Suggestion to Government.
Regarding the use of our Tax $$$$ to support unwed mothers and their growing covey's.
Sources show the median value of the unwed mother welfare package in the USA is around $28,500. Which works out to about $14 p/hr for a 2040 hr work year.
NOTE: welfare payments are generally not taxable by the IRS. This includes benefits from SNAP, 8A housing and/or TANF also. So now add the avg 30% for taxes. That means the avg WORKING family would have to bring in around $37,050 ($18+ p/hr) to get the same equal spending benefits.
How About
* Requiring the baby mom ma provide a list of ID possible Sperm Donor matches.
* Then test the donor list.
* Then require the matching donor to pay his part of the child support.
* If the Baby Mom Ma is a baby mill, call the Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS).
* Require Baby Mom Ma to either work or provide volunteer daycare services to a State DFCS operated / monitored daycare.
[ARCHIVE.IS] A man believed to have been a part of a Romanian criminal organization was sentenced to 10 years in prison last week after he stole tens of thousands of welfare cards across Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, and New York.
Catalin-Marius Graur, 43, was sentenced Aug. 4 after pleading guilty in October to one count of bank fraud. When he was arrested at a New York City Airbnb apartment in June 2024, he had over $37,000 in cash and nearly 1,500 stolen account access numbers in his possession, according to a statement from the Department of Justice.
In his scheme, officials said, Graur targeted those receiving Electronic Benefit Transfer funds, which are distributed by social services departments to help low-income communities receive food and cash aid. In California, these are accessed through programs like CalFresh — previously known as food stamps — and CalWORKS.
According to DOJ officials, Graur would steal EBT card information by attaching ''sophisticated skimming devices'' to ATMs and other sales machines across Los Angeles and the Inland Empire. Once the victim entered their card, the device captured their information. Fraudulent cards can be made with the stolen information and used to withdraw EBT funds.
Graur was not living in the United States legally, according to officials. A Romanian citizen, he entered the U.S. in 2020 on a tourist visa but overstayed his visit, the release said. He worked with multiple people internationally in the scheme, with one accomplice receiving more than 36,000 stolen EBT card numbers from Graur over the course of three years, the statement said. Another co-conspirator involved in the scheme, Mihai-Adrian Humoiu, was sentenced to over seven years in prison in May, according to the FBI.
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[Regnum] A large meteorite meteor has been recorded in Antarctica, which flew over the Russian Vostok station. This was reported on August 13 by the press service of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI).
"AARI polar explorers recorded a rare phenomenon - the flight of a bright bolide over the Vostok station in Central Antarctica. A bright luminous object appeared in the night sky today, August 13, at about 16:00 local time. The meteorite meteor moved quickly and left behind a bright white trail that could be seen in the sky for more than half an hour," the report says.
Sergei Drozdov, a research fellow at the Astronomical Center of the Lebedev Physical Institute, was surprised that in such a sparsely populated area as Antarctica, it was possible to capture a trace of a bright bolide on a photo. He also suggested that such a large meteorite meteor could even reach the surface of the planet, meaning that its fragments could be discovered in the future. ergo meteorite
In early June, residents of Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, noticed several luminous objects flying in the sky. According to the republic's Defense Ministry, they did not pose a threat to the population, since the military did not record any violations of the country's airspace. As noted by Crimean astronomer Alexander Yakushechkin, the luminous balls filmed in Astana were fragments of a spacecraft or rocket stages burning up in the Earth's atmosphere.
Two perfect workflow candidates for AI coding.
[Reuters] Donald Trump's Navy and Air Force are poised to cancel two nearly complete software projects that took 12 years and well over $800 million combined to develop, work initially aimed at overhauling antiquated human resources systems.
If it’s been in development for over a decade, how antiquated must it also be by now?
The reason for the unusual move: officials at those departments, who have so far put the existing projects on hold, want other firms, including Salesforce and billionaire Peter Thiel's Palantir, to have a chance to win similar projects, which could amount to a costly do-over, according to seven sources familiar with the matter.
Trump took office vowing to rid the government of what he calls waste and abuse. The website of the Department of Government Efficiency, the agency he created to spearhead those efforts, lists over $14 billion in Defense Department contracts it claims to have cancelled.
But seven months into his presidency, some of his own actions have complicated DOGE's work, from firing the Pentagon's inspector general to issuing an executive order prioritizing speed and risk-taking in defense acquisitions.
