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How USAID is funding and training an online media empire in Sri Lanka. Thread ๐Ÿงต

1. Roar Media is an online media organization in Sri Lanka with 1.2M visitors to their website and 10.9M social reach

2. According to Roar, some of their investors are IREX and Google news
3. According to IREX, they are funded by the following organizations including USAID, US State Department, Open Society and Ford Foundations, and Millennium Challenge Corporation (supposed counter to BRI in Europe, Asia & Pacific including Sri Lanka)
4. IREX also has a journalistic training program in Sri Lanka called MEND supported by USAID, which Roar, according to their own website received a grant from
5. Roar has published several articles criticizing China's influence in Sri Lanka in the past, including an article where they falsely claim the Hambantota Port lease was a debt/equity swap.
6. Roar's editor in chief Roel Raymond has played a crucial role in Sri Lanka's regime change protests, by using her Twitter presence to support them and to rally people against the leaders.
7. These are some of her many tweets about the protests.
8. Roel Raymond can be seen with the USAID funded IREX team in the image below
9. Almost 2 months after the first riots/protests in Sri Lanka broke out, Roel Raymond was invited to meet the US ambassador

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Mar 21, 2023
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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ This is former Staff Sgt. Robert Bales who served in Afghanistan for US

On March 11th 2012, Bales walked into 3 different homes and killed 16 Afghan civilians including 9 children

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Among the victims were 4 men, and 3 women

Bales according to one eye witness, killed one woman by dragging her outside her home and repeatedly bashing her head against a wall
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Bales later set the bodies on fire

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Jan 8, 2023
Timeline of the average color revolution

Psyop stage

1. A "random" riot takes place. Violence erupts

2. The protests are now given an English name.

3. Hashtag is created

4. Social media handles pop up promoting the protests in unison with professionally designed graphics
5. NGOs and members of "Civil Society" use their own handles to promote the protests

6. Blatant lies about the government start circulating

7. Blatant lies about how the government is reacting to the protests start circulating
8. Members of "Civil Society" get interviewed by western media where they promote more lies

9. American shitlibs hop on the trend and make it the new current thing

10. Western diplomats express their support to the protests

11. Protest leaders emerge,mostly college students
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Jan 6, 2023
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ American media loves to talk about Chernobyl but never India's Bhopal disaster, world's worst industrial disaster, caused by a pesticide plant owned by US's Union Carbide Corporation Image
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Aug 14, 2022
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How a network of CIA operatives in Africa and Europe got exposed

1. Around 2013 the US started noticing that CIA agents who were supposed to operate undercover in Africa and Europe were being successfully identified, disrupting their missions even before they started
2. The targets were key locations connected to China's Belt & Road initiative.

3. It was speculated that this was a result of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach that occurred in 2012
4. It was disclosed in 2015 that as many as 22.1 million records were affected, including records related to government employees, people who had undergone background checks, their friends and family, and foreign contacts
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Aug 14, 2022
1/5) Liberal inability to understand dialectics always has been and will be their downfall. Sri Lankan regime change protestors of "Aragale" movement believe that they have now forever changed the Sri Lankan political sphere. However
2/5) What they don't realize is that the now ousted regime was a development of the contradiction between the rural working class and the urban upper/middle classes who were happy to collaborate with the imperialists. The protestors now consider this contradiction resolved, when
3/5) in fact it's not. The interests of the two groups remain different. The antagonism persists. This will give rise to a new development in the future, and as always they will complain about how the "uneducated rural poors" stagnate the growth of the country
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Jul 26, 2022
How the west enabled the funding of a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka

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1. Once dubbed one of the most dangerous terrorist organizations in the world, the LTTE was known for its deadly suicide attacks, and recruitment of child soldiers
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3. The LTTE's pursuit for an Ethnostate ended, when the Sri Lankan government defeated them in 2009.

4. A significant portion of the LTTE's funding came from the Pro LTTE interest groups consisting of the Tamil diaspora, in countries such as Canada, UK, Australia & Switzerland.
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