• Re: Obama Was Using USAID to Pretend to Send 'Aid' Overseas But Was Lau

    From Rudy Canoza@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 23 11:52:25 2025
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    On 3/23/2025 11:13 AM, Chadlee "cuck" Blowjob, 250lb 5'3" morbidly obese convicted child molester and lying fat fuck, lied:

    On 23 Mar 2025, Snit <Brock.McNuggets@gmail.com> posted some news:67e03aa9$4$1788$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com:

    pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
    On 2025-03-23, John Smyth <smythlejon2@hotmail.com> wrote:
    ' Barack Obama Was Using USAID to Pretend to Send ‘Aid’ Overseas
    But Was Laundering It to Train “Rent-a-Riots” Instead'

    <https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/huge-barack-obama-was-using
    -usaid-pretend-send/>

    'Mike Benz, the founder of the Foundation for Freedom Online,
    recently joined Joe Rogan on his very popular podcast The Joe Rogan
    Experience with over 19 million subscribers.

    ** The entire podcast is here.

    The podcast was filmed several weeks ago but a clip from this
    discussion is making the rounds this week on social media.

    During their conversation, Mike Benz shared how Barack Obama was
    using money to USAID to pretend to send “aid” overseas. In
    actuality, Obama was laundering the taxpayer dollars and using it to
    train “rent-a-mobs” instead!

    This is a huge development but maybe not so surprising considering
    how Democrats believe they can do anything they please. with other
    people’s money.

    From the video, via Wall Street Apes:

    Mike Benz on Joe Rogan: “This was a scandal during the Obama USAID
    era. We were running a number of rogue USAID operations in Cuba at
    the time. — I’m simply showing the American people where your
    tax dollars are going and how these things are structured in order
    to systematically fool you and to fool Congress and to fool the
    White House:

    — USAID pumped $1.2 billion in, and we sponsored these activist
    groups and these civil society organizations to learn how to use
    Facebook, learn how to use Twitter, lose, learn how to use hashtags,
    learn how to coordinate street protests so that everyone knows where
    to go, what street to show up on, what kind of slogans to know, to
    use in order to create the pro-democracy predicate for it.”

    He talks about how Obama funded a Twitter clone that would be used
    to push propaganda in Cuba to inspire these protests and overthrow
    the government (Mike Benz explains how Barack Obama overthrew many
    governments)

    “So what they did is they took the exact same thing as Twitter,
    same user interface, same like, and retweet button Zunzuneo is, is
    the Cuban slang word for hummingbird. So just, it means it’s
    it’s bird, it was the Twitter bird, the whole thing. But the whole
    trick about it was you have to make it look like it’s coming from
    the Cubans if you’re going to do this operation. They started
    running this in 2010 which right during the Arab Spring.

    They were using USAID funds that were designated to Pakistan.



    — We can get into the deeper layers of this, but contractors were
    funded by USAID.

    The data would then be used for micro targeting efforts towards anti
    and pro government users. In Cuba, the developers aim to, at first
    used non-controversial content such as sports and music and
    hurricane updates — What was the plan the whole time?

    Once they built up enough subscribers, they would begin to introduce
    political messages through social bots and encourage dissent in
    this, in this astroturfing — the whole point is, once they hit a
    critical mass, they would create ‘Rent-a-Riots”.

    “You’re using Cayman Islands bank accounts. You’re saying
    it’s, you’re earmarking it for Pakistani aid.” But the money
    was never sent to Pakistan, it was sent to the Cayman Islands to
    fund this whole operation.

    All this and much more is broken down extremely well in this video.
    This is INSANE.

    And it goes back to Barack Obama.

    Now you know why Democrats are losing it after President Trump shut
    down USAID.

    It’s the Democrat Party’s slush fund'

    Now you can see why the democrats are fighting tooth and nail against
    DOGE. They are up to their eyeballs in corruption and they realize
    Trump being an DC outsider is not beholden to the DC swamp.

