Mike Benz
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and Brown Jr. had covert security clearances for work with the Central Intelligence Agency. So while you have one of the world's premier infrastructure and development firms, which would later go on to work with Soros in Africa, and then would later spawn Vice President Dick Cheney
and Brown Jr. had covert security clearances for work with the Central Intelligence Agency. So while you have one of the world's premier infrastructure and development firms, which would later go on to work with Soros in Africa, and then would later spawn Vice President Dick Cheney
and Brown Jr. had covert security clearances for work with the Central Intelligence Agency. So while you have one of the world's premier infrastructure and development firms, which would later go on to work with Soros in Africa, and then would later spawn Vice President Dick Cheney
And Liz Cheney, who started off her career in USAID and comes from that same Halliburton, Brown and Root lineage, they've direct ties all over the CIA. And I guess I bring this up to say that in addition to that, you had this web of adjacent NGOs around statecraft there. So, for example, in that same files, again, the CIA is doing an internal fact check in this memo.
And Liz Cheney, who started off her career in USAID and comes from that same Halliburton, Brown and Root lineage, they've direct ties all over the CIA. And I guess I bring this up to say that in addition to that, you had this web of adjacent NGOs around statecraft there. So, for example, in that same files, again, the CIA is doing an internal fact check in this memo.
And Liz Cheney, who started off her career in USAID and comes from that same Halliburton, Brown and Root lineage, they've direct ties all over the CIA. And I guess I bring this up to say that in addition to that, you had this web of adjacent NGOs around statecraft there. So, for example, in that same files, again, the CIA is doing an internal fact check in this memo.
where they say Ramparts has accused all of these people of being CIA. And it's a memo, I think, to one of the local directors saying, we've reviewed the files. Here's what's true and false about the Ramparts article. And in one of these, they describe something called the Vernon Fund, which was a private philanthropy.
where they say Ramparts has accused all of these people of being CIA. And it's a memo, I think, to one of the local directors saying, we've reviewed the files. Here's what's true and false about the Ramparts article. And in one of these, they describe something called the Vernon Fund, which was a private philanthropy.
where they say Ramparts has accused all of these people of being CIA. And it's a memo, I think, to one of the local directors saying, we've reviewed the files. Here's what's true and false about the Ramparts article. And in one of these, they describe something called the Vernon Fund, which was a private philanthropy.
Well, it was created by the Central Intelligence Agency to look to the public like a private foundation. And it was set up to fund the webs of teachers unions all throughout the world. They sponsored something called the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession.
Well, it was created by the Central Intelligence Agency to look to the public like a private foundation. And it was set up to fund the webs of teachers unions all throughout the world. They sponsored something called the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession.
Well, it was created by the Central Intelligence Agency to look to the public like a private foundation. And it was set up to fund the webs of teachers unions all throughout the world. They sponsored something called the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession.
The CIA was running a initiative at the time to control the education space during the Cold War to stop the spread of communist teachings or communist sympathizing teachings and curricula especially in Cold War conflict zones all over Europe, all over Africa, all over Latin America.
The CIA was running a initiative at the time to control the education space during the Cold War to stop the spread of communist teachings or communist sympathizing teachings and curricula especially in Cold War conflict zones all over Europe, all over Africa, all over Latin America.
The CIA was running a initiative at the time to control the education space during the Cold War to stop the spread of communist teachings or communist sympathizing teachings and curricula especially in Cold War conflict zones all over Europe, all over Africa, all over Latin America.
And so to do that, to control, to make sure that students and young people and every person in society who comes up through the education system is ideologically aligned against communism, they had to control the teachers' unions and what was being taught, what was being promoted. And
And so to do that, to control, to make sure that students and young people and every person in society who comes up through the education system is ideologically aligned against communism, they had to control the teachers' unions and what was being taught, what was being promoted. And
And so to do that, to control, to make sure that students and young people and every person in society who comes up through the education system is ideologically aligned against communism, they had to control the teachers' unions and what was being taught, what was being promoted. And
I bring this up, again, I hate communism, but all this was repurposed against right-wing populism when Trump won in 2016. I noticed. Because instead of this same blob being threatened from its communist socialist left, it was being threatened from its populist nationalist right. But so the CIA, so in this memo, The CIA says, yeah, they're right about the Vernon Fund. Ramparts is right.
I bring this up, again, I hate communism, but all this was repurposed against right-wing populism when Trump won in 2016. I noticed. Because instead of this same blob being threatened from its communist socialist left, it was being threatened from its populist nationalist right. But so the CIA, so in this memo, The CIA says, yeah, they're right about the Vernon Fund. Ramparts is right.