This is a long form interview with Mike Benz with time headings provided.

@TuckerCarlson

Mike Benz: “USAID is effectively a rent-a-riot operation. That raises questions about the Black Lives Matter protests.”

The censorship industrial complex.

@wikileaks

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)

Piers Akerman in the Daily Telegraph:

Labor’s great green dream is toast but it’s killing the hopes and dreams of millions of Australians like the green needle the vet uses to put down the family pet.

While Treasurer Jim “The Joker” Chalmers and PM Anthony Albanese chortle about their plan to roll out even more kilometres of transmission lines to intermittent wind and solar factories, the rest of the world is shelving the Net Zero fantasy.

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer now demands hundreds of small modular nuclear reactors be built as rapidly as possible.

Labor won’t lift the ban on nuclear power in Australia despite plans to build nuclear submarines.

Far from the promised reduction of $275 over the term of its government, energy prices soared by more than 30 per cent with businesses paying up to 50 per cent more.

Woodside Energy chief executive Meg O’Neill warns of a major government policy failure if the country cannot deliver the cheap and reliable energy needed to remain globally competitive.

Food producers are in open revolt, urging Labor to dump its 82 per cent renewables target and focus on ramping up more gas and coal production to bring electricity prices down in the short term.

Chalmers’ plan to splash more out on more inflationary subsidies is no solution. Labor’s green poison is killing businesses across the nation.

Australia’s largest glass maker, Oceania Glass, is now in administration facing closure.

The massive $12.5bn green hydrogen plant and pipeline project proposed by Queensland’s former Labor government has been killed, South Australia’s green hydrogen dream is dead.

Europe is backing out of its Net Zero commitment as manufacturers flee to China and India where the Kumbaya crowd’s fantasies don’t resonate. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has indicated that the EU’s electric-vehicle mandate, which currently requires all new cars and vans to be zero-emissions by 2035, will go. The new rule won’t mandate battery cars, nor should it.

There was a record number of alerts of electricity reserve shortages in NSW in the fourth quarter last year.

Climate and Energy Minister Chris “Blackouts” Bowen is still insisting that intermittent renewables will meet Australia’s power needs but his ideological idiocy isn’t matched by the facts.

He is as stupid as UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves who thinks “sustainable” aviation fuels will be a game changer for the environment. Such fuels can be between two and four times more expensive and presently comprise less than 0.1 per cent of energy in the aviation industry.

Bowen and his party won’t acknowledge the fact that intermittent renewable energy sources need more than massively expensive batteries as backup and they cannot supply the weather independent dispatchable base load power the grid needs to keep the lights on and industry functioning.

The climate change zealots are pulling green wool over voters’ eyes.

The Teals, Greens and Labor supporters are ignoring the physics of energy.

Progressives never learn from history, they are only interested in pursuing their ideological goals despite their historical failures.

Lessons from the past are a hindrance to their orthodoxy.

There can be no greater hypocrisy than Labor’s refusal to lift the ban on domestic nuclear power generation while it supports similar reactors being employed on the submarines it proposes to build under the AUKUS agreement.

Locked into its dead end policies, its kicking a lethal own goal and all for nothing.

Or as JC added last night, use whatever we have now as we have bountiful reserves of the shit.
And just keep the coal coming. Not hard I would have thought. But here we are.

@MrWhiteMAGA

The one that got 84 million from taxpayers

@DesireeAmerica4

EXPOSED: Doge uncovered that USAID funneled $84 million in Haiti relief funds to Chelsea Clinton—and guess what?

$3 million went to her wedding
$10 million bought a luxury mansion

Meanwhile, Haiti got next to nothing. Who else is sick of this corruption?

At the DNC meeting this week. From a piece asking if this political party can be saved.

Speaking to the Democratic National Committee, which met to select its new leadership this weekend, the outgoing chair, Jaime Harrison, attempted to explain a point about its rules concerning gender balance for its vice-chair race. “The rules specify that when we have a gender-nonbinary candidate or officer, the nonbinary individual is counted as neither male nor female, and the remaining six officers must be gender balanced,” Harrison announced.

As the explanation became increasingly intricate, Harrison’s elucidation grew more labored. “To ensure our process accounts for male, female, and nonbinary candidates, we conferred with our [Rules and Bylaws Committee] co-chair, our LGBT Caucus co-chair, and others to ensure that the process is inclusive and meets the gender-balance requirements in our rules,” he added. “To do this, our process will be slightly different than the one outlined to you earlier this week, but I hope you will see that in practice, it is simple and transparent.”

Molly Ball of the Wall Street Journal elaborated:

Later in the program, an audience member stood up to lament that there was only one at-large seat set aside for a transgender person, and called on the candidates to add another seat and for “making sure those appointments reflect the gender and ethnic diversity of the transgender community.” Only one candidate raised his hand to indicate he wouldn’t make such a commitment.