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Minnesota Judge Hands Somali Fraudster Just 6 Months After $500K Theft in Child Food Scam

A fraudster in the massive “Feeding Our Future” scandal has received just six months in jail after stealing nearly half a million dollars in taxpayer money meant for children.

Zamzam Jama was sentenced to six months behind bars and ordered to repay $491,000 for her role in the scheme.

The sentence was handed down by U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel, who was somehow appointed by President Trump back in 2018, one day after a co-conspirator received only a one-year term.

Brasel has previously ruled in favor of mail-in voting and counting ballots days or even weeks after an election has concluded. Mail-in ballots are the most common method that Democrats use to cheat.

The case involves one of the largest fraud operations in recent U.S. history.

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Fears spread about businesses implanting microchips in workers

Never mind microchipping your dog. Some companies are giving employees microchip implants that give them access to facilities, company accounts and vending machines with the wave of a hand.

The new technology sounds convenient and cool, but it alarms privacy rights advocates and some states have moved to ban the practice.

In March, Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson signed House Bill 2303 into law. It prohibits employers from requiring, coercing or even requesting employees to get a microchip implanted for any reason.

“Microchips may seem like science fiction, but the technology is here,” said state Rep. Brianna Thomas, a Democrat and sponsor of the bill. “It creates an opportunity for employers to track employees during work hours and at home. That is scary.”

At least 13 additional states have banned employer-mandated human microchips, and some have imposed stricter regulations as concerns grow over technology’s increasing encroachment on privacy rights.

Nevada banned microchip programs, even for voluntary recipients, in 2019.

In addition to concerns about bosses tracking employees, the new technology could be vulnerable to hacking, which would leave microchip wearers’ personal, health and work information exposed.

Some medical studies found that the rice-sized chips can injure tissues and tendons in the human hand and have been associated with tumors in laboratory mice.

“From my point of view, there is nothing beneficial that can come from this,” Nevada Assemblyman Skip Daly, who sponsored the bill banning the practice. “We have insurance companies, credit reporting, monitoring locations, tracking transactions, and employers having access to personal information, et cetera, which some of you may see as having potentially beneficial applications, all of which are overshadowed by, in my opinion, the negative applications and potential for abuse and infringement upon our freedoms.”

States moved to set limits on microchipping in response to the Wisconsin-based software company Three Square Market, which in 2017 made headlines by offering employees the option of having a grain-sized microchip implanted under the skin, between the thumb and forefinger.

Dozens of employees signed up for the program, and according to company officials, more than 80 people got the implant. The chips opened doors, unlocked computers, made payments on proprietary self-checkout software and more.

Company officials also acknowledged facing “serious backlash from groups citing privacy and religious concerns,” and said they had “zero interest in tracking anyone,” and turned down requests to develop tracking technology.

Three Square Market was purchased by Cantaloupe in 2022. The Washington Times reached out to the Cantaloupe to see if the microchipping program is still up and running.

Since Three Square Market made a splash with its microchipping program, no major U.S. company has announced plans to offer or require employees to wear similar implants.

Two companies in Sweden offer employee microchipping, and thousands have signed up for the implants that not only unlock doors, access computers and pay for things, but also carry health data, including vaccine records.

In the U.S., biohacking technology is here to stay and advancing in new ways.

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Ohio Church Wins Homeless Ministry Legal Battle With City

A Bryan, Ohio, church may continue its 24-hour homeless ministry after a legal battle over fire code enforcement, a judge ruled on April 1.

Judge James D. Bates of the Williams County Court of Common Pleas dismissed the city’s lawsuit against Dad’s Place church with prejudice, ending civil proceedings aimed at shutting down the church’s overnight shelter ministry.

The ruling allows Dad’s Place, led by Pastor Chris Avell, to continue operating its 24-hour ministry serving vulnerable individuals in Bryan.

Court records show the case stemmed from enforcement actions by Bryan Fire Chief Douglas Pool, who sought to halt the church’s overnight activities over fire code concerns.

“The Court, from the initial time it was appointed to the case, felt that it would have to find for the Fire Chief,” Bates wrote.

“Having applied strict scrutiny … the Court concedes that the Fire Chief’s enforcement of the fire code fails because it lacks a compelling interest and isn’t the least restrictive means of enforcing fire safety. The City has given waivers to other businesses like hotels, but has refused to give the church a similar accommodation. This is fatal under strict scrutiny. Therefore, a judgment in favor of Dad’s Place must be entered.”

