"Trump's 90-Day Suspension Of Foreign Aid Might Counterintuitively Bolster Washington's Influence"
When the MCC.gov is sending hundreds of millions to these countries so they implement agendas the MCC (millenium challenge corporation) wants, whats to stop them from paying portions back via tariffs?
Take colombia for instance, last year they got 400 million USD to implement programs the MCC wanted implemented in preparation for the REGIONAL COMPACT.
Whats to stop the fed gov money laundering machine from using the MCC to hand out hundreds of millions to these countries and then get the captured national governments of those countries to send back some portion of those handouts and pretend they’re Tariffs?
ie. they send 400 million to columbia and columbia keeps half and sends 200 million back to the US via Tariff payments. Talk about money laundering on a scale the Criminal cartels can only Dream of.
I wrote that up yesterday here:
Did you know you could look up how much money the fed gov sends to other countries?
Evidently theres a website that lists FED GOV USD sent to other countries By Country.
And if those countries have gotten used to their handouts, isn’t that the best way to Force their obedience by threatening to REMOVE the handouts? The gravy train hits a road bump and they have to fend for themselves for this 90 day period so if they spent it all assuming more would come, they hung themselves out to dry. If they saved or stashed some away, then they have funds to ride thru the 90day period.
Hell the fed gov could have warned them this event was coming and they could have saved some, or they could have just Padded every country with enough funds to hold them over for 90 days BEFORE announcing this, to make it just a psyop on the American Tax Payers since they are told this 90 day stop would produce accountability, while the fed govs intent was never accountability but to produce the ILLUSION of accountability so the Conservatives would be sated with the pittance of evidence shared and claimed to prove that they are holding people to account.
These countries have been getting the MCC handouts since 2001 or earlier which the American TAX PAYER has paid for under the guise of it just being Federal Taxation, when the fed fucking clowns take those funds and distribute them to the rest of the worlds countries instead of using them to benefit the Actual Americans who PAID those taxes?!
The aim clearly being to setup the Worlds 10 regions and have the USA rule them all via top down money printing centralized in DC.
In any case heres the article.
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Tuesday, Jan 28, 2025 - 02:30 AM
Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack,
One of the Executive Orders that Trump just signed suspends some foreign aid for 90 days, specifically “development assistance funds to foreign countries and implementing non-governmental organizations, international organizations, and contractors”, in order to assess their “efficiencies and consistency with US foreign policy”. It remains unclear at the time of writing whether the State Department’s subsequent “stop-work orders” will affect military aid to Ukraine so that possibility won’t be covered in this analysis.
Most foreign aid programs have been exploited to meddle in other countries’ affairs by funding anti-government and even in some cases anti-state movements that later orchestrate Color Revolutions. Even if they’re not taken to that extreme, they at the very least create problems for the implementation of those countries’ domestic and foreign policies by artificially manufacturing grassroots opposition to them, which manipulates perceptions of their popularity and can thus influence national elections.
Such was recently the case in Georgia, which fended off a nearly-two-year-long Western-backed but superficially “NGO”-driven campaign against the ruling party. This was officially waged in response to their FARA-inspired foreign agents law but was really punishment for them pragmatically refusing to sanction Russia and open up a “second front” against it in the South Caucasus during Ukraine’s failed summer 2023 counteroffensive. Georgia can now rest a bit easier for the time being.
The same goes for the many African countries like new BRICS partner Uganda who’ve been aggressively pressured by American-backed “NGOs” into accepting the normalization of LGBT+ in contravention of their traditional values. As put forth in Trump’s Executive Order, “The United States foreign aid industry and bureaucracy…serve to destabilize world peace by promoting ideas in foreign countries that are directly inverse to harmonious and stable relations internal to and among countries.”
Observers also shouldn’t forget about India after the US meddled in last year’s elections despite their strategic partnership. Russia gave voice to India’s concerns at the time due to the sensitivity of India calling the US out while the political process was ongoing, after which the ruling BJP accused the State Department and the “deep state” of meddling in other matters last month. While independently financed Soros still remains a problem, the US government shouldn’t be one for now, to India’s relief.
