So, what’s all this brouhaha about Trump sending in that South African trillionaire Musk to shut down USAID operation? Wasn’t USAID a case of “name and nature” being as one – the US sending “aid” to lift up the poor and helpless overseas?? Imagine, they sent millions of tents to house refugees in Africa, the Middle East, and wherever wars displaced folks, when they had 771,800 homeless in America!! Yes…they even had them counted, but thought more about those “furriners”!! Your Eyewitness gets all choked up when he thinks about this level of sacrifice for our fellow man; and sometimes even a tear is squeezed out!!
So, back to the shuttering of USAID by the US under Trump. If the truth be told, USAID wasn’t all about helping their fellows: men, women and children. Turns out it was part of the American effort to win the hearts and minds of people across the world away from those dastardly Ruskie Commies. They had a good yarn to spin as to how the Yanks were keeping us barefooted and pregnant down on the farm while scooping off all our raw materials, which they used to live high off the hog!!
But even though USAID showed the Yanks cared by handing out medicines, tents and food etc., there were times when the Ruskies – and their proxies – got too big for their britches, and had to be disciplined. Initially, this was the responsibility of the CIA – which had been formed after WWII. Like here in Guyana, where Cheddi just refused to accept that he shouldn’t cosy up to the Ruskies, and the CIA had to burn half of Georgetown on Black Friday in 1962 to get his attention!!
Not surprisingly, it didn’t take too long for them to be dubbed the “Ugly Americans” …which rubbed off on their fellow countrymen!! Something had to be done. Answer?? JFK launched USAID in 1961 to dole out aid – but to also provide cover for doing what the CIA did, but more “kinder and gentler”!! For instance, they didn’t do any “wet jobs” – assassinations; that was farmed out to Israel’s Mossad!! So we see USAID workers doing vaccinations in Pakistan providing the intel – and cover – for taking out Osama Bin laden!!
But the standard modus operandi of USAID was “civil society organizations” being formed and funded where the US wanted regime change/ adjustment!! So, in much of Eastern Europe, after the USSR collapsed and new governments were formed, the “colour revolutions” were fostered by pro-Western, USAID-funded organizations!!
Right here in our ole Mudland, didn’t we see the “Blue Caps” and “Vote like a Boss” political campaigns launched before the 2015 elections, when we had regime change?? La luta continua!!
…of politicians and the poor
Your Eyewitness read with great interest the fate of those squatters of Mocha, who took the Govt. to court for millions of dollars in compensation – for smashing and removing their shacks!! Now, your Eyewitness was very interested in this case, not least because he sees these Venezuelans squatting all over the country in unsightly shacks, which would be multiplied exponentially after Trump deports their 600,000 cohorts. Would they be having the same right to sue the Government??
Well, now we know, ‘NO!!’ Our most esteemed Chief Justice ruled, most commonsensically, that the squatters didn’t acquire any prescriptive or other rights – so they were TRESPASSERS when the owner, the Govt., showed up. And that when they were offered land by the said Govt. to relocate, but refused on advice of the Opposition, they duly lost corn and husk!! The lesson seems to be that, once again, the advice of the Opposition can prove fatal.
What was their advice on voting in the coming elections??
…for love and land
Seems every time your Eyewitness opens his newspaper – yes, Dear Reader, he still reads “paper” newspapers – he’s swamped with stories about land. Soon we’ll hear the cry: “Land, land everywhere – but not an acre to buy”!!