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Ex-Air Force master sergeant pleads guilty in $37M bid-rigging scheme

A retired master sergeant in the Air Force on Wednesday pleaded guilty to inflating the cost of information technology contracts for the Pacific Air Forces by at least $37 million to enrich himself and co-conspirators, according to the Department of Justice.

Alan Hayward James, 51, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, bribery and conspiracy to rig bids in a federal court in Honolulu.

From April 2016 until about April 2025, James and co-conspirators falsely inflated information technology contracts for Air Force installations across the Pacific. From at least May 2019 until about October 2022, James directed his co-conspirators on the amounts they should bid to circumvent the bidding process for contracts.

James agreed to pay more than $1.4 million in restitution to the Department of Defense.

“Over thirty-seven million dollars — that’s how much the U.S. Air Force overpaid because of the scheme that the defendant admitted to, under oath and in open court,” said Daniel Glad, acting deputy assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, in a statement.  “The Antitrust Division’s Procurement Collusion Strike Force will detect and prosecute those who rig bids and defraud their government customers.”

James and his co-conspirators channeled bribes to a federal official within the Pacific Air Forces named “Godfather,” according to court records.

They used some of the funds to pay for an all-expenses-paid multiday stay at a luxury resort on the North Shore of Oahu in 2023. They also disbursed funds to James, his family members, the family of an Air Force civilian employee and other co-conspirators.

A federal district court judge will determine James’s sentence.

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Ukraine rocked by new multimillion-dollar corruption scandal

An alleged corruption scheme involving the embezzlement of $17.7 million worth of grain has been uncovered in Ukraine, implicating senior officials of a state grain corporation and an unnamed foreign company.

The US-backed National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO), leading the probe, said on Thursday that the scheme dates back to 2021, when the State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine (SFGCU) signed four contracts to supply corn to a foreign buyer.

The contracts required full prepayment. Instead, officials and the company allegedly colluded to hand over control of shipments without payment, investigators said.

NABU said no payment was made. Despite this, the corporation allegedly transferred key shipping documents to the buyer, giving it control over the cargo.

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The United States Is already headed for a forever war

Let’s all give a hand for Marco Rubio, secretary of state, favored champion of the White House, and all-around cretinous worm. The Amazing Plastic Man—the adjective refers to his flexible principles, not his increasingly inflexible face—was hitting the airwaves this Monday morning to articulate the latest version of what the Trump administration regards as its war aims. Excuse me, military operation aims; President Donald Trump has figured out the One Weird Trick around constitutional checks on executive war powers. You just have to use the right words!

“Well, the war is—this operation, okay—and that’s what this is—is about very specific objectives,” Rubio told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.

The president laid them out on the first night of the operation. I’ll repeat them to you now because I hear a lot of talk about ‘we don’t know what the clear objectives are.’ Here they are. You should write them down. Number one, the destruction of their air force. Number two, the destruction of their navy. Number three, the severe diminishing of their missile launching capability. And number four, the destruction of their factories so they can’t make more missiles and more drones to threaten us in the future.

All of this so that they can never hide behind it to acquire a nuclear weapon. That was our objective from the beginning; that remains our objective now. We are on pace and in fact ahead of schedule on some of those things, and we are going to achieve those things in a number of weeks, not in a number of months.

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The Strange Case Of Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’

On January 22, 2026, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Donald Trump signed the Charter of the Board of Peace before a room of world leaders, cameras, and a step-and-repeat backdrop plastered floor to ceiling with a repeating pattern that should have stopped every journalist in the room cold.¹

It was not the Board of Peace’s own logo. The BoP has its own emblem — a gold shield containing a globe centered on the Western Hemisphere, flanked by laurel branches, displayed prominently at the top of the stage. But the surface behind the signing table, the one that would fill every wire service photograph transmitted around the world, displayed the Great Seal of the United States: the eagle with spread wings, shield on breast, olive branch and arrows in its talons, stars above. Unmistakable. Incontestable.

The problem is that the Board of Peace charter explicitly states that Trump’s chairmanship “is independent of his presidency of the United States.”² The entire legal justification for bypassing Congress rests on the Board being a private international body — not a U.S. government instrument.

Under 18 U.S.C. § 713(a), displaying the Great Seal in connection with any public meeting in a manner reasonably calculated to convey a false impression of U.S. government sponsorship is a federal criminal offense.³ The Board cannot simultaneously claim independence from the U.S. government and wrap itself in that government’s sovereign seal. That is not a technicality. That is the architecture of deception.

