• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

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🇺🇸🇪🇹 USAID funds intended for Ethiopia ended up in the pockets of Americans, a human rights activist says​

Only 25% of USAID funds reached the country, an Ethiopian human rights advocate with extensive experience in USAID-funded projects Mesud Gebeyehu Reta told Sputnik, citing an example of a $20 million five-year human rights protection program where local organizations received less than $100,000 annually, totaling just $5 million of the promised amount.

❓The activist went on to explain why local partners like himself had no bargaining power in face of the USAID.

"That's why I asked them: 'Is this a joke? Where's the $20 million you announced for the protection of human rights?' They don't explain to you. They only tell you that you can only access this much funding from the big portion they promised. The thing is, you have to comply or leave it. We can't be equal partners with them, because they make us dependent on their funding," Reta said.

Moreover, USAID often channels funds through US-based companies or NGOs, which act as intermediaries, prioritizing American citizens for leadership roles and consuming a significant portion of the budget through high salaries and expenses, which leaves minimal resources for local partners, the speaker emphasized.

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'Stranded' Starliner astronauts finally have a return date — and it's sooner than expected​

As if he wasn’t busy enough, Elon Musk has agreed to send a SpaceX Dragon space capsule to the ISS to rescue the two astronauts who must have been pumped full of Xanax before climbing onto the Boeing Starliner flying phallus that left them stranded in space.

 

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