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2021-09-14 Afghanistan
The Crime Family - USAID Afghanistan payoff, you knew it was coming
[Red State] The Biden administration has just announced they will be cutting a check for $64 million in "humanitarian aid" to Afghanistan through USAID and Samantha Power.

Supposedly, this aid will go through the UN and NGOs, not through the "government"/Taliban or whoever is currently in control. Here’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken talking about it during his hearing on Zoom with Congress today.

Sorry, but I don’t trust the UN, and who knows who is in charge of some of the NGOs, so even if the money went to those folks, that it wouldn’t end up in the pockets of the Taliban, by force or by design.

Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) questioned Blinken on this earlier today, making the point that they can’t guarantee where that money is going
...money being fungible...
— just like they gave aid to Pakistan while that country was helping the Taliban.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-14 06:06|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top
 File under: Taliban/IEA 

#1 One of the co-authors of previous gov't payoff's near the window in the graphic.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-14 06:18||   2021-09-14 06:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Just when I think they couldn't possibly get any dumber...Turns out I'm Wrong.
Posted by Sonny Black 2021-09-14 07:16||   2021-09-14 07:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Ah, come on, its a tradition that the losing nations pay reparations. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-09-14 07:25||   2021-09-14 07:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Didn't the $65-$85 billion in military stuff count as reparations?
Posted by Bobby 2021-09-14 07:57||   2021-09-14 07:57|| Front Page Top

#5 and a couple Hunter Biden paintings for good measure?
Posted by Frank G 2021-09-14 09:04||   2021-09-14 09:04|| Front Page Top

#6 how about Hunter in person.
Posted by Chris 2021-09-14 09:15||   2021-09-14 09:15|| Front Page Top

#7 Meanwhile, many American taxpayers are still waiting on Biden's 'stimulus' checks from February.
Posted by Raj 2021-09-14 09:34||   2021-09-14 09:34|| Front Page Top

#8 My better angels prevailed and I erased my comments about the photo.
Posted by JohnQC 2021-09-14 10:35||   2021-09-14 10:35|| Front Page Top

#9 Hell, if we're gonna pay foreign aid to Pakistain...
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-09-14 11:39||   2021-09-14 11:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Maybe we should call it what it is: jizya
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-09-14 12:52||   2021-09-14 12:52|| Front Page Top

#11 I hope they televise Biden paying it while grovelling, bowing, and scraping in humiliation the way Jizya is supposed to be paid.
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-09-14 12:54||   2021-09-14 12:54|| Front Page Top

#12 Swamp creatures.
Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-09-14 15:53||   2021-09-14 15:53|| Front Page Top

#13 #10 That's how it's interpreted by the relevant parties.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2021-09-14 19:22||   2021-09-14 19:22|| Front Page Top

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