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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

"I find it odious when the world’s richest man cackles about #America shoving programs for needy children “into the wood chipper.”

When you meet those dying #children and look into their eyes and hold their hands and feel faint heartbeats flutter, you can’t bear the gleeful laughter. You see children just like your own and hang your head in shame."

#GiftArticle #GiftLink
nytimes.com/interactive/2025/0

Text from article: I recognize we cannot save every hungry child around the world. I agree that U.S.A.I.D. is imperfect and should be reformed. I appreciate that helping people is harder than it looks. I understand that there are difficult trade-offs in allocating tax dollars. Yet I think most Americans would both welcome some reforms and also be proud to see how we save the lives of hungry children and sick orphans around the world by allocating just 24 cents of every $100 of national income to aid. And I find it odious when the world’s richest man cackles about America shoving programs for needy children “into the wood chipper.” When you meet those dying children and look into their eyes and hold their hands and feel faint heartbeats flutter, you can’t bear the gleeful laughter. You see children just like your own and hang your head in shame.
#ElonMusk#Musk#Corruption
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

" #USAID was established to advance our national interests as well as our values, & its demolition means that the #UnitedStates loses soft power & #China gains...

#America spends just 0.24% of gross national income on humanitarian aid. We properly honor a firefighter who saves a single child, but three cheers for us as taxpayers for rescuing millions of #children around the world from AIDS, starvation & disease.

That is, until January."
nytimes.com/interactive/2025/0

Text from article(edited for length): ...but why is it our job to keep kids alive in poor countries? There are two answers to that. The first is that USAID was established to advance our national interests as well as our values, and its demolition means that the United States loses soft power and China gains... Antiterrorism programs in Syria and West Africa are faltering and may lead to new attacks on Americans. Surveillance for early detection of avian flu and Ebola are weakened, and an epidemic of either disease could reach America and cost billions of dollars. Trump’s defunding of the polio eradication effort may lead, by one USAID official’s estimate, to 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year. ...aid stoppage could lead to nearly a one-third increase in tuberculosis cases. Some of those will reach the United States and lead to enormous expense — a single case of extensively drug-resistant TB can cost $500,000 to manage. The second answer to that query reflects not a calculation of self-interest but the moral code we live by. In this century, we are all blessed with miraculous, almost biblical powers: We can heal the sick and save children’s lives, all inexpensively: America spends just 0.24% of gross national income on humanitarian aid. We properly honor a firefighter who saves a single child, but three cheers for us as taxpayers for rescuing millions of children around the world from AIDS, starvation and disease. That is, until January.
#Musk#Doge#Trump
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earthling

The Nazi Hydra in America Suppressed History of A Century by Glen Yeadon

Provocative and highly controversial, The Nazi Hydra in America reveals the dark secrets of the fascist influence in the USA. While Eisenhower's troops defeated The Third Reich on the battlefields of Europe, the war against fascism was lost on the home front, to the very cadre of American plutocrats who built and paid for Hitler's war machine.

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#Nazi

At the center of this small confederacy two firms stand out: Brown Brothers & Harriman, and Sullivan & Cromwell. And at the very eye of this oligarchy, one family name sticks out. Spanning over 80 years and four generations, the Bush dynasty ally themselves with the Nazi element at home and abroad, ever willing to advance the fascist agenda of global corporatism.
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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

🔴 🥚 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 **Sourcing European Eggs For The US**

Representatives of the U.S. Department of Agriculture have asked a number of European nations if they can supply eggs to the North American nation, reports Reuters. The request was made whilst egg prices in the US soar due to an outbreak of avian flu in laying hens.

🔗 reuters.com/world/us/how-many-

#News#Agriculture#Eggs
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Ercanbrack

I have so many emotions about things going on in the USA. Most of the time, it’s anxiety. Right now, it’s anger. I shouldn’t post when I’m angry. I say & do things that I regret. I’m so furious that so many voted for Trump! Trump & Musk has done more unforgivable crap in a shorter period of time than anyone else in my memory. I feel completely helpless & angry! You Republicans should hang your heads in shame!

#USA#USPol#USPolitics
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