One wag here in the Philippines once described how things work in the Philippines: They take bribes under the table, over the table and with the table.
How bad is it? It is so bad that we have our own Wikipedia page about it.
and this article in the Phil Inquirer (March 2023) describes how much is being done, and the various ways that it is done.
According to the 2007 study, the Office of the Ombudsman had, in 1999, pegged losses arising from corruption at P100 million daily, (note: equivalent to 9.7 million dollars US) whereas the World Bank estimates the losses at one-fifth of the national government budget.
well third world corruption is alas common. But what is astonishing is that a lot of money is being diverted in the USA: going to questionable foreign aid, but also going through NGOs in several layers, all of which take part of the money, and maybe what is worse: Using tax money to subvert the political process. I mean, having the ladies of BLM buy two expensive mansions in Los Angeles is one thing: Paying them to riot and destabilize the US during an election year is much more dangerous.
That is what it sounds like when DOGE opens the books.
no wonder the usual suspects whose bank accounts somehow soared while working for the government are upset.
So should we believe the media, especially when there are reports that USAID money subsidized them?
Do you listen to the hysteria, or to Joe Rogan?
The information is out there, but before X who learned about this? Yes it was there, but didn't get a lot of coverage.
I posted about some of this on my medical blog:
In 2023 article from bureau of investigative Journalism:
A new investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Devex can reveal major failings in the largest ever project funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
The $9.5 bn initiative, led by US contractor Chemonics International, launched in 2016 with the aim of transforming the way life-saving medicines and other health supplies were bought and delivered to millions of people in poorer countries. But interviews with insiders, as well as exclusive data analysis, can reveal that the project’s inefficiencies have alarmed both senior project staff and high-ranking US government officials. In some cases it has taken almost two years to deliver key supplies.
The Global Fund’s OIG also alleged in 2021 that it had uncovered a multimillion-dollar fraud committed by a Chemonics subcontractor in Nigeria. A Global Fund report found that “Chemonics’ controls were poorly implemented by negligent staff who missed key red flags” and that an unnamed senior project director was “living substantially beyond their Chemonics salary”. USAID’s own watchdog is now investigating....
then you have the WHO monopoly:
this would be seen as good, except for the fact that these same folks got a lot of stuff wrong with Covid, and looted a lot of money while they were doing it. And now they plan a health treaty where this would give them power over every country.
James Roguski has more on his blog: lots of links to the UN health monopolies there. A short excerpt:
The World Health Organization charges manufacturing companies a lot of money to have their products “prequalified.” WHO prequalification activities were long funded by international donors through short-term grants. In January 2017 therefore introduced a new fee model for medicines — finished pharmaceutical products (FPPs) and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) — and vaccines, and later for in vitro diagnostics (IVDs), in August 2018.
this of course needs to be done, to check for fraud, inferior medical products, overpricing etc. The problem? Who watches the watchers?
In 2023, the WHO’s “Fee for Services Fund” made a profit of $14.8 million on the $27.8 million in fees that they collected.
Sigh.
years ago, there were a lot of stories about the grift by the Clinton Foundation.
Australia stopped the money in 2016.
AUSTRALIA has poured millions of your taxpayer dollars into Hillary Clinton’s scandal-plagued charity. It begs an obvious question...
and then there is the scandal of the money sent to the Clinton foundation to aid Haiti.
Huffpost article interviews Charles Ortel about it
Ortel: The simple answer is that billions of dollars in “aid” supposedly were raised to help the desperately poor people of Haiti, yet Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation refuse to account, in granular and verified fashion, for any of this aid. If Haiti (before the latest storm) had obviously been better off, perhaps this controversy would not now be swirling with hurricane force winds. But accounts from multiple parties suggest that Haiti has little to show in the parts of the nation that were devastated in January 2010.
then for the conspiracy minded there is the suicide of a whistle blower on how the Haiti funds were used:
and no, Snopes assures us this is not a suicide:
Dr. Dr. Dean Lorich, an orthopedic surgeon who volunteered in Haiti and exposed Clinton Foundation corruption and malpractice on the island, has been found dead in New York. He was 54....
hmm... a knife in his chest. That is a hard way to commit suicide, because you have to thrust it in hard which is quite painful, and if you miss the heart, you end up living. It's easier to cut your femoral or carotid artery, or just overdose on medicine. But never mind...
Haiti of course is so corrupt that it has it's own Wikipedia page on that subject.
I wrote in an earlier blogpost about PEPFAR money via USAID being subverted from HIV treatment into population control and the gender agenda.
I did a report in Nov 2023 on my medical blog on how the Biden administration subverted PEPFAR to push population control etc.
By diverting the funding to birth control and pushing sexual policies to limit population, the danger is that people will no longer trust these caregivers:
(Africans) might see them as part of the evil west trying to stop Africans from having babies because of racism. and of course, such ideas won't just be pushed by locals who remember colonialist racism, but will be believed by religious leaders (Bishops and Muslim leaders).
And of course, China will quietly push this idea. Already the Biden administration and the EU is pushing their sexual agenda (gay rights, encourage teenage sex by sex education), and pushing countries to change their local laws.
finally, I understand why the Pope and the Catholic bishops are defending helping economic migrants to come to the USA, but the CIA/NWO conspiracy theories are thick here too.
but you know, few are true refugees (except maybe the Haitians): They had homes and often had jobs, but were enticed to go with promises of jobs etc. I understand that they might want to work overseas to get a better life, but this could be done legally of course (if the Philippines manages to help the ten percent of the population to work overseas , the US could manage this too. )
But instead the Bishops are helping the dangerous criminal elements to do this, and in a way that endangers the migrants. By doing so they are not just ignoring the criminal gangs and drugs coming in with these non emergency migrations, but ignores that these people will take the jobs of working class Yanks and/or live off of the money taken from their paychecks.
Anthony Esolen satirizes their snobbish bossing of the average working class Yank here.
And using US Taxpayer money to do so, meaning that this entangles the Catholic church with secular authorities on many levels.
it is only time until the rumors that the NWO/CIA/bad guys were behind the coup to put Pope Francis in place move from the crazies to the front page.
Cardinal Vigano, call your office. Windswept house is coming true....
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