Sunday, February 9, 2025

U.S. Department of State - Marco Rubio

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Imogen Foulkes - BBC News, Geneva

United Nations aid agencies have been sent questionnaires by the US asking them to state if they have "anti-American" beliefs or affiliations.
Among the 36 questions on the form, sent by the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and seen by the BBC, is one asking if they have any links to communism.
Some of the world's biggest humanitarian organisations have received the questionnaire, including the UN Refugee Agency and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

The Trump administration has launched a cost-cutting drive across the US government, led by billionaire Elon Musk, and has closed down much of its foreign aid.
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U.S. Department of State
I don’t know when we’ve gotten it in our head that a visa is some sort of birthright. It is not. It is a visitor into our country, and if you violate the terms of your visitation, you are going to leave. — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Face The Nation
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Hidden Americans ... Secretary of State Marco Rubio just deemed that only 294 USAID staffers are necessary out of 14,000.
The entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 employees. This has to be the biggest mass firing yet
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* Shadow of Ezra@ShadowofEzra
Trump cut ties over their handling of COVID-19—a charge Tedros fiercely denies.
The World Health Organization is desperate for U.S. money.
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President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia hinted that there might not be a place at the table for Europe during peace negotiations with Russia.
Asked if Europeans had a role in talks between Russia and Ukraine, Trump’s envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, said at a security conference in Germany over the weekend that he was "from the school of realism, and that is not going to happen."
The comments come as Trump presses ahead with plans to negotiate peace between Ukraine and Russia, which includes planned meetings between U.S. and Russian officials in Saudi Arabia this week.
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President Trump will sign an executive order withdrawing the United States from the UN Human Rights Council and cut funding to UNRWA. – the agency that provides aid to Gaza.

The current president of the so-called ‘Human Rights Council’ is Ambassador Jürg Lauber of Switzerland.
Trump will also prohibit “future funding for the U.N. relief agency for Gaza,” Politico reported.

“The UNHRC has demonstrated consistent bias against Israel, focusing on it unfairly and disproportionately in council proceedings,” the document said, according to Politico. “In 2018, the year President Trump withdrew from the UNHRC in his first administration, the organization passed more resolutions condemning Israel than Syria, Iran, and North Korea combined.”
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The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched a new project against environmental pollution worth US$11.3 million for Vietnam in the next five years. The Reducing Pollution project will be implemented by USAID partner Winrock International in close cooperation with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE), addressing address multiple sources of environmental pollution. 
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1. Panama Canal:

2. Greenland:

As often as President Trump does it, I’m not sure I’ll ever get used to someone saying the most outlandish things — and then making them happen.
But I’m learning that’s President Trump’s signature move.
So although what I’m about to tell you might seem like a joke, I’m hoping you are familiar enough with President Trump — and our news — to know it’s not a joke.

Not only has President Trump continued to push the U.S. acquisition of Greenland for a strategic partnership critical to American national security…

But legislation has now been introduced in Congress that would cross the appropriate “T’s” and dot all the right “I’s” so as to authorize President Trump to actually purchase the Nordic Island of Greenland.
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3. Canada - Mexico:
4. China:
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5. Terrorists:

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