{"id":58410,"date":"2025-02-13T13:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T18:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=58410"},"modified":"2025-02-13T13:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T18:34:07","slug":"when-the-news-only-tells-a-part-of-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=58410","title":{"rendered":"When The News Only Tells A Part Of The Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

On February 13th, Hot Air<\/a> posted an article illustrating the spin some of the media is using to try to sway public opinion about the cuts to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Although one of the stories sounds plausible, it really doesn’t show the entire picture.<\/span><\/p>\n

The article states:<\/p>\n

Sarah Newey, the global health security correspondent for the Telegraph based in Bangkok, Thailand,\u00a0filed this report about the first victim of Elon Musk and DOGE’s USAID cuts<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s the takeaway.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A 71-year-old woman has died after her oxygen supply was cut off when the United States announced a freeze on aid funding.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pe Kha Lau, a refugee from Myanmar living in a displacement camp in neighbouring Thailand, died four days after she was discharged from a USAID-funded healthcare facility operated by the International Rescue Committee (IRC).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

She is thought to be one of the first people to have died as a direct result of Washington\u2019s decision to freeze all funding for aid projects for 90 days.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Her family told Reuters that she had frequently been sent to hospital in the last three years as she was dependent on a supply of oxygen, but was sent home after the IRC received a \u201cstop-work\u201d order in late January.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So let’s take a closer look.<\/p>\n

The article continues:<\/p>\n

…The NGO that was providing the money for the oxygen tank is the International Rescue Committee. They run the clinic Ms. Lau visited to get her oxygen. Here’s what you need to know about IRC.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Its president and CEO is David Miliband, a former Labour Party member of British Parliament who was in leadership, serving as Defence minister for a time. Being an NGO, they have to file 990 disclosure forms, which include the salaries of all senior officers.\u00a0Mr. Miliband is bringing down, depending on the year, between $1.1 and $1.2 million dollars annually<\/a>. The rest of the 11 named officers? None make less than $283,000 and range up to $440,000.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Also, from their 990 submission, for the tax year 2021, the most recent data posted online, this was their financial status – a little over $1.3 billion in revenue, including $728.3 million in government grants. In 2021, they had $527 million in assets, $210 million of it in cash, and $119 million in securities. And yet we’re led to believe by the Telegraph that this woman’s death is on Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s hands because she was literally starved of oxygen to save a buck or two. The cost of an oxygen tank for personal consumption? Between $75 and $150 dollars.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So what have we gotten for the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on a former Labour MP’s charity? Antisemitism and a push for allowing more illegal immigration into the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please follow the link to read the entire article. I don’t think the problem here is Elon Musk freezing the USAID budget. I think the problem is misplaced priorities within the International Rescue Committee. I am not convinced that they are rescuing anyone except the people running the organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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