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This is a public service announcement. The real story, not filtered through reliable media is:

This. Once they made an announcement that everyone needed to go sit at their desks and remain there, no exceptions. That call alone wasted about $2k in reagents in the aborted experiment that I was running. Then you waited for the next 30 minutes at your desk to see if they came for you. Public humiliation for those who got the boot. So thoughtful. I survived a few more over the years so I feel fortunate that I was eventually able to leave on my own terms.

Love to see it.

Roundy: People are going to DIE!!!!! And it's only $5 billion or 0.007% of the budget you morons!

Seems totally legit. USAID taxpayer money funneled to orgs like Internews to put pressure on advertisers to only support outlets that produce "good news and information"

Anderson, Roundy and Tibstain walk into a bar.... Not that there's anything wrong with that.

USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, "Internews Network" (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training” over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives. The operation claims “offices” in over 30 countries, including main offices in US, London, Paris and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok and Nairobi. It is headed up by Jeanne Bourgault, who pays herself $451k a year. Bourgault worked out of the US embassy in Moscow during the early 1990s, where she was in charge of a $250m budget, and in other revolts or conflicts at critical times, before formally rotating out of six years at USAID to IN. Bourgault’s IN bio and those of its other key people and board members have been recently scrubbed from its website but remain accessible at archive.org. Records show the board being co-chaired by Democrat securocrat Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, wife of NVIDIA billionaire Trench Coxe, both major Democratic donors. In 2023, supported by Hillary Clinton, Bourgault launched a $10m IN fund at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The IN page showing a picture of Bourgault at the CGI has also been deleted. IN has at least six captive subsidiaries under unrelated names including one based out of the Cayman Islands. Since 2008, when electronic records begin, more than 95% of IN's budget has been supplied by the US government (thread follows)

She seems nice.