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🧵 The truth about USAID and their number one contractor Chemonics International Image
Chemonics International is one of the biggest U.S. government contractors in “global development” raking in billions from USAID.

But behind the glossy reports are fraud allegations, mismanagement, and ties to shady dealings. Image
What is Chemonics?

A Washington, D.C.-based development firm operating in 100+ countries. Its focus? Health, agriculture, governance, economic development. But its real business? Winning USAID contracts. In 2019 alone, it received $1.5 billion in USAID funding aka taxpayer’s money.
chemonics.comImage
It gets virtually all of its money primarily from USAID, but also the UK’s Foreign Office and the World Bank.

Interesting bedfellows right? Image
One of its biggest contracts was $9.5 billion of taxpayer money for a Global Health Supply Chain project (2016–2023). The catch? That project became a disaster.

“We had procurement analysts who were just making it up,” one former employee said. “We had trash data, and then we had people who didn’t understand how humanitarian aid cargo actually worked. It was a disaster waiting to happen.”

devex.com/news/too-big-t…Image
A Brief History
•Founded in 1975 as a subsidiary of Erly Industries.
•Became employee-owned in 2011 via an ESOP.
•In the ‘90s, helped privatize Ukraine’s agriculture sector.
•Took on post-conflict reconstruction in Afghanistan & Haiti—both riddled with cost overruns, subpar results and scandals.
Chemonics is 100% employee-owned, though its international staff weren’t included until recently. The transition was facilitated by billionaire Eijk Van Otterloo, co-founder of investment firm GMO. Image
Here is a sampling of the Current Board at Chenomics that has suddenly disappeared from their website.🤔


Susanna Mudge (Chair) – Former CEO, expanded Latin American operations. chemonics.com/board-of-direc…Image
Jamey Butcher (CEO/President) – Oversees global operations. Image
Archie Jones – Harvard Business School professor, private equity guy. Image
Gunjan Bhow – Ex-Disney & Amazon exec. Image
Phyllis Caldwell - Impact Investor & Former banker Image
A billion-dollar development contractor wouldn’t be complete without scandals.

1. Fraudulent Billing (2024)

Settled a $3.1 million case over reckless oversight.
•A subcontractor, Zenith Carex, overbilled USAID in Nigeria.
•Classic “we had no idea” defense from Chemonics.

justice.gov/opa/pr/chemoni…Image
2. Global Health Supply Chain Failures ($9.5B Project)

•Massive delays almost ran out HIV drugs in multiple countries.
•2021 audit: “poorly implemented controls.”
•A senior director lived like a king far beyond their salary.

thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023-1…Image
3. Discrimination & Labor Violations

- 2016: Paid $482,000 for discrimination against Black job applicants.

- 2022: Age discrimination lawsuit—ex-director alleged systematic bias.

news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-re…Image
4. Data Breach (2023)

•263,136 employees & applicants had personal data exposed.

•The company sat on it for nearly a year before disclosure.

fedscoop.com/a-major-usaid-…Image
5. Taliban Bribery Allegations (2020)

•Named in a lawsuit for allegedly paying protection money to the Taliban.
•A common practice among U.S. contractors in Afghanistan.

legalreader.com/lawsuit-says-u…Image
6. Xinjiang Forced Labor Ties (2024)

•Reportedly sourced products from Chinese entities linked to Uyghur labor camps.
•The company, of course, denied knowledge.

“The report by the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, or C4ADS, says that even two U.S. government agencies — the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Agency for International Development via its contractor Chemonics International — have not cut ties with East Turkistan (Xinjiang)-linked drug suppliers.”

turkistanpress.com/en/page/drugma…Image
Chemonics is part of a group known as “Beltway Bandits”, firms that keep U.S. foreign aid money cycling through D.C. contractors instead of actually helping local economies.

newsweek.com/beltway-bandit…Image
The story of USAID and Chemonics is not just about waste or mismanagement, it’s about a systemic racket that funnels billions of taxpayer dollars into private pockets under the guise of “foreign aid.” Haiti’s post-earthquake reconstruction laid bare the entire playbook of disaster capitalism:

•USAID awarded Chemonics multi-billion-dollar contracts, despite a track record of failures, delays, and outright fraud.
•Less than 1% of USAID funds went to Haitian-led organizations, while Chemonics and other Beltway contractors kept the lion’s share.
•From rigged elections to botched aid distribution, USAID and its contractors shaped Haiti’s reconstruction in a way that benefited foreign elites while leaving Haitians in deeper crisis.

The Clintons have played a major role in this racket worldwide.

And this isn’t just Haiti. From Afghanistan to Ukraine, the USAID-Chemonics machine operates the same way, exploiting crises to justify endless contracts while delivering little to nothing. The U.S. foreign aid system isn’t about “helping”, it’s about maintaining control, dependency, and corporate profit.

The next time a disaster strikes and some USG agencies is tasked with swooping in with billions, ask where that money is really going—because history tells us it’s not going to the people who need it most.

Your tax dollars at work.
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Jul 3
🚨They told us gain-of-function was banned.

However a new peer-reviewed study funded by the U.S. government shows scientists engineering novel flu viruses with enhanced ability to infect humans.

They say it is for “surveillance” but as I’ll show it’s just semantic subterfuge. Image
Researchers took canine influenza (H3N2-CIV) and deliberately co-infected dog tracheal tissue with:

The 2009 pandemic swine flu (H1N1pdm) and the Avian flu H9N2 which is known for high cytokine storms in humans.

They then serially passaged the virus i.e. sped up evolution in a lab.

The result was “reassortants” or simply put, hybrid flu viruses containing gene segments from both parental viruses.