Coupled with high-level vacancies in the Navy and Air Force that persisted well into the summer, the moves limit oversight of the Pentagon's contracting process and risk wasting hundreds of millions of additional taxpayer dollars as old projects are thrown out and new projects are agreed to, Reuters reporting based on sources, internal emails and documents, shows.
“There is a very real sense that we are in the regulatory Wild West with this administration – and it should come as no surprise that the traditional limits of ‘normal contracting’ are repeatedly going to be pushed and pressed in this environment,” said Franklin Turner, a federal contracting lawyer at McCarter & English.
He said it is legal for the government to terminate any contract "for convenience," but said the Pentagon would be on the hook to reimburse the companies for wind-down costs plus take on the cost of any new replacement project.
Trump officials say the administration is striving to make the contracting process more efficient.
"Defense Secretary Hegseth is doing a great job restoring a focus on warfighters at the DOD while carrying out the American people’s agenda to more effectively steward taxpayer dollars," White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly said in a statement.
Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson said the agency is taking "swift action" to fix the "antiquated" defense contracting process by implementing Trump's executive orders. "This is how we will rebuild the military with necessary speed while ensuring taxpayer dollars are spent wisely in the process,” she added.
'STRATEGIC PAUSE'
In 2019, Accenture said it had won a contract to expand an HR platform to modernize the payroll, absence management, and other HR functions for the Air Force with Oracle (ORCL.N) software.
The project, which includes other vendors and was later expanded to include Space Force, grew to cost $368 million and was scheduled for its first deployment this summer at the Air Force Academy.
An April "status update" on the project conducted by the Air Force and obtained by Reuters described the project as "on track," with initial deployment scheduled for June, noting that it would end up saving the Air Force $39 million annually by allowing it to stop using an older system.
But on May 30, Darlene Costello, then-Acting assistant Secretary of the Air Force, sent out a memo placing a "strategic pause" on the project for ninety days and calling for the study of alternate technical solutions, according to a copy of the memo seen by Reuters that was previously unreported.
Costello, who has since retired, was reacting to pressure from other Air Force officials who wanted to steer a new HR project to SalesForce (CRM.N) and Palantir (PLTR.O), three sources said.
Palantir co-founder Thiel was an early backer of President Donald Trump and has close ties with key Washington lawmakers, including Vice President JD Vance, whom he supported in a 2022 U.S. Senate race.
Palantir in April won a $30 million contract from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to develop an operating system that identifies undocumented immigrants and tracks self-deportations, its largest single award from the agency among 46 federal contract actions since 2011.
The Air Force said in a statement that it "is committed to reforming acquisition practices, assessing the acquisition workforce, and identifying opportunities to improve major defense acquisition programs."
Accenture, Costello, Palantir and SalesForce did not respond to requests for comment.
Space Force, which operates within the Air Force, was set to receive the Air Force's new payroll system in the coming months. But it is also pulling out of the project because officials there want to launch yet another HR platform project to be led by Workday (WDAY.O), according to three people familiar with the matter.
The service put out a small business tender on May 7 for firms to research HR platform alternatives, with the goal of selecting a company that will recommend Workday as the best option, the people said.
Space Force did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Now the Air Force and Space Force "want to start over with vendors that do not meet their requirements, leading to significant duplication and massive costs," said John Weiler, director of the Information Technology Acquisition Advisory Council, a government-chartered nonprofit group that makes recommendations to improve federal IT contracting.
Oracle said in a statement it was "working closely with DOGE to accelerate the government's transformation to modern technology at the best price for the taxpayer."
'BEYOND EXASPERATED'
In 2022, the Honolulu-based Nakupuna Companies took over a 2019 project with other firms to integrate the Navy's payroll and personnel systems into one platform using Oracle software and known as "NP2".
The project, which has cost about $425 million since 2023, according to the Government Accountability Office, was set to be rolled out earlier this year after receiving a positive review by independent reviewer and consulting firm Guidehouse in January, according to a copy obtained by Reuters.
But the head of Navy's human resources, now retired Admiral Rick Cheeseman, sought to cancel the project according to a June 5 memo seen by Reuters, directing another official to "take appropriate contractual actions" to cancel the project.
Navy leaders instead mandated yet another assessment of project, according to a memo seen by Reuters, leaving it in limbo, two sources said.
Cheeseman's reason for trying to kill the project was his anger over a decision by DOGE earlier this year to cancel a $171 million contract for data services provider Pantheon Data that essentially duplicated parts of the HR project. In an email obtained by Reuters, he threatened to withhold funding from the Nakupuna-led project unless the Pantheon contract was restored.
