Staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development were instructed to stay out of the agency’s Washington headquarters on Monday, according to a notice distributed to them, after billionaire Elon Musk announced President Donald Trump had agreed with him to shut the agency.
USAID staffers said they tracked 600 employees who reported being locked out of the agency’s computer systems overnight. Those still in the system received emails in the agency system saying that “at the direction of Agency leadership” the headquarters building “will be closed to Agency personnel on Monday, Feb. 3.”
The developments come after Musk, who is leading an extraordinary civilian review of the federal government with the Republican president’s agreement, said early Monday he had spoken with Trump about the six-decade U.S. aid and development agency and “he agreed we should shut it down.”
“It became apparent that its not an apple with a worm it in,” Musk said. “What we have is just a ball of worms. You’ve got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It’s beyond repair.” “We’re shutting it down.”
Musk’s comments online came after the administration placed two top security chiefs at USAID on leave after they refused to turn over classified material in restricted areas to Musk’s government-inspection teams, a current and a former U.S. official told The Associated Press on Sunday.
A high-flying Silicon Valley couple has been arrested after allegedly being caught swindling over $60million in investors cash for their luxury lifestyle.
Alexander Beckman, 41, the founder and former CEO of AI firm GameOn, and his attorney wife Valerie Lau Beckman, 38, are accused of carrying out a ‘brazen and wide-ranging’ six-year fraud.
The couple face dozens of federal charges including securities fraud, conspiracy and identity theft, allegedly using investor cash to buy luxury homes, cars, and private schools for Alexander’s children.
Beckman made his name in Silicon Valley after founding GameOn in 2014, creating AI chatbot services for customers including professional sports teams and fashion retailers.
He was seen at galas rubbing shoulders with elites including Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, all the while allegedly stealing millions from investors and hiding it with fraudulent documents.
According to an indictment filed this week in San Francisco U.S. District Court, the scheme came tumbling down after GameOn’s board of directors found a company bank account meant to have over $11 million only contained 37 cents.
Elon Musk has given all of his critics an incredible gift by faking his Path of Exile 2 account in a way that is so obvious that it would be impossible for anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of video games to deny.
Elon has been regularly streaming with someone else’s account, apparently that of a Chinaman he has hired to build the account for him, while pretending it is his own account. During the streams, he demonstrates virtually no understanding of the game, and yet apparently expects fans of the game to believe he is one of the best players in the world.
Though Elon’s video game hobby might seem like a small thing, the extreme form of fraud he has engaged in exposes his entire character. Further, the bizarre nature of how he has committed the fraud proves that he is fundamentally a weird, stupid person.
The media has covered this some, after basically everyone in the PoE community called him out as a fraud (a video from Quin, one of the top players, mocking him went especially viral, and is being cited by various outlets).
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass got into office promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and promising to tackle homelessness and pollution — but she never promised to drain the swamp.
Now she stands accused of adding to it, through “legalized corruption” and a number of eye opening scandals which have come to light after renewed scrutiny in the last two weeks following the revelation Bass and her cronies defunded the Los Angeles Fire Department by $17 million, contributing to them being underprepared to tackle the wildfires currently destroying the city.
These include:
The deputy mayor raided by the FBI over an alleged bomb threat against City Hall.
Endorsing a former councilor investigated over hush money payments for congress.
Awarding fat cat salaries of $750k to a pal, double the predecessor’s salary.
Council members accused of embezzlement, perjury, racketeering, tax evasion and bribes.
China has been rocked by a major Chinese chess (Xiangqi) cheating scandal with investigations uncovering cases of match-fixing, bribery, and unethical conduct involving players and coaches. Three grandmasters have been handed lifetime bans, while 38 others face penalties ranging from suspensions to official reprimands. The controversy has raised serious concerns about the integrity of the sport.
A major cheating controversy has broken out in China related to the Chinese chess (Xiangqi) after the Chinese Xiangqi Association (CXA) penalised 41 players including three players receiving lifetime bans, Global Times reported. The three players who have been banned from competition for life include grandmasters Zhao Xinxin, Wang Yang, and Zheng Weitong. The trio have also been stripped of their technical titles.
You can’t blame them too much for their complete lack of foresight and total innocence about what a huge scam the refugee, asylum, illegal immigrant boondoggle is. Nor can you blame them for not understanding that Catholic Charities is probably in on the take of this massive geopolitical human replacement war. Nor can you blame them all that much for leaving Maine and local taxpayers stuck with the very long-term bill for these ‘New Mainers’, whom no one ever voted for, despite Mills’ bogus claims. I really do not blame these people but I also hope they will have the courage and moral strength to recognize their mistakes and warn other Maine and USA localities of what taking ‘free money’ from scam artists actually entails. ABN
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