Good on The Echo for stepping up and devoting its front page to the global geopolitical stage. Slightly lacking in imagination however, as your article locked in goose step with the likes of Reuters and BBC in their latest shrill outbreak of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
In my opinion the US Agency for International Development is not an aid organisation, it is a giant Ponzi scheme run by globalist warmongers. It has washed a conservative $37.6 billion through the Ukraine money-laundering operation, to fill the pockets of armament manufacturers and other warmongers across the globe. To me, its principal remit has been to create and sustain human conflict.
Interesting you highlighted a local connection to the disgraced organisation [USAID]. I just read the latest annual report on the glossy Positive Change for Marine Life website. Strange USAID was not cited anywhere as a funding source in the financials. I guess that can happen given 95 per cent of the funding is casually labelled ‘donations’.
Another issue highlighted by the financials is ‘campaign expenses’ being greater than ‘operations’, a reliable signifier of much gloss, but little substance. It all sounds wonderful with the ‘objective of healthy waterways’, and a local focus on the Brunswick River. But as The Echo has pointed out in numerous articles, the state of the Brunswick River and other Northern Rivers is appalling, and getting worse.
Having said that, let’s see the outcome of ‘an increased emphasis on understanding chemical waste runoff from various sources’. What are these sources? Who exactly is poisoning the Brunswick River? Roll your sleeves up Lovejoy and do some proper local journalism.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