"I am beyond exasperated with how this happened," Cheeseman wrote in a May 7 email to Chief Information Officer Jane Rathbun about the contract cancellation, arguing the Pantheon contract was not "duplicative of any effort."
"From where I sit, I’m content taking every dime away from NP2 in order to continue this effort," he added in the email.
Cheeseman did not respond to a request for comment. Rathbun and Pantheon Data declined to comment.
The pausing of NP2 was "unexpected, especially given that multiple comprehensive reviews validated the technical solution as the fastest and most affordable approach," Nakupuna said in a statement, adding it was disappointed by the change because the project was ready to deploy.
The Navy said it "continues to prioritize essential personnel resources in support of efforts to strengthen military readiness through fiscal responsibility and departmental efficiency."
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......software projects that took 12 years and well over $800 million combined to develop, work initially aimed at overhauling antiquated human resources systems.
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[Regnum] French journalist Natacha Rey is preparing a lawsuit against the first lady of France Brigitte Macron for perjury. She told IA Regnum about this.
“A complaint against Brigitte Macron and her entourage for ‘fraud with a judicial decision as part of an organized group’, of which I became a victim, is about to be filed by my lawyer,” the journalist noted.
Rey clarified that she is also preparing a lawsuit for "forgery and use of counterfeit" in court. According to her, for all these crimes, the Macron family could get up to 25 years in prison in the United States.
Several years ago, Rey, as well as US conservative activist Candace Owens, claimed that the French first lady had previously been a man, which led to a lawsuit.
In July, the French president's family lost the case against Natasha in Paris, but simultaneously filed a lawsuit against Owens in America. The Frenchwoman wished Owens victory in the Macrons' lawsuit. In addition, Rey expressed confidence that Brigitte would rather die than allow herself to be tested for DNA.
[NYP] "That’s our story, and we’re sticking to it."
It’s hard to believe that the Russiagate plotters are so stupid, but the declassified documents tumbling out of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s files show that, while they had a lot of power and managed to hide their nefarious activities for almost a decade, President Barack Obama’s henchmen were none too bright.
The latest tranche of declassified emails has Obama’s DNI, James Clapper, telling then-National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers essentially to shut up and put his name to the intelligence community assessment (ICA) that Clapper and then-CIA Director John Brennan were cooking up, at Obama’s direction, to concoct a narrative that Russia had tilted the 2016 election to help Trump win.
“Understand your concern,” Clapper wrote to Rogers on Dec. 22, 2016, in the waning days of the Obama administration.
[Free Beacon] The Democratic Party is hideously unpopular heading into next year's midterms. This is a problem for the small faction of Democrats who think the party should prioritize winning elections over throwing performative tantrums and other theater kid nonsense. It's less of a problem for the Democrats who are actually leading the party right now and setting the agenda for 2026. They are loud, obnoxious, profane, and passionate in their defense of illegal immigrants and other criminals. Rules? They don't believe in rules.
"There are no refs in this game," said Beto O'Rourke, the thrice-failed candidate for governor, president, and U.S. Senate, at a rally in support of Texas Democrats who fled the state to avoid doing their jobs. "Fuck the rules, we are going to win. Whatever it takes." O'Rourke has emerged as one of the Democratic Party's most prominent leaders after his political action committee paid for the private jet that took the fleeing Democrats to Illinois earlier this month. This week, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton asked a judge to order Beto's arrest after the obnoxious Columbia grad violated a court order by continuing to raise money to support the fugitives.
[Federalist] President Donald Trump had the presidential and legal authority to terminate billions of taxpayer dollars to the U.S Agency for International Development (USAID) and its countless overseas pet projects, the Washington D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed this week.
About time someone figured that out over there. It’ll still go to the US Supreme Court, I suspect.
Ever since Trump issued his day-one executive order effectively freezing USAID’s wasting of Americans’ hard-earned dollars, judges have encroached on his presidential authority by hampering his power to impound, or "decline to spend the full amount of an appropriated fund."
In its 2-1 ruling published on Wednesday, the D.C. Circuit Court not only reversed those attempts, but also paved the way to limit the number of lawsuits and subsequent injunctions designed to keep Trump from doing his job by curbing American subsidization of covert programs like Iraqi "Sesame Street," LGBT initiatives abroad, and even meals for terrorists.
Circuit Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson, joined by Judge Gregory Katsas, noted that a band of USAID beneficiaries sued to stop the cessation of their federal funding and keep their secret slush funds. Yet she concluded the district court "erred in granting that relief because the grantees lack a cause of action to press their claims."
