March 2025
The DOGE Miracle!
(.... and Its Downside)
First, the glorious and epochal UPside.
Everywhere, people are wondering how on earth the Trump administration arrived so magically equipped to take down Washington's corrupt and criminal bureaucracy? Hitherto impenetrable and untouchable due to its myriad powerful stakeholders (forever looting the public purse through endless scams) — how was it possible to disentangle, expose and uproot this monolithic money-laundering octopus, and do it in the blink of an eye?
Epic waste and subversion
In just three short weeks, under the direction and leadership of President Trump and Elon Musk, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), newly created by Trump to audit public spending, revealed BILLIONS of tax dollars being wasted and/or fraudulently misdirected, including $100 billion within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which Dr Lee Vliet of Truth for Health described as "incomprehensible and staggering." Other jaw-dropping amounts from the $50 billion allocated annually to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have been exposed as funding the global neo-Marxist agenda by facilitating the overthrow of elected governments, promoting sex education and abortion (the latter to the tune of $607 million alone!), as well as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and every kind of associated woke insanity. A grab bag of USAID-funded items and persons include:
• sex change programs and LGBTQ activism in Guatemala;
• inclusion and diversity initiatives in Vietnam;
• $7.9 million to convince Sri Lankan journalists to eliminate “gender binary language”;
• $20 million in Iraq for a Sesame Street TV show to brainwash Muslim infants with Western (to include papal!) "inclusion" and "tolerance" propaganda;
• hundreds of millions of taxpayer funds to the insanely wealthy Clintons, Bill Gates, George Soros et. al., and of course BLM.
• At least $4 million to actor Ben Stiller and $5 million to actor Sean Penn just to be filmed meeting the Ukrainian President. (The Truman Show/War/Hollywood Propaganda Machine at work on the taxpayer's dime, it featured Penn giving Zelensky one of his Oscars, saying he could bring it back to Malibu when he "wins." ... Cringe.)
• $20 million for Moroccan pottery classes
• $27 million to give gift bags to illegals
• $11 million to tell Vietnam to stop burning trash
??#@#!!
And on and on and on... including many hilariously demented DOGE discoveries like these:
• $3 million to study steroid enhanced hamster fighting
• $2.3 million to study cocaine effects on beagles
• $600,000 studying parrot romance
• $500,000 studying racial aggression in mice
• $1.1 million training mice to binge drink
• $2.1 million encouraging Ethiopians to wear shoes
• $187,000 verifying that kids love their pets
• $2.7 million studying Russian cats on treadmills
• $875,000 studying cocaine effects on quail mating
How to process this level of insanity and wickedness? Hard-pressed Americans can barely afford basic groceries!
Funding Mockingbird Media
Of particular interest, Zero Hedge reports that USAID has "funnelled half a billion dollars to a secretive non-governmental organisation [NGO] operating a global news propaganda matrix.”
The name of said organisation is Internews Network [IN], via which USAID sponsored, financed, or trained 6,200 journalists, 707 non-state media outlets, and 279 civil society organizations in 2023, bankrolling media in 30 countries (that we know of) and propagandising the best part of a billion people in that year alone. Wikileaks adds that “The [IN] operation claims ‘offices’ in over 30 countries, including main offices in US, London, Paris and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok and Nairobi. Since 2008, when electronic records begin, more than 95% of IN’s budget has been supplied by the US government…”
Further, Jon Rappoport found that "Internews has been a major player in disseminating standard CDC/WHO MEDICAL lies. Lies, for example, about AIDS and COVID. We now know yet another way key medical deception has been put into people’s heads throughout the world: Internews." He concludes that "USAID is the CIA of medical journalism."
It goes without saying that some of the state and international media paid by USAID deployed endless smear campaigns and lies about Donald Trump’s candidacy during his election campaign, while Wikipedia further records that "Internews has also supported social media censorship initiatives."
In this latter regard, we now learn that USAID was secretly funding with American taxpayer dollars a massive misinformation and internet censorship project in London, headed by Nina Jankowicz — Biden's infamous "Disinformation Czar" — who, during oral evidence she provided to our UK parliament on its Orwellian Online Safety Bill, compared free speech to "fairy dust" and advocated algorithmic censorship to hide online content from browsers, among much else (cf. "Dystopia Rising", CO, June/July 2022).