    The democrat party is in total disarray and are fighting among
    themselves. Just wait until the indictments begin and you'll get to
    watch the wharf DemonRATS jumping ship in order to save their own
    skins.

    Start stocking up on popcorn because it won't be long before the fun
    begins.



    Why do you white supremacists buy into such nonsense?

    This article contains several false and unsupported claims. Here are
    the key ones:
    1. “Barack Obama was using USAID to pretend to send
    ‘aid’ overseas but was
    laundering it to train ‘rent-a-riots’ instead.”
    • There is no evidence that Obama laundered USAID funds or
    used them to
    train organized protest groups. USAID primarily funds humanitarian,
    economic, and development programs.

    Obama was an activist crook

    No, Blowjob, you stupid squat-to-piss no-fight faggot.

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  • From John Smyth@21:1/5 to Mike Terrell on Sun Mar 23 18:02:34 2025
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    On 3/23/2025 11:13 AM, Mike Terrell wrote:
    On 23 Mar 2025, Snit <Brock.McNuggets@gmail.com> posted some news:67e03aa9$4$1788$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com:

    pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
    On 2025-03-23, John Smyth <smythlejon2@hotmail.com> wrote:
    ' Barack Obama Was Using USAID to Pretend to Send ‘Aid’ Overseas
    But Was Laundering It to Train “Rent-a-Riots” Instead'

    <https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/huge-barack-obama-was-using
    -usaid-pretend-send/>

    'Mike Benz, the founder of the Foundation for Freedom Online,
    recently joined Joe Rogan on his very popular podcast The Joe Rogan
    Experience with over 19 million subscribers.

    ** The entire podcast is here.

    The podcast was filmed several weeks ago but a clip from this
    discussion is making the rounds this week on social media.

    During their conversation, Mike Benz shared how Barack Obama was
    using money to USAID to pretend to send “aid” overseas. In
    actuality, Obama was laundering the taxpayer dollars and using it to
    train “rent-a-mobs” instead!

    This is a huge development but maybe not so surprising considering
    how Democrats believe they can do anything they please. with other
    people’s money.

    From the video, via Wall Street Apes:

    Mike Benz on Joe Rogan: “This was a scandal during the Obama USAID
    era. We were running a number of rogue USAID operations in Cuba at
    the time. — I’m simply showing the American people where your
    tax dollars are going and how these things are structured in order
    to systematically fool you and to fool Congress and to fool the
    White House:

    — USAID pumped $1.2 billion in, and we sponsored these activist
    groups and these civil society organizations to learn how to use
    Facebook, learn how to use Twitter, lose, learn how to use hashtags,
    learn how to coordinate street protests so that everyone knows where
    to go, what street to show up on, what kind of slogans to know, to
    use in order to create the pro-democracy predicate for it.”

    He talks about how Obama funded a Twitter clone that would be used
    to push propaganda in Cuba to inspire these protests and overthrow
    the government (Mike Benz explains how Barack Obama overthrew many
    governments)

    “So what they did is they took the exact same thing as Twitter,
    same user interface, same like, and retweet button Zunzuneo is, is
    the Cuban slang word for hummingbird. So just, it means it’s
    it’s bird, it was the Twitter bird, the whole thing. But the whole
    trick about it was you have to make it look like it’s coming from
    the Cubans if you’re going to do this operation. They started
    running this in 2010 which right during the Arab Spring.

    They were using USAID funds that were designated to Pakistan.



    — We can get into the deeper layers of this, but contractors were
    funded by USAID.

    The data would then be used for micro targeting efforts towards anti
    and pro government users. In Cuba, the developers aim to, at first
    used non-controversial content such as sports and music and
    hurricane updates — What was the plan the whole time?

    Once they built up enough subscribers, they would begin to introduce
    political messages through social bots and encourage dissent in
    this, in this astroturfing — the whole point is, once they hit a
    critical mass, they would create ‘Rent-a-Riots”.

    “You’re using Cayman Islands bank accounts. You’re saying
    it’s, you’re earmarking it for Pakistani aid.” But the money
    was never sent to Pakistan, it was sent to the Cayman Islands to
    fund this whole operation.

    All this and much more is broken down extremely well in this video.
    This is INSANE.

    And it goes back to Barack Obama.

    Now you know why Democrats are losing it after President Trump shut
    down USAID.

    It’s the Democrat Party’s slush fund'

    Now you can see why the democrats are fighting tooth and nail against
    DOGE. They are up to their eyeballs in corruption and they realize
    Trump being an DC outsider is not beholden to the DC swamp.

    The democrat party is in total disarray and are fighting among
    themselves. Just wait until the indictments begin and you'll get to
    watch the wharf DemonRATS jumping ship in order to save their own
    skins.

    Start stocking up on popcorn because it won't be long before the fun
    begins.



    Why do you white supremacists buy into such nonsense?

    Because they are gullible fucking Nazi morons.

    Obama was an activist crook

    Bullshit. *Zero* evidence of that.

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  • From J Carlson@21:1/5 to Brock McNuggets on Sun Mar 23 18:05:08 2025
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    On 3/23/2025 4:44 PM, Brock McNuggets wrote:
    On Mar 23, 2025 at 11:13:01 AM MST, not Michael Terrell, but some squat-to-piss homo forger, lied:

    On 23 Mar 2025, Snit <Brock.McNuggets@gmail.com> posted some
    news:67e03aa9$4$1788$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com:

    pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
    On 2025-03-23, John Smyth <smythlejon2@hotmail.com> wrote:
    ' Barack Obama Was Using USAID to Pretend to Send �Aid’ Overseas
    But Was Laundering It to Train “Rent-a-Riots” Instead'

    No.


    Obama was an activist crook

    No.


    If you’re going to throw out an insult-laden rant, at least back it up with something resembling a fact.

    He wouldn't recognize a fact if it bit him in his 5mm pin dick.

    Calling Obama an “activist crook” without evidence is just empty noise.

    Exactly right.

    I was not an Obama fan, but he was not and is not a crook.

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  • From J Carlson@21:1/5 to Mitchell Holman on Sun Mar 23 18:07:27 2025
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    On 3/23/2025 10:44 AM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
    Snit <Brock.McNuggets@gmail.com> wrote in news:67e03aa9$4$1788$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com:

    pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
    On 2025-03-23, John Smyth <smythlejon2@hotmail.com> wrote:
    ' Barack Obama Was Using USAID to Pretend to Send ‘Aid’ Overseas
    But Was Laundering It to Train “Rent-a-Riots” Instead'

    <https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/huge-barack-obama-was-using
    -usaid-pretend-send/>

    'Mike Benz, the founder of the Foundation for Freedom Online,
    recently joined Joe Rogan on his very popular podcast The Joe Rogan
    Experience with over 19 million subscribers.

    ** The entire podcast is here.

    The podcast was filmed several weeks ago but a clip from this
    discussion is making the rounds this week on social media.

    During their conversation, Mike Benz shared how Barack Obama was
    using money to USAID to pretend to send “aid” overseas. In
    actuality, Obama was laundering the taxpayer dollars and using it to
    train “rent-a-mobs” instead!

    This is a huge development but maybe not so surprising considering
    how Democrats believe they can do anything they please. with other
    people’s money.

    From the video, via Wall Street Apes:

    Mike Benz on Joe Rogan: “This was a scandal during the Obama USAID
    era. We were running a number of rogue USAID operations in Cuba at
    the time. — I’m simply showing the American people where your
    tax dollars are going and how these things are structured in order
    to systematically fool you and to fool Congress and to fool the
    White House:

    — USAID pumped $1.2 billion in, and we sponsored these activist
    groups and these civil society organizations to learn how to use
    Facebook, learn how to use Twitter, lose, learn how to use hashtags,
    learn how to coordinate street protests so that everyone knows where
    to go, what street to show up on, what kind of slogans to know, to
    use in order to create the pro-democracy predicate for it.”

    He talks about how Obama funded a Twitter clone that would be used
    to push propaganda in Cuba to inspire these protests and overthrow
    the government (Mike Benz explains how Barack Obama overthrew many
    governments)

    “So what they did is they took the exact same thing as Twitter,
    same user interface, same like, and retweet button Zunzuneo is, is
    the Cuban slang word for hummingbird. So just, it means it’s
    it’s bird, it was the Twitter bird, the whole thing. But the whole
    trick about it was you have to make it look like it’s coming from
    the Cubans if you’re going to do this operation. They started
    running this in 2010 which right during the Arab Spring.

    They were using USAID funds that were designated to Pakistan.



    — We can get into the deeper layers of this, but contractors were
    funded by USAID.

    The data would then be used for micro targeting efforts towards anti
    and pro government users. In Cuba, the developers aim to, at first
    used non-controversial content such as sports and music and
    hurricane updates — What was the plan the whole time?

    Once they built up enough subscribers, they would begin to introduce
    political messages through social bots and encourage dissent in
    this, in this astroturfing — the whole point is, once they hit a
    critical mass, they would create ‘Rent-a-Riots”.

    “You’re using Cayman Islands bank accounts. You’re saying
    it’s, you’re earmarking it for Pakistani aid.” But the money
    was never sent to Pakistan, it was sent to the Cayman Islands to
    fund this whole operation.

    All this and much more is broken down extremely well in this video.
    This is INSANE.

    And it goes back to Barack Obama.

    Now you know why Democrats are losing it after President Trump shut
    down USAID.

    It’s the Democrat Party’s slush fund'

    Now you can see why the democrats are fighting tooth and nail against
    DOGE. They are up to their eyeballs in corruption and they realize
    Trump being an DC outsider is not beholden to the DC swamp.

    The democrat party is in total disarray and are fighting among
    themselves. Just wait until the indictments begin and you'll get to
    watch the wharf DemonRATS jumping ship in order to save their own
    skins.

    Start stocking up on popcorn because it won't be long before the fun
    begins.



    Why do you white supremacists buy into such nonsense?

    This article contains several false and unsupported claims. Here are
    the key ones:
    1. “Barack Obama was using USAID to pretend to send
    ‘aid’ overseas but was
    laundering it to train ‘rent-a-riots’ instead.”
    • There is no evidence that Obama laundered USAID funds or
    used them to
    train organized protest groups. USAID primarily funds humanitarian,
    economic, and development programs.
    2. “Obama was laundering the taxpayer dollars and using it
    to train
    ‘rent-a-mobs’ instead!”
    • No credible sources support this claim. USAID has funded
    civil society
    programs, but there is no proof of direct involvement in
    “rent-a-mobs.”
    3. “USAID pumped $1.2 billion in, and we sponsored these
    activist groups
    and civil society organizations to learn how to use Facebook, learn
    how to use Twitter… to coordinate street protests.”
    • No verified sources confirm that USAID directly trained
    activists for
    protests. USAID has funded media literacy and internet access
    programs, but that does not equate to organizing protests.
    4. “Obama funded a Twitter clone that would be used to push
    propaganda in
    Cuba to inspire these protests and overthrow the government.”
    • The claim likely refers to ZunZuneo, a USAID-funded Cuban
    social
    network. However, reports (including an AP investigation) indicate its
    goal was to promote free speech in Cuba, not to incite riots or regime
    change. The U.S. government has long supported democracy programs in
    authoritarian regimes, but this does not equate to staging a coup.
    5. “They were using USAID funds that were designated to
    Pakistan.” • No credible evidence suggests USAID
    misallocated Pakistan-designated
    funds to Cuba or any other country in this way.
    6. “The money was never sent to Pakistan, it was sent to
    the Cayman
    Islands to fund this whole operation.”
    • There is no proof that USAID funds were funneled through
    Cayman Islands
    bank accounts for political operations. Such claims would require
    financial documentation, which has not been presented.
    7. “It’s the Democrat Party’s slush fund.”
    • USAID operates under bipartisan congressional oversight.
    There is no
    factual basis for calling it a “Democrat Party slush fund.”

