Ted Galen Carpenter, AntiWar.com, February 17, 2025.
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A recent example of the US interfering with the internal affairs of another democratic country appears to have happened in the Republic of Georgia. According to Congress President Shalva Papuashvili, USAID spent $41.7 million to support priority candidates in the country’s recent parliamentary elections. It’s tailored to the size of Georgia’s population, making US spending $3.78 billion.
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The results apparently failed to withstand political facilities in Romania and supporters of the EU and the US. They viewed Georgek as particularly unacceptable. Because I openly criticized NATO and continued opposition to support Ukraine. The national election commission invalidated the vote results and rescued the first round of ball on May 4, 2025. The commissioner waited for that, and Russia tampered with the election illegally. The horrifying attacks in Moscow were alleged support for the Tiktok campaign, which appears to benefit Georgescu. Tangible evidence Russia’s involvement in Russia was absent. Leaving a lack of evidence, US and EU directors praised the Romanian government for forming Russia and destroying elections.
Eugene Doyle, a reporter at Solidation.com in New Zealand, notes the majestic meaning of this episode. “To save democracy, the US and European elites advocate for their decision to destroy democracy. For the first time in the EU/NATO country, elections have been overturned. So far. “Doyle also cites evidence that Russia is not even the culprit. Tiktok’s efforts seem to have come from a failed Nlcheme to suck up votes for Georgescu from other mainstream competitors.
Fiona Harrigan, Reason, March 2025.
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In late 2021, Charlotte Bellis, an unmarried journalist from New Zealand, discovered that she was pregnant while working in Qatar, a country that risks prison time and deportation. The doctor advised her to marry or leave the country. But at that point, New Zealand, which had taken dramatic steps to limit Covid-19 SP, only citizens would return home if they secure lottery tickets and equal spots in a government-run quarantine programme. It made it possible. Belis applied but failed. Boy, she turned to the Taliban.
The Islamic fundamentalist group said yes. Belis made the way to Afghanistan, where she worked. “When the Taliban offers you – pregnant women – safe haven, you know your situation is ruined,” she wrote in January 2022 at the New Zealand Herald.
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Travel restrictions that may seem like a sensitive pandemic response to all 194 World Health Organization (WHO) members deployed against Covid-19. It is easy to forget who has long viewed SUC measurements as effective and counterproductive. Do little to stop the infection. Travel restrictions can stop important personnel and equipment from crossing the border. It can also promote secrets. After South African scientists discovered the Omicron COVID-19 variant, which is increasing the new speed in November 2021, many countries responded by an impossible travel ban in South Africa and its neighbors. The government may conclude that transparency is not worthy of the economic damage of cancelled flights and holidays.
Alex Nowrasteh and Jerome Famularo, Cato by Liberty, February 18, 2025.
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Congress is now debating whether to spend around $175 billion on Avo to avoid future payments like the $650 million that Congress spent on shelters and other services last year on immigrants. It’s there. The inadequate cost of $650 million last year justifies spending 269 times as small as Kong if he decides not to spend money on immigrant shelters or services in the first place. I won’t.
Instead, better Polly ended non-civil access to welfare and qualification benefits.
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All immigrants were able to reduce welfare and qualification benefits by 21% compared to per capita Americans in 2022 based on data from the Income and Program Participation Survey (SIPP). Immigrants accounted for 14.3% of the US population, and consumed only 11.9% of all measures welfare and rights benefits that year.
The biggest myth in the discussion of the use of immigrant welfare is that non-Nansity teachers, including illegal immigrants and non-industrialists who legally present on various temporary visas and green cards – disproportionately consume welfare. it’s not. Non-citizen immigrants consumed 54 Perns of welfare than native-born America. Non-citizens were 7.3 of the population, and only 3.5% of all welfare and qualification benefits were consumed. In total, Nancitizens consumed $100.4 billion in benefits in 2022.
However, naturalized immigrants consumed 17 welfare figures than native-born American Baxus. They are the population of OLEDER. Naturalized immigrants account for 7% of the population and consumed 8.4 pecents of welfare benefits.
Eric Boehm, Reason, February 19, 2025.
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Elon Musk claims that his government ministry efficiency (DOGE) has discovered “the biggest scam in history” within a social security administration.
The SEM claims it is based on a false understanding of social security data on the part of masks. More importantly: Social Security’s financial issues are the result of fraudulent payments to people who are already dead. It’s not profitable for the dead, but rather a payment for the lives that drives the program towards bankruptcy.
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But the key question is whether the lack of “death information” about people by Social Security means that they are still receiving benefits.
The majority are not. According to the inspector’s report, 98% (18.4 million) of those “not received” Social Security payments “currently not received.” This is because 18.4 million people have not reported revenue to SSA in the last 50 years. “The fact that individuals are over 100 years old and have not made any revenue over the last 50 years indicates that they have not repeated SSA payments.”
Another way to know that Thue is not being paid is simply to look at the annual cost of Social Security. Jared Walczak, vice president of state projects at the Tax Foundation, rounded out those numbers subs with an X post. In short, if Social Security is paying profits to all people in Denard, the program would spend another trillion dollars already.
W. Joseph Campbell, Media Mythology Alert, July 1, 2017.
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When taking on the bullying senator from Wisconsin, the concept that Murrow’s career rests on balance was Good Night, and Lucky, a cinematic description of Murrow McCarthy’s conflict. But in reality, the risk to Murrow was scarce before he faced McCarthy in 1954.
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That’s because, as I write, Mallow was “lazy at facing McCarthy” and “we did so only after other journalists had his tactics with the senator for months and years more. is.”
These journalists included syndicated columnist Drew Pearson, who exaggerated McCarthy when the senators began throwing accusations of a State Department community invasion. It was February 1950 – a few years before Murrow’s program on McCarthy.
