Steve O Posted February 8 Posted February 8 9 hours ago, B-Man said: Welcome to the real world. Having worked for a major corporation from the mid 1980's until the the late 20teens I've witnessed at least a dozen of these mass firings...errr, right sizing actions. I was included in 2 of them. A little unsettling maybe. Anyone who describes them as a bloodbath has led a pretty sheltered life. 1 1 1
BillsFanNC Posted February 8 Author Posted February 8 12 minutes ago, Steve O said: Welcome to the real world. Having worked for a major corporation from the mid 1980's until the the late 20teens I've witnessed at least a dozen of these mass firings...errr, right sizing actions. I was included in 2 of them. A little unsettling maybe. Anyone who describes them as a bloodbath has led a pretty sheltered life. 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.
Homelander Posted February 8 Posted February 8 What changed? What's driving this? Musk has a personal vendetta against USAID. He claims USAID helped overthrow the apartheid government of his native South Africa, which it did. Now, Musk is extracting his revenge while his fellow extremists cheer him on.
BillsFanNC Posted February 8 Author Posted February 8 ⬆️ The kind of democracy saving efforts that this tool and Daz can get behind!
Big Blitz Posted February 8 Posted February 8 Lol Bill posting tweets 2 years before the Trump impeachment courtesy of USAID, barely 18 months into their administration before they knew anything about its “side projects.” Like funding Covid. Then censoring the world that dared question masks and then the Biden administration - most likely there due to a USAID funded coup. 2020 needed to happen or Trump would be unable to drain this anti American swamp from within. A swamp he was in no position to drain in 2017 - then the world changed - for the worse. Now he has a full mandate to do it. And everyone even the terrified commies know it. 1
B-Man Posted February 8 Posted February 8 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 http://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) 2 1
JFKjr Posted February 8 Posted February 8 2 hours ago, Homelander said: What changed? What's driving this? Musk has a personal vendetta against USAID. He claims USAID helped overthrow the apartheid government of his native South Africa, which it did. Now, Musk is extracting his revenge while his fellow extremists cheer him on. I don't have a problem with you writing a check to USAID to show your support. 1
JDHillFan Posted February 9 Posted February 9 I’m sure this is a one-off. We just have to trust that they are trying to do good.
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