Article 13.3 of the charter states that the Board “will have an official seal, which shall be approved by the Chairman.”⁴ If Trump approved the Great Seal of the United States as the Board of Peace’s official backdrop at its founding ceremony, that fact alone warrants a full accounting.

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Oregon’s Union Crackdown Spreads

The state of Oregon passed a law last year that should outrage every American who believes in the First Amendment.

Not because it bans speech outright. Not because it targets a newspaper or a broadcaster. Because it targets a letter. An email. A text message. A conversation telling public employees they have a constitutional right to opt out of their union.

That’s what Oregon made illegal.

The Freedom Foundation has been communicating with public employees for years. We do it because back in 2018 the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed in Janus v. AFSCME that every government employee has a constitutional right to decline union membership and dues — a right workers will never find out about if they’re waiting for their union to inform them of it.

Someone else, most likely the Freedom Foundation, has to do it for them.

Oregon’s HB 3789, which took effect Jan. 1, was written specifically to shut down our outreach activities in that state — and potentially others. Egged on by their union puppet masters, lawmakers in that state approved legislation threatening heavy financial penalties for what the law describes as impersonating a labor union.

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Leaked: Britain Exports Secret Government Agency’s Dark Arts Overseas

Documents obtained by CovertAction Magazine reveal how prolific Western government contractor Torchlight, staffed by British military and intelligence veterans, has covertly trained “commercial and government clients” the world over in Government Communications Headquarters’ (GCHQ) digital espionage and cyberwar strategies.

Cloak-and-dagger techniques to “discredit, disrupt, delay, deny, degrade, and deter” target adversaries and populations, honed for kinetic and psychological warfare and regime change overseas, have become a commodity, open for unregulated use by undisclosed private sector and state actors.

Central to these efforts was GCHQ journeyman Andrew Tremlett. While serving as Torchlight’s head of digital intelligence, he was “responsible for all programmes with a cross-cutting SIGINT [signals intelligence], cyber, electronic warfare or OSINT [open source intelligence] dimension.”

A leaked CV notes he spent more than 18 years toiling for British intelligence, “primarily” GCHQ. One of his key duties during this time was “[working] with international partners to assist in the formation and development of intelligence departments.” In other words, constructing analogs of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ abroad.

This activity reportedly paid a “great dividend not only” to the “host nation” in question, but also the British government, “by establishing an enduring intelligence sharing partnership” between the pair. However, Tremlett “spent a significant portion of his career” within GCHQ’s notorious Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG).

Exposed by NSA leaker Edward Snowden in 2014, this shadowy unit plays a “major part” in GCHQ’s activities, executing the agency’s most depraved operations.

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Foreign Influence Exposed: How Non-U.S. Social Media Accounts Shape the Narrative on Iran Conflict

Foreign social media accounts could be shaping negative narratives about the U.S.-Iran conflict, raising concerns about misinformation and public perception.

A report by Pew Research Center on March 25 indicates that a significant number of Americans are against U.S. military involvement in Iran. According to their survey, about 61 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with President Donald Trump’s handling of the conflict, while 37 percent express approval.

Furthermore, by a margin of almost two-to-one, more of the survey’s participants believe military action is not progressing well—45 percent compared to the 25 percent who think it is going extremely or very well.

But is someone shaping this narrative? On X, foreign users are certainly influencing the way the conflict is perceived. A recent analysis published on conservative political commentator Glenn Beck’s website of more than 1,000 viral English-language posts may offer valuable insights into who is crafting the narrative.

These posts, published between February 28 and March 13, showed a significant influence from accounts based outside the U.S. In his opinion, these accounts, along with the groups or governments behind them, are significantly steering the conversation on X, inundating it with “inflammatory and demoralizing propaganda,” which can alter public perception and sentiment.

Mauro, a national security analyst and founder of The Mauro Institute, spoke to The Gateway Pundit about his discovery. He shared that, according to his research, “more than half, specifically 559 out of 1,000, of the viral X posts written in English about Iran come from abroad. These 559 posts garnered more than 650 million views and accumulated nearly 22 million total interactions, including reposts, likes, and replies. For him, “This engagement underscores the power of social media to amplify certain narratives.”

Interestingly, a random selection of 150 posts from the thousand viral X posts showed that 108 (72%) were negative, whereas only 40 (27%) were positive. The non-U.S. portion of that random selection showed a significantly negative response, with 64 percent expressing negativity and only 10 percent showing positivity. According to Mauro, this imbalance alone raises questions about the authenticity of the discourse surrounding the issue.

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