Day: September 24, 2022

46 Somalis Charged in $250 Million COVID Fraud

BY DANIEL GREENFIELD

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2022/09/46-somalis-charged-in-250-million-covid-fraud;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

There are some frauds so massively insane that Americans won’t do them. Someone has to.

I covered this story back in the winter, relying on the important work of local reporters like Bill Glahn at the American Experiment. The story is mind-blowing for the sheer scale of the fraud.

In 2019, Feeding Our Future distributed $3.4 million in taxpayer food aid funds to the non-profits it was sponsoring, In 2020, that shot up to $42 million and then up to $197 million in 2021.

These were impressive numbers for a charity that seemed to focus on Somalis in Minnesota.

Glahn in American Experiment found that, “Feeding Our Future had 312 authorized sites for the program, approved for a maximum of 126,000 children.” That’s a lot of hungry Somali kids.

And I really mean impressive.

Safari Restaurant, which boasts “traditional Somali cuisine” like french fries and safari chicken quesadilla, where Rep. Ilhan Omar had celebrated her victory party, applied to participate in the Federal Child Nutrition program.

When the money was denied, Feeding Our Future complained that “minority-owned businesses serving almost exclusively economically disadvantaged children of color” were being denied the right to serve “culturally relevant foods” to “youth” during a “national emergency”.

Crying racism worked and at its peak, Safari claimed to be feeding 6,000 children a day. That’s a lot of children. Documents note that the Somali eatery claimed to be serving a comparable number of meals to “the entire St. Paul public school district.”

Safari was just one of the many providers who claimed to be feeding thousands of children.

There’s an Ilhan Omar angle and a Mecca angle.

The Feds staked out various Feeding Our Future meal sites and found no one at the places that were supposed to be feeding 50,000 children. According to the FBI, the money being stolen wasn’t used to feed children, it went into various shell companies and fronts operated by Somalis and was used to buy everything from a Porsche to African properties.

According to the Twin Cities Pioneer Press, S&S Catering led by Qamar Ahmed Hassan received $13.8 million in federal funds. The FBI warrants note that, “Qamar Ahmed Hassan wrote approximately $27,000 in checks from S&S Catering bank accounts… to Amax Travel, a travel agency that specializes in Haji travel packages.”

Now the official federal indictments of 47 people are in: 46 of them Somalis.

The Department of Justice announced today federal criminal charges against 47 defendants for their alleged roles in a $250 million fraud scheme that exploited a federally-funded child nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A key element in the fraud was crying racism. Some politicians came forward to back them up. And there are questions as to what extent politicians, especially those catering to Somalis, helped enable it.

The accused Somalis donated to a variety of politicians, including Rep. Ilhan Omar, State Senator Omar Fateh, Shukri Olow, running for state representative, State Rep. Hodan Hassan, a Keith Ellison crony, and others.

Rep. Ilhan Omar has made government meals for children one of her signature issues.

Biden regime pushing ‘digital dollar’ so government can seize assets at will, control population

BY J.D. HEYES

SEE: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-09-23-biden-regime-pushing-digital-dollar-seize-assets-at-will.html;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

(Natural News) It’s a safe bet to believe that anytime Democrats propose something, the real purpose behind it is to gain more control over Americans because, at its heart, the Democratic Party is really Marxist and counterrevolutionary.

That’s why the Biden regime’s push for a “digital dollar” should be opposed by all Americans, regardless of their political beliefs.

When Barack Obama and majority Democrats were pushing for universal health care that was completely controlled by the government, tens of millions of Americans opposed the idea because they did not want an inefficient, bloated, and authoritarian federal system in control of their healthcare decisions. That seems odd now, given their complaints about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision earlier this summer to overturn Roe v. Wade — not to outlaw abortion, but to return the issue to the states where it should have stayed.

The push for “Obamacare” by the authoritarian left was simple: They knew that every American, at various points in our lives, will need health care. Gaining control of the entire industry would mean that the government would control it completely, giving bureaucrats life-and-death power over all of us. No one should want that.

In any event, enough Americans opposed “Obamacare” so all we ended up with was an expensive new welfare program for our citizens: Subsidized insurance for a smaller group of Americans that is still controlled by federal bureaucrats. But Obamacare was simply the first bite of the apple: Democrats continue to plot ways to destroy private healthcare by pushing various regulatory schemes to impose more rules over providers and insurers alike.

Now, the regime wants control over our money, which is another vital tool in the authoritarian playbook.

A ‘white paper’ published on the White House website calls for the creation of a “digital dollar” that, of course, will be controlled by the government, much like the government currently has the sole role and responsibility to develop and print our currency (real dollars). But the difference here is that if all money was digital, the government could (and would) monitor our bank accounts; monitor all of our transactions; impose barriers to purchases of certain ‘unfavored’ items; and even block access to our money or limit how much of it we could spend — all for the ‘greater good,’ of course.

