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In the news is “…a scheme that involved exchanging government SNAP benefits for cash at a discount, selling ineligible items like liquor and beer, and even profiting from “MannaPacks”—humanitarian rice meal packs intended for global aid, which were sold for $8 each. Undercover operations confirmed the fraud, with agents witnessing cash trafficking and noting that the stores generated minimal legitimate revenue. That wasn’t some petty scam; it was part of a massive fraud ring run by Haitian nationals in Boston. At the same time, another scheme operated by Yemeni nationals in New York was busy pulling off a similar heist. Combined, these criminal enterprises are charged with stealing a staggering $27 million in taxpayer-funded food stamps. And that’s just what we know about so far. This isn’t a story about a few bad apples. This is organized crime, plain and simple. Federal authorities say the Boston ring allegedly used comically small convenience stores—we’re talking glorified closets—to launder an incredible $500,000 in SNAP benefits every single month. That’s more than six times what a typical large supermarket processes. Over in Brooklyn, it was the same story, different cast. Yemeni nationals were indicted for a racket that vacuumed up $20 million, using fake and stolen EBT cards from at least ten different states. If this sounds familiar, it should. It’s the same playbook we saw with the massive welfare fraud indictments of Somali nationals in Minnesota. This is a systemic attack on America’s welfare system.” Is this more than ordinary criminality?
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A recent financial editorial from financial guru, Dan Ferris, said the following: “We are one demand spike away from a crisis that will ripple across the country in a matter of days, possibly even hours…Store shelves will empty. Farming, construction, and mining will shut down. Trucks will sit, stranded. And the entire U.S. military – except perhaps for nuclear-powered submarines – will be locked in place, unable to move an inch. It won’t be Wall Street’s fault. It won’t be Washington’s either… or the billionaires everyone loves to hate. This crisis will begin with a single failure: a power outage so major that it will force the new mega-consumers at the heart of the U.S. economy – data centers – to demand huge amounts of energy all at the same time. If the power grid ever fails, data-center servers will rely on backup generators to keep operations running. And those generators will all draw from one fuel source… diesel. Yes, the most advanced technological systems on the planet still use dirty diesel. See, for all the hubbub from environmentalists about the evil of fossil fuels and the bright, green future of renewables, diesel remains the quiet lifeblood of the modern U.S. economy. It moves nearly everything we eat, build, wear, and export. When diesel flows, so does the economy. When it doesn’t, everything stops. I suspect many folks think data-center power is a localized issue that doesn’t apply to them. They’re wrong. It’s a nationwide problem, and our country’s civil engineers will tell you that the aging of our electric grid makes disaster more likely by the day.” This certainly seems like a perfect worsening of things, to have unprecedented power demands that make us dangle by a thread, while all along, tidal power outages are planned to escalate fear while crippling the world economy. Is there a connection here?
ClosedNicola asked 3 months ago • 
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