CURRENT EVENTS July 6 - July 13

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“… But almost instantly, FEMA ran into bureaucratic obstacles, four officials inside the agency told CNN.

As CNN has previously reported, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — whose department oversees FEMA — recently enacted a sweeping rule aimed at cutting spending: Every contract and grant over $100,000 now requires her personal sign-off before any funds can be released.

… For FEMA, where disaster response costs routinely soar into the billions as the agency contracts with on-the-ground crews, officials say that threshold is essentially “pennies,” requiring sign-off for relatively small expenditures.

… “We were operating under a clear set of guidance: lean forward, be prepared, anticipate what the state needs, and be ready to deliver it,” a longtime FEMA official told CNN. “That is not as clear of an intent for us at the moment.”

For example, as central Texas towns were submerged in rising waters, FEMA officials realized they couldn’t pre-position Urban Search and Rescue crews from a network of teams stationed regionally across the country.

In the past, FEMA would have swiftly staged these teams, which are specifically trained for situations including catastrophic floods, closer to a disaster zone in anticipation of urgent requests, multiple agency sources told CNN.

But even as Texas rescue crews raced to save lives, FEMA officials realized they needed Noem’s approval before sending those additional assets. Noem didn’t authorize FEMA’s deployment of Urban Search and Rescue teams until Monday, more than 72 hours after the flooding began, multiple sources told CNN….”
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That is criminal.
 
BillOfRights said:
"On the first day of his second term, Trump issued Executive Order 14169, calling for a 90-day pause on all foreign-development and assistance programs pending further review. A subsequent stop-work order froze payments and work already under way, hobbling programs worldwide. The administration dissolved USAID, the main U.S. organization that provides humanitarian aid and the primary implementing agency for PEPFAR."
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Obviously POTUS signed the order but Musk targeted USAID and PEPFAR long before Trump was inaugurated because Musk wants to sow as much pain and chaos in South Africa as humanly possible. I stand by my assertion that Elon Musk was singularly responsible for the elimination of PEPFAR.
 
wmheel1287 said:
Obviously POTUS signed the order but Musk targeted USAID and PEPFAR long before Trump was inaugurated because Musk wants to sow as much pain and chaos in South Africa as humanly possible. I stand by my assertion that Elon Musk was singularly responsible for the elimination of PEPFAR.
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Tell us more about PEPFAR
 
ColdBlueSteel said:
Tell us more about PEPFAR.
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The George W admin started the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to address the HIV epidemic worldwide.

For a decade or 2 at least, South Africa has had the highest rates of HIV/AIDS in the world. So SA has gotten a lot of resources and money froM PEPFAR over the years. And it has helped them tremendously, and has largely subdued the rates of HIV in the country.

Given Musk’s obvious homophobia/transphobia, as well as his hatred of black South Africans (among whom HIV rates are higher than among whites), it’d be logical that Musk would target PEPFAR.
 
Don’t know where to put this, but it just needs to be said: Never in all my life have I seen an administration in such chaos. There is nothing at this point that the current administration has under control. It was expected by a majority of Americans that MAGA would completely fuck this whole thing up, and these partisan buffoons have proven us all correct, with flying colors. What an absolute shitshow.
 
I often ponder which right-wing dictatorship this regime has learned the most lessons from.
 
nycfan said:


“… But almost instantly, FEMA ran into bureaucratic obstacles, four officials inside the agency told CNN.

As CNN has previously reported, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — whose department oversees FEMA — recently enacted a sweeping rule aimed at cutting spending: Every contract and grant over $100,000 now requires her personal sign-off before any funds can be released.

… For FEMA, where disaster response costs routinely soar into the billions as the agency contracts with on-the-ground crews, officials say that threshold is essentially “pennies,” requiring sign-off for relatively small expenditures.

… “We were operating under a clear set of guidance: lean forward, be prepared, anticipate what the state needs, and be ready to deliver it,” a longtime FEMA official told CNN. “That is not as clear of an intent for us at the moment.”

For example, as central Texas towns were submerged in rising waters, FEMA officials realized they couldn’t pre-position Urban Search and Rescue crews from a network of teams stationed regionally across the country.

In the past, FEMA would have swiftly staged these teams, which are specifically trained for situations including catastrophic floods, closer to a disaster zone in anticipation of urgent requests, multiple agency sources told CNN.

But even as Texas rescue crews raced to save lives, FEMA officials realized they needed Noem’s approval before sending those additional assets. Noem didn’t authorize FEMA’s deployment of Urban Search and Rescue teams until Monday, more than 72 hours after the flooding began, multiple sources told CNN….”
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