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  • Elon Musk Drops Jaw-Dropping Estimation of Fraud In America, Explains It Could Be $700 Billion a Year

    01/07/2026 11:44:27 AM PST · by Red Badger · 18 replies
    American Tribune ^ | January 07, 2026 | Adam Stanton
    Elon Musk, the visionary former head of DOGE, amplified a brave citizen journalist’s exposé on rampant fraud in Minnesota’s Somali community under Tim Walz’s lax oversight. Young conservative Nick Shirley documented empty daycares and shell companies siphoning billions in taxpayer funds for housing, food, and vehicles. For context, most estimates place the total amount of fraud at $80-100 billion statewide, tied to scandals like Feeding Our Future. Building on this point, Musk declared that fraud in California, New York, and Illinois is far worse and estimated nationwide waste at ~10% of the federal budget. Starting the interaction, one of the...
  • UN chiefs 'bent over backwards' for Saddam (Kind Comment on Posture)

    02/04/2005 3:33:16 PM PST · by Cornpone · 15 replies · 557+ views
    Financial Times ^ | 4 Feb 2005 | Mark Turner at the United Nations
    Samir Sumaidaie, Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations, on Friday accused the international body of "bending over backwards" to help Saddam Hussein's regime during the establishment of Iraq's oil-for-food programme, and said he had "serious questions" about the role played by the former UN secretary-general Boutros Boutros-Ghali. His comments came the day after a UN-appointed independent inquiry revealed it was examining whether Mr Boutros-Ghali took a "political" approach in the choice of Banque Nationale de Paris to hold the programme's escrow account. BNP did not meet US Treasury criteria. It also said two of Mr Boutros-Ghali's relatives, as well as...