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[RobGMN Premium Member]

Flight Tracker Shows Venezuela Airspace After Trump Orders Closure In all seriousness, good move on Trump's part, we don't want an commercial airliner shot down.

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Flight tracker shows Venezuela airspace after Trump orders closure

A flight tracker shows planes flying around Venezuela after Trump said the airspace above and around the country was to be closed.

www.newsweek.com

Flights over Venezuala August 2025.
Trump, the time traveler.

Flight over Venezuela July 2020.

January 15th

February 2019

Seems like Trump stopped something that wasn't much happening to begin with?

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

Yeah Team Pegged Face (aka Tim Walz)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/us/fraud-minnesota-somali.html

Minnesota government workers blame Walz for 'massive fraud' amid allegations against Somali community

The Minnesota Department of Human Service Employees group accuses Gov. Tim Walz of failing to act on fraud warnings and retaliating against whistleblowers.

www.foxnews.com

"Well, certainly, I take responsibility for putting people in jail," the governor responded.

"I will note, it's not just Somalis. Minnesota is a generous state. Minnesota is a prosperous state, a well-run state. We're AAA-bond rated. But that attracts criminals. Those people are going to jail. We're doing everything we can. But to demonize an entire community on the actions of a few, it's lazy," he said.

Interesting that he is being accused of being the root cause of fraud, when he is the one approving more funding for the programs that combat fraud.

An AI-generated result, but all poitns can be verified independently.
Governor Walz is taking action to combat fraud by implementing a multi-pronged approach that includes pausing Medicaid payments for audits, creating a centralized fraud investigation unit, and proposing a legislative package to increase penalties and strengthen agencies' authority. This has led to the freezing of payments to 14 high-risk Medicaid programs to allow for a third-party audit, the establishment of the Financial Crimes and Fraud Section at the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, and the proposal of measures such as AI pilot programs and increased penalties for fraud.

Key actions taken

• Audit of Medicaid programs: Walz ordered a third-party audit and paused payments to 14 Medicaid programs identified as high-risk for fraud to investigate suspicious billing practices.
• Centralized investigative unit: An executive order established a new, centralized Financial Crimes and Fraud Section at the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) to coordinate investigations across agencies. The 2025 legislature later codified this unit into law.
• Legislation: A legislative package was proposed to give state agencies greater authority to stop payments, increase penalties for theft of public funds, and allocate more investigators to the Attorney General's Medicaid fraud unit.
• Technology and data sharing: The state is enhancing its technology and analytics capabilities to strengthen fraud detection, including a proposed AI pilot program.
• Agency leadership and oversight: New leadership with an emphasis on fraud prevention has been appointed to the Department of Human Services (DHS), and an Office of Inspector General has been created at the Department of Education.

Purpose of these actions

• Strengthen program integrity: The goal is to strengthen the integrity of state programs and better protect taxpayer dollars from fraud.
• Prevent future fraud: By creating new tools and processes, the administration aims to proactively prevent fraud before it occurs.
• Increase accountability: The actions are designed to increase accountability for fraudulent actors through stronger penalties and enforcement.

But I'm sure if any of the big thieves are GOP or Trump supporters, they will get a pardon.

 

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[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Ugh:

Missouri Locks the Web Behind a "Harmful" Content ID Check

Missouri joins a growing list of states testing how much privacy people will trade for a filtered internet.

reclaimthenet.org

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Yikes

Nato 'mulls strikes against Russia to stop Vlad waging shadow war in Europe'

NATO could fire the first shot against Russia in the face of Vlad’s escalating shadow war on Europe, a top admiral has warned. Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, chair of Nato’s Military Committe…

www.the-sun.com

 

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[Jimi77 Premium Member]

That picture is so "pegged face."

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

"I know more about MRI than anyone on Earth. I think they used that special gel, and took pictures of my metacranial infraction". -Donald Dumbf

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

Welcome to the upside down.