“A United States central bank digital currency (CBDC) would be a digital form of the U.S. dollar. While the U.S. has not yet decided whether it will pursue a CBDC, the U.S. has been closely examining the implications of, and options for, issuing a CBDC,” the White House policy paper notes before touting the digital dollar’s “benefits.”

“If the U.S. pursued a CBDC, there could be many possible benefits, such as facilitating efficient and low-cost transactions, fostering greater access to the financial system, boosting economic growth, and supporting the continued centrality of the U.S. within the international financial system. However, a U.S. CBDC could also introduce a variety of risks, as it might affect everything ranging from the stability of the financial system to the protection of sensitive data,” the paper added.

“At last year’s Summit for Democracy, President Biden spoke about the importance of using technology ‘to advance democracies to lift people up, not to hold them down.’ If the U.S. launches its own CBDC, it should advance this democratic vision,” the authors wrote.

Again, Democrats always mean the opposite of what they say. They speak of “democracy” while working daily to undermine it with gun control, packing the Supreme Court, ending the filibuster, and finding ways to alter our electoral processes so that their candidates will always come out on top.

A digital dollar is just part of the never-ending scheme to rob Americans of our independence and liberty. Giving Uncle Sam more control over our lives is just dumb.

Sources include:

WhiteHouse.gov

NaturalNews.com

California to legalize state-sponsored trafficking of children combined with child mutilation and castration surgeries in the name of transgenderism

BY ETHAN HUFF

SEE: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-09-23-california-legalize-trafficking-children-mutilation-castration-transgender.html;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

(Natural News) Is California on the verge of becoming a sanctuary state for child transgender trafficking? The state’s legislature is definitely trying to make it happen.

Senate Bill 107, introduced by Scott Wiener, a prominent Democratic state senator, was recently passed and now awaits a signature from Gov. Gavin Newsom. If signed, SB 107 would allow the Golden State to take custody of out-of-state minors who want to become “trans,” but who are prohibited from doing so in their home state.

Even if parents object, minors would still be allowed to travel to California and receive “gender-affirming care” in the form of surgical castration, a hysterectomy, and whatever Big Pharma gender-bending pharmaceuticals are needed to become their “true selves.”

The bill received “overwhelming Democratic support,” passing both the House and Senate in California on August 31. (Related: California legislators have also tried to force Christian pastors to promote LGBT perversion from the pulpit.)

Newsom reportedly has until September 30 to either sign or veto the bill. He has not yet taken any action but is expected to sign the measure into law before the deadline.

Scott Wiener wants to turn California into a pedophilia and perversion paradise

Wiener, a well-known Democrat pervert, is also responsible for introducing other legislation that would allow children 12 years of age or older to get vaccinated without parental consent. He also supports mandating “Drag Queen Story Hour” events in grade school, as well as relaxing the punishments for child sex offenders.

Wiener claims that his latest child-targeting legislation is necessary because underage kids in more conservative states face increasing barriers to getting their developing breasts surgically removed in the case of females, or having their outward genitalia turned inwards in the case of males.

Efforts to protect children against this type of irreversible genital mutilation represent “brutal attacks on transgender children,” according to Wiener, who seems to be shamelessly obsessed with child sexuality and bizarre pedophilic perversion.

SB 107 comes with no restrictions or qualifications once signed. If Newsom picks up and uses that pen, underage children from anywhere will have the ability to come to California to become trans, even without their parents’ permission.

California’s courts would have the ability to assume full custody of such children, becoming their new “parent.” And these children’s parents would not have any say in the matter.

“All the court would need to prove is that the minor has been ‘mistreated or abused’ which is defined as being ‘unable to obtain gender-affirming health care,'” reports The Gateway Pundit (TGP).

“As of now, it is unclear if the child has to enter California before the law takes effect, or if the state can interfere and assist the child in traveling and accommodations.”

The bill would seem to suggest that physical presence in California is “not necessary” for a child to become the property of the state. As long as “abuse” is confirmed according to its tenets, California would be allowed to pursue custody.

“Either way, this law goes far beyond any established form of government intervention in personal family matters,” TGP explains.

The California Family Council issued its own scathing statement against the bill, warning that radical activists will surely “weaponize” it to prey on vulnerable out-of-state children.

“It’s not hard to see how activists could quickly weaponize SB 107,” the group warns about its implications.

“Since the bill instructs state agencies to ignore the circumstances of how a child came to the state for gender transitioning, SB 107 invites children to run away from their families or even be trafficked across state lines.”

