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Jun 21 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Let’s take @Alladdin1983 work and go a little deeper. Hedge funds, $100 in office expense and universities begging for tax payer money, they giving it away to other universities - just so they can come back and ask for more money.
The Research Foundation has $72 million in hedge funds… against what? Why are they using tax payer money to bet against the stock market?
They have another $117 million invested in global stock funds. And $89 million handled by private firms.
Then consider 2 of their 5 paid contractors are Banks.
As mentioned earlier, half their funding comes from tax payers, funneled into the foundation from a dozen other universities.
This on top of the $17 million in travel, $7.5 million in meetings and conferences, and $100 million in office expenses… how much timer does one company need?
May 29 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
The DOGE suggestions are often criticized for cutting into agencies like Veterans’ Affairs.
.“they are taking away from vets”
This is a thread of more than $6 million in veteran affairs spending with Oriental Trading Company.
edible gummy bears
tropical tote bags
Glow sticks
And thousands of other Chinese-manufactured gimmick items.
While the company is based in Omaha, Nebraska, and has a significant fulfillment center there, it's estimated 85% of Oriental Trading Company's products are manufactured in China.
Neon bottles
May 20 • 18 tweets • 8 min read
This dive speaks to government waste, global manipulation and falls in line with the research being conducted by @DataRepublican
This is a long thread so please read through to get full context.
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) activities and funding sources reveal deep entanglements with government agencies, defense contractors, and foreign governments, raising questions about its true independence, mission of peace, and global agenda.
With more than $8.9 million in government funding and additional government contracts it was worth look into their IRS filings, which revealed alarming globalist agendas and high-profile connections.
President Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, who took the helm in 2022, has a history of service in both the Clinton and Obama administrations.
Former board chair Penny Pritzker, a billionaire and former Secretary of Commerce under Obama, exemplifies the revolving door between CEIP and high-level government positions.
This pattern raises concerns about the organization's ability to provide unbiased perspectives. Which only deepens in their financials.
CEIP's programs often mirror the agendas of its funders. For instance, its work on nuclear policy and international security frequently aligns with the strategic interests of NATO and the U.S. State Department.
Other programs invoke world order and nation rebuilding. Seemingly a big task for a company that only lists $147 million in revenue.2) For each of the last four years CEIP has expanded details of operations in their IRS 990 schedule O filings.
One such program was transitioning their Geoeconomics and Strategy program into “America Statecraft Program” in 2021.
Calling it an “urgent need for a more disciplined US foreign policy” that is “realistic about the limits of America power.”
CEIP also launched an “Africa program which seeks to engage policymakers and scholars to shape global discourse and policy in the region.”
May 10 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Why is the National Health Institute funding the Chinese Communist Party-backed Peking University?
$21 million in funding. (Thread 🧵)
$7.47 million dollar in tax payer money sent to the CCP university in the Haidian District in Beijing China since 2010, and $15 million approved by the Biden Administration that was awarded this year. @DOGE_NIH
Sources: @DataRepublican website, CNN NPR and @usaspending special thank you to both tagged accounts for providing awesome tools.
The Chinese Communist Party connections with Peking University were publicly know as early as 2020, as reported by NPR.
“From 2013 to 2017, at least 109 universities unveiled their first-ever charters, affirming party leadership, according to NPR's analysis.”
“The new charters effectively hand the party ultimate control over the schools' administration, mirroring how the party dominates government agencies.
NPR specifically named Peking University, Renmin University, and Nanjing University, noting they have “a prominent international studies program jointly administered with Johns Hopkins University.”
@DOGE
May 1 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Part 3 of 3
On the path of money from PATH - it eventually landed with Clinton Health Access Initiative Inc - which also received $93.9 million in federal grants.
Among the board members are Bill and Chelsea Clinton, and there is a nest of related NGOs under CHAI - for a different countries (read thread for more)
Thank you to the diligent hard work of @DataRepublican for the tools to find this. She has been calling out funding to the Clintons and others for a long time.
CHAI reported revenues of $228 million with a grant out flow of just $30 million.
$4 million for trustees
$77.1 million in salaries
$4.7 million in 401k
$22.3 million in employee benefits
$7 million in conferences
$20.7 million in travel
Apr 22 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Every penny counts: US tax payers funded $89 million in grants related to Disinformation and/or censorship.
As you go through the thread below, you start to realize why government is fighting to hold on to these. From manipulating world politics, to Russian disinformation:
Congress has long passed laws allowing this to happen legally with no accountability.