Less political meddling and socio-cultural engineering, at least for the next three months, will be much appreciated by all those countries that have been targeted by “NGO”-driven Hybrid War.
The emphasis is on less of these efforts as opposed to their complete freeze since some programs might have enough funds left to partially operate during the interim while the Secretary of State can issue waivers for specific ones at his discretion. Some might therefore continue in full but most will be adversely affected.
The end effect is that American influence might rebound in the Global South since a large part of why many of these countries started turning away from the US since the start of the century was due to it violating their sovereignty by funding “NGOs” that meddle in their affairs.
If Trump reforms the US’ international lending strategy to remove political strings on aid programs, including from those institutions that it controls like the IMF and World Bank, then this process would further accelerate.
His promised imposition of more tariffs might trouble some of these same countries, but it’s not the same as coercing them into making political and socio-cultural changes against their will in exchange for emergency financial aid, which ultimately risks destabilizing them and later advancing regime change. This potentially new approach could restore some of the attractiveness in partnering with the US by partially evening the odds vis-à-vis its competitions with China and Russia in the Global South.
In the event that this comes to pass, then those two would be compelled to offer better deals to their partners in order to prevent them from being enticed by the US into accepting whatever it proposes, thus possibly catalyzing a cycle of competition that works to those other countries’ benefit. For that to happen, the US would have to treat its partners more as equals and less as vassals, but old habits die hard so this can’t be taken for granted even if Trump appears somewhat (key qualifier) interested in it.
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Original URL here.
The main point here being that the FED GOV as the vehicle the UNIPARTY drives cannot be Trusted to DO WHAT IT SAYS ITS DOING.
For all we know their media psyop against the American people is the real aim of the fed gov, to get the Tax Payers duped into believing the fed gov, at least for this 4 year term, will be accountable and put Tax Payers above Illegals and NGO’s and whatever other alt methods are used by the wealthy to implement their piece parts of the agendas held.
Which again makes the priority to be that we need the FED GOV to be defunded and shrunk back to what it was, not add the ERS, DOGE and whatever other clown agencies will increase the weight of the Oppressive FED GOV. The FED GOV as the vehicle it is, has to be CURBED and have LAWS put in place to force it to stay in its lane, and if those laws are already in place, its waaaay past time to enforce the LAW.
Lacking that, it seems guerilla tactics would be needed to put down a few billionaires so that they get the picture that THEIR Agenda isn’t the American Tax Payers Agenda. And trying to Co-opt the tax payer to HAVE THEIR WAY will result in THEM being targeted by the America Tax Paying Public.
Time to put the TAKERS in their place.
Accountability IS THE REVOLUTION!
"Scott Bessent Confirmed As Treasury Secretary, Pushes For Gradual Universal Tariffs Up To 20%"
When you understand the MCC / USAID sends these countries hundreds of millions of dollars to implement mutually agreed upon agendas, the pretense of those countries paying Tariffs suddenly loses the TRUTH it had while such information was concealed from the American Tax Payer.
Instead it becomes a huge RACKET where the MCC sends funds abroad, and the tariff forces the countries that recieved such to send some percentage back to "pay the tariff", while they don't have to PRODUCE anything to earn those funds to pay such tariffs.
If they want to Increase the tariffs they make the countries pay, they will just increase the sums given and then increase the percentages returned via Tariffs.
If you can't see this play, then you might be drinking to much Trump Kool aid.
full article below
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Late on Monday, the Senate confirmed Scott Bessent’s nomination for Treasury Secretary in a 68–29 vote, putting him in a key role in implementing President Trump’s tariff and growth agenda. The billionaire investor will be spearheading Trump’s plan of cutting taxes and curbing deficits, while putting forward a tariff plan that also facilitates growth.
The Senate Finance Committee approved Bessent’s nomination for Treasury Secretary on a 16-11 vote, with two Democrats—Sens. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.)—joining Republicans. Democrats who opposed his nomination alluded to concerns about his tax dispute with the IRS.
“Like a lot of Wall Street titans, he’s opted out of paying a fair share into Medicare,” said Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), ranking member on the committee.
Bessent has previously said the U.S. faces economic calamity if Congress does not renew key provisions from Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that are set to expire Dec. 31, 2025. According to the Epoch Times, negotiating the extension of those tax cuts will be one of Bessent’s major responsibilities even as he pushes for 3 percent annual growth, significant trims to deficits, and increasing domestic oil production by 3 million barrels a day.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) described the Wall Street veteran as an “example of the American dream in action.”
“He brings a wealth of private sector experience in the economy and markets to his new role, as well as the concern for the needs of working Americans,” Thune said on the Senate floor.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) defended Bessent before the vote, saying that the Key Square Group founder has complied with tax laws.
Many Democrats, naturally, disagreed. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), one of the Democrats who voted against Trump’s pick to lead the Treasury Department, called it a “double standard in America” during an executive committee hearing on Jan. 21.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said Bessent’s nomination further highlights billionaires’ influence on U.S. politics. “Billionaires dominate the American economy, and Republicans plan to give them more tax breaks,” she said.
In his Jan. 16 confirmation hearing in front of the committee, Bessent discussed various economic issues. Bessent has expressed how critical it is to extend the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), President Donald Trump’s signature legislation from his first term in the White House.
Sitting before the Senate Finance Committee during his Jan. 16 confirmation hearing, the Wall Street veteran told lawmakers that allowing the TCJA to expire would cause “an economic calamity” and lead to “financial instability.” “We will see a gigantic middle-class tax increase. We will see the child tax credit halved,“ Bessent said. ”We will see the deductions halved … it has the potential for a sudden stop.”
Contrary to his most recent hedge fund letter, the billionaire financier now also supports the president’s tariff plans. He highlighted the various benefits associated with trade levies, such as strengthening the U.S. dollar, forcing foreign manufacturers to export deflation, and nudging consumers to change their preferences to support American jobs.
And speaking of flipflopping, exactly one year after he wrote in his KeySquare letter to investors that he found it "unlikely that across-the-board tariffs, as currently reported by the media, would be enacted", the FT reported that Bessent is now pushing for new universal tariffs on US imports to start at 2.5% and rise gradually.
The 2.5% levy would move higher by the same amount each month, the people familiar with it said, giving businesses time to adjust and countries the chance to negotiate with the US president’s administration.
The levies could be pushed up to as high as 20 per cent — in line with Trump’s maximalist position on the campaign trail last year. But a gradual introduction would be more moderate than the immediate action some countries feared.
The proposal by Bessent comes as Trump’s team debates how to implement tariff plans, with the president escalating his tariff rhetoric on Monday in a speech in Florida, threatening more duties on semiconductors, metals and pharmaceutical goods.
“We have to bring production back to our country,” Trump said.
Trump was speaking after a day of turmoil in US stock markets, triggered by a tech sell-off as China appeared to make a leap ahead of the US in the global artificial intelligence race. His threat to impose tariffs on semiconductors entering the US would be difficult to carry out given the impact on tech companies relying on chipmakers such as Taiwan’s TSMC.
In contrast, Bessent’s plan would see just 2.5% added to tariffs each month. According to the FT, it was unclear if the Treasury secretary had convinced other central stakeholders, including Howard Lutnick, Trump’s pick for commerce secretary, to adopt his proposal for a gradual introduction of tariffs.
Meanwhile, Trump has threatened to force tariffs of up to 25% on imports from Canada and Mexico as soon as this weekend, and in recent days threatened Colombia with 25% tariffs in a dispute over deportees. That said, an FT source said that Trump’s thinking said he was weighing different options. “There is not a single plan the president is ready to decide on yet.”
When asked by reporters last week whether he planned to introduce universal tariffs, Trump replied: “We may. But we’re not ready for that yet.”
We may not be there yet, but we will be there soon, especially if Trump follows through on his urging to abolish income tax altogether, which implies that tariffs would need to somehow generate similar amounts of revenue. In that case a 20% universal tariff is just the start.
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Course it'd just be the start... they'd have to game the setup to verify they are getting enough funds back and fine tune how much Tax payer funds they give before they get it back as tariff funds which they can then pretend weren't tax payer dollars from the Start.
URL here:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/scott-bessent-confirmed-treasury-secretary-pushes-gradual-universal-tariffs-20