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Mike Ritland

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Shawn Ryan Show
#170 Mike Benz - USAID Funding CIA-Backed Mercenaries, Media Superweapons and Samantha Powers

Well, the Tide Center has โ€“ I think one of these is about a $25 million grant from USAID to the Tide Center. For the Tide Center to quote โ€“ and everyone can look this up. I believe I'm stating this accurately โ€“ To secure concrete commitments from foreign countries for certain foreign policy goals that are hinted at in the grant. Of course, this is another issue because of the secrecy around USAID.

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

Well, the Tide Center has โ€“ I think one of these is about a $25 million grant from USAID to the Tide Center. For the Tide Center to quote โ€“ and everyone can look this up. I believe I'm stating this accurately โ€“ To secure concrete commitments from foreign countries for certain foreign policy goals that are hinted at in the grant. Of course, this is another issue because of the secrecy around USAID.

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

These grant descriptions are very, very nominal. You know, instead of the, you know, 10 paragraphs or instead, you know, it's just oftentimes it's 50 word descriptions for USAID. hundreds of millions of dollars worth of grants.

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

These grant descriptions are very, very nominal. You know, instead of the, you know, 10 paragraphs or instead, you know, it's just oftentimes it's 50 word descriptions for USAID. hundreds of millions of dollars worth of grants.

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

These grant descriptions are very, very nominal. You know, instead of the, you know, 10 paragraphs or instead, you know, it's just oftentimes it's 50 word descriptions for USAID. hundreds of millions of dollars worth of grants.

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

And in this case, the Tide Center is being formally deputized to negotiate with secure foreign commitments from secure commitments for the United States government from foreign governments They're being deputized, and this may be the Tides Foundation rather than the Tides Center, which is its sister entity, but this is the Tides Network.

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

And in this case, the Tide Center is being formally deputized to negotiate with secure foreign commitments from secure commitments for the United States government from foreign governments They're being deputized, and this may be the Tides Foundation rather than the Tides Center, which is its sister entity, but this is the Tides Network.

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

And in this case, the Tide Center is being formally deputized to negotiate with secure foreign commitments from secure commitments for the United States government from foreign governments They're being deputized, and this may be the Tides Foundation rather than the Tides Center, which is its sister entity, but this is the Tides Network.

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

But that's what Harvard did, and that's what all these universities who get USAID funding do when they are involved in these activities. in that gooey line between domestic university researchers or domestic centers, but they have cultural exchange events with the people in Pakistan and the energy engineers there, like Arizona State University, for example, or Harvard, or Stanford, or MIT.

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

But that's what Harvard did, and that's what all these universities who get USAID funding do when they are involved in these activities. in that gooey line between domestic university researchers or domestic centers, but they have cultural exchange events with the people in Pakistan and the energy engineers there, like Arizona State University, for example, or Harvard, or Stanford, or MIT.

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

But that's what Harvard did, and that's what all these universities who get USAID funding do when they are involved in these activities. in that gooey line between domestic university researchers or domestic centers, but they have cultural exchange events with the people in Pakistan and the energy engineers there, like Arizona State University, for example, or Harvard, or Stanford, or MIT.

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

These have international touch points, and every one of those touch points can double as an instrument of statecraft. What's a big, fat, juicy incentive to go out and do that statecraft to achieve U.S. State Department ends? Big, fat grant funding from the U.S. State Department, USAID, and frequently DARPA and the U.S. Defense Department.

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

These have international touch points, and every one of those touch points can double as an instrument of statecraft. What's a big, fat, juicy incentive to go out and do that statecraft to achieve U.S. State Department ends? Big, fat grant funding from the U.S. State Department, USAID, and frequently DARPA and the U.S. Defense Department.

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

These have international touch points, and every one of those touch points can double as an instrument of statecraft. What's a big, fat, juicy incentive to go out and do that statecraft to achieve U.S. State Department ends? Big, fat grant funding from the U.S. State Department, USAID, and frequently DARPA and the U.S. Defense Department.

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

USAID, together with the U.S. State Department's Bureau for Refugee Population and Migration, Last year alone, according to, I believe, the Center for Immigration Studies, gave $1.6 billion to the migrant groups

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

USAID, together with the U.S. State Department's Bureau for Refugee Population and Migration, Last year alone, according to, I believe, the Center for Immigration Studies, gave $1.6 billion to the migrant groups

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

USAID, together with the U.S. State Department's Bureau for Refugee Population and Migration, Last year alone, according to, I believe, the Center for Immigration Studies, gave $1.6 billion to the migrant groups

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

who formed the illegal migrant trail from South America and Latin America up into the southern border, paying for their food, their transport, their shelter, giving them often cash debit cards. So this is... A billion and a half dollars that USAID, in conjunction, because again, USAID always x-ray through. USAID is the mask. State Department is mask off.

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

who formed the illegal migrant trail from South America and Latin America up into the southern border, paying for their food, their transport, their shelter, giving them often cash debit cards. So this is... A billion and a half dollars that USAID, in conjunction, because again, USAID always x-ray through. USAID is the mask. State Department is mask off.

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

who formed the illegal migrant trail from South America and Latin America up into the southern border, paying for their food, their transport, their shelter, giving them often cash debit cards. So this is... A billion and a half dollars that USAID, in conjunction, because again, USAID always x-ray through. USAID is the mask. State Department is mask off.