    This article relies on conspiracy theories and lacks credible evidence
    to support its extreme claims.



    At least it didn't delve into stale
    biritherism rants and "OBama is a muslim"
    drivel.

    That will emerge shortly, I trust......
    The right-wingnut Nazi fucks will never give up on "birtherism," just as they won't give up on the lie of a "stolen election" in 2020. Obama is a natural born
    U.S. citizen, and Trump *lost* the 2020 election. It was a free, fair and clean election — the cleanest ever.

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  • From Rudy Canosa@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 22 01:01:31 2025
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    On 23 Mar 2025, Adison Vohn Caterson <Adison@Caterson.invalid> posted some news:slrnvu0idn.4h8.Adison@localhost.localdomain:

    On 2025-03-23, Mitchell Holman <noemail@aol.com> wrote:
    Snit <Brock.McNuggets@gmail.com> wrote in
    news:67e03aa9$4$1788$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com:

    pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
    On 2025-03-23, John Smyth <smythlejon2@hotmail.com> wrote:
    ' Barack Obama Was Using USAID to Pretend to Send ‘Aid’ Overseas
    But Was Laundering It to Train “Rent-a-Riots” Instead'

    <https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/huge-barack-obama-was-
    using
    -usaid-pretend-send/>

    'Mike Benz, the founder of the Foundation for Freedom Online,
    recently joined Joe Rogan on his very popular podcast The Joe Rogan
    Experience with over 19 million subscribers.

    ** The entire podcast is here.

    The podcast was filmed several weeks ago but a clip from this
    discussion is making the rounds this week on social media.

    During their conversation, Mike Benz shared how Barack Obama was
    using money to USAID to pretend to send “aid” overseas. In >>>>> actuality, Obama was laundering the taxpayer dollars and using it to >>>>> train “rent-a-mobs” instead!

    This is a huge development but maybe not so surprising considering
    how Democrats believe they can do anything they please. with other
    people’s money.

    From the video, via Wall Street Apes:

    Mike Benz on Joe Rogan: “This was a scandal during the Obama USAID >>>>> era. We were running a number of rogue USAID operations in Cuba at
    the time. — I’m simply showing the American people where your
    tax dollars are going and how these things are structured in order
    to systematically fool you and to fool Congress and to fool the
    White House:

    — USAID pumped $1.2 billion in, and we sponsored these activist >>>>> groups and these civil society organizations to learn how to use
    Facebook, learn how to use Twitter, lose, learn how to use hashtags, >>>>> learn how to coordinate street protests so that everyone knows where >>>>> to go, what street to show up on, what kind of slogans to know, to
    use in order to create the pro-democracy predicate for it.”

    He talks about how Obama funded a Twitter clone that would be used
    to push propaganda in Cuba to inspire these protests and overthrow
    the government (Mike Benz explains how Barack Obama overthrew many
    governments)

    “So what they did is they took the exact same thing as Twitter, >>>>> same user interface, same like, and retweet button Zunzuneo is, is
    the Cuban slang word for hummingbird. So just, it means it’s
    it’s bird, it was the Twitter bird, the whole thing. But the whole >>>>> trick about it was you have to make it look like it’s coming from >>>>> the Cubans if you’re going to do this operation. They started >>>>> running this in 2010 which right during the Arab Spring.

    They were using USAID funds that were designated to Pakistan.



    — We can get into the deeper layers of this, but contractors were >>>>> funded by USAID.

    The data would then be used for micro targeting efforts towards anti >>>>> and pro government users. In Cuba, the developers aim to, at first
    used non-controversial content such as sports and music and
    hurricane updates — What was the plan the whole time?

