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Mike Ritland

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

The USAID and the State Department have approval over what staff they can hire. They closely coordinate on the kinds of stories or category of stories or workload that they can carry out. On USA.gov right now, everyone can see this in the Wayback Machine with USA.gov currently under maintenance, shall we say.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

The USAID and the State Department have approval over what staff they can hire. They closely coordinate on the kinds of stories or category of stories or workload that they can carry out. On USA.gov right now, everyone can see this in the Wayback Machine with USA.gov currently under maintenance, shall we say.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

The USAID and the State Department have approval over what staff they can hire. They closely coordinate on the kinds of stories or category of stories or workload that they can carry out. On USA.gov right now, everyone can see this in the Wayback Machine with USA.gov currently under maintenance, shall we say.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

There's an incredible document at USAID bragging about the accomplishments that this investigative reporting group has done. Now, these are hit piece journalists that are carried out to capacity build independent media, not independent from government. It's our government. It's independent from you or what we say independent from other governments.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

There's an incredible document at USAID bragging about the accomplishments that this investigative reporting group has done. Now, these are hit piece journalists that are carried out to capacity build independent media, not independent from government. It's our government. It's independent from you or what we say independent from other governments.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

There's an incredible document at USAID bragging about the accomplishments that this investigative reporting group has done. Now, these are hit piece journalists that are carried out to capacity build independent media, not independent from government. It's our government. It's independent from you or what we say independent from other governments.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

But they use this lie phrase independent media for all of their sponsored media assets. And so under the banner of supporting free and independent media in Central Europe, because they operate in Ukraine and about nine or ten or seven or eight Eastern European countries, it's jointly to do...

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

But they use this lie phrase independent media for all of their sponsored media assets. And so under the banner of supporting free and independent media in Central Europe, because they operate in Ukraine and about nine or ten or seven or eight Eastern European countries, it's jointly to do...

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

But they use this lie phrase independent media for all of their sponsored media assets. And so under the banner of supporting free and independent media in Central Europe, because they operate in Ukraine and about nine or ten or seven or eight Eastern European countries, it's jointly to do...

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

independent media, sustainability funding, and anti-corruption, because we want to root out corruption in Eastern Ukraine, and root out corruption in Eastern Europe, root out corruption in Romania, and anywhere that, basically what they do is, They effectively function to write hit pieces and dig up dirt on the political enemies of the U.S. and U.K.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

independent media, sustainability funding, and anti-corruption, because we want to root out corruption in Eastern Ukraine, and root out corruption in Eastern Europe, root out corruption in Romania, and anywhere that, basically what they do is, They effectively function to write hit pieces and dig up dirt on the political enemies of the U.S. and U.K.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

independent media, sustainability funding, and anti-corruption, because we want to root out corruption in Eastern Ukraine, and root out corruption in Eastern Europe, root out corruption in Romania, and anywhere that, basically what they do is, They effectively function to write hit pieces and dig up dirt on the political enemies of the U.S. and U.K.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

legacy foreign policy establishment and then provide a predicate for prosecutors to arrest them or seize their assets or to induce policy changes in the country. And in fact, on USA.gov, and everyone can find this in the Wayback Machine, they have a document that says funding for OCCRP in Eastern Europe, $20 million dollars. Function, capacity building, independent media, anti-corruption.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

legacy foreign policy establishment and then provide a predicate for prosecutors to arrest them or seize their assets or to induce policy changes in the country. And in fact, on USA.gov, and everyone can find this in the Wayback Machine, they have a document that says funding for OCCRP in Eastern Europe, $20 million dollars. Function, capacity building, independent media, anti-corruption.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

legacy foreign policy establishment and then provide a predicate for prosecutors to arrest them or seize their assets or to induce policy changes in the country. And in fact, on USA.gov, and everyone can find this in the Wayback Machine, they have a document that says funding for OCCRP in Eastern Europe, $20 million dollars. Function, capacity building, independent media, anti-corruption.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

Over $1 billion worth of assets seized. I believe it's several hundred policy changes induced in government or civil society organizations in the region. I believe they have six or seven government officials fired or sacked because of this group's reporting, including a president and a prime minister. So they're claiming criminal regime change.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

Over $1 billion worth of assets seized. I believe it's several hundred policy changes induced in government or civil society organizations in the region. I believe they have six or seven government officials fired or sacked because of this group's reporting, including a president and a prime minister. So they're claiming criminal regime change.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

Over $1 billion worth of assets seized. I believe it's several hundred policy changes induced in government or civil society organizations in the region. I believe they have six or seven government officials fired or sacked because of this group's reporting, including a president and a prime minister. So they're claiming criminal regime change.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

And then the final one is 456 arrests and indictments. So this is mercenary media for the state. Paid for, deputized... These are effectively hitmen hired to seize the assets of, to get fired from their jobs, and to arrest, criminally take, use the criminal justice system, create a pipeline between their sponsored journalists and the local prosecutors.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

And then the final one is 456 arrests and indictments. So this is mercenary media for the state. Paid for, deputized... These are effectively hitmen hired to seize the assets of, to get fired from their jobs, and to arrest, criminally take, use the criminal justice system, create a pipeline between their sponsored journalists and the local prosecutors.