Latest Breaking News On - ஜான் டை - Page 1 : vimarsana.com
Enquête du Wall Street Journal sur Instagram : les sénateurs exigent des réponses de Facebook
lopinion.fr - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lopinion.fr Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Knox County Detention Center staff wants pay raise
thetimestribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thetimestribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
at 10:54 am NPR
Of all the disruptions unleashed by the Trump White House on how the federal government typically works, the saga of one small project, called the Open Technology Fund, stands out.
The fantastical tale incorporates the spiritual movement Falun Gong, former White House strategist Steve Bannon, the daughter of a late liberal congressman and a zealous appointee of former President Donald Trump.
And specifically, it involves a fierce, months-long battle over whether the U.S. Agency for Global Media and the U.S. State Department should subsidize software developed by adherents of Falun Gong. The decision to prioritize this software stripped money intended for critical apps from a federal fund designed to bolster technology vital to dissidents overseas, officials say. On top of that, once approved for funding, over a six-month period the software served a grand total of four people. That s right, four.
castigating USAGM and OTF: Unfortunately, they have withheld sufficient funding from these technologies for nearly a decade, she wrote.
Swett declined NPR s request for comment. A spokeswoman said the foundation supported an all hands on deck approach and saw the agency as an ally, even if they disagreed on strategy.
Pack s prospects had accelerated once the White House launched an attack on the Voice of America for its coverage of the coronavirus outbreak in China. Bannon, who had advised Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign and in the White House, told
The Washington Post he had pushed for Pack because VOA and its sister networks should be on point with Trump s foreign policy, especially his hard-line tack against the Chinese communist regime.
Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
hide caption
toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
Falun Gong supporters marched from Capitol Hill to the Washington Monument in July 2015 in Washington, D.C. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
Of all the disruptions unleashed by the Trump White House on how the federal government typically works, the saga of one small project, called the Open Technology Fund, stands out.
The fantastical tale incorporates the spiritual movement Falun Gong, former White House strategist Steve Bannon, the daughter of a late liberal congressman and a zealous appointee of former President Donald Trump.
vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.