[NYPOST] Tesla and X CEO-turned-special government employee Elon Musk claimed to uncover ''the biggest fraud in history'' when he stumbled across more than 20 million people listed in the Social Security database as over the age of 100 years old.
''According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!'' Musk posted on X late Sunday, showing a chart of ages ranging from zero to 369 years old.
''Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security,'' he joked, adding that ''there are FAR more 'eligible' social security [sic] numbers than there are citizens in the USA. This might be the biggest fraud in history.''
However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... Musk's bombshell has long been known by the Social Security Administration's (SSA) watchdog, which released an audit in July 2023 showing that 18.9 million people listed as 100 years or older — but not dead — were in the database.
Only 86,000 people living in the US at the time were actually centenarians, according to the Census Bureau.
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$4.7T?? That's almost real money! says the Dims.
Seriously though, keep on digging. I worry about Ft Knox, but the DOD audit should be ... interesting.
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“Fraud” is fraud unless they can produce all the geezers.in actuality its millions of frauds that need to be tracked back to people cashing the checks.
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just because you are in the SSecurity data base doesn't mean you are getting SSecurity payments. Obviously the younger people in the data base haven't reached the minimum age. The older people may not have the required number of quarters with earnings.
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When a parent receives Social Security retirement or disability benefits, or dies, their child may also receive benefits. Under certain circumstances, a stepchild, adopted child, or dependent grandchild or step-grandchild also may qualify - cite
[Breitbart] American broadcaster CBS followed German police as they raided homes for speech crimes, such as posting a "racist cartoon" on the internet, which prosecutors in the country defended as a supposedly necessary safeguard to protect democracy.
Just days after U.S. Vice President JD Vance lambasted Germany and other European states for failing to live up to Western ideals of liberty, particularly on the issue of free speech, CBS’s 60 Minutes news magazine broadcast footage of police raids over social media posts and interviews with prosecutors defending the draconian practice.
"It’s 6:01 on a Tuesday morning, and we were with state police as they raided this apartment in Northwest Germany. Inside six armed officers searched a suspect’s home, then seized his laptop and cellphone. Prosecutors say those electronics may have been used to commit a crime, the crime; posting a racist cartoon online," 60 Minutes anchor Sharyn Alfonsi described.
Unlike the United States, where the First Amendment protects citizens from being arrested over so-called "hate speech", it is a very different story in Germany.
Local prosecutors told the American broadcaster that there are currently 16 dedicated police task forces monitoring "hate speech" on the German web, with around 3,500 cases per year. Prosecutor Frank-Michael Laue told the news programme that his unit alone has successfully secured 750 speech crime convictions over the past four years.
Fellow prosecutor Dr Matthäus Fink said that many of those arrested for online speech crimes believed that their posts were protected free speech, "And we say, ’No, you have free speech as well, but it is also has its limits.'"
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Wow.
"And we (the German police) say,
’No, you have free speech as well, but it is also has its limits.'"
1984 much?
How long will real Germans tolerate this. We DO think differently from most European countries, but this...this is surreal.
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Journalist goes in a ride along to suppress freedom of speech. “Put the pastel markers down and come out with your hands up.”
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"The fundamental right to freedom of expression, as the most direct expression of human personality in society, is one of the most noble human rights of all. It is absolutely essential for a free and democratic system of government, because it makes possible the constant intellectual debate, the clash of opinions that is its lifeblood."
"On the one hand, the scope of protection of freedom of opinion includes opinions, i.e. statements characterized by the element of statement and opinion. They always fall within the scope of protection of Art. 5 para. 1 sentence 1 GG, regardless of whether they prove to be true or untrue, whether they are justified or unfounded, emotional or rational, or whether they are assessed as valuable or worthless, dangerous or harmless .... They do not lose this protection even if they are expressed in a sharp and exaggerated manner .... In particular, the person expressing an opinion is not obliged to share the values on which the constitution is based, as the Basic Law relies on loyalty to values, but does not enforce it."
These are deepl translated quotes of German constitutional court case law upholding very strong freedom of speech protections.