More related news can be found at Transhumanism.news.

Sources for this article include:

TheGatewayPundit.com

NaturalNews.com

Federal Reserve Has Some Very Bad News for Biden

The Federal Reserve Has Some Very Bad News for Biden and the Democrats

BY RICK MORAN

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/09/22/the-federal-reserve-has-some-very-bad-news-for-biden-and-the-democrats-n1631374;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve Board’s Open Market Committee (FOMC) raised its federal funds rate by 75 basis points — the third consecutive month the Fed has raised the rate by 75 points.

But the Fed admitted that its policies weren’t doing anything to slow inflation and promised more big rate increases in the future. The FOMC said its goal was to raise the federal funds rate to 4.40 percent by the end of the year before maxing out at 4.6 percent next year.

More worrisome for Joe Biden and the Democrats are economic projections that show growth slowing to a crawl through 2024.

Washington Free Beacon:

The U.S. central bank’s quarterly economic projections, meanwhile, showed the economy slowing to a crawl in 2022, with year-end growth at 0.2%, rising to 1.2% in 2023, well below the economy’s potential. The unemployment rate, currently at 3.7%, is projected to rise to 3.8% this year and to 4.4% in 2023. Inflation is seen slowly returning to the Fed’s 2% target in 2025.

Rate cuts are not foreseen until 2024.

That’s if everything breaks right and the war in Ukraine is ended without blowing up the world, and no other economic shocks — like a default of a major European economy — occur.

NRO’s Dominic Pino thinks the Fed is being overly optimistic.

Meanwhile, nominal spending continues to be above-trend. The elected parts of government are spending recklessly, and fiscal policy is working against monetary policy. Under these circumstances, the Fed will need to continue to raise rates.

Thus the major difference between the FOMC’s June projections and the ones it released today: In June, members thought the federal-funds rate would be 3.8 percent next year and 3.4 percent in 2024. Today, they think it will need to be 4.6 percent next year and 3.9 percent in 2024, which means accelerating increases through next year with the hope of beginning to cut in 2024.

This is not very promising.

No, it’s not. And the political implications are worrisome for the Democrats. Those rates will begin to come down in 2024 *if* Congress and Joe Biden can get a handle on spending. And there’s nothing that’s been said or done by either the president or Congress that would lead anyone to believe that the thought of reducing federal spending even crossed their minds.

South Korean President Caught on Hot Mic Expressing Contempt for Biden at UN General Assembly

BY RICK MORAN

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/09/23/south-korean-president-caught-on-hot-mic-expressing-contempt-for-biden-at-un-general-assembly-n1631724;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

It’s no secret that Joe Biden doesn’t have much credibility or respect from foreign leaders. But we’ve never heard the kind of dripping contempt that was expressed by South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on a hot mic recording obtained by the South China Morning Post.

Biden gave his annual speech to the UN General Assembly and promised to increase the U.S. contribution to the UN Global Fund — a promise that would need congressional approval. President Yoon expressed his feelings about Biden’s abilities to get that done in rather colorful language.

“How could Biden not lose damn face if these f—ers do not pass it in Congress?” Yoon asked his aides on a hot mic Wednesday.

Fox News:

“He wasn’t speaking publicly on the stage but in passing, and although I don’t know who recorded it and how, I actually think it should be verified,” a South Korean official told reporters afterward, according to Yonhap.

“I think it’s highly inappropriate to draw a link between private remarks and diplomatic accomplishments,” the official added, referring to criticism that Yoon had created a diplomatic disaster. “It’s quite regrettable that a diplomatic disaster is being talked about over something like that when he is doing everything to complete a demanding schedule in the national interest of the Republic of Korea.”

In a response worthy of Biden himself, Yoon’s spokesperson claimed he never said it.

BBC:

Presidential spokeswoman Kim Eun-hye said in New York on Thursday Mr Yoon did not actually say “Biden”, but a similar-sounding Korean word, and that he was referring to the South Korean parliament, not the US Congress.

Many were unconvinced by the government’s defence – an opposition MP said it was like telling Koreans they were “hearing impaired”.

Mr Yoon is a former prosecutor who only entered politics last year and won the presidential elections earlier this year by less than 1%.

He is known as being prone to gaffes and has been struggling with low approval ratings soon after being elected, correspondents say.

In politics, it’s whatever works. Alas, for Mr. Yoon, not much is working — either the truth or lies. He’s got very low approval numbers and angered the entire nation when, last year, he said of the president who massacred protesters in 1980, “He was good at politics.”

Biden loves to talk about how he has “restored” American “prestige” overseas. Mr. Yoon’s comments would seem to indicate otherwise.