Steve Peacock's U.S. Trade & Aid Monitortag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-941612053140989572014-02-16T11:48:14-05:00Original reporting on little-known U.S. government funded foreign aid projects, so-called "drug war" initiatives, and overseas business subsidies.TypePadFeds Want to Track Your DNA Like a License Plate (WND)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e201a73d79549f970d2014-02-16T11:48:14-05:002014-02-16T11:48:14-05:00Just as details are emerging about a controversial, nationwide vehicle-surveillance database, WND has learned the federal government is planning an even more invasive spy program using “physiological signatures” to track down individuals.Steve PeacockObama Plan: Temp Jobs at $1 Million Each (WND)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e201a51168809c970c2014-02-09T19:45:20-05:002014-02-09T19:45:20-05:00The federal government’s portfolio of international health-care initiatives has grown so enormous that the Obama administration is infusing another quarter-billion dollars simply to help operate this global bureaucracy.
The estimated return on this taxpayer-funded venture: 250 new support staff.Steve PeacockHearing: Al-Qaeda’s Resurgence in Iraq: A Threat to U.S. Interests [?] (Commentary)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e201a5116308ba970c2014-02-03T13:30:54-05:002014-02-03T13:30:54-05:00Thus far there is just one "witness" scheduled to testify Wednesday (2/5/14) at the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, which is titled "Al-Qaeda’s Resurgence in Iraq: A Threat to U.S. Interests."
Mr. Brett McGurk, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Iraq and Iran from the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, apparently is going to help sort out the situation for this critical committee.Steve PeacockObama Studying Spending More … In Kenyatag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e201a3fcb32602970b2014-02-03T06:26:13-05:002014-02-03T06:26:13-05:00Now that an $87 million African trade-promotion project is reaching the end of its five-year run, the Obama administration might spend millions more to decide whether it wisely invested U.S. taxpayer dollars in the venture.Steve PeacockFBI Becomes the 'Watchers-in-Chief' (WND)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e201a5113d7c60970c2014-01-21T19:44:20-05:002014-01-21T19:44:20-05:00My latest from WND. -- S.P.
The number of people identified by the Obama administration as potential terrorists surged in the past two years, and the FBI now is preparing for another spike as it plans to intensify its scrutiny of foreign visitors and U.S. citizens, WND has discovered.Steve PeacockFederal Judge Slams Obama on Foreign-Aid and Secrecy (Fox News)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e2019b037c64c6970c2013-12-22T20:51:14-05:002013-12-22T20:51:14-05:00Steve PeacockFirst Step of U.S.-Funded African Drought Project? Create New Bureaucracytag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e201a3faafece6970b2013-12-18T14:11:34-05:002013-12-18T14:11:34-05:00A $20 million Kenya-based anti-drought program continues its search for contractors to carry out the five-year endeavor for the U.S. government -- and half the estimated cost will be eaten up in Phase One, which establishes a management bureaucracy to oversee the project.Steve PeacockSurprise! Plenty of Obama Money for These People (WND)</i)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e2019b0264c715970b2013-12-08T20:48:02-05:002013-12-09T04:46:24-05:00The Obama administration is launching a program with the ambitious goals of sparking business investment, reducing investment risks, and creating and sustaining new jobs.
However, the beneficiaries are Middle Eastern and North African nations, not workers in the United States, WND has discovered.Steve PeacockDisturbing Truth Behind Obama's Travel Madness (WND)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e2019b01d898eb970c2013-11-29T11:58:53-05:002013-11-29T11:58:53-05:00Supporters of Barack Obama tout his dedication to the responsibilities of the presidency by noting that he had taken 96 days of vacation at the point in his term that President George W. Bush had taken a reported 335.
But they admit that 51 of Bush’s trips were to his Texas ranch, while records show that Obama’s destinations have ranged from exotic European and African locales to pricey digs to Hawaii, where he’s sometimes traveled separately from his family, effectively doubling transportation costs for taxpayers.Steve PeacockObama Finally Fixing Health Care … In Kenyatag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e2019b00e85ca2970c2013-11-11T00:01:00-05:002013-11-11T16:33:07-05:00Though the federal government is struggling to make Obamacare functional for Americans, the administration is simultaneously helping to upgrade the health-care system in Kenya. The ambitious plan to expand health-care and social-services access to millions of Kenyans is one of several recent U.S. endeavors to surface, indicating that yet another...Steve Peacock