Historically freedom of speech has enjoyed very robust protection in West Germany since the 1950s. This included derogatory collages, cartoons, and very robust speech, including explicitly calling for the murder the chancellor ("Tötet Helmut Kohl!" in 1997 when Kohl was still in office.)
Not to mention implicitly calling for murder by collaging Kohl's face onto a photo of dead Nicolae Ceasusescu.
Derogatory 'misinformation' had also been normal e.g. Klaus Staeck's collage implying that Franz Josef Strauss and the German center right big tent party wanted to castrate perverts. (image search "Entmannt alle Wüstlinge")
This is a relatively new development IMHO starting as a reaction to PEGIDA in 2014. It is part of the general deterioration of Western core principles in all of the West.
As far as CBS' take on NAZIs and free speech, especially during the war when the holocaust was in its most intense phase, even the slightest deviation from orthodoxy, in public or private, carried the death penalty e.g. "Weiße Rose" or "Karlrobert Kreiten".
As a side note, is it a coincidence or proof of the simulation that Herr Frank-Michael Laue bears a striking physiognomic resemblance to the "Are we the baddies?" meme guy?
"Ja, I weaponized speech, I confess...
And the Party and State, more or less,
The SS and Gestapo,
The odd Jewish kapo...
But you're here for Der S-----r, I guess?"
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Agree with E.H. This is a relatively new phenomenom, but covered by the German penal code.
The examples presented in the CBS documentary have been widely discussed (before thatI agree with E.H. This is a relatively new phenomenon, but it is covered by the German penal code.
The examples presented in the CBS documentary have been widely discussed (even before it aired, as German TV has also covered this extensively), and some actions by German LE are indeed exaggerated.
It should be said that insults are generally punishable by law, so if you call someone an a*hole, you could be in trouble if the insulted person presses charges. Politicians used to ignore insults. Now many don't and employ lawyers to scour the web for them and bring any matter to the attention of the authorities. I'd like to emphasize, however, that while the cases presented here are quite harmless, others are less so. Because of my support for Israel, I have personally been on the receiving end of these insults and even threats, but I have chosen to ignore them. "They forgot to put you in the gas chambers" is just one example of what is said. This comes from right-wing extremists, but also from our dear friends from the Middle East. Dogs that bark don't bite, as we say here. Especially when it's done under the cover of anonymity. I'm pushing for a law that would automatically revoke the asylum status of a person who engages in anti-Semitic acts. This may explain the increase in verbal abuse.
Germany has strict laws to prevent Holocaust denial and anti-Semitic statements. coverage was aired as German TV has widely covered this, too), and some actions of German LE are indeed exaggerated.
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I should also have mentioned that these examples of protected speech memes didn't come from some fringe elements but from darlings of the establishment.
Namely Klaus Staeck, a famous left-leaning artist, the satirical magazine "Titanic" and the late theater director Christoph Schlingensief.
Schlingensief was arrested but ultimately his statement was held to be protected freedom of the arts.
AFAIK even in the US directly calling for the murder of certain high ranking officials is a criminal offense.
He always remained in the good graces of bien pensants and the establishment, there wasn't any social ostracism.
Kohl, despite being 30 years his senior, ultimately did survive him, so maybe there was an element of karmic justice.
Free speech is not a luxury.
It is an effective system of error detection and error correction.
Without it we will be led to slaughter, deaf and dumb, paraphrasing Washington.
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AFAIK even in the US directly calling for the murder of certain high ranking officials is a criminal offense.
Unless you're a Democrat. But...it will get your comment spamcopped here regardless of who you is
;-)
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It should be said that insults are generally punishable by law, so if you call someone an a*hole, you could be in trouble if the insulted person presses charges.
"Mit Verlaub, Herr Präsident, Sie sind ein A*loch."
"With all due respect, Mr Speaker, you are an a*hole!"
:)
If anything, Fischer's career was boosted by this insult.
Traditionally political debates (West) Germany had been very robust.
Now the insults are very one sided, politicians are very much free to collectively insult large swaths of the electorate without repercussions.
