Europe in the late 17th century, even though there are more people alive today
than ever before, they are also healthier, longer lived, better educated and
far far richer than ever before. And per capita the last 80 years have been the
most peaceful 80 years in human history. But Donald Trump and his team of
anti-enlightenment nitwits are determined to put a stop to all of that, you
need to look no further than their astoundingly idiotic trade policy.
John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis t66
> JC, at the end of the day, we have spent decades on basic research and it
>takes God's own time to get anything really good out of it. Do I need to tell
>you of this, via, cancer,
So out of the millions of different extraordinary complex chemicals that the
human body uses and produces you think the decision about which one deserves
deeper investigation and is more likely to lead to a cancer cure should not be
made by Nobel prize winning organic chemists but by Robert Brainworm Kennedy,
Donald Trump and his clown car cabinet. I humbly disagree. A strong analogy can
be made between the present situation in America and the way that Trofim
Lysenko destroyed medical research in the USSR.
Lysenkoism
> your duly, noted, pessimism hasn't served us all that well
I'm not pessimistic, the situation is still not hopeless. I think the human
race has about a 30% chance of existing 10 years from now; before Trump got
reelected I would've said there was a 50% chance of surviving the Singularity.
> What's to lose?
Well for one thing, experimental cancer treatments that were terminated halfway
through their planned trial run so, thanks to Trump, they are now
scientifically useless. Hey but at least we've got the Gulf Of America!
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