    Once they built up enough subscribers, they would begin to introduce >>>>> political messages through social bots and encourage dissent in
    this, in this astroturfing — the whole point is, once they hit a >>>>> critical mass, they would create ‘Rent-a-Riots”.

    “You’re using Cayman Islands bank accounts. You’re saying
    it’s, you’re earmarking it for Pakistani aid.” But the money
    was never sent to Pakistan, it was sent to the Cayman Islands to
    fund this whole operation.

    All this and much more is broken down extremely well in this video.
    This is INSANE.

    And it goes back to Barack Obama.

    Now you know why Democrats are losing it after President Trump shut
    down USAID.

    It’s the Democrat Party’s slush fund'

    Now you can see why the democrats are fighting tooth and nail against
    DOGE. They are up to their eyeballs in corruption and they realize
    Trump being an DC outsider is not beholden to the DC swamp.

    The democrat party is in total disarray and are fighting among
    themselves. Just wait until the indictments begin and you'll get to
    watch the wharf DemonRATS jumping ship in order to save their own
    skins.
    That will emerge shortly, I trust......

    The "white supremacists" die has already been thrown, the woke won't be discouraged, but the extinction event has begun.

    Holman is a complete retard. The sooner he is extinct the sooner the
    quality of usenet conversation will improve.

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  • From Rudy Canosa@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 22 01:48:29 2025
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    On 23 Mar 2025, Mitchell Holman <noemail@aol.com> posted some news:XnsB2AB82483A4FB629555@185.151.15.160:

    Snit <Brock.McNuggets@gmail.com> wrote in news:67e03aa9$4$1788$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com:

    pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
    On 2025-03-23, John Smyth <smythlejon2@hotmail.com> wrote:
    ' Barack Obama Was Using USAID to Pretend to Send ‘Aid’ Overseas
    But Was Laundering It to Train “Rent-a-Riots” Instead'

    <https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/huge-barack-obama-was-using
    -usaid-pretend-send/>

    'Mike Benz, the founder of the Foundation for Freedom Online,
    recently joined Joe Rogan on his very popular podcast The Joe Rogan
    Experience with over 19 million subscribers.

    ** The entire podcast is here.

    The podcast was filmed several weeks ago but a clip from this
    discussion is making the rounds this week on social media.

    During their conversation, Mike Benz shared how Barack Obama was
    using money to USAID to pretend to send “aid” overseas. In >>>> actuality, Obama was laundering the taxpayer dollars and using it to
    train “rent-a-mobs” instead!

    This is a huge development but maybe not so surprising considering
    how Democrats believe they can do anything they please. with other
    people’s money.


    At least it didn't delve into stale

    http://eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm

    Sunday, June 27, 2004

    Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate

    Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over
    the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of
    the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.

    The allegations that horrified fellow Republicans and caused his once- promising candidacy to implode in four short days have given Obama a clear
    lead as Republicans struggled to fetch an alternative.

    Ryan’s campaign began to crumble on Monday following the release of embarrassing records from his divorce. In the records, his ex-wife, Boston Public actress Jeri Ryan, said her former husband took her to kinky sex
    clubs in Paris, New York and New Orleans.

    http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700im_/http://eastandard.net/images/ current/nh-obama.jpg
    Barrack Obama

    "It’s clear to me that a vigorous debate on the issues most likely could
    not take place if I remain in the race," Ryan, 44, said in a statement.
    "What would take place, rather, is a brutal, scorched-earth campaign – the kind of campaign that has turned off so many voters, the kind of politics
    I refuse to play."

    Although Ryan disputed the allegations, saying he and his wife went to one ‘avant-garde’ club in Paris and left because they felt uncomfortable, lashed out at the media and said it was "truly outrageous" that the
    Chicago Tribune got a judge to unseal the records.

    —AP

    http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/news260 60403.htm

    Copyright © 2004 . The Standard Ltd

    The Standard Ltd
    I & M Building, Kenyatta Avenue,
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