The government does not enjoy, by right, protection of its honor the constitutional held in 2024:
"The state is not entitled to protection of honor based on fundamental rights. In principle, the state must also endure harsh and polemical criticism. In principle, state institutions may also be protected from verbal attacks, as they are unable to fulfill their function without a minimum level of social acceptance. However, their protection must not lead to shielding state institutions from public criticism - possibly even in harsh form - which is to be guaranteed in a special way by the fundamental right to freedom of expression and which is also countered by the right of the state to clearly and unequivocally reject erroneous factual representations or discriminatory value judgments. The weight of the fundamental right to freedom of opinion, which is the very foundation of the free and democratic order, must then be assessed particularly highly, as it has arisen precisely from the special need to protect the criticism of power and continues to find its significance in this."
Also raids and confiscations are supposed to be investigative not punitive in nature.
Though in practice they have been applied as a form of humiliating, undignified administrative punishment which these prosecutors openly admitted.
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Though in practice they have been applied as a form of humiliating, undignified administrative punishment which these prosecutors openly admitted.
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Any J6er will tell you, the process is the punishment. Raids at 6:00am for an on line comment? Really?! German pols want to snuff out the opposition don't they? When humiliating offenders doesn't work, what then? Jail time?
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This comes from right wing extremists but also from our dear Middle Eastern friends.
These "friends" are put in a position of power by the censorship system.
The leader of the first government appointed "Trusted Flagger NGO" in Germany per the European DSA censorship law is Al-Azhar Islamic sciences bachelor Ahmed Gaafar. He came to Germany in 2016. (link to google translated article)
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It should be said that insults are generally punishable by law, so if you call someone an a*hole, you can be in trouble if the insulted person presses charges.
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Will the user be faced with extraditions requests per EU agreements, or the hop site owner jailed?
France recently jailed a site owner who popped in from outside the EU, if I recall correctly because his site allowed speech they disapproved of. I can’t remember the details, but we had the story here.
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It's funny - not in ha-ha funny. Here in America, "journalists" claim it is an infringement of free speech when AP is denied their favorite seat in press conferences.
In Nazi Germany, and maybe soon in modern Germany, they would be charged or even executed for disagreeing with the government.
[JustTheNews] The Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s latest annual report details over $3 billion in missing, misappropriated, overstated or understated funds across 18 state agencies and political subdivisions.
The Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness had one of the most significant financial accountability failures. The agency failed to properly document expenses, exceeded cost estimates, and violated procurement guidelines in reimbursement requests, totaling $177.8 million in unsupported costs and another $52.6 million in improper contract spending.
Similarly, the Louisiana Department of Health misreported federal Medicaid expenditures, leading to $18.3 million in questioned costs. This includes duplicate reporting of a $16.6 million Medicaid expense, raising concerns about potential waste and fraud. Further, LDH spent $720.5 million on Medicaid Managed Care Organizations for beneficiaries who did not receive services, raising major accountability questions.
The Louisiana Workforce Commission failed to adequately oversee $47.1 million in subrecipient funds for job training programs, and its failure to comply with federal reporting rules affected $38.7 million in workforce program funding.
The Louisiana Department of Education overreported $2.3 billion in federal child nutrition grants and misclassified nearly $1 million in education stabilization funds. The agency also failed to properly track LaCarte and travel card purchases.
At the local level, the Grant Parish School Board may have been overbilled by contractors for mold remediation, resulting in $4.6 million in potential improper payments. In the city of Bogalusa, officials improperly used $468,125 in federal COVID-19 relief funds for employee bonuses, violating federal spending guidelines.
Despite years of audits, some agencies continue to repeat financial missteps. the homeland security office alone has amassed $2.4 billion in flagged expenditures over the years, with $256.7 million newly identified in this report. The health department has failed to correct Medicaid eligibility determination errors for four consecutive years, contributing to millions in improper payments.
Many of these issues persist year after year and underscore a need for stronger accountability measures to ensure taxpayer dollars are used appropriately.
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Bobby Jindal (R, child prodigy) was governor of Louisiana 2008-2016. Does he own any of this problem, or does it all belong to the Democrat who followed him?
