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  1. Fangbeer replied to the thread Massive Press Scandal As USAID Funding for 'Politico' Revealed, and It Gets Worse From There.

    China is feeding people and giving them healthcare in Panama,?

    Feb 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
  2. Fangbeer replied to the thread Massive Press Scandal As USAID Funding for 'Politico' Revealed, and It Gets Worse From There.

    Don't forget to let them all work from home.

    Feb 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
  3. Fangbeer liked Bluesguy's post in the thread Massive Press Scandal As USAID Funding for 'Politico' Revealed, and It Gets Worse From There.

    So in your country you create government departments to come up with stupid projects to throw taxpayer money at and then hire 10,000 people to run it and that is your...

    Feb 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
  4. Fangbeer replied to the thread Massive Press Scandal As USAID Funding for 'Politico' Revealed, and It Gets Worse From There.

    You're suggesting I'm going to complain if China starts feeding people and giving them healthcare?

    Feb 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
  5. Fangbeer replied to the thread Massive Press Scandal As USAID Funding for 'Politico' Revealed, and It Gets Worse From There.

    That's kinda the point isn't it? What's the point of buying "independent media" in foreign countries if it isn't to promote propaganda in that region?

    Feb 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
  6. Fangbeer replied to the thread 11 Years After a Celebrated Opening, Massive Solar Plant Faces a Bleak Future in the Mojave Desert.

    Solar is best for loads that take place in the summer during the day. Irrigation & certain industrial applications are ideal. It's not great for residential loads because...

    Feb 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
  7. Fangbeer replied to the thread 11 Years After a Celebrated Opening, Massive Solar Plant Faces a Bleak Future in the Mojave Desert.

    So apparently you think I took what you said out of context. I don't see how. From what I see, you accused a group of a distain for technology, and then demonstrated you...

    Feb 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
  8. Fangbeer replied to the thread 11 Years After a Celebrated Opening, Massive Solar Plant Faces a Bleak Future in the Mojave Desert.

    Give me directives that you can't enforce.

    Feb 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
  9. Fangbeer replied to the thread Massive Press Scandal As USAID Funding for 'Politico' Revealed, and It Gets Worse From There.

    Yeah exactly like buying a wrecked car and being held responsible for the accident the car was involved in.

    Feb 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
  10. Fangbeer replied to the thread Massive Press Scandal As USAID Funding for 'Politico' Revealed, and It Gets Worse From There.

    They don't think it's waste and corruption. They think it's buying compliance and friendship.

    Feb 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
  11. Fangbeer replied to the thread Massive Press Scandal As USAID Funding for 'Politico' Revealed, and It Gets Worse From There.

    Sorta puts the whole "fire Shoken or we withhold aid" into a different perspective doesn't it? Lawmakers jump higher when money gets taken out of their own pockets than when...

    Feb 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
  12. Fangbeer replied to the thread Massive Press Scandal As USAID Funding for 'Politico' Revealed, and It Gets Worse From There.

    A majority of the money funnels through private contractors based both in the US and abroad.

    Feb 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
  13. Fangbeer replied to the thread Massive Press Scandal As USAID Funding for 'Politico' Revealed, and It Gets Worse From There.

    Unfortunately the problem is not isolated to the left. The more I dig, the more I find that USAID is a slush fund that is easily manipulated to obfuscate graft. The...

    Feb 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
  14. Fangbeer replied to the thread 11 Years After a Celebrated Opening, Massive Solar Plant Faces a Bleak Future in the Mojave Desert.

    Let's see...how are we doing today?: https://www.caiso.com/todays-outlook/supply#section-supply-trend At 6AM lots of natural gas. At 6AM lots of imports.

    Feb 5, 2025 at 10:26 AM
  15. Fangbeer replied to the thread 11 Years After a Celebrated Opening, Massive Solar Plant Faces a Bleak Future in the Mojave Desert.

    It's so easy to baffle with statistics. When you're driving downhill 100% of the energy needed to accelerate your car can come from gravity. One day we will power our cars...

    Feb 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
  16. Fangbeer replied to the thread Will anyone care to defend Biden sending $50,000,000 to Gaza for condoms?.

    If you were an "ends justify the means" kind of guy in the state department and you wanted to hide spending that you knew the American people wouldn't agree with, how would you...

    Feb 5, 2025 at 9:03 AM
  17. Fangbeer replied to the thread Will anyone care to defend Biden sending $50,000,000 to Gaza for condoms?.

    I won't be easy to find. I've been looking. For example: To allocate these funds, USAID will post a RFP with general guidelines of outcomes they would like to "promote"....

    Feb 4, 2025
  18. Fangbeer replied to the thread Will anyone care to defend Biden sending $50,000,000 to Gaza for condoms?.

    Actually nope. The money was spent in grant awards to Chemonics, and other private contractors. The government didn't buy food clothes and medicine. They bought contracts....

    Feb 4, 2025
  19. Fangbeer replied to the thread Will anyone care to defend Biden sending $50,000,000 to Gaza for condoms?.

    Maybe. How is your tax money actually spent? Do you think someone from USAID heads down to the local Walgreens with a wheelbarrow full of c-notes and buys a bunch of...

    Feb 4, 2025
  20. Fangbeer replied to the thread Will anyone care to defend Biden sending $50,000,000 to Gaza for condoms?.

    https://oig.usaid.gov/node/7359 Whoops. They might not know what they spent it on either.

    Feb 4, 2025
  21. Fangbeer replied to the thread Will anyone care to defend Biden sending $50,000,000 to Gaza for condoms?.

    Ooh. Whomever was awarded this job would know... https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/chief-of-party-at-chemonics-international-3895415725

    Feb 4, 2025
  22. Fangbeer replied to the thread Will anyone care to defend Biden sending $50,000,000 to Gaza for condoms?.

    https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/FY-2024-Congressional-Budget-Justification-Appendix-2-508-4.20.2023.pdf In fact, our Federal foreign aid programs do not...

    Feb 4, 2025
  23. Fangbeer replied to the thread Will anyone care to defend Biden sending $50,000,000 to Gaza for condoms?.

    Funding was going to Gaza, however. That's not a hoax. What was it for?

    Feb 4, 2025
  24. Fangbeer replied to the thread Will anyone care to defend Biden sending $50,000,000 to Gaza for condoms?.

    From 2023... https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023-11-09/a-disaster-waiting-to-happen-how-usaids-10bn-health-project-unravelled/

    Feb 4, 2025
  25. Fangbeer replied to the thread Will anyone care to defend Biden sending $50,000,000 to Gaza for condoms?.

    Why can't it hurt? What's our current ROI on Gaza? Since 1993, the U.S. government has provided more than $7.6 billion in assistance to Palestinians in the West Bank and...

    Feb 4, 2025