After Obama's 2008 victory, Hillary and the Clinton Foundation spent the next year (while…

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After Obama's 2008 victory, Hillary and the Clinton Foundation spent the next year (while there was no official Admin of USAID) trying to hide their own business...and emails.

Even GOP enforcer Cleta Mitchell ran cover for Hillary.

https://t.co/c1fvNJU851 https://t.co/AdcHbkgLbA

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Hillary was even getting advice on how to do it all from the Iraq War's own infallible Colin Powell.

https://t.co/He6ySjcsQP https://t.co/X5IAO9QfRs

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Sidney Blumenthal was barred from working directly with the State Department, so after Hillary's installment, the Clinton Foundation immediately hired her for $10,000/mo.

https://t.co/hOcyls61Uz

https://t.co/R5WX6xqw7H https://t.co/oy4otheFYm

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Since 2007, USAID has been providing support to Ukraine, helping them qualify and select judges, and oddly, found it necessary in an archived version of their site to mention how much they like using automated scoring systems.

https://t.co/SjjJcz91dQ https://t.co/IYbUMkb47h

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01/09 - 01/10: USAID had only Hillary Clinton and Alonzo Fulgham as COO.

USAID sponsored Anna Tolkachova, “Democracy and Governance Assessment in Russia,” a Russian, worked for Soros, Carnegie Corp, and previously at Univ of Michigan from 2002-2009

https://t.co/kINgbCBF8H https://t.co/3FHjwXDkU5

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Ukraine and USAID couldn't hold their new testing system for judges until Ukraine adopted their "Law on the Judiciary and the Status of Judges," which was guided, manicured, and molded by USAID and the U.S. State Department themselves.

https://t.co/ZWnGo5vjz0 https://t.co/YqJeNcsglG

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A month later, Paige Alexander wrote that USAID partnered with Ukraine, but the country still faced issues in protection of investors’ rights and contract enforcement.

"...putting political will behind reform can yield results."

https://t.co/ipkusQ5WUn https://t.co/WL4taCz0gI

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What was the solution everyone at the U.S. State Department had in mind?

Enter Michigan State University.

https://t.co/ZWnGo5vjz0 https://t.co/PBMBsaiZys

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MSU and Ukrainian faculty for 10 courses, producing 40 court administrators in 2013 alone.

Why would USAID care about training Ukrainians in "best practices" in 2013, after pecking around at the issue for 5 years prior already? https://t.co/fnweagiiQu

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Here's spilled beans in an article on Civil Service Organizations (CSO's) and relationships to USAID in achieving goals.

Their CSO's led protests in Ukraine in THE Maidan Revolution that happened, in February, weeks before this blogpost to USAID.

https://t.co/h70Xf3ztng https://t.co/8YA0lXjwh2

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How might State Dept look to hedge investments in an uprising of an entire country?

Luckily, USAID partnered w the NSF in 2011 on a slew of tech investments, thru the PEER program.

NSF says it leverages every mechanism of NSF-funding to achieve

https://t.co/R9nUpk0ELK https://t.co/xSwnnlzhHh

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Here are some grants through MS's Department of Computer Science and Engineering that I've covered before. This selection is from a resource I published along with some findings.

You'll see (DoD got in on the action around the same time.

https://t.co/xhPaSYqHmJ https://t.co/dKPVlQjI9h

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Just in this tiny window, it's served well to look at what the time previous bc of the very important context to what may influence events we examine.

2010 is the year that put MSU on the map working directly with the U.S. government...

https://t.co/xhPaSYqHmJ https://t.co/q9MG3Q9lxV

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In 2010, MSU Professor, Anil Jain began working on FBI, DOJ, U.S. Army, and DHS on biometric surveillance platforms.

https://t.co/Uh9WJ3OBcI https://t.co/v2m51T8bX8

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Only problem is in 2010, Anil Jain was teaching at Tsinghua University in Beijing, approved by State.

In 2009, he began 3yr tenure, later accepted into the Chinese Academy of Sciences 10 yrs later.

https://t.co/MahFsRVFGL
https://t.co/mwE1b02tct
https://t.co/aIsEFErsek https://t.co/jm5IHKWpw4

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Anil Jain oversaw Arun Ross' PhD at Michigan State, Ross, who led the Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR) laboratory at West Virginia University.

They were both awarded a $500,000 grant from the NSF in 2016, just before Ross went to go speak at a NATO workshop on biometrics.

https://t.co/Tlapz0vVAF
https://t.co/wBUg9R1O2x
https://t.co/1DK0TrAiWG

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Luckily, NATO would have no use for these surveillance systems in Ukraine, since Ukrainians' trust in the courts grew so much due to USAID's efforts, according to USAID.

Perhaps the State Department and the Pentagon did, in fact, fix the corruption problem in Ukraine!… https://t.co/Gvci9IAGiU

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In Ukraine, USAID has been concerned about all kinds of misinformation, even the 2018 global pandemic of misinformation around vaccines that no one seems to recall today.

What were they getting ahead of?
Were they afraid of something getting out?

https://t.co/gOF1A4mU3m https://t.co/QhNnpSsEym

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Was it something they had funded with Hunter??

https://t.co/OckiR7QA2i

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Or was USAID funding social media manipulation algorithms to help tamp down and outright *alter people's cognition* as part of an effort to tailor information?

https://t.co/O7bF5VjfmW
https://t.co/WAoerSE9qs https://t.co/t8Yrzftx9o

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That would only make sense, since in February of 2020, Ukraine had its own government app ready to go just in time for Covid, and with the aim already to hold internet elections.

https://t.co/WYOGnRRlpc
https://t.co/T3IZnNyUMz https://t.co/mwN2K9kM9I

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Just in January of this year, USAID approved another $650,000 to go toward the initiative...

***and on THE VERY SAME DAY, Axios published an article about how the U.S. was already eager to export the new app it had created***

https://t.co/6hErfBwqLL
https://t.co/9KUXWsZCfX https://t.co/uSbFJfodoY

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This thread was a continuation of the introductory thread, found here:

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