What a wondeful opportunity to replace them with more conservative (and honest) specimens!
[NYPOST] Half of New York City's deputy mayors dramatically resigned Monday in the wake of Eric Adams ...Hizonner da Mare of Noo Yawk. As a Manchurian candidate, Hizonner was all in favor of law and order and that kind of stuff. Once in office, a bunch of his friends found cushy jobs with the city, the windows kept getting broken, and Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg remained right where he was. Most people comfort themselves with the thought that he's not Bill di Blasio but that's pretty small comfort with kids who actually go to school getting bumped off while standing in front of them. But he's a Dem, so the rubes will vote for him next election too, so he's what they deserve... ' controversial reprieve from his historic corruption case by President Trump's Justice Department.
The resignations of Adams' four senior aides — led by First Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer — thrusts City Hall even deeper into uncharted territory as the mayor faces mounting questions about whether he can govern the city.
The four deputy mayors — Torres-Springer, Deputy Mayor for Operations Meera Joshi, Deputy Mayor for Health Human Services Anne Williams-Isom and Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Chauncey Parker — resigned as a rally in support of Adams unfolded in Rehoboth Cathedral in Brooklyn.
The rally contrasted with the growing calls for Gov. Kathy Hochul to remove Adams from office in light of Trump's DOJ moving to scuttle his criminal case — a move that many critics argue makes the mayor a hostage to the president.
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Hochul would then own the undying chaos.
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I think all the deputy mayors, both those that resigned and those that did not, are major leftards.
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I suspect the Deputy Mayors that resigned are trying git while the gittin' is good. But what exactly are they running from? Must be more than the usual big city corruption/malfeasance.
The Brandon Administration charging Hizzoner was a surprise, what with him being a member of two protected classes, namely Mayors of big blue cities and a person of the negroidal persuasion. He does present as a man though, so there's that.
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The vast collection of Internet Data Hounds are the real fact-checkers. Much of the MSM is now nothing more than a informational filtering political arm for certain people, as needed.
BTW: Where are the JFK, RFK, MLK files that were ORDERED to be released weeks ago? I read of 2,400 new JFK files appearing out of nowhere after 60+ years?
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CBS doesn't want facts to get in the way of a good sob story. It was kind of a minor fudge if Drye's real company was dependent on USAID as a customer. But I think the real problem here is the use of sob stories as a part of the Democrat Party propaganda toolkit. They want us to think these people have a right to suck endlessly on the government teat and, oh my, what are the poor dears supposed to do now? I'll tell you what they do now, the same as all the Middle American workers in the private sector have had to do for generations when their services are no longer required: Get off their fat asses and find other jobs. And I don't care if they have to flip hamburgers at McDonalds.
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[NYPOST] During the anti-police riots of 2020, Oregon was front-and-center as protesters vandalized Portland and made a dayslong violent mostly peaceful stand in front of the Mark Hatfield Federal Courthouse.
But in the eastern two-thirds of Oregon, the conservative geographic majority of the state did not ideologically align with their urban brethren.
Over the past several years, the Greater Idaho movement has tried to create the conditions needed for about 13 counties to join the conservative Gem State next door.
Greater Idaho began putting such measures up for votes in various counties in 2020 and this month saw Republican politicians file a bill in the state legislature that would create a task force to study ''moving'' the border.
State Rep. Mark Owens, R-Malheur, put forward HB 3844, a measure that creates and directs a task force to document the impacts of relocating the Idaho border and requires a report be presented to politicians in Salem.
Owens did not respond when reached for requests for comment.
Greater Idaho president Mike McCarter said in a statement: ''We are encouraged to see the representatives of Eastern Oregon coming together to advocate for their voters by bringing these bills to the Legislature. The people of Eastern Oregon have made clear they want to explore moving the border and joining Idaho.
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It an unforeseen down side to the Civil War the Left wants to ignite. I see a lot of state boundaries being readjusted like West Virginia in the last Civil War. They'll be left with metroplexes without power or local sustainment for basics (you're not going to dump your trash in my backyard).