This money, being spent in their districts, incentivizes congress to vote yes. Many will run on slogans like “I got $ in funding for our state’s colleges and universities”
What they won’t say what it was used for:
- $23.5 million to Covid “disinformation” with a specific focus on migrants and to “Essential Workers and Undocumented Individuals”
- $575,000 for journalists to study journalist to spot fake news
- $7.2 million centered around media disinformation in the United States.
- $43.2 million to COVID misinformation
-$1.2 million misinformation related to a ban on menthol cigarettes
-$37.3 million centered around misinformation in foreign elections
-$133k for kids to attend disinformation camp
Below is a thread showing some of the disinformation/censorship grants that were awarded under the previous administration.
$22.4 million went to one misinformation/disinformation program. The money was divided (after paying themselves) to seven subgroups, one specifically targeting Undocumented individuals
How did they do it? By paying “trusted influencers” now you understand the social media push.
And $1.1 million to University of Hawaii to spend in California to study undocumented workers to understand disinformation - this grant is specifically to collect information and data.
Mar 28 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
A new topic crossed my desk today.
Nonoperating 501 (c) (3) - these are tax exempt organizations that receive private funding, but grant money to public entities- in this particular case using funds to supply a public school system in North Carolina with questionable materials.
These organizations do not have to report who their donors are, but donations and contributions are tax deductible.
Meaning an individual can avoid paying income tax, because they donated to a nonprofit charity. This creates a big loophole for money transfers to projects. @DOGE_IRS @DOGE
(See thread 🧵 for more details)
Thank you to @mamabear1245 for the OP
With just $7 million in revenue, Peotry Foundation spent more than $18 million according to their IRS 990PF filing.
$5 million in wages and benefits, $2.2 million in professional fees and $5 million in publications (like the one above) and “other expenses”
Mar 26 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
The USDA, on Monday, posted on its website, an opportunity for participants to remove DEIA and “far-left climate features” from their projects.
What existing projects have those included? Here are 15 threads 🧵 totaling over 1/4 billion dollars $300,350,724.00.
This is part 3 of 5 on DEIA grants. The first two parts (Dept of Energy and DHHS) are at the bottom of the thread)
The post subtitles “Applicants Who Wish to Remove Harmful DEIA and Far-Left Climate Features from Project Proposals Have 30 Days to Propose Project Revisions”
The USDA post specifically sites the need to address grants given as part of the “so called Inflation Reduction Act” @DOGE_USDA @DOGE
Thank you to @DataRepublican for the assistance with the tools.
Purdue university has 3 awarded grants totaling $8 million that address critical climate initiatives.
Mar 10 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
123 different NGOs funded nearly a half billion on immigrant work - funded by tax payers.
Click to open the full thread 🧵
- be sure to see slide 2 and 4
I was finally able to extract @DataRepublican tool results into excel to help with calculations.
The next threads are the largest of these.
Look at this spider web of pass through money from the largest of of the immigrant grants - Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights at $80 million.
With 96.9% of their funding coming from tax payers.
Feb 27 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Here’s a company with a tale of two tails. Epstein and waste spending
Click to view the whole thread 🧵
On one hand they jumped out with an investigation of any possible involvement with Jeffrey Epstein.
On the other they grifted US taxpayers money with in-house expenditures
IPI collected $2.9 million in grants and another $2 million in gifts.
Feb 23 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
A many have asked - the International Red Cross received over $3 billion in funding, and as expected there’s massive waste.
Be sure to click and read the whole thread 🧵 for some huge shockers. on a $3 billion budget, only $354 million to food water and medicine.
More than $2.8 billion came from US grants (keep in mind this is the International Red Cross not the US Red Cross)
Feb 16 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
Here is part 2 of Save the Children but waste the money. This is a thread 🧵- for the full take open and read down
Yesterday we looked at $234 million spent on operations. Today where the remaining $676 million went - 🤔
Only $80 million of the $919 million was spent here in the USA. The largest recipient of of that was $6.3 million to their sister company a lobbying agency
Let this sink in: your tax money, $6 million was spent as a charitable donation to a group to beg Congress for more money.
Feb 15 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
Remember my little rant about Save the Children and how I wish I could find out just how much flowed in and out?
Hands held high clapping for @DataRepublican here’s the thread 🧵 I’ve been waiting to do-> click to see all
$900 million in grants - but wait there’s more: