SBA Investigating $1.2 Trillion On Payments As Part Of Fraud Probe: Loeffler

Federal officials are reviewing approximately $1.2 trillion in payouts to root out fraudsters, according to Kelly Loeffler, administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA).

“Federal contracting and the fraud that happens within it in Washington, D.C., around these programs are probably the worst kept secret in Washington,” Loeffler said during an interview with “American Thought Leaders” host Jan Jekielek.

She highlighted patterns of fraud impacting the government, including the widespread abuse of the SBA’s 8(a) business development programs that offer funding for small businesses, including education and child care organizations, revealed in Minnesota

“It’s a huge cost to the American people when these programs are defrauded,” Loeffler said. “So, we have a whole path, we’re cracking down on that.”

An investigation looking back 15 years will include audits—the first in the program’s 45-year history, according to the administrator.

Approximately 7,000 borrowers—representing about $400 million in fraudulent payouts—were suspended in Minnesota last year.

Fraud Spread Nationwide

Officials will next use the investigative framework “to go state by state” and identify illegitimate payouts that were “very much driven during COVID,” she said.

Businesses asked to reduce operations—or shut down entirely, in some instances—were negatively impacted during the pandemic, which Loeffler said necessitated federal intervention.

“It was devastating, and would have been even more devastating had that federal assistance not come out,” she said. “And most small businesses were legitimate and used it for good, kept their employees on the payroll, and made a huge difference locally.”

Others saw the influx of federal benefits as a chance to reap rewards, which, combined with limited oversight, led to widespread abuse of the program, she said.

“There’s a certain group of actors that saw opportunity in disaster and defrauded the government,” Loeffler said. “What we know now is they come back to the trough.”

President Joe Biden’s administration forgave thousands of loans that were flagged as potentially fraudulent, she noted.

“They were not ever further investigated,” Loeffler said. “Those cases were closed; those loans were being forgiven.”

Federal investigators are now reviewing each loan to determine if further action is warranted.

“No more sweeping this under the rug,” Loeffler said. “We’re going to hold people accountable.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/sba-investigating-12-trillion-payments-part-fraud-probe-loeffler

‘We have enough laws’: Liberal Senator Alex Antic to vote no to Albanese’s hate speech omnibus bill regardless of Coalition position

Liberal Senator Alex Antic has revealed he will vote no to Labor's hate speech omnibus bill, regardless of whether the Coalition decide to support it.

“The first observation I'd make is how quickly did these get put together? I mean this is a very, very significant piece of legislation that just seemed to be rattled out straight off the cuff,” he said.

“We're talking huge and significant changes to areas like the criminal law, to customs law, to migration law, firearms … This is an extraordinary bill, omnibus style bill that's been rammed through and the government are looking to pass it all in one block.”

Senator Antic said the bill should not have taken the form it has, and should have been split into four independent pieces corresponding to the different legal categories.

“From where I sit though, it makes life a lot easier because rather than voting no to four separate bills like I intend to be doing, I'll be voting no to one block,” he said.

“I have absolutely no intention, regardless of the position adopted by the Coalition, frankly, of supporting this bill and all of the hate crime stuff that goes with it.

“We have enough laws on the books in this country as it is.”

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/we-have-enough-laws-liberal-senator-alex-antic-to-vote-no-to-albaneses-hate-speech-omnibus-bill-regardless-of-coalition-position/news-story/744b3d84fc3674c594021170f2a95ff5

Albanese government’s combined hate speech and gun reform push ‘very mischievous’ says MP Barnaby Joyce

One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce has called the Albanese’s government’s move to address hate speech and gun reform in a single push “very mischievous”, airing concerns rural Australians could bear the brunt of proposed changes.

Speaking to Sky News on Tuesday, Mr Joyce aired concerns that rural Australians would bear the brunt of changes to national gun laws.

“We live here, not in Bondi. We're law-abiding farmers. We haven't done anything wrong. I don't think they'll tolerate us if we started voting for greater regulations on how people live out here,” he said.

The One Nation MP said the separate areas of reform would garner differing levels of support across the political spectrum if they were introduced separately.

“I think it's very mischievous to put that into the same piece of legislation where there obviously will be a wealth of things we want to support, but you can't support it if you go back home and people say, ‘So you've just voted for me to have to hand over my grandparents firearms?’,” he said.

"'You asked me to love this nation, but now I'm not allowed to put a foot on it because I used to go out pig shooting and now I am not to do it anymore, apparently it's illegal?'

"'You want me to love this nation, you want me to defend this nation but you have taken away the mechanism for me to recreate on this nation and I don't quite work that out', and I can't work that either.”

Mr Joyce also suggested preaching of radical Islamist ideology was not receiving enough scrutiny.

“We know who these people are. We know where it is. Yet we play this stupid game of finding all these other distractions: 'It's farmers, it's pig shooters',” he said.

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/albanese-governments-combined-hate-speech-and-gun-reform-push-very-mischievous-says-mp-barnaby-joyce/news-story/d72bf6b5adf8a3fd79bef0c85d528915

The Covid Vaccine Bioweapon!

It inserts itself in your DNA, in all your major organs, then hunts for abnormal cells then when it finds abnormal cells it injects its payload of spike proteins to rapidly replicate the abnormal cell. Hence the spike in all cancers and heart problems!

Keir Starmer makes 'yet another humiliating U-turn' on digital ID

It marks the latest in a series of U-turns by the Labour Government

Sir Keir Starmer is set to abandon plans for digital ID to be mandatory in what has been branded "yet another humiliating U-turn". The Prime Minister said the scheme would be compulsory to work in the UK when he announced it last year as part of efforts to tackle the small boats crisis.

But it will now reportedly be voluntary rather than mandatory when it is introduced in 2029. The Tories welcomed the move but said it was "yet another humiliating U-turn" from the Prime Minister.

Shadow Cabinet Office Minister Mike Wood said: “Keir Starmer’s spinelessness is becoming a pattern, not an exception.

“What was sold as a tough measure to tackle illegal working is now set to become yet another costly, ill-thought-out experiment abandoned at the first sign of pressure from Labour's backbenches.

“Only the Conservatives have the plan and the team to restore common sense to public policy.”

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage pledged that his insurgent party would scrap digital ID altogether.

He said: "This is a victory for individual liberty against a ghastly, authoritarian government."

A government source said that the compulsory element “was stopping conversation about what digital IDs could be used for generally”.

The source told The Times: “Stepping back from mandatory-use cases will deflate one of the main points of contention.

"We do not want to risk there being cases of some 65-year-old in a rural area being barred from working because he hasn’t installed the ID.”

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2157350/keir-starmer-digital-id

Several Prosecutors in Minneapolis US Attorney’s Office Resign in Protest Over DOJ’s Push to Probe Renee Good’s Widow

NYT now says six federal prosecutors in Minnesota have just resigned over the Justice Department's push to investigate the widow of Renee Good and the department's reluctance to investigate the ICE agent who shot Good, according to people with knowledge of their decision.

https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/2011142486606180560

President Trump CUTS OFF oil and money to CUBA, tells the Cuban regime, “make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE”; Cuban president warns that the country will defend itself ‘to the last drop of blood’

US President Donald Trump urged Cuba on Sunday to “make a deal” soon, pledging to cut off all oil and money flowing to the communist-run island after the toppling of Havana’s key ally, Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.

The threatening social media post drew an angry retort from Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who said “no one” would tell his country what to do.

Washington has imposed economy-crippling sanctions on its island neighbor for decades, but Trump has ramped up the pressure in recent days.

‘No one dictates what we do,’ Cuban President Diaz-Canel declared

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez declared Sunday that the island nation would defend itself “to the last drop of blood,” responding to pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump to strike a deal with Washington.

President Trump had spoken about Cuba in a Truth Social post earlier in the day, urging that “they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.”

“Those who blame the Revolution for the severe economic shortages we suffer should hold their tongues out of shame. Because they know it and acknowledge it: they are the fruit of the draconian measures of extreme strangulation that the U.S. has been applying to us for six decades and now threatens to surpass,” the Cuban wrote on X, according to a translation of the Spanish-language post.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/trump-urges-deal-cuban-president-warns-country-defend-itself-to-last-drop-blood

Censorship is expanding on socials as well as here

UPS cuts workforce by 48K in largest network purge in company’s 118-year history

United Parcel Service has slashed 48,000 jobs and shuttered 93 facilities in the first nine months of 2025, marking what CEO Carol Tomé called the company's most significant strategic shift in its 118-year history. This overhaul ditches low-margin e-commerce volumes, especially from Amazon, in favor of higher-profit areas like healthcare and small business shipping, fueled by a $9 billion automation investment and a planned 50% cut in Amazon deliveries by mid-2026.

UPS is deliberately unwinding ties that fueled the rise of online retail. The moves eliminated nearly 10% of its global workforce of about 490,000, including 34,000 operational roles and 14,000 managerial positions. Closures affected roughly 10% of U.S. facilities. These changes, accelerating through 2027, prioritize profitability over sheer volume.

Amazon accounted for 11.8% of UPS's $91.1 billion 2024 revenue, or about $10.7 billion. Yet those shipments eroded margins, underperforming compared to healthcare logistics, small business parcels, and international routes. In January 2025, UPS and Amazon agreed to halve volumes by the second half of 2026, with UPS retaining higher-margin small-seller and returns traffic while exiting bulk fulfillment shipments. Amazon noted UPS initiated the reduction due to operational needs.

The rapid pace hit hard. A December 2025 WARN Act notice in Montgomery, Alabama, signaled day-shift reductions for 128 workers starting February 2026. Similar impacts struck other sites across the country. UPS offered a $175 million Driver Voluntary Severance Program; by late August 2025, 90% of eligible drivers accepted, though the Teamsters criticized it as falling short of contract protections and lacking retiree health guarantees.

Technology underpins the transformation. UPS invested $120 million in 400 robots from Pickle Robot Company to unload trucks, each handling up to 50-pound boxes and recouping costs in 18 months via labor savings; deployment begins late 2026. By Q3 2025, automated systems operated in 35 facilities, processing 66% of U.S. volume, up from 63% the prior year. ORION route optimization alone saves $300 million to $400 million annually. These steps offset labor costs from recent Teamsters agreements.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/ups-cuts-workforce-by-48k-in-largest-network-purge-in-company-s-118-year-history/ar-AA1TFrxs

California Restricts Free Speech

California’s far-left Supreme Court has ordered restrictions on the speech and expressive conduct of California’s lawyers “at all times,” including during their unrelated business activities, political endeavors and personal lives.

Just before Christmas, the even more radical California State Bar imperiously advised the state’s 200,000 lawyers “Read it, declare it, mean it.” That ominous warning introduced the California Supreme Court’s Orwellian Rule 9.7 which requires every lawyer to attest that: “As an officer of the court, I will strive to conduct myself at all times with dignity, courtesy and integrity.” The license of any lawyer who fails or refuses to acquiesce will be invalidated, and any lawyer who violates the oath is subject to “appropriate fees and penalties” to be set by the Bar.

For a nanosecond, that’s an appealing concept. But, under the First Amendment, no instrumentality of government may condition an individual’s livelihood on complying with its view of “dignity” or “courtesy,” in their political or personal endeavors. Invalidating the licenses of non-compliant lawyers also violates procedural due process under the Fifth and 14th Amendments. Tying the oath to meaningless pap about a lawyer being an “officer of the court” exposes the premeditated overreach.

As a threshold problem, even in traditional usage, “strive,” “dignity” and “courtesy” are so vague that no lawyer could know what is required, violating substantive due process. Presumably, cross-dressing is now considered dignified and proper; but, what about blackface? Or using invective, mentioning a transgender person’s “deadname,” employing grammatically and biologically correct pronouns, opposing abortion on demand, wearing a MAGA hat or T-shirt, referring to the homeless as vagrants, rather than “unhoused,” or illegal aliens as invaders, rather than non-citizens? How about singing off-key?

These statements and symbols are protected by the First Amendment, and yet, aside from singing off-key, each has been used by the far left to suppress social media posts and articles, suspend and expel students, and fire employees on grounds that their traditional beliefs and expressive conduct are discourteous and undignified. In Europe, which has no First Amendment, criminal prosecutions for speech and symbols progressives find odious are rapidly increasing. Britain made more than 12,000 arrests last year, more than 30 each day, for offensive online posts.

At last year’s Munich Security Conference, Vice President JD Vance called out elites in Europe for threatening to shut down social media to combat “hateful content,” and German police for raiding “citizens suspected of posting anti-feminist comments.” The Europeans retorted that they are preserving courtesy and dignity, and then most uncourteously fined X $140 million for failing to comply.

Despite the First Amendment, the Biden administration weaponized its opposition to free discourse with a whole-of-government enterprise that censored, demonetized and deplatformed conservatives, prosecuted pro-life activists, and investigated parents who opposed DEI and kowtowing to transgender militants.

It has taken considerable litigation to protect students, faculty, and other employees targeted by state and local governments for their so-called “offensive” speech and symbols, including prayer, refusal to call biological men “she,” and wearing pro-choice, pro-faith, and MAGA hats and T-shirts.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/california-restricts-free-speech

Americans across three US states told to stay indoors as air fills with toxins linked to heart attacks

Thousands of Americans are breathing unhealthy air across parts of Georgia, South Carolina and Oregon, as officials warn residents to stay indoors whenever possible.

Air quality maps on Tuesday showed sharply elevated levels of PM2.5, microscopic particles consisting of toxic organic compounds or heavy metals emitted from vehicles, industry and wood burning, creating hazardous conditions.

In Augusta, Georgia, and neighboring areas of South Carolina, including North Augusta, Air Quality Index (AQI) readings reached 166, classified as unhealthy for all residents.

Southern Georgia's Valdosta is also grappling with persistently poor air, with forecasts suggesting more days exceeding AQI 100 due to ongoing environmental stressors.

Central Oregon is under similar alerts, as stagnant air in Bend and surrounding Deschutes County is trapping pollutants, pushing levels into the 'unhealthy for sensitive groups' range and prompting health advisories.

Air quality levels are measured on a scale from 0 to 500: good (0–50) carries little risk, moderate (51–100) may affect sensitive individuals, unhealthy for sensitive groups (101–150) poses increased risk and unhealthy (151–200) impacts everyone, limiting outdoor activity.

Health experts caution that prolonged exposure can trigger respiratory problems, aggravate asthma, strain the heart and contribute to long-term lung damage.

Authorities in all affected states are urging residents to minimize outdoor activity and monitor local air quality forecasts.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15459675/Americans-three-US-states-told-stay-indoors-air-fills-toxins-linked-heart-attacks.html

This is from last year but it's very detailed, use link for full dig.

Cold Harbor: Eugenics, Epstein and Big Tech

In the recent cache of Jeffrey Epstein emails unveiled by Bloomberg, Epstein’s connections to the elites of academia illuminate his interest in transhumanism, or neo-eugenics — a philosophy that has become commonplace among Big Tech oligarchs and ruling class elites. Shaping the development of pharmaceutical products, inspiring emergency-based deregulation and dovetailing with the expansion of the biomedical surveillance state, the material implications of this belief system are consequential and widespread.

Within the trove of the notorious Jeffrey Epstein’s emails recently acquired by Bloomberg, the late pedophile and ruling class socialite proposed to fund an interesting program –– Harvard’s Personal Genome Project (PGP). Epstein’s reason for doing so? To find out if “beauty resides in DNA.”

This anecdote, along with a few others in Bloomberg’s first exposé into the cache of emails, shed light on a lesser known aspect of the mysterious Jeffrey Epstein: his fascination with transhumanism, or neo-eugenics. While eugenics has traditionally referred to the study of how to best arrange human reproduction to increase the rate of “desirable” traits within a population, transhumanism seeks a somewhat different approach to making more of us “desirables.”

Transhumanism relies on technology to “enhance” our genetic outcomes and phenotypic inevitabilities. For example, author David Galton, a member of the Eugenics Society, has celebrated technological advancements that have enabled parents to artificially select which genes their child receives in order to create “designer babies.” Academics such as Nicholas Agar have defended this practice, calling it “liberal eugenics.”

Despite whatever ambitious terminology is employed to rebrand the age-old scientific-ization of racism and elitist supremacy, the philosophical underpinnings of eugenics remain the same. Whether one seeks to eradicate undesirable traits within a population through top-down arrangement or transhumanistic alterations, each strategy breaks down individuals into measurable parts — rejecting the sanctity of human life. Both confuse seemingly “optimal” traits with inherently valuable ones, and cling to the material world in such a way that reduces the complexity of the universe into an algorithmic, “scientific” system. The spontaneity found in a forest becomes replaced by the structural organization of a corporation or a state. Most simply, the material world becomes the answer to everything –– to evolution, death and life itself.

But Epstein’s eugenics fantasies are not the mad thoughts of a singularly strange individual isolated from the rest of society. Quite to the contrary, they represent a way of thinking endemic to the Big Tech oligarchs that have come to dominate the American political sphere in the 21st century. Indeed, as the new Bloomberg cache reveals, Epstein’s eugenicist ambitions tie him to some of the most prestigious figures and institutions in academia, Big Tech, and science. Furthermore, they express the convergence of these sectors, and the deluded, self-serving ideologies to which they are tied.

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https://unlimitedhangout.com/2025/11/investigative-reports/cold-harbor-eugenics-epstein-and-big-tech/

>>24117826

I provided her with proof of stuff. She thanked me then buried it!

>>24117831

> okeefe does what he's told.

Like Musk he is handled by Ari Emmanuel's crew

>>24117841

maybe but those who cover shit up are why we are in this mess

Former CEO of Russian potash giant Uralkali goes missing in Cyprus

On Jan. 11, police in Cyprus reported the disappearance of Vladislav Baumgertner, the former head of Russian potash producer Uralkali. According to the police, the Russian citizen went missing on Jan. 7 in Limassol, where he was living.

“The 56-year-old is described as about 1.90 m tall, of slim build, with gray hair. At the time he left [his home], he was wearing black shorts and a black short-sleeved T-shirt,” the police said in a statement posted on their website.

Cypriot news outlet Philenews reported that the last signal from Baumgertner’s mobile phone was recorded in the Pissouri area near Limassol, along a hard-to-reach rocky coastline. The disappearance was reported by one of Baumgertner’s employees, who became concerned after he stopped answering calls.

A search operation involving police, Civil Defense, and personnel from the British Sovereign Base Areas, as well as a helicopter and drones, was launched on Saturday, Jan. 10. Search efforts were suspended Sunday because of severe winter storms and resumed from the early morning on Monday. Baumgertner lives alone in Cyprus, while his family remains abroad.

Baumgertner worked at Uralkali from 2003 to 2013, serving first as commercial director and later as chief executive. In 2013, Uralkali, which exported its products through the Belarusian Potash Company — a joint venture with state-owned Belaruskali — announced it would begin selling fertilizers independently. In response, Belarusian authorities invited Baumgertner to Minsk, where he was arrested and accused of participating in a criminal group that allegedly understated the true prices of potash.

Baumgertner spent time in custody in Belarus before being extradited to Russia, where a criminal case was also opened against him on charges of abuse of authority. After returning to Russia, the former Uralkali chief spent a month in a Moscow pretrial detention center. He was then placed under house arrest and later released under travel restrictions. The case against Baumgertner was not closed until February 2015.

However, Limassol Assistant Police Director Lefteris Kyriakou said Monday that there is no evidence so far linking that episode to Baumgartner’s current disappearance. “At this stage, it does not appear to be connected,” Kyriakou said, adding that the authorities have found no immediate indications of foul play.

The disappearance comes amid what the administration of Cypriot president Nikos Christodoulides has described as an “organized hybrid attack” by Russia. The government says the recent release of a so-called kompromat video targeting the administration was a response to Cyprus’ pro-Western shift. Officials have linked the timing to Cyprus taking over the rotating EU Council presidency and to a recent visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, arguing that Russia is using “hybrid tools” to depict the republic as an unreliable European partner. The attack reportedly bore “all the hallmarks” of previous Russian campaigns against France, Germany, and the U.S.

Adding to the complexity are the activities of Cyprus-registered intermediaries linked to efforts to bypass EU sanctions. Previous investigations by the Belarusian Investigative Сenter and Politico found that Belaruskali, the state-owned producer that replaced Baumgertner’s former company in the European market, used Nicosia-based Dimicandum Invest Holding to reroute potash exports through St. Petersburg. The reports said documents showed the Cyprus firm was paid $20 a ton for logistics services that typically cost about $11, fueling allegations that the island has been used as a hub to siphon off sanctioned funds.

Since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Cyprus has provided financial, security and humanitarian support to Kyiv, including through EU frameworks.

https://theins.ru/en/news/288368

Gab is getting fucked with badly today

Ever since Torba updated the site endless issues

>>24117871

I think all threats to the control structure are being targeted. This board is number one.

Notice the board team don't speak to anyone anymore as it is them fucking with shit.

They are mossad or unit 8200

Oh look a multinational corporation using third world slave labor!

Google's Vietnam Bet Highlights New Era In Electronics Manufacturing

Google is preparing to start building its most advanced Pixel phones in Vietnam this year, according to Nikkei Asia, a move that reflects the broader effort by U.S. tech firms to reduce their reliance on China. Apple is pursuing a similar strategy in India as both companies work toward more geographically balanced supply chains.

Sources say Google will handle the earliest and most sensitive stages of production for its Pixel, Pixel Pro and Pixel Fold models in Vietnam, while the more affordable Pixel A line will continue to be developed in China. These early production stages, known as new product introductions, involve extensive engineering work, long testing cycles and major investments in manufacturing tools. For suppliers, being selected to participate is seen as a major endorsement of their technical capabilities.

Nikkei says that although Google and Apple have spent years trying to expand manufacturing outside China, they have continued to rely on Chinese facilities for these initial development phases because few other countries have the same depth of experience and infrastructure.

Recent geopolitical and trade tensions, especially surrounding U.S. tariff policy, have added urgency to these efforts. Apple has already increased production capacity in India and Vietnam.

"The goal is to achieve functionality, compatibility and reliability suitable for mass production. If NPI fails, then it means there will be no new product for the year. But thankfully, such a thing has never happened so far," a source with an Apple supplier said.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/googles-vietnam-bet-highlights-new-era-electronics-manufacturing