As someone truly commented: "The Deep State's global censorship network is being exposed — this wasn't just about America. It was a coordinated effort to silence voices worldwide. Now, it's ALL coming to light." And the light is illuminating the dark deeds of that subversive force so often referenced in these pages: viz., the Mockingbird Media; the CIA/USAID control of the world's press and global narratives. Socio-political analyst Jay Dyer neatly summed up the brainwashing matrix:
So all the tax money was just stolen and funnelled through USAID, among other organisations, to propagandise and mind control the people the taxes were stolen from, as well as the rest of the world.
Funding revolutions and other dirty business
As for overthrowing governments, Mike Benz, a former State Department official and Executive Director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, related how USAID cooked the Brazilian vote. "If USAID did not exist," he said, "Bolsonaro would be the president of Brazil and Brazil would still have a free and open Internet. That's what the USA does, they kill domestic populism because it gets in the way of their foreign policy."
In this regard, another commentator elaborated on X about the colour revolutions (the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the Rose in Georgia, the Cedar in Lebanon, the Tulip in Kyrgyzstan, etc.) that seemingly appeared out of nowhere as spontaneous organic movements for democracy, but which were cultivated and contrived by a foreign power:
A 2006 archived USAID website proudly claims the agency "supported" revolutions in Ukraine, Georgia, Lebanon, and Kyrgyzstan. USAID funded and trained thousands of journalists, lawyers, judges, and election workers, conducted polls questioning election legitimacy, published reports alleging fraud, and helped oversee new elections, among other initiatives.
The same source also noted that:
"A 2014 archived USAID report proudly states that the agency funded research on "novel bat SARS-like coronaviruses" at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Of course they did. Their dirty finger pollutes every pie.
Based on his encyclopaedic knowledge of the Agency, Mike Benz has stressed that "USAID touches every plot of dirt on God's green earth." Whether funding ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and the Taliban, or paying off prosecutors to act against Bolsanaro, or sponsoring stories that harmed Marine Le Pen and got Emmanuel Macron re-elected, or interfering in British and German politics, or massively funding the leftwing Politico "news" site which spent the last 10 years trying to destroy the MAGA movement — "When it's too dirty for the CIA," insists Benz, "you give it to USAID."
Considering the sordid history of the Central Intelligence Agency that claim seems implausible. Yet the founder of USAID's number one contractor, Chemonics International, has himself stated that, above all else, he started his so-called "global sustainable development firm" in 1976 because "I've always wanted a way to have my own C.I.A." His success in achieving that goal explains a lot about the level of corruption DOGE is unveiling. Benz again:
I've done 50 hours of private livestream lectures for my X subscribers on USAID and every time I mention Chemonics, I stress this wormhole is at the dark heart of how USAID does what it does: operating as a private, self-sustained, standalone, off-the-shelf CIA.
Since depopulation is the darkest depth of that "dark heart," Bill Gates is immersed in it. "My foundation partners with USAID on nutrition and getting vaccines out," he wailed on a TV talk show while fearmongering about "literally millions of deaths" that might occur if Musk and MAGA take down USAID (— 'thereby cutting off the hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars I receive from the Agency,' he might've added). Yet in the real world — i.e., beyond the smoke and mirrors of Mockingbird Media narratives and talk shows — DOGE is switching off the USAID vax spigot at the same time as King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia is confirming the serious harm to fertility rates among men caused by USAID-funded Covid mRNA 'vaccines.'
Tip of the iceberg
Surveying the surreal revelations and the concrete damage, investigative reporter and author Celia Farber wrote:
In my mind, there is no possibility of exaggerating the importance and impact of what is coming to light about USAID.
It will billow, spill, and pour out, over time. I hope people don’t dismiss all this because of their feelings about Musk, Trump or anybody else.
This Octopus was writing the very movie of the whole world’s induced, falsified “reality.” Nothing less. “American statecraft.” It controlled all media, all culture, all elections, all everything, around the world.
USAID to Soviet Union, and China, 70 years ago: “Hold my beer.”
Is this Octopus/Blob now in a net from which it never escapes?
Or is it always we who wind up in the net?
It seems to me the full impact of the story has not begun to land on us yet.
