Bringing Common Sense To Foreign Aid

On Friday, PJ Media posted an article about changing the American foreign aid model so that it is more efficient and helps the people who need help.

The article reports:

The truth is that our foreign aid had become a joke — a way to line pockets and spread wacko leftist ideology more than anything. Rubio told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos — who tried to do that whole “Trump is killing people by cutting aid” thing — back in September that “We’re gonna do more than anyone in the world, again, this year, but we’re gonna do it the right way. We’re gonna do it holistically. We’re gonna do it as part of an integrated foreign policy.”

During that interview, Rubio pointed out that the reason why people die is much more nuanced than what the media wants to print. In some regions, wars prevent aid from reaching its target, or gangs steal it before it can reach its intended recipients. In some places, the middlemen, the distributors, simply don’t handle it well, etc. The world is not a one-size-fits-all situation, George.

The article includes Secretary of State Rubio’s statement about his plan:

The United States has spent billions of dollars over the years in helping with health strategies all across the world.  What we learned over time and especially after coming here, is that oftentimes – and I’m oversimplifying it, but this is an accurate description – what would happen is we would go to a country and say we’re going to help you with your health care needs. Then we would drive over to western – northern Virginia somewhere, find an NGO, one of these organizations, give them all the money, tell them, “go to this country and do their health care program for them.” That NGO would then take about – some percentage of that money for their overhead and administrative costs, and by the time it got down to it, the host country had very little influence, it was sort of imposed on them, and only a percentage of the overall money ever actually reached the patients and the people on the ground that we were trying to help because of these costs.

This makes no sense. So why are we hiring American and international NGOs to go into other countries and run health care systems that are parallel and sometimes in conflict with the health care systems of the host country? If we’re trying to help countries, help the country, don’t help the NGO to go in and find a new line of business. And so, that’s the model that we’re breaking. We’re not doing this anymore. We are not going to spend billions of dollars funding the NGO industrial complex, while close and important partners like Kenya either have no role to play or have very little influence over how health care money is being spent. Bottom line is, if you want to help a country, work with that country, not work with a third party that imposes things on that country. 

When you eliminate the middle man, more money can go toward solving the problem.

About Those Chickens–The Ones That Are Coming Home To Roost

It is becoming obvious why the Democrats were willing to go to the lengths they went to in 2020 to keep President Trump out of the White House. It is also becoming obvious  why the Democrats were willing to use unprecedented lawfare to make sure he would not be re-elected in 2024. The did not want anyone looking into the political and financial scandals of the last fifteen years.

There is a lot of information currently bubbling beneath the surface about violations of the Constitution in areas of surveillance, but also about some of the financial shenanigans involving NGO’s (non-governmental organizations) and some charities, including the Clinton Foundation. Without President Trump encouraging investigations of political wrongdoing within the government, very few of these investigations would actually result in any action actually taken. It remains to be seen if anyone will actually face consequences for their corruption, but without President Trump, we probably wouldn’t even be aware of the corruption. There is a danger in leaving the violations of the Constitution and the financial shenanigans unpunished. If left alone, it will continue to flourish. As I write this, there are some grand jury referrals that we need to watch carefully. What happens in the cases headed toward various grand juries will be an indication of what is to come. I can only hope we have enough uncorrupt people, judges, and leaders left in America to follow through on the evidence we now have.

The fight is not over, and the corruption is still with us. We can only hope that if a Republican becomes the next president, he will be willing to continue the fight. There is one potential candidate, currently below the radar who, if elected, would be part of the problem–not part of the solution. I am not ready to name names, but I would wholeheartedly support a Vance/Rubio ticket in 2028.

Who Is Paying For This?

When you look at the funding behind the No Kings protests that are going on this weekend, you begin to understand why the Democrats were so upset when the NGO funding from Congress began to dry up.

On Saturday, Zero Hedge reported:

The Democratic Party’s dark-money NGO network, bankrolled by left-wing billionaires, is reportedly preparing to activate a coordinated, color-revolution-style mobilization across the U.S. this weekend – a replay of failed agitation attempts seen earlier this year targeting President Trump and Elon Musk. The operation, marketed under the “No Kings” banner and portrayed publicly as a grassroots movement, in reality functions as a professionalized protest-industrial complex. Its composition includes a blend of paid activists, white boomers suffering from Stage 4 Trump Derangement Syndrome, and a smaller contingent of organic, unhinged leftists who recite MSNBC talking points by heart. 

Little do these white boomers know, the “No Kings” movement, supposedly against “kings and billionaires”, is, in reality, funded by leftist billionaire kings themselves. In truth, No Kings is bankrolled by far-left foundations backed by the same billionaire class that has been waging a political war against President Trump since his first term. Essentially, one faction of billionaires hates another, so their woke non-profit soldiers create a front group, brand it “No Kings,” and bankroll an army of paid protesters and unhinged left-wing activists. This is America in 2025: the permanent protest-industrial complex of hate and chaos, financed by the left.

The article includes a screenshot showing where the money is coming from:

We need to remember that America is the major obstacle to those who want one-world government. Our freedom is an obstacle to their success. The No Kings movement is an attempt to sow unrest in America and create enough chaos to overthrow our Republic. Note that we are not and never have been a democracy.

The article notes:

Last week, during the Antifa roundtable at the White House, Bruner briefed President Trump (read here): “We have identified dozens of radical organizations, not just the decentralized Antifa organizations, but dozens of radical organizations that have received more than $100 million from the Riot Inc investors.” In fact, tackling Antifa is not the proper strategy, as Bruner told Trump, start with dark-money NGOs. 

I wonder if those protesting understand the actual goals of the people paying them to protest. I heard an interview on a recent news show of a pro-Palestinian protester complaining that now that there is peace in Gaza, he will be losing his protest money and doesn’t know how he will pay his rent!

The Money Behind Antifa

Recently, President Trump held a White House round-table on Antifa. The investigation into the funding of Antifa and the coordination of the protests and riots has begun.

On Saturday, Zero Hedge reported:

President Trump’s latest roundtable on ANTIFA wasn’t just a political statement — it was a long-overdue reckoning against rising far-left political violence. For years, journalists and citizens alike have watched America’s streets burn, our cities vandalized, and our law enforcement vilified under banners of “resistance.” But as the President’s meeting revealed, ANTIFA is only one mask worn by a much larger monster — a transnational network of NGOs, foreign financiers, and ideological operatives quietly fueling what Seamus Bruner of the Government Accountability Institute called “Riot Inc.”

Bruner, GAI’s Director of Research, broke down the mechanics of this sprawling protest industrial complex. He traced the money, the messaging, and the movements, exposing how left-wing extremism has evolved from decentralized networks of anarchist collectives into a well-funded infrastructure with global ambitions. Among the various nodes and financiers, he named Neville Roy Singham — a tech billionaire currently under multiple congressional investigations for allegedly funneling money to American-based protest groups doing the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party.

The article notes:

The scale of coordination here should disturb every American. ANTIFA isn’t simply a group of masked agitators smashing Starbucks windows — it’s one visible node of the growing revolution against the West. And while it might be decentralized and loose in structure, the rest of the revolution is not. The permanent protest industry has thousands of nonprofit entities, shell companies, fiscal sponsorships, alternative media arms, an army of lawyers, bail funds, foreign influences, and a multi-billion-dollar network of backers

Bruner told Trump earlier this week, “We have identified dozens of radical organizations, not just the decentralized Antifa organizations, but dozens of radical organizations that have received more than $100 million from the Riot Inc investors.” 

The article concludes:

President Trump deserves credit for forcing this conversation into the open. But as Bruner warned, dismantling ANTIFA’s street operations will only address the symptoms. To truly stop the bleeding, America must go after the bloodstream — the NGO networks and offshore foundations that bankroll domestic destabilization.

A “bottom-up” crackdown targets the foot soldiers; a “top-down” strategy targets the financiers, the academics, and the nonprofit executives turning activism into industry.

It is becoming very obvious why the Democrats are fighting so hard to retain the funding for the NGO’s. The NGO’s are one of the most brilliant money laundering schemes ever invented. It’s time to bring out the RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.

Searching For The String To Unravel The Sweater

Corruption is a problem in Washington and throughout America. Instead of Congress passing laws, we have unelected bureaucrats making regulations. People enter Congress with a net worth of a few hundred thousand dollars and become multi-millionaires in two or three years. When that happens in the private sector, there is generally an invention or a product involved. Many of our major cities have become lawless with violent protests against America. Where is the money coming from that pays the protesters and magically appears in the wallets of Congressmen (on both sides of the aisle)? I think we are beginning to get a clue.

The current government shutdown revolves around a number of issues. Most of those issues involve funding cuts made in the Big Beautiful Bill, which was signed into law on July 4th. Why are those funding cuts so important to the Democrats?

Obviously, PBS and NPR function as mouthpieces for the Democrat party. Defunding them cuts down on free campaigning for Democrat policies. But let’s look at the list of other items the Democrats want added back into the budget. Among the things the Democrats want added back are $300,000 to sponsor a pride parade in Lesotho (a small country in Southern Africa), $500,000 to purchase electric buses in Rwanda, and Over $4.2 million for LGBTQ projects in the Western Balkans and Uganda. So why do the Democrats care about these things so much that they would shut down the government to preserve them? Why was funding USAID so important to the Democrats? Generally when dealing with Washington, the answer to a lot of questions is ‘follow the money.’ That is also true here.

The money going to these projects is actually given to non-governmental organization’s (NGO’s) to distribute to the project involved. It is very easy to launder money in this process. How much of the money the federal government paid out for abortions allowed Planned Parenthood to fund Democrat political campaign coffers? The money didn’t go directly there, but created a profit margin that allowed for large donations to various candidates.

As the investigation into Antifa begins, I predict that a lot of the money supporting the protesters and events will come from non-profit organizations and NGO’s. Some of the foundations we have considered benevolent for years may be exposed as something entirely different.