What has been found at US AID in the Misuse of the American People's Tax Money
How Obama used an unconstitutional unelected team using big data to rally voters.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2012/12/19/114510/how-obamas-team-used-big-data-to-rally-voters/
https://www.propublica.org/article/everything-we-know-so-far-about-obamas-big-data-operation
https://analytics.googleblog.com/2013/08/obama-for-america-uses-google-analytics.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SDD9xvnrds
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/05/01/findings-big-data-and-privacy-working-group-review
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2017/01/10/how-america-changed-during-barack-obamas-presidency/
Here are only a few examples of the WASTE and ABUSE:
- $1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”*
- $70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland
- $2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam
- $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia
- $32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru**
- $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
- $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt
- Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations — even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation
- $5.0 Millions to EcoHealth Alliance — which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab
- “Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria”
- Funding to print “personalized” contraceptives birth control devices in developing countries
- Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund “irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,” benefiting the Taliban
- X claiming that he found tens of millions of dollars had been spent by the agency to lodge migrants in New York hotels.
- 7.9 million to train Sri Lankan journalists to avoid using pronouns “he” and “she.”
- - $20 million for a Sesame Street show in Iraq.
- $5.5 million for LGBT activism in Uganda.
- $25 million to promote “green transportation” in Georgia
- $6 million to make the internet more “feminist.”
- $1.2 million for a D.C. church to build a 440-seat auditorium.
- $60M for illegal immigrant hotels
- $9M for Central American gender consultant
- $17M for tax policy advice in Liberia
- $1 million dollars to a nonprofit in Minnesota to build a coffee shop for refugees
- $500,000 for gardens in San Francisco
- $1.2 million earmark for bike paths in Rhode Island $4 million for a waterfront walkway in New Jersey
- $1.75 million for the Environmental Justice Center in Metropolitan Museum of Art
- $3.5 trillion for Detroit's thanksgiving parade float maker's new headquarters
- $500,000 for a cybercrime vehicle for the Honolulu Police tuner
- $9,000 for an air conditioner in the Charlestown Opera House in West Virginia.
- and more
A ‘Transgender Opera’ in Colombia
On April 28, 2022, the University of the Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, put on a performance of the opera “As One.” The show, which was written in the U.S. and debuted in 2014, features a transgender protagonist.
A program for the university’s production of the opera said the show had the support of the university, the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra and the “Small Grants Program of the Embassy of the United States in Colombia.”
The Department of State committed $25,000 to fund the project, and the website USAspending.gov also noted that there was $22,020 of “non-federal funding” for the project, making a total of $47,020 listed on the site. The federal funding for this project also came from the State Department, not USAID.
*Serbian ‘DEI’ Project
*An LGBTQ advocacy organization in Serbia — a country that fares poorly compared with other European countries on measures of LGBTQ rights, according to data from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights — hosted a three-year program aimed at improving the inclusion of LGBTQ people in the workplace.
From February 2023 to October 2024, USAID committed to spending about $1.5 million — in three roughly $500,000 installments — to support the program.
At a program conference in September 2023, mission director for USAID in Serbia, Brooke Isham, said, “At USAID, we know that inclusive development is important for driving economic growth and also for creating a healthier democracy.”
A ‘Transgender Comic Book’ in Peru**
**In 2021, the U.S. Embassy in Peru introduced a comic book called “The Power of Education,” which it used to promote education and exchange programs in the U.S.
The following year, the embassy commissioned a second volume.
“The Embassy asked us to introduce a gay student in #2 to show his personal struggle coming out to his parents, but that has zero to do with being transgender,” David Campiti, who owns the company that produced the comic book, told us in an email. “The comics were about scholarships and furthering education.”
The series ended up including three comic books, each one showing an aspect of cultural exchange and education. View them here, here and here.
The second one is what was highlighted by the Trump administration as a “transgender comic book.” But volume 2 of “The Power of Education” does not include a transgender character. Rather, as Campiti said, it featured a hero who was gay.
The writer of the comic, David Lawrence, said the same thing in a post on his Facebook page on Feb. 4, explaining why the embassy had requested an LGBTQ character. “The US embassy in Peru requested that as a small response to anti gay prejudice in the country,” he wrote.
We reached out to the embassy for comment and were referred to the State Department, which did not respond to us.
Like the first volume, the second one was used to promote education and exchange programs. And, incidentally, it won two awards in 2023, including comic of the year, from a Peruvian organization called Chronicles of Diversity.
The funding for this project didn’t come from USAID, either, but, again, from the State Department.
So, funding for three of the four projects highlighted by the White House came from the State Department for funding cultural activities on behalf of various embassies.
Doesn't this make you mad? It does me.