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.....terminate billions of taxpayer dollars to the U.S Agency for International Development (USAID) and its countless overseas pet projects
Money laundering at the industrial strength level. "Pet Projects" aka Regime Change funding disguised as humanitarian aid. Care to guess the originators of the "Projects?"
[GEO.TV] Three people, including a senior citizen and an eight-year-old girl, were killed in incidents of celebratory gun sex during Independence Day festivities in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , rescue officials said on Thursday.
At least 64 others suffered gunshot wounds in the citywide incidents.
The girl was struck by a stray bullet in Azizabad, while in a separate incident, a man identified as Stephen was killed in Korangi.
Rescue officials said dozens of people suffered injuries across Karachi due to celebratory gunfire.
Police said incidents of gun sex were reported from Liaquatabad, Korangi, Lyari, Mehmoodabad, Akhtar Colony, Keamari, Jackson, Baldia, Orangi Town and Paposh Nagar.
Similar incidents also took place in Sharifabad, North Nazimabad, Surjani Town, Zaman Town and Landhi.
The injured were taken to Civil, Jinnah, Abbasi Shaheed hospitals and private medical facilities in Gulistan-e-Jauhar and other parts of the city.
More than 20 suspects have been arrested from different areas, including Mominabad, Liaquatabad, Paposh Nagar, Samanabad, Orangi Town and Keamari, according to police.
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[Reuters] Reuters) - U.S. authorities have secretly placed location tracking devices in targeted shipments of advanced chips they see as being at high risk of illegal diversion to China, according to two people with direct knowledge of the previously unreported law enforcement tactic.
The measures aim to detect AI chips being diverted to destinations which are under U.S. export restrictions, and apply only to select shipments under investigation, the people said.
They show the lengths to which the U.S. has gone to enforce its chip export restrictions on China, even as the Trump administration has sought to relax some curbs on Chinese access to advanced American semiconductors.
The trackers can help build cases against people and companies who profit from violating U.S. export controls, said the people, who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue.
Location trackers are a decades-old investigative tool used by U.S. law enforcement agencies to track products subject to export restrictions, such as airplane parts. They have been used to combat the illegal diversion of semiconductors in recent years, one source said.
Five other people actively involved in the AI server supply chain say they are aware of the use of the trackers in shipments of servers from manufacturers such as Dell (DELL.N) and Super Micro (SMCI.O), which include chips from Nvidia (NVDA.O) and AMD (AMD.O).
Those people said the trackers are typically hidden in the packaging of the server shipments. They did not know which parties were involved in installing them and where along the shipping route they were inserted.
Reuters was not able to determine how often the trackers have been used in chip-related investigations or when U.S. authorities started using them to investigate chip smuggling. The U.S. started restricting the sale of advanced chips by Nvidia, AMD and other manufacturers to China in 2022.
In one 2024 case described by two of the people involved in the server supply chain, a shipment of Dell servers with Nvidia chips included both large trackers on the shipping boxes and smaller, more discreet devices hidden inside the packaging — and even within the servers themselves.
A third person said they had seen images and videos of trackers being removed by other chip resellers from Dell and Super Micro servers. The person said some of the larger trackers were roughly the size of a smartphone.
The U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security, which oversees export controls and enforcement, is typically involved, and Homeland Security Investigations and the Federal Bureau of Investigation may take part too, said the sources.
The HSI and FBI both declined to comment. The Commerce Department did not respond to requests for comment.
The Chinese foreign ministry said it was not aware of the matter.
Super Micro said in a statement that it does not disclose its “security practices and policies in place to protect our worldwide operations, partners, and customers.” It declined to comment on any tracking actions by U.S. authorities.
Dell said it is “not aware of a U.S. Government initiative to place trackers in its product shipments.”
[TWZ] The 35mm cannon with programmable ammo mounted on an 8x8 armored fighting vehicle gives Germany an efficient hard-kill point defense solution.
Speculation over a very large-scale German order for anti-aircraft guns, as part of a broader air defense initiative focusing, to a significant degree, on counter-drone capabilities, has brought these kinds of weapons back under the spotlight.
Last week, it was reported that German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall is awaiting a multi-billion-dollar order from the German Armed Forces for its Skyranger anti-aircraft gun. During a recent earnings call, the firm’s CEO, Armin Papperger said that he expected Skyranger contracts from the German military worth between $7-9 billion to be signed this year. The systems would be delivered by 2035.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.