[NYPOST] Major Wall Street banks are reportedly scrubbing DEI verbiage from their websites in the latest industry retreat since Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... took office and took aim at corporate wokeness.
JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup have been erasing so-called diversity, equity and inclusion language from their websites, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal.
Wells Fargo and Bank of America have also started to scrutinize their own DEI language, some of the people told the Journal.
Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Bank of America and HSBC did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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Looking at it a little deeper.
The Fed's now have the power and have used it openly to FORCE stupid ideology agenda ideas and perversions on the Media, Businesses, Citizens and do as they pleased. To circumvent the US Constitution, Bill Of Rights, basic morals and force perversions on WE THE PEOPLE or be jailed.
Maybe it's time to reel in the Fed authorities and require accountability.
Plus, maybe a requirement that all Presidential pardons MUST be prior to Nov. Election date, and pardons cannot be issues by loser after that date. LIKE Biden's people had him sign.
[NYPOST] A team from SpaceX visited the Air Traffic Control System Command Center in northern Virginia Monday as officials look for ways to overhaul the system in the wake of last month's deadly midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy stressed that SpaceX and owner Elon Musk are not receiving ''special treatment'' and that he was open to input from other major tech companies on how to develop a dramatically improved system.
''SpaceX team will be visiting the Air Traffic Control System Command Center in VA to get a firsthand look at the current system, learn what air traffic controllers like and dislike about their current tools, and envision how we can make a new, better, modern and safer system,'' Duffy, 53, said on X Sunday evening.
''Because I know the media (and Crooked Hillary Clinton ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do... ) will claim Elon's team is getting special access, let me make clear that the @FAANews regularly gives tours of the command center to both media and companies.''
Earlier this month, Duffy tangled with the former first lady and secretary of state over his plans to bring Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team into the Department of Transportation.
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“FAA workers” fired is pretty no specific and calculated to cause fear. I suspect that the focus of the firings is in the HR Department. Worthless compliance trading will suffer most.
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[NYPOST] The Trump administration has made its first appeal to the US Supreme Court to try to oust the head of a whistleblower protection agency appointed by former President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... , according to a filing obtained by the News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
In an emergency appeal, Justice Department lawyers have asked the high court to lift a federal judge's order temporarily blocking special counsel Hampton Dellinger from being fired.
''Until now, as far as we are aware, no court in American history has wielded an injunction to force the president to retain an agency head,'' writes acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris.
The filing also cites the court's decision last term to grant presidential immunity for official acts — and claims allowing the judge's ruling to stand could ''embolden'' other jurists to hinder President Trump's agenda in pending lawsuits over executive branch staffing.
Much of that effort has been driven by tech billionaire Elon Musk and his dozens of Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers, who have been deputized to trim the size of the federal workforce and the scope of its spending.
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Hampton Dellinger protects the crooks in govt. He is not protecting whistleblowers, he is protecting the democrat and rino grifters behind the USAID Corruption. He is protecting the people who stash $20 billion in odd accounts for rainy days, or a Republican Impeachment. This guy needs to go.
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.
[NYPOST] Tesla and X CEO-turned-special government employee Elon Musk claimed to uncover ''the biggest fraud in history'' when he stumbled across more than 20 million people listed in the Social Security database as over the age of 100 years old.
[Breitbart] American broadcaster CBS followed German police as they raided homes for speech crimes, such as posting a "racist cartoon" on the internet, which prosecutors in the country defended as a supposedly necessary safeguard to protect democracy.
...Hizonner da Mare of Noo Yawk. As a Manchurian candidate, Hizonner was all in favor of law and order and that kind of stuff. Once in office, a bunch of his friends found cushy jobs with the city, the windows kept getting broken, and Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg remained right where he was. Most people comfort themselves with the thought that he's not Bill di Blasio but that's pretty small comfort with kids who actually go to school getting bumped off while standing in front of them. But he's a Dem, so the rubes will vote for him next election too, so he's what they deserve...
[GatewayPundit] 60 Minutes was caught in another completely fabricated report on Sunday night. Their lies are becoming sloppy.
[NYPOST] During the anti-police riots of 2020, 
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as 
...46th president of the U.S. 
