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   From: bax02_spamblock@baxcode.com   
      
   Darrell  wrote in news:vohbld$sqi$1@toxic.dizum.net:   
      
   > On 2/11/2025 7:22 PM, Baxter wrote:   
   >> mxplztylc  wrote in news:20250211154608.2491f958@z-z:   
   >>   
   >>> On Sun, 9 Feb 2025 14:16:53 -0000 (UTC)   
   >>> pothead  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 2025-02-09, Jim Wilkins  wrote:   
   >>>>> https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/press-release/chairman-mast-   
   exposes   
   >>>>> -ou   
   >>> trageous-usaid-and-state-department-grants/   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> This is absolute lunacy and needs to stop immediately.   
   >>>> This why I maintain that the world is laughing at the US.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> You'd be right too.   
   >>>   
   >>> $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 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   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> And now China will move in and fund all that stuff. making friends and   
   >> freezing us out.   
   >   
   > Why do we give a shit about the queer 2% and drug addict 16.7%?  Let   
   > China have them both.   
   >   
      
   It's the rest of those countries that we're interested in. Give them   
   pocket change for a small problem and they become favorable for something   
   larger.  You really don't know how Diplomacy works, do you?   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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