That really ticked me off too. How is this any different than being robbed in an alley other than with a mugging you would have a shot at seeing the perp prosecuted. Each year it takes longer and longer to pay our taxes. They also used USAID in Ukraine.
?Tax Freedom Day? falls three days later this year
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By April 21, Americans will have made enough to pay the $3 trillion in federal taxes and $1.5 trillion in state taxes ? more than they will spend on food clothing and housing combined.
Pierre Omidyar co-funded Ukraine revolution groups with US government, documents show
Pando has confirmed that the American government ? in the form of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) ? played a major role in funding opposition groups prior to the revolution.
Congress is supposedly going to investigate. To me it sounds like that will be the fox guarding the hen house according to the AP story...
"Two senior Democratic lawmakers said they knew nothing about the effort, and the Republican chairman of a House oversight subcommittee said his panel plans to look into the initiative next week.
"If you're going to do a covert operation like this for a regime change, assuming it ever makes any sense, it's not something that should be done through USAID," said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chairman of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that oversees USAID's budget.
But several other lawmakers voiced their support for ZunZuneo.
Bob Menendez, D-N.J., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said USAID should be applauded for giving people in Cuba a platform to talk to each other. "The whole purpose of our democracy programs, whether it be in Cuba or other parts of the world, is in part to create a free flow of information in closed societies," Menendez said."
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Meet The Americans Who Put Together The Coup In Kiev?Chapter and Verse
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/2014/04/07/meet-the-americans-who-put-together-the-coup-in-kiev-chapter-and-verse/
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That's why Russia complained. We started the crap in the Ukraine.
Re: Spending whose money where?
That really ticked me off too. How is this any different than being robbed in an alley other than with a mugging you would have a shot at seeing the perp prosecuted. Each year it takes longer and longer to pay our taxes. They also used USAID in Ukraine.
?Tax Freedom Day? falls three days later this year
snip
By April 21, Americans will have made enough to pay the $3 trillion in federal taxes and $1.5 trillion in state taxes ? more than they will spend on food clothing and housing combined.
http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/07/tax-freedom-day-falls-three-days-later-this-year/
USAID also used in Ukraine
Pierre Omidyar co-funded Ukraine revolution groups with US government, documents show
Pando has confirmed that the American government ? in the form of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) ? played a major role in funding opposition groups prior to the revolution.
http://pando.com/2014/02/28/pierre-omidyar-co-funded-ukraine-revolution-groups-with-us-government-documents-show/
Congress is supposedly going to investigate. To me it sounds like that will be the fox guarding the hen house according to the AP story...
"Two senior Democratic lawmakers said they knew nothing about the effort, and the Republican chairman of a House oversight subcommittee said his panel plans to look into the initiative next week.
"If you're going to do a covert operation like this for a regime change, assuming it ever makes any sense, it's not something that should be done through USAID," said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chairman of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that oversees USAID's budget.
But several other lawmakers voiced their support for ZunZuneo.
Bob Menendez, D-N.J., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said USAID should be applauded for giving people in Cuba a platform to talk to each other. "The whole purpose of our democracy programs, whether it be in Cuba or other parts of the world, is in part to create a free flow of information in closed societies," Menendez said."
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/us-secretly-created-cuban-twitter-stir-unrest