Correct! It is not even close to landing. Here's why:
The joyful celebrations sparked by the unprecedented transparency that is bringing this waste and corruption to light constitute a natural and proper response; feeding in turn the President's incredible popularity ratings courtesy of a public relieved and grateful that he is doing what he promised during the 2024 campaign (as lauded by 70% of adults recently polled). We must bear in mind, however, that the astonishing level of fraud churned out of the USAID sausage machine is the merest TIP of the humungous iceberg of plundered governmental monies being laundered across the globe by the rich and powerful and their lackeys.
Just consider that finance guru and former top-ranking government official Catherine Austin Fitts has long been calling for a comprehensive audit of the Pentagon to account for "missing money" totalling $21 TRILLION (—which assumes even greater significance in light of the country's $37 trillion national debt). This unimaginable amount stolen from the American people — which the Ukraine gravy train, once audited, will magnify — lines pockets and fuels self-serving agendas and ideologies to the ends of the earth. It is heartening, therefore, to hear President Trump put the Military Industrial Complex on notice.
After upending USAID and other departments he's sending Musk and his crack team to the Pentagon, assuring the American people: "I'm gonna go to the military, let's check the military. We're going to find billions, hundreds of billions of fraud and abuse." Trillions, in fact, at the service of power and control through chaos. Musk discovered, for instance, "that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to terrorist groups."
Even more astounding still, Trump has also ordered Musk to audit the all-powerful Federal Reserve: a private banking cartel and law-unto-itself variously described as The Globalist Mothership, and "our chief human despot outside human form." If DOGE can actually call the Fed to account in any lasting and meaningful way, it will dwarf anything else it might achieve.
So, there is very much more to come: whether unspeakable treachery to be uncovered, or savings to be made through identifying and stopping astronomic criminal waste (especially in Ukraine) and immediately applying those rescued funds to address the workaday needs of destitute taxpayers.
Data mining with algorithms and AI
The task will continue on relentlessly via the same Trump/Musk modus operandi that laid bare hitherto opaque money trails and financial numbers at lightning speed: namely, by letting loose its small crew of youngsters with a mastery of data mining through algorithmic Artificial Intelligence. As Dr Vliet explained:
The brilliant, in fact genius level, young IT engineers on the DOGE team have accessed the IT and payment systems and developed algorithms to search for fraud and waste in multiple federal agencies, including Treasury, USAID, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Department of Energy, NOAA, Department of Education, and many others. This is an appropriate and urgently needed function of the Executive Branch of Government: to audit the agencies under the Executive Branch! Seems obvious – but yet it has not been done in many, many years!
Amplified as ever by the Mockingbird Media, hysterical shrieks and legal challenges by compromised Democrats, bureaucratic placemen, and Soros-funded judges (comprising 30% of all U.S. judges!) have erupted over this dutiful, decades-overdue auditing of the use of public funds — by a President elected to do just that!
Liberal comedian Jimmy Dore likened this telling reaction to "Bill Gates saying we shouldn't have a vaccine commission. Why? Wouldn't they only confirm that vaccines are 'safe and effective' Then everyone would have more confidence in the vaccines. Why would you be afraid to look into vaccines?"
The answer, of course, lies in DOGE uncovering the corruption they have directly or indirectly facilitated. They are now overwhelmed by the sight of their own filth suddenly blowing back on them as their shield of "plausible deniability" is shattered by bespoke algorithms. Hence the almighty howls emanating from the camp of this Domestic Enemy; calling for violent resistance to Trump and DOGE. Shocked and awed by the devastating onslaught of a wartime president — for that is what Donald Trump truly is — noise, panic and lies are all they can muster in response. "To me," says ex-Democrat Dore, an honest critic of Trump, "I like it that things are being disrupted." Adding with relish: "All the worst people in the world are afraid right now. I like that." Amen!
All the while the media naturally portrays the telling aversion of Swamp creatures to oversight and people scouring their books, as upright and noble. Even as they depict the man elected to do what he's doing as "scary", "shocking," "abusive" and "dictatorial," and denounce his actions as "illegal." And yet a recent CBS News/YouGov poll found that 53% of US adults approved of Trump's overall job in office so far, a majority also describing him as "effective," "focussed", "tough", "competent" and "energetic"!
