Officials in Maine have suspended state Medicaid payments to a Somali-run charity after more than a million dollars in possible fraud was discovered in several audits of the charity’s services.
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has cancelled MaineCare payments to Gateway Community Services after the audits found that the charity over billed the state for $1,068,598 from March 2021 through December 2022. The cash was supposedly to cover the costs of “interpreting services” to Somali migrants, the Bangor Daily News reported.
This same organization has been under investigation before. Gateway reportedly overbilled for more than $600,000 between 2015 and 2018, and is still under a cloud of suspicion for other violations found during a third state audit completed in 2024.
There are several obvious reasons this is happening. But the one rarely mentioned mainstream is everyone knows 10/7 was a MIHOP attack, which 1000000% undermines any moral authority Israel has to do mass murder in Gaza. Kelly is no dummy and surely knows this. ABN
The reality is individuals, even at or near the top, do not have much power over how the global/Western political system works.
Everyone at or near the top is enmeshed in circles of people, money, and power.
When power in the system is applied, as in Gaza, I doubt Thiel has any say in how his products are used.
A good analogy for how political power works is in the video below, which describes how big banks and huge funds have entirely captured not just the world’s money supply but also what money even is.
The only way we the plebs can affect any of this is make our views known. We have a weak position but our opinions do matter.
My sense is Thiel is not evil. His embarrassment and fumbling are likely symptoms of his knowing the slaughter in Gaza is horrible and he is powerless.
Many people, myself included, do not even want to participate in the system since it strongly feels like making a pact with the devil.
That’s the world. Some of us are in the thick of it, making the world turn.
Some of us become artists, hermits or monks.
I have a clear conscience but am also aware that I do not face the moral conundrums Thiel faces daily.
The truth is the world needs Peter Thiels and also artists, hermits and monks. ABN
Government debt explained; and why the whole world is trapped
About 15 people were injured in a stabbing spree at the Yokohama Rubber factory in Mishima city in Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, on Friday, according to the fire department.
According to the police, the man, who is believed to have stabbed the victims, has been detained and arrested on the spot for suspicion of murder, the Sankei Shinbun reported.
The suspect self-identified as Masaki Koyama, 38, and is believed to be a resident of the factory.
The incident occurred around 4:30 pm local time. A call was made to emergency number 119, reporting that “five of six people were stabbed by someone” at the rubber factory. A “spray-like liquid” was also used on the victims. The liquid is reportedly ‘chlorine bleach, ‘ news site Aashi Newspaper reported.
Koyama was carrying a survival knife and wearing a gas mask during the stabbing.
As a side-note, Hammer appears to me to be a JS but I cannot be certain of that.
I can be certain, however, that his response is classic Bolshevik-era JS, where critics were cruelly incarcerated and silenced for ‘mental illness’, when all they were really doing is telling the truth, as is Candace. ABN
June 2001. A “restricted meeting” between President George W. Bush and President Vladimir Putin. Not a podium performance, not a television soundbite, not a speech crafted for domestic applause. A private conversation, the place where empires are supposed to speak plainly, where leaders test ideas that could reroute decades.
And what does the memo show?
Putin raises the idea that Russia could eventually join NATO. He says Russia feels “left out” by NATO enlargement. He points to an older fact most Western publics were never meant to internalize: the Soviet Union applied to join NATO in 1954. He argues the reasons for rejection no longer apply. He suggests, almost clinically, that perhaps Russia could be an ally — “European and multi-ethnic,” comparable in character to the United States.
Probably the worst blunder in world geopolitical history, particularly Western geopolitical history. Not allying with Russia and then pushing NATO encroachments on Russia, followed by the Maidan color-revolution (done by USA), followed by insisting Ukraine join NATO puts the entire blame for this major failure on USA, no matter what bs the Europeans were also slinging.
I believe and hope Trump is trying to undo this enormous error and I hope he succeeds. ABN
In China, a student conducted a human behavior experiment, secretly setting up a small camera, then pretending to faint to see how his schoolmates would react, and the results were quite shocking.
Posted by Trump. That kind of money is not due to incompetence but planned systemic criminal fraud. A small fraction of $76.5 billion would pay for protective monitoring. ABN
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