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2025-02-05 Britain

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Posted by 3dc 2025-02-05 03:00|| || Front Page|| [10328 views ] Top
File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1 Alex Jones on this story
BREAKING: USAID Was Secretly Funding The BBC To Run Anti-Trump/Musk Reporting Similar To The $300 Million Given By The Biden Administration To Reuters To Target Musk!

Posted by 3dc 2025-02-05 04:13|| 2025-02-05 04:13|| Front Page Top

#2 I shouldn’t be so surprised, but the sunshine is blinding.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-05 04:27|| 2025-02-05 04:27|| Front Page Top

Lots of "bloody hell, what are we going to do" at Vauxhall Cross.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-02-05 06:49|| 2025-02-05 06:49|| Front Page Top

#4 USAID employee says staffers hid pride flags, 'incriminating' books when DOGE arrived

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-05 09:34|| 2025-02-05 09:34|| Front Page Top

#5 /\ Why do I not find that difficult to believe ?

Posted by Besoeker 2025-02-05 09:42|| 2025-02-05 09:42|| Front Page Top

#6 #4 Special Commissar Musk.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-02-05 10:08|| 2025-02-05 10:08|| Front Page Top

#7 USAID employee says staffers hid pride flags, 'incriminating' books when DOGE arrived

This means they are smarter than they look. The Petulant Child would have doubled down and made a big deal about their "You're not the boss of me!" defiance.

I wonder if any USAID money goes to National People's Radio (NPR). Not directly, of course, but via intermediaries.

A standard NPR trope is that they are not government funded but "listener-supported, by people like you", which is kinda sorta true. Basically, the grift is USAID, etc. gives money to The Center for Media Excellence which makes a grant to the Media Excellence Center which passes out cash to local NGOs, QUANGOs, and fellow travelers who all make donations to NPR during the multiple pledge weeks. See, people like you! And a generous grant from YOUR NAME HERE.

Posted by SteveS 2025-02-05 10:22|| 2025-02-05 10:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Politico, NY Times Propped Up By Millions Of Dollars From US Government

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-02-05 12:05|| 2025-02-05 12:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Basically, any cause or institution that couldn't possibly survive on its own.

Posted by Angstrom 2025-02-05 12:26|| 2025-02-05 12:26|| Front Page Top

#10 So USAID was paying BBC to run articles calling for the prosecution of Bukele for jailing the soldier gangsters of El Salvador?

The BBC who embedded with and game media alliance to the soldier gangsters of Hamas?

The BBC who runs hit pieces on the native people of the UK?

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-02-05 13:42|| 2025-02-05 13:42|| Front Page Top

#11 Donors look like less than 15M pounds, out of a total budget of about 2500M pounds.
Just to put it in perspective.

Posted by James 2025-02-05 16:17|| https://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2025-02-05 16:17|| Front Page Top

#12 I don’t like federal funding of public television. I like the Feds funding someone else’s television even less. You can’t even argue that the BBC was producing Pro-US propaganda. They can hate us for free.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-02-05 17:24|| 2025-02-05 17:24|| Front Page Top

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