As for their usual treacherous playbook — viz., rank defiance of presidential orders in order to continue criminal business as usual — Trump has torn it up, as Musk made clear in this tweet of 10 February apropos FEMA, the monolithic and sinister Federal Emergency Management Agency:
The DOGE team just discovered that FEMA sent $59M [million] LAST WEEK to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants. Sending this money violated the law and is in gross insubordination to the President's executive order... That money is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high end hotels for illegals! A clawback demand will be made today to recoup those funds.
Unlike theatrical magic, the effect of Trump's apparently magical feat in this vital matter of public accountability is not illusory but real. What it does have in common with magic tricks, however, is the painstaking work behind the astonishing outcome, as envisaged in "Override," the ensuing summary depiction of how he pulled it off. Posted 6 February on https://eko.substack.com/, we should thank the anonymous "Eko" for his brilliant conception of how Deep State Mission Impossible was made possible.
A word of caution
As for the downside of DOGE, it lies in its methodology. For, once the implacable iron law of "efficiency" is applied to every aspect of life through AI, it lends itself to absolute technocratic rule. In which case, despite the invaluable public service he is performing with great energy, enthusiasm and generosity, Elon Musk himself is problematic — due to his drive for technocracy as the answer to modern ills. Consider his 'interesting' pedigree:
• His father has revealed that he was even named in honour of a fictitious technocrat: namely, "The Elon," the benevolent technocratic dictator in Wernher von Braun's novel about colonising Mars. (A Nazi rocket scientist, Von Braun was a beneficiary of Operation Paperclip: saved from prison and brought to the U.S. after the war, along with nearly 2,000 other Nazi war criminals, to work for the Americans. He became a major figure at NASA.) This explains Musk's lifelong obsession with Mars and the technocratic means of getting there.
• Musk's maternal grand-uncle was a pro-Hitler fascist who founded a European group called "Technocracy Inc."
• Even his working title on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)-filing for Tesla, his multinational automotive and clean energy company, is not CEO but "Techno-king."
It is clear, therefore, that he views the world in technocratic terms. And one fears that he is far from alone among influential Trump administration figures in thinking that only billionaires and their scientific/engineering offsiders are smart enough to solve mankind's problems. The immediate resounding success of his DOGE data mining will only encourage this dangerous mindset, stoking our fears over what happens to humans amid Elon's renowned and obsessive quests: whether to populate Mars, brain-chip everyone (for purely medical reasons, of course), blanket the earth with his satellites (only to expand internet access, naturally), and now, in all likelihood, to apply AI to replace inefficient humans en masse.
"As Musk and his team take apart federal agencies, do they have a replacement plan?" asks Jon Rappoport. He provides the following extracts from the Washington Post. Although quoting the paper reluctantly, since it peddles CIA disinformation, he rightly insists that "it triggers MAJOR concerns":
“To replace the existing civil service, Musk’s allies are looking to technology. DOGE associates have been feeding vast troves of government records and databases into artificial intelligence tools, looking for unwanted federal programs and trying to determine which human work can be replaced by AI, machine-learning tools or even robots."
[...] “‘The end goal is replacing the human workforce with machines,’ said a U.S. official closely watching DOGE activity. ‘Everything that can be machine-automated will be. And the technocrats will replace the bureaucrats’.”
"Automate the federal bureaucracy? AI?" queries Rappoport:
“This could mean embedding policy in digital automatic sequences and moves. And once there, how and when and by whom would it be changed?”
He also fears the medical implications:
“I’ve been saying for years: embedding medical policy in AI is supercharged slavery. Imagine the CDC vaccine schedule automated as AI, like a shopping list you can get fined for failing to follow. Your digital money account is reduced or shut down. All this happens without human intervention or concern, because it’s policy and it’s automatic and it’s guided by [a] Machine.”
This is excellent food for thought. Since we seem to be straddling the Mother of All Two-edged Swords: whereby the algorithmic AI path to freedom from endemic fraud, biblical waste and abuse of power is the same path leading to technocratic enslavement.
As we watch and marvel at the cleaning of America's Augean stables — encrusted with self-serving filth that has impoverished the U.S. and propagandised the world for Satan — let us remain ever alert, therefore, to the problematic side of Operation DOGE. While masterful and dutiful, unless it is kept on a very tight leash it could quickly turn "efficiency" into a Golden Calf; an idol before which all must bow as corrupt human bureaucracies morph into inhuman administrative powers infinitely more amoral, opaque, implacable, and irreformable.