In their own words:

“The co-infection of canine tracheal explants by H3N2-CIV and H1N1pdm or H9N2-G1H led to a remarkably high rate of reassortment. […] All reassortants replicated with similar or greater efficiency as compared to the parental strains. […] The drastic enhancement in viral replication is concerning and implies a high potential of these reassortants to be introduced into the human population.”

Why yes, that is concerning considering they intentionally created new, viable flu strains with human infection potential by mixing animal and human-origin influenza viruses.

Designed to enhance transmissibility, replication, and potentially pathogenicity.
THIS GAIN OF FUNCTION

They:

1. Created novel viruses through intentional co-infection and passaging
2. Identified new phenotypes (greater replication and inflammatory potential)
3. Demonstrated enhanced infectivity in human cells

It checks the boxes laid out in the U.S. government’s own definition of gain-of-function, particularly as related to Potential Pandemic Pathogen Care and Oversight (P3CO) policies, which are supposed to restrict research that could make pathogens more dangerous to humans.

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osp.od.nih.gov/policies/natio…Image
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Jul 2
Look at the scenario laid out in this report entitled “2024 National Blueprint for Biodefense”.

It presents a fictional but plausible bioterrorist attack occurring on July 4, 2025, designed as a narrative device to frame the report’s urgency and recommendations.Image
It’s essentially a dramatized worst-case scenario aimed at spurring policy action.

The setting is a fictional congressional joint inquiry convened in the aftermath of an unprecedented biological attack on U.S. soil.🤔

July 4, 2025 is chosen symbolically for maximum psychological and political impact.

Two days from now.

The attack is made with a genetically modified strain of Nipah virus that is engineered for high transmissibility and a 40%+ mortality rate.

It states that 280,000 human deaths occurred and 400,000 infections in one day.

There is also 200,000 animal deaths, indicating a zoonotic and agricultural biowarfare component and coordinated global attacks followed, killing tens of thousands in allied nations.Image
THE STRATEGY OF THE ATTACKERS

•They conducted small-scale trial runs ahead of time in various U.S. cities these went undetected.
•They leveraged a lack of preparedness, not just technologically, but bureaucratically and strategically.
•They exploited institutional complacency and false assumptions about the capabilities of state or terrorist actors.Image
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Jun 30
Mega Thread 🧵

Meet Susan Monarez, RFK Jr’s “handpicked” candidate to run the CDC.

She’s not a doctor.
She’s not a frontline scientist.
She is a biotech insider who’s spent 20 years building public-private partnerships between the feds and Big Pharma.Image
If confirmed, she’d be the first CDC Director without a medical degree in 70+ years.

Here’s what you’re not being told.

Monarez has spent her career not regulating industry but helping it navigate and exploit the federal health bureaucracy. Image
She’s been embedded at BARDA, DHS, the NSC, ARPA-H and now she’s poised to lead the CDC.

Quite the career arc.

Source:
healthevolution.com/bios/speaker/s…
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Jun 15
Mega Thread 🧵

Blowback Nation: How the CIA’s Iran Coup Forged a Theocracy with Nuclear AmbitionsImage
Operation Ajax – the 1953 Anglo-American coup in Iran – overthrew the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, ending Iran’s brief oil nationalization. U.S. and British intelligence orchestrated street riots and bribed officials to topple Mossadegh, largely to restore Western control of Iran’s oil and to prevent a feared tilt toward the Soviet bloc.

Source:

cia.gov/readingroom/do…Image
The motivations were explicit. Mossadegh had nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (BP today), enraging Britain, and he championed Iranian sovereignty over foreign oil concessions. London lobbied Washington to intervene, framing Mossadegh as a potential gateway for communism in the Cold War climate . In reality, U.K. officials privately admitted Mossadegh’s government was broadly democratic and nationalist but London and the CIA resolved to remove him to protect oil interests and Western hegemony.Image
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Jun 10
🧵Astroturf Uprising: The Billionaire-Funded Machine Behind the LA ICE Protests

The LA “protests” are being coordinated or backed by groups publicly listed as partners of No Kings, a coalition that claims to be about “people power” and “no more oligarchs.” Image
But almost all of their “partners” are funded by oligarchs.

Let’s start with who’s visibly involved in the LA protests:
•ACLU SoCal
•Indivisible
•Color of Change
•Black Voters Matter
•American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
•Communications Workers of America (CWA)
•Sunrise Movement

All No Kings partners.

All with deep-pocketed backers. This is just the tip of the iceberg but a good primer to understand how this world works.

Just look at all their partners, it’s a who’s who of leftist activists groups:

nokings.org/partnersImage
ACLU SoCal

A Key protester in LA. Pushing lawsuits, pressuring LAPD, decrying Guard deployment.

Funded by:
•George Soros’s Open Society Foundations ($50M+)
•Ford Foundation
•MacArthur Foundation

Sources:

nonprofitquarterly.org/50-million-sor…

fordfoundation.org/work/our-grant…

macfound.org/grantee/americ…Image
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Jun 3
🧵THREAD: The FDA Just Approved Moderna’s New COVID Shot, mNEXSPIKE®

But there’s a catch, they never tested it against a placebo.

They tested it against the other COVID shot. Why? Because “ethics.”

Here’s what they don’t want you to notice. Image
Moderna’s new vaccine, mNEXSPIKE®, was just greenlit by the FDA on May 31, 2025 for Adults 65+ and ages 12–64 with risk factors.

According to the FDA, the approval is based on a Phase 3 trial (NCT05815498) with ~11,400 participants.

But they didn’t test it against saline.

They tested it against Spikevax®, their other COVID shot.

Yes, really.

Source:
cnbc.com/amp